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2011 German Future Cars
Lately, the three German luxury brands have been carving niches out of niches, but that hasn't stopped them from paying attention to their core products. BMW just redesinged the 5 and 7 Series with a new 3 Series on the way. Mercedes-Benz has a brand new E-Class sedan and coupe on its hands, with wagon and convertible variants en route. And Audi is in the midst of revising its entire lineup. Read on to find out more about what's in store from Ingolstadt, Munich, and Stuttgart.
When the next-generation BMW 3 Series arrives sometime in 2011, one of the big changes besides the updated sheetmetal (don't expect a radical change like there was from the E46 to the current E90) will be the new single-turbo inline-six that replaces the current model's twin-turbo unit. First seen in the 5 Series Gran Turismo, this mill makes the same 300 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque, but over a wider RPM range while meeting the upcoming Euro6 and U.S. SULEV emissions standards. A naturally-aspirated I-6 should also be available and there are even rumors of an I-4. The arrival of the new 3 Series will also bring about the end of the V-8-powered M3, as the next one is expected to go back to an I-6 powerplant.
WHAT: 2011 BMW Z4 sDRIVE35is
Who Needs an M? While we'd prefer they'd call it Z4 M (it's a lot easier to pronounce, for one), we're not going to argue with the upgrades to the automaker's twin-turbo 3.0-liter I-6. Mainly through changes to the turbocharger system, the engine now outputs 335 horsepower and 332 lb-ft of torque - a healthy increase over the 300-hp, 300 lb-ft output in the Z4 sDrive35i. In addition, there's also a controlled overboost function that briefly increases torque by another 37 lb-ft.
The updates to the engine will push the Z4 sDrive35is from 0 to 60 in 4.7 seconds onto an electronically limited top speed of 155 mph, according to BMW. The power bump won't come with a corresponding decrease in fuel efficiency, either, as BMW estimates the sDrive35is will roughly match the efficiency of the sDrive35i equipped with the automaker's 7-speed DCT transmission.
Speaking of the DCT, BMW claims both the transmission and the automaker's electric power steering system have both been optimized to further enhance the sporting character of the car. In addition, the exhaust system of the Z4 sDrive35is has been fitted with new mufflers and baffles designed to give it a deeper rumble especially under hard acceleration.
While they aren't calling it a Z4 M, the sDrive35is comes with a host of BMW M Sport upgrades. The automaker's adaptive M Suspension for the Z4 is fitted to the car, which features a reduction of overall ride height by roughly a quarter inch, along with a set of electronically controlled shocks. The car's M Aerodynamics kit employs a number of exterior enhancements to the front bumper and rear fascia, and a rear diffuser has been added. Special, five spoke 18-in. alloy rims are standard equipment, with 19-in. alloys available as an option.
The M treatment continues on the inside, with numerous enhancements including the awesome, thick-rimmed M steering wheel, sport seats and other model specific touches including BMW's new Aluminum Carbon interior trim. The sDrive35is also marks the debut of a new leather color called Kansas Walnut, and the car will be available in six colors including Melbourne Red metallic, a new hue for the Z4.
WHAT: 2011 Audi R8 SPYDER
Along comes the SpyderGiven the propensity of supercars to lose their tops, a drop-top version of the Audi R8 was almost inevitable. But it wasn't the original V-8-powered R8 4.2 that lost its top, but rather the new R8 5.2, which is powered by a 518-hp, 391-lb-ft 5.2-liter V-10 mated to either a six-speed manual or six-speed R tronic sequential transmission. 0-62 mph is achieved in just 4.1 seconds, top speed sits at 195 mph.
The car features the R8 5.2 coupe's LED head and taillight fixtures. Its nose wears the distinct two tier gills inside each lower front intake rather than the triple set adorning the 4.2. Also distinguishing its V-10 trim are twin oval tail pipes, a more sculpted under diffuser, and unique 19-in. wheels. As expected, the Spyder loses the prominent side blades found on the hard top R8s.
Thanks to the use of a cloth soft-top, which can be opened or closed at speeds up to 31 mph, the Spyder puts on minimal pounds. The top itself weighs just 66 lbs and the car as a whole is said to weigh just 13 lbs more than the coupe despite additional reinforcements in the sills, A-pillar, center tunnel, rear wall, and floor pan to improve chassis rigidity.
The R8 Spyder will go on sale in Germany in the first quarter of 2010 at a price of 156,400 euros ($230,581). Audi has not yet announced an on-sale date or pricing for the U.S.
Additionally, the entire R8 lineup may get a facelift for 2012.
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The Audi A8 launches in North America about this time next year, a few months after the summer '10 release in Europe. While Western Europe gets a 3.0-liter TDI V-6, a 3.2-liter FSI V-6, and 4.2-liter turbodiesel and gas direct-injection V-8s, we get the car only with that latter engine, upgraded to 372 horsepower and 328 pound-feet.
The 4.2 may be a short-termer, however. Audi is preparing a supercharged 4.0-liter V-8 gas direct-injection engine to supplement, for the time being, the 4.2. While we don't have a timeline, an insider assures us it comes very soon after the luxury flagship's launch. Also rumored to be in the pipeline is a hybrid model.
The power is transmitted through a new eight-speed automatic to the quattro all-wheel-drive system. Audi claims a 0-62 mph time of 5.7 seconds and an electronically controlled top speed of 250 kp/h, or, in the automaker's exactitude, 155.34 mph.
