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The new tally brought the cumulative total for October and November to 365,000 people who have selected health plans in new online marketplaces set up in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Just over 800,000 have been determined eligible for government health coverage including the Medicaid program for the poor.
The data reflects continued technical problems in November with the federal enrollment website, HealthCare.gov, which crashed on its Oct. 1 launch and was subjected to weeks of emergency fixes. The site has appeared to work far more smoothly since the beginning of this month.
A senior administration official said the weak start to the six-month enrollment period has not diminished expectations that President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy will reach a significant proportion of the uninsured in 2014. Before the launch, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had forecast 7 million enrollees for next year.
"We think we're on track and we'll reach the total that we thought," said Mike Hash, health reform director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
"We're not exclusively focused on reaching a particular number," he added. "What we're focused on is reaching the millions of people who are really looking for affordable healthcare coverage."
Officials described the figures as "encouraging" news for Obamacare after months of negative publicity over HealthCare.gov and an uproar over coverage cancellations for people whose health plans do not meet the law's new standards that take full effect in January.
The latest report showed more than 44 million visits to federal and state websites or call centers since Oct. 1. It showed 1.9 million people have been determined eligible for coverage but have not yet selected a plan.
The number of people who signed up for coverage through HealthCare.gov quadrupled to more than 100,000 in November from only 27,000 in October, as the administration scrambled to make the site work smoothly for most visitors by a Nov. 30 deadline.
Analysts say December's enrollment numbers will be more telling about whether the sign-up effort will live up to expectations, including a push to enroll some 2.7 million young, healthy adults whose premium payments will help offset the cost of sicker individuals. The December data is not due until next month.
"We know that they were still having problems with the website in a good chunk of November. Reportedly the website issues are getting better and they are seeing large numbers of visitors coming back. But is it actually translating into enrollment?" said Matthew Eyles, an executive vice president at the consulting firm Avalere Health.
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to have at least enrolled in health coverage by the end of next March or pay a penalty. It provides federal subsidies to help lower-income people pay for insurance and establishes a series of new consumer protections and benefit standards.
Millions of Americans who may need benefits to begin on Jan. 1 need to enroll by a Dec. 23 deadline. But whether they will seek plans through an Obamacare marketplace, and whether HealthCare.gov will be able to process higher volumes of visitors, remain open questions.
Administration officials said last week that as many as 10 percent of enrollments processed through HealthCare.gov included errors when they were transmitted to insurance companies.
The government and insurers were due to begin a new effort to reconcile their enrollment data to ensure consumer details were correctly transmitted and eliminate other errors that could prevent people from receiving their benefits come Jan. 1.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the HHS agency responsible for the Obamacare marketplaces, was expected to hand over its enrollment data for October, November and early December to insurers so they could begin the cumbersome process of verifying the data, according to insurance industry officials.
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The Cursed Crusade
|Master the Axe and Shield technique!
|...And My Axe!
|Clear "The Capitolium" in any difficulty setting.
|A Change of Perspective
|Clear "Forest Roads" in any difficuty setting.
|A Templar Rides into a Forest...
|Master the Double Axe technique!
|Axes of Evil
|Master the Double Mace technique!
|Blunt Trauma
|Master the Mace and Shield technique!
|Classic Cleric
|Find all the Blood Crucifixes!
|Cross the Crosses
|Enhance your character's Templar's Curse to its maximum!
|Cursed and Loving It
|Master the Sword and Axe technique!
|Deflect 30 attacks with the Deflection Counter!
|Deflection Master
|Clear "Hagia Sophia Basilica" in any difficulty setting.
|Demon Slayer
|Perform a 100 hit combo.
|End of the Chain
|Dodge 30 Guard Breaks!
|Evasive Maneuvers
|Find all the coffers!
|Gold Before Glory
|Master the Spear and Shield technique!
|Greek Poetry in Motion
|Master the One-Handed Axe!
|Hatchet Man
|Find the ninth Blood Crucifix!
|Here's Your Achievement!
|Defend Constantinople's civilians!
|Innocent Blood
|Master the Sword and Shield technique!
|Knight in Shining Armor
|Master the One-Handed Sword!
|Live by the Sword
|Master the One-Handed Mace!
|Mace Effect
|Acquire the power Fire Maelstrom!
|Maelstrom of Fire
|Clear "The Fall of Zara" in any difficulty setting.
|Make the Voices Stop
|Master all the martial techniques!
|Master of War
|Master the Sword and Mace technique!
|Offense is the Best Defense
|Enhance all of your character's statistics to their maximum!
|One-Man Army
|Master the Two-Handed Sword!
|Enhance your character's Armor Mastery to its maximum!
|Playing the Tortuga
|Acquire the power Roaring Flames!
|Roar of Flames
|Master the Spear!
|Saint Longinus
|Clear "Towards the Peninsula" without losing any of the soldiers pushing the ballista.
|Slow and Steady
|Enhance your character's Strength to its maximum!
|Strong as a Spanish Cow
|Acquire the power Purifying Fire!
|That Man's On Fire
|Clear the game on any difficulty setting.
|The Cursed Crusader
|Clear the game on the "Nightmare" difficulty setting,
|The Cursed Templar
|Master the Two-Handed Axe!
|Master the Axe and Mace technique!
|Unconventional Assault
|Perform a 50 hit combo.
|Enhance your character's Constitution to its maximum!
|Was That Supposed to Hurt?
|Win the Tournament of Ecry.
|We Are the Champions, My Friend
|Enhance your character's Weapon Mastery to its maximum!
|Weapons of Mass Purification
|Master the Double Sword technique!
|What's Better Than One Sword?
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British missionary Simon Guillebaud has taken on a new challenge, to cycle 3000 miles across the USA to raise money for orphans and pygmies in war-torn Burundi.
Guillebaud, along with friends Geoff Morris and Craig Riley set out with the aim of cycling a hundred miles a day between Los Angeles to Charleston in South Carolina during March and April this year. "Bike for Burundi" aims to raise $1 million to go towards building, fully staffing and equipping an orphanage, a clinic and a high school, amongst other projects in Burundi.
The incredible feat the group have undertaken, to cycle 3000 miles in just 35 days, has been likened to running a marathon once a month.
Guillebaud, 38, the author of More than Conquerors, and Dangerously Alive, set up the mission organisation 'Great Lakes Outreach' (GLO) with the aim of seeing transformation in the conflict ravaged Burundi.
The mammoth bike ride is on behalf of Burundian orphans, and also the Batwa pygmies, a small group totalling around 80,000 that live in countries across Central Africa, much of which war-torn.
"Bike for Burundi" is one of the many projects that GLO has undertaken on behalf of the Burundian people.
Speaking on the group's blog, Simon said: "this marginalized and ostracized people group are being empowered to move beyond surviving to thriving. GLO has full government backing in the process. Our vision is that these orphans will end up as the future shapers of Burundian society."
But the team have already run into trouble, with Geoff Morris having to leave the trip early for medical reasons. But former Harrow schoolboy Guillebaud remains on target to acheive his goal, having already passed the half way point.
Simon founded GLO in 2003, after a decade spent in Burundi. The charity, which works for the "spiritual and physical" development of the local people of Burundi, partners with local Christian charities and organisations, to share the Gospel and fund projects that will benefit communities across Central Africa.
