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Teenage debutant Harry Panayiotou scored a last-gasp winner as Leicester ended the season on a high and condemned Leeds to an unwanted club record.
Martyn Waghorn's first-half goal had looked to have sent United to an 11th home defeat of the season, only for Danny Webber to equalise with eight minutes remaining.
But, with seconds left on the clock, Panayiotou touched in Ben Marshall's effort, leaving home manager Neil Warnock and his players to confront the linesman about an alleged offside.
Warnock's fury may have been more about a season of underachievement at Elland Road than the goal itself, but the veteran boss – who has promised a summer of change – may hear more about the incident after he appeared to throw his chewing gum at the official at the full-time whistle.
And, while 17-year-old Panayiotou may have won it for Leicester, their manager Nigel Pearson – like Warnock a mid-season appointment – will be well aware of the hard work ahead this summer after his big-spending club failed to make their expected promotion push.
Both will hope for better next season but, with so little a stake today, it was of no surprise that the goals apart, action was thin on the ground.
Of the two, Leeds started the better, with Robert Snodgrass' volley on the slide blocked by former United keeper Kasper Schmeichel, and Luciano Becchio wasting a one-on-one when he somehow chipped into Schmeichel's hands from 10 yards.
But, with a large number of Warnock's starting line-up already knowing they will be elsewhere next season, sustained enthusiasm was hard to come by and Leicester grew into the game with Liam Moore's cross zipping across the six-yard box and narrowly evading everyone.
Leeds briefly threatened again as Adam Clayton's shot was blocked by Wes Morgan, but Leicester were not having to work too hard to keep them at bay and quickly took control.
After Marshall's free-kick had been theatrically saved by Andy Lonergan, they took a 39th-minute lead after a catalogue of Leeds errors.
Veteran midfielder Michael Brown kicked off the farcical chain of events.
He spooned a regulation clearance high and back towards his own goal.
Even then, Danny Pugh should have swept things up but, as the left-back missed the ball and fell over, Waghorn pounced and ran on to slot past Lonergan with some ease. The same player rapped a close-range volley into Lonergan's hands four minutes after the half-time break, while Lloyd Dyer would have made it two had his length-of-the-field counter-attack run not ended with his shot being defected over by Pugh.
With the season trickling away for both, opportunities were even rarer than they had been in the first half, with Marshall the only player to even try his luck when he twice fired over from distance.
Substitute Mikael Forsell did work Schmeichel from 12 yards before, almost completely unexpectedly, Leeds levelled with eight minutes left.
Snodgrass was the architect, running at the heart of Leicester's defence and standing a ball up for Forsell.
When possession fell back to him he clipped an effort beyond Schmeichel and, even though the ball was headed for the goal, Webber made sure from a yard.
There was still time for more drama, though, with Panayiotou making for a controversial finish when he touched in Marshall's edge-of-the-box effort.
Pearson said: "We finished with a three-point game but I didn't think it was a good game.
"I think there were a lot of poor decisions throughout the match that irritated both benches."


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You can beat the heat by visiting the Shell Factory Fun Park this summer. There are bumper boats with water guns, shaded spots on the miniature golf course and the popular "Water Wars" where you can shoot water balloons at friends and family.
You can also sit in the misted Swamp Bar that sits in the middle of the attractions and even bring your dog and sit in the outside bar called Dogbones, right behind the Fun Park.
There's also the incredibly popular McShell & Company Mining Rig that is also part of the park.
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The visiting Helfrich family enjoyed the bumper boats at the Shell Factory Fun Park in North Fort Myers.
Jason Barrett is the owner/operator of the Shell Factory Fun Park.
"The Fun Park features 18-hole miniature golf, we have Water Wars where you launch water balloons at each other, we have our Mining Rig where kids and their families mine for real gem stones and real fossils.
"We also have the paddle boats where you get free food to feed the ducks, turtles and geese," he said.
That wildlife roams freely around the Fun Park and the Shell Factory complex, both on land and in the waters.
Bumper boats are popular, he said.
"We have the largest bumper boat pond in Southwest Florida," Barrett said. "It is also the wettest in Southwest Florida, with over a dozen waterfalls. We always encourage people to bring a towel with them."
Walker, Ashley, Michelle and Kelly Helfrich particularly enjoyed spraying each other with the water guns.
"We're from Dixon, Illinois and we've been coming here to the Shell Factory Fun Park for the last five years," said mom Laura Helfrich.
"We love it," said Cape Coral mother Alycia Wiese of the Fun Park, who came for a day of fun.
You can also see families get competitive at Water Wars.
"The water balloons are a perfect way to settle a score between friends or family members," Barrett said.
"We also have airbrush tattoos for the kids that last three to five days. And snow cones are always $1."
Barrett plans to keep adding more attractions within the Fun Park.
"We have sand art coming soon, where children can do sand sculptures with colored sand and birthday party packages coming soon."
He said they are also working on "Party Island," details to be announced. Future goals are also to put in kiddie rides.
"Join our Facebook page, we're always adding new attractions."
That's under the Shell Factory Facebook page; it covers the Nature Park and Fun Park.
"I believe my pricing is well below others in Southwest Florida, affordable family fun," Barrett added.
He also said to mention if you read this story in either The North Fort Myers Neighbor or the Cape Coral Breeze you will get a free round of miniature golf for a family up to five.
Prices include:
- Miniature Golf: $3 per person
- Bumper Boats: $5 per person
- Paddle Boat (includes fish food): $5
- Water War Balloons: $5 for 20 water bombs
Hours are Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m and close at 6 p.m. (The entire Shell Factory complex is closed Mondays.
"But we will stay open later if business requires," Barrett said.
The Fun Park is next to Capt'n Fishbones Restaurants, directly across the parking lot from the Shell Factory Stores. The address is 2787 Tamiami Trail, and the phone number is 995-2141.


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Percy is correct that that is what I heard most of all. But this does not make Janet an "accomplise". That would be a difference of Meyer and/or Sternberg.
I "see" things in the cell too. That is why I posted on today's Janet's and ICR's this month stem cell impact issue.
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But you might notice if you had known me better than my mom that I did not and was not planning on even reading that Impact article. I had got it in the mail and shelved the whole thing.
