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|2013-01-04, 18:01
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|2013-01-04, 18:10
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Basically, kitties.
Spoiler for ep 14:
Also, Satoru, I can't bear to look at you. Please get a muffler, or at least an undershirt....
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|2013-01-05, 04:35
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The revelations in this episode were pleasantly surprising. Tomiko-san can't be the only one who has learned to successfully manipulate her telomeres. After all, she freely admitted that it didn't require an especial amount of talent. I rather liked the insinuation that Saki will follow in her footsteps in this regard. Who knew that ceramics was so useful?
Also, I loved how the three nekodamashi were just hanging out like overgrown house cats (which admittedly they probably started out as)
All in all, I would say this was a satisfying episode. Was it spectacular? Unfortunately, no, not for me at least. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll get to feel the bated breath enthusiasm I felt at the beginning of the series again. I suspect an adjustment of my expectations is in order.
|2013-01-05, 07:05
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|2013-01-05, 10:05
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I had noticed something odd in Tomiko's speech in episode 12: she said no fiend had appeared in over 80 years, which meant her episode with K had happened even before that and that she was older than she appeared. Even so, I didn't suspect she was that old. That was quite a shocking revelation. She sure looks good for a 267 year old.
The reveal that group 1 was part of an experiment initiated by Tomiko in order to create the leaders of tomorrow was also interesting. So far, it's a partial failure. They lost three out of five members, one of which was the most promising of the group. Only Saki and Satoru remain. Tomiko's hopes rest on Saki's shoulders now. Not sure what kind of role Satoru will play.
|2013-01-05, 11:22
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We finally have an explanation for why the timeline seemed so weird in Tomiko's first infodump: She's way older than she looks. Her comment about fixing broken vases make me wonder if Saki's been groomed for Tomiko's position from the beginning. That only surprises me because I had kind of assumed that Shun had been the first choice.
Best moment was the board's reaction when Tomiko asked to use their back room. Saki later figures out why they seemed so reluctant: The cats sitting so tamely as she sipped tea were probably meant to dispose of her, pending the outcome of the inquiry.
|2013-01-05, 11:41
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|2013-01-05, 12:21
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Looks like squealer is going to be back for the next episode and I don't know what it is but that little rat just look more untrustworthy every time I see him for some reason.
Turns out Tomiko is pretty much immortal and if the hit Tomiko gave Saki is any to go buy she may unlock the secret herself one day. However what makes this whole thing odd why is shes seeking a new replacement if she can keep on living forever?
Also when Saki was talking with Tomiko she brought up a good point. Why would it matter that Maria and Mamoru ran away if they're most likely never want to come back anyway? What dose she know that Saki doesn't?
|2013-01-05, 13:46
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|2013-01-05, 14:02
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Saki came back home.
That Educational Committee jumped her immediately.
Lots of dialogue this time.
This anime is getting more and more confusing.
I don't get the point of all that.
Pursuing kids, putting pressure on them, even killing them is just over the top.
Their society is truly a twisted one, based on secrets and violence under cover of peace.
Tomiko made some nice explanations. That made up for the first part of the episode.
She seems like a good person. Guess time makes a difference to people's personalities.
|2013-01-05, 14:55
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While this episode did a nice job of pulling back the curtain, and further revealing Saki's world (this time focusing on the Education Committee, which definitely seems like one of the most unsavory elements of it), what I find most interesting is all the questions that this episode raised.
Did Saki's parents know of the danger that their daughter was in here? Did they know that Tomiko was going to save Saki if needbe? Or did Saki's father suspect that she was going to be executed, and he went along with that anyway? Saki's parents did seem very concerned in this episode, so I think they knew the grave trouble that Saki was in. I'd like to think that they also knew what Tomiko was planning to do, but I'm not so sure...
Tomiko called the Education Committee's decision to dispose of Mamoru "rash and unwise". This is about the only time that the remarkably pleasant Tomiko has struck me as a bit angry. And one of the Education Committee members literally started shaking (you see this with her eyes) after being confronted by Tomiko. The Education Committee honestly made me think of political criminals getting caught red-handed by a higher-up politician that they fear and respect.
Taking all of the above into consideration, I wonder if this entire situation was a carefully concocted trap designed to ensnare Saki, and lead her into taking actions that the Education Committee could use as pretext for having Saki disposed of. In other words, Mamoru wasn't the true target - Saki was. They hoped to make Saki break more rules by throwing Mamoru's life in danger. And then they'd use that rule-breaking as justification for executing Saki.
My suspicion is that the Education Committee is strongly against the idea of the reins of power shifting from Tomiko to Saki, and so they wanted to eliminate Saki while they had the chance. Tomiko they fear and respect because of her age, experience, seniority, and wisdom. But Saki is likely just an incorrigible rule-breaker in the eyes of the Education Committee.
Tomiko was likely kept assiduously in the dark on the Education Committee's scheme here, but Tomiko managed to undo it anyway. When Tomiko confronted the Education Committee in this episode, I could sense a touch of shame in the words and actions of the Education Committee. In other words, that they were fearful of what Tomiko might do or say upon figuring out their scheme to eliminate Saki.
Some other notes:
1) The two Education Committee members that questioned Saki were both female. Tomiko is female. Saki is female. This begins to paint a possible picture. Is this society an effectively female-ran one?
2) I liked how Tomiko raised the nuclear weapons comparison. But I think that's more for the audience's benefit than it is for Saki's. By Tomiko raising the nuclear weapons comparison, I think this is the narrative's way of reinforcing this world's society, and explaining the rationale behind it. Tomiko clearly explains how the Cantus-using humans of this era are potentially more devastating than even nuclear weapons. Each human in this world is hence akin to a living, walking nuclear weapon, at least when it comes to that human's potential for destruction. Given that, is it any wonder that this society is as strict and severe as it is? That doesn't make the morality of the situation any more palatable, of course, but the sheer pragmatic concerns here are truly overwhelming.
3) I liked how Saki showed hesitancy in essentially ratting out Mamoru.
|2013-01-05, 15:43
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Still, I'm wondering why they didn't try a method to get rid of Cantus altogether.
|2013-01-05, 16:01
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Another reason may be simply because them not being able to use their cantus is similar to us not being able to use our hands; the thought is just to paralyzing to even consider.
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Yet another fun-filled day of preparing to move, but not without a few excuses to ride. My usual post-work meal routine with my wife isn't changing this week, so I decided to make the 6-mile voyage on bike.
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As my wife and I ate, we saw the college's lobby light up like someone was taking pictures. We thought nothing of it until several seconds had passed. Then, the ominous crescendo of atmospheric detonation roamed through the desolate corridors of the institution. Baffled, I went outside to analyze the situation. I was greeted with the faint aroma of lightning's ozone and a spontaneous deluge that had seemingly materialized out of nowhere! Mere minutes before, I was riding my bike in steamy sunlight.
