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PHOENIX (AP) — A woman charged in the Arizona stabbing and shooting death of her lover recounted Tuesday her abusive past, the numerous boyfriends who cheated on her, troubled relationships and how her life changed forever the day she met the victim.
Jodi Arias, 32, is accused of stabbing and slashing Travis Alexander 27 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. She initially denied any involvement, then later blamed it on masked intruders before eventually settling on self-defense.
Arias claims Alexander invited her to his home for a day of sex, then turned violent, forcing her to fight for her life. Prosecutors say she killed him in a jealous rage.
She could face the death penalty if convicted in a case that has been cable news fodder for weeks with lurid stories of sex, lies, religion and violence.
Arias testified Monday about her abusive childhood at the hands of her parents, and of a high school boyfriend who once tried to strangle her.
On Tuesday, she told jurors of other boyfriends — before she met Alexander — who cheated on her, lied to her, had alcohol problems and didn't treat her well. The defense claims Alexander, a successful businessman and motivational speaker, too, was abusive, both physically and mentally.
Arias said she first met Alexander at a Las Vegas convention in late 2006 after years of bad relationships, working multiple jobs and struggling to pay bills. She was enamored by him. She had been in a bad relationship, but after meeting Alexander, everything seemed different. She suddenly saw both personal and professional opportunities, a time to begin enjoying life.
"The things he said to me made a big impression on me," Arias told jurors, often staring directly at the panel as if having a conversation with them. She said Alexander allowed her to "step back and make me look at where I was and where I was going."
He also told her about his Mormon faith, she said.
Arias said she soon ended her relationship with another man and within a week, she saw Alexander again. That's when things became sexual, she testified.
While staying the night at a home of one of Alexander's friends, a day before he was to take her to church, she said the pair engaged in oral sex.
"I didn't want to tell him no so I just kept going with it," she said. "At that point in time, I was not really accustomed to saying no."
Throughout the trial, defense attorneys have depicted Alexander as a liar and a cheater who called Arias derogatory names, belittled her, and told her and other girlfriends that he was a devout Mormon saving sex for marriage, while in reality he was having sex with other women.
Arias' defense is attempting to build sympathy with jurors in hopes they won't convict her of first-degree murder, something that could potentially lead to a death sentence, by establishing a past littered with abuse, said California criminal defense lawyer Michael Cardoza, who has been following the trial.
"What they're doing is trying to elicit sympathy from the jury, to show, look at what this poor person had to go through throughout her life," Cardoza said.
It's a good technique, he said, but it could backfire if her testimony drags too long into the minutia of her life.
"They could start losing some jurors," Cardoza said. "They should really step it up and move it along because if jurors get bored, they could stop paying attention."
The trial began in early January with salacious details about a torrid romance between Arias and Alexander. She claims they dated for about five months, then broke up but continued to see each other for sex. Alexander's friends said she stalked him after the breakup and became possessive and jealous.
Arias said she lied early in the investigation about not being at the scene of the killing because she planned to commit suicide.
Authorities said they found her hair and bloody palm print at the scene of the killing, along with time-stamped photographs on a memory card in a camera discovered inside Alexander's washing machine that place Arias there on the day he died. The photos included one of Arias nude on his bed, one of Alexander alive in the shower, then one of his body on the bathroom floor.
Defense attorneys have yet to explain why Arias apparently attempted to clean the scene, washing Alexander's bedding and the camera, and what happened to the weapons.
Authorities say Alexander was shot in the head with a .25 caliber gun, the same caliber Arias' grandparents reported stolen from their Northern California home about a week before the killing.


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Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Thomas De Quincey
at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams. I knew her by her Roman symbols. Who is Levana? Reader, that do not pretend to have much leisure for very much scholarship, you will not be angry with me for telling you. Levana was the Roman goddess that performed for the new-born infant the earliest office of ennobling kindness,typical, by its mode, of that grandeur which belongs to man everywhere, and of that benignity in powers invisible which even in pagan worlds sometimes descends to sustain it. At the very moment of birth, just as the infant tasted for the first time the atmosphere of our troubled planet, it was laid on the ground. But immediately, lest so grand a creature should grovel there for more than one instant, either the paternal hand, as proxy for the goddess Levana, or some near kinsman, as proxy for the father, raised it upright, bade it look erect as the king of all this world, and presented its forehead to the stars, saying, perhaps, in his heart, Behold what is greater than yourselves! This symbolic act represented the function of Levana. And that mysterious lady, who never revealed her face (except to me in dreams), but always acted by delegation, had her name from the Latin verb (as still it is the Italian verb)
to raise aloft.
This is the explanation of Levana, and hence it has arisen that some people have understood by Levana the tutelary power that controls the education of the nursery. She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. She therefore watches over human education. Now the word
with the penultimate short, was derived (by a process often exemplified in the crystallisation of languages) from the word educo, with the penultimate long. Whatever
or develops,
By the education of Levana, therefore, is meant,not the poor machinery that moves by spelling-books and grammars, but by that mighty system of central forces hidden in the deep bosom of human life, which by passion, by strife, by temptation, by the energies of resistance, works for ever upon children,resting not night or day, any more than the mighty wheel of day and night themselves, whose moments, like restless spokes, are glimmering for ever as they revolve.
If, then,
are the ministries by which Levana works, how profoundly must she reverence the agencies of grief. But you, reader! think,that children are not liable to such grief as mine. There are two senses in the word
the sense of Euclid, where it means
(or in the whole extent of the
), and in a foolish sense of this word, where it means
Now, I am far from saying that children universally are capable of grief like mine. But there are more than you ever heard of who die of grief in this island of ours. I will tell you a common case. The rules of Eton require that a boy on the
should be there twelve years: he is superannuated at eighteen, consequently he must come at six. Children torn away from mothers and sisters at that age not unfrequently die. I speak of what I know. The complaint is not entered by the registrar as grief; but
it is. Grief of that sort, and at that age, has killed more than have ever been counted amongst its martyrs.