I do have an open mind so I would be curious to know what you consider a lie? was it in the text Percy quoted?? One of the hardest thing in writing e/c is to get into the c/e position. I had a hard"" time with listening to Janet for a while, when say she had on Hugh Ross etc but if you listen to her enough it is not hard to seperate her believes from her feelings. I think of her broadcast from the Republican Convention in NYC etc etc etc. Sure
sounds"" bad to ears that cant hear etc(THE SECONd DPH) but trust me that is only said in a way that can only HELP those that even would disgree with her (as opposed to the subject (Meyer and Sternberg etc)) as it sets up the difference so that you as a listener can judge. I think the piece while showing perhaps by hear say that there WAS religious discrimination it still remains that if ID IS SCIENCE it has to have the evidence. I think more than anything the only real point in it so far was that it is NOT to be a 'personal' disagreement. This I would agree to. That is how I have the balls to keep posting here, because it seems to be nothing but a "personal disagreement" between me and other Cornell profs that prevented me from becoming so far an evolutionist. How much creationism I have picked up is not the evolutionists fault but due to the good will of creationists. No I dont think the world gives us much of a chance to HAVE a free will but sometimes I pretend it is. Making babies to kill them only shows that even these moments are being bought at the secular price limit. That is sad but not what this post is about.
Janet lives a little bit NORTH of my brother and I have listened to her show from Maryland, so I know that her propaganda is just that, a prefix to a word the IMpRaMature was already said for for the "in" or "con" there of. Sorry if that was gibberish but I can hear her shows VERY well.
Obviously being the most cited email is not necessarily a judgement on the scientific soundness. We know that and so do ""they.
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That's the crux of the issue, isn't it? There's no compelling evidence for ID, so shouldn't it be regarded as philosophy and not science?
Nothing but a personal disagreement about what? Whether or not ID was science or about a mere belief in ID as philosophy? Or was it something else?
Several months ago I asked you about your issues with the professors at Cornell. Your response was mostly unintelligible to me, but you've been doing so much better at communicating lately that I thought I'd ask again. Do try to keep it simple, please.
Are you talking about stem cell research? That's not what's happening, Brad. I don't claim to fully understand how it all works, but from what I've read these are little more than fertilized eggs, there are no human-like features. Fertility clinics destroy fertilized eggs every day. What's the harm in using them to grow a few cells before they're destroyed?
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Meyer's paper predictably follows the same pattern that has characterized "intelligent design" since its inception: deny the sufficiency of evolutionary processes to account for life's history and diversity, then assert that an "intelligent designer" provides a better explanation. Although ID is discussed in the concluding section of the paper, there is no positive account of "intelligent design" presented, just as in all previous work on "intelligent design". Just as a detective doesn't have a case against someone without motive, means, and opportunity, ID doesn't stand a scientific chance without some kind of model of what happened, how, and why. Only a reasonably detailed model could provide explanatory hypotheses that can be empirically tested. "An unknown intelligent designer did something, somewhere, somehow, for no apparent reason" is not a model.
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Robert Byers
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The evidence is what is here.
The universe.
thats evidence it came into being by mechanisms and not out of nowhere.
Then one examines the evidence of nature.
Then conclusions.
ID or YEC do better or as well on the different subjects dealing with origins as the old school of evolutionism etc.
Its spot on to first discredit the reigning error and then make your case.
ID and YEC have done so well, despite being denied audiences by a hostile establishment, that they are dominating the conversation about origins as shown by evolutionism need to desperately react.
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Um ... back in the real world, I don't know if you've noticed, 99% of creationism is in fact a "desperate reaction" to evolution in the form of angry whining about it. It's not like they're out there putting a positive case for the hypothesis that snakes used to be able to talk or that our sense of morality was initially acquired by eating fruit. No, it's evolution this and evolution that, over and over.
Similarly, if you look at what the evolutionists are writing you can read whole books about evolution which just talk about evolution and never find it necessary to point out the difficulties of verbal articulation in snakes.
Look at your own posting history using the forum search. You have made posts using the word "evolution" more times than the forum software will let me count. And the word "Eden" once. "Noah" three times. "Six days" --- never. "Adam" --- never. "Eve" --- never. "Tree of knowledge" --- never. You have barely mentioned the events in the Book of Genesis, preferring to bang on and on about evolution --- and you say what is "dominating the conversation about origins"? Creationism doesn't even dominate what creationists have to say about origins.
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Evolutionists complaint would be that creationists ARE invoking scripture.
I don't except as basic presumptions.
I deal with particular subjects or general themes without much verses because i attack on the evidence and the reasoning and investigation capability.
I deal a great deal with mechanisms in nature and I guess not much with scripture.
however scripture is the boundary and if so it would make a better product for the one who obeys it.
Creationism starts with a witness but evolution etc is all about the quality and quantity of evidence from nature.
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No, our complaint would be that you are completely unable to substantiate it with facts.
I think if this was translated from Byersish into English it would say: "It's a good thing that the conversation is dominated by evolution, and that creationists have given up trying to make a case for creationism."
Well, you guys know your own business best; but the fact remains that the conversation is almost exclusively about evolution (and the other aspects of science that creationists don't like). To pretend otherwise, as you did in message 204, is ludicrous.
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1) every item made with lace shares either of these attributes:
garter stitch - knitting every row. garter stitch looks the same on either side.
stockinette stitch - knit one row, purl one row alternated. there is a definite right and wrong side to your work.
2) how and when you use your increases and decreases:
every row - increasing/decreasing (knitted lace)
every other row - increasing/decreasing (lace knitting)
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you can find a ton of decreases, their explanations and videos on how to do them here. my faves are the following:
knit two together (K2TOG)(right slanting decrease): knit 2 stitches together as if you were to knit one stitch (bring your needle knit wise into your next two stitches on your left hand needle and knit as you normally would). Click below to watch the videos:
continental knitting - K2TOG
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slip slip knit (SSK)(left slanting decrease: slip one stitch and then slip the next stitch. take your left needle and insert it into the front loops of the stitches you just slipped and knit them together (through the back loops). Click below to watch the videos:
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you can also read more on knitting stitches & get a big rundown on them in last years summer sweater knit along "where my stitches at" post as well. all in all i think lace rocks! c'mon you know you wanna try it...all the cool kids are doing it...lol. nothing like some good ol' crafty peer pressure to get you to try something new right? j/k but i do love lace. i find it fun. it's not mindless knitting, but maybe that's what i love about it. i like a challenge but don't get me wrong i like me some straight knitting as well. i'm a gabber mouth so it's impossible for me to knit an intricate lace pattern and chat with my gals at knit night. lace is one of those projects where you can work with your mind and your hands and enjoy that special little mystery you're making with two sticks and some yarn.....
