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The Best Loop Pedals - With Super Looper Performances
The Best Loop Pedals - Fruity Loops And Sweet Beats
Thanks to popular artists such as Ed Sheeran and KT Tunstall, loop pedals have become wildly popular with singer-songwriters. But, really, they're a great tool for any performer who want to create richer, layered sounds. In the last couple of years, we've seen an interesting trend: the best looper pedals come in either of those two forms - either super simple and basic loopers, with no-fuss operation; or delay pedals with great looping function, for the guitarist who wants to sometimes use delay, sometimes loops, but who doesn't want two different pedals to fill precious space on their pedalboards!
The Boss RC-1 Loop Station is the simplest and most user friendly Loop Station ever... besides being tons of fun! With 12 minutes of recording time to capture any performance you can possibly imagine!
This new Electro-Harmonix looper pedal offers great looping possibilities in one small, affordable package: besides 360 seconds of looping time, you can record up to eleven different loops, and select them via a rotary knob. This is fun, easy to use and a great new addition to the Electro-Harmonix range.
The Flashback X4 features a dedicated tap tempo footswtich, 3 presets available by the other three footswtiches, 4 tone print slots and excitingly a built in 40 second looper with undo function
On the rear of the unit, there are options for connecting MIDI, USB and an expression pedal, as well as stereo inputs and outputs.
The Flashback delay features 6 seconds delay time of every delay type you could ever wish for, from TC Electronic's legendary 2290 to a slapback, with 10 different types to choose from and it also doubles as a 40-seconds looper!
Near-perfect recreation of some famous vintage delays, including Binson Echorec, Echoplex, Roland Space Echo RE-201 and Watkins Copycat, plus a generous 40-seconds of looping time. An amazing pedal!
Delay Settings
TC Electronic Alter Ego V2 Delay Pedal
A simpler, more compact and affordable version of the x4 Alter Ego, equally reproducingthose vintage delay sounds, and also giving you 40 seconds of looping time.
The Best Buy is the Zoom G1ON Guitar Effects Pedal at the moment, a multi-fx pedal with 30 seconds of looping time and costing under £50. Great for beginners or for someone who just wants to experiment with loop on the cheap.
Loop Station World Championship 3 With Boss
Sound On Sound
It's easy to take things for granted and forget just how far we have come with recording technology. These days you can record countless channels simultaneously, apply FX and overdub on the fly on a device that fits in your bag. Many moons ago in a time before digital technology things were very different and being able to overdub on a recorded backing track was enough to get you a slot on prime time television. So it was with the late and truly great Les Paul (Lester Polsfuss to his mum) who is largely credited with being the inventor of sound on sound recording. Here's a break down of how he recorded 'How High The Moon' with Mary Ford, taken from the wonderful documentary 'Les Paul: Chasing Sound!'
Of course Britain had it's own great innovator in the form of Delia Derbyshire, described by the Guardian as 'the unsung heroine of British electronic music'. Back in the 60's and 70's the BBC was on the cutting edge of innovation in sound and synthesis, most notably composing the utterly futuristic Doctor Who theme tune. Certainly the most famous early example of electronic loops and of course the only way to get a sound on a continuous loop in those days was to literally run a spool of tape in a loop, check out the video below. Without Delia we might never have had house music, The Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk or Gangnam Style (perhaps not such a great loss there).
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There were many developments in digital signal processing from the 60's through to the early 80's but things don't change significantly for loopers until the digital sampler becomes truly affordable with the introduction of the Akai S900 in 1986. Early pioneers such as Trevor Horn (producer for The Buggles and Frankie Goes To Hollywood), Herbie Hancock and the Pet Shop Boys all had an impact but these sampled loops might now be seen as a bit of a gimmick, perhaps most famously by Paul Hardcastle on his hit single '19'.
Eventually the whole musical landscape changed with the use of samplers, dance and hip hop dominated the charts and airwaves. However they still mostly concerned themselves with taking short musical phrases from old funk, soul and rock records. It wasn't until solid state memory and digital processing became small enough and cheap enough that we started to get the loop samplers we recognise today. Of course there are still fantastic modern samplers from companies such as Akai and Roland.
Best Loop Pedal Performances
We've seen increasingly ambitious use of loop pedals since their invention, whether it's a guitar, violin or a looping howl that's being recorded there is some amazingly proficient and technical use of loopers going on out there. It's probably easier to show some examples of great loop pedal performances and we'll stick to what we're good at and let you know how you get your hands on the gear to do the same.
Here's the amazing Alex Hutchings delivering a mind bending performance with a GR-55 guitar system, RC-300 looper and computer. A whole arrangement with guitar, synth, keys and even drums being played on the guitar.
|What They Do
|Gear Used
|Jamie Lidell
|An early pioneer of pure vocal looping, with many of the tracks on his 'Multiply' album being just his voice looped.
|We can see a small format Boss looper here as well as one of their vintage delay pedals. Complete the sound with a little combo amp.
|Ed Sheeran
|Perhaps the most famous looper of them all. Combining a great voice with superb guitar/looper chops!
|As we've reported previously Ed uses an RC-20XL looper. Now replaced by the RC-30.
|Winner of the 2011 Loop Station World Championship. Not just a phenomenal beat boxer but uses the looper as an instrument in itself.
|Can be seen using an RC-50 (now RC-300) in this performance from the Loop Station World Championship. Might just be the best beatbox performance ever.
|Andrew Bird
|Multi-instrumentalist Bird creates whole complex arrangements with an array of instruments.
|Uses a DL4 in this TED talk demonstration, along with a huge array of other pedals by the looks of things. A multi effects would be a good accompaniment for a huge range of sounds.
|KT Tunstall
|Grammy winner KT Tunstall gets her freak on.
| A simple but effective looper setup based around the Akai Headrush E2.
|Dub FX
|Shows ho to create a full-sounding performance using just his voice, some effects and new Boss Looper.
|Simple setup: microphone into Boss GT-10B Multi FX Pedal (to alter the sound of his voice) and then into the new tabletop Boss RC-505 Loop Station.
|TC Electronic Ditto
Akai E2 Headrush
|Supremely affordable and comes in a great dinky enclosure which will fit on any pedal board. If you just need straight, simple looping then the Ditto is for you.
|Seamless transitions between looped phrases make the JamMan Solo XT an invaluable tool for composing and performing
|Not just a straight looper the Headrush is also a great tape delay simulation. Get those dub reggae repeats and Pink Floyd textures.
Performance Loopers - Under £250There's some serious competition in this price range, containing dedicated loopers with massive memory and backing tracks, exciting performance loop pedals with inspirational effects and combined delay/loopers which allow you to get really creative.
Boss RC-3 Loop Station Pedal
TC Electronic Ditto X2 Looper Effects Pedal
|Something of an industry standard for straight up looping. Masses of built in memory allowing up to three hours of stereo recording.
|The TC Electronic Ditto X2 Looper Pedal takes the winning formula of the original Ditto and adds stereo I/O, dedicated stop/clear, FX (reverse, speed) and Loop import/export. You might think that means sacrificing the core simplicity and sound quality of the original pedal, not so as TC Electronic keep the true bypass, analogue dry through and 24bit audio.
|More than a straight looper the VDL1 can apply FX to the live and recorded signals. These can then be manipulated in real time with the expression pedal. Put down a rhythm part, reverse it then lay down a distorted wah solo on top for a huge, trippy sound! Also available: the Vox Lil' Looper Pedal, a more affordable version.
Line 6 DL4 Digital Delay Modeler
Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai
VOX DelayLab Delay Effects Pedal
Boss DD-7 Digital Delay Pedal
|A modern legend from the masters of gear modeling. The DL4 gives you 16 delay models, presets, true bypass operation and a quality looper in one large format pedal.
|An instrument in and of itself. The Memory Man gives you delays and a looper. Because the looper is dedicated you can actually record delay effects on the looper. This can give you a massive psychedelic arrangements, all via your pedal.
|A simply staggering number of effects have been crammed into the Delaylab. With 30 digital emulations of classic delays and wholly new inventions. The Delaylab is a cutting edge pedal.
|One of the most popular delays around, this pedal is an updated version of the older model DD-3 Delay, which is still popular but does not feature looper.
The Best Loop Pedals Money Can BuyIf the loop pedal is going to be central to your setup then you're going to want large memory, lots of dedicated controls as well as great features. Here's Dolphin's pick of the best loop pedals.
