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The Most Wretched one is You
The servants immediately ran out. Feng Jin Yuan had already received the change of clothes fetched by the servants. Holding the clothes while in Han shi's arms, he headed behind the screen. Feng Yu Heng supported the matriarch and said: "Grandmother, please take a seat." Then gave an order to a servant: "Clean the floor up a bit."
When Feng Jin Yuan came out, the study had been restored to a certain degree. Even Jin Zhen had properly put on her clothes, as she looked at the ground.
But nobody had noticed that Wang Chuan, who had been by Feng Yu Heng's side, had left Pine courtyard at some point in time. Only Qing Yu was left behind to attend.
Not long later, the two servants who had gone to the guest courtyard returned with a pot for decocting herbal medicine, but doctor Xu and the servant who delivered the medicine were nowhere to be found.
Feng Jin Yuan frowned: "I said to bring the person. Where is the person?"
One of the servants spoke; "Master, doctor Xu and his servant are no longer in the manor. This servant only found a medical pot that had been knocked to the ground. We also brought a granny who was washing clothes in the courtyard."
The matriarch spoke heavily with a cold face: "Bring her in."
The granny was brought in to the room by the servants. Seeing so many masters in the room, she knelt down in fear.
Feng Chen Yu up until now had always maintained the appearance of a Buddha, even now was no exception. She softly spoke: "Do not fear, granny. We only called you here to ask some questions."
The matriarch continued: "Where are doctor Xu and his servant, who lived at the guest courtyard?"
The granny was so afraid that she did not dare raise her head. She responded while trembling: "This old servant is only responsible for washing clothes. Normally, there is very little communication with doctor Xu. About half an hour ago, this old servant saw doctor Xu quickly leave the courtyard. This old servant was talkative and asked. Doctor Xu said that he was going to see a patient, and that was the end of the conversation."
The court physician was, in the end, a guest. Leaving and entering the manor was quite lax. Hearing the granny say this, the matriarch knew that further questioning would lead nowhere and waved her hand, allowing her to retire.
Feng Yu Heng took the initiative and walked before a male servant. Receiving the medical pot, she inspected it carefully then gave it a sniff. Only then did she speak to everyone: "This is the pot used to prepare that medicine."
Chen shi feigned anger: "That wretched old man!" After speaking, she did not forget to glare at Jin Zhen.
Feng Yu Heng continued: "Father can bring another doctor in to take a look."
Feng Jin Yuan waved his hand: "Father believes in you."
What did it matter if he didn't believe? These so-called ugly family scandals could not be made public. It was best if one fewer person knew about it. He had already lost enough face today.
Feng Chen Yu looked around at everyone and spoke not without regret: "That doctor Xu must have escaped knowing his guilt. If that is the case, then mother has indeed been wronged. But we can not find the real criminal. Mother really has been wronged!" As she spoke, her eyes reddened slightly.
At this moment, Wang Chuan's voice transmitted in from outside- "Eldest young miss has been overanxious. This servant has brought back both the doctor and his maidservant, inviting the masters to carefully investigate."
Finished speaking, she threw a man and a woman in to the room with a thump. As for Wang Chuan, who threw them in, it was as though she were only carrying around two cakes and showed no signs of fatigue or tiredness.
When doctor Xu and his maidservant appeared in the room, Feng Chen Yu knew that bad things were bound to happen.
At this moment, she realized that she miscalculated. She knew that there were secret guards in Feng manor, and she knew that there was no way for Feng Jin Yuan to have dispatched any to chase down doctor Xu. Chen shi merely needed to act weak in regards to Jin Zhen, and this matter would have been swept under the rug.
But she had never expected that Feng Yu Heng's servants would know martial arts.
She, Feng Chen Yu, had always been accomplished in artistic and scholarly matters, but her only weak point was that she had never learned martial arts. Feng family only thought of having her reach the pinnacle of society in becoming the Empress. Setting this as her goal, martial arts was not something she would ever learn.
Sure enough, under the matriarch's threatening interrogation, the doctor happily admitted to everything- "It's all the head madam's request! She wanted to harm the Feng family's second young master, so she had me prepare that medicine and send it over. I beg the matriarch for her benevolent judgement!"
At present, Chen shi was at a loss, and the maidservant had truly been wronged. She had merely acted in accordance with doctor Xu's directions. She even had no idea as to why she had to run away from the Feng family.
After ascertaining the truth, Feng Jin Yuan was endlessly furious. Although Feng Zi Rui was a child that he was already prepared to give up on three years ago, but the present was different from the past. That was because of their relation to the Yao family. He had no choice but to give up on them, but Feng Yu Heng now had the support of Prince Yu's contingent, and there were some new revelations about the Yao family. He was not so cruel as to give up on that child now. What's more, up to this date, the Feng manor only had two sons!
Seeing that Feng Jin Yuan's mood had changed, Jin Zhen, who was hiding in a corner gritted her teeth and said- "Master! What doctor Xu said is correct. This was all planned by the head madam!"
Feng Jin Yuan saw Jin Zhen speak, and the earlier feeling of wanting to carry on now caused him to feel a little conflicted.
Jin Zhen was Chen shi's servant. The things that Chen shi did, although it could be said that he did not care, but it did not mean that he did not know. How many of those bad deeds had passed through Jin Zhen's hands. This girl's hands were definitely not clean. But if he lumped in Jin Zhen and dealt with them together, he felt a little reluctant.
Feng Jin Yuan now completely hoped that Jin Zhen could act intelligently. It would be best for her to confess all her crimes, this way he could protect her.
As for Jin Zhen, she really lived up to expectations. When she opened her mouth again, not only did she come clean, but she also became a meritorious person- "After this servant knew that the head madam wanted to have the second young master consume that medicine, this servant desperately rushed to Willow courtyard to retrieve that medicine! Second young miss! This servant begs the second young miss to act as a witness. This servant had knelt and begged the second young miss to return the medicine to this servant!"
Feng Yu Heng closed her eyes and pondered a while before nodding: "That's right. At that time, Jin Zhen girl knelt and begged me." The turning towards Feng Jin Yuan: "But this daughter did not know that this medicine was meant for Zi Rui to consume and really assumed it had been sent to the wrong place. So I let Jin Zhen girl bring it to father."
Jin Zhen continued: "This servant did not dare expose the head madam's plot and could only bear with it and deliver the medicine to Pine courtyard with Wang Chuan girl. This servant thought that the head madam might be feeling a temporarily confused and that she might feel regretful after the matter had concluded. That is why this servant did not expose this before the master. As for that medicine… after master drank that type of medicine, if you didn't immediately… didn't immediately do… then perhaps your life would be at risk, so I…"
"I've troubled you." Seeing Jin Zhen become like this as she spoke, Feng Jin Yuan spoke. This could be considered as protecting her life.
Chen shi, however, was furious to the point of her lips turning blue. If it weren't for Chen Yu desperately holding her back, then perhaps she might rush over and rip Jin Zhen apart.
"Slut!" She was so angry that she could not stand. And because she was too fat, Chen Yu absolutely could not hold her up. As her legs buckled, mother and daughter fell to the ground. "I will kill that slut! And you!" She wildly pointed towards Feng Yu Heng: "Wretched! The most wretched one here is you! I will kill you! I will kill you!"