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I created these delicious Italian Style Crab Cakes as a starter for dinner on Saturday night.
I replaced mayonnaise with ricotta cheese and added fresh Italian herbs for a delicious twist on this seafood favorite.
Ingredients (makes 12 crab cakes)
- 2 tbsp ricotta cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp fresh basil (chopped)
- 1 tbsp fresh italian parsley (chopped)
- 1/8 cup red bell pepper (minced)
- ¼ cup red onion (minced)
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 cups lump crab meat
- ¾ cup Italian bread crumbs
- ¼ cup parmesan cheese
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp fresh chives (chopped)
- 1/4 cup garlic aioli
- 2 lemon (sliced into wedges)
- 1 cup mixed greens
Begin by whisking the ricotta cheese and egg together. Next, mix in the fresh basil, parsley, bell pepper, onion and garlic.
Add the crab meat, breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese then form into cakes.
Heat the olive oil in a skillet then add the crab cakes and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side. Remove and serve on a bed of mixed greens, then top with garlic aioli and chives. Serve with lemon wedges on the side.
These can be served as an entree with sides like Garlic Lemon Asparagus and Cilantro Lime Rice.
Or served as an appetizer with your favorite Italian meal, such as Chicken Parmesan or Lemon Herb Salmon.
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Of the countless stories that emerged from the Korean War, few carried the emotional punch of a piece that ran in LIFE magazine in July 1951. Written by, and featuring photos by, LIFE photographer Michael Rougier, the article—titled "The Little Boy Who Wouldn't Smile"—brought home to millions of readers the devastation that the war was wreaking on the civilian populations of both North and South Korea. Split in two in the wake of the Second World War, Korea was a place that most Americans had given little thought to just a few years before—if they'd heard of it all.
The "little boy'" of Rougier's now-famous article was Kang Koo Ri, an orphan rescued in the spring of '51 by American GIs; the village where he was found had been largely destroyed in fighting between UN forces and China-backed communist troops from the North. Kang was in a house that, GIs later told Rougier, smelled so strongly of death and decay that they almost passed it by.
But one soldier went in to check for survivors, and found Kang—naked, hungry, terrified and silent, crouched against a wall. His mother's decomposing body lay on a straw mat in the same room. The GIs took him from the house ("All the way back [to the regimental command post] he cried steadily, tears streaming from his eyes but no sound at all coming from his throat."), provided him with medical attention, food and new clothes, and eventually placed the five-year-old in an orphanage filled with scores of other children whose parents or entire families had been killed, or had simply disappeared, amid the chaos of war.
Rougier goes on to relate how, eventually, after months of silence and a kind of stern, self-willed isolation from the rest of the orphans, Kang finally opened up—and it was like the sun coming out. (See slide 24 in the gallery above.) One of the older girls at the orphanage, who had become the boy's constant companion, had tried to make Kang smile ever since he'd arrived. "The feeling grew among everyone at the orphanage," Rougier wrote, "that getting Kang to smile was the most important job they had—it was as if his return to health and life were dependent on it."
On Rougier's last day there, the older girl, Hwan Shin Sung, "asked [Kang] what in all the world he would like to do most of all":
Rougier and his colleagues at Time Inc. did not forget Kang, or the other kids at the orphanage, after the photographer left to cover other stories. In various issues of FYI—a breezy, informal and reliably entertaining staff-produced newsletter that kept everyone at Time Inc. up to speed on company personnel and happenings—Rougier reported on the progress the orphans were making and, especially, the help they were receiving, at his constant urging, from his friends at LIFE:
Hundreds of pounds of clothing, vitamins, books, sporting goods, medical supplies and more, sent by "Time Incers" and from LIFE readers all over the country, poured into Korea, destined for the orphanage.
Finally: LIFE followed up on Kang's story in 1956, reporting that a woman in Los Angeles, Mrs. Cordelle Lefer, had adopted him. Haunted by Rougier's famous picture of Kang in 1951, which leads off the gallery above, Mrs. Lefer told LIFE that she got down on her knees and prayed "and was told to adopt him." So she did just that.
After that, it seems, Kang faded from the headlines for good (and, we like to think, with relief). But we can't help wondering: What was his life like after he was adopted? Did he stay in California? Did he return to Korea? Go to college? Marry? Is he still alive?
Anyone with any information is welcome to share it in the comments below.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.


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Nick Says:
September 26, 2010 at 11:50 am |
Mmm….I think you're wrong on the Vikings game. I have a feeling Detroit will either win hands down, or it will be a very close game.
Just can't see MN running away with it because their offense is not good enough. Plus, they wont be able to stop Jahvid Best on the receiving side – not enough CB's and capable LB's.
The Vikes are in real trouble…
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September 26, 2010 at 3:14 pm |
Ugh….nevermind. The Lions are mind-boggling-ly bad. Favre can't throw passes more than ten yards downfield and throws 2 picks, but the Lions mix of bad play calling and mental mistakes have doomed them.
Should be an easy gamefor the Pack in week 4.
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September 27, 2010 at 6:21 pm |
pretty good picks Hayes…and that last line is hilarious ("the coin had the score on it too"….excellent!)


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forgot to add 3yr 36K miles to my previous post. thanks.0
gatorfan3 Posts: 2Nothing since my previous post. At that time, BMW Financial was only offering 53% residual with money factor of .00330 on a 36 month 15k mile lease. Not very attractive! Please advise us if your dealer has sweetened that offer. Thanks.0
cgb0216 Posts: 2I know... I did the same with teh 2007 X5 test drive last week. I want one so badly now. Does anyone know or have any guess or advice as to when BMW will offer a special lease offer on this new hottttt SAV?!? PLEASE advise ;-)0
My salesman currently offered me the following:
Proposal: $57,545, no money down, 36 months, 12K miles per yr
$1075 with taxes
Any thoughts on this offer?
Thanks in advance0
is this a purchase or a lease?0
it is a lease. he is sending over the lease and residual rate later. i haven't seen any published rates. thanks.0
I would suggest that you go to the www.bmwusa.com website and put in your numbers into the lease calculator and at least that will give you an idea of where you should be with a lease from BMW FS0
I tried that but the BMW site says it is unable to calculate an estimate at this time. Thanks for trying to help0
carnut12 Posts: 582007 BMW X5 4dr Wagon 3.0si / Compare Instant Lease Quotes
24 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 69% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
36 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 58% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
48 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 41% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
60 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 33% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
2007 BMW X5 4dr Wagon 4.8i / Compare Instant Lease Quotes
24 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 64% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
36 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 53% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
48 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 37% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate
60 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 30% of MSRP – .00322 Base Money Factor Rate0
billmv Posts: 148bu96......it sounds like you don't know how to do the calculation yourself. Your need to get five numbers from your dealer: The MSRP. The negotiated "selling" price. The Money Factor. The residual value. And the Acquisition fee. The dealers cannot play around with the MSRP or the residual value for the months and miles you choose, but they can with the others, so you have to negotiate them.
