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Geico 'Hump Day' Camel Helps Turn Off Our Cell Phones in the Theater on 'Movie Day'
The Geico 'Hump Day' commercial has turned into one of the biggest viral hits of the year. Now, what started as a cute 30 second TV commercial has made its way to the big screen. The Hump Day Camel is featured in a movie theater reminder to turn off cell phones before the film starts.
This ad is more entertaining than a lot of the movies I've gone to recently. And the talking camel isn't the only one making the jump from the TV commercial to the movie screen. His silent coworker, Mike (a.k.a. MikeMikeMikeMikeMike) gets a speaking part as the guy talking on the phone as the movie is about to start. Watch and enjoy:
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Intended for use prior to viewing the Science on a Sphere film "Water Falls," this lesson introduces students to Earth's water cycle and the importance of freshwater resources.
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This lesson was developed to give participants an understanding of Earth's water cycle. In this one-hour long activity, students participate in a webquest to learn about the water cycle, and then build a mini-model of the water cycle to observe how... (View More) water moves through Earth's four systems. The activity uses the 5E instructional model and is part of the "Survivor Earth" series of one-hour lessons. (View Less)
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This activity allows participants to build a paper model of the GPM Core Observatory and learn about the technology the satellite uses to measure precipitation from space. Directions explain how to cut, fold and glue the individual pieces together... (View More) to make the model. The accompanying information sheet has details about the systems in the satellite including the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI), the High Gain Antenna, avionics and star trackers, propulsion system and solar array, as well as a math connection and additional engineering challenges. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the states of matter. Learners will participate in a kinesthetic activity to reintroduce them to three states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas and introduce them to a fourth state of matter, plasma, its connection to the Sun,... (View More) and connections to science related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. This activity also demonstrates how the addition of energy can transform matter from one state to another and reviews common examples of matter in each state. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/16eHjJh. (View Less)
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For those that don't know, the <Frostwolves> have moved from Darth'Remar to Saurfang.
Since I'm a social member, I've decided (for now) to reroll a Belf-Zwingli.
For anyone that's rolled a Belf, you know the first quest requires you cull the mana wyrms in the area: Reclaiming Sunstrider Isle.
I was working my way through Reclaiming Sunstrider Isle, alt-tabbing through all the little white wormy flying things. When, all of a sudden a Level 85, Flagged, Worgen Druid de-stealths in the midst of my mana wyrm carnage.
Since I'm alt-tabbing thru the baddies, of course my next target is the Drood.
I had a sinking feeling that this guy was a troll. I apologized, and moved to another area to kill the mana wyrms.
Of course, a couple of minutes later he de-stealthed and one-shot me. I decided to just wait inside the tower the 5 minutes for my pvp flag to wear off.
I go back outside to continue leveling when I get this kind hearted whisper.
Yes, there he is in all his glory. Logged into his Horde toon "Demonkupkake." to berate me for "choosing" to attack a level 85 toon.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the common WoW troll. His name be Worgenkiller (Alliance) and Demonkupkake (Horde). I'm sure that everyone on Aman'Thul and Caelestrasz Oceanic Servers are so proud of him.
I'm glad that I'm not a new player, or that would have been demoralizing. I can only hope that this kid eventually turns into a kind hearted adult. I mean, his brain eventually fully develops in his late 20s…


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The Conservative Media Is Lying To You
Conor Friedersdorf ****ing nails it. If you bathe in the muck of the vast majority of conservative media -- if you read FoxNews.com more than any other site, if you hail Mark Levin as brilliant, if you live and die by Drudge...
Then you are being lied to.
There are plenty of conservative sources that simply have a conservative view on the world -- the Wall Street Journal, for instance. But that's distinct from the profitable media empire that sells propaganda damn near 24/7.
Example #1, since it comes up so much in this forum: the Drudge Report.
How many times did the Drudge Report link to Nate Silver, who absolutely crushed his election predictions? Zero.
How many times did the Drudge Report link to Dick Morris? A dozen.
And yet you bought it. You might recall sitting there watching the election returns, certain that Romney would win because for months you've been inundated with Republican whores like Morris telling you what you wanted to hear -- "Obama's a paper tiger," "his campaign is getting desperate," "absolutely nobody I know is voting Obama," "I see more Romney yard signs," "look at this outlier poll that favors Romney"...
Then the results come in, largely how the vast majority of polls told us they would.
You were misinformed. Massively. And it's not just limited to election returns. On climate change, tax rates, income inequality, immigration, healthcare, energy, foreign policy (in particular the Middle East), gay rights for the longest time, and of course Obama himself... You are being sold a bullshit platter that leaves you just as misinformed as you were about the prospective election results.
The biggest offender, of course, is Fox News. Not that they're the most egregious violators of conservative propaganda, but they're by far the most pervasive and the most influential.
You trust Fox News because you believe they are simply reporting from a conservative point of view. That's not true. They are actively selling bullshit. This election and Rove's meltdown on the evening of the 6th is proof. This is an organization that is financially and professionally tied to the Republican Party. Fox News' overlords donate heavily to the GOP. Many Republican candidates for the Presidency either end up or originate as Fox News contributors. This is not an independent outlet in any shape or form, it is a direct arm of the Republican Party.
Get out of this bubble. Set Google News as your homepage. And embrace the next four years as an opportunity to find out what you actually believe, rather than simply adopting the narrative of charlatans.
How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File
Nate Silver was right. His ideological antagonists were wrong. And that's just the beginning of the right's self-created information disadvantage.
By Conor Friedersdorf
Nov 7 2012, 6:30 AM ET
Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, "What went wrong?", they should ask themselves a question every bit as important: "Why were we the last to realize that things were going wrong for us?"
Barack Obama just trounced a Republican opponent for the second time. But unlike four years ago, when most conservatives saw it coming, Tuesday's result was, for them, an unpleasant surprise. So many on the right had predicted a Mitt Romney victory, or even a blowout -- Dick Morris, George Will, and Michael Barone all predicted the GOP would break 300 electoral votes. Joe Scarborough scoffed at the notion that the election was anything other than a toss-up. Peggy Noonan insisted that those predicting an Obama victory were ignoring the world around them. Even Karl Rove, supposed political genius, missed the bulls-eye. These voices drove the coverage on Fox News, talk radio, the Drudge Report, and conservative blogs.
