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Miscellaneous ~ And now for something completely different.# Posted on May 22nd, 2010 08:16 PM by Gideon ZhiI was browsing YouTube a month or so ago for silly House of the Dead 2 stuff when I came across a band named after the game´s infamous "Suffer, like G did" line. The recordings were shaky cams of live performances and weren´t of very good quality, but the band has since released a three-track EP which you can download on their website. I´ve been taken completely aback by their stuff, as it´s actually really good! Very jazzy. So yeah, this is a plug. Grab the EP (it´s free) and if you like them, then spread the word.
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Progress ~ Ancient Magic: Script Fully Inserted Ancient Magic
# Posted on May 1st, 2010 03:35 PM by Gideon ZhiA few days ago I finally managed to get Ancient Magic´s auto-format routine working nearly 100%. What this means, in effect, is that I add a single control code at the start of a string, and the game itself adds line breaks where appropriate. This is complicated by Ancient Magic´s text system for two reasons. First, there is no standard "line break" command like most games have; instead, the game has a "print cursor position" command, which takes X and Y parameter bytes. Second, the routine likes to recursively call itself, most notably to differentiate between the speech patterns of the male and female main characters. These have been fully retained in the text translation, and the routine is currently navigating said recursive jumps with about 98% accuracy. Of course we need 100%, but it´s really cool to see nonetheless.
The *nice* thing about the super annoying Cursor Position command is that it lets me tweak menus like crazy, and take advantage of the double-spacing that ten-ten marks usually occupy. I´ve also managed to add max hp and max mp indicators to the battle window, which the original game did not have!
I don´t know how much longer this will take, but I´d like to have it being playtested in a week or two. No guarantees on that, of course.
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Major Release ~ Tactics Ogre, For Real This Time Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on April 8th, 2010 02:16 AM by Gideon ZhiYes, the actual English version is available now. Enjoy!
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Miscellaneous ~ Pop! Goes The Weasel Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on April 2nd, 2010 01:45 AM by Gideon ZhiWell, as I´m sure most people have realized by now, the Tactics Ogre patch translates the game into Al Bhed and not English. Happy April Fool´s Day, everyone! Consider this my way of getting back at all the are-we-there-yet whiners I´ve had to deal with over the years. If I truly intended to delay the patch two weeks for every person who asked when it´d be done, well, you´d probably be getting it on Christmas instead.
What´s no joke, however, is the very real amount work that went into this. The actual translation patch - which will be coming in a few days, don´t worry - will be nearly identical to the one available now. The Al Bhed version contains the full English text, sort of - I just used a different table file to insert it into the rom. In fact, if I didn´t have to get up for my crazy weekend work schedule in the morning, I´d probably get things ready to go right now! But them´s the breaks, and a few more days won´t kill you. And for those of you who are curious, yes, the Al Bhed version of the patch will be moved to the Tactics Ogre page´s "Extras" subsection, where it will be preserved for all who care to try it.
See you in a few days!
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Major Release ~ Tactics Ogre, available now (in Al Bhed!) Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on April 1st, 2010 03:31 AM by Gideon ZhiFrankly, I´m sick to death of looking at this thing. There are still a few minor cosmetic issues, all detailed in the readme, but they shouldn´t really alter your enjoyment of the game on the whole.
You´re welcome.
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Progress ~ Tactics Ogre enters playtesting. Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on March 27th, 2010 12:25 AM by Gideon ZhiYeah, that´s right! There are still two or three small things that need fixing, but things are pretty tight as it is. My testers are loaded with cheats and will hopefully run it pretty quickly. We´re hoping for a speedy test phase, followed by a release!
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Progress ~ Tactics Ogre much closer Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on March 6th, 2010 06:24 PM by Gideon ZhiAttached below are screenshots of stuff I´ve fixed over the last couple of days. First one shows the finalized L-view character list, while the second shows an expanded S-view character portrait window and hacked "Start: Parameter" graphic. Expanding that window was a right pain in the arse, let me tell you - and it still doesn´t function 100% correctly when the screen scrolls up or down. I´ve since fixed some major crashes, some nasty non-crash glitches, and a lot of really bizarre stuff, including stuff that worked breaking inexplicably later on down the line.
All that said, it´s look a *lot* nicer, and aside from the introduction to politics if you let the game sit at the title screen twice, you can play up to the world map without encountering any Japanese or glitches. The Warren Report menus still need rather a lot of work, the dates still display in Japanese on the map, I haven´t really tested much of the intermission stuff and the aforementioned political introduction is still broken (it´s only displaying one line of four) but otherwise I think I´ve fixed most of the biggest issues. It´s certainly a lot more stable than it used to be!
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Progress ~ Alpha Has an Editor Super Robot Wars Alpha
# Posted on February 23rd, 2010 01:56 AM by Gideon ZhiPlease welcome Antialias, recruited in desperation from the depths of /m on 4chan, to the SRW Alpha project. When he passed me these images two weeks ago he´d edited up through the route merge at scenario 6 (of 57.) So I´ve uploaded a bunch of the stuff he sent me to showcase his work! The two snaps below are now in the game´s gallery, along with nine more new snaps. Enjoy!
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Progress ~ Tactics, Making Progress Tactics Ogre ~ Let Us Cling Together
# Posted on February 23rd, 2010 01:35 AM by Gideon ZhiIn the last 24 hours or so, I´ve fixed a couple of major issues. One of them was hopefully the last of the hiccups resulting from the conversion of the text routine into something that´ll accept a different format of text. Another was a crash surrounding the default name for your squad. This means you can actually play past the third map now without the game blowing up in your face.
There are still a lot of issues, though. One of the tutorials has a bad button press in its script, which is causing it to go out of sync and lock up. A lot of the interfaces need to be tweaked, windows moved and expanded, and every once in a while there´ll be a *really* horrible glitch with some of the graphics, though I have a feeling this is a result of a hook misfire with some of the code I´ve added to the game. I´ll have to double check.
Getting much closer, though.
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Progress ~ Merry Christmas, and Apologies
# Posted on December 26th, 2009 08:15 PM by Gideon ZhiI´d hoped to have Megami Tensei (as in, the original) out yesterday, but due in part to being with relatives for the last 48 hours (without internet) I was unable to post this yesterday. Unfortunately this is not the biggest problem with my plan, as several extraordinarily nasty bugs (including the one pictured in the screens below, which refused to die and killed my entire party quite handily) have reared their heads and are preventing the release. The game is mostly done, I think, though I do want to get some of the more nonsensical text segments doublechecked, but the issue is largely due to the physical expansion of the ROM.
