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|2012-11-29, 15:11
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|2012-11-29, 16:32
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Anyway, I really enjoyed this episode. I noticed when Rikka and Deko were trying to instigate a battle with Yuuta; after taking the eye patch off, Rikka looked as if she was confused where her chuuni world wasn't happening around her. At least that's what I thought.
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|2012-11-29, 17:16
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I thought this was a fun episode, even if Rikka's serious case of denial seemed a bit odd to me at first, considering how the previous episode ended. That being said, Nibutani's explanation that Rikka just couldn't reconcile her romantic feelings with her fantasy world struck me as a plausible enough explanation.
Yuuta was dense, but not overly so. His error in thinking that Rikka was simply embarrassed at him finding out about her past was believable, and most importantly, he tries at various points to deal with the problem--only to be further perplexed by Rikka's behavior. But, in the end, he found a way to break through, even if it required some prodding by Nibutani.
Nibutani was great this ep. While obviously more mature than the clueless Rikka, she's not as savvy as she thinks, relying on manga for romantic instruction. But she certainly deserves credit for being willing to help Rikka out, and knowing exactly how to deal with her, as opposed to being just infuriated by her chuunibyou.
I'm curious as to how the rest of the season plays out. I get the feeling a lot of viewers see this ep. as a de facto confession on both sides; I'm not so sure of that.
Rikka clearly has come to terms with what she feels; Yuuta may be still clueless, though. He is by no means the frustratingly clueless male anime lead, but his actions toward Rikka has been more akin to a protective older brother than a romantic love interest--indeed, he seems to be filling the role Touka ideally would fill, but who seems unable to do so due to a mistaken view of what her older sisters should be like.
Furthermore, Rikka has done a terrible (i.e. nonexistent) job at getting him out of that mindset. Towards Yuuta, Rikka has had moments of jealousy, episodes of almost painful embarrassment; and times when she's been emotionally vulnerable--but we've never seen her flirt with Yuuta, since that first enigmatic scene where they met on the balcony and Yuuta was too surprised to notice. Aside from that, there was the dere-dere moment at the end of ep. 8, but Yuuta wasn't aware of it, and even the hug she gives Yuuta at the end of ep. 9 might be interpreted by Yuuta as the type of thing Rikka would do if she were reunited with her father. Compare this with the way Chitanda invades Oreki's personal space, and how she shows off her kimono in Hyouka.
Indeed, I think the novel dealt better with the issue of how Yuuta got interested in Rikka, because in the anime, we don't see many signs of Yuuta being attracted to Rikka, who after all is quite cute. We see him frustrated; we see him helpful; we see him sympathetic; we see him fiercely protective, but I at least can't recall any moments when we see Yuuta abashedly admiring Rikka for her looks. As a couple, of course, Yuuta should be the level-headed one, but the writers have made him too level-headed in my opinion; I wish we'd see him at least somewhat nervous and excited in Rikka's presence. He's disappointed he doesn't get a kiss in the last episode, and he makes a note of how they're both alone at the start of the evening, but that's it. Indeed, Touka points out that Yuuta's preferred body type in women is actually rather different from Rikka, judging by his reading material.
In other words, while they're definitely closer, are they really dating? I'm not so sure about that, and the good thing is that may give the series some room to work with in terms of further development.
A few more points, partly because I thought my last post might have come off as too negative.
I really did find this episode a delight to watch. The balance of comedy and romance was extremely well done, especially Rikka's comic attempts at using Nibutani's advice, with zero success. As was Rikka preposterous attempt to blame her feelings on some kind of villainous aura emanating from Yuuta. The fight scene was also hilarious, seeing as it ended yet again with Rikka's simple incompetence. And while most of the side characters continue to have almost zero effect on the main plot and pairing, they still got fun comic moments.
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|2012-11-29, 18:29
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There are few points that indicate Yuuta isn't immune to Rikka's charms though: he has hard time to imagine her in a romance mood, but he isn't doing so in a calm demeanor. In fact, he has been shown twice or thrice blushing at such prospect with Rikka, but due to her usual chuunibyou and some dropped ball on him, he naturally can't compute her as having a romance interest in general.
|2012-11-29, 21:04
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I though that there are some progress from Yuuta. While yet we could not conclude that he already has romantic feeling for Rikka, but there are tendencies to it.
For example, remember that in the first few episodes he doesn't want to call Rikka by her first name, now he already familiar with calling her Rikka.
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|2012-11-30, 00:12
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But I think there is another reason why we Yuuta's attraction to Rikka is less than we'd like. Basically, they just switch focalization on us this episode. In contrast to the past eight episodes, this one was told using mostly Rikka's perspective, especially the second half. Instead of hearing Yuuta think "what is this girl doing", we know exactly what Rikka is trying to do. On the other hand, we are left wondering "what is he thinking" during Rikka attempts to flirt with him.
|2012-11-30, 14:31
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Yuuta has been looking after Rikka, as if she were a younger sister rather than a love interest. But his affection for her has been growing quietly, occasionally poking its head up above the surface.
In ep8, he accepted what he thought was going to be a kiss, then when he realized she was still acting chuunibyou and wasn't going to kiss him, he wasn't sure that was such a great thing. At that point, it seemed that it was only her chuunibyou that was preventing him from accepting having romantic feelings for her. His affection for her -- greater now that he understands where her chuunibyou comes from -- is becoming gradually less distinguishable from romantic love.