Those audiences were misinformed.
Outside the conservative media, the narrative was completely different. Its driving force was Nate Silver, whose performance forecasting Election '08 gave him credibility as he daily explained why his model showed that President Obama enjoyed a very good chance of being reelected. Other experts echoed his findings. Readers of The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other "mainstream media" sites besides knew the expert predictions, which have been largely born out. The conclusions of experts are not sacrosanct. But Silver's expertise was always a better bet than relying on ideological hacks like Morris or the anecdotal impressions of Noonan.
Sure, Silver could've wound up wrong. But people who rejected the possibility of his being right? They were operating at a self-imposed information disadvantage.
Conservatives should be familiar with its contours. For years, they've been arguing that liberal control of media and academia confers one advantage: Folks on the right can't help but be familiar with the thinking of liberals, whereas leftists can operate entirely within a liberal cocoon. This analysis was offered to explain why liberal ideas were growing weaker and would be defeated.
It is easy to close oneself off inside a conservative echo chamber. And right-leaning outlets like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh's show are far more intellectually closed than CNN or public radio. If you're a rank-and-file conservative, you're probably ready to acknowledge that ideologically friendly media didn't accurately inform you about Election 2012. Some pundits engaged in wishful thinking; others feigned confidence in hopes that it would be a self-fulfilling prophecy; still others decided it was smart to keep telling right-leaning audiences what they wanted to hear.
But guess what?
You haven't just been misinformed about the horse race. Since the very beginning of the election cycle, conservative media has been failing you. With a few exceptions, they haven't tried to rigorously tell you the truth, or even to bring you intellectually honest opinion. What they've done instead helps to explain why the right failed to triumph in a very winnable election.
Why do you keep putting up with it?
Conservatives were at a disadvantage because Romney supporters like Jennifer Rubin and Hugh Hewitt saw it as their duty to spin constantly for their favored candidate rather than being frank about his strengths and weaknesses. What conservative Washington Post readers got, when they traded in Dave Weigel for Rubin, was a lot more hackery and a lot less informed about the presidential election.
Conservatives were at an information disadvantage because so many right-leaning outlets wasted time on stories the rest of America dismissed as nonsense. WorldNetDaily brought you birtherism. Forbes brought you Kenyan anti-colonialism. National Review obsessed about an imaginary rejection of American exceptionalism, misrepresenting an Obama quote in the process, and Andy McCarthy was interviewed widely about his theory that Obama, aka the Drone Warrior in Chief, allied himself with our Islamist enemies in a "Grand Jihad" against America. Seriously?
Conservatives were at a disadvantage because their information elites pandered in the most cynical, self-defeating ways, treating would-be candidates like Sarah Palin and Herman Cain as if they were plausible presidents rather than national jokes who'd lose worse than George McGovern.
How many months were wasted on them?
How many hours of Glenn Beck conspiracy theories did Fox News broadcast to its viewers? How many hours of transparently mindless Sean Hannity content is still broadcast daily? Why don't Americans trust Republicans on foreign policy as they once did? In part because conservatism hasn't grappled with the foreign-policy failures of George W. Bush. A conspiracy of silence surrounds the subject. Romney could neither run on the man's record nor repudiate it. The most damaging Romney gaffe of the campaign, where he talked about how the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes are a lost cause for Republicans? Either he was unaware that many of those people are Republican voters, or was pandering to GOP donors who are misinformed. Either way, bad information within the conservative movement was to blame.
In conservative fantasy-land, Richard Nixon was a champion of ideological conservatism, tax cuts are the only way to raise revenue, adding neoconservatives to a foreign-policy team reassures American voters, Benghazi was a winning campaign issue, Clint Eastwood's convention speech was a brilliant triumph, and Obama's America is a place where black kids can beat up white kids with impunity. Most conservative pundits know better than this nonsense -- not that they speak up against it. They see criticizing their own side as a sign of disloyalty. I see a coalition that has lost all perspective, partly because there's no cost to broadcasting or publishing inane bullshit. In fact, it's often very profitable. A lot of cynical people have gotten rich broadcasting and publishing red meat for movement conservative consumption.
On the biggest political story of the year, the conservative media just got its ass handed to it by the mainstream media. And movement conservatives, who believe the MSM is more biased and less rigorous than their alternatives, have no way to explain how their trusted outlets got it wrong, while the New York Times got it right. Hint: The Times hired the most rigorous forecaster it could find.
It ought to be an eye-opening moment.
But I expect that it'll be quickly forgotten, that none of the conservatives who touted a polling conspiracy will be discredited, and that the right will continue to operate at an information disadvantage. After all, it's not like they'll trust the analysis of a non-conservative like me more than the numerous fellow conservatives who constantly tell them things that turn out not to be true.
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I disagree that independants are just jaded Republicans. It's a quaint way to disregard a beating amongst those that don't claim a party affiliation (as is the case with a ton of people who fall on both sides of the political spectrum), but it's not true.
What may be true, however, is that the electorate has made a slight shift to the left due to the energy created among the D voting base. In so doing, it has convinced what were formerly independents to call themselves Democrats (afterall, it's a popular thing to do right now with the coolest President since Kennedy in office).
In essence, the 'independent gap' is somewhat explained and offset by the rise in Democratic turnout. It seems very likely that the Democrats simply turned some independents into Democrats over the last 2 election cycles.
That said - good luck keeping them. Independents are the least informed, least reliable voters in the world. When you no longer have a guy that looks like a badass with his jacket slung open and a cig hanging off his lip as your candidate, you're going to lose some of the easily swayed that have so readily answered his call.
The answer for the Republicans is very simple - they need to inject some youth and enthusiasm into this party to try to inspire that same 're-branding' of independents. They need competent young candidates with experience and cross-over appeal.
They need Marco Rubio and Nikki Haley. Here's hoping neither of them do anything stupid over the next 4 years and can avoid saying rape too loudly.
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You know those times when a coach calls a screen pass right at the side of the field where the defense is sending a blitz? All hell breaks lose and the RB blows past a flat-footed safety for a 60 yard score before anyone knows how or what just happened.