Therefore it is that Levana often communes with the powers that shake a mans heart: therefore it is that she dotes on grief. These ladies, said I softly to myself, on seeing the ministers with whom Levana was conversing, these are the Sorrows; and they are three in number, as the
are three, who dress mans life with beauty; the
are three, who weave the dark arras of mans life in their mysterious loom, always with colours sad in part, sometimes angry with tragic crimson and black; the
are three, who visit with retribution called from the other side of the grave offences that walk upon this; and once even the
were but three, who fit the harp, the trumpet, or the lute, to the great burdens of mans impassioned creations. These are the Sorrows, all three of whom I know.
The last words I say
but in Oxford I said, One of whom I know, and the others too surely I
know. For already, in my fervent youth, I saw (dimly relieved upon the dark background of my dreams) the imperfect lineaments of the awful sisters. These sistersby what name shall we call them? If I say simply, The Sorrows, there will be a chance of mistaking the term; it might be understood of individual sorrow,separate cases of sorrow,whereas I want a term expressing the mighty abstractions that incarnate themselves in all individual sufferings of mans heart; and I wish to have these abstractions presented as impersonations, that is, as clothed with human attributes of life, and with functions pointing to flesh. Let us call them, therefore,
Our Ladies of Sorrow.
I know them thoroughly, and have walked in all their kingdoms. Three sisters they are, of one mysterious household; and their paths are wide apart; but of their dominion there is no end. Them I saw often conversing with Levana, and sometimes about myself. Do they talk, then? O, no! mighty phantoms like these disdain the infirmities of language. They may utter voices through the organs of man when they dwell in human hearts, but amongst themselves there is no voice nor sound; eternal silence reigns in
spoke not, as they talked with Levana;
whispered not;
sang not; though oftentimes methought they
have sung, for I upon earth had heard their mysteries oftentimes deciphered by harp and timbrel, by dulcimer and organ. Like God, whose servants they are, they utter their pleasure, not by sounds that perish, or by words that go astray, but by signs in heaven, by changes on earth, by pulses in secret rivers, heraldries painted on darkness, and hieroglyphics written on the tablets of the brain.
wheeled in mazes;
spelled the steps.
telegraphed from afar;
read the signals.
conspired together; and on the mirrors of darkness
eye traced the plots.
were the symbols;
are the words.
What is it the sisters are? What is it that they do? Let me describe their form, and their presence: if form it were that still fluctuated in its outline, or presence it were that for ever advanced to the front, or for ever receded amongst shades.
The eldest of the three is named
Mater Lachrymarum,
Our Lady of Tears. She it is that night and day raves and moans, calling for vanished faces. She stood in Rama, where a voice was heard of lamentation,Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted. She it was that stood in Bethlehem on the night when Herods sword swept its nurseries of Innocents, and the little feet were stiffened for ever, which, heard at times as they tottered along floors overhead, woke pulses of love in household hearts that were not unmarked in heaven.
Her eyes are sweet and subtle, wild and sleepy, by turns; oftentimes rising to the clouds, oftentimes challenging the heavens. She wears a diadem round her head. And I knew by childish memories that she could go abroad upon the winds, when she heard the sobbing of litanies or the thundering of organs, and when she beheld the mustering of summer clouds. This sister, the eldest, it is that carries keys more than papal at her girdle, which open every cottage and every palace. She, to my knowledge, sat all last summer by the bedside of the blind beggar, him that so often and so gladly I talked with, whose pious daughter, eight years old, with the sunny countenance, resisted the temptations of play and village mirth to travel all day long on dusty roads with her afflicted father. For this did God send her a great reward. In the spring-time of the year, and whilst yet her own Spring was budding, he recalled her to himself. But her blind father mourns for ever over
still he dreams at midnight that the little guiding hand is locked within his own; and still he wakens to a darkness that is
within a second and a deeper darkness. This
Mater Lachrymarum
has also been sitting all this winter of 18445 within the bed-chamber of the Czar, bringing before his eyes a daughter (not less pious) that vanished to God not less suddenly, and left behind her a darkness not less profound. By the power of the keys it is that Our Lady of tears glides a ghostly intruder into the chambers of sleepless men, sleepless women, sleepless children, from Ganges to Nile, from Nile to Mississippi. And her, because she is the first-born of her house, and has the widest empire, let us honour with the title of Madonna!
The second sister is called
Mater Suspiriorum
Our Lady of Sighs. She never scales the clouds, nor walks abroad upon the winds. She wears no diadem. And her eyes, if they were ever seen, would be neither sweet nor subtle; no man could read their story; they would be found filled with perishing dreams, and with wrecks of forgotten delirium. But she raises not her eyes; her head, on which sits a dilapidated turban, droops for ever, for ever fastens on the dust. She weeps not. She groans not. But she sighs inaudibly at intervals. Her sister, Madonna, is oftentimes stormy and frantic, raging in the highest against heaven, and demanding back her darlings. But Our Lady of Sighs never clamours, never defies, dreams not of rebellious aspirations. She is humble to abjectness. Hers is the meekness that belongs to the hopeless. Murmur she may, but it is in her sleep. Whisper she may, but it is to herself in the twilight; Mutter she does at times, but it is in solitary places that are desolate as she is desolate, in ruined cities, and when the sun has gone down to his rest. This sister is the visitor of the Pariah, of the Jew, of the bondsman to the oar in the Mediterranean galleys; and of the English criminal in Norfolk Island, blotted out from the books of remembrance in sweet far-off England; of the baffled penitent reverting his eyes for ever upon a solitary grave, which to him seems the altar overthrown of some past and bloody sacrifice, on which altar no oblations can now be availing, whether towards pardon that he might implore, or towards reparation that he might attempt. Every slave that at noonday looks up to the tropical sun with timid reproach, as he points with one hand to the earth, our general mother, but for
a stepmother,as he points with the other hand to the Bible, our general teacher, but against
sealed and sequestered;every woman sitting in darkness, without love to shelter her head, or hope to illumine her solitude, because the heaven-born instincts kindling in her nature germs of holy affections which God implanted in her womanly bosom, having been stifled by social necessities, now burn sullenly to waste, like sepulchral lamps amongst the ancients; every nun defrauded of her unreturning May-time by wicked kinsman, whom God will judge; every captive in every dungeon; all that are betrayed and all that are rejected outcasts by traditionary law, and children of
disgrace,all these walk with Our Lady of Sighs. She also carries a key; but she needs it little. For her kingdom is chiefly amongst the tents of Shem, and the houseless vagrant of every clime. Yet in the very highest walks of man she finds chapels of her own; and even in glorious England there are some that, to the world, carry their heads as proudly as the reindeer, who yet secretly have received her mark upon their foreheads. But the third sister, who is also the youngest! Hush, whisper whilst we talk of
Her kingdom is not large, or else no flesh should live; but within that kingdom all power is hers. Her head, turreted like that of Cybele, rises almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not; and her eyes rising so high
be hidden by distance; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing tide, may be read from the very ground. She is the defier of God. She is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestress of suicides. Deep lie the roots of her power; but narrow is the nation that she rules. For she can approach only those in whom a profound nature has been upheaved by central convulsions; in whom the heart trembles, and the brain rocks under conspiracies of tempest from without and tempest from within. Madonna moves with uncertain steps, fast or slow, but still with tragic grace. Our Lady of Sighs creeps timidly and stealthily. But this youngest sister moves with incalculable motions, bounding, and with tigers leaps. She carries no key; for, though coming rarely amongst men, she storms all doors at which she is permitted to enter at all. And
name is
Mater Tenebrarum
Our Lady of Darkness.
