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EQ378, Reviewed January 2009
The first factor to consider in selecting a site for an animal feeding operation is state and local permitting requirements and ordinances. Consult local health and regulatory authorities and have all plans approved before constructing any manure handling system. Contact the Technical Assistance Program (TAP) at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources at 800-361-4TAP for information regarding permits. For assistance in planning manure management systems, see your local MU Extension center or the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Consider seeking professional assistance for selection of a site for an animal feeding operation.
Other factors to consider in selecting a site for a new or expanded livestock operation include the following:
Likelihood of odor complaints by neighbors may be a major deterrent to siting large livestock operations in many locations.
Determine the attitude of neighbors toward a new or expanded livestock operation at the site you are considering. Documenting that adequate consideration has been given to siting the livestock operation in an environmentally responsible manner may help if litigation occurs.
Odors are inherent in livestock operations, especially when manure is being applied to the land. The larger the livestock operation, the more important it is to plan, design, construct and operate the facility in a manner that will minimize off-site (and on-site) odors. It is important to control sufficient land to provide an adequate buffer between neighbors and the more odoriferous locations at the livestock facility (Figure 1). Odors from large livestock production units may be noticeable a few miles away.
Figure 1A livestock feeding operation site should be selected to minimize visual contact with neighbors and traffic and to separate odor-producing facilities from neighbors.
Biosecurity considerations should include isolation for incoming seedstock, proximity of neighboring livestock production units (especially for production of breeding stock), and, possibly, multiple-site production.
Very large livestock operations should be isolated from residential areas — such as villages and towns — by two miles or more, if possible.
Plan for expansion 20 to 30 years into the future; consider doubling the size anticipated at present. Avoid locating facilities near property lines, streams, steep topography, porous geology, housing developments, public-use areas, or other features that will limit expansion. Additionally, buildings should be spaced at least 50 feet apart (75 feet is better for firetrucks) to reduce the spread of fire. Naturally ventilated buildings may need to be from 50 to 200 feet apart in the north-south direction for optimum summer airflow (Figure 2). Considerable space may be needed for isolating incoming traffic from the animal areas to prevent the spreading of diseases that may be brought in from the outside. The minimum radius for driveways used by semitrailers is approximately 55 feet.
Figure 2The naturally ventilated livestock buildings at this facility are spaced to allow for summertime air flow.
Avoid placing livestock facilities near existing (or future) "non-owned residences" (residences not owned by the owners of the animal feeding operation), especially clusters of homes, built-up areas and parks. Preferably, livestock facilities should be out of your neighbors' sight. Consider having a tree windbreak or other visual barrier to shield the operation. Depending on the size of the facility, the minimum distance from non-owned residences should be from 1,000 to 3,000 feet, although this is no guarantee of immunity from complaints. A separation of at least a mile may be needed between large livestock operations and non-owned residences, depending on such considerations as topography and prevailing wind direction.
The state of Missouri has passed an environmental law that establishes four classes of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) with buffer distances for each class, based on the number of animals that will occupy the operation (Table 1). These distances are for design and construction of new or modified concentrated animal feeding operations and are the minimum buffer distances required between the nearest confinement building or lagoon and any public building or occupied residence.
Table 1Animal unit, size classification, buffer distances and permit requirements (permits required for all Class I CAFOs)
There were no Missouri well rules before September 1987. The well construction rules adopted after that date are summarized in Table 2. Wells constructed before the Missouri Well Construction Rules but after adoption of the Missouri Clean Water Commission rules for minimum separation distances are reviewed and approved on a case-by-case basis and may involve water sample testing or dye tracing for indications of contamination. Planned new operations are not approved if they are closer to existing wells than the minimum required distance shown in Table 2. If an animal feeding operation has a well that was installed after adoption of the current water well rules and does not meet the minimum separation distance requirements, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources may require modifications to the well or that a new well be drilled. The new amendments to the Missouri Well Construction Rules became effective June 30, 1996.
Table 2Missouri well construction rules: Well setback distances since 1986 in accordance with Missouri Well Construction Code rule 10 CSR 23-3.010
Desirable separation distance from odor sources such as production buildings, feedlots, manure storage structures, lagoons and land application areas is influenced by topography and prevailing wind. Because the timing of land application is somewhat flexible, manure can usually be applied when climatic conditions (wind direction, humidity) are most favorable. Fields in which manure is surface applied need greater separation than fields in which manure is injected. Fewer odor complaints about land application usually occur if the manure is treated in a lagoon, injected into the soil, or immediately incorporated into the soil by tillage. However, be sure any tillage operations are compatible with residue requirements of conservation plans.
Prevailing wind direction in relationship to non-owned residences is important, especially during seasons when neighbors will be outside. If local knowledge is not available, wind data is available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or from the Midwest Plan Service Publication MWPS2, Farmstead Planning Handbook, which shows wind patterns for many locations during the months of January and July.
During calm, humid periods, topography can funnel odors down drainage ways to distant locations, especially to residences located in valleys. Odors traveling in this way can remain intense over long distances. Topographical maps can show potential paths of air drainage. Remember, odors following drainage patterns may be more offensive than odors carried by prevailing winds.
Soils with low permeability are desirable for earthen manure storages to prevent groundwater contamination. Much of the southern half of Missouri has highly permeable, gravelly, rocky, sandy or block-structured red clay soils that may allow wastes to seep into the groundwater. Soil surveys by the Natural Resources Conservation Service rate soils for many factors, including permeability, drainage and suitability for manure lagoons, road fill and irrigation. A soils investigation of the site is necessary to determine the availability of suitable clay for sealing earthen manure storage structures.
Parts of southern Missouri, as well as areas along the Mississippi River and the lower portion of the Missouri River have limestone deposits. These deposits may restrict the use of earthen manure impoundments because of potential groundwater pollution. Be cautious when planning animal feeding facilities in an area known to have sink holes and remember, if the facility site has a high potential for a subsurface collapse, Missouri Department of Natural Resources will not approve an earthen manure storage structure. In these cases, an alternate site must be selected, or a concrete or steel tank used for storage.
Shallow bedrock creates problems in the installation of underground utilities such as water, gas, or electric lines and may preclude the use of earthen storages for water or manure. A few hours of investigation with a backhoe or a drilling rig may be necessary to properly evaluate a site. All operations seeking a permit or a letter of approval must obtain a geologic evaluation of the site if an earthen manure storage is planned. A geologic evaluation of the site for any earthen manure storage is recommended. This service is provided by the Division of Geology and Land Survey, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, 573-368-2100.
Livestock facilities, especially open lots, should not be located close to streams and watercourses or on steep land along these areas. Runoff should be contained and applied to a soil/plant filter. Pastured livestock should be fenced out of streams along with a 50- to 300-foot wide grass, forest (or combination) filter strip. Limited access to the stream may be an alternative watering source for livestock
Good surface and subsurface drainage around livestock facilities is important, but polluted water must not leave the premises or enter the groundwater (Figure 3). Avoid building in a poorly drained site, on a flood plain or on sites with seeps, springs or a high water table.
Figure 3Open-lot systems should be located on well-drained sites and runoff should be controlled.
Animal manure storage structures must be located above the 25-year flood level. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can supply data on 25-year flood levels. Additionally, the bottom of the storage structure must be located at least four feet above the water table.
Slopes of 2 to 5 percent will usually provide surface drainage without erosion, depending on the soil type. A 5 percent minimum slope away from building foundations is recommended, and south slopes are preferred for livestock feeding areas. Buildings built on high ground can take advantage of natural slopes for drainage and to obtain a 2 percent minimum slope on conduits to lagoons. On slopes it may be necessary to divert surface runoff from facilities. It is advisable to build roads along ridges to take advantage of drainage and reduce snow drifts.
A livestock operation should have good access to markets, preferably by means of state-maintained, hard-surfaced highways with bridges permitting large trucks. Prompt snow removal is important. Avoid sites where the cost of constructing and maintaining the road from the livestock operation to the public road will be excessive because of distance, required bridges, snow drifting or other topographical or soils problems. This cost may be balanced against the need to provide setback or separation distance between the operation and potential odor receptors.