That was it with the 'War on Women.' The Democrats knew that Obama would appeal to women voters and started early on with it. They kept hammering at it with some effect, but not overwhelming effect.
Then came Todd ****ing Aiken. And man did that snowball gather momentum fast. Todd Aiken was the blitz right into the face of the screen. He was the absolute worst thing that could happen at the absolute worst time. Then the entire Republican Party came under attack and suddenly in the span of 6 weeks, Romney had bled off 5/6 points in the national polls.
With a great late rally, he made it close again (and don't let the Ds sway you here, he did make it close), but there was just immeasurable damage done. Todd Akin, Mourdock and the early emphasis on abortion, etc... in the primary campaign was essentially a severed femoral artery. There was just no recovering from it, no matter how tight the turnicate got.
There was a prefect storm of electoral events here that buried the Republicans. It was a failure of the Party that led to these results, not a failure of many of their fundamental ideas.
Put these ideas behind the right candidates (and put the wrong candidates in the bottom of the !@#$ing ocean...jesus, Aiken), and they'll still resonate.
But they can't continue to lead with their chins on social issues. That has to take a back-seat and really needs to be softened at least a little bit.
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The thing that just amazes me here isnt that the Dems tried it, nor that the MSM pushed the rhetoric, its I thought there was enough alternative media out there and people paying attention to it that these tactics wouldnt work. I was wrong.
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If there are people who truly only get their news from FOX and Drudge, then I think the article is spot on. I'd really hope that people aren't so trusting to really assume that those sources aren't necessarily an unbiased viewpoint.
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Mourdock shouldn't have lost and wouldn't have lost but for the blood that Akin put in the water (his comments were actually quite fair, even if you don't agree with them). But again, perfect storm stuff, you just can't say what he said.
I pointed it out to a friend of mine - if the word 'rape' is involved in a question or answer - run. It's not designed to engender a response, but fuel emotion.
It's not new and it's not specific to either side of the spectrum. Bernard Shaw fully and finally ended Michael Dukakis's political career with his 'rape' question during the '88 election. Dukakis gave a reasonable answer when looked at in context...but it just doesn't matter.
The Democrats telegraphed the hell out of their haymaker and the idiot Republicans just stuck their faces right in there to get smoked.
It was just a horrendously bad job by the RNC. It cost some bad candidates their careers (Aiken) and it probably finished off a handful of good ones as well (Mourdock, Romney).
I'd say live and learn...but somehow I fear they won't.
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Joyce Barnwell will host her 13th seasonal consignment sale on Friday, Sept. 20 (5-7 p.m.), Saturday, Sept. 21 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.), and Sunday, Sept. 22 (noon until 4 p.m.), at Lewiston's First Presbyterian Church on Cayuga Street.
The church basement will be transformed into a department store with sections for toys, games, books, girl's clothing - from birth to juniors - boy's clothing - from birth to size 20 - women's clothing, nursery bedding and accessories, children's furniture, strollers and other baby equipment.
"Mom vendors" will setup tables to sell and advertise their businesses. A Scentsy representative will be on site, there will be Grace Adelle handbags, a scarf vendor who also does eyebrow threading, a Signature Homestyles representative and a doula. On Sunday, most items will be on sale for 50 percent off.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Pannozzo family of Lewiston. Ava Pannozzo is battling a blood disorder.
Many of moms will donate their unsold items to Healthy Families of Niagara County.
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Christmas shopping in the West End, 2012. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
Since 2005 one day in the pre-Christmas shopping period has enabled London to imagine how different consumer life in the West End might be if Oxford Street and Regent Street were emptied of motor vehicles. Named "VIP Day" – Very Important Pedestrians – it has been hailed a success by road safety campaigners and anti-pollution campaigners and West End businesses alike. This year, though, there won't be one. Why? And can we please have it back?
The New West End Company (NWEC), which represents businesses in their collective endeavours to promote and improve the area, says that retailers decided to concentrate their resources on other things this year, notably a collaboration with the British Fashion Council.
The lack of a sponsor, following the end of a three-year arrangement with American Express, was a significant factor in the decision – Westminster Council, Transport for London and others all charge for the necessary organisation of VIP Days – which came out of the customary annual review of promotional activities. There is, it seems, at least some debate about how big the sales benefits are. After weighing all pro and cons, it was decided to drop VIP Day this year.
NWEC cannot yet say if VIP Day will re-appear next year, but stresses that traffic-free events of various kinds will "remain part of the annual mix of event and marketing activity." It also says that 2013 has seen the same total number of events with a no-traffic element took place this year as last, drawing particular attention to its "summer Sundays" programme in Regent Street in July.
Two of those other traffic-free events will take place in the next few days: today (Saturday) most of Regent Street will close to vehicles from early afternoon as part of its Christmas Lights Switch On; next Tuesday, the Selfridges section Oxford Street will do the same from 4:00-8:00 pm for further illuminations to take place.
But none of those other events are VIP Days – they lack their scale, their impact and the long glimpses they give of how West End streets might be used differently and better – glimpses of increasing value, perhaps, as the day approaches when Crossrail starts disgorging even more people into what remains London's showpiece retail district.
The West End Commission, which produced its impressive report on the area's future in May, recommended an increase in traffic-free days. And while Westminster councillor Glenys Roberts (Conservative) is pleased there won't be a VIP Day this year – writing that she's glad the NWEC has "taken the advice" she and others resident have provided – the London Assembly displayed rare cross-party unity on Wednesday in unanimously backing a motion calling on Boris Johnson to write to the NWEC to "seek clarification over the future of this popular event."
Stephen Knight (Lib Dem), who proposed the motion, describes as "daft," "baffling," and "highly regrettable" the decision to not have a VIP Day this year. Stern words. But whatever the reasons for this year's change, it would be good to have it back in 2014.


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The key to cotton prices this year will likely hinge on export demand, says Angie Goodman. And to reach the USDA's projections for exports, "prices will have to stay low or world demand must pick up sharply."
Sounds like the classic which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg scenario.
For the U.S. to meet the 7 million bale export figure, she says, "we'll need to ship 168,000 bales per month from now through July and to do that, things are going to have to improve a lot over what they are now.
