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|2012-02-27, 15:03
|Link #1
[PC] Kamidori Alchemy Meister
Hehe... as I can understand the game now, it's time to get Kamidori Alchemy Meister. :3
EDIT : To the wise guys who keep bitching about the lack of information about this game. I did not open this thread. I originally posted this comment above in the General Eroge Impressions & Discussion thread and the fallowing posts concerning this were all wrapped up together and made into a new thread. Blame the moderator, not me...
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|2012-02-27, 16:41
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|2012-02-28, 06:26
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temporary safeguard
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
I'm still at the intro part, but this seems to be an rpg with many characters.
Just hoping the game will not crash somewhere. I haven't figured out how to save yet.
|2012-02-28, 06:48
|Link #5
Bishoujo Lover!
There are quite a number of characters to recruit in that game. Some you get eventually but others you need to complete certain quests so be careful not to let any quest uncompleted before you advance to the next chapter.
To save just right click, a new screen should appear and the save/load button should be there.
|2012-02-28, 07:13
|Link #7
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
As usual I'm playing on hard mode.
And damn, the first dungeon was already tricky.
Spoiler for trialSorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?
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|2012-02-28, 20:17
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|2012-02-28, 20:25
|Link #9
Yeah. This is now one of my most recommended eroge RPG games together with Sengoku Rance!
|2012-02-29, 04:59
|Link #10
That reminds me, I'm glad that Wil is a normal guy here, I was afraid he would be some pervert who couldn't wait to jump on females but he is pretty down-to earth. When he sees a new female he gives a pretty normal description of her look.
|2012-02-29, 10:25
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
If I forge a different set of clothing for someone, will the enhancements get carried over?
I am still lacking items to actually make something like that, but if it means I lose all enhancements, maybe I should not spend too much there yet?
|2012-02-29, 10:54
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Bishoujo Lover!
Here a good tip to make the enhancements cheaper thus easier to get. Always complete a line first and try to do it continuously. I mean, after advancing one square, continue with the one right next to the last. If you jump from 1 square to another in a different line it will cost you a lot more gold and items. You can tell which was the last enhancement you bought since it will be highlighted.
Edit: Remember all stats bonuses are unique for the armor and are only effective when you wear said armor. Skills are the exception and they can be used anytime once you buy them.
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|2012-03-02, 07:21
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Almost done Act4 and I still do not have enough money to really upgrade my armor: I just do not get enough stuff in dungeons to sell. I guess I should just stick everyone together to limit my potion usage. Aht (the golem) is a good tank but is so slow to use... Mana is also an issue during fights...
Melodianna took over Yuela as the vangaurd of my forces because of her higher mitigation. She does pretty good melee and also comes with spells vs those annoying ghosts (weak vs holy but almost immune to physicals). Too bad it seem there is only 3 routes in game - I want the whole city to be jealous of me going out with an angel .
Finding a new love in Suina with her 3 ranged water spell that does pretty good damage. Atm I prefer her over Emelita (whom often I leave behind as shopkeep).
Have a bit of trouble leveling Serawi as she is pretty much a dedicated healer. I try to let her finish off mobs if given the chance (esp bosses) so she doesn't fall too far behind. Aht "was" hard to lvl until I start hunting rym dragons where I can just let him tank and gain a ton of xp every round of combat.
The RNG leveling is a pain: a good level up can increase 5-6 stats (getting str+con or int+res would be the icing on the cake). A bad lvl might only increase FS by 1: which is quite useless.
|2012-03-02, 08:14
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
I'm still in act 3, because I drag it out a bit with leveling.
Some things:
- you can sell "treasures" in the church, but not in your store. Took me a while to notice my huge pile of treasures (gold bars, gold dust such things). But they give a lot of money. After that I had no problem buying some upgrades. I buy the early cheap ones for each armor I get, to unlock skills.
- It's easy to level up your casters (Serawi too) by one shotting ghosts in the undead forest. Visited that one quite often. That way I managed to keep them at the general group level
- I use the deployement points a lot. Deploy, cast, retreat. And switch a lot between characters during a fight. I hardly ever use potions now.
|2012-03-02, 09:53
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Bishoujo Lover!
|2012-03-02, 14:24
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
I like how no male character has a voice, but every female has one, without exeption.
Random girl you meet on the street and has 1 line total has a VA.
If I manage to get 'bronze key' somehow, will it open all doors that require bronze key, or are there mutiple versions of that key?
|2012-03-02, 14:36
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Bishoujo Lover!
|2012-03-02, 14:54
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
Wait... I have to make them? I was thinking maybe the dragons have the key.
How do I get the recipt?
I mean the first bronze key door I encountered was in chapter 1. I should by now somehow have stumbled upon a recipt.
|2012-03-02, 16:44
|Link #20
Join Date: Dec 2003
I got my bronze key receipt when my (knowledge?) is high enough for it to appear under alchemy. Now I just need my silver key...
Note that the rym dragon can drop either fang or claw. Might want to save before killing it.
Spoiler for rym dragon hack:
I also discovered that demonic gear can be unequipped by hannah at the church if the decurse option is chosen.
I am trying to find a place for Aht in my party: but she is just toooo slow and Wil+Melodianna (my fav atm) already tank well enough.
Sharty is hit or miss. Super cat punch costs all her mana but can possibly do a lot of damage. Atm mine is only lv16 stuck selling things at the shop. She has good resist modifiers but mine has very low res stat which makes her too fragile to use.
Suina with a bowling ball (act2 quest iirc that ate all my wood supply)/Earth Crystal is a surprise gem. She is able to dominate water map as she can dive, gets Depth Charge, gets powered up in water, and the earth crystal allows her to use earth magic vs other water-based creatures (water weak vs earth).
Uya is used similar to Suina on lava maps: but for the most part I use him as a treasure hunter because of his mobility.
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DALLAS -- A provider of physician services that has contracts with hospitals in over 40 states violated federal law by subjecting a female employee to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The EEOC also charged that the company unlawfully fired the woman and two co-workers in retaliation for their complaints.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit against Dallas-based EmCare, Inc., executive assistant Gloria Stokes was subjected to sexually explicit remarks from the CEO of one of EmCare's divisions throughout her employment. The EEOC said that this behavior included comments about female employees' breasts, derogatory references to women and sexual jokes. Stokes did not have an effective outlet for complaining about the misconduct because she had heard members of the human resources department stating that they did not want employees coming to them with complaints. Stokes was fired shortly after she told the harasser that she did not believe his conduct was appropriate.
In addition to Stokes' charges, the EEOC also alleged in its lawsuit that EmCare retaliated against two other employees who complained to the human resources department about the inappropriate sexual comments and behavior of the division CEO. Very shortly after lodging their complaints with human resources, these individuals were terminated. The EEOC maintains that they were fired in retaliation for their opposition to the sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No. 3:11-cv-02017-P in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks back pay and front pay, compensatory and punitive damages and injunctive relief to ensure that no further harassment will occur there.
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The tweet in question will still be gone and irretrievable, so this won't lead to a DMCA revolution. But it's nice that there's a permanent record now of the time you were smote by the copyright zealots. Wear it as a badge of honor. Or at least, one of transparency. [GigaOm]


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Don Kavanagh tries to steady his nerves for a gig and some tasting at the Celtic Inn.
I'll be doing something I haven't done for ages next weekend and going to a bar to drink beer.
