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Surveillance officers of WHO and MOHSW discussing with one of the contacts in one of the villages. Photo by C. Banluta, WHO.
It was humid, muddy and raining when World Health Organization (WHO) staff approached a compound in heavily populated New Kru Town, outside Monrovia, Liberia to look for people who have had contact with people infected with Ebola. A WHO technical adviser from Rwanda, sent in to help the zone coordinator, spoke to a woman who had cared for an Ebola patient. She understood the need to be monitored for the disease, but another man with whom the team talked denied knowing anyone with Ebola and refused further contact with the team.
As new cases of Ebola virus disease continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, WHO's response is accelerating in vital areas crucial to control the outbreak.
One of the most important of these areas is contact tracing, or finding persons who have been in close contact with persons infected with Ebola, monitoring them to see if they have become infected, and providing them with education and support.
The response by WHO and its partners to stop transmission of the Ebola virus is accelerating by scaling up effective outbreak control measures and preventing its further spread, as urged by Health Ministers from 11 West African countries in a new strategy approved in July. Health authorities are concerned because Ebola continues to be transmitted in communities and in healthcare settings, and it has appeared in cities as well as rural and border areas.
The three affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) have reported some 930 cases of Ebola, with about 580 deaths, and new cases continue to be reported. The disease, which causes severe hemorrhaging and can kill up to 90 percent of those infected, is spread by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected animals or people.
WHO, the Global Alert and Response Network (GOARN), and its partners are providing guidance and support and have deployed teams of experts to West African countries, including epidemiologists to work with the countries in surveillance and monitoring of the outbreak and laboratory experts to support mobile field laboratories for early confirmation of Ebola cases. Also deployed are clinical management experts to help health-care facilities treat affected patients, infection and prevention control experts to help the countries stop community and healthcare facility transmission of the virus, and logisticians to dispatch needed equipment and materials.
In addition, social mobilization and risk communications teams are working in the three countries to help health officials deliver appropriate messages about how to report, handle, and treat Ebola cases.
One example of these accelerated activities has been contact tracing in Monrovia and in New Kru Town, Montserrado county, Liberia, where 107 community volunteers are working as tracers, in teams with 33 supervisors and a coordinator, to look for persons who may have come into contact with infected persons.
WHO technical adviser Dr. Andre Rusanganwa and zone coordinator for Ebola surveillance Emmanuel Lassana joined the contact tracers visiting areas in Monrovia to look for individuals who have come in contact with patients positive for Ebola virus infection. In New Kru Town, individuals who were in contact with patients were identified and given support based on the awareness they may have been exposed and must be monitored.
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More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability
Washington, D.C.-Unwanted childbearing is a greater demographic force than the desire for large families, and may have been for centuries, suggests Robert Engelman, Vice President at the Worldwatch Institute, in his new book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want. Expanding the capacity of all women to choose when to bear children is thus the surest route to achieving an environmentally sustainable population.
In countries that make effective personal control of reproduction possible for all, women invariably have two children or fewer on average, according to More. Such low fertility levels eventually lead to gradually declining populations in the absence of net immigration.
"It makes sense that those who bear children and do most of the work in raising them should have the final say in when, and when not, to do so," Engelman said. "By making their own decisions based on what's best for themselves and their children, women ultimately bring about a global good that governments could never deliver through regulation or control: a population in balance with nature's resources."
More, published Thursday by Island Press, explores the link between population and the environment through the lens of sexual relations and women's efforts to influence the timing of their reproduction.
Engelman, a former newspaper reporter who worked in the population and family-planning field before joining Worldwatch in 2007, interviewed women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America over a period of more than 25 years. Interspersing stories from these conversations with wide-ranging research across history and the social sciences, More delves into the roots of sexuality and procreation to discover how women's lives and status have influenced cultural evolution, history, and modern society.
The answer to "what women want," Engelman writes, is not "more children, but more for their children, and we can be thankful for that." Women have been so intent on reproducing at a time that is best for their child's survival that they have hidden their contraceptive use from their husbands and religious leaders, or have risked their lives to manage their fertility with dangerous or ineffective herbs or unsafe abortions.
Similarly, societies have at times been so intent on rooting out the use of contraception that it was banned in parts of the United States from 1873 to 1965. In Europe, the role of midwives in helping women plan births may have made birth attendants prime targets of the witchcraft hysteria of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Based on this record and contemporary findings, societies that make it easy for women and their partners to safely plan the timing of births will experience stable or gradually declining populations, Engelman contends. And that, in turn, will ease the staggering challenge of building environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.
Since its founding in 1974, the Worldwatch Institute has demonstrated how important the stabilization or gradual decline in population is for long-term environmental sustainability. That record drew Engelman to the Institute, where he directs the research strategy and continues his work on population.
"With its accessible analysis and innovative solutions to environmental problems, Worldwatch offers a perfect perch for me and a strong partnership with Island Press in helping to launch this book," he said. Engelman is posting regular blogs that appear weekly both at the Institute's Web site at http://www.worldwatch.org and a dedicated Web site maintained by Island Press, http://morethebook.org."Population growth is a driving force behind some of today's most serious problems, including climate change and rising food prices," said Worldwatch President Christopher Flavin. "In More, Robert Engelman identifies an approach to population-meeting the need for safe and effective contraception-that can speed the transition to sustainable societies that offer lasting opportunity for everyone.

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Britney Spears Wedding Details Emerge
Britney Spears is getting married for the third time — judging from the glow she emits when looking at her engagement ring or talking about fiancée Jason Trawick, this should be her final trip to the altar. Brit's wedding is going to be a big deal for her, and she's already mapping out plans. As is the case with most brides, she's changing her mind as she sorts through her vision of her big day. She's the bride, so she's allowed — as long as she doesn't turn into Brit the Bridezilla!
First, Brit was toying with the idea of a southern wedding, as an homage to her roots and her origin. Now, Radar Online is reporting that Brit is scrapping that idea in favor of something more private, intimate and close to the vest. It's going to be a destination wedding, where guests travel to a warm, tropical locale to celebrate while Brit and Jason swap vows.
"It's going to be a very intimate wedding with only immediate family and very, very close friends," a source shared with RadarOnline. The source continued, "There is absolutely no drama with the planning of the wedding and Britney will probably wear an off-white dress that will show off her killer bod." Ooh! That's got us wondering about who will design the gown. Vera Wang? Monique Lhuillier? Someone more unknown and upcoming? Hell, that could be an 'Project Runway' challenge. Design Brit's wedding gown. Could you imagine?
Brit's sons from her second marriage (the one that lasted longer than 55 hours!) to Kevin Federline will serve as ring bearers in the ceremony.
The wedding won't happen until Brit's legal issues, such as her conservatorship, are dealt with. "Britney doesn't want to get married until all legal matters have been dealt with. She wants to begin her life with Jason on a fresh clean slate," the source revealed.


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Seeing as the actual games have given up on being genuinely scary, Konami and Universal are hoping that transferring Silent Hill to the real world might be a little more effective.
This Fall, Universal's Halloween Horror Nights at both its Hollywood and Orlando locations will be taken over by Silent Hill characters. Why? Because there's an upcoming 3D Silent Hill movie to help sell, of course.
If you're wondering who you might run into during your leisurely walk through the ride, Universal say it'll feature "the iconic deformed nurses and the executioner".
Silent Hill Coming to Universal's Halloween Horror Nights [Universal]


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IBM Symposium Auckland Day 3
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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium], I thought I would start with some photos. I took these with cell phone, and without realizing how much it would cost, uploaded them to Flickr at international data roaming rates. Oops!