Feng Yu Heng pretended to be scared and quickly retreated, her gaze carrying a prayer: "Mother, mother why are you like this? A-Heng did not do anything wrong! A-Heng is not competing for anything. A-Heng is not the daughter of the first wife. All of the nice things in the manor have been given to eldest sister. Mother, why do you still want to force us in to a dead end?"
"Because you living is an eyesore to me!" Chen shi was like an insane beast, yelling wildly: "Feng Yu Heng! Feng Zi Rui! Yao Qian Rou! You should all go die!"
Feng Chen Yu felt her head was about to explode. She now truly began to feel a little annoyed with Chen shi. Thinking back of the hard work she put in towards being kind and compassionate, yet how many times had it been ruined by her mother's own hand. Her mother only ever thought of her own happiness and never gave her any consideration before acting or speaking. Now father had become so infuriated, yet mother continued her ways. Was this not ruining the mother and daughter, along with the elder brother who was still studying?
"If mother continues speaking like this, then Chen Yu will also helpless." She slowly released Chen shi and stood up once more, walking over to Feng Jin Yuan's side, "Elder's matters, Chen Yu will not ask too much. Just hope that father can take an old friendship in to consideration and give mother a way out. Chen Yu will not ask for anything else."
Feng Jin Yuan nodded. Looking at his most beloved daughter with a pitiful gaze, the hatred his heart held for Chen shi grew again.
"You treacherous woman. You are selfish, treat concubine's daughters poorly, poison concubine's son, and you don't even make considerations for your own daughter. For what purpose would I want you to be the head wife of this family?"
"Husband!" Chen shi became muddled. She did not care for the accusations of crime, but she truly cared for the mention of not making considerations for her daughter. "How could it be that I don't want what's best for Chen Yu!"
"Is this considered as doing what's best for her?" Feng Jin Yuan angrily grabbed a tea cup and violently threw it at Chen shi's head.
Chen shi did not dodge in time and the cup struck her forehead. Blood immediately spilled out.
"Chen shi." Feng Jin Yuan's eyes did not carry the slightest shred of emotion, "My Feng family's position of head wife most certainly does not suit you! You can rest easy. It does not matter what happens, Chen Yu will be my, Feng Jin Yuan's daughter to the first wife. From now on, no matter who assumes the role of head wife, Chen Yu will become that person's own daughter."
"Husband!" Chen shi completely lost it, "You want someone else to raise Chen Yu? No! Absolutely not!"
"Why not? Having a mother like you is what's truly shameful for Chen Yu!"
"But I will not harm my daughter!" Chen shi pointed to Feng Yu Heng and spoke: "If husband is saying that I plotted to murder them, then I admit it! But husband, you understand. In the future, no matter who is head wife, Chen Yu's outlook will be the same as theirs! No woman in the world can tolerate another person's child climbing above their own! Chen Yu will sooner or later die at the hands of the newly appointed head wife, you'd better believe it!"
These words were screamed mournfully, as though an evil spirit had crawled out of hell and began wailing.
Feng Chen Yu saw this Chen shi and thought about what she said then felt her heart soften up a little.
Mother was right! Although father currently promised that she would always maintain the position of daughter of the first wife, what was the worth of the promises made by this father of hers? Look at Yao shi and look at Feng Yu Heng and Feng Zi Rui, the way they lived today would be the way she lived tomorrow.
Thinking about it, Feng Chen Yu faced Feng Jin Yuan and quickly knelt. Tears dripped down one by one, "Father, please reconsider! Mother is right. Even if Chen Yu is the daughter of the first wife, so what? In the future, who knows how the newly anointed head wife would bully Chen Yu. Chen Yu is fourteen this year and can not remain in the manor for many more years. Could father please feel sorry for your daughter just this once. Allow me to steadily live until I marry out."
She specifically used the words "marry out" to remind Feng Jin Yuan of her future.
And this type of reminder was very useful. Feng Jin Yuan could do without Chen shi, but he definitely could not mess around with Chen Yu's life.
He turned his gaze towards the matriarch and saw her nodding slightly. He knew that the mother's thoughts were the same.
Feng family had no foundation in the capital. He was the first generation and absolutely could not withstand any problems. Thus for the sake of maintaining stability and the Feng family's future, he would tolerate Chen shi for a few more years.


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Wastewater managers battling an avian cholera epidemic that has felled 200 birds at a popular Silicon Valley bird-watching spot have hit on a stinky solution -- draining a pond and carting away poop from the bottom.
With warm winter weather temperatures expected to be "record setting" this week in the low 70s, officials from the South Bayside System Authority, which operates the 7-acre pond in Redwood City, say that the odors could be "greatly enhanced."
"To mitigate what we can, we have heavy equipment ordered and coming in to try and keep the area as fresh as possible, but it is going to smell," Authority Manager Dan Child said. Mostly, it will stink for the 50 to 100 daily bird watchers and early-morning walkers in the area, he said, as well as the nearby homeowners and office park employees.
"It's going to be a long-term process," Child said. "We're expecting several months before it's actually dried out to the point the bacteria dies out, that it's not in the soil anymore."
Foul odors have been emanating from the pond since crews began suctioning out the water on Friday because of the "several inches of bird excrement" that have been collecting on the bottom of the pond over the last 15 years.
Since that process began, Child said the number of visitors to the pond has "drastically dropped." Extracting the water may take about a week, but fully draining, drying and refilling the pond may take all the way through summer and into the fall at the earliest, Child said.
This is the first avian cholera outbreak at this spot. But Child suspects that the birds flew over from an East Bay Regional Park District's pond at the Hayward Regional Shoreline, which has grappled with the disease both this year and last.
State Dept. Fish and Game Lt. Patrick Foy said that avian cholera is "very common" in California and the location of where it breaks out "fluxes from year to year." He added it's not a "huge biological issue, but something we have to manage." Aside from Hayward and Redwood City, the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve and the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, both in San Joaquin County, had avian cholera deaths this season in California.
Biologists said the season's unusually dry weather may be behind the current avian cholera outbreaks across the Bay Area.
"In heavy rain years if there's a bacterial outbreak of avian cholera in the freshwater areas of the marsh, heavy rains can help flush it out," said Doug Bell, an East Bay Regional Parks District biologist.
Bell also said another way the drought may be spreading disease is by bringing more birds together.
A bird watcher noticed a plethora of dead ducks at the Redwood City pond at 1400 Radio Road over the winter holidays, Child said, and it wasn't until Monday that a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lab in Wisconsin came back with the results of avian cholera.
Avian cholera typically erupts in wild fowl living in wetlands, which often have a lot of bacteria in the soil and water during the outbreak. Once the bacteria gets introduced, infected birds will die within six to 12 hours, according to "Avian Cholera in Waterfowl," which ran in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases. Ponds are natural homes for this disease because birds live in close quarters, according to Fish and Game.
On Tuesday, wastewater management crews resumed the week long work of draining the man-made pond. Child said he had the choice not to drain the pond and let the ducks die, but that "wasn't an option for me."
Child could not begin to estimate how much this would cost his water authority. But he did say that draining the pond would have no real human impact - no one drinks the wastewater - other than affecting the bird watchers who will have no birds to watch for several months.