I know that sounds like a barefaced lie, given that I tend to find myself at a bar pretty much every weekend, but next week's visit will be different for two reasons.
The first is that I'll be playing music in a bar, which is a cause for some nervousness for me and my potential audience. It's been a while since I put down the guitar and retired gracefully and - most importantly, quietly - so I'm not sure how I'll go. But it should be fun. Maybe.
The second reason that this trip will be different is that the place I'm going to - the marvellous Celtic Inn in Palmerston North - is having a beer festival. Plenty of bars tend to hang on the coat-tails of Oktoberfest and try to ply their punters with overpriced lagers, but this is a bit different, having no oompah bands (I hope), no lederhosen (I pray) and it will be serving Kiwi craft beers.
I like this idea. I love the fact that there are bars individual enough to offer something beyond the brewery-contracted beers and I love that more and more bars are offering guest taps, where customers can try something they might otherwise never have had the opportunity to taste.
I'm not sure what the views of the major breweries are on this, but from a customer point of view it's excellent. With so much great craft beer available it's a shame we don't see enough of it in bars, despite the best efforts of many smaller operators.
I would have thought that such moves can only be good for the bar trade and, by extension, the major breweries, in that they are more likely to bring people to bars. Offering, say, an Emerson's Bookbinder is no threat to Stella or Heineken, but it could swell the number of people who will be willing to venture out at night.
Good beer is a magnet to beer drinkers, which is obvious enough to all but those operators who are happy to simply get a contract with a brewery and slavishly offer only that brewery's brands.
So three hearty cheers to those who are serious about offering decent beer, especially those offering guest taps to craft breweries. These beers represent a major advance in the drinking culture and should be supported.
Now does anyone know the chords for The Gambler, as I've some practice to do.


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Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently withdrew from a conference because former Prime Minister Blair was also a speaker (and, unlike Tutu, receiving a lucrative fee).
Citing the suffering caused by the Second Iraq War, Tutu called for the prosecution of Blair, former President Bush and other leaders as war criminals:
... those responsible for this suffering and loss of life [in Iraq] should be treading the same path as some of their African and Asian peers who have been made to answer for their actions in the Hague [the international criminal court].
Tutu implicitly compared Bush and Blair to monsters such as: Serbian General Ratko Mladic, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif.
Tutu is right—the Second Iraq War was a tragedy—but intent matters. While I truly admire Archbishop Tutu as one of the great moral leaders of our age, I disagree (with deepest respect) regarding Bush and Blair—they aren't criminals. Tragedy resulting from an individual's actions is regrettable, but isn't in and of itself a crime. Intent, rather than the act, makes someone guilty. (In Latin, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea—"The act does not make a person guilty, unless the mind is also guilty".)
Bush and Blair had legitimate reasons to be concerned about Iraq. Saddam Hussein: was a mass murderer many times over; viciously attacked three neighboring countries; attempted multiple times to acquire weapons of mass destruction; was loathed by his own population for his cruelty; and failed to cooperate with UN-mandated weapons inspections. Multiple UN resolutions condemned Hussein's leadership. Not a single country bordering Iraq supported or approved of Saddam Hussein. When coalition troops first entered Iraq, they were greeted as liberators.
The Second Iraq War, however, was a fiasco. The coalition offended the peoples of Iraq and the Middle East, and spectacularly mismanaged Iraq's occupation. The Second Iraq War (and the civil war it triggered) killed over 100,000 civilians and 4,500 coalition military personnel, and cost over $1 trillion.
The outcome of this incredible suffering and expense was replacement of a totalitarian anti-Iranian government, with an authoritarian pro-Iranian (anti-Western) government. Recent opinion polls show that 65 percent of Iraqis believe they were better off, or at least as well off, under Saddam. I challenge anyone to cite one positive outcome from the Second Iraq War—for the U.S. or the UK, let alone Iraq.
Let me repeat for emphasis: Bush and Blair's policies in Iraq cost over $1 trillion, killed over 4,500 of our own service personnel, and anti-Western Iran was the only country that benefited. This wasn't leadership by criminal masterminds—it was mismanagement by incompetent buffoons. Despite this spectacular failure, Blair received a prestigious faculty appointment at Yale University, and is paid as much as $500,000 per speaking engagement.
Leaders often face making difficult decisions, with limited information, under horrendous time pressure. We shouldn't criminalize mistakes and failures. But that doesn't mean we should reward gross ineptitude. I admire Archbishop Tutu for withdrawing from the conference to publicly highlight the insanity of rewarding Blair.
Blair is no criminal, but for the sake of decency, he should donate his speaking fees to charities helping people damaged by his policies. Morally, that money belongs to the people whose lives were destroyed in Iraq.


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Cuteness = 10,000
Ability to give a hint = -100,000
Don't worry Erin, you'll still bag him. Even if you do suck at flirting.
I'm astounded how she could play the DS in a pub while drunk and still have it by the end of the night. If I tried this where I live, I bet it wouldn't last 5 minutes before it got stolen.
So drunk that she doesn't realize she's rubbing her own leg? Wow, she must be extremely drunk. Oh gawd, if Erin sleeps with this guy, what will her hallucinations say?
I think there are gonna be thumbs up all around.
Or just that socially awkward.
Or maybe Kratos was distracting her.
In several of the forum posts I've read this would be considered rape, because she is really drunk and therefor cannot give consent.
Personally I don't believe that, but I'm gay and have no idea about women.
It'll all end in tears, you know.
It always ends in tears.
Gawd damn I love this storyline! Keep em coming, FAST!
Just make sure you lock Leisure Suit Larry outside or it might get, uncomfortable.
I'd blame the beer more.
And I'd say if she's so blotto she can't tell she's rubbing her own leg instead of someone elses, I think the only bodily fluids they'd share is her drool when she passes out with her head on his shoulder in the cab.
Kraotos will be disappointed that there wasn't another woman involved. So, that's one who won't be all smiles.
Well i hate to turn this thread ugly but...oh well.
If a grown person goes to a bar and voluntarily consumes a large amount of alcohol and do stupid things because of it, I find it hard to call the other person a criminal. Whether or not they are complete douche-bags is another question entirely.
OT: Good storyline and all but Kratos is probably going to get very creepy in the next one...
And then, when they're in their underwear, Molly will come around and chuck Erin's PC at her.
History repeats itself.
Oh dear god, let's not open that can of worms here. I'm not disagreeing with you, but these arguments can go on for scores of pages.
Unless of course that inevitable shitstorm was the intended punchline of the comic...
The real sad part is that you're still better at this than I am.
I wonder if anyone has ever scored by suggesting that they "share bodily fluids".
Somehow, I'm not seeing it.
Captcha: "See ya". Yeah, that's the kind of reaction I would expect.
More bad story...
I am afraid that Mr. Perfect, who has been sitting there all night listening to her rants etc, is actually another figment of her imagination. He could be from a game after all and she is just too drunk to recognise him. This would also explain the whole leg rubbing thing, I.E. FightClub, where he is just another part of herself and would show why she she didn't notice that she is rubbing her own leg.
Not to mention the guy she is talking to does look a bit like Tyler Durden.
