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After apocalyptic future worlds, there can be few settings less original than the Old West. Chuck in a desert, some dueling and a few authentic guns and you have yourselves a game, right? Well Techland don't subscribe to that – Bound in Blood, like its predecessor, has ideas coming out the wazoo. Not all are integrated as well as we'd wish, but you'd have to hunt pretty damned hard to find a single dull or predictable moment here.
Wisely ditching the duff stealth (well, mostly) and paying extra care and attention to the combat, this is a huge improvement over the original. Aside from a few graphical quirks – usually related to the new cover system – it's a rock-solid, spectacle-packed shooter; ramshackle in places but packing such heart only the staunchest FPS pilgrim would complain. All of the Old West is here, from tense duels to busy shootouts to lonely cross-country horse riding.
It's also a surprisingly well-told tale; a prequel focusing on outlaw brothers William, Thomas and Ray McCall – who later becomes the Bible-bashing hellfire preacher of the original Call – as they track down the legendary Juarez treasure and kill every American, Mexican and Injun who gets in their way. You can choose between Thomas or Ray at the start of most stages, with the former getting a lasso for occasional acrobatics and Ray having the skill to duel-wield. We missed being able to carry a bible and fire bolts of damnation at enemies – an undisputed highlight of the first game – but the vast cache of iconic weaponry just about makes up for it. Apart from the weedy throwing knives and limp bow and arrows, the game's guns are tremendous fun to use.
The new automatic cover system lets you hug nearly any surface but the limited perspective makes it difficult to aim, and it's hardly implemented smoothly – a lot of the time you end up putting your arms through walls, boxes and the like. On Medium difficulty the game doesn't put up much of a fight, so we rarely used it and often forgot it was there. Of more note, the slo-mo Concentration mode has been enhanced: it now comes in three varieties, each designed to make you feel like a true gunslinger and enhancing the already satisfying combat no end.
Stages are consistently surprising, adding welcomely unexpected elements to the familiar formula – random bits which don't quite gel enough to change the central mechanics but do succeed in staving off over familiarity. For instance, early on you get to play around with buckets of water in order to extinguish a burning barn. Aside from a similarly brief moment towards the end of the game this sideshow exists for little reason save breaking up the shooting. The same could be said of the lasso acrobatics, and of the two free roaming sections in the middle part of the game.
Any other title would have an open-world hub containing each mission, but they're strangely separate entities here. We're glad all the Wild West staples are included but the structure's a little off, like a beefburger with the cheese on the outside. For a game so firmly focused on its two lead characters the omission of co-op is also glaring. It seems set up to include it but, for whatever reason, Techland decided not to go down that path. Although the game's fun on your own, it's definitely a glaring, missed opportunity.
If you're sick and tired of the lifeless brown dirge most shooters dish out the open vistas, rolling skies and unspoilt wilderness of Bound in Blood's setting will be a breath of relatively fresh air. It's also, simply, a great first-person shooter – and a bigger, better Western than the first.
Jun 30, 2009


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Friday, August 26
Daily Farm Photo: 8/26/05
15 comments:
This picture is so beautiful! It makes me pine for my days in the country. Although, I don't miss getting up at the crack of dawn every day!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/26/2005 8:20 AM
i've so been enjoying your photos each day... what i would not do to be right there today! yikes.ReplyDelete
be well & thanks, mav
- Anonymous8/26/2005 11:00 AM
Seems summer is leaving, autumn coming !ReplyDelete
Hi Farmgirl:ReplyDelete
I grew up in a sm. town outside KC and this pic reminds me of my drives to school growing up. Mist over the fields... *awe*
Btw, I made your pizza last night and I am so sorry to tell you that it didn't go so well. I know you said you can't mess it up - but I did!
So here is "How NOT to make a pizza from scratch"...
1. Had to make the dough the night b4 because I get home from work and my hungry fiance is always ready for dinner. (No waiting for bread to rise - hehe). Well, I only covered it w/a towel in the fridge and it formed a crust which didn't come out in the kneading. Should have put the dough in a baggy or something.
2. Made the onions which looked carmelized and delicious after 30 min in the pan but burned on the pizza in the oven (10 min cooking time)! Wha?!
3. Didn't have any good cheese on hand so I tried grated parmesean cheese. Bad mistake. Formed an orange crust over the pizza. (Right now everyone is reading my post shaking their heads at me. That's probaby a basic baking no-no, huh?)
My fiance ate it with a smile. I picked a good guy and a good recipe but wow did that dinner go wrong.
- Anonymous8/26/2005 2:08 PM
Wow what a deep breath I just had. Just looking at that photo makes me breath a little deeper and smile.ReplyDelete
ooo, that makes me feel so peaceful. Just nice for the weekend.ReplyDelete
Today, I am happy because the temps are in the 90's instead of 100+ for once. August is a bad, bad month in FL, AND we have a hurricane headed this way.ReplyDelete
I am jealous, jealous jealous. Then again, talk to me in January and I will be happy to be here, where it freezes only at night and only for a week or two, instead of there.
Hi Everyone,ReplyDelete
So glad you all enjoyed seeing this photo. It's one of my personal favorites--and one of my favorite views on the farm. But what I find interesting is that many of you seem to think that the word "cool" was somewhere in that caption. Oh, I wish! I don't want to spoil the dreamy scene, so I'll just leave it at that. Wow, I almost have myself convinced that's a picture of a cool misty morning! Soon. . . : )
Hi Lisa,
Welcome to the farm! Yes, that crack of dawn thing is definitely a necessity--though it's not always easy getting up that early. My favorite thing to do (after I've actually done it, of course!) is to get up when it is still completely dark outside. Everything just feels so nice and quiet, and you have the whole entire day before you. Endless possibilities. The other morning when I got up a nearly full moon was still high in the sky, shining brightly. What a gorgeous sight that was! I took a few pictures of it, but some things you just can't capture with a camera.
Hi mav,
Oh you're just suffering from a temporary bout of Grass Is Always Greener Sickness. I've seen the gorgeous East Coast scenery you've posted on Port 2 Port. *envy* But then of course you also know there are chickens and a rusty pickup truck somewhere behind the scenes here. . . : )
Hi Flo,
Oh, it's definitely still summer here! Hope you have a fabulous vacation!
Hi Cherrybegonia,
Welcome to the farm! (Or at least to the comments section!) Yes, the mist is really wonderful. Lately it's been swirling so thickly around us each night that at first light you can't even see down to the barn. The hills of our little valley completely disappear, and this view across the hayfield is nothing but grey. It's actually quite cozy.
As far as your pizza disaster. . . Oh my. How sad! (But I loved your list.) I do feel kind of responsible, too, especially after I said you can't mess it up. I will write more to you about this in a bit. I sure hope you don't give up on homemade pizza. And definitely don't let that guy get away! : )
Hi Wendy & Boo,
Thank you for your comments. It's a wonderful feeling to know that one of my photos can have such a postive, physical effect. I think I should put this picture on my bulletin board to remind me to stop and breathe (the post-it note that says "Breathe" just isn't doing it. . .)
Hi Amy,
Glad to hear it's cooled down a bit there for you. Yep, August is usually the worst month here, too, as far as heat and humidity go. I keep wondering why I don't have gills to help me breathe in this water-filled air. We've been following the path of that hurricane on the e-radar. Sending you safe (and cool) thoughts.
- Anonymous8/26/2005 8:06 PM
i love this photo...peaceful!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/27/2005 1:40 AM
Two things photographers I once knew said (before I was one myself, twenty years ago or so)...ReplyDelete
"October has the most beautiful light."
"It's hard to tell if it's sunrise or sunset."
In other words, the slanting light of morning and late afternoon make the most beautiful photographs. Sometimes you can see the morning frost, and sometimes you can see the heat shimmering in the late afternoon.
This photo is good because you cannot tell the difference, unless perhaps you are acquainted with your farm and region.
- Anonymous8/27/2005 1:41 AM
Two things photographers I once knew said (before I was one myself, twenty years ago or so)...ReplyDelete
"October has the most beautiful light."
"It's hard to tell if it's sunrise or sunset."
In other words, the slanting light of morning and late afternoon make the most beautiful photographs. Sometimes you can see the morning frost, and sometimes you can see the heat shimmering in the late afternoon.
This photo is good because you cannot tell the difference, unless perhaps you are acquainted with your farm and region.
Hi arc,ReplyDelete
Thank you! : )
Hi Tana,
It's always so nice to hear from you. I spread the word about your awesome Small Farms blog whenever I can.
Thanks for the compliment and great quotes. I know the first one is true; just yesterday when I looked at a few photos I'd taken the night before of the sunset sky I was surprised because they looked like they were taken at sunrise. As for the second, now I can't wait to see how things look in October!
The light here in the early morning and late afternoon is gorgeous. Click, click, click! : )
Farmgirl, have you thought of photography as a side job? This picture is wonderful. Hurricane update: We are almost out of the cone, it is going west,west,west!!!!ReplyDelete
Hi Cara,ReplyDelete
Thank you. Hmmm. Get paid to take pictures? Wouldn't that be wonderful!
So glad you didn't get flattened by yet another hurricane. : )
- Anonymous10/24/2006 11:26 AM
I wish for you to start a book of all the photos you take. A nice big coffee table book. Thanks farmgirl ....You keep me coming back for more ...ReplyDelete
December 2015 update: Hi! For some reason I can't figure out, Blogger hasn't been letting me leave comments on my own blog (!) for the last several months, so I've been unable to respond to your comments and questions. My apologies for any inconvenience! You're always welcome to email me: farmgirlfare AT gmail DOT com.
Hi! Thanks for visiting Farmgirl Fare and taking the time to write. While I'm not always able to reply to every comment, I receive and enjoy reading them all.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and I especially love hearing about your experiences with my recipes. Comments on older posts are always welcome!
Please note that I moderate comments, so if I'm away from the computer it may be a while before yours appears.
I try my best to answer all questions, though sometimes it takes me a few days. And sometimes, I'm sorry to say, they fall through the cracks, and for that I sincerely apologize.
I look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy your e-visits to our farm!


