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If I had a time machine and could go back to any point in geologic history, as supposed in this month's Accretionary Wedge call, the event I'd most like to see is the repeated flooding of the Pacific Northwest at the end of the last Ice Age. These "Missoula floods" are among the largest floods in Earth history and they irrevocably changed the topography of Washington and Oregon. My time machine would be an aircraft capable of flying with the floodwaters as they raced from Montana to the Pacific Ocean, and my time machine would also have LIDAR capabilities for collecting pre-, syn-, and post-flood digital measurements of topography and water surfaces and allowing an unparalleled determination of flood magnitudes and erosive volumes.
Our story begins shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum, deep in the heart of the Bitterroot Mountains in western Montana (Figure 1), as melt water from the waning glaciers began to pour into Clark Fork River valley and its tributaries. Water in the Clark Fork ponded up behind an enormous ice dam from a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, and reached a maximum depth of 600 meters as Glacial Lake Missoula. The lake contained more than 2000 cubic kilometers of water, more than the modern volume of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined. Pedestrians in the modern day town of Missoula might notice a strange horizontal striping to the hillsides surrounding town (Figure 2)…these are the traces of the shorelines of the ancient lake.
After 19,000 years ago, water in Glacial Lake Missoula ruptured the ice dam, and the collected water went rushing downstream at speeds reaching 100 km/hr. Peak discharge in the Spokane Valley has been estimated at 17 +/- 3 million cubic meters per second, and drainage of the lake lasted several days.
Today, the Clark Fork River drains into the upper Columbia River and then into the Pacific Ocean. At the time of the Missoula Floods, the upper Columbia was buried under glaciers and that route was blocked to the floodwaters from Glacial Lake Missoula, so instead they were forced to take an overland route, carving new channels into the fertile Palouse loess deposits and underlying 17 Ma Columbia River basalts of eastern Washington. These channels are spectacular (Figures 3 and 4), up to 182 m deep and 32 km wide, with dry waterfalls, scoured potholes, and streamlined islands. Granite boulders the size of small cars were carried by the flood from the Idaho batholith and deposited in central Washington. Even for geologists, it can be hard to appreciate the full extent of these floods from the ground, but satellite photos (Figure 5) show the huge aerial extent of the erosion, covering a region we now call the Channeled Scablands.
Several times along their way across Washington, the floodwaters found basins in which to spread out and slow down. The fertile, wine-growing soils of the Yakima and Walla Walla valleys are slackwater flood deposits of loess from the Palouse valley. In a few special places, we can see the thick layers of silt, separated by thin horizons of soil (Figure 6). The number of layers preserved in these places help constrain the number of floods, and ash layers in the soils help constrain their timing. The best estimate is that there were more than 40 late Pleistocene megafloods that crossed eastern Washington, though not all of them may have come from from Glacial Lake Missoula itself. The floods began after 19 thousand years ago, many occur after 15 thousand years ago, and some post-date a Mount Saint Helens eruption 13 thousand years ago. More than 25 floods had peak discharges exceeding 1 million cubic meters per second.
Where the Columbia River turns east and runs along the modern-day border of Oregon and Washington, the Missoula Floods were once again confined to a single channel, at a place called Wallula Gap. As immense as the Columbia River Gorge is (Figure 7), this channel was a major constriction on the flood, only able to transmit 20% of the peak discharge. The waters back up behind the gap, flooding the Pasco Basin and creating temporary Lake Lewis around the tri-cities region of Washington. Floodwaters in the gorge were more than 215 m deep, as evidenced by the flood deposits found on surrounding ridgelines. The town of Lyle, Washington, in the Columbia River is built on a giant eddy bar left by the floods (Figure 7).
When the floods reached Portland, Oregon, the waters filled the Willamette Valley and turned into a lake 100 m deep, ~50 km wide, and 175 km long. Today the lake bottom is seen in the flat topography and fertile soils of the valley. Icebergs, probably remnants of the glacier that dammed Lake Missoula, were carried this far, because the valley is pocked by glacial erratics (Figure 8), rocks that had fallen onto or into the ice, were rafted downstream, and left behind when the icebergs melted. These rocks are not rounded, so it is clear that they did not as material moved by the flood itself.
Slowly the water would drain from the Willamette Valley and upstream lakes and empty completely into the Pacific Ocean through the Columbia River. Vegetation would encroach on the new sediments, and soil would begin to develop. In the meantime, another Glacial Lake Missoula would be forming behind a new ice dam on the Clark Fork River, getting ready to repeat the process again. Presumably floods of varying magnitudes continued until the glaciers had retreated north of the river. The last floods probably occurred less than 13 thousand years ago.
Floods over, measurements completed, my time machine and I would return to the present, ready to fill in the details of the floods that shaped the topography, soils, and agriculture of the Pacific Northwest. Even without a time machine, there's so much more I could tell you about the Missoula Floods, but I've already gone on long enough. Instead I'll refer you to the numerous scientific papers on the subject beginning with those of J. Harlan Bretz in the 1920s. When Bretz proposed a megaflood as the source of the Channeled Scablands, it flew in the face of the ruling uniformitarianism paradigm and his work was not accepted for several decades. The casual audience may want to check out the Ice Age Floods Institute website, an on-line USGS publication on the The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington, the book Cataclysms on the Columbia, and, if you can find it airing sometime, the excellent Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary Ice Age Floods. If you live in or are traveling to the Pacific Northwest, also keep an eye out for sites along the newly-approved Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail.


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Join the C.A.F.E. of Niagara County group on Monday, April 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. for a free summer services fair for people with developmental disabilities. The event will beheld at 2510 Niagara Falls Blvd. (between Sy and Witmer Roads), Wheatfield (Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara).
Organizations and businesses from across Western New York will distribute literature and talk to families focusing on summer activities for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Also present will be "friendly" businesses such as barbers, dentists, doctors, etc., who are familiar with the needs of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
The fair is co-sponsored by Parent Network of WNY and Early Childhood Direction Center. For more information, visit http://cafeofniagaracounty.webs.com/.

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Goat Pictures To Color-Coloring picture books is now a trend among adults. Coloring books sell well on online shopping sites. Coloring has now become part of the lives of adults and small children.
Why is it booming? Coloring the picture book about Goat Pictures To Color is said to have a significant therapeutic effect. Ccientifically coloring picture books does have benefits. This activity can be a stress reliever, just like when playing Tetris games, making ceramics from clay or plasticine.
By this coloring book you can also take advantage of drawing activities to bond with colleagues. That way, you and your coworkers can be equally happy, stress free, and bond your friendship.
Coloring Goat Pictures To Color can open the frontal lobes of the brain or parts of the brain that function to organize and solve problems and make the mind focus. This can be useful for those of you who are in a time full of busy demands like now, to focus more on work one by one alias not easily distracted or confused, the end of which makes worrying not frightening.