These were the
Semnai Theai,
or Sublime Goddesses, these were the
or Gracious Ladies (so called by antiquity in shuddering propitiation), of my Oxford dreams. Madonna spoke. She spoke by her mysterious hand. Touching my head, she said to Our Lady of Sighs; and
she spoke, translated out of the signs which (except in dreams) no man reads, was this:
Lo! here is he, whom in childhood I dedicated to my altars. This is he that once I made my darling. Him I led astray, him I beguiled, and from heaven I stole away his young heart to mine. Through me did he become idolatrous; and through me it was, by languishing desires, that he worshipped the worm, and prayed to the wormy grave. Holy was the grave to him; lovely was its darkness; saintly its corruption. Him, this young idolater, I have seasoned for thee, dear gentle Sister of Sighs! Do thou take him now to
heart, and season him for our dreadful sister. And thou,turning to the
Mater Tenebrarum,
she said,wicked sister, that temptest and hatest, do thou take him from
See that thy sceptre lie heavy on his head. Suffer not woman and her tenderness to sit near him in his darkness. Banish the frailties of hope, wither the relenting of love, scorch the fountain of tears, curse him as only thou canst curse. So shall he be accomplished in the furnace, so shall he see the things that ought not to be seen, sights that are abominable, and secrets that are unutterable. So shall he read elder truths, sad truths, grand truths, fearful truths. So shall he rise again
he dies, and so shall our commission be accomplished which from God we had,to plague his heart until we had unfolded the capacities of his spirit.
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2012-13 Season (Freshman): Competed in 15.5 rounds...Posted a season-best round of 80 twice, once at the third round Northern Athletics Conference Championships (Apr. 21) and the other at the Marian Spring Invitational (Apr. 15)...Averaged an 86.52 over his 15.5 rounds...Fired an 82 in the second round of the MSOE Invitational (Oct. 1).
High School (Heritage Christian): Earned the Academic Excellence Award...Named All-Midwest Athletics Conference Second Team in soccer and golf...Earned varsity letters in soccer, basketball and golf.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Anquan Boldin's sensational San Francisco debut helped keep the 49ers on quite a roll against Green Bay.
And Vernon Davis did his part in a prolific passing game led by Colin Kaepernick in a 34-28 victory over the Packers on Sunday.
From Super Bowl champion Baltimore to contender again with another coach named Harbaugh, Boldin was unstoppable. He caught 13 passes for 208 yards and a touchdown.
Davis made a pair of TD catches as Kaepernick threw for a career-high 412 yards for the NFC champion Niners.
Boldin sure showed he is a reliable replacement for injured 2012 top wideout Michael Crabtree.
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FOX is aiming for May 25th, 2007 for the comedy Used Guys. It will currently put it up against the sequels "Spider-Man 3", "Shrek 3" and "Indiana Jones 4".
In Used Guys he will co-star with Ben Stiller (Meet the Parents, DodgeBall, Meet the Fockers) and directed by Jay Roach (Meet the Parents, Austin Powers 1, 2 and 3, Meet the Fockers). Filming begins in spring 2006.
The plot described by Jim Carrey:
A futuristic world where women rule because men screwed it up so badly. Men are bought and sold like cars. We`re clones. Ben and I play different models. I`m the keep-the-woman-up-all-night model and Ben is the safe model. They`re searching for a place called Mantopia, where men can still be men.


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The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Cinema 21: Far from Afghanistan & RR
December 19thand 20th, 2012, 7 p.m. Gorgona Hall
Cinema 21
Where are the films for the 21stcentury cinema? With this question we announce Cinema 21, a new film program in the Museum of Contemporary Art, for cinema viewers of our time.
The Cinema 21 program is about mutations of the dominant esthetic form of the last century, in a time that perhaps is no longer a cinematic or cinema-centric time; it reveals current modes of cinematic production that provide a frame and a voice to contemporary artistic and political landscapes, or resist them.
The specific character of the Cinema 21 program cannot be separated from its location; it is cinema on the location of contemporary art. The first post-cinema space of this kind necessarily provokes contradictions, mirrorings and correspondences. We promote a concept of cinema in a separate space, whose thought and memory produces relations with other kinds of moving pictures – a cinematic structure of sensing the post-cinema emotion of our time.
Wednesday, 12/19
Far from Afghanistan (John Gianvito, Travis Wilkerson, Jon Jost, Minda Martin, Soon-Mi Yoo, 2012.
Thursday, 12/20
RR/ James Benning, 2007.
35mm, color, sound, 112 min.
We will open the program with two provocative films about different conceptual policies of images. The first is a collective political film Far from Afghanistan (http://farfromafghanistan.org); its title, method, and open criticism of ten-year American presence in Afghanistan, as well as the authorial work of collective members John Gianvito, Travis Wilkerson and Jon Jost, remind us of the paradigmatic film of artistic activism, Far from Vietnam by the S.L.O.N. group (Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard).