Get these from your dealer and I or someone else can easily calc your lease payment for you. Also tell us where you live and the tax rate in your town.0
My X5 is finally here. My deal was as follows:
Sale price: $57,545
36 months, 12K per yr
Residual: $35,727
lease factor: .00387
$1,164 due at delivery (taxes etc..)
$1078 per month
Any thoughts on if this was a half way decent deal? Anybody have lease factors for the X5 different from mine?
rda2w Posts: 2Does anyone know the current money factor and residual for left over 2006 3.0i X5s? I'm looking for 36mo/10k mi.
Hi bu96. BMW is not currently providing any lease money factor support on the 2007 X5. As a result, if you were to lease one through BMW Financial Services' you would have to use its standard lease program. This makes this truck VERY expensive to lease. I believe that BMW FS' buy rate standard money factor varies a little by region, but it should be around .00320 right now, which is not very good. Its residual values vary by trim level, lease term, and mileage allowance, but to give you an idea of what they are like BMW FS' current residual for a 36 month lease of a 2007 X5 3.0si with 15,000 miles per year is 58%.
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Ahhh, bu96, I see that you mentioned the term and mileage allowance that you're interested in in your next post. OK, I already gave you the 36 month numbers. The only difference would be that this truck's 12,000 mile per year residual values are 2% higher than its 15,000 mile per year residuals.
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Congratulations on your new truck, bu96. The selling price that you got it for, a $2,000 discount on a recently redesigned SUV in the middle of the winter, looks reasonable to me. The money factor is a little on the high side though. It appears as though the dealer you worked with marked it up some. $1,000 a month is just a lot off money to pay for an X5, but that's what it is going to cost to lease one right now. If one wants to be the first on their block to have a brand new or redesigned vehicle they are going to have to pay extra for it. That's what happened here. The luxury SUV segment is a very competitive market. I suspect that BMW will eventually have to introduce an aggressive lease program on the X5. It's difficult to say how long it will be before this happens. It might not be until much later this year.
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Greetings RDA. Here is the information that you are looking for. BMW Financial Services' current buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36 month lease of a 2006 X5 3.0i with 10,000 miles per year are .00195 and 68%, respectively.
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I was told by my dealer today that they expect BMW to have some supported lease program on the 07 X5 "in the next few days"
Reason being that the lease prices are so high, they are losing customers to the Q7, etc. because the competitors have very agressive lease programs right now.
For a car that was supposedly sold out, the dealers in my areas seem to have many on the lot for purchase or lease.
If I find out anyting further, I will advise.0
amcdad Posts: 61My dealer also told me that they expected a new lease program soon...more details when I have them.0
I checked my local dealer and their CHEAPEST X5 has a MSRP of $52K. Assuming a discount of $1K, a 36mo/15K mi (mf = 0.00322, residual 58%) lease payment woud be $840 + tax (or $905/mo)! Their typical X5 has a MSRP closer to $56K which add another $67 to the monthly lease payment.
Memo to BMW - no way this truck is worth close to a thousand bucks per month to lease!0
Although the vehicle is nice I totally agree!! Not worth that lease payment. Dealer in Southern Ca. also told me lease should be getting more attractive soon.0
back2bmw Posts: 1Hello,
Does anyone have information regarding lease programs for the remaining 2006 X5 4.4's...12k/36 months?
Thanks for your help,0
I spoke to my dealer today in the Northeast and the Manager expects a program for February 1, 2007. Stay tuned.......0
Hey everyone. A number of dealers that I have spoken with are irritated with BMW's lack of support for this truck as well. It is soooooo expensive to lease an '07 X5 right now. I too expect BMW to eventually introduce a special lease program on the 2007 X5. Unfortunately, it did not come out with one when it introduced its special February lease program a few days ago. Unless BMW makes an unscheduled enhancement to its lease program, there isn't going to be any lease support on this truck before the beginning of March at the earliest. That's the latest that I've heard on this subject.
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Hi back2bmw. Most dealers that I have spoken with don't have many, if any 2006 X5s left in inventory. If you want to lease one, you probably will have to go with a 2007 model. As other community members have recently mentioned, BMW is not currently providing any sort of lease support on the 2007 X5. As a result, if you were to lease one through BMW Financial Services right now, you will have to use its standard lease program. BMW FS' buy rate standard lease money factor varies by region, but it should currently be around .00320. Its current 36 month, 12,000 mile per year residual value for the 2007 X5 4.8i is 55%.
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I've been waiting to see if the X5 makes sense for leasing but they are crazy. I think I'm going to lease the Mercedes GL 450 since their leases are much more agressive and you get just as much car or more.... for a lot less price on the lease. $699 per month for the larger engine and loaded with many options is what Mercedes has been advertising.0
Does anyone know what the February program is for the 2007 X5? Both the 3.0si and the 4.8i?0
I found these February rates effective 2/6/07 for the 3.0si
What is BMW thinking? These are still awful.
24 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 68% of MSRP – .00320 Money Factor Buy Rate
36 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 58% of MSRP – .00320 Money Factor Buy Rate
48 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 40% of MSRP – .00320 Money Factor Buy Rate
60 mo/15k mi – Residual Value 33% of MSRP – .00320 Money Factor Buy Rate0
It looks like the inventory levels for X5's is still pretty low so BMW isn't making much of an effort to move them yet. The prices for this truck are quite high - they range from $53-60K for the 3.0 engine at my local dealer. It's a nice truck but certainly not worth that much. Sales are probably a little soft now that's why dealers are unhappy about the lack of lease support. Take a look at the luxury SUV market right now. Deals are plentiful at Acura, Audi, and M-B. BMW is not immune.0
I have waited to try and lease the x5 long enough. I am bailing. For the same current lease numbers I can be driving an A8. BMW is going to lose many customers b/c of the ridiculous high price to lease this truck. They lost me. Bye BMW, hello Audi!0
niccross Posts: 2getting ready to lease a 07 BMW X5 loaded to the hilt. My first BMW.