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REVIEWER Name: Fuzzy Monkey (David) Email Address: info{at}thefuzzymonkey{.}net Date of Review: September, 2012 Photo Album – Sawyer 2 Liter Water Treatment System BACKGROUND Experienced long-distance hiker as well as trips lasting a few days. I would describe my hiking style not so much ultra-light but something in-between ultra-light and being comfortable. I enjoy stopping early, setting up and enjoying my campsite. I seldom hike after daylight hours. When I talk about my hikes … [Read more...] about The Sawyer 2 Liter Water Treatment System Review
Ice Age Trail Mobile Skills Crew – Plover River Segment September 18-20, 2012
For those of you wondering what I have been doing with my time, I've been volunteering on the Ice Age Trail. The following photo album is from my most recent work. I spent 3 days in September and 4 days back in August working on the trail. This was a particularly challenging section building 1,200 feet of board walk. Although the work was tough, cold and frustrating it was well worth it. I really enjoyed all the folks I spent time with. I'm fortunate to have been able to work on the Plover … [Read more...] about Ice Age Trail Mobile Skills Crew – Plover River Segment September 18-20, 2012
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Today's photos are from my Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike in 2007. I took more than 3,000 photos during this adventure. In an attempt to share them I've created a photo of the day group from the many experience I had. When I arrived at the border I was alone and took a few minutes to reflect how far I'd come. The following self-portrait pictures are a few of the memories I have from this day. How many of you remember passing this Welcome Sign? … [Read more...] about New Hampshire / Maine State Line on the Appalachian Trail
Top Sites To Visit When Planning A River to River Hike
When I initially sat down to research hiking the River to River Trail I came across several sources. The following list as a way of consolidating what I found. I hope its useful in your search for hiking the River to River Trails Do you have another useful site that should be added? I'd like to hear from you. River to River Trail Society Shawnee Trail Conservancy Wikipedia - River to River Trail Devils Backbone Park (Camping on the Mississippi River) Forest Service … [Read more...] about Top Sites To Visit When Planning A River to River Hike
Fuzzy Monkey's 2012 River To River Gear List
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May 13 – 18 , 2018, Dagstuhl Seminar 18201
Secure Compilation
Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University – Boston, US)
Deepak Garg (MPI-SWS – Saarbrücken, DE)
Catalin Hritcu (INRIA – Paris, FR)
Frank Piessens (KU Leuven, BE)
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Today's computer systems are distressingly insecure. The correct semantics of mainstream low-level languages like C is inherently insecure, and even for safer languages, establishing security with respect to a high-level semantics does not prevent devastating low-level attacks. All the abstraction and security guarantees of the source language are currently lost when interacting with lower-level code, for instance when using low-level libraries. For a concrete example, all modern languages provide a notion of structured control flow and an invoked procedure is expected to return to the right place. However, today's compiler chains (compilers, linkers, loaders, runtime systems, hardware) cannot efficiently enforce this abstraction: linked low-level code can call and return to arbitrary instructions or smash the stack, blatantly violating the high-level abstraction.
Secure compilation is an emerging field that puts together advances in security, programming languages, compilers, verification, systems, and hardware architectures in order to devise secure compiler chains that eliminate many of today's low-level vulnerabilities. Secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, and to allow sound reasoning about security in the source language. The emerging secure compilation community aims to achieve this by:
- Identifying and formalizing compiler security properties and attacker models. What are the properties we want secure compilers to have, and under what attacker models? Should a secure compiler preserve observational equivalence of programs? Should it preserve some class of security properties of the source programs? Should it guarantee invariants on the run-time state of the compiled program (like for instance well-formedness of the call-stack)? And what are realistic attacker models? Can attackers only interact with compiled programs by providing input and reading output? Or can they link arbitrary target level code to the program? Well-studied notions like fully abstraction compilation provide partial answers: a fully abstract compiler chain preserves observational equivalence under an attacker model where attackers are target level contexts. But this can be too hard to enforce: for instance in cases where target level contexts can measure time, this would imply resistance against timing side-channel attacks.
- Efficient enforcement mechanisms. The main reason today's compiler chains are not secure is that providing a secure semantics and enforcing abstractions in low-level compiled code can be very inefficient. In order to overcome this problem, the secure compilation community is investigating various efficient security enforcement mechanisms: from the use of static checking of low-level code to rule out linking with ill-behaved attackers, to software rewriting (e.g. software fault isolation), dynamic monitoring, and randomization. One key enabler is that hardware support to aid security is steadily increasing.
- Developing effective formal verification techniques. Secure compilation properties like full abstraction are much harder to prove than compiler correctness. Intuitively, in order to show full abstraction one has to be able to back-translate any low-level context attacking the compiled code to an equivalent high-level context that can attack the original source code. This back-translation is, however, nontrivial, and while several proof techniques have been proposed (e.g. based on logical relations, bisimulation, game semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters, etc), scaling these techniques to realistic secure compilers is a challenging research problem. This challenge becomes even more pronounced if one expects a strong level of assurance, as provided by formal verification using a proof assistant.
This Dagstuhl Seminar will take a broad and inclusive view of secure compilation and will provide a forum for discussion on the topic. The goal is to identify interesting research directions and open challenges by bringing together people interested in working on building secure compilers, on developing proof techniques and verification tools, and on designing security mechanisms.
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" I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. "PAUL.
The men of science tell us that every form of force comes from some force preceding it. It is the same energy under a new name and with a new application. The power in an engine was in steam before it was in the engine, was in fuel before it was in steam, and was in the sun before it was in fuel. When burned, a pound of coal gives out the same quantity of heat that the sun gave it when, long ago, as plant or tree it was growing in a forest. The heat and light on our hearth-stones are caused by the releasing of imprisoned sun-beams.
The students of material things, however, have not been able to discover the original source of power. The sun may be the source of all motion on this planet, but what is the source of the sun itself? Perhaps the answer to this question does not lie within the domain of science. Its work is to mark the changes, to recognize the many forms this Proteus assumes, and discover the law under which the manifold transitions of force occur. When the relation of each visible fact to every other visible fact is discovered, the task of science is ended.
But the philosophic mind cannot rest among mere facts and phenomena and laws. Although it may never discover, it will not abandon its search for the Cause of all things. It tries to resolve the many into the One. In the midst of great diversity there is an all-pervading unity. The motion of the planets and the fall of an apple are identical. The outlines of a plant may be found in the seed and then repeated in the leaf. The most diverse things possess striking similarities. There is a relation between symmetrical form and harmonious sounds. The pulse-beat is the unit of musical notation. The terms of one art are used to express another art. A steam-ship is a thought in action; a cathedral is a religious aspiration wrought into stone ; poetry and history are human sentiment and human actions made into literature. Thus, in the midst of this scene of endless transformation, the inquiry arises whether there is not some changeless substance. Back of every person is there supreme Personality ; back of every thought an infinite Thought ; back of all forms of right a Right, similar in kind, but differing in degree,resembling each other as the ocean covering three-fourths of the globe resembles a dew-drop or as a sun lighting a system of worlds resembles a lamp that lights a room?
These reflections lead to the inquiry: Whence come our ideas of duty? The sense of right manifests itself in many forms, but where is its original source ? How much of it is a product of experience, how much of it comes from inspiration? What proportion of earth, what proportion of heaven is present in forming the motive of right action? Where does the rising tide meet the down-flowing stream? How much celestial fire is mixed with our terrestrial clay?
One teacher has compared the infant mind to a sheet of white paper upon which anything may be written; or it resembles an empty room and time and circumstance determine what kind of furniture may be placed within it, what kind of pictures shall' adorn or deface its walls. Other teachers insist that the mind brings with it certain underived and original powers enabling it to receive the impressions which events confer and shape and color them at will. Rain and sunbeams falling upon a stone do not produce the same effect that they do when falling upon a seed. Thus the same events falling upon different minds produce different results. Some persons think the soul is a group of sensations acting in turn as thought, as volition and emotion. Others maintain that this is a confusion of cause and effect; that sensation might go on forever without thought if there were no independent mind to transform impressions into ideas. An English philosopher once said: "There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses," to which a German philosopher responded: "Except the mind itself." It has been taught that all knowledge and all ideas of right have been formed solely by human experience acting through unnumbered ages. As myriads of coral insects toiling and giving their lives in turn slowly uprear a marvelous structure, so races and nations and generations have contributed their work and their lives to build the great soul of Humanity. To balance this there are those who believe that ideas are native to the soul and experience is only the field in which they blossom and bear fruit.
