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New 2020 Kia Soul X-Line near Bowie, MD
- $22,615
- Kia Customer CashExp: 03/02/2020
- - $1,500
- Sale Price
- $21,115
- Savings!
- $1,500
Vehicle Details
|Stock #
|Exterior Color
|Undercover Green
|Interior Color
|Gas Mileage
|City:27 Hwy:33
|2.0L 4-Cylinder
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New 2020 Kia Soul X-Line
- $22,615
- Kia Customer CashExp: 03/02/2020
- - $1,500
- Sale Price
- $21,115
- Savings!
- $1,500
Undercover Green 2020 Kia Soul X-Line FWD CVT 2.0L 4-Cylinder 10yr/100k Lim. Powertrain Warranty - Journey Package, 18" Alloy Wheels, 5yr/60K Mile Limited Basic Warranty & 5yr/60K Mile Roadside Assistance - Extra Value Package, 7-Inch Touchscreen - Technology Package, Apple Play/Android Auto - Premium Audio Package, Auto On/Off Headlights - Convenience Package, Backup Camera, Blind Spot and Rear Traffic Collision Warning - Safety Package, Bluetooth, Carpeted Floor Mats, Leather Wrapped Steering Wheel - Appearance Package, Power Mirror Package, Power Windows and Locks - Power Package, Privacy Glass - Security Package, Remote Keyless Entry - Convenience Package, Steering Wheel Controls (Bluetooth/Audio/Cruise) - Technology Package, ABS brakes, Alloy wheels, Electronic Stability Control, Low tire pressure warning, Remote keyless entry, Traction control.
27/33 City/Highway MPG MSRP Price includes Destination and Handling - All offers can be used toward Down Payment or Capital Cost Reduction: $1500 - Kia Customer Cash. Exp. 03/02/2020
Additional Vehicle Information
- Features
- Specs
- Warranty
- Safety
- Mechanical
- Technology
- Exterior
- Interior
- Comfort
|Rearview monitor
|in dash
|Cross traffic alert
|Child safety door locks
|Child seat anchors
|LATCH system
|Impact sensor
|door unlock
|Body side reinforcements
|side impact door beams
|Camera system
|Blind spot safety
|Crumple zones
|front, rear
|Airbag deactivation
|occupant sensing passenger
|Side airbags
|Front airbags
|Side curtain airbags
|front, rear
|Side-curtain airbag rollover sensor
|Power door locks
|anti-lockout, auto-locking
|2-stage unlocking doors
|Anti-theft system
|alarm with remote
|Side mirror adjustments
|power, manual folding
|Drive mode selector
|Axle ratio
|Auto start/stop
|Battery saver
|150 amps
|Rear brake type
|Rear brake diameter
|Front brake diameter
|Front brake type
|ventilated disc
|Braking assist
|Electronic brakeforce distribution
|Power brakes
|Front suspension classification
|Rear suspension classification
|Front struts
|Rear suspension type
|torsion beam
|Rear spring type
|Front stabilizer bar
|Front spring type
|Front suspension type
|lower control arms
|Rear shock type
|Front shock type
Stability and Traction
|Stability control
|Traction control
|Hill holder control
Audio System
|Auxiliary audio input
|Bluetooth, jack, USB, iPod/iPhone
|touch screen display, AM/FM
|Antenna type
|Total speakers
|Radio data system
|Speed sensitive volume control
|Electronic messaging assistance
|with read function, voice operated
|Wireless data link
|hands free, voice operated
In Car Entertainment
|Connected in-car apps
|Google POIs, Google search
|Apple CarPlay ready, Android Auto ready
|Infotainment screen size
|7 in.
|Trip computer
|Driver information system
|Multi-functional information center
|Digital odometer
|External temperature display
|Fuel economy display
|MPG, range
|Warnings and reminders
|low oil level, low fuel level, tire fill alert
|Trip odometer
Exterior Features
|Rocker panel color
|Front bumper color
|Door handle color
|Grille color
|chrome surround, black
|Rear bumper color
|Mirror color
|Fender lip moldings
|Window trim
Tires and Rims
|Spare tire size
|Tire type
|all season
|Spare tire mount location
|Spare wheel type
|Tire Pressure Monitoring System
|Liftgate window
|Rear door type
|Window defogger
|Front wipers
|variable intermittent
|Power windows
|safety reverse
|Rear privacy glass
|Solar-tinted glass
|Rear wiper
|with washer
|Front fog lights
|rear center
|auto delay off, auto on/off, halogen
|Roof rails
|Roof rails color
|Driver seat manual adjustments
|height, 6, reclining
|Rear headrests
|Passenger seat manual adjustments
|4, reclining
|Front headrests
|2, adjustable
|Front seat type
|Rear seat type
|60-40 split bench
|Seatbelt pretensioners
|Seatbelt force limiters
|Seatbelt warning sensor
|Rear seatbelts
|Front seatbelts
|Emergency locking retractors
|Turns lock-to-lock
Convenience Features
|front, rear
|Steering wheel
|tilt and telescopic
|One-touch windows
|Reading lights
|Power steering
|Cargo area light
|Cruise control
|Retained accessory power
|Multi-function remote
|keyless entry, panic alarm, trunk release
|Power windows
|lockout button
|Courtesy lights
|Overhead console
|Steering wheel mounted controls
|audio, cruise control, phone, multi-function
|Rearview mirror
|manual day/night
|Vanity mirrors
|Power outlet(s)
|12V front
|Assist handle
|rear, front
|Center console
|front console with armrest and storage
|cargo tie-down anchors and hooks, sunglasses holder, door pockets
Air Conditioning
|Front air conditioning zones
|Rear vents
|second row
|Front air conditioning
Comfort Features
|Shift knob trim
|Steering wheel trim
|Interior accents
|Floor material
|Door sill trim
|scuff plate
Drive Type
|Drive Type
|Standard Seating
|Max Seating
|Head Room (front)
|39.4 in
|Head Room (rear)
|39.5 in
|Hip Room (front)
|53.5 in
|Hip Room (rear)
|52.8 in
|Shoulder Room (front)
|55.5 in
|Shoulder Room (rear)
|54.7 in
|Leg Room (front)
|41.1 in
|Leg Room (rear)
|38.8 in
|Seating Rows
Measurements of Size & Shape
|165.2 in
|70.9 in
|63 in
|102.4 in
|Ground Clearance
|6.7 in
|Track Width (front)
|62 in
|Track Width (rear)
|62.4 in
Measurements of Weight
|Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
|4023 lbs
|Gross Vehicle Weight Range
|4001-5000 lbs
|Curb Weight
|2844 lbs
Truck Specifications
|Max Payload
|1179 lbs
Interior Dimensions
|Cargo Volume
|24.2 cu ft
|Interior Volume
|120.9 cu ft
|Passenger Volume
|96.7 cu ft
|Cargo Volume (rear seats down)
|62.1 cu ft
Performance Specifications
|Turning Circle
|34.8 ft
Fuel Tanks
|Fuel Capacity
|14.3 Gallons
Wheels and Tires
|Front Tire Type
|Front Wheel Diameter
|18.0 x 7.5 in
|Rear Tire Type
|Rear Wheel Diameter
|18.0 x 7.5 in
Crash-Test Ratings
2020 Kia Soul SUV FWD
|Front Crash Overall
|Front Crash Driver
|Front Crash Passenger
|Side Crash Overall
|Side Barrier Overall
|Side Barrier Driver
|Side Barrier Passenger
|Side Pole Driver
|Side Combined Front
|Side Combined Rear
Green Score
EPA Green Score
EPA and California-required standards. The names refer to tables of numerical limits for the various air pollutants allowed by the standards.
|Fuel Type
Greenhouse Gas Score ?