Yuuta and Nibutani are similar to each other in that they have rejected their chuunibyou past but are still actually attracted by the chuunibyou in others (Rikka and Dekomori). I expect and hope we will get the club in full chuunibyou flight at some point, with Yuuta and Rikka doing their performance, and Mori Summer reappearing in full glory, using her magic to promote love. Having indulged their chuunibyou completely, maybe then they can all get beyond it.
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|2012-11-30, 17:06
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again kioani impress me showing on how to make a awesome history without need use "stupdis cliches" who almost of all others company need use in order to sucess, to being a sucess, now i'm really see that anime being a much better romcom than sakurasou, i'm almost dropping sakurasou because i'm really tired of all that "cliches", first was hyouka now chuunibyou, really amazing episode and for the ppls who still have any hope to see nibutane falling for yuuta and any type of triangle/square/pentagone/harem i think this episode pretty killed/crushed all hopes on this based what on the staff of the anime say about the characters i'm still believe who even isshiki dont gona end "alone" or just being a looser, he gona get him pot of gold in the end of rainbow.
|2012-11-30, 19:00
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Shinka getting her ideas from the Mangas was hilarious :P
the accidental headbutt, LOLOLOLOL! but IF that did go well, that would've been a kiss
I'm glad Nibutani put some sense into Rikka telling her what/how she feels about Yuuta
also, it's funny to see Shinka help out Isshiki too :P
|2012-12-01, 07:22
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As for this episode, my favorite part is where Rikka starts reacting to Shinka comments about love. It's hilarious. The end of with the camara angle slowly rotate is also a nice touch. Perfect scene for a proper confession. At least I hope Rikka will confess next episode.
|2012-12-01, 07:51
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Loved this ep; Rikka was truly adorable. I really loved how she choked on her lines. Normally she sounds like she means what she says when she commands reality to be rent and the world banished, but this time it sounded more like a rote recital. Her later attempts to actually pursue things was great as well.
I also enjoyed Nibutani's denial. Her place is arranged according to feng shui, her shelves are full of astrology, feng shui and new age past-life texts, yet she insists that divination and all that new-age stuff is completely different from her chuunibyou, in which she performed charms and curses and talked about her past lives. Sure it is.
|2012-12-02, 04:04
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Rikka x Yuuta is officially already set
I don't know how Isshiki and Cumin gonna played out, but i think they will stop at teasing (with Cumin is totally airhead that is). And i thought Cumin x pillow was the OTP...
There is still Shinka x Dekomori through. With the fake Summer Mori still a thorn on Shinka. Hopefully during their cultural festival performances, Shinka would have to return to her Summer Mori mode at one point to help out Rikka's confession (she is the Love Cupid Fairy afterall), and impress Dekomori greatly. Then they can return to their rival mode but with Dekomori now start to half-believe on Shinka's claim
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Lady Trojans down Dragons at OD
HAMLET — Coaches often talk about the difficulty of beating the same team three times in a single season. Try four times on for size.
The Lady Trojans got off to a slow start in a nip-tuck first game but stepped on the gas in the second set to beat area-rival Argos 25-20, 25-16, 25-16 at the Class A Oregon-Davis Sectional-opener Tuesday night in Hamlet.
It was the fourth time the two teams have gone head to head this season, and all have borne similar results.
"Game one tonight I think was a little sketchy for a couple reasons," said Triton head coach Samantha Keel. "One, we've played Argos four times this season; this is the fourth time. So we had kind of talked before the match that if they're going to beat us, watch it be in the sectional.
"Tonight we knew we had to come strong. The first match of the sectional, you're nervous, plus it's Argos. You're thinking 'OK, we've played them three times already, can we win a fourth time?' They say it's hard to beat someone three times, let alone four, so we're extremely happy."
The first game was a back-and-forth affair with the two teams swapping leads six times and a total of 13 ties — the last at 20-20 — before Triton closed out the game with four straight points on serves by Becca Kennedy.
The win swung the match momentum firmly in favor of the Lady Trojans, who jumped out to a 17-4 lead in the second set and trailed again just once at 0-1 at the start of the third and final game.
"We talk about being consistent. Our consistency has been real up and down this year, but it was like once we hit game two, we were extremely consistent," Keel said.
"Triton, we played them at home, it went five games; it was close. We went three games over at their place in a tournament, so it's been nip-tuck," recalled Argos head coach Jim Daugherty. "We thought we'd go five games today, but we got into a little spot, a couple of the girls were down, and that got everybody down."
The Trojans attack was led by Jaela Meister's 10 kills with two aces, Lauren Hostrawser with eight kills and two blocks and Kennedy with six kills and a pair of aces. Krystal Sellers recorded 24 assists in her new role as setter to go with five digs, while Casey Scott finished with eight digs, and Holly Stogsdill passed out six digs. Emilee Koontz served up a trio of aces in the win at the Den.
"Emilee Koontz and Becca Kennedy came up huge for us in game two. I've talked to Emilee a lot about her consistency, and her consistency in games two and three today were phenomenal. Her digging was great, her hits were great. Emilee Koontz played a phenomenal match today," said Keel.