Line 6 JM4 Looper
Boss RC-505 Loop Station
Boss RC-30 Loop Station Pedal
Boss RC-300 Loop Station
| Although floor-based Boss Loop Stations are perfect for street performing or on stage, not everyone wants to use their feet to keep the show rolling.
The Boss RC-505 is a table-top Loop Station that fits right into a busy DJ booth or club environment, making it ideal for beatboxers, singers, and club performers.
|For the dedicated looper who demands nothing but the best performance loop pedal.


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Support for the Ruby 2.1 series ended on March 31 2017. See here for details.
When 'time' is required, Time is extended with additional methods for parsing and converting Times.
This library extends the Time class with the following conversions between date strings and Time objects:
date-time defined by RFC 2822
HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616
dateTime defined by XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes (ISO 8601)
various formats handled by Date._parse
custom formats handled by Date._strptime
All examples assume you have loaded Time with:
require 'time'
All of these examples were done using the EST timezone which is GMT-5.
t = Time.now t.iso8601 # => "2011-10-05T22:26:12-04:00" t.rfc2822 # => "Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:26:12 -0400" t.httpdate # => "Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:26:12 GMT"
parse takes a string representation of a Time and attempts to parse it using a heuristic.
Date.parse("2010-10-31") #=> 2010-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
Any missing pieces of the date are inferred based on the current date.
# assuming the current date is "2011-10-31" Time.parse("12:00") #=> 2011-10-31 12:00:00 -0500
We can change the date used to infer our missing elements by passing a second object that responds to mon, day and year, such as Date, Time or DateTime. We can also use our own object.
class MyDate attr_reader :mon, :day, :year def initialize(mon, day, year) @mon, @day, @year = mon, day, year end end d = Date.parse("2010-10-28") t = Time.parse("2010-10-29") dt = DateTime.parse("2010-10-30") md = MyDate.new(10,31,2010) Time.parse("12:00", d) #=> 2010-10-28 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", t) #=> 2010-10-29 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", dt) #=> 2010-10-30 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", md) #=> 2010-10-31 12:00:00 -0500
parse also accepts an optional block. You can use this block to specify how to handle the year component of the date. This is specifically designed for handling two digit years. For example, if you wanted to treat all two digit years prior to 70 as the year 2000+ you could write this:
Time.parse("01-10-31") {|year| year + (year < 70 ? 2000 : 1900)} #=> 2001-10-31 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("70-10-31") {|year| year + (year < 70 ? 2000 : 1900)} #=> 1970-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
strptime works similar to
parse except that instead of using a
heuristic to detect the format of the input string, you provide a second
argument that describes the format of the string. For example:
Time.strptime("2000-10-31", "%Y-%m-%d") #=> 2000-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
date as an HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616 and converts
it to a Time object.
ArgumentError is raised if
date is not compliant with RFC 2616
or if the Time class cannot represent specified
See httpdate for more information on this format.
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 476 def httpdate(date) if /\A\s* (?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun),\x20 (\d{2})\x20 (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\x20 (\d{4})\x20 (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})\x20 GMT \s*\z/ix =~ date self.rfc2822(date) elsif /\A\s* (?:Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|Sunday),\x20 (\d\d)-(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)-(\d\d)\x20 (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)\x20 GMT \s*\z/ix =~ date year = $3.to_i if year < 50 year += 2000 else year += 1900 end self.utc(year, $2, $1.to_i, $4.to_i, $5.to_i, $6.to_i) elsif /\A\s* (?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)\x20 (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\x20 (\d\d|\x20\d)\x20 (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)\x20 (\d{4}) \s*\z/ix =~ date self.utc($6.to_i, MonthValue[$1.upcase], $2.to_i, $3.to_i, $4.to_i, $5.to_i) else raise ArgumentError.new("not RFC 2616 compliant date: #{date.inspect}") end end
date using Date._parse and converts it to a Time object.
If a block is given, the year described in
date is converted
by the block. For example:
Time.parse(...) {|y| 0 <= y && y < 100 ? (y >= 69 ? y + 1900 : y + 2000) : y}
If the upper components of the given time are broken or missing, they are
supplied with those of
now. For the lower components, the
minimum values (1 or 0) are assumed if broken or missing. For example:
# Suppose it is "Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 GMT 2001" now and # your time zone is GMT: now = Time.parse("Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 GMT 2001") Time.parse("16:30", now) #=> 2001-11-29 16:30:00 +0900 Time.parse("7/23", now) #=> 2001-07-23 00:00:00 +0900 Time.parse("Aug 31", now) #=> 2001-08-31 00:00:00 +0900 Time.parse("Aug 2000", now) #=> 2000-08-01 00:00:00 +0900
Since there are numerous conflicts among locally defined time zone abbreviations all over the world, this method is not intended to understand all of them. For example, the abbreviation "CST" is used variously as:
-06:00 in America/Chicago, -05:00 in America/Havana, +08:00 in Asia/Harbin, +09:30 in Australia/Darwin, +10:30 in Australia/Adelaide, etc.
Based on this fact, this method only understands the time zone
abbreviations described in RFC 822 and the system time zone, in the order
named. (i.e. a definition in RFC 822 overrides the system time zone
definition.) The system time zone is taken from
Time.local(year, 1,
1).zone and
Time.local(year, 7, 1).zone. If the
extracted time zone abbreviation does not match any of them, it is ignored
and the given time is regarded as a local time.
ArgumentError is raised if Date._parse cannot extract information from
date or if the Time class cannot
represent specified date.
This method can be used as a fail-safe for other parsing methods as:
Time.rfc2822(date) rescue Time.parse(date) Time.httpdate(date) rescue Time.parse(date) Time.xmlschema(date) rescue Time.parse(date)
A failure of ::parse should be checked, though.
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 323 def parse(date, now=self.now) comp = !block_given? d = Date._parse(date, comp) if !d[:year] && !d[:mon] && !d[:mday] && !d[:hour] && !d[:min] && !d[:sec] && !d[:sec_fraction] raise ArgumentError, "no time information in #{date.inspect}" end year = d[:year] year = yield(year) if year && !comp make_time(year, d[:mon], d[:mday], d[:hour], d[:min], d[:sec], d[:sec_fraction], d[:zone], now) end
date as date-time defined by RFC 2822 and converts it
to a Time object. The format is identical to the
date format defined by RFC 822 and updated by RFC 1123.
ArgumentError is raised if
date is not compliant with RFC 2822
or if the Time class cannot represent specified
See rfc2822 for more information on this format.
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 425 def rfc2822(date) if /\A\s* (?:(?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)\s*,\s*)? (\d{1,2})\s+ (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\s+ (\d{2,})\s+ (\d{2})\s* :\s*(\d{2})\s* (?::\s*(\d{2}))?\s+ ([+-]\d{4}| UT|GMT|EST|EDT|CST|CDT|MST|MDT|PST|PDT|[A-IK-Z])/ix =~ date # Since RFC 2822 permit comments, the regexp has no right anchor. day = $1.to_i mon = MonthValue[$2.upcase] year = $3.to_i hour = $4.to_i min = $5.to_i sec = $6 ? $6.to_i : 0 zone = $7 # following year completion is compliant with RFC 2822. year = if year < 50 2000 + year elsif year < 1000 1900 + year else year end year, mon, day, hour, min, sec = apply_offset(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, zone_offset(zone)) t = self.utc(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec) t.localtime if !zone_utc?(zone) t else raise ArgumentError.new("not RFC 2822 compliant date: #{date.inspect}") end end
date using Date._strptime and converts it to a Time object.
