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The previous generation Nissan Sentra was on sale from 2007 to 2012, and now for the 2013 model year the company is launching the seventh generation Sentra. The model is about 150 lbs lighter and comes with a new 1.8-liter engine and the next-generation Xtronic CVT with sub-planetary gear for optimal performance and efficiency.
The new generation Sentra is using the same design language as the recently announced Altima . New features include a new new signature trapezoid-shaped grille and large wraparound headlights with LED accents.
The 2013 Sentra is being built on a new platform that is lighter than the previous design and is powered by a new 1.8-liters 4-cylinder engine that delivers a total of 130 HP and 128 lb-ft of torque.
When the new Sentra goes on sale this fall it will be offered in S, FE+ S, SV, FE+ SV, SR and SL trim levels.
"The 2013 Nissan Sentra is the most revolutionary design in the nameplate's 30-year history, a worthy addition to what is without question the most innovative, highest quality, highest value sedan lineup in Nissan history," said Al Castignetti, vice president and general manager, Nissan Division, Nissan North America, Inc. "With the complete redesign for 2013, Sentra is closer in look and feel to Altima than a typical compact sedan."
Updated 08/31/2012: This review has been updated with the official details, images and specs. Hit the jump to read more about the 2013 Nissan Sentra.
Updated 10/01/2012: Nissan announced today prices for the new 2013 Sentra. The model will be priced from $15,990 when it goes on sale at U.S. Nissan dealers nationwide beginning October 16.
The exterior
The new generation Nissan Sentra in being built on a new, lighter platform and has grow in sizes: a 0.6-inch longer wheelbase (106.3 inches) and a 2.3-inch longer overall length (182.1 inches). In the same time the new Sentra features slightly lower height (-0,6 inches) and a narrowed width (-1,2 inches). All these changes have significantly reduced the car's drag coefficient: down to 0.29 from the previous 0.34.
Just like with the new Altima, the new generation Sentra has received a more elegant, modern and refined exterior look. Up front Nissan added the company's new signature trapezoid-shaped grille and larger wraparound headlights with LED accents. At the rear the taillights also receive LED as standard.
Customers will be able to customize the look of their new Sentra with a pretty impressive list of features:chrome door handles and accents, available heated outside mirrors with integrated turn signals, and available sport front and rear fascias and rear spoiler.
The interior
The sophisticated look of the exterior continues with a high-quality interior design. Nissan is offering materials never used before in compact sedans, including a soft-touch instrument panel and driver's door armrest, available leather-appointed seating and available Maple wood-tone trim.
The instrument panel features Fine Vision electroluminescent gauges that are backlit even in daylight. At the rear, the passengers will enjoy a legroom of 37.4 inches - among the largest in class.
Standard interior features:
- 6-way manual driver's seat,
- 4-way manual front passenger's seat,
- front and rear door pockets,
- front center console with padded armrest and cupholders,
- rear seat armrest with cupholders,
- air conditioning with in-cabin microfilter,
- tilt and telescopic steering column,
- power windows with driver's one-touch auto up/down with auto reverse,
- power door locks with auto-locking feature,
- two auxiliary 12-volt power outlets,
- remote keyless entry and remote trunk and fuel-filler door releases.
The engine
The new generation Nissan Sentra will drop the previous 2.0 liter engine, in favor of a new 1.8-liters DOHC 4-cylinder engine equipped with a twin Continuously Variable Timing Control (CVTC) system which modulates both the intake and exhaust valve opening time. This new engine delivers a total of 130 HP and 128 lb-ft of torque - or 10 HP and 19 lb-ft less than the previous model.
But before you'll get to disappointed, you have to know that this new engine delivers impressive fuel consumption figures: 30 mpg City, 39 mpg Highway and a class-leading 34 mpg combined.
The new engine is combined with the new-generation Xtronic CVT that offers a wider gear ratio of 7.3:1 through use of a sub-planetary gear and smaller pulleys.
|Sentra S
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The competition
Its true Nissan is offering a pretty impressive list of updates for its new Altima, but are they enough to take on its impressive list of competitors which includes models like Honda Civic and Ford Focus. The new generation Civic is powered by a .8-liter i-VTEC 4-cylinder engine, but with an output of 140 HP - 10 HP more than in the new Sentra. Finally, the new Ford Focus is powered by a fuel efficient 2.0 Liter four cylinder engine that produces 155 HP and 145 lb-ft of torque. So we guess that at the first sight the new Sentra is the least powerful version, but Nissan is offering a pretty impressive fuel economy.
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Perhaps oil and gas investors who have been following the growth of the electric vehicle, or EV, space might have been a little worried that the oil and gas industry would collapse by the time the EV industry starts living its dream of making the whole world go all-electric. I, on the other hand, don't believe this would be the case. Nobody wants to go out of business. Oil and gas companies can't have it as an option.