Going by past comics that might well be it :P
Personally if someone had been brushing me off all evening and then suddenly got the hots for me in the last half hour when they were super drunk I'd just take them back to their house and put them to bed and leave a note to get intouch when less inebriated if they wanted to. Not going to out and out call anyone who wouldn't a criminal, but they are definitely complete douchebags.
It's a bit difficult to tell how drunk a cartoon character is from a few words though, the yawn could just be tiredness, the blushing from the social situation and the leg thing...er...massive incompetence and a severe degenerative disorder of the nervous system?
Nah, Tris probably won't try anything. He seems like that type of guy that wouldn't take advantage of the situation, especially considering this new found desire for sex is obviously just the beer talking... And maybe a little influence from Leisure Suit Larry as well. I'm willing to bet his power of influence with Erin is proportionate to the amount of alcoholic intake.
And then i learned how to predict the future....
I'm not going to criticize the quality of the comic, because the writing and drawing is not only as good as it always has been, but improving in a lot of ways, too.
That being said, however, I really don't like the direction this comic is taking. The overall tone has done a complete 180 from dark humor with a light-hearted, silly candy coating, to this dark, dreary swamp of a story arc with soft-hitting punchlines.
This can't possibly end well.
God that last panel made me laugh.
If she actually goes home and has sex with this guy won't her hallucinations be able to like, um, watch her? Creepy...
C'mon, everyone here say it with me.
I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I end-up flirting with myself.
Oh yeah, optimism isn't an element of harmony is it?
I agree. Critical Miss has always been one of the cleverest things on The Escapist, but I think Grey's sense of narrative pacing could use some work. The last eight comics' worth of plot could have been done in two or three, sustaining the dramatic tension from the previous conflict. Not to mention that he seems a bit unused to balancing comedy with story and character development, which is actually really hard. I'm sure he'll catch on quickly enough, though.
I love how she suddenly grows eyelashes for a panel.
Man, it's like Tali when she's drunk.
What would be the average amount of bodily perforations you would sustain in that encounter?
Anyone else notice the Elbow reference?
...........Just me?
I just had a really freaky mental image of leisure suit larry giving her tips like "cup the sac".
I've weirded myself out because of you. I hope you're happy!
I'm very happy, bro.
Wow, I've been so drunk I couldn't see before but never so drunk I didn't know who I was touching. I'm interested in Erin's Hangover issue.
True story, this.
At least in my case. Nothing came of it (so to speak), because we got a lift home in my friend's car. It was packed with so much junk that I almost ended up making out with a golfing bag. I would have been too pissed to tell the difference anyway.
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Meridian Sports Clubs California LLC, North Hills, CA, filed voluntary petitions to restructure under Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month, but the company says operations will not be interrupted.
Meridian, which also goes by Bodies In Motion, made the filings on Oct. 16 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California, Woodland Hills, CA. The company listed assets between $1 million and $10 million and listed liabilities between $10 million and $50 million, according to court documents. Bankruptcy schedules will be filed next week, according to the company's attorneys.
Meridian operates 10 clubs in California, Hawaii and Nevada. Seven of the 10 clubs are in Southern California. The Hawaii club is called The Honolulu Club.
Three of the clubs are David Barton Gyms, two in the Los Angeles area and one in Las Vegas. Last year, David Barton Gym filed for bankruptcy and forged a strategic alliance with Meridian Sports Clubs.
The company says memberships, offerings and programming will remain the same. Also, all clubs will operate regular hours and with existing staff.
"We believe that a timely restructuring through the court process will be the most expeditious way to clean up residual balance sheet issues created during the past four recessionary years," Chuck Grieve, CEO and founder of Meridian Sports Clubs, said in a company statement. "While we offer an unwavering commitment to our members, we need to bring costs into line, including leases negotiated before 2008, and restructure our balance sheet."
Grieve added that Praesidian Capital Investors, New York, which invested $10 million into Meridian in 2009, will allow the company to complete the financial restructuring in about six months.
Vendors who do business with Meridian Sports Clubs will be paid on an administrative priority basis for all goods and services the company receives. Employees are expected to see no change in pay or benefits as a result of the filing.
"We are starting to see some positive signs of improvement in many locations, which we find encouraging, but the restructuring is necessary to secure future growth," Grieve said.
Meridian Sports Clubs last appeared on Club Industry's Top 100 Clubs list in 2011. The company was tied for No. 38 on the list with an estimated 2010 revenue of $30 million, which the company reported in 2009. According to court documents in the bankruptcy filing, Meridian generated $23.1 million in 2010 and $21.5 million in 2011. The company also generated positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $2.4 million in 2010 and $862,000 in 2011.
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Rules changed on grills on porches, decks and patios
�Recent changes to the State Fire Code clarify under what conditions it is safe to use grills on decks, balconies and patios,� said State Fire Marshal Ostroskey. Grills can only be used on first floor porches, decks, or patios if there is an outdoor stairway to the ground, or the porch is at ground level. Grills are prohibited on any porch, balcony or deck that has a roof, or overhang. For more information, contact your local fire prevention office.
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Ostroskey said, �Place grills well away from the exterior of the house to keep any grill fire from also igniting a building. Last year, many of the grill fires started when the grill was placed right up against an exterior wall.� The State Fire Code now clarifies that grills must be 10-feet away from the side of the building, unless the manufacturer instructions specifically state it can be used closer.
Last Memorial Day weekend, a gas grill ignited the exterior wall of a Boston 2-family home and quickly spread causing $500,000 in damages.
On July 7, 2016, heat from a gas grill ignited the exterior wall of a detached garage in Lowell causing $4,000 in damages.
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�Read and follow the owner�s manual.
�Always grill outdoors.
�Place grills 10-feet away from the house. Make sure they are not under eaves, overhanging branches or against the side of the building. Keep them away from deck railings.
�Grills can be used on open (no roof) first floor porches, decks or patios if there is an exterior stairway to the ground, or it is at ground level.
�Grills should never be used indoors or on fire escapes.
�Keep children and pets three feet away from the grill area. Create a circle of safety.
�Never leave a grill burning unattended.
�Keep the grill clean by removing grease or fat build-up from the grills and trays below the grill.
�If you smell gas while cooking, immediately get away from the grill and call the fire department. Do not move the grill.
�If the flame goes out, turn the grill and gas off and wait 15 minutes before relighting.
�Never use gasoline on any grill
Grill fire facts
Between 2012 and 2016, there were 487 fires reported to the Massachusetts Fire Incident Reporting System involving grills, hibachis and barbecues. These incidents caused 22 civilian injuries, three firefighter injuries, and $4.5 million in property damage.
Shut off the gas at the tank
After each use, and before disconnecting the propane tank, be sure to shut off the gas at the tank.
In Lenox last May, a man was having trouble lighting the gas grill on a rear deck. Thinking it was empty, he attempted to remove the propane tank, heard a hiss and a pop and then the propane ignited. He suffered burns on his forearm and head. Damages are estimated at $2,000.
Charcoal grill safety
Marshal Ostroskey also said, �Practice safety around charcoal grills.� Once the coals have been lit, never add lighter fluid to the fire � flames may travel up the stream of lighter fluid resulting in serious burns. Charcoal briquettes give off carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless gas that can be deadly. �Make sure to always use charcoal grills outside in a well-ventilated area,� he added,� Let the coals cool completely before disposing in a metal container.�
This spring, a Braintree man severely burned himself when he added gasoline to the charcoal grill on his deck. Fortunately the sliding doors to the house were closed, which prevented the fire from immediately entering the home.