"I want to praise my entire team just because we have made so many changes this year, and I have got girls that have played positions that they've never played before; I've got girls that are playing positions that they don't want to play," Keel said. "Krystal Sellers, she is a phenomenal athlete. You talk to any coach who coaches her at Triton or in summer league ball, every coach loves a kid like Krystal. Does she want to set? No, she likes to hit. She's a phenomenal hitter, but when I talked to her about it she looked at me and said 'If that's what's best for my team I'll do it.' She might not have been happy with me sometimes, but she's done it with a smile on her face and she's done a great job."
Argos was paced by Kelsey Kring's six kills, Sabrina Brown's 12 digs, Allie Warner's seven solo blocks and Briana Overmyer's 12 assists and two aces in a scrappy performance following a recent return to the court from a concussion.
"(Overmyer) is a great kid," said Daugherty. "She's got great hands. A couple of the officials even told me tonight they just loved her hands. She's a great setter. She even missed the last couple games of the season with a concussion, and she just came back to us… She's been terrific, a good leader out there on the floor. She's a gamer, she just goes out there to play.
"Kelsey Kring, a lot of talent, a lot of ability," Daugherty continued. "She's a quiet kid, not a big vocal leader. She played all the way around for us all year round; she never got sat out. She's a good passer, a good hitter, a good server."
Argos closes the year at 7-24 — two more wins than last season's finish — and will say goodbye to seven seniors in Overmyer, Kring, Warner, Kara Koz, Kirsten Ringer, Sabrina Brown and Ashley Allen.
"We came out the last couple weeks of the season and the very first game we'd win… but we couldn't continue to do that in the following sets," explained Daugherty. "So we just came out and played really, really well, but we just couldn't follow through.
"The sad thing is that some of the teams we play all year, the girls just have it in their head that they're going to lose."
Meanwhile, Triton advances to play South Central Thursday at 6 p.m. ET following the Satellites' 25-15, 25-22, 25-21 win over LaCrosse in the late quarterfinal Tuesday. Culver Community will face off with host Oregon-Davis in the late semifinal Thursday night with the winners advancing to the championship match at 3 p.m. ET Saturday.
"South Central makes us a little nervous," Keel said. "We played them at our home tournament earlier this year, and they beat us in two. But last year they beat us in our home tournament in two and we came out in sectional and crushed them in three… It'll be a really good match. It'll be back and forth."
At OD Sectional, Hamlet
Triton stats
Kills: Jaela Meister 10, Lauren Hostrawser 8, Becca Kennedy 6
Aces: Emilee Koontz 3, Miester 2, Kennedy 2
Assists: Krystal Sellers 24
Digs: Casey Scott 8, Holly Stogsdill 6, Sellers 5
Blocks: Hostrawser 2
Argos stats
Kills: Kelsey Kring 6
Aces: Briana Overmyer 2
Assists: Overmyer 12
Digs: Sabrina Brown 12
Blocks: Allie Warner 7 solo
Records: Argos 7-24 (final)

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SUNRISE, Fla. -- The Calgary Flames are surging.
The Flames have won a season-best five games in a row, including a dominating 5-1 win over the host Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Yes, those Lightning, who have the best record in the NHL.
Calgary's previous four wins in this streak were all by one goal, and two of them in overtime.
But now, fresh off thundering the Lightning, the Flames (23-16-4) are set to skate into the BB&T Center on Friday night as a highly confident team, facing the mediocre Florida Panthers (18-18-6).
Much of the credit for Calgary's hot streak goes to left winger Johnny Gaudreau, who was named an All-Star on Wednesday.
Gaudreau, who leads the team in points, has 14 goals and 37 assists in 43 games. He also has nine assists during this winning streak.
"Johnny is maybe the most exciting guy I've watched," Flames coach Glen Gulutzan told the Calgary Sun. "You don't know what's going to happen when he's out there he's so dynamic.
"He gets the best looks in the league. He puts himself in position to create and shoot. Just the way he navigates on the ice and can handle the puck, it's pretty amazing. For not a big guy, he can strip guys of pucks and get opportunities. He is our engine for generating offense."
Meanwhile, the Panthers just finished a 1-2-1 road trip with an emphatic 7-4 win at the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday, overcoming a 2-0 deficit.
"The last game on a trip, sometimes it's a little hard to get into the game because you are thinking about going home," Panthers center Vincent Trocheck told the Sun-Sentinel. "But I think giving up those two quick goals woke us up pretty quick."
Panthers right winger Radim Vrbata returned against the Blues, scoring a goal after missing five straight games due to an illness.
The only Panthers player presently on the injured list is starting goalie Roberto Luongo, who has an injured right leg and is expected back in early February.
But the Panthers have done well without him, thanks to goalie James Reimer, who has saved the season by making 15 consecutive starts and playing brilliantly for most of that stretch.
The Panthers also lead the NHL with eight shorthanded goals, and they are 11-3-1 when Trochek scores any type of goal.
Panthers center Aleksander Barkov, who has 14 goals and 40 points and was named an All-Star on Wednesday, said the Flames game is a big one.
"Right now, every game is a playoff for us," Barkov told FloridaPanthers.com. "We need to win every game. We have to be consistent. We can't have any bad periods."
Consistency has not been a problem for the Flames and goalie Mike Smith, who has started 37 of their 47 games. He has a 19-13-3 record and two shutouts.
Center Sean Monahan, 23, leads the Flames with 20 goals and is second with 39 points. He is just the second player in Flames history to score at least 20 goals in each of his first five seasons in Calgary. Monahan also has seven game-winning goals this season, which is tied for first in the NHL.