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Rath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"
A theory of morals that reached some prominence in the last century made usefulness the origin and motive of all right actions. A favorite text of its scriptures was: "Honesty is the best policy." Its standard of moral measurement was external. Its prophets said: "The Kingdom of God is without you." Profit was a sanction for virtue; loss a warning for vice. Goodness, in the long run, is more profitable than evil, hence it ought to be chosen as -the path of life. Too great indulgence unfits one for work, hence temperance is better. Indolence leads to poverty, hence industry is to be preferred. Of this theory of morals prudence is the capital virtue.
The value of this should not be underestimated. It is much better that man should do right merely from economic motives than not do right at all. Even the fear of hell may be a minister of goodness. For a man to maintain a good character for selfish reasons is partly commendable. A civilization built on utility alone would be much better than barbarism swayed only by passion.
But- the question keeps returning whether there is not something involved in right actions that is higher and more imperative than calculation and prudence. It is true that the good is also the useful and that evil often defeats its own aims, but usefulness is more a companion than a cause and motive of goodness. Our morality is not based upon arithmetic and political economy. It seems impossible to trace all the many acts which ennoble human history to selfishness and a balancing of probable results. In morals, as in physics, the fountain is higher than the stream. Human righteousness is perhaps a descending stream whose source is in some Alpine region where rectitude is self existent.
The history of one virtue cannot be written with-out including some account of the laws which govern all virtue. Prudence relates to things near at hand, to the common affairs of our daily life. But this talent is related to something higher than business. Clothed in the plain garments of a peasant, nevertheless it is the son of a King. All this administrative ability that aims no higher than making a living is a form of the soul. It is royalty in disguise, a King Alfred temporarily superintending the baking in a wayside hut. Trace it home and strip off its disguise and its regal character will instantly appear. A man cannot do his every day work without conscious or unconscious reference to the magnificent laws that govern the universe. When he uses a wheel or a lever or a water-fall, when he plants in the spring-time, when he cultivates his crops, when he waits for the fruit to ripen he confesses the sovereignity of certain principles that are as old as all the past and as new as all the future. With what forethought nature has arranged that none of her homely laws shall be broken with impunity! Gravitation sees that a pin as well as a planet falls toward a center. The saint, no less than the sinner, must conform to its authority. No sophistry of satan could persuade Jesus that the principle governing falling bodies would be set aside on his behalf. If he cast himself from the heights no friendly angels would interpose to avert the natural consequences of his rash act. Man learns that if he would succeed he must have good sense and that mother-wit will often avail where prayers would fail. If one have other things to balance it he cannot have too much earth-wisdom. Perception of details cannot be too minute. The application of power to nature cannot be too great. Let there be belief in money, in supply and demand, in protection of private interests, in the survival of the fittest. Only let no one think these things are a finality. All the laws of nature, all the events of history, all the principles of political economy are only appearances. In their ultimate analysis all things may be resolved into mind. However solitary and seemingly remote the path, if followed far enough, it is certain to terminate at a spiritual center which is the primal source of all power, all beauty, and all goodness.
No fault need be found with the good conduct that springs from prudence and utility. Only the question reappears, whether morality does not possess a higher authority than this. Its usefulness is a result and not a cause. It was no balancing of profit and loss that made the moral heroes and saviors of history. They did not take counsel of their own self-interest; they rather yielded to the austere mandate of a law that seemed to come from the august heavens. Experience did not make this law; it only discovered it. Man did not invent the principles of chemistry. He only learned them. Thus man did not invent the principles of virtue. He discovered them and their application to life. When a wire is strung we surrender to the pre-existing law of electricity. So, when the heart does right, it is acting in obedience to the authority of pre-existing Right. To think that the human race invented the principle of gravitation would not be much more irrational than to think the principle of virtue was evolved from experience. It is more rational to think that they both inhere in the nature of things; both are outgoings of the Power which makes and maintains the world; both come with the same authority to mankind.
Every advance of humanity has come less by calculation than by inspiration. Long before the theory of use and self-interest, as touching morals, was enunciated the tonic command was given " Do right though the heavens fall." Always there have been those who referred their actions to something higher than themselves and thus serve as examples of what all should do. They did not inquire as to results. The only question was: " Is it right?" Assured of that, they were nobly negligent of all personal consequences.
Having done their duty from a high motive, beauty and use followed, as the flowers of May and the harvests of July follow the gleaming sun and the falling rain.
Judged by prudence and profit the career of the Palestine Teacher was a colossal failure. But that is a poor way to measure such lives. If Christianity loses its power in the world it will be because its pre-tended representatives have lost sight of the high and sacred impulse which launched it upon the world in the beginning. It would be a fatal error to think that the loss of burning devotion to truth and goodness can be compensated for by an external conformity to custom and tradition. Mere respect for its forms and ceremonies or pride in its historic conquests cannot take the place of the spiritual passion of religion. Those who gave Christianity to the first century of our era were mastered by moral fervor and the sentiment of Duty. They no more thought of disobeying their highest instincts than do the tides attempt disobedience when they feel the drawing of the stars.
Everything great seems to have descended. Man is only the channel through which it comes. In every notable performance something higher than the per-former seems to be involved. One man's work is better than another's because there is more of the Creator in it. That is, he has been more willing to move in harmony with the divine laws. His highest conviction becomes the reason of his action. He goes forward calmly regardless of all personal results, sweet or baneful; indifferent as to whether defeat or victory awaits him, as a soldier, if only the flag under which he has enlisted is kept flying in advance. Doing thus his work is accepted and established. It takes rank with the works of nature. People wish to look upon it, as they wish to look upon the mountains or the ocean or Niagara. Whether writing a great poem, painting a great picture, building a great cathedral or making a noble life, he who is thus engaged must work in harmony with the Power which planned and built the universe.
If everywhere else man is a receiver before he is a doer, this must also be true in morals. Whatever is in mankind was potentially in the world before mankind. Truth is Deity flowing through the intellect; love is Deity flowing through the heart; duty is Deity flowing through the conscience. Our sufficiency is of God. The same power which gives beauty to the rose gives goodness to the heart. Truth in thought, virtue in behavior, and gladness in the heart are identical in their origin with attraction and cohesion, with trade winds and gulf streams, with ascending mists and descending streams in nature. As intellect reads the laws of atom and world, so clearly can the heart read the scriptures of duty written within itself. Innocence cleanses the spiritual sight. The pure in heart shall see God. The tender and receptive conscience is a channel through which heaven sends confidential messages to earth.
One reason for the low moral condition of political patties, the formalism and coldness of churches, and the falling away of society at large from a central nobility of character may he found in the substitution of calculation and self-interest for inspiration and inner conviction. There is no greater misfortune can befall an age than the loss of its ethical ideals. Take away its science, government, cities, railways, even take away its books, pictures, and altars and it would not be so poor as if its spiritual insight and belief in the Perfect were taken away. With the soul left free to think and wonder and adore, quickly enough science, literature, music and temples will appear. With this gone, all is gone.
The idea that morality rests upon calculation or convenience cannot produce a high form of society. It is better to assume that it is an essential quality of the world inhering in its very structure and comes with all the authority of a command of God. The greatest souls, from old Asia onward to new America, have been those who, beyond humanity with its experience, saw a God with his authority. Science tells us much about forces bound up in nature, but mere force cannot produce virtue. Astronomy once filled the heart with reverence, but that was when the myriad worlds and the awful spaces filled the heart with thoughts of a God. This made eloquent and impressive each clear midnight. Take the thought of Deity away from the infinite depths of the starry firmament and much of their sublimity is gone. At the touch of atheism the world loses much of its splendor. Thus if science would confer its most lasting benefit upon humanity it cannot too quickly restore reverence for a God who fills all worlds with His presence. With right conduct founded only on utility and a world deprived of its Creator man cannot reach a high degree of moral excellence nor a great and lasting happiness. With only this to sustain him his life will be without inspiration, his death without hope.