Physical expansion (i.e. making the game bigger and being able to fit more text in) is a relatively easy task when dealing with SNES games. Not so with the NES. The glitches - possibly related to timing and interrupts - were initially discovered to be causing visual corruption in the maze layouts. These are easily ameliorated by simply turning your view, but given that this is a first-person dungeon crawl, the bug was deemed serious enough to hold back a release. However when I endeavored to play further, I encountered several further problems, including the Mappa spell´s output (a minimap in the left-hand pane) locking in place instead of moving with the player, Nakajima dropping to level 1 after gaining a level in battle yet retaining all of his statistics while Yumiko progressed normally, and of course, the nasty creature pictured in the attached screens, which frankly seemed to be unkillable. Given the severity of these issues, I cannot yet in good faith release the game to the public.
(I´ve actually just finished talking with Liana, who you may remember from Metal Max Returns. She´s done some research and apparently the Bug enemy is not a bug. I hope that sounds as odd to you as it did when I wrote it! The other issues still stand, though.)
However, I *HAVE* done a lot of work on the game in the last week. I´ve tweaked the font to be a bit more uniform and much more readable (I´ve un-bolded a few of the letters and straightened out the heights), and I´ve redrawn the bland "DON" that appears when you bang into a wall to be a much more fancy "BAM" (pictured below.) I´ve re-researched all of the enemy names and brought them up to speed with proper romanizations. Several of them don´t appear in any other Megami Tensei title, or certainly not in any that have been released in English - examples include Akhushtal, Viy, A Bao A Qu, Bathym and Myrrha. I´ve inserted most, if not all, of the miscellaneous text in the game - and Lord knows there´s plenty of the stuff. I wouldn´t be at all surprised to find out that I´d missed some.
I´ll post more news when I have it. Can´t say when that´ll be, though, and I apologize again if I´ve disappointed anyone.
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Tuck promises, if elected, to drop any appeal the incumbent might file. He advocates a longer teacher review period like in 41 of the 46 states with tenure; a less cumbersome dismissal process like for most other California state workers; and a layoff system that considers performance.
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If the scribblings of the Las Vegas Witch have taught us anything, it's that not all grown-ups get swept up in the Halloween spirit. But kiddie revelers in Aiken, South Carolina, have upped the ante as well:
According to a police incident report, the 28-year-old victim told authorities she recognized some boys from her neighborhood while they were trick-or-treating about 6:30 p.m. Monday near Schroeder and George streets and jokingly told them she would take their candy.
One 10-year-old in the group of about 10 juveniles responded with "no you're not …" and then pointed a 9 mm handgun at her.
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And I said nothing, because I was not a giant robot.
Go through security, get pulled to the side. I'm wearing a French Connection Transformers t-shirt. Bloke starts joking with me is that Megatron. Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I'm not allowed to fly. WTF? It's a 40 foot tall cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. There is no way this shirt is offensive in any way, and what I'm going to use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?
Now here's the stupid part. I was only taking carry on luggage, so my clothes were in my bag, so I said I'd get changed. So I stripped off at security and changed t-shirts, putting the "offensive" t-shirt in my bag. Now I haven't been a dick so far, I've done what they've said. No point in arguing with the drones.
The supervisor comes over and is now a dick to me, telling me if I put the shirt on I'll be arrested. I then told him that I wasn't going to waste time arguing with him and he wasn't worth the effort and didn't have any power to change anything anyway. With hindsight I should have said, yeah arrest me, great publicity for you guys to arrest a bloke wearing a transformers t-shirt.
It started like this in Nazi Germany.
The Gestapo had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. A law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial oversight. The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, however, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review.
When do we get our class-action lawsuit against the TSA? Their entire reason for existence is unreasonable search and seizure. The entire organization is illegal and violates United States law all day every day.
And the real problem isn't the absurdity, nor even the violence and death the TSA has caused. The real problem is that the kids are getting used to it.
Just in case it isn't obvious, this is what the TSA is for. If you're going to introduce a big change, the best thing to do is to first spend a little time and warm people up for it. Every circus in the world sends in the clowns before the lions and the tigers.


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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – With eight members of the Yale women's fencing team competing at the Mar. 11 NCAA Regional Championship at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., freshman Lauren Miller put in a stellar effort to advance to the Mar. 22-25 NCAA National Championship.
Miller finished in ninth place individually in foil competition. That result, combined with her overall season performance, qualified her for the National Championship in eighth place among the Northeast Region fencers.
"We're all proud of Lauren Miller, coming back from an injury about two weeks ago to perform wonderfully in her first NCAA tournament, qualifying for nationals," said junior captain Robyn Shaffer.
Several other Yale fencers performed well at the Regional competition. In saber competition, junior Madeline Oliver finished in 17th place in the Regional bouts, a performance that, when combined with her season performance, narrowly put her out of qualification for the National Championship.
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A couple of weeks ago, MAKE photographer Gregory Hayes, designer Michael Silva, O'Reilly Web Producer Tony Quartarolo, and I had the opportunity to attend Amp Camp, just up the road from the O'Reilly offices in Sebastopol California. What's Amp Camp? Glad you asked. A few years ago, Dana Brock held Speaker Camp, where 20 or so friends hung out in his workshop for a day and built speaker enclosures. Building on the success of that, he and Nelson Pass decided to do it again and have a day, in the middle of the wine country, to build amplifiers.
Nelson speaks of the requirements for the camp here:
Building amplifiers is generally a more intimidating challenge than loudspeakers. There are more parts involved, the function of these parts seems more exotic, and they are connected in more complex ways.
In thinking about the design, I considered whether a "chip amp" might be suitable. This would be an amplifier based around a commercially-available integrated circuit in which most of the complexity is hidden inside a single component. This approach looks easier, but is a little less "fundamental" than a design using discrete transistors to form the circuit. If you think of this project positioned on a range of DIY complexity, at one extreme you take a pail of sand and start fabricating your own transistors from scratch. At the other end of the scale you go to the store and buy a Bose system. This project leans toward the former.
Besides, who says that discrete designs have to be complicated? It is possible to build a nice amplifier with only a few more connections than a chip amp, and for a little more effort you can learn even more and get more enjoyment out of the finished product.