I tarried until the storm passed. It only lasted half an hour or so, but to my relief, the temperature had dropped quite a bit. Once I got back out onto the main thoroughfares, the sun began to cook through the clouds. As fast as the storm had arrived, it departed. Blazing luminescence danced from the puddles below. Little droplets of water flew off my tires. Some of them sprayed onto my legs and face while others glimmered before me, hurdling through the beam of my headlight.
I made a deviation from my route to visit the bike shop on my way home. I've been encountering some oddities in my brakes, and I wanted their head mechanic to check it out and possibly give me a little advice. My best guess is that the brake pads that came on my Trek are of mediocre quality and should be replaced with something akin to Kool Stop Salmon pads, but I'll let the pro tell me that. I'll have to visit tomorrow when Kevin's in the shop.
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Yet another fun-filled day of preparing to move, but not without a few excuses to ride. My usual post-work meal routine with my wife isn't changing this week, so I decided to make the 6-mile voyage on bike.
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- A Midnight Rider said...
I had to go to dictionary.com three times during this post.
"irriguous"????? Somebody got a new thesaurus for thier birthday. Yes?
I have heard about those plains sudden storms. On the coast here, they take hours to build.
- May 30, 2007 9:35 AM
- Noah said...
Haha... No, someone at the college commented on my use of words. I like words, especially obscure ones. Since yesterday's ride was almost a sensory overload, I decided to enhance it a bit.
My mother is an English instructor at the same college my wife works at. Actually, I worked there right out of high school for almost nine years as well. I've always had a formidable vocabulary.
Most of the things I read and write are technical pieces. Contrary to how it sounds, technical writing is about conveying instructions in the simplest way possible. It's just boring, dull, programmatic, methodical instructions. A good technical writing piece never uses complicated verbiage.
I had to wring out the word muscles yesterday. And hey, you learned a few new words. Do what I do and try to put them to use.
By the way, irriguous is a word I learned recently, and I've been posting with bated breath for nearly a week looking for an excuse to use it in a post. No, I didn't get a Thesaurus for my birthday, but it is a great place to learn new words.
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Over the weekend, my friends and I decided to gear up for an evening on the town. Tween Girl Supreme is gone for the duration of her summer break, spending time in Brooklyn and Miami with her father's side of the family. So I'm left to try to remember what it is I used to do when I was, for that brief period of life, childless and fancy-free. I go through this every time she goes away — maybe twice a year — but my homies had a plan to get me out of the house.
I'm 99 percent sure our crazy selves would've made the most of the night even if the lounge alone wasn't hitting on much. That's just how we are. The process of getting ready is the deterrent. Trying on outfits, turning every which way to analyze body parts at different angles, trying to achieve some semblance of seductiveness? That's the part of the going-out routine I hate. It makes me wonder: has motherhood made me unsexy?
That, of course, implies that I was ever sexy in the first place.
It's certainly not a question every woman grapples with. I see mamas who ooze natural come hither-ness and they've got a gaggle of kids in their cart at the grocery store or a minivan full when they pull up to dance practice. I slap those ladies a mental high five and give them kudos for stirring up their inner hotness. But, more often than that, I spot moms who have clearly given up on any attempts to be even remotely stylish, let alone sexy.
We all have days where it's all we can do to brush our teeth and whisk our hair up in a ponytail. Maybe the gal in question is out on an errand-running mission. Maybe she has the flu. Maybe she's got a few hours to herself before her children come home and she'll be darned if she wastes precious moments primping and fluffing in front of the mirror. Those are all relatable excuses.
But then there are the chicks who seem to be hellbent on breaking the unwritten Guinness Book record for longest streak in sweatpants and Crocs. The closest things to beauty products that have touched their faces are Chapstick and Dove, and everything in their wardrobes screams functionality over femininity. I see them in Wal-mart and Target all the time.
Every once in a while, especially when it's cold outside, I'm in full freelance-writer-on-deadline, bare-minimum-maintenance mode and I have zero incentive to even lift a wand of mascara, I'll find myself becoming that mom. Sweatpants are addictive, I don't care what anybody says. So after two or three days in them — interspersed with a few wears of leggings, which are my other go-to fave — I have to forcibly peel myself out of them or risk being sucked into that abyss of perpetual frumpiness.
I might not be the hottest mom on the PTA committee (and I'm not, thanks to a cleavage-flashing lady who seems to be the one to always collect funds at every event), but I think I balance the hectic responsibilities of motherhood with a fairly stylish and sustained look. My thing is learning how to tap into my sexiness. It's there (I think). I just have to know how to work it.
The Man is trying to convince me that I have it going on naturally. It's what attracted him to me, he insists, even across the miles through my Facebook pics. He admits to stalking my photos and he must not be lying, because he can rattle off a list of his favorite outfits and poses in pictures even I forgot that I took and posted. I'm glad that something drew him in, of course. I just wish I could tap into it myself when I'm getting ready to hit the town with the girls.
So this weekend, we're giving it another go. I'll spend oodles of time in front of the mirror, I'm sure, trying to work up my inner sexy. If I keep this up from now until the time my child gets home at the end of the month, I may actually find it.
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Afghan voter Bakhtiar Najman has some 40 other options this August besides President Hamid Karzai, whose leadership he describes as "bad." The trouble is, the others strike him as worse.
"So I will vote for bad," says Mr. Najman, a law student at Kabul University.
Mr. Karzai's popularity has slipped among Afghans and in Washington. Yet he enters the presidential race in a strong position, having sidelined and co-opted his strongest opponents.
Analysts and opposition figures blame the political paradox on the centralized nature of the government and the concentration of power in the presidency. And with elections fast approaching, proposed reforms are buzzing around Kabul, including the creation of a prime ministerial post. Perhaps most intriguing of all the possible solutions to decentralize power are the reports that former US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad could step in as the country's "chief executive officer."
The CEO idea appears to hold appeal among frustrated Afghans, while the position's lack of definition and constitutional legitimacy worries experts.
"The office of president is … a 48-hour job given a 24-hour time frame," says William Maley, an Afghanistan expert at Australian National University. "Something to relieve the burdens of the office is vital. On the other hand, simply going down the path of having a CEO as an agent of the president, there's no foundation for institutionalizing the office."
As president, Karzai controls the appointments of governors and heads of ministries. With his popularity eroding, Karzai pulls this lever of power to manage political rivals, most recently choosing notorious warlord Muhammad Fahim to be one of his two running mates.
The allegiances of these Afghan officials are to Karzai, as there's little anyone else can do about the appointments. Indeed, when parliament tried recently to exercise its oversight role in requesting a new foreign minister, Karzai refused.