While many see the evolution of the EV space as a threat to the oil and gas space, I see it as the "right" competition that would make oil and gas companies go back to their drawing boards, and map out strategies that would ensure that they remain relevant. From such competition, oil and gas investors would benefit from an improved oil and gas space that's been forced to find a sustainable solution to global-warming and a worthy investment option in an Apple-esque EV space.
I like to think that the lack of adequate competition is one big reason our environmental issues got to the current level. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists USA, or UCSUSA, one gallon of gas burned emits about 25 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases into the atmosphere. UCSUSA also found that about 30% of America's total global warming emissions come from vehicles.
Where do the gases come from? From gas stations, of course. Where do gas stations get the gas they sell? From oil and gas companies obviously. So, I won't be wrong to say oil and gas companies contribute about 25 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases into the atmosphere for every one gallon of gas they process.
I know you want to ask how we would drive our cars without these oil and gas companies. Of course, we need them. But what they contribute to global warming wouldn't be this much if the "right" sort of competition existed. I said "right" because there are competitors obviously. After all, there's more than one oil and gas company. But what makes it the "not-right-competition" is the fact that just about all oil and gas producers go about their businesses the same way.
Which is where charging stations come into the picture
What would make for the right competition, in my opinion, is about an equal number of gas and charging stations. And when I say charging stations, I'm talking about Electric Vehicle charging stations. About equal number of charging and gas stations means that the population of EVs on the road is not so far from the population of traditional gas engine vehicles on the road.
Now the competition
The right competition won't exactly be between charging station owners and gas station owners. It would be between an EV space that's quite successfully dealt with global warming emissions from autos and an oil and gas space that would be trying its best to remain important to our everyday life. This sort of competition would put all hands on deck to deal with the huge contribution of vehicles to global warming.
If we can get a hold of this, the oil and gas space would be out to make sure that the 25 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases that come from every gallon of gas do not go into the atmosphere anymore. The EV space, on the other hand, would be out to make sure that everything about EVs is clean – clean source of energy, clean battery management system, among others. This (the striving of each industry to maintain a clean environment) would happen because they both want to remain in business.
The Positive
I've started seeing this "right" competition. Oil and gas companies have begun to sense a strong competition from the EV space. They know that if, against all odds, the EV vision (the world going all-electric-car) is achieved, they would struggle to be as important as they are at the moment. One of the results of this competition is the Carbon Capture and Storage, or CCS, strategy, which some oil and gas companies are already getting their hands dirty with.
Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) is one of the oil companies that's working on CCS. Due to the heavy emission of CO2 from its Athabasca Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada, the company lunched the CCS project, which has the capacity of capturing over a million tons (over 2 billion pounds) of CO2 annually. Removal of this amount of CO2 is equivalent to removing about 175,000 cars from the road.
BP (NYSE: BP) is the latest company to show big interest in dealing with global warming. News emerged on June 25 that BP has part-funded an emission project at a Texas cement plant, which is in addition to its investment in Skyonic CCS project.
While Chevron (NYSE: CVX) claims on its website that it has a project for reducing the emission of green house gases, the company's CEO said something that raises my eyebrow. He said in an interview, "Our leaders have to make a decision [about combating global warming]. Do they want that to continue, or do they have a better solution for us? So it's not my call [to come up with solutions]." I'm of the opinion that Mr. Watson and Chevron at large would have a change of mind by the time the competition I'm advocating grows.
What Benefit Does CCS Present To Investors?
One thing that oil and gas investors have had to worry about over the past years is how oil companies handle their corporate responsibilities, which directly affects human lives. And this singular factor has often times determined the performance of oil and gas stocks.
You'd understand exactly what I'm talking about if you take a look at ExxonMobil's Ecuadorian lawsuit, which, in reality, has to do with how Exxon handles its corporate responsibility. Thus, with oil and gas companies showing interest in the CCS project, we can now say that they're not absolutely about oil money anymore. They now have compassion for human lives and the ecosystem at large. Such positive image would always make oil companies do well both in business and in the stock market.
In addition, the CCS project may present oil companies an extra source of revenue. Most oil companies are only funding other institutions' CCS projects at the moment. I see this as a gamble they're taking to see how the project would work out. I'm certain that if the project proves worthwhile, many oil companies would soon venture into this space.
In my opinion, they're taking this approach because of the capital intensive nature of the project. They don't want to waste billions on what they're not sure would work out fine. In the end, however, if the initiative is successful, oil and gas companies will have the largest share of the financial benefit since they have the capital to invest into it.