The pond was created in 1998 on the west side of the treatment plant to eliminate dust from the dry barren dirt in the area. The pond is kept fresh by a flow of recycled water from the treatment facility to replace water lost by evaporation and by allowing a certain amount to overflow back to the treatment plant.

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Job's Reply. 1Then Job answered and said:*
2What help you give to the powerless,
what strength to the feeble arm!
3How you give counsel to one without wisdom;
how profuse is the advice you offer!
4With whose help have you uttered those words,
whose breath comes forth from you?a
5The shades* beneath writhe in terror,b
the waters, and their inhabitants.
6Naked before him is Sheol,*
and Abaddon has no covering.c
7He stretches out Zaphon* over the void,
and suspends the earth over nothing at all;
8He binds up the waters in his clouds,
yet the cloud is not split by their weight;
9He holds back the appearance of the full moon
by spreading his clouds before it.
10He has marked out a circle* on the surface of the deepd
as the boundary of light and darkness.
11The pillars of the heavens tremble
and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;e
12By his power he stilled Sea,
by his skill he crushed Rahab;*
13By his wind the heavens were made clear,
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.* f
14Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways,
and what a whisper of a word we hear of him:
Who can comprehend the thunder of his power?
* [26:1–14] Perhaps to be read as Job's reply to Bildad's short speech.
* [26:5] Shades: the dead in Sheol, the nether world; cf. Ps 88:11; Is 26:14.
* [26:6] Sheol: cf. note on Ps 6:6. Abaddon: Hebrew for "(place of) destruction," a synonym for nether world; cf. Jb 28:22; Rev 9:11.
* [26:7] Zaphon: lit., "the north," used here as a synonym for the firmament, the heavens; cf. Is 14:13.
* [26:10] Circle: the horizon of the ocean which serves as the boundary for the activity of light and darkness; cf. Prv 8:27.
* [26:12] Rahab: another name for the primeval sea-monster; see notes on Jb 3:8 and Ps 89:11; cf. also Jb 7:12; 9:13.
* [26:13] The fleeing serpent: the same term occurs in Is 27:1 in apposition to Leviathan; see note on Jb 3:8.
d. [26:10] Jb 38:8–11; Prv 8:29.
e. [26:11] Jb 9:6; Ps 18:16; 104:7.
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Among the many temporary casualties of Hurricane Sandy was Long Island's educational system, with most schools shutting down for a week or longer.
The hardest-hit districts — Long Beach, Oceanside, Island Park and East Rockaway — couldn't re-open until after Veterans Day, costing their students at least 10 days of school. Most other South Shore districts lost at least six days of classes. Every district used up its allotment of snow days for the year, and then some, and winter is still a month off.
The state needs to give relief to school districts not only for days that can't be made up, but for the costs of rebuilding damaged facilities.
New York state requires a district to have 180 days of school in order for it to receive its full share of state aid. For some districts, that requirement simply may not be attainable this year. We don't know how many more days could be lost to snowstorms, and we don't want superintendents to be forced to keep schools open despite unsafe travel conditions simply to avoid losing more state aid.
Obviously, the more days students spend in school, the better, especially in this era of high-stakes testing. We don't want them to lose out on their education. We urge school leaders to do everything they can to revise the school calendar to fit in those 180 days.
We realize this might not be a popular suggestion, but the February and March breaks can be shortened to regain as many of those lost days as possible. For those districts that simply cannot make up the time, however, the state should offer waivers.
The New York State School Boards Association is recommending exempting districts from the 180-day requirement. We support selective exemptions, granted only to districts that make an honest effort to make up the time lost to the storm. Despite the trials and tribulations many districts are facing, education should still be paramount.
The NYSSBA has also made several other recommendations that we support, to help schools get damaged facilities back in shape:
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TVGN will air The Young and the Restless beginning this summer as part of the new CBS Corporation/Lionsgate partnership, TVGN announced on Wednesday.
Currently the No. 1 daytime drama on network television, The Young and the Restless will move its repeat airings from SoapNet to TVGN, but will continue to air at the same hour, 7/6c. New episodes air weekdays at 12:30-1:30 p.m./ET; 11:00 a.m. to Noon/PT on the CBS Television Network.
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Whoever at Blizzard thought up the Childrens Week holiday is a goddam fucking genius whom I would love to sit down with and drink copious amounts of beverages whilst watching every Steve McQueen, Elliot Gould and Lee Marvin movie made between 1965 and 1976 as a bevy of nubile 24 year old female auto mechanics frolic in the background whilst playing naked twister with baby oil. Yes, I like whoever thought this up that much.
I like this holiday both for practical and philosophical reasons. Lets start with the philosophy first.
Think about it. You get your very own orphan to hang out with, whose parents were killed in a big war. Apparently we are all in a big war. And this kids parents were probably tortured and mutilated in horrible ways and, knowing the current expansion, then turned into yucky horrible undead things to shamble around whilst screaming, brrrrrraaaaaiiiinnnns. So your kid has issues. And what are you supposed to do with him? Why, drag him into battlegrounds so he can see you slaughtering people in horrible ways. Sure you can't turn them into undead, but you can do just about anything else. The round table meeting at Bizzard must have been interesting on this one:
Dev1: Yeah, so anyway, what you're saying is that they then have to take the orphan into battlegrounds and they have to kill a certain number of opponents and do stuff with the orphan watching the whole time. Are you fucking serious?
Dev2: Well, don't forget we've just come off the love fool holiday, and that thing sucks balls …
[general murmers of agreement]
Dev2: … but they made us put it in to satisfy the pansies who think that videogames should be for everyone. So, if they want it for everyone then we need to cater for everyone, right? So we go from one holiday where you can easily convince your girlfriend and your grandmother to join in to the very next holiday where you can convince the really scary guy who punches pieces of glass into his nut sack to try out the game. But at the same time we're disguising it so that the girls and pansies out there still think it's a lovey-lovey holiday. So it's effectively a win-win situation.
Dev3: Yeah, okay I get all that. But what happens when they find out?
Dev2: They won't. People see what they want to see.
From a practical solution this holiday for me is the dogs bollocks, (which means it's great). Now, don't be under the mistaken assumptin that I'm actually going to do this holiday. I still think that all holiday events are vomit-inducing, even more so than my ex-girlfriend from grade 10. But this holiday gives the Alliance on Magtheridon a big boost. As some of you might know already from my posts, our battlegroup is awfully bad. It can't get any worse. A lot of bloggers are moaning that this holiday event ruins battlegrounds, but ours can't be ruined anymore than they already are. You can't get any worse than a 3-0 loss in WSG, so an influx of PvE players with no idea what to do is just a normal day at the office for us. But the horde are having a rude shock. This could swing things, just for a week. We'll only lose 1-0! And that's so much better, right?


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Do You Have What It Takes to Go Into Space? (Probably)
With pioneering companies like Space Adventures, Virgin Galactic and XCOR vying to launch average folks skyward, it seems like almost anyone can have the right stuff.
Photo Illustration by Darrow; NASA (astronauts); iStock (shirt, camera); Veer (fanny pack); Source photo for illustration: NASA's first corps of astronauts, The Mercury Seven, in 1962.