The Flames are 12-4-0 when Monahan scores, and it is no surprise that Micheal Ferland is having a career year. Ferland (19 goals) has the benefit this season of playing on Calgary's top line with Monahan and Gaudreau.
One issue for Calgary has been its weak power play. Ever since Kris Versteeg went down with a hip injury on Nov. 24, the Flames are just 9-for-70 with the man advantage.
However, the Flames scored on their only power play on Thursday, so perhaps even that issue has been solved.
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I am in Overland Park for the summer and am looking to play as much tennis as possible this summer. I'd love to play doubles or mixed doubles. Can play mornings or evenings, weekdays or weekends.
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Need to add I play on USTA 3.5 and 4.0 teams in Memphis.
I'd be interested in playing doubles or mixed doubles. Please let me know if you are still looking for people.
Mark Sinatra
I would love to play. Do you know of anyone else who might want to play? I don't live here so I don't know any others. If not, I'll keep your number and see if we can find another pair.
Hi Julie,
I left a message for Mark this a.m. and know that people play in the mornings in Prairie Village. Right now that works for me but could change w/ work. We have had gorgeous weather & I am looking to play more! Usually 3.0-4.0 but only hitting lately ... 913.262.1205
I'd love to hit with you. I am free daytime or evenings from today until next Wednesday night. My sister lives in Overland Park but I am happy to meet you closer to your house. Call or text me at 901 335 9468.
Hi Julie, I'm interested in playing doubles! please consider calling/text me when looking for a game. Gene 626 272 8974
I'd love to play but am leaving town tomorrow (July 19th). I would encourage you to contact Mark Sinatra at 913-915-1307 to arrange to meet. Have fun!
Hey, I live north of kcmo but willing to travel. Prefer mornings or weekends. You can call or text 816-668-9698
I'd love to play but am leaving town tomorrow (July 19th). I would encourage you to contact Mark Sinatra at 913-915-1307 or Gene at 913 915 1307 to arrange to meet. Have fun!
I'd love to play but I am back in Memphis. I was only in Overland Park for the summer. Keep your eyes open here. I was able to play quite a few times with people from this site. Have fun!
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MBHS head coach Rick Frink returns for his second year as the Bucs' skipper.
"This year, I have three new coaches on the staff," Frink said. "All three are ex-Mission Bay High players and understand the tradition here."
Before becoming the head coach Frink had spent the previous five years (2007-11) as the MBHS junior varsity baseball coach and played for the Bucs' in the late 1990s under longtime head coach Dennis Pugh.
He said 75 percent of the current coaching staff also played under Pugh in the 1990s.
Between 1983 and 2008, Mission Bay dominated opponents, winning 20 Western League titles, eight CIF titles and two state championships. It has not had a winning season since 2008, however.
Why has the team struggled over the last four years? Cyclical? More parity now?
"There is absolutely more parity in the Western League over the past couple of years," said Frink. "University City and La Lolla played well last year and UC went deep into the playoffs.
"Every program goes through its ups and downs and we are doing our best to rebuild and get the program where it once was," he said.
The team's 2013 edition returns an experienced roster of 10 seniors, including four pitchers (Luis Osuna, Lorenzo Pamaran, Jesse Sullivan and Connor Vaughs). Osuna (.288), Sullivan (.290, eight doubles and one HR) and Vaughs were also major contributors at the plate last season. The pitching staff allowed an average of nearly 4.4 runs per game, but struggled at times, giving up 11 runs or more in three games.
On offense, the Mission Bay lineup produced 3.6 runs per game but were held to one run or less in 10 contests.
Catcher Joey Wozniak and Devonte Kinder are standout juniors on the team. Wozniak hit .250 with a .308 on-base percentage.
Frink said he believes the 2012 team did not play up to its potential.
"To say we had a roller-coaster season would be too cliche and an understatement," he said. "I have once again set high expectations for the current group of seniors to lead by example, but expect them to make an impact this year."
The regular season opens on Friday, March 1 against University City during the Saints Bill Whitaker Baseball Classic, which runs until
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Arizona cotton growers now have their very own cotton variety. It arrived at lightning speed.
It's AG3601, an upland that grows like Deltapine 90, according to Pinal County, Ariz., producer Bill Scott, who is chairman of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association Seed Breeding Development Committee.
It is a columnar type with excellent lint quality, high heat tolerance and low micronaire, all traits Arizona cotton producers say they have needed desperately to stay in business, but until now have not been given by commercial seed companies.
They stopped waiting and started their own breeding program, the first grower funded program of its kind in the U.S.
Scott said there would be enough seed to plant only about 3,500 acres of AG3601 this year. That's not much, but it is remarkable and extraordinarily fortunate that there is even a variety to plant.
"When we started this project of developing our own cotton variety, we told growers we hoped to shorten the seven- to 10-year time frame it normally takes to develop a new cotton variety," said Scott. "We basically got our first variety in less than a year, and we are naturally tickled to death."
Good, bad luck
Obviously, new varieties are not developed that quickly and it was strokes of good and bad luck that Arizona Cotton Growers Association has its first variety.
Arizona Cotton Growers Association hired its own seed breeder last fall. He is Michael Gilbert, former breeder at Delta and Pine Land Co. and Helena and son of legendary Deltapine cotton breeder Elmer Gilbert. Gilbert has been an independent breeder for several years.