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I think they're in communion. They're both OO. I'm not aware of any OO's that are not in communion, but it doesn't mean there isn't.
From http://malankaraorthodoxchurch.in/The Church is in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox Churches namely, Antiochene, Alexandrian, Armenian, Eritrean and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. The Church is in good ecumenical relationship with the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches. The SOC says nothing: http://www.syrianorthodoxchurch.net/Location/Global/SOC-index-Global-en.htm/The IOC has the most developed site http://www.orthodoxsyrianchurch.com/index.php/home but all the "read more" links are in their language.These three appear to be separate churches but I can't find any pertinent news.
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ACTA is an abbreviation for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It is an International Treaty that will be pushed to implementation by 2010. It has been discussed in secret since October 2007, and has been leaked by government officials who were against the unconstitutional, ineffective, inhumane, and unlawful nature of such a treaty.
Countries affected by this treaty include but are not limited to:
Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States
The official goal of the agreement is the international enforcement of strong intellectual property rights. ACTA is a treaty, which would overcome many court precedents in your own country that defines consumer rights as to "fair use" and would remove any limitations on the application of intellectual property laws. This means that ACTA would overrule any laws in your own country, and deal harsher, unfair and ineffective punishment to anyone suspected of piracy, without a trial in court.
ACTA also makes Internet Service Providers legally responsible for any of it's users downloaded content. ACTA gives recording industries more rights to enforce copyrights and officers of the law the right to search any digital device for copyrighted material. Did you pay for the songs on your iPod? Under the new law, that instantly classifies you as a criminal, and the same classification as murderers and rapists. You will get a criminal record. Even if you do not download songs onto your iPod, you will feel the effects as millions, possibly billions of dollars in taxpayer's money will be poured in to catch these "criminals", money that can be used to save lives.
Part of ACTA deems anyone accused of copyright infringement to "compensate" for the loss in profit to recording companies. They want harsher punishments for these criminals. These recording companies, such as UMG, earn upwards of $1 billion in 2009. However, the RIAA (Recording Industries Association of America) recently sued a 12 year old girl for downloading, as well as many other people. They are seeking $150 000 per song, on allofmp3.com. How much harsher will they go?
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Did Japan And Korea Just Make Life Really Difficult For Any Cloud Service Provider?
from the does-the-length-of-the-wire-matter? dept
Thankfully, the Second Court agreed and put forth a pretty good, if slightly awkward, ruling, which pointed out that it didn't matter where the device was, that time shifting is legal, and this service really seemed no different than a DVR. The entertainment industry (of course) appealed, but the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, so the law stands in the 2nd Circuit -- though with such a high profile case, one hopes that other Circuits would tend to defer to this ruling (though, they certainly don't have to).
Separately, we covered a very similar case in Singapore, involving RecordTV, which had trouble at the lower courts, but eventually came to a similar ruling as the US. In that case, the court even noted that allowing remote DVRs seems to provide benefits to society.
However, courts in other areas of the world apparently aren't quite as enlightened. Wonil Chung, an IP lawyer in Korea, recently sent over his excellent review of a number of similar cases from Korea and Japan where the rulings eventually all went the other way. The cases there all have their own specific details, but the general point was that the courts seemed to feel that if the equipment is housed and "owned" by the service provider, then the actions are done by the service provider... even if the end user is the one clicking the button. Effectively, those courts are saying that the length of the cable matters. Chung's analysis is balanced, and he notes that this can be a tricky issue. I agree that it's a complex issue that requires thinking through a variety of issues, but in the end, I have no problem saying that I believe the Korean and Japanese rulings defy common sense, while the US and Singapore rulings make sense.
Where it gets really important is understanding the wider implications of these rulings. Based on the rulings in Korea and Japan, it just became a lot more expensive and risky to set up any cloud-based service in either country. That's because these rulings effectively say that liability is determined by the location of the equipment, rather than the location of the user. Cloud-based services have the equipment hosted far away from the user. But does that really mean that the service providers have now taken on the liability? In Korea and Japan apparently the answer is yes, and that should put a chill through anyone building cloud-based offerings in either country.


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*UPDATE 9/5: Hey guys Jackson gave me a good idea, which is I should not show all of this until I graduate at the end of this term. So yeah sorry it'll be gone until then. But you get to see the color script! If you saw all the stuff from before, lucky you. Don't worry, it'll be back at the Grad Show.
Jackson lives in Richmond.
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Yes, it's the Pixar update. I didn't have time to put anything up while I was there, everyone was working like crazy for the 10 weeks we were there. GOOD JOB EVERYONE. And then I left my laptop in Emeryville. I'm so glad I backed everything up at home otherwise I'd be one sad ex-intern now.
Anyways. We got to do our own project, which was our own version of Hansel & Gretel. They had changed the art internship program to be the ultimate visual development class with Harley Jessup and Steve Pilcher giving critiques every morning, and more critiques from various artists at Pixar every other afternoon. We also got to attend lectures by various Pixar artists, attend drawing workshops, ride scooters, have free cereal, watch top secret Pixar movies, and look at all the pretty drawings. Everyone was super nice and I miss the place already! :(
My version of Hansel & Gretel takes place in the 1920's in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festival. Enjoy.
Color Script:
Hansel, Gretel, and their family are on vacation in New Orleans:
The kids get lost:
And then are lured away by the witch's candy float:
Parents notice the kids are missing, the witch has just kidnapped them:
Taking the kids to her home in the swamp...
Checks in on them, you get to see her ugly ol' mug.
The witch's house at night, a decrepit old ferry boat in a mardi gras float graveyard. It's a mouthful.
Hansel caged and Gretel in despair...
Gretel steals the key to Hansel's cage, but the witch wakes up.
The witch has poor eyesight so she sets herself on fire and accidentally takes a dive off of her house. And into an alligator's mouth.
Hansel and Gretel escape, the witch's house is on fire. The alligator is full and happy so it gives them a ride back to the city.
Hansel and Gretel are reunited with their family and say bye to the alligator. It's a white alligator. THE END.
(stuff was here)
We compiled all of our work and formatted them into portfolios on the last week. And then since we had all of hour work pinned onto large blackboards, we had to pitch it to some art directors, production designers, and other Pixar employees on the last day. Talk about nerve wracking! And then it was over. I hope to go back there soon!
The other art interns:
Lorelay Bove
Olga Stern
Bridgette Barrager
Kevin Dart
Everyone should have posted their work up by now, so go enjoy it!
My mentor Noah Klocek
I'm glad I got to take this internship, I learned a lot. School starts again in another week, I plan to make the most of it before I start working!
Sunday, September 02, 2007
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Miku fans have been busily denouncing major US network CBS after it had the temerity to call holographic princess Hatsune Miku "the world's fakest pop star."
The article in question is a rather late entry into the popular "Hatsune Miku = creepy Japanese hologram" genre:
Hatsune Miku is the rarest kind of pop star. She is enduringly popular in her native country of Japan. She has never been photographed stumbling out of night clubs in the early hours of the morning, and never had issues with drugs or alcohol. She has, in fact, never been seen outside of her concerts at all. This is because Miku is also the fakest kind of pop star. She is a hologram.
More accurately, Hatsune Miku is a digital avatar. Wikipedia describes her as a "singing synthesizer application with a female persona," created by Crypton Future Media. Using Yamaha's Vocaloid software, anyone with enough technical know-how can program Miku to perform any song on a computer.
In Japan, where synthetic characters — such as Hello Kitty — are often far more enduring than real celebrities, Miku has been a huge hit. The holographic star has performed multiple sold-out concerts in her home country and abroad. Projected larger than life on a screen, Miku sings and dances according to the direction of programmers who "choreographed" the concert weeks or months in advance.
The stark unreality of Hatsune Miku doesn't seem to bother her fans at all.
Although otherwise an inoffensive puff piece, CBS's description of their virtual goddess as "fake" immediately outraged scores of Miku fans:
'Congrats to the author for doing absolutely no research into the matter other than reading the summary on Wikipedia.
First of all, is Mozart's music fake because it didn't feature singing? Miku, and the rest of the voice banks for Vocaloid, are instruments.
Sure, anyone can use Vocaloid, but just like any other instrument, it takes an artist to master it.
Also, "fake" implies that it's a scam or doesn't exist. I don't see anything fake about Vocaloid; it's simply an instrument. There's a guitar sitting five feet to my right; are you telling me it's not there because it has the same implications as Vocaloid?
Finally, every other popstar who's conditioned for their image rather than voice or talent are just as fake if Miku is fake.
Have fun with your content-free articles and questionable reporters, CBS.'
'The world is filled with fake celebrities, pretending to be something they are not, remade by image consultants, keeping up appearances with a polished veneer.
Hatsune Miku is none of these things. She is exactly what she appears to be, with no pretence or deception. She is the sum total of the hopes and dreams and creative energy of her legions of adoring fans, and can be nothing else. She is quite possibly the most genuine celebrity to ever grace the earth.'
'I respectfully ask that you retract that HORRIBLE and MISLEADING title. Hatsune Miku is by no mean FAKE. Calling Hatsune Miku fake is the equivalent of calling ALL of the fan, artists, composers, singers, animators, that celebrate this movement FAKE. It's an insult.'
'If anything, it's more insulting that you didn't do much research than it is that you said "fake."'
'Well, Great job on doing no research! For one thing, you looked at Wikipedia, and everyone knows that they aren't completely right. Due to the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia, it comes up with weird BS.
On top of that, this is just a stupid article! Miku isn't "fake"! On the contrary, she is most very real, and extremely loved. She was voiced by a REAL woman named Saki Fujita!
I do realize that Vocaloids are just programs, and I would be stupid to not know that. She has a character that the fanbase has given her, but now Crypton has taken it on. Hatsune Miku and every other vocaloid, are amazing creations.
Miku is more real of an idol, then most of us will ever be.'
'Whoever wrote the article, I would like to politely ask to change the title into something that WOULD NOT annoy/**** off Miku's fans.
Well, I got pissed off when I saw the title. FAKE is not the word, okay? It's like you're breaking her image >:/
Please change the title and everything will be okay.'
'Note for journalist:
There are a few hot button words and phrases with Miku fandom. One, as you might have guessed, is the word "fake", or the related phrase "she's not real."
Almost as touchy is the phrase "what anime is she from?" or "she's an anime character."
Just a suggestion, maybe replace "fakest" (omg that even sounds awkward) with "most unreal." Unreal is normally used when something is so awesome, reality is incapable of inventing it alone.'
'When one uses the word "fakest" when reporting in a news article, it leads me to believe their background research goes only as far as it takes to roll an office chair over to a thesaurus.
To address the use of fake in a general sense, we can establish that the adjective form of fake means something which is counterfeit or a sham.
To my knowledge, there is nothing counterfeit about a digital pop star whose image is derived from a vast fan-base.'
'Hey BAILEY JOHNSON fyi she is CREATED so she is not FAKE and she is way to better than Gaga and Justin Bieber. Your article really sucks. Why this been released through this site? This article is worthless!'
'This post is very derogatory and unprofessional. What can we expect from Americans. Please inquire more information about this topic even more. Hatsune Miku is a tool to create music, "She" is like every other item is able to create good music and express the creators feelings and music. Therefore its not considered "fake".'
'The numerous problems with this article astound me.
First of all, "fakest" is not a word. Dictionaries are fabulous tools that someone needs to introduce this writer to. Also, using "fake" to describe Miku really gives readers the wrong impression. Is it fake when a person devotes their time and effort into putting their feelings into a song?
Now I am going to assume that CBS was joking when they hired this…sham of a writer. Using Wikipedia as a source? You do realize that students are not even allowed to use Wikipedia in high school because of the unreliability, correct?
Well, I could go on and on, but I would just be wasting my time. Goodbye CBS, have fun with your shoddy articles and reporters.'