Here are some of the banners used at the conference. Each break-out session room was outfitted with a "Presentation Briefcase" that had everything a speaker might need, including power plug adapters and dry-erase markers for the whiteboard. What a clever idea!
Here is a recap of the last and final day 3:
Well, that marks the end of this week in Auckland, New Zealand. I am off now to Melbourne, Australia for the [IBM System Storage Technical Symposium] next week.
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#ibmtechu Day 4 IBM Storage University - Smarter Computing and System Networking Convergence
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Day 4 of the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011] had sessions on strategy, including Cloud Computing and System Networking.
IBM has a strategy, and is investing heavily in these standards, technologies, and core competencies.
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Storage Networking is part of the IBM System Storage team. There were several break-out sessions on the third day at the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011] related to storage networking.
Networking is going to be very important for a variety of transformational projects going forward in the next five years.
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Mastering the art of stretching out a week-long event into two weeks' worth of blog posts, I continue my coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], Tuesday afternoon I attended several sessions that focused on technologies for Cloud Computing.
(Note: It appears I need to repeat this. The analyst company that runs this event has kindly asked me not to mention their name on this blog, display any of their logos, mention the names of any of their employees, include photos of any of their analysts, include slides from their presentations, or quote verbatim any of their speech at this conference. This is all done to protect and respect their intellectual property that their members pay for. The pie charts included on this series of posts were rendered by Google Charting tool.)
Whether you deploy private, public or hybrid cloud computing, the benefits are real and worth the changes needed in skill sets and organizational structure.
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Guest Post written by John Sing, IBM San Jose, California
What is IBM SONAS? It's many things, so let's start with this list:
IBM SONAS makes automated tiered storage achievable and realistic at petabyte levels:
And we're just scratching the surface. IBM has plans to deploy additional protocols, storage hardware options, and software features.
However, the real question of interest should be, "who really needs that much storage capacity and throughput horsepower?"
The answer may surprise you. IMHO, the answer is: almost any modern enterprise that intends to stay competitive. Hmmm…… Consider this: the reason that IT exists today is no longer to simply save cost (that may have been true 10 years ago). Everyone is reducing cost… but how much competitive advantage is purchased through "let's cut our IT budget by 10% this year"?
Notice that in today's world, there are (many) bright people out there, changing our world every day through New Intelligence Competitive Advantage analytics-based IT applications such as real time GPS traffic data, real time energy monitoring and redirection, real time video feed with analytics, text analytics, entity analytics, real time stream computing, image recognition applications, HDTV video on demand, etc. Think of how GPS industry, cell phone / Twitter / Facebook, iPhone and iPad applications, as examples, are creating whole new industries and markets almost overnight.
Then start asking yourself, "What's behind these Competitive Advantage IT applications – as they are the ones that are driving all my storage growth? Why do they need so much storage? What do those applications mean for my storage requirements?"
( Read more about Analytics, pages 14-48 of [New Intelligence for a Smarter Planet - Driving Business Innovation with IBM Analytic Solutions] )
To be "real-time", long-held IT paradigms are being broken every day. Things like "data proximity": we can no longer can extract terabytes of data from production databases and load them to a data warehouse – where's the "real-time" in that? Instead, today's modern analytics-based applications demand:
This is a major paradigm shift in storage – and that is the solution and storage capabilities that IBM SONAS is designed to address. And of course, you should be able to save significant cost through the SONAS global virtual file server consolidation and virtualization as well.
Certainly, this topic warrants more discussion. If you found it interesting, contact me, your local IBM Business Partner or IBM Storage rep to discuss Competitive Advantage IT applications and SONAS further.
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ATLANTA - Chipper Jones and Jason Heyward homered and the Atlanta Braves withstood Arizona's comeback attempt to beat the Diamondbacks 6-4 on Wednesday night.
Jones' two-run homer off Trevor Cahill in the sixth inning was his first since May 4.
Tommy Hanson (9-4) gave up three runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Craig Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth to earn his NL-leading 22nd save.
The Braves led 6-0 before Ryan Roberts' three-run homer in the seventh knocked Hanson out of the game. Chris Young added a pinch-hit homer off Jonny Venters later in the inning to cut Atlanta's lead to two runs.
Arizona shortstop Stephen Drew was 1 for 4 as he came off the disabled list to make his first start since July 20, 2011. He missed most of the second half of 2011 and the first 73 games this season while recovering from a fractured right ankle that required surgery.
The Braves have started a 10-game homestand, their longest of the season, with two wins over the Diamondbacks.
Heyward, hitting second for the second straight night, gave the Braves a 1-0 lead with his first-inning homer. He hit a belt-high pitch from Cahill deep into the seats in center for his 12th homer. It was Heyward's fourth homer during his career-best 12-game hitting streak.
Cahill (6-6) then gave up a double to Martin Prado before recording 11 straight outs.
Cahill's throwing error and three walks led to two unearned runs in the Braves' three-run fifth. Jones walked and moved to second on Freddie Freeman's single to right. Cahill fielded Andrelton Simmons' grounder and threw low to second base for an error, allowing Jones to score.
Freeman and Simmons scored on fly balls by Michael Bourn and Prado.
Cahill was pulled after walking Dan Uggla and giving up Jones' homer to center in the sixth. It was Jones' sixth homer of the season and 460th of his career.
Cahill, who had been 4-0 in June, gave up six runs - four earned - four hits and four walks in five-plus innings.
Drew led off the fourth with a single for the first hit off Hanson. He moved to second on Heyward's fielding error in right and advanced to third on Justin Upton's groundout.
Drew was stranded on third, starting a string of Arizona leaving a runner on third base in three straight innings. Aaron Hill doubled in the fifth and was left on third. Upton doubled with two outs in the sixth and moved to third on Hanson's wild pitch but the inning ended on Jason Kubel's strikeout.
Hanson faded quickly in the seventh, giving up consecutive singles to Miguel Montero and Hill before Roberts' homer cut the lead to 6-3.
Arizona had runners on first and second in the eighth when Montero hit into a double play to end the threat against Eric O'Flaherty.


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The area's No. 6 ranked teams continue a daily look at the Express-News preseason rankings.
Brandeis, the Class 5A team, and Medina Valley, the Sub-5A team, both have to figure out how to replace their offensive stars. Brandeis' Noah Copeland and Medina Valley's Troy Stein both took their teams to new heights before graduating.
Full rankings will run in Sunday's E-N high school football preview.
The Broncos were one of the area's biggest surprises last season, going 12-2 with a trip to the state quarterfinals in its second varsity season.
It was a run led by RB Noah Copeland, who rushed for 2,391 yards and 35 TDs last season, and 2009 defensive player of the year Cody Rogers, who made 144 tackles. Copeland signed with Navy and Rogers is at UTSA now, but most of the Broncos are still around.
Brandeis has 15 returning starters, including nine on offense. But it feels like the Broncos lost a lot more than that with Copeland and Rogers gone.
Key Player: Junior OL Kyle Marrs. He had a big summer, catching the eye of plenty of college coaches with his 6-foot-6, 300-pound frame. As good as the Class of 2011 is for the area, the Class of 2012 is shaping up pretty well with players including Mars, Sam Houston DL Javonte Magee and Reagan QB Trevor Knight.
RB/DB Quincy Adams, a 5-10, 175-pound senior, may be the one who replaces Noah Copeland. He'd be advised to run behind the 6-6, 300-pound guy.