A year-round supply of water is essential for the animals, sanitation, workers and residences and fire protection. Water may be needed for animal manure dilution and flush-cleaning facilities. Public water supplies are expensive for watering livestock. Water consumption varies greatly from winter to summer.
Tables 3 and 4 contain guidelines for daily drinking water requirements.
Table 3Daily livestock water consumption
Table 4Daily water consumption per 100 birds for chickens and turkeys
High-yield wells with acceptable water quality are not universally available in the northwest one-third of Missouri (Figure 4). For further information about potential well yields and water quality for Missouri aquifers, contact the Water Resources Program, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, 573-368-2190. Where high-capacity wells are not available, surface water supplies (ponds/lakes) are an alternative, especially for watering livestock and for cleaning operations. A standby water supply may be as desirable for a large livestock operation as is a standby electrical system.
Figure 4The shaded portion of this map indicates areas in which the more productive aquifers contain highly mineralized water.
A properly sealed, high-capacity, deep well is usually preferred. Shallow wells are more likely to become contaminated from surface runoff or deep percolation. The well(s) should be located away from possible contamination sources such as lagoons, livestock lots, septic tanks and septic fields. For deep wells with sealed casings that draw water from bedrock formations, the recommended distance from contamination sources is 300 feet; depending on the potential contaminant source, the minimum distance is 100 feet (Table 2). For unsealed wells and water from unconsolidated formations such as sand or gravel, 1,000 feet from contamination sources is recommended with 300 feet as the minimum distance.
Electrical demand may be high for large animal feeding operations, especially for pumping, grinding and materials handling. Unless a three-phase line is nearby, the cost of providing such a line for the large motors that require three-phase power can be costly.
Livestock operations subject to frequent power outages may feel compelled to install a standby power source. Outages are more likely if the site is far removed from the electrical substation.
Harvested crops or forage that use large amounts of nutrients are best suited for sustainability of the soil/plant filter. Because soil nutrients on pastureland tend to be recycled rather than removed, nutrient applications to pastureland are less efficient than applications to forage or crops that will be harvested.
To reduce the possibility of runoff, select fairly level sites. If a sloping site is unavoidable, it may be necessary to apply the manure by injection. Application sites with slopes greater than 6 percent should be in grass vegetation or must use soil conservation practices that meet NRCS standards. Manure should not be used on fields or sites having a slope greater than 12 percent unless prior approval is obtained from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The maximum allowable slope of the application area is 20 percent. Slopes of 10 to 20 percent may require provisions, such as reduced rates of effluent application and water runoff protection measures, to prevent potential discharge of nutrients and pathogens.
For application of lagoon effluent by irrigation, the surface soil permeability rate must be higher than the application rate to prevent runoff. Soil permeability rates of 0.2 to 2.0 inches per hour are suitable for irrigation. All operations seeking a permit or a letter of approval must obtain a soils investigation of the site. NRCS or consulting soil scientists generally provide this service. The Missouri Clean Water Commission rules for application rate on various soils are as follows: The hourly application rate should not exceed the sustained permeability rate except for short periods when initial soil moisture is significantly below field capacity. The hourly rate should not exceed half the sustained permeability rate for slopes exceeding 10 percent. However, in no case should the application rate be greater than 0.5 inch per hour. For soil permeability of less than 0.2 inch per hour, the designed maximum application rate should be as low as practicable and should not exceed 0.2 inch per hour. In no case should the application rate result in the runoff of applied effluent during or immediately after application. Application of effluent to saturated soils is prohibited.
Animal manure should be applied to the land as a plant nutrient and should always be managed so that runoff does not occur. Application rates should be based on soil tests and predicted crop removal considerations. This will ensure efficient use of the resource and prevent overapplication. Application rates based on nitrogen will likely lead to overapplication of phosphorus, if applications continue year after year. Soil testing will indicate excessive phosphorus build-up in the soil and potential environmental problems. Adequate land should be available for the required soil/plant filter area plus an allowance for the areas required for the minimum separation distances for manure application and an odor buffer area between the livestock operation and neighbors.
The separation distances required by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (Missouri DNR) for the land application area are as follows:
These separation distances may drastically reduce the area available for land application of manure.
Areas with flood frequencies greater than once in 10 years should not be the only land available for land application of stored animal nutrients.
Lagoons minimize the acreage required for the soil/plant filter. For example, one acre of soil/plant filter may be sufficient for 10,000 pounds of beef animals if their manure is treated in a lagoon, whereas it may be sufficient for only 2,000 pounds of beef animals if the manure is handled as a slurry or as a solid. Avoid being dependent on other landowners for the necessary manure application area (soil/plant filter area).
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Unknown Mozart's compositions in Poland?
Experts from famous Mazarteum in Salzburg in Austria will probably examine wheather compositions, which were found in musical collection in Jasna Góra, signed by Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart, are really the famous composer works of art. On 24th April Polish Press Agency (Polska Agencja Prasowa) informed that in collection in Jasna Góra, unknown Mozart's compositions may be found. On 2th May, during International Festival of Sacred Music "Gaude Mater" (Miedzynarodowego Festiwalu Muzyki Sakralnej) in Czestochowa, one of the composition, an aria, was peformed.
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So what's a smartbook?
Let me emphatically state that, thanks to Smartbook AG's trademark of the term in much of Europe, Korea, Russia, Australia, and Singapore, and a German court injunction, in those places a Smartbook is currently an Atom-based mini-notebook sold in Germany by Smartbook AG and any other use of the term is trademark infringement. Mmmkay?
In common usage in the rest of the world, a smartbook is a small clamshell-form-factor computing device that's smaller (and usually lower-powered) than a netbook, but larger than a smartphone or handheld. The term seems to be a "portmanteau" word created from the combination of the terms smartphone and notebook. The mobile computing world is putting out a lot of form factors these days, and they're going to need names, and the media and the industry, like it or not, seems to have coalesced around the term smartbook for this particular slice of the market. The trade press in particular has adopted the term, and companies, such as Qualcomm and Dell, have used it to describe released or proposed devices.
A German company called ISSAM sold a laptop called "smartbook" in the 2003-2005 timeframe, and the company now called Smartbook AG bought the rights to the trademark in 2006. It's a small company focused on the German market, but as the term smartbook started to get thrown around by Qualcomm and the technology trade press, they realized that their trademark had suddenly become valuable.
Now, the laws vary from region to region, but in general, a company must take steps to protect its trademark from becoming "diluted" and enter wide use as a generic term and therefore become an invalid trademark. Some common terms that you might be surprised to learn were once trademarked terms:
- aspirin (Bayer AG)
- escalator (Otis Elevator Company)
- thermos (Thermos GmbH)
- yo-yo (Duncan)
- zipper (B.F. Goodrich)
I felt like I had a pretty good grounding in trademark law, but I neither wanted to simply parrot Smartbook AG's claims nor spout off my own uneducated legal theories as fact, so I enlisted the help of Aaron Hendelman, an intellectual property partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, a prominent Silicon Valley law firm. I was curious as to whether the Smartbook trademark might have become a generic term (as Qualcomm claims) because it went unused for a number of years, or because the company and product bearing the trademark was obscure and unknown.
It turns out that, even though the laws vary around the world, it's not that easy to lose a trademark due to abandonment or obscurity. For it to be considered abandoned, it needs to be unused, without an apparent intention to resume use, for three to five or more years. And even if people aren't aware of your trademark claim, it still stands. That's the point of registering a trademark in the first place. It's putting the world on notice. So in the countries where Smartbook AG has a valid registered trademark, it's virtually guaranteed to keep it, now that it's begun to defend it so vigorously. The real issue is that it does not hold the trademark in many of the world's largest technology markets, so smartbook is, for all intents and purposes, a legitimately generic term in most places, but not all. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for Smartbook AG.