The standard quattro system sends 60 percent of the power to the rear under normal conditions and finds the wheel with the most traction under wheelslip conditions. An optional sport quattro system continuously varies the torque split front and rear.
Speed-dependent servotronic steering comes with a 16.1:1 ratio, and drive select lets the driver choose from "highly comfortable," "gentle rolling" and "sporty and exciting," by integrating the adaptive air suspension, the engine and the eight-speed tiptronic. It also lets the driver custom-build the system for a fourth, "individual" mode. Brakes are sports car-like, with internally ventilated discs and front stainless steel pins connecting the friction rings to the aluminum brake caps to save 8.27 pounds per wheel.
Electrical show Sized between the Audi TT and R8 and stylistically similar to the latter, the e-tron concept, features four electric motors -- one at each wheel -- that produce a respectable 313 hp and an earth-moving 3319 lb-ft of torque. Its 42 kWh battery is reportedly good for 154 miles and can throw down enough electronically limited juice to whip the 3527-lb car to 60 mph in 4.8 sec on to a top speed of 124 mph, according to the automaker.
The car itself is stylistically very similar to Audi's R8 production sports car, but there are some key changes. Beyond the more futuristic-looking headlights, taillights, and wheels (not to mention a simplified, tech-laden version of the R8's interior), the e-tron is somewhat smaller than its R8 cousin at 167.7 in. long, 74.8 in. wide, and 48.43 in. tall. The e-tron's wheelbase at 102.4-in. is also shorter than the R8.
Given its aerodynamic profile, 3527-lb weight, and prodigious torque, you might expect acceleration comparable to a top-fuel dragster, but 0 to 62 mph sprints are actually more in line with a production V-8-powered R8, at 4.8 sec. Top speed is electronically limited at 125.
A rebodied version of the e-tron surfaced at the Detroit Auto Show, lacking front electric motors and thus sans Audi's signature quattro all-wheel drive. Instead, two motors mounted on the rear axle combine for an estimated 201 hp and 1955 lb-ft of torque (the latter figure apparently continues Audi's highly suspect practice of providing multiplied torque figures).
The result is a concept that's slightly less capable than the original e-tron (0-62 mph takes an estimated 5.9 seconds) but potentially more fun thanks to its small size - it looks positively diminutive next to an R8 -- and relatively light weight (less than 3000 lbs). It would also presumably be less expensive, though that too, would be relative given the price tag of more than $150,000 Audi will likely place on the first e-tron when it goes on sale in 2012.
Echoes of EcoBoost
Like many other automakers, Audi is taking supercharged, direct-injected V-6s very seriously. As proof, the Q7 will be supplanting its present 3.6-liter V-6 and 4.2-liter V-8 gasoline engines with two versions of the supercharged 3.0-liter TFSI V-6. Offering different outputs, they'll bookend the existing 3.0-liter V-6 turbodiesel. Spruced up with an eight-speed automatic, expect the current Q7 to soldier on through 2014.
Q5 for less
For the 2011 model year, you'll be able to get into a Q5 for about $3000 less with the appearance of the 2.0-liter TFSI inline-four that offers 211 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. The existing 3.2-liter FSI V-6 will come as quattro-only. Expect them to be joined by a hybrid early in 2011 and all to get a facelift in 2014.
Audi's alphabet soup
Wearing faces reminiscent of the A7 Sportback concept, both the A6 and A7 are expected in fall 2011 (and featuring available MMI Touchpads). A new A3 will appear in 2013.
WHAT: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class CABRIOLET
4Season 4Seater
Imagine enjoying an all-around view of one of those rare crisp, sunny days in the dead of winter. Mercedes' next cabrio promises that experience for front- and rear-seat occupants.
Aircap is engineered to work with the headrest-mounted neck-warming Airscarf to make top-down driving comfortable in the chillier weather that prevails in the U.K., Germany, and other northern climes where convertible sales are strongest. The challenge presented to engineers was to provide a largely draft-free top-down driving experience for all four passengers, ruling out those mesh screen gizmos that render the rear seat unusable. They started work in the 1990s and developed several solutions that were functional but aesthetically unpalatable.
The decade-plus spent developing this concept will finally pay off on the 2011 E-Class. The solution consists of a discreet piano-black panel that normally lies flush along the top of the windshield header. When deployed, it rises 2.4 inches, erecting a nylon screen fence similar to those used by some sunroof wind deflectors. Another screen bridging between the rear head restraints simultaneously moves up into place at the touch of a button. About 50 percent of the air hitting the front screen flows through it, slowing down by about 30 percent. This helps create a laminar (smooth) airflow that nearly traces the profile of the convertible top, with calm air below, and turbulent air above. This calm air zone can be heated in winter or cooled in summer.
Aircap is integrated into the Pre-Safe crash protection program, which lowers the header panel instantly if an impending accident is sensed. Aircap will be standard in the U.S., but because it's optional in Europe, provisions are in place for a traditional mesh screen backstop, which will be offered by dealers here as well (it's a waste of money).
4Matic 4 the 4Tunate First, you should know that the new E-Class wagon will only be available with the 3.5-liter V-6 and all-wheel-drive. The wicked E63 AMG wagon is finished, at least for the time being. Please observe a moment of silence for its passing. Thank you. Next, you may be encouraged to hear that the latest iteration of 4Matic is lighter (adding just 100 pounds), more compact, and--teamed with the new seven-speed automatic--more efficient (improving by as much as 2.3 mpg on the EPA driving cycle). Its planetary center differential still provides a natural 45:55 front:rear torque split, with slippage at either axle causing friction in the pre-loaded center differential clutch to send as much as 70 percent of the torque to the axle with the best grip.