So Amp Camp Amp #1 is a discrete design using four transistors. It can be built for about the same cost as a chip amp and in the same amount of time. It will not measure as well as chip amps in some regards, but as a single-ended Class A design with minimal feedback it will sound good and get some high end audiophile respect.
We have to seriously consider safety as a constraint with regard to the power supply circuitry for the amplifier. We assume that most of the participants in this project do not have the skills to safely connect the components which make up an amplifier power supply to the AC power line.
I addressed this by choosing a commercially available switching supply of the type you routinely see powering up your portable computer. There are literally tons of surplus supplies available for this purpose, providing regulated 19 volts DC at more than 2 amps or so on their output and having their input going safely to the wall AC power outlet through a safety approved power cord. These supplies are isolated for shock safety and are also short-protected. At 19 volts output they do not represent much of a hazard to humans.
What? An audiophile component with a switching power supply? Get over it – it works fine.
And it does work fine. I have annotated a few of the pictures below to tell a bit of the story, but the gist of the day was everyone had a blast. People came from all different backgrounds, many didn't know how to solder when they came, but when the day was over, they had gone well beyond making an LED blink, as many first projects go, but had built a full Class-A amplifier that would turn heads anywhere for its good looks and great sound. How neat that one of the godfathers of high-end audio was there teaching people to strip wire, bend resistors, and avoid burning themselves. To the hosts, the Brock family was friendly, and amazing to let a bunch of people into their home and share a meal and great day of exploring electronics.
So Dana and Nelson: I missed Speaker Camp, so how about we get going on round 2?


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Veteran defensive back Charles Woodson, who entered the league way back in 1998, intends to keep playing through at least 2013.
And he hopes to keep playing for the Packers.
"Until somebody tells me I'm not, this is where I plan on playing," Woodson said, via the Green Bay Press-Gazette. "I haven't had that conversation. If that conversation comes around, it comes around, but as far as I know is, anything that I expect is that I'll be a Green Bay Packer. That's all I have to say about that."
This year, Woodson has missed seven games and counting with a broken collarbone. He hopes to return for the regular-season finale at Minnesota, and at the latest for the postseason.
Woodson, who was playing safety in the base defense and slot corner in nickel and dime, arguably has been rendered moot by the development of younger — and cheaper — players. Woodson is due to earn base salaries of $6.5 million in 2013 and 2014, the final two years of his current deal.
"Whenever the time comes, I know how to play football," Woodson said. "That's one thing you don't [forget]. Just because you have time off, doesn't mean you forget how to play the game. I know how to play the game. I know the defense, and so when that time comes, I'll be ready."
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Gary Winick, a pioneering producer and director of independent digital films who found mainstream success with such movies as "13 Going on 30" and "Letters to Juliet," has died. He was 49.
Winick, who was diagnosed with brain cancer about two years ago, died Sunday at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, said Niels Mueller, a longtime collaborator.
When Winick went to the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, he didn't even have an agent. He screened the sixth film he made as a director, "Tadpole," a coming-of-age comedy made in two weeks with digital cameras for a reported $150,000.
After he earned the festival's directing award, and Miramax paid $5 million for distribution rights to "Tadpole," Hollywood came calling.
His first big-budget directing project was the 2004 fantasy-romantic comedy "13 Going on 30," a well-received Jennifer Garner vehicle about a 13-year-old girl who wakes up to discover that she is 30.
He followed that with "Charlotte's Web," a 2006 live-action remake that The Times called "lovely and gentle" in 2008. Winick considered it "the hardest thing I've ever done."
"Working with animals is cute for about 15 minutes, and then it becomes frustrating beyond belief," Winick told the Rocky Mountain News in 2006. A total of 47 pigs had been used to play Wilbur, the pig saved from slaughter, and it could take days to get a single shot.
After surgery for brain cancer, Winick directed his final film, "Letters to Juliet," released last year. The multigenerational romance-road trip movie was "a guilty pleasure," movie critic Betsey Sharkey wrote in The Times in 2010.
He also had directed the 2009 revenge comedy "Bride Wars" with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.
The two-plus years that Winick spent making "Charlotte's Web" pulled his attention away from InDigEnt — for Independent Digital Entertainment — the all-digital production company that he co-founded in 1999 that became the industry's digital filmmaking leader.
With InDigEnt, Winick "saw an opportunity to attract young talent by marrying the rock-bottom economics of digital video with the creative intimacy of the medium," Patrick Goldstein wrote in The Times in 2002.
InDigEnt gained notice for such Winick-produced films as Richard Linklater's "Tape" (2001) with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman; "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits" (2002), which won the Sundance grand jury prize; and the comedy-drama "Pieces of April" (2003), which earned actress Patricia Clarkson an Oscar nomination.
Small digital cameras pulled better performances out of actors, Winick contended.
"You really don't feel the presence of that big mechanism of film," he told the Washington Post in 2002. "Instead, you have this little plastic thing, which keeps falling on the floor."
Gary Scott Winick was born March 31, 1961, in New York City, to Alan Winick, a lawyer, and his wife, Penny.
After graduating from Tufts University in 1984, Winick earned master of fine arts degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the American Film Institute.
In 1995, he gained attention for "Sweet Nothing," a cautionary crack-addiction tale that featured Mira Sorvino. Three years later, he made "The Tic Code," a drama about Tourette syndrome.
"I cannot tell you how many young filmmakers looked to Gary for guidance," said Caroline Kaplan, a producer of "Letters to Juliet." "He joyfully pushed everyone around him to be their best."
His only sibling, his older brother, Mark, died of a heart attack in December.
Besides his parents, Winick is survived by his fiancee, Emily McDonnell; his stepmother, Virginia Winick; and his stepfather Ted Williams, all of New York City.


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In Mexico, 'juniors' and 'ladies' find scorn in social networks
Those who resent the powerful ruling class of this country have coined colorful slang phrases for the rich and entitled. The sons of the elite are called "juniors," or worse "papaloys," a Spanish language contraction of the words "papa" and "lords."
Upper-class young women are known as "lobukis" or simply "ladies."
For decades, or even longer, the sons and daughters of the elite did what they pleased, and if they rolled over little people, hardly anyone was the wiser.