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > December 2002 > Scholarship honors longtime language teacher
Scholarship honors longtime language teacher
Christa Smith's office is a testimony to the students who have enjoyed her tutelage and value those experiences.
On one wall, a fabric hanging depicts Jamaica, and a laminated nametag of a former student who participated in the Olympic games representing that country hangs with it. On another wall, an Oriental wall hanging adorns the edge of a bulletin board also bearing posters of foreign countries. A paddle with stuck-on lettering - called by its creators the "German Honorary Stick of Knowledge" - is her favorite memento.
All are tokens of appreciation from students to Smith, associate professor of modern languages and English at Wayland Baptist University. In her 34th year of teaching at WBU, Smith has been associated with foreign language studies at Wayland longer than any other professor. According to Arch Mayfield, chair of the Division of Languages and Literature, she's also one of the most passionate.
"At the beginning of the year, (the division) set a goal to help fill the void in our scholarship offerings and provide assistance to students studying foreign languages, as well as to honor one of our faculty members who really symbolizes that field," Mayfield said in announcing the newly formed Christa Kunkel Smith Modern Language Scholarship, unveiled formally at a luncheon held Tuesday, Nov. 26, also in honor of Smith's 70th birthday.
Both Mayfield and Smith are quick to point out that the honor does not come along with a retirement announcement, but was planned this year, "so we could do this while she's still very much a part of the Wayland family," Mayfield said. As for Smith, she said she's sticking around until she "gets to the point where I'm not any good to Wayland or if I can't walk upstairs anymore."
Smith finds the whole thing humbling, since she said tearfully she's served the university gladly. But through the years, she's definitely endured some ups and downs along with the school.
Smith first came to Wayland in 1959 as a student, attending courses for fun while her husband Don studied to become a preacher. After the first semester proved academically successful - she earned three As and a B despite helping care for a husband and a baby daughter - Smith realized she might actually be able to complete a degree and become a teacher, fulfilling a dream held since childhood.
She graduated in 1963 and continued at Texas Tech, earning a master's degree in English in 1967 and one in German in 1969. She returned to WBU to teach in 1969 and taught English, French and German. She's held to that routine over the years, teaching all facets of English and the two languages.
Smith is proud of helping to institute the university's language lab, which began with her own tape recorder hooked to eight headphone sets for students. Now, the state of the art language lab is computer operated.
Throughout her years at Wayland, Smith said relationships and the Christian atmosphere have kept her at the smaller Baptist university, though she surely has had opportunities to go elsewhere. She also has a passion for teaching languages.
"I think an educated person needs to have an introduction to another culture, and studying another language helps with that," she said. "When you learn the language, you learn about the people."
In the past three years, Smith has been actively involved in Wayland's partnership with Kenya Baptist Theological College, traveling to the African nation three summers to teach English courses. The experiences have been rewarding, she said, though quite unlike her classes in America.
"The students there are very grateful to be taught, and they definitely build your ego," she said. "It's almost too good to be true."
The Smith Scholarship is designed to help a student studying foreign languages at Wayland, regardless of major. When the contributed funds reach $25,000, the scholarship will become endowed and interest pulled off annually to award scholarships. For information on making donations to the Smith Scholarship Fund, contact Martha Cross in the Office of Development at 291-3427