text: After watching Malena's movie on MetArt i have chenged my mind about her she has a beautifull face,smile and eyes specialy throught out her interview and i can now understand as to why she has gone towards the female body as Malena explained some guys are a nasty peice of work towards women !!! As for her movie i give my hat off to Bo Llanberis with his camera work.The close of malena brushing of her breast nipple firm and erect is very sensual as for Malena gently bathing herself with just a simple bowl of water and cloth on the tiled floor was absolutely pure sensuality as she is gently washing her curvacious body i specialy loved the part as she is washing breats nipple standing up breasts at their fullest nipples erect sitiing down genlty washing her belly down to her vagina then washing her back letting the water drip down her back running down between the cleft of her ass dripping down along her labia lips onto the floor the gengle slow deliberate drying of her body as she finaly returns to her painting.Bo's double exposures really added to the flovour of this very sensual,erotic movie and i loved the sound track the classic farewell MetArt kiss :) :)


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San Jose Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop put an abrupt end to the Richard Wright speculation created by report from the Mercury News on Tuesday.
Wright, a former goalkeeper for Everton and Arsenal of the English Premier League, trained with the Quakes on Tuesday. According to Yallop, there's nothing more to the story - Wright is in town to train and nothing more.
Yallop and Wright were teammates at Ipswich Town in 1996 and have remained friends ever since. Wright is currently looking for work, but isn't in town for a trial, Yallop said.
The Quakes were back at the Nutrilite Training Facility for their first training session after a 2-1 road win against the Houston Dynamo on Sunday. A bulk of the practice consisted of half-field, 9-on-9 scrimmages.
Wright was in goal opposite Jon Busch during all three scrimmages while emergency-pool keeper Alex Horwath trained on the side. Yallop confirmed after practice that the Quakes are free to use an emergency-pool keeper for the remainder of the season - news to many, including Horwath, who were unclear about rules for MLS goalies.
Khari Stephenson and Tim Ward did not train on Tuesday. Both suffered injuries during Sunday's match in Houston.
Ward has been diagnosed with a sprained ankle while the extent of Stephenson's injury remains unknown. The Dynamo's Cam Weaver hit Stephenson with a hard challenge from behind, getting a good chunk of the Jamaican midfielder's leg. Stephenson returned to the match after limping off the field, but was soon subbed off.
Yallop said the coaching staff will evaluate Ward and Stephenson on Thursday to determine whether either is fit to play against FC Dallas on Saturday.
Arturo Alvarez and Ryan Johnson are both away on international duty. Johnson scored a goal in Jamaica's 1-0 win against Costa Rica on Sunday and will suit up for the Reggae Boyz again on tonight when they take on Peru in Fort Lauderale, Florida. Alvarez will represent El Salvador tonight against Guatemala in Washington D.C.
Sam Cronin will reluctantly sit out Saturday's match against FC Dallas after picking up a red card on Sunday. Cronin was whistled for a questionable foul on Brian Mullan in the 82nd minute. The referee deemed Cronin's tackle reckless and pulled out a straight red.
"He (Brian Mullan) embellished it a bit," Cronin said. "I was probably a little high, but I didn't really catch him. I was a little unlucky."


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As a car enthusiast, I'd like to think of myself as someone who loves fast cars and lives with the consequences (maxed-out bank account, following Taki Inoue on Twitter, collect way too many model cars for my own good, wake up early to watch Sebastian Vettel dominate a race and promptly complain about it), not someone who prizes comfort over everything else. However, this perceived need for a sport package has been overdone. And I, an individual far too young to even contemplate such a thing, will explain why.
The average Jalopnik reader loves the sport package, since spending an extra $2,000 will mean an autocross time that'll be a half-second better. To be fair, that's a better deal than in Formula 1 where a half-second faster lap time means five-hundred thousand dollars (if you're Marussia, that is). Heck, it's probably an even better deal than what Miata autocrossers spend on their cars in search of that extra tenth of a second.
I'll be honest. I'm the kind of guy who tries to determine the apex at every turn on the way home and keeps the driver's seat at racing position (right leg at 90 degrees with the brake pedal with seat high enough to see the road a mile ahead). I even put my hands at 9 and 3 on the steering wheel (goodbye hand-over-hand turning!).
But this sport package thing has become way too overblown. This has become a world where Dodge makes a Caravan R/T and Toyota has gone through the effort to make a Sienna SE with "sport-tuned" suspension and steering. (I never bothered actually test driving them because the conversation explaining why would be like explaining why you like watching The Room.)
After all, no one in a minivan will appreciate sacrificing ride comfort on long trips so you can feel like Lewis Hamilton, albeit in a vehicle with at least twice the weight and things much worse than team orders (named Katy Perry and Lady Gaga) coming from the radio. The extra money is better spent on college funds, saving up for an NA Miata to autocross on the side, and buying headphones for each of the kids.
Even the sport package on SUVs has gotten absurd. My neighborhood is full of X1/X3/X5/X6 M-Sports, Mercedes SUVs with the AMG package, Q5 and Q7 S-lines, and the RX F-Sport. Their drivers are essentially proclaiming, "I wanted to sit high up and will never go off-road. But I also wanted my car to look different from my neighbor with a normal ML350/X5/Q7/RX350. And the salesman gave me a really good lease deal."
What I say is nobody will give you any courtesy in those. Not when merging lanes, not when stopped on the side of the road, not when loading stuff in the Williams-Sonoma parking lot during the holidays. Not ever.
Let's describe what a sport package does to a vehicle. There is a body kit to advertise that your car is well-suited for the racetrack. There is a stiffer suspension setup for the one time you autocross your car. There are bigger wheels with stickier rubber to tailgate a Camry driver on a banked highway off-ramp. There might be a three-spoke steering wheel which is perfect for 9 and 3. There are seats designed to hold you in place when taking a sharp corner at 15-20 mph over the speed limit.
However, there are downsides to those things. That body kit is more likely to scrape driveways, meaning you'll be on a first-name basis with your body-shop guy. The stiffer suspension and bigger wheels make the ride bumpier, so you'll be on a first-name basis with your chiropractor's receptionist. (Every chiropractor wants to be referred to as "Doctor.")
The stickier rubber means the tires will be replaced more often, putting you on a first-name basis with Costco employees who hand out food samples while the tires are being replaced. It will be more difficult to use the cruise control and volume controls on the steering wheel. And "larger" people might not able to fit into those sport seats, resulting in being on a first-name basis with a personal trainer.
Yet automakers are insistent that customers get the sport package on their cars. I understand it raises the transaction prices and increases profit margins, but most people don't need it. Somehow, the package has become associated with being lifestyle-oriented, as if buyers will take them on winding roads on weekends or even to the track. Instead, they'll be used for the school run, trips to soccer practice, and attempting to demonstrate to coworkers that they're not boring.
The Germans play the sport package game extremely well. Audi offers the S-Line package on everything except the A8. Mercedes-Benz offers a free sport package option on the E-Class and essentially forces the customer to take a sport model of the C-Class. BMW offers an M-Sport package on everything it makes.