Under the radar: LB Joshua Campbell. The son of coach John Campbell, he was overshadowed by Rogers. Campbell, a 6-1, 220-pound senior, was a key part of the defense with 19 tackles for loss last season. He'll lead the D this year with DB Roddy Reyna, who was an all-area player last season.
Question mark: Can Adams replace Copeland? Brandeis' offensive gameplan has been pretty obvious since the school opened: give Noah the ball, see Noah run.
Copeland led all area players with 303 carries last season. The closest 5A player to that was Wagner's David Glasco with 248 rushes. Add in the weight Copeland carried as a captain, vocal leader and the face of the program, and it'll take more than speed to replace him.
Medina Valley
The big loss for the Panthers is Troy Stein, who rushed for 3,181 career yards and 39 touchdowns and passed for 2,094 yards and 29 TDs. He helped lead the Panthers to a 20-4 record over the past two seasons and was named a two-time Express-News' All-Area….punter.
Look, it was the only was to get him on the team considering Alamo Heights/Oklahoma's Drew Allen and Kerrville Tivy's Johnny Manziel were our All-Area quarterbacks the past two seasons. And Stein only did have one punt returned in the past two years.
Senior Zach Jungman is expected to replace Stein at QB, and may be handing off to his brother Jason, a junior running back.
Key Player: TE/LB R.T. Hoog. He's entering his third season as a starter and has been piling up accolades. He was the district newcomer of the year in 2008 and a second-team all-area linebacker last season. He's also the younger brother of Patrick, an offensive lineman for Oklahoma State.
With Stein gone, it may be Hoog's turn to lead the team.
Under the Radar: C/LB Matt Stein. Stein is entering his third year as starter, and was an all-district lineman last season for a team that averaged 378 yards of offense per game last season.
Question Mark: There are always going to be plenty of unknowns when replacing a team's QB and leader for the past 30 games.
The Panthers also have to find a new punter.
The Rankings
Class 5A
No. 6 Brandeis.
No. 6 Medina Valley.


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The top female finisher, Keri Nelson of Grand Junction, CO, fought cold and wind to finish the race in 2:20, less than a minute from the course record.
The top overall finisher is Tom Ober of Durango, CO. His time was 2:12. He was followed, less than one minute later, by long time racer Rick Callies of Durango.
The top local individual racer to complete the race is Red Wolfe, who completed the grueling race in 3:28.
The top local mixed team includes Laura Butler, Jason Livingston and Andy Butler. Other mixed teams with local connections include Julie Holt, Brad Bunker and Tim McArthur, Aleigh Redd, Steven Redd and Julie Bunker and Marian Rockwood and Josh Peterson.
The top local family team includes William Phillips and Douglas Phillips and the local female team includes Elisa Rogers, Linda Rogers and Janna Rogers.
The event is sponsored by the Monticello Chamber of Commerce and City of Monticello. Race organizers say the triathlon may look different in the future because the Utah Department of Transportation is hesitant to let racers use Highway 191 during the bicycling leg of the race.


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Eyeing Art
More than 1,000 art galleries hawked their wares at last week's Art Basel Miami Beach, the nation's premier contemporary-art fair and its various offshoots. But an even greater number turned up sporting the art world's other obsession: wacky eyewear. From tortoise-shell to chunky cat's-eye, dealers and collectors alike competed for most spectacular spectacles. German collector Inge Hartnett arguably won the unofficial contest by donning this coaster-size pair of specs—with blue eyes and outfit to match.
—Kelly Crow
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Our man JC checks in with a blog post of his own over on the home station. Now, I like to give Campbell a hard time like anyone else, but this blog post presents him in a COMPLETELY different light.
I strongly recommend reading the whole post, but if this doesn't grab you:
...then nothing will. Now I'm left to wonder what a night on the town with Jamie and Rance would consist of. Whoah Nelly!
Cathal Kelly: Friends with (J)P
Big pat on the back for the underrated Cathal Kelly, for telling the World Series to fuck off and instead focusing on stirring the offseason pot.
Within this article, Kelly gives us JP's take on a plethora of potential winter storylines out of Jays camp, including:
JP on Manny:
"I've known him since he was 15, and I've liked him since he was 15. I also like a lot of other players that we're probably not going to get. As far as the talent goes, he's a very talented player. Who knows where it goes from there?" Ricciardi said.
JP on AJ negotiations:
"They're not going bad, they're not going good. They're fine," Ricciardi said of his conversations with Burnett's agent.
JP on BJ:
"It's not a priority for us right now, trading B.J. Ryan," Ricciardi said.
JP on the offseason in general:
"Anybody on our club that would help us get better, if it meant trading them, we'd be open to it," Ricciardi said yesterday from his home in Massachusetts.
.....so, to summarize: negotiations with Burnett are non-existent, JP desperately wants Manny but needs to convince the Beest to convince Ted Rogers, BJ Ryan is on the trading block, and so is Roy Halladay.
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Corn devotees ready for their daily dose of summer flavor
Joe Smith laughed as he summed up what it takes for him to keep a steady supply of most everyone's favorite summer grain at farmers markets and Smith's Acres, the Niantic produce and plant store he owns with his wife, Teri.
"When corn season starts, my life ends," the bearded 60-year-old known as "Farmer Joe" said with a smile. He was driving his van to a Glastonbury cornfield Monday morning, a daily ritual until his own crop on rented land in East Lyme is ready for picking. "There are two things that draw customers in the summer - corn and tomatoes. When we don't have fresh corn every day, people go away mad."
Boiled, grilled or eaten raw, fresh, local sweet corn inspires near fanatical devotion that drives people to adjust their summer routines around getting to the local farm stand as soon as the day's fresh supply arrives. Just before 9 a.m. Monday, as he headed to check his 10-acre cornfield on Bride Brook Road, where corn-loving deer, raccoons and coyotes are a persistent problem despite the 6-foot nylon fence, Smith's cellphone rang. It was his wife, telling him customers were already at the store asking when the corn would arrive.
"I'll be there in 5 minutes," he told his wife.
The corn addicts start returning every July 4, he said. Among his loyal corn customers are the "two-ear man," who comes to the store every day for just two ears, and the couple who buy 18 ears every week at one of the 12 farmers markets where he and his five seasonal workers sell produce. And what about the lore that the sugary flavor of corn deteriorates rapidly after picking, prompting some to insist on having a pot of water already boiling on the stove before it's even picked? That may have been reasonable behavior for corn aficionados of the past, Smith said, but modern varieties don't require such extreme measures to enjoy peak flavor.
"Today's corn holds up very well," said Smith, who eats his own corn raw or roasted on a charcoal grill. "Keep it in the husk, in a bag in the refrigerator for three or four days, and it's just as good."
Long before the local food movement took hold and "locavore" became part of contemporary slang, devotees of local sweet corn knew the way to the closest source of plump gold and cream-colored kernels, ever eager for the season's first ears and consuming as much as possible before it ended. Statewide, 295 farms grow 3,922 acres of sweet corn, according to Steven Jensen, spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. New varieties and planting methods such as using plastic row covers to keep soil warm in early spring have lengthened Connecticut's corn season by several weeks, meaning the first corn ripens sooner than earlier generations remember.
"It used to be rare to have corn on July 4," said Smith, who grew up in East Lyme and worked at local farms as a teenager before heading to college to study horticulture. "Now it's rare not to have it."
For his part, Smith sells 600 to 1,800 ears of corn per day at markets and his store, but corn, now going for $6 a dozen, accounts for only 10 to 15 percent of his total sales. Not having it, though, isn't a realistic option, he said. Growing corn can be more labor- and land-intensive than other crops, he said, but many customers would go elsewhere if he didn't have it, especially the ears from his own fields in East Lyme, where he expects to start picking in a week or so. Then workers will start their days before sunrise, wearing headlamps to pick in the dark.