EV makers, on the other hand, are also trying to up their game by trying, first, to convince everybody that EVs are the answer to reducing the contribution of autos to global warming. Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) is leading the race in this industry with its recent announcement of a battery swap system that is aimed at making drivers more comfortable driving Tesla EVs. This is an addition to the company's supercharger system. This system is a strategic move to drive EV adoption.
These sorts of developments would only nurture the competition that I'm advocating. And as an investor, I hope you understand that increased adoption of EVs (increased sales) is a sign that this industry is investable.
Like I argued in one of my posts, Tesla is a company you want to invest in. The fact that Tesla is making efforts to improve its battery services shows that it's committed to solving the range anxiety challenge, which has been a major roadblock to the adoption of EVs. The truth is, no EV is worth buying the most other than that which assures me that I'll get to my destination without any glitch. This assurance is what Tesla has been giving to consumers. And with this development, in addition to the ones it already has in place, I project that Tesla's sales will reach a new landmark by the year.
My Foolish Take
For investors that are a little skeptical about the idea of a gas station versus charging station competition, I'd like to remind you of the revolution in the PC space, where it used to be all about Microsoft. Then, we were not enjoying our gadgets as we do today because the right competition didn't exist. But then, Apple came and everything changed. At that point, Microsoft realized that if it wanted to remain at the top, where it has always been, there needs to be a change. That competition didn't push Microsoft out of business; it only made it stronger.
In the same stead, a gas station versus charging station competition won't push oil and gas companies out of business. And down the chain would be investors who would enjoy the benefits from cleaner oil and gas operations and a fully-grown EV space.
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President Bush will tell the nation this week he plans to reduce the American troop presence in Iraq by about 30,000 by next summer, but will condition those and further cuts on continued progress, The Associated Press has learned.
In a prime-time television address, probably Thursday, Bush will endorse the recommendations of his top general and top diplomat in Iraq, following their appearance at two days of hearings in Congress, administration officials said. The White House plans to issue a written status report on the so-called "surge" on Friday, they said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Bush's speech is not yet finally drafted. White House officials were preparing the address even as the U.S. commanding general, David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker were presenting arguments to stay the course in Iraq in a second day of testimony on Capitol Hill.
The reductions envisioned by the White House mirror those proposed by Petraeus and would leave approximately 130,000 U.S. troops on the ground by August, roughly the level at which they were before Bush ordered the buildup early this year, the officials said.
In the speech, the president will say he understands the deep concerns Americans have about U.S. involvement in Iraq and their desire to bring the troops home, they said. Bush will say that after hearing from Petraeus and Crocker, he has decided on a way forward that will reduce the number of troops but not abandon Iraq, they said.
The address will stake out a conciliatory tone toward Congress but Bush will place more conditions on the pace of reductions to the pre-buildup level of 130,000 than Petraeus did.
At the White House Tuesday afternoon, Bush met with House and Senate lawmakers of both parties to discuss Iraq. He publicly pledged to consider their input. "It's very important before I make up mind that I consult with leaders of the House and the Senate," he said.
Bush will also adopt Petraeus' call for more time to determine the timing and scale of withdrawals below the 130,000 mark and offer to report to Congress in March about such plans, one official said.
White House press secretary Tony Snow said Petraeus and Crocker had presented compelling arguments about "what appears to be trend lines that are pointing to success" and that "if you've got something that is succeeding, you want more of it."
He denied, however, that he was offering a preview of what Bush would tell the nation. "Whether the president agrees or disagrees, we're going to find out," Snow told reporters on Tuesday.
Republican support for the Iraq war remains on shaky ground in Congress, epitomized by heated questioning Tuesday by GOP senators of the general's recommendations. But support for the plan hasn't been lost entirely.
Many rank-and-file Republicans say they are deeply uneasy about keeping troops in Iraq through next summer, but they also remain reluctant to embrace legislation ordering troops home by next spring. Democrats had anticipated that a larger number of Republicans by now would have turned against Bush on the war because of grim poll numbers and the upcoming 2008 elections.
If Republican support for the war holds, as it might for now, Democrats would have to soften their approach if they want to pass an anti-war proposal. But they remain under substantial pressure by voters and politically influential anti-war groups to settle for nothing less than ordering troop withdrawals or cutting off money for the war — legislation that has little chances of passing.
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Bait and switch…! So this guy sends 30,000 plus troops for his surge tactic and now he plans on bringing them home by next summer, by then it will be some other protracting excuse as to why not…no?!
Just as we do with an appliance that's on fire, we need to pull the plug first before hitting it with the fire extinguisher. Bushco needs the funding; ie., power plug pulled immediately if not sooner, then the fire extinguishers broken out to bring these criminals to justice via impeachment! Are there any questions?!
We simply cannot afford to play this b.s. game with these elected mafioso thugs any longer. To do so means the U.S. and it's people are headed for the ashbin of history.