36 months/15K a year
Money Factor .00265
Residual Factor 60%
Selling price 71,750.00
Monthly 1,188.00
Deal or no Deal? :P0
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AmeriCandy Co, Inc announced today that it has designed and created a new AmeriCandy Chocolate and Bourbon Gift known as Choc- Liq-Stick. The Choc-Liq-Stick is made up of 4 Regular Dark Chocolate Bars graphically designed with a Kentucky Bourbon Bottle on the wrapper.
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Health minister Harsh Vardhan spoke again in support of Ayurveda and "alternative" medicine yesterday, as reported in The Hindu (Harsh Vardhan bats for Ayurveda):
Dr. Vardhan recommended that the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) commit itself "to promoting Ayush" (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy). NIMHANS and SVYAS should work in coordination and share scientific expertise, he said. "The supremacy of Indian fields of medicine has been established… Today, we do not have to convince people about yoga and Ayurveda." However, the country needs evidence-based medicine, he said, adding that research on practices such as meditation and yoga could help empirically prove the efficacy of these Indian health systems.
The bit about evidence-based medicine is most welcome. My suspicion though is that they are not serious about it. His remarks here and previously (see Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy to be included in AIIMS system: Harsh Vardhan) suggest that he has already decided that Ayurveda works, and the evidence-based support is going to be selectively painted on – perhaps dishonestly – to give it a respectable veneer.
In a previous post titled How Ayurveda Works (Not Really) I argued against Ayurveda based on issues of plausibility. Perhaps we should also keep this different question handy to put to them:
Can you describe some Ayurveda remedies which were examined using the techniques of evidence-based medicine, found ineffective, and therefore discarded?
This would give some idea of whether they are seriously following evidence-based medicine or not. Mind you, this question is very valid even for modern medicine, as Ioannidis and co. have found – biases like publication bias are very real in modern medicine (Why Most Published Research Findings Are False). So if you put this same question to a doctor or researcher of modern medicine, you won't get as many examples as you'd like. But you will find some, as a little searching on Google reveals. You will also find disputes, re-evaluations and controversies, like in the case of statins. So, in the future when our health ministry has its way on AYUSH, we should see at least this amount of failure and controversy in the news. If my suspicion is correct, we will not – instead we'll see one positive result after another. Time will tell.


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CARTERET COUNTY � A house renovation underway in Carteret County will showcase more than a building transformation when the project is featured on national television this summer.
A waterfront home that has stood in the Down East community of Atlantic since the 1800s is now the subject of the seventh season of DIY Network�s Blog Cabin, an interactive home-building television series.
Viewers can vote online to help select various design elements for the renovation and also enter a sweepstakes to win the newly remodeled cottage.
The renovation is featured on the website at DIYNetwork.com/BlogCabin. When the new season premieres in July, there is also information about Carteret County and Down East revealed.
�I think it�s good for Down East and all of coastal North Carolina,� Down East resident Danny Harper said. He doesn�t have any part in the renovation underway but said he and his wife, Faye, will help as production assistants during the last four weeks of the project.
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The house itself is a piece of that heritage, weathering the years along Core Sound and serving as home to generations of the Robinson family.
According to a history provided by Jay Bumpus of Beaufort, whose late wife, Evelyn Clyde Harris, was a family member, the property was originally owned by Uriah Robinson and sold by his sons Mason and Uriah to their brother John Bryan Robinson in 1892 for $50.
John Robinson, a local fisherman, married Beulah Benton Styron from the nearby community of Stacy and the couple settled on the three acres to raise their family.
Initially a one-room cabin with detached cook�s shed, the house expanded upward and outward as the family grew, and improvements and additions were made as the home passed among family members.
The next transition for the 1,600-square foot, four-bedroom cedar shake cottage will now be a full renovation into a coastal retreat.
The coastal division of Andrew Roby Inc., which has an office in Atlantic Beach, is general contractor for the Blog Cabin project.
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Tina Fey will host 'SNL' season opener, joined by Arcade Fire, while Miley Cyrus hosts and performs in Week 2 of show's 39th season.
Saturday Night Live welcomes back former Weekend Update anchor Tina Fey as host of the NBC late-night institution's 39th season premiere on Sept. 28.
Fey, who will mark her fourth time as host since leaving the show for 30 Rock in 2006, will be joined by rock bank Arcade Fire, also making its fourth appearance.
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The Way Forward for Renewable Energy in Central America
Worldwatch and INCAE present key findings from their Central America report
The Worldwatch Institute and the INCAE Business School's Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), with support from the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America (AEA/EEP), will present key findings from their report The Way Forward for Renewable Energy in Central America on March 6, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. at the Herradura Wyndham Hotel in San José, Costa Rica.
Over the last year, through extensive research, interviews, country visits, and consultation workshops, Worldwatch and INCAE have explored the current status and future potentials for renewable energy technologies in Central America; analyzed socioeconomic opportunities of their advancement; assessed finance and investment barriers and enablers; and developed policy recommendations for how to accelerate energy solutions in the region that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable.
The report examines energy trends in the region and concludes that renewable power generation is growing rapidly in Central America. However, significant policy and investment efforts are needed to take full advantage of the region's vast renewable resource potential and to diversify the regional energy matrix, from creating and mainstreaming policy instruments and administrative processes to improving investment conditions to develop new projects.
The report also identifies two impact areas where renewable energy can play a key role in climate-compatible development while improving the livelihoods of millions in Central America. With more than 7 million people having limited or no access to electricity services, and traditional biomass use accounting for 82 percent of the region's residential energy consumption, distributed renewables and the introduction of innovative ways to reduce high levels of fuel wood consumption represent two alternatives to expand important social and economic opportunities such as health care, education, and income generation in the region.
The report also highlights the socioeconomic benefits of renewable energy to meet future electricity demand in grid-connected areas in Central America, as opposed to continued growth in fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Worldwatch Climate and Energy Director Alexander Ochs and Central America Project Manager Adam Dolezal, together with CLACDS Associate Director Ana Maria Majano, will present the project's findings for the first time as part of AEA/EEP's 21st Regional Forum. Worldwatch's President Emeritus Christopher Flavin will also present at the forum, on the contribution of energy efficiency policies and the use of renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions.
This conference convenes officials from the Ministries of Energy and Environment from all seven Central American System for Integration (SICA) countries as well as representatives from international and regional institutions, NGOs, research organizations, media, and the private sector.