AMERICA'S FIRST CORPS of astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, had it pretty rough back in 1959. Selected from hundreds of elite pilots, they had to endure a battery of grueling tests: running on treadmills for hours, blowing up balloons repeatedly to gauge their lung capacity, being exposed to extreme heat, vibration and loud noises. None could weigh over 180 pounds or be taller than 5-foot-11. And they needed to have logged at least 1,500 hours of flying time in a traditional aircraft.
The bar has since lowered drastically, especially for ordinary citizens hoping to catch a ride aboard the commercial "space-tourism" flights that have either launched or have plans to do so as soon as early next year. Just ask the 700 ticket holders who've paid up to $250,000 to ride with Virgin Galactic 50 miles above the earth, or the 300 who have signed up for a similar offering by XCOR (at a cost of $95,000). Overweight? Probably not a problem. Heavy smoker? The sky may still be the limit. Even if you think you haven't got the right stuff, you might. It could just take a bit of training to get you there.
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Surprisingly, the baseline medical requirements for commercial space travel are lenient—and that's true whether you're taking a "suborbital" flight that barely leaves the earth's atmosphere (as Virgin Galactic and XCOR's flights will do) or going all the way to the International Space Station (a trip offered by a company called Space Adventures).
According to a Virgin Galactic spokesperson, the "vast majority" of the general population will be able to fly with the company, even those with "heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, joint replacements, lung disease and other conditions," assuming proper precautions are taken. XCOR participants must pass a basic physical exam, like that required to acquire a pilot's license, but the company welcomes all, as long as passengers fit in the seat and can open the spacecraft door in case of an emergency on the ascent or descent. (You also can't be heavier than 250 pounds if you want the XCOR spacecraft to reach its maximum altitude of 100 km) And although the FAA requires that commercial spaceflight participants be 18 or older, neither service has a maximum age limit. Virgin Galactic has provisionally cleared customers in their 80s.
The much more involved Space Adventures' Orbital Spaceflight program, which lets civilians hitch a ride aboard the Russian Soyuz to spend 10 to 14 days in the International Space Station, is equally inclusive in its approach. Although passengers are screened for health issues that would be difficult to treat in space, "most people in good health will qualify for spaceflight," said Space Adventures president Tom Shelley. And there is a precedent for civilians making it safely to space and back again. The company took its first passenger, Dennis Tito, then 61, up to the space station back in 2001. Seven others have since then, including Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil. British soprano Sarah Brightman, next in line, is scheduled to go up next year.
Besides Space Adventures, Virgin Galactic and XCOR are the other main ventures focused specifically on taking passengers to space. ( Elon Musk 's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos 's Blue Origin are concentrating on commercial payloads). Virgin Galactic has done test flights and plans to take passengers up in 2015. XCOR says its test flights will begin early next year, with passengers going up as soon as next winter.
Space travel is not for the faint of heart, however. Even during relatively short suborbital trips, your body is subjected to extremes during ascent and re-entry. The rate of acceleration can cause blackouts, because the blood rushing from your head to your feet makes the heart pump faster to keep you conscious. On re-entry, the Virgin Galactic flight briefly hits 6 gs—or six times the earth's gravity. (XCOR's flight tops out at 4 gs.)
All three services provide guidance on how to mitigate this. When passengers buy a ticket with Virgin Galactic or XCOR, they're put in touch with a trainer. Richard Searfoss, a former NASA astronaut and retired Air Force Colonel who now serves as XCOR's staff trainer, suggests doing abdominal exercises so passengers will be better able to engage their core on re-entry. Passengers are taught "straining maneuvers"—a technique that involves tensing your muscles to help keep blood in the chest area, so it can get pumped up to the brain. He also recommends doing cardio exercises to ensure that you don't have trouble breathing under the g loads.
And then there are simple movements—like maneuvering around the spacecraft cabin—that most people aren't accustomed to. "You're crouching to climb into the spaceship and stretching to get out of your seat and doing new motions that you normally don't do in regular terrestrial life," said Beth Moses, who was once the International Space Station assembly manager and is now Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut trainer. She advises future passengers to stretch regularly before the flight.
Both Virgin Galactic and XCOR's ticket price includes three days of training, during which passengers take an aerobatic flight that will subject them to g-forces similar to those they'll experience in the spacecraft. Both companies recommend future passengers ride in a centrifuge flight simulator in advance to get a sense of how the heightened forces will feel.
Space Adventures' much more involved Orbital Spaceflight program has a rigorous training program to match. Passengers spend roughly six months embedded with astronauts in the Russian Federal Space Agency at the Gagarin Research & Test cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and investor in a handful of space-tourism companies including XCOR and Space Adventures, elected to be a "backup cosmonaut" (current cost: $4 million). In addition to daily classes on "space plumbing" and "space medicine," she recalled spending two nights in the snowy woods—an exercise meant to prepare her for an emergency landing in winter. She and two other cosmonauts had to pitch a makeshift tent and build a fire, using only an ax and the silk from their parachutes.
Ultimately, the physical preparation is as much about comfort as it is about survival. "We've been doing a lot of work to demonstrate that physical fitness is not a necessity," said Dr. Rebecca Blue, a flight surgeon currently employed by Virgin Galactic. Dr. Blue, as an assistant professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, led a study independent of Virgin Galactic that found even people with common medical problems—including asthma, emphysema and back and neck injuries—could safely withstand the stress of commercial space travel. "We want people to take this opportunity to really kind of focus on health and fitness as a lifestyle choice, so you enjoy the flight and don't simply tolerate it."
Stellar Staycations
Don't have $95,000 to blow on a ticket to space? Here are four ways to get an out-of-this-world experience here on earth
Take a Spin in a Centrifuge. To get a taste of the 4 to 6 gs that you'd experience during a spaceflight, ride in the Phoenix Centrifuge, at the National Aerospace Training and Research Center, in Southampton, Penn. It's a 25-foot rotating arm with a space-cabin cockpit attached to the end. The NASTAR Center offers a two-day foundational course in suborbital spaceflight, which includes skills training and time in the centrifuge, for $3,000. nastarcenter.com
Lose Some Weight. You don't have to travel to space to experience weightlessness. Zero Gravity Corporation offers weightless flights in a modified Boeing 727 that is flown in a series of parabolic paths. As the plane makes its way over the top of the parabola, passengers experience weightlessness for 20- to 30-second intervals. Each excursion includes 15 of these maneuvers. Flights cost $4,950 and depart from locations throughout the U.S., including Cape Canaveral and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Las Vegas, Nev.; and San Jose, Calif. gozerog.com
Go to Basic Training. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Adult Space Academy, in Huntsville, Ala., offers a number of ways to experience the rigors of space travel. A flight simulator, built inside a mock-up of the cockpit of the space shuttle, gives you the experience of commandeering a spacecraft, while the 1/6th Gravity Chair is basically a spring-loaded seat, suspended from the ceiling, that gives you the feeling of bouncing along the moon. There's also a Multi-Axis Trainer that spins the sitter in various directions to mimic the "tumble spin" an astronaut might experience during reentry in a space capsule. The Academy costs $499 for a three-day program, $599 for four. spacecamp.com
Ride a 4-G Roller Coaster. Although even the fastest roller coasters don't subject the body to the pressure an astronaut experiences, you can get a 4-g experience at some amusement parks. Try Batman: The Ride, at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio (sixflags.com), to name just one.