Carl Nemo **==
Hey Carl, great comments as always and I have one thing to say to the Democratic Congress: Screw you traitors!
Happy Birthday America ,You are now six years old..Too quote Gentleman Gene ,WAKE THE F$&K UP!!!We are the monkey wrench..or better yet ,the head space and timing tool..Go,or,No GO…PMFOT's
Well lets see…where can I start? How about the finish because its over as in "The End". I shouldn't be posting here because I swore (to myself….childish I know!!!) but I got pissed at Doug for having his warm fussy feelings about our so called "vitriol" language.
I forgive you Doug for your warm fussy because in "The End" will it matter. Hell no!!! This country has been screwed to the point of NO RETURN. Bush, Cheney, Congress, American zonbies, clueless idiots of ALL types be fore warned, your time is almost up. My only regret is that I'm still here to watch this shit unfold.
This nation has gone to far and it is impossible to regain what has been lost. Like Rome we also will fall from grace and will/have been destroyed from within.
Hell has come ashore and is moving inland. I would wish everyone good luck but luck is not going to save your ass.
Is their anything that will? Yes!! but if you don't know the answer to that by now its probably TO LATE.
Time for my ativan and a "very good" stiff drink and please don't type some shit that will hurt my feelings.
Glad to have you aboard again Gene! I missed your vitriolic commentary… Don't worry about saying you wouldn't post here again. CHB is a great site although it's an excercise of "we the members" preaching to "us the choir" 24/7/365. The reason I post is due to this site's repected reputation for being a watering hole for political thoughts from grassroot citizens.
When people do websearches for CHB commentary, or come on this site to read our comments just like the daily newpaper, it's always my hope beyond hope we can find new converts to our way of thinking.
Although unlikely, there may be a number of House Reps and Senators who come to CHB to get a "dipstick" sampling of what "we the people" are thinking. I'm sure many times they go "ouch", but if so, that's good too. Hopefully we motivate these entities to rise up above partisan politics and start doing what's right for America and "we the people".
Carl Nemo **==
How many times has Bush announced a troop reduction and never done it? I've lost count. Anyone who still believes he means to do anything with this F-up except hand it off to the next President, who they hope will be a Democrat so they can immediately blame him/her for their mess.
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Here may be the single strangest fact of our American world: that at least three administrations -- Ronald Reagan's, George W. Bush's, and now Barack Obama's -- drew the U.S. "defense" perimeter at the Hindu Kush; that is, in the rugged, mountainous lands of Afghanistan. Put another way, while Americans argue feverishly and angrily over what kind of money, if any, to put into health care, or decaying infrastructure, or other key places of need, until recently just about no one in the mainstream raised a peep about the fact that, for nearly eight years (not to say much of the last three decades), we've been pouring billions of dollars, American military know-how, and American lives into a black hole in Afghanistan that is, at least in significant part, of our own creation.
Imagine for a moment, as you read this essay, what might have happened if Americans had decided to sink the same sort of money -- $228 billion and rising fast -- the same "civilian surges," the same planning, thought, and effort (but not the same staggering ineffectiveness) into reclaiming New Orleans or Detroit, or into planning an American future here at home. Imagine, for a moment, when you read about the multi-millions going into further construction at Bagram Air Base, or to the mercenary company that provides "Lord of the Flies" hire-a-gun guards for American diplomats in massive super-embassies, or about the half-a-billion dollars sunk into a corrupt and fraudulent Afghan election, what a similar investment in our own country might have meant.
Ask yourself: Wouldn't the U.S. have been safer and more secure if all the money, effort, and planning had gone towards "nation-building" in America? Or do you really think we're safer now, with an official unemployment rate of 9.7%, an underemployment rate of 16.8%, and a record 25.5% teen unemployment rate, with soaring health-care costs, with vast infrastructural weaknesses and failures, and in debt up to our eyeballs, while tens of thousands of troops and massive infusions of cash are mustered ostensibly to fight a terrorist outfit that may number in the low hundreds or at most thousands, that, by all accounts, isn't now even based in Afghanistan, and that has shown itself perfectly capable of settling into broken states like Somalia or well functioning cities like Hamburg.
Measuring Success
Sometime later this month, the Obama administration will present Congress with "metrics" for... well, since this isn't the Bush era, we can't say "victory." In the style of special envoy to the region Richard Holbrooke, let's call it "success." Holbrooke recently offered this definition of that word, evidently based on the standards the Supreme Court used to define pornography: "We'll know it when we see it."