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I couldn't stop laughing after reading this and thought of sharing.
Dear Dad
Berlin is wonderful, people are nice and I really
like it here, but Dad, I am a bit ashamed to arrive
at my college with my pure-gold Ferrari 599GTB
when all my teachers and many fellow students
travel by train.
Your son,
The next day, Nasser gets a reply to his e-mail from his dad:
My dear loving son
Twenty million US Dollar has just been transferred
to your account. Please stop embarrassing us.
Go and get yourself a train too.
Your Dad
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text: Watch a video of the legendary and now threatened Coaster Brook Trout as several gather at a key spawning ground in the Lake Superior tributary Salmon Trout River. Notice how the fish hover at the edge of a sand strip. The sand covers what was until recently perfect habitat for laying eggs. But fish eggs do not survive in sand. Researchers at Michigan Technological University are making this video available to show why money is needed to vacuum the sand from essential and vanishing spawning habitat in the last, best Coaster Brook Trout spawning river, the Salmon Trout River. All they need is $10,000. To donate: superiorideas.org/projects/brook-trout.


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When the Bush administration released its budget for fiscal year 2006 recently, the news media, as usual, had a tough time in making sense of the government's proposals for defense spending. To some extent, we can't blame them for their confusion, because even people who follow this subject closely have trouble sorting out the government's various ways of stating the defense budget. Figures that appear at one place in the budget documents are often difficult or impossible to reconcile with figures that appear at other places in the documents. Conspiracy theorists might easily conclude that the government deliberately tries to make a clear understanding impossible. More charitably, we might conclude that the government simply does not know how to keep a clean set of books.
The budget separates proposed spending into various categories, which outsiders have trouble keeping straight: "outlays" are amounts of money to be spent during the fiscal year in question; "budget authority" includes newly appropriated amounts of money to be spent during the fiscal year in question and perhaps during several later fiscal years as well. "Mandatory spending" comprises dollars that must be spent (barring a change in statutory requirements), whereas "discretionary spending" includes dollars that may be spent (and normally will be).
In a section of the budget called "Protecting America" appears the claim: "Under this Administration, the Department of Defense (DOD) has received the largest increases in funding since the Reagan Administration. . . . The 2006 request represents a 41-percent increase over 2001." In the document's historical tables, however, both Table 3.2 and Table 4.1 show that the military part of the Department of Defense's proposed outlays for fiscal year 2006 exceed the 2001 figure by nearly 47 percent. Is the Bush administration being unnecessarily modest about its accomplishment in pumping up military spending or it is simply unaware of what its own data show?
Perhaps the 41-percent claim pertains to budget authority rather than to outlays? Evidently not. When we check the data for budget authority in Tables 5.1 and 5.2 of the historical documents, we discover, first of all, that the figures in those two tables disagree by $9.5 billion with regard to the Department of Defense's military budget authority in fiscal year 2001. Depending on which table's figure we use for 2001, the increase by 2006 comes to either 32 percent or 36 percent–"still not very close to the 41 percent claimed in the text and, of course, much father still from the 47-percent change in outlays.
In any event, the amount of money provided to the Department of Defense falls far short of constituting the total amount appropriated for military purposes. Indeed, in a study I reported more than a year ago (based on fiscal year 2002 data, the most recent ones available in complete form at the time I made my calculations), I concluded that in order to estimate the amount of all military-related outlays in the federal budget, a good rule of thumb is to double the amount of the Pentagon's outlays.
The Pentagon's own budget–"for fiscal year 2006, the widely reported amount of $419 billion in discretionary budget authority–"does not include the costs of nuclear warheads, which the Department of Energy produces; the defense-related activities of the Department of State, including "foreign military financing"; the past military services being compensated currently by benefits provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs; the defense-related activities of the Homeland Security Department, such as the Coast Guard's defense activities; various defense-related activities of several other federal departments; or the current interest costs of previous, debt-financed military activities. Applying my rule of thumb, I estimate that the government's total military-related outlays in fiscal year 2006 will be in the neighborhood of $840 billion–"or, approximately a third of the total budget, as opposed to the 16 percent that one calculates by comparing the Pentagon's $419 billion request to the administration's total request, $2.57 trillion.
Among the prominent items left out of the regular Pentagon budget are the amounts to be expended in prosecuting the seemingly perpetual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which currently eat up approximately $5–"6 billion per month. So far, the administration has insisted on financing these war expenditures for the most part out of "emergency" supplemental appropriations. On February 14, President Bush sent Congress a request for $82 billion in supplemental funding, of which some $75 billion would go to the Department of Defense. The Pentagon would use all but $5 billion of the additional money for conducting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Other funds in the request–"including $660 million for construction of the gigantic, heavily fortified new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, $400 million to reward small countries that participated in the so-called coalition that attacked and occupied Iraq, $200 million for Jordan, and $150 million for Pakistan–"may be viewed as indirect war costs. Later on, the administration expects to seek another supplemental appropriation for war-fighting costs during fiscal year 2006.
According to Rep. Jim Kolbe, many members of Congress believe that "this war has become enough of a routine that [those in charge of preparing the Pentagon's budget requests] should be able to build it into their annual budgeting and not have to come back to us for supplemental funding of that size." By keeping this funding separate from the regular request, however, the Bush administration obscures the war's impact on the budget and, in the words of Rep. John Spratt, "falsely portrays the bottom line"–"at least in the eyes of the average citizen, who does not pay close enough attention to appreciate what the government is doing.
The Bush administration has made a big show recently of seeking to cut back or eliminate funding for scores of federal programs, and a few weeks ago the Pentagon attempted to get in on this sham by leaking a memorandum that inspired headlines in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that might have caused naive investors in defense companies to lose sleep: "Pentagon Said to Offer Cuts in Billions" proclaimed the Times's headline of December 30, and "Defense Cuts Would Strike Lockheed, Northrop: Contractors Stand to Lose Billions of Dollars in Orders As Pentagon Tightens Belt" warned the Journal's headline on January 4. Insiders, however, must have slept soundly through this make-believe storm, because they had to know that it was all a political farce.
Many of the so-called cuts were slated to take place several years in the future, in what budget planners call the "out" years. For fiscal year 2005 military spending, no cuts whatsoever were proposed. Needless to say, given the political context, not to speak of uncertainties about the course of events in the Middle East and elsewhere, all such long-range "planning" contains a large element of wishful thinking even when advanced seriously. The greater problem in this case, however, is that no such seriousness attached to this litany of cutbacks in the first place.
As Winslow T. Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information wrote recently, the proposed defense cutbacks will be, as insiders always knew they would be, "dead-on-arrival," owing to "pork barrel spenders in Congress [and] narrow-minded and disingenuous civilian and military bureaucrats in the Pentagon. . . .[M]agically, rationales will be found to restore the funding." Indeed, the Pentagon plays this sort of trick every year, normally after conspiring in detail with staffers in Congress and the Office of Management and Budget, who decide in advance who will pretend to seek what, and how much each interested party will actually get in the end. Only the general public takes this mendacious ebb and flow seriously. If, however, even a few voters give the Bush administration credit for at least "trying" to restrain the Pentagon's whopping increases in spending, then this time-honored game of set 'em up and knock 'em down makes political sense. In the end, however, as Wheeler concludes, "The feeble attempt [at cutbacks] will be killed in cold blood and, in Washington, no one will mourn. To the contrary, they will tout their heroism and celebrate their conquests. Only the taxpayer will feel the wound."
In sum, the administration's budget for fiscal year 2006, along with the shenanigans that strategically placed representatives of the military-industrial-congressional complex invariably play, insures that the gravy train of military spending will continue to speed along the track. The taxpayers have no right to complain, however. As the president has made clear, they've already had their opportunity to participate in an "accountability moment," and now, so far as George W. Bush and his lieutenants are concerned, that moment is gone forever.