The largest challenge for both Smartbook AG and anyone wanting to market a product they'll call a smartbook is the international nature of the internet. Because of a court injunction in German forbidding Qualcomm from using the trademark in that country, Qualcomm has been forced to block access to certain web pages within Germany, and add an asterisk to their smartbook web site. Long-term, Qualcomm has three options: they can stop using the term worldwide, they can keep using it, while taking steps to avoid Germany and any other country where Smartbook AG can successfully pursue legal action, or they can come to an accommodation with Smartbook AG, by buying or licensing the trademark.
This is where the opportunity for Smartbook AG comes in. If they had already had a trademark in the United States, large deep-pocketed companies would never have started using the term, and they would remain an inconsequential company with a nifty product name. But now that the name has caught on, they just need to make enough of a nuisance of themselves and be reasonable enough about their payoff price, and they might just convince someone to pay them some money. That, I suspect, is what this is all about. On their trademark info site they say, "Why does a multi-billion-Dollar-Company choose our brand for own products instead of taking another name and leave us in peace?" That's all very dramatic, but we won't be fooled. Qualcomm and others starting to use their trademark will probably end up being the best thing that's ever happend to them.
So, they're at the "make a nuisance of themselves" phase, and that's where the threatening letters to publishers comes in. Here's an excerpt of the email that was sent to OSNews:
Your usage of the trademark "SMARTBOOK" may lead to damages of the positions achieved by the trademark registration. The aforementioned reporting has the effect that the reader of the above mentioned article understands that a third party is permitted to use the trade name "SMARTBOOK" within the region, for which SMARTBOOK holds a trademark protection.The email gave us permission to use the term to describe their products or to cover the trademark dispute as news. To illustrate this, it ironically contained this link to TechCrunch that largely mocks their trademark claim and criticizes other media outlets for knuckling under.
That the use of the trade name "SMARTBOOK" is not permitted by a third party – decided in court in the case of the company Qualcomm Inc. – within the trademark region of our client has been confirmed by the resolution of August 13, 2009 at the District Court Cologne (reference: 31 O 482/09 – still to be legally established).
With the present letter, we ask you to cancel the use of the trademark "SMARTBOOK" for the purpose of reporting about products, which are not products of our client, and to remove already existing reports from the Internet.
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We kindly ask for your understanding that we have to ask you in the interest of our client's trademark protection to stop immediately the incorrect use of the trademark "SMARTBOOK". Finally, we would like to ask you to confirm to our hands that the adjustment requested will be implemented within two weeks after receipt of the present letter.
So Smartbook AG is using OSNews and other publishers as pawns in its savvy attempts to make some money off of its trademark. Of course, I've already fallen right into part of their trap by writing this story, and bringing publicity onto their cause. But what about their enjoinder not to use smartbook as a generic term? Do I need to comply?
Aaron Hendelman says, "A brand owner would have an extremely tough time in the US challenging a media publisher's statements that a mark is generic. The publisher isn't using the mark in a traditional trademark sense referring to its own goods or services, and principles of free speech the First Amendment should enable a publisher to express its opinion as to genericness."
US law is quite clear on the matter, and does not give trademark owners any legal remedy against authors and publishers for using a trademarked term in its generic sense. They are of course free to ask publishers not to misuse the term for the sake of accuracy, but as the majority of OSNews readers live in countries where smartbook is a legitimately generic term, we're under no moral obligation to do so. So, dear readers in Germany, Antigua, Austria, Australia, Benelux, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sweden, Singapore, Turkey and Ukraine, consider this your official notice that the smartbooks we're reporting about are not the products of Smartbook AG, so don't be fooled. And yes, if you read that list carefully, all you North Korean OSNews readers, don't go misusing the Smartbook trademark, or you'll face international condemnation.
So OSNews is protected by the United States' still-liberal freedoms of the press, and though Smartbook AG could try pursuing legal action against us in Germany, I don't think it would be worth their trouble. We won't go out of our way to promote the term "smartbook" as a generic, but we won't censor our news either. Good luck with your money-making scheme, guys!


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Hey what's going on? I've not properly introduced myself, and I feel it is necessary, seeing how some of my posts have caused quite a bit of controversy and such. First off, my name is Todd, and I'm attending the University of Tulsa, and majoring in computer science / computer security... they have a GREAT security program there. This summer I've been interning for a company called DigitalDefense, we do network penetration analysis.... it's some pretty cool stuff. A lot of social enginering involved too.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 24, 2012) - Over the past several months, federal, provincial and territorial governments have been working closely with the Canadian Pork Council, producers, processors and others to carefully assess the challenges facing the hog sector in Canada. High feed costs coupled with low hog prices have resulted in increased pressure for hog producers in recent months.
Governments recognize the pork industry as an important driver of our economy. The Canadian pork industry generated close to four billion dollars in farm cash receipts in 2011; Canadian producers exported $3.6 billion worth of live hogs and pork.
"Supporting the industry's long-term viability benefits all Canadians," said federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. "That's why, after meeting with industry leaders earlier this summer, we formed a government-industry task team to examine the state of the sector more closely and to monitor the industry going forward."
The Hog Industry Task Team, which includes leadership from the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) and the Canadian Meat Council, pork processors and producers, was formed to develop a common understanding of the challenges facing the sector and to look at possible solutions to address them, including working to ensure the sector makes full use of existing programs. Provinces and financial institutions have also been engaged in these ongoing discussions. There is broad consensus among industry and market analysts, both in Canada and abroad, that market conditions for hog producers will improve by the spring of 2013.
"We will work with the Federal Government to ensure Nova Scotia hog producers are able to take full advantage of appropriate program supports," said Nova Scotia Agriculture Minister John MacDonell.
Based on discussions of the task team and federal-provincial-territorial deliberations, government and industry officials have agreed on the following immediate actions to help the hog sector deal with short term financial pressures:
"These are the recommended programs that producers can currently access to address liquidity pressures", said Jean-Guy Vincent, Chair of the CPC. "Pork producers are also dealing with the accumulated impacts of the higher Canadian dollar and U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) legislation, and we will continue to advance ideas through the task force on what additional actions may be required until stronger market conditions return."
The work of the Hog Industry Task Team will continue as it explores ways to increase sector competitiveness in the mid to long term. All agree that measures must respect international agreements, treat all commodities and regions fairly and must not mask market signals.
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Glee: Season 3 (US - BD RA)
Gabe tries so hard to find his inner Gleek, but even HD video doesn't help...
This Glee review screener arrived two days after its release date and am already quite busy, so I'm going to keep this review pretty short. All apologize to Glee fans hoping for something more substantial. I'm also finding it nearly impossible to break the series' labyrinthine storyline down to a workable, single-paragraph plot synopsis, so I'm going to just leave this not particularly showy wikipedia wrap-up here: 'The series features the New Directions glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in the town of Lima, Ohio. Season three follows the club through local and regional show choir competitions to the national competition in Chicago while its members deal with college, life plans, relationships, sexuality, and social issues. The central characters are glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), and glee club members Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss), Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), Mike Chang (Harry Shum, Jr.), Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron), Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera), Brittany S. Pierce (Heather Morris) and Noah "Puck" Puckerman (Mark Salling).'
I come to Glee as a series outsider. I'm not here to judge the series or its fans, I just want to give my alien view on what I think is a unique television phenomenon that I happen to not really enjoy watching all that much. I get it, I'm happy that it's popular, but I'm just finding it harder and harder to keep watching (not that I watched a lot in the first place). As I understand it, most fans have even begun to lose faith in Glee, which makes me feel a little better about generally disliking this experience in spite of myself. Perhaps those fans will even forgive the next thing I'm about to say: Glee has always been a reasonably clever, funny, and sometimes even cleverly funny show, but, as a phenomenon outsider, I can't help but compare it to the ostensibly kid-friendly High School Musical series. As an adult male I feel like I'm supposed to hate both shows, but what I've seen of both is generally well-made fluff. Glee has more social 'importance' based on its treatment of fringe culture, minorities, handicapped/handi-capable culture, and, obviously, gay culture (there's no question it has had at least some effect on Middle America's developing acceptance of homosexuality), but High School Musical came first, and I can't help but assume it set the stage for Glee's success. There's also the matter of the High School Musical series featuring original songs and compositions, which is ultimately my biggest problem with Glee, even during its more 'successful' seasons.