According to Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post , the Obama administration is reportedly rushing to "preempt Congress with its own metrics." It's producing a document called a Strategic Implementation Plan, which, DeYoung writes, "will include separate 'indicators' of progress under nine broad 'objectives' to be measured quarterly... Some of the about 50 indicators will apply to U.S. performance, but most will measure Afghan and Pakistani efforts." These are to include supposedly measurable categories like numbers of newly trained Afghan army recruits and the timeliness of the delivery of promised U.S. resources.
The administration is evidently now "tweaking" its metrics. But let's admit it: metrics in war almost invariably turn out to occupy treacherous terrain. Think of it as quagmire territory, in part because numbers, however accurate (and they often aren't), can lie -- or rather, can tell the story you would like them to tell.
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Sit back for a moment, and let me tell you a story. I can't promise it'll be short but I can promise that it'll certainly be honest. Firstly, I'll give you some background. I'm Ryan Ross, guitarist of 'The Young Veins', and formerly of 'Panic! at the Disco', and this is how my perspective on life changed completely.
I grew up dirt poor, an alcoholic father, and no mother. I had absolutely nothing, and I believed all rich people were cruel snobs who didn't care worth a damn. This was probably because the kids who picked on me were rich. But it skewered my beliefs, and those still stick with me today. By the time I was about 10, nothing much had changed, except now, I had a guitar.
It was a cheap one. I had paid $20 for it at a thrift store, mostly in change that I found around the house. It had a huge hole in the side, and the strings were badly out of tune, and I even think that the neck was a bit warped, but I didn't care, because it was mine. I couldn't practice at home, for fear of my drunken father flying into a rage, so I would go to the park near my house to play. I stuck with it, hoping it could one day take me away from all this.
Fast forward about 5 years. I'm pushing 17. I still have nothing much, my most notable aspects of life are still an alcoholic fther, a cheap, broken guitar, and a dirt poor status. And, yes, I still think that rich people are snobs. But I can play a lot better than I could 5 years ago, and freedom is so close that I can almost taste it.
Then, Brendon came crashing into my life. Litterally.
I was playing in the park again one day, as usual, when all of a sudden, a guy was sprawled face down inchese from my feet. I stood up, holding my guitar in one hand, offtering the other to the guy. He took it, hauling himself to his feet. I noticed that he looked a bit younger than myself. "Are you ok?" I ventured.
I had no idea that those simple 3 words would be the foundation for a most interesting friendship. After finding out I was there, in that same exact spot nearly every day, he began to show up near daily, it seemed. We began to talk, often for hours at a time, and became fast friends.
I found out that his name was Brendon, and that he was actually a bit older than me. He found out about my beliefs and my home life. However, he never spoke about his.
Some days, he would just sit there and listen to me play. Other days, he would sing. Eventually, one day, he asked me if I wanted to start a band. I said yes, before remembering that I didn't have a better guitar than the thing I'd been using over the past 6 or so years. When I said that, he just said, "oh." Then, there was an awkward silence.
I didn't think anything of it, until for my 17th birthday, I recieved a brand new guitar. When I lifted it out of the case, I saw that it was one of the best. There was a snowball's chance in hell that an average teenager would be able to afford something like that. I decided to confront Brendon about it.
When I asked him, he laughed and said, somewhat sheepishly, that he had used money he had gotten from relatives for Christmas and his birthday, and had bought it from a pawn shop. I let it go, not entirely believing him. I kept my guard up after that however. I don't think that I was wrong.
Now fast forward another 3 or 4 years. Me and Brendon are part of a band that we created, Panic! at the Disco. We were doing great, but I never forgot that I came from nothing. Even as happy as we were, something still didn't feel right with me about Brendon. Ever since the day that he had given me the guitar, I felt like he was hiding something from me.
Then one day, I found out his big secret.
Brendon had come from a mormon home, with rich parents. Because of the way that he was brought up, he decided to rebel. I was hurt, feeling as though I was just a pawn being used in his game of pissing off his parents.
Even though I had never asked for it, I had gotten a new perspective on things. While I had thought that all rich people were snobs, I had met a contradiction to this train of thought. Even so, I decided to leave Panic!. There was no way that I would stick with a rich person, even if they were the nicest person on this earth. Not after the way I was brought up, sorry.
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Former University of Tennessee basketball standout Alicia Manning has become the latest in a long line of Lady Vols who have gone into the coaching ranks. Manning, who played at UT from 2008-12, has been hired as an assistant coach at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
Manning, who hails from Woodstock, Ga., is believed to be the 49th player from the Lady Vol program to enter the coaching ranks following her basketball career. She is the 39th of those coaches to work in the college ranks.
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Holly Warlick talked about raised expectations for her 2013-14 Tennessee team.
UT Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Dave Hart talked about the upward trajectory of the Tennessee Athletics Department as it has worked its way through a transitional time.
Two newcomers, Mercedes Russell and Jordan Reynolds, are focusing on summer school and off-season conditioning.