"A lot of people wait until my corn comes in," he said. "I'll put my corn up against anyone's corn."
This year, Smith faced a setback in his corn crop when he lost access to a 6-acre parcel he had been renting because the land was sold. There, he grew his favorite variety, Golden Bantam, but because corn cross-pollinates, different varieties have to be isolated. This year, he's only growing bicolor, or "butter and sugar" corn, on the 10-acre field owned by the state Department of Correction, and is searching for at least 5 or 6 more acres to rent for next year. Overall, Smith has 25 acres where he grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, the biggest portion occupied by the tall, tasseling stalks, which only produce one saleable ear apiece.
"Corn is a big land eater," Smith said. "And we have to plant in sections, another row of seed every four days, because corn ripens so fast and gets overripe quickly."
His first rows were planted May 10, he said, and the last, planted last week, will be ready for harvest in mid-October. Between planting and harvest, there's fertilizing, cultivating to control weeds, setting pheromone traps to control destructive moths and trying to keep other pests away, and hoping a hurricane doesn't come through to topple the crop, as happened three years ago. And then there's trucking the corn, broccoli, peaches, apples, cucumbers and the rest of his bounty to the store and the weekly farm markets from Greenwich to Danbury to New Haven, plus local ones in Niantic, Waterford and New London.
"We have some really good farm markets for corn," he said. "On a Saturday, sometimes I sell 30 bags, with five dozen per bag."
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That mischievous photographer, the one and only Richard Northwood, returns to The Erotic Mind show today. We kvetch about all kinds of lewd and smutty stuff and we have a barrel of laughs at the same time, just like last week.
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The sunshine vitamin could offer women with Type 2 diabetes a brighter outlook on life and help them better manage their often-trying disease, according to a recent pilot study by Loyola University researchers.
The study, which followed 46 women, found that vitamin D significantly improved their moderate depression. The researchers are starting a larger study on the findings.
In the pilot study, the women, who were an average age of 55 and had an eight-year history of diabetes, were given 50,000 International Units of vitamin D weekly over six months. Before they started taking the study's doses of vitamin D, the women had only 18 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) of the vitamin in their blood, which is considered insufficient. A vitamin D level of less than 20 ng/ml is considered deficient, 21-29 insufficient, greater than 30 sufficient and target levels are now 40 to 50 ng/ml, Penckofer said.
Their systolic blood pressure also improved, from 140.4 mmHg to 132.5 mmHg. Their weight dropped as well, from an average 226.1 to 223.6 pounds.
Sue M. Penckofer, lead author of the study, said the women in the study showed about the same rate of mood improvement as patients who took part in her eight-week behavioral modification therapy program.
"The sad thing about mental health in this country is a lot of people don't get coverage for it or don't have access to it," said Penckofer, a professor at Loyola's Niehoff School of Nursing. "Maybe it [vitamin D supplementation] could prevent relapses with depression."
The pilot was funded by the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago and the results presented at a recent conference of the American Diabetes Association. The study's co-authors are Todd Doyle, Patricia Mumby, Mary Byrn, Dr. Mary Ann Emanuele and Dr. Diane Wallis.
People with diabetes are twice as likely to be depressed as those without, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Penckofer noted that more than 25 percent of women with diabetes are depressed and have worse health outcomes than other diabetics.
The new study will follow 180 women with Type 2 diabetes who have insufficient levels of vitamin D and a placebo group. Patients will receive vitamin D supplementation weekly, and their blood will be checked for vitamin D levels at regular intervals. They will be evaluated for depression symptoms, blood pressure and their ability to manage their disease.
This $1.49 million study is being funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Working with Penckofer as co-investigators are Dr. Angelos Halaris, Ramon Durazo, Dr. Pauline Camacho and Joanne Kouba.
Dr. E. Sherwood Brown, an expert on depression at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, said the study showed promise and was a "particularly interesting twist on combining depression and diabetes."
Brown was senior author of a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2012 that found a link between insufficient levels of vitamin D and depression.
"I think they're doing a great study that will advance the field, but we don't really understand all the mechanisms," said Brown, a professor of psychiatry. "The idea of increasing the levels of vitamin D and improving depression to then lead to the secondary effect on diabetes control and other health-related outcomes is certainly interesting."
Brown said one challenge would be to discover whether vitamin D actually improved depression or whether participation in the study boosted mood. He also said the study would need to show that the supplement was actually helping depression rather than diabetes.
"It is possible that depression won't improve, but diabetes outcomes may improve due to a direct effect of vitamin D on diabetes," he said.


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Interesting ideas, but Sylvanas dying does not in fact have almost any bearing on horde infrastructure:that ceased around the time of the wrathgate, where it became clear that her ability to maintain control of her race was lacking. She has no real political connections, Varimathras is dead, the Tauren don't trust the forsaken, the Orcs don't care about the forsaken(and now don't trust them either due to the Wrathgate), the trolls are too busy getting stoned and kicked out of Orgrimmar for loitering, and the Blood Elves only have a diplomatic connection to the forsaken, one that's now largely obsolete. Killing off Sylvanas would actually sever the Forsaken from the horde altogether politically, as the only connection to the Horde they now keep is Sylvanas' tie to the Blood Elves as an undead High Elf.
Jaina on the other hand has significant politically connections. She's a major link to the Kirin Tor for the alliance, the governess of the only neutral alliance settlement, and just about the only character pushing for peace among all the alliance races. Killing her off would cause the alliance to go into a huge political shift towards war.
By comparison, killing Sylvanas off would cause the Horde to shrug and go about their business, as none of them particularly trust or like her anyways, even the Forsaken themselves debatably(who are too caught up in their own personal vendettas to care about anyone else).
My real prediction, however, is for either Tirion, Darion, or both, to die in Icecrown. If Jaina dies I expect it to be in the Halls of Reflection. If she doesn't die there I expect her to be corrupted by Frostmourne post-Lich King or to have nothing significant occur to her at all other than maybe a sob story about Arthas after he dies.


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Radus Pulls Web Content Together in Online Service
Radus (pronounced like "radius," in case that's not obvious!) is a new free online service just launched on Thursday. It's mission is to "streamline content discovery and navigation, offering consumers quick and easy access to hundreds of mainstream and user generated news, sports, and entertainment channels from leading broadcasters, bloggers, directors, musicians, photographers, and more," as described by the company. Basically, its media-hub interface pulls in all types of content into a common interface. More info after the jump.
Enter a search term at Radus, and content links pop up in the right column within clickable thumbnails. The default setup searches Radus's content partners--it's launching with Reuters, Revision3, and others, and promised to add steadily to the list--but you can also customize and add feeds from whichever sites you like.
One of the site's goals is to make the user experience consistent across all these different content sources; so each search result shows up on the left of the screen in a congruous format. Blog posts that may be single-column at the original site, for example, become multicolumn within Radus's interface.
Another focus is ease of sharing; you'll be able to create "playlists" of your favorite discoveries, no matter what kind of media they are, and send them to friends; and you'll be able to follow other members (and be followed) a la Twitter.
Also, one of the more intriguing features I saw in a quick demo was the Radus widget. When embedded in your site, it provides the same functionality of the Radus site itself.
Radus offers lots of other features, and we'll have an in-depth look and evaluation for you soon; check back for that. Meanwhile, here's a bonus (well, for some of us): Radus will be premiering "Slacker Uprising," Michael Moore's film about his get-out-the-vote tour during the last weeks of the 2004 Presidential campaign, until next Tuesday: election night.Originally posted to AppScout.