Enhancements to the business end of this newest W212 series station wagon include a now standard power tailgate, programmable to a maximum height for use in low-clearance garages (the cargo shade even rises automatically). Pulling a lever located on either side near the hatch opening will automatically lower that side's middle-row seatback head restraint(s) and drop the seatback, motoring the corresponding front seat out of the way if necessary, leaving a nearly flat load floor (front seat riders will have to readjust their seats afterward). To make this possible, however, the middle-row seat bottom cushion had to be lowered nearly a half-inch relative to the sedan's, reducing thigh support somewhat.
The seat is still comfortable, however, offering oodles of headroom and a panoramic view of the passing Alpine scenery. Another cool feature: once the rear doors have been opened and closed, a screen on the driver's information display indicates which (if any) seat belts have been fastened.
2011 B-Class F-Cell
Sixty B-Class fuel-cell compacts will be leased in Southern California this year. The 80-kW fuel cell, 1.4-kW-hr Li-Ion battery, and three 10,500psi hydrogen tanks (carrying 8.2 pounds) fit completely under the high floor, preserving full vehicle functionality. Range is quoted as 285 miles, and refilling takes just three minutes. Like most EVs, it's stout off the line and eerily quiet (apart from some air-compressor noise). No pricing is available yet.
2011 Smart Electric Drive
Can't find hydrogen? Try an electric smart fourtwo, powered by a 40-horse electric motor fed by a 16.5-kW-hr Li-Ion battery pack good for a claimed 84-mile range and rechargeable in 3.5-8 hours. The 2011 run includes 1000 cars, some of which will lease in select U.S. markets. Full production starts in 2012.
Farther out...
The 2012 R-Class gets a facelift that transforms the surprise-eyed, slant-nose minivaneque visage with a taller grille and more aggressive headlamps that scream SUV. The 2012 CL-Class coupes will get a moniker change to S-Class coupe along with a new, wider-looking grille, front and rear lamps, and fascias.
WHAT: Porsche Boxster SPYDER
Thriller Lite: Fewer pounds, but more weightyTossed out the new Porsche Boxster Spyder's open cockpit are the radio, the air con, conventional door pulls, and more. Porsche says the result is a weight savings of 176 pounds over the Boxster S, making the new Boxster Spyder, at a claimed 2800 pounds, the lightest model in the maker's production-car lineup.
The Spyder also boasts aluminum doors (saving 33 pounds), sport bucket seats (saving 26 pounds), an aluminum rear deck (saving 6.5 pounds), and the lightest 19-inch alloy wheels in the Porsche catalog. The new manual soft top is little more than a sun hat; it won't stand up to a car wash. (Note: If you're feeling "unpure," you can pile on A/C, radio, nav, and whatever other options you like.)
The Spyder benefits from the Cayman S's direct-injection, 3.4-liter flat-six. Compared with the Boxster S, the Spyder revs higher and boosts output by 10 ponies, to 320 horsepower. Outfitted with the optional seven-speed PDK twin-clutch manual, the Spyder can sprint to 60 mph in a claimed 4.8 seconds.
Suspension in the Spyder is 0.8 inch lower than the Boxster S's and incorporates stiffer springs and shocks. Combined with the weight reductions, the drop helps lower the center of gravity by nearly an inch. All Spyders also feature a standard locking rear-axle diff, aiding traction and stability.
The one-piece aluminum rear deck showcases a fixed spoiler and racy domes behind the headrests. Inside, you'll find optional Alcantara on the wheel, handbrake, and shift lever. Door handles are replaced by cloth loops.
This is a magnificent sports car. Steering is as good as it gets, the engine emits a gorgeous howl, handling reflexes are brilliant. You also have a fabulous standard six-speed manual (the optional PDK, happily, gets new shift paddles instead of pushbuttons). You can use the silly top up to about 125 mph; without it, the Spyder can reach a claimed 166 mph.
Porsche estimates the Spyder take rate at about 10 percent of total Boxster sales-about 1500 cars per year. The base price, $62,150, checks in $3200 higher than a Boxster S's.
So, yes, in a way you're paying more for less -- but getting so much in return.


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Priestly Challenge (work in progress)
A while ago, I whimpered on the Egotistical Priest's site that I missed having a Challenge Quest (series), something that said to any and all "I know how to play my class." In the intervening time I've seen others make similar comments (though aimed at their classes). In the absence of an official such from Blizzard, I decided We The Players needed to build our own. If you want to suggest, the thread is https://priestlyendeavors.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/challenges/ – yes, I did it out long as well as linking it.
There are two challenges – one for Shadow, and one for Holy. At this instant in time these are, well, unfinished. (I'll edit when I think it's a valid test.) These are going to be difficult but not impossible, but will require you to use as many of your skills as possible. Finally, there are no rewards – not unless someone makes one that crosses servers. I'd love to have a dedicated tabard, or a shirt, or something — but that makes it official from blizzard (or requires a LOT of work from what is still a small reader base). What you will have is satisfaction.
Expectations: you are level 70. And your gear is… still under debate, but if you can't yet run heroics you're not there. With that, let us begin. Two challenges: The Valley of Shadow, and the Mount of Light.
- Solo clear the first room of Shadow Labs, non-heroic. Yes, this includes the warlocks with their pets.
- (tentative – solo priest of a 5-man run on an Azeroth 20+ raid.)