But social networks have raised the penalty bar significantly for abusive behavior. When it occurs, bystanders are likely to snap photos with their cellphones, take video, post to Twitter and Facebook and rain a torrent of ridicule on the miscreants.
Recent days have brought several examples, and social scientists say the power of social networks to voice discontent is running headlong into traditional Mexican behavior in which the phrase, "Don't you know who I am?" carries the threat of unassailable power.
Shortly after dawn Thursday, two women in a sporty blue convertible Porsche Boxster hit a pickup truck in the fashionable Roma district of the capital, pushing the pickup into a 50-year-old woman and injuring her. Police arrived at the scene as the two women tried to flee.
The well-dressed ladies, who had apparently spent the night out partying, yelled abusively at the police, saying they were friends with commanders known by the nicknames "Apolo 3" and "Alfa Apolo 3." The officers took the women into the precinct anyway.
Social networks buzzed with the story and the incident picked up the hashtag #ladiesdelaroma (or Ladies of Roma) on Twitter.
"People learn of these events almost as soon as they happen, and they quickly express their indignation," said Maria Elena Meneses, a professor of journalism and digital culture at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
The comments on social networks were filled with irony or ridicule, poking fun at those who live in wealthier districts like Las Lomas, frequent trendy nightclubs or hold jobs in boutique firms along Paseo de la Reforma, the leafy boulevard through the capital's heart.
Some see a salutary effect of the spotlight put on the "juniors" and "ladies" by the social networks, even as they condemn a culture in which the family members of high-ranking officials assume they enjoy freedoms unconstrained by law.
"If we look at the behavior of the 'juniors,' behind them almost always are parents who permit them to do anything they please and make clear that there are no consequences," Manuel J. Clouthier, a former congressman, wrote Friday in El Universal.
What's worse, Clouthier wrote, is that the families of high-ranking officials often believe that the sons and daughters can use the power of the patriarch to avenge slights, no matter how rude or disrespectful of others, and that government employees are at their personal service.
By coincidence, the accident of the Ladies of Roma occurred on the same day as the resolution of another case involving the daughter of a former attorney general who now heads the consumer watchdog agency, known by the acronym Profeco.
The daughter, Andrea Benitez, went for lunch at a trendy restaurant on April 26 but was denied her table of choice because some 15 other diners were ahead of her on a wait list. She threw what can only be described as a tantrum, taking to Twitter to decry "dreadful service" and threatening to shut the restaurant down.
Several hours later, inspectors from her father's agency arrived and put seals on the doors of the restaurant, declaring irregularities in its reservation system among other deficiencies.
Usually, inspectors take months to respond to complaints from citizens.
Other diners captured the scene and posted to social media, sparking an uproar that led the father, Humberto Benitez Trevino, to apologize for his daughter's behavior. The case was dubbed Lady Profeco.
On Thursday, Benitez announced that four inspectors for his agency had been suspended for heeding his daughter's orders but that he himself had not considered resigning, "not even for a moment."
"The general perception is that they (the inspectors) are scapegoats," columnist Francisco Garfias wrote in El Excelsior. "One could synthesize the tone of the tweets as: Like usual, the weakest pay the piper."
Meneses said the father's remarks underlined the struggle between an old social order, which came strongly to the fore during the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's seven decades in power in the last century and which some fear is returning today, and the desire of some Mexicans for a more equitable social order.
"It's a real power struggle between people on the social networks and authorities who want to emphasize that they are in charge and who refuse to be held accountable," she said.
"Social networks," she added, "have become a constant irritation for people in power."


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RICHMOND, Va. – It's evident that first-year Head Coach Dave Giffard believes that success in the classroom relates to success on the field.
His mission became clear this spring when 17 Virginia Commonwealth University Men's Soccer players sported a grade point average of 3.0 or better – and much of that success can be credited to the coaching staff's new academic program.
"As we begin to lay the foundation of a winning culture here at VCU, academics were at the forefront of our focus this spring," Giffard said. "Honest players that you can count on in key moments do things the right way in all areas of their lives, not just on the field. Having 17 athletes with a 3.0 GPA or better this semester is a reflection of that culture starting to change."
The men's soccer program, which produced a collective 3.0775 GPA this spring, more than doubled its total from the previous semester as eight student-athletes had GPAs of 3.0 or better in the fall.
"The success of the spring semester was a reflection on Coach Giffard's commitment to academics," said VCU Student-Athlete Development Coordinator Kasey Mattison. "He wants the boys to work to their fullest potential on and off the field."
Giffard and the Rams will begin a new era of VCU Soccer when they travel to in-state rival and defending national champion University of Virginia for an exhibition match on Aug. 20.


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Tomorrow my youngest will receive a little kitchen as a gift from his grandma. He turned 3 two days ago and he had a small party with three little guys from his kindergarten (and his older brother of course). Shame on me, I realized when they were gone home that I did not even take one photo of the whole fun. Blank pages in his photobook. Aaaah stupid me. Does that happen to you or am I the only one?!
But onto the sewing part of that kitchen gift.
I quickly decided that a kitchen calls for an apron:
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ADDISON COUNTY — According to the second batch of New England Common Assessments Program (NECAP), Vermont students are still struggling to meet science proficiency standards. Addison County students, for the most part, follow statewide trends.
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The one certainty to be in Friday's plethora of USDA reports is a surprise or two.
One of the most-important USDA report days of the year will take place Friday. At 11 a.m. CDT, USDA will release its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, Crop Production, Annual Crop Production, Grain Stocks and Winter Wheat Seedings.
Rich Nelson, chief strategist at Allendale, a brokerage services firm in McHenry, Ill., says these will be "ugly" reports with a lot of surprises. These surprises will likely cause dramatic price swings for corn, soybeans and wheat.
He says in 2012, there was a 40-cent swing between the closing price of corn the day before the report and the close the day of the report. "I would not go heavy into this report, betting you'll get these numbers right." He says there are a lot of things USDA can do which can throw a wrench into expectations.
So, where could prices fall after the market digests this huge amount of information? That will depend on the supply and demand picture USDA paints.
In am Allendale webinar earlier this week, Nelson reported that his firm expects corn production to drop from 10.725 billion bushels down to 10.618 billion bushels. Yet, he doesn't expect this moderate drop to have a huge impact.
"What we are watching much more closely is demand," he says. "This demand issue is much worse than most people think right now."