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Media didn't challenge Frist's purported reasons for stem cell flip-flop
In recent days, the media have left unchallenged Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's (R-TN) July 29 announcement of support for expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research beyond the restrictions currently imposed by the Bush administration, even though the justifications Frist provided for shifting his position have been publicly known for years. Some reports failed to even track the evolution of Frist's views, such as an August 1 report by USA Today that did not note Frist's public opposition to expanding stem cell research as recently as June, and an August 1 article in The Wall Street Journal that neglected to mention that Frist's position had ever changed.
Frist had reaffirmed his opposition to expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research less than a month before declaring his support for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. That bill, passed by the House of Representatives in May, would undo President Bush's restrictions against federal funding for stem cell lines derived from excess embryos produced after 2001. As the Associated Press reported on June 30, Frist had said that research that "[stops] short of destruction of an embryo for experimental purposes" is the "direction I think we should explore." Frist voiced even more direct support for Bush's policy two weeks earlier, during a June 15 press conference:
FRIST: The question is whether I believe the president's [stem cell] policy should be expanded. I do not at this juncture believe it should be expanded. The president has drawn a bright line. He believes that the human embryo, which is living, which is biologically human, which is genetically distinct, should not be destroyed for experimental purposes.
I think it is time to look at the science, how has the science progressed since that policy was put in place, but I agree with that ethical guideline.
But on July 29, Frist claimed that he had changed his position on restricting funding for embryonic stem cell research. The principal reason he gave for the change was that it had become increasingly apparent that there is a smaller number of stem cell lines available for federally funded research than first thought. He emphasized that Bush's policy should be "modified" because "unexpectedly, after several generations" the cell lines have become "less stable and less replicative," and the existing federally funded cell lines are "also grown on mouse feeder cells, which we have learned since will likely limit their future potential for clinical therapy in humans."
From Frist's speech on the Senate floor:
Now, when the president announced his policy four years ago, it was widely believed, and stated again and again, that there would be 78 embryonic stem cell lines available for federal funding.
This has proven not to be the case. Today, only 22 lines are eligible. Moreover, those lines, unexpectedly, after several generations, are starting to become less stable and less replicative than initially thought. They're acquiring and losing chromosomes. They're losing what is called the normal carrier type and are potentially losing growth control.
They're also grown on mouse feeder cells, which we have learned since will likely limit their future potential for clinical therapy in humans. And in part that's because of the potential for viral contamination or retroviral contamination.
While human embryonic stem cell research is still at a very, very early stage, the limitations that were put in place in 2001 will over time slow our ability to bring potential new treatments for certain diseases.
Therefore, I believe the president's policy should be modified. We should expand federal funding and the accompanying NIH oversight and current guidelines governing stem cell research, carefully and thoughtfully staying within ethical bounds.
Major news outlets have largely failed to challenge Frist's purported reasons for now supporting the bill. For example, while Frist noted that "Today, only 22 lines are eligible," this number has been publicly known since at least August 24, 2004, when it was reported by The New York Times. Similarly, Frist described the findings regarding problems with the existing stem cell lines as "unexpected" and said those findings differed from what was "initially thought." In fact, stem cell experts have voiced those concerns for years.
The Washington Post reported on August 12, 2001, that, according to Harvard University researcher Douglas A. Melton "[human embryonic stem cells'] properties will degrade with time. Everyone is fearful that the more you grow them in the dish, the more they lose their properties." The Chicago Tribune reported a similar assessment by Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman, a professor of molecular biology, on August 10, 2001: "We know from many years of experience working with mouse embryonic stem cells that these lines have a limited life span--that although they can reproduce for many generations in culture, they eventually will become less useful even under the best of circumstances."
A January 2004 report by the President's Council on Bioethics included "mutation during DNA replication" and "chromosome changes" among the "numerous challenges to obtaining and preserving the uniform and stable preparations of stem cells necessary for reliable research and, eventually, for safe and effective possible therapies." Further, an August 13, 2004, report on stem cell research by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) noted that scientists question the "quality, longevity, and availability" of the outdated stem cell lines currently eligible for federal funding, noting that lines "developed in the early days of human stem cell research using older 1990s techniques ... are harder to work with, not well characterized, and somewhat unstable."
The CRS report also detailed scientists' concerns about the use of nonhuman -- in this case mouse -- cells for "transplantation, implantation, or infusion into a human recipient." The problems associated with the use of mouse feeder cells -- which were used for all the federally funded stem cell lines -- have been widely reported; Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) even mentioned that the cell lines were "contaminated by mouse cells" in a 2004 presidential debate. In 2003, a John Hopkins University medical ethics panel determined that treating human patients with the available stem cell lines would be unethical and risky. According to the panel's press release: "Ethically and scientifically, potentially exposing study participants to a mouse virus -- which people's immune systems might be unable to combat -- is not a risk worth taking in the face of safer alternatives, the panel unanimously agreed."
Finally, some media reported on Frist's announcement without even noting that it represented a significant -- and recent -- change in position. For example, an August 1 report by The Wall Street Journal failed to mention that Frist previously supported Bush's August 9, 2001, decision to ban federal funding for any stem cell lines derived from excess embryos produced after that date, while both the Journal and an August 1 USA Today article failed to report that Frist reaffirmed that position as recently as June 2005.


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Growing Schools
Growing Schools aims to give all children the opportunity to connect with the living environment, whether it is an inner city window box or a vast country estate, a school veg plot or a natural woodland. Interacting with living plants and animals provides a very rich, hands-on learning experience in which both formal and informal education can flourish.
The Growing Schools programme supports the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto, and focuses particularly on three areas that are accessible to all, at some level, as a context for learning. They are:
Food and farming, including the managed countryside
Gardens, gardening and green spaces
Wildlife and the natural environment
The Growing Schools website has been designed to support teachers in using the "outdoor classroom" as a resource across the curriculum for pupils of all ages.
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School fences can be much more than just utilitarian. Although essential for security or separating different areas, fences can be decorative in their own right. They can challenge pupils to make structures that are both useful and beautiful, perhaps using locally grown wood or recycled and scrap materials. Like the railings round some urban parks, they can become a temporary outdoor exhibition space, displaying works made by pupils in science or art lessons. This instruction worksheet demonstrates how to make 2 kinds of fence with a class.
The Growing Schools Garden
This interactive website, inspired by the Growing Schools Garden at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, is full of resources, photos, videos, case studies, instructions for class projects and useful links. They are divided between projects on school grounds, and opportunities for exploring outside on school trips and visits. There are various zones for different types of gardens, buildings and structures, supporting Learning Outside the Classroom through Adventurous Activities, Heritage and the Built Environment, Natural Environment, Creativity and the Arts, Farming and Countryside, School Grounds and Places of Worship and Spirituality.
The Renewable World Website
Welcome to The Renewable World. Explore the fast-changing world of renewable materials, and their role in building a sustainable future.
Play the Renewable World eco-friendly home game to see how materials have changed in the last 100 years, and how they might develop in future. Then visit the Student Information Centre or the Resources for Teachers for additional information and ideas for further investigation. There are also with case studies, lesson plans and downloads on maths, science, geography, design and technology.
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Want to change the world? PRAY.
"My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations" - Mark 11:17
The Global Prayer Resource Network wishes to connect and inform praying Christians and other Prayer Ministries with local and global prayer needs and initiatives; to bring awareness for existing prayer resources and tools that will allow believers to pray informed prayers and sustain fervent intercession.