4 Responses to "Priestly Challenge (work in progress)"
Can a shadow priest really clear the first room of SL? WOW! I would go in there to grind rep if I knew that was possible. I think that would still be really tough, even with mostly t4 equivalent gear.
Kolm – 70 shadowpriest
Detheroc – PVP server
Mind control anyone????
ps, a disc factor would be great here, so sort of pvp healing part.
adone-70 discpriest
the scryers
Hmmm Interesting. I think i'll try this tonight. If I had a suggestion i'd add 'No Mind controls" to the rules. This would be ridiculiously easy with mc… i shall try it without and get back to yas 🙂

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April 5th, 2013
Jimmy Kimmel sends Fallon congratulatory lunch
Just because Jimmy Fallon's bringing new competition into the 11:35 timeslot doesn't mean Jimmy Kimmel can't keep things friendly.
The ABC late-night host, who's new to the 11:35 neighborhood himself, apparently congratulated Fallon on his future "Tonight Show" takeover on Thursday with a sizable spread from a New York deli.
Fallon, who's riding out his tenure as the host of "Late Night" in the interim, shared a picture of the good eats on Instagram.
"Thank you Jimmy Kimmel and staff for the 2nd Ave Deli lunch. Class act," Fallon captioned the image, before dropping his punchline. "Watch Jimmy every night at 12:37 only on NBC."
Kimmel hasn't responded, but given the kindly humorous tweet he fired off on Wednesday, the day Fallon's new appointment was announced, it's likely safe to say that all's forgiven.
"Congratulations to my dear, sweet @jimmyfallon," Kimmel tweeted. "A formidable rival and an incredible lover."
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There was a time when nuclear war was a threat and not a theory, when Americans faced the very real prospect of a massive missile attack on their soil, when the two postwar superpowers were poised for war -- a brisk, brutal war that would have endangered if not ended the lives of tens of millions of people. It was 50 years ago this week, and it is one of the very few half-century anniversaries that doesn't grow faint or quaint with the telling. It was the real deal, and it was utterly terrifying.
No one who was not alive then can quite comprehend the danger and the fear that infused those 13 days in October, when life and civilization themselves seemed in the balance, and were. They are among the most studied 13 days in history -- picked apart by scholars, subjected to revision and revisionism -- for the missiles of October 1962, never fired, posed as much of a threat as the guns of August 1914.
More than a million people died in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, with 60,000 British soldiers perishing on the first day alone. Many times that many were in peril in the battle of the strategists 46 years later.
Today, 50 years on, the episode remains shrouded in unknowns, full of questions never answered.
To what extent were the missiles in Cuba a mere sideshow to the struggle in Berlin? Did Nikita Khrushchev dispatch the missiles as a counterpoint to American missiles in Turkey? What internal Kremlin politics were at work? Did Khrushchev move on Cuba because he sensed President John F. Kennedy's apparent weakness at the Vienna Summit? Why didn't Kennedy gain a long-term political benefit from his handling of the crisis, and why was he embarrassed in the so-called Skybolt Crisis, today remembered by almost no one, after having outmaneuvered Khrushchev in the crisis that mattered?
No definitive answers to these questions have emerged, even though the Cuban Missile Crisis is the subject of an untold number of academic conclaves and has become a veritable cottage industry at Harvard.
The appearance of missiles in Cuba was a startling development, disrupting the midterm congressional campaigns of 1962, paralyzing the entire Kennedy administration and positing the direct Soviet-American confrontation that Cold War diplomats had sought to avoid in Europe and Asia. The two nations truly were, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it in an unforgettable phrase, "eyeball to eyeball," and it wasn't clear until the end that the other guy would blink.
The discovery of those missiles prompted an extraordinary nationally televised presidential address, in which Kennedy threatened "a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" for any missile launched from Cuba, announced a "strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba" and demanded the removal of the missiles.
Khrushchev's answer: "Imagine, Mr. President, what if we were to present to you such an ultimatum as you have presented to us by your actions. How would you react to it? I think you would be outraged at such a move on our part. And this we would understand."
Two days later Khrushchev wrote Kennedy: "You are worried over Cuba. You say that it worries you because it lies at a distance of 90 miles across the sea from the shores of the United States. However, Turkey lies next to us. Our sentinels are pacing up and down and watching each other. Do you believe that you have the right to demand security for your country and the removal of such weapons that you qualify as offensive, while not recognizing this right for us?"
But on the U.S. side of the world, claims of moral or strategic equivalence held no water.
The introduction of missiles in Cuba was seen as a violation of the Monroe Doctrine and was by any measure an expression of aggressive intent or perhaps a potential platform for nuclear blackmail. No administration could tolerate it, and the Kennedy administration didn't.
The crisis produced a kaleidoscope of unforgettable images: The primitive U-2 surveillance pictures. The huddling of advisers in the ExComm, the inner circle that managed the crisis. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson describing missile photos to a hushed United Nations audience. The Soviet ships turning back in the Caribbean.
In the end, the missiles in Turkey also were removed, but that was part of a secret agreement, and it wasn't for six months that the last Jupiter left Turkey. A month and a half later, Kennedy delivered his American University address outlining his vision for world peace:
"Among the many traits the peoples of our two countries have in common, none is stronger than our mutual abhorrence of war," the president said of the United States and the Soviet Union. "Almost unique among the major world powers, we have never been at war with each other."
The speech won praise from Khrushchev himself, and 10 days later the hotline was established between Moscow and Washington.