If a block is given, the year described in
date is converted
by the block. For example:
Time.strptime(...) {|y| y < 100 ? (y >= 69 ? y + 1900 : y + 2000) : y}
Below is a list of the formating options:
The abbreviated weekday name ("Sun")
The full weekday name ("Sunday")
The abbreviated month name ("Jan")
The full month name ("January")
The preferred local date and time representation
Century (20 in 2009)
Day of the month (01..31)
Date (%m/%d/%y)
Day of the month, blank-padded ( 1..31)
Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format)
Equivalent to %b
Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
Day of the year (001..366)
hour, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23)
hour, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..12)
Millisecond of the second (000..999)
Month of the year (01..12)
Minute of the hour (00..59)
Newline (n)
Fractional seconds digits, default is 9 digits (nanosecond)
millisecond (3 digits)
microsecond (6 digits)
nanosecond (9 digits)
Meridian indicator ("AM" or "PM")
Meridian indicator ("am" or "pm")
time, 12-hour (same as %I:%M:%S %p)
time, 24-hour (%H:%M)
Number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
Second of the minute (00..60)
Tab character (t)
time, 24-hour (%H:%M:%S)
Day of the week as a decimal, Monday being 1. (1..7)
Week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week (00..53)
VMS date (%e-%b-%Y)
Week number of year according to ISO 8601 (01..53)
Week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week (00..53)
Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
Preferred representation for the date alone, no time
Preferred representation for the time alone, no date
Year without a century (00..99)
Year with century
Time zone as hour offset from UTC (e.g. +0900)
Time zone name
Literal "%" character
# File time.rb, line 392 def strptime(date, format, now=self.now) d = Date._strptime(date, format) raise ArgumentError, "invalid strptime format - `#{format}'" unless d if seconds = d[:seconds] if offset = d[:offset] Time.at(seconds).localtime(offset) else Time.at(seconds) end else year = d[:year] year = yield(year) if year && block_given? make_time(year, d[:mon], d[:mday], d[:hour], d[:min], d[:sec], d[:sec_fraction], d[:zone], now) end end
date as a dateTime defined by the XML Schema and
converts it to a Time object. The format is a
restricted version of the format defined by ISO 8601.
ArgumentError is raised if
date is not compliant with the
format or if the Time class cannot represent
specified date.
See xmlschema for more information on this format.
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 525 def xmlschema(date) if /\A\s* (-?\d+)-(\d\d)-(\d\d) T (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d) (\.\d+)? (Z|[+-]\d\d:\d\d)? \s*\z/ix =~ date year = $1.to_i mon = $2.to_i day = $3.to_i hour = $4.to_i min = $5.to_i sec = $6.to_i usec = 0 if $7 usec = Rational($7) * 1000000 end if $8 zone = $8 year, mon, day, hour, min, sec = apply_offset(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, zone_offset(zone)) self.utc(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, usec) else self.local(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, usec) end else raise ArgumentError.new("invalid date: #{date.inspect}") end end
Return the number of seconds the specified time zone differs from UTC.
Numeric time zones that include minutes, such as
-10:00 or
+1330 will work, as will simpler hour-only time zones like
-10 or
Textual time zones listed in ZoneOffset are also supported.
If the time zone does not match any of the above,
will check if the local time zone (both with and without potential Daylight
Saving Time changes being in effect) matches
zone. Specifying
a value for
year will change the year used to find the local
time zone.
zone_offset is unable to determine the offset, nil will be
# File time.rb, line 132 def zone_offset(zone, year=self.now.year) off = nil zone = zone.upcase if /\A([+-])(\d\d):?(\d\d)\z/ =~ zone off = ($1 == '-' ? -1 : 1) * ($2.to_i * 60 + $3.to_i) * 60 elsif /\A[+-]\d\d\z/ =~ zone off = zone.to_i * 3600 elsif ZoneOffset.include?(zone) off = ZoneOffset[zone] * 3600 elsif ((t = self.local(year, 1, 1)).zone.upcase == zone rescue false) off = t.utc_offset elsif ((t = self.local(year, 7, 1)).zone.upcase == zone rescue false) off = t.utc_offset end off end
Returns a string which represents the time as RFC 1123 date of HTTP-date defined by RFC 2616:
day-of-week, DD month-name CCYY hh:mm:ss GMT
Note that the result is always UTC (GMT).
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 604 def httpdate t = dup.utc sprintf('%s, %02d %s %0*d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT', RFC2822_DAY_NAME[t.wday], t.day, RFC2822_MONTH_NAME[t.mon-1], t.year < 0 ? 5 : 4, t.year, t.hour, t.min, t.sec) end
Returns a string which represents the time as date-time defined by RFC 2822:
day-of-week, DD month-name CCYY hh:mm:ss zone
where zone is [+-]hhmm.
self is a UTC time, -0000 is used as zone.
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 569 def rfc2822 sprintf('%s, %02d %s %0*d %02d:%02d:%02d ', RFC2822_DAY_NAME[wday], day, RFC2822_MONTH_NAME[mon-1], year < 0 ? 5 : 4, year, hour, min, sec) + if utc? '-0000' else off = utc_offset sign = off < 0 ? '-' : '+' sprintf('%s%02d%02d', sign, *(off.abs / 60).divmod(60)) end end
Returns a string which represents the time as a dateTime defined by XML Schema:
CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sssTZD
where TZD is Z or [+-]hh:mm.
If self is a UTC time, Z is used as TZD. [+-]hh:mm is used otherwise.
fractional_digits specifies a number of digits to use for
fractional seconds. Its default value is 0.
You must require 'time' to use this method.
# File time.rb, line 628 def xmlschema(fraction_digits=0) fraction_digits = fraction_digits.to_i s = strftime("%FT%T") if fraction_digits > 0 s << strftime(".%#{fraction_digits}N") end s << (utc? ? 'Z' : strftime("%:z")) end

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Car Review
2012 Lincoln MKZ: New Car Review
Pros: High-mileage hybrid model, quiet interior, SYNC audio and communications
Cons: Minimal high-tech luxury features, not much fun to drive, dated styling
To create its mid-size luxury MKZ, Lincoln borrowed the Ford Fusion as a starting point and then added in the appropriate high-end features and styling cues. Unfortunately, the Fusion's silhouette, with its aging design, shows through. Still, there is a heavy dose of Lincoln, such as the massive split winged grille, the large chrome wheels and the Lincoln emblem plastered on just about every surface.
The MKZ isn't qualified to play in the same league as the Cadillac CTS or the BMW 3 Series, but it is still a good match for the Lexus ES, Acura RL and Chrysler 300. You can get an MKZ with all-wheel drive or opt for an eco-friendly hybrid model. What you can't get in the MKZ is a V8 engine, a manual transmission or a sophisticated sport suspension.
If you're looking for a domestic premium mid-size luxury sedan in the mold of BMW or Audi, the Lincoln MKZ isn't the best choice. But if you lean more toward Lexus and Acura, the Lincoln MKZ may appeal to you. The Lincoln MKZ may not thrill the enthusiast driver, but it can satisfy those who prefer pampering over performance.
Comfort & Utility
The MKZ emphasizes technology as an integral part of the luxury experience. We like our bells and whistles, but much of the electronic equipment available on the MKZ can also be found on lesser Ford products. When we slide behind the wheel of a luxury sedan, we expect there to be a visual and tactile step up from the ordinary, not only in quality, but originality of design. We get this feeling inside an Audi A4 or Cadillac CTS; we don't get it inside the MKZ. Besides the rather generic dash design, there are too many black plastic knobs and surfaces and not enough real wood and chrome. The audio controls are too small and difficult to decipher, and the quality of the plastics leaves much to be desired.
On the plus side, the MKZ is a roomy car, with a spacious rear seat, a huge trunk and generous headroom, heated and cooled front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control and 17-inch alloy wheels. Owners can opt for a 14-speaker THX audio system, HID headlamps and upgraded leather seating with contrasting piping.
Standard on every MKZ is the Ford SYNC voice-activated communication system. With SYNC, owners can call up friends or relatives, select music by favorite artist or song and have text messages read aloud. Popular apps such as Pandora can be streamed via Bluetooth to the car's audio system. Couple the SiriusXM Travel Link system with the voice-activated navigation, and you can check on traffic, weather, fuel prices and sports scores.
The available BLIS (Blind Spot Information System) alerts drivers to objects hiding in the car's blind spot via a blinking red LED indicator in the side mirror. Other helpful features include a rear vision camera and the Reverse Sensing System. Missing from the high-tech highlights commonly found on cars in this class are intelligent cruise control, head-up display, heated rear seats and a panoramic glass moonroof. Again, it seems odd to us that Ford would offer such cutting-edge features as a parallel parking assist on the humble Escape but not on a top Lincoln.
Performance & Fuel Economy
Lincoln's MKZ is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 good for a respectable 263 horsepower and 249 lb-ft of torque. Fuel economy for the front-wheel-drive model is a respectable 18 mpg city/27 mpg highway; AWD models get 16/25 mpg. Those looking for better fuel economy may want to look to the hybrid model. With its 2.5-liter gasoline engine and electric motor combo, the hybrid earns an estimated 41/36 mpg.
Although it puts out less horsepower than the V6, we found the hybrid's performance more than satisfactory in most driving situations.
The 2012 Lincoln MKZ includes front side-impact and side curtain airbags, electronic traction and stability control, available BLIS (Blind Spot Information System) and a sonar-based rear parking sensor.