He was hired using assessment funds collected by the Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council. However, much of Gilbert's nursery near Eloy, Ariz., was wiped out last season by herbicide drift.
However, Another independent Arizona cotton breeder, Ron Thorpe, Delta and Pine's former quality control director in Arizona, had a variety that caught the attention of Scott and his committee.
"Ron was developing the variety for a company overseas, but in November it looked like that deal was not going to happen and he offered it to us and we jumped on it," said Scott.
Scott said the variety licensed to sell by Arizona cotton growers looks a lot like Deltapine 90, an Acala type cotton developed initially for the San Joaquin Valley. However, Deltapine was turned down in a request to release the variety in the valley and the company then introduced it not only in the U.S., but the world.
Narrow-row ideal
"You could put a 10-inch stovepipe over Deltapine 90. AG3601 is more columnar than that. You can put a six-inch stovepipe over it. It does not have much branching," Scott said. It is ideal for the new narrow row and ultra-narrow cotton regimes as well as conventional row spacing. "It will not work in a skip row situation," Scott added.
Scott said Thorpe has tested it throughout the state and said it will do well in all areas of the state.
It will need a plant growth regulator to control vigor, guesses Scott. "I think it will do well on good ground as well as tough ground," he added.
"What we liked about it is its heat tolerance. Where other cottons would shed in our high heat, this variety did not," said Scott, who is getting orders from many growers wanting to plant 25 to 100 acres. Early tests at the Texas Tech University textile lab also gave the new variety high marks for acceptable micronaire, a rarity for Arizona cotton. "We sent hand picked samples from five fields and only one came back with a 5 micronaire. All the rest was in the premium range," said Scott.
It is a conventional, non-transgenic cotton, but Rick Lavis, executive vice president of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association expects the Bt gene will be introduced into the variety. Eighty-three percent of the cotton varieties grown in the state last year were transgenic. That includes Roundup Ready.
"We have 19 modules ginned, and delinting is being done in Texas," said Scott. "We do not expect to have any carryover seed."
Organization first
AG3601 is not just another cotton variety, it represents more than that. It is the first time a cotton grower organization U.S. has owned a cotton variety.
The release of the variety comes in the wake of a long and heated debate across the U.S. Cotton Belt about commercial cotton variety development and declining yields and lint quality. It was the focal point of the 2001 Beltwide Cotton Conference, and it has spawned an effort to fund breeding research through Cotton Incorporated, the grower directed cotton research and production program. Arizona hopes to get funding from CI to further its fledgling effort.
Arizona's efforts began long before the current debate got started. Most of the major seed companies have breeding and seed increase programs in Arizona. At one time the majority of the nations' patented, improved variety seed was grown in Arizona because of the high seed quality produced in the dry desert climate.
However, Arizona producers have long felt they were being short changed, growing varieties for seed that were not well adapted for producing high yielding, quality lint in Arizona.
For more than 20 years, Scott has been one of the leaders in challenging seed companies to develop varieties more suited for Arizona. He cites declining new variety viability, increasing micronaire and falling yields.
The seed companies disagreed with Arizona producers. Deltapine invited producers to inspect their nurseries for varieties in search of one Arizona producers felt would be more suited for the Grand Canyon State. That effort proved futile, and Arizona producers decided to go on their own, funded with $140,000 raised via the research and protection council's bale assessment.
Approached CPCSD
Arizona producers approached California Planting Cotton Seed Producers in California in an effort to team up with that grower-owned organization to produce varieties for Arizona. Scott said that proved too expensive for a struggling Arizona cotton industry. "However, we hope some time in the future as we become more financially viable that we can work with CPCSD," said Scott.
More than 150 producers showed up late last fall to see the new variety at a field day where Thorpe and Gilbert were developing varieties.
"That is certainly an indication of the need to develop new varieties more suited for Arizona and the support of producers to achieve that," said Lavis.
Arizona cotton producers have had their share of struggles over the past two decades, surviving onslaughts by pink bollworm, boll weevil, silverleaf whitefly and sticky cotton as well as a rap for poor quality lint.
Acreage dropped to less than 249,000 acres two years ago. It had been more than double that in the past. Last year it bounced back to 280,000 acres. Lavis and Scott believe it will drop to close to 200,000 acres this season. However, Scott said he has heard others predict it will be back in that 280,000 range.
With about 45 days to planting time, Scott said, "it's anybody's guess as to what it will be. A lot depends on the farm bill."
Variety lends hope
Regardless of what this year might hold, Arizona producers are hopeful their own cotton variety will help pull them back toward a more viable long term future.
"The Arizona cotton industry has almost been at death's door in the past and may be now. However, it has always bounced back. It's a very resilient group of producers who refuse to give up," said Lavis, who said the goal is to have a self-sufficient grower directed breeding and planting seed marketing organization in two to three years.
"We are grateful to Ron for working with us. He continues to work with Michael, allowing him to work in his nursery after Michael's was lost to herbicide drift," said Scott. "We really appreciate that."
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Among the offerings at the complex are an enhanced walking tour of the 1932/1980 Bobsled run and the new combined track, a special display of the Inaugural Edition of "Lake Placid's Legends of Mt. Van Hoevenberg" banners, and a preliminary exhibit tracing the evolution of sleds in each sport at the Complex's Lamy Lodge, "After developing this project over the past few years and the enthusiastic reception from the local and international community to the announcement of ISSM during the Bobsled World Championships in February, we're pleased to have the ISSM experience finally reaching the public," said the Museum's interim manager Alison Haas.