"During the crisis, with the nation directly threatened, Americans had rallied around the flag," David G. Coleman, a University of Virginia historian who heads the Presidential Recordings Program in Charlottesville, writes in "The Fourteenth Day," a new book on the crisis and its aftermath. "Kennedy himself carefully avoided any talk of 'winning' the crisis -- and forbade his staff from talking in such terms -- but in the eyes of much of the American public, and indeed the world, that was precisely what he had done."
The world, having changed utterly, was about to change some more.
Just more than a year after the crisis, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. On Oct 14, 1964, precisely two years after the U-2 flight took the first pictures of the missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev was ousted from power.
The new world order was far from orderly, led by two men -- Lyndon B. Johnson and Leonid Brezhnev -- who could not have been more different from each other or from their predecessors. Troubles in Vietnam and a crisis in Czechoslovakia would soon follow, leaving tragedy in their wake -- but it is left to us, 50 years after the fact, to remember the missiles of October, and the tragedy that was averted.


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He certainly had a couple of gaffes, but overall the Brazilian has supplied Liverpool with the stability it has needed between the sticks for years now. His 21 clean sheets led the league and made 16 more saves than Golden Gloves runner-up Ederson.Trent Alexander-Arnold, RB, Liverpool
TAA didn't make the original cut for our list, but now can't be denied after setting the record for most assists in a season by a defender with 13. While he's not as polished at defending as some of his counterparts, the 20-year-old should only grow in the years to come.Virgil Van Dijk, CB, Liverpool
Many laughed at his pricetag when Liverpool bought him last winter, but he might be worth even more than the 75 million GBP paid for him now. The Dutchman won PFA player of the year and is unquestionably one of the best defenders in the world. He was the rock of the Reds back four, consistently breaking up runs and stopping attackers cold and even chipped in with four goals.
It's easy to slot Liverpool's backline into our best XI, but City's defence shouldn't be overlooked. The champions allowed just one more goal than the Reds and Laporte was the most consistent member of Pep's back line. The young Frenchman was one of the few players that wasn't rotated by Guardiola, only missing three games this season.Andrew Robertson, LB, Liverpool
Easily took over the mantle as the best offensive left back in the league from Marcos Alonso, racking up 12 assists, just short of his teammate Trent Alexander-Arnold. With both Robbo and TAA on the team sheet, the Reds should be set with the wing backs for years to come.Raheem Sterling, RM, Man City
For all the flak that the English winger takes from the British press, you often forget just how talented he is. Sterling was a piece to City's title repeat, scoring 17 goals and 15 assists — which is actually a slight step down from last year.Eden Hazard, CM, Chelsea
We're cheating a bit on this one, but Hazard did play several games in an attacking midfielder role this season. The Belgian was the one of two Premier League players involved in 30+ goals this season, scoring 16 goals and tallying 15 assists. He also had a hand in 49.2% of the Blues' attacking returns.Bernardo Silva, CM, Man City
Oft-forgotten among City's bevy of big-name stars, "Bilva" is arguably the hardest worker on the team — the type of player that never stops running. Of City's outfield players, only Laporte played more minutes than the midfielder's 2,849.
After missing some time last season, Mane came back strong scoring 22 goals to tie for the Golden Boot. It's his fifth straight 10+ goal season and a reminder that the Reds' attack isn't just about Salah on the other side of the pitch.Sergio Aguero, ST, Man City
Believe it or not, this will be Aguero's first time making the Premier League team of the season — despite scoring 20+ goals for the fifth season in a row and sixth time in his career. Kun is our player of the year, narrowly edging out Van Dijk. Kun was the best player on the best team and, now, squarely in the argument as one of the two best Premier League strikers ever.Mohamed Salah, ST, Liverpool
Thanks to a scoring drought that saw him score just once in nine EPL games, some wrote off the Egyptian in team of the season talk. But with five goals in his past six games, Salah tied for the Golden Boot with 22 goals and also supplied 12 assists.THE NEXT XI
Lukasz Fabianski may have allowed the second most goals this season, but he also made the most saves, repeatedly bailing out the Irons … Aaron Wan-Bissaka emerged from out of nowhere at Crystal Palace to lead the Premier League defenders in tackles with 124 and was one of the best in Europe against take-ons … There's a reason that Wolves' Conor Coady was the only player in the Premier League to play every minute for his team in every competition: He's a great defender and worthy of this praise … Fabian Schar is one of the most underrated centre backs in the league, ranked only behind VVD by analytics site whoscored.com … Lucas Digne was excellent this season after coming over from Barca, it's just a shame that he's only the second-best LB on Merseyside … Jorginho was brought in to play Sarri-ball and that he did, leading the league with 3,118 passes completed … Ryan Fraser provided 14 helpers for a Bournemouth side that finished seventh in scoring … For all of the drama that Paul Pogba caused at United this season, he was still a great player when he was on his game — especially after Jose Mourinho left … Just imagine the type of season Heung-Min Son would've had if he didn't have two tournaments to play with South Korea. Spurs' player of the year notched 12 goals and eight assists in just over 2,033 minutes … Raul Jimenez did a brilliant job of leading the line for Wolves. His 13 goals and 10 assists help the promoted side finish an astounding seventh in the table … And the captain of the next XI is Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who is a bridesmaid despite tying for the Golden Boot. Even more impressive: Of Auba, Salah and Mane, the Arsenal attacker scored his 22 goals in far less time on the pitch.