Allendale expectations include a 50-million-bushel drop in ethanol production, another 50-million-bushel drop in feed usage and a 100-million-bushel drop in exports.
"USDA thinks ethanol production will be 10% lower than last year," Nelson says. But, he says, for eight of the past 11 weeks, ethanol production has been far below the expected 10% decrease. "We think USDA is going to step up and drop ethanol production."
Even though many recent livestock reports haven't shown a remarkable reduction in herds, Nelson says the high price of feed is still causing a reduction in use. He says that high feed prices probably may not have dropped the overall numbers for livestock inventories, but the feed going into each head dropped.
Exports are the biggest problem area, Nelson says. "Year-to-date exports are running about 50% less than last year, and last year was a low number to start with. USDA will have to make changes to exports." He says USDA will likely take a baby step on Friday in reducing exports, then further reduce them in months to come.
Because U.S. corn export prices are so high, the world has started shopping around. It is no surprise, Nelson says, that other countries prefer to purchase corn from Argentina, where the corn export price is $6.78. That is significantly lower than the U.S. Gulf price of $7.59.
Allendale's expectations are for ending stocks to come in at around 760 million bushels. With this bearish estimate, the firm is pegging the March corn price to fall between $6.80 and $7.40. "This market is undervalued. The low prices we are seeing right now are based on numbers, but fear, liquidation and bullishness."
Nelson says he believes soybeans are also undervalued right now. Allendale raised soybean production using 75.582 million harvested and a 39.4 yield. The firm is expecting 141 million bushels for ending stocks, which is substantially larger than USDA's December estimate of 130 million bushels.
"Like corn, expect a big price reaction to Friday's reports," he says.
As for wheat, Nelson thinks USDA's estimates are correct. He says even though the numbers for wheat won't likely have big changes in store, don't discount some price movement. "Wheat is a follower in this report. Normally we get a big price response."
Friday's Winter Wheat Seedings report will be the first look at the 2013 wheat crop. Allendale is expecting an increase of 2.1 million acres of winter wheat.
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Federal Agency Charges That Tampa Health Care Provider Rescinded Job Offer to Woman Because of Pregnancy
TAMPA, Fla. - Capri Home Care, Inc. settled an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $23,000 and other relief, the agency announced today. The EEOC sued Capri for not hiring a pregnant woman into a billing clerk / administrative assistant position at its Clearwater, Fla., corporate office. Capri is a leading home health agency providing skilled nursing and specialized home health care throughout Central Florida.
The agency said a female job applicant was hired on the spot for the position. When Capri discovered she was pregnant, however, it withdrew its offer, claiming that another person had filled the position.
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The EEOC filed its suit in September 2011 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (EEOC v. Capri Home Care, Inc. d/b/a/ Capri Home Care, Case No. 8:11-CV-2211-T-26MAP) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Per the two-year consent decree settling the suit, Capri's owners have personally guaranteed payment of the monetary benefit, meaning that the owners are just as responsible for payment as the company and could be sued individually to enforce the decree's monetary provisions. In addition, Capri agreed to post its anti-discrimination policy, and to train its managers and employees about equal employment opportunity laws at its three locations in Central Florida. The EEOC will monitor compliance with the decree.
"Pregnancy discrimination is a great social wrong and those businesses that engage in unlawful employment discrimination will be held accountable," said Malcolm Medley, director of the EEOC's Miami District Office. "We are glad that Capri accepted responsibility early in the litigation process and worked together with the EEOC to reach an equitable resolution for all parties."
Robert Weisberg, the EEOC's Miami regional attorney, added, "The struggle of pregnant women in the workplace continues to be problematic. Women should not have to fear that disclosing their pregnancy will lead to lost job opportunities."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. The Miami District Office's jurisdiction includes Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Jonathan Winters, known to some as the king of ad-lib comedy, died April 11, 2013, at the age of 87. Famous for his improvisational offbeat humor and quick wit, he inspired a generation of younger comedians, most notably Robin Williams.
Though he appeared in several movies, including 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, it was on TV that Winters made his greatest impact. He starred in countless variety shows, was a favorite guest on The Tonight Show, and had a regular role, playing Robin Williams' son, on Mork & Mindy.
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ADDISON COUNTY — With the thermometer now consistently dipping below the freezing mark, Addison County residents of limited means have been firing up their furnaces and wood stoves with the hope that they won't run out of fuel before the end of the winter. And various state and local organizations are offering programs to make sure frigid temperatures don't claim any victims during the frigid months ahead.
FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh Central School officials in the months to come will consider whether to invest in a new boiler that would burn either wood chips or pellets and could save the school money in its heating bills.
According to an Oct. 8 presentation at an FCS board meeting by a Renewable Energy Resources company representative, a wood chip boiler could pay for itself in as few as four years and a wood pellet unit in as few as nine years, depending upon among other things the price of fuel oil.
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VERMONT — Run by student volunteers, the nonprofit Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative, or VSHI, since 2008 has helped install more than 20 pellet stoves in low-income homes across Addison and Washington counties. And the organization's work has not gone unnoticed.
Richard Moffi, fuel assistance chief for the state of Vermont, earlier this month allocated $25,000 to the organization, which was founded by Tom Tailer, a physics teacher at Mount Abraham Union High School. This will be enough money to provide 10-20 low-income households with pellet stoves.
ADDISON COUNTY — Richard Moffi, fuel program chief for the state of Vermont, has grown accustomed to seeing Congress and the Oval Office haggle over funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
Negotiators have historically started at a low number but eventually agreed on a LIHEAP figure that was at least equal to, or greater, than the year before so that qualifying citizens in cold parts of the country could get the fuel subsidies they needed to stay warm during the winter.
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Arranged marriages
I never quite got how that works. I'm going to write this from a non-personal perspective because I feel very awkward talking about my own experiences with this. My impression of this whole arranged marriage scene, is prostituting yourself for marriage. I really want to write about it though, so I'll draw from the numerous people I know who've been through this.
The term arranged marriage is not accurate at all actually. Its called here what, Salon Marriage, which is not as bad as arranged marriages actually. This marriage setup to me is like Blind Dates with a goal. A goal of getting married (which is a bigger goal I presume than just getting laid). Can you imagine meeting a total stranger for the first time, and thinking, is she or he the right person for me to marry? Insane, if you ask me.
I think I might do this in installments. So maybe more to come later.