Let's observe how the madness plays out on their flagships. At my local BMW dealer, all the 7-Series cars available had the M-Sport package. And a high proportion of 2014 Mercedes S-Classes I found at local dealers have the sport package. At this point, the sport package is for the most part, standard. No one buys an S-Class for the sportiness, yet so many of them have the sport package. And I guarantee no more than a quarter of the people who buy these cars really wanted the sport package.
I should've come to this realization that sport packages weren't needed more than 10 years ago when my dad bought his E39 BMW 530i (the last good 5-Series) specifically without it. I, an 11-year-old BMW fanboy who steadfastly believed he should have bought an M car instead and told him that at every turn, thought not getting a sport package was inexplicable.
His rationale was that the car was already sporty enough, so why compromise things with a harder suspension and an extra couple thousand dollars? Having driven that 530i a lot since then and having driven other E39 5-Series cars with the sport package, I ended up agreeing with him. (I paid the price for that disagreement by not receiving the 530i as my first car.)
Instead, I saw the light one afternoon when I was driving a new 2013 535i M-Sport with a bunch of M Performance bits on it. While driving down the highway, the car felt as if it was bouncing. And in a car which I have repeatedly criticized for lack of steering feel, that was a major issue. It meant the sport package was making what should have been a good-handling car much worse when simply cruising down the highway. It may have been superb on winding roads, but when a BMW makes you second-guess things on the highway below 80 mph and it's not an M car, it's something of concern.
Don't get me wrong. On some cars, a sport package is worth taking. For instance, taking the F Sport package on any Lexus transforms the car from the typical Lexus experience, which auto journalists describe using every adjective in the book that doesn't relate to the word "sporty," into something which drives better than the current BMWs, M-Sport or otherwise. The same goes for the Performance and Premium trim levels on the Cadillac ATS and CTS (not to mention its new Vsport trim).
Even Porsche, a company which charges insane prices for any option, gets the sport package thing right. Instead of offering a "Sport Package," they offer a GTS version of each model. They're honest about what the GTS cars are: a reward for customers willing to wait for a base Porsche with all the performance options at a discount relative to taking them individually.
It seems I've gone soft. I don't want to feel every bump in the road in the name of an extra half-second at the autocrosses and track days that at most I do twice a year. I don't want to see a physical therapist in twenty years. I don't want to increase my tire budget. I don't want to look like those posers in 328i M-Sports and S-Line Audi A4s.
And most importantly, I don't want to max out my bank account any more than I have to. Collecting diecast cars is expensive enough.
Satish Kondapavulur runs Clunkerture, named because "Clunker.com" was $82 at auction and would've taken 30% out of the balance of his Corvette fund. Though he drives a Volkswagen Jetta (MkV 2.0T Wolfsburg w/DSG), he intentionally avoids VW forums to prevent anxiety of break-downs (and a German engineer not receiving his wings).
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Less than a year into his NFL career, 49ers quarterback Scott Tolzien is a veteran when it comes to absorbing complex information on the fly.
Last summer, a day after receiving the Chargers' playbook following the lockout, Tolzien, an undrafted free agent, was initially one of two quarterbacks in San Diego's training camp. He split practice reps with Philip Rivers while trying to decode – and remember — the verbiage.
"I'm walking into a huddle with 28-year-old guys with two kids, or whatever the case may be," said Tolzien, then a 23-year-old recently graduated from Wisconsin. "So I gained a lot of confidence from basically being thrown in there knowing nothing. It was like learning Spanish – having to repeat plays 20 words long in what I thought was a different language going in."
Tolzien's crash-course education didn't end there. He was among the Chargers' final roster cuts, was signed by the 49ers a week before the season opener and spent so much time playing catch-up with San Francisco's playbook that he took up residence at the team complex, living in the players' lounge for several weeks during the season.
Now, as the 49ers begin their offseason workout program Monday in Santa Clara, Tolzien isn't riddled with questions about the team's West Coast offense. But questions surround his future in San Francisco: Tolzien begins his second NFL season as the No. 4 quarterback behind Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick and Josh Johnson, whose signing last month pushed Tolzien down the depth chart.
Last year, Tolzien was on the 53-man roster as the third-string quarterback, a developmental prospect who was inactive for every game. The signing of Johnson, 25, who played for coach Jim Harbaugh at the University of San Diego, raises the distinct possibility that Tolzien will be demoted to the practice squad, if he remains with the 49ers.
"The bottom line is that it's the NFL and there's going to be competition wherever you go," Tolzien said of the altered landscape. "That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback. You're competing against other guys because ultimately there's only one starter and all of us want to be that guy at some point. That's the way I approach it. Control what I can control and just be the best I can be each day."
Lightly recruited out of high school and undrafted by the NFL, Tolzien is used to being an afterthought. A two-time all-academic Big 10 pick at Wisconsin, he's known as a tireless worker with more impressive intangibles than physical skills.
At Wisconsin, he set school records for career completion percentage (68.1) and quarterback rating (153.2). In 2010, he led the Badgers to a share of their first Big 10 title in 11 years and won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award given to the nation's top senior quarterback.
Still, he went undrafted last year due, in part, to questions about his arm strength. In the preseason with the Chargers, he completed 25 of 40 passes for 302 yards with one touchdown and one interception. In the preseason finale against the 49ers, he completed 16 of 23 passes for 223 yards, a performance that enhanced his belief that he belonged.
"Absolutely, I said I can do this," Tolzien said of the preseason. "It was a huge confidence boost."
Still, the Chargers cut him and he didn't clear waivers. It's possible a similar scenario could play out this season. The 49ers won't keep four quarterbacks on their active roster and Tolzien, if cut by the team this summer, is unlikely to clear waivers and end up on San Francisco's practice squad.
Tolzien, though, said he doesn't spend time thinking about the possibility of learning yet another playbook on the fly. He's been told by Harbaugh and general manager Trent Baalke that he'll have a fair chance to work his way up the depth chart.
"Their message is that it's open competition," Tolzien said. "That's really all you can ask for is just an equal shot … Shoot, with anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out – when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing."


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ACTG 175, CPCRA 007 Trial Results Published
Three reports detailing the results of two large-scale HIV treatment studies, supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and an accompanying editorial, will appear in the Oct. 10, 1996 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Preliminary results of the two studies, known as ACTG 175 and CPCRA 007, were first announced by NIAID in 1995, and have played an important role in helping define the standard of care for HIV-infected people and shaping subsequent clinical studies of antiretroviral medications.
ACTG 175 was noteworthy because it was the first trial to provide conclusive evidence that antiretroviral therapy could reduce the risk of death in people with intermediate-stage HIV disease and no symptoms, and CPCRA 007 provided important information on combination therapy for HIV-infected people with more advanced disease," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID director. "Both ACTG 175 and CPCRA 007, in addition to other recent studies, underscore the importance of careful planning in the use of antiretroviral drugs since prior antiretroviral experience can profoundly influence the effectiveness of some treatments."
Subsequent to these two studies, results from other trials, especially those that have assessed protease inhibitors in combination with other drugs, have provided impressive results, giving hope for a level of control of HIV disease that has thus far eluded patients and physicians," he adds.
ACTG 175 was conducted at 43 sites of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and nine sites of the National Hemophilia Foundation. The study investigators analyzed data from 2,467 patients with initial CD4+ T cell counts between 200 and 500 per cubic millimeter (mm3) of blood. Fifty-seven percent of these patients had previously received anti-HIV therapy; most had no HIV-related symptoms at study entry.