Driving Impressions
The 2012 MKZ isn't much of an enthusiast's car, which leaves its audience in the "comfortable ride and easy to live with" category. The MKZ's ride and handling are on par with similar models such as the Lexus ES and Buick LaCrosse, but the MKZ is not as agile as a Cadillac CTS or even a Chrysler 300.
In typical Lincoln fashion, the MKZ's interior is well isolated from the outside world, making the MKZ a very comfortable turnpike cruiser. Get the MKZ into some tight turns, and it will stick to the intended path, but there's just no thrill in the performance. The available sport suspension and AWD should improve the feel, but we found the ride simply becomes harsher and the handling little changed. We'd go with a nicely loaded Ford Taurus with the EcoBoost engine over the MKZ.
Other Cars to Consider
Lexus ES - The ES may cost a bit more than the MKZ, but it has a more luxurious interior and far better resale value.
Cadillac CTS - The CTS is a far more engaged driver's car and has a much better interior layout and more high-tech features than the MKZ. But the MKZ offers a hybrid model and more rear-seat legroom.
Infiniti G37 - The G37 delivers a more thrilling ride, can be equipped with a manual transmission and looks and feels more refined than the MKZ.
Chrysler 300 - The 300 offers more interior room and the option of a V8 engine, but the MKZ offers a high-mileage hybrid.
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Because the MKZ is not on the same level as the Cadillac CTS, BMW 3 Series or Mercedes Benz C-Class, we wouldn't recommend it as a sport-sedan choice. For this reason, we think the hybrid model offers the best value. It has the luxury and soft ride of the standard MKZ, but returns excellent fuel economy far superior to its non-hybrid rivals. If you're not hung up on the Lincoln name, we think a better value is the fully loaded Ford Taurus SHO, which offers a better driving experience, features like massaging seats and the EcoBoost turbocharged engine and more interior room.


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Episode 24
First Airing: 18th June 2012
Our ever-intrepid Rebecca Bruce is let loose in the London Canal Museum - packed with fascinating exhibits from the world of narrowboating. Then, it's all aboard with John Checkley who takes us on a small tour of North London courtesy of the Angel Community Canal Boat Trust. Then weigh anchors for Roydon Marina Village, in the northern end of the Lee Valley Regional Park, 'London's biggest open space'! Before a look back at some of the fun times and bloopers from the making of the series. Enjoy!


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Ivy League Showdown at Reese
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The dedication of Reese Stadium is this Saturday, but that's not the only big event in the new athletic venue that day. At 2:30 p.m. there is an Ivy League men's lacrosse showdown between No. 17/18 Yale (6-2 overall, 1-2 Ivy) and Dartmouth (4-4, 1-1 Ivy) that could become a major factor in the battle for the league title and the post-season tournament.
The Bulldogs own a 45-33 lead in a series that began in 1927, a matchup in which Yale won 12-3 at New Haven. The last Yale win at Reese Stadium against Dartmouth came in 2007.
The Bulldogs, ranked 19th at the time, shut down Dartmouth's offense in an 8-3 win at Scully-Fahey Field on April 10. Matt Gibson scored five of Yale's eight goals on just eight shots, but the Eli defense deserved much of the credit for grabbing their first win at Hanover since 2002. Yale kept Dartmouth off the scoreboard for the first 37 minutes while jumping out to a 6-0 lead. Peter Johnson and Michael McCormack combined to shadow the Green's top scorer, while goalie Johnathan Falcone had 15 saves. Brian Douglass had a pair of goals to lead the Blue.
The Bulldogs got five goals from Brian Douglass and two goals and three assists from Matt Gibson in an 11-9 win over Providence at Reese Stadium Tuesday night. The Elis dominated the key statistical categories while staying perfect in non-league contests. Yale had the advantage in shots (39-22), ground balls (36-25) and faceoffs (16-for-23) while enjoying an obvious difference in ball possession. Matt Miller also hit the net twice for the Blue while Jack Flaherty and Brandon Mangan had the other home team tallies. Johnathan Falcone made six saves to earn the win in goal. Yale's senior goalie didn't see the ball as much as he might have anticipated because the Bulldog offense did such a good job solving Providence's zone defense.
The Bulldogs are first in Division I faceoff win percentage (.663) and second in caused turnovers (11.43). Yale is fifth in scoring (12.71), seventh in man-up offense (.484) and sixth in defense (6.86)… Johnathan Falcone is sixth in the nation in GAA (6.65) and 11th in SP (.580)… Brian Douglass is 15th with 3.43 points per game… Cole Yeager ranks sixth in face-off win percentage at .653… Patrick Coleman is fifth with 2.53 caused turnovers per game.
Brian Douglass, who has a point in 22 straight games, has seven goals over his last two contests… Matt Gibson, who had all five points in the first half against PC, has 4-5-9 over the last two outings while Matt Miller has five goals… Yale's April 23 game at Georgetown airs live on Mid Atlantic Sports Network (MASN)... Dylan Levings is ranked 11th in insidelacrosse.com's freshmen rankings… Brian Douglass has a team-high 19 goals and 29 points and is Yale's active career goals leader with 66… Matt Gibson is second on the active career goals list with 55… Deron Dempster, who is tops in the country for shooting percentage (.684), has 13 goals and 16 points… Brandon Mangan leads all newcomers with seven goals and 11 points… Dylan Levings (.746) and Cole Yeager (.638) lead the Elis in faceoff percentage.
Matt Gibson, whose dad Jim Gibson played hockey at Cornell, was the 2010 New England Player of the Year and has been picked as the 2011 pre-season choice… Junior M Robby Berner is a member of the 2009-10 and 2010-11 Ivy League Champion men's squash team, which finished second in the nation… Freshman M Jackson Logie's dad, Scott '85, played hockey at Yale… Senior M Alfonso Costa walked on to the Yale basketball team this winter. Last summer, he earned a spot in the Garden Scholars Program, a highly competitive opportunity in which selected interns are paired with Madison Square Garden executives who they work one-on-one with throughout the summer… Senior A Jack Flaherty, the son of a high school history teacher, spent last summer working an archeological excavation in Athens.
The Big Green travel to New Haven following a 19-8 loss against No. 6 Cornell last Saturday at Ithaca, N.Y. Dartmouth trailed 2-1 after the first quarter, but Cornell tallied nine goals in the second frame to pull away. The Big Green wins came against Sacred Heart, Mercer, Holy Cross, and Harvard, while their other losses were against Colgate, No. 5 North Carolina, and No. 4 Duke. Dartmouth is led offensively by junior Kip Dooley (8-13-21) and sophomore Nikki Dysenchuk (11-7-18), while senior Rhett Miller, junior Drew Tunney, and freshman Jeff Perkins are tied for the team lead with 12 goals. Junior Fergus Campbell (11.77, .485) has been the primary net minder for the Big Green this season.
LSM Patrick Coleman, a Ridgewood, N.J., native and former Delbarton School standout, is second for Yale's non-faceoff men with 26 ground balls. Coleman leads the team with 20 caused turnovers. He is a three-year letterman for the Elis.
Johnathan Falcone, Yale's veteran goalie, has been named one of the 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award in men's lacrosse. His character and notable achievements in the community, classroom and competition made him a viable candidate for the award. The finalists were chosen by a media committee from the list of 20 candidates announced in February. Nationwide fan voting begins immediately to determine the winner. Fans are encouraged to vote via the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award website or on the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Facebook fan page through May 10. Fan votes will be combined with media and coaches votes to determine the winner. Falcone, sixth in Division I with a 6.65 goals against average, owns a .580 save percentage, which is eleventh in the nation. He is coming off a 6-save performance in an 11-9 win against Providence on April 5. The economics major with a 3.84 GPA is just as impressive off the field. Falcone, who spent a summer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a member of the Economics Undergraduate Student Advisory Committee. In addition, he was elected as secretary of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity while being a significant contributor to "Bulldog Buddies," a Yale community outreach program that has students serving as mentors to New Haven Public School children. Lowe's will announce the winner May 28 at the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse semifinals in Baltimore.
The latest New England Coaches Poll has the Bulldogs at the top spot.
1. Yale
2. Massachusetts
3. Harvard
4. Hartford
5. Dartmouth
6. Brown
7. Fairfield
8. Vermont
Yale, which shared a league title last year, has won six Ivy League Championships, including the first one handed out in 1956. The others came in 1969, 1988, 89 and 90. The outright titles were in 1956 and 1989.