This score reflects fuel emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.
Available Incentives
*On Approved Credit
Cash back from Kia Motors America, Inc (KMA).Must take delivery from a participating dealer and from retail stock from 1/9/2020 to 3/2/2020. Cash back offer when you purchase a new 2020 Soul X-Line (Intelligent Variable Transmission (IVT) Front-Wheel Drive (FWD)) and may not be combined with finance or lease offers from Kia Motors Finance. This incentive is a limited time offer on eligible Kia vehicles. Not all incentive programs are compatible. See dealer for details.
* While we check with car manufacturers and other sources to confirm the accuracy and completeness of the data contained in this chart, we make no guarantees or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the data in this report. Although we make every attempt to keep this chart up to date, all incentive information is subject to change without notice.
Special Offers
*On Approved Credit
Customers eligible for the Kia Motors America, Inc. ("KMA") Military Specialty Incentive Program must be an active member of, honorably discharged from, retired from, or on disability with the United States Armed Forces or Reserves (includes those that have "national" status from another country and are serving in the United States military) or the spouse of the eligible participant. Eligible customers or his or her spouse must provide a copy of one of the following to a Kia dealer at the time of purchase: a current Earning Statement, a copy of the honorable discharge papers, a bank statement indicating a pension or disability earnings from the United States Armed Forces, or an official document indicating future pension eligibility. Military ID is not a sufficient form of proof of eligibility. If eligible customer is a spouse of participant, proof must be provided of the spousal status by providing proof of marriage (marriage certificate).Applies to new vehicles purchased or leased between 1/7/2020 - 3/2/2020. Customer is only eligible for a total of two (2) Specialty Incentives during a calendar year. This offer may be combined in addition to certain other incentives offered by KMA. See dealer for details. Not all incentive programs are compatible. This incentive is a limited time offer on eligible Kia vehicles. No cash value. Additional terms and conditions apply. See your participating dealer for more details. All matters of program eligibility and qualification will be resolved by KMA in its sole discretion, and KMA reserves the right to change product and program specifications at any time without incurring obligations.
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Veggie Stuffed Shells (Adapted from Woman's Day)
12 ounces jumbo pasta shells
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 1/2 cups chopped broccoli florets
1 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
10 ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1/3 cup vegetable broth
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
1 cup ricotta cheese
3 tablespoons fresh grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
salt and fresh ground black pepper
1 1/2 cups marinara sauce
2 ounces (about 1/2 cup) shredded mozzarella cheese
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a large pot of boiling salted water, add pasta and cook according to package directions. Drain, arrange them in a single layer on a large baking sheet and set aside to cool.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high. Add broccoli, carrots, onions and garlic - cook until just tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in spinach and vegetable broth - cover and cook 2 minutes. Remove cover and cook until liquid has mostly evaporated. Remove from the heat and stir in basil, ricotta, Parmesan and crushed red pepper - season with salt and pepper.
Spread marinara over the bottom of a 9" x 13" baking dish coated with cooking spray.
Spoon about 1 rounded tablespoon of the filling into each shell and set each into the baking dish. Sprinkle the top with mozzarella and cover with foil. Place into the oven and bake until bubbly, about 35 minutes. Remove and let cool slightly - serve with a sprinkling of fresh grated Parmesan cheese, if desired.
Makes about 6 servings.
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Consensus Report
Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond (2014)Board on Life Sciences
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
New biofuels, 3-D printing of human tissues, and more precise drug delivery systems are just a few examples of innovations that combine insights and approaches from the life and health sciences with those from the physical, mathematical, and computational sciences and engineering. This report focuses on the need for "convergence"—an approach to problem solving that integrates the knowledge, tools, and ways of thinking from multiple disciplines, including economic, social, and behavioral sciences. By merging these diverse areas of expertise in a network of partnerships, convergence stimulates innovation from basic science discovery to translational application. Convergent research could lead to many more breakthroughs that improve lives and strengthen the economy, but cultural and institutional barriers hamper its development. This report examines lessons learned from successful approaches for fostering convergence in different types of research institutions. The report calls for sustained national coordination to build the infrastructure needed to solve problems that transcend traditional boundaries. Read this Report in Brief to learn more about the report, and watch this video to learn more about convergence.
Key Messages
Strategies and practices used by institutions to facilitate convergence include:
- Organizing around a common theme, problem, or scientific challenge;
- Implementing management structures tailored to the challenges to convergence in each institution;
- Fostering opportunities to interact formally and informally;
- Changing existing faculty structures and reward systems;
- Working with and across existing departments;
- Embedding support for convergence in the promotion and tenure process;
- Designing facilities and workspaces for convergent research;
- Designing education and training programs that foster convergence;
- Establishing partnership arrangements across institutions; and
- Exploring sources of funding within and beyond government agencies
Essential cultural and structural elements in successful convergence ecosystems are:
- People: Leadership committed to supporting convergence, and the involvement of students, faculty members and staff, department chairs, and deans at multiple institutional levels.
- Organization: Inclusive governance systems, a goal-oriented vision, effective program management, stable support for core facilities, and flexible or catalytic funding sources.
- Culture: Inclusive, supports mutual respect across disciplines, encourages opportunities to share knowledge, and fosters scientists' ability to be conversant across disciplines.
- Ecosystem: Dynamic interactions with multiple partners within and across institutions.
- Experts, funding agencies, foundations, and other partners should identify key problems whose solution requires convergence approaches in order to catalyze new research directions and guide research priorities.
- Research institutions, funding agencies, foundations, and other partners should address barriers to effective convergence as they arise, including expanding mechanisms for funding convergence efforts and supporting collaborative proposal review across funding partners. Institutional programs such as seed funding to catalyze collaborations should be implemented or expanded.
- Institutions should review their administrative structures, faculty recruitment and promotion practices, cost recovery models, and research support policies to identify and reduce roadblocks to the formation of inter- and intra- institutional patnerships that facilitate convergence.
- Academic institutions should develop hiring and promotion policies that include exlicit guidelines to recognize the importance of both convergent and disciplinary scholarship, and include criteria to fairly evaluate them.
- Those interested in fostering convergence should identify evidence-based practices that have facilitated convergence by drawing on the expertise of economic, social, and behavioral sciences, as well as program management and strategic planning. Understanding the barriers and strategies to practicing convergence would improve practical guidance on how institutions can structure and sustain a convergence program.
- Leaders and practitioners who have fostered a convergence culture in their organizations and laboratories should develop partnerships, synergies, and collaborations with their colleagues in other organizations--especially in small universities and institutions that serve traditionally underrepresented groups--to help these partnering institutions establish and nurture convergence efforts while furthering the interests of their own.
- Best practices on the effective transfer of technologies from research organizations into the private sector should be collected, established, and disseminated. For convergent approaches to enable innovation and stimulate future economic development, research advances need to be translated into new products and services.


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And to you as a customer (hereinafter referred to as "customer") for orders of goods on our homepage (www.teppichoase.de).
1.2 We shall not accept any terms and conditions of the Purchaser which differ from our General Terms and Conditions of Business unless we have expressly agreed to their validity in writing.
§ 2 Conclusion of contract
2.1 The language available for the contract is exclusively German.
2.2 All offers are free of charge with regard to the services, quantities and ancillary services and represent a non-committal invitation to the customer to order goods at teppichoase.de. By placing the desired goods on the Internet, by e-mail, telephone, fax or by post, the customer makes a binding offer to conclude a purchase contract.
2.3 Our information on the products in the online catalog is non-binding. Minor deviations and technical modifications are possible against our illustrations or descriptions.