Before society reaches that calamity we trust its footsteps will be arrested. Now we are suffering from a partial eclipse of the soul. Material interests are between it and the source of its spiritual light and warmth. This cannot be perpetual. The shadow will pass. When the chill and darkness are gone and the former heat and radiance are come man will again find his genial inspirations and devout trust in the Infinite. Then prophets will appear with messages from the Highest; poets will again chant the sacred meanings of existence; saints and heroes who find the reason of life and its happiness in doing the will of God will appear; a new era in the spiritual career of mankind will dawn.
Meanwhile, in all the affairs of life, it is well for each one of us to act upon his highest and holiest conviction. Only thus can we make moral advance; only thus can we rise above the low average of social ethics; only thus can we free ourselves from remorse in that impressive hour when time is behind and eternity is just before us.
To him who refers all his actions to a moral sovereignty, life becomes more and more wonderful. The days come bearing new opportunities. Every morning a new vision, of a world made beautiful by the reign of goodness, is unfolded to his gaze,a world in which every sublimity and beauty of Nature is fully equaled by the thoughts and actions of man. Through all the many tasks and many mysteries of earth he may move undaunted, well assured that He who holds the destiny of all things in keeping is his unchanging Friend.


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Lisa Condrey stood at an auction in 2003 and watched ruefully as another buyer scored downtown Covington's century-old Southern Hotel. Eight years later, on Thursday afternoon, the Covington lawyer bought the building from that buyer, for double what he paid for it, with plans for a boutique hotel, shops and restaurants.
"I've been renovating this building in my mind for 10 years," she said Friday.
Condrey, her husband, Joe Ward, and other relatives bought the 37,778-square-foot hotel for $1.75 million, and expect to spend millions more on renovations.
"I think it'll be worth it," she said. "It'll be worth it for us, it'll be worth it for the city."
Condrey, whose law office is a few blocks away on North Jefferson Avenue, has been enamored by the building since she moved to Covington from uptown New Orleans in 1999, she said. She's run a bed and breakfast and renovated buildings, but nothing on the scale of the Southern Hotel.
The hotel was built in 1907 and prospered until the 1960s, when the facade was altered from two towers to one to make room for a drug store. From there the grandeur of the building gradually declined. The parish bought it in 1983 and used it for government offices and makeshift courtrooms for 20 years. The parish sold the building at public auction in August 2003 and started the bidding at $567,000.
Condrey was standing there, she said. She wanted the building, but wasn't ready to buy it.
She watched a spirited exchange among five bidders, raising the price in $5,000 increments until Dr. Michael Pittman, a Covington native and urological surgeon, reached $885,000.
"I'm a loyal son of Covington," Pittman said Friday. "When it was under my watch, I was hopeful; I always planned to do something good for Covington."
A few months after Pittman bought the hotel, its sole tenant, Tugy's Bar, shut down. Pittman had drawings, elevations, blueprints for renovations, he said. In August 2005, he was securing funding as Hurricane Katrina brewed off the coast.
After the storm, he turned the building over as headquarters for the Red Cross. Then several federal agencies moved in, the economy faltered and his plans fell apart. A year ago, a watering hole named Tugendhaft's Tavern in Tugy's honor, moved in, but the building has remained otherwise unoccupied.
"I heard about what her dreams and her visions are," he said of Condrey. "I'm passing on the torch on the predication that the person picking up the torch will do something good for the city."
Pittman added: "I sure hope they let Tugy's stay."
Condrey said she has no plans to run the historic bar out. The current owner, Steven P. Reed, said he was "thrilled."
"It's the centerpiece of our city," Mayor Mike Cooper said Friday. "This is going to generate a lot of excitement -- I'm excited, the downtown business community is excited. We're taking a building empty for quite some time and bringing new excitement to our downtown."
Condrey and Ward said they intend to start renovations immediately, with the intention of restoring the hotel to its original two-tower facade. They bought the rights to a website Pittman created for the building, southernhotel.com, and expect to update it soon with their plans.
"It's a beautiful grand old building," Condrey said. "I think the time is right. Covington is crying out for that buildings to come back and hopefully stir a lot of economic development."
Cooper met Condrey and Ward on the sidewalk out front Friday to congratulate them on their purchase.
"It sold!" Cooper shouted to a passing motorist, stuck in mid-afternoon Boston Street traffic.
"Congrats!" the motorist shouted back. "That is unbelievable -- it's a fabulous building."


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Grey Loft Gallery, a new gallery is opening in the Jingletown section of Oakland. The inaugural show will feature work by more than 25 artists. On display will be photographs, paintings, monoprints and sculptures, which reflect love, passion, lust, hope, romance, broken hearts, true love, self love. This is not a Hallmark Valentine show, but rather a visual dialogue about love in its many incarnations and interpretations. The gallery will also have handmade purses, hats, jewelry, hand-blown glass, cards and textiles that reflect the theme of love..
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A look into one prominent initiative-the AOL AAdvantage program that the AOL Time Warner service administers with American Airlines-offers a chance to see just how potent such partnerships can be. Originally announced in January 2000, the effort married the AOL Rewards Program and the American AAdvantage Program to allow people to gain frequent flier miles and other rewards without ever stepping on a plane. It expresses itself on the Web through a continuous stream of promotional efforts. According to data from Jupiter Media Metrix, the agreement continues to gain speed both within the AOL network of Web sites and on other properties. In fact, the site at which the partnership received the most play was Yahoo!, at which the campaign garnered 175 million impressions during the month of April, according to Jupiter's AdRelevance unit.
Although the ads don't set a high water mark for online creativity (see above), they might for traffic. All told, ads for the promotion received 241.7 million Web impressions in April, using typical online come-ons such as "Your Reward is Waiting." In April, the partnership also gave lots of play to a gambit in which people can earn AOL AAdvantage miles by filling out opinion surveys. One headline? "Wanted: Your Opinion. Reward: Free Months of AOL." (How effective the ads were is another story. AdRelevance defines impressions as the number of times an ad was "rendered for viewing"-not how well it was received by those viewing it.)
The AOL properties appear to come in a distant second, but only because much of the promotion occurs within the virtual walls of the AOL service itself and wasn't ranked. On the popular AOL.com portal, the promotion garnered 27.1 million impressions. On sibling site Netscape.com, the number was 18.6 million impressions. The site that ranked tenth overall-AOL's Mapquest.com-garnered just under 650,000.
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The Jamestown Community Farm will hold a public open house at the farm on Eldred Avenue on Saturday, Dec. 10, from 9 a.m. to noon.
The new barn has been completed and this will be an opportunity to walk through the new building and also around the entire farm. The barn was funded from donations from over 250 people and constructed by more than 26 local contractors who donated their labor on several occasions throughout the summer.
The farm is an all-volunteer operation that grows vegetables on approximately four acres of land and donates the produce to local food pantries and meal sites throughout the state. In its 11 years of operation, volunteers have planted, weeded, harvested and donated over 132,000 pounds of vegetables to those in need.
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Facebook revealed its redesigned News Feed and said the new feature will begin rolling out to users Thursday.
The redesign emphasizes visual content and will be more in tune with the news feed of the Facebook mobile app. Facebook also said users can use a new switch at the top right of the screen to toggle among different types of feeds to see different types of content.
Among the feeds users will be able to switch among include close friends, games, all friends feed, most recent feed, music feed and following feed. Users also will be able to switch among their feeds using the Facebook mobile app.