Corrections & Amplifications
Virgin Galactic flights will reach a maximum altitude of 100 km. An earlier version of a chart with this article said the height was 80 km.


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314 kilometers from Antofagasta lies San Pedro, the land of the indigenous atacameños or kunzas, an ancient culture that developed around a fertile oasis. Hundreds of years later, the town is a bustling international tourist center.
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Richie Sambora and Nikki Lund debuted their highly anticipated clothing line WHITE TRASH BEAUTIFUL to a packed audience for LA Fashion Weekend at Sunset-Gower Studios. The singer/songwriter/guitarist and member of the once iconoclastic rock group BON JOVI along with fellow designer, Lund, foray into the event with rave reviews and much success. Whether it was handling photojournalists' constant prodding over capturing their photo to handling the media's probing questions, Sambora and Lund stood together with class and grace as the red carpet was their oyster.
Guests got the chance to enjoy the open bar and an illustrious social setting that had wall illuminations of all the sponsors for the event such as KTLA 5 (who did a live-stream of reporting), Domenico Winery, Crustacean, 360 Vodka, Planet Salon, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics and gift bags courtesy of Make Love Not Trash.
As guests, photojournalists and fashion aficionados made their way to the runway area, Mistress of Ceremonies Mikey Hoffman (LA Gallery Owner who served as host of the three day weekend) thanked sponsors and everyone for attending the star-studded event. As the lights went down with nothing but the illuminating signature label WHITE TRASH BEAUTIFUL lit up in the background, models began to stomp the runway showcasing designs that everyone was buzzing about.
Each design that graced the runway exhibited the element of spring time. The designs ranged from baby doll dresses, gowns, long-sleeve draped flowing tops and midriffs. Lund and Sambora's line uses soft, rich colors on clothes that are edgy for the nightlife party girl in Los Angeles dancing the night away and sexy for the New York social club woman who wants to be seen and create a stir.
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The skin is the body's largest organ, and because it is the most visible, it usually gets the most attention. Like every other part of us, our skin changes as we grow older, but nothing shows the signs of aging as much, perhaps with the exception of graying hair.
In fact, we routinely judge not only a person's age but also general state of health and vitality by the appearance of his or her skin.
"The first sign of wrinkles strikes terror into the hearts of many people," says Dr. Leonard Hayflick, professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of "How and Why We Age" (Ballantine Books, 1994). This, he says, is not because skin wrinkles are a disease – "no one dies of old skin" – but rather because of society's obsession with youth and devaluation of old age.
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"Most skin lesions afflicting the elderly are preventable," he says. "With few exceptions, they are not the result of normal aging but represent an accumulation of environmental insults."
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But there can be hidden, more serious health issues at play as well. Studies have shown that elevated blood sugar, high blood pressure, and heart disease can leave their mark on the body's surface. For instance, velvety brownish patches can be a sign of diabetes; dull, dry skin can come from nutritional deficiencies, including lack of certain vitamins or omega-3 fatty acids.
Fortunately, there are a number of steps one can take to mitigate skin degeneration. In addition to avoiding excessive exposure to sun light (or UV rays in tanning studios), and applying sunscreen before going outside, experts recommend eating certain foods that are deemed especially helpful for preserving healthy skin.
Generally speaking, any balanced diet regimen is good for the skin, as it is for all organs. One of the most important nutrients for skin health is vitamin A, which is found in dairy products like yogurt and cheese. For obvious reasons, it is advisable to stick to low-fat versions and to keep serving sizes in check. Also, beta-carotene, richly present in carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, and dark, leafy greens, adds to the package.
Fruits and vegetables in general are always good choices, and for multiple reasons, among them their high content in antioxidants and phytochemicals. These are chemical compounds able to fight so-called "free radicals," which are molecules known to attack cells and believed to contribute to aging. Especially berries seem to have high antioxidant capacities.
Essential fatty acids are considered skin-friendly nutrients as they can help protect cell membranes. They are found in numerous sources, including fish (especially salmon and herring), walnuts, flax seed, and canola oil. Most oils are beneficial for the skin, but be sure to use them sparingly because of their relatively high calorie content.
The mineral selenium seems to play a crucial role in the healing process of damaged skin. It is present in a variety of foods, including whole-wheat breads and cereals, turkey, tuna, and some nuts.
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Two people were critically injured in an explosion and fire Tuesday morning after smoking on a catwalk over oil storage tanks, officials say.
According to Van Zandt County Fire Marshal Chuck Allen, at about 3 a.m. firefighters were called to a fire at an oil storage facility north of Van, Texas, along state Highway 110.
At the facility are at least six 400-barrel fiberglass storage tanks, three of which caught fire and exploded. Multiple fire departments responded to the scene and ultimately decided to let the fire burn itself out.
A short time later, a 24-year-old man with burns to his face, chest and arms, and a 24-year-old woman also critically injured, showed up at the Van Fire Department seeking medical attention. Both were both taken to the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler before being transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
The names of the victims have not been released and neither person has been identified as an employee of the storage facility.
Allen said the victims were believed to be trespassing and smoking on a catwalk above the storage tanks.
Allen added that most of the tanks had very little crude oil in them at the time of the explosion.
The fire marshal is working to identify which company owns the facility.
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• Birth—September 24, 1896
• Where—St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
• Death—December 21, 1940
• Where—Hollywood, California
• Education—Princeton University
F. Scott Fitzgerald was named for his famous relative, Francis Scott Key, though he was always referred to as "Scott." Minnesota born and Princeton educated, Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920 to critical and popular acclaim.
That same year, He married Zelda Sayre, the queen of Montgomery, Alabama youth society, and the two lived a boisterous, decadent life in New York City. (See LitCourse 5 with Fitzgerald's story "Babylon Revisited" for an idea of their life.) To better afford their extravagant lifestyle, the couple moved to France, where Fitzgerald befriended Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, becoming part of the legendary group of expatriate writers and artists, which Stein labeled the "Lost Generation." In Paris he wrote his finest novel, The Great Gatsby (1925).
Zelda was eventually hospitalized in 1930 for the first of many breakdowns, and Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood (William Faulkner was there, too), where his heavy drinking ended his screen writing career. In 1934 he published Tender Is the Night. He died there of a heart attack six years later at the age of 44.
The 1920s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development. The Great Gatsby, Scott's masterpiece, was published in 1925. Hemingway greatly admired The Great Gatsby and wrote in his A Moveable Feast "If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one" (153). Hemingway expressed his deep admiration for Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald's flawed, doomed character, when he prefaced his chapters concerning Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast with:
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. (129)
Much of what Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast helped to create the myth of Fitzgerald's eventual demise and Zelda's hand in that demise. Though much of Hemingway's text is factually correct, it is always tinged with his disappointment with Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald began working on his fourth novel during the late 1920s but was sidetracked by financial difficulties that necessitated his writing commercial short stories, and by the schizophrenia that struck Zelda in 1930. Her emotional health remained fragile for the rest of her life. In 1932, she was hospitalized in Baltimore, Maryland.