May 6, 2005.
Installment 2 (July 4, 2005):
I have to start by mentioning an incident where a girl was offended about the first part of this post once before and asked me why I call arranged marriage a form of prostitution? Well, I don't mean the traditional meaning of prostitution, and I don't mean it just about the girls. But I suppose that most of the time, both parties try to sell themselves, sell the good qualities in themselves that is. If not to be more appealing to the other party, then atleast not to be rejected, even if they will reject the other party later.
I cannot generalize as to how arranged marriages are being done today in Egypt. Lots of different ways were people get to meet and end up married. A friend of mine who lives in Kuwait brought a Lebanese friend of his once on a visit to Egypt. The main goal of the trip was to witness the non-conservative life in Egypt (read belly dancers, hookers, night clubs, etc.). Among their endeavors was a trip to a near by town where they met a family (among many families there) that was selling their daughter for a marriage --for as long as they wanted, a day, a week, a month, whatever, all for its price! (I gotta remember the name of that town). But that's not the kind of marriage I'm talking about, neither am I talking about 'urfi marriage. Which with all due respect to the Sheikhs and Muftis I find it blatantly haram, and I can't believe that they can be so rigid in calling it an acceptable form of marriage just because they're measuring the validity of the marriage with the historical measures of a thousand years ago.
I'll disregard all those weird forms of marriages, and the other form of two meeting each other naturally, falling in love, and deciding that they want to spend the rest of their lives together, and hence get married.
In the non-traditional social circles in Egypt, arranged marriage is as simple as an arranged date with marriage as a goal in mind. Somehow, it works for girls and guys who don't meet enough new people to accidently bump into a future spouse, or who meet enough people but in social circles that don't make suitable for marriage companionship. Like a belly dancer who meets guys every day, but doesn't want to marry from her work place for example.
When it comes to that, people are getting pretty practical. Too practical if you ask me. Which is strange, considering how unpractical our culture is. Yes, some people do eventually fall in love with his/her arranged date, and so their marriage does make some sense. But those who don't, why do they get married?! because they have to! What a life, sharing my life with someone who is 'suitable', and hoping that emotions will develop through our companionship, or not, who cares --as long as they're suitable!
Talk about practicality. I've seen a news piece once on TV about some group in New York that sets up this group singles events. Tens of singles come in, and each one moves around, sits and talks with each one in the event for 10 minutes. Each person has a name tag, and at the end of the event, people drop the names of the people they liked in a box, and if its mutual, they get to meet again. How about that, eh? Every culture does it in its own way I guess.
And as Loulou puts it down in the comments section: "At the end of the day what is important is that he's the right guy - not how I met him. Through my mother, through a friend, walking on the street, whatever."


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When it comes to treating kids for acute gastroenteritis - an infection of the stomach - many children's hospitals in the U.S. are ignoring evidence-based guidelines - and costing the health care system more than $1 billion in unnecessary spending, according to the authors of a new study.
Evidence-based guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend giving children lots of fluids to drink and discourage routine lab tests, Dr. Joel S. Tieder, from the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues note in their report. However, doctors at many hospitals give additional medications and order tests that are not recommended.
Tieder's team studied data from almost 189,000 children between 6 months and 6 years who were treated in the emergency departments of 27 children's hospitals in the US between 2001 and 2006. About 14,000 of those kids ended up being admitted to the hospital, according to the report in the journal Pediatrics.
About two-thirds - 69 percent - of the children were treated according to guidelines. In particular, the remaining children were likely to have lab tests that weren't recommended.
Tieder and colleagues found that it cost an average of $863 to treat children admitted to the hospital, compared to $591 for those who weren't admitted. When admitted patients were treated according to guidelines, the average cost was $296 lower than when guidelines were ignored.
According to the investigators, if most hospitals treated children according to guidelines, only about half as many of children would be admitted to the hospital, and the health care system would save more than $1 billion.
"Despite this proven benefit to the patient and the health care community, poor adherence to the standard of care persists," Tieder and colleagues note.
SOURCE: Pediatrics, 2009.


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I think it is time for the speed kiters amongst us to get back to the drawing board and think about a new way of getting the speed record back. Obviously we need to think about efficiency. 65 knots is super fast!
I think we need to consider board efficiency first. I think this is our biggest obstacle, since edging is simply not efficient. But big fins are only efficient/useful at low speeds. Does anyone know what the top speeds are for guys on race boards with big fins? It must be around 35 knots before the fins cavitate or vibrate or pull in air or whatever it is called (i.e. simply become useless at going faster). So what can we use to create lift that counters the kite downwind force? Sail Rocket proves that a foil/fin/keel can be useful up to 65 knots, but we will need to come up with a new idea to beat that (if we still want to of course. 65 knots is fast and dangerous).
Maybe we could use more than one edge? I've read that speed kite skiers go much faster than speed kite snowboarders, because two edges are more efficient than one. (effectively lengthening the edge). But will that give significant more efficiency to go to 65knots. Unlikely. Control up to 40 knots on one edge is difficult enough.
I think we need to look at a new technique. Cars have sideways resistance, yet little forward resistance because it has wheels. Why not make water wheels? (sounds silly?) What I think we should do is make a fin/wheel that allows the foil to see 20 knots of water speed when we are in fact travelling 60 knots. Just like the bottom part of a tyre of a car sees 0 km/h when the car is going 120km/h. The man who's idea it is has a interesting book (but for a different application) at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053NYVMM with a chapter on what is called a wheel keel. In its simplest form you can think of the fin being a wheel, and the wheel rotates like the wheel of a car so that the water flowing over the foil of the fin travels over the foil slower than what the craft speed over the water actually is.
So could we apply this to a kiteboard? I think so. I think if we take a race board, and replace the fins with large air-foiled wheels (with most of the wheel above the board and only about the bottom 1/4 under water) and allow the wheels to turn than we might have a race board with unlimited top speed? The wheels could have small brakes, that allow you to set the tension, so that it allows the wheels to turn like a wheel, but not so fast that the foil part of the wheel goes at the same speed as the water. We do need some water flow over the foil/wheel to get lift to counter the kite, but we just don't want this flow to become too fast that the foil becomes useless.
Obviously a wheel will not allow us to have the best asymmetric high L/D foil under the water, but at low water speeds this should not be too much of a problem. With the wheel we can basically adjust the foil to see at optimum water speed, regardless of the speed we are travelling over the water.