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Future plans include expansion of the Hall of Fame Program, an oral/visual history project, expanding the current collection and a science and technology park.
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NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 – Dental caries (tooth decay) is one of the most common health problems impacting young children's primary teeth.1 In fact, nearly 40-to-50 percent of children will be affected by tooth decay by age five2 and according to the latest Surgeon General's report, Oral Health in America, more than 51 million school hours are lost each year to dental-related conditions.3 In response to these facts, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, in partnership with Sam's Club Giving Program and MetLife Foundation, has developed Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me, a bilingual (English/Spanish), multimedia outreach initiative motivating children 2 to 5 years of age, their parents, and caregivers to care for children's dental health. The 350,000 free outreach kits are being distributed nationwide and are also available at www.sesamestreet.org/teeth.Healthy Teeth, Health Me features brand new songs, animated segments and celebrity guests Bruno Mars, David Hyde Pierce, Nicole Kidman, Amy Ryan, Wendy Williams, Jay Sean, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber.
The announcement was made today at The Children's Aid Society- Dunlevy Milbank Center in New York City with help from Sesame Street's oral health advisory member James J. Crall, DDS, ScD, Professor & Chair, UCLA Public Health & Community Dentistry and Child Advocate for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Lance de la Rosa, SVP Operations, North Division, Sam's Club, Sherrie Westin , EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Sesame Workshop, Dennis White, President and CEO, MetLife Foundation, and Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby andGordon. In addition, the Children's Health Fund mobile dental clinic offered educational tours. This full-service "dentist's office on wheels," also funded by MetLife Foundation, provides timely and preventive oral health care to low-income and homeless children in New York City.
"Programs such as Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me are absolutely critical to increasing awareness of the importance of developing good oral health habits in early childhood that provide life-long benefits, and the connection between good oral health and children's ability to learn in school, be free from pain and infection, and feel good about themselves," said James J. Crall, DDS, ScD, Professor & Chair, UCLA Public Health & Community
Dentistry and Child Advocate for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. "Educating children and those who care for them about the importance of oral health in pre-school age children is essential to breaking the recurring cycle of dental disease and reducing the profound disparities in oral health that continue to negatively impact the lives of millions of children and their families throughout this nation. The commitment of Sesame Workshop and its partners to this effort is commendable and potentially transformative."
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- Empowering children to make healthy choices that will have a positive impact on their oral health;
- Educating adults about the benefits of young children's preventive oral care and recommended strategies to establish a foundation for healthy habits early in life.
"This partnership aligns well with our initiative to provide important health solutions for our members, and this outstanding outreach opportunity will directly benefit young children and help caregivers make oral health a priority," said Jill Turner-Mitchael, Senior Vice President, Sam's Club Health and Wellness. "Sesame Street provides an outstanding audience and method to lead this multimedia initiative, and we are excited to be standing there next to them."
"Developing good oral health habits is a vital part of a comprehensive approach to better overall health care," said Dennis White, president and CEO of MetLife Foundation. "MetLife Foundation is pleased to work with Sesame Workshop to help educate children and families on the importance of oral health care. The earlier children and families begin to learn about dental hygiene and receive preventive care, the better equipped they will be to develop healthy habits that last a lifetime.
Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me emphasizes the easy everyday routines and good habits to keep children's teeth, mouths and, therefore, bodies healthy and strong. The bilingual (English/Spanish) outreach kit includes an originalSesame Street DVD, a family booklet, public service messages, online community health providers guide, interactive online game, and a downloadable brushy brush song to help make toothbrushing fun. Three hundred and fifty thousand Healthy Teeth kits, available at no cost, will be distributed through such partners as National WIC Association, the Children's Health Fund, Alliance for Hispanic Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( Region 2), Sam's Club, First 5 Association of California, and other community based organizations working with families with young children. Additionally, the materials will be available for free on iTunes and Amazon VOD in the Learn Along with Sesame section.
"This is an opportunity for Sesame Street to continue to use its influence to help families and their children make healthy decisions about oral health at a time when nurturing children's overall development is so critical and the subsequent positive effects can last a lifetime," said Sherrie Westin, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Sesame Workshop. "We are excited to partner with Sam's Club and MetLife Foundation bringing these much needed resources to families with young children."
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MetLife Foundation was established in 1976 to carry on MetLife's longstanding tradition of corporate contributions and community involvement. The Foundation is committed to building a secure future for individuals and communities worldwide. Through programs focusing on empowering older adults, preparing young people and building livable communities, MetLife Foundation increases access and opportunities for people of all ages. Since it was established, MetLife Foundation has made more than $530 million in grants and $75 million in program related investments. For more information visit www.metlife.org
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Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), is the nation's eighth largest retailer and a leading membership warehouse club offering superior products and services to more than 47 million members in clubs across the U.S., as well as in Brazil, China and Mexico. Members save an average of 30 percent over traditional retailers. To learn more about Savings Made SimpleSM, visit SamsClub.com, and look for Sam's Club on Twitterand Facebook.
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Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization that revolutionized children's television programming with the landmark Sesame Street. The Workshop produces local Sesame Street programs, seen in over 150 countries, and other acclaimed shows to help bridge the literacy gap including The Electric Company. Beyond television, the Workshop produces content for multiple media platforms on a wide range of issues including literacy, health and military deployment. Initiatives meet specific needs to help young children and families develop critical skills, acquire healthy habits and build emotional strength to prepare them for lifelong learning. Learn more atwww.sesameworkshop.org.