Since joining Manchester United, the Red Devils have paid Alexis Sanchez for a whole lot of nothing. The Chilean has earned more than 30 million GBP and made just 31 starts for the club, failing to play a full 90 minutes since the first game of the season … Staying with United, Fred was about as average as his name despite costing 52 million GBP this past summer … Mesut Ozil is Arsenal's highest-paid player, but was almost more likely to be seen streaming Fortnite. Ozil missed 14 games and played 45 minutes or less in five others … Joe Hart certainly isn't the keeper he used to be. Filling in at Burnley while Tom Heaton and Nick Pope were injured, the former England No. 1 allowed 41 goals in 19 games.


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NEW YORK -- When a Connecticut guard has a game in Madison Square Garden like Shabazz Napier did Friday night, there is only one name he can be compared to: Kemba Walker.
Napier, who scored 27 points and dominated the 18th-ranked Huskies' 59-58 victory over Indiana in the championship game of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Wounded Warrior Project, was more than happy to hear Walker's name come up.
"Of course I do," said Napier, a key reserve on the 2011 national championship team that Walker starred on. "That's my big brother. I try to emulate everything that he does."
While Walker, who plays for the Charlotte Bobcats, had an 11-game run for the ages when he led the Huskies to the Big East title and then the NCAA championship, Napier had a night that will be talked about for a while among the Connecticut faithful.
"The fans love him and he loves the fans," said Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie, a former standout guard for the Huskies himself. "He gave the folks from Storrs a good trip back home."
Napier's driving basket with 1:34 left to play turned out to be the final points of the game.
Indiana turned the ball over twice and Yogi Ferrell missed a jumper in that span. Napier missed a 3-pointer and was called for an offensive foul in the hectic finish that had the crowd at Madison Square Garden standing for the final 90 seconds.
"He is an incredible high level guard," Indiana coach Tom Crean said of the 6-foot-1 Napier. "That is a 12-, 13-year pro. I don't care about size. He creates tremendous separation."
Indiana (5-1) had the last scoring chance. Ferrell missed a jumper with 10 seconds and the rebound rolled out of bounds in front of the Indiana bench off a Connecticut player. The clock showed .2 seconds and after the officials watched the replay, they restored it to .7 seconds.
Jeremy Hollowell inbounded the ball to Noah Vonleh, but his jumper was late and the Huskies (6-0) had the win.
"We were looking to spread the court, play basketball. Don't let them lock in and it just didn't go," Crean said of Ferrell's jumper.
On the final play he said they were looking for a lob or catch and shoot.
"We didn't get a great look. They challenged it," Crean said. "You have to be dead on there."
Napier, the tournament MVP, was 10 of 14 from the field, including 4 of 6 from 3-point range. He was the only double-figure scorer for the Huskies, but he struggled from the free throw line (3 of 7) and had seven turnovers.
Still, every big play down the stretch was his.
"Sometimes my teammates let me know," he said of taking over a game. "Not verbally but how they sometimes carry themselves. I know I have to try and score and be more aggressive. ... I just go off the flow."
Ferrell, who was hounded all game by Napier, Ryan Boatright and Lasan Kromah, had 19 points on 6-of-19 shooting, 2 of 6 from beyond the arc, and he committed five of Indiana's 19 turnovers.
"They have more experience," Ferrell said, referring to Indiana's young roster. "Napier's a big shot maker for them. We knew that coming in."
The defense was intense on both ends. Indiana shot 40.8 percent (20 of 49), while the Huskies shot 39.6 percent (21 of 53).
"It came down to execution, to making stops," Ollie said. "We trust each other. We hang our hat on defense. We got stops and that's what we did. That's never going to change. Never."
After Napier made it 59-58, Indiana's Devin Davis had the ball stolen from him by Tyler Olander. Napier missed a 3-point attempt but Connecticut again stole the ball, this time it was Kromah with 30 seconds to go.
With everybody anticipating the Hoosiers fouling since the shot clock was off, they instead played defense and Ferrell drew a charge from Napier.
"That was a bonehead play. I should have passed it," Napier said. "I don't think it was a charge."
That set up Indiana's final two chances.
The tournament win was Connecticut's ninth in Madison Square Garden, The others were an NIT and a record seven Big East championships, including the one belonging to Walker.
Connecticut advanced with a 72-70 semifinal win over Boston College while Indiana beat Washington 102-84 in the other.


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Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that big African animals—which are facing poaching and habitat loss in other parts of the world—would thrive in this vast wilderness. But a new landmark study in Diversity and Distributions finds that the megafauna of the Sahara desert are on the verge of total collapse.
"While global attention has been focused on [biodiversity\ hotspots, the world's largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna," the researchers write.
Looking at 14 large-bodied animals, the study found that 86 percent of them (ten of the species) were either extinct or endangered. Four of them (28 percent) are already extinct in the region. The Bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) is gone forever while the scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) is extinct in the wild, although there are efforts to re-introduce it. Meanwhile, two of the Sahara's once top predators are gone: the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and the African lion (Panthera leo).
Megafauna that are still around aren't doing much better. The dama gazelle (Nanger dama), the addax (Addax nasomaculatus), and the Saharan cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) are all on the razor-edge of extinction with each one listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List. The dama gazelle and the addax are absent from 99 percent of their historic range; less than 500 dama gazelles survive, while the addax is down to less than 300 animals. Meanwhile the Saharan cheetah is only found in 10 percent of its range with only 250 left. Another top predator—the leopard—is only found in 3 percent of its range. Even the North African ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus)—the world's biggesth—has lost 99.8 percent of its range.
"Greater conservation support and scientific attention for the region might have helped to avert these catastrophic declines," the researchers write. "The Sahara serves as an example of a wider historical neglect of deserts and the human communities who depend on them."