Photos: The evolution of the Facebook News Feed
Before presenting the new design, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook wants to create "the best personalized newspaper we can" for every one of their users. The new feeds are intended to accomplish that goal.


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Teen charged with killing teacher loses bid to move trial
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A judge has rejected a request to move the trial of a Massachusetts teenager charged with killing his high school math teacher.
A lawyer for 16-year-old Philip Chism had argued that media coverage of the case has been "pervasive," ''sensational" and "inflammatory." The defense suggested moving the trial from eastern Massachusetts to western Massachusetts.
Judge David Lowy ruled Thursday that Chism's trial will stay in Essex County Superior Court in Salem. The trial is set to begin Oct. 7.
Chism has pleaded not guilty to killing Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer in October 2013, when he was 14.
Ritzer's family said in a statement Thursday that keeping the trial in Salem will ease travel burdens for relatives and friends, and they believe an Essex County jury can be impartial.
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Teen Girl Becomes 5th Victim of Suspected South Carolina Serial Killer
Authorities say a teen girl shot in father's store is the fifth victim of suspected South Carolina serial killer.
Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler says Abby Tyler, 15, died as a result to gunshot injuries. Her death comes two days after a shooting at her family's small furniture and appliance store in Gaffney, S.C. on Thursday.
The teen's father, Stephen Tyler, 45, was also shot and killed Thursday at Tyler Home Center.
Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton said Stephen Tyler's shooting death and those of three others since last Saturday — a peach farmer, an elderly woman and her daughter — are connected.
"We're concerned," Blanton told reporters Friday. "We're dealing with a man that's killed four people."
The suspect is described as 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, with blue eyes. Blanton classified him as a serial killer.
Police released a sketch Friday of the serial killer on the loose who they believe murdered the people in six days in rural South Carolina.
Investigators don't know exactly who he is or whether he is familiar with the area.
Earlier reports that the killer was driving a dark blue van haven't panned out, according to Blanton.
He said it isn't clear whether the victims and the suspect knew each other.
"There's no evidence there is a hit list," Blanton said. "There's no evidence he knows the victims. There's no evidence the victims are connected (to each other)."
The murders all happened within 10 miles of each other in Cherokee, a county of 54,000 people about 50 miles south on Interstate 85 from Charlotte, N.C.
"This person is gonna be somebody that not a lot of people pay attention to or give a second look to," Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, whose department has joined the investigation, told FOX News on Friday. "Obviously, he's either really good or really lucky."
Thursday's killing happened one day and about 7 miles from where family members found the bodies of 83-year-old Hazel Linder and her 50-year-old daughter, Gena Linder Parker, bound and shot in Linder's home.
Blanton would not say if Tyler and his daughter were also bound.
The killing spree began last Saturday about 10 miles from Tyler's shop. Peach farmer Kline Cash, 63, was found shot in his living room. Investigators said he appeared to have been robbed, but they haven't determined if anything was taken in the latest killings.
The sheriff said evidence makes it obvious that Cash's killing is linked to the deaths of the women, but he refused to give details.
He said the killer appears to have first spoken with Cash's wife about buying hay in a ruse to commit the crime. She left and then came home a few hours later to find her husband's body.
"We think she may have been his intended victim," the sheriff said. He theorized Thursday that the killer could be targeting women.
Cherokee County saw just six homicides in all of 2008, which was double the number reported in 2007.
At least 30 investigators from across the region are working on the case, and Blanton canceled all vacation and regular days off for his officers. He wants anyone living in the area to be vigilant and call in any tips, large or small. He also asked any door-to-door salesmen to stop working until the case is solved.
"We know we are dealing with a dangerous person," Blanton said. "And we know through the investigation that he is unpredictable."
Residents are on edge, according to the sheriff.
"There is fear in our community," Blanton said.
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Marcia Fudge (D)
Marcia Fudge was born in Cleveland and lives in Warrensville Heights, a Cleveland suburb. She earned a bachelor's in business administration from Ohio State University in 1975 and a law degree from Cleveland State University in 1983.
She served as chief of staff to Democratic Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, and was the first black woman elected mayor of Warrensville Heights. She served as mayor from 2000 to 2008, when she was elected to the U.S. House in a special election to succeed the late Tubbs Jones.
Fudge is single.
Marcia Fudge, who is unopposed in her 2012 re-election bid in Ohio's largely Democratic 11th District, has focused in Congress on issues including health and nutrition, education, urban investment, job creation and voting rights.
The Democratic congresswoman was called as the lead witness in May 2012 before a hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and human rights. He testimony was regarding voting rights and she said that states around the nation had erected barriers to voting rights.
"This sophisticated, organized and well-funded effort is sweeping across America," she said. "From Ohio to Wisconsin, down to Florida and across to Texas, the franchise is under attack."
Fudge said that one of her highest priorities was ensuring that every American has the opportunity to vote.
Fudge hosted a news conference in July 2011 with members of Congress and numerous civil rights organizations to draw attention to voting measures that had passed or were pending in legislatures across the nation and that she said were restrictive.
She opposed the House-approved version of the Violence Against Women Act in May 2012 that she said weakened protections for victims of spousal or partner abuse
"I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others," she said.
Focusing on the issue of hunger, Fudge assailed an Agriculture Committee proposal in April 2012 to cut food stamps while leaving farm subsidies intact.
"We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children," she said.
Fudge joined in a bipartisan effort with Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette to introduce a plan that could help struggling cities demolish abandoned buildings. They introduced the proposed Restore Our Neighborhoods Act in March 2012.
In 2011, she sponsored the proposed National Infrastructure Bank Act aimed at helping target deficient bridges, school repairs, and other dangerous infrastructure that she said also would provide a way for Americans to get back to work.
The congresswoman also hosted a job fair in Cleveland in August 2011 to connect employers with potential employees.
Fudge says she remains committed to preserving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and continued to speak out against attempts to decrease services for beneficiaries and make Medicare a voucher program.
The representative fasted for a day in 2011 with 26 other members of Congress and Hungerfast, in opposition to the GOP budget cuts that she said threatened vulnerable communities in America.
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Sponges form symbiotic relationships with various organisms, including mutualisms with photosynthetic bacteria/plant cells and with swimming scallops and crabs, and parasitisms with molluscs.
NOTE "symbiosis" is a general term used in North America for any 2 organisms living together. There are several categories of symbiosis described in the scientific literature, but the one most commonly used (often in a seemingly "catch-all" fashion), is commensalism (one partner benefits while the other is unaffected). Its difficulty is that it often assumes information about the participants that is unavailable. Another designation is inquilinism (one species found on or in another, with no evident interaction: in other words, a type of "lodging"). However, because there is usually no way to tell if the participants haven't just bumped into one another accidentally or are in transit, this type of relationship appears uncommonly in the literature. Two other symbioses of more interest than these are mutualism, where both partners benefit, and parasitism, where one partner benefits and the other is harmed
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An early study by a researcher at Oregon State University investigates associates of 4 species of sponges, with most attention being paid to the intertidal-dwelling Halichondria panicea. Collections of 32 samples of this species from locations in Oregon and Washington reveal 6098 representatives of 68 species, mainly polychaetes, barnacles, isopods, and gammarid and caprellid amphipods. With the exception of the nudibranch Doris montereyensis that feeds exclusively on its host, and several tube-constructing polychaetes and amphipods, most of the associates appear to be benign, as befits the category of inquilinism.
