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I'm going to visit Paris, St Malo, Ipswich, and Edinburgh next month. DD (7 months) will be with me and DH. She's just started solids, and I'm wondering whether it will be hard to find baby food during our trip. At this point, DD just eats to be like mommy and daddy. She gets all her nutrients from breast feeding, but she'll be mad if I don't have something for her when we eat. My plan is to pack a few days' supply with me, so we won't be pressured as we first arrive. Would you recommend any particular places to find baby food? I'm looking for strained peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, and prunes. Thank you!
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Global Trash Compactor Market 2016-2020
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Trash compactors have primarily found acceptance in North America owing to the averseness of Americans to pay for garbage disposable by private contractors. The market has witnessed the evolution of trash compactors and modern models feature advancements in terms of cleanliness and odor removal. Modern trash compactors are coated with antimicrobials to inhibit the growth of odor-producing bacteria, and reduce the risk of potential health hazards. Additional features such as safety locks have been incorporated in high-end models to ensure safety, and prevent accidental operations.
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In 2004 we reformed the Balmain PCYC Junior Rugby League Club and entered one team in the Under 8 competition after an absence of ten years.
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OhMiBod Marks Third Year of Raising Sexual Health Awareness at CES
OhMiBod, a leading innovator in technology-driven sexual health products, is no stranger to CES. Each year since its 2011 debut, the creator of the first music-driven vibrator has used the show to introduce its most revolutionary products. OhMiBod will celebrate its third year at CES by unveiling the Club Vibe 3.OH—the world's first Bluetooth-controlled wearable vibrator.
Small, discreet, and powerful, the 3.OH's smartphone control capability puts it in a class all its own. Through Bluetooth connectivity, the vibrator allows users and their partners to experience different sensations inspired by genres of music such as rock, funk, and EDM.
"The Club Vibe 3.OH is the most sophisticated remote control toy on the market," said Suki Dunham, founder of OhMiBod. "It provides couples with complete discretion, while bringing new dimensions of passion, intimacy, and excitement to their relationships."
OhMiBod also developed a cross-platform mobile web app called OhMiBod Remote that makes controlling the vibrator both fun and simple. The app is home to a constantly expanding catalog of genre-inspired sensations that users can send directly to their vibrators via Bluetooth. The app is compatible with OhMiBod's wired and wireless massagers.
"By pairing their vibrators to a mobile device, users can enjoy an eclectic mix of patterns based on a wide variety of musical styles," added Dunham. "However, Club Vibe 3.OH and OhMiBod Remote are about more than feeling the music. Their development supports one of OhMiBod's primary missions—using sex-positive products to help both singles and couples alike to explore, discover, and grow their passions."
The 3.OH is the third product in OhMiBod's award-winning Club Vibe line of patent protected wireless, remote control vibrators and will be available in early summer 2013. For more information, visit OhMiBod in booth #3522 (iLounge Pavilion) at CES from January 8-11.
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OhMiBod is the creator of the original iPod® vibrator, a music-driven pleasure product that allows users to feel the music by connecting to the iPod®, iPhone®, or any other music player or Smartphone. OhMiBod's innovative range of technology enabled pleasure products continue to deliver unparalleled satisfaction to singles and couples alike. For more information, visit www.OhMiBod.com.
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Grilled Double-Cut Lamb Chops, Green Garlic Herb Butter, Green Garlic Mashed Potatoes
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Have your butcher french the ribs, if you prefer that look. I like to nibble on those crispy bits along the bone, so I skip this step. - mrslarkin —mrslarkin
Food52 Review: Each component of this – the flavored butter, the potatoes and the lamb chops – is a winner in its own right. Mashed potatoes made with baked russets are so good!! We used 1/2 cup of cream and 1/4 cup of crème fraiche, which were plenty. The green garlic and fresh thyme add just the right touch of flavor to the spuds. The compound butter, with its bright lemon flavor and the same herbs used to marinate the lamb, really makes the dish special. Here's a great example of a whole being much greater than the sum of its parts. Thanks, mrslarkin, for another first-rate dinner!! - AntoniaJames
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Serves 4
for the garlic herb butter and mashed potatoes
- 4 tablespoons butter, softened (spreadable but not really mushy)
- 1 green garlic or 1 small garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme
- sea salt or kosher salt
- fresh cracked black pepper
- 4 russet potatoes
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into chunks
- 3 green garlic, or 1 fat garlic clove, minced
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves stripped
- 1/2 cup crème fraiche
- 1 cup heavy cream or half and half
- Sea salt or kosher salt
- fresh cracked black pepper
- In a medium bowl, mash together first 5 ingredients. Add salt and pepper to taste. Spoon onto plastic wrap. Gently form into a small log. Refrigerate until firm.
- Bake or microwave potatoes. When done, slice in half and carefully scoop out insides. Place in a large bowl. Add butter, garlic, thyme, crème fraiche and cream and stir to combine. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add more cream if you like your mashed taters looser. Keep warm, or reheat gently when serving.
For the lamb chops
- 4 double-cut lamb chops (8 ribs total)
- olive oil
- sea salt or kosher salt
- fresh cracked black pepper
- 8 sprigs fresh thyme
- 4 small sprigs fresh rosemary
- 8 thin slices lemon
- 4 garlic cloves, slivered
- pinch of dried lavender (optional)
- Place the chops in a shallow casserole dish. Drizzle with olive oil. Salt and pepper well. Sprinkle thyme, rosemary, lemon, garlic and lavender. Turn chops over a few times to coat evenly. If you have time, cover in plastic and place in fridge for 30 minutes. Take chops out and let chops sit at room temperature for 20 minutes.
- Heat a grill or ridged grill pan to medium. Place chops over direct heat and cook for about 5 minutes per side, or until done to your liking.
- Serve over mashed potatoes and place a slice of compound butter on the chops.
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Interesting as the movement of gold and the international money markets may be, it is in its application to the every-day importing and exporting of merchandise that foreign exchange has its greatest interest for the greatest number of people. Every bale of cotton exported from the country, every pound of coffee brought in, is the basis of an operation in foreign exchange, such operations involving usually the issue of what is known as "commercial credits."
Broadly speaking, commercial credits are of two classes, those issued to facilitate the import of merchandise and those issued to facilitate its export. Considering the question from the standpoint of New York, import credits are so much more important than export credits and issued in so much larger volume, they will be taken up first.
Not all the merchandise imported into the United States is brought in under commercial letters of credit, but that is coming to be more and more the way in which payment for imports is being arranged. Formerly an importer who had bought silk or white-goods in France went around to his banker, bought a draft on Paris for the required amount of francs and sent that over in payment. In some cases that is still the method by which payment is made, but in the very great majority of cases where the business is being run on an up-to-date basis, a commercial letter of credit is arranged for before the importation is made. Of how great advantage such an arrangement is to the merchant importing goods the following practical illustration of how a "credit" works will show.
To exemplify the greatest number of points of importance possible in connection with the commercial credit business, the case of a shipment of raw silk from China will, perhaps, serve best. A silk manufacturer in Paterson, New Jersey, we will assume, has purchased by cable ten bales of raw silk in Canton, China. Understanding of the successive steps in the financing of such a transaction will mean a pretty satisfactory understanding of the general principles under which the financing of most of our imports is arranged.
The purchase of the silk having been consummated by cable, the first thing the purchaser would do would be to go to his banker in New York, lay before him an exact statement of the conditions under which the purchase was made, and get him (the banker) to open a commercial letter of credit covering those terms. Such a credit, of which a reprint is given herewith, would be in the form of a letter to the issuing banker's London correspondent, requesting him to "accept" the drafts of the sellers of the silk in Canton up to a certain amount and under certain conditions. These conditions, having to do with the "usance" of the drafts (whether they were to be drawn at three, four, or six months' sight) and with the shipping documents to accompany the drafts, are all very fully set forth in the letter of credit itself. If the silk has been bought on the basis of four months, for instance, the credit would read that drafts are to be drawn at four months' sight. Mention is also made as to whose order the bills of lading are to be made, as to where the insurance is to be effected, etc., etc.
The silk importer having received this letter of credit from the banker in New York, sends it by first mail (or, if the case be urgent, cables its contents) to the seller of the silk out in Canton. The latter, having received it, is then in a position to go ahead with his shipment. The first thing he does is to put the silk aboard ship, receiving from the steamship company a receipt (bill of lading) stating that the ten bales have been put aboard, and making them deliverable to the order of the banker in New York, who issues the credit. The bill of lading being made out to his order is useless to anybody else. He and he only can get the silk out of the ship when it arrives in New York.
The shipper in Canton having received this bill of lading from the steamship company and having properly insured the goods and received a certificate stating that he has done so, is then in a position to go ahead and draw his draft for the cost of the silk. The London correspondent of the New York banker, to whom the letter of credit is addressed, is, say, the Guaranty Trust Company of London. Upon that institution the Canton silk firm, therefore, draws his draft in pounds sterling for the cost of the silk, attaching to the draft the bill of lading, an invoice, and the insurance certificate.
A pertinent inquiry at this point is as to why the letter of credit for silk shipped from a city in China directs that drafts be drawn on London—as to why London figures in the transaction at all? The answer is that drafts on London are always readily negotiable, and that London is the only city in the whole world drafts on which are readily negotiable in all places and at all times. A draft on New York or on Berlin might be negotiated at a point like Canton, but to be sure that the exporter of the silk will get the best rate of exchange for his drafts, the drafts must be drawn on London, the financial center of the world. One of the chief points to the whole business of taking out a credit, in fact, is to provide a point on which the shipper can draw satisfactorily.
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The man chased an armed robber fleeing after an armed raid on a jewellers in a busy high street, grabbing the gunman by the arm.
Horrified shoppers watched as the robber took aim at his head in the Peterborough street.
But the man, believed to be in his 20s, managed to knock the weapon out of his hand and wrestle the gunman to the ground.
The robber pulled free and disappeared into the grounds of Peterborough Cathedral. As police gave chase the hero, who is thought to be in his 20s, slipped away before he could be congratulated for his bravery.
The gunman and his accomplice, who also made his escape, had held up Harvey Daly jewellers in the city's Long Causeway at 10.40am on Friday morning.
One of the shop's partners, Chris Hopper, was able to fight off the raiders and chase them out of the shop and into the street, alerting shoppers in Cathedral Square with his cries for help.
Mr Hopper, who was left with a cut on the bridge of his nose during the assault, said: "One man came in asking for some jewellery for his girlfriend.
Another man followed him in but I assumed he was a customer. As I bent over to get out a ring the second bloke rammed a gun in my face and the first leapt over the counter and got into the cabinet.
"I thumped the one holding the gun but the other one was trying to grab a fistful of gold chains.
"I managed to throw him over the counter but I think he got some gold. I then chased him out of the shop and down the street shouting and screaming."
Mr Hopper refused medical treatment, saying the incident had caused enough trouble for the emergency services.
He said: "I don't think he could have known the robber had a gun. He pointed it at his head but the man knocked it out of his hand and then tried to pull him to the ground. But the robber got away and ran into the Cathedral grounds.
"About five or six people chased after him but I don't think they caught him. They could have gone anywhere."
Rowland Hobson, a photographer with the Peterborough Evening Telegraph covering the launch of a local charity event, instinctively started taking pictures.
He said: "I heard someone shouting 'stop thief'. I spun round and started taking pictures, but it was only when I looked at them afterwards I spotted it was a gun. I have never seen anything as dramatic in 40 years of doing this job."
Armed police officers checked Mr Hobson's photograph on his digital camera before running into the Cathedral precincts in pursuit of the gunman.
The weapon was recovered by police, who are now examining it for fingerprints and other evidence and to see whether it was capable of being fired.
Wayne Burroughs, a newspaper vendor and ex-serviceman, called for the young man to be rewarded for his heroism.
He said: "It was a fairly unnerving moment. What that man did is extremely brave. He should be awarded the highest bravery award civilians can be given.
"Tackling a gunman like that is amazing. It just goes to show there are some decent natured people in this city."
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward to catch the two men on the run and track down the have a go hero.
Detective Inspector Karryann Beeby said: "It was a very brave thing to do. He might hold a vital piece of information which is key to the inquiry."