The idea of a CEO provides the possibility of taking some powers away from the presidency.
The New York Times first reported last month that Mr. Khalilzad and Karzai were discussing the possibility of the Afghan-American becoming an unelected CEO for the country, citing unnamed senior US and Afghan officials. Other reports followed, as did denials by the Afghan palace, the US, and Khalilzad himself.
Yet Kabul power brokers remain unconvinced, saying the signals have been mixed.
The business paradigm of the CEO frames the Afghan government's problem less in terms of accountability and more as a bottleneck in bureaucracy.
Some analysts suspect the CEO, if instituted, would be tasked with coordinating the relationship between the Afghan government and the international community. Westerners are frustrated with working through ministers who owe their positions to patronage. Afghans are frustrated that their government lacks the capacity to oversee projects.
"A CEO might be someone who could be in control of monitoring all these projects that are implemented by the government or by donor countries, especially these contractors," says Haroun Mir, a Kabul-based analyst. But he joins a chorus of reservations about the idea: "I don't think it's a good thing for democracy. A nonelected person would have huge influence of power in the country."
Another danger: The person winds up having no power. Ashraf Ghani, a top presidential candidate, warns that the position has no legal basis – and no real sway with ministers.
Yet in more than a dozen interviews across Kabul and in Bamiyan and Parwan provinces, northwest of the capital, voters mostly viewed Khalilzad as a strong administrator. Many didn't mind having an American citizen in the No. 2 position.
"He played the role of a bridge between the West and Afghanistan and I'm sure he could do that well," says Mortaza Nabizada, a fuel seller in Kabul. "And he always united different commanders and different factions."
Mr. Ghani questions whether Khalilzad's tenure as ambassador proves administrative chops. "His power derived from being an American ambassador," he says. "If he comes as an Afghan player, that's on very different terms."
Another potential solution is to have a government run by a prime minister. That would give parliament greater oversight. A leading opposition candidate for president, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, is pushing for adding the post.
"It would make the government more accountable and transparent," Mr. Abdullah says, denying a Reuters report that Karzai offered him the CEO post in exchange for exiting the race.
Parliamentary systems "better contribute toward stabilization of disrupted societies" by allowing more voices to be heard, Mr. Maley says.
Afghanistan rejected the idea of a prime minister, however, when the Constitution was ratified in 2004: Ethnic minority leaders backed the idea while the dominant Pashtuns came to see it as an effort to constrain their power. The debate around adding a prime minister continues to be based on ethnicity, says Maley.


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EMMITSBURG, Md.—Senior midfielder Amanda Pappas (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) and junior attack Emily Coady (Westminster, Md./Westminster) tallied six points piece to lead the UMBC women's lacrosse team (6-2) to its third straight victory, a 15-8 win over in-state rival Mount St. Mary's (1-6) Saturday afternoon at Waldron Family Stadium.
The Mount scored the first two goals of the game, but Coady ignited a 7-0 UMBC run that lasted more than 11 minutes with an unassisted goal at the 24:36 mark. She scored twice during that span and also recorded helpers on both of Pappas' tallies.
Mount St. Mary's scored two of the final three goals of the first half, but the Retrievers led, 8-4, at the break.
Senior attack Erika Braerman (Fallston, Md./Fallston) scored her second goal of the game 2:20 into the second period to open the scoring, but the Mountaineers countered with three of the next four goals to pull to within 10-7 with 21 minutes remaining.
But freshman midfielder Kristen Bilney (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) sparked a 4-0 UMBC spurt to regain momentum for the Retrievers, who led, 14-7, with 8:06 to play, and the teams traded single goals over the final minutes.
Pappas' six points came on four goals and two assists, while Coady tallied three goals and three helpers for the second straight game. Pappas added three ground balls, three caused turnovers and two draw controls. Midfielder Esther Rufolo led Mount St. Mary's with four goals.
Senior Natalie Rau (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston) and sophomore Kendall Mason (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y./Cold Spring Harbor) split time in goal and combined for six saves, while Brigid McTavish stopped five shots for the Mount.
UMBC outshot Mount St. Mary's, 22-18, and held a 17-13 advantage on ground balls and a 13-12 edge on draw controls.
The Retrievers return to action on Wednesday, when they host No. 6 Loyola at 6:30 p.m. at UMBC Stadium.
Notes: At 6-2, the Retrievers are off to their best start since 1994… Braerman moved into a tie with Kelly Fahey for sixth place all-time at UMBC with 52 career assists.


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Biz Kid$ "Introducing Entrepreneurs" You'll discover an entrepreneur is someone who sees a financial opportunity and acts upon it. Learn the stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans. Meet an entrepreneur who started a lemonade stand to raise money for playground equipment, then grew so successful she was able to make over an entire park. D
4:00 pm
Growing a Greener World "Organic Pest Control" As gardeners, weekend warriors and even commercial growers are turning to more eco-friendly practices, one solution for pest control has been with us since the beginning of time. Just as nature intended, biological control, using natural predators and insects to keeps pests in check, is gaining ground as the eco-friendly method of choice. This episode looks at finding and promoting natural predators in the garden and also discusses incorporating natural bacteria and plant derivatives when a bug problem gets out of hand. D
4:30 pm
Hands On Crafts for Kids "Animals - Vertebrates - Reptiles" Today's animal group is reptiles. The word reptile means to creep. This group of animals has dry, scaly skin, breathes air and most lay eggs though many snakes have live babies. D
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Ciao Italia "Mushroom Fantasy/Una Fantasia Dei Funghi" Mary Ann visits the magical world of David Connor, AKA "Mister Tomato" who grows the most fantastic mushrooms you've ever seen in a energy-efficient greenhouse. He gives her a basket full to take nella cucina to create a hearty Pasta with Mushroom Sauce, a wintertime treat of White Polenta with Mushrooms and Peppers, and finishes it off with a Baked Mushroom Frittata. How about them tomatoes?. D
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New Scandinavian Cooking "South West of Norway/"Fat Ducks and Sweet Apples" Host Andreas Viestad visits a duck farm and an old steamer on the Telemark canal, which unites costal Norway with the barren mountain regions. Andreas serves a variety of duck and local trout to combine the richness of the land with the spirit of the river. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Paris: Grand & Intimate" Rick marvels at masterpieces in the Louvre, strolls the Champs-Elysees, and explores a Parisian neighborhood.G
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Grannies On Safari "Peru - Cusco & Machu Picchu" Travel with the Grannies to Cusco, a world heritage site, and the former capital of the Inca civilization. At 11,900 feet high, this ancient city was not only considered sacred by the Incas but was a jewel of the Spanish colonial world. The city is considered the arts and crafts capital of Peru. D
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GardenSMART We have all looked at a beautiful garden and thought, "I can't do that." Learn to turn "cannot" into "can do." Building a garden is a progression. D