For more information or to schedule interviews with Worldwatch researchers, contact Ramon Palencia at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are unable to attend in person, you can view a livestream of the event on our website at www.worldwatch.org/centralamerica.
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Worldwatch is an independent research organization based in Washington, D.C. that works on energy, resource, and environmental issues. The Institute's State of the World report is published annually in 15 languages. For more information, visit www.worldwatch.org. Worldwatch's Climate and Energy Program aims to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy based on sustainable use of renewable energy sources in concert with major energy efficiency gains, sustainable agricultural practices, and low-emissions transportation. The group reports regularly on its work on the Institute's Re|Volt blog at http://blogs.worldwatch.org/revolt/.
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The INCAE Business School is a private, nonprofit, multinational, higher education organization devoted to teaching and research endeavors in the fields of business and economics. The Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS) is INCAE's principal research and impact center, and has a long history of collaboration with regional and international organizations in the promotion of sustainability in the energy sector through the development of case studies, promotion of dialogue, and training activities. For more information, visit www.incae.edu/en.
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Milpitas, CA, October 19, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the world's largest supplier of flash storage card products, today announced results for the third quarter ended October 1, 2006. Total third quarter revenue increased 27% on a year-over-year basis to a record $751 million. Third quarter net income as reported in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) was $103 million, or $0.51 per diluted share.
Excluding the impact of stock compensation expense and amortization of acquisition related intangible assets and the related tax effects, third quarter non-GAAP net income grew 15% to $124 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, which compares to the third quarter 2005 GAAP net income of $107 million, or $0.55 per diluted share.
"We are very pleased with our third quarter results," said Eli Harari, chairman and chief executive officer of SanDisk Corporation. "Demand for our mobile products continued to be strong in the fast growing mobile phone market and we are pleased with our flash audio player U.S retail market share gains in the third quarter. Despite a challenging pricing environment in the third quarter we delivered non-GAAP operating margin of 21%, primarily due to our highly competitive product cost structure from our captive Flash business ventures in Japan. We expect to benefit in the fourth quarter from projected seasonally strong holiday sales of digital cameras, handsets, flash audio players, USB flash drives and gaming consoles and we now believe growth in our megabytes sold will be approximately 200% for 2006."
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SanDisk Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eli Harari, is scheduled to appear on CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," on October 19, 2006 at approximately 1:10 p.m. PDT. Judy Bruner, SanDisk's Executive Vice President, Administration and CFO is scheduled to appear on Bloomberg TV's "Bloomberg On The Markets" and Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg on the Radio," October 20, 2006 beginning at approximately 7:40 a.m. PDT.
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SanDisk's third quarter 2006 conference call is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. PDT, Thursday, October 19, 2006. The conference call will be webcast by CCBN and can be accessed live, and throughout the quarter, at SanDisk's website at www.sandisk.com/IR and at www.streetevents.com for registered streetevents.com users. To participate in the call via telephone, the dial-in number is (913) 981-5523. A copy of this press release will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a current report on Form 8-K and will be posted to our website prior to the conference call.
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This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including statements about our business prospects and outlook for the forth quarter of 2006, including anticipated increased demand for our products, market supply and demand, expected fabrication production schedules and scheduled appearances by our CEO and CFO that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate and may significantly and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: slower than expected growth in market demand for our products or a slower adoption rate for these products in current and new markets that we are targeting, any interruption of or delay in supply from any of the semiconductor manufacturing or subcontracting facilities, including test and assembly facilities that supply products to us, slower than expected expansion of our global sales channels, fluctuations in operating results, unexpected yield variances related to our conversion to 70-nanometer NAND flash technology or the ramp-up of the 300mm flash fabrication facility, our inability to make additional planned smaller geometry conversions in a timely manner, future average selling price erosion that may be more severe than our expectations due to decreased demand or possible excess industry capacity of flash memory from ourselves as well as from existing suppliers or from new competitors, less than expected growth in the average megabyte capacity per card, price increases from non-captive flash memory sources and third-party subcontractors, higher than expected operating expenses, higher than anticipated capital equipment expenditures, adverse global economic and geo-political conditions, including adverse currency exchange rates and acts of terror and war, the timely development, internal qualification and customer acceptance of new products that are based on 70-nanometer NAND technology, fluctuations in license and royalty revenues, business interruption due to earthquakes, hurricanes, pandemics, power outages or other natural disasters, particularly in areas in the Pacific Rim and Japan where we manufacture and assemble products, potential impact of high energy prices and other global events outside of our control which could adversely impact consumer confidence and hence reduce demand for our products, risks related to our potential acquisition of msystems, including that the acquisition may not be consummated in a timely manner or at all, that we may not realize the expected benefits of the acquisition due to integration challenges, the loss of customers, suppliers, distributors or other third parties or other issues, that we may incur substantial costs or other damages associated with pending or future litigation related to the merger or costs or damages related to msystems' prior stock option grant practices and that we may incur charges or other accounting changes as a result of the merger, the risk that scheduled appearances by our executives could be cancelled or delayed by us or the network, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2006 and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Future results may differ materially from those previously reported. We do not intend to update the information contained in this release.
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April 10 is National Siblings Day. Although it's not yet an official family values holiday like Mother's Day or Father's Day, for the past 14 years it has been promoted across the country as an occasion on which to celebrate and appreciate our brothers and sisters and their contributions to contemporary family life.
Despite the past four decades' trend toward smaller household size, General Social Survey demographers report that only 5 percent of us are only children. That used to mean that 95 percent of folks grew up in households with at least one sibling with whom they shared the same biological mother and father; however, one of the effects of changes in our national attitudes toward marriage is a change in the constituent parts of families.
The National Research Center at the University of Chicago reported that as of 2010 there are now more stepfamilies in the U.S. than any other type of family unit, so in addition to full sibling households, there are increasing numbers of homes with half siblings in which each child shares one biological parent but a different mother or father, and homes with step siblings in which the children are no blood relationship to each other but who are legally related because one each of their respective parents is married to the other.
Other types of siblings also being seen in greater numbers include adoptive siblings who are related legally but not by blood and cross siblings who are children that share a half sibling. Having been raised in blended families, as social scientists designate families formed by the remarriage of a divorced or widowed parent, we can confidently share that these evolving constructs of family make it considerably more complicated to properly represent relationships with other family members. It's awkward, for example, to introduce your step brother's wife as your step sister-in-law or to explain in a sentence or less that you have half cousins once removed because these folks are the cousins of one of your half siblings. Most of us living with convoluted lineages have learned it's just easiest to cope with such matters by simply not mentioning any relationship prefixes. A brother is a brother and a sister is a sister period.