There was news, both happy and sad about former UT players.
Lady Vol all-time greats Tamika Catchings, Glory Johnson and Candace Parker were named to the upcoming WNBA All-Star Game on July 27.
Tennessee legend Mary Ostrowski lost her battle with multiple myeloma last Friday. Her celebration of life will be held on July 27 in her hometown of Parkersburg, W.Va.
All-time Tennessee leading scorer and rebounder Chamique Holdsclaws talks about getting her life back on the right track and dealing honestly with some mental health issues.
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--ASSOCIATED PRESS: Tennessee Lady Vols raise expectations in Holly Warlick's second season
--INSIDE TENNESSEE ($): Getting to know a new Lady Vol (Mercedes Russell)
--INSIDE TENNESSEE ($): Getting to know a new Lady Vol (Jordan Reynolds)
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Tennessee has one senior on the 2013-14 women's basketball roster, but 2013 SEC Co-Player of the Year Meighan Simmons brings plenty of scoring punch and unbelievable quickness to the equation for Holly's Warlick's second edition.
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Brendan Murphy knows that it's coming.
It could be the massive earthquake that scientists predict could hammer California within the next century or a massive flood caused by multiple levee breaches.
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"It will happen - the old saying is that it's not a matter of if but a matter of when," he said when addressing Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Denham Thursday morning in a field hearing at the San Joaquin Council of Governments chambers.
As the Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management - which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency and portions of the Department of Homeland Security - Denham asked Congressman Jerry McNerney, who represents Stockton, to sit in on the hearing.
Pennsylvania Congressman Bill Shuster was also invited by Denham to participate.
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He was joined by the General Manager of the East Bay Municipal Utility District, a Commissioner from the California Public Utilities Commission, the former Director of Emergency Operations for San Joaquin County and the Assistant Administrator for Response from the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Garamendi, the former Insurance Commissioner and Lieutenant Governor, was adamant about getting out in front of making the necessary repairs and upgrades to existing levees that he says have far exceeded their life.
"We're going to pay now or we're going to pay later - if you pay later it's going to be a lot more expensive," Garamendi said, speaking metaphorically. "The levees are old - they were built for agricultural purposes and were never supposed to handle the kind of pressure that they've been subjected to.
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Denham pointed out that House Resolution 2903 - the FEMA Reauthorization Act of 2011 - which he sponsored was voted out of committee earlier this year and will be sent to the House for a full vote.
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Formed under Senate Bill 27, the task force - led by the California Emergency Management Agency - includes representatives from the Delta Protection Commission, the Department of Water Resources and a single representative from each of the five Delta counties.
And that doesn't even take into account when FEMA gets involved.
"Our plans address a wide variety of potential hazards and unite emergency managers through an intensive and collaborative planning process, while our exercises bring together thousands of emergency responders across the nation to practice and assess current plans and procedures," said Robert Fenton, the Assistant Secretary for Response in FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery. "The agency continues to create cooperative policies that assure adequate, safe and dependable water supplies for California and the nation at-large."
While things like earthquakes might be unpredictable, making sure that levees are strong enough to contain the waters within them is something that McNerney believes is instrumental for the protection of both lives and property in and around the Central Valley.
In the vein of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," McNerney laid the groundwork that Garamendi would later follow when he talked about how repairs and reinforcements were a lot cheaper than emergency stopgap measures during a full-scale flood.
"Levee safety and stability is at the core of preventing floods," McNerney said. "That not only protects the livelihood of residents in our area but benefits the State Budget as a whole."
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Well, I've been in AVEN a lot lately. They're basically the most open community I've ever seen. They have an entire sub-forum for Gender – because they're one of the few who understand there is much more to gender confusion than cross-dressing and transitioning.
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Ministry Matters: Great Worship Leaders
- Friday, May 12, 2006
Great Worship Leaders ... are proficient.
Worship leaders who play their instrument well have a much longer sustainability factor within a changing congregation than do those who are weak technically and cannot handle a diversity of demographic or need in a local community.
Great worship leaders are able on their instrument. They are not always the most proficient musician on the team; in fact, they are sometimes the least! However, they can lead the band confidently with what they do know.
Great worship leaders have just enough arranging ability to take a rag tag team, intuitively know what songs they can pull off smoothly, and what songs they simply cannot, and make them sound sweet together in simple arrangements.
Great worship leaders practice privately, and keep their own chops up personally or with lessons.
Great Worship Leaders ... understand authority.
These worship leaders understand what mutual submission is all about. They recognize the mantle that the lead pastor carries for the congregation, and they do all they can to defer to, and support, that leader.
Great worship leaders know how to honor time limits, ask teachable questions, and share the pastor's vision for the church in song selection and event preparation.