I love a good musical performance and a theatrical film-like representation of said performance, which gives Glee a pretty big pass. There are huge thrills in the show's musical moments – for example, I get genuine thrills when characters hit that impossible note. It's really great. But I've heard so many of these songs before and, besides maybe the show tunes, I find that I'd almost always rather listen to the original versions. I know appropriation has been the show's thing since it blew everyone's mind with that a capella rendition of 'Don't Stop Believing'. Straying from the formula at this point would be, I don't know, awkward, and I'm sure all the original artists appreciate the bump in iTunes sales, but cover songs rarely have the shelf life of original songs. This is really glorified Karaoke that the audience is physically incapable of interacting with. Only three seasons in and Glee already feels like old news, even among its fan base, and this can't be a good thing. This said, I do find the occasional original song quite entertaining and often the best way for the series to deal with particularly dramatic character interactions. Also in this season's defense, there is a pretty solid lean on show tunes over pop tunes and the bulk of that is spent with West Side Story, which is my personally favourite musical. I very much appreciate the not so subtle way the writers keep blending the subtext of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim music into the story themes, especially in episode five, The First Time.
The part of the show that is most obviously lost on me is the soap opera, 'will-he/she-won't-he/she' melodrama, not only because I find it tiring, but, because I haven't been sticking with the series in any way. At one point I had to ask my girlfriend, who was watching the season with me and who has a fan's understanding of the characters, one of the silliest questions I've ever asked – 'Is this character that character's mom, that other character's child's adoptive mother, and that child's biological father's lover?' She told me yes, except for the lover part that was going to occur later on in the season. There are decades-running telenovelas and comic books that aren't this convoluted. If I'd been with the series from the beginning, I'm sure these convolutions would be a big part of the fun and addiction, but I'm an outsider and as an outsider, this stuff is exhausting. There are some potent politics mixed in with the soap opera hysterics and it's rare that the show ever takes itself too seriously, so those of us rolling our eyes at repetitive character issues have something else to latch onto. It's easy to laugh both along with and at the show. I'm also forced to appreciate the shows dynamic filming and editing styles, which carry the melodrama and quirky comedy along between the perpetually more entertaining musical moments.
According to specs, Glee is shot on 35mm film, which I find surprising based on its outrageously colourful production design. This makes total sense watching the series on full 1080p Blu-ray disc, where all the grain and usual impurities of film are made plenty clear. It actually creates a unique look among modern television series in its mix of old-school film and newfangled digital grading processes – sort of a natural versus theatrical thing, which is in keeping with the show's more obvious themes. Foreground textures and details are quite sharp and mostly natural with little compression or even film grain, but backgrounds are usually left somewhat out of focus, even during the big, sweeping musical/music-video moments. Background clarity is rarely incredible and features a bit of noise over the fuzzier edges. There's also a little issue with some of the harsher contrasts showing a minor haloes. Colours are relatively natural, specifically skin tones and basic school building décor, but are given an obvious boost throughout, especially in costumes and theatrical set pieces. Red levels, which are used as highlights, are particularly clean without noticeable compression artefacts or bleeding. Blacks are deep without crushing out too many details, though it is a bit difficult to discern blacks from deep blues and browns.
Glee is, as you might already know, largely based around musical sequences and these sequences encompass many, many musical styles. This Blu-ray's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack helps ensure every one of these disparate musical types, from show tunes to modernized pop music and rock 'n' roll numbers. The music is presented in a nice wide stereo spread with the major vocals appropriately centered, plenty of non-distracting rear channel additions, and a heavy, punchy LFE presence. The lossless quality of the track helps keep the volume levels consistent and allows higher volume punches to build without any notable distortion. It would be easy for some of the more noisy bits to blow out or turn to mud on a standard DVD release's audio. More simply stated, the music on this track is just so rich and warm that I can't imagine anyone complaining. Music is rarely absent from the mix, shuffling throughout the channels during character discussion without overwhelming the dialogue. Directional and immersive ambient effects are also mostly delegated to the big song and dance numbers, but there is a bit of generic 'school noise' in the hallways and outdoors that settles well against the buzzing background music.
The extras begin on disc one with Glee Under the Stars (7:50, HD), a look at an event featuring cast and crew members doing a Q and A with fans. This is followed by a 'Ginger Supremacists' extended scene (4:10, HD) and a 'Sue Flashback' deleted scene (2:40, HD). Disc two features a 'Santa Baby' deleted scene (3:50, HD). Disc three features Glee Give a Note (7:50, HD), another fan event where the people at Glee and Fox donated a big pile of cash to a middle school musical theater troupe. The fourth and final disc in the collection starts with Glee Swap: Behind the Scenes of 'Props' (5:40, HD), a making-of featurette on the 'character swap' episode, complete with cast interviews. Meet the Newbies (13:20, HD) includes interviews with new cast members Damian McGinty, Samuel Larsen, Lindsay Pearce, Alex Newell, Vanessa Lengies, and NeNe Leakes. Saying Goodbye (15:20, HD) interviews actors leaving the series (or so they say), including Naya Rivera, Dianna Agron, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Cory Monteith, Harry Shum, Jr., and Chris Colfer. Also on the last disc is Ask Sue: World Domination Blog (6:10, HD) and Return of Sue's Quips (3:00, HD). Each disc also features a Glee Music Jukebox. This allows fans to access musical moments from each episode on the disc and includes a shuffle option. This is a branching option, so the musical moments are presented in full HD and DTS-HD MA 5.1.
I whole-heartedly hope this pseudo-ending to the series (some characters are leaving, some are staying) satisfied the show's ardent fans. From what I can gather the finale hit the correct dramatic notes, they just didn't mean much to me as an outside party. Glee feels like a stunt of a show, but even without enjoying it I can appreciate it and all the things it does for its fans, some of which might feel out of step with most popular television entertainment. This Blu-ray release looks very good and sounds fantastic, but doesn't feature much in the way of special features.
* Note: The images on this page aren't representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Bouncy X Member Join Date: March 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,931
the show got way too big, way too soon and thats why its already slowly dwindling in popularity and things. that always happens to these shows, it reminds me of Ugly Betty. that was THE show that "everyone" was watching and/or talking about for its first few seasons. but then by the 3rd (or maybe earlier) you just heard less and less about it until it got cancelled and disappeared without even a whimper.
i totally see Glee going the same path. i can see it maybe make it to season 5 but i'll be surprised if it goes beyond that and if its even as popular by then. i've personally never watched and i never will, i have no interest in musicals to begin with and the fact its all covers is just annoying. especially covers done in this glee club/kareoke style. reminds me of those Kidz Bop records they make where a bunch of tweens sing modern pop songs. who the hell wants to hear that when the original is out there?
and of course apparently a good chunk of the cast is gone or going soon because the characters are graduating so that wont help. fans dont like when characters they love leave a show and are replaced by newbies.
i totally see Glee going the same path. i can see it maybe make it to season 5 but i'll be surprised if it goes beyond that and if its even as popular by then. i've personally never watched and i never will, i have no interest in musicals to begin with and the fact its all covers is just annoying. especially covers done in this glee club/kareoke style. reminds me of those Kidz Bop records they make where a bunch of tweens sing modern pop songs. who the hell wants to hear that when the original is out there?
and of course apparently a good chunk of the cast is gone or going soon because the characters are graduating so that wont help. fans dont like when characters they love leave a show and are replaced by newbies.