Of the 14 species, only one species is found in over half of its historical range: the Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana). Still even this ibex is currently listed as Vulnerable due to overhunting.
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Question: This is the first prequel for Pixar I think isn't it?
Kori Rae: It is, yes.
So that's kind of interesting.
Rae: Yeah.
What was kind of the biggest challenge of going back and revisiting these characters as younger?
Rae: Yeah, one thing we learned for sure early on is that prequels are hard. They're definitely, definitely hard, because it's a lot more has to go into fear now. How to not make your film predictable. Everybody knows how it ends. Everybody kind of knows who the characters are at the end of the film. And you have to figure out twists and turns along the way to keep the audience engaged and involved and surprised, so that they're rooting for a character even though they know how it ends.
We learned a ton and it was really, really challenging. And we, we had a realization of why there aren't that many prequels out in the world, especially good ones. They're really hard. [LAUGHS]
Why so?
Rae: Knowing how the beloved Mike and Sulley were as characters and, if you think about Monsters, Inc. and who those characters are, there there's so much more to be mined. And we wanted to just find out who and figure out who they really are. Who is Sullivan and before he gets to Monsters, Inc.? How did he get there? What type of Monster was he? Same with Mike. Mike is sweet but he's a comedic side kick in Monsters, Inc. We wanted to dig, find out a little bit more of him. What was his life before that and who was he? So we just wanted to dig in and find out more about them and go back to a time in life that everyone could relate to. And that 18 to 22-year-old age group, around college, so that even if you didn't go to college everyone is 18, 19 and kind of out on their own for the first time. Figuring out who they are, who they want to be, who they thought they were. So we just thought that was a really cool place to explore.
Do you have a character bible for Monsters, Inc. and can you go back to use that for backstory?
Rae: We did a little bit but they only took us so far. There was a lot more to figure out. So there were some basics there, but the truth is we really needed to dig a lot deeper and kind of create much more in-depth back story for both of them. And that was part of the fun and part of the challenge.
Is there an iteration where we see Mike and Sulley's parents? Were they always consciously left off the table?
Rae: No, we definitely scored that. We have scored it in many ways and each of their ages. What we kept coming back to was, it took so much time that we were losing out on their relationship once they met, but both separately and then when they met.
And so we finally just kept leaning towards where we ended up. but we did many iterations with, with both sets of parents. [LAUGHS]
Do you ever sort of wonder if Mike was enough of a character to actually work with? Like physically, he's just a circle right? Like who's gonna relate to this circle within a circle?
Rae: Yeah that's the art of character development and that character story arc within the film and I think it was a lot of fun figuring out who he was from an emotional standpoint and from a character standpoint. Based on what we knew about him in Monsters, Inc. it was a great deal of fun to figure out who he was and how he got to be the crazy guy he was in Monsters, Inc.
So Boo was integral to the first film and audiences loved her. Was it challenging not to have her in this film? Did you ever consider a sequel where she's older?
Rae: Sure I think we did, but we really felt like this idea of, if going backwards was really worth it. And it kind of also gave us a reason to come up with new characters that you would fall in love with just as much. And so that was something we really, really tried hard to do and we hope we did.
How did this crew change over time?
Rae: The crew changes over the course of the four years that the film was in production, but at its peak we were about 260-270 people on the crew here.
This is your first feature film where you're the producer right?
Rae: Yeah.
Talk to us a little bit about that role and it's different than the previous roles you've had.
Rae: Yeah, so I've produced commercials and then started in Production Management managing the Animation Dept. and the Production Manager on Monsters, Inc. and Associate Producer on that film as well and Incredibles. But certainly the Producer is exponentially more challenging and more involved, because the buck stops with you.
So I got to learn how to deal with talent and work on all the casting. So there's just a lot more elements to the role. The production stuff and experience I had, but then there's all of the marketing and the consumer products. Everything that kind of relates to the film outside of the actual production is also the responsibility of the Producer.
Do you have to sign off when, when they ask for double the computing power?
Rae: [LAUGHS] Yeah, with the executive team kind of. It's a co-signing, if you will. [LAUGHS]
How do you go about making a decision like that?
Rae: It's just a discussion about what the show needs and what the studio needs. We needed more rendering power to use the new lighting tools that we implemented on the film. This studio needed more rendering power as well just to make sure that all of the films that were coming into production had their needs met. And so it was a negotiation and a decision. It was a studio-wide decision; it wasn't just for the film.
As a follow up to the Production question, Pixar gets a lot of flak for women directors, but most of the Producers at Pixar – Lindsey, you, Darla – are just women.
Rae: Uh-huh.
Is it just strong women in the production role?
Rae: Right.
Why do you think that is? Is that something that John personally said this is a good fit have to this type of personality producing and it happens to be predominantly women?
Rae: Yeah, I don't think so. I mean I don't think it's a gender thing. We had got Jonas Rivera who produced Up and John Walker produced The Incredibles. I think we have really talented people here. I think a lot of this probably in the earlier days. Catherine, myself and Darla started out as a Producer, but we kind of came up through the system here and and learned a lot. So I think that we're also always looking from within, so it's kind of just trying to use the resources and the experience and tap into that experience.
In terms of the talent, did you have a hand in terms of getting Helen Mirren on board?