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This Old House "Barrington Project, Part 2 of 10" Host Kevin O'Connor arrives to find builder Andy Tiplady with the house wide open, his foundation in place and framing underway. The new open floor plan requires structural steel that gets bolted and then welded in place. With the steel installed and high winds already kicking up, Andy and his crew button up the house for the impending bad weather, which turns out to be Hurricane Irene. D
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Rough Cut - Woodworking with Tommy Mac "Potting Station" NULL
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Around The House with Matt and Shari "Crafts for the Whole Family" Crafting is a family activity for all ages. Our first project is making pom poms into flowers or as an accent on pillows and other crafts. Next, make a pet pillow - sewn and no sew versions. D
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Sewing with Nancy "Expressive Sweatshirts, Part 2" Learn novel embellishing and impressive sweatshirt revamping ideas. Nancy teams up with Mary Mulari to make a fashionable cowl neckline by using the bottom ribbing in the Bottom to Top Sweatshirt. Then they trim the neck and cuffs of the Denim Do-Over with denim strips and buttons. D
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Grand View "Mount Rainier National Park" At Mount Rainier National Park, Baumann takes his audience to Central Washington to witness one of the most geologically tenuous landscapes in America. The mountain and region have been shaped by volcanic activity and geologists anticipate its next blast. The mountain itself is an active volcano encased in over 35 square miles of snow and ice. D
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Simply Ming "Spring Roll Wrappers and Pesto" Guest Chef: Marc Forgione. Both the East and the West have versatile ingredients that really deserve to be given the opportunity to spread their wings. For example, spring roll wrappers can do much more than contain fillings and pesto rates more partners than pasta. D
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Estoy Harta!" In this episode, Raquel's parents arrive in Mexico and Raquel confronts her mother about not letting her know of Luis's surprise arrival.G
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Rams Remain Unbeaten with Win over Yeshiva
Farmingdale State - 98, Yeshiva - 49
Holliswood, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's basketball team remains unbeaten with a 98-49 win over Yeshiva University last night. The Rams now stand at 6-0, 3-0 in the Skyline, while Yeshiva dropped to 2-8, 0-6 in conference play.
Farmingdale opened the game on a 22-1 run over the first five minutes, putting the contest out of reach early for the Maccabees. The Rams allowed only 18 first half points and went into halftime with a 46-18 advantage.
In the second half, Farmingdale outscored Yeshiva by 21 points, capping off their highest offensive output of the season. The Rams forced a season-high 42 turnovers.
Senior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) scored a game-high 33 points, had 15 rebounds, four blocked shots and four steals in 22 minutes of action for the Rams. Senior guard Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) had 13 points and seven boards, while freshman guard Jeanette Zubizarreta (Bay Shore, N.Y./Calhoun) scored nine points.
The Maccabees were led by junior guard Avigail Varnai (Skokie, Ill./ICJA) who recorded 14 points and nine rebounds. Senior guard Jaclyn Ramras (Woodmere, N.Y./SKA) pitched in scoring 12 points and grabbing 11 boards.
Farmingdale State will square off against Connecticut College at the ECAC Holiday Classic in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, January 2nd at 2:00 p.m.


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Due to inclement weather, "Barbeque 101" class scheduled for Saturday, January 30 has been rescheduled.
The Pulaski Technical College Arkansas Culinary School will host "Barbecue 101," a cooking class featuring champion barbeque chef Troy Black, on Monday, Feb. 1 in the PTC Campus Center on the main campus.
The class runs from 6 -9 p.m. The cost of the one-day class is $60. Tickets purchased for the original date will be honored for the rescheduled date.
Chef Black competes full-time on the professional barbecue circuit and has been featured on The Food Network and the Travel Channel. His presentation will include recipes and tips for meat selection, low and slow cooking, using wood for flavorings, cooking techniques and creating sauces and dry rubs.
Register for the class online.


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Innovation can be a company's most powerful tool and a key driver of value. Yet many executives, fearful of the risks inherent in pursuing edgy new ideas that may not succeed, hesitate to unleash its full potential. They prefer, indeed, to renovate rather than to innovate.
For example, fully 64 percent of the 519 companies in Accenture's 2012 innovation survey—a cross-industry sample of US, UK and French players—are still focusing largely on line extensions. Only 20 percent view their innovation efforts as potential game changers. And just 18 percent say they are using innovation to drive competitive advantage.
Some, of course, would argue that responsible risk management necessitates a cautious approach to innovation. Only startups, they say, can afford to court the risk of failure. Global companies are complex entities, held together by a web of controls. Loosening those controls to give innovation teams free rein could incur unacceptable risks and costs, not only for the company but for its various stakeholders as well.
That's why so many big companies opt to reduce uncertainty by leveraging a traditional, stage-gate innovation process.
Stage gates are designed to identify the best ideas by putting them through multiple reviews, or gates. In principle, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the concept—quite the contrary. Stage gates provide a discipline and a structure for identifying problems early in a project's life, and allow the project's sponsors to keep constant track of the evolving business case.
The problem, however, is the evaluation criteria typically used at each gate. Few decision makers want to take responsibility for a failed experiment, so extreme caution usually prevails when new ideas are assessed. Opportunities tend to be defined narrowly.
Moreover, the tools commonly used to support the process exacerbate the problem. Based on retrospective analytics—Net Present Value (NPV) models, for instance, are built on market projections that are calculated using past trends—they tend to skew innovation decisions toward optimizing existing product lines rather than pursuing new ones.
As a result, promising ideas are often smothered. And while many of the innovation initiatives that do gain approval are low risk, they offer only low returns—incremental improvements that usually do little more than maintain market share.
For most companies, the big, breakthrough innovations that deliver new benefits to customers and thus create new markets—the sort of innovation exhibited by Dell when it pioneered the direct distribution model for PCs, or by Apple with its iconic iPad—remain elusive indeed.
So what do the innovation masters do differently?
Recent Accenture research shows that highly innovative companies are essentially no more likely to embrace risk than their less innovative peers (see Sidebar 1). But when we investigated further, we found that they approach the management of innovation risk differently—and that their business models are critical factors in their success.
Consider, for example, the business model employed by the venture capital industry, which finances most startups. These players know that most early-stage experiments will founder—but they also know that the fruits of just one or two such experiments could earn back the investment of their entire portfolio (and then some).
So venture capitalists take an active approach to managing the risks of their investment portfolios, systematically measuring those risks to generate returns. They engage dynamically with their portfolio companies. Rather than killing a project that's running into difficulties, they try alternative solutions. But they also move swiftly and decisively to close failures, while doubling down on ideas with promise—and encouraging ongoing experimentation.