The Aim is to honor God's call that Christians should petition Him for the needs of this World.
Prayer moves the hand of God. Once there is sustained, strategic, and informed prayer, we will witness massive numbers of unreached people coming to Christ. Pray that it will happen in our generation.
~ Beverly Pegues
Informed intercession needs a revelation from the heart of God and good, reliable information. This section will become a much needed and valued addition to assist you to pray more focused prayers that will change the face of the nations and see God's glory fill the earth.
~ Etienne Piek
As a Christian, prayer should be a constant discipline. Consistent, daily, prayer can be likened to food – it sustains us by keeping us, and our lives, connected to God. In this sense we need to pray daily just like we need to eat daily. However, even though we eat regularly there are some special occasions on which we gather for special meals.
~ Dr Dion Forster
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
~ Jesus Christ
Praying is the act of touching God's heart.
It opens up the opportunity to bring our own needs before God, but also to be impacted by the things that break God's heart.
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Graebener-Reika, Inc., Reading, PA, a manufacturer of equipment for fabricating pipe, tube, plate and sheetmetal, has launched a rebuild service for upgrading pre-owned equipment. The firm will refurbish and recertify equipment at its 12,000-sq.-ft. facility, or onsite at a customer facility. Graebener-Reika manufactures tube and pipe cutoff machines, hot-stamping and hydroforming equipment, hydraulic presses, plate-bending machines and more.
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One More Step Closer "Towards an Industry Standard for Benchmarking Big Data Workloads"
Following the successful workshop "Towards an Industry Standard for Benchmarking Big Data Workloads" (WBDB 2012) held in May 2012 in San Jose [2], the Second Workshop on Benchmarking Big Data Workloads (WBDB2012.in) [1] will be held in Pune, India from 17 to 18 December at the Hinjewadi Campus of Persistent Systems Ltd, colocated with the 18th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2012) [3].
I have the great pleasure to co-chair this workshop with my distinguished colleagues Chaitanya Baru, Meikel Poess, Milind Bhandarkar and Tilmann Rabl with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF.gov).
The objective of the workshop series is to foster the development of industry standards for providing objective measures of the effectiveness of hardware and software systems dealing with Big Data. Several industry experts and researchers are expected to present and debate their vision on benchmarking big data platforms.
[1] WBDB 2012.in http://clds.ucsd.edu/wbdb2012.in, CFP: http://clds.ucsd.edu/sites/clds.ucsd.edu/files/WBDB.in_.cfp_.pdf
[2] WBDB 2012 http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/towards-an-industry-standard-for-benchmarking-big-data-workloads/, http://clds.ucsd.edu/wbdb2012/
[3] COMAD 2012 http://comad.in/comad2012
[4] WBDB 2012.in Program Committee http://clds.ucsd.edu/wbdb2012.in/organizers
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For the last two years, perhaps the most mystery-shrouded project at Pixar Animation has been the next film by "Monster's Inc." and "Up" director Pete Docter, a story set inside the brain of a young girl.
At the D23 Expo in Anaheim over the weekend, Docter and his producer, Jonas Rivera, revealed more about the quirky, ambitious movie during Disney's animation panel, introducing its cast, showing test footage and finally giving the long-untitled project a name — "Inside Out."
"Inside Out" follows an outgoing 11-year-old girl named Riley whose family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco just as she's hitting the turbulent emotional waters of adolescence. (It's surely no accident that Docter, a native Minnesotan, is the father of a teenage daughter).
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That's where the conventional setup ends — Riley isn't just the protagonist of "Inside Out," she is also, as Docter explained, the setting. The other main characters are emotions who live inside Riley's mind — Anger, a short red square with a necktie voiced by Lewis Black; Disgust, a querulous green sprite (Mindy Kaling); Fear, a thin-shouldered purple wimp (Bill Hader); Joy, a perky yellow fairy (Amy Poehler); and Sadness, a round blue mope with glasses (Phyllis Smith). The emotions govern Riley's actions, store her memories and compete for control over "headquarters."
By focusing not on superheroes or talking animals but on the decidedly complicated realm of the human mind, "Inside Out" will be both a creative gamble for its filmmakers and challenge for Disney's marketing department. Is anyone doing pre-awareness surveys on Anger? Surely Fear is trending among young and old audiences alike.
But Docter has a history of pulling off at least one improbable success — his 2009 movie "Up," about a cantankerous 78-year-old who ties a cluster of balloons to his house, grossed $731 million and won the Oscar for animated feature.
Like "Up," which had a silent mini movie within it about the life and death of its main character's wife, "Inside Out" plays with a seriocomic tone.
A rough scene Docter screened for the D23 audience showed how the emotional avatars will work in "Inside Out." During a family tiff, the action cuts back and forth between the real world of the dinner table and the internal monologues of Riley and her parents — as Riley mopes, Mom's emotions are distracted by the memory of a Brazilian helicopter pilot she once dated, and Dad's are zoning out on a hockey game.
The film also visualizes types of thoughts as places in the mind — "Abstract Thought" looks like a Picasso painting, "Imaginationland" like a Disney theme park and "Train of Thought" a choo-choo of sentience.
"What always excites me is finding a story that can only be done in animation," Docter said at the panel. "It has to have an element of truth to it, though."
"Inside Out" opens June 19, 2015.
At D23, Disney announces new animated feature 'Zootopia'
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Located in Havre, Montana, Montana State University-Northern is north central Montana's comprehensive university offering programs and services at the associate, baccalaureate, and master's levels. MSUN has educational centers in Great Falls (co-located with Great Falls College MSU) and in Lewistown.
Degree programs range from teacher education to engineering technology, emphasizing both technology and liberal arts education. MSUN programs are in the disciplines of business, nursing, engineering and mechanical technology, teacher education, natural sciences, and humanities. Applied research and service functions are aligned with many of the university's disciplines and respond directly to the region's economic and societal needs.
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Chicago, Ill.-In conjunction with the National Hockey League, the Chicago Blackhawks proudly announced today the team will host the defending Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings in an outdoor regular-season game, the NHL Winter Classic 2009, to be played at Wrigley Field on January 1, 2009, at 12:00 P.M. CT.
"We have said from the start we are going to do everything possible to bring the Chicago Blackhawks back to the forefront of sports for our fans and the city of Chicago. This is indeed an historic announcement for the Wirtz Corporation, the Chicago Blackhawks, for our players, fans and for Chicago. I am deeply appreciative to John McDonough and his team, to Commissioner Gary Bettman and the National Hockey League, the Chicago Cubs organization and of course to Mayor Richard M. Daley and the city of Chicago for working together to make this game happen. We expect interest to be on an international level for this once in a lifetime event," stated Blackhawks Chairman W. Rockwell "Rocky" Wirtz.
The NHL Winter Classic 2009 will be the second regular-season NHL outdoor game to be played in the United States, and just the third in League history. More information on the New Year's Day contest will be announced by the NHL soon.
The game will be televised live nationally by NBC, while CBC and RDS will televise the event live nationally in Canada. NHL Radio will provide coverage for radio stations across North America, and NHL.com will provide extensive digital video coverage.
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Correction: Because of an error in a Florida Highway Patrol news release, the spelling of Grace Barmad's last name was listed incorrectly. The story has been updated.
An 8-year-old St. Johns County student was hospitalized in serious condition Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a pickup truck while walking away from her stopped school bus.
Police cited Jason King, 17, of Ponte Vedra Beach with passing a stopped school bus and striking Grace Barmad, 8, also of Ponte Vedra Beach.