Patients in ACTG 175 received one of four anti-HIV treatment regimens: zidovudine (AZT) alone; AZT plus didanosine (ddI); AZT plus zalcitabine (ddC); or ddI alone. They were followed for a median of 143 weeks.
In their analyses of the study results, ACTG 175 investigators found that ddI alone, the AZT+ddI combination, and the AZT+ddC combination were each superior to AZT alone in preventing one or more of the serious consequences of HIV infection: significantly declining CD4+ T cell counts, a new AIDS-defining condition (e.g., Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia) or death.
When the investigators looked only at the clinical endpoints of a new AIDS-defining condition or death, treatment with either AZT+ddI or ddI alone was more effective than AZT alone. In the analysis of clinical endpoints, the benefit of AZT+ddC over AZT alone appeared to be limited to volunteers without prior antiretroviral treatment.
In the study, there were no major differences in the toxicities associated with the four treatments.
In a second report from ACTG 175, the investigators found that reducing the levels of HIV in patients' blood with therapy lowered their risk of developing AIDS or dying. The degree to which HIV levels were suppressed was greater and more sustained with the AZT+ddI and the AZT+ddC combinations, and with ddI alone, than with AZT alone.
CPCRA 007 was conducted at sites that are part of the Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS; it is also known as the "NuCombo" study.
This trial assessed the safety and efficacy of combination therapy -- AZT+ddI or AZT+ddC -- as compared to AZT alone in 1,102 HIV-infected people who had fewer than 200 CD4+ T cells/mm3 of blood at study entry or who previously had suffered an AIDS-defining condition. Seventy-seven percent of the patients who enrolled in CPCRA 007 had received prior antiretroviral therapy.
Over a median follow-up time of 35 months, combination therapy (AZT+ddI or AZT+ddC) provided only marginal benefits, which were not statistically significant, in slowing progression of clinical disease and reducing the rate of death as compared to AZT alone. In addition, toxicities were more frequent in the two combination groups than among patients taking AZT alone.
However, in subgroup analyses of patients with little or no prior AZT use, combination therapy was more effective than AZT alone in terms of slowing disease progression to AIDS or death. Use of combination therapy provided no additional benefit to patients who had previously used AZT for more than 12 months.
The ACTG is a nationwide multicenter clinical trials network, based at major research institutions, that tests new drugs for adults infected with HIV. The CPCRA is a network of primary care physicians and nurses who work with NIAID staff to design and conduct community-based clinical trials in patients with HIV disease and AIDS.
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID conducts and supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIV disease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
NIAID press releases, fact sheets and other materials are available on the Internet via the NIAID home page at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.


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In just a few months, the latest University of California research will be available online for free — no subscription required.
The 10-campus UC system is the latest — and by far the largest — university in the world to open its publications to the public, fueling an international movement to make academic work more widely available. When it goes into effect Nov. 1, the policy will apply to 8,000 faculty members and the roughly 40,000 papers they produce each year on subjects such as planetary magnetic fields, modern Israeli fiction and a host of other topics.
"These are big numbers," said Christopher Kelty, a UCLA information studies professor who helped shape the policy passed late last month by the system's Academic Senate. "It should lend some gravitational force to this process."
The process — aimed at breaking a decades-old system under which most academic research appeared only in pricey journals — is moving quickly. More than 175 research institutions around the world have approved open access mandates, including Duke, Emory, Princeton, Wellesley and the University of Kansas, according to the Registry of Open Access Repositories. Some schools or departments, such as the Harvard Business School and the Stanford School of Education, also have done so.
In February, the Obama administration announced a new policy of making federally funded studies freely available to the public within a year of publication.
Open access advocates argue that academic research in the information age shouldn't have pay walls, especially when it taxpayer-funded public universities produce it. UC Berkeley undergraduates Tony Chen and Rodrigo Ochigame, founders of The Open Access Initiative, made that case to students and faculty in a mass email this spring, The Daily Californian campus newspaper reported. So did the authors of an open access bill pending in the Legislature, which would apply to state-funded research.
"Taxpayers pay for this research, and we the people, we own it," said Mike Gatto, D-Burbank, who co-authored the bill, AB609, with Republican Assemblyman Brian Nestande, R-Palm Desert. "So it just makes sense to cut out the middlemen who charge taxpayers for something we already own."
It can cost $30 to access a single article in a journal, and subscriptions can be hundreds of dollars a year.
The bill cleared the Assembly, but Gatto said passing it will be a challenge.
"The publishers have fought it pretty hard," he said.
Of course, the bill's fate matters less now that faculty — who do not profit from arrangements with academic journals and want their work to be as widely circulated as possible — have taken the issue into their own hands.
UC's policy does allow researchers to opt out of the policy, and some worry that publishers will require them to do so. "We can expect more and more publishers to demand opt-outs as the number of institutions with open/public access policies grows," UC Berkeley biology professor Michael Eisen wrote in his blog.
But Kelty said the opt-out allowance is essential for academic freedom. At other universities with similar policies, he said, the opt-out rate has been less than 5 percent.
UC's policy, he said, "sends a powerful message that faculty want open access, and they want it on terms that benefit the public and the future of research."
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After Nov. 1, new research publications by UC faculty will be available for free at www.escholarship.org.


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Texans soon will have a shot at a $2,500 rebate when buying electric or natural gas vehicles in the state, after regulators pushed the new program a step further on Wednesday.
When combined with federal incentives, a buyer of an electric car could save $10,000 off the total purchase price of the vehicle because of the new program. The incentive is the first such offer for the buyers of electric vehicles in the state.
"I wish I could afford a new car," said Toby Baker, a member of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, as he approved moving the program forward.
The commission is still developing rules for the rebates, which won't be available until April, at the earliest. The Legislature approved the incentive program this year, but only allocated about $3.8 million annually for the rebates.
The $3.8 million annual funding for incentives has forced the commission to limit the rebates to 1,550 purchases each year. The rebate program is slated to expire on Aug. 31, 2015.
Buyers of natural gas vehicles, including some that can run on either natural gas or gasoline, will likely be encouraged by the rebates, said Lynn Lyon, director of fuel market development for the natural gas producer Pioneer Natural Resources and leader of an industry-backed initiative to encourage more refueling stations in Texas.
Natural gas vehicles, like the new Ford F-150 natural gas option, can cost about $7,000 more than their gasoline-only counterparts, Lyon said.
"It's a steep investment and I think that high-mileage drivers will get the return on investment in a reasonable time period, but that incentive can make a difference to a lot of people who are interested in the vehicles," Lyon said.
Funding for the incentives comes from vehicle registration fees. Some of those funds have been set aside for emissions-reduction programs for years, with tens of millions of dollars left unspent annually because the Legislature has not allocated more funding to the programs, according to the commission. A state account set aside to fund emissions reduction programs has more than $587 million that the Legislature has not allocated, according to the agency.
"Really, our aim is that in 2015 we get the Legislature to loosen the purse strings and actually spend this money for its intent," said Cyrus Reed, conservation director for the Sierra Club's Lone Star chapter.
Clean trucks: Ford to launch F-150 that can run on natural gas
The commission's decision on Wednesday gives officials the green light to work with manufacturers in assembling a list of vehicles that will qualify for the program.
Most electric and natural gas vehicles sold by dealers will qualify, according to the commission.