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Once again thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report for getting us this information. I will be talking with Kevin directly later tonight to get some extra details on all the things we are seeing here so that we will fill in the rest of the gaps. Either way, I think it's clear that for an industry many love to call "dead" there is quite a bit of new content to go around, a little bit more than we've seen in previous years. As always, click on the thumbnails for a full view of the picture.
POST UPDATED – New info below
First off, a little extra detail on two games we've seen get a lot of attention: Guitar Hero and American Idol. In another surprise for Konami's part, their name is also on American Idol and not just GH (there had been a rumor to that effect but it hadn't been confirmed). According to the GH flyer, it will have over 50 songs, 11 playable characters in 8 venues and "Enduro-Ax Industrial Strength Controllers". UPDATE: Apparently the build at the show is only 60-70% complete – the final songlist is not complete and the cabinet will be changed for the final release. Here are what the flyers for the games will look like, just poster size. Also pictured is sort of a close up of the guitars, it sounds like GH has been a major hit at the show. Kevin even got Guitar Hero 3 tattooed onto his arm (fake or not Kevin? :P)
Stern was showing CSI pinball at the show and they also had their Spiderman redemption game there, which we first saw at AMOA. My local distributor tells me that they are expecting to receive a couple of CSI machines within the next few days so I'll get to check it out soon.
Incredible Technologies wasn't showing any product we hadn't heard of before there but they had their full line-up of games running on their new pedestal cabinet that looked nice.
We mentioned Andamiro's NX Absolute yesterday and today we have pictures of it. There were two versions of it there, a standard and deluxe. Not much else on this one though.
Next up, something from Tecway Developments. They are bringing Go Go Jockey to the US which is another game they showed off at the GTI Expo 2008 in Taiwan. This is a horse racing/riding game where you sit on a horse controller. I also believe that the next two pictures are from some redemption product in the Tecway area.
This next game is IGS's answer to Sea Wolf called Battle Stations. It has what looks to be a periscope kind of controller and at least in the picture below it seems like the graphics are pretty nice. The game is polished and even includes boss battles at the end of each level, it also uses a different torpedo system than Sea Wolf does. While IGS generally releases some product to the US through their company American Alpha, this was found at the Smart Industries booth.
We also got two new shots of Trans-Force in action. It reminds me of Galaxian 3 by Namco with the multiplayer space shooter theme. It can house up to six players, each with their own contoller that moves gun turrets around on a space ship. On top of it having great graphics, the game also uses a motion base to enhance the experience further. This is being made by a Russian company who specializes in simulators.


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The new rules released by the Department of Energy last week state that manufacturers will have to increase the energy efficiency of most refrigerators by 25 percent starting in 2014.
The rules, which DOE is expected to finalize by year's end, will reduce the energy use of a typical 20 cubic-foot top mount refrigerator to about 390 kilowatt hours (kwh) per year, down from about 900 kwh/year in 1990 and about 1,700 kwh/year in the early 1970s. (energy.gov)
The new rules are requiring manufacturers to also have ice-maker energy consumption information on the energy-use ratings to give consumers a more accurate gauge of energy consumption with each unit. Refrigerators are one of six categories including freezers, washers, dryers, dishwashers and room air conditioners that were targeted for higher-efficiency standards.
For more information, visit the Department of Energy's homepage.
-Nick E.


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|Allowing Users to mount partitions
By default a UNIX system will allow normal users to unmount partitions. However unless given permission by the superuser, users will not be allowed to mount partitions.
The commands listed below will not work for normal users unless users have permission to mount that device.
If your particular distribution is setup not to allow users to mount partitions its not very hard to change this, simply edit the /etc/fstab file (as root) and:
Mount a device. Attach the device to the file-system hierarchy (the tree ( / )). This needs to be done so you can access the drive (see below, Section 9.1 for an example).
'Unmount' a device. The command umount (no 'n') unmount's a device. It removes it from the file-system hierarchy (the tree ( / )). This needs to be done before you remove a floppy/CDROM or any other removable device (see below, Section 9.1 for an example).
Where "win" would be the place you want it mounted and "wincomp" is the IP address or name of your windows computer.
|Please note
Using ping/smbmount/ssh or other UNIX system programs with a computer name rather than IP address will only work if you have the computer listed in your /etc/hosts file. Here is an example:
smbmount is a tool from the samba package, it can mount a remote windows file-system onto your current computer.
Un-mounting uses the same syntax as 'umount', as listed above, or you may like to use:
smbumount /mountpoint
Here are some more examples of how to mount a file-system:
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom mount -t iso /tmp/image_file /mnt/iso_file/ -o loop
|The -t option
On any system running a newer version of the Linux kernel the -t option is not always necessary and can be left out.
Examples of how to unmount a file-system (necessary before you eject/remove disk):
umount /mount_point
An example unmount point could be "/mnt/floppy" or "/mnt/cdrom"


text: There are many signs that spring is just around the corner, and one of them is the annual Post Community Easter Egg Hunt! The hunt is this Saturday, March 30, at 1:00 p.m. at Red Hawk Elementary, on the Cedar Springs Public Schools campus. It will feature hunts for four different ages, candy, coins and great prizes. The Cedar Springs Fire Department, Keystone Kops, Post staff, and of course, the Easter Bunny, will all be on hand to help with the festivities! Hunt starts promptly at 1 p.m. so don't be late!


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Opinion by The Arrowflinger
When things got too hot for Bill and Hillary Clinton with the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998, they trotted out a time-tested diversion – attack a defenseless made-up "Enemy" to divert public attention away from them! It was a classic Wag the Dog effort, with one bombing made on a Sudanese aspirin factory.
As Election Season 2018 neared, Augusta Radio Talk Show Host Austin Rhodes needed to Wag the Dog, too. With a father in law, later mother in law, who foisted a financially ruinous school bond in Lincoln County to fund an oversized new high school built under one of those nefarious Guaranteed Maximum Price Contracts by RW Allen, approaching property tax revolt proportions, Rhodes must have fretted it would come up. Beyond that, with a daughter employed by Congressman Rick Allen and a brother in law County Engineering Director, with an amusing history of political gamesmanship himself, in the mix of an upcoming hot Columbia County Chairman's race, Austin Rhodes picked an old opponent, former Columbia County Georgia House candidate Joe Mullins, to be his Wag the Dog victim of the hour, minute, week and month. Rhodes went out incessantly for weeks tearing into Mullin's personal life, intruding into a Florida political race Mullins had entered, and basically acting crazy in doing it.
He had to do something to occupy dead air, and too many issues could hit on Friends and Family, while he awaited in the grass to ambush Pam Tucker's race for the Columbia County Chairmanship while heaping glory on the Establishment's choice, first District Commissioner Doug Duncan.
The Columbia County Banking scandal is a NATIONAL STORY because the bank involved was the flagship bank of the American Banking Association (ABA). Another bank, the winning bank and an ABA member itself, got tricked out of getting the business. There was an obvious coverup, and when it was challenged on the air by yours truly in 2014, the Bank ran a whole slew of ads braying, "Doing the RIGHT THING!" Austin and his employer Beasley Broadcast Group must have made a fortune! Just Friday afternoon, Austin Rhodes started his attack on your old arrowflinger in an epic call in, that many wish he would replay.
Says here he doesn't have the guts.
Remember this term out of the Arrowflinger School of Political Theory – DODI. If you are Friends and family of Austin Rhodes, you get a do over. If you are not, you get DONE IN.
All of Austin's politically active, public figure relatives mentioned above are public figures with accessible records. Austin draws financial benefit and security in ways that can, and will, be shown. Over here is an old construction auditor who has heard every insult invented, with a thick hide and quiver full of ideas. Meanwhile, Rhodes attacks aimed this way can, and will, redirect to impact his cronies tenfold.
And for the cronies feeding money and rhetorical "ammunition" for Austin to sling, be very, very careful. What you think is a, "Gotcha Al!" might ricochet into an, "Aiieee… that HURT! … Somebody make it STOP!"
This ain't an illusion. It is the key to many vaults and even more laughs. It is time to laugh and worry about money later.
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"Linda" should have understood your concern, recorded the other customers information that was on the same page, shredded the paper and recorded your information with your account number instead. It wouldn't have been hard for her to do that.
Banks do, however, have lots incentives to keep our personal data safe without the government telling them how to do it. No law, regulation, or government employee is going to keep your information safe. If you don't trust your bank, take your business elsewhere, that is their incentive to making sure you feel safe, which is a much greater incentive than some regulation.