What follows is personal politics of physical and mental landscape in a film of trains and railways, RR by James Benning, whose fascinating art transcends film images of American empire, as well as neo-avant-garde menippean of American structural visionary cinema.
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Kristen Stewart Parades in Burberry
Kristen Stewart keeps it cool in Burberry Prorsum threads at the lux label's Autumn/Winter 2010 womenswear show at the Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art on Tuesday (February 23) in London, England.
Last night, the 19-year-old Twilight actress donned Pucci at the Elle Style Awards 2010 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, also in London.
Kristen and co-star Taylor Lautner are set to present at the Oscars ceremony next month. Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron are also confirmed.
FYI: Kristen plays Joan Jett in the upcoming movie, The Runaways. Joan talked about Kristen in a recent Q&A, check it out at InterviewMagazine.com!
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by Jill E. White
This strategy keeps your scanning efforts organized and your attentiveness high. Follow these steps to perform the 5-Minute Scanning Strategy:
1. Consistently scan your zone, sweeping your eyes and turning your head so that you can see every area of the zone every 10 seconds.
2. Use the same scanning pattern for five minutes. A scanning pattern is an organized system that you follow when you sweep your eyes across the zone. Maintaining a scanning pattern helps you stay alert and provide consistent coverage of all areas of your zone. Common scanning patterns include sweeping your eyes side to side or up and down as you look at sections of your zone.
3. As you scan, triage your efforts and first look at the bottom and under the water. Then assess the patrons in your zone that are on the surface and look for behaviors that may indicate distress or drowning.
4. Every five minutes, change posture, position, and pattern. The goal of these changes is to keep you alert through physical movement and mental activity.
Used with permission of Dr. Tom Griffiths.
Make significant position and posture changes by switching from sitting to standing then to strolling. For example, during the first five minutes of your rotation, sit. During the next five minutes, stand. Then stroll for the next five minutes. Alternate between sitting and standing if strolling is not practical.
If your facility has elevated lifeguard stands with only a small step for your feet, it may not be practical to stand or stroll. In this instance, you will have to identify other ways to meet the objective of keeping alert through physical movement.
A strategy for keeping your mind active and focused is to think about which patrons or places in your zone may be high risk, and visually make contact with these patrons and places during your scan. Next, mentally rehearse a rescue.
Your facility may have a communication system in place so that you can signal to other lifeguards at the end of each five-minute scan that your zone is okay. Common signals used during the five-minute scan to indicate that the zone is OK include a raised "thumbs-up," a raised rescue tube, or a short whistle blast (see Communications Signals on page 53). Other scanning strategies may be necessary in situations where you cannot see the bottom, such as in a waterfront or wilderness setting (see chapter 15).
You can't provide constant and dedicated surveillance for one zone for an extended period; it becomes physically and mentally too difficult. To give you breaks away from surveillance responsibilities, your facility should have a system for frequently moving lifeguards from one location to another. When another lifeguard comes to take over your zone, this change is called a rotation.
This is an excerpt from StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Third Edition.
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AT&T is the exclusive launch partner for the newly announced Nokia Lumia 1020 here in the United States. Ralph de la Vega, AT&Ts CEO, took the stage today during the Nokia Zoom event in NYC to announce the availability date for the Lumia 1020 – July 26. AT&T also just put up some videos on their YouTube channel highlighting the 1020. Let's check them out.
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Jericho Lake State ParkApril 19. 2011 8:51PM
Just a few miles northwest of downtown Berlin you will find one of the newest additions to the state park system. Jericho Mountain State Park provides opportunities for miles of trail riding for ATV, UTV, trail bike, and snowmobile enthusiasts alike. Open to the public, but still in development, the park will continue to have more miles added to the trail network over the next several years.
Throughout the park, visitors are treated to a number of scenic outlooks. Park guests can also enjoy swimming, fishing, canoeing, or picnicking at Jericho Lake. Further development plans for the park include a ride-in/ride-out campground, several remote tent sites, group picnic pavilions, administrative offices, and improved beach facilities.
Location: Off Route 110, Jericho Lake Road, Berlin
Phone: 603-752-6060 (Northern White Mountain Chamber of Commerce)
Activities: ATV, Moto-X, Mountain Biking, Hiking, Snowshoeing, Camping, Hunting, Fishing, Boating, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling
Amenities: Although currently under development, additional amenities will include bathhouses, a campground, a day-use beach, and a training center for riding and safety education.
Operation Schedule:
Day-Use Weekend: Year-Round. Trails are closed during mud season: April (or loss of continuous snow cover) through May 23.
Daily: Year-Round. Trails are closed during mud season: April (or loss of continuous snow cover) through May 23.
Camping: To be announced
Acreage: 7,200 acres
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Jericho Lake (also known as "man made lake"), was built in the 1970's in a low-lying area of Berlin originally called Dead River Pond or "Green's Pond" in the 1800's.
The newly purchased 7,200 acre park is currently under development, primarily as an ATV Park. Future plans include a day-use beach, at Jericho Lake Park, a campground, and cross-country skiing trails.
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|2007-02-28, 22:18
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Roma Paku is my fav seiyuu ever!! (Ed from FMA, Hitsugaya from Bleach)
Notables are Mamoru Miyano, Jun Fukuyama, Megumi Ogata, Kenichi Suzumura, Daisuke Namikawa and Tomokazu Sugita
|2007-03-02, 16:49
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Thanks for mentioning Paku Romi. I'm fascinated by her lately. She is so great as rocker Nana in NANA -- real acting. And I just finished watching Turn A Gundam, from 1999, where she made the male lead, Loran Cehack, such an attractive person.
This is a bit of a cross-post, but here is a photo of her with Hirano Aya recently, when they went out for lunch after a recording session for NANA (in which Aaya is also wonderful, as Layla). Romi's 35 and Aaya is 19:
She was born in Japan to Korean parents (whose families had been in Japan for two and three generations), speaks fluent Korean, graduated from a Japanese university and studied for a time at a university in Korea. Like seiyuus Takahashi Rieko and Hosokoshi Michiko (both of whom were in Simoun) she is a member of the theatre group En. She and Takahashi-san starred together in Turn A Gundam.