Scott rented an estate in the Baltimore suburb of Towson and began work on Tender Is the Night, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist who falls in love with and marries one of his patients. Some critics have seen the book as a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel recounting Fitzgerald's problems with his wife, the corrosive effects of wealth and a decadent lifestyle, his own egoism and self-confidence, and his continuing alcoholism. Indeed, Fitzgerald was extremely protective of his material (their life together). When Zelda published her own version of their lives in Europe, Save Me the Waltz, Fitzgerald was angry and succeeded in getting her doctors to keep her from writing any more.
Tender was finally published in 1934, and critics who had waited nine years for the follow up to The Great Gatsby had mixed opinions about it. The novel did not sell well upon publication, but the book's reputation has since risen significantly.
Although he reportedly found movie work degrading, Fitzgerald was once again in dire financial straits and spent the second half of the 1930s in Hollywood, working on commercial short stories, scripts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (including some unfilmed work on Gone with the Wind), and his fifth and final novel, posthumously published as The Last Tycoon (based on the life of film executive Irving Thalberg). Scott and Zelda became estranged; she continued living in mental institutions on the east coast, while he lived with his lover Sheilah Graham, a well-known gossip columnist, in Hollywood.
Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic since his college days, and became notorious during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking, leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s. According to Zelda's biographer, Nancy Milford, Scott claimed that he had contracted tuberculosis. Fitzgerald suffered two heart attacks in late 1940, and on December 21, while awaiting a visit from his doctor, Fitzgerald collapsed in Sheilah Graham's apartment and died. He was 44. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
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Ed. Note: This article originally appeared on the ACF Family Room Blog. Read the original post here.
As director of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program (FVPSA), a program of the Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, I am pleased to share with you the launch of a new campaign that invites men to play a part in the movement to end domestic violence.
Te Invito, a toolkit and campaign designed to engage Latino men to end violence against women, was created by the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, a project of Casa de Esperanza, a FVPSA resource center. The initiative is a shining example of FVPSA's ongoing work to prioritize training on healthy masculinity to engage men and boys to lead violence-free lives and relationships, and to develop culturally relevant programming related to domestic violence.
With Men's Health Week June 9-15, the launch of Te Invito reminds us all of the critical role that men can play in shaping positive relationships with their children, their partners and communities. What is particularly meaningful about Te Invito is how the National Latin@ Network engaged men to share in its creation.
The campaign was informed by listening sessions conducted with Latino men and women from the St. Paul and Minneapolis metropolitan areas, where discussions about gender roles, socialization, education, violence and culture shaped the final product. Participants were asked why it is important for Latino men to be involved in ending domestic violence and how men would like to be more engaged in the work. Two overarching themes emerged from these community discussions: first, men want to be invited to contribute to the movement to end domestic violence; second, men recognized how relationships with their peers can be opportunities to teach each other about healthy relationships.
The resulting campaign materials and toolkit were inspired by the wisdom and experiences of the men and women who generously shared their time and ideas. Featuring Latino perspectives that span generations, Te Invito contains a number of resources, including customizable public service announcements, anti-violence pledges, and conversation starters about how traditional masculinity can hurt both men and women.
The National Latin@ Network and Casa de Esperanza developed the materials so that locally based organizations may use them to invite Latino men to participate in their prevention efforts. I invite you to explore everything that Te Invito has to offer, including Spanish language materials, on the National Latin@ Network's website.
More than one in three women are survivors of domestic violence in the United States, but we know that domestic violence is not just a women's issue. Relationship violence has far-reaching impacts—from children, to communities—and putting an end to violence against women will take the active participation of men. Te Invito delivers an important message not only to Latino men, but to all fathers, brothers, sons, and male allies in the movement to prevent domestic violence.
Juan Carlos Areán, senior director of the National Latin@ Network, says it best: "I have worked to end violence against women for more than 20 years and have seen an always increasing number of men getting involved in this cause. The Te Invito campaign is one more opportunity for Latino men to step up to the plate and work together with women to create a better future for all."
- To learn more about Te Invito, visit: www.nationallatinonetwork.org/mens-toolkit-tools-and-materials/te-invito-campaign
- To learn more about the work of the National Latin@ Network/ Casa de Esperanza and other culturally-specific resource centers supported by the Administration for Children and Families, visit: www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/programs/family-violence-prevention-services/programs/centers
- To get help with domestic violence, see: www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/resource/help-fv
Marylouise Kelley, PhD., Director, Family Violence Prevention and Services Program


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"Forgive them, for they know not what they are doing"
We Breed Cretins
(I could do this all day...)
Why Bother Coming?
We Blurt Crap
Who Brought Clowns?
Where does it say to go and be cruel dumb asses?
And God Said, let Westboro Baptist Be my Mouth Piece, in the Third Millinium AD.
WBC, the mouth piece of religious intolerance For N years!
Thank you WBC, you make every other extreamist group LOOK GOOD!
Gays are too busy getting a life to hate the WBC!
When WBC pickets, neither shall they eat!
The family of man, contains atleast one black sheep!
When WBC speeks, my TV gets all funny!
Did God make paper for hate speech?
The WBC, canned hate speech, past the X date!
WE LOVE YOU WBC, keep making the rest of us LOOK GOOD!
Who would Jesus save first?
When in hell, look up the head office of the WBC.
What Blithering Charlatans
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Usher may be 32, but since finalizing his divorce from Tameka Foster last year, he isn't thinking about getting married again.
"Seeing how marriage didn't work out for me the first time, I'm in no rush to do it again," he told Playboy's November 2010 issue.
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In fact, the superstar isn't sure he wants just one relationship.
"Maybe I can find a couple of women who are open-minded. Look at how Hugh Hefner does it, with a harem of women," he told the mag.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Divorce! Break-Ups! Hollywood's Most Famous Former Couples
Usher revealed that a host of women have tried to pick him up, using every line under the sun.
"Sh**, what haven't they said to me?" he said when asked about their pick-up lines. "Every so often you meet a woman who's very aggressive. 'I'll make you feel things you've never felt in your life.' 'Once you get it, you'll never let it go.' All that."
The singer added that although he's heard every line, women have been successful, "a couple of times."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hottest Hollywood Dads!
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Usher filed for divorce from Tameka Foster in the summer of 2009, nearly two years after the two first married. The divorce filing came just a few months after Tameka suffered cardiac arrest shortly before she was set to undergo a plastic surgery procedure in Brazil. The couple had reportedly lived apart for almost a year at the time the papers were filed.
Usher told Playboy that the attention he received from his divorce, which was finalized in Fall 2009, turned him into a different kind of a celebrity.
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"In an era when sensationalism is more prevalent than anything, yeah," he told the mag. "People love a train wreck. Lindsay Lohan — everybody is eager to see how that comes out. This is somewhat the same thing.
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Hello all!
As the title implies, there is now a dedicated South African server running for TOXIKK (which I host). It's still (somewhat) WIP but for the most part, it's up and running as intended. Please excuse some times when the server will be offline. Reasons. Just accept reasons. (Downtime shouldn't be long though depending on what I want/need to do, etc.)
A lot of thanks to PredatH0r for helping me set up the more "intricate" settings for the server's voting options.
These include (only) official maps, with the BL and SA variants having a separate "No bots" option.
The bots are set as SC 5, but I can change this depending on request. Also, maximum players are set at 6, and minimum players at 3. (So joining the server if it's empty will put you with two SC5 bots.)