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Sony Computer Entertainment America showed off several previously-announced games at the Game Developers' Conference today in San Jose, California, one of which caught out attention. The least likely of games to make the transition from Japan to North America is MojibRibbon, a fanciful rhtyhm game from the maker of Parappa the Rapper, Umjammer Lammy and Bib Ribbon, Masaya Matsuura, and it's name is Mojib Ribbon.
SCEA is almost assuredly not going to birng this to the US, and a SCEA representatvive assured us of this today when we played the game. Sad, but interestingly enough, Mojib Ribbon will appear in Europe sometime this year.
What is Mojib Ribbon? As previously described in our TGS hands-on, Matsuura's game is a strange rhythm-based game in which players take on the role of an imaginary ink spotch brought to live and who dances on mystery letters, paints them, and then does it all over again for points and new levels.
The game's mechanic is far more simple than previous Matsuura games. The endearing dancing ink splotch, a pear-shaped character imagined in simple pen outlines, carries an old-fashioned quill and runs along on a 2D circle of Japanese characters. Players use the R3 button and press down when the spinning spiral of characters and purple fog presents a new unmarked box. When it gets to the right point beneath you, press down on R3 and hold and the character will fill in the box, transforming it into Japanese characters. The circle moves faster and faster until you fill in all the boxes. The goal is to speedily and accurately fill in all the boxes before a meter shown on the left-side of the screen empties. When performed successfully, the player will then get an all new wheel on which to spin.
The game is whacked, plain and simple, and it's just as weird and innovative as Vib Ribbon, but more simplistic and slightly less appealing than that crazy music game (which SCEA refused to bring to the US, shame on them!). This one will also see a similar fate, but I'm not so sure how much we're missing, to be honest. Still, for fans of Matsuura, this one is worth importing (as long as you can read Japanese).


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September 15, 2008
Orthodontist Seeks to Help Sick Teen Smile Again
SAN CLEMENTE, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, September 20, Dr. Frank Mogavero is holding a blood drive for longtime patient Chase Crawford, 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at his orthodontic office, located at 1031 Avenida Pico, Suite 101, in San Clemente.
Chase Crawford of Laguna Niguel was once a fit, active kid with plenty to smile about. But at 13, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. And while Chase was able to beat the disease and live a normal life (even having braces fitted by Dr. Mogavero), he was then diagnosed with Leukemia in his junior year of high school. He now requires blood transfusions every two to three days, as his body has difficulty producing new blood cells to help him battle the disease."This is a great kid who's had a really difficult time over the past several years," says Dr. Mogavero. "But even chemotherapy and radiation treatments couldn't break his spirit. He's got a strong will to live and strives to make every day count. I just want him to have that chance. Chase needs blood products on a regular basis, so we're calling out to the community to donate blood on his behalf."
On Saturday, September 20, a Red Cross BloodMobile will be at Dr. Mogavero's new San Clemente office to accept donations and interested parties can sign up for blood donations beforehand by visiting http://www.givelife.org/ using the sponsor code (drfrank) or sign up in person. The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), http://www.marrow.org/, will also be on hand to conduct simple cheek swabs to test for donor matches. Matches could help save the lives of others like Chase, who has been a marrow recipient. Tissue Typing is an expensive test, and the NMDP is asking donors to contribute towards these costs. Checks are preferred, made out to "The Marrow Foundation."
Chase, an avid fisherman who enjoys spending his free time at sea with friends and family, recently graduated from Aliso Niguel High School and plans to attend college in Santa Barbara. He hopes to one day become a fishing boat captain or open a charter boat business of his own.
Throughout Chase's ordeal, his mom, Kim Quickel, blogged (http://www.chasecq.com/) about their family's ups and downs, as well as the outpouring of support they've received. "I am drawn to the quote by Aesop," Kim wrote. "'No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.' I hope you all know how appreciative we are for every gesture of love and support ... Our lives will never be 'normal' again, and I think that's a good thing. The goodness of people has changed all of us forever."
Dr. Frank Mogavero
CONTACT: Dr. Frank Mogavero, +1-949-373-3737, [email protected]; orKim Quickel or Chase Crawford, http://www.chasecq.com/; or Shelley Baker of NationalMarrow Donor Program, +1-714-800-1610, [email protected]
Web site: http://www.chasecq.com/http://www.marrow.org/http://www.givelife.org/