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Location: The Bahamas
Age: 33
Tanaka Rie - Is the perfect example of what a goddess should sound like (my favorite roles of hers are: Tomoe (Mai Otome), Suigintou (Rozen Maiden), Lacus Clyne (Gundam SEED/Destiny) and the list goes on. She'll always be my number one. <3<3<3
Noto Mamiko - Her voice is absolutely lovely. Definitely the most beautiful voice I've ever heard in all the years I've lived.
Tamura Yukari - How can I resist her voice? I mean seriously, "ka na, ka na?"
Junko Minagawa - I love her "feminine woman" type roles such as Cornelia ( Code Geass) and Ayaka (Negima!?). She possesses a voice I can fall in love with.
Nakahara Mai - Gets much love from me for roles such as Tokiha Mai and Rena (Mai HiME and Mai Otome). I always love to her more from her.
Hirano Aya - Need I say more? She's all the rage.
Kugimiya Rie - Love her as Shana and I can't wait to hear her as Nagi in Hayate the Combat Butler.
Matsutani Kaya - She hasn't done many roles, but I love her as Matsumoto Rangiku in BLEACH.
Touma Yumi - Has one of the most sultry voices I've ever heard as Urd in Ah! My Goddess.
Romi Paku - Need I even explain why? She has done so many voices and has a range that would make most other seiyuu jealous. She's definitely among the best of the best.
Sugita Tomokazu - His performances as Kyon, Rin, Yuuichi are among the most amazing I've heard among male seiyuu.
Seki Tomokazu - This guy is awesome. Great performances as Shinichi (Nodame Cantabile), Kenichi (History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi), and Gilgamesh (Fate/Stay Night)
Hmm...I hope I'm not forgetting anyone.
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|2007-07-31, 21:25
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Gotouza sama > i love her very much and her voice too ^0^ and because....
i like her performance as hayasaka hiyori (mizuiro), nanami (lamune), mikuru (suzumiya haruhi no yutsu), and many more
Hirano Aya dama > cool
Nonaka Ai > cute voice
Noto Mamiko > her voice so calm and lovely
Aoki Sayaka > hmmmm, i like her voice too and her performance in.... kiki....
Kuwatani Natsuko > have many voice
|2007-08-01, 08:36
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Join Date: Dec 2005
my current favorites are
Nakajima Saki - Dorothy from MARheaven -Karin To heart 2
Kugimiya Rie - Uematsu from Pitaten, -nagi in hayata no gokuto, Elric FMA
Ito Shizuka - Tamaki from To Heart 2, -Akiha from Tsukhime,
Hirano Aya - Suzumiya Haruhi, -Mamori in eyeshield, -President in Sumomomo
Tanaka rie - Mariel in Hanaukyo maid tai, Suigintou in Rozen maiden
|2007-08-01, 09:04
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In a world all my own
I'm embaressed to say that most japanese seiyuu do not make enough of an impression on me to develope a "favorite".
Probably the most memorable (to me) voice acting, was by Yui Itsuki's work as Moe Mizukoshi in D.C. ~Da Capo~. The dreamy voice was just so unique, memorable, and was an integral part of the character's charm.
|2007-09-23, 11:30
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
Age: 28
Toshihiko Seki- He was voice actor for few my of favorite character, Duo Maxwell, and Bleed Kaga. He also did excellent job with Rau, and Masato in Zeorymer.
Nobuyuki Hiyama- This men is awesome, he did voice for my favorite character Gai Shishio. He did a nice job on 556, Azrael, and Shiro Amada. His role as hotblooded character is just awesome.
|2007-09-23, 20:36
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Eye Have You
Tomokazu Seki- did Sagara Sousuke from FMP!, my favorite anime
Horie Yui- Naru Narusegawa from Love Hina
Yukino Satsuni- very versatile, done a range of characters from Yoruichi of Bleach to my favorite female anime character, Chidori Kaname from FMP!
Hirano Aya- been said many times on the thread, but her job as Haruhi deserves it IMO
|2007-09-26, 22:27
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Stanford, CA
Norio Wakamoto - Probably has the most unique and interesting voice of them all. He really makes me laugh every time I hear him.
Kazuya Nakai - All his characters are badass samurai of some sort (Zoro - One Piece, Mugen - Samurai Champloo, Hijikata - Gintama, Yajirou - Grenadier and so on...). He does a great job making them both badass and funny at the same time.
Hoshi Souichiro - Really versatile. He can sound both quiet and timid (Kira Yamato, Kazuki from Getbackers) and really gutsy and powerful (Kazuma from Scryed, Nagi Souichiro from Tenjou Tenge). It's like he's two different people, though I like the latter one better.
Shuuichi Ikeda - Voices either powerful charismatic villains or again powerful father/protector figures (Dullindal from GSD, Shin Natsume from Tenjou Tenge, Hiko Seijiro from Kenshin). Either way his voice creates an air of superiority and confidence in his characters.
Toshihiko Seki - Great for voicing villain characters (Le Kruze from SEED, Reito from Mai HIME etc.). His voice carries with him an arrogance and confidence typical of his characters.
Yukino Satsuki - Can sound both cute and funny, also incredibly versatile. Usually voices violent girls who can be kind and caring at the same time (Chidori - FMP, Kagome - Inuuyasha).
Paku Romi/Megumi Ogata - Both of them can voice both male and female characters incredibly and that by itself is a great feat, but their voices are also incredibly deep and powerful.
Rie Tanaka - Voices girls who are cute and lovable, but at the same time possess great confidence and strength and her voice does that job rather well(Lacus Clyne - SEED, Simca - Air Gear)
There are probably many more that I'm forgetting but for now I'll stick with those.
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SPRING VALLEY – The Hall Red Devils couldn't recover from a poor shooting first half on Tuesday night.
The Colmone Classic hosts connected on just 6 of 27 shots, and leading scorer Brett Fanning was held scoreless in the opening half as the Plano Reapers jumped out to a 12-point halftime lead.