A notable exemption will be Tesla electric vehicles, since the manufacturer sells them directly to customers rather than through dealerships.
Officials also will need to determine the starting date for the incentive program, with initial plans to finalize the rebate plan on April 9. The commission will not know an exact date that vehicle purchases will be eligible for the program until early next year, said Guy Hoffman, the agency's risk manager for its emissions-reduction program.
The start date will likely be late April or early May, with vehicles purchased on or after the start date eligible for the rebates, Hoffman said. The commission will post the date on its website, as well as a list of qualifying vehicles, he said.
Dealerships will have access to a hotline to confirm that the rebates are still available when they sell eligible vehicles, and a counter will be visible online to show consumers how many incentives remain, Hoffman said. Rebates could go to the dealer, reducing the buyer's purchase price, or directly to the buyer.
Hybrids from Texas: Houston plant powers Ford's push to hybrids
Cars that will qualify include pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and vehicles fitted to run on natural gas only, or natural gas and gasoline, such as the upcoming Chevy Impala natural gas option or the Ford F-150 natural gas version.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers a tax incentive of up to $7,500 for most electric cars.


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Iran's Warning
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Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz and effectively shut down the transit point for over a third of the world's oil, a scenario some analysts have described as Armageddon. Is Iran ready to go all the way and hold the global economy at ransom in order to avoid further sanctions? Or is it just bluffing, an empty threat made by a regime with dwindling options?
- Trita PARSI. Founder and President, National Iranian American Council. Author, "A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran" - from Washington;
- Francis PERRIN. Editorial Manager, "Arab Oil and Gas";
- Hall GARDNER. Professor of International Relations, American University of Paris;
- Borzou DARAGAHI. Financial Times correspondent in Egypt - from Cairo.


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How do I write up my results?
The Results section describes what you found that can be used to answer your research question, or confirm / disprove / partially confirm your hypotheses as presented in the introduction of your thesis. It may be combined with your Discussion section, or have elements of discussion included. It functions as a stepping-stone to the Discussion section by presenting the framework on which the Discussion can be built.
The results section will present the findings of the study in figures and tables and in written text. Figures (graphs and diagrams) and tables present the complete findings in numerical, visual or graphical terms, while the accompanying text helps the reader to focus on the most important aspects of the results and to interpret them.
Generally, there are 4 stages to a results section:
- In the first stage you provide sufficient background information so that the reader can place your results in the context of other research.
- In the second stage you present your results in tables and/or figures, locating and identifying them through numbers (e.g. Table 1) and captions.
- In the third stage you should refer to the tables or figures in the accompanying text, describing the aspects of the results you wish to focus on.
- In the final stage you should make some comments on the results – these could be generalisations arising from the results, explanations of possible reasons for the results or a comparison of the results with results from other studies.
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The 2011 Kia Sportage, all-new for the first time since 2005, represents the latest move by the South Korea car maker in its drive to become a household name, if not a regular dinner guest, in U.S. new car-buying families. And as far as conveniently sized, sporty crossover utility vehicles go, Kia has executed well.
With gas prices showing no signs of retreating, Kia's engine masters have stepped up by obtaining better fuel economy and more horsepower out of a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine than the previous model's 2.7-liter V6 produced. According to the EPA, the 2011 Kia Sportage earns a City/Highway rating of 21/28 miles per gallon (substantially reduced from the 2010 Sportage V6's 18/21 mpg). Helping those ratings is that, depending on the model and features, the 2011 Sportage weighs 100-200 pounds less than the 2010 version.
The 2011 Sportage lineup starts with front-wheel drive and a 6-speed manual transmission. Uplevel models use a 6-speed automatic transmission with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.
We found the 2.4-liter engine delivers its power smoothly and mostly in a linear manner, with only an occasional, slight surge after an upshift in the automatic as the electronics adjust to the changing load. Those gear changes are clean, if not remarkably sharp, with ready downshifts for overtaking or merging. Steering feels heavier in the AWD version but reasonably responsive in both, with good directional stability. AWD comes with a limited locking feature for low-speed use in adverse conditions.
Kia's Southern California-based designers spared no pixels in styling the new Sportage. From every aspect, the 2011 Sportage is fresh and sharp, with the only obvious carryover feature the trademark oval logo centered in the grille and in the liftgate. Character lines are crisp but subdued, contrasting nicely with the overall rounded look. Blackened lower trim panels imply good ground clearance while keeping the tires visually in proper proportion to the body.
Interior accommodations in the 2011 Sportage are more comfortable than those in the 2010 model, if not as commodious. Front seats offer improved support in all areas, including for an occupant's often-neglected thighs. Leather-trimmed seats are available on the top model EX, as is an air-cooled driver's seat, which is a first for whatever the class segment is. However, the front seat passenger is left with fore-and-aft and tilt-seatback adjustments only, all manual. Hauling ability is a win/lose, with more space behind the second seat but less space with the second seat folded when compared with the previous model.
Creature comfort and entertainment features follow the traditional pattern, with an AM/FM/CD/MP3 six-speaker stereo and air conditioning standard. The upgrade audio system adds a subwoofer and an external amplifier plus what's fast becoming the required navigation system, in the new Sportage with a touch screen that also integrates the display from an included backup camera. The EX gets dual-zone, automatic climate control.
Initially, all 2011 Sportage models will be powered by the beefy 2.4 liter four cylinder making 176 horsepower. Due later in the model year is a turbocharged, 2.0 liter four cylinder Kia promises will pump out more that 270 horsepower.
Model LineupKia Sportage ($18,295); LX $20,295); EX ($23, 295)
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The first major redesign of the Kia Sportage in six years shows Kia doesn't consider itself bound by any evolutionary constraints, with impressive results. From nose to tail, from footprint to luggage rack, the all new 2011 Kia Sportage shares almost nothing with the previous model except for the South Korea-based carmaker's trademark oval badge prominently positioned front and center in the freshly styled grille.
That grille graces a fascia that is more rounded in every respect. Compact headlight housings with slightly protruding, clear lenses curve around the front fenders. A contrasting, horizontal, cosmetic, barbell-like inset, the extremities of which host fog lamps on the EX, splits the bumper, which itself thins in the middle to open a lower air intake above a flat black lower body trim. The concaved hood flows smoothly back into the decently raked windshield. Viewed head on, it's a more planted look than its predecessor, a direct consequence of a track (distance between the tires side to side) that's fully two inches wider and a roofline that's more than two inches lower than the 2010.
Highlighting the side aspect is a beltline (generally, the bottom edge of the side windows) that arcs dramatically from the trailing corner of the headlights to the leading edge of the taillights, giving the new Sportage a wedgier but still soft profile. The high beltline reduces the real estate available for side windows, making for almost a chopped look, like street rods of the mid-20th century. A creased depression in the lower portion of the door panels breaks up the expanse of sheet metal, thereby lowering the impression of mass. The flat black trim from the front lower fascia continues around the sides, outlining the wheelwells, which the tires fill quite nicely, and underscoring the rocker panels.
Most of the styling lines on the backside pinch inward, toward, again, the trademark oval parked in the middle of the liftgate. The backlight is about the same proportion to the bodywork as the side windows, i.e., smallish. Taillights narrow as they look toward the centerline. Turn indicators are slotted into the rear bumper, an interesting location that at first blush appears to favor a closely following driver at the expense of one two or three cars back. A creased lip marks the bottom edge of the liftgate, above a license plate space that occupies the middle of the rear bumper where a continuation of the flat black trim panel completes its circumnavigation of the Sportage's lower body.