"If the demand doesn't surface," says Goodman, who's owner of ACG Cotton Marketing at Lubbock, Texas, "we will be looking at another year of low prices. In that case, the saving grace will be higher loan deficiency payments.
"If other cotton-producing nations plant large acreages this season, we could have another year of large LDPs and low cash prices."
Growers should, Goodman says, use rallies above 65 cents per pound as opportunities to use option contracts or combinations to nail down a floor price.
She spoke at the Southwest Farm Press-sponsored Southwest Crops Production Conference recently at Lubbock.
Rumors of cotton purchases by China "kept the price fairly strong through last December," Goodman notes, "but when those sales didn't materialize, it began to weaken."
With carryover pegged at 5.4 million bales, market demand "doesn't look really promising" for the upcoming crop year, she says, "although the USDA says consumption should be more than production," a scenario that could add some strength to prices.
Consumption and weather will be important, she says. "Both the USDA and the International Cotton Advisory Committee expect consumption to be up through 2001-2002. If they're correct, and we avoid a recession, we could see prices strengthen into the new year."
When making pricing decisions, Goodman says, producers should evaluate what's actually happening in the world cotton arena: "What is China doing? They're always a big influence on the world cotton price. What is consumption doing here and in other key markets? We can't just look at what's going on in the U.S., or in any single area; we have to look at the total picture and how it can affect price."
U.S. cotton usage could "optimistically" hit 9.7-10 million bales in the coming year, Goodman says. Caribbean Basin countries and Mexico "should help to slowly build consumption numbers; we are their best source for high quality cotton."
Producers still needing to sell 2001 crop cotton should watch the world price and related LDP amounts closely, Goodman says. "Price is always a product of supply and demand. While supply is up, demand hasn't materialized."
If U.S. plantings are in the forecast 15.7 million to 16 million-acre range, that could result in a crop of 18 million to 20.5 million bales, depending on weather, yield, and abandonment, she notes. "If we use 10 million bales domestically, we'll need to export 8 million to prevent a buildup in supply."
A lot of cotton producers are asking what can be done to improve cotton's prospects, Goodman says. "Many of them lost 6 cents to 10 cents a pound on quality last year and another 6 cents to 10 cents in the market and that's tough. Those hard times were felt throughout the industry; more mills closed in 2000 than in any year of the last decade."
Ironically, Goodman notes, "There is a tremendous market for cotton goods in the U.S. but every country in the world wants a piece of that market.
"We're encouraging everyone to share their concerns and their ideas with their legislators or anyone who can influence changes and improvements in the farm bill that will result in producers being treated fairly and being provided a reasonable safety net.
"Producers need to have a program that will work as well in times of low prices as in times of high prices. They can stand low prices occasionally, but not year after year."
While no one seems interested in a return to government set-asides, Goodman says, producers might do well to consider planting cotton "only on acres that work best for you," and in years of low prices "look at alternate crops that require less input cost, if possible."
Continued cooperation between all segments of the cotton industry "will ultimately benefit the entire industry," she says.
Dan Kreig, Texas Tech professor of crop physiology, noted that U.S. consumer preference for cotton has boosted actual usage in this country to about 23 million bales annually, counting the amount of U.S. cotton that comes back in the form of imported products.
"With that kind of demand, we could grow a heck of a lot of cotton in this country, were it not for all the competition we have around the world," he says.
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This is what it's like to be a man under patriarchy: moments of inhumanity in which men accept and reproduce hatred against others and moments of victimization when other men aim that hatred at you.
Apparently, this happened years ago, and the Yankees have addressed it, but it's hard for me to imagine that this doesn't still go on during games, sometimes.
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They may be reflecting, resisting, or just waiting for a reason to speakTeachers who think that silent students are not participating in class should reconsider, Mills College Dean of Education Kathy Schultz told 100 local educators at a recent Brandeis forum.
There are many ways to think about student silence in classrooms, but all should include an understanding that silence is a form of participation, said Schultz, the author of "Rethinking Student Participation: Listening to Silent Voices." She spoke at the fifth annual Teacher Forum, a workshop for Jewish and general educators sponsored by the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education.
Instead of rewarding speech and penalizing silence, Schultz urged teachers to think in a more nuanced way about how students participate in class. Silent students may be taking time to pause and reflect, may be resisting what they are hearing, may be using silence as way to feel more in control or might just be waiting for a reason to speak.
"Silence," she said, "can give some students time and space for their learning. What would an inquiry stance toward student silence look like? What conditions engender speech or silence for a particular child? We don't always know which moments are most authentic or important to our students."
Schultz pointed out that teachers may identify student silence as a problem because they are uncomfortable with it. But some students may come from cultures in which silence is a form of respect or deference, or they may be having trouble at home — another reason why it is important for teachers to understand students' sociocultural backgrounds and family situations.
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KnowledgeBase 00096: Moving QM Accounts Between Systems
Users sometimes need to move one or more QM accounts between systems, perhaps as part of redeployment on a new system or creation of a backup copy of the application. This article sets out how this can be achieved.
Moving all accounts in an entire QM system or a single account that is entirely contained within the account directory is usually relatively easy. If everything can be restored to the same pathnames as on the original system, little more should be required.
If the requirement is simply to move an entire QM system to a new computer, the easiest approach is to copy all QM account directories, including QMSYS, to the new location. If QM is already installed on the new system, it should be shut down before copying any files by use of
qmsvc -stop (Windows) qm -stop (Linux)After copying all files, install (or re-install) QM on the new system to update system files and apply the licence for the changed system id code. If there has been a change of operating system from Windows to Linux or vice versa, it will be necessary to run the *FIXPATH globally catalogued program to update file pathnames in the VOC. This program is documented in the QM Reference Manual.
Selective transfer can be more challenging, especially if the account(s) to be saved have interactions with other accounts such as shared files.
Similarly, moving an account to a different pathname on the target system may require changes to pathnames of items that are not referenced by simple relative name.
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Although QM includes an ACCOUNT.SAVE command to create Pick style account save media, this is not really adequate for transferring applications between QM systems. The media format was defined by Pick long ago and is incapable of recording some information relevant to QM systems such as triggers, encryption or distributed files.