The accident occurred about 3:20 p.m. on North Roscoe Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
An accident report said King was in a Chevrolet S-10 south on the road, also known as County Road 210A, while bus No. 167 was stopped northbound with its stop sign and red lights on. King failed to stop as children were getting off the bus, the report said. There were 10 children on the bus at the time, said Christina Langston, a spokeswoman for the school district.
Grace, heading home from Ocean Palms Elementary, attempted to cross the road and was struck by the truck's left quarter panel. She was taken to Wolfson Children's Hospital in serious condition. It's unclear if anyone from her family was at the stop, but her parents arrived before she was taken to the hospital, Langston said.


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With 587-litres of luggage space and riding on the same MQB chassis as the Volkswagen Golf Mk 7, the improved SEAT Leon ST estate offers sharp handling, excellent build quality and solid practicality. Plus this revised version delivers smarter styling, improved media connectivity, extra safety provision and some fresh new engine options. As before, the prices being asked represent a substantial saving over those of a comparable, identically-engined Golf Estate. It's hard to grumble at that sort of deal.
So to this improved SEAT Leon ST. a compact estate that isn't that compact. A sensible stationwagon that claims to be sporty. A car of contradictions then, but one that promises to be quite appealing family transport, especially in the revised form we look at here with its slicker looks, stronger safety and improved media connectivity. Practical and sporty, it aims to offer a more dynamic option to compact estate buyers, with a 'lifestyle' appeal that might even pique the interest of folk looking at Qashqai-class crossovers. That's what SEAT says anyway. Time to look at this car in a little more detail.
Driving Experience
You might not be surprised to learn that this Leon ST offers a very similar driving experience to that of its hatchback stablemates - which wasn't guaranteed given the fact that this variant must carry along 270mm of extra length behind its rear axle. In the event, it's not something you notice at the wheel, where the driving dynamics are every bit as good as they are across the rest of the Leon line-up. Under the bonnet, things are much as before, though there has been a change at the foot of the petrol range where a 1.0-litre TSI three cylinder 115PS unit slots in above the existing 1.2-litre TSI 110PS four cylinder powerplant. Other petrol engine options include a 1.4-litre TSI unit with 125PS and a clever 1.4 EcoTSI variant with efficient Cylinder-on-Demand technology and 150PS. As before, Cupra versions get the 2.0 TSI petrol engine from the Golf GTI, but in an uprated form developing up to 300PS. Most Leon ST buyers though, will want a diesel. Here again at the foot of the range there's a fresh option, a 115PS version of the VW Group's familiar 1.6-litre TDI unit. Above that sit the usual 2.0-litre TDI units, offered with either 150 or 184PS. When it comes to gearboxes, the range includes five- or six-speed manual options, all well as double-clutch DSG auto 'boxes with six- or seven-speeds.
Design and Build
Thanks to this Leon ST, nobody, SEAT says, now needs to have to compromise in their choice between a sporty car and a practical one. That may be over-stating things a bit but it's true that this is one of the more dynamic shapes in the compact estate segment. To create it, the Spanish designers have had to compromise a little on ultimate carriage capacity: without the smartly angled rear screen for example, you could certainly fit a bit more in, but then the car would look a little more boxy and boring. We're guessing that most potential family buyers would rather sacrifice a few cubic inches for a more assured driveway statement. Visual tweaks made to this improved version include revised bumpers and bodywork with sharper, more assertive lines, plus there's a smarter chromed front grille. Inside, the ambient lighting LEDs' intensity can be regulated as the driver wishes from the newly redesigned eight-inch central infotainment screen. This monitor eliminates the need for many of the buttons and dials that were scattered around the fascia on the previous model. From this monitor, the LED ambient lighting of the cabin can be dimmed or intensified, giving the interior a classy feel. Otherwise, things are much as they were before. Raise the sloping tailgate and you'll find a 587-litre boot that's a usefully square shape and fully 55% bigger than that of the hatchback model, Once the 60/40-split backrest has fallen flat, carriage capacity rises to 1,470-litres.
Market and Model
The ST estate is priced from around the £19,500 mark, so you're looking at a premium of around £1,000 above the five-door model. Customers get a choice of five trim levels - 'S', 'SE Dynamic Technology', 'SE Technology', 'FR Technology' and 'XCELLENCE Technology'. Beyond that lie the hot hatch Cupra models. There are key changes across the range with regard to media connectivity, this revised Leon featuring the latest generation of the brand's 'Easy Connect' infotainment systems, activated by this model's new 'Media System Plus' eight-inch screen. Customers can also specify a 'Connectivity Box' in the central console that enables wireless smartphone charging. And there's the brand's 'Full Link' system, which enables you to use apps from your smartphone on the fascia screen via either the 'Apple CarPlay' or 'Android Auto' media systems. This improved Leon also features many more options when it comes to electronic safety systems. Examples of this include 'Traffic Jam Assist', which virtually drives the car for you in stop/start traffic. And a 'Pedestrian Protection System' which scans the road ahead not only for other vehicles that might pose accident hazards but also people too.
Cost of Ownership
It's not easy to cut back the weight of a modern family estate in a market where buyers want their cars to be safer and more heavily equipped. Yet thanks to the installation of the Volkswagen Group's MQB platform, this SEAT manages to be singularly impressive in its lack of bulk. An entry-level 1.2 TSI Leon ST is the lightest car in its class, weighing just 1,254kgs: to put that into perspective, we're talking 60kgs less than a comparable Ford Focus Estate. On the engine front, the big news with this improved MK3 model Leon ST is the installation of a three cylinder 1.0-litre TSI 115PS unit near the foot of the range. Here, you can expect over 60mpg on the combined cycle and not much more than 100g/km of CO2. The diesel options are also impressively frugal - expect around 75mpg on the combined cycle from the 1.6-litre TDI unit for example. Even the 2.0-litre TDI 150PS unit might surprise you, it being capable of over 65mpg and around 110g/km. All the powerplants get a Start/Stop system that cuts the engine when you don't need it, stuck in traffic or waiting at the lights. Plus an Energy Recovery system that stores brake energy usually lost as heat and uses it to help power the car's electrical systems, ultimately preserving fuel.