Hall battled back to get within four points in the fourth quarter, but the Reapers held off the comeback bid to win 62-52 in the nightcap of the second night of tournament action.
"We were 22 percent in the first half; that's why we lost," said Hall coach Mike Filippini. "It wasn't because of a lack of effort or anything like that. When you shoot 22 percent in a half, you are not going to beat very many teams."
After falling behind 12 points at the break, Filippini wanted to his team to get the deficit within single digits heading into the final period, so his team could stay within striking distance.
The Red Devils answered that challenge.
Consecutive three-pointers from the right baseline by Fanning and Ian Trevier started an 8-0 run in the final two minutes of the third. Trevier's three was part of a rare five-point play as Fanning was fouled by Jon McDermott while fighting for rebounding position. Fanning sank both free throws to make it 39-35.
However, Hall would never get closer than four points in the final eight minutes as Plano played a near perfect fourth quarter. The Reapers made five of seven shots from the field, but more importantly sank 13 of 14 freethrows, which was huge from a team shooting 52 percent from the line coming into the game.
"They are not that high of a free-throw shooting team, and they weren't even hitting the rim in the fourth quarter," said Filippini. "They looked like Larry Bird shooting free throws. We went to the foul early, and they made their free throws. We put them on the line enough to prove it, and they proved it."
Plano point guard Elijah Wallace made seven of eight free-throws and scored 11 of his game-high 23 points in the fourth quarter. When the Reapers needed a big bucket, he provided it.
"To be honest I was a little bit nervous towards the end," said Wallace. "They went on a bit of a run, and I'm glad we were able to come away with the win. We knew that (Fanning) was good; they were a pretty athletic team; and they were going to play hard. It was a good game. They gave us a run for our money."
After being shut out in the first half, Fanning finished with 17 points to lead Hall. Two straight transition layups in the first 25 seconds of the third quarter was all he needed to get going as he shot six of eight in the second half after an zero for eight first half.
Miguel Villarreal and Danny Nolasco were also in double figures for Hall (3-7) with 13 and 10 points, respectively.
"Even though we were down we had some other guys chipping in," said Filippini. "Miguel had a nice offensive game. Nolasco was in double digits. Austin Schmidt had a great game on defense. He had two or three steals and got his hand on some passes. We had some other guys step up."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — There were a lot of people who thought Reggie Bullock was making a mistake by declaring for this year's NBA draft with one year of eligibility still remaining at North Carolina.
Even his former college coach, Roy Williams, felt that he could improve his standing by playing one more season with the Tar Heels.
Bullock disagreed.
So did the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Clippers had one selection in Thursday's NBA draft — No. 25 overall — and they used it on Bullock.
"I wouldn't say I was surprised but I was pleasantly pleased," Clippers vice president of operations Gary Sacks said, referring to Bullock's availability when it was his team's turn to make a selection. "He was one of our top guys on our board and we felt like what he brings to the table will really help us. He brings a couple of things to the table that can help us right away."
The 6-foot-7, 205-pound shooting guard showed steady improvement during his three years with the Tar Heels. He averaged 13.9 points per game in 2012-13 while being selected as a second team All-ACC player.
He ended his collegiate career with 188 3-pointers, good for eighth place on UNC's all-time list. His career .387 shooting percentage from behind the 3-point line is 11th best in school history.
Bullock helped the Tar Heels to a 20-11 record last season. North Carolina ended its season in the second round of the NCAA tournament with a 70-58 loss to Kansas.
The last couple of days have been hectic for the Clippers, with the draft and recent hiring of Doc Rivers as coach. One thing that made the transition and timing more manageable was the fact that Rivers, as the Boston Celtics coach, also had an eye on Bullock. He might be an even better fit for the Clippers.
"I like him," Rivers said. "That's one of the guys that we wanted. We felt like we needed more shooting and he does that.
"Having been a guy that went to a lot of Duke games and Duke-North Carolina games, I got to see him up close. He has size, can play the small forward position, he can shoot it on the catch and he can defend. Those are all of the things that we targeted, and that's what we got."
One part of Bullock's game that caught Rivers by surprise was his defensive skills. Rivers knew that Bullock had a shooting touch from the outside but the added skill comes as a bonus.
"One thing I didn't know was that he could defend," Rivers said. "I'd heard about it but I was surprised by his size and defense."
"I think he takes pride in guarding his man," Sacks added. "I think he's really good as a team defender and working within a system. He puts a lot of effort into his defensive ability and he wants to shut down the guy he's guarding."
Rivers said he is happy with what he sees on the Clippers' current roster and feels that it would be better to add to it than to take away from it. Bullock seems to be a good fit for that strategy.
"He knows what he does and he never strays away from that," Rivers explained. "You could tell that Williams was probably beating that into him: 'You're a shooter. You're a catch-and-shoot player.'
"But he never put himself in a position where he could make a mistake and that's really nice when you see players like that. When he was open, he shot it. There was no hesitation. When he wasn't open, he passed it. He didn't try and do too much."
Since the Clippers had just one selection in the draft, Sacks said that he contacted other teams about the possibility of adding more picks but that nothing worked out.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thomas Bach is the man to beat as the IOC elects a leader to take the Olympic body into the next decade.
After awarding the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo and bringing wrestling back into the games, the International Olympic Committee votes for a new president on Tuesday.
Bach, a 59-year-old German lawyer and IOC vice president, is the clear front-runner to succeed Jacques Rogge, the 71-year-old Belgian who is stepping down after 12 years in office.
Bach, who also heads Germany's national Olympic committee, is among six candidates vying for the most powerful job in international sports.
Richard Carrion, a Puerto Rican banking executive who heads the IOC's finance commission, and vice president Ng Ser Miang of Singapore are viewed as the top challengers.
Also on the ballot are executive board members Sergei Bubka of Ukraine and C.K. Wu of Taiwan and former board member Denis Oswald of Switzerland.
Going into the final hours of the campaign, all signs pointed to a large bloc of support lined up behind Bach.
If Bach is elected, he would continue Europe's hold on the presidency. Of the IOC's eight leaders, all have come from Europe except for Avery Brundage, the American who ran the committee from 1952-72.