QM uses operating system level structures to represent the application data files. The best way to move applications is simply to use operating system level backup tools. The block level data transfer performed by these tools will usually be significantly faster than a record level transfer. It will include all control information relating to indices, encryption, triggers, etc and will preserve the layout of the application in terms of both pathname hierarchy and, with most tools, file permissions.
In many cases, simply saving the account directory and all sub-structures will be adequate. Data files stored within this structure will appear as subdirectories and will, therefore, be restored to their correct locations on the target system.
The following sections consider situations where copying just the account directory may not be sufficient.
Remote Files
Files that are located somewhere other than the account directory will need to be included in the saved data. These might be, for example:
If the account is restored to a different location than it had on the source system, the VOC entries for any files referenced by F-type entries with full pathnames will need to be updated. The default behaviour of QM when a file is created in the account directory is to use a relative filename that will not need to be changed.
If an application opens files by pathname and the account is restored to a different path, the relevant application programs must be modified.
Catalogued Programs
Programs catalogued in local mode will be included in an account directory save unless the object code file (e.g. BP.OUT) is a remote file as discussed above. If the saved data is restored to a different pathname, the VOC entries corresponding to locally catalogued programs will need to be updated. These VOC entries can be selected with a command of the form
Programs in the private catalogue will be included in an account directory save unless the optional $PRIVATE.CATALOGUE VOC record has been used to relocate the private catalogue directory (normally named cat under the account directory).
Globally catalogued programs reside in the gcat subdirectory of the QMSYS account. Global cataloguing is usually used for programs that should be visible to multiple accounts but it is not easy to know whether any specific account references individual globally catalogued items. If global cataloguing may have been used, it is probably best to save all user items in gcat. Note that, unless the source and target systems are running the same version of QM it is important that system supplied items in gcat are not updated. From release 3.4-0, QM includes a globally catalogued tool named *IMPGCAT to import user written items from another QM system, ignoring standard system supplied items. Prior to introduction of this tool, the best that can be achieved in an automated process is to omit items with names that begin with a dollar sign ($), an exclamation mark (!), or an asterisk though this may omit some user written items. Note that the directory file record name translations will have changed the leading asterisk to be %A.
Data Encryption
If files use data encryption, the same encryption key names must exist on the target system, using the same encryption mode and key string. It is not necessary to save the original key vault ($VAULT in the QMSYS account directory) if the keys can easily be recreated. If the key vault is transferred to the target system it will be necessary to use the RESET.MASTER.KEY command to make the file usable.
Pick Style Form Queue Definitions
Applications that use Pick style form queues will have stored the associated printer configuration parameters in the $FORMS file. This file, referenced by an F-type record in the VOC of all accounts, is normally located in the QMSYS account directory but can be relocated. This is usually only done to allow multiple separate applications running on the same system to use distinct form definitions.
If the account being transferred uses QMNet, equivalent server definitions must be set up on the target system. This may not be as simple as just copying the $SERVERS file from the QMSYS directory as IP addresses and user security rules may need to differ.
The Accounts Register
A suitable entry for the account must be created in the accounts register of the target system.
Extended Character Set Mode
An application that uses Extended Character Set (ECS) mode may require that modified character maps are moved from the ecs-maps subdirectory of the source system to the target system.
Any application that has stored items in the QM.VOCLIB file may require these to be copied to the target system. In most cases, this would be adequately handled by the process described for remote files above.
Licensing Issues
Some applications may have licensing that is tied to the underlying QM licence. In such cases, it may be necessary to have an equivalent application licence for the target system.
Configuration Parameters
It may be necessary to examine any QM configuration parameters that have been changed from their default values to determine whether similar changes are needed on the target system.
Handling System Architecture Differences
A further complication is introduced if the source and target systems are of different types.
Moving an account from Linux to Windows or vice versa requires that all pathnames in VOC items are updated to change the directory delimiter character. There is a program in the global catalogue as *FIXPATH that can be executed from the command prompt of the relevant account to so this job. It can also be used from elsewhere with the account name or pathname on the command line.
If the target system has a different byte ordering from the source system, the qmconv utility must be run from the operating system command prompt to update all hashed data files.
Could It Be Automated?
Why isn't there a standard tool to do all of this?
Perhaps there should be. It has certainly been investigated. Perhaps it will appear in a future release.
Some of the above is relatively easy if it is accepted that the restored account will use the default locations for all items rather than trying to replicate the original layout of an application that used remote file locations for load balancing, etc.
There are, however, aspect of this that are far from trivial. For example, it is not possible to identify which globally catalogued programs are used by an application or which Pick style form queue definitions should be copied. Simply copying all global catalogue items or all form queue definitions may not accurately reproduce the original ssytem as it could result in items that are not relevant to the transferred account being overwritten.
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Opinion: Chris Christie's Right-Wing Critics
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on why some conservatives are abandoning the New Jersey governor after Bridgegate.
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Corporate insiders are providing a ray of sunshine on a Wall Street otherwise shuttered because of super storm Sandy. MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters.