NOTE in comparison, 15 samples of Microciona prolifera yield a total of 9581 associates, while 14 samples of Suberites lata have 150 associates. Both species are mainly subtidal
NOTE for reasons described in the introduction above, the designation of inquilinism as a type of symbiosis has really not merit. It is included here only out of courtesy to the author
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Several west-coast sponges house single-celled plants known as zoochlorellae. The relationship is thought to be mutualistic in that the plants provide products of photosynthesis (glycerol, glucose, amino acids) to the host in return for a place to stay, and the host provides carbon dioxide and ammonia nutrients required for photosynthesis. A common host for zoochlorellae is the "crumb-of-bread" sponge Halichondria panicea which has two growth forms. One is a flat, tough open-coast form that often contains so many zoochlorellae that it appears greenish in colour. For some reason, the green open-coast symbiotic Halichondria often has a bad smell. Whether this has something to do with its algal symbionts, or with the presence of defensive chemicals, is not known. The other non-symbiotic form is often found on docks in quiet water conditions, although may occur in open-coast situations. It has a softer consistency and mostly lacks symbionts.
NOTE thought to be similar to green plant cells found in west-coast sea anemones. These are discussed elsewhere in the ODYSSEY: SEA ANEMONES: SYMBIONTS
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|Sponges Myxilla spp. grow on the shells of swimming scallops Chlamys spp. As it is the scallop that benefits most from the relationship, this symbiosis is considered in more detail elsewhere in the ODYSSEY: LEARN ABOUT SCALLOPS: PREDATORS & DEFENSE
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By secreting special shell-dissolving enzymes, boring sponges are able to break down the calcareous shells of living and dead molluscs, and the calcareous plates of barnacles. From the outside the sponge Cliona californiana appears as small yellow blobs (these are the chimneys) but, inside, the shell is hollowed into interconnected galleries in which the sponge lives.
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The foregoing studies involve sponges acting as parasites, but an unusual instance of parasitism of the reverse sort is described for hexactinellid glass sponges of genus Heterochone by researchers at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria. It involves a new species of hydroid Brinckmannia hexactinellidophila that in its polyp form lives within the inhalent and exhalent canal systems of this deep-water inhabiting glass sponge. One end of the polyp lies free in the canal while the other is extended into a stolon-shaped anchoring process. The polyps are about 0.2mm in size and lack tentacles, but each has a cluster of nematocysts at its distal end that may function in catching food particles (no mouth has been identified) and/or in defense. No gonangia are visible in any of the polyps and the researchers speculate that their absence may be an adaptation to parasitic life. The researchers describe sperm masses located near the distal ends of some of the polyps. The authors seem hesitant to term the relationship a parasitism, and discuss the possibility that it is a mutalism, with benefits for both partners. A phylogenetic analysis of the 16S gene of B. hexactinellidophila and other selected hydrozoans is provided.
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"Does exactly what it says on the tin".... Audio rip of the Don Letts directed DVD "The Making of All Mod Cons". This works pretty well as a documentary type download about an excellent album. Weller reportedly quite liked the film, even though he thought there was "too much Crowley & Hewitt" included ! Have a listen - thoughts & comments are more than welcome... http://rapidshare.com/files/344586506/jam_AMC_letts_audio.rar For COCKNEY STEVE & his techincal assistance !!
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April 5, 2013
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Pennsylvania has a new secretary at the Health Department.
Gov. Tom Corbett promoted Michael Wolf to the top post on Friday.
Wolf (that's him to the left) had been serving as "acting secretary" after the October resignation of his embattled boss Eli Avila who never quite lived down his public argument over an egg sandwich or his zeal to act like a tough cop.
"Michael has proven his ability to manage this important department and is well-respected among his colleagues,'' Corbett said in a statement. "I have confidence in his knowledge of the public health system, as well as his leadership ability and dedication to the commonwealth."In his new role, Wolf oversees the regulation of Pennsylvania's hospitals, nursing homes and various other health care facilities, while organizing and supporting public health initiatives and services, as well as outreach, education, prevention and preparedness activities. The department has an annual budget of more than $838 million and has approximately 1,700 employees.
Wolf, 46, of Enola, worked in the pharmaceutical industry as Pfizer's director of worldwide public affairs and policy. He joined the state Health Department in May 2011 as executive deputy secretary and worked his way up after the short, rocky tenure of Avila, a physician and a lawyer.
Soon after taking over in early 2011, Avila reportedly got into an argument with a Harrisburg cafe owner over the freshness of an egg sandwich and shouted: "Do you know who I am? I am the secretary of health!"
He also spent taxpayers' money to outfit himself and his top aides in blue FBI-like jackets emblazoned with the health department name. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Avila also spent his own cash to make himself a badge with the state seal and his job title until Corbett's office made him ditch the badge.
Wolf appears eager to lead the department in a different way.
"I am grateful to Gov. Corbett for giving me this great opportunity to serve our commonwealth and honored to work alongside the employees of the Department of Health to ensure every resident has access to affordable, high-quality health care, regardless of where they reside in the commonwealth," Wolf said in a statement.
A Pennsylvania native, Wolf is a graduate of Slippery Rock University and earned his master's degree from the University of Phoenix.
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hikers Posts: 10OMG. That's gorgeous! I love it! How much more are they gonna charge?0
As a previous owner of a 2000 X5 4.4i I can say it was one of the most pleasing vehicles I ever owned. Fast, yet quiet. We had two kids and it was extremely functional. It performed better and better as the years and miles grew on. I definitely got better gas mileage once the engine got past 30K miles.
When I got it, it was in the 1st year of production. I had very few problems with the vehicle. After 60K, all I had to do was replace tires and brakes. If they can do the same with the new version, I will be in line to get one. I am waiting for the GL320 CDI. If BMW comes out with an I6 (with average gas mileage and performance) or a CDI I6, I will definitely consider it, especially since it has the third row of seats. IMHO, I think it looks cool. Most vehicles with the 3rd row seat look long and portly. BMW seems to have made room for it without making the vehicle look too long. Hopefully, they won't compromise performance either.0
Anothter vehicle you should consider is the Audi Q7. IMO, it looks amazing. The new x5 is definetly a worthy competitor of it though...0
I have seen some of your other posts. I saw the Q7 at the Chicago Auto Show back in February. I have owned several Audis. I am low on the Q7 because the third row is so small. I have an LR3 today and I can comfortably sit in the third row - 6'1". I have seen the new X5 back seat. It doesn't seem to be as good as the LR3 since the specs say someone up to 5'6" can sit comfortably. The goal is for my son and his friends to be able to sit comfortably for trips aroud town. Because of this, we have ruled out the Escalade/Tahoe (3rd row still sits on the floor)and Volvo XC90 - to small in the back and are waiting for the GL320 CDI and now the new X5. I would also consider the Enclave/Acadia based on the pics I've seen. If BMW can keep the price relatively competitive with the I6 engine, then this might be another option to the GL. I am not looking for a speed burner SUV, but something functional and comfortable with OK gas mileage.0
I do agree with you. Most SUVs have terrible 3rd row seats. I myself am not a fan of the BMW SAV line because I'm just a car and truck person, not SUVs. BMW has the most efficient I6 motor in the world and it does get excellent mileage. From the looks of things, if I were to get an SUV, I would probably go with the Land Rover. They have the styling and all right and BMW hasn't been in that market very long. Also, with Ford going downhill, they might be selling Land Rover and BMW might pick it up and drop the SAVs. Lastly, I also have problems sitting in back rows because I'm 6'4" and I would much rather be driving than riding!0