Great worship leaders do not push their way into worship leading or other roles—they offer their gifts, and then allow God to make a place for them to lead. They are not pushy or forceful—they are centered, and full of trust in God to make a place for their leadership.
Great worship leaders graciously receive input, and even pursue it—especially from the lead pastor and common (non-musical) worshipers in the congregation.
Great Worship Leaders ... are passionate.
The passionate will always lead, no matter the sphere or situation. Inspiring worship leaders carry a blend of passion and restraint in their toolbox. The leader's hunger for God, evidenced in an honest and vulnerable worship leading style, is irreplaceable, and evident to all. Many dispassionate worship leaders are hired because their musical skill level can cover up for a lack of personal passion as a worshiper.
At the same time that passionate worship is the hallmark of their leadership, great worship leaders are very keen in knowing when to push the envelope in worship, and when to hold back, even when their own emotions are running high.Great worship leaders are exhuberant, without becoming cheerleaders. In other words, they approach the moment of worship with enthusiasm, yet that enthusiasm is tempered with gentleness and a lack of need to generate outward emotion to feel that they've done their job.
Great worship leaders can separate their personal emotional state from what the moment calls for in the group they are leading (I don't know that this art is learned by any other mode than longevity in worship leading experience).
Great worship leaders love God and the secret place, and worship frequently, for extended times, on their own. This is an abbreviated look at the key qualities to be sought after as we develop into the most effective lead worshipers we can be. Make it your vision to be the most effective worship leader you know, making it easy for the heart cry of the community of God to find its way out of their hearts through the music of worship, and before the One they love. Then, train others around you to seek greatness in the same high calling.
Dan Wilt is an internationally respected worship leader, songwriter, artist and conference speaker. Based out of St. Stephen's University (www.ssu.ca
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BMW's Mini Cooper S with John Cooper Works (JCW) GP Kit will make its first public viewing at the Geneva Motor Show. The fastest, most powerful production Mini ever will reach 62mph in under 6.5 seconds and achieve a top speed of 146mph.
The GP has a power output of 218bhp, a stunning 136bhp per litre, and a maximum torque of 180 lbs-ft. Only 2000 of this special production model will be built and 444 are bound for the UK from July onwards. The guide price is 38300$ which includes 17400$ worth of additional equipment if specified on a standard Mini Cooper S. Almost three-quarters of the UK allocation have already been ordered by Mini enthusiasts six months ahead of launch. So far, there is still no word on U.S. availability.
In the interests of power to weight ratio, the car weighs approximately 40 kilos less than a standard Mini Cooper S. This has been achieved by modifications to the chassis and engineering tweaks. The longitudinal control arms on the rear axle are now made of aluminum and the sound-deadening material has been taken out.
The entire rear seat bench has been removed. In its place is a very neat flat loading area that can be folded up in a Z-arrangement for easy access to two additional storage boxes.
Standard equipment includes: Limited slip differential, Dynamic Stability Control, Recaro sports seats in Panther Black leather, single CD, air-conditioning and a multi-function steering wheel. The car also features JCW sports brakes, JCW sports suspension and exclusive low-profile tyres and 18-inch light-alloy rims.
A new aerodynamics package has been added that significantly improves the car's drag coefficient and downforce on both front and rear axles, enhancing the driving experience at high speeds. New highlights are the front and rear air dams, the extra low side-sills, and the underfloor cover, as well as a wing-shaped rear spoiler.


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Advice on Making Stencils, by Banksy
- mindless vandalism can take a bit of thought.
- Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.
- Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking sharp knife to it.
- A regular 400ml can of paint will give you up to 50 A4 sized stencils. This means you can become incredibly famous/unpopular in a small town virtually overnight for approximately ten pounds.
- Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at airplanes.
- Spray the paint sparingly onto the stencils from a distance of 8 inches.
- When explaining yourself to the Police it's worth being as reasonably as possible. Graffiti writers are not real villains. I'm always reminded of this by real villains who consider the idea of breaking in someplace, not stealing anything and then leaving behind a painting of your name in four foot high letters the most retarded thing they ever heard of.
- Be aware that going on a major mission totally drunk out of your head will result in some truly spectacular artwork and at least one night in the cells.
- The easiest way to become invisible is to wear a day-glo vest and carry a tiny transistor radio playing Heart FM very loudly. If questioned about the legitimacy of your painting silly complain about the hourly rate.
- Crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil patting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
- The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.
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EU-type carbon emissions trade and the distributional impact of overlapping emissions taxes
AbstractThe European Union fulfills its emissions reductions commitments by means of an emissions trading scheme covering some part of each member state's economy and by national emissions control in the rest of their economies. The member states also levy energy/emissions taxes overlapping with the trading scheme. Restricting our focus on cost-effective policies, this paper investigates the distributive consequences of increasing the overlapping emissions tax that is uniform across countries. For quasi-linear utility functions and for a class of parametric utility and production functions emissions tax increases turn out to be exactly offset by permit price reductions. As a consequence permit-exporting [permit-importing] countries lose [gain] from an increase in the emissions tax. These results are not general, however. By means of a numerical example we show that export-import reversals and welfare reversals are possible.