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This month, Museum Curator John Sparks is leading The Explore21 Solomon Islands Expedition. A part of the Museum's Explore21 initiative, this three-week research journey is headquartered aboard the Research Vessel Alucia.
Expedition member Chris Filardi, who is the director of Pacific Programs in the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, recently wrote in with this dispatch.
Nearly a century ago, the Museum's Whitney South Sea Expedition brought the splendor and diversity of tropical Pacific islands to the forefront of the scientific world.
Over the past decade, the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Pacific Programs has returned to the Solomon Islands not only to revisit legendary sites surveyed in the past, but also to address daunting threats to some of the largest tracts of contiguous rain forest remaining in the tropical Pacific and to adjacent, hyper-diverse lagoons and coral reefs.
Today, a suite of innovative partnerships and conservation initiatives has transformed a history of conflict and biodiversity loss into a model for community-driven conservation. Combining scientific discovery with investment in local governance, conservation work is improving local capacity to conserve the lush mosaics of forest and marine systems that inspired Museum scientists a century ago.
As a result, from Alucia we can now investigate contiguous ecological gradients from cloudforest to reef and on to some of the deepest ocean on Earth—a timeless opportunity to interact with a tropical Pacific that has vanished from nearly all other large archipelagos on earth.
Surveying remote lagoon systems associated with the famous Solomon reefs is one of our key objectives. The iconic white sand and azure holes of coral lagoons are often overlooked in surveys of reef systems. In the western Solomons, lagoons are everywhere and include some of the largest on the planet. Sampling has revealed a diversity crossroads and lots of new bioluminescent and fluorescent animals.
Some fish spend their whole lives in lagoons and the stilt-rooted mangroves that line the hot, salty shallows providing a fortress of protection from the big predators of the reefs. Many reef species also inhabit lagoons as juveniles, but then migrate to reefs or other habitats when mature, so lagoons can have a variety of species that, as adults, may rarely or never be seen together.
Lagoon surveys have been rich and have turned up heaps of wonders, from worm eels and all sorts of moray eels that glow, stone fish whose toxic spines are deadly, puffed up puffer fish, gobies, blennies, electric blue-spotted sting rays.
For Richard Gilder Graduate School student Dawn Roje, lagoons offer an opportunity to observe and collect data from two very different looking fish groups that she now knows are related: flatfish (think flounder and sole) and trevally or jacks (think amped-up, deep-bodied relative of mackerel that includes some of the most sought-after inshore gamefish in the sea).
Dawn has been collecting larval and adult forms of eels, flatfish, and jacks wherever possible and the lagoon work has added a few key individuals including a gorgeous thumbnail-sized species, sand-colored with a velvety dark reticulate pattern on its upper, double-eyed side.
She'll tell you about her work in an upcoming post.
Read more about the Solomon Islands and Explore21.
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Suffolk DA Conley advocates for more surveillance camera coverage in Boston
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley on Sunday said he has taken an initiative in expanding closed circuit television camera coverage in Boston. He said such a network would make law enforcement less dependent on the patchwork of surveillance now provided by private businesses.
"Cameras are an important law enforcement tool today but can also act as a deterrent,'' said Conley, who said he has already discussed closed circuit television with Mayor Menino, Police Commissioner Ed Davis and others.
Conley said London and New York provide good examples of cities that have increased closed circuit television. He said he would expect discussion with community members and others who might be concerned about privacy.
"It will be important … to engage concerned stakeholders outside law enforcement, including entities dedicated to civil liberty issues,'' Conley wrote in a April 3-date letter circulated to public officials.
Conley is suggesting establishment of a task force of public officials and perhaps others to study the issue.
Conley said, technically, the district attorney's office has jurisdiction to bring murder and other charges against the bomber suspect. "But we're almost certainly going to yield to federal authorities, because they have the resources and the post-911 terrorism laws to prosecute,'' he said.


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HY65 YKN (2015) • 46,809 miles • 63 mpg • 143 bhp • Absolute Black • Manual/Diesel • Front Wheel Drive • Tax £110/year • Located at Grangemouth • £3,440 Fitted Extras!
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£3,440 Fitted Extras!
|Price of Car
|Balance to Finance
|Fixed rate of interest pa
|Monthly Payments
|Annual Mileage
|Final Payment
- 46,809 miles
- 2015 Black Hatchback
- Absolute Black
- Manual/Diesel
- Front Wheel Drive
- 1,995cc Engine Size/143BHP
- 0 - 62mph: 9.2s
- 62.8mpg (combined)
- 124g/km CO2
- Tax £110 per year (Band D)
Located at Grangemouth
Vehicle Highlights
- Mini Service Inclusive service pack
- 62.8 mpg
- Heated Seats
- CHILI Pack
- Auto Xenon Headlights
- 18" alloy wheels
- Electric Folding Mirrors
- DAB/CD with AUX/USB
- Bluetooth
- Half Leather
- LED Daytime Running Lights
- Multi-Function Steering Wheel
- Cruise Control
- Parking Sensors
- Climate Control
- Sports Seats
Mini Service Inclusive service pack valid up to 5 years/50k miles, Heated Seats, CHILI Pack, Auto Xenon Headlights, 18" alloy wheels, Electric Folding Mirrors, DAB Digital Radio/CD Player With AUX/USB Input, Bluetooth, Half Leather, LED Daytime Running Lights, Multi-Function Steering Wheel, Cruise Control, Climate Control, Parking Sensors, Sports Seats, Roof Rails, Split Folding Rear Seats, Heated Wing Mirrors, Start/Stop, Electric Windows. Colour: Absolute Black (Metallic Paint). This vehicle is VAT qualifying.