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Mega Feats: New Paths to Victory is a 50 page d20 product consisting of a collection of feats for the d20 game. This is a standalone product detailing feats inspired from a variety of sources, both fantasy and modern. Inside this product are more than 150 feats, including new types of feats such as the Forgeblood feats that meld flesh and machine in your fantasy world.
The product comes as a zip file containing both a pdf copy of the document and a rich-text file version of the same document. The latter is quite handy for those that wish to cut and paste easily into other master or campaign documents. The pdf itself contains no bookmarks or a table of contents, although it does contain a lengthily list of all the feats in the product. Apart from the front cover artwork, the product contains no interior artwork, which is rather unusual for a product of this length. In fact, the cover artwork isn't even credited to any particular source. Editing and writing is average, with a number of layout issues and inconsistencies in the product cropping up from time to time.
Probably the most disappointing aspect of this product is the mechanics. While the feat ideas themselves are quite interesting and certainly very useful in some instances, for the most part the mechanics was weak, unclear or in some cases simply wrong. The Artillary Mage metamagic feat, for example, allows you to increase the number of magic missiles fired when casting the spell of the same name, but the statement in the Normal section of the feat is incorrect, stating that a 20th level caster can normally cast up to ten magic missiles. This is unfortunately not an isolated incident, and some of the other mechanics follows a similar trend. The product could definitely have used a look-over in this department. Overall, though, from a presentation point of view, average in some areas but weaker in others.
Following a brief introduction by the author, the product immediately dives into the hundred-plus feats that make up the product. Feats fall in a number of different categories, but most are either item creation, metamagic, or general SU (or supernatural) feats. In the latter case it's not clear whether this is a new type of feat, or just a different naming for the general feat found in the core rule book. Many of the feats have a more high tech feel to them and have been adapted to fantasy, where, given a little further tweaking, they end up being quite useful and interesting. Other feats rely heavily on the use of action points, being action point activated, so those will not be of much use to games where action points are not used.
The feats themselves are quite eclectic and varied, which makes for an interesting and new approach to gaming. For creativity and interest this product is certainly not lacking, but it's a pity about the poor execution in places. There are quite a large number of very useful feats, covering all areas of activity (in many cases even sex-related feats of menstrual cycle related feats) and providing a very handy selection to choose from. If you're looking for something different or something that covers ground not covered before in the feat arena, then this product is certainly a good place to start looking. The pdf also includes a number of feats called Forgeblood feats, which allow you to create cyborg-like features in your fantasy game. These are again quite interesting and useful for those gamers that which to explore this kind of thing. Lastly, the product details a number of the author's house rules, again with some useful ideas, but not always the best execution.
Mage Feats: New Paths to Victory is one of those products which contains some really good material, but material that's been poorly executed or put together. There are some great and interesting ideas in this product, but the number of errors and inconsistencies made it difficult at time to appreciate to creativity of the product. Overall, though, I was suitable impressed with the product despite the number of errors, and in particular with the varied number of different feats covering new ground and new ideas.

LIKED: This pdf contains a useful and creative selection of new feats and ideas, and it's a good product to mine for some new material as it covers some new ground. Creative and interesting feats.

DISLIKED: Presentation is not the best with many inconsistencies and errors in the editing and layout. Mechanics was often very poor or wrong, and in many instances the execution of good ideas was rather poor.

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The New York Times calls her "the talk of librarian circles."
A regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," she is well-known among book-lovers for her lifelong passion for reading. Since the release of her best-selling "Book Lust" in 2003 and the librarian action figure modeled in her likeness, Nancy Pearl has become a rock star among readers and the tastemaker people turn to when deciding what to read next. Readers just can't seem to get enough of her recommendations.
Having worked as a librarian and bookseller in Detroit, Tulsa and Seattle, Pearl's knowledge of and love for books is unmatched. In 1998, she developed the program "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," which spread across the country, including to Cincinnati, where On The Same Page was modeled after her ingenious idea of reading one book together.
Join us for a virtual conversation with NPR's Nancy Pearl as she celebrates the written word with "On The Same Pagers" and discusses her favorite memoirs. Share in the joy of books and reading with one of the country's most trusted voices on what to read at the Main Library on Saturday, March 23, at 2 p.m.
Pearlism "Rule of Fifty" – "People frequently ask me how many pages they should give a book before they give up on it. In response to that question, I came up with my 'rule of fifty,' which is based on the shortness of time and the immensity of the world of books. If you're 50 years of age or younger, give a book 50 pages before you decide to commit to reading it or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets even shorter, subtract your age from 100—the result is the number of pages you should read before making your decision to stay with it or quit. Since that number gets smaller and smaller as we get older and older, our big reward is that when we turn 100, we can judge a book by its cover!"


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IEDR, the Irish Domain Registry, has announced that it will enable registrars and registrants to submit Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) data in the '.ie' domain name space in early 2015 using the IEDR online systems. IEDR deployed the first DNSSEC zone in the '.ie' namespace in November 2014 and interested parties could submit requests for DNSSEC, but only via encrypted email. DNSSEC offers '.ie' domain name holders, their customers and general internet users an additional level of security.


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The Steelers will be visiting Philadelphia for a 7:30 p.m. game on Thursday at Lincoln Financial Field, and in today's NFL this third preseason game provides the final, extended action for the many of the players Coach Mike Tomlin will be counting on when the regular season opens on Sept. 7.
"We're going to continue to play our first units more than they have the previous week," said Tomlin. "I haven't decided on the exact number, but obviously you can assume it's going to be more than they played in the previous games. It's just the natural part of the process. You like to mock this week up and have it simulate a regular in-season week in a lot of ways, but with the short week and the number of people we're working with it won't be a complete mock week as in many instances in the past. We won't have a complete comprehensive game plan, situationally, across the board, but it will be a nice step for us."
It will be a step for the Steelers taken against an offense that's unique to the league, but only for the reason of the pace at which it's run. The Eagles offense isn't necessarily cutting edge for the plays it runs, but what's different is the pace at which the ball is snapped. Tomlin has said one of the goals of this preseason is to put as much stress on players and units as possible to see how individuals react. The Eagles' pace will provide some stress Thursday night.
"I think maybe some of the things that (Coach Chip Kelly) does in the manner in which he does it is overblown," said Tomlin. "There's a lot of window dressing and so forth pre-snap in terms of the tempo and the location of eligible receivers and things of that nature. But once the ball is snapped they're a good fundamental outfit.
"They're sound in the running game, and it's a high percentage passing game. They completed like 71 percent of their passes so far in the preseason because it's a lot of misdirection passes tightly tied to the run game, and it's play-action vertical passing. Nick Foles does a good job of administering it. They're a good, sound, offensive football team, and I think they probably like some of the talk about some of the window dressing. But when you really get down to it they're a good, sound, fundamental group. I think the same can be said for Coach Kelly."
While the third preseason game offers the most extensive playing time for the first units, it's also a last, best opportunity for some other players to make enough of an impression either to earn a spot on the 53-man roster or possibly a role on offense, defense or special teams.
The walking wounded, those unable to play against the Eagles, could find themselves at a disadvantage, because the first mandatory roster cutdown is 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26 when all teams must be down to 75. Then on Saturday, Aug. 30, it's the cutdown to 53.
"From an injury standpoint we have some people who are out definitively this week," said Tomlin, "and we have some other guys we'll hold out as we do this time of year. The guys who are definitely out:
"There are a variety of guys with soft tissue injuries kind of associated with this time of year whom we'll leave the light on for and wait until the eleventh hour to see if they are available. Those guys are
"We're getting to the meat of this thing a little bit, and if guys are going to make a move it's kind of now or never," added Tomlin. "I like that feeling of urgency in the guys as we prepare this week and I think it's creating a good competitive environment as we get back here in terms of continuing the team building on the South Side."