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
I never understood the appeal of this show.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
I didn't even realise it was still on TBH. Like Bouncy X said, it got so big so fast, the fact it's not everywhere now made me think it had gone away.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 21st August 2012
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Glee Music Jukebox, Glee Under the Stars, Deleted and Extended Scenes, Glee Give a Note, Glee Swap: Behind the Scenes of 'Props', Meet the Newbies, Saying Goodbye, Ask Sue: World Domination Blog, Return of Sue's Quips
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, Jane Lynch, Naya Rivera, Dianna Agron, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Cory Monteith, Harry Shum, Jr., and Chris Colfer
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Musical
Length: 960 minutes
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution (11-11-7, 40 pts.) hosts the Houston Dynamo (12-10-7, 43 pts.) on Saturday, Sept. 28, in the second of crucial back-to-back home games at Gillette Stadium.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m., with Comcast SportsNet broadcasting the game live on TV, and 98.5 The Sports Hub carrying the game on the radio.
The Dynamo enters Week 31 of MLS regular-season play holding down fourth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race while the Revs are right behind them the fifth and final position. A Revolution win on Saturday would leapfrog the Revs into fourth place – ahead of Houston – by virtue of tie-breakers.
This will be the third and final meeting between the two clubs this season. Both teams have earned road victories through the first two games with the Revs earning a 2-0 win at BBVA Compass Stadium on May 18 followed by a Houston 2-1 win at Gillette Stadium on July 13. This is the first season since Houston joined MLS in 2006 that the two teams will play three regular-season games.
College Night at Gillette Stadium Saturday
College Night is back at Gillette Stadium when the Revs host the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night … tickets for students are just $15, which includes admission to a pregame tailgate party, a corn hole tournament, free food and beverages and other activities … students are encouraged to wear school t-shirts as the Rev Girls will select students to represent various universities for the halftime activities … free bus transportation to the stadium is available from CitySide Bar at Cleveland Circle (1960 Beacon St. Boston Mass.) and Stadium Sports Bar at Faneuil Hall (148 State St. Boston, Mass.) … more information is available HERE.
Saturday is Breast Cancer Awareness match
The New England Revolution will celebrate breast cancer survivors and raise and help further breast cancer awareness when the team presents its annual Breast Cancer Awareness game Saturday … the game will include several pink accents throughout the night, including:
- Playing with a pink adidas game ball
- Pink corner flags and goal netting
- Players wearing pink ribbon patches on their jerseys
- Players wearing pink armbands
- Selected players wearing pink shoelaces and/or pink cleats
Coaches and broadcasters wearing pink scarves
Another shuffle in the standings
Following Saturday's 2-1 win over D.C. United, the Revs are back in a playoff position in the Eastern Conference playoff race … with a 11-11-7 record for 40 points, the Revs sit in the fifth and final playoff spot … Saturday's opponent – Houston (12-10-7, 43 pts.) – sits just three points ahead of the Revs in fourth place … both Chicago (11-12-6, 39 pts.) and Philadelphia (10-10-9, 39 pts.) sit one point behind the Revs and are tied for sixth place, while Columbus (11-14-5, 38 pts.) is just two points behind and in eighth place.
Eastern Conference Standings
1. New York Red Bulls – 15-9-6, 51 pts.
2. Sporting Kansas City – 14-9-6, 48 pts.
3. Montreal Impact – 13-9-6, 45 pts.
4. Houston Dynamo – 12-10-7, 43 pts.
5. New England Revolution 11-11-7, 40 pts.
6. Chicago Fire – 11-12-6, 39 pts.
7. Philadelphia Union – 10-10-9, 39 pts.
Tough season-ending stretch starts this weekend
The Revs host the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night, beginning their final five games of the regular season, all against teams either in, or in reach of, playoff positioning … in fact, the Revs' next three games are against the East's fourth (vs. Houston, Sept. 28), first (at New York, Oct. 5) and third (at Montreal, Oct. 12) place teams … the Revolution's final two matches are a home-and-away series with Columbus, who currently sits just two points out of a playoff spot.
Houston swing-game is on deck
Saturday's meeting between New England and Houston is the third and final meeting between the teams … the two teams split the first two games of the regular-season series with each team earning a road win … the Revs posted a 2-0 victory on May 18 in Houston, before falling 2-1 at Gillette Stadium on July 13 … the last time the Revolution won twice in a season against the Dynamo was 2010, when the Revs swept the two-game season series, 1-0 at Gillette Stadium and 2-1 at Robertson Stadium … this is the first time ever the teams meet three times in one year.
Not laying out the welcome mat
The Revs host the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night in the second of two crucial back-to-back home games at Gillette Stadium … the Revs have not made it easy for visiting opponents in the past month, as the team has claimed nine of 12 possible points at home since mid-August … in their last four home games, the Revs have scored 11 goals and conceded just six while going 3-1-0 … following Saturday's match against Houston, the Revs play at Gillette Stadium just once more in the regular season: Oct. 19 when they host Columbus.
Defense back on track
Entering last Saturday's game against D.C. United, the Revs had allowed seven goals in their previous two games … however, one of the league's top defensive units returned to its stingy ways against United, allowing just one goal in the win – and an own goal at that … entering Week 31 of MLS action, the Revs are ranked fifth in goals against average (1.14), fifth in goals allowed (33) and first in shutouts (12).
You must be this young to score a goal
Diego Fagundez – one of Major League Soccer's top young talents – scored his team-leading 11th goal of the season on Saturday night against D.C. United, and continued the team's streak of young players scoring goals … 10 of the team's last 12 goals have been scored by players 21 years old or younger … those goals have come from Kelyn Rowe (5), Fagundez (4) and Juan Agudelo (3).
Fagundez stays red hot
Diego Fagundez scored his team-leading 11th goal of the season against D.C. United on Saturday night … the 18-year-old has now scored four goals and added two assists in the last five games … Fagundez became the youngest player in MLS history to score at least 10 goals in a season on Sept. 8 against Montreal … on the year, the 18-year-old midfielder has 11 goals and six assists in 26 appearances.
Sene dishing out assists
Saer Sene recorded his fifth assist of the season on Saturday night as he set up Diego Fagundez for his 11th goal of the season … Sene has recorded one assist in each of the last three games … the midfielder recorded just three assists in 2012, while scoring 11 goals to lead the team in scoring.
Reis remains unbeaten in 2013
Matt Reis earned his fourth win of the season against D.C. United on Saturday night and remained unbeaten on the year … the 38-year-old goalkeeper has posted a 4-0-2 record with a 0.50 goals against average and three shutouts … Reis' last loss came on September 15, 2012, a 2-1 defeat at D.C. United.
Tierney moving up the charts
Chris Tierney moved into ninth place on the Revs' career starts chart on Saturday night … the Wellesley, Mass., product now has 116 games started, passing Cranston, R.I.'s Michael Parkhurst (115) … Tierney also moved into ninth place in minutes played (10,189), passing Kevin Alston (10,152) … Tierney, now in his sixth MLS season, also moved into third place on the club's corner kicks charts with 211, passing Joe-Max Moore (209) … Tierney already ranks eighth in career appearances (127), eighth in assists (21) and third in game-winning assists (10).
Play, Eat, Score! With Revs, Papa Gino's
All season, the Revolution and Papa Gino's will be giving away a prize package to New England soccer teams … the prize packages include: an appearance by a Revolution player at the team's soccer practice, 50 Revolution tickets, 20 drawstring bags, 20 water bottles, 10 large Papa Gino's pizzas and 20 Papa Gino's small cheese pizza coupons … for a chance to win, simply explain WHY your team should have a Revolution player deliver the prize package to a practice … eight (8) winners will be selected throughout the season to win … enter HERE.
Sovereign | Santander's "Goals for Charity" program in full swing
Sovereign | Santander, the official bank of the New England Revolution, has launched the "Goals for Charity" campaign to coincide with the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 and the second half of the Revolution season … in the program, Sovereign | Santander will contribute $500 for every goal scored during the Gold Cup 2013 and Revolution games between July 6 and October 17 (a total up to $50,000) to three Boston non-profit organizations: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Cradles to Crayons and Camp Harborview.