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Dear friends, colleagues, authors and readers of the journal,
Unfortunately, I am addressing you in this capacity and from this website for the last time. After long discussions and many painful thoughts, we have made a decision that the journal should be closed. This is not an easy decision to make but it feels that at this point it is the only right one.
Twenty-five journal issues is a lot, and at the same time it is not much at all, of course, depending on your point of view. Still, we can only hope that through the journal we have managed to bring attention to a number of critical and undeveloped issues in education in the United States and Russia. Since everything remains online and free, you will have a chance to continue reading and perhaps finding some new ideas and inspirations there.
In conclusion, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to each and everyone who made this journal happen for nine years – our authors and readers, members of the Editorial Board and reviewers – without you we would have never succeeded and gained an audience from over 140 countries. Special thanks go to the journal web designer Alex Minakov whose skills and patience were exceptional. Thank you so much! It has been my honor and privilege to serve you all!
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Naming for Dollars
The New York Botanical Garden features the Con Edison Pond Gallery, the Texaco Kids and the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail. The new baseball stadium for the minor-league Brooklyn Cyclones is named after the local energy company, Keyspan (formerly Brooklyn Union Gas). The Children's Museum of Manhattan includes the Time-Warner Media Center. Two theaters on 42nd Street were renamed the American Airlines Theater and the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, and a third theater, the Winter Garden, former home to "Cats," current home of "Mamma Mia," is about to be renamed the Cadillac Winter Garden Theater. So when Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested recently that the city's parks could be named after corporate sponsors as a way of helping to pay for their upkeep, it was a logical extension of a trend, begun with stadiums and now being adopted by non-profit institutions, to trade the rights to a name for corporate dollars.
In suggesting that parks be named for corporate donors, the mayor acknowledged the success of public-private partnerships in helping to fix up and maintain the city's parks over the last few decades. And he was no doubt aware of how much money the owners of stadiums and theaters and other facilities have raised by selling naming rights. While the mayor mentioned only parks, his idea could be extended to schools, libraries, subway stations, streets.
With the city facing a multibillion dollar budget shortfall and parks slated for their lowest budget in 10 years, some parks advocates welcome the private sector's involvement in parks and would not be opposed to giving naming rights to corporate donors. But other New Yorkers think such deals, no matter how much money they bring in, are a bad bargain. A letter to the mayor signed by 27 scholars and other prominent New Yorkers said, "to rename the parks for corporations would be literally to sell the city - its heart and soul - for money."
Naming Rites
The selling of corporate naming rights, which began in earnest with sports stadiums in the late 1980s, has become something of a mania. A couple even tried to auction off the naming rights to their newborn child (there were no takers). Nearly half of the nation's major sports arenas now bear the names of corporations, and corporate names are increasingly common in minor league and even college and town playing fields. The practice has spread to convention centers, malls, airports, hospitals, theaters, and museums. The Smithsonian Institution recently named the theater in its National Air and Space Museum after the Lockheed Martin Corporation, which donated $10 million to the museum.
Renaming long has been a preoccupation in New York City. So much time is taken up at the City Council to renaming streets - according to one estimate, about two-thirds of all council bills! - that Councilmember James Oddo has proposed "taking the City Council out of the 'name change game,'" and turning it over to community boards.
But New York City has only recently begun to warm to the national trend of trading names for money.
The amounts of money involved can be substantial. The record so far is the price tag of $300 million ($10 million a year for 30 years) for adding the corporate name "Reliant" to five arenas in a Houston complex that includes the stadium for the Houston Texans. More modest is the $5 million gift for the new building of Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum, which becomes the "Please Touch Museum Presented by McDonald's."
It is clear what the corporations get out of this. Keyspan Energy Services put its name on the new stadium on Coney Island (for an undisclosed sum) to invest in an area that it serves, according to spokesman Robert Mahony. But, Mahony conceded, the company was able to justify the investment to its shareholders because of the advertising return. "It was an excellent opportunity to associate the name of the company with Brooklyn, with the New York Mets, and with bringing baseball back to Brooklyn."
And stadium deals offer a company more than just publicity and marketing value. Corporations attaching their names to stadiums typically get free tickets, luxury suites, parking privileges, and sometimes the opportunity to sell their products at the stadium.
Cities are starting to consider the idea of selling naming rights to municipal facilities, although the rewards are lower and the risk of backlash higher than for more commercial sites. There have been suggestions in various places to offer naming rights for subway stations, school buildings or highways, but Mayor Bloomberg appears to be the first to promote the idea for parks.
There are many successful examples of other types of business support for parks. The National Park Foundation has five major corporate "partners" that have made "multi-million dollar, multi-year contributions" to the national parks, according to foundation spokesman Mike Bento. Detailed guidelines, issued by the parks service, limit how donors can be recognized. For example, permanent signage and naming are not allowed. "What's been proven is that you can get corporations involved without sacrificing the very special nature of the parks," Bento said.
Corporations also sponsor events and programs at municipal parks all over the country. For example, Pathmark and M&M covered the cost of the Easter Eggstravaganza held recently in Central Park. Typically, the identification of the corporate donor is low-key, and sponsors often have a logical tie-in to the event or program.
The city parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, has said he would like to take existing corporate partnerships a step further by offering naming rights in exchange for the construction and maintenance of a facility. Although the proposal has not gone farther than the concept stage, said department spokeswoman Jane Rudolph, "the goal is not to make Central Park change its name. The goal is to take specific facilities or a special garden like the Heather Garden in Fort Tryon Park and possibly give it a sponsorship."
Another facility that has been mentioned for corporate support is the track and field complex being built on Randalls Island.
The most concrete plan put forth by the Bloomberg administration is to sell advertising space within city recreation facilities. For example, a corporation may pay to have its billboard displayed on the walls of an indoor basketball court.
Any corporate identification would be tasteful and low-key, said Rudolph. "Nobody at parks is going to turn any facility into a corporate name with huge flashing signs," she said.
Private Names = Less Public Funding?
Whether handled tactfully or otherwise, the idea of selling the naming rights to parks raises a number of questions.
A major pitfall of corporate naming for public spaces like parks is that it tends to erode the government's obligation to fund what are traditionally public services, according to Jerold Kayden, associate professor of urban planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design. "It decreases the necessity of public funding in ways that can have an ultimately corrosive effect on lots of public activities," he said. "It leads us to abandon, step by step by step, down a slippery slope, a commitment of public tax dollars to certain things that are not deemed high priorities."
Yet the public and the government have little control over how long the private support will continue, as the cultural institutions in Houston so painfully learned when a bankrupt Enron couldn't come through with promised donations. If the private sector pulls out, it can be a struggle to get the city to restore former levels of funding.
Also, would corporate donations help the parks that are most in need -- small parks in poor neighborhoods in the outer boroughs? The parks department could try to direct corporate gifts to those areas or earmark a percentage of the donation to the entire system, but the project would ultimately depend on what a corporation is interested in funding, and corporations would probably be interested in high-profile, popular spots.
In New York City, private funds may have already contributed to the decline of public funding for parks. A concerted effort by private donors and volunteers helped turn around Central Park, and then other parks in the city. Yet even when the city's budget was flush during the 1990s, New York continued to trim the parks department budget and encourage the department to raise a greater share from private donors and concessions.
What's in a Name?
Many buildings and public spaces - hospitals, theaters, plazas, gardens - are named for philanthropists who donated money for their construction or renovation: in Central Park, for example, there are the Delacorte Theater and the Wollman Rink. How is this different from naming a public space after a donor that happens to be a business?
Critics see many differences. These public places have been named for individuals being honored for their generosity, public service, or importance to history - not as a quid-pro-quo with profit-making companies.
"It's the sale of New York's great heritage to some corporate donor, which is sad and unfortunate," said Gary Ruskin, the executive director of Commercial Alert, a non-profit organization founded by Ralph Nader to oppose commercialism. "Across the country, a wave of sponsorships is turning municipalities into marketing agents," he said, arguing that it is not the proper role of cities to promote corporations that pollute, sell unhealthy products, or exploit low-earning workers overseas.
Cigarette and liquor companies, as well as businesses involved in disputes or selling controversial products, would probably be off limits. But to Ruskin the concept of putting any corporate name on parks in particular poses problems. "These parks exist to give people a respite from the aggressive hawking of products and huckstering that we are all subject to on a minute-to-minute basis in our society," he said. "Naming rights defeats that worthy purpose."
Similar concerns led the people of Boston to block a plan to sell the naming rights to four of the busiest stations in their subway system. As one reader wrote in The Boston Globe, "Post a bond or raise taxes, but please do not make us say the names of corporations when we describe where we go."
But maybe corporations should keep out of this name game simply for their own good. Several commentators have detected a "naming rights curse." A number of firms that placed their names on stadiums soon saw their stock drop or even went bankrupt. (A web site tracks the stock prices of companies that purchased naming rights to sports arenas). The list of bankrupt sponsors includes PSINet, TWA, Pro Player and, most notoriously, Enron. Earlier this year, after Enron fell into disgrace, the Houston Astros bought back the naming rights, and changed Enron Field back to Astro Field - until the team can find another corporation willing to spend millions of dollars a year to put its name on the ballpark.


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Harrison scores 14, Tulsa downs Rice 64-51
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Shaquille Harrison had 14 points and eight rebounds and Tulsa scored the final 13 points of the game to defeat Rice 64-51 Saturday night.
Pat Swilling Jr. added 12 points and Kauri Black had 10 for the Golden Hurricane (10-7, 2-1 Conference USA), who shot 53 percent from the field and outrebounded the Owls 36-21.
Tamir Jackson led Rice (3-12, 0-2) with 14 points, and Seth Gearhart had 12.
The game was tied 51-51 after Rice's Max Guercy hit a layup with 4:49 remaining. Tulsa scored on its next three possessions, getting two free throws from Scottie Haralson, a dunk by Harrison and a layup from Black to go ahead for good.
Rice committed four turnovers and missed all four of its shots after Guercy's layup, while Tulsa closed it out by making 7 of 8 free throws in the final five minutes.