All are welcome! Ping is no excuse, I play 200-500 almost all of the time anyway! xD


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Check out the latest shuffling of release dates below:
- Oblivion, from director Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko, has been moved up a week from April 26th, 2013 to April 19th, 2013. The film will screen exclusively in IMAX for one week starting on April 12th.
- Rush, the Forumula 1 racing picture from Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth has a new release date of September 20th, 2013.
- Mama, a horror film directed by Andres Muschietti and produced by Guillermo del Toro, has been pushed from October of this year to January 18th, 2013. The picture stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, from writer/director Stephen Chbosky and starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, has been pushed back a week from September 14th to September 21st of this year.
Hit the jump for more on each picture.
The Universal release dates for Oblivion, Rush and Mama come courtesy of Variety. Other Universal properties include 47 Ronin, to be released on February 8th and Fast and Furious 6, debuting May 24th.
Check out the synopsis for Oblivion below:
Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind. Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete. Living and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Rush, based on true events, centers on the F1 racer James Hunt (Hemsworth) and his rivalry with fellow racecar driver, Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl)
Mama, tells the story of a couple who take in their niece and nephew after the children were found living in the forest for five years. Murderous events unfold and it's clear that some supernatural force is bent on tormenting the kids.
Finally, with release date info via Box Office Mojo, check out the synopsis for The Perks of Being a Wallflower below:
Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. The film is a moving tale of love, loss, fear, hope and the unforgettable friends who help us through life.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
I have a friend who works for a major automotive lead provider... She sent the following bullet pointed lists to me, and asked that I do not disclose her identity. She copied these lists out of an email that her company's newest VP (who came from True Car and worked directly for Scott Painter) sent to their internal team.
Select Affinity Partners (No-Haggle Auto Buying Program) – Zag traditional model – only premium dealers get these leads
Distribution Partners (TrueCar Price Reports)
I am posting this to the ADM Forum section to generate discussions around the topics referenced in each section and the bullet points that follow... What is your opinion or insight on the listed sections shown?
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Haley Paglia has registered a special vanity domain and short-cut URL for the ADM Professional Community and assigned it to this Forum Discussion:
Please feel free to use this short-cut URL to refer people to this discussion and to get here without having to start at the ADM Showroom page...
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OMG! Why any dealer would want to pay these crooks is beyond me. This is just amazing! Nice post Ralph! Every Dealer needs to read this!
Crooks is right… What most dealers don't know or don't understand is that the "Data" is being extracted in a CSV file, excel, or something like it. You can set up a report on a schedule to run daily, multiple times a day whatever you want. Then put at on a desktop for any vendor to grab. You now control what every vendor is taking from your DMS. So if they say they are only taking your inventory that's all you give them in the report. We as dealers are still in control if you take the time to learn your DMS, or work with your vendors. If you want to sign up for TrueCar or Zag or whatever crap buying program it is today to sell cars for $2,000-$3,000 under invoice before rebates thats your problem... We have no problem over coming truecar pricing.
P.S. just converted at true car buyer on a new Nissan about 30min ago. ADM helped me in this. Thanks!
Chuck: I sure love that P.S. Great news!
I think it is interesting that TrueCar's biggest customer shut them off from DMS access... AutoNation (AN). Also, it seems that their algorithm is designed to charge the dealer for sales that the dealer would have most likely made regardless of whether or not they are using ZAG or TrueCar.
Ralph, that is a point that I hit Painter with today: I believe every one of the sales he "enabled" would have been made anyway. $1.5billion "saved for consumers" . . . that's a lot of lost profit to dealers. And thus lost paychecks to employees.
And to vendors. Or are you vendors not waking up yet to this threat? Can't train showrooms without salespeople. Can't charge for CRMs that need sales staff. Etc.
I don't think there are any surprises here - it's what many of us have been speculating about. But this is a great post with insider info -- nice job, Ralph.
AN never let them have the DMS data from what I understand -- AN dictated the data TC received from them.
I have never seen AN let ANYONE have DMS access, so I can't imagine why they would start with TrueCar. The more I read about this company the shadier it becomes. I spend every day of my life telling dealers that most digital advertising sales teams aren't trying to screw them, I may have to rephrase.
very interesting read....i didnt realize they had access to the DMS data as well, jeez
Great Job! Thanks for posting...
the pricing model for the service does make sense to me and represents real value to me as a dealer. The "we do a name match from the DMS to verify what we bill you for sounds like an easy way keep things uncluttered. The rest of it seems to be absurd to me. Price alone can't guarantee volume and even a rookie GM would figure out pretty quick that a reverse auction that makes negative leaps of HUNDREDS of dollars will spiral quickly out of control.
The coercion (?) from the Reps is really appalling. I am not closing deals so you threaten to pull me and "advise" I lower my prices in order to pick up my volume through the program. So I do and I win for a while but next week the same guy is telling the third dealer in the metro to do the same thing and the first guy withdraws and new dealer comes in and the cycle begins anew. Seems like a Three Card Monty Game to me. Each of us wins enough that we are ready to bet the farm on where the little pea is. I find out the hard way that the hand is quicker than the eye and leave busted while a new player is loaned confidence and then goes bust.
We can all see the simple ways to defeat the "will you honor" questions and it is not hard to offer affinity pricing on your own, so as Ralph points out you will not be getting any drop ship requests from across the continent from these guys. Knowing that all these people are in your sales locality and drive by your store and see all your adds would pay the guys anything? Why not just focus on building your own leads and retaining them in fixed operations?
PS with how tight new car inventories are today even if you are the perfect true car dealer there will be a gap between buyers and inventory on the ground that you will have buy from surrounding dealers. I would hard pressed to give any of my inventory to a dealer on this service.
PPS this reverse auction pricing to the consumer model makes a really big assumption that all cars can be a commodity at all times and in all places. Sorry True car just not true... The price of goods (absent inference in the market) will always be based on the supply and the demand. You must have forgotten that I would normally be willing to discount heavily any car in a unpopular color to free up the space and earn a better color or one with more appealing equipment. But at certain times of the year or with certain models if you want the red one with a sunroof and Bose audio the price is much higher I don't care if you go elsewhere. I get two per month and twenty offers. I would be silly to let it go low.
Andrew - I think you have described quite clearly one of the most negative aspects of the TrueCar Automotive Sales program... What you describe is like a "skull and crossbones" over a financial statement... Profit Poison!
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The Chimpcam Project Gives Cameras to Edinburgh Zoo Chimpanzees
Techrevolutionary: Chimps-Turned-Filmmakers
Techrevolutionary: Chimps-Turned-Filmmakers
Eleven tech-savvy chimps at the Edinburgh Zoo aren't just playing with orange boxes, they're using special cameras inside to shoot their own footage. As part of a documentary airing on BBC on Jan. 27, The Chimpcam Project shows them experiencing video streaming, using touchscreen technology, and recording their world with these orange boxes. Since chimpanzees can't yet talk (in ways we can understand), I've created my own dialogue for the "film" — check it out when you start this tech-evolutionary slideshow!


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Once Upon a Time's Charming family reunion was painfully short-lived and that won't change any time soon.
In last Sunday's premiere, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) was sucked into a portal to what was left of fairy-tale land after the curse. Unwilling to lose her daughter again, her faithful mother Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) jumped in after her, sending them both directly into the clutches of presumed enemies Mulan (Jamie Chung) and Aurora (Sarah Bolger).