Revolution vs. Houston Dynamo (regular season): 7-4-5
Home: 2-2-4
Away: 5-2-1
Team Notes against Houston
- New England and Houston have met 16 times in the overall MLS regular-season series, with the Revs holding a 7-4-5 record against the Dynamo … the Revolution is 7-4-7 against the Dynamo in all competitions, including MLS Cup and SuperLiga
- Saturday's meeting will be the third and final meeting between the two clubs this season … the Revs earned a 2-0 road-win at BBVA Compass Stadium on May 18 before falling 2-1 at Gillette Stadium on July 13
- The Revs began the all-time series with a 6-1-3 record against Houston through the 2010 season, but Houston then went 2-0-2 against New England with two wins at home and two draws at Gillette Stadium in 2011 and 2012
- In all but two meetings – the 2-1 Revs win in Houston on Oct. 10, 2010 and Houston's 2-1 win in New England on July 13, 2013 – the winning team has recorded a shut out or the match has ended in a draw … overall, there have been nine shutouts in 16 regular-season meetings
New England and Houston have met in three tournament finals: MLS Cup 2006, MLS Cup 2007, SuperLiga 2008 … Houston won the 2006 MLS title match in penalty kicks after extra time finished 1-1 in Frisco, Texas, and then one year later took the 2007 championship with a come-from-behind, 2-1 victory in Washington, D.C. … the Revs won SuperLiga 2008 in penalty kicks after the teams were knotted at 2-2 after extra time at Gillette Stadium
Player Notes against Houston
- Saer Sene is the Revolution's current leading scorer against Houston with three goals in two appearances … Sene scored a penalty kick goal and later added an unassisted strike when the teams met on May 19, 2012, at Gillette Stadium … the midfielder scored again in the team's 2-1 loss at Gillette on July 13
- Juan Agudelo and Diego Fagundez are the team's only other active scorers against Houston … both players scored against the Dynamo in the team's 2-0 win on May 18 in Houston … Agudelo's goal came in his first-ever appearance as a member of the Revolution
- Three players – Kevin Alston, Andy Dorman and Clyde Simms – have recorded assists against the Dynamo … Alston recorded the first assist of his career against the Dynamo, picking up the second assist on Kheli Dube's game-winning goal at Houston on Aug. 25, 2009 … Simms recorded his first assist in New England in the team's 2-0 win earlier this year.
- Chad Barrett has recorded two assists in 11 games against Houston … both assists came when he was a member of the LA Galaxy (2011, 2012)
- Bobby Shuttleworth is 2-2-0 against Houston, with three of four appearances coming on the road
- Matt Reis is 5-2-5 in his regular-season career against the Dynamo with an 0.92 goals against average and five shutouts
Former Rev Steve Ralston is Houston's assistant coach, and still holds a share of the New England career scoring lead against the Dynamo with three goals and one assist in seven regular-season appearances.


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For an overview of the program, please review our Preliminary Program. When you want to learn more about a specific session, select its day (e.g., Thursday Sessions). You can also find detailed information about our Keynotes (Keynote Sessions), Workshops (All Workshops), and the exciting events for our Saturday Biofeedback Day (Biofeedback Day).
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Now we are two
Two years ago I had the Tour de France on in the background in a delivery room at the local hospital. This year, Georgina has got her own wheels.
The trike is a handmedown from my neighbours, and has been locked in the bike shed for about 18 months. I don't think she's be rivaling Bradley Wiggins or Victoria Pembleton just yet.
Continuing the "make do and mend" theme of the day, her other big present was a handmade toy. She loves Show Me Show Me on Cbeebies. It's an unusual show in that it doesn't have mountains of tatty tie-in merch. So, in the footsteps of my mother's bold attempt to make me a Bagpuss in the 70s, I made her a Stuffy.
This is partially because she loves him, and partially because even 25 years after my last sewing class I can still make a cube. Tracking down all the fabrics took longer than the actual sewing. She's already taken to putting things in his back pocket.
Here's his song on the CBeebies site.
The last part of the day will be a Spider-man iced cake. I baked it last night and haven't had a chance to ice it yet. I asked her last night what birthdays meant and she has told me it involves hats. So expect a photo she will be embarrassed about tomorrow.
She's learnt her numbers (although is prone to starting to count at 4) and colours. She can also load the DVD player, with favourites such as Singin' in the Rain, Kiki's Delivery Service and Bagpuss. I moved them to a lower shelf after asking her to "put it back on the table" only to find her standing on tiptoe on a chair trying to reach the shelf where they were then kept. Her current bedtime books include The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the Tony Robinson version of Odysseus. She helps water the garden, and weed it.
More tomorrow…I have to go and ice a cake the Marvel way.


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Say you wake up tomorrow and decide you want to learn to play tennis. Maybe you like Serena Williams' method of anger management, or perhaps it's Novak Djokovic's backhand you're after.
Toyota Camry:
A review of the 2012 Toyota Camry in the Sept. 29 Business section stated that the V-6 version is rated at 248 horsepower. The correct figure is 268 horsepower.
It's likely you'd head to your local athletically inclined big-box store
and pick out the Toyota Camry of tennis rackets: something from a well-known brand that is reliably middling; it is free of drama, superfluity or excess cost; one that will simply get the job done.
This 2012 Camry is no different. Starting at $22,755 when it rolls into dealerships next month, it is an apparatus, a means to an end.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s mid-size sedan has served this purpose conscientiously for years, and Americans have rewarded it with corresponding success at the dealership. Since 1997, more Camrys have been sold each year than any other car in the U.S., with the exception of 2001.
Like any champ, the Camry has plenty of competitors trying to beat it. Nissan's aging Altima is the second-bestselling car this year, while peers such as the Kia Optima, Hyundai Sonata, the new Volkswagen Passat and forthcoming Chevrolet Malibu are also rapidly making improvements in the content, style and build quality of the segment.
Although the 2012 Camry and its hybrid version certainly improve in these areas, the updates are incremental and calculated. Don't expect it to vault above its competitors.
The most notable changes are the Camry's looks. The car wears all-new sheet metal while maintaining the identical length, width and wheelbase of the previous model. The new look is evolutionary, with added creases and angles replacing softer lines throughout the car. It's a good look and will enable the new Camry to handsomely blend in at mall parking lots nationwide.
The new aesthetics continue inside the car as well. The design of the dashboard and instrument panel is cleaner and simpler, and a layered crease accented by contrast stitching breaks up the dash in front of the passenger. Most surfaces are covered in pleasing, soft-touch materials.
If the buttons to control the radio and optional navigation system seem large enough for your glaucoma-afflicted great aunt to see from the back seat, it's because Toyota caught a lot of flack for how small the same buttons were on the previous Camry. At least they're clearly labeled and easy to use.
Overall, the space wizards at Toyota managed to wring out an interior that is marginally bigger than before, despite the car's footprint remaining the same. Rear legroom and interior space are among the most in the class, and a quintet of 6-foot-plus people can ride comfortably.
Although most spatial concerns are nicely addressed, the quality of the Camry's features leaves something to be desired, especially when cast in the light of what others are offering.
The navigation screen on the preproduction XLE model I tested was smaller than it was in the previous Camry and one of the smallest in the segment. This creates a cramped screen with less usable information, a flaw exacerbated by the cheap-looking user-interface.
And I was a little disappointed at the quality of the interior. Everything looked good and precisely assembled, but if you elbowed a door panel or prodded the plastic pieces in the lower part of the dashboard, they seemed flimsy and cut-rate.
Finally, although the trunk grows slightly, it's overall capacity still lags behind most competitors. Also unfortunate is the surprisingly small pass-through space when you fold down the Camry's rear seats.
Driving the new Camry isn't as overwhelmingly boring as you'd expect. The base engine pulls 178 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque out of a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine with a hearty degree of pep and enthusiasm.