Big companies are obviously different. Larger, slower and subject to the constraints inherent in managing their core businesses successfully, they can't act exactly like startup investors. But they can afford to modify their stage-gate processes to drive more effective innovation. And they do have much to learn from the venture capital industry's bold yet disciplined approach to innovation risk management—an approach that has created such groundbreakers as Amazon.com and Facebook.
Leading players recognize that far from stymieing innovation, sophisticated, state-of-the-art risk management tools, techniques and models, including small-scale experimentation and portfolio management, can actually help encourage it. They know that by fusing such a risk management approach with innovation, they can create a powerful, value-driving partnership.
They focus their innovation risk management efforts on three key business areas.
A corporate culture that only celebrates success can discourage innovation by making people nervous about taking risks—yet no rational organization would reward failure. Or would they?
Some companies have recognized that they can allow innovation teams to make strategically intelligent mistakes within a clearly understood governance framework. This, in turn, enables a culture that not only tolerates risk but also embraces failure as an integral part of the innovation process.
For instance, a large advertising agency awards a quarterly Heroic Failure trophy to recognize clever, unproven ideas that may not work out in practice but nevertheless demonstrate creative risk taking. And an online payroll provider offers $400 to the winner of its Best New Mistake award, which goes to an employee who made a mistake but learned from it—and, in doing so, helped other employees avoid similar mistakes. The idea behind both awards is to support creativity by encouraging openness about errors and rewarding those who genuinely learn from their failures.
Some companies also provide physical spaces—game, nap or meditation rooms—or specific time slots during which employees can feel free to be creative. The advertising agency, for example, blocks off a "no meeting zone" every Thursday morning.
Big companies, by contrast, tend to fence off the innovation process by setting up separate innovation units that operate, in effect, like venture capital funds. Cases in point: the $2 billion Novartis Venture Funds, a wholly owned subsidiary of the healthcare products company that reports to a dedicated advisory board comprised of mostly external members; and Intel Capital, a $2.1 billion fund that reports directly to the tech giant's CEO. While these arrangements have had clear successes, they may be leaving some upside on the table.
The risks of such arrangements are well managed, thanks in part to their governance. But we believe that companies could drive even greater benefits by incorporating the management of innovation risk into the organization as a whole.
That would help fuel innovation from the bottom up, while ensuring that everyone in the company understands what's being funded, how, when and why. It could also bridge the gap (common in big organizations) between a risk-averse finance unit and those operating units—whether marketing, operations or product development—on the innovation front line.
Indeed, risk management groups could work as standard setters, providing a common language the business could use to translate strategic challenges into specific, measurable risks, and providing such risk governance expertise as oversight committees and assessment procedures.
Just as a venture capitalist invests in a broad portfolio of companies before knowing which of these investments will actually pan out, a company can build a portfolio of early innovation experiments that act, in effect, like options.
Missouri-based Monsanto, for example, has been building a portfolio of biotechnology investments since the 1980s. As a result, biotech now anchors its highly successful seed business (see Sidebar 2).
Corning, meanwhile, launched a similar strategy even earlier—back in 1959—by investing in a technology for safer vehicle windshields. The New York-based glassmaker's groundbreaking invention was priced out of the auto market a decade or so later. But essentially the same technology is used to manufacture LCD panels—which gave Corning a competitive advantage when LCD subsequently became the dominant display technology in most consumer devices.
Such companies don't make their innovation investment decisions by looking backward.
But neither do they throw caution to the winds. Instead, they use risk management methodologies and tools to measure uncertainty—both positive and negative—and to provide realistic estimates of outcomes that can facilitate decision making.
By continually assessing value against multiple variables and scenarios, predictive analytics can help guide these complex decisions. Risk scenario (or simulation) analysis, for example, is a structured, forward-looking process designed, unlike traditional SWOT analysis (a structured planning method used to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), to discover how multiple factors combine to create both vulnerability and opportunity.
Take, for instance, the large, global software company that used a structured simulation to improve planning for unanticipated and overlapping responses among its partners and customers to a product launch. The analysis helped identify potential gaps in the company's ability to respond, and gave it greater insight into the roles, responsibilities, decision-making criteria and interactions of different stakeholders.
With product lifecycles across industries shortening, successful innovation often hinges on speed. And that, in turn, requires a risk management process that can shorten learning cycles, recognize failures early and make timely course corrections—a process that facilitates a companywide dialogue around which risks are acceptable and how much risk is appropriate, based on potential returns.
At Corning, for example, the company's R&D, engineering, manufacturing and commercial expertise are all harnessed in support of the innovation process, from earliest ideation right through to commercialization. What's more, senior management participates throughout, facilitating swift decision making and significantly reducing the time it takes to launch projects.
With risks well managed, companies can then use rapid experimentation and the techniques of agile development—an iterative process closely linked to customers and markets—to boost their chances of coming up with a truly profitable innovation portfolio.
That's what California-based Salesforce.com did when management decided to jettison the traditional stage-gate innovation process in favor of agile development. In fact, since the enterprise software maven began working iteratively with the market through frequent testing, its innovation prowess has started to return to the high-octane levels of the company's early years (see Sidebar 3).
Most companies today have come to recognize that sophisticated risk management is a key enabler of long-term growth and profitability. What's more, some companies have put in place advanced capabilities to manage their innovation risks successfully.
Few, however, have developed the agile, iterative approach that can drive breakthrough innovation rather than drowning it—or have created the risk-tolerant, organization-wide governance structures that allow such capabilities to flourish. But growing numbers realize that with such systems in place, they could be confident that their innovation risks were transparent and well managed. And they, too, could start creating dynamic portfolios of innovative ideas and experiments—and commit the funds to bring the best of them to market.
How risk-prone are the innovators? No more so than anyone else, according to Accenture research.
Indeed, when we examined the 60 US public companies among the 100 included in Forbes' list of the world's most innovative companies, we found that their beta value—a measure of a company's share value volatility relative to market volatility—is only slightly higher than the market average.
A beta of 1 indicates that a company's share price will move with market fluctuations, and the beta of the most innovative players averaged only 1.1, clearly tracking the overall market. Neither did we find any correlation between a company's beta and its position on the Forbes list.
The Forbes ranking looks beyond such usual measures of corporate innovation as executive and employee perceptions to how investors perceive risk, measuring how much they have bid up a company's stock price on expectations of new products, services and markets—or the "innovation premium" they ascribe to their investments. But, on average, there is no correlation between the beta levels of leading innovators and the level of the innovation premium index. In short, a higher innovation ranking does not translate into higher risk. (Back to story)
With the planet's population growing relentlessly and available farmland in sharp decline, biotech solutions that can increase crop yields have become a serious business. Yet 30 years ago, when St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. first recognized biotech's potential significance for its burgeoning seed business, such genetic modifications were largely unproven, and investing in them was considered risky indeed.