CHILI Pack
Includes: [FS] Cloth/Leather Parallel Lines And [249] Multi-function for Steering Wheel And [2GT] 18" Turbo Fan Light Alloy Wheels And [423] Floor Mats in Velour And [493] Storage Compartment Pack And [4GZ] Interior Surfaces - Dark Anthracite And [521] Rain Sensors and Automatic Lights-On And [522] Bi-Xenon Headlights And [534] Automatic Air Conditioning And [550] On-Board Computer And
Metallic Paint
Metallic paint
Seat Heating for Driver and Front Passenger
Driver and passenger seat: heated
Folding Exterior Mirrors, Electric
Door mirrors ; heated, Electrically foldable mirrors
Chrome Line Interior
Chrome ring for central speedometer, Chrome ring for rev counter, Chrome ring for air vent, Chrome ring for gearlever base
Absolute Black Metallic
External colour: black
Mirror Caps in Body Colour
Body colour door mirrors
Door Ellipse & Downtubes - Piano Black
Piano black trim on dashboard and piano black trim on doors, If:, [7Y2] CHILI Pack, Or, [7L5] Media Pack, New Price: 0.00
Chrome Line Exterior
Chrome/bright trim on side of body, on rear and on front grille
Inlay Colour Line - Carbon Black
Carbon Black door upholstery inserts, Carbon Black MINI Centre Rail
18" Turbo Fan Light Alloy Wheels in Anthracite Matt
Front and rear wheels: 18 inch alloy rims with locking wheel nuts ; width: 7.5 inches, Front and rear tyres: 225mm wide, 45% profile, W rated ; Load index: 89 (official data)
Cloth/Leather Parallel Lines Light Tobacco
Seat upholstery: cloth and leather, Upholstery colour: beige
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Driver Convenience
- Brake fluid level warning light
- Brake pad wear indicator warning light
- DTC - Dynamic traction control
- Electric power steering
- Engine start/stop button
- Exterior temperature gauge
- Oil level indicator
- Rear park distance control
- Run flat indicator
- Service interval indicator
- Sports button
- Auxiliary input socket
- DAB Digital radio
- Radio BOOST + single slot CD
Exterior Features
- Anthracite roof rails
- Anti dazzle mirror
- Body colour bumpers
- Body coloured air scoops
- Chrome door handles
- Chrome exhaust tailpipes
- Chrome plated trim on bottom edge of window
- Chrome-plated radiator grille surround
- Electric front and rear windows + anti trap + one touch
- Electrically adjustable door mirrors
- Follow me home headlights
- Heated door mirrors/heated windscreen washers
- Heated rear window with automatic switch off
- High gloss piano black bezels around rear lights and headlights
- Honeycomb radiator grille
- LED daytime running lights
- LED front fog lights
- Metal look door sill finishers
- Rear wiper
- Roof spoiler in roof colour
- White indicator lights
Interior Features
- 2 cupholders in front centre console
- 3 rear seats
- 3 spoke sport leather steering wheel
- 4 lashing points to secure luggage
- 60/40 split sliding rear seats
- Adjustable headrests
- Boot light
- Centre console storage
- Chrome air vent knobs
- Chrome interior door handles
- Driver's seat height adjuster
- Driver/passenger sunvisors
- Front reading lights
- Front seat backrest storage nets
- Front sports seats
- Gear knob with chrome ring
- Gear/selector and handbrake in artificial leather
- Height/reach adjustable steering column
- Interior light
- Interior world - Carbon black
- Isofix child seat preparation
- MINI centre rail
- Passenger seat height adjuster
- Rear grab handles
- Side sunvisor for driver
- Stainless steel foot rest
- Stainless steel pedals
- Storage compartments in doors
- Vanity mirrors
- 3 point front seat belts
- 3x3 point rear seatbelts
- Automatic Stability Control (ASC)
- CBC - (Cornering brake control)
- Crash Sensor - activates hazard/interior lighting + unlocks doors
- Driver and passenger airbags
- Driver and passenger side airbags
- DSC-Dynamic Stability Control
- Electronic brake force distribution
- Front head airbags
- Front seatbelt pretensioners with force limiters
- Hill start assist
- Passenger airbag deactivation system
- Tyre pressure warning
- Automatic door locking
- Electronic immobiliser
- Locking wheel bolts
- Remote central locking + boot release
- Second remote key
- Thatcham Cat.1 alarm
- Diesel particulate filter
Technical Specification
- CO2 (g/km): 119
- HC: Not Available
- HC+NOx: 0.187
- Noise Level dB(A): 73
- NOx: 0.162
- Particles: 0.0002
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
Engine and Drive Train
- Camshaft: DOHC
- Catalytic Convertor: Yes
- Compression Ratio: 16.5:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 4
- Cylinders - Bore (mm): 84
- Cylinders - Stroke (mm): 90
- Engine Code: N47C20U1
- Engine Layout: FRONT TRANSVERSE
- Fuel Delivery: COMMON RAIL
- Gears: 6 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 16
- Transmission: MANUAL
Fuel Consumption
- EC Combined (mpg): 62.8
- EC Directive 1999/100/EC Applies: Yes
- EC Extra Urban (mpg): 67.3
- EC Urban (mpg): 55.4
- Badge Engine CC: 2.0
- Badge Power: 143
- Based On ID: Not Available
- Coin Description: D
- Coin Series: Cooper S
- Insurance Group 1 - 50 Effective January 07: 19E
- Manufacturers Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years: 12
- Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years: 3
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: 84
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: 83
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 5
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 63
- NCAP Safety Assist %: 71
- Did at least one aspect of this vehicle's safety give cause for concern?: No
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: 36
- Service Interval Mileage: 36000
- Special Edition: No
- Special Order: No
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage: Unlimited
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Years: 3
- Timing Belt Interval Frequency - Months: Not Available
- Timing Belt Interval Mileage: Not Available
- Vehicle Homologation Class: M1
- 0 to 62 mph (secs): 9.2
- Engine Power - BHP: 143
- Engine Power - KW: 105
- Engine Power - RPM: 4000
- Engine Torque - LBS.FT: 225
- Engine Torque - MKG: 31.1
- Engine Torque - NM: 305
- Engine Torque - RPM: 1750
- Top Speed: 124
- Alloys?: Yes
- Space Saver?: No
- Tyre Size Front: 205/55 R17
- Tyre Size Rear: 205/55 R17
- Tyre Size Spare: TYRE REPAIR KIT
- Wheel Style: 5 STAR TRIANGLE SPOKE
- Wheel Type: 17" ALLOY
Vehicle Dimensions
- Height: 1544
- Height (including roof rails): Not Available
- Length: 4109
- Wheelbase: 2595
- Width: 1789
Weight and Capacities
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 47
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 1830
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Down): 1170
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 350
- Max. Loading Weight: 510
- Max. Roof Load: 75
- Max. Towing Weight - Braked: 800
- Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked: 500
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1320
- No. of Seats: 5
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 11.6
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