Six Yale players were named to the 2010 All-Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Team, five of them are playing this season. Attackman Matt Gibson and midfielders Nick Tsouris '10 and Gregory Mahony garnered second-team status. Goalie Johnathan Falcone and defensemen Michael McCormack and Peter Johnson were all honorable mention.
Three (Cornell, Penn, Yale) of the seven Ivy League teams were ranked among the USILA top 20 this week.
Brian Douglass earned Ivy League Honor Roll status on Feb. 28 for his 3 goals against St. John's… Deron Dempster (8-3-11) and Ryan McCarthy (5-3-8) had the same status on March 8 after big two-game weekends… Patrick Coleman was Yale's third honor roll pick after seven CTs and five GBs against Lehigh… Gregory Mahony was the March 22 honoree after hitting the net three times vs. Cornell…Brandon Mangan earned Ivy League Rookie of the week status on March 28 for his 2 goals, including the overtime game-winner, against Princeton. He is the first Bulldog to earn this honor since Peter Johnson on April 12, 2010…Johnathan Falcone was an Ivy League Honor Roll choice on March 28 for his 11 saves, 7 GA, and .611 save percentage against Princeton…Matt Miller earned Ivy League honor roll status on April 4 for his three-goal performance at Penn.
Yale is 17th in this week's Nike laxnews.com poll and 18th in the latest USILA rankings. The best ranking the Elis' have had this season was No. 15 in the laxnews.com poll on March 1 and March 28... Laxpower.com's computer rating has Yale No. 11, second best among Ivy schools.
Andy Shay's seventh year at the helm of the Yale men's lacrosse program in 2010 was his best. He guided the Bulldogs to a 10-4 season that included a share of the Ivy League title and a spot in the inaugural league tournament. The Bulldogs' 2010 season marked the first post-season appearance since 1992 and the first Ivy championship since 1990. Shay's squad was ranked as high as No. 9 at one point during the campaign. He is 51-51 overall at Yale. Shay, named Yale head coach on June 25, 2003, helped guide the University of Massachusetts to the 2002 and 2003 NCAA quarterfinals as an assistant coach for four years. Prior to joining UMass' staff, Shay was an assistant coach at Delaware, where in 1999 he helped the Blue Hens capture the America East title with a 14-3 record and advance to the NCAA Tournament for only the second time in school history. Shay began his coaching career as the head coach at Morrisville (N.Y.) Junior College, and he compiled a 20-17 record in three years. Shay is a 1994 graduate of LeMoyne College where he was a four-year starting defenseman and served as team captain for two years. He was an All-Empire League selection as a senior when he led the team to a league title.
Yale is coming off a four-way share of the 2010 Ivy League title with Princeton, Cornell and Brown. The Elis went 10-4 overall and were 4-2 in league play before falling in the semifinal of the 2010 Ivy League Tournament at Ithaca.
Here a few of the Yale names that might not seem so conventional:
Jared DePalma (da-PALM-a)
Johnathan Falcone (fall-KONE)
Alex Forrey (four-EE)
Jackson Logie (low-gee)
Brandon Mangan (man-gan)
Steve McLachlan (mic-LOCK-lan)
Kirby Zdrill (za-DRILL)
3 Brian Douglass (Sr)
33 Matt Gibson (Jr)
22 Brandon Mangan (Fr)
First Midfield
6 Gregory Mahony (Jr)
15 Matt Miller (Jr)
9 Colin Still (Jr)
Second Midfield
8 Michael Lipin (So)
41 Andrew Cordia (So)
20 Jack Flaherty (Sr)
Longstick Midfielder
43 Patrick Coleman (Sr)
Shortstick Defensive Midfielder
10 Michael Pratt (Jr)
7 Mark Dobrosky (Jr)
28 Cole Yeager (So)
46 Dylan Levings (Fr)
29 Phil Gross (So)
31 Peter Johnson (So)
42 Michael McCormack (So)
12 Johnathan Falcone (Sr)
The Yale roster includes players from 13 different states and two provinces:
California (4), Connecticut (5), Florida (1), Maryland (3), Massachusetts (1), Michigan (1), Minnesota (1), New York (10), New Jersey (5), Ohio (2), Pennsylvania (3), Virginia (2), Washington (1), Alberta (1), Ontario (1)
Yale's 41-man roster is broken down evenly among the classes. There are 11 newcomers and 10 each of sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Newly renovated Reese Stadium, which will be dedicated this Saturday, is a state-of –the-art facility for both Yale lacrosse and soccer teams. The renovations completed last summer include increased stadium seating, an entry plaza, team rooms and a press box. Recent improvements included a FieldTurf surface and new lighting. Reese Stadium, formerly known as the Yale Soccer-Lacrosse Stadium, is named after former lacrosse players Jason Reese '87 and Jon Reese '90.


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Architecture Review: "Trader Joe's" Reconsidered
The "Trader Joe's" project at the intersection of Martin Luther King and University Ave is almost complete. The building façade is draped with a NOW RENTING banner, and workers are planting trees. In a few months the project's 148 apartments should be occupied, 22 of them by people who are eligible to pay less than market rents. Some of the new tenants will look out their windows across University Ave to the civic center park and the tower of Old City Hall; some will look over the trees and low bungalows of the pleasant residential areas stretching along Ohlone Park. But for some, in as many as 33 apartments, their only view will be a wall on the other side of a light shaft and less sun than an immigrant in New York's Lower East Side might have enjoyed 100 years ago.
Soon the zoning files, all 4,303 pages of them, can be sent out for microfiche. It has been almost eight years since the developers presented an application for 176 apartment units plus a floor of retail, six months later increasing their proposal to retail plus 191 apartments, and finally accepting a floor of retail plus 148 apartments. During the run-up to approval of this project the Planet's headlines usually described it as "controversial." Opponents focused on traffic and parking impacts, on the shadows the building would cast on the adjacent neighbors, and on the high number of apartment units it would contain. After all was said and done, there are 37 more apartments than the developers would have been permitted under regular city zoning, had they not received special approvals from the Zoning Adjustments Board and, on appeal, from the City Council. The developers and their defenders in the community and on the Council justified the project's new retail as a boost to downtown and justified the high housing density because 22 apartments would be made available to low-income tenants. It's too early to judge the traffic and parking impacts or to see if the retail benefits the city. But it's not too early to evaluate the building as a piece of architecture and a place to live, which is what I want to do.
The Trader Joe's project (known by the name of its major retail tenant) fills the entire block frontage on the west side of Martin Luther King from University Ave. to Berkeley Way. Below grade is a basement for parking. The ground floor will be devoted to the Trader Joe'a grocery store, another retail tenant, and additional parking. Above this podium are two four-story apartment buildings. The southern building on University Ave. and along about two-thirds of the Martin Luther King frontage is decorated in a Spanish colonial style. The ground floor base has been covered with brick and colored tiles. The apartment building above has walls of bright ochre stucco interspersed with pink bas-relief panels under the windows. The northern apartment building and the ground floor base below it depart completely from the Spanish theme. This part of the building is a kind of neo-Craftsman style, with shingled or timbered walls and projecting eaves with heavy timber brackets.
Little in the official or journalistic record of the lengthy city approval process focuses on the architecture of the project, but one can speculate that the Spanish colonial motifs of the University Ave. building are intended to echo older buildings in downtown, such as the Shattuck Hotel and the Corder Building (home of CVS Pharmacy) south of it. Not unexpectedly there are also echoes of the recent Gaia building, which was designed by the Trader Joe's architect. Possibly for budgetary reasons the facades of the completed structure have been modified from the drawings submitted during the approval process. The depth of the "reverse pilasters" between apartment windows has been reduced and the windows themselves have been set in the same plane as the stucco; both changes attenuate the sense of a masonry wall which the Spanish colonial style demands. In addition, the color scheme is more Mardi Gras than Mediterranean. Nonetheless, the overall scale of this portion of the building successfully and gracefully reminds us of other downtown buildings, both old and new.
Unfortunately, things go awry as one moves north. Presumably the Craftsman-style motifs are intended to respond to the architecture of the bungalows in the residential neighborhood to the north and along Berkeley Way. The street facades of the project's north building are broken up by projecting bays, roof dormers, and a variation in materials between stucco, shingles and vertical boards. But, alas, the original Craftsman-style in Berkeley and elsewhere was almost always used for one- or, at most, two-story houses. Bulked up to the scale of Trader Joe's it looks like a hippopotamus in a tutu.