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... I ... Wall Street you will all ... and what's in a week ... weak month for ... Dow Jones Industrial Average some corporate insiders began by ... this is at times of a positive sign for market ... joining me now is more overt ... via Sky from North Carolina ... to market looks like inside is the taking ... both the storm and ... I will within a week season for earnings ... and invited and that actually buying them that it is is that which are saying the numbers ... yesterday the these are a gear as the worker with precincts reporting so we would like to see that trend continue but ... what are the most important times to look at what Corporate insiders are doing is after the market has declined to say you don't really get as much of an indication of what insiders and ... when the markets going up but they obviously want to take advantage of any ... increase in prices to so often start in order to ... Mana ties any compensation they haven't yet they continue to sell ... in the face of a decline ... researchers say that that's a very bearish that it means that they wanna get out of warblers and the prices don't have any confidence ... that the diapers is that the company will become the second time said ... luckily that's not what's happening right now are in fact according to the Vickers Weekly Insider Report was one of the ... advisory services to tread carefully monitored the insider data ... by the average corporate insider has cut back is selling an increase to bond ... by a factor for them to ... just over the last two weeks and it's a very great ... the Lions with him this usually happens ... is to the one I seen in the store you mention ... two point five to one is that ... I mean how does that is does it get as high as four to five or where's that and ... we seen that aren't aware is that in a broader sense of where these members use ... yes the question is ... where the market was that the bull market top earlier this month ... the ratio of selling the bonds with the racial all shares ... that insiders were selling to the number of shares in the refining operations to fight the six five or wants to say they were selling ... almost six year term when they were buying now it's down to around two and half the web ... he will recollect that the correction bought out by the words that treatable lows of the last eighteen months ... it got down to your wall and wonder why maybe a little bit more or less depending on which one you're looking at ... so were we may have over but we're going back to fire with us to guess I'd say we VECO for will but more weakness ... interesting thing to realize is that the previous correction lows tradable low for the last of over the last eighteen months or so ... were much deeper into the car were saying right now to within four percent and so on the Dow and yet you see insiders ... driving back to the within shouting distance ... of the center of the debate he do that with that that accompanied the prior month so ... I think it's encouraging and then the sissy just ... that said that any correction will be yet lower while relatively ... compared to some of the of the current year ... thank you so much that was walk over joining us from ... CHAPEL Hill North Carolina make sure to read


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The Pastoral Care rites offer lots of readings. Section 297 offers suggestions for visiting the sick, praying for the sick, and anointing. The nine Old Testament offerings are a pretty weak variety. Four from Job, three from Isaiah, plus Elijah in 1 Kings and Wisdom 9. Whoever was on the committee researching these did not do his or her job.
New Testament choices include four from Acts (for the Easter Season) and nineteen from the other books. I can think of more than two selections from 2 Corinthians.
Responsorial Psalm options are better: fourteen in all, including Isaiah 38, Psalm 6 and 86. Off the top of my head, Psalms 62 and 130 are notably absent. Twenty choices are offered from the four gospels. Many, but not all, are healing miracles of Jesus.
PCS 298 offers seventeen total texts for the Mass for Viaticum–even more of an impoverished selection. Notably missing from the Old Testament choices would be Isaiah 25, the Messianic banquet, among others. Only five psalms and two gospel readings.
It's no wonder the rite has mentioned several times that clergy, planners, and family are free to use these or other appropriate readings. We'll finish up tomorrow with an appendix on Penance, and some final summation thoughts later this week.


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Whats the most trouble you been in as a kid? :3
Tell me about your exploits and adventures a child :3 , did you get grounded for 5 years? and why
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didnt leave my jeep in gear on top of that hill damnit.
Im back. How was studyville you ask? Judging by that question, you should visit.
When I was in Kindergarten, we made little papercraft candles for Christmas. I thought they were the coolest thing ever. They were so cool, in fact, that I wanted them to BE a candle. I tried to put it on top of a lit candle, not realizing that paper burns. Needless to say, I almost burned the house down.
Was sent to the principles office(multiple times) for kissing the girls in first grade.
That Frolein is One Goofy Cat.
Got hit by a car, waited for the police, after a minute passed I was free to go, walked back home and didn't notice the person following me, The person demanded for my parents to pay for the damages even though a small dent in the front bumper was the only damage done to his car, after a talk with my folks (the ones I had during that time) the person then apologised to me. I only got a scratch.
The past is the past, don't let it cloud who you are now.
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Was sent to the principles office(multiple times) for kissing the girls in first grade.
'The girls'. What if one was a cross dressing 7 year old boy?
Anyway the most trouble... hmmm. Throwing my toy ball across a lake whilst on a moving ferry boat. They had to waste time retrieving it. That's the only one I can think of at the moment.
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hahahahahaha, that would've been horrible hahahahahaha
That Frolein is One Goofy Cat.
I was too good of a kid to do anything bad enought to get me in trouble. The most "trouble" i got in was not having recess cuz i forgot my hw ha
Walk my dog to somewhere far away without telling anybody..my parents thought i was kidnapped or something..o.o;;; ~ ^^
I got my ass kicked when my obsession with playing with fire burned some of the house. I blame them for leaving matches where I could get them.
Watching K-dramas instead of sleeping....;D
Jumped off a moving truck, threw a metal horse statue at my sisters head, almost set the study on fire, Somehow letting my pet rabbits catch some sort of a plague.. I had 8 of them, and each day, one died..
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. ~Itachi Uchiha
In I think first or second grade, I failed a spelling test on purpose just to see what it would feel like to fail a test. I did obvious misspellings like "taht" instead of "that" or "mor" instead of "more." I misspelled every single word on the test. My teacher was obviously confused, so she called my parents, and I explained to them why I did it. They gave me a good scolding, and my teacher let me re-take the test, for which I got an A. I didn't find out until high school that my parents actually had a really good laugh at that incident, and had a really tough time keeping a straight face while explaining to me why it was not OK to deliberately fail tests. Other than that, there's the usual kiddy hijinks like getting in fights with my brother, breaking stuff while playing baseball in the house (seemed like a really good idea at the time), and exploring houses that are still under construction. I had my moments, but I was a pretty well-behaved kid.
getting in trouble wit the cops. and multiple incidents tat lead 2 my parents not trusting me for 10 something years
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I got blamed for something I didn't do. This was when I was 9 or so.
My grandmother had a gold Rolex with diamonds and rubies in it that she apparently left somewhere in the kitchen before she went out. She went somewhere with some of her friends and didn't wear it. When she returned and couldn't find it, everyone automatically blamed me. I was home at the time with my best friend. Strangely enough, they focused their attention on me and my best friend was relatively unscathed.
We tried explaining to the adults that we didn't see or touch any watch because we spent most of the time watching TV, playing in the backyard, or just building our Lego things, but nobody believed us. They made us search in the backyard and my Lego case for a few hours before they were convinced that it wasn't in those places. When my friend's parents came by to pick him up, my family told his family what happened and his parents were upset. They questioned him at home. He later called my house and told me his parents believed him and that they wanted to talk to my family, but all my family did was seem to accept their take on the issue. They kept asking me and blaming me even after the call and hours of searching.