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High KIF3B expression is associated with seminoma.
These data suggest that GLI (show GLI1 Proteins) interactions with KIF3A (show KIF3A Proteins)-KIF3B-KAP3 (show KIFAP3 Proteins) complexes are essential for proper GLI (show GLI1 Proteins) transcriptional activity.
both motor domains of KIF3A (show KIF3A Proteins)/B coordinate for processive motility and move at different speeds
Results suggest that KIF3B expression was upregulated in HCC (show FAM126A Proteins) tumor tissues and proliferating HCC (show FAM126A Proteins) cells, and an increasd KIF3B expression was associated with poor overall survival.
KIF3B is involved in the trafficking of kAE1 (show OSGEP Proteins) to the plasma membrane of human kidney alpha-intercalated cells.
Interaction with KIF3B alters CLC-5 (show CLCN5 Proteins) cell surface expression, chloride current, and alters albumin (show ALB Proteins) endocytosis. Interaction with KIF3B facilitates microtubular transport and endocytosis of CLC-5 (show CLCN5 Proteins)-containing vesicles away from cell surface.
Interaction of KIF3A (show KIF3A Proteins)/3B with KAP3 (show KIFAP3 Proteins) may be important for the proper progression of mitosis.
kinesin-2 is a linker between polycystin-2(PC2) and fibrocystin and mediates the regulation of PC2 channel function by fibrocystin
Rip11 (show RAB11FIP5 Proteins)/FIP5-kinesin-II (show KLC1 Proteins) complex plays a key role in the routing of internalized receptors through the perinuclear recycling endosomes.
Data indicate that p0071 and Ect2 are transported via distinct motors and identify a novel pathway implicating KIF3 in the regulation of actin organization during cytokinesis
KIF3AB exhibits novel ATPase activity.
our data suggest that RNF33 (show TRIM60 Proteins) most likely interacts with KIF3A (show KIF3A Proteins)-KIF3B independent of the adaptor kinesin-associated protein KAP3 (show KIFAP3 Proteins)
The protein encoded by this gene acts as a heterodimer with kinesin family member 3A to aid in chromosome movement during mitosis and meiosis. The encoded protein is a plus end-directed microtubule motor and can interact with the SMC3 subunit of the cohesin complex. In addition, the encoded protein may be involved in the intracellular movement of membranous organelles. This protein and kinesin family member 3A form the kinesin II subfamily of the kinesin superfamily.
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If Dell's founder indeed has surrendered to the new reality of a post-PC world, investors may soon benefit from a wave of big-cap restructurings that unlock shareholder value, writes John Shinal. See full story.
Swartz was a rebel with a flawed cause
Aaron Swartz made great contributions to our society and challenged our most basic assumptions. But he wasn't perfect, writes David Weidner. See full story.
Bernanke downplays inflation risk of QE3
Fed chairman says he doesn't believe "significant inflation is going to be the result" of the central bank's current policy stance. See full story.
Why U.S. might be 'a nation of deadbeats'
Consumers have been paying down some debt—but walking away from even more. See full story.
How Vanguard amassed $2 trillion
Commentary: What investors can learn from the mutual-fund giant's success. See full story.
The fiscal cliff is a misleading metaphor, writes Rex Nutting. The tax and spending laws will change on that day, it's true, but the impact will be spread out over many, many months. We're already feeling the pain. See full story.
Higher U.S. tax brackets may tempt some to follow the French actor's lead. See full story.


text: The British Open: Top 5 meltdownsBy Henry Young, CNN Updated 2103 GMT (0503 HKT) July 14, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: When golfers get it wrongAdam Scott (2012) – Finishing with four consecutive bogeys, Australia's Adam Scott crumbled to a final-round 75 at Royal Lytham -- blowing a golden opportunity to win his first British Open title. Eventual winner Ernie Els had been six back at the start of the day -- "Big Easy" indeed.Hide Caption 1 of 5 Photos: When golfers get it wrongTom Watson (2009) – History eluded Tom Watson by a whisker as the 59-year-old missed out on equaling Harry Vardon's record of six Open titles and becoming the oldest ever winner. Having led the Championship with a single hole to play, a bogey on the 72nd preceded a series of wayward shots in the resultant playoff, as Watson was forced to concede the claret jug to fellow American Stewart Cink. Hide Caption 2 of 5 Photos: When golfers get it wrongDoug Sanders (1970) – A two to three foot putt away from greatness, the "Peacock of the Fairways" Doug Sanders seemed to have it all under control at St Andrews. One missed opportunity later, he appeared to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders -- losing out to Jack Nicklaus in a playoff the next day. Hide Caption 3 of 5 Photos: When golfers get it wrongThomas Bjorn (2003) – Three shots clear with four to play, Bjorn looked all set to seal a third Open Championship victory. Did the pressure get to him? Taking three attempts just to get out of the bunker on the par-3 16th -- before a bogey on the 17th -- the Dane handed the title to the unheralded Ben Curtis.Hide Caption 4 of 5 Photos: When golfers get it wrongJean van de Velde (1999) – And who could forget the unfortunate Frenchman, Jean van de Velde! Able to make a double bogey on the final hole and still win the Championship at Carnoustie, his name might as well have been etched on the trophy. Three shots later, he was hands-on-hips, barefoot in the Barry Burn river -- and the Gallows humor was not finished there! Hitting his fifth shot into a greenside bunker, the Frenchman had well and truly missed when it was easier to score. In most instances, nobody remembers the man that finished second; in Van de Velde's case, his meltdown defines him to this day. Hide Caption 5 of 5More from Sport - GolfGolf's slow play row rumbles on, but is there a quick fix?MclIroy, Mickelson, Spieth target grand slam elite Rory McIlroy wins for the first time since 2016, Tiger Woods ties for fifthTiger Woods has got his 'feels' back at the Arnold Palmer InvitationalTiger Woods offers 'compelling' superhuman story, says PGA Tour chief


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Oh, what the heck. Let's just drug test every single state employee. Tillis: "I agree with that." Get ready to pee in a cup all you kindergarten teachers and college presidents!
Oh, what the heck. Let's just drug test every single state employee. Tillis: "I agree with that." Get ready to pee in a cup all you kindergarten teachers and college presidents!
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October 11, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Don't they already do that as part of the employment process?
October 11, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Not for everyone by a long shot.
October 11, 2011 at 4:51 pm
How about drug testing every freshman entering college while you're at it? Or state lawmakers?
October 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm
I think the state legislature for sure. Polly has smelled some substances as we have strolled through the halls or was that something else.
October 12, 2011 at 11:22 am
LBW, as the father of four college age children, I can attest to the fact that times haven't changed since the sixties, and testing college freshmen would wipe out enrollments. I know it would have when I was in college.
October 12, 2011 at 11:27 am
I would favor psychological testing for lawmakers. Berger, Tillis, Laroque, and Stam, to name a few definitely exhibit sociopathic and delusional behavior.
October 12, 2011 at 2:44 pm
If lawmakers want to impose this type of social control on citizens, then they as well need to be subjected to the same scrutiny….. hell, we could probably empty out half the House and Senate in NC with a simple drug test…and random ones… because the white stuff is out of your system in 48 hours.. it will be the Cannabis users that suffer. Therefore all the crackheads get to continue working, while those of us intelligent enough to get high on nature, go without work… insane. I agree, after last session dealing with Stam, Tillis, Berger, and the Devil himself, Stephen Laroque….. they need to seek professional help for control issues.
October 12, 2011 at 4:05 pm
I am a State employee. We are all drug tested at hire. We can also be drug tested if there is evidence of substance abuse, like behavior changes, attendance and punctuality problems, etc. Isn't that enough?
October 13, 2011 at 10:17 am
Haha, LBW and David, if every freshman gets tested entering a state-supported college, then App State would cease to exist.
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Jaden Smith is fulfilling his fashion destiny and taking his daring approach to apparel to Louis Vuitton. Will and Jada's 17-year-old heir has just been announced as the newest face of the fashion house's Spring/Summer 2016 campaign. In Instagram posts by the brand's artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière, shots of Smith were premiered. The shoot, snapped by photographer Bruce Weber, features the young actor/rapper in pieces from Louis Vuitton's women's collection, debuted at Paris Fashion Week.
Smith's barrier-breaking sartorial choices have been buzzed about since he was first seen rocking a dress back in April. He has since worn a dress to prom, as well as a Batman costume to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wedding. In an interview with GQ, Smith discussed the motivations behind his fashion choices, marking them as a form of expression.
"I'm just expressing how I feel inside, which is really no particular way because everyday it changes how I feel about the world and myself, but I like wearing super drapey things so I can feel as though I'm a super hero, but don't have to necessarily wear super hero costumes everyday,"
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Pop life is a message unlike any other! Fatherlessness is a term that is unfamiliar to most, however it permeates every problem that plagues humanity today. Many preachers have avoided this seemingly taboo topic because of its prevalence among modern-day believers. Fatherlessness has invaded the church and until now it has been a silent yet perilous matter that has adversely shaped our lives.
In this presentation, G. Craige Lewis delivers a revelatory message when the Church is in most desperate need of a timely Word from the Lord. Satan continues to wage war on the Church and this time he is taking the man out of his God-given creation role to do so.
Deleting the father figure and male authority from the home has lifelong consequences, from false god worship to homosexual practices as well as the generational cycle of fatherlessness itself. The information in this DVD is a culmination of the message of EX ministries orchestrated by the Holy Spirit Himself. Because of the fact that all have been affected by Fatherlessness in some way, this is a must have DVD for every believer. For more information log onto www.exministries.com