This engine is paired with a six-speed automatic transmission with manual shifting and sport mode. The Environmental Protection Agency rates the combination at 25 miles per gallon in the city and 35 mpg on the highway. Over 240 miles of testing, I averaged 25 mpg. No zero-to-60 times were available from Toyota, but Car and Driver magazine estimated the four-cylinder would do it in 8.8 seconds.
My biggest complaint about the handling lies with the Camry's steering. I'm not expecting Porsche precision here, but to pilot the Camry is like driving while wearing a pair of Novocain mittens. More feedback, please.
The four-cylinder Camry comes in four variants: the base L, the LE, the sporty SE and the XLE. The $29,380 XLE I tested included the navigation system, a JBL sound system with 10 speakers and iPod connectivity, backup camera, leather seats, heated front seats and alloy wheels.
Buyers looking for more power can consider the 248-horsepower V-6, which starts at $27,400, while green-minded Camry buyers should consider the new hybrid Camry.
This hybrid sees the biggest powertrain change from the previous version of any of the new Camrys, as it now has a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine paired with a 105-kilowatt electric motor for a total power output of 200 horsepower.
The hybrid's strong suit is its power and complete lack of anemia that can plague other hybrids. The system also transitions seamlessly from electric power to gas power or a combination of both, without the trademark shudder or lag. Only when I tapped the hyperactive brakes was I reminded that this was a hybrid.
Also new for the hybrid is its lower price point; the LE version that I drove starts at around $26,660. The car is rated by the EPA as currently the most efficient in this segment, at 43 mpg in the city and 39 on the highway. My 75-mile weekend with it saw an average of 34 mpg. The slightly heavier hybrid XLE gets 40 mpg in the city and 38 on the highway.
All Camrys come with safety features including 10 air bags, traction control, anti-lock brakes and a tire-pressure monitoring system. And, as with previous Camrys, this one is American-made, with plants in Kentucky and Indiana doing the labor.
Camry faithful will undoubtedly salute the improved efficiency and aesthetics that add to the car's ethos, and probably will reward it with continued success at the dealership. The trouble is, Toyota's dedication to the conventional may mean a methodical yet more daring competitor may one day steal that sales crown.


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Of all the steps in the home-buying process, closing is the one that often leads to the most questions. At PrimeLending, we will take the time to guide you to a better understanding of how closing on your mortgage will work.
Closing day is an exciting time because it's the day you will finally see your dream of homeownership realized. It can also be a hectic time since there are a lot of details to manage. Below is a summary of how the home loan closing process works.
Although they tend to vary by lender, closing costs range from 2% to 7% of the home's purchase price, and include three basic categories:
Whether you are purchasing or refinancing a home, closing day can be a whirlwind. Everything moves fast and there are a lot of papers to sign. It's a good idea to review what will happen ahead of time, so you can feel prepared and close your loan with confidence.
The number of people who will attend your closing depends on many factors, including the state where the property is located, the property type and more. At the closing, in addition to you, the people attending may include:
The closing can be held at the title company's office, your lender's office, a real estate attorney's office or other agreed upon location, depending on the circumstances.
Here's a review of what will happen at closing:
The main focus at a closing is to sign the final paperwork. The three main items to review and/or sign during closing are:
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Wiz Khalifa put a ring on it!
The "Black and Yellow" rapper, 24, proposed to girlfriend Amber Rose, Us Weekly can confirm. Sharing a picture of her dazzling engagement ring via Twitter, Rose said: "He has made me the happiest woman in the world!"
Khalifa hinted that a proposal would happen "soon" at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 12. "We want to get married. We're just taking our time," Rose told E! News. "Whenever he wants to propose, that's when it will happen."
An excited Khalifa also tweeted a photo of Rose's ring Thursday. "She said yes!" he wrote. "Love is everywhere."
According to Rose, Khalifa is "just the sweetest guy. He's very normal. He didn't let the fame and everything get to him." The two have been dating for "over a year."
Prior to her relationship with Khalifa, Rose was linked to Kanye West, 34.
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Wagner's grandson steps down as Bayreuth director
Richard Wagner's grandson is resigning after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth Festival, officials said Tuesday, but the long-running family feuds over who will succeed him are set to continue.
"Wolfgang Wagner has announced his resignation," Markus Gnad, spokesman for the Bavarian culture ministry, told AFP.
Officially, it was not yet known who will succeed Wagner as director of the prestigious annual festival nor when he would formally step down, Gnad said.
However, observers see it as a done-deal that his two daughters, Eva, 63, and Katharina, 29, will run Bayreuth jointly.
Wolfgang has always insisted that his appointment was for life, and stubbornly refused to step aside, despite pressure from the festival's decision-making body, the Stiftungsrat. But earlier this month he indicated that he might compromise and allow Eva and Katharina to take over.
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Advanced Advertisement Techniques
Writing a Game Ad
The game ad is the first presentation of your game to prospective players. It's how you attract players. If it's sloppy, disorganized, and disjointed, that what kind of players you'll attract, if you get any interest at all. The game ad is not something to just crank out in five minutes. It's something to take time with, proofread, spellcheck, rewrite, and proofread again.
The goal of any game ad is to attract players who will enjoy the game, and that you will enjoy gaming with. To do that, you need to display your writing style, offer information about your play style, and clearly explain the parameters of the game. If a player is looking for one thing and you're offering another, neither of you will be happy in the same game together. Conversely, when everyone is looking for the same thing, you're all much more likely to enjoy it. The way to make this happen is through communication.
Although a game ad often needs to contain a large amount of information, break it into small pieces where you can, using fieldset and spoiler tags, as well as bold text for section headings. Large walls of unrelieved text are generally intimidating, especially to newer players.
Game Advertisement Format
This section assumes you're writing an ad for a new game. If you need to recruit new players into an existing game, you'll need some additional information, noted below. Also, this format is only a guideline. Your particular ad might benefit from a different arrangement of some of the elements, or for some of them to be combined, split into parts, or even excluded. Element names, except for the first two (which are coded into the ad form), should be considered entirely optional for inclusion, and feel free to rename them. For example, instead of putting in 'Game system used: M:tA', you could just declare 'M:tA'.
- Title: Name your ad something memorable that conveys the type of campaign or adventure you wish to run. This is only the title of the game ad, and will not affect your game forum name or any thread in your game. Indicating some of the mechanical information, like level/points, tone, or genre isn't required, but can draw in people who might ignore a purely fluff thread title.
- Estimated members requested: How many players do you want? Most games run with 3-6 players. Larger and smaller games both exist, but are less common for a variety of reasons. For new GMs, a party size of 4-5 typically works the best.
Begin the actual text of the ad with some kind of attention-getter. Use an excerpt from a fictitious book from the game world, a scene from the backstory of your campaign, quotes from major or historical NPCs, or anything else that offers some insight into the tone and subject of the campaign, as well as showing your writing style. Put such text in italics, as is often done with quotes or book excerpts. This is also a good place for one or two images, such as a picture of the starting location or an NPC that will be a major part of the game.
Offer a little bit about yourself as a GM. Spend a paragraph discussing your GMing style, the tone you want for the game, how long you've been GMing, and anything else you think it's important for players to know, besides the mechanics of the game. Does something in particular irritate you? Say so. Tell the players about pet peeves that will automatically disqualify them.
Explain your expectations for the game, in terms of amount of role playing (RP) vs. roll playing and general type. If you want heavy RP in a court intrigue game, that's a much different game than a low RP dungeon crawl, a 50/50 puzzle and skill challenge, or any other type. Also note whether PvP will be allowed/encouraged or not. If it isn't already clear from the system and setting choice, characterize the overall feel of the game, such as 'Depression era Lovecraftian horror', 'traditional high magic fantasy', or 'four color superheroes'.