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1. All five of the Earp brothers were frontiersmen who worked as lawmen and Wyatt Earp's brothers Virgil and Morgan came to fight along side of him in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone Arizona. In what Kansas town did Wyatt's younger brother Morgan serve as his deputy sheriff prior to the AZ shoot out? (Dodge City Kansas)
2. In the Brothers Grimm story "Cinderella," Drizella and Anastasia Tremaine were mean, uncouth girls who relentlessly bullied their older step-sister Cinderella. What was Cinderella's family name? (Tremaine. Cinderella's mother died and when her father remarried he adopted his second wife's girls so all three had the same family name)
3. Pulitizer prize winning southern writer William Faulkner 's younger brother John was also a novelist. What did his other brother Murry Falkner do? (He was a FBI special agent and part of the team that was involved in the 1934 Chicago shoot out during which notorious bank robber John Dillinger was killed)
4. Venture capitalist Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, claiming he stole their idea for a social networking site, and 4 years later won a $20 million settlement plus additional monies in Facebook stock. The twins then went on to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. What was their sport? (men's pair rowing)
5. President Barack Obama has several half siblings. Name any of the six of them: (sisters Maya Soetoro-Ng and Auma Obama and brothers Malik Obama, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, David Opiyo Obama Ndesando and George Obama)
6. In the comic strip "Peanuts" Charlie Brown's pet dog is a beagle named Snoopy. What's the name of Snoopy's beagle brother with a droopy moustache who lives among cacti and tumbleweed? (Spike)
7. In 1934 the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy were born in Ontario Canada. What was their family name? (Dionne. In their 1965 autobiography "We Were Five" the identical girls described a very sad life of deprivation and exploitation as a national tourist attraction after the state removed them from their parents' custody.)
8. In J.M. Barrie's novel "Peter Pan," young adolescent Wendy Darling is enjoying her childhood so much that she tells Peter that she wants to avoid growing up. What are the names of her two younger brothers who Peter and Wendy take to Neverland with them? (John Napoleon Darling who is the boy wearing glasses, top hat and long nightshirt and Michael Nicholas Darling, the youngest Darling child who is still wearing pinafores)
9. Bicycle mechanics Orville and Wilbur Wright developed the first powered plane, the "Wright Flyer". Which brother was the first to try the flyer in Kitty Hawk NC on Dec 17, 1903 ? (Orville. The brothers tossed a coin to decide who would fly first.)
10. Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth were both accomplished and well regarded 19th century Shakespearean actors. In what play did they appear together at the Winter Garden Theater in Manhattan on November 25 1864? ("Julius Caesar". Edwin played the role of Brutus and John Wilkes played Marc Anthony. John Wilkes would assassinate President Lincoln five months later)
11. In 1977, while his older brother Jimmy was President of the U.S., Billy Carter promoted himself as a "redneck country bumpkin" along with what beverage? (beer. The brand was called Billy Beer and on each can came the logo "This beer was brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of one America's all-time great beer drinkers")
12. Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie Mouse share the same birthday, Nov. 18. Both Mickey and Minnie also have sisters. What are their names? (Mickey's sister name is Amelia Fieldmouse and Minnie's sister name is Mandie Mouse)
13. Rudolph Valentino Clay, a retired professional heavyweight boxer, is brother and only sibling to which former professional heavyweight boxing champion? (Muhammad Ali. In the mid-1960s Rudy took the Muslim name "Rahman Ali")
14. Eppie Friedman Lederer and Pauline Friedman Phillips were identical twin sisters who for 50 years wrote newspaper advice columns. What were their pen names? (Eppie wrote professionally as Ann Landers and Pauline's pseudonym was Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren )
15. Student wizard Harry Potter was an orphan but thought by some to have a twin sister. What was her name? (Hilary Lily Grace Potter)
16. Elvis Presley, the iconic king of rock and roll, was an identical twin whose older brother was stillborn. What was his brother's name? (Jesse Garon Presley)
17. Stunning Brazilian-born fashion supermodel Gisele Bundchen has five sisters, one of whom is her fraternal twin Patricia. Although Patricia also had early success as a fashion model, she pursued a different career, What does she do for a living? (Patricia is a well respected model manager and widely is credited with making Gisele Bundchen the world's highest paid model since 2004)
18. Siblings often share excellence in the same professions. Which WWII general and his younger brother were presidents of major American colleges at the same time during 1948-1950 and at what schools? (Dwight Eisenhower was president of Columbia University in Manhattan NY and Milton Eisenhower was president of Kansas State University in Manhattan)
19. The great 2006 Kentucky Derby American thoroughbred horse Barbaro had four full-blooded brothers, three of whom raced. His younger brother Nicanor won his first race on the very same course that Barbaro did. Where is that turf course? (Delaware Park (DelPark) in Stanton DE)
20. Shirley MacLaine and her younger brother Warren Beatty each have been awarded Academy Awards for cinematic excellence. For what did each win their Oscar? (in 1981 Beatty won Best Director for "Reds" and in 1984 MacLaine won Best Actress in a leading role for "Terms of Endearment". The only sisters to both win Oscars for Best Actress in a Leading Role were Joan Fontaine (1942 for "Suspicion" and Olivia de Havilland (1947 for "To Each His Own")
21. Confederate General Robert E. Lee was superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1852-1855. During that same period of time one of his older brothers was commandant at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Which brother was it? (Sidney Smith Lee)
22. In 1936 England's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry American divorcee Mrs. Wallis Simpson. What was the name of his younger brother who succeeded him? (King George VI who was subject of the movie "The King's Speech." George also was the father of Elizabeth, Her Majesty the Queen)
23. Charismatic Russian danseur Rudolf Nureyev, hailed as the greatest lead male ballet dancer of the 60s and 70s, had 3 older sisters. Only the eldest, Rosa, was considered by the Kirov Ballet to have sufficient talent to be a promising dancer. After years of grueling training, however, she quit the ballet and instead took up what occupation? (Designer of custom dance costumes. Rosa excelled in choosing perfect fabrics for required dance movements)
24. Edgar Allan Poe was first a poet and then a prolific writer of short story mysteries and grotesque who-done-its. He was so influenced by his older brother who was also a poet that Edgar wrote under the pseudonym "Henri Le Rennet" which was his name in French. What was his brother's name in English? (William Henry Leonard Poe)
25. In 1852 Scottish immigrant James Smith bought a cough drop recipe from an itinerant peddler and soon named it after his two sons, William and Andrew. In what Hudson Valley town in New York State were these early batches of Smith Brothers Cough Drops brewed? (Poughkeepsie NY)