2.4 By ordering a product, the customer declares bindingly to purchase the ordered product.
2.5 We are entitled to accept the contract offer in the order within 5 days after receipt. The acceptance may be declared either in writing or by delivery of the goods to the customer.
The presentation of the products in the online shop is not a legally binding offer, but a non-binding online catalog. By clicking the button "Buy", you place a binding order of the goods contained in the shopping basket. The confirmation of the receipt of the order follows immediately after the sending of the order and does not constitute a contract acceptance. We can accept your order by sending an order confirmation by e-mail or by delivery of the goods within five days.
2.6 If the customer orders the goods electronically, we shall immediately confirm receipt of the order. The acknowledgment of receipt does not constitute a binding acceptance of the order yet. The confirmation of access can be connected with the declaration of acceptance.
2.7 The contract is concluded subject to the correct and timely self-delivery by our suppliers. This shall only apply in the event that the non-delivery is not represented by us, in particular if a congruent cover transaction is concluded with our supplier. The customer is immediately informed about the non-availability of the service. The consideration will be refunded immediately.
2.8 Kingworx GmbH is entitled to rescind the contract if the delivery is substantially impeded or made impossible by force majeure or other events unforeseeable at the time of the conclusion of the contract which are not the responsibility of Kingworx GmbH. This applies in particular to technical faults or database errors. Likewise, the seller can withdraw from the contract if a calculative error has occurred (offer errand).
2.9 If the customer orders the goods electronically, the contract text will be stored by us and sent to the customer by e-mail upon request, together with these terms and conditions.
2.10 All customer requests will be processed by e-mail or telephone within three days.
2.11 In order to shop on the website of us, you must be of age.
2.12 All contracts concluded with us are subject to these terms and conditions.
2.13 Subsidiary agreements shall only be effective if confirmed in writing.
2.14 Invoicing shall be made on the day of dispatch.
2.15 The goods shall be delivered only in commercially available quantities.
2.16 We only want to enter into contractual relationships with persons of age.
§ 3 Cancellation of the order
3.1 You may cancel your order at any time by stating the reasons for your purchase agreement by sending the pro forma e-mail or the shipping confirmation e-mail. Just write an e-mail to us (to "email@example.com") with the order number and the goods to be canceled. Alternatively, you can also cancel the order by calling Tel. +49 (0) 681 - 965 900 22.
§ 4 Revocation right
4.1. Consumers have a fourteen-day withdrawal.
Right of withdrawal
Right of revocation
You have the right to revoke this contract within a period of fourteen days without giving reasons. The period of revocation shall be fourteen days from the date on which you or a third party you designate, which is not the carrier, has or has taken possession of the goods. In order to exercise your right of revocation, you must inform us of your decision to revoke this agreement by means of a clear statement (eg a letter, fax or e-mail sent by post). You can use the enclosed sample revocation form, but this is not required. In order to maintain the revocation period, it is sufficient that you send the notification of the exercise of the right of revocation before the end of the revocation period. :
Kingworx GmbH
Roman Town 4 D-66121 Saarbrücken, Germany Germany Fax: +49 (0) 681 - 948 948 97 Phone: +49 (0) 681 - 965 900 22 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Revocation Sequence
If you revoke this Agreement, we will notify you of all payments we have received from you in respect of your order, including the cost of delivery (except for the additional costs resulting from your having a different type of delivery than the one offered by us, The most favorable standard delivery), at the latest within fourteen days from the day on which the notification of your revocation of this contract has been received by us, as well as we have received the goods to be returned or the written proof of return has been provided. For such repayment, we use the same payment you used in the original transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; In no case will you be charged for these repayment charges.
You must return the goods to us within 14 days after withdrawal. They bear the immediate cost of returning the goods. The collection of the goods by us is possible against calculation by written agreement. You must only pay for a possible loss of value of the goods if this loss in value is attributable to a handling which is not necessary for the purpose of checking the quality, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
The right of revocation does not apply to distance sales contracts
For the supply of goods made according to customer specifications or - are clearly tailored to their personal needs, or - which are not suitable for return due to their nature, or - can quickly spoil or - whose expiry date would be exceeded, - for the supply of audio or video recordings or software, as long as the delivered data carriers have been unsealed by the consumer, or - for the supply of newspapers, magazines and magazines, unless the consumer has made a telephone call.
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If you want to use the sample revocation form, please copy the text into an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or a letter and fill in the required information.
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In Annex 2 to Article 246a § 1 Paragraph 2 Sentence 1 Number 1 and § 2 Paragraph 2 Number 2 EGBGB, the legislator makes the following model revocation form available:
Sample Revocation Form
(If you want to revoke the contract, please fill out this form and return it.)
- To Kingworx GmbH, Römerstadt 4, 66121, Saarbrücken, email@example.com, +49 (0) 681 - 965 900 22, +49 (0) 681 - 948 948 97:
- I / we (*) hereby revoke the contract concluded by me / us (*) for the purchase of the following goods (*) / the provision of the following service (*):
- Appointed on (*) / received on (*)
- name of the consumer (s)
- Address of the consumer (s)
- Signature of the consumer (s) (only in the case of a communication on paper)
- Date
(*) Delete as appropriate.
§ 5 Terms of delivery
5.1 Unless otherwise agreed, delivery shall be made to the delivery address indicated by you.
5.2 In the case of the payment variant "prepayment / transfer" the delivery of the goods takes place only after the purchase price plus any shipping costs incurred in our bank account has been received.
5.3 Deliveries will be made exclusively to Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Finland, UK, Italy, Sweden, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania , Romania, Hungary, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the non-EU countries of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Monaco.
5.4 You are obliged to ensure that only you or a person of full age who is authorized by you to accept the delivery accepts the delivery of the goods.
5.5 We do not deliver to packing stations.
§ 6 Prices, Costs
6.1 The prices stated on the homepage apply at the time of the order. All prices are inclusive of the applicable German statutory value-added tax.
6.2 In addition, shipping costs are subject to:
In addition to the value of the goods, the shipping costs indicated in the order closing must be paid. If a package for reasons which the buyer has to answer can not be supplied and it requires a new dispatch, the costs listed as shipping costs are due once more.
6.3 For deliveries to countries other than Germany, additional taxes, duties and / or costs may apply which are not included in the prices quoted. These you have to wear.
6.4 In the case of revocation, you must return the goods to us within 14 days after withdrawal. They bear the immediate cost of returning the goods. The collection of the goods by us is possible against calculation by written agreement.
§ 7 Terms of payment
7.1 The purchase price is payable with the condition of the purchase contract.
7.2 You have the option of paying the purchase price by cash on delivery (in case of dispatch in Germany, for shipping to Austria and Poland from an order value of 200 EUR), cash payment for self-collection at our business address in Saarbrücken, prepayment / credit transfer, credit card (Visa, Mastercard) The payment system for the immediate transfer of sofortueberweisung.de (for customers from Germany and Austria) or via the payment system "PayPal". Choose your preferred method of payment in the order process. We reserve the right to provide you with one of the aforementioned methods of payment.
7.3 In the case of payment via prepayment / transfer, please transfer the purchase price plus possible shipping costs to our bank account listed in the pro forma invoice mail and the invoice number.
7.4 When paying by credit card, the financial information for credit card transactions (number of the card, expiry date, etc.) is automatically forwarded with an encrypted protocol without us or third parties having access to it in any way. This information is used exclusively for payment as well as for cases of restitution or reimbursement. Your credit card will be charged with completion of the order.