Bach would also be the first Olympic gold medalist to become IOC president. He won gold in team fencing for West Germany in 1976.
"This is like I'm an athlete and I'm just in front of a great final," Bach said Monday. "You feel you have done all your training, the test events have been going pretty well, so you can go with confidence in the competition. But you have to know that, at the grand final, everybody is on the same starting line."
Bach has long been viewed as the favorite because of his resume: former Olympic athlete, long-serving member on the policy-making IOC executive board, chairman of the legal commission, head of anti-doping investigations and negotiator of European TV rights.
As with most IOC votes, nothing is ever certain. The election is done by secret ballot, so promises made to candidates are never a sure thing.
With more than 90 members eligible to vote, a simple majority is required for victory. If there is no winner in the first round, the candidate with the fewest votes goes out. The system continues for each round until one man secures a majority. The president is elected to an eight-year term, with the possibility of a second four-year mandate.
Bach's supporters believe he has enough support to win in the first round. If not, his rivals believe they could chip away at his lead through subsequent rounds.
The campaign, which had been relatively civil, took a nasty turn in recent days, with Oswald attacking Bach in a Swiss radio interview, accusing him of using his business connections and links with Kuwait to help his candidacy.
None of the six candidates has made any dramatic proposals for change, promising to continue the line pursued by Rogge, particularly in the fight against doping.
The election follows Saturday's IOC decision to send the 2020 Games to Tokyo and Sunday's vote to reinstate wrestling for the 2020 and 2024 Games. The presidential vote is what most of the 100-plus IOC members have been focusing on.
"It's absolutely the most important decision we make — to find the right person tomorrow," senior Norwegian member Gerhard Heiberg said Monday.
Much of the pre-election talk among the members has been about the power of Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti who heads the Association of National Olympic Committees.
The sheik is a key backer of Bach. With his influence in Asia and among the national Olympic committees, the Kuwaiti can deliver a large number of votes. He was seen as playing a key role in Tokyo's victory, even helping Istanbul get to the second round of voting to keep Madrid out of the final.
"Of course, he has influence through his position in ANOC," Heiberg said. "How much that would mean in practice tomorrow, I have no idea. This is a secret ballot."
Carrion, the 60-year-old head of Puerto Rico's Banco Popular, has earned respect as the IOC's money man. He negotiated the record $4.38 billion deal with NBC for U.S. TV rights through 2020 and has overseen the steady growth in the IOC's financial reserves.
"I think it is very important that the potential president has a clean sheet and more importantly, that has independence in terms of decisions that need to be made," Carrion said Monday.
Ng, a 64-year-old businessman and diplomat, is a popular member who organized the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010 and represents an Asian continent that is growing in world influence.
However, Tokyo's victory would seem to have dented Ng's chances, making it difficult for the IOC to give Asia two major prizes back to back.
"I think Asia has been having a good run, rightly so, with two-thirds of the world's population, growing influence politically, economically, in sports as well," Ng said Monday. "I think we can look forward to exciting times."
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Magical 'moonbows'
The time: While most Yosemite visitors are asleep in their sleeping bags, photographers roam the valley in search of light – but not just any light. The shear granite walls, the roaring waterfalls, the clear skies and glorious topography can be shot with light from the stars and the moon. With a tripod in hand, a cable release for long exposures and some basic ideas about time exposures, anyone can conquer the night and come back with stellar photos.
The most popular phenomenon happens every year in May and June when the moon is full. Photographers from all over the world come to witness an event that happens when the full moon is in perfect alignment with the mist of the Yosemite Falls. They even have a name for it: "moonbow," a feat of nature in which each component clicks into place like a Swiss timepiece. The full moon has to rise to a perfect angle, clearing the granite walls of the valley so light rays can diffract the heavy mist off the roaring waterfall. Each time this happens, there's roughly a one-hour window of time before the angle of the moon changes and the moonbow disappears.
I made the short hike to the Lower Yosemite Fall with resident Yosemite photographer Nancy Robbins, who made a perfect moonbow picture several years ago by aligning it with the Big Dipper. (Now everyone wants a picture just like hers.) When I reached the viewing bridge and caught my first glimpse of the rainbow effect, I stood in absolute awe of the scene before me. The moonbow at first looked very opalescent and a bit silvery, but as my tired, middle-aged eyes gradually adjusted to the scene, the colors became more obvious — and more fantastic.
The shot: I shot with a Canon 7D camera, with a 16mm-35mm zoom with the aperture set at f/4.5, and I left the shutter open for 30 seconds. Standing next to a roaring waterfall means bringing towels and plastic bags for your cameras and a rain poncho or waterproof jacket for yourself. While taking this shot, you'll feel the heavy mist (which can feel like a heavy rain); just remember to wipe water drops off the front element or filter of the lens and keep your cameras dry.
The tip: Check the Yosemite National Park website for a chart that shows the time of the moonrise and optimum viewing times to see moonbows.
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As a member of the FAA/Industry Transport Airplane Performance Planning (TAPP) Work Group, NBAA has posted four instructional videos it helped create on aircraft performance planning on its website and YouTube channel. TAPP's goal is to improve pilot and operator understanding of transport aircraft performance, which leads to improved planning and operation. The work group's inaugural offering in a planned series of videos addresses long-standing questions and issues frequently faced in planning the performance of transport category airplanes, including FAR Part 91 and 135 requirements. View the videos.
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The FAA added new guidance in the August 27, 2009 Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) concerning expected aircraft performance on TERPS-based Standard Instrument Departure Procedures (SIDs) and Obstacle Departure Procedures (ODPs). The AIM now makes clear to pilots that these departure procedures assume normal aircraft performance and that all engines are operating. Contingency procedures addressing an engine failure or other emergency in flight that may occur after liftoff are the responsibility of the operator. This new guidance was included in the AIM in response to numerous inquiries by operators concerning the need to comply with a SID or ODP climb gradient following an engine failure on takeoff above V1 speed.
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The Detroit Lions have released OG Jeff Maddux and have released CB Maurice Leggett (undisclosed) from Injured Reserve. The team has also waived injured SS Randy Phillips (shoulder).