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A record number of North Carolinians — 2,826,500 — are expected to travel 50 miles or more for the Christmas/New Year's holiday, according to AAA Carolinas.
A record number of North Carolinians — 2,826,500 — are expected to travel 50 miles or more for the Christmas/New Year's holiday, according to AAA Carolinas.
Travel volume represents an increase of 48,500 total travelers compared to last year. An estimated 2,559,700, or 90.5 percent of total travelers, plan to drive to their destination. North Carolina travelers are expected to log an average trip of 965 miles from home, a significant increase from 765 miles last year.
Although she has no specific holiday tourism numbers, Beth Carden, executive director of the Hendersonville Visitors Center, said 2013 was "a spectacular year," for tourism. "From January to October we've already had 120,000 people come to our Visitors Center, about 30,000 to 40,000 more than the year before. Many local retailers have told us their business is the best it's been in years."
Carden credits increased marketing efforts in major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta and Charleston, for bringing additional visitors to the area.
"We started a winter getaway card program, and we've gotten some good response that's driving traffic between November and March. The getaway program is trying to provide a deal or added value to get people here and have them do their Christmas shopping here and stay overnight, maybe go to a concert, go shopping or have dinner," she said.
Winter getaway cards are free at the Visitors Center and can be ordered online at www.historichendersonville.org. Cardholders receive discounts and perks from dozens of local hotels, retail shops and restaurants.
"The card program is not only designed for the visitors, but for locals also," Carden said. "We also want locals to spend their holiday money here in Hendersonville."
Emphasis on safetyThe 12-day Christmas/New Year's travel holiday starts today and runs through Jan. 1, which is one day longer than the travel period last year. The year-end holiday ranges from 10 to 13 days, and travel volume often increases relative to length.
The Christmas/New Year's holiday is "one of the deadliest," David E. Parsons, president and CEO of AAA Carolinas, stated in a news release. "Drivers should buckle up and avoid drinking and driving, speeding and texting behind the wheel."
Last year, 37 people died on North Carolina roads during the year-end holiday travel period — 38 percent of those incidents involved a drunken driver, and 43 percent of those who died weren't wearing seat belts.
"When you're on the highway, slow your speed down," suggested 1st Sgt. Jeff Gordon of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. "Speed is the number one reason for all fatalities, not only in North Carolina but nationwide. And of course with the holidays comes the opportunity to attend more social events and gatherings, which sometimes involve the consumption of alcohol. If you're going to be going to a social gathering, either stay at that location overnight or get a designated driver or use public transportation. Don't take the chance of getting behind the wheel and run the risk of getting yourself in a collision."
He noted that North Carolina's "Booze It & Lose It" campaign, which runs Dec. 13-Jan. 5, includes checkpoints and stepped-up patrols to remove impaired drivers from North Carolina roads.
"We are going to have law enforcement, including the highway patrol, on the roads being visible and looking for careless, reckless and impaired drivers," Gordon said. "Also, we always like to use the public as our eyes. If you see someone who you think might be impaired, dial *HP, which is a free call to the highway patrol's communications center, so we can get a trooper in position to observe the vehicle."
Traffic fatalities are sharply down this year in both North and South Carolina, as well as nationally, AAA reported.
As of Dec. 1, North Carolina saw a 7.8 percent drop year-to-date from 1,227 traffic deaths to 1,115, including a decline of 118 alcohol-involved traffic deaths.
During the same 11 months, South Carolina's fatal crashes declined 11.9 percent from 787 to 695, and alcohol-related fatalities dropped more than 35 percent.
Traffic safety officials in both states credit the drop to more intense patrolling of high-crash corridors; checkpoints and crackdowns on drunken drivers, unbuckled drivers and passengers; stricter speed-limit enforcement; and a decline in vehicle miles traveled.
Stable fuel prices
North Carolina gas prices currently average $3.23 — the same price as a year ago. Prices are expected to continue the downward trend through the end of the year because of rising supplies and increased refinery production.
Motorists can find the cheapest gasoline in North Carolina in High Point at $3.18 a gallon and the most expensive gas in Boone at $3.30. Drivers will enjoy lower prices in South Carolina at $3.07. To estimate fuel costs, travelers can go to www.fuelcostcalculator.com to input starting city, destination and the make and model of their car.
An estimated 155,200 North Carolinians will fly to their holiday destinations, accounting for 5.5 percent of travelers, and 111,600 or 4 percent will use another mode of transportation, such as train, bus or boat.
Airfares are down 3 percent from a year ago, averaging $199 for the top 40 U.S. routes, AAA said. However, travelers will see higher car rental rates, up 13 percent to $63 per day compared to $55 per day last year.
"So far this holiday season, we have seen strong numbers" at the Asheville Regional Airport, said Tina Kinsey, director of marketing, PR and air service development. "Thanksgiving week traffic was the second highest number of passengers we have seen in more than five years."
Kinsey suggested that holiday fliers plan ahead, arrive at the airport at least two hours before a flight, and be familiar with TSA carry-on luggage rules.
"Don't bring wrapped packages, because they may have to be unwrapped during the screening process, and remember that even though you might like to bring a bottle of wine or some local honey with you, items like this are not allowed in carry-on luggage."