The questions were just looped. I kept getting asked the same stuff over and over again. I didn't even do anything. They got a stick, made me hold out my hands, and hit me with the stick for a while but I still insisted that I didn't take the watch because that's just how it was. My bedtime was usually around 9. That night, they made me kneel in the living room on the wooden floor and wouldn't let me go to my room. I collapsed from fatigue at around midnight. I still remember the way my palms would sting each time I closed my hands because they'd been whipped red with that stick. My eyes were painfully dry and stung from being rubbed and from not having enough tears left to soothe them. I'd been crying and defending myself so much that my throat was sore.
We eventually found the watch several months later. It was in the freezer. My grandma must have been wrapping and storing food before she left the house, when it loosened from her wrist and slipped off when she was rummaging in the freezer. My family was glad that the watch was found. Nobody apologized to me. I was pretty offended but I never brought it back up. Nobody says sorry in Asian families. I don't hate my family, but that's one incident I'll always remember.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
I got suspended in middle school for my bad attitude and a stupid misunderstanding.
Also wasn't allowed to recess almost all of 2rd grade because I drew a picture of a giant penis on our school's giant Track and Field Day banner.
Ruined hundreds of dollars worth of my mom's makeup when I was in 2nd grade, trying to transform myself into one of the Spice Girls. Bad year.


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Now we have started a family history Wiki on Wikispaces, and we invite all members of the family to have a look at it and join it.
The Hayes and Green family history spaceThis WikiSpace, called "hayesgreene" is for members of the Hayes, Greene and related families to post family news, history and anecdotes, and to make contact with other members of the family, and learn about the family history.
Who is it for?It's for any members of our families, that is, anyone who is related to us in any way. That means, in the first place, anyone descended from any of our ancestors -- uncles, aunts and cousins. That includes 1st cousins, 2nd cousins, up to and beyond 15th cousins seven times removed, and their spouses, parents of spouses and children of spouses.
Who are we?We are Steve and Val Hayes, and we live in Pretoria, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa. You can find out more about who we are on our family web pages, and also on our blog (which you're reading now!)
How do I participate?You participate by clicking on "join this space", which you will find somewhere on the left (not here, but in the WikiSpace page). If you are already a member of WikiSpaces, your application will be sent to us. If you are not already a member of WikiSpaces you will be invited to join (and then you can create your own WikiSpaces as well). When we receive your application, we will check to see whether you are related to us in any way, and if you are, your application will be approved and you will be able to add to and edit the information on these pages. But even if you are not related, you can still read the pages.
How does this compare with a blog?A blog is for changing information that quickly gets out of date. While you can find old blog posts, you have to search for them, and they are not always easy to find. A family history blog can be good as a record of new information found, meetings with family members, reports of family reunions and so on.
What a blog is not so good for is things like anecdotes by and ancestors, biographies, research problems and dead-ends and so on. Updating biographical information on a two-year-old blog post is not much use, because few people will know that it has been updated, and so few will read it. But in a Wiki such information can be updated and added to as more information is found, and it can be found much more easily.
So, if you are related, go and look at the HayesGreene Wikispace, and think of stuff you can add. There's not much there yet, but there will soon be if we all get working on it.


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A victim of my own choices
Choices that seemed so right in the moment
Now seem so wrong in the big picture
I wasted my youth
Thinking there was a right and a wrong
And that the truth would set me free
Oh to be so young and foolish again
The truth is
The truth has left me old and bitter
Bitter at myself
Instead of walking gloriously in the light
I stager in the cold of night
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This poem gets one to thinking. :))))) If some of the choices wouldn't have been made when we were younger then we mite not be the same person as we are today. :))))) My friend look at all of the rite choices you have made in your lifetime. :))))))) This is a most gorgeous image. :))))) Thank you for sharing all of the beauty you see. :)))))) Carry A Smile In Your Heart :)))))


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Karachi, April 17: Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) and Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) organised a demonstration and a candle-light vigil in front of Karachi Press Club on Tuesday April 17th, 2012 to mark Global Day of Action against Military Spending.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Wellesley College defeated MIT, 7-2, for the first time in three years on Tuesday afternoon. Despite the outcome, head coach Carol Matsuzaki was pleased with the effort from the young squad, putting up a tenacious fight in each match.
For the second match in a row, Serena Lin had a dramatic win at No. 1 singles. After losing the first set, 6-2, she changed the pace of her game by mixing up her shots. Lin went on to take the next two sets, 6-3, 10-7, for the victory. The Engineers' (1-1, 1-1 NEWMAC) other win came at No. 5 singles by Jill Konowich. She defeated Emily McDonald, 7-5, 7-5, in a hard-fought match.
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Nissan Motor Co. will introduce a lower-priced version of its electric car, called the Leaf S, as it rolls out the 2013 models, the company said on Wednesday.
Pricing for the new versions of the Leaf, including two that have been sold for two years, has not yet been announced.
The 2013 Leaf is expected to be at dealerships in February, said Brian Brockman, Nissan spokesman.
Two versions of the Leaf will come with a standard 6.6-kilowatt onboard charger that will cut charging time in half compared with 2012 models, Nissan said.
That onboard charger will be optional equipment on the new Leaf S, Nissan said. Pricing for that option was not released by Nissan.
Leaf cars sold in North America for the past two years have been made at Nissan's plant in Japan. Production has shifted to the company's Smyrna, Tennessee plant, where output ramped up this week for 2013 models, Brockman said.
The 6.6-KW onboard charger will allow owners to charge the Leaf's lithium-ion battery in less than four hours using a 220-volt outlet.
The current 2012 Leaf costs $36,050 for the SV version and $38,100 for the SL version including $850 destination charges before a federal tax credit of $7,500.
Leaf U.S. sales in 2012 were 9,819, up only 145 from the previous year.
About 19,500 Leaf cars have been sold in the U.S. market since it was introduced in December 2010. Nissan says it has sold nearly 50,000 worldwide.
Nissan is falling well short of its goal of doubling Leaf sales in the company's current fiscal year, which ends March 31.
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I can come up with no satisfying reasons for why Volkswagen of North America and its dealers don't want to bring the "VW364" third-generation Scirocco to these shores to duke it out with the lukish-hot Minis et al. But, you see, I think with my heart and penis-and frequently, to my shame, not in that order. I'd be a lousy keeper of the business-case ledger in Wolfsburg.
Compounding my torture, the VW home office in "Golfsburg" just let me drive the on-fire 2010 Volkswagen Scirocco R. Mommy, hold me.