On the west side of the northern building, where the project is immediately adjacent to existing single family homes, the apparent height is reduced by recessing the fifth floor; however, as a look at a drawing submitted during the approval process showed, the scale of the building remains overwhelming. The tall Victorian right next door is overshadowed, and even more so are the Craftsman-style cottages further down Berkeley Way. From the street a tall redwood softens this abrupt transition in scale, but for the residents of these adjacent homes, there is no such relief. While the west wall of the Trader Joe's project which is adjacent to these existing homes is a floor lower than the rest of the project, its shingled surface is unrelieved by any of the decorative elements used along the street façades—still a hippopotamus but without her tutu.
The real architectural problems, however, begin inside the building, which most of us will never see. Once the bright ochre stucco fades a bit, the building will also fade into our consciousness as we wait in traffic (perhaps a bit longer than we like) for the light to change at Martin Luther King. Those running into Trader Joe's for their supply of Two-Buck-Chuck will hardly look up at the oversize Craftsman brackets. But 148 households will encounter the daily reality of these apartments. Thirty-six of them will live in apartments that face into the light wells which bisect the southern Spanish colonial style building. The light wells are 16 feet wide, a dimension such that 24 of these apartments will not be able to see anything except the wall on the other side, a view consisting of the windows of their neighbors but without the bas reliefs that decorate the street facades. From at least 18 of these apartments the tenants will not be able to see the sky, except by sticking their heads out a window.
No apartments in the northern Craftsman-style building will have only a light well view, but nine bedrooms divided among six apartments will look out 10 feet to blank walls; the bedrooms of four other apartments will look upon a blank wall five and a half feet away. Because of the overhanging roof it is doubtful that any occupant of these rooms will ever see the sky, even by craning out the window. At no time, even at the summer solstice, will direct sun reach these windows. It is unlikely enough daylight will enter at any time of year to permit the occupants to read or perform most routine tasks without turning on the lights.
I know members of the Zoning Adjustments Board and the City Council serve long hours in meetings, and if they are conscientious, they must try to read reams of paper ahead of time. During the approval process for a project such as Trader Joe's they are badgered by community activists who are pushing all sorts of agendas, almost none of which include architecture, unless it is the preservation of old architecture. But one could wish that someone on ZAB or the Council had thought not just about the people who live in the neighborhood now but those who will come to live there. If someone had looked carefully at the plans and then asked him or herself, "Could I live in such an apartment, without ever seeing the sun and sky?" would the project have been approved? In the name of boosting retail and creating more cheap rentals, our city has come close to creating a twenty-first century tenement.
When our daughter was six, we took her and the teenage daughter of friends to New York City for a visit. The very modest hotel where we stayed had no suites so we stayed in two separate rooms; theirs opened to a light shaft with the window facing a graffiti-sprayed wall about 8 feet away. "What is this," our daughter said on entering, "Westside Story?" I thought about that trip when looking at the almost finished Trader Joe's. Our daughter, now a graduate student, would certainly qualify for one of the low income units in this new building, whose inclusion formed much of the justification for the enormous density bonus. If she remembered her New York trip, she might find it looks like "Westside Story," without, so far, the graffiti.
Christopher Adams is an architect and city planner and long-time Berkeley resident.


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All the furniture was chosen in order to maximize the space and keep the minimalism the apartment possessed. I really love the way the living room can be modelled and transformed: from inviting more people to have dinner to the possibility to open the living room into the terrace for a great summer party. This small space is multifaceted and, thanks to careful furnishing and decoration, can cope with all of these situations. It is proof that a small space can be the perfect home to entertain in!
- Biggest Challenge of Living in a Small Space:
- The biggest challenge of having two people living in such a small space was definitely ensuring all the needs were met: we wanted a good sofa, preferably leveraging on the great view of the apartment, a space for book storage, a table for up to 4 or 6 people where we could eat and also work, and a smaller workspace where we could to go through the daily emails, for example.
The multifunctionality of the furniture has been essential in the living room, as the table can be enlarged to accomodate up to 6 people, and the armchairs are also comfortable to work for long periods. The shelves on the wall also maximized the available space, freeing the rest of the room to allow the exterior view to spread along the interior.


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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco's mayor has abandoned a police stop and frisk proposal designed to get weapons off the streets.
There was an outcry after Mayor Ed Lee told the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/NZAeZi ) in June that he was considering stop and frisk, which involves officers stopping and searching suspicious people for weapons.
Stop and frisk is popular in New York City, but critics liken it to racial profiling.
The mayor now says he will instead rely on targeted police enforcement, crime-tracking software and increased involvement by ministers to combat the gun violence.
Lee is announcing details of his alternative plan on Tuesday at Bayview's Calvary Hill Community Church.
Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com


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A quick word about points before some Juan Luis Anangono gifs from Saturday.
In all the European leagues this week, fans and onlookers, for the first time this season, started looking at the table in earnest. Suddenly those campaigns feel far enough along to warrant real despair or optimism. From highs at Napoli and Arsenal to the crises at United and Madrid, people spent the weekend frantically counting points, looking up past point totals, tracking average points per match stats, and worrying or gloating about their projected finishes.
That panic and fervor is why I don't look at the table until at least halfway through a season. It's too stressful and too small a dataset. But also, you can get a much better idea of a team's title chances by watching them play a lot of games and watching other teams play a lot of games. Even though the table is king, there's more to a game than its points.
I swear I'm coming back to the Fire but two quick things about points in general. First, they have a strange way of accumulating over time. You can only get zero, one, or three points, and yet they often feel like they're coming or going in heaping clumps, like Salvation Army donations. They don't feel like they grow calmly the way points per match stats indicate. (Anyway those stats are a little ridiculous. What do we really learn from a two-point-something line?) Points feel at once impossible to gain, then coming down in sheets.
But this is why the collection of points feels so good in soccer leagues all over the world, so much better than a regular season NBA win, to name the obvious example. You "steal a point" or "earn three points," week in and week out. You figure a point saved is a point earned and the point savings account will pay off at the end of the season. You figure.
Points, despite their bewitching growth patterns, don't lie when schedules are balanced and you know everyone's playing everyone. At the end of the season the team with the most points is deservedly top. End of story. With the same points available over so long a time, it's impossible to hide under a quick run of wins the way a team can in a playoff.
In MLS, it's a bit strange because most teams in the East play each other three times over the course of the season so qualifying for the playoffs will show who did the best against each other in the conference, not necessarily the best teams overall. Still, those teams deserve the chance to extend their season because they earned it from March to October. It's a huge dataset. No matter what happens between the Eastern Conference teams vying for the final playoff spots (Houston, Philadelphia, New England, and Chicago), I think that even with the imbalanced schedule, the points will have proven that over the long haul they were one of the top five teams.
Unless it's the 2013 Fire. The 2013 Fire are doing their best to undermine the cold faultlessness of the point system, driving fans crazy with their fluctuating quality from half to half and game to game. Forget the table, at this point I'm convinced we won't know if the Fire have made the playoffs until the final whistle of the final game in New York. They will continue to tease out points here and there until then. The others will slip, there's nothing invincible about any of them, and the Fire either will or will not take advantage.
What I mean is that even though at this stage of the season it's natural to whip out the calculators and do your Playoff Math and all that, it's possible that even with just twelve points up for grabs, it's still too early to talk conclusively about points. We should still be talking quality. If the Fire play the way they've shown they're capable of, and as they did during parts of the second half on Saturday night, the points will come and they'll make the playoffs. You don't need a calculator to see that. Despite the despair of some fans and one player who called Saturday night's game "heartbreaking," I like Mike Magee's comment: "We have four games left and we're going to make the playoffs."
Not a single one of the (what, eight or nine?) media and Twitter-hyped "MUST WIN" games have really been must-anythings so far. They've been opportunities to tweak and grow and get some points. The Fire now need points everywhere, but except perhaps for their ugly away record, the 12 points are actually quite feasible. DC will be coming off an emotional Cup Final, Dallas like the Fire has 40 points and all but out of the Western playoff race, Toronto is beatable, and NYRB may have clinched and have little to play for.
Of course, the Fire could also lose all four games. Who knows? The only sure thing is that there are twelve points for four teams to fight for, and the 2013 Fire has to earn it this year, conclusively, finally, or not. And that will be the measure of this team.