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Hello i'm planning on going to south america next year and would really like to learn spanish while i'm there. i know that it's best to learn the language to get the most out of being there and i plan on staying for a good amount of time. i've never spoken a word of spanish because in school i thought i'd never need it, but then i've noticed how fit south america birds are so i really want to learn.
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It was a pivotal year for Volkswagen AG, as it faced restructuring on three continents in 2005.
The storied German group that includes VW, Audi, Bentley, SEAT, Skoda, Lamborghini and Bugatti, was dealing with troubles at home, where productivity lagged world standards, and addressing falling sales and revenue in North America and China.
Much of the drama in Wolfsburg stemmed from VW's attempt to get at the root of its problem: its position as a high-cost producer of a limited range of vehicles for diverse international markets.
Of VW's 343,000 workers, about 179,000 were based in Germany, including 103,000 in Wolfsburg, home to its oldest and largest plant. Unfortunately, Germany was the most expensive place to manufacture cars – and the most resistant to addressing its high cost and low productivity.
German workers were paid an average of €34 ($41) an hour in 2005, compared with about €25 ($30) in the U.S. VW's generosity over the years had resulted in wages some 11% higher than the auto maker's domestic peers, and about 20% higher than the competition in general.
Historically, well-paid workers were not an issue, as buyers always appeared willing to pay a premium for German engineering and technology. It was harder for VW, though, because of its heritage of affordable vehicles.
The cost situation was exacerbated by the strength of the euro against the dollar and the competitive pricing structure in North America.
"When we export vehicles to the U.S., we are losing 3-digit (hundreds of) millions (of euros)," said Wolfgang Bernhard, who took over as chairman of the VW brand group May 1. Without a solution, "there is no future for European manufacturing," he said.
Both Bernhard and Bernd Pischetsrieder, chairman of the board of management and defacto CEO, were outspoken on the need to cut thousands of jobs and increase the efficiency of those remaining. Fewer heads, and less cost per head, became the company's mantra.
The auto maker had been hard-pressed to rein in labor costs over the years, in part due to its governance structure where the state of Lower Saxony was the largest shareholder.
That changed in 2005, when Porsche AG became the biggest shareholder with its October purchase of an 18.53% voting stake. Lower Saxony still held a powerful 18.2% and a vested interest in maintaining a healthy, well-paid regional workforce in a country grappling with 11.4% unemployment.
Pischetsrieder and Bernhard attempted to use the current crisis to dismantle some of that national infrastructure, much like former CEO Ferdinand Piech did in 1993 when 12,500 of 130,000 overpaid, over-trained and under-productive workers were let go.
By 2005, VW had global capacity to build about 6 million vehicles annually. It sold 5.1 million in 2004.
Reports put the job-reduction target as high as 30,000. Wage cuts in the 20%-40% range were said to be necessary, and factories were targeted for more flexibility and efficiency.
As part of a quest to improve the cost structure on all vehicles over three years, Bernhard was pushing for shift changes at Wolfsburg, where staff balked at ending a 4-day work week that allowed for a lucrative night-shift bonus. Resolving this issue would save €60 million ($73 million) annually, he claimed.
To underscore the gravity, management used sourcing of a Golf-based cross/utility vehicle, known as the Marrakesh, to deliver an ultimatum. Assembly of the pending compact CUV was Wolfsburg's to lose. The additional output was dangled in front of a plant operating at 70% capacity, but only if workers represented by the powerful trade union IG Metall agreed to concessions.
A labor model already existed. VW developed a program known as Auto 5000 GmbH in 2001 to produce the Touran compact multipurpose vehicle in Wolfsburg, in what essentially was a factory within the factory. Roughly 5,000 workers were paid about 20% less to build the Touran, and they worked overtime, for no additional pay, if a mistake was traced back to the assembly line.
VW officials said they could shave €850 ($1,000) per vehicle off the Marrakesh program by integrating it with Touran production. IG Metall was given a Sept. 26 deadline to agree to Auto 5000 or another form of lower-cost manufacturing.
Without a solution, management said it would build the Marrakesh in Portugal, where costs were projected at €1,000 ($1,222 per vehicle) less than Wolfsburg's.
Bernhard said the development team for the CUV had trimmed €2,000 ($2,445) from the cost of the vehicle, but it still was €800-€900 ($980-$1,100) shy of being globally competitive. He said the difference had to come from manufacturing – ideally from a compromise that would allow the Marrakesh to be built in Germany.
Talks went to the wire, but the union ultimately agreed to shift from Wolfsburg's expensive in-house wage structure to the Auto 5000 model, where lower-paid workers would build the Marrakesh alongside the Touran. The move was expected to save about 1,000 German jobs.
In return, the company committed to building two more models in Germany, likely a Passat coupe in Emden, starting in 2008, and another Golf variant for Wolfsburg. Both projects also would utilize a modified in-house wage agreement.
Pischetsrieder pronounced the Marrakesh pact a decisive start in being able to export vehicles from Europe profitably, even if the euro were to remain strong.
Efforts to preserve a manufacturing presence in Germany, as well as other weighty decisions to turn the auto maker's fortunes around, fell on Pischetsrieder in his third year since taking over as CEO from Piech, who became chairman of the supervisory board.
The year will be remembered for management upheaval.
Pischetsrieder put his stamp on a new team, while dealing with fallout from an internal sex and corruption scandal in Germany and boardroom intrigue.
The scandal, involving allegations of bribery and embezzlement in several countries, led to the resignation of personnel chief Peter Hartz and raised speculation of a new era where management had more freedom to make decisions without undue influence from the union and government.
But the year ended with a full-scale boardroom power struggle that was far from resolved and continued to widen a rift between Piech and Pischetsrieder.
Former union leader Horst Neumann was appointed board member in charge of personnel, a move opposed by Pischestrieder and Bernhard, but supported by Piech and the 10 supervisory board members with labor backgrounds.
Porsche's share purchase and clout raised new conflict-of-interest issues, as Piech, the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and heir to the sports-car fortune, remained VW chairman. His loyalty to VW was questioned repeatedly, and there were suggestions Piech wanted Audi AG CEO Martin Winterkorn to replace Pischetsrieder.
A lobby formed to oust Piech, resulting in an agreement he would relinquish the board chairmanship in 2007. In exchange, Porsche would get two seats on VW's supervisory board in 2006, including one for Winterkorn. Piech's replacement as chairman was to be a neutral director, representing neither Porsche nor Lower Saxony.
The year ended with Pischetsrieder's fate still uncertain, amid suggestions labor would not back a bid to renew his 5-year contract that was set to expire in 2007. In May 2006, the contract was renewed until April 2012.
Outside the boardroom, Pischetsrieder continued efforts to put his handpicked team in place.
To manage the VW brand in North America, Adrian Hallmark, who distinguished himself in sales for Bentley Motors Ltd., was chosen.
Hallmark's appointment as executive vice president-Volkswagen of America Inc., took effect Oct. 1. He switched jobs with Len Hunt, who was reassigned to the global Bentley post, but chose instead to leave the auto maker for a job with Kia Motors America Inc. In January 2006, Bentley named a second successor to Hallmark, making Stuart McCullough a member of the board, responsible for sales and marketing.
At Audi of America Inc., 2005 was the first year in the top spot of executive vice president for Johan de Nysschen.
In June, Winfried Vahland, former head of the Skoda brand, took over as president of VW's China operations, replacing the retired Bernd Leissner and overseeing a new sales team.
Also still relatively new to his duties was Stephan Winkelmann, who was lured from Fiat Auto SpA to head Automobili Lamborghini SpA, owned by Audi.
The VW brand group, which accounted for about 60% of sales, faced the biggest challenge. But it was not unlike the one Bernhard tackled as former chief operating officer of Chrysler Group in the U.S. There he was responsible for the cost-cutting portion of a 3-year turnaround plan that involved eliminating jobs, closing plants, reducing shifts, cutting material/purchasing costs, overseeing efficiencies in manufacturing and downsizing the product-development budget while increasing the portfolio.
The issues at VW were eerily similar, Bernhard said as he drafted a 3-year plan expected to cut investment 20% annually over the three years.
His plan called for a period of pain, followed by the introduction of five to 10 additional models, over and above the existing lineup, between 2008 and 2010. The new vehicles would take VW into new segments, such as minivans and compact SUVs.
Financially, progress was made, but Pischetsrieder said he was not satisfied with 2005's 58.2% pre-tax profit increase of €1.7 billion ($2 billion). Volkswagen Group saw a 3.2% jump in vehicle sales and 7.1% hike in sales revenue to €95.3 billion ($113 billion).
After taxes, the auto maker earned €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion), up 61% vs 2004's €697 million ($830 million).
Globally, Volkswagen sales were almost flat, while VW Group brand sales reached a record 5.2 million units – an increase of 3.2% over 2004.
The results were early signs of success for Pischetsrieder's ForMotion cost-reduction initiative, approved in February 2004. It called for the cutting of 5,000 jobs through attrition and a €3.1 billion ($3.8 billion) cost reduction in 2005, on top of a contribution of more than €2 billion ($2.6 billion) to the bottom line in 2004.
VW followed up with the ForMotion Plus program, which expanded the focus beyond cost reduction, to include sales, marketing and specific product programs.
The objective, Pischetsrieder said, was to improve net pre-tax profit €4 billion ($4.9 billion) by 2008, as compared with 2004. He translated that to a pretax profit of €5.1 billion ($6.2 billion).
Bernhard's goal was to improve VW brand group profit to €7 billion ($8.5 billion) in the same timeframe, mainly through cost cuts and his pending restructuring plan.
Pischetsrieder said achieving the overall corporate target would require deeper cost cuts to compensate for continuing deterioration in the markets and exchange rate issues. He pegged the objective at a gross savings of €7 billion.
Initiatives included bringing suppliers into product development earlier and greater re-use of parts, technologies and tooling.
Pischetsrieder remained committed to the modular strategy initiated three years earlier that encouraged component sharing across products and brands and was expected to result in another €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in savings on purchasing in 2006. It would be rolled out with each new generation of vehicle.
Pischetsrieder hoped to save another €1 billion in personnel costs over the next couple years. In 2004, the auto maker said it needed to reduce personnel costs by €2 billion ($2.4 billion) by 2011. The first €1 billion would be achieved in 2006, under terms of the contract negotiated in November 2004 that guaranteed no layoffs until 2011 in exchange for a 28-month pay freeze.
But in 2005, Pischetsrieder said VW could not wait until 2011 for the additional €1 billion in personnel cuts. "We have to bring that forward," he said.
That included operations in China, where VW saw stiff price competition and falling sales. China was VW's second-largest market after Germany.
The auto maker once held a commanding 50% of the Chinese market and was reporting growth of about 30% as recently as 2003. But VW saw its sales lead fall to General Motors Corp. midyear, and revenue from its two joint ventures continued to fall.
The auto maker said restructuring was under way, and expansion plans for China were on hold. Hopes of breaking even in 2005 in China were not met, as the JVs reported a combined €119 million ($150 million) loss.
In North America, VW lost €843 million ($1.1 billion), a slight improvement on 2004, even though U.S. sales declined 12.5%.
Pischetsrieder said he did not expect a profit in the region until 2007.
To help offset the negative effects of the dollar, VW targeted more U.S. content in its vehicles and consolidated global output of the Jetta/Bora at its Puebla, Mexico, plant that built the Beetle and Beetle convertible. It was slated to add a Jetta wagon in 2007. Producing within the confines of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided a natural hedge, and the auto maker looked into building a second plant in Mexico.
In addition, the parent company finally recognized the need to manufacture the right products for individual markets and tidy up its launch cadence to avoid its historic cycle of feast or famine.
To better understand the market, Pischetsrieder created Moonraker, a project named after a James Bond novel. A 23-member team – 22 of them from Germany – set up shop in California for a 13-month stint traveling the continent and studying trends, culture and buying habits to become more sensitive to regional differences.
It was hoped their input would help VW return to its roots as a high-volume, affordable brand with fun-to-drive German-engineered vehicles.
New versions of the Jetta and Passat entered the U.S. market after seven years, and the Beetle got a refresh. The new Golf was scheduled to arrive in 2006, as well as a Passat wagon.
Also on tap was the Marrakesh CUV, and the 4-seat Eos coupe/cabriolet, unveiled at the Frankfurt auto show prior to its 2006 launch.
A new large luxury coupe codenamed CC was to fill the price gap between the Passat and the Phaeton. While a second-generation Phaeton was planned for Europe, VW announced the luxury car would be dropped from the North American lineup by mid-2006.
Dealers also were excited to learn a minivan was in the works. It was to be designed by VW but based on Chrysler Group's next-generation of minivans due in 2007, and to be built by Chrysler.
The first 7-seat vehicle, the Audi Q7 luxury CUV, went on sale in May, and by year-end, the luxury brand confirmed it would get a production version of the Le Mans Quattro supercar concept, to be called the R8, for sale in 2007.
Audi said it was no longer chasing the goal of 200,000 annual sales in the U.S. by 2008, focusing instead on margins, and it abandoned plans of having 150 exclusive dealers in the U.S., content with about 85 standalones.
VW said it planned to jump on the hybrid-electric vehicle bandwagon with hybrid versions of the Jetta and Audi Q7 in 2008, as well as VW Touran HEVs in China.
In other VW-owned brands, Bentley was managing unexpectedly high and sustained demand for its Continental GT, while ramping up the Flying Spur at its Crewe, U.K., plant with overflow output at VW's Dresden facility that built the slow-selling Phaeton.
The luxury brand was nicely profitable with about 8,000 sales, and planned to cap deliveries at 9,000 in the future to maintain exclusivity.
The Azure, the $330,000 convertible version of the Arnage that was to become Bentley's new flagship in spring 2006, already had orders equivalent to two years' production by fall.
At Lamborghini, the 42-year-old company saw sales grow from about 250 cars per year for the first 40 years, to about 1,600, with 2005 as its second-consecutive profitable year.
The 250 units of the Gallardo Special Edition sold out quickly, as did advance orders for the Gallardo Spyder, that was set to go on sale in spring 2006 for €145,000 ($195,000).
The number of dealers worldwide grew to 80 from 65 at the start of the year.
Lamborghini, acquired by Audi in 1998, also was studying the feasibility of a production version of the '06 Concept S, a derivative of the Spyder that would be priced at €250,000 in Europe or $330,000 in the U.S.
And production of the 1,001-hp Bugatti Veyron finally began Sept. 11, with plans to build 300 copies of the $1.24 million supercar over five years. A second model for the line was under consideration.