Would bringing over a 207-hp Scirocco 2.0 GT trim and this 261-hp Scirocco R really conflict with Golf/GTI sales when VW states plans to sell four times more cars here within a decade? Would this insanely sexy hot coupe not lend some significant image boosting to the still-weak North American customer awareness of the brand?
A 100-mile ripping dash over and around the rally-perfect mountains of southern France in the Scirocco R brought tears to the eyes and hushed all outcries of crappy dealer service; all things considered, it's most likely the best front-wheel-drive compact street racer of this size and configuration yet. And it's as useful, sexier, and gobs faster than any MINI John Cooper Works or your tinny and un-sexy Mazdaspeed3.
The D-roads of the Alpes-Maritimes are where any performance car eventually needs to show up in order to make certain that it can live up to its own marketing. Not even the legendary G-roads of California's Monterey County come close, and the Nürburgring is a thrill, but not even it can stack up to the endless challenges the loopy Provençals French decided to pave all those decades ago. And there are regularly no gendarmes in sight and rarely anything resembling traffic.
A 208-hp JCW or 207-hp GTI is excellent fun and on separate occasions I've driven each like bats from hell over these exact roads. The Scirocco R simply beats both in dynamics, transitions, and speed while being even better put together and having honest room for four thrill seekers.
Having 261 hp up between 5100 and 6000 rpm plus 258 lb-ft of torque on full between 2500 and 5000 rpm on a tightly engineered 2,963-pound car (with manual; 3,007 with DSG automatic) right away presages good things. Then with the heady combination of optional Dynamic Chassis Control dialing in the drive to meet wishes and conditions and the standard XDS electronic front differential program launched with the Golf VI GTI, gone are any understeer or torque-steer tendencies. Where I want to point and go, and with how much throttle, is rendered a piece of cake, the Scirocco R doing exactly what I have in mind through every hard-scrabble hairpin uphill or down.
For the Scirocco R, the "ESP Off" indicator actually means ESP Sport. In the most extreme setting, ESP never goes off, but thank goodness that in this slightly misrepresented Sport mode the ESP intervenes extremely late and with a smoothness that helps rather than hinders the driving action.
There's the tailgate VW badge that doesn't act as an opening lever. You cannot open the hatch by reaching for the hatch, which is definitely dopey no matter the explanation. And looking at the 2.0-liter TSI engine, I go flaccid since VW chose not to glam up the view with at least red enameled "VW" and "TSI" lettering. Even wee old Seat does it in Spain with their Leon Cupra R using the exact same powertrain.
When buyers go for the optional six-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic, everything is great, except that even in the Manual mode and with the DCC set for Sport excitement, at a flea's hair from the 7000-rpm redline the transmission will shift itself up to the next gear. It rarely happens, but it can squelch the festivities when it does. I longed in these moments for a six-speed manual.
Whatever- the Scirocco in R trim, inspired by the 2009 Scirocco GT 24 racers that dominated their class at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, just plain cranks. The R-specific exhaust makes a good enough sound, too, and optional handsome 8x19 "Talladega" design wheels (18-inch is standard) with Bridgestone Potenza treads never once blew their chance to hook up even at peak boost. The 13.6-inch front and 12.2-inch diameter rear brake discs with black enameled calipers did a great job all day long under sincere hammering.
With the DCC option, which monitors steering assistance, damper firmness, and throttle response, it all works as advertised, and even better when in Sport mode where the R's electromechanical steering takes on the PQ35 chassis' tightest feel. The Scirocco's center of gravity is already low-overall height is three inches less than a GTI-but the R setup takes it a half inch lower still. Working with Porsche Engineering in Weissach (it's all in the family now), Wolfsburg added 30 percent stiffer springs than on base Sciroccos (still less stiff than on the new GTI though) and slightly softer sway bars, resulting in a brilliant balance between rigidity and comfort.
Indulging and staying in the higher revs, the R scoots to 60 mph in an estimated 5.9 seconds via the manual six and in 5.7 seconds with the DSG using 3200-rpm launch control. Conrods, the header and its bolts have all been beefed up accordingly to handle all this drama, too.
Cosmetically, the Scirocco R gets you larger front chin intakes and integrated front spoiler, a black rear diffuser and mirror housings, more pronounced rear spoiler and side sills in body color, smoked rear light lenses, bi-xenon headlamps, the chromed dual exhaust, black calipers, and Talladega wheels. Inside, the seats get sportier and wear a standard "Kyalami" cloth look, there are brushed-aluminum accents, the steering wheel is from the Golf VI GTI, and R logos are a-bloom. Besides the R tuned powertrain, the XDS front differential action is standard, as are the stiffer springs and third level of Sport steering should one opt for the DCC system. Broad-shouldered ultimate motorsport seats as offered on the R32 and GTI go on the options list come June.
Though the EA113 2.0 TSI is not from the most recent four-cylinder family, it is, according to VW, the version best suited to sit in the pumped '10 Scirocco R. The newer-version EA888 2.0 TSI for now can be found in the 208-hp Scirocco and the Golf VI GTI, as well as the super-proto GT24 Nürburgring endurance cars. This EA113 can also be found in the upcoming 266-hp Golf R with latest-generation Haldex four-wheel drive. It's that Golf R that will most likely make its way over to North America to lay all R32 V6 sentimentality to rest.
In the first two weeks of taking orders for the Scirocco R, more than 1,500 units were reserved and paid for. The manual transmission take rate has been 30 percent.
But why should I care? We're not getting it. Lower Saxon tough love is what it is.
2.0-liter I4, dohc, 16-valve, turbocharged
Six-speed manual; optional six-speed DSG automated manual
McPherson struts with Sachs dampers and 15% stiffer Mubea springs, lower wishbone control arms (f), Sachs/Mubea setup with four-link scheme (r); anti-roll bars (f/r)
Four-piston aluminum monoblock calipers front/rear; 13.6-inch inner ventilated steel discs (f), 12.2-inch ventilated rotors (r) MSRP: $30,000 (est.)
Peak Power: 261 hp @ 6000 rpm
Peak Torque: 258 lb-ft @ 2500 rpm
0-62 mph: 5.7 sec. (w/DSG)
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