7.5 Payment via Paypal is made via the website of PayPal (www.paypal.de) as well as to the terms of use stated in Paypal. PayPal is a payment service of PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A. Customers who wish to pay by PayPal require a customer account. All payments by Paypal are exclusively and with a debt-free effect to the Company GmbH, Gutenbergstr. 4, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany (firstname.lastname@example.com), which is responsible for payment management for us. Our reservation of title remains unaffected.
7.6 We also offer immediate transfer. Herewith we receive the transfer credit immediately. This accelerates the entire order process. All you need is the account number, bank code, PIN and TAN. The secured payment form, which is not accessible to dealers, provides immediate transfer automatically and in real-time a transfer into your online bank account. The purchase price is immediately and directly transferred to the merchant's bank account. If you choose the immediate payment method, a pre-filled form opens at the end of the ordering process. This already contains our bank account. In addition, the transfer amount and the purpose of use are already displayed in the form. You must now select the country in which you have your online banking account and enter the bank code. Then enter the same data as for online banking registration (account number and PIN). Confirm your order by entering the TAN. The transaction is confirmed immediately afterwards. In principle, every Internet user can use the immediate transfer as a method of payment if he has an activated online banking account with PIN / TAN procedures. Please note that for some banks the direct transfer is not yet available. More information on whether your bank supports this service can be found here: https://www.sofort.com/ger-DE/general/fuerkaeufer/ questions-and-answers /
7.7 In the case of an additional delivery, a COD fee is charged, depending on the destination country. Dispatched in UK, Austria, Poland, Poland, Poland, Ireland, Holland and Ireland.
7.8 There is no possibility of deducting cash.
§ 8 Reservation of title
The delivered goods remain our property until full payment of the purchase price.
§ 9 Warranty
9.1 The statutory warranty period is two years and begins with delivery of the goods. During this time all defects, which are subject to the legal warranty obligation, are completely free of charge. The warranty claims are initially limited to supplementary performance. In the event of failure of the supplementary performance, the customer has, at his option, a right to withdraw from the purchase contract or to reduce the purchase price.
9.2 The date of commencement of the warranty must be confirmed by the purchase receipt (invoice, delivery note). These records must be carefully kept.
§ 10 Liability
10.1 We shall be liable for damages in the event of intent and gross negligence in full.
10.2 Liability for simple negligence consists only in the event of damage resulting from injury to life, body or health, or in the event of a breach of a contractual obligation whose fulfillment makes the proper execution of the contract possible or whose violation jeopardizes the achievement of the purpose of the contract Adhere to regular trust (cardinal obligation). In the case of negligent violation of cardinal obligations, liability is limited to contractual and foreseeable damages.
10.3 This shall not affect the statutory liability for non-liability (eg according to the Product Liability Act) and liability arising from the eventual acceptance of a guarantee.
10.4 Our legal representatives, employees and vicarious agents are not liable more than we ourselves.
10.5 According to the current state of the art, data communication over the Internet can not be guaranteed without errors and / or at any time available. Therefore, we are not liable for the permanent and uninterrupted availability of our online shop nor for technical and electronic errors during an ordering process, which we have no influence on, in particular not for the delayed processing or acceptance of offers. If links to other websites or sources are created, we are not responsible or liable for the availability of such external websites or sources. We do not adopt any content that is accessible on such websites or sources and exclude any liability or warranty with respect to them, insofar as in the individual case there is no positive knowledge of the illegality of the contents.
§ 11 Other
11.1 Applicable law: The laws of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply to all legal relations of the parties under the exclusion of the laws on the international purchase of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice is valid only in so far as the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the consumer is habitually resident is not withdrawn.
11.2 If you are a merchant, exclusive jurisdiction for disputes arising out of or in connection with the business relationship is Saarbrücken. The same court of jurisdiction applies if you do not have a general jurisdiction in Germany or after moving out of the country, move your place of residence abroad or your place of residence is not known at the time of the appeal.
11.3 Should any provision of these terms and conditions be or become invalid, the validity of all other provisions or agreements shall remain unaffected.


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At the start of his one-man show "Stories By Heart," which opened its two-day run Friday night in the 710 Main Theatre, John Lithgow delivered a poignant prologue.
"It makes me a little wistful to stand on the stage of the late, great and lamented Studio Arena Theatre," he said. But he went on to praise the vibrant state of theater in Western New York even without the once-mighty cultural force that was Studio Arena.
He then went on to rattle off the names of the Kavinoky Theatre, where his son Ian Lithgow has performed, along with Ujima, the Irish Classical Theatre Company, Road Less Traveled and Torn Space. And he dedicated his three performances this weekend to the Buffalo theater community at large.
This was an ideal way to respect the troubled history of the space in which he would perform while also looking forward its resurrection in a vastly different form - and to a new era of live theater in Buffalo.
And Lithgow is nothing if not devoted to the theater. His show is a two-pronged love-letter to his parents, who imbued him with a passion for stories and storytelling, and to the stories themselves.
"All theater is stories. All actors are storytellers," he said, going on to ask the audience to consider the question of why, exactly, we were "huddling in the half-light with a bunch of total strangers."
The immediate answer, at least, was to see Lithgow - winner of two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, a pair of Golden Globes and another pair of Oscar nods - do what he does best. Which, judging at least by the first half of the performance, is to chew up the scenery with a kind of unbridled glee.
He first told of how his parents read stories to him and his siblings as children and how, later on when his own father fell ill, he read those same stories to his parents. The agreed-upon favorite of Lithgows young and old was P.G. Wodehouse's "Uncle Fred Flits By," a farcical tale about a misbehaving uncle and his unwitting nephew getting into all sorts of hijinks in a London residence that does not belong to them.
In performing the piece, Lithgow takes on all the roles up to and including the winking parrot, with utter commitment and total disregard for anything resembling restraint. This was doubtless in tribute to his own father, an actor and theater producer he described as having "a kind of exuberant flamboyance that you might have recognized from someone else in the room."
He tromped across the stage in exaggerated steps, played a dizzying array of characters and contorted his face into any number of exaggerated expressions and absolutely luxuriated in Wodehouse's masterful language. The result was often hilarious.
If some details about his parents came across as somewhat saccharine, this sense faded away in the second act, for which Lithgow saved Ring Lardner's darker tale "The Haircut." His performance as a seemingly half-witted barber recounting a juicy bit of town gossip was alternately creepy and engrossing.
It's clear that Lithgow is engaged in a life-long love affair with stories. And with this touching, funny and above all generous exhibition of that love affair, he is graciously inviting the rest of us to take part in it, too.
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39 musicians + 13 filmmakers + 13 parks = National Parks Project
Living in Canada is pretty sweet.
Not only do we have the National Film Board – whose films inspired Boards of Canada – but we get funding for great projects like The National Parks Project.
What is it? Some of Canada's greatest music acts "created and recorded" music in Canada's most beautiful national parks. The music was captured and incorporated into thirteen films by top filmmakers.
Artists include Soundtrack2 faves such as:
- Members of Broken Social Scene and Apostle of Hustle
- Members of Constantines
- The Besnard Lakes (woo hoo!)
- Matt Mays
- Sebastien Grainger of Death From Above 1979
- Members of Godspeed You Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra
The films will be released next month. To whet our appetite, NPP has released this phenomenal trailer that demonstrates what the project's all about.
National Parks Project – Trailer from Ryan J. Noth on Vimeo.
More info on NPP (including loads more musicians who participated) can be found here. Can't wait until March 19!


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There are few cities in recent history that have to live with the label of 'ex-capital city', but Bonn is one of them. Nevertheless, those who thought Bonn would fade into obscurity without its capital status have been proven wrong. Previously known as the 'federal village', and now an internationally renowned hub of commerce and culture, Bonn comes across as assured and cosmopolitan as ever.