That's why the US agribusiness giant decided to hedge its bets. Monsanto couldn't know which of the many biotech ventures then sprouting would actually bear fruit. But by building up a portfolio of relatively modest investments in a few biotech experiments—among them, California-based Genentech and (then) Geneva-based Biogen—it could acquire knowledge of basic technologies.
The experience gained from participating in such early (and largely successful) experiments encouraged Monsanto to develop its own biotech capabilities. In 1984, the company opened a life science research center in Chesterfield, Missouri. And three years later, its scientists conducted the first-ever US field trials of plants with engineered traits.
By the early 1990s, Monsanto was starting to reap the rewards of its portfolio through research collaborations and the acquisition of technology licenses. And by the end of the decade, it was realizing still more value by acquiring biotech delivery vehicles, genetic enabling technologies and processing capabilities.
Cases in point: the 1998 purchases of DeKalb Genetics Corp., the Illinois-based hybrid corn specialist, and Minnesota-based agribusiness Cargill's global seed business—an acquisition that gave Monsanto access to sales and distribution networks in 51 countries. At the same time, Monsanto formed a joint venture with Cargill to create and market new biotech products for the international grain processing and animal feed markets.
Today, Monsanto is an outstanding example of a company that has merged innovation and risk management successfully—a leading practitioner of the sort of proactive approach to the latter that can fuel true breakthroughs.
Thanks to R&D investments in excess of $1 billion a year, the company boasts one of the most comprehensive product pipelines in the agricultural biotech industry. And its biotech-driven seed business accounts for almost three-quarters of its annual revenues, which topped $13.5 billion in FY 2012. (Back to story)
When Salesforce.com was launched back in 1999, the San Francisco-based startup quickly established itself as a leading innovator of cloud-based CRM applications. Indeed, within a year or two, it was launching four major software releases annually and earning many accolades for innovation excellence.
Five years later, however, the pace of innovation had slowed dramatically, to just one major release a year.
Company management realized that as the R&D team had grown—it was 200 strong by 2004—it had become less productive. The team's phase-based, functionally organized process, which was largely dependent on a few key decision makers, had worked well with a small team but wasn't working for a significantly larger one. In fact, many people in R&D hadn't even participated in a major release, missing important learning opportunities. And as the number of releases declined, so did morale.
Which is why Salesforce.com resolved to transform its innovation process by adopting a more agile approach, leveraging self-organized, cross-functional teams and testing new applications, iteratively, with customers. Risk management, the company believed, would not be compromised under the revamped approach.
The agile development transformation, which enjoyed the full support of top executives, was an unqualified success. Within three months of rollout in 2006, teams empowered by a simple, agile process with a common language were leveraging customer insights to develop potentially releasable products every 30 days. What's more, they had dramatically reduced the number of "bugs" that would later need to be addressed—a potentially costly business in terms of both time and engineering resources.
Significantly, innovation team members enjoyed daily transparency into metrics around product performance. They also met in regular group sessions to review the release progress—and learn from their mistakes, a key enabler of good governance for companies seeking to drive innovation by managing risks more effectively.
With 2012 revenue in excess of $2 billion and more than 100,000 customers, Salesforce.com is now widely considered the global leader in enterprise cloud computing—a position powered by a pace of innovation that persuaded Forbes to name it "most innovative company in the world" in both 2011 and 2012. (Back to story)
Adi Alon is a Boston-based managing director in Accenture's Innovation Performance group.
Wouter Koetzier leads Accenture's Innovation & Product Development group. He is based in Amsterdam.
Steve Culp leads Accenture's Risk Management group. He is based in London.


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Don't use animesuki now..
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: London, UK
Age: 29
dark_vooddoo, ive sed it many times but your avatar and that cat in general are soooo kool! my fav avatar on the board...the blue colour is soo nice aswell 20/10
and hellychan yours is supa cute aswell and the colours are nice, 15/10
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Join Date: Nov 2003
DragonFly28: 10/10
Hyuga Jubei: 8/10
Dark_Voodoo: 10/10, as always
Hellychan: 10000/10 , I just luv that one way 2 much, don't you dare change it
Timo: 9/10
Jewelry: 10/10
|2003-11-03, 23:00
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I refuse to die dammit!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK
Age: 42
Heh, thought I'd show my face again in this thread (no that I expect a high rating )
Guu, didn't you have a Hale nochi guu Av before the "forum incident"?
Not that I'm complaining
Anyhow I'm gonna give you 8/10 it looks very slightly undersized from what I can tell (It could just be me as I'm getting tired *Yawn*)
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Fresh start, fresh Avatar, oh, and hello by the way I give you Piastol, the Angel of Death, from Skies of Arcadia (Eternal Arcadia in Japan). It's the first time I've bothered to gussy up an avatar, so please be gentle...OR I'LL SLICE YOU UP! Well, she will...maybe...oh, I'll stop.
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in silent opposition
Guu- 9/10 shes cute even though it looks like she is..eh heh heh...and you put little boxy border things! Thats effort!
Tsurumaru- 5/10 the lines are a little pixally and kinda simple but I like his expression so..yeah, dont change it
Rebochan- 7/10 its blue and purdy! and its got words and border! so, props!
Lst2touchdasky- girls with guns! cant go wrong! Like it mucho 9/10
Superchop!- Nice use of Sesshoumaru! 8/10!! hes a little blurry but I cant help but love him so!!
Me- (Im bored) 3/10 biting your fingernails is bad!!!
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Marc Bulger.
I advise you to think Marc Bulger.
Why, you ask in an inquisitive voice, should I think of Marc Bulger on the Memorial Day weekend? Well, as I shared with you in a previous post, the NFL Network's Jason LaCanfora was reporting the Broncos are more likely than not to keep Kyle Orton when the season eventually gets underway. That seemingly eliminates one semi-attractive veteran quarterback option.
Yet another post this week had Bengals owner Mike Brown swearing Carson Palmer won't be traded, thus putting a dead end sign on that possible veteran QB avenue.
The possibilities are dwindling, folks.
So today when LaCanfora did his weekly segment on my radio show, Armando and the Amigo, I had to ask, what legitimate most likely options that leaves the Dolphins? We both agreed not Kevin Kolb of Philadelphia. We both agreed not likely Donovan McNabb.
We both agreed Marc Bulger is a possibility.
Disclaimer: The last time I saw Bulger play was 2008 in St. Louis and he looked tentative, worn, and frankly, a little afraid to stand in the pocket. I thought he was done. LaCanfora acknowledged that Bulger was not good in his latter Rams days. But he told me something I didn't know about Bulger's most recent stint as a backup with Baltimore in 2010.