Saturday. I loved Frank Klopas's adjustments at half. I loved the second half in general. But the first half was rough. In the first 15 seconds we have Juan Luis Anangono not quite focused yet:
Cut to the second half though, and Anangono, again symbolizing the entire team, was everywhere. He reacted quickly and had a point blank shot blocked before the ref whistled for that ill-fated PK. He was running at people (not always successfully, but still) and creating space for Chris Rolfe, Alex, and Magee to connect. But my favorite was in the 82nd minute: His super well-worked though unlucky chance that Rolfe created and Troy Perkins saved off the post. Anangono didn't give up, he got the rebound and set up Magee, whose shot was cleared off the line:
More of that please, and with more of that we won't even have to look at the table to know the Fire have extended their season.


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After teasing us with the sleek but useless Vaio P, Sony went back to the drawing board for the launch of Windows 7 to design an impossibly thin and light notebook unhindered by the many, many flaws of its predecessor: the Vaio X. Though it rides on netbook hardware like the P, a speedier CPU and larger, more usable form factor put this model head and shoulders above it. Unfortunately, the price moves accordingly to $1,300, making the Vaio X a truly amazing toy for those who can manage to afford one.
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It's hard to overstate just how light and tiny Sony's new Wunderkind truly is. It measures half an inch thick, and weighs 1.5 pounds. This is a notebook you can flip around like a magazine, lift from the corner with a thumb and two fingers, and probably send into the stratosphere with a dozen or so balloons. If the MacBook Air can cut a cake, the Vaio X can probably perform minor surgery.
Don't take that to mean that the Vaio X feels insubstantial. Sony has called upon the wonder of carbon fiber to give the notebook stiffness and rigidity totally out of proportion to its weight. We were able to wring a bit of flex out of it by intentionally grabbing two corners and giving it a twist, but the small size of the machine and impossibly light weight means that it never really encounters this sort of stress during every day handling. We only batted an eye when adjusting the screen with one hand from the side, which made us wish it had a little more reinforcement.
Fond as Sony is of glossy paintjobs, our carbon-fiber review unit came decked out in stealthy matte black from head to toe – an arrangement we much prefer. Although it doesn't offer the durable rubbery feel of say, a ThinkPad, it shakes off fingerprints and other marring all the same.
When you're designing a notebook as thin as some of the connectors that will plug into it, you have to get a little creative. Sony engineers rose to the occasion. The VGA connector on the right, for instance, matches the height of the notebook almost identically, and therefore isn't even shielded in from all sides: The bottom edge has been left bare and sits flush with the bottom of the notebook. Along the same lines, the right-hand Ethernet port literally snaps open like a jaw to accommodate the standard connector, which would be too fat to fit without this python-like adaptation. Sony also provides two USB ports, a headphone jack, and a power jack on the left-hand side. We really wish Sony had managed to move one of the USB jacks to the right; both to accommodate for right-handed travel mice, and to prevent the overlapping problems you might encounter when connecting oversized accessories like thumb drives or mini camcorders. Up front, you'll find both an SD card reader and a slot for Sony's Memory Stick Duo cards.
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A Labor candidate has quit over old bullying claims, throwing the ALP's plans to win the marginal Victorian seat of Frankston into disarray.
The party now has to find someone else to take on Liberal-turned-independent MP Geoff Shaw in the November state election.
News Corp Australia had published court documents showing ALP candidate Helen Constas, a lawyer, was the subject of a bullying complaint when she was chief executive at the Peninsula Community Legal Centre.
"This matter is very distressing for me and my family," Ms Constas told reporters on Thursday as she announced she would not contest the November 29 state poll.
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Ms Constas said the bullying complaint had been resolved and a confidentiality agreement made it impossible for her to "actively defend my reputation".
It is the latest in a tumultuous period for the seat of Frankston, with its sitting MP, Mr Shaw, now serving a suspension over misuse of his parliamentary car and fuel card.
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If you live anywhere but the UK, you might not know that the skies over our green and pleasant lands have been grey and full of more unpleasant moisture than an AC/DC mosh pit. Summer may have started, but we wouldn't have known over here.
However, in the last day or two the sun has come out, children are skipping gaily in the streets, and the average Brit is complaining that it's too hot. Never mind, it's bound to change soon enough so we'll have to keep our raincoats on standby. Thank the heavens we'll have plenty of pre-warning now that there's an updated version of....
The Weather Channel
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The Weather Channel iPhone application has been around for a while, having even made it into Pocket-lint's "best weather apps for iPhone" feature back in 2010. However, it has just had an update that is far more than an aesthetic lick of varnish - The Weather Channel v5.0 is almost a completely new beast altogether.
Naturally, its core is the same. It takes the weather information found on weather.com and presents it in a format best suited to a mobile device. But it is the presentation and the integration of social networking features that improves the experience no end.
You can now choose several different locations to keep track of, including a home location. Plus, the app chooses your current location using its TruPoint local forecasting technology. You can then swipe through all of the different areas and forecasts, which is really handy if you are travelling around.
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In fact, reading the simple weather forecast is probably only a small fraction of what you'd use The Weather Channel for.
There's only one small gripe. In order to keep the app free, it has an advertising bar that runs across the top of the screen, which looks clumsy. But hey, what would you rather have? A one-off payment, or a perpetually free service?
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Folding clutch bag made of denim sourced from some old jeans. The lining was a piece I bought especially for this. In hindsight the lining, when combined with the denim, was really too thick for this project. The seams are extremely bulky even after grading the allowances . There's just too many layers at some points. Because of this, as you will see, the bag doesn't sit as flat as I would like. I did make some changes to the pattern in that I rounded the front , added a wrist strap and changed the closure to a magnetic bag stud. I then stitched on a decorative button.
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IMO it's critical to include a nut.
volume wise, I like to have about as much nuts as packed basil leaves. I use walnuts cause they are cheap and pine nuts are really pretty neutral flavour wise.
Probably don't need too many aye? I always end up overloading with the garlic.easy-peel hardneck is just way too easy.
Eh? Overloading garlic? What means overloading garlic? Fare non capirne.
A food Nazi friend of mine insists it isn't pesto unless it has pine nuts in it. I disagree. Maybe it isn't classic pesto but the Italians are famous for cooking with what is available or in season. A very pragmatic way of cooking.
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Copy after Chôun Reihô ( Japanese, Active mid-14th century)
Orchid, Bramble, Bamboo, and Rock
Muromachi period, 15th-16th century
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
12 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (32.4 x 46.4 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1957
Originally acquired by the Allen Memorial Art Museum as a work by the fourteenth-century Chinese monk-painter Xuechuang Puming, this painting has subsequently been shown to be a copy of a painting by Chôun Reihô, a Japanese follower of Puming. Nevertheless, it reveals the importance of transmitted tradition in Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhist art, and illuminates the way styles were passed down from generation to generation of monks in both countries. This painting was originally attributed to Puming on the basis of the inscription in the upper left, which translates:1
"Clear waves billow in the waters of the Yuan,
Fragrant orchids flourish in the grasses of the Li.
I recite poetry and sing now and then.
Why don't I go home? As I linger time moves on.
Spring of the year wuzi of the Zhizheng era (1348). I attach this to Xuechuang's ink masterpiece to be sent far away to my old master and senior colleague in the Buddhist Law, Zhongbao, for his pure enjoyment. Staying at Beishan in Middle Wu, your humble friend, Reihô."
One of five sacred Buddhist mountains in China, Beishan was a common destination for Japanese monks making pilgrimages to China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Chôun Reihô was such a monk, who is known to have visited China in the mid fourteenth century, and to have been a disciple of Xuechuang Puming. Therefore, on the evidence of the inscription alone, this painting could plausibly have been painted by Puming, given to Reihô, and then sent as a memento by Reihô to a friend in some distant monastery.
On stylistic grounds, however, the attribution to Puming is problematic, as Li Chu-tsing discusses in his very thorough article about this painting.2 Although the subject is what we would expect in a work by Puming, the style is considerably heavier and less fluid than other accepted works in his oeuvre, while the composition is flatter and does not convey the same sense of space or organic growth. Moreover, the size of the painting, and the way it is cropped on the right side, would also have beeen extremely unusual for a Puming painting. Li concludes that despite the inscription, the painting was not by Puming, but by a follower, probably one of the Japanese monks who imitated his style in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
A nearly identical painting from a Japanese collection provides additional evidence on how the Oberlin scroll relates to the Puming tradition.3 That scroll depicts virtually the same subject and has virtually the same inscription in the upper left as the Oberlin scroll, but its style is more fluid and its composition more graceful. Although this painting is not by Puming either, it is much closer to the Chinese master, and more likely to be the work of Chôun Reihô. If that painting is the work of Reihô imitating Puming, then the Oberlin painting must be a later copy of it or of a very similar painting by Reihô. Dating such a copy is difficult, but assuming that its present size is the result of later cropping to satisfy the seventeenth-century Japanese taste for small tokonoma hanging scrolls, a date sometime in the fifteenth or sixteenth century becomes the most likely period for the painting of this scroll.