It was certainly not the worst of times when Bonn was the capital of western Germany. To this day, the 'Bonn Republic' is symbolic of diplomacy, democracy and Germany's post-war recovery. The fittingly named 'Path of Democracy' walking tour takes in sights of historical interest in the former government quarter. Authentic sites of Germany's political past now open to visitors include Schaumburg Palace, the Chancellor's Bungalow and the former parliament chamber. The Bonn Republic can also be revisited at the Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, the starting point of the 'Path of Democracy'. The many exhibits in the permanent collection, including Adenauer's famous Mercedes, documents, photos and film footage, rekindle memories and illustrate the historical and political background to events between the post-war period and reunification. Bonn is much more than just the former capital of Germany, however. It enjoys widespread renown as a city of the arts, for example. Internationally acclaimed Bonn Theatre is a top destination for discerning audiences, while the Schauspiel Biennale festival, first held in 1992, has also gained a worldwide following. As the birthplace of Beethoven, Bonn honours its world-famous son during the Beethoven Festival, a series of concerts held every September and October that spreads the joy of classical music. The Rhine in Flames music and firework spectacular gives the city another reason to celebrate. During the festivities, a flotilla of illuminated boats sails along the river accompanied by magical explosions of lights in the night sky and bombastic sounds.
Bonn confirms its reputation as one of Germany's finest centres for art with two of the country's most important art museums – the Bonn museum of art and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, otherwise known as the Federal Art Gallery. The Museum of Art features one of the most extensive collections of German Expressionism, as well as German modern art and international prints after 1945. The Federal Art Gallery, meanwhile, has an even higher calling. Its raison d'être is to display Germany's 'intellectual and cultural riches' in an appropriate setting and to promote an ongoing international dialogue between culture and politics. These may sound like lofty ambitions, but the many millions who visit every year attest to the museum's success. Many other museums in the city attract visitor numbers that are almost as impressive, with people coming in their hundreds of thousands. Among these is the Bonn German Museum, whose 100 contemporary masterpieces of science and technology are a big draw for tech-fans. August Macke House, the Women's Museum, the Academic Art Museum and the municipal museum all have devoted fanbases too. The city is even a gallery in itself, with many outstanding works of art on public display, including Victor Vasarely's Juridicum facade, Henry Moore's 'Large Two Forms' in front of the former Federal Chancellery and 'Die Wolkenschale' by Hans Arp at the university library. Masterpieces worthy of a capital city.
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"Old Bakery" is a HTML5 website template that has unique Parallax scrolling effect. Only a couple of dozens websites in the whole web has been built upon this special scheme.
It was done having in mind small home businesses, craftsmen, boutiques etc. Although, it can be easily converted to anything completely different. All what is required is to replace background photos, illustrated backgrounds (if they do not fit your theme), photos and texts.
It has fixed width (and heights of layers), it does not shrink and does not fit small devices.
Flexible design, each part can be replaced, extended and customized. It includes unique features like:
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This chapter has been taken in part from the chapter on FASD in my first book by Dr Sterling Clarren.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is an umbrella term for conditions that are caused as a result of drinking alcohol during pregnancy but is not a diagnosis. Alcohol is a substance that causes birth defects and as such can affect the unborn child's development. If a woman drinks while she is pregnant the alcohol, no matter how much or how little, crosses the placental barrier and circulates through the baby's system. However, it remains with the baby longer because the mother metabolises the alcohol with a fully formed liver, whereas the baby's liver is small and undeveloped so the blood alcohol level of the baby is the same as that of the mother. This means that there is no known level of alcohol consumption during pregnancy that is safe for the baby.
There is a range of effects on the spectrum from mild to severe. The mild effects may not result in mental retardation, but it is possible that the brain has been damaged and the executive functioning (the higher order thinking and judgment skills) of that person compromised. While the child grows and appears normal there could be subtle, and not so subtle, behavioural problems associated with the prenatal injury.
At the severe end there can be the same behavioural problems but the child will also have the distinctive facial features of FAS. These facial features and more detailed symptoms and characteristics are described later in this chapter.
Much of the research that has been conducted has been in North America by researchers such as Professors Sterling Clarren, Susan Astley and Ab Chudley. Sterling Clarren's primate and mouse research on alcohol and pregnancy found that the lip and philtrum anomaly of (full) FAS occurred in a very small window of time which would be on the 19th to 20th day after conception in the human – the period called gastrulation. Since the diagnosis of FAS depends on having the full set of facial features then it is likely that only exposures that include the 19th or 20th day will attract the diagnosis of FAS. However, a child can still have a serious brain injury without the facial characteristics.
This work strengthens the importance of referring to the condition in terms of the full spectrum rather than the syndrome alone. This is why there is a perception in Australia that fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is rare. Our medical profession has had very limited training in diagnosis and many only recognise, if at all, those children with very obvious facial features – those with full blown fetal alcohol syndrome.
However, according to Professor Clarren's research, if a mother does not drink on the 19th or 20th day, the child may still have brain damage but no facial features. It is well documented in North America that children with facial features are only the tip of the iceberg. Overseas studies show that for every child diagnosed with full FAS there will be another three to ten with alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders, the conditions that remain on the spectrum when the full syndrome is removed .
In North America and Canada, multidisciplinary teams are trained to diagnose FASD. Team members typically include, but are not limited to, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists, and social workers.
There are NO such interdisciplinary teams in Australia, nor are there many 'experts' so it is particularly concerning that we have high profile members of the medical profession who have obviously had no training in the diagnosis of FASD and presumably very limited understanding of the disability, making uninformed and dangerously misleading statements indicating that in order to get a diagnosis of full Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at least eight drinks a day would have to be consumed when in fact obtaining a diagnosis of full FAS is not reliant on how much is consumed but when it is consumed.
This condition is not restricted to the indigenous population or alcoholic women; it is easier to identify in the children of alcoholic women but FASD can and does strike a family who may have no idea that their child is affected until he or she reaches puberty when behavioural problems become more marked. By then it may be difficult to relate back to the pregnancy and the few glasses of wine each day or even, in some cases, each week.
Dr Margaret Clarke, an eminent Canadian FASD researcher, has found that in Canada 96% of mothers with alcohol-affected children are social drinkers, and only 4% are alcohol dependent . This makes an accurate diagnosis more difficult and having a multidisciplinary team undertake the diagnosis more necessary.
FASD can cause behavioural problems similar to those caused by the environment. However, the antisocial or delinquent behaviour caused by the environment sometimes can be resolved if given appropriate and consistent assistance at the right time, because while the behaviour and the psychology are abnormal, the brain has not been physically injured. People who have FASD have a brain injury so will not be able to make the necessary changes, even though they seem to have the ability to do so. FASD is not an excuse for bad behaviour; it is the reason for it.
Sufferers often try to do what is expected of them, but it is like assuming persons in wheelchairs will be able to walk just because we tell them to. The difference, of course, is that we wouldn't expect people with paraplegia or quadriplegia to walk if we yell at them enough, but every day people with brain injuries are expected to 'walk' when they are in metaphorical wheelchairs. Moreover, no one can see their 'wheelchair', no one knows about this injury because it is not visible; and it would certainly not be obvious that they have FASD simply by talking with them for a short time, unless they have the distinctive facial features or a lower IQ.
A common mistake is to assume that because a person can 'talk the talk' he or she can also 'walk the walk'. This is not true for people with FASD. Their expressive language is far better than their receptive language and so they can say they understand what is being said, and can even repeat what has been said, but if it's a complicated or abstract concept or if there is more than one idea, instruction or topic, then it is unlikely that information will be accurately interpreted.