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Identify This Panel... Take 5!
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Not only am I not obsessive enough to ever win this game, but I have never been an X-Men or New Mutants fan so my answer is... no clue!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMay 22, 2013 at 1:12 AM
Gaaah! Can't remember the exact issue, but it's New Mutants somewhere around issue number #15. I believe the panel pertains to the students going to the White Queen's Massachusetts Academy, and I believe that was around Secret Wars. Or I could be off base.... :)ReplyDelete
Nope, the Professor had already been replaced by Magneto at that point. It's a tricky one, considering this panel didn't appear in an actual X-men comic, but in the Firestar limited series by Tom DeFalco. I'd say issue # 3?ReplyDelete
- DamienMay 22, 2013 at 7:12 AM
It's definitely from Firestar and obviously from the one issue that was inked by Bob Wiacek, which I think was number 3.ReplyDelete
Hey Jef, you are correct! It did happen in the spin-off Firestar limited series by Tom DeFalco and Mary Wilshire. This issue also has a great cover by Art Adams inked by Bill Sienkiewicz for the first and only time!ReplyDelete
Jason, a suggestion: why don't you do a post with the right answer instead of putting it on the comments? It would be better for people like me, who follow your blog on RSS readers...ReplyDelete
And congrats for your awesome blog!
There was one other Art Adams/Billy the Sink team up: New Mutants #39... http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/newmutants/newmutants39.jpgReplyDelete
- DamienMay 22, 2013 at 9:06 AM
There is also an issue of New Mutants with an Adams/Sienkiewicz cover. It's the one with the White Queen holding up the New Mutants. In the Art Adams Modern Masters book he reveals that the White Queen's boobs are drawn by Mike Mignola.ReplyDelete
Hey Otavio, I like to put the answer in the comments as that give the folks who read this blog entry later a fair chance to guess.ReplyDelete
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Rival retailers say they are ready to step up as the credit crisis at GAME Group deepens.
But these competitors are not celebrating, with leading outlets fearful of what the loss of their 'gold-standard market leader' will mean for the future of UK games retail.
Retailers such as ShopTo have ramped up their PR and marketing efforts to win customers during a situation that has seen big games – such as Mass Effect 3 – not appear on GAME shelves.
We've seen a dramatic increase in our market share in the past week and started an extensive TV and Underground marketing campaign around titles unavailable from GAME stores," said ShopTo chief Igor Cipolletta.
Although we are extremely pleased about the jump in market share, and the ability to dispatch over 2m worth of games last week, we are extremely concerned about the effects the GAME situation will have in the long term for the games industry."
John Lewis' games buyer Robert Hennessy added: With the shift to online of both physical product and download, and the price-led competition in the sector, it's no surprise profitability is becoming an issue, and that retailers are struggling to pay the bills.
Long term the format holders and software producers need to find ways of driving value back into the category, to protect its long term viability, if they want to retain retail support.
The John Lewis business model has good High street stores allied with a strong online business, and could help fill any potential gap in the market as long as the commercials work."
EA CEO John Riccitiello said last week that GAME's rivals will absorb that business". And that has certainly appeared to be the case, with Mass Effect 3 beating the previous two titles in the series last week, despite not being stocked by GAME Group.
GAME could still survive. The Group is currently attracting OpCapita, Wal-Mart and GameStop. Although it is likely the retailer will look very differently if an acquisition does materialise.
We launched Mass Effect 3 at a competitive price at midnight before the majority of retailers, and we have seen great sales as a result," said Asda's head of games Andrew Thompson.
We will continue to make sure Asda is the top destination for enthusiasts for future releases."
HMV communications head Gennaro Castaldo added: We are working hard on our own advertising, PR and promotional activities, including specially-built product zones on hmv.com, to send a positive message out to consumers so they know we have these titles in stock, and to highlight special deals we may be offering."
Gerry Butler, Blockbuster's Europe SVP and commercial director for UK, said: The challenges that the video games market faces are a reminder to us all we have to keep working with publisher partners to deliver content in the way gamers want, at a price they're prepared to pay."
The Hut Group – which owns Zavvi.com – also says it is driving forwards despite the concerns about the market. "Our focus remains on our customers and partners, and this dedication will continue. Zavvi.com has strived to build relationships with both our customers and key suppliers to ensure the best possible experience, service and product," said head of business development Sarah Jasper.


text: Bromium has upgraded its security platform vSentry, which uses virtualization to isolate malicious code, to protect virtual desktops and old Windows XP PCs. The vSentry platform is powered by Bromium's so-called Microvisor, which isolates vulnerable Windows tasks in a specifically tailored virtual machine that can't modify Windows or gain access to enterprise data or network infrastructure. Bromium can isolate, for example, a browser tab.Consequently, any malicious code in the virtual machine is prevented from doing whatever harm it was designed for and all the while the user experience remains unchanged, according to Simon Crosby, CTO at Bromium."The system becomes naturally immune against infections from even undetectable malware, which then gets automatically discarded," Crosby said.The first iteration of vSentry was compatible with desktops running the 64-bit version of Windows 7, and started shipping in September.Version 1.1 of vSentry also protects the 32-bit version of Windows 7 as well as virtual desktops delivered using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services, XenDesktop from Citrix Systems, or VMware's View, according to Bromium.Virtual desktops are vulnerable to exactly the same attacks as native PCs, according to Crosby.Bromium's technology is made possible thanks to the hardware-based virtualization technology Intel integrates in its processors, but that also means it won't work on older PCs.To address that, Bromium has adopted its technology so it can be used to protect machines running Windows XP, as well. It does that by running all untrusted activities on a server using Remote Desktop Services.However, even if the company can now protect Windows XP machines, it still advises enterprises to upgrade their desktops to a more modern version of Windows."People should be getting off XP, because it is much more vulnerable than Windows 7 or Windows 8. There is no reason to be hanging on to it," Crosby said.Version 1.1 of vSentry also includes Live Attack Visualization and Analysis (LAVA), a feature that was previously included in beta form, but is now generally available.Today, enterprises lack accurate information about what is happening on their desktops, but Bromium is hoping to change that, according to Crosby.The narrow scope of the code running in any one of Bromium's tiny hypervisors makes analyzing what's happening in it much easier, and LAVA takes advantage of that to create signatures of attacks."It automatically produces all the forensic information that a security team might want to see to be able to reconstruct an attack, and understand how a hacker tried to compromise the system," Crosby said.The data from LAVA is presented using XML, and can be fed into a security information management system.Also, like any new vendor in the post-PC era, Bromium has plans for other operating systems besides Windows."Next year we will have a product for Mac OS, and we are also working on a products for Android, Windows 8 and so on," Crosby said.Avid followers of the virtualization sector may recognize Crosby's name. Prior to co-founding Bromium he helped start virtualization pioneer XenSource, which was acquired by Citrix in 2007. Crosby then was CTO for Citrix's Virtualization and Management division.XenSource co-founder Ian Pratt is also a co-founder at Bromium, where his title is senior vice president, products. Bromium's third co-founder, CEO Gaurav Banga, previously worked at Phoenix Technologies.Send news tips and comments to firstname.lastname@example.com


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With Digital Technologies, Can School Libraries Help Transform Learning?
Educators in the Pittsburgh suburb of Elizabeth say yes. Modeled after YOUmedia, and informed by new research about how kids learn today, an innovative digital space for teens opens at Elizabeth Forward High School.
This isn't your mom's high school library.
At the Elizabeth Forward High School library in Elizabeth, PA, beanbag chairs have replaced study carrels, computers are everywhere, and instead of a cranky librarian telling kids to be quiet, there's a new music studio. Welcome to the new EF Media Center.
The effort is part of a growing movement in Pittsburgh and around the country by educators to use digital technologies to create more opportunities for experiential, hands-on learning, based on new research about how young people learn today. The goal is to harness the power of interest-driven learning coupled with digital media and create an environment that offers mentors and guidance to help students make connections between what they're tinkering around with and what they learn in the classroom.
"Libraries aren't a place to be silent anymore," says Mary Beth Wiseman, Director of Technology for Elizabeth Forward School District. "They're a place to get together and share ideas."
In addition to the many books available to high school students at the new EF Media Center, students can grab a coffee or snack at the new café, discuss a project with friends, check out laptops or digital video cameras, or spend time editing an original video project or new music piece using state-of-the-art video and audio editing equipment.
The new library was inspired by YOUmedia, a digital space for teens that started at the Chicago Public Library and is now expanding with the help of the MacArthur Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services to museums, libraries, and schools around the country. The EF Media Center is the first such space to be housed in a public school.
Elizabeth Forward is one of several schools in Pittsburgh that are on the cutting edge of using technologies to encourage innovations in learning and teaching and to help students thrive in the global, digital workplace of the future.
Kids learn best when they're following their passions, collaborating with others, and creating—instead of passively consuming—media products, according to research studies such as one by University of California–Irvine cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. Her study of 700 young people identified the progressive stages of informal learning as "hanging out," "messing around," and "geeking out"—ideas that are informing the design of the new library spaces. In Chicago, for example, the library offers teens the chance to just hang out and socialize, but also a section stocked with computers, games, and digital tools where they can mess around and dip their toe in. Once their interest is piqued, they can "geek out" in workshops led by artists and other professionals serving as mentors.
At Elizabeth Forward, students will be able to use these new technologies on their own or with friends to explore interests, create, and connect what they doing on their own back to what's happening in the classroom. The school's faculty will also spend class time in the library, so students can use the new video and audio studio for class projects. The school plans to offer a new music production program in partnership with Hip Hop on L.O.C.K, a mentoring and arts education program in the greater Pittsburgh region that teaches students how to record and produce their own music, and there is talk of collaborating with a local radio station.
Elizabeth Forward also hosts a Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab, known as SMALLab Learning, a mixed-reality platform developed at the University of Arizona. With Wii-like technology, SMALLLab uses a ceiling-mounted projector, motion-sensor cameras, and a computer to create a kinesthetic learning environment to teach academic concepts. Students can physically move molecules together to watch their reaction or map a graph by pacing out the points on a mat. SMALLLab brings sometimes abstract concepts to life. The school has also partnered with the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the online learning platform Zulama to teach game design with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math.
Stay tuned for more on this ongoing work at Elizabeth Forward and other schools in the region in the coming months.
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This website is devoted to two French regions: Poitou Charentes and Vendée. We have travelled extensively in this delightful part of France so we know what interests other visitors. Amongst the attractions are the fabulous sandy beaches, the landscape in from the coast, the colourful history of the region, especially the Charente-Maritime and Vendée, and of course the superb local food and wine. We also cover accommodation and 'must-see' attractions.
We take a look in detail at many towns such as La Rochelle, Saintes, Angoulème, Niort, Cognac, Rochefort, Parthenay and Fontenay-le-Comte along with the superb islands just off the coast such as the Île de Ré, (above centre).
The Poitou Charentes and Vendée areas have many medieval towns and beautiful medieval castles, churches and ruins within them. La Rochelle (right) has a magnificent architectural heritage, as well as being a thriving port with a long history of trading. In the Charente can be found the valley of the Seugne which borders the Dordogne area and features many Romanesque churches.
The vineyards of Cognac cover an area of around 200,000 acres and are centred around the town of the same name. The combination of the soil, the sun and the proximity to the sea give cognac brandy its special taste.
There really is a wealth of choices for places to visit and things to do in The Poitou Charentes and Vendée regions. We hope you will find the information in this site of interest and that you will enjoy your visit to this wonderful part of SW France. Please also check out our You Tube Channel and our Pinterest Page.