26. The song "Swanee" sung by Al Jolson was the greatest hit for the brothers whose family name was Gershowitz. What is the common name of these brothers and which one was the lyricist and which was the composer? (the brothers were Ira and George Gershwin. Ira, the elder brother,was the lyricist and George was the composer. Together they wrote 700 popular songs)
27. Joltin' Joe DiMaggio was the legendary New York Yankees center fielder. Joe was one of nine children and two of his brothers were also successful professional baseball players in the American Major Leagues. Who were they and what position did they play? (Joe's older brother Vince and youngest brother Dom both also played center field)
28. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich., earned a medical degree and ran a sanitarium based on the health principles of Seventh Day Adventists. His younger brother Will Keith Kellogg had only a grade school education but by the late 1890s had invented a way to manufacture toasted wheat and corn into flakes for use at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Besides corn flakes, what other common breakfast foods did W.K.Kellogg invent?( All-Bran and Rice Krispies)
29. Phoebe Ann Moses, who was professionally known as the sharpshooter Annie Oakley, was one of seven children. Due to their mother's abject poverty Annie and her older sister Sarah Ellen as children were sent where by their mother? (A local Ohio poorhouse where they were subjected to near slavery conditions)
30. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama had four brothers, three of whom early on entered monastic life; however in the early 1950s these lamas worked as undercover translators during the Tibetan uprisings against China. For what U.S. agency did these Tibetan Buddhists work? (The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
31. Ray and Carrie Cash had seven children: Roy, Margaret, Louise, Jack, J.R., Reba, Joanne and Tommy. Which one grew up to be the legendary country and Gospel music icon Johnny Cash? (J.R. Johnny Cash's birth name was J.R. but in 1995 while singing with Sun Records, he adopted Johnny as his stage name)
32. Consumer electronics inventor and Apple's co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs spoke openly about his being put up for adoption by his unmarried university student parents. He also had two younger sisters. Name them: (Mona Simpson who was his full sibling but with whom he never met until she was 25 and Patti Jobs, his adoptive sibling with whom he was raised)
33. In Boris Pasternak's epic Russian romance novel "Dr Zhivago", the story is narrated by KBG General Yevgraf Zhivago, Dr. Yuri Zhivago's half brother. In the beginning of the story Yevgraf is about to meet a young woman who he believes is the long lost daughter of Yuri and his mistress Lara Antipova.. What was their daughter's name? (Tania or Tatiana)
34. Although singing siblings who perform together as a group probably aren't all that uncommon, in recent generations there have been some memorable ones. Name two of these groups and the numbers of siblings involved in each. (The von Trapp family singers (seven), the Bee Gees (three), Jackson 5 (five) , Lennon Sisters (four), The Osmonds 2nd Generation (eight), Jonas Brothers (three),)
35. In the TV prime time soap opera series "Dallas" oil baron and patriarch of Southfork Ranch Jock Ewing worked with his eldest son J.R. and his 2nd son Bobby. How many other sons did Jock have and who were they? (Two. Gary Ewing who had left Texas early on and Ray Krebbs, Jock's out-of-wedlock son who worked as ranch foreman)
36. The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have used their assets from Koch Industries, a gas and oil conglomerate that's the second largest private company in America, to try to reshape American politics. What ideology do they support? (Key players behind the Tea Party movement, the brothers support the right wing or conservative point of view)
37. Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh's younger brother Theo played a major role in the artist's life. How did Theo do that? (Vincent suffered from clinical depression and Theo provided emotional support and financial stability for his older brother throughout their lives. Theo was an important art dealer in Paris and introduced Vincent to his clients Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissaro and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)
38. Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and his younger brother Jim, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, were the first pair of brothers in the NFL to do what? (Coach teams against each other in a Superbowl. They appeared February 3, 2013 in Super Bowl XLVII)
39. Rising young pop singer Solange Knowles is the younger sister of the former lead singer of the girl group "Destiny's Child." Under what monomyn does her sister perform? (Beyonce)
40. Bastet, the sacred cat of ancient Egypt, was worshipped as the goddess of fertility and everything which was good and pure. Her identical twin sister Sekhmet was worshipped as the warrior goddess who represented the dark side of human nature and the destructive forces of the natural world. What together did these goddess represent? (They were the power of the whole of existence which is a balance of good and evil and as such they were sworn to protect the good and destroy the evil)


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George Clooney has risked reigniting an eight-year-old feud with Russell Crowe after accusing his fellow Oscar winner of starting a war of words for "no reason at all".
The Gladiator star hit headlines in 2005 after taking aim at Hollywood heavyweights Clooney, Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford for cashing in on their fame by fronting commercials for a range of products.
He told GQ magazine, "I don't do ads for suits in Spain like George Clooney or cigarettes in Japan like Harrison. It's kind of sacrilegious, a contradiction of the contract with your audience. De Niro advertising American Express – gee whiz."
Clooney took the fiery actor's comments in his stride and replied to the criticism in his own comical way, poking fun at Crowe's musical pursuits with his band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts in a statement which read: "I'm glad he set us straight. Because Harrison, Bob and I were putting a band together called Grunting for 30 Feet, and that would also fall under the heading of 'bad use of celebrity'. Thanks for the heads up."
The tongue-in-cheek response only irked Crowe further, prompting him to lash out again, but this time, Clooney had had enough and decided to clear up the issue by confronting his fellow screen star in private.
Discussing the statement, Clooney tells Esquire magazine, "That's when he really went off on me. 'Who the f**k does this guy think he is? He's a Frank Sinatra wannabe.' He really went after me. And so I sent him a note going, 'Dude… what the f**k is wrong with you?'
"So he sends me a disc of his music and a thing of his poetry. I think he said, 'I was all misquoted,' and I was like, 'Yeah, yeah. Whatever.'"
He continues, "The truth is that (Crowe) did send me a book of poems to apologize for insulting the s**t out of me, which he did. He picked a fight with me. He started it for no reason at all."
George Clooney has risked reigniting an eight-year-old feud with Russell Crowe after accusing his fellow Oscar winner of starting a war of words for "no reason at all".


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Teacher of ICT Vacancy in Cardiff
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Teacher of ICT vacancy in Cardiff.