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Skip The Brochures: Retirement Advice Goes Online
To help employees choose investments for their 401(k) plans, companies may offer workbooks, seminars, videos, audio tapes, CD-ROMs, and even the Internet. But these educational resources can fall short of what many employees really want: an investment pro to tell them where to put retirement dollars.
Well, that's coming soon. With the help of sophisticated software and cheap delivery systems, personalized investment advice for the masses is on the way. Among the first to offer advice to investors through their employers: San Francisco-based 401(k) Forum Inc.; Financial Engines Inc., a Palo Alto (Calif.) adviser launched with the backing of Nobel economics laureate William F. Sharpe; and Los Angeles-based TCW Group. Because it also manages mutual funds, TCW had to get a Labor Dept. waiver so it could give advice on investing in its own funds. TCW manages $50 billion, mainly for institutions, while 401(k) Forum and Financial Engines were started to provide 401(k) advice.
There's not yet much real-world experience with these services. Only 401(k) Forum is actually serving investors at three companies: Fujitsu America, Oracle, and Findlay Industries, an Ohio auto-parts manufacturer. Financial Engines plans to announce its first company clients soon, and TCW hopes to be giving advice by next summer.
"Finally, there's a service that answers everybody's last question: `How do I invest this money?"' says Oona Huber, benefits administrator for Fujitsu America Inc. in San Jose, Calif., which has been testing 401(k) Forum's service. "Instead of a booklet that says 35-year-olds should have X percent of their money in growth stocks, 401(k) Forum gives the user actual allocation advice drawn from the 10 fund options in our plan," adds Huber. Some 1,000 employees at three sites have been offered the service since June, and Huber hopes to roll it out to the company's 5,000 employees in January. Fujitsu, for one, plans to pick up the bill.
How much will this nifty advice cost? Providers say that after startup expenses, the annual cost for plans with at least 1,000 participants should be $25 to $50 per employee. TCW isn't charging directly for advice, but it will use the service as a way to sign up companies as 401(k) customers.
The services rely on the asset-allocation models long used by institutional investors. Defined-contribution pension plans like the 401(k) have shifted "investment responsibility from institutions to individuals without shifting the expertise needed to exercise that responsibility," says Jeff Maggioncalda, president of Financial Engines. "We're bringing that expertise to individuals in a cost-effective way."
To become a client, participants complete an extensive online questionnaire that also asks about non-401(k) investments, just as a personal adviser would. Employees then get specific information, cranked out by a software program, about how much to invest in which funds. The services don't counsel individuals on outside investments but do take them into account. "If most of a person's outside holdings were CDs, we might recommend more aggressive investments for the 401(k) than he might otherwise get," says Brian Tarbox, a TCW senior vice-president.
These online advisers also can react to changes both in an employee's circumstances and the markets', for instance by sending E-mail to participants when a change in investments is recommended. Financial Engines will even advise clients who hold a lot of company stock in their 401(k)s on how to offset that risk using the funds in their plans.
No doubt these digital-era investment advisers will face competition soon. Robert L. Reynolds, who heads the 401(k) business at Fidelity Investments, says the mutual-fund giant hopes to unveil an advising plan soon. But Reynolds specifically talks about "guidance" rather than "advice," raising the possibility that Fidelity's effort might stop short of telling investors which funds to buy.
Some in the 401(k) business think offering advice will come back to haunt plan sponsors if the advice fails to produce good results. And some say investor education beats advice any day. Says Debbie Mandelker, director of employee services for Merrill Lynch & Co.'s 401(k) business: "You know that it's better to teach a hungry man to fish than give him a fish."
Maybe so. But for the millions who may worry about their ability to hook a winning return, some sound investment advice will be far more satisfying.
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I feel bad for Mandy Jaye, not only does she get "the most unromantic fantasy date in bachelor history" she also has to share the date with Trish!Originally Posted by psucashcow
I feel bad for Mandy Jaye, not only does she get "the most unromantic fantasy date in bachelor history" she also has to share the date with Trish!Originally Posted by psucashcow
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Wednesday, May 12, 9/8c
The Women Tell All
It's a reunion, as all of the women except the final three are back to dish about Jesse, each other, and what really went on in the house.
Wednesday, May 12, 10/9c
Jesse and the three remaining ladies go on their fantasy overnight dates, as Jesse grows closer to each of the women. Then, three women, and only two roses who will stay and who will go?
Exactly what I was thinking.Originally Posted by BamaFabulous
I don't get why some of you don't think the DC area has potential as a romantic setting. There are some beautifully romantic locations in the area. It's not all stuffy politicians. It is, after all, where the late Congressman Wilbur Mills was caught in the Reflecting Pool with a stripper. (Now where is Trish?)
Seriously, there are some very romantic things to do here, not involving beaches, surf boards, etc... A sunset/evening cruise on the Potomac aboard the former Presidential yacht the USS Sequoia http://www.sequoiayacht.com/ would be exciting (President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe "enjoyed" the yacht, according to historians.) The Inn at Little Washington is a 5 star B&B. The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown is known for catering to the rich and famous. Too many others to name, but it not just your high school senior class trip place. The clubs in Dupont Circle and Georgetown are a single man/woman's dream.
I agree with Zeus, that the DC area COULD be a romantic setting for someone, but it looks like the happy couple doesn't get to see romance, anyway. It doesn't matter if they were in Tahiti, Trish's interruption is sure to blow away any romance!Originally Posted by zeus
I agree that there are some wonderful, romantic locations in the DC area. However, the idea of "staying within the country" does not exactly give you the impression that it's an "exotic" date by any means nor does it exactly inject excitement in you, especially when you're flying "out of the country" to Quebec and the Bahamas for your other fantasy dates! Besides, Jesse and Mandy have probably been to DC a number of times.Originally Posted by zeus
They always seem to have one place that is not so great of a location. Mary and Blob went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming (not very romatic), Andrew and Jen went to Arizona and went bowling, again not very romatic, (and that was the worst fantasy date in Bachelor history-- the only thing that redeemed it was that they were in love).
But Andrew and Jen went bowling because it was raining. They were supposed to go hot-air ballooning, which is extremely romantic , and had some other outdoor activities planned. A really bad date that stuck out in my mind was Trista's and Russ' fantasy date. Didn't they go to Sedona, Arizona for an "aura photography" reading by some psychic? At least kicking your date's ass in bowling is a lot more fun than getting your aura analyzed by some stranger in the middle of the desert.Originally Posted by emeraldsong
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I don't see all the fuss about Washington D.C. being exotic or romantic, but Montreal, Quebec? (no offense to all Canadians!) IMO Just as exotic or romantic as D.C. and probably just as cold. Only Jessica really lucked out on both romantic and exotic in getting the Bahamas.Originally Posted by Siryn
Well I'm Canadian, and Quebec City is an old 'rustic' town which is really romantic. They do stuff there all the time, plus if I recall correctly, Jesse is Canadian, speaks French and mentioned in an earlier episode that he'd like to visit Quebec or something.