- Background requirements: If the PCs need to have some particular element in their background, such as having been hired by a particular NPC for some particular purpose or being from a particular town, explain that and provide information about it. Also discuss the general theme of the game so people can make character that suit it. When a game is supposed to be about hunting undead and associated cults, or spying for the CIA, or destroying a plague of dragons, say so and you'll get characters that fit the theme. Likewise, if you're looking for any particular character archetypes, players need to know that.
- Posting Requirement: How many times a day, week, or month are your players expected to post? This is the MINIMUM requirement to post without some sort of prior notification. As a general rule, requiring more than one post per day or less than two per week causes problems of one kind or another. Very fast games may be difficult to keep up with or cause a lot of simultaneous posting issues. Very slow games may never gain any momentum and fade away. In some cases, you may wish to also add a maximum posting rate such as "no more than three posts from a player before the DM and/or all respond at least once" to make sure that everyone has a chance to respond appropriately.
- Sources allowed: List out the books and online sources players may draw from to create their characters, noting any parts you wish to exclude.
- Setting: Whatever the setting may be, note it. Published settings require nothing more than an indication of which part you intend to use. For a homebrew setting, offer a brief description of it with a link to your world's information. If you have an image or music to help convey the feel of the setting, include them here.
- Character Creation Rules: This will vary drastically from system to system, but explain the parameters that the players are expected to operate within while generating their characters, including level/points, score generation methods, and anything else your system requires. List out which source materials are allowed. If you are disallowing anything in those sources, be explicit about what cannot be used.
- House Rules: List out any House Rules in effect for your game. If you have a lot of house rules, or your house rules are extensive, a link to a "house rules" thread in your game forum or page in your world wiki is sufficient.
- Miscellaneous: Anything else that doesn't fit into the other categories and only needs a sentence or two to explain, drop into a section for miscellaneous information. This is a good place for relevant links that don't fit the other categories.
- Submissions: Explain exactly how a player should submit an application for the game. If you want a particular format to the submission, indicate it. Indicate whether a completed character sheet is required as part of a submission, and if you have any kind of character and/or player questionnaire, include it here, spoilered.
If you're recruiting people for an already running game to join existing players, include two more things: a summary of the game so far, and a general explanation of the existing characters. Additionally, if you are going to let your existing players have a say over who gets in and who doesn't, let everyone know about it.
The 'game so far' should be a basic explanation of what's happened in the game already - the Cliff's Notes version. The purpose of this is to reduce the time investment for new people by making it unnecessary for them to read the game prior to writing up an application. You can still require them to read the game before joining, especially if it's not very long, but expecting people to read even five pages of posting just to decide whether they want to write up an application or not is unrealistic. Give them enough of a taste to determine if they really want to spend the time to read it before they click the link to do so.
The existing characters are the people the new characters have to play with. New players need enough information to create characters that don't step all over the already occupied niches in the game, and to avoid basic, fundamental personality clashes. Provide a paragraph or two about each character, discussing mechanical niche, general personality, and role in the party. To save yourself some work, you can ask your existing players to provide this themselves.
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Interview Questions
Most GMs with good ads are faced with having a large pool of players to select from. These "interview questions" (which you may wish to include in your ad or discuss privately) are designed to help you find the right players for your game.
- Game-Related Questions
What makes you want to play in this game?
How much time and energy will you put in this game?
How many posts can you make per week/day?
What will this game's priority be to you?
What do you expect from this game?
Why should I accept you in this game?
- Free-form Gaming Questions (specific to free form systems)
Define what "free-form" is to you, please.
Have you played free-form before?
If yes, how was that experience? If no, how do you think this one will go?
What do you expect from a free-form game?
Do you feel comfortable role-playing most possible situations that may come up in a game, or do you have any topic restrictions?
How do you interact with opposing characters?
How do you deal with opposing players?
In your opinion, can you separate what is in-character and what is out-of-character well?
Do you have any writing samples or other RP games (free-form or any system) here on MW or another site so I can check your posting style?
- Personal Questions
You can decide not to answer any of the following
How old are you? (Age is not an arbitrary gauge on maturity, but it helps.)
Where do you live? (It's important to know in which time zones everyone is located in.)
Is English your first language? (You can be proficient with English even it not being your first language, but it helps knowing.)
Tell me something about your life. If we are to game together for the following months, we will inevitably create bonds and get to know each other a bit better, so why not start now? By knowing a bit about your life, I'll know about your possible schedules and what makes a game interesting for you, making the experience better for everyone.Discuss whatever you like about you, though it is good to know what you do for work/study.
- Character Questions
You may also wish to ask specifics about the character concept, build, primary motivation or otherwise, but which information you request will vary drastically from system to system.
Selecting Your Players
Selecting players for your game is a complex process and will vary drastically with every game. It's also a skill that takes time and experience to really hone. Don't be discouraged if it seems impossible to choose or your choices turn out poorly. Make the best choices you can and re-recruit later if you need to. Most games get many more applications than needed to fill out the game. Those applying know this, and there won't be any hard feelings from those you don't accept.
- Know what you need. If you need a party with a particular composition, then make sure that's what you pick. Don't be afraid to sacrifice your desired composition or take on an extra player because of a really excellent application, but generally, you should stick to your plan.
- Do not accept players who don't read your game ad. These are the people who ask questions that have clearly already been answered, request things that violate the terms you already set out, or ignore your submission format. If they can't pay attention to the ad, they likely won't pay close attention to your game.
- Do not accept players that seem disruptive or "irk" you. If they annoy you from the start, it will only go downhill from there.
- Watch out for cheese. Character builds that you aren't willing to deal with shouldn't be accepted, but don't reject it out of hand. Explain your objection to the player. Often, you'll find they're completely willing to change it.
- Know what you're getting into with newbie players. New players have to start someplace, but it doesn't necessarily have to be your game. Consider whether you have the time or patience to help them through the mechanics or through the basics of PbP gaming before taking on new people. Generally speaking, new players will do just fine with a small amount of help.
- Check posting histories. This isn't helpful for new players, but anyone who's been around the Weave for a little while has a history. Read posts from their existing games, look for consistency of posting from timestamps, and pay attention to where they post. The posts per day statistic isn't terribly helpful, as it just divides total number of posts by total number of days since joining, so don't accept or reject someone based solely on that number.
- Trust your gut. When you get a bad feeling about a particular player, don't accept them. Better to part ways now than invest tons of time and effort in the player and enable them to single-handedly destroy your game. Conversely, if you have a good feeling about a player, give them a shot. Largely this is a trial and error endeavor and it may take a while to get a solid group together.
- If your ad doesn't attract enough players to fill out your game, that doesn't mean you have to take everyone who applied and run the game anyway, especially if you're not happy with the interest you got. You can shut down the ad to rework the game idea, rewrite the ad, and/or change your policies. Offer to inform the interested players when you reopen applications for it. Try reposting the ad in the GM Workshop, asking for help fixing it up.
Inviting Your Players
Before inviting new members, get your game forum set up and ready to be viewed by your players. You only get one chance to make a first impression. That subject is discussed here: Setting Up Your New Game Forum
When the deadline for applications passes, put a new post in your game ad announcing that recruiting is now closed. If you already know who you wish to accept at that time, say so. You can list out the accepted people by username, but this isn't required. If you haven't made those decisions yet, let everyone know how long you expect to spend deliberating and set a deadline for yourself to post that. Once you've made the decisions, close the ad and send out game invites to the accepted players.
- Click on the Game Profile link. This takes you to the page that describes your personalized game. There are also other administrative functions here.
- Click on the Invite link. This opens up a private message email with a prefilled invitation message in the body. You may wish to customize your message, such as to direct the player to introduce themselves in the OOC thread or review a particular page or thread of house rules, etc.
- Type in the username of the person you wish to invite. This field does not have autocomplete, so you need to know exactly how to spell it.
- Press Send. Repeat the process for each player. Pending invitations are shown on the Game Profile Page. It is recommended that you also visit your Game Control Panel and set your game to 'Closed', which means users cannot send game requests. If you want people to be able to apply as Readers without asking first, leave it on 'Accepting'.


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