I just want to tell you now that BMW will not be making any more diesel models. They are strictly producing gas engines and improving on the engine efficiency. Also, look for hydrogen down the road in about 15-20 years. They are perfecting a full-on hydrogen car. Don't worry, hydrogen is less explosive than gasoline because the hydrogen fumes dissipate faster than gasoline. Tests have shown that a gasoline leak in the trunk with scortch the whole car, wheras a hydrogen leak in the trunk only raises the interior temp 1 to 2 degrees Celcius and does not burn the interior at all. In fact, the car does not even have to be put out. It puts itself out.0
webfoot1 Posts: 1I do not think BMW would buy Land Rover as they are the ones that sold it to Ford. The rear seats are really for 5'6" or under. By the way the JD Powers ranking has Land Rover with the highest number of problems per 100 cars produced and by far. Saab was second and of course Lexus had the lowest. BMW was 9th. I am looking the the new 2007 x5 or new 2007 MDX both still not released.0
As a current LR3 owner, I would STRONGLY discourage you against getting the LR3. Land Rover consistently ranks at the bottom of quality studies. We have an LR3 and it is in the shop right now. It was in the shop 3 weeks ago and before that it was in the shop. Since we've had the vehicle, there hasn't been 60 days where it hasn't been in the shop for something. My wife and I were talking today. Our favorite vehicles were our 2003 Lexus GX470 and the BMW X5. For me the X5 was the best combination of power and comfort in a "truck". For my wife, the Lexus was smooth, but too small - which led to the LR3. We had very few problems with the GX. Like I said, if BMW can get it right with the next X5, I would go that way again.0
I see that kbb.com has specs and pricing for the 2007 X5. They list the weight of the 4.8i as 5535 lb. I sure hope that's wrong. I expected it to weigh more than the '06 model, but not that much more.0
vito2 Posts: 1The 07 X5 has 2 engine options, the new 3.0 at 260 hp or the 4.8. The 3.0 base price is 45,900.00 and the base for 4.8 is 54,500.00. There are some great photos on this website: http://www.peakebmw.com/2007X5.htm0
iceman2 Posts: 23i can totally relate - my wife has a 2005 LR3 and it's been in the shop constantly. it's a beautiful truck and rides great - when it rides! lot's of little things that add up, plus land rover service (orlando/central florida)is completely understaffed and junior league. as much as we like the truck itself, we're going elsewhere when the lease expires next december. lexus, bmw or audi seem the right way to go.0
Hello, i currently have a 750 Li and it rides great so im really into BMWs but the mercedes GL450 is making me have second thoughts so can anyone advise me for which car to choose, the BMW X5 or the Mercedes Benz GL4500
gollam Posts: 29so legroom can be adjusted?...thanks0
The X5 brochure says the top speed is 150 mph. Is that scary or what!0
I have read many negative reviews about run flat tires...will the new X5 have run flat tires? I want to order the new X5 with the third row seat & its says in the brochure I have you cannot have a "space saver" spare tire...does that mean I cannot have any spare tire? Ihave a 2002 X5 & was so looking forward to purchasing the 2007 X5 but if I cannot get it with a spare, I will not order it.
riffmeister Posts: 6The new X5 comes with run-flat tires. It is possible to get conventional all-season tires ( limited size options) but if you choose to go with conventional tires you cannot order the 3rd row seating option. That space is used for a spare tire - a small space saver type.0
Are you saying that BMW is going to offer conventional tires as an option? I haven't seen any mention of that in any of their press releases. That would be an attractive option. It is most unfortunate that because of their perceived need to offer a third row seat they make everyone get run-flat tires. I don't like run-flat tires; I don't even like the concept. (Say I have a flat tire in a remote area of the American west. So I can drive 90 miles at 50 mph. Then what do I do?) They say the rims are specially designed for run-flat tires. Can you mount conventional tires on them?0
The GL450 is a much bigger than the new X5. Ten inches longer. Id get the Audi Q7, unless your not into Audis, then i would go with the X5. The Gl seems very boring and I think it will be outdated very soon.0
Thanks for the advice, id go with the BMW X5 because im not really into audis but just out of curiosity would you get the audi or the X50
I am leaning toward the Q7...no runflat tires & extra space.
We had Audis in the early 80s & really liked them...they got such a bad reputation then that we bought other vehicles. We have had two BMWs recently & really like them but the runflat tires & no spare with third row seat bothers me...I, as a female at 65 yrs need to have a car that I can get a new tire easily...I drive a lot out of town...summer & winter often by myself. The extra space in the Q7 esp. when driving my grandkids. I still need to see & drive the new X5.0
stv187 Posts: 4run flat tires will run about $200 each... oh my flat0
Personally i like the Audi a little more. I have actually ordered one allready. i guess if the x5 came out earlier i might have considered it, but i think it will be too small for me anyway (i used to have a Toyota Sequoia). I think the styling is great on both, but i slightly prefer the Audi interoir. However, i know the BMW will drive much more like...a BMW, which is a definate plus. I think it depends on what you are using the car for. It is a trip car for us, but if it was my everyday car, i would easily pick the X5 for its dynamics.0
Well I actually chose the X5 because of the interior and the technology it has. The main reason I didnt like the audi was because of the interior. I thought it was too plain and i saw that it isnt a very safe car because it didnt pass the safety test at first. If the audi had an entertainment system, then i wouldve considered it. But the main reason is that im in love with BMWs. I used to have a 5 series but sold it after i got my 2006 750Li in Feb. so im looking forward to getting another BMW in Nov.0
Yea BMW's are great! I probably would have gone for the x5 if it had been released sooner. I just fell in love with the Q7 exterior styling and ordered it...I think it will be a good car.0
merc1 Posts: 6,081Are you going to apply for a change to your handle?
If i was to go for a change to my handle, I would be going more to the mercedes benz and Range Rover direction but not for the Audi SUVs. Although i might consider the Audi R8 that is coming out. But the BMW has already attracted me with their new 3 series hardtop. Although it can't be compared with the super R8 but im really looking forward to driving a convertible that can fold the top down on the key fob. I will first look for my SUV/SAV though. And i apologize for going a little off topic.0
esf Posts: 1,020A handful of you probably know me from other posts. I confuse myself with new ideas day, after day, after day.
Today, I thought... "Well, I'm giving the A3 [my winter car] to my son in a few years... why am I just restricting myself to 535xi's and 328xi's [for my next winter car]? I might as well look at an SUV."
So immediately, it hit me. X5! As if you can't tell, I want a BMW for my next winter car (as odd as it is that an Audi would be me three-season car and a BMW, my winter driver), and because my wife is trading in her RX for an XJ8 or E350 4Matic in January (she's driving them next week), we won't have an SUV any more. I think it makes sense. The X5 is fun-to-drive, the new one is very good-looking, the interior has been vastly improved and it's not too big for me, while the Q7 is. Another bonus is that it would be in the vicinity of the 530xi's price, with options, give or take a few thousand. Sounds like a good deal to me. I may also look at the Cayenne S- but I have a love/hate relationship with it.
Any comments about the car? Haven't seen one on the road yet, but I'm excited. Hopefully it will impress me as much as the Q7 has. For some reason, I see the GL as lukewarm- even though it's opened to rave reviews. I'll have to drive one to see why it's so great.
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Chevrolet has sponsored research in the United Kingdom to define, in scientific terms, the nature of The Perfect Handshake.
It's something every man dreads when making a first impression. How hard to you lock paws with a prospective employer? How long do you wait to let go of your date's dad's grip? Does an overly-warm palm ruin the experience (yes)? Well, at least now you'll have something to work off of, a scientific formula.
PH = (e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + π{(4<s>2)(4
2)}2 + (vi + t + te)2 + {(4<c>2 )(4<du>2)}2
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2010-07-15 — It has heralded peace between nations, begun relationships and sealed deals for thousands of years, but new research out today reveals that as many as two in three people (70 per cent) have a crisis of confidence when it comes to performing the act of a human handshake.
Despite the average person shaking hands nearly 15,000 times in a lifetime, one in five (19 per cent) admit they hate the act of the handshake and are unsure how to do it properly, regularly making a handshake faux pas such as having sweaty palms, squeezing too hard or holding on too long. Over half of people (56 per cent) say they have been on the receiving end of an unpleasant handshake experience in the past month alone.
However, from today, help is literally at hand as scientists have created a mathematical formula for the perfect handshake taking into account the twelve primary measures needed to convey respect and trust to the recipient.