Once Upon a Time: Now that the curse has been broken, the real trouble begins
So now what? The journey back to Storybrooke will be a long one, according to consulting producer Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica), who penned this Sunday's outing, in which we also learn the origin story behind Regina (Lana Parrilla) and Rumplestiltskin's (Robert Carlyle) troubled relationship. Get the scoop:
For the writers, how hard has been it been balancing three story lines?
Jane Espenson: When we started the season with the three threads instead of two, we were all tentative. Will this work? It really quickly became evident that it was not just going to work, but it was going to step everything up. For the first time, you have story lines that are happening contemporaneous with each other. We always had those fairy-tale story lines from the past. We just felt this excitement when we got to the end of Episode 201, when we do that reveal that these two stories have been happening at the same time. We can still tell stories from the past, so we've got three different colors of story on the board; we write on the white board with different color ink. We've totally fallen in love with these stories.
In Sunday's episode, we'll see how Regina met Rumple, which kind of sounds like When Harry Met Sally... in a way, though I'm sure it's very different.
Espenson: [Laughs] Can an evil queen and a wicked sorcerer be friends? They are the main focus of this episode, but there's an awful lot going on in town with David (Joshua Dallas) as well. They're sharing the spotlight. I'd listen carefully to what Rumple says about their first meeting. Maybe this is their first meeting, but maybe they go even further back.
For Snow and Emma, they're enemies of this land because of the Wraith. How are they navigating those waters?
Espenson: They've got a lot of explaining to do. It's not just about explaining that it's not their fault, but where did they come from? Are they who they say they are? Who is that anyway? We don't know what relationships Mulan and Aurora had with the characters that we've already seen from fairy-tale land. Will they know the name Snow White or not? Of course, Emma doesn't know anything about this world. We handed them a big old of bouquet of obstacles to deal with. Not to mention, they're dealing with charred fairy-tale land. I'm reminded of cinder Earth from Battlestar Galactica and what happens when you find the place you've been yearning for and it's not what you thought it would be. It's interesting for both sides. Aurora and Mulan are going to have to deal with who these people are, who they naturally blame for this terrible situation. And we have to deal with Snow and Emma, on the other hand, dealing with this strange world.
Nice Battlestar reference.
Espenson: We never say it explicitly in the room, and I don't think [executive producers] Adam [Horowitz] and Edward [Kitsis] have made the parallel, but when we talk about fairy-tale land, I can't help but think of cinder Earth. It's not, in any way, narratively used in the same way, but I always think of that heart-dropping feeling of finding Earth and it's cinder. It's very evocative.
Once Upon a Time Postmortem: Where are Emma and Snow really?
Going back, you mentioning Aurora and Mulan possibly not being aware of Snow White is a parallel to Whale (David Anders) telling Charming that he's not his prince. Is that a geographical thing, or could that be Whale knowing that Charming wasn't really the prince?
Espenson: I've heard a couple different interpretations of "You're not my prince." One being that he comes from a land that's not fairy-tale land, another being that he comes from a different part of fairy-tale land and has an allegiance to a different prince. I hadn't heard that one. That's cool too. Whale gets more and more interesting, doesn't he? I love that notion. That line is one of my favorite lines ever because it is so multiply interpretable. Obviously, we're keeping the Whale mystery going. It is worth thinking about that line and all the different things it could mean.
Emma's reaction to that line was also very strong. She's really starting to realize her father is a prince!
Espenson: She has some amazing takes in these early episodes, where she's just still reeling from this realization and taking in this new world. It's not just intermittently heartbreaking — and the heartbreak on Snow's face when she hugged her, my God, and Emma realizing that she's found her parents and nothing that she thought was true is true — but it's also funny because we're dealing with this modern woman who's dealing with these crazy things that are apparently true. Beyond that, these are things she's read about in fairy tales throughout her life. It isn't just, "My father's a fairy-tale prince," it's, "My father is Prince Charming?!" That very notion is so comedically rich. Jennifer does such a great job of playing the comedy of it.
How soon will we get a sense of what the real danger is now in fairy-tale land?
Espenson: They will be on to the danger in Sunday's episode; you'll learn a lot more. Look, in particular, to the very ending of Sunday's episode to get a glimpse at some real danger. It's not just ogres. It's so much worse.
Is part of that danger Hook (Colin O'Donoghue)? Are there people who have taken advantage of what this leftover world is?
Espenson: The new cinder FTL has a number of dangerous characters in it, let's just say that. And yes, Hook is going to be introduced. Is there a line between those two? Sounds like a good guess to me.
FTL, aka fairy-tale land, made me think of Battlestar again!
Espenson: It all goes back to Battlestar. [Laughs]
How difficult will Emma and Snow's journey back to Storybrooke be? Not only just the journey, but dealing with Emma's feeling about Snow and Charming having given her up.
Espenson: Absolutely. It's not just going to be Snow and Emma trying to get back, but obviously David trying to figure out how to get them back from the other side. We don't know how possible that is. It's not going to be easy. The first scene of Sunday's episode is not going to be, "Oh look, I got the hat to work!" It's going to take some real effort and I would look for that to not be resolved right away. We've put them in a very difficult situation and we're not going to make it easy to get out of it.
Regina's shocking origin story, Storybrooke's future and more Once Upon a Time scoop
And David can't just turn to Jefferson (Sebastian Stan) to have him make a new hat?
Espenson: That is a very smart step to go to Jefferson. Does David know about Jefferson? I like that idea a lot and I wouldn't be shocked to see Jefferson show up at some point because he would be very useful.
Speaking of the hat, Emma appeared to have a hand in starting it up in the premiere. What are the consequences of the fact that Emma can apparently do magic?
Espenson: Can she do magic? Or facilitate magic? Or conduct magic? That shot of her hand on the arm was certainly evocative. It was not meaningless. I wouldn't take that to mean Emma can do magic. But yes: Emma. Magic. Some sort of loop around those two words. Again, the first scene of Sunday's episode is also not going to be Emma making frogs appear. You're on a very long journey with these characters.
To find out what the first scene of Sunday's episode will be, tune in at 8/7c on ABC!


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GAO: Dept. of Ed. Suffers Oversight Deficiencies
A report released today by the federal government's non‐partisan General Accounting Office finds deficits in the Department of Education's financial and program oversight. According to the GAO, "These shortcomings can lead to weaknesses in program implementation that ultimately result in failure to effectively serve the students, parents, teachers, and administrators those programs were designed to help."
The GAO's findings are consistent with the longstanding pattern: for forty years, Americans have steadily increased spending on public schools without any resulting improvement in student performance by the end of high school (see the figures here and here).
The Obama administration has touted its $100 billion in education stimulus spending as a key to long term economic growth. What the data show, however, is that higher spending on public schools over the past two generations has not improved academic outcomes. And economists such as Stanford's Eric Hanushek have shown that it is improved academic achievement, not higher public school spending, that accelerates economic growth.
So if the administration is serious in wanting education to boost the American economy, it must support reforms that are proven to significantly raise achievement, such as those that bring to bear real market freedoms and incentives — programs like the DC private school choice program that the administration has decided to kill despite its proven effectiveness.