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Expert Reviews
2013 Land Rover LR2
Land Rovers are known for their ruggedness and off-road prowess. But perhaps what's most impressive about the 2013 Land Rover LR2 is just how well it behaves when mud becomes tarmac, the roads twist and turn and the driver demands sportiness, rather than its famous aptitude for traversing boulders.
The LR2 is Land Rover's entry level SUV. It seats five, and sits below the Land Rover LR4 and the premium Range Rover products. Despite the LR2 being an entry-level machine, you still get plenty of styling and luxury. Naturally, what Land Rover deems entry is, for many manufacturers, classed as a premium vehicle.
The 2013 LR2 receives subtle tweaks to the exterior, primarily with regards to head and taillights. The 2013 Land Rover LR2 interior is freshened, more technology is added.
Also, the 3.2-liter naturally aspirated motor on the 2012 LR2 has been replaced on the 2013 LR2 by a more powerful and fuel efficient 2.0-liter turbocharged engine, lifted directly from the Range Rover Evoque. Fuel economy has been improved by two miles per gallon to an EPA-rated 17/24 mpg City/Highway. Power has been increased to 240 horsepower and 250 pound-feet of torque (up 10 hp and 16 lb-ft).
Pricing starts at $37,250 and three models are available (LR2, HSE, HSE LUX) with the price raising a couple of grand with each jump.
The LR2 boasts an all-wheel drive system by Haldex, and features Terrain Response that allows the driver to choose between four settings based upon the driving conditions faced (General Driving, Grass/Gravel/Snow, Mud & Ruts, and Sand).
Off-road, the car handles practically anything you can throw at it, from impossibly steep descents, river crossings and mud deep enough to drown a small dog.
When the going becomes less rough, the LR2 keeps going. The ride feels firm and poised, and the car exudes more agility and engagement than you would expect from a machine that made its name from scaling mountains.
The Land Rover LR2 is not just a one-trick pony. It's a compact SUV that can do it all.
Model LineupLand Rover LR2 ($37,250), LR2 HSE ($39,750), LR2 HSE LUX ($42,350)
Walk Around
The LR2 is undeniably Land Rover. In fact, it isn't far behind the Range Rovers in the looks department. Neighbors would be forgiven for thinking you received a promotion at work and bought yourself a Range Rover Sport.
We think the LR2 is better looking than the bigger LR4, which appears boxy and slightly awkward. The LR2 remains more elegant and curved. Proportionally, it works and definitely looks more expensive than the relatively average price tag suggests.
The most noticeable difference between the previous LR2 and the 2013 LR2 is the head and taillights. The headlights have been revamped with the latest xenon and LED technology, set off with a new design graphic in the front running lights. The grille and fog lamp bezels now sport a bright finish with subtle paint detailing changes to the grille surround, insert bars and fender vent.
At the side, the LR2 presents narrow A-posts, in an attempt to improve vision for the driver. Below is a thin aluminum-look engine vent, right next to the protruding fenders and the 18-inch standard alloy wheels. Two options of 19-inch wheels are available.
At the back of the car, the taillights receive the same treatment as the front, with a slightly more modern redesign. The whole rear end looks very Range Rover.
Three new colors have been added for 2013: Aintree Green, Havana and Mauritius Blue. The blue, in particular, is stunning. It is quite light and bright and stands out amongst the rest, even against a cloudy, dull looking backdrop.
The LR2 looks tasteful and sophisticated. It catches your attention, but in a way that does not scream look at me. It's resemblance to the big Range Rovers make it a great buy for those wishing they could afford the Range Rover, but simply cannot stretch that far. It really is not that much of an external compromise.
Step behind the wheel of the LR2 and you feel like you are getting what you paid for. Materials feel about right for a $40,000 car, and comfort is excellent.
The dual sunroof bathes you with light, making the cabin feel airy and roomy. The leather wrapped seats offer good support and feel comfortable during long, arduous driving. The seating position does feel unusually high, however. Even when lowering with the power seat adjustment, it still felt like I was sat on a child's booster seat.
This position was great when off-roading, as it allowed superior vision to spot any concealed roots or rocks. When on normal roads it felt like I needed to drop it down an inch or so, but it just wasn't an option. I'm only 5-foot, 7 inches, so a 6-footer might find this more annoying. For me, it was odd, but livable.
The center console has a brand new 7-inch touch screen. From here you can control the Meridian audio system and the optional navigation. If you opt for the nav you will be granted a rearview camera that has Hitch Assist to help with backing up, showing the exact location of the tow ball.
The imaginatively named Say What You See voice activation is a new feature that effectively allows you to say what you want the car to do: increase temperature, etc.
Below the screen are a horde of buttons and dials. The font used when wording the buttons looks a little big, bland and boring, like something from a Kindergarten's "Learn to Read" book.
Buttons behind the gear lever now replace the original Terrain Response dial, and the handbrake is an intelligent electric brake button. It is intelligent, apparently, because it adjusts brake force according to the slope and brake temperature.
Passive Start is now standard on the LR2 and this replaces the key docking system, meaning as long as you have the key on you, a press of the start button adjacent to the steering wheel is all you need to fire the engine.
The steering wheel is soft to touch and the buttons are intuitive and easily reached with your fingertips. A new five-inch instrument cluster is behind, displaying information such as temperature and fuel levels, gear position and Terrain Response mode, with all this sitting between the traditional dials.
The second row provides plenty of legroom (36.4 inches).
Cargo space is enough to manage a long off-roading adventure with the whole family: 26.7 cubic feet with the rear seats up, 58.9 cubic feet with the rear seats folded down.
Other than minor complaints about the buttons and high seating position, there really is not a whole lot to moan about with the LR2's interior. It is right there matching expectations in the $40,000 dollar price range, if not exceeding it.
Driving Impressions
The LR2 drives like any Land Rover should. It's capable of conquering practically any obstacle off-road, and more than competent of engaging the driver on the tarmac covered, twisting canyon curves.
For 2013, Land Rover ditched the 3.2-liter, naturally aspirated engine of old, replacing it with a more fuel-efficient and powerful 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that first appeared in the Range Rover Evoque.
The high efficiency turbo provides zero lag, as power is delivered linearly throughout the rev range. 0-60 mph comes in a solid 8.2 seconds, made possible by 240-horsepower and 250 pound-feet of torque. Horsepower received a 10-hp boost over the 3.2-liter engine, with torque increasing by 16 lb-ft. The motor is also 88 pounds lighter than the outgoing engine which helps it achieve better fuel numbers and deliver more punch.
Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated 17/24 mpg City/Highway, or 20 mpg Combined. Premium gasoline is recommended.
The engine is mated to a 6-speed automatic gearbox that works well. It doesn't unnecessarily jump out of gear, or select a gear not desired. And if you put the lever from Drive into Sport, the gears are held just a touch longer than usual.
On-road the LR2 feels agile and responsive. The ride is far firmer than you would imagine, and during hard cornering the machine is poised and well balanced. The vented disc brakes perform great and pedal feel is perfect, not too grabby, but still maintaining good initial bite. With just 2.6 turns lock-to-lock, the rack and pinion steering is responsive and direct. The column is adjustable for reach and rake, too.
A key contributor to the LR2's on-road prowess is the fully independent suspension, with four corner coil-spring struts. A unibody construction is used and reinforcements have been implemented to strengthen the body, such as high-strength steel in the door beams and dual-phase steel in the A-posts and lower sills.
When you take the LR2 off-road it is immediately in its element. You feel like no obstacle is too challenging, and for the most part, you are right. Minimum ground clearance is 8.26 inches, which is a little low when dealing with big boulders, but despite a few bangs and grinds, the LR2 soldiers on without complaint.
Wading depth is 19.7 inches making shallow water crossings a piece of cake. I crossed a 200-yard river full of ice-boulders during my time in Montreal driving the LR2. It was effortless, and at times I swear we were deeper than 19.7 inches, although perhaps that was merely perception.
Deep mud, steep climbs and descents provide only a minor grievance. Simply add a bit of additional power and the car blasts through like it's taking a Sunday morning stroll to pick up the latest copy of Outdoor magazine.
The reason the LR2 (and all Land Rovers) can handle such extreme conditions with grace is their immaculate Haldex four-wheel-drive system. The front-rear torque split is continuously variable through a hydraulically operated multi-plate wet clutch. The system can pre-engage at rest to reduce wheel-spin from standing starts, and then engage quickly when traction loss is detected. It will disengage swiftly to optimize the response of the stability control, too.
Under normal conditions, only a small amount of torque is fed to the rear wheels, but when the roads get slippery, almost all torque can go to the rear if needed.
Another key to the LR2's performance is its Terrain Response system, which directs the engine management, transmission control, traction control, ABS brakes, stability control and center coupling.
By selecting among four modes (General Driving, Grass/Gravel/Snow, Mud & Ruts, and Sand) you customize the Terrain Response for the specific conditions you might face.
If you come to a steep downhill section, Hill Descent Control restricts speed by utilizing the anti-lock brakes to improve driver control. It really is easy to use and intuitive. Simply press the Hill Descent button, select the amount of control you require from the system (based upon the steepness of the slope), begin your descent and release the brake. The system then takes over 100-percent allowing you to focus entirely on steering the car.
With the typical capability we come to expect from Land Rover, the LR2 is an ideal car for any off-road adventure. It's spacious, comfortable and looks great. Plus, it drives almost as well on-road as it does off. Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated 17/24 mpg. The price tag really is competitive when you consider everything you get for the cash. If you are in the market for a compact SUV that can handle anything you throw at it, including a sporty drive on mountainous roads, then you'd be crazy not to consider the 2013 Land Rover LR2.
Alex Lloyd filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report after his test drive of the Land Rover LR2 near Montreal. Alex won the 2007 Indy Lights Championship.


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Senior Kim Jacobson displayed her pitching prowess Friday afternoon striking out seven and walking three on the way to the Lady Bisons 4-0 victory over defending Atlantic Sun regular season champion Kennesaw State, Friday at Bailey Park in Kennesaw, Ga.
It as her fourth win in the last five outings and the Lady Bisons sixth in a row. Jacobson's record is 6-8 overall.
The Lady Bisons scored two runs in the first inning off a two-run homer to left center by sophomore designated player Kellie Sirus.
In the fifth inning Sirus added one more run, walking to leadoff the inning, and scoring on a groundout by sophomore shortstop Abby Keese two batters later.
Lipscomb would add one more run in the top of the sixth inning. Senior right fielder Sara Simons doubled to left field to score freshman leftfielder MacKenzie Tucker.
The Lady Bisons combined for eight hits including two from senior first baseman Heather Collins and a double each from Simons and Keese. Kellie Sirus finished the game with one hit, two runs and two RBI's.
The Lady Bisons improve to 21-21 overall and 10-5 in the conference. Game two of the doubleheader is set to start at 3:30 p.m.