"I have some pretty good sources on the Ravens," he said. "When I talked to people there they were very impressed with Bulger. They told me when he's on the field and running the offense, the ball often doesn't hit the ground ... They believe he's going to be a very good quarterback in 2011. They would love to keep him in Baltimore as the backup but they think someone will sign him to compete to start or be a bridge quarterback and a pretty good one at that."
Bulger makes sense for Miami because he does have plenty of experience. He has had time to recover from the beating he suffered in 2008-2009. He won't require draft choice compensation. He won't be extremely expensive to sign. He is not exclusively a West Coast offense guy like McNabb and others. And the last time someone took a chance on a seemingly washed up former St. Louis QB, it paid off handsomely.
Kurt Warner went from New York Giants has-been to Super Bowl QB in Arizona.
I'm not saying Bulger will reap similar benefits for his next team. I'm not saying he will be the answer to Miami's QB problems for the next five years. The truth of the matter is the Dolphins are not likely to find that guy in free agency or via trade. Those guys don't just show up on your doorstep.
So if that is what you're hoping for, don't bank on it. I've told you, Peyton Manning isn't signing with Miami.
I'm just saying don't dismiss Bulger out of hand as a Miami possibility. He might not turn the franchise around. But he would serve as competition fo Chad Henne. At this point, that may be the only possbility the Dolphins might be left with.


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To use the computers, patrons must enter the barcode number found on the back of their library card. If all of the computers are occupied, patrons may scan their library card at the Internet booking station to reserve the next available computer. Patrons may use only their own library card to access the Internet, although guest logins are available at the Reference Desk for nonresidents. Read the Public Access Computer Policy.
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Files may not be saved on the public computers after the session time has expired. Users should bring their own thumb or flash drives to save any files or for downloading materials.
Children's Computers
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As the eye ages, its lens hardens and loses the ability to shape, making it harder to focus on nearby objects. Many adults will eventually develop this condition. Known as presbyopia, most cases become noticeable around age 40 and continue to worsen until age 60 — which leads to the notion that old age causes bad eyes.
Other factors can also lead to vision problems, so adults experiencing vision changes should discuss all of their symptoms with their doctor, as well as any life changes, medications or supplements. A basic eye exam is all you need to diagnose presbyopia.
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2012 Infiniti FX35, Reviews, News, & Model Prices – Automobile Magazine
2012 Infiniti FX35
By Automobile Magazine 1/31/2012
What's New for FX35 in 2012
For the 2012 model year, Infiniti left the FX35 largely unchanged. There are a few minor changes to report however: Various revised standard features. Upgraded gauge lighting.
Redesigned grille and fascia. The new Limited Edition trim level, much like the Infiniti FX35 with all-wheel drive. more
Once upon a time, SUVs were truck based and looked much like their ancestors. With the advent of the luxury SUV, things changed quite a bit. The 2012 Infiniti FX35 is certainly a big part of that change. While undoubtedly attractive and sporty enough to get plenty of attention, it does sacrifice practicality to performance and body design.
It has the look and feel of Infiniti's luxury sedans. In the cabin, it would be easy to mistake one's surroundings for the country club or a proper English library with all of the soft leather and beautiful wood accents. The FX35 is a good choice for someone looking for a bit more space than a sedan with a high performance powertrain.
The 2012 Infiniti FX35 is a fully loaded crossover luxury SUV. This model is available in three trim levels, the FX35, the FX35 Limited Edition, and the FX50. The base models are equipped with 18-alloy wheels, while in the FX35 Limited Edition trim level, the wheels are 21 inches and feature upgraded exterior paint and some other features not standard on the other models. In many ways the FX35 looks more like a luxury sedan than a SUV.
The front end and grille are wide and assertive looking with a rectangular grille and the Infiniti emblem in the center of the grille. The headlights are smallish and sit back far into the front fender areas. The overall body style is more about curves with a few lines in the metal work than the modern lines many luxury SUV models have.
Interior Cargo
Inside the cabin of the 2012 Infiniti FX35 comfort is the name of the game. This vehicle is equipped with supportive, comfortable seats. Passengers in the front of the cabin will find there is no shortage of head and leg room.
For those in the back it's a different matter. Taller passenger will find the close quarters a challenge. Most SUVs of this class have more space for passengers.
The same applies for the available cargo space in the FX35. With the rear seats in their normal position, this model has 25 cubic feet. The cargo space increases to 62 cubic feet when the rear seats are folded down.
The limited interior space aside, this SUV is all about luxury through and through. The interior is full of wood, supple leather, and all kinds of high quality, soft materials through the cabin. Plenty of technology was added to the FX35 as well. The audio and navigation systems are top notch.
At first, they may be awkward, but once the driver acclimates to the systems, they are easy and intuitive, adding a great deal to the driving experience.
As with any SUV, safety is a high priority for the Infiniti FX35. This luxury SUV is equipped with front seat side mounted airbags as well as full length side curtain airbags. Stability and traction control is added for help on winding roads and with the potential of rollover.
Of course, anti-lock brakes are part of the standard safety equipment on any trim level.
In terms of optional safety features, the FX35 can be equipped with adaptive cruise control and a lane departure warning and prevention system. Intuitive brake assist is another option on this model. The FX35 scored well in independent and government crash testing as well.
Driving Experience
With such a sporty exterior it only makes sense the 2012 Infiniti FX35 would be equipped with a significantly powerful powertrain. It is equipped with a 3.5-liter, V-6 engine coupled with a seven-speed automatic transmission complete with manual shift control as the only option. This powertrain produces 303 hp and 262 lb-ft of torque.
Fuel economy is estimated at 16/21 mpg city/highway.
On the FX50 model, Infiniti put in a 5.0-liter, V-8 motor paired with the same gearbox as the base FX35 model. The larger powertrain offers up 390 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque. The fuel usage for this model is less efficient than models with the smaller powertrain.
It is estimated at 14/20 mpg city/highway.
Behind the wheel of the 2012 Infiniti FX35 drivers are sure to notice the similarities between the two powertrains. Both offer impressive acceleration, tight steering, and an uncanny ability to take curvy terrains, such as mountains with ease. The brakes are strong and dependable. There is also no doubt as to the quality of the seven-speed transmission.
It shifts easily and confidently.
Key Competitors For The 2012 Infiniti FX35
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Excited to open Charlotte's Web this weekend!