PH = (e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + π{(4<s>2)(4
2)}2 + (vi + t + te)2 + {(4<c>2 )(4<du>2)}2
(e) is eye contact (1=none; 5=direct) 5; (ve) is verbal greeting (1=totally inappropriate; 5=totally appropriate) 5; (d) is Duchenne smile – smiling in eyes and mouth, plus symmetry on both sides of face, and slower offset (1=totally non-Duchenne smile (false smile); 5=totally Duchenne) 5; (cg) completeness of grip (1=very incomplete; 5=full) 5; (dr) is dryness of hand (1=damp; 5=dry) 4; (s) is strength (1= weak; 5=strong) 3; (p) is position of hand (1=back towards own body; 5=other person's bodily zone) 3; (vi) is vigour (1=too low/too high; 5=mid) 3; (t) is temperature of hands (1=too cold/too hot; 5=mid) 3; (te) is texture of hands (5=mid; 1=too rough/too smooth) 3; (c) is control (1=low; 5=high) 3; (du) is duration (1= brief; 5=long) 3.
The mathematical formula has been developed for car brand Chevrolet as part of a handshake training guide for its staff to prepare them ahead of the launch of the new 5 Year Promise offer, which aims to offer peace of mind and reassurance to its customers.
Professor Geoffrey Beattie, Head of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester, who devised the formula comments:
"The human handshake is one of the most crucial elements of impression formation and is used as a source of information for making a judgement about another person. A handshake reveals aspects of the personality of the person giving it – for example, a soft handshake can indicate insecurity, whilst a quick-to-let-go handshake can suggest arrogance – so it is surprising that up until now there has not been a guide showing people how they should shake hands.
"The rules for men and women are the same: right hand, a complete grip and a firm squeeze (but not too strong) in a mid-point position between yourself and the other person, a cool and dry palm, approximately three shakes, with a medium level of vigour, held for no longer than two to three seconds, with eye contact kept throughout and a good natural smile with a slow offset with, of course, an appropriate accompanying verbal statement, make up the basic constituent parts for the perfect handshake."
Les Turton from Chevrolet comments:
"It is easy to overlook everyday rituals, but as the handshake is used to complete agreements it is important our staff are well trained so they and can pass on trust and reassurance to our customers. The simple five-step guide for the perfect handshake should mean they are well prepared ahead of the introduction of our new 5 Year Promise ensuring all our deals are concluded in the proper way."
The Chevrolet 5 Year Promise is the best ever combined warranty and aftersales package in the UK. It extends to every model in the value-for-money car manufacturer's line-up and includes 5 year warranty, breakdown cover, servicing, MoT test warranty and annual vehicle health checks.
1. Sweaty palms (38 per cent say it is their top turn off)
2. Loose grip / limp wrist (35 per cent)
6. Gripping too hard (7 per cent)
3. Not making eye contact (5 per cent)
5. Shaking too vigorously (4 per cent)
8. Shaking for too long (4 per cent)
4. Standing too close (2 per cent)
9. Shaking with the left hand (2 per cent)
7. Not shaking for long enough (1 per cent)
10. Hot hands (1 per cent)
*Other (1 per cent)
Although three quarters of Brits (73 per cent) say the handshake is an important social gesture in the modern world, 22 per cent of those polled in East Anglia want to get rid of the custom.
People polled in London and the South West said they shake 5.4 hands a week on average, while East Anglia came out the lowest with the average person only shaking 3.6 hands a week. South Westerners also said they were the most confident when it came to delivering handshakes (34 per cent are completely confident). In contrast, 5 per cent of people in the North East have no confidence at all in their handshakes.
Men shake on average 6.2 hands a week, compared to only 2.6 for women. A third of women (32 per cent) said that the number of hands they shook per week was zero, compared to just one in 20 (6 per cent) of men. One in five men (17 per cent) shake hands more than ten times a week, compared to less than one in 40 (2 per cent) women.
This could be because over half of men (57 per cent) said they enjoyed the act of shaking hands, while less than one in three women (29 per cent) said the same. When faced with an outstretched hand, half of women (50 per cent) said sweaty palms were the biggest turn-off while only a third of men (32 per cent) agreed. Men identified having a limp wrist or loose grip was the worst handshake faux pas (42 per cent).
Archaeological ruins show that handshaking was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th Century BC as a gesture of peace by demonstrating the hand held no weapon. Researchers credit Sir Walter Raleigh with introducing the act to the Western World during the late 16th Century. John F. Kennedy thought it so important he commissioned an entire study to determine the most effective handshake he should use when meeting other world leaders.
On 21 November 2009, Americans Matthew Rosen and Joe Ackerman broke the Guinness World Record for the world's longest handshake, shaking hands for 15 hours, 30 minutes and 45 seconds.
In 2004 Australian Prime Minster John Howard had lost public trust going into a general election. His main political opponent was a newcomer called Mark Latham. A few days before the election John Howard and Mark Latham met at a radio interview and Latham shook the Prime Minister's hand in a very aggressive manner – pulling him close and staring him down. Footage of the handshake spread across the internet. Although public opinion of John Howard was at an all time low, people thought Mark Latham was a bully for the way he "roughed up" the PM. Latham lost the election. After the election the polls showed that the major reason people voted against Latham was because of his overly aggressive handshake.
Singer Valli and songwriter Gaudio were the driving force behind The Four Seasons, one of the world's most successful pop groups, with hits including Walk Like A Man, December 1963 (Oh What A Night) and Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You had a deal based on a handshake – the "Jersey way" as Valli put it.
In December 1990, British and French workers finally met each other underneath the Channel for the first time. The footage of firm handshakes taking place through a narrow gap in the seabed was broadcast around the world and heralded the final phase of construction on the ambitious project.
The most famous handshake of recent times is one that didn't happen. Convention dictated that Manchester City defender Wayne Bridge and Chelsea captain John Terry shook hands ahead of their match earlier this year, but following the love scandal that rocked their private lives, Bridge chose to very publically snub the outstretched hand of Terry. Chelsea went on to take a 4-2 hammering from Manchester.


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THE Riverina is a poorer place with the recent deaths of Coolamon shire stalwart Henry Aitken OAM and former New Zealand rugby league international Henry Maxwell.
The Aitken family from Beckom have had a long history of service in local government beginning with Mr Aitken's father in 1926.
In 1959 Mr Aitken took off from where his father left off, becoming one of the longest-serving shire presidents of Coolamon Shire, eventually stepping down in 1991.
"He saw local government and councils as a way of improving people's lives," council's general manager Terrey Kiss said.
During his time on the Coolamon council, Mr Aitken was elected delegate to the Northern Riverina County Council.
Mr Kiss said it was the input Mr Aitken had which ensured adequate infrastructure for roads, water and electricity was put in place.
"The influence on so many staff and councillors has enabled so many more to come through to make their own contribution," he said.
"Henry worked with people and set the basis for good local government," Mr Kiss said.
Mr Aitken died on August 20, aged 85. His funeral will be held today at the Uniting Church in Ardlethan at 2pm.
Originally from New Zealand, Henry Maxwell settled in Batlow to coach the rugby league team.
Before arriving in Australia, Mr Maxwell played for New Zealand's World Cup team in 1957 and 1960; he also captained a Maori team that toured Australia in 1956.
He was once as rated one of the best forward props in international rugby league.
Former Wagga Kangaroos player Dave Mulrooney remembers the big Kiwi player who at 33 was "20 stone".
"He was very daunting to pack down against," Mr Mulrooney said.
He said that during training he could hold up the Batlow's entire forward pack and push them backwards.
When not playing football, Mr Maxwell could be found working in an orchard, hunting, camping or spending time with his family.
Mr Mulrooney said Mr Maxwell would be sadly missed.
Mr Maxwell died on Friday August 23, aged 81 and his funeral will be held on Wednesday at 2.30pm at the Brunskill Road Creamtorium Chapel.