The 2011 Kia Sportage interior takes the same leap as the exterior, from the 2010 model's mundane, ultra-base look and feel and feature organization to a modern, ergonomically friendly and eye-pleasing presentation in the 2011. Nothing too fancy or gimmicky, just well crafted and eminently usable.
Essential instrumentation is easy-to-read analog, with a large, circular dial for the speedometer bracketed by a half-circle tachometer and inversely stacked temperature and fuel level gauges. A small, rectangular, LED display inset into the speedometer face shows gear selection and trip data. The center stack is properly organized, placing the audio/navigation interface at the top, the climate control panel midlevel and power points and USB and auxiliary inputs tucked into the lower section, which also contains a smallish storage bin. Controls for the optional seat heaters fit in side notches forward of the shift gate. Climate and audio/touch-screen navigation controls are logically arrayed, finger-friendly knobs and virtual and real buttons.
A satin-finish, smoothly sculpted panel that hosts the instruments and the audio/nav panel seems to pop out of the pod-like dash, itself topped in industry-standard, glare-suppressing, grainy-textured, but not cheap looking, plastic material. The shift lever perches on the forward end of the center console, in which sit two cup holders (which need inserts for anything smaller than a Big Gulp) between curiously placed grab handles. The storage bin beneath the center armrest holds the charger for the transmitter for the optional keyless start/stop system, a less than optimal, and likely more easily forgotten, location compared with other systems' placement in the lower dash on either side of the steering column.
Visibility to the front is good, aided by the high seating position and the sloping hood. To the side and the rear, the smallish side and rear windows and an expansive C-pillar (the rearmost support between the body and the roof) make working heavy traffic a chore. On the bright side, the two-pane panoramic sunroof optional on the EX lets rear-seat passengers assist in keeping a watchful eye out for state trooper spies in the sky.
Front seats are comfortable, with sufficient thigh support and adequate bolstering. The front seat passenger is shortchanged when it comes to seat adjustability, relegated to a four-way manual setup. The perforations in the optional leather in the Sportage we tested kept the seats from being clammy or overly slick. Only in rear seat headroom is the 2011 more accommodating than the 2010, by a tick over one inch. In all other measures, the new Sportage trails the old, and generally by more than an inch; rear seat hiproom, in fact, is narrower by almost half a foot. Likewise with cargo room, at least measured at its maximum with the rear seat folded, where the '11 comes up fully 12 cubic feet short of the '10; interestingly, with the rear seat up, the '11's cargo rating is up by 2.5 cu. ft. over the '10's. Apparently, that's where some of the passenger compartment's lost inches resurfaced.
Against the expected competition, the Honda CR-V, the Subaru Forester and the Toyota RAV4, the new Sportage's interior accommodations make up a mixed bag, in most dimensions measuring within an inch, give or take. The '11 Forester, however, is tops in front seat headroom, by more than two inches, the CR-V in rear seat hiproom, like the '10 Sportage by just under six inches. The new Sportage's cargo space also trails all of the competition, with the rear seat up by as much as 10 cubic feet against the RAV4 and with the rear seat down by almost 19 cubic feet also against the RAV4.
Driving Impressions
We found the new Kia Sportage enjoyable to drive, and the all-wheel-drive models more than the front-wheel-drive models, but neither is boring or outside of its element in the overwhelming majority of circumstances and situations.
Kia has done a commendable job of milking maximum power out of the 2.4-liter four-banger, actually bettering the 173 horsepower of the 2010's 2.7-liter V6, all while getting better fuel economy, by three miles per gallon in the city and by seven mpg on the highway, according to the EPA. And for shoppers wanting more punch, due later in the model year is a turbocharged, 2.0-liter 4-cylinder making 270-plus horsepower. The 6-speed automatic (there were no manual transmission-fitted Sportages at the press launch) handles gear changes reasonably smoothly, including downshifts when necessary for passing and merging, whether in regular auto or Sportmatic mode. Brakes did their job with confidence and no noticeable fade after several miles of reasonably rapid motoring on twisting two-lane roads winding through the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco.
Response to steering inputs was decent on the test EX wearing the low profile tires and 18-inch wheels, with understeer more easily induced in FWD than in AWD. The same held for steering effort, with the AWD feeding back a heavier, more solid feel. Given the relatively high center of gravity, body roll in tight corners was modest. Directional stability, i.e., the tendency to hold its line on straight stretches and through corners, raised no concerns, requiring corrections only in response to pavement irregularities. Suspension damping was decent over bumpy pavement, the worst of which produced something more like head nodding than head bobbing. If that bumpy road turns into mud or is blanketed with snow, the new AWD system offers a Lock Mode that puts equal amounts of torque to each wheel up to a maximum of 25 mph.
The test models we drove were early production models, i.e., not quite ready for prime time, so the minor squeaks and rattles emanating from somewhere in the neighborhood of the dash are likely not indicative of what will be in dealers showrooms. The tire noise from the stock Hankook tires, though, could be, which would be too bad, as otherwise, the ride and road holding were quite respectable.
Comparing overall handling, the Forester feels about the same in terms of road holding and overall stability, with its lower center of gravity making up for a track (distance between the wheels side to side) that's more than three inches narrower. The CR-V and RAV4 don't fare as well, tipping the scales at between 200 pounds and 300 pounds heavier than the new Sportage and riding on a track that's narrower than the Sportage's by two inches, the net effect of which is to allow more body roll in turns and to generate head gyrations that are closer to bobbing than to nodding over rough pavement. Basic ride quality, though, is comparable.
The all-new 2011 Kia Sportage is a refined, comfortable, well-developed and sharp-looking, but not cute, compact sport utility, with the emphasis equally on sport as on utility. With respectable power, more than respectable fuel economy and a competitive price, it continues Kia's transformation from a Pacific Rim wannabe to a confirmed contender in the U.S. market.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from San Francisco.


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Bloomberg.com wrote:Swiss `Fusionman' Is First to Cross Channel With Wing (Update1)
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Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Swiss pilot Yves Rossy became the first person to cross the Channel between England and France using a jet-powered wing attached to his back.
Rossy, resembling Buzz Lightyear in the animated film ``Toy Story,'' soared through clear skies during his 37-kilometer (23- mile) flight before opening a blue and yellow parachute to land safely on a field in Dover. After leaving France, the portion of his flight over water took less than 10 minutes.
``With that crossing, I show that it's possible to fly a little bit like a bird,'' Rossy said after landing, in an interview shown live on the National Geographic Web site. ``It's a sign that there's a significant potential to fly like this.''
Rossy, who dubbed himself ``Fusionman,'' wore a carbon- composite wing weighing about 55 kilograms (120 pounds) that was powered by four kerosene-burning jet turbines, said National Geographic, one of his sponsors. He used his head to steer the craft, designed to reach a speed of 190 kilometers an hour. Rossy said he will continue to develop the wing to give other people the chance to fly.
The pilot postponed an attempt yesterday due to bad weather, saying that he would rather wait than fail. He took off from France in a plane and jumped from an altitude of more than 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) over the port of Calais to begin his jet- pack flight. He wore two parachutes in case of difficulties.
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