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Read my @UtahTheatreBlog review of @grassrootsbard's delightful production of #Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, hosted by @SCERAupdate! #utahtheatre
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NEW #UtahTheatre review for @Hale_Theatre's A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER. #TheatreCriticism https://t.co/mmKhqdMZCG
Dress rehearsal for Charlotte's Web. #utahtheatre #utahchildrenstheatre #setdesign @ Utah Children's Theatre https://t.co/ompj5zz0rl
Weekly update on #UtahTheatre shows that have opened in the last week:
•A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER @Hale_Theatre
•A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE @CPT_Theatre
•EDWARD II @AnOtherTheater
•MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING @grassrootsbard
Wanna see some stuff this weekend? @utahrep_theater has a staged reading of a new piece - 'Judging Hayden'. @AnOtherTheater rolls on with 'Edward II' (see Tyler jump sixty feet into the air), and, in Ogden, @goodcotheatre opens 'Constellations (coughcoughIMINTHAT).
Gather your friends and wives! Now through 3/1, ALL tickets for the first 3 weeks of SATURDAY'S VOYEUR 2019 (6/29-7/14) are $40! Book online with code WINTER19 or call 801.363.7522. Book soon—tables are going quickly! 🐝
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It's intermission at @grassrootsbard's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. #Shakespeare can make the crowds laugh after 400 years. @SCERAupdate #utahtheatre
I'm at @SCERAupdate to see @grassrootsbard's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Look for the review later on @UtahTheatreBlog! #utahtheatre
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Down in Provo @AnOtherTheater continues it's run of 'Edward II' this weekend.
Start 2019 off with some theatre.
I've acted in ten things here in Utah in the past fifteen months.
Of those ten things eight were directed by women.
I think that's pretty great.
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Topic: A look waaaay back.
Some of you may remember this site from a time far in the past. Years even perhaps. But I can do one better than remembering...
Year by year links to what this site was before now. The internet archive is an amazing tool.
My favorites are the ones before 1998. =P
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My how time flies. I knew I wouldn't be a good blogger. Not only am I not 27 weeks pregnant anymore, but my son is now 22 weeks old.
Something I didn't really talk about much on here while I was pregnant were my (tentative) plans for the birth. I say tentative because I knew that ultimately the Lord was in control. I determined to do what I could on my end (eating well, exercising, learning about birth, finding the right caregivers, etc) and then the rest was up to Him. I also learned very early that it's best not to tell people that you want to have a natural birth. Plus, I had never had a baby so I didn't know how things were going to go.
HOWEVER, if you have an interest in natural birth and/or you are trying to avoid an unnecessary caesarean then I feel strongly that you must be educated on birth. A lot happens to your body leading up to and on your baby's birthday, and if you don't know what's happening or how to cope then you are probably going to be freaked out and/or afraid and those are not ideal emotions on baby day. Plus, if you don't know what's happening, I imagine it's going to be hard to make those decisions such as "Should we induce?" "Should we augment labor?" "When should I consider an epidural?" "When should I allow fetal monitoring?" "Should I let them break my water?" "Should I be checked for dilation?" (YES! You can decline all of these things!).
Please note, I am not advocating a distrust of wonderful physicians, nurses, midwives, etc. But I am advocating you to trust your body. Yes, we are living in a fallen world. Yes, our bodies don't always work the way we want them to. But, the majority of women can birth a baby without any intervention. And I rejoice knowing that the Lord made me to be able to do that! I trusted that if He allowed me to get pregnant and things continued to go smoothly (which they did), then He would allow me to birth the baby that He gave me (which He did).
I have much more that I could say on this subject, but the purpose of this post is to point you to resources for learning about and preparing for birth.
First, I devoured many books and websites on the subject of birth when I was pregnant. Here are the books that I think are must-reads before you birth:
1. Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way by Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg
2. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth* by Ina May Gaskin
3. Spiritual Midwifery* by Ina May Gaskin
4. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer.
1. Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way by Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg
2. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth* by Ina May Gaskin
3. Spiritual Midwifery* by Ina May Gaskin
4. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer.
*Disclaimer: I don't agree with Ina May's "spirituality". She is a straight-up hippie. But this woman knows birth and these books were invaluable in building my confidence for birth.
Along with these books, I recommend that you read lots of natural birth stories. Actually, both of Ina May's books are filled with birth stories, but a couple websites to check out include: birthwithoutfearblog.com and bradleybirth.com. I also found the Homebirth and NUCB (that's Natural Unmedicated Childbirth) boards helpful on babycenter.com.
In addition, I would recommend watching The Business of Being Born documentary. Be forewarned that there is footage of many natural births on there. But that's the point! You need to see what it looks like. And your husband (or labor coach) also needs to see what it looks like. Michael conceded to watching it with me (not without protest – love him!), and he admitted later, after our birth, that it was a good thing to watch because he knew what to expect. (Note: He didn't finish it J. Apparently, watching the first 6 births were enough for him to get the gist of it! Ha!)
And lastly, but MOST IMPORTANT, I would highly recommend that you take a Bradley class. "The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth" was created by Dr. Robert Bradley, an OB/GYN in Colorado, in 1947. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia: "Bradley entered into obstetrics in 1947; at the time mothers were restrained in large cribs and wore protective helmets to protect their heads for hitting the sides of the crib due to the effect of the medication they were given.[3] Terming this era as "knock-em-out, drag-em-out obstetrics," when "twilight sleep" and general anesthesia were common in hospital deliveries, he decided to develop his own method. Having been raised on a farm and having witnessed many animal births as a part of farm life, Dr. Bradley believed that women, like the animals he had observed growing up, could give birth without drugs or distress. Based on observations of perspiring mammals during labor and birth, he developed a childbirth method to teach women to do the things that animal mothers do instinctively. Soon after starting to implement his new childbirth method with pregnant nurses as a trial, Dr. Bradley began to believe that the presence and support of the father during labor and birth was important to the mother's success in achieving a natural birth. He became a pioneer in including fathers in the birth process and eventually expanded his childbirth method to include extensive instruction of the father as labor coach."
Bradley teaches you and your husband (or other labor coach) what to do through each stage of labor. There was never a time during my labor where either Michael or I were worried or anxious. We had learned what birth looked like and we were prepared to see it through. When things got tough, we knew it was a good sign, and Michael knew how to help me through it. The main benefit of the class series for Michael was that it taught him all about birth (and some newborn care). To be honest, I didn't learn much that I didn't already know in the classes because I had read so much beforehand. But it was beneficial for me because Bradley doesn't just give you head knowledge, it teaches you how to physically get ready for birth. It's a marathon and you have to be prepared! I don't think I would have been as diligent with my exercises/nutrition if I didn't have the class instructor, Terri Berg, or Michael to hold me accountable. It's a time commitment (12 weeks), but very worth it. Plus, it was a great time for Michael and I to hang out and spend time together before baby!
If you are in the Evansville tri-state area, I highly recommend taking a 12-week Bradley series with Terri Berg. Her email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Please let me know if you have any questions. I'd love to talk to you about my experience or give you further resources.
|Our Bradley class reunion after all our babies were born!