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A "value discovery" platform for blockchain and cryptocurrencies, aided by a unique AI algorithm, plans to help investors make the best choices available to them in real-time, whilst avoiding dangerous mistakes. Beenews (BKBT) is based on Meta-graph Chain, a public blockchain system which includes the smart contract system.
The team says that currently there are four issues for traders looking for crypto value information: the high rate of forged projects − claimed to be 90 percent − resulting in false estimates, the lack of media neutrality which can result in misleading advice, the lack of "effective evaluation systems" for projects to be objectively assessed, and the bias of blockchain skewing evaluations, through high entry barriers and lack of understanding for casual traders.
Their white paper sets out company's visions of being "dedicated to becoming the largest value discovery platform for blockchain and digital currencies in the world, to helping users discover the value depression and avoid investment pitfalls, and to driving the healthy development of the blockchain ecology." In addition to this mission statement, they add that the Meta-graph Chain could be considered for use in the public blockchain for data sourcing based on blockchain technologies, meaning that it could potentially "form the tracking evaluation system for global digital assets."
In addressing these industry shortcomings, BKBT have outlined what sets them apart from other news outlets, claiming that they deliver information to investors in "an intelligent way", including the use of a "Digital Currency Knowledge Graph", and a "convenient information exchange channel." Users of the BKBT platform can customize the information that they receive based on their personal preference data, risk types and attention fields, in order to only obtain information relevant to their individual trading. The knowledge graph, based on mass data processing and a deep learning algorithm, will process data from a number of sources including blockchain, various trading platforms, information of "team creditworthiness", market assessment, and search popularity on a daily basis. It can then quantify this data to produce knowledge graphs and CV-Ranks to directly indicate the fluctuation status of digital currencies. This CV-Rank information is anchored in the blockchain and forms the Growth Track Index (GTI). This distributed storage prevents data loss, with even the CV-Rank and GTI owners unable to edit the data, ensuring reliability and complete data sets.
Furthermore, the graph will clearly outline the interaction between key opinion leaders and more casual investors, improving information communication and aiding with decision making. BKBT also claims to have access to information about accurate target-users business, and thus can aid external developers and marketers.
The company also introduced the BKBT-Token. Platform participants can earn the token in a variety of ways, such as long-term viewing of content, content contribution, being active members of the platform community, and inviting friends and colleagues to join the platform. If users produce particularly high quality content there could be an opportunity to earn even more tokens. The total distribution of BKBT tokens will be 10 bln, with 40 percent already released in the pre-sale.
In recent news, BKBT announced a company valuation of around $200 mln, following a $20 mln A-round funding boost. It is claimed that this is the largest A-round funding "in the history of the blockchain media industry" and was reportedly achieved after one two-hour long meeting. The investment came from JRR Crypto, part of the world's leading distributed investment banking group, JRR Crypto. A recent press release stated that "As JRR Crypto's industrial fund, JRR Capital focuses on the investment and ecological construction of high-quality blockchain projects around the world."
In terms of product development, the team hope to complete their 'Content Creative' platform and launch Beenews 2.0 by July 2018, with optimization of functional models by September 2018. In addition to the aformentioned JRR Crypto, other notable early investors in BKBT include BKFUND, Waterdrip Capital and BetterFriend Fund. The platform is already available to download on Android or iOS devices.
Disclaimer. Cointelegraph does not endorse any content or product on this page. While we aim at providing you all important information that we could obtain, readers should do their own research before taking any actions related to the company and carry full responsibility for their decisions, nor this article can be considered as an investment advice.


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Senior leadership teams expect ecosystems to be central to unlocking significant growth and new digital revenue in the future. However, our research shows that just a handful of organizations are going to realize their ambitions. Most are still trying to address the future with the mindset and the tools of yesterday. Not enough is being done to seize the opportunity, with the paradox being that many are 'talking the talk' but few are 'walking the walk'. Drawing on our unique ecosystem diagnostic, we provide industry-specific insights on how companies can accelerate ecosystem progress and turn their high ambitions into concrete results.
Organizations are mistakenly trying to achieve new growth aims by essentially doing the same thing they always were, but expecting things to be different this time.
In our previous report, Re-thinking the European Business Model Portfolio for the Digital Age, we spelt out why many companies will miss out on their digital growth ambitions.1 With many focused on incremental operational improvement, they miss the opportunity to create new and more compelling products and services, backed by an attractive new business model that maximizes value to the end customer.
In this follow-up report, we take a close look at the central role that effective ecosystem management plays in companies achieving their digital growth ambitions. New digital business models require the connectivity and collaboration provided by ecosystems to create sophisticated products and services that competitors cannot copy. However, simply bolting on ecosystems to an existing business model will not accomplish the digital business growth that organizations are aspiring to.
BearingPoint defines an effective ecosystem as an open, multi-sided collaboration between different parties. These parties can include the internal units of an organization, current and future business partners and customers. All parties will receive value in an effective ecosystem and the roles can evolve over time. An effective ecosystem will enable an exchange of ideas/products/services or information in an iterative fashion. It will include operational processes and tools that benefit all parties and contribute to overall customer experience. Effective ecosystems can generate new ideas, drive innovation, and expand product and services offerings leading to revenue growth and increased reach to new and existing customers.
This tendency to take a bolt-on approach is one reason why a gaping chasm exists between leaders' ambitions and their willingness to take the actions to deliver. This chasm is the heart of the ecosystem paradox. As we have seen, companies have high hopes for their ecosystems, with over two-thirds of senior executives (67%) saying that they expect ecosystems to help their organization grow its revenue by between 11% and 25% over the next two years.2 However, many organizations will not achieve this ambitious goal and are failing to harness ecosystems' considerable power. Examples of companies who have taken this bolt-on approach are too numerous to mention.
However, our research indicates that some organizations are starting to think outside the box completely. One example is Maersk, the world's largest container shipping line, that has teamed up with Alibaba, owner of China's largest e-commerce platform, to allow customers to reserve space on its vessels via Alibaba's OneTouch booking website, illustrating growing cooperation between e-commerce and logistics firms. They are able to offer many digital services to customers while at the same time creating a launchpad for building, partnering and investing in the future stars of trade.7
Business model reinvention and digital business growth depends on effective ecosystem management that maximizes value for the end customer. However, the pursuit of this goal is being undermined, for a number of reasons:
Many mid-sized European organizations are challenging the status quo to achieve new growth potential. Industrie 4.0 originated as a German governmental initiative, aimed at combining digitalization, regional and industry components. This initiative, now being adopted in other countries, has spurred significant innovation. Mid-sized organizations such as Kärcher have leveraged sensors in many of their products to be more ecologically-efficient and to introduce new types of services.3
Another example is The Schaeffler Group, a global automotive and industrial supplier. Schaeffler has taken full advantage of digitalization and created innovative new products and solutions for the automotive industry..4
To address these issues, we recommend that company leaders:
To guide organizations as they tackle these issues, in the following section we outline a unique diagnostic tool that assesses how organizations are progressing in terms of effective ecosystem management.
Platform owners fail to get their orchestrator role right, where their role is to maximize value for all participants (on all sides) – for producers, providers and customers – as distinct from maximizing value for themselves.
To understand how advanced organizations are in leveraging ecosystems to innovate their business models, we developed a diagnostic tool that assesses ecosystem progress against a number of dimensions (see Figure 1):
Figure 1: Ecosystem Intelligence: BearingPoint ecosystem diagnostic
Source: BearingPoint analysis based on Ecosystem survey, 2018
Our diagnostic shows that advanced ecosystem progress is rare. None of the sectors in our survey achieve the leadership position that is the result of strong progress against all dimensions (see Figure 2).5 Execution of effective ecosystems management is faltering. While many organizations have made progress in terms of the first phase – defining their ecosystem strategy – we see significantly less progress in terms of execution and ecosystem deployment, particularly in terms of the IT investment required.
Figure 2: No sector displays the ecosystem leadership to dominate their segment
Source: BearingPoint analysis based on Ecosystem survey, 2018
Of course, the six industries in our diagnostic will contain ecosystem leaders. For example, the automotive industry contains high-profile ecosystem and market leaders, such as Tesla. This is because this electric car pioneer has a strong champion and owner at the helm who drives the leadership vision for change down through the organization. As an average, however, most still have some way to go and areas where they need to improve, either in terms of strategy or execution/enablers. In terms of what is undermining organizations' efforts, we would highlight the following reasons:
To address these issues, we recommend that company leaders:
Resolving these issues is a matter of urgency. In the last section, we look in more detail at the performance of our key sectors, so that organizations can begin to build a picture of the key issues to be addressed.
In today's business environment, the traditional barriers that separated companies from each other can now be opportunities to create effective ecosystems leading to new opportunities. Ecosystem intelligence will be vital for innovating business models and create compelling products and services that lead to increased customer satisfaction.
In summary, the most important way to innovate business models is to gain closer understanding and insights from the customer and use this insight to drive product and service innovation. It involves integrating and synthesizing all the internal silos in an organization and to leverage an effective ecosystem that focuses on solving genuine customer problems while anticipating their future needs and desires. One objective is frictionless execution to satisfy customers. Another objective is to create a scalable operating model that leverages an effective ecosystem with a very low cost of experimentation. The ultimate goal is to own the customer relationship and to be the chosen provider with products and services that cannot be easily replicated.
CEOs who want new revenue streams and stronger digital business growth should:
COOs who support the CEO's vision and expectations for digital growth should:
CIOs who leverage technology to support effective ecosystems should:
It is clear that in every industry – just as there are market leaders, fast followers and more cautious adopters lagging the pack – there will be clear ecosystem leaders who are moving ahead. Likewise, some industries are moving faster, opening the opportunity to learn from their experience.
For this reason, we have assessed the performance of each sector in turn.
Please find attached an analysis and examples for the following industries: Insurance, Transport, Telcos, Automotive, Banks and Tech&IT
We surveyed 525 C-level executives from a spectrum of roles: business, technology/IT, and finance. Representing five industries – Telco & Media, IT/Tech , Automotive, Transport, Banking, and Insurance – they were drawn from across the US, Singapore, the UK, France and Germany.
Julie Short, Natalia Danon-Boileau, Michal Harris, Tanja Schwarz
The authors would like to thank, Tanja Schwarz from the BearingPoint Institute and Angélique Tourneux at BearingPoint.