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"If I'm actually going to peel 100 tiny tomatoes, it would have to be so worth it." Well, guess what?
Today's Buffalo News has the first of a series of food columns I've been asked to write. Called "Elements," they're supposed to be small, simple introductions to ingredients, spices, herbs or anything else that contributes to a satisfying table. A few paragraphs and a recipe, appearing every two weeks on Page 4 of the Sunday Spotlight section.
The first installment is on grape tomatoes, and I contribute a recipe I've been making for years – grape tomato confit. (Purists may howl that it's wrong to use "confit" to describe something besides meat slow-simmered in its own fat, and they have a point. But the richness and concentrated potency of the resulting crimson orbs helped me get over the shame.)
I'll admit also that it's a bit fiddly. Getting the skins off these little fellows is more than I normally do on the fussy prep meter, what with my pudgy, kielbasa-like fingers. Fortunately, my 7-year-old, Zoe, has the patience to help.
The ends justify the means. Trust me. Give the little fellows a nick (just through the skin, not into the seeds) and the skin will split in boiling water. Keep a sharp eye, and get them right into the ice bath, or they'll get mushy in a minute. Get it right, and most of them will slip right off.
Toast a couple slices of decent bread, get a bit of cheese and a handful of basil, and leave the question of what the kids'll have for dinner for later.
After that it's easy peasey. Like a raisin, they shrivel as water leaves, and their fruitiness concentrates. I like them on crostini or bruschetta with sheep's milk feta, but lots of cheeses would sing along.
They'd make lovely pasta, too, but I'd dress my pasta with the tomato oil and place the tomatoes on top, as they're delicate and won't hold up to much roughhousing. But heck, they taste just the same squished, so go ahead if you want.
Grape tomato confit
1 quart grape tomatoes, skins nicked
1 cup olive oil
5 or more cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 tablespoon or more fresh rosemary, or other herbs
Salt and pepper to taste
Blanch tomatoes until skins start to crack, about 30 seconds. Drain swiftly and shock in ice water. Peel tomatoes carefully. Toss with oil, garlic and herbs in small baking dish, and salt and pepper to taste. Bake at 400 degrees, stirring gently every 10 minutes, or the top ones will blacken. After about 40 minutes, when the tomatoes resemble large red raisins, remove and let cool.
I should also mention that I no longer make these only one quart at a time, because I got tired of the complaints. You only need about a cup and a half of oil, or a little less, to do two quarts' worth, but be vigilant about timely stirring.


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This piece of the Parklands of Floyds Fork may be found off of Taylorsville Road. Encompassing soccer fields that are currently in place, Pope Lick Park will also have a very rustic side beyond the fields. Like all the others in the Parklands system, it will feature an extensive trail system and provide paddling and fishing access to Floyds Fork. One unique feature of Pope Lick will be the Retreat House. This lodge style meeting house will be available for rental and can accommodate up to 25 people.
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There are now more e-books sold by Amazon.com than hardcover titles, and the discrepancy is growing bigger, CEO Jeff Bezos announces.
Oh, the delicious irony of transporting your e-book viewer in the hollowed-out pages of an actual book! Perfect little DIY project for the weekend.
The Kindle version of "The Lost Symbol" is apparently selling better on Amazon.com than its hardcover version. And to think the publisher almost didn't release it for the e-reader.
Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin have taken to Kickstarter for a brand-new, 100-page Tank Girl hardcover also featuring the work of six other brilliant indie artists.
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Tibet Inspection Tour from Jack
Jack, one of our most experienced travel advisors just returned from his Tibet Tour. We believe it is important for our travel advisors to gain up-to-date information in our industry so that we can keep our customers fully informed. Our travel advisors travel around frequently to explore new sights to add to our tours and refining our existing packages. The new knowledge they have gained from traveling will allow them to give much better advice to our customers.
Jack and his group started their trip from
"Scenery along the railway is unbelievably beautiful with vast lakes, snow-capped mountains, foothill grassland among which flocks of yak and sheep are leaping and skipping. You just can not imagine how amazing the view is, indescribable" according to Jack.
"The train condition is definitely good. Everything inside looks new and tidy. Each seat is equipped with an oxygen mask which can be used by individual passengers if needed" Jack said. "What's more, delicious food is provided"added Jack.
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Jack felt proud to share his awesome experience with all of us and he gave us a one hour presentation on up-to-date information of
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