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Flowers are always nice. And substantial jewelry or securing a 7:15 reso at Flour + Water might guarantee at least a month of passion. But for our money, being detained for protesting of your inability to marry your sweetheart might be the most sincere display of devotion we've heard yet.
On Valentine's Day, at least eight same-sex marriage advocates were detained for staging a sit-in at the San Francisco County Clerks Office, protesting marriage inequality, according to SF Appeal.
The protest has become an annual event since 1999, and advocates continued the tradition on Tuesday. According to KTVU, about 30 people gathered outside of City Hall, holding signs reading, "We all deserve the freedom to marry." One was written on a Valentine heart.
About half of the group then proceeded into the building, singing along with an accompanying guitarist and the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus. According to SF Appeal, once sheriff's deputies arrived, eight were detained for refusing to disperse.
According to the Guardian UK, similar protests occurred around the country. The Guardian reported on one such couple in Austin, Texas. "It's very frustrating," said Austin's Tiffani Bishop. "Even little things. I was sick a couple of months ago and was thinking, 'Well what if I have to go to the hospital? She can't come and see me.' Legally we are strangers."
One San Francisco couple, Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis, was legally married in 2008 before the Proposition 8 ban, but, according to the Guardian, still makes the trip to City Hall every Valentine's Day. "Instead, we thank the clerk," said Gaffney. "We go up and present flowers, because we know firsthand that she'd marry us if she could," he said. "Because she did -- she married us in 2008."
California came one step closer to finally legalizing same-sex marriage one week before Valentine's Day when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the voter-approved Proposition 8 -- a ban on same-sex marriage -- unconstitutional. The court ruled 2-1 in favor of overturning the ban, saying that it served no purpose other than to "lessen the status and human dignity" of the LGBT community.
"It's good news," said Reverend Dr. William Knight of Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, an LGBT-friendly parish, to The Huffington Post. "We're fortunate that our state is moving in the direction of honoring love instead of demonizing love."
However, while the decision was a victorious battle, same-sex marriage supporters are still deep in the war. The Associated Press reported:
The ruling will not take effect until the deadline passes in two weeks for Proposition 8's backers to appeal to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit. Lawyers for the coalition of conservative religious groups that sponsored the measure said they have not decided if they will seek a 9th Circuit rehearing or file an appeal directly to the Supreme Court.
It has been an especially busy week for marriage equality, as Washington State officially became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage on Monday.
"I'm proud our same-sex couples will no longer be treated as separate but equal," said Governor Chris Gregoire.
According to the Associated Press, opponents in Washington filed a referendum that same afternoon. Should they collect more than 120,577 valid voter signatures, the law will be put on hold pending a November vote.
But Seattle resident Bret Tiderman told the Associated Press that the probable fight ahead wouldn't spoil the current celebration. "You have to relish this moment."
Check out photos of San Franciscans celebrating Proposition 8's overturn last week:


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Printmakers in UB'S ePIC (Experimental Print and Imaging Center) Program are showcasing their work through April 25 in an exhibition in The Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda.
Nancy P. Zimmerman, Ph.D., has been named to the Library Media Standards Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Although popular culture continues to presume that height is a measure of personal satisfaction in life, a new study by a team of psychologists and endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo refutes the idea that taller is necessarily better.
A University at Buffalo professor is leading the effort to increase federal funding of university research in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), applications of which are addressing important social problems ranging from the handling of medical emergencies, to fighting crime, to monitoring agricultural crops.
Western New York governments and other public-service entities have an "impressive and encouraging" record of cost-effective collaboration and a growing interest in more such efforts as an approach to building a stronger region, according to two reports released by the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth at the University at Buffalo.
Research conducted at the University at Buffalo suggests the potentially lethal brain swelling known as high-altitude cerebral edema that has caused the death of climbers on Mount Everest and elsewhere is caused by a disruption in the blood-brain barrier.
Scott Williams doesn't teach mathematics to African-American children, but several thousand of them have learned from him lessons that they will keep for the rest of their lives.
Reducing repetitive strain injuries while increasing comfort at work is easy, effective and often inexpensive for workers or employers with the proper equipment, a University at Buffalo ergonomics expert says.
Taking a monumental step that will change the lives of even more University at Buffalo students, the anonymous donor who started UB's Distinguished Honors Scholars program has reached the $4 million mark with another donation of $800,000 to fully fund the education of academically gifted students.
While TV-Free America (TVFA) has designated April 22-28 National TV-Turnoff Week, a University at Buffalo associate professor of communication says eliminating TV from American life is an "extreme measure"and not warranted.
Thanks to Laurie Carter's research, the question is no longer whether susceptibility to stroke is indicated by standard dental X-rays, but to what degree.
Pregnant women who continue to smoke, thinking their prenatal vitamins will offset the known adverse effects of smoking on the developing fetus, are deluding themselves, a new study by University at Buffalo researchers shows.
A physician known internationally for his pioneering work in developing dermatology as a medical specialty and a man considered the most powerful individual in talent management in the entertainment industry are among eight individuals to be honored at the University at Buffalo Alumni Association's annual awards dinner.
"From the Age of Lightheartedness" (1980), a lyrical account of an exotic love affair by experimental German filmmaker Klaus Wyborny, will be screened on April 27 in the Center for the Arts.
Extending and enhancing human life through organ transplants will be the topic of UB's 28th annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lecture on April 22.
Fifty fine Italian wines and an array of Italian cuisine will be featured when the UB Alumni Association hosts an Italian Renaissance Wine and Food Festival on May 5 in the Center for the Arts.
Leah I.S. Bailey of Buffalo is the first-place winner in the 19th annual Nancy Welch Award competition recognizing UB students who have made significant contributions to the university community during the current academic year.
The University Student Alumni Board, the student affiliate of the UB Alumni Association, recently was recognized for its program, leadership and enthusiasm at the Spring 1998 District II Student Alumni Association/Student Foundation Conference.
The Center for Management Development in the University at Buffalo School of Management is offering a "Team Performance" certificate program from April 20 through June 29.
Registrations are being accepted for the Spring term of the Graduate Tax Certificate Program offered by the Institute for Tax Studies in the University at Buffalo School of Management.
Nallan C. Suresh, Ph.D., associate professor of manufacturing and operations management in the School of Management, was lead editor of a recently released book that details the latest theory and practice of streamlining manufacturing operations.
Americans' obsession with themed environments will be discussed by Mark Gottdiener, Ph.D., in a "UB at Sunrise" program from 7:30-9 a.m. on April 28 in the Center for Tomorrow.
Millard Fillmore College, UB's continuing-education and summer-sessions division, has set three sessions of summer courses that will include courses offered on local cable television or via the Internet.
Helen L. Stevens, director of international students and scholar services at UB, has received a grant from NAFSA: Association of International Educators to coordinate and host a three-day Korea workshop in Buffalo for international educators nationwide.
"The Aging American" will be the theme of the 61st annual Spring Clinical Day to be held by the UB Medical Alumni Association on April 25.
A conference on South Asian Human Rights Awareness will be April 16 and 17 in the Student Union Theater.
Howard J. Doueck, Ph.D., and Nancy J. Smyth, Ph.D., faculty members in the Graduate School of Social Work, have been appointed associate deans.
"Ceremonial Lands," an exhibit by Leandro Soto, U artist-in-residence in the Department of Theatre and Dance, is on display through May 30 at Buffalo Arts Studios.
Ning Chen, M.D. has been awarded the first S. Mouchly Small Muscular Dystrophy Association Research Fellowship at UB.
Michael F. Sheridan, professor and chair of the Department of Geology, has been honored for his outstanding scientific work on the activity of the Volcan Colima, historically the most active volcano in Mexico.
A $10,350 grant from the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence program based in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been awarded to the Graphic Controls Corp. for a design project for its new manufacturing facility.
Sixteen business leaders from Western New York and from around the country have been appointed to the Dean's Advisory Council in the School of Management.
"The Prudent Investor," an investor education conference sponsored by UB's Securities Clinic and the Gerald and Sandra Lippes Endowment for Entrepreneurial Law, will be held on April 18.
The so-called "beauty quark" will be the subject of a talk to be given on April 30 by Ronald Poling, Ph.D., professor of physics at the University of Minnesota and a 1976 UB graduate.
The School of Pharmacy Alumni Association will offer a three-part conference on May 1 and May 2 as part of its 1998 Spring Reunion Weekend Program.
The School of Pharmacy will present a Pharmacy Law Review program for pharmacists in all practice settings on May 18 and 19 in the Center for Tomorrow.
Ways in which sound ontological analysis can help alleviate problems in the field of law, and for social institutions in general, will be explored when major figures in philosophy and law participate on April 24 and 25 in the international Marvin Farber Conference in Applied Ontology.
It'll be a "down-and-dirty" day at UB on April 25 when 96 volleyball teams from the Northeast and Canada slip and slide to compete for prizes in Oozfest, the largest continuous mud-volleyball tournament in North America.
Albert R. Mugel, well-known attorney, tax-law expert and UB law professor for more than 50 years, will be honored at the ninth annual Buffalo Law Review dinner on April 24.
UB's Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Group and the Western New York Branch, American Society of Microbiologists will co-sponsor the 10th Annual Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis on April 29.
Hundreds of Depression-era art prints that resurfaced in 1960 when the State of New York took them out of storage and gave them to Rikers-Island inmates for use as drawing paper will be exhibited from May 1 through Sept. 13 at UB.
Martin C. Mahoney, Ph.D., M.D., clinical instructor in the Department of Family Medicine, has received the first-place award in the 1998 American Academy of Family Physicians Resident Scholars Competition.
Musician KRS-ONE (a/k/a Kris Parker), whose intelligent, uncompromising views on life in urban America have led to him being dubbed the "conscience of rap" and "its leading advocate" by Rolling Stone magazine, will speak at the UB's 22nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration.
An exhibit of materials documenting the experiences of women past and present from around the world titled "An Abundance of Riches: Resources on Women in Lockwood Library.
The ways in which human-rights abuses and abuse of the environment overlap will be explored during a two-day symposium to be held at the UB Law School on April 17 and 18.
Five graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Law will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards at the 36th annual UB Law Alumni Association meeting and dinner on May 14. Dean Barry Boyer and state Sen. Mary Lou Rath also will be honored.
A new scholarship for students in the School of Pharmacy has been established through a $150,000 gift from June Larwood to honor the memory of her late husband, Lorren, a 1939 graduate of the school.
Blacks in two rural Appalachian communities will come to life in a exhibit of photographs on display through May 29 outside the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts.
Wilson Greatbatch, a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame whose research led to the development of the implantable pacemaker, will be featured speaker at a seminar titled "The Coalescence of the Sciences" on May 14.
J. Terry Gates, associate professor and coordinator of music education in the Department of Music, has been named to the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Music Education.
A group of UB students plan to get really close to campus trash and they're hoping that classmates, faculty and administrators will join them.
Richard L. Friend, a 1970 graduate who is one of UB's most ardent fans, pushed his ability to give to the limit and has made a $250,000 gift commitment to the Division of Athletics.
Gary W. Goldstein, M.D., a pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the annual Edward Fogan Lecture in Neurology on April 21.
Leslie Fiedler, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Samuel L. Clemens Professor of English at the UB, recently received the Ivan Sandroff Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
Elowyn M. Yager, a senior majoring in geological sciences and minoring in physical geography, has won the annual Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean's Outstanding Senior Award.
A district geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a University of Buffalo alumnus, will provide homeowners with valuable advice in a talk entitled "Don't Let High Lake Levels and Waves Wash Away Your Dream House" at 7:30 p.m. on April 29.
"Chemical Mixtures in Environmental Health" will be the focus of the third Buffalo Environmental Health Sciences Conference to be held April 20 in the Center for Tomorrow.
UBwill hold its third annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day on April 23 as part of a national celebration organized by the Ms. Foundation.
Michael C. Constantinou, Ph.D., professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, has been named director of the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory.
Lawrence Washington Chisolm, Ph.D., 69, humanities scholar and professor of American studies at the UB since 1968 died on April 29.
Charles Bernstein, David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters at UB, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Poetry Division of the Modern Language Association of America.
New asthma drugs, new genetic discoveries and the influence of home and external environments on the disease will be among the topics addressed at the 4th annual Asthma and Environmental Exposure Conference to be held May 9.
Six students in the Department of Art will receive 1997-98 departmental awards for their work.
Aspiring artists pursuing their master's degrees in fine arts in the University at Buffalo Department of Art are displaying their work in "The Graduate Show" through April 29 in the Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts.
"Declining to Decline: Strategies Dealing with Middle-Ageism," a leadership conference for women in higher education, will be held April 24 in the Center for Tomorrow.
Information-technology specialists are dividing people in their organizations into two categories: those who have "gotten religion" on the Year 2000 issue (usually mid-level managers) and those who haven't (usually upper-level managers).
No one-size-fits-all schedule for the more than 1,500 accepted students who will visit the University at Buffalo on Preview Day 1998. Thanks to a new Web-based program called UB Explorer, each one has the opportunity to develop a customized schedule designed to meet his or her needs and interests.
A University at Buffalo associate professor of planning says that themed environments often decried by intellectuals as cheesy attempts to excite jaded consumers have the potential to awaken our understanding of just how we make sense of our world.
The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has announced plans to open a research center devoted to seeking solutions to problems faced by today's urban society.
Sixteen top-level managers from U.S. firms based in Singapore are among the new enrollees in the University at Buffalo School of Management's Executive MBA program in Singapore, one of just two U.S. MBA programs on the island.
A University at Buffalo program that provides faculty with "seed" money to pursue promising research ideas has yielded $14 in external funding for every $1 that the university invested in 1994 during the program's first year.


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