Only a relatively small number of people with FASD have a low IQ and these individuals will usually have access to services as a result. However, gaining access to services is challenging for affected people without an advocate because they won't always present as having a disability yet will have compromised executive functioning. For them it will be a 'catch-22' situation where without a low IQ, they will be difficult for others to identify, yet because of the prenatal alcohol exposure are generally unable to advocate for themselves. Without either an advocate or insight into their disability these individuals will be unlikely to proactively access the services they will desperately need during their lifetime. One of the ways they are likely to access services is involuntarily through legal direction or because of florid mental illness.
So with no diagnosis, friends, family and other significant people in their lives will not fully understand the reasons for their behaviours. They may believe it's because of dysfunctional parenting, abuse, mental illness, genetics, drugs, alcohol, or just plain irrepressible immaturity when in fact their brains have been saturated with alcohol, destroying brain cells, when they were in their mother's womb.
The diagnosis of full fetal alcohol syndrome is based on three features:
The pattern of facial and other anomalies as a result of maternal drinking can include:
Central Nervous System abnormalities, of at least one of the following:
Alcohol is a behavioural teratogen. A teratogen is a substance that causes birth defects and a behavioural teratogen is a substance that also causes behavioural problems.
Although alcohol exposure presents a physical risk to the fetus much like mercury and thalidomide, it is in the area of behaviour that alcohol seems to do the most long-term damage. People with FASD may have trouble setting personal boundaries and observing other people's boundaries. They often have emotional problems, can be impulsive, may not be able to sustain relationships, and often cannot anticipate consequences. They have difficulty paying attention, poor organisational skills and struggle to complete tasks.
FASD is permanent, irreversible brain damage and this brain injury is the primary disability; however, secondary disabilities may occur when the primary disability is not recognised and appropriate strategies and interventions put into place. Although the primary disabling conditions of prenatal alcohol exposure last a lifetime, the secondary disabilities can be prevented.
From life history interviews of 415 individuals with FASD using 450 questions, Dr Streissguth from the University of Washington found that:
Problems with employment were indicated in 80% of adults with FASD. Problems with parenting: Of the 100 females of childbearing age, 30 had given birth; 40% drank during pregnancy, more than half no longer had the child in their care. Of their children, 30% have been diagnosed with or were suspected of having FASD.
If it is not possible to halt the secondary disabilities through appropriate interventions, strategies and environmental modifications, then it is vital that they be understood so that relevant management strategies can be developed and implemented.
Dr Streissguth's research found that secondary disabilities could be prevented if the following occurs:
The brain injury that results from FASD is an information processing deficit – an inability to reason in the way that others do, and a distressing inability to fit in with the rules and behaviours required by society because of the damage to the corpus callosum.
The corpus callosum is the part of the brain that links the right-brain and the left-brain. The right-brain handles creativity, intuition and impulse and the left-brain handles the rules, logic, order and thoughts. When the two cannot link properly because of prenatal exposure to alcohol or a brain injury of some sort, then the person cannot always predict the outcome of his actions even though he knows and can repeat the 'rules'. Most often, affected individuals are seen as lazy, unmotivated, disorganised, in denial, or dishonest.
Typical primary characteristics in children, adolescents, and adults:
Common strengths
From my experience it seems difficult for an Australian health professional to identify and diagnose people with FASD even with a definite connection between alcohol and pregnancy, let alone when the mother is not an alcoholic and finds it hard to remember details of her pregnancy many years before. The possible consequences of a right or a wrong diagnosis would be devastating for the doctor, the individual and his or her family.
Therefore in order to provide adequately for affected Australians, diagnostic clinics should, at a minimum, be located in all capital cities in Australia and preferably also in many of the regional centres. Unfortunately, neither a blood test nor a simple medical examination, at this stage in research, will reveal the presence of FASD in an individual.
In October 2006, I was honoured to be present at the release of preliminary findings of a study by Susan Astley, Director of the FAS Diagnostic and Prevention Network at the University of Washington, and her colleagues, on research into whether Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) can serve as non-invasive methods for definitively identifying global and/or focal brain damage in patients presenting with cognitive/behavioral dysfunction and prenatal alcohol exposure. The study compared children along the full continuum of FASD, including children with FAS and Partial FAS, to children with normal development and no prenatal alcohol exposure. The results will be published later in the year and will represent a huge leap forward in the diagnosis of this condition.
Article reproduced with permission from Elizabeth Russell (2008)


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In my second Korean bloods sausage excursion I hit up 8th Street Soondae, alternatively titled, according to the menu, 8Ga Soon Dae, 8th Korean Sausage Restaurant and Korean Sweet Rice Blood 8th Sausage Restaurant; there is no English on the storefront, but it is in the corner of a strip mall on the north west corner of Hoover and 8th Street.
The menu is nearly identical to that of Western Soondae, which I reviewed last week. I again had the soon dae plate with sausage and "assort pork intestin." The dish was two dollars more expensive than Western ($11.99 vs. $9.99) but had a bit more of the pork stomach.
I definitely preferred the plate at Western Soondae. The sausage at 8th Street was nearly the same in flavor and appearance but was drier then the very moist Western sausage. I missed the moistness of the sausage innards and the soft but stretchy quality in the casing at Western, which made it taste freshly made. The sausage is also served with the same accompaniments used at Western: pork stomach, tongue and liver. The tongue, which I really enjoyed at Western Soondae was also much too dry at 8th street. The liver was equally dried out at both establishments and the stomach seemed fine at both.
Soondae is fairly bland so condiments are important. Both restaurants served salt with them as well as a fish sauce and chili condiment, but the sauce at Western was a bit more funky and had more character, making it a better foil to the strong offal flavors in the dish.
The winner of this soondae match was Western. Thanks to the Chowhounds who pointed me to the two contenders. Oh and there are a few others out there I will be trying, but for now, I'm going to take a break and let the iron content of my blood ease back down a bit.
8th Street Soondae
2703 W. 8th Street, #D
Los Angeles, CA 90005
(213) 487-0038
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Funny. Your blog was the first result when I typed 8th and Hoover Soon Dae. I also just tried Western Soondae and came to the exact opposite result. I thought Western Soondae was much too bland. It was much drier than the soondae @ 8th/Hoover. I guess to each his (or her) own. Both places seemed packed w/ customers
- May 4, 2010 at 10:31 AM
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His interpretation of Obama is controversial — even among his fellow conservatives
Dinesh D'Souza is the part-time Rancho Santa Fe resident and full-time conservative behind "2016: Obama's America." This new documentary argues that our 44th president is motivated by his African father — a Kenyan who barely knew his son, but advocated the end of colonial power around the world — rather than America's founding fathers.
On the political right, D'Souza is a powerful force. "If you were to make a list of the 25 or 30 most influential intellectual thinkers of the conservative movement," said Jon Fleischman, publisher of FlashReport, a conservative online site, "Dinesh has risen into that category."
Yet even many of admirers shrink from D'Souza's current cause. "2016" is not yet in wide release — the movie, which opened in Houston two weeks ago, debuts today in Nashville and Kalispell, Mont. — but its thesis is drawn from two D'Souza books, the upcoming "2016" and "The Roots of Obama's Rage." When "Roots" was published in 2010, some of its toughest critics were fellow Obama-bashers.
The book, The Weekly Standard charged, is rife with "misstatements of fact, leaps in logic, and pointlessly elaborate argumentation."
Ramesh Ponnuru, a National Review senior editor, agreed: "Again and again, the author attributes Obama's positions to anti-colonialism when less exotic explanations would be given for any other politician who took the same positions."