Rae: Only in so much as setting up a meeting with her. She wanted to come here to meet and find out about the movie and talk with John and Dan about it and everything. So in that way, yeah. But as soon as we had the character designed and the story character description kind of nailed down, she was definitely at the top of our list – on Dan's list – creatively. An incredible talent that they hoped, at that time, that we could get. So it was a huge thing for us and, and she's just amazing.
But at the same time you have to take this Oscar Winning Actor and then make this this horrible looking creature…
Rae: That's true. But you know she thought Hardscrabble [was an] amazing character design, but really it was when we talked to her about who the character was that she really thought that was great. That was this powerful you know legend of a scarer. And that she was the Dean of the whole scaring program at this very prestigious school. And so she really took to it. And, and was thrilled to take on that role.
So, conversely though, you know again Billy Crystal's the one who basically dived sort of this movie; how do you go about finding the little Billy Crystal?
Rae: That was hard, that was hard and finding really good child actors is difficult, especially in this medium where they have … I mean adult actors find it difficult because they don't have anybody to play against and they're in a room by themselves and they're reading dialogue, but it was especially difficult to find. We went to New York. We went all over trying to find someone who had that little, that little edge, that gumption of a young Billy Crystal. And so it was a long search, but we found him: Noah Johnston. We think he's great. We think he pulls it off and Dan worked with him really hard to kinda get that, you know just even how quickly he speaks as a young kid. And most kids that young don't. He's just got it goin' on. He's talking to all of those kids on the playground and … so yeah. So he was a good find. It took a while though.
So were Billy and John like on board in the beginning? Or did you have to do any convincing for them to come back?
Rae: No, no and they were on board from the beginning and, in fact, I think Billy had been asking John, "When, when, when? When can I be Mike Wazowski again?" [LAUGHS]
Rae: Yeah. He loves this character. I think even in an interview he stated that it's his favorite character he's ever portrayed or played. So he's really, really fantastic and he is Mike Wazowski in every sense. So they were both thrilled to come back. [LAUGHS]
Let's say that this story takes more than a year. So he's still got three years of college left. All the years between this movie and Monsters, Inc.
Rae: No.
Do you anticipate doing a force or another movie. Do you think there's still material here to play with? What do you guys have any plans?
Rae: Yeah, no plans. I have no idea. I'm sure something could come up, but nothing has been talked about. Nothing has been even mentioned thus far.
Rae: I honestly don't know. I mean so we'll see, we'll see how this one does. Finish it out.
John Ratzenberg popped up in every movie you guys make. Is it literally a John Ratzenberg meeting?
Rae: You know, there's not. It really is … we want to kind of keep that good luck charm going, but it's not something we think about within the story. It comes up organically and sometimes it's early in the process of the story when we're like, "Oh, you know that would be great. We can pull John in for that." Other times it's later in the process, where we haven't figured it all out yet and we come back and we're like, "Oh, what would be great you know–" But it usually just magically works out somehow. That there is a great role, but there's not … there's no big meeting that happens. It really does happen within the show organically. John and Pete didn't even know for a while where we were gonna use him and so it was a surprise to them. So kinda fun, but yeah, it works.
Talk to me about working with Pete on this and what he was able to contribute himself?
Rae: Yeah.
And possibly even revising?
Rae: Right, right. Pete was so great and he's so generous with his time and his energy, so he was very involved, especially at the beginning. He would come to our story sessions and sit in when we wanted him to and when we needed him there to kind of guide. And then, throughout the film, he was there for Dan as a resource.
They had lunch every week, they would talk about the film. He was just a touchstone anytime we felt like we were at a place where we wanted to run something by him. I mean it would come up sometimes in character design or even set design. We would want to run stuff by him just to make sure that we were getting it right, that these characters and the sets and the environments were all in the world and fitting in the world properly. And so he gave us some really great guidance up front and then we were off, but he trusted Dan so much and he trusted the team so much that he was never worried, just excited and generous. And would help when, when we needed him to and wanted him to.
From what we've seen it the first 30 minutes, Dean Hardscrabble is a fairly minor role; does she take on more screen time?
Rae: I think over the course of the film she's incredibly important. I mean it's just who she is and what she stands for is really the most important. Screen time, sure, yeah. You'll see her certainly in the rest of the film. You've seen a good smattering on her in the portion that you did see and it's really not screen time about her. She's such an important part of the story and what she represents.
The dark side of being the scarer?
Rae: I think hopefully it's more about being a teacher and a teacher who has certain ideas and thoughts about things and is kind of, you know, not penetrable and thinks that they know everything. The intention of Dean Hardscrabble is to kind of be that type of person in someone's life who is unwavering and believes they know everything. The hope is that those characters like that can change. In this particular instance, Mike and Sulley can have a hand in helping her change a little bit, change her way of thinking.
I don't sense a true villain in this movie.
Rae: Not so much. It's a little bit different than that you know. There are different archetypes and different things that you come across, but it's not quite as heavy handed as a flat out villain, so.
The look of the college is very much like Hollywood. Everybody here would imagine their own as like, "Oh yeah that kind of looks like my place."
Rae: Right. Yay! That was the intention. [LAUGHS] It worked.
Now that seems like a tricky thing to come up with, that it's something that everyone could relate to.
Rae: Yeah it's great if that's what you're getting, that's fantastic because that was absolutely the intention. And that was what Dan and the whole Art Department and all of the designers really wanted to get across, that it was recognizable and that everybody would feel like, "Oh, I could go there or I have gone there." And that it was gettable, even though it's in the Monster world and there are certain things about the architecture that are quite different, but that it's recognizable as a school. So, yeah, that was intentional. That was what we were going for. We were hoping to do that.


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