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SPECIAL NOTE TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEYS/STAFF:Really, now? We've already had reasons to question the technical competence of the DOJ, but to do a complete block of all Webex webinars? Overkill much?
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While the California almond industry pursues various ways to reduce the dust associated with the crop, a group of engineers at the University of California, Davis is testing equipment designed to monitor the amount of particulate matter released during harvesting.
One of them, Ken Giles, a professor in the biological and agricultural engineering unit, recently described the experimental device during a regional almond day program at Coalinga. Basically a sensor originally designed to measure power plant smokestack emissions and attached to an almond harvester, the unit uses a pulsing light beam directed across air-flow tubes as the nuts are picked up.
It indicates the amount of dust interrupting the light, and the data is saved in a computer. Termed an "in-line sensor," it serves the same purpose as equipment used to measure emissions from motor vehicles.
"There is information that says harvesting is one of the most dust-intensive operations," Giles said. "One of the problems in monitoring air quality is it is very, very time consuming with setting up and weighing filters placed around a field. It can take years to collect data.
"Our purpose is to provide something more practical and efficient for growers and to help machinery manufacturers develop new machinery. Growers know there's dust out there, but we are beginning to get some numbers to apply to it."
He went on to say they looked for something "off the shelf," a commercially available sensor, without having to "re-invent the wheel" from scratch. Collaborating with Flory Industries, the UCD team attached the sensor to a Flory 850 PTO nut pick up machine and tractor and fitted a computer to collect data. Part of the challenge, Giles said, was adapting a device designed for stationary use to a mobile application.
Variables affect dust
In limited trials last year, the equipment showed that several variables in harvesting operations, including ground speed, machine adjustment, soil type, and yield intensity, affect the amount of dust generated. This coming season they plan to continue collecting data with a separate, trailer-mounted device operated near the pick up machine.
"It may be that in some parts of an orchard, reducing speed might have a big effect on reducing the amount of dust generation," he noted, adding that, on the other hand, reducing speed and prolonging the operating time may cancel out that benefit. "We are looking for some balance between them."
He said this year they plan to investigate windrow preparation, the amount of spider mites and leaves present, and perhaps nighttime operations, while they collaborate with other scientists observing irrigation practices and use of polyacrylamide compounds to reduce dust.
Support for the project has come from the Almond Board of California and USDA.
Another speaker, Rich Coviello, Fresno County farm advisor, told the group the almond industry's problems, particularly at hull split, with its premier pest, navel orangeworm, are greater than they were when he took his post 37 years ago. And although the insect hasn't changed a bit, the industry, and host crops grown around almonds, are significantly different and the NOW problem has become area wide, not confined to individual ranches.
"Some 30 years ago, a large almond acreage was 300 to 400 acres, and the average was about 150. We started working with the winter sanitation program and it was quite successful in orchards of that size," he said.
Today, in contrast, some almond ranches have expanded to thousands of acres, making spray applications and other practices more difficult to accomplish in a timely manner.
Mummy removal
The management strategies and cultural techniques based on removing all the mummified nuts from trees and destroying them, he said, were sound then and remain so now in interrupting the NOW's breeding cycle.
"Winter sanitation eliminates hosts for NOW for two generations, the overwintering brood and the first generation in the spring, and you can't spend money much better than that."
But changes in cropping on Fresno County's west side have given NOW new havens outside the almond orchards. Examples of other expanding acreage of hosts are pomegranates, pistachios, walnuts, citrus, and prunes that also have to be purged of NOW infested mummies. "Remember, in dealing with NOW, it's a numbers game. The more of them you get rid of, the fewer problems you have," he said.
If a good job of winter sanitation has been done, there will likely be no need for a May spray, but if the sanitation is not complete, the May spray, when populations are smaller and more synchronized, Coviello said, may be more effective than a spray at hull split.
Early harvest of almonds, or, in most years, having them on the ground prior to the third generation of NOW during late July or the first week in August, is another practice that also remains sound. "If you get those nuts on the ground before that generation starts, you can reduce damage. We know from previous research that damage can increase one-half of one percent each day after the start of the third generation," he said.
The combination of winter sanitation and early harvest can confine NOW damage to 2 to 3 percent where it would otherwise be 10 to 20 percent.
Shell seal
Turning to the issue of shell seal and its relation to NOW, Coviello said a lot of the pollinator varieties that have tight shells do not become as infested with the pest compared to Nonpareils. Research suggests that avoiding large applications of fertilizers and using smaller doses with more frequent irrigation can help promote smaller nuts with tighter shell seals to discourage infestations.
Larger nuts tend to have more open shell seals, and, given this spring's wet weather and poor pollination, the lighter almond crop suggests larger nuts, which will likely have more open shells, and greater pressure for NOW infestation this year.
Another way to manage NOW is ensuring more thorough coverage of chemicals. Older compounds were more forgiving because of their fuming action, but newer products are more selective and require precise placement.
Although the adoption of greater tree densities, he said, has many other virtues, it favors NOW. Standard spacing allows better penetration for both sunlight and sprays, while close spacing, especially when trees are not topped, promotes shading and a later and more prolonged hull split, making timely sprays more difficult and the nuts more vulnerable to NOW.


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I recently had a very bad experience at the emergency room of the hospital in Willits and would like to warn others of a few things of which to be aware.
When you are admitted to the emergency room you are required to sign a form authorizing medical care and advising you of your rights and of your non-rights. I signed, of course, but did not read anything as I was in distress and was in no shape to drive on to another hospital. I made the mistake of believing I would receive proper care at Frank Howard, Jr. Memorial Hospital — OR, if they felt they could not provide me proper care, they would arrange a transfer to another facility that could provide me with the care I required.
Howard Memorial (also known as Adventist Health Howard Memorial, part of a huge chain now, not just a little country business) informs you in their admissions forms that the doctors and other staff that treat you may not be employees of the hospital. They are independent contractors who are just renting space in the hospital and they (Howard) are not responsible for the quality of care you may receive.
The problem is, who is responsible when something goes wrong, as it did in my case, and what motivation does Howard have to hire good, and dump bad, doctors? On other occasions, I have received very good care at Howard. But on this occasion, I was not so fortunate.
This is not the place to go into details, but the short story is that the physician who treated me in the Howard ER had no idea what to do for my medical circumstances, but proceeded to "treat" me, anyway. She did not stop a procedure when I told her that I was in tremendous pain and that what she was doing was wrong. I have had this procedure before, so I knew what I was talking about. But she would listen and she would not stop and the eventual result, after it was no longer possible for her to deny she had no idea what she was doing, was a $5000 ambulance transfer to another hospital in Santa Rosa which had properly trained staff available to deal with my medical needs. Once there, I required emergency surgery to correct the damage done in the Willits ER and stayed two nights in the hospital until I was strong enough to be discharged. Total billed charges for this "event" are now in the six-figure range, and I continue to have problems and require occasional treatment.
Because of how medical practitioners and providers are protected under California laws, it is very difficult to bring suit unless you are very young and have suffered enormous loss of earning capacity, or are damaged severely enough to have guaranteed major expenses for custodial care and treatment the remainder of your life. It has to be millions of dollars, or no lawyer is going to take the time to represent you. I cannot sue the hospital even though they made the decision to allow the treating "physician" to practice there because of the contracts I signed upon admission to the ER. The "doctor" who treated me is also not a preferred provider for my insurance — although the hospital is. Our insurance paid her anyway, as if she was "preferred," and the person I spoke to said this is a common problem in rural hospitals and our insurance will pay the treating physician if the facility is a preferred one, "as a courtesy to their subscribers." They are under no legal obligation to do this. So, maybe your insurance will pay, or maybe they will not, and it is unlikely that you will be able to figure this out when you arrive at the emergency room. But, even if you do know, what are your choices when you need emergency medical care? One should be able to trust that a hospital makes some effort to have qualified physicians available to treat patients when they present for care, or have alternative plans to make certain their medical needs are met.
It is very unfortunate, but my advice to anyone with the ability to do so is to go to another medical facility for emergency care. Until Howard gets procedures in place which require patients to be transferred when on-site staff is not trained to deal with their medical problems, being treated in their ER may well lead to greater medical problems than brought you into the ER in the first place. If you absolutely need to go there, try and have someone else with you who can monitor what is being done and help get you to another facility if it becomes obvious that they are not being responsive to your needs and/or are completely ignoring your rights as a patient. When someone is screaming in pain because a procedure is being done incorrectly, the proper medical response is not just to continue what is being done, but use greater physical force.
If your circumstances do make suing Howard Memorial a possibility because of something that was done by someone other than a non-employee contractor, be advised that it will be almost impossible to find out the name of the Agent for Service of Process. You will not find Adventist Health Howard Memorial or anything like that registered with the Secretary of State. I'm sure they have a very good reason for being listed as Willits Hospital Inc. My only recourse at this point is to sue the treating physician, Michella Sheppherd, in Small Claims Court to try and recover my out-of-pocket costs. We are fortunate that our insurance has covered the vast majority of the expenses at both hospitals and for the ambulance transfer. If we did not have insurance, we would be responsible for the entire amount with virtually no legal recourse. Small Claims actions are limited to $10,000, maximum. Spencer Chase