D'Souza, 51, didn't mind these brickbats. Since "Illiberal Education," his 1991 attack on political correctness in higher education, he's courted controversy. This Indian-American declared "The End of Racism" in a 1995 book; a dozen years later, in "The Enemy at Home," he placed much of the blame for 9/11 on the American left.
"He is most well-known for thrusting his arguments into whatever hornet's nest he can find," Fleischman said. "He uses controversies to educate people on the issues."
Besides, that Obama-as-anti-colonial-crusader position? Other may regard it as indefensible; D'Souza insists it's indispensable: "You plug in the colonial theory and everything about Obama makes sense. You pull it out and it doesn't."
Born in Mumbai, D'Souza first traveled to the United States in 1978 to attend an Arizona high school as part of a Rotary Club exchange program. He quickly determined to stay in the States, if not that state. Accepted at Dartmouth, he moved to New Hampshire and set out to become an American and star of the conservative movement.
"I think he's a perfect example of what an American is," said Gerald Molen, 77, the Oscar-winning producer ("Schindler's List") who came out of semi-retirement to co-produce "2016." "Here's a guy who was born in India, comes to America and says, 'Wow, look at all the opportunity!'"
As an editor and writer for conservative Dartmouth publications, he assaulted affirmative action and other liberal causes. After graduating with an English degree, Phi Beta Kappa, he became an editor at Policy Review, a conservative journal. In 1988, he became an adviser in the Reagan White House. The next year, he took a position at the American Enterprise Institute and soon after became the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
His tenure at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue changed his life in two profound ways. He gained an idol, Reagan, whom he saluted in a 1997 biography, and a wife, White House intern Dixie Brubaker, whom he married in 1992.
In 1999, the D'Souzas and their daughter moved to Rancho Santa Fe, near Dixie's parents. They bought a home that, while hardly modest (the 7,700-square foot residence was recently appraised at $2.1 million), is far from extravagant by Rancho standards. D'Souza loves San Diego, but couldn't resist when invited to become a college president in 2010.
One problem: The King's College, a private Christian school, is in New York City.
"It is difficult," admitted D'Souza. "I've worked it out so basically I spend one week in New York and one week in California."
Sparring partners
On both coasts, his calendar often contains out-of-town appointments. Born a Goan Catholic and now an evangelical Christian, D'Souza is a popular speaker and debater who has dueled dozens of notable atheists. In December, he lost one of his most frequent sparring partners when the journalist Christopher Hitchens died.
"I miss him as a debater, but also as a friend," said D'Souza, who is as civil in person as he is pugnacious in print. "We would often have dinner after our debates. He was a lot of fun — I think we genuinely liked each other."
Today, though, there's little time for that brand of fun. D'Souza is busy promoting his movie, a major task as this independently produced film has not been picked up by a studio. While the movie grossed an impressive $36,000 from one weekend in a single Houston theater, so far it has opened in a handful of Red State America's most scarlet pockets. According to the film's official website, the six theaters now showing it will be augmented by two more — one in Anchorage, the other in a smaller Alaskan town, Wasilla, whose former mayor knows a bit about national politics.
"This is a scaled release," D'Souza said.
Neither D'Souza nor the film's publicist knows when "2016" will open in a theater near Rancho or Manhattan.
'I help myself'
Posters for "2016" carry this slogan: "Love him. Hate him. You don't know him." Some conservatives, though, insist that Obama — who was not interviewed for the film — is nothing like the man D'Souza depicts on film and in print.
"To the notion that Obama has a 'Kenyan, anti-colonial' worldview, the sensible response is: If only," George Will wrote in a 2010 column. "Obama's natural habitat is as American as the nearest faculty club; he is a distillation of America's academic mentality; he is as American as the other professor-president, Woodrow Wilson."
D'Souza, though, points to an article written by the president's father, Barack Obama, urging the dismantling the last vestiges of the world's colonial empires. Then D'Souza turns to the son's 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father." When he first picked up the book, D'Souza expected an African-American's reflections on civil rights in America.
"Then I see, wait a minute, this has nothing to do with the civil rights movement," he said. "Segregation is not a big theme of Obama's book. Colonialism is."
D'Souza also dings President Obama for "traipsing about the country, saying 'we are our brother's keeper,'" but not rescuing a half-brother from a life of squalor in Kenya.
The Obama campaign, asked to comment on the movie earlier this week, never responded. As for George Obama, who has met his American half-brother twice, he doesn't seem upset. "I think he has a family of his own," he said in a clip from "2016" shown on "Hannity," the Fox News show. "I'm part of his family but I'm over-age. I help myself."
Will "2016" influence this year's presidential contest, or will it merely preach to — and occasionally baffle — an anti-Obama congregation? Even successful political documentaries can't seem to translate box office clout into the ballot box muscle. "Fahrenheit 9/11," the genre's all-time moneymaker, was an impassioned attack on President George W. Bush. A few months after Michael Moore's film was released, Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry.
FlashReport's Fleischman hasn't seen "2016" and isn't sure if he agrees with its thesis.
Still, he enjoys seeing D'Souza kicking another hornets' nest.
"He is a hero to the right," Fleischman said. "He is willing to challenge the orthodoxy of the left."
And, on occasion, his allies on the right.


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Dean Barker, Emirates Team New Zealand skipper, looks over the latest of now the third pedigree, known as the SL33, owned by the America's Cup team.
'They're from the board of Morelli & Melvin, who are with us for the America's Cup program,' he explains. 'They had the design commissioned by a European lake sailor, who has already taken delivery of the first boat.'
'We have two of the boats, built by Hakes Marine in Wellington. The plan for us is to use them for sailing team development between the AC45 and the Extreme 40's ahead of launching the AC72.
'It is also an opportunity to do some design work ahead of the AC72,' he adds.
'The original SL33 design is quite over-powered and it is perfect for us as it fits within the Surrogate Rule for the America's Cup, which comes into effect in January next year.'
Currently Emirates Team NZ are running three catamaran campaigns and will be doing their fourth in two years, when the larger AC72 is launched ahead of the 34th America's Cup to be sailed in September 2013.
The rationale is simple for the world's leading professional sailing team, and twice winner of the America's Cup.
In the three years that intervene before the 34th Match, Emirates Team NZ have to build on their existing capability and extend into the multihull world in the areas of design, sailing and understanding how to matchrace multihulls.
Maximising every opportunity is the key, in the relatively small time available – hence the competition on two professional multihull circuits, plus the in-house program in a third multihull type.
Three cat program
Already Emirates Team NZ are competing on the well-established Extreme 40 circuit, and are in second place on the leader board after three events. The tour, sailed in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East has one other current America's Cup team competing, but has attracted many of the world's top multihull sailors and has become the refuge of the Olympic multihull crews. Many of these, including Olympic gold medalists and world champions are not involved in the 34th America's Cup.
Former foes, Alinghi and Luna Rossa are also in on the act.
The Extreme Sailing series as the circuit is known, is a good place for this America's Cup team to sharpen their claws.
The AC45's became a familiar sight on the Waitemata in the latter part of the Auckland summer. Designed as a stepping stone for the larger AC72 – both feature a solid wingsail instead of the mast and the sail cloth, or more conventional soft sails of the SL33 and Extreme 40's.
Back in April, Emirates Team NZ CEO, Grant Dalton, told Sail-World that their budget didn't stretch to buying two AC45's for training, and Barker echoes this thinking.
'We can do these two boats, all the sailing in New Zealand, for well under the cost of doing a second AC45. The problem with the second AC 45 is that once they are in the circuit, you just don't see them again', he explains.