Finally, we are left with the question of why such a copy was made. Although Reihô's original would certainly have possessed economic value in fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Japan, especially if it was believed to be by Puming, financial profit may not have been the primary motive for painting this copy. In Japanese art, especially religious art, it has long been considered legitimate to make faithful copies or even exact replicas of important cultural objects, often with few indications to distinguish the copies from the originals. Traditionally, the intent of this practice was not to deceive, but to preserve important works of art, and to transmit the knowledge of making them to younger generations. In this way, important techniques would not be forgotten, and in the event of some catastrophic loss of artworks, the originals could be replaced. Thus, we should probably think of the Oberlin painting not as a fake or forgery, but as a legitimate copy, perhaps executed by a young monk-painter trying to learn to paint in the Puming tradition. Seen in this way, the stylistic and compositional awkwardnesses of the painting become resonant reminders of the importance of continuity and tradition in Japanese culture.
C. Mason
With Howard Hollis, Cleveland, from whom purchased in 1957.
Princeton University Art Museum, 1976. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections. 25 April - 23 June. Cat. no. 33.
Li Chu-tsing. "The Oberlin Orchid and the Problem of P'u-ming." Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 16 (1962), pp. 49-76.
Li Chu-tsing. "The Oberlin Orchid: A Problem of Attribution." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 20, no. 1 (Fall 1962), pp. 5-25.
Yoshiaki Shimizu. In Yoshiaku Shimizu and Carolyn Wheelwright, eds., Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections (exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum, 1976), pp. 238-43.
Technical Data
This hanging scroll was executed in black ink on paper. It was probably originally a handscroll, of which the present painting is the left half. It is in good condition, with minor losses, repairs, and horizontal creasing. The inscription in the upper left is written in "running script" calligraphy, followed by two seals: Shaku Reihô Chôun sho (Monk Reihô Chôun's seal) and Jû kangiji sha museishi (Dwelling in the land of joy, painting a soundless poem).
1.This translation has been adapted from Yoshiaki Shimizu's translation, in Yoshiaki Shimizu and Carolyn Wheelwright, eds., Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections (exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum, 1976), p. 238.
2. Li Chu-tsing, "The Oberlin Orchid and the Problem of P'u-ming," in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 16 (1962), pp. 49-76. A somewhat condensed version of this article was published in Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 20, no. 1 (Fall 1962), pp. 5-25.
3.Previously in the Gejô collection, Tôkyô, this scroll is reproduced in Li Chu-tsing, "The Oberlin Orchid: A Problem of Attribution," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 20, no. 1 (Fall, 1962), p. 21.


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Pa u l i n eWood, 93,of Poteaudied Sept.14, 2011, inPoteau. Shewas bornFeb. 8,1918, inRufe to Abe Jacob andKattie Francis (Kight)Mills. She was a homemaker.She was preceded indeath by her parents; herbeloved husband WyattWinston Wood, a daughterFrancis Ruth Wood; threebrothers, Earl Mills,Leonard Jake Mills andArthur James Mills; twosisters, Lizzie Walker andGertrude Moore; and onegrandson, Dennis LeForce.Pauline is survived by ason and daughter-in-law,Bob and Cathey Wood ofPoteau; daughters and sonsin-law, Mary Lee and JimGoodwin of Poteau, JoannLeForce of Broken Bow,and Sharon Kay and CharlesCitty of Haworth; grandchildrenJames LeForce,Kenny LeForce, Shannon(Goodwin) Strain, Holly(Citty) Mulligan, Blaine(Wood) Elmore, VivianWood; great-grandchildren,Logan Elmore, JaydenLeForce, and KallyMulligan; and a host ofother family members,friends, and loved ones.Services will be held at 2p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, atBethel Baptist Church,Bethel, with Bro. DavidHardin officiating. Burialwill follow at BethelCemetery. The family willgreet friends from 6-8 p.m.today at the funeral home.Services are under the directionof Grace Manor FuneralHome, Poteau. On-line messagesmay be left at www.gracemanorfh.com.


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For the past month or so I have been moisturizing every night with 1/2 Acne.org Moisturizer and 1/2 AHA+. I mix them up in my palm before applying. It's been great. My skin is staying even toned and perfect and because the AHA+ is diluted by the Moisturizer, it is not too strong for nightly use. If you decide to try it, let me know how it goes for you. I'd like to get some feedback.
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Who visited Moleskine stand at London Book Fair last April could admire 7 books of Folio Collection, realized by several artists.
All the authors has decided to give Moleskine and the foundation lettera27 their masterpieces.
Thanks to: Connor Willumsen, Joei Lau, Hannah Sheffield, Anna Marie Avanceña, Steven Gosseye, Francesca Bazzurro, Katrin Schöß
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Connor Willumsen
Francesca Bazzurro
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• Connor Willumsen, born on 1986 is a "canadian born" cartoonist. Now he lives in Brooklyn.
• Joei Lau, born in Hong Kong in 1968, is both a mother and an artist. She loves to use her mistakes and follow where it takes her. She also loves to keep an art journal which really helps her "to appreciate the world she lives in". She says that "To the most important point my journal gives me a lot of rooms to play with Moleskine's product".
• Hannah Sheffield, born on 1974 in London, likes to live "in her imagination where she can draw all day long". Actually her home is now in Heartfordshire, UK. She joins long queues on purpouse so that nothing can be done for a while, tries not to a rush, drinks tea, takes photographs, wonders about a lot of things and above all else loves her dog.
• Anna Marie Avanceña, born in the Philippines on 1983, is an Interior Designer. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, painting, art and crafts, photograph and graphic design.
• Steven Gosseye, born in Belgium in 1981 is a designer and a sculptor that likes to explore boundaries of human form and psyche by his art.
• Francesca Bazzurro was born in Livorno - Italy and lives in Milano. She exhibits in different galleries, i.e Biennale du carnet du voyage di Clermont Ferrand e Galassia Gutenberg.
• Katrin Schöß works as a freelance architect. During her day-to-day office routine brain storming gave birth to extraordinary office furnishing modules: in her works she designs in combination with furniture and objects by other manufacturers. Out of this pool one idea is to be selected and developed further so it can be entered for the AIT Architecture and Office Competition.


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Name: LEGO lover (7)
Location: Marin County, CA
We recently celebrated my 7-year-old's birthday with his friends. He wanted the theme to be "Lego Clone Trooper"… or was it "Lego Clone Wars"? I can't remember. Anyway, I focused on Legos, Clone Troopers and cake.
I purchased a couple of items, like Star Wars cake plates, but turned away from the majority. There is something about the relentless branding of a theme that just gets to me. I prefer a homemade, crafty solution if possible. So I purchased a Star Wars Lego book for the kid (books are always good!), and snapped shots of a bunch of figures, then printed them out. I cut them out and got some cheap and easy decorations that were super cute! We have a large plotter so I printed-out 42" Lego characters for some big impact decorations.
I got the idea for watermelon etched like the Death Star from a guy I found online who does extreme pumpkin carving. I gave it a good shot for about an hour, then I called in my artistic mother to finish the job for me. She was naturally much, much better with the detail than I was. I'm forever grateful.
The little man requested a Clone Trooper on his cake. I saw so many incredible designs online (search Google images for "Clone Trooper cake") but know better than to think I have the patience for something that time consuming. I sourced it out to Susie Cakes and they did an incredible job. I backed up the vanilla cake with lemon cupcakes and topped them with Legos.
Some other high-lights were:
• Pin-the-helmet-on-the-clone-trooper.
• Daddy's Lego Spaceship clinic. (There were some awesome creations!)
• Clone Trooper Pinata. (I purchased a skull one, for Halloween, and recovered it in Clone Trooper details.)
• Cake, and of course, some of Luke Skywalkers blue Bantha milk!
Thanks Jeanice! Readers, see more of this party at Suburban Homestead.
(Images: Jeanice/Suburban Homestead)