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I have an Elite Double Hot Towel Cabinet that I use regularly in my office space. I bought this hot towel warmer for travel, I thought it would be perfect, but it is far from it. Here is the deal: You have to fill the warmer up with water upon every use. The towels get way too hot for touch and you must shake out with tongs for a long time before you can even think about putting it on the client's body. I have finally found a balance of shaking the towel out and then putting it on the body before it gets too cold but still burn myself sometimes in the process.
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Coppell lasts 33 days at Man City
On October 7 1996, Steve Coppell was confirmed as manager of First Division Manchester City, ending the club's 42-day search for a successor to Alan Ball. However, he lasted just 33 days before quitting because of stress on November 8.
The early stages of Steve Coppell's playing career hinted that his passion for football could veer to extremes of both joy and sadness. Rejected by Liverpool as a youngster for being too small [he stood just 4' 11'' at the time], he "cried all the way home," his father Jim said in a 1990 interview with the Daily Express's Christopher Hilton, and "lost his faith in ever becoming a footballer" after being rejected by Everton a year later.
With his focus turned to other pursuits - namely golf and studying economic and social history at Liverpool University - Coppell continued to play football for pleasure and was eventually persuaded to undergo one last trial at Tranmere Rovers. It just so happened that he scored a hat-trick under the watchful eye of Tranmere boss Ron Yeats, and was signed on a part-time basis, enabling him to continue his studies, soon afterwards.
Having grown seven inches in the space of a year, Coppell finally reached the sort of physique required for a footballer and did not look back. Manchester United manager Tommy Doherty signed him without even watching him play after he had scored 10 goals in 38 games for Rovers, and he would go on to break the record for the most consecutive appearances for an outfield United player - 207 from 1977 to 1981 - which still stands to this day, and boast statistics of 373 appearances and 70 goals during his time at Old Trafford.
England honours followed, and it looked as though Coppell would secure his place among the best midfielders in the history books - but tragedy struck in a vital World Cup qualifier against Hungary in 1982. A vicious challenge shattered his knee - he said it felt "like someone had put a firework in my knee and it had gone off" - and he would not recover.
With his career cruelly cut short at the age of 28, Coppell would have been forgiven if he had left the game altogether. But he took his first steps in management with Crystal Palace in 1984. At 28 years and ten months old, he was the youngest manager in the Football League and made many budget signings of unwanted players from the First Division - as well as snapping up Ian Wright from the depths of non-league football - to greatly improve the team's fortunes.
Indeed, only five years later, Coppell guided the Eagles back to the top flight after the South London club had dropped into the second tier under Alan Mullery, and was viewed as one of the best young bosses in the business.
The success continued to flow as Coppell took Palace to the 1990 FA Cup final, where they lost to his former team Manchester United in a replay, and the following season saw him guide the club to third place. It was their highest-ever league position, and came with plaudits that only increased when they also claimed their first major trophy: the now-defunct Zenith Data Systems Cup.
But it could not last. As a Daily Telegraph article explains: "The inaugural season of the Premier League in 1992-93 coincided with the cyclical decline of the lesser club. Palace were relegated, prompting Coppell's resignation, but not to the detriment of his standing in the game, and he was talked about as a candidate for the England post."
Instead of England, though, Coppell returned to Crystal Palace as Director of Football in 1995, but his ambition to manage at the highest level continued to drive him.
If he was looking for stability, then perhaps he chose the wrong club. At the time, Manchester City were unravelling: They had been relegated at the end of the 1995-96 season under the stewardship of Alan Ball, and a poor start to the following campaign had seen him sacked in August.
The club were looking for new investment, and a revealing article in the Daily Express in September saw "mystery Arabs" who had been linked exposed as "just a mirage", while chairman Francis Lee went on the attack and claimed: "I am sick of talking to idiots, the clowns I have met who were supposedly interested in investing in the club. I am sure that two or three were just in it for the self-glorification."
Searching for a new manager and new investment at the same time is never easy, but Lee's job was made all the harder when George Graham and Dave Bassett turned City down at the last minute. "Football is a jungle," Lee proclaimed after revealing that Bassett had got cold feet overnight despite agreeing to everything (including a player to sign) the day before. After the fiasco of Graham, another rejection did not go down well: "I asked him [Bassett] if that was his final decision," said Lee. "He said 'yes' so I told him I was looking forward to thrashing him 5-1 when he came to Maine Road next. Then I hung up."
After Asa Hartford took over as caretaker manager, City had a brief dalliance with Kenny Dalglish - he also rejected them as he was not ready to return to management - and it was left to Coppell to finally agree to take the reins after beating off competition from the likes of Bruce Rioch and Alan Smith in October.
"I'm an animal who tends to roost wherever he stays," Coppell told reporters at his first City press conference. "I was at United and Palace for nine years apiece, and I hope that City is a long-term rather than a short-term move."
But it was not. From day one, he had the look of a man who had the weight of the world on his shoulders and, after only six games and 33 days in charge, he quit, citing severe stress. Only two of his games were won, leaving City 17th in Division One with a mountain to climb.
"I'm not ashamed to admit that I have suffered for some time from huge pressure I have imposed upon myself, and since my appointment this has completely overwhelmed me to such an extent that I cannot function in the job the way I would like to," Coppell said.
"As this situation is affecting my well-being, I have asked Francis Lee to relieve me of my obligation to manage the club on medical advice. I am therefore resigning for personal reasons. I'm extremely embarrassed by the situation and I would like to apologise first and foremost to Francis Lee and his board, who have done everything in their power to help me."
There was sympathy from City chairman and former playing legend Lee, but also some barely disguised annoyance: "There is pressure in managing anything, but that sort of pressure doesn't come along in three or four weeks," he said. Palace chairman Ron Noades added: "I was surprised at how much it took out of him. I think he found the club [City] too enormous, but he weathered it."
Coppell was not alone in finding City's hotseat too hot, and was their third manager of a season in which five men took charge of the team in one capacity or another. However, his 33-day spell in charge was the shortest by any City manager then or since.
What happened next? Lee put assistant Phil Neal in charge before appointing Frank Clark, who took City a few places up the table but not enough for promotion. Coppell returned for two further spells at Crystal Palace, the first as chief scout before he was promoted after the resignation of Bassett (ironically) in February 1997. He secured promotion back to the top flight, via the play-offs, but the Eagles went down again the following season.
He achieved success with Reading, leading them to the Premier League for the first time ever in 2006, but found the pressure of managing Bristol City too much and quit after only four months in 2010.
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Silberiris literally means "silver iridescence", and it is a technique that appears on various colors of Loetz glass. All are beautiful, but I think the cobalt variety has become my favorite. Diminutive in size (4"), but huge in aesthetic beauty and tactile richness, it is a happy addition to my growing collection of cabinet vases by Loetz. The line drawing is from Loetz Bohemian Glass 1880-1940, Band II (Musterschnitte)


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We've discovering interesting things about the way our brains work all the time. Maybe someday we'll fully understand how our brains actually think, but we're a long way from that now. But in the meantime, here are a few more fascinating tidbits from studying our brains that might lead to smarter humans in the distant future.
- Studies of human brains and closely related primate brains have shown some differences that could point to specific genes responsible (or at least relevant) for the evolution of brain intelligence. Next stop, planet of the apes, folks. [url]
- Software can track what you've learned by constantly quizzing you, and apparently the best time to review something you want to memorize is right before you're about to forget it. Use it or lose it... and now you can precisely quantify when you're about to lose it. [url]
- Brain imaging techniques could replace IQ tests someday by predicting intelligence based on "global brain connectivity" that seems to correlate with the ability to perform challenging tasks. Taking the SAT in the future might not involve number 2 pencils, but instead a few hours in an MRI machine.... [url]