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Soup is one of those simple comfort foods that conjure pleasant childhood memories, like watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" on a Sunday evening while eating a bowl of Campbell's tomato soup with a grilled-cheese sandwich.
Soup, sandwich and Disney are intertwined and imbedded in the recesses of my mind, if not my heart. In fact, an old advertising jingle by Campbell's Soup still warms my soul. I can hear that motherly voice singing, "Soup is good food." I grew up eating gallons of Campbell's soup, not only tomato but chicken noodle, bean with bacon and vegetable beef.
As much as I still enjoy those canned soups, I especially love a bowl of homemade soup. It's a mere technicality, I suppose, as to when a soup becomes a chowder or stew. I think it mostly has to do with the amount of broth.
Typically, chicken and dumplings is more of a stew than a soup, but Jackson's Big Oak BBQ in Wilmington, N.C., serves a bowl of chicken and dumplings with enough extra broth to make it count as a soup. It is, by the way, the best I've ever had, and that includes the chicken and dumplings at Cracker Barrel, which is renowned for some great homemade soups.
I also love a bowl of New England-style clam chowder and especially she-crab soup. The very best crab soup or stew I've had can be found at Uncle Bubba's Seafood & Oyster House off Bryan Woods Road and Highway 80 East on Wilmington Island. There's also the offering at MacElwees Seafood Restaurant on Tybee Island. Both offer huge chunks of crab swimming in a thick, creamy broth that's seasoned with onions, garlic, a touch of sherry and a variety of spices.
Two soups I've made at home both make use of something many families give to Rufus, their 100-pound Labrador-Rottweiler. When you finish with that spiral ham or smoked pork shoulder, save that bone to make soup. It's too big for your pug and probably will prompt Rufus to dig up your flower garden to bury it among your gardenias.
The two soups I like to make are a three-bean soup and a vegetable-beef soup. Both make use of a ham bone for added flavor. Both recipes are simple, so I'll list them one after the other.
Three-bean soup
1 pound chopped chunks of ham
1/2 bag dried Northern beans
1/2 bag dried navy beans
1/2 bag dried baby lima beans
2 large, chopped onions
1 teaspoon minced garlic
2 celery stalks, finely chopped
3 or 4 cans chicken broth
1 ham bone
Wash and then soak beans together overnight in a large bowl. Begin soup by sautéing onions, garlic and celery in a little canola oil.
Add chicken broth, and then beans, ham chunks and ham bone.
Bring soup to a boil, and then allow it to simmer for at least three hours. Stir often.
Add more water or chicken broth if needed. Salt and pepper to taste.
Vegetable-beef soup
1 pound stew beef
2 large, chopped onions
2 celery stalks, finely chopped
2 large carrots, finely chopped
1 teaspoon minced garlic
3 cans chicken broth
2 cans diced tomatoes
1 ham bone
4 potatoes, chopped
1/2 small bag frozen butter beans
1/2 small bag frozen green beans
1/2 small bag frozen yellow corn
1 small bag frozen okra
Brown beef and fresh veggies (except potatoes) in a little canola oil, and then add canned tomatoes, chicken broth and ham bone.
Bring to a simmer then add fresh potatoes and frozen veggies. I prefer frozen vegetables to canned because they have fewer preservatives. If you like, add the other half bag of your favorite vegetable. I like extra butter beans.
Bring soup to a boil and allow it to simmer for three hours. Stir often.
Add more chicken broth if needed. Salt and pepper to taste.
Soup is one of those simple comfort foods that conjure pleasant childhood memories, like watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" on a Sunday evening while eating a bowl of Campbell's tomato soup with a grilled-cheese sandwich.


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Bilal Fadl's latest book has an attractive title and a laudable ambition. The irresistibly named The Original Inhabitants of Egypt: Stories about the Genius of the Place, the Idiocy of the Rulers, and the Indifference of the People (2009) promises to "narrate what I have seen and experienced of those human beings whom no one cares about, who harbour all the contradictions in the world and live in hope for a better fate in the afterlife." Fadl has the credibility to pull this off. He was born into the category of Original Inhabitant of Egypt in 1974, his clever term for Egyptians who are neither rich nor middle class, but somewhere in the vast space beneath, what we alternately call lower-middle class, lower class, underclass, the marginalized, or the horrid "simple folk" (البسطاء). But despite his impeccable street cred, quick wit, and genuine affection for those he's writing about, Fadl's book falls flat. Unintentionally, it ends up being a condescending, forgettable series of ruminations about the woes of the little people.
Fadl is refreshingly honest about his "crossing over" to become part of the minority elite category, what he acidly calls The Inhabitants who Benefit from Egypt. He's also frank about the irony that his embourgeoisement derives directly from his success at depicting the little people on screen. Fadl is now one of the most prominent screenwriters in Egypt, a trendsetter in the genre of 'youth films' and 'shaabi films', or rather, films featuring over-the-top, stereotypical lower class characters (with the outstanding exception of Wahed min al-Naas, 2006). Before that, he was a leading member of the feisty al-Destour team in its first incarnation (1995-1998), and he continues to be an editor at al-Destour. Indeed, Fadl made his name as an up and coming young practitioner of the Ibrahim Eissa school of journalism, a style characterized by pungent, 'ammiya-laced prose; unambiguous and uninhibited criticism of rulers and their abuses; and plenty of hilarity to enliven the writing.
Not surprisingly given his current métier, the 29 essays in The Original Inhabitants of Egypt feature several stereotypical lower-class characters who the author presumably interacts with and then reports back to us readers. Inevitably, these caricatures speak in down-home, salty street argot, have wacky names and oh-so-eccentric habits, revel in conspiracy theories, and hold firm to the view that both the government and the opposition are welad kalb. Notwithstanding this unassailable last opinion, Fadl's Original Inhabitants end up being extremely contrived, two-dimensional archetypes who we're made to laugh at, not empathise with. They're appendages of his middle class life, not real human beings with interests, foibles, and aspirations. Fadl regales us to "conversations" with the newspaper seller; his housekeeper Um Hind, who likes to call herself a "housekeeping manager" and yells at the TV screen when Hosni Mubarak is giving a speech (we're supposed to chuckle on cue here); the fuul cart vendor, the makwagi, the bawaab, his friend's chauffeur, unemployed patrons of a shaabi ahwa, and on and on down a list of stock figures from the underclass.
Instead of conveying Original Inhabitants' work conditions or their emotional lives or simply straightforwardly narrating their experience of living a dispossessed life, Fadl parades before us a cast of made-for-TV stereotypes that we're supposed to feel pity for. I understand that he wants to neither romanticise nor demonise Egypt's denizens, a laudable aspiration, but surely there's a better alternative than the mediocre stuff he's penned here.
And an alternative there is, right in the same book. In a handful of essays, Fadl absolutely shines as a narrator and observer. These are passages where he recalls painful and hilarious experiences that he's been through, back when he was an Original Inhabitant. One brilliant essay called "Why I hate Rahman Tables," recalls a harrowing experience during Ramadan when Fadl was a lonely college student far from home. Against his instincts, he decides to break fast in the company of others at a local mosque; his description is one of the most outstanding tragicomic pieces I've ever read. It'll make you laugh out loud while breaking down in tears. Another in the same vein recalls the first day of Eid when Fadl was a child, featuring the same touching mixture of hilarity, pathos, and startling insight.
The book's last essay is a riveting piece titled "An Account of an Incomplete Popular Revolt in Heliopolis," describing an incident that Fadl witnessed after Friday prayers one day in the posh Cairo neighborhood. The event itself is insignificant and routine: mosque-goers have a standoff with police who are attempting to confiscate some street peddlers' merchandise. But Fadl's beautiful description turns it into an eloquent, evocative allegory, one that ironically gives the lie to the book's title.
These three pieces alone are nearly enough to erase the sour taste left by the rest of the book's contents. Would that Fadl had dispensed with the reductive instincts of the pandering screenwriter, and gave free rein to his considerable skills as a participant observer and independent journalist. He could've written a perfect book.