'This is a much more economical option for us, we know that we have a lot of work to do to catch up to the required level. By having two boats here for the sailing team to go sailing every day is invaluable.'
'The good thing with these boats is that we can leave them in the water and just go sailing at a moment's notice. The boats are fairly robust. They will be a hard to sail and in a lot of ways we expect them to be similar in characteristics to the AC72.'
In other words, what Emirates Team NZ are doing is setting up a similar program to what they used in the days when the America's Cup was sailed in monohulls. Back then, two Farr MRX yachts (a similar length to the SL33) were often out doing matchrace training on the Waitemata, ahead of a major America's Cup preliminary regatta.
Launching's a beach
A vital part of the core training program using the SL33's is being able to launch and retrieve them easily. For that the SL33 fits the bill admirably. As one waterside quip has it, they look more like the sort of boat you'd have pulled up on the beach outside the holiday bach!
The ease of launching and retrieving the SL33 is a big contrast to that palaver surrounding the launch of the wingsailed AC45, let alone what is to come with the AC72. No towering crane here – the SL33 is carried around the hardstand by travelift, and dropped easily into the same berth that was used for the monohulls of the former America's Cup era.
Its about as difficult as launching a Hobie cat off the local boat club ramp, and ideal for a day in day out training régime.
Barker says the SL33 is a lighter more overpowered than the AC45, relative to their size. They will be much harder to sail, he adds.
In terms of rig height to overall length, the SL33 has only slightly more wick than the AC45 with a hull length to mast height ratio of 1:1.59, compared to 1.56 for the AC45.
To put the step up to the next America's Cup in context, the hull length to rig height ratio for the AC72 is a massive 1:1.82 – a tad under the 1.90 for USA-17, the 120ft trimaran beast used in the 2010 America's Cup. There are other ways of working out a horsepower ratio for inshore racing multihulls, but that ratio is a simple illustration.
Although the SL33 had been out only a few times, Barker says she is very lively.
A wingsail to come?
Being able to run a two boat, or in multihull-speak a two platform campaign from your home base has a few other advantages as well - being a design test platform is one of these. That will include trialing wingsail options as the focus sharpens on the AC72 program.
'We have had a discussion about whether wingsails would be a good thing to do', says Barker, apparently not wanting to state the obvious.
'At moment we are set up with a conventional mast and soft sails program, for the early stages of what we want to do. We can learn a lot from this configuration. We just have a mainsail, jib and Code Zero/Gennaker arrangement on the front.'
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Then he concedes the SL33's are dual purpose.
'Our primary objectives are both crew training and design development. We have to find a mechanism to get as many of our guys sailing as we can. With the AC45 you only there is a crew of only five people, and we have to develop a sailing team of 11 guys to get them ready for the '72.
'We've done very little matchracing in the multihulls.
'The main difference between the multi and the monohulls is that things happen a lot more quickly in the multihull. You know exactly what you want to do. At times it is hard to do it - just through lack of experience in sailing the boats.
'I don't think it is going to be that different from monohulls – just things happening a lot quicker.
'We will sail to the new America's Cup racing rules to understand their ins and outs and the find their grey areas and how you exploit those rules, in terms of match race tactics.
'With two boats available we will be able to sail with 4-5 guys depending on conditions. That allows us to get our whole sailing team out on a daily basis, and we can keep developing with the design group.
'Hopefully with this two-boat program we can tick of some of the things they need to know', he adds.
Those design tick-boxes include the development of foils for the AC72, which permits the use of curved hydrodynamic lifting foils.
'That will be an interesting area,' says Barker. 'The SL33's are set up with more vertically lifting foils where the AC45 has straight boards. The SL33 and AC72 have curved foils produce a certain amount of lift downwind. Upwind the SL33's won't be as quick as the AC45 as they are a smaller boat. But even so I still think they will perform very well', he adds.
Matchracing with wingsails?
The very obvious difference between the AC45 and the SL33 is in the rig and lack of wingsail on the smaller boat. How are they going to learn the nuances of matchracing with wingsails, when the SL33 is a soft mainsailed yacht?
'The SL33 does have different characteristics, than the AC45 and 72, but at this stage we are just interested in learning the general dynamics of matchracing multihulls,' Barker explains.
'The wingsail will have its advantages and disadvantages in different maneuvers. But the characteristics of circling when to lead and when to push will still be the same whether it is a softsail or wingsail.'
'We only have 11 people for the AC72, and we 'll rotate the guys through these boats. As well we'll have the designers out from time to time so we can upskill as much as we can,' he says.
The training issues ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand, going into the next America's Cup, are more akin to an international rowing program than a sailing one.
There's the need to be able to travel quickly into Europe to race and then return back to New Zealand to keep up the pace with the training and development program. It is a year round routine with little downtime for the team as an entity.
That's another reason for running the New Zealand based SL33 program.
Too many programs?
But aren't they trying to do too much running on the AC45's, the Extreme 40's and the SL33's? Are resources being stretched over too many campaigns? And by the way there's a Volvo Ocean Racer sitting out on the front dock all ready to go as well.
Barker doesn't see it that way. 'The Extreme Sailing series and AC45's run independently and are pretty remote for us now. We don't see the boats until we get to the events.'
'While we are based back here in New Zealand we need something to keep sailing on a daily basis.'
'The Extreme 40 is containerised and goes from regatta to regatta. We send a couple of shore guys ahead each time, and then the crew fly in to get it sorted and then leave straight afterwards.
'The first AC45 event is in Portugal, in August, all the gear is in the ship now and on the way up there – so assembling and disassembling will be a new experience. That is only a two-week block and there are only three regattas this year – so there are only one and a half months of AC45 sailing that we can do anyway', he adds.
There are a lot of other obvious differences between the SL33 and the AC72 - which is well over twice the length and massively rigged.
Barker doesn't see the size difference being a limitation on the use of the SL33's. 'The loads on the SL33's are going to be a lot less because of the size. But they still generate big loads – which are reflected in the size of some of the beams, for instance. They do wick up, but the loads do get bigger exponentially as you go up in boat size.
'I'm sure from time to time we will come to grief, but hopefully not too often.'
Heading off the Surrogacy Rule
Turning back to the development options Barker explains that the SL33 is set up to be modified, and says the hull shape and style of the SL33 is similar to the AC45 and more importantly the AC72. He expects the two to have similar characteristics.
Although small, the SL33 is the biggest permitted size of boat under what are called the Surrogacy Rules in place for the 34th America's Cup, which prohibit a team from sailing a catamaran longer than 10 metres in length, unless it is an AC45 or AC72.
They are a cost-reduction measure, designed to limit well-funded teams from running expensive two or more boat testing programs.
Just two AC72's can be built and launched per team, and the launch date for the first of those has just been slid back three months to July 2012.
AC45's could also have been an option, but three of the NZD1million boats would have been required to achieve what is being done in Auckland with the two SL33's and one internationally based AC45 – at half the cost.
A big bonus comes with the simpler launch process trundling around the boatpark with an SL33 in the travelift slings is a far cry from the high crane required to rig and launch the wingsailed AC45.
The day in, day out training comparison with rowing squads comes to mind as the SL33 is set up and lowered into the Viaduct Harbour.
Today's a bleak day. Almost the winter Solstice. Drizzling rain driven by a fresh, cold breeze.
It's the sort of day you see the world champion rowing squads enduring training on a chilly lake, and there's the same hardness about this effort as the crew dressed in dinghy sailing gear head out past Camper, their Volvo 70, whose are also preparing to go training - but more appropriately dressed in full foul-weather gear.
But to underscore that there is still some fun to be had on a miserable winter's day, the SL33 flies a hull while still in the Viaduct harbor.
She's no moggy.