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Baltimore vs. Washington, D.C. [Pictures]
Baltimore has always had an inferiority complex when it comes to Washington, D.C. Washington is like the better looking older sibling who gets all the credit, while Baltimore gets stuck with the bad reputation. Yes, the crime rate here may be rough, but Baltimore has a lot going for it. So does D.C., for that matter. Here is a side-by-side comparison of both cities, from the sports teams to the restaurants. Which is better? That's up to you to decide. Don't worry -- these categories are totally unbiased. We promise. -Sam Sessa
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You're certainly not the only one to have run into this sort of odd dilemma. I left Judaism as well and during my transition, SO many questions stood out in my head about where the religion fits into Dawkin's arguments in God Delusion and Hitchen's ideas.
My father who is still an orthodox jew put me in touch with many of his respected rabbis so that they could talk sense into me. An important realization that I had during these conversations which pushed me away from the religion even more is that the difference with jews is that they're good talkers! They're so "malleable and accepting" of everything and yet maintain their faith on top of all logic... this makes them feel like their faith is THAT MUCH STRONGER.
The Jewish religion is really NOT so different from the other monotheistic ones! I don't care how many times I hear a rabbi say "no... I'm not blindly trusting the bible... I don't think god exists, I KNOW god exists." Jews, just like people in every other religion, are taking a leap of faith. While christians call it a leap of faith, jews can avoid argument by not having a name for it.
It seems that many of your arguments involve showing why the specific religion is bad through studying the specific religion. For me, I went the scientific route and decided that it all had to be wrong because it was contradictory to logic. From there, the only thing a rabbi will tell you is "but what started it all? that must have been god!!" What's sad about this is that if this is the perspective that jews take on god, then the rest of their religion still makes no sense. 99% of biblical stories that jews base their lives on involve an interaction with god that not just uses him as a "first cause" but as a reoccurring master-type figure who is more jealous than all of my ex girlfriends combined. Maybe god was a first cause, we don't know.... but that's not a reason to starve yourself on yom kippur or to spend every day praying towards the direction of the western wall.
And you can use the circumcision argument! Ultra-orthodox Jews see it as a custom for the mohel (guy who cuts the penis) to use his mouth to suck a drop of the baby's blood from the penis after the cut is made. I vomited when I heard this and immediately called my father to ask if that happened to me. He told me it was beautiful custom and while he doesn't remember, I should not worry because it's part of our culture. Gross. My mom told me not to worry though, she would not let any old man's mouth near my penis (love her).
Try to have them reconcile predestination with free will. When they have botched that, move on to how predestination negates the concept of risk, by asking them if they drove there with their eyes closed.
And it's OK to be a Jewish apologists. If nothing else, they are the ethnic group which has by far contributed the most to science and understanding. As atheists, we should thank them for that.
"like the other two, indoctrination of children begins immediately."
That's excellent Robert. Get 'em processed asap in case they start thinking for themselves. Just keep churning them out. I read it with the "Austrian Professor" accent. lol.
I would not have enough info to contribute here other than saying that all 3 are basically variations of the Abrahamic faith. Maybe 3 shades of the same color. I just dismiss them all equally.
THe Hitchen debate is very good. He wins. (as usual).
understanding Judaism is very very important.
Before I became an atheist I was a very lost skeptic.. I read about Shimon bar Yochai :) I was crazy to reading and compareing the prophecies of all the three terrible delusions,Judaism Christianity and Islam..Then I relieved after knewing that Judaism a pagan concept, ot to mention Christianity and Islam..were pagan concepts as well.
I have to say, that understanding the Old Testament helped me to become atheist..really!
I was happy to find out that the Lord Yahweh,Allah :-) had a wife named Asherah!
I thought it was Asherah
Although there were a lot of variations in the names of the ancient Semitic pantheon.
Sorry, Asherah yeah.
yeah, you're right.. a lot of variations in the names!
Historians have done a great job by researching on this issue..
If there were no Judaism, then it will be no Christianity and no Islam, they are all related to each other by prophecies.


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The inaugural Charlotte Harbor Super Boat Grand Prix in April has Manasota Key residents concerned, but they're also intrigued by the possibilities.
Considering their lives will be upended for three days in April, the folks on the south end of Manasota Key are taking it pretty well.
Sure, the inaugural Charlotte Harbor Super Boat Grand Prix scheduled for April 11-13 has them a little concerned, but they're also intrigued by the possibilities.
About 100 residents showed up Monday to pepper race organizer Jerry York with questions about the details, especially how he's going to handle traffic for an island with one road on and off.
The big picture is already in focus.
The races, split into several divisions, are the second stop for the Super Boat International 2014 tour. SBI also sanctions the July 4 races in Sarasota, which has hosted an event for 30 years.
Charlotte Harbor's version attempts to extend the tourist season by drawing 40,000 to 80,000 visitors to Englewood Beach, which, according to the publicity, "will come to life with the thunder of thousands of horse power screaming by at incredible speeds!"
The traffic to and from the beach may move a bit slower, York admitted to the gathering of the South Manasota Key Association.
For three days, the race boats and vendors will take over the public beach parking lot, and the rest of the Charlotte County end of the island will become a no-parking zone for anyone who doesn't live or rent there.
It's a funny experiment in a way. Some residents have been trying for years to prohibit public parking in front of their properties. Now they finally have a chance to do it legally, if only temporarily.
The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office does plan to tow from rights of way.
With no parking on site, 50 to 75 school buses or motor coaches will haul visitors from mainland parking areas, starting at 7 a.m. each day, York said.
The Sheriff's Office at one time considered issuing bridge passes to island residents. But, if they had to check each vehicle, "We'd have a line all the way into DeSoto County," Deputy Dan Cotton told the crowd.
Even so, traffic is almost sure to be a mess as drivers drop off passengers or search for nonexistent parking.
Maybe the payoff will be worth it.
York estimates the project will have a $10 million economic impact on the area, generating $105,662 in sales taxes, $22,186 in bed taxes and $9,360 in gas taxes.
Those types of numbers are always speculative, but someone had to come up with something to justify Charlotte County's investment of $250,000 over two years as seed money.
No doubt the event will have an impact. It's just unknown how much and whether it will be worth the trouble.
York has his hands full trying to foresee all the pitfalls. He said he has 28 committees working on subjects from trash pickup to security. He expects 300 volunteers will be at work on April 12 and 13, for what essentially will be a carnival-like party.
Not coincidentally, Budweiser happens to be a $33,000 sponsor, area Rotary clubs will serve beer and wine, and there's a move afoot to introduce a two-day relaxation on the open container laws.
Not to worry, York told the residents, "The people who follow this sport are not the riffraff you get at a lot of other events."
Wayne Largent, who serves on the Manasota-Sandpiper Key Advisory Committee for Charlotte County, says he and his neighbors still have unanswered questions, and they worry about being able to get on and off the island.
On the other hand, they hope York can pull it off.
"If there had been a motion to endorse, I'm not sure it would have passed," he says. "It would have been close. A lot of people are excited about it. I'm certainly going to go over to the beach to watch the races."
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Welcome to the Solano County Clerk of the Board of Supervisors' website. The Clerk of the Board is responsible for preparing and distributing an agenda for each Board meeting, taking the minutes of the meeting, preserving all Board records, and ensuring that an open process is followed and transparent to the public.
The Clerk of the Board is also responsible for administration of the Assessment Appeals Board, maintaining a list of Advisory Boards and Committees; the filing agency for Claims and Lawsuits against the County; and the filing agency for State Department of Fish and Game environmental documents.
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The following elections will take place in May/June 2013:
- Fedora Project Board (three seats)
- FESCo (Engineering) (five seats)
- FAmSCo (Ambassadors) (four seats)
- Fedora 20 Name (separate schedule from the committee elections)
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
- 1 FAmSCo elections May/June 2013
- 2 Candidates
FAmSCo elections May/June 2013
Current members of FamSCo are:
- Christoph Wickert
- Jiri Eischmann
- Clint Savage
- Nick Bebout
- Alejandro Perez
- Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera
- Truong Anh Tuan
As per the FAmSCo_election_rules, these members finish their term and their seats are up for re-election:
For the last election, please see FAmSCo Nominations Nov/Dec 2012
Candidates must be a member of the Ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps ensure that FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora Ambassadors, but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.
Ambassadors will be following the Fedora election timeline.
You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please consult with that person ahead of time.
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Jiri Eischmann (sesivany)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora:
- Although my history with Fedora started just at the beginning of 2011 I've been involved in Linux communities much longer (since ~2004). Because I work as a community manager for Red Hat Czech I spend on Fedora-related stuff most of my time. I've organized many open source events including DevConf.cz or GUADEC 2013.
- I'm an ambassador for the Czech Republic and have been chairing regional ambassador meetings since summer 2012.
- I produce and distribute media and most of swag for EMEA. I'm also a treasurer who is responsible for the EMEA regional budget.
- I've been a FAmSCo member since June 2012 and its chair since December 2012.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- The governance reform FAmSCo has done in the last two terms has moved a lot of power to the regions, closer to contributors. While it brings a big opportunity, it's also a big challenge. I think the main goal for FAmSCo in the next term will be helping the regions to cope with the new situation and making sure everything works as intended.
- The reform has freed FAmSCo from day-to-day requests, so it can focus on what it's supposed to do - to steer the ambassadors project. So FAmSCo should focus on making the project more attractive to newcomers, asking questions such as what kind of ambassadors are we looking for etc.
- Fedora Ambassadors shouldn't be a standalone project within Fedora Project. We should closely cooperate with other teams and contributors. FamSCo should be an active participant in inter-team projects and a good partner to others.
Robert Mayr (robyduck)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora:
- I started contributing to Fedora in 2011 but I'm involved in Fedora since 2005, when i founded the italian Fedora community http://it.fedoracommunity.org/
- Fedora user since version 1b (previously RHL user 8 and 9).
- In 2008 I wrote (with mailga) a manual about Fedora 9, containing 230 pages and reaching a discreet success on the italian market.
- I'm an ambassador for Italy and mentor for EMEA.
- I'm also part of the websites team, where I'm quite active, contributing also on a better workflow of all our pages.
- I organized a few small Pizza events for the italian community website users already before contributing to the fedoraproject.
- Actually I'm chairing the Italian bi-weekly IRC meeting on #fedora-it.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- A lot of work has been done by FAmSCo during the last year, now it's important to continue and finalize all this good work.
- Having several years of direct experience in managing a local community (end users), I'm convinced we can do much more for this particular channel. Having stronger local communities means having more users and, if local communities are well organized, this also means more contributors. Local communities may therefore follow some helpful guidelines.
- FAmSCo can help to reactivate inactive ambassadors, our evergreen topic...most of the inactive ambassadors are standalone, they don't contribute to other groups. Ambassadors who contribute also in other teams remain much more active than those who don't.
- The single Regions have much more power (and responsability) than before, organization of budgets and events therefore is becoming very important. FADs are really useful for this purpose, but I think it would be also fine to have a webpage where Fedora users and contributors can easily find events, local communities etc, instead of having a wiki page and 2 websites for the same function. Fedocal is a first step in this direction.
Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- Over the past 1 - 2 years, FAmSCo has changed a lot of it's policies, mainly the election guidelines and the workflow for sponsoring and reimbursing event attendees. We have improved a lot, but I feel we also have created too much bureaucracy. I want to to reduce the red tape to a bare minimum. I want to enable contributors to do what they like most in Fedora, not to make them run in circles to follow our policies.
- We have given more power to the regional communities. This is a huge improvement but also raises some problems. I want to get back to a more meritocratic approach while preserving the newly gained power of the regions.
- On the Red Hat side, there was the transition from Community Architecture to OSAS. Many things that worked well in the past no longer work. I want to work with OSAS people to fix this.
- Regional communities are now in charge of their budget. This has worked well for some, but not so well for others. I want to improve budget planing and make sure that the regions really get all the money they need.
- I want to improve controlling. In order to draft a reliable budget for next year, we need to know how much money we spend and how much is left. At any given point in time and without having to ask OSAS.
- We need more for ambassadors. Most of that information is in the wiki, but we need to make sure it is easy to find and to follow. No red tape but cleaning up and consolidating what we already have.
Luis Bazan (LoKoMurdoK)
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- Fedora contributor since 2011.
- Fedora Ambassador since 2011.
- Fedora Latam Mentor.
- I´m active member of the community.
- I worked on the organization of some community events.
- I worked in the organization of FUDCon Panama in 2011 with Alejandro Perez (aeperezt) and Abdel Martinez (Potty).
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- Create Fedoras Communities in universities, finding more partners to this great community, "This is not impossible".
- Forms to encourage ambassadors to work with other groups in the community.
- I want to improve the issue of reimbursement for countries that do not have an adequate system for this. Many ways to make the reimbursement and just tell them to not is possible. (no close the doors for them and otherwise support).
- Continue improvement plan of budgets and others issues of the region.
- Maintain and strive to improve the organization we already have in Fedora.
- I want to leave that bit and give my best to support all regions in every way possible and try to improve any process which can be improved. Always listening the ideas of others that are part of this team.
Wolnei Junior
- Please briefly describe your history with Fedora.
- Fedora user since 2006.
- Fedora Ambassador since 2008.
- Currently participate in other projects such as artwork, freemedia, testing, spins, and I´m one of the most active member of the Fedora Project in Brazil.
- What are your particular goals related to FAmSCo?
- Active Ambassador - Clearly define and precisely those who would, valuing their work instead of the "red tape" or self promoting, respecting guidelines and true vocation as an ambassador to promote Fedora.
- Event attendees - In larger events, target more different people each edition accompanied by few with experience. For example: an ambassador who attended a big event in the previous year, the following year would rather not repeat it but would to another great event that has not yet participated, so we would have more ambassadors with experience in both international events and how the larger national events. Fortifying the name of the community, instead of just the same name to be remembered.
- Mentoring - Monitor plus new ambassadors to were not "lost" at the beginning, always seeking their permanence and development. Encouraging them to participate in other projects, being the Ambassador program a gateway and not their end.
- Redeem pleased to contribute to instead of "obligation" to be natural and rewarding. In line with our slogans: Freedom, Friends, Features, First.
- Sponsoring - Simplification, transparency and plainly anticipated to be used in order to cover the maximum possible potential. Example: Production of media and other reusable materials every version - CDRWs, DVDRWs or pendrives.
- Thereby diminish the projects "one man", being another contributor responsible for having all permissions needed to develop that project.