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Virgin America's Seat-To-Seat Delivery Service Follows Trend Of Social Flying
Fancy the traveler in seat 4A? Now you can send him or her a glass of wine and some cheese and crackers to go with it on Virgin America's new seat-to-seat delivery service.
Virgin boss Richard Branson is on an all-out crusade to bring glamour back to air travel, but Virgin America's latest offering takes the concept of social travel to a new level that's either creepy or cool, depending on who you ask.
The gregarious founder and chairman of Virgin Group introduced the seat-to-seat delivery service this week with a cheeky video, labeled "Sir Richard Branson's Guide to Getting Lucky."
"Just order a drink, meal or snack, select his or her seat, and don't forget to seal the deal with a suggested seat-to-seat chat," he said. "I'm not a betting man, but I'd say your chances of deplaning with a plus one are at least 50 percent."
Virgin America launched an online promotion to coincide with the new in-flight feature, inviting users to share how they are using or would use the seat-to-seat function, including "their best in-flight pick-up lines." The top two entries, as judged by Virgin America fans, will win grand prize packages to Las Vegas from anywhere in the Virgin America U.S. domestic network.
If the whole concept sounds a bit too creepy, there's an option to decline a drink and block any messages from your potential suitor.
If the concept sounds exciting, however, you may be in the majority. Recent studies have shown that many travelers are interested in a more social atmosphere.
According to a recent poll from U.K.-based Skyscanner, 45 percent of fliers admitted to flirting mid-air, with 8 percent forming relationships post-landing.
"More and more people are now traveling by air, so it's no surprise that flights have become a place to flirt," explained Skyscanner's Karin Noble, a former flight attendant. "You are sitting next to someone for an hour or more, and the fact that you're both traveling to the same place means you already have something in common."
Air travel puts people in a "holiday mood," Noble said, and the heightened effect of alcohol at altitude can make them even more relaxed.
"It tends to give people the courage to flirt with a fellow passenger or even take things further, especially on long-haul routes such as flights to Australia."
Airlines as a whole are relative latecomers to the social media party, but they're fast becoming sophisticated users of new platforms both as marking tools and as a low-cost way to learn more about their customers. Indeed, Virgin America's new in-flight service follows a trend in recent years to add more social features for frequent travelers.
Malaysia Airlines was one of the first to dip its toes into the field. Its MHBuddy program, which debuted in 2011, allows users who book and check-in via the carrier's Facebook page to see which friends are visiting a destination or taking the same flight the same time. The application claims several thousand active monthly users and enables existing friends to select seats together.
Last February, Dutch airline KLM began initial testing of its Meet and Seat program, which allows travelers to choose the people they sit next to according to social media profiles. Travelers in the program upload details from Facebook or LinkedIn profiles and use the data to select seatmates based on mutual interests. Though it's not possible to reject a potential seatmate, fliers can change their seats up to two days prior to departure or delete their profiles and select new seats using the standard anonymous platform.
Finland's national carrier, Finnair, announced a similar program last month.
A new company called SeatID has also made waves by offering a "social seating" application that airlines, trains, stadiums, theaters or hotels can choose to incorporate. For airlines, users log in via Facebook or LinkedIn to see if any of their social media connections are on the same flight.
Henry Harteveldt, travel industry analyst at Hudson Crossing, feels the applications are interesting, but he's not convinced they will find a consistent level of success.
"People who are extremely social will, no doubt, appreciate them," he said. "However, some travelers will view these apps as crossing the line between 'cool' and 'creepy.'"
Harteveldt noted that it would be important for these applications to incorporate controls so travelers who don't want to be contacted can opt out.
"Corporate travel managers may also have concerns about their employees' privacy and confidentiality," he warned. "I can only imagine the problems at a company where employees are told that everyone has to fly in economy, only to find out that some colleagues are booked in a premium cabin."
While many airlines seek ways for fliers to become more social, others like AirAsiaX, Vueling and Air New Zealand have targeted a different kind of traveler: the person who wants to be left alone. Each carrier allows passengers to request that the seat next to theirs is empty at a cost ranging from $6 to $60. If the flight ends up full, the carriers simply refund the extra charges.
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- Air bag Passenger Sensing System sensor indicator inflatable restraint, front passenger/child presence detector (Always use safety belts and the correct child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Air bags, dual-stage frontal and thorax side-impact, driver and front passenger, and head curtain side-impact, front and rear outboard seating positions (Always use safety belts and the correct child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Air conditioning, single-zone automatic climate control
- Alternator, 120 amps
- Assist handles, front passenger and rear outboards
- Audio system feature Pioneer premium 8-speaker system with subwoofer and amplifier
- Battery, 525 cold-cranking amps with rundown protection
- Brakes, 4-wheel antilock, 4-wheel disc
- Bumpers, front and rear body-color
- Chassis - all wheel drive (TLK26 model only.)
- Console, front center, with arm rest and concealed storage
- Cupholders 2 front and 2 rear and 2 additional in rear center armrest
- Daytime Running Lamps
- Defogger, rear-window electric
- Door handles, body-color
- Door locks, power rear child security
- E10 Fuel capable (May be upgraded to (FHS) E85 FlexFuel Capable with (FE9) Federal emissions.) (Included and only available with (NE1) Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state emissions or (YF5) California state emissions.)
- Engine, 2.4L DOHC 4-cylinder SIDI (Spark Ignition Direct Injection) with VVT (Variable Valve Timing) (182 hp [135.7 kW] @ 6700 rpm, 172 lb-ft [232.2 N-m] @ 4900 rpm)
- Exhaust, single
- Fog lamps, front round, halogen
- Glass, deep-tinted (all windows, except light-tinted glass on windshield and driver- and front passenger-side glass)
- Grille, Charcoal with chrome surround
- Headlamps, halogen projector lamp
- Instrumentation includes speedometer, single trip odometer, fuel level, engine temperature and tachometer
- LATCH system (Lower Anchors and Top tethers for CHildren), for child safety seats
- Liftgate, rear manual with fixed glass
- Lighting, interior with theatre dimming, center-mounted dome, rear cargo area, dual front map lights and ambient lighting on integrated center stack
- Luggage rails, Charcoal
- Mirror, inside rearview auto-dimming
- Power outlets 4 auxiliary with covers, 12-volt, includes 2 front, 1 second row and one in the cargo area
- Rear axle, 3.53 final drive ratio (Included and only available with (LEA) 2.4L I-4 SIDI engine and (MXO) 6-speed automatic all-wheel drive transmission. Refer to Engine/Axle chart for availability.)
- Rear Vision Camera
- Safety belts, 3-point, front and second row all seating positions
- Seat adjuster, driver 8-way power and power lumbar
- Seats, rear bench, 3 passenger with manual fore/aft adjustment, 60/40 split seatback and recline feature
- Spare tire and wheel
- StabiliTrak, stability control system with traction control
- Steering column, tilt and telescopic
- Suspension, front independent, strut type coil springs
- Suspension, rear independent trailering arm with three lateral locating links, coil springs
- Suspension, Soft Ride
- Theft deterrent system, vehicle, PASS-Key III
- Visors, driver and front passenger illuminated vanity mirrors
- Windows, power with driver and front passenger Express-Down
- Wiper, rear intermittent with washer
- Wipers, front intermittent with washers
4 Cylinder Engine