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Key Standard Features*
- Metallic - Mystery blue
- Metallic - Midnight black
- Metallic - Urban silver
- Metallic - Nevada white
- Metallic - Magnetic grey
- Metallic - Boheme purple
- Metallic - Eclipse orange
- Metallic - Desire Red
- Solid - White
- Solid - Mediterranean Blue
- Metallic paint
- Solid paint
- Special solid paint
- Illuminated glovebox
- Cruise control
- Rear reading lights front and rear, illuminated boot
- Front map reading lights
- Rear reading lights
- Driver and passenger sun visor, covered and illuminated mirror, driver sun visor with card holder
- Special Solid - White
- Front comfort seats in Tresil cloth - Black
- Front comfort seats in cloth - Tresil dark grey
- Front comfort seats in cloth - Tresil ice metal
- Cloth - Tresil black
- Cloth - Tresil dark grey
- Cloth - Tresil ice metal
- Emergency tyre repair kit
- Tyre repair kit
|Body Glass
|Electric front/rear windows
|Rear wash/wipe
|Electric front/rear windows with one touch/anti pinch
|Dark tinted rear windows
|ESC with tyre pressure warning indicator
|Electric handbrake
|ABS + traction control
|Electronic parking brake with auto hold
|Hill hold control
|Collision mitigation braking system
|Front assist including city emergency braking
|Lowered comfort suspension
|Comfort suspension
|Voice recognition
|Voice control system
|Bluetooth Handsfree Phone Connection
|Driver Aids
|Front and rear parking sensors
|Multi-Collision Braking
|Front assist with pedestrian protection
|Electro-mechanical power steering
|RPM counter
|Electro-mechanical PAS
|Front parking sensors
|Rear parking sensors
|Driver Convenience
|Remote fuel flap release
|SEAT logo boot release
|Driver Information
|Full Link Smartphone Integration with Mirror Link, Apple Car Play, Google Android Auto
|3D map display
|Navigation system (incl. media system plus)
|Outside temperature gauge
|Trip computer
|Service interval indicator
|Low fuel warning light
|'Lights On' warning buzzer
|8" touch screen
|Full Link App interface
|Driving Mirrors
|Heated door mirrors
|Electrically adjustable door mirrors
|Body coloured exterior mirrors with integrated LED indicators
|Electrically adjustable and heated door mirrors
|Body coloured door mirrors
|Embellishment Trims
|Chrome interior detailing
|Chrome interior trim
|CD player
|high resolution colour driver display
|Media system plus (incl. media system colour)
|SEAT USB media cable
|8 speakers
|Radio/CD + MP3
|DAB Digital radio
|Auxiliary input socket
|Steering wheel mounted audio/phone controls
|Bluetooth audio streaming
|2 USB ports
|2 X SD card slot
|2 USB sockets in rear
|Exterior Body Features
|Rear spoiler
|Chrome roof rails
|Side spoiler
|Hidden exhaust pipe
|Black radiator grille
|Chrome-plated radiator grille surround
|Body colour door handles
|Body coloured bumpers
|Black grille with chrome surround
|High gloss black finish B and C pillars
|Exterior Lights
|Halogen headlights with small LED daytime running lights
|Front fog lights with cornering function
|Halogen headlights
|Electric headlamp adjustment
|LED indicators in door mirrors
|Cornering front fog lights
|LED daytime running lights
|Air conditioning
|Dust/pollen filter
|Additional heating and ventilation outlet in rear of centre console
|Interior Features
|Chrome loading sill
|Boot storage net
|Gear shift indicator
|Front comfort seats in Tresil cloth
|High centre console with integrated box & cup holder, rear air outlet, with armrest in front seats
|Front seatback storage pockets
|Cargo rings in boot
|Height/reach adjust steering wheel
|Cloth upholstery
|Boot net
|Luggage tie-down hooks
|Front cupholders x 2
|Leather handbrake
|Luggage compartment cover
|High centre console
|Leather steering wheel and gear knob
|Front armrest with storage box
|Storage box under drivers seat
|12v power point in centre console
|Interior Lights
|Illuminated boot
|Instrument lighting with brightness control
|Seat navigation pack - Leon
|7 airbags - 2 front, 2 front side, 2 curtain, 1 knee
|Front seatbelt reminder
|Front seatbelt pretensioners
|Front side airbags
|Child proof door locks
|Passenger airbag deactivation system
|Curtain airbags
|Tyre pressure monitoring system
|Driver/Front Passenger airbags
|3 point rear seatbelts x3
|Drivers knee airbag
|Active pedestrian safety system
|Front Seatbelt warning
|60/40 split folding rear seat
|Active front headrests and 3 rear headrests
|Driver and passenger seat height adjust
|60/40 split folding rear seat with armrest
|Passenger seat height adjuster
|Front adjustable head restraints
|Front comfort seats
|3 height adjustable rear headrests
|Front seatback pockets
|Driver seat height adjust
|Driver seat lumbar adjustment
|Active head restraints
|Rear top tether child seat ISOFIX attachment
|Central locking fuel filler cap
|2 folding remote keys with window open/close and boot opening function
|Engine immobiliser
|Remote central locking + deadlocks
|Locking wheel bolts
|Volumetric alarm with back up horn
|2 folding remote keys with window open/close function
|XDS electronic differential lock
|Vanity Mirrors
|Driver/passenger sunvisors with ticket holders + illuminated vanity mirrors
|Wheels - Alloy
|17" Dynamic alloy wheels 30/3
|Electric sunroof and LED interior illumination pack - Leon
|Panoramic sunroof and LED interior illumination pack - Leon
|Convenience pack+ - Leon
|Driving assistance and safety pack - Leon
|Paint - Metallic
|Metallic - Mystery blue
|Metallic - Midnight black
|Metallic - Urban silver
|Metallic - Nevada white
|Metallic - Magnetic grey
|Metallic - Boheme purple
|Metallic - Eclipse orange
|Metallic - Desire Red
|Paint - Solid
|Solid - White
|Solid - Mediterranean Blue
|Exterior Body Features
|Metallic paint
|Solid paint
|Special solid paint
|Interior Features
|Boot divider net
|Illuminated glovebox
|Dividing net - rear
|Driver Aids
|Cruise control
|Interior Lights
|Rear reading lights front and rear, illuminated boot
|Front map reading lights
|Rear reading lights
|Vanity Mirrors
|Driver and passenger sun visor, covered and illuminated mirror, driver sun visor with card holder
|Paint - Special
|Special Solid - White
|Tow bar pre-installation with hook and space saver spare wheel
|Trim - Cloth
|Front comfort seats in Tresil cloth - Black
|Front comfort seats in cloth - Tresil dark grey
|Front comfort seats in cloth - Tresil ice metal
|Cloth - Tresil black
|Cloth - Tresil dark grey
|Cloth - Tresil ice metal
|Wheels - Spare
|Emergency tyre repair kit
|Space saver spare wheel
|Tyre repair kit
|0 to 60 mph (secs)
|0 to 62 mph (secs)
|Engine Power - BHP
|Engine Power - KW
|Engine Power - PS
|Engine Power - RPM
|Engine Torque - LBS.FT
|Engine Torque - MKG
|Engine Torque - NM
|Engine Torque - RPM
|Top Speed
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The Bride and Groan
In case you missed it yesterday, something HUGE happened here on CW: we had our very first Sunday Sweets proposal!! (And even better, she said yes!)
So today's post is dedicated to the happy couple, Zach and Savannah. That's right, you two: while you're basking in the bliss of the newly engaged, I figured we should take this opportunity to consider the next most important cake in your lives: your weddding cake.
Now, I know I feature a lot of wedding wrecks, and I know a lot of folks will point out that asking for a fondant design recreated in buttercream is asking for disaster, but don't you worry. I'm here to help. After all, this is what Leah D. ordered for HER wedding cake:
And look what she got!
It's the tinfoil-covered cookie sheet that really sells it.
Ok, yes, it's a wreck. BUT - did you notice how the inspiration cake was all buttercream, and the wreck itself is fondant? I'm just sayin'. It works both ways.
Now, don't you feel better?
Ok, then how about what Susan A. ordered for her wedding?
Not a great picture (you don't see mimeographs much these days), but I think you get the general idea.
And here's what Susan got:
Granted, I'm not sure how this is supposed to make you feel better, but trust me, guys: the REST of us are feeling grrrrr-REAT. (John! Go make some popcorn! These are gettin' GOOD.)
Sara M. wanted her wedding cake to be a hunk a' hunk a' burnin' love:
The cake! The cake! The cake is on FI-YUR!
(That was my attempt at a slide-rule trombone effect. I know: I'm a veritable foley artist with words.)
And finally, Elizabeth P. dreamed a dream of ribbon-wrapped sweetness for her big day:
...but ended up with something only a mummy could love:
Ouch. Uh...that's a wrap!
Thanks to all of today's brides, and congrats again to Zach and Savannah! Just remember, guys: wreck or Sweet, we're gonna need to see your wedding cake! (Oh, and we're all invited, right? RIGHT?!)