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Ali among legends in Sugar Bowl coin toss
Ali among legends in Sugar Bowl coin toss
Louisville native Muhammad Ali and former University of Louisville football star Tom Jackson will be on the field Wednesday representing UofL in the Allstate Sugar Bowl coin toss.
Ali and Jackson will join the team captains on the field for the opening toss.
Jackson played linebacker for the Cardinals for three years in the early 1970s. He went on to a 14-year NFL career and is currently a NFL analyst for ESPN.
Florida will be represented by former football stars Emmitt Smith and Danny Wuerffel.
The Allstate Sugar Bowl is scheduled to kickoff at 7:30 p.m. CT in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.


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Making Commandments Beautiful: Part 3
July 5, 2013
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Shabbat message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, July 5, 2013.
Making Commandments Beautiful: Part 3
We've been looking at the Talmudic concept of Beautifying the Commandments - especially when it comes to the Sabbath. The Talmudic passage telling us to practice this beautification specifically mentions "make a beautiful mantle for the Torah." Although there are various times that we read the Torah publicly in the synagogue, including Mondays, Thursdays and holidays, the grandest Torah ceremony is the weekly reading of the Torah on Shabbat… Saturday mornings.
Most synagogues have multiple Torah scrolls all of which are housed in the "Ark" - a kind of holy cabinet. When the Ark is opened, the first thing the congregation notices is the richness of the Torah appurtenances: a woven or embroidered mantle, silver crowns for the Torah rollers, or staves, a breast plate often with gemstones. Often, the designs are modeled after the descriptions of the clothing of the High Priest found in the Book of Exodus complete with the rich scarlet and gold colors described, pomegranates and bells and gemstones in a breastplate. Reading from the Torah is indeed a grand spectacle - the Torah is lifted on high. In Askenazic (European) synagogues, the crowns, breastplates, and mantles are removed, and the Torah is laid flat on a reader's table. In Sephardic (Spanish, or Mediterranean) synagogues, the Torah scrolls are often rolled into a "Tik" - an ornately decorated standing Torah case. Often the elements of the Torah ornaments are lovingly created by members of the congregation… other times purchased or commissioned. In congregations that have many Torah scrolls, an open ark is particularly spectacular.
Shabbat Shalom
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September 22, 1925 - January 28, 2013
Cornwall, NY (formerly of Goshen, NY)
Warren Francis Herzog, 87, of Cornwall, NY, formerly of Goshen, NY for 25 yrs passed away Monday, January 28, 2013 at Hudson Valley Hospital, Peekskill, NY. Born September 22, 1925 in Hackensack, NJ, he was the son of Herbert Herzog and Loretta Keehn Herzog.
He was the husband of Jane Hopkins Herzog for 56 years. He was retired from sales with Caldwell Supply Co. in Trenton, NJ.
Warren served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943-45; Graduated from University of Maryland, Pres. of phi sigma kappa fraternity; Member of St. John's church, Goshen, NY, Cataract Eng. Co & Fire Police, Goshen Lions, Ocean Pines Fire Ambulance Co.; Volunteer with Atlantic General hospital, Berlin, MD; Founding member of Goshen Recreation; and also Founding Board Member of Arden Hill Hospital and Atlantic General Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Jane Hopkins Herzog at home; children, Betty Bennett (Mike Becker), Diana McNally (Sean), Judy Railey (Dave Storms), John Herzog (Tara); grandchildren, Brittany and Charles Bennett, Brian and Kevin McNally, Danny, Brad and Samantha Railey, Aly, Ryan and Casey Herzog; sister, Lila Bruce. He was predeceased by his parents, Loretta (Tootsie) and Herbert Herzog; brother, William Herzog and wife, Jeannette.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at Quigley Bros. Funeral Home, 337 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520.
A Mass of Christian Burial is at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Thomas of Canterbury, 340 Hudson St. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY.
Contributions may be made to Cataract Eng. & Hose, 40 Green St., Goshen, NY 10924 or Ocean Pines Vol. Fire Co, 911 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, MD 21811.
Arrangements are by Kevin Quigley of Quigley Bros. Funeral Home, 337 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520. To send condolences or directions to the funeral home, please go to: www.quigleybros.com