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The Detroit Lions signed 14 undrafted rookie free agents Thursday, July 28. The list includes DE Daunte Akra (Wayne State), WR Dominique Barnes (Youngstown State), CB Branden Bufford (Howard), LB Quentin Davie (Northwestern), FB Preston Dial (Alabama), P Ryan Donohue (Iowa), LB Dejuan Fulghum (Texas Southern), WR Marcus Harris (Murray State), OG Pat Illig (Wofford), WR Jared Jenkings (Wisconsin-Stevens Point), OG Jeff Maddux (Central Michigan), LB Cobrani Mixon (Kent State), S Ricardo Silva (Hampton) and LB Narada Williams (Fort Valley State).
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David Chakranarayan, AiG–US, explains why the Bible seems to contradict itself in Genesis and Psalms when speaking about the expected lifespans of individuals.
Parents, if you desire to demonstrate biblical love to your children, then exercise biblical discipline. Our culture would benefit greatly from parents disciplining their children God's way.
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DETROIT (AP) — Every new car window sticker shows the estimated cost of fuel for a year, but that figure may not reflect the miles you drive. A new survey does that math for you.
GasBuddy.com, a website that uses data from volunteers, gas stations and other sources to keep track of gas prices nationwide, ranked more than 750 vehicles from the 2013 model year based on the cost of fuel per mile driven. The survey used the average gas price in July — $3.59 per gallon — and measured vehicles based on their combined city and highway mileage, as calculated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Honda vehicles performed best, averaging 12.8 cents per mile. General Motors Co.'s GMC brand was worst, averaging 21.2 cents.
After Honda, the most efficient brands were Kia, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Mazda, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Toyota. The worst performers, after GMC, were Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Jaguar, Infiniti, Chevrolet, Dodge, Porsche and Chrysler.
GMC spokesman Brian Goebel pointed out that the brand's lineup is all trucks and SUVs, and lacks small cars to bring down the average. GMC's smallest vehicle is the Acadia midsize SUV, which gets 19 mpg and costs 15 cents per mile to fuel it up. By comparison, Honda's smallest U.S. vehicle, the subcompact Fit, gets a combined 31 mpg, and costs 10.3 cents per mile.
Goebel also said the brand is improving. The 2014 GMC Sierra pickup, which went on sale in June, now gets up to 20 mpg in combined city and highway driving, an improvement from 17 in the previous model year.
The most efficient car, the Toyota Prius C hybrid subcompact, costs 7.2 cents per mile. The least efficient vehicle, a Bugatti Veyron sports car with a 16-cylinder engine, costs 35.9 cents. The difference is substantial. Assuming you drive 12,000 miles per year, the Prius C would cost you $864 to fill up; the Veyron would cost you $4,308. But anyone who buys the $1.3 million Veyron probably isn't too worried about fuel costs.
Hybrids generally did well, but beware. You pay a premium up front, and it takes years to recoup that cost in fuel savings. For example, the regular Ford Fusion midsize sedan costs 12.8 cents per mile, while the hybrid version costs 7.6 cents. Assuming you drive 15,000 miles per year, the regular Fusion costs $1,920 to fill up, while the hybrid costs $1,140, a difference of $780 per year. But the hybrid costs $5,300 more than the base model. You'd need to drive the hybrid for nearly seven years to break even.
Tom Kloza, an analyst with GasBuddy, said he wasn't surprised by the rankings. But he was impressed by the number of vehicles in the 12- to 15-cent range. That's where you'll find the Toyota Camry midsize car, Ford Escape SUV, Mazda5 minivan and even the Porsche Boxster sports car.
"You don't have to be Wayne and Garth driving around in a little Pacer to get a reasonable bang for your buck," he said.
Starting with the 2013 model year, every new car's window sticker must show the EPA's estimated annual fuel costs. But those costs assume that the owner will drive 15,000 miles per year and pay $3.70 per gallon. That will vary by driver, and where they buy gas. Right now, for example, drivers in South Carolina are paying $3.24 per gallon while those in Hawaii are paying $4.33.
Whatever you pay, and whatever you drive, the EPA has some suggestions for saving money. Speeding, and rapid acceleration and braking, can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds, or by 5 percent in city driving. Use cruise control on the highway to maintain a constant speed. And when you stop, turn off the engine, since idling wastes fuel.
Here were the individual models with the best and worst fuel economy, and the gas cost per mile:
1. Toyota Prius C, 7.2 cents
2. Toyota Prius, 7.2 cents
3.Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, 7.3 cents
4. Ford Fusion hybrid, 7.6 cents
5. Ford C-Max hybrid, 7.6 cents
6. Lincoln MKZ hybrid, 8.0 cents
7. Volkswagen Jetta hybrid, 8.0 cents
8. Honda Civic hybrid, 8.2 cents
9. Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, 8.3 cents
10. Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid, 8.3 cents
Scion iQ, 9.7 cents
Volkswagen Passat, 10.6 cents
1.Bugatti Veyron, 35.9 cents
2. Ford E350 wagon, 32.6 cents
3. Lamborghini Aventador, 29.9 cents
4.Chevrolet Suburban 2500 (two-wheel drive), 29.9 cents
5. GMC Yukon XL 2500 (two-wheel drive), 29.9 cents
6. Ford E350 cargo van, 29.9 cents
7. GMC Savanna cargo van, 29.9 cents
8. Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van, 29.9 cents
9. Chevrolet Suburban 2500 (four-wheel drive), 29.9 cents
10. GMC Yukon XL 2500 (four-wheel drive) , 29.9 cents
Ford F150 (four-wheel drive, V8 engine), 22.4 cents


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ShaneP wrote:Here is one of these really great "looks like the very best practical model looking shots that is not a model shot" with the lighting from what I assume is a nearby star. It looks just like the very best model shot you could ever get.
vfx fan wrote:Just caught Jason Snell's credit as associate supe on IMDb for the untitled Cloverfield anthology...surrounded by a bunch of BaseFX credits.
vfx fan wrote:Spotted ILM on the Mary Poppins Returns credits. Just an FYI...
Matt Johnson is the vfx supe.