She added that the TSA's 3-1-1 rule is still in effect: Each passenger may bring liquids that are in containers of 3.4 ounce or less, and the containers must fit in one quart-sized clear bag, with a one clear bag per passenger limit.
"There are always (airfare) deals, but you can't count on finding the lowest airfare if you wait too long," Kinsey said. "Sometimes, if you are flexible with travel dates, you can find lower fares on less-traveled days." Check Asheville Regional Airport's website, www.flyavl.com, and click on the "Low Fares" section.
In terms of hotel rates, AAA reported that its Three Diamond hotels average $138, down 3 percent from last year, while AAA Two Diamond hotels average $102, up 1 percent from a year ago.
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Inclement weather can also put a damper on a holiday road trip. According to WLOS Meteorologist Julie Wunder, the weekend weather will be mild but wet. Highs will reach the mid-60s Saturday and Sunday, with scattered to widespread showers and thundershowers on Sunday.
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Oxford University Press, 1997 - Law - 265 pages
When the U.S. Congress created the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, what we now call cyberspace was just "ether." Broadcasting had only begun to carry tinny human voices and music across the fields and prairies, while Sunday afternoon phone calls to Aunt Mabel snaked through wires below, courtesy of an army of operators who switched each circuit by hand. It didn't take long, though, for the wires and airwaves to fill up with untrammeled chatter, so much so that by 1934 after complaints by the Navy that ship to shore communications had become hopelessly chaotic, and under the unproved but widely held belief that the broadcast spectrum was a finite natural resource all federal authority over electronic communications was forged into a new, powerful Federal Communications Commission. The amount of information traversing the airwaves has increased a million fold since 1927, but has the FCC changed along with the technology?
The answer, according to Peter W. Huber, in Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm, is an emphatic No. In this well researched, lively, even witty polemic, Huber recounts the history of telecommunications over the last century to argue that the FCC "should have been extinguished years ago." With scarcity of communications channels no longer an issue, and the virtual elimination of distinctions between carriage and broadcast,the Commission's anachronistic laws have no basis for existence, and have in fact impeded growth and progress to the tune of billions of lost dollars. Today, the "telecosm," that complex universe of invisible communications traffic, has expanded, supplanted, and subdivided itself many times over with each new technological breakthrough. Cable television, direct broadcast satellite, cell phones, the V chip, Caller ID, personal computers, and the Internet have transformed the world. Huber argues that large bureaucratic entities like the FCC fail to adjust to such rapidly changing technologies because they see their mission as maintaining the status quo, and that instead of preserving the rights of common citizens they actually favor rich monopolies. Addressing charged points of conflict such as free speech vs. censorship, privacy vs. right to know, and market vs. controlled pricing, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace energetically proposes that sensible national telecommunications policies evolve through common law--the accretion of decisions arrived at in specific cases where basic principles such as private property and fair business practice are challenged and upheld--and not through the top down, government imposition of inflexible regulatory mandates created in the vacuum of uninformed, theoretical disussion.
Given the heated climate on Capitol Hill surrounding debate over ways to reduce federal spending, Peter Huber's arguments are timely, urgent, and meticulously documented. Law and Disorder in Cyberspace is not only informative and entertaining, but will be one of those rare books that will influences public policy before the end of this decade.
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Comprehensive protection against harmful radiation in medicine, protection against radon in dwellings and better provisions for an emergency – these are the central areas of the new Radiation Protection Act which was adopted on 12 May 2017. The reorganisation reflects the increasing significance of radiation protection in many areas of life: The Act creates clear structures and represents the current state of science. Thus, it also creates a new basis for radiation protection and the work of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS).
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Bentley Mulsanne
With the Arnage growing long in the tooth, Bentley unveiled its new three-ton flagship for an appreciative audience at Pebble Beach in August 2009. The Mulsanne retains a hallmark 6¾-liter V8 and the heft that make a grand Bentley, but this new car and its engine have finally shed the old Crewe carapace and undergone the transformation they needed to keep the winged B in the running against some formidable machinery, all V12-powered: the Rolls-Royce Ghost (fewer $, the most hp), Maybach 57 (more $, more hp) and Rolls-Royce Phantom (more $, fewer hp). What the Mulsanne might lack in hp it makes up for in spades with a massive 752 ft-lb of torque at just 1750 rpm–quite possibly enough propulsive persuasion to corrugate the Earth's crust, and all delivered in an environment that contains enough fine wood and leather to remind you of an exclusive London club.
In production from 1998 to 2009, the Arnage was the last gasp of the old factory in Crewe, which had turned out the cars for which the combined Rolls-Royce and Bentley were famous but had grown old and creaky by the time Vickers sold the brands in 1998. They went their separate ways with new German parents–VW for Bentley and BMW for Rolls. VW subsequently invested in a deep modernization for the Crewe factory, and the current Continental, Flying Spur and Mulsanne are evidence of money well spent.
For this magazine, a plan to combine driving the Mulsanne with experiencing firsthand the vaunted Bentley heritage eventually came together, thanks to both the car builder and Roger Noble. When Roger, Northeast sales director for Bombardier Aerospace, is not selling Learjets, Challengers and Global Expresses, he and his brother Bob are tinkering with and driving the Noble family's four vintage Bentleys and a kid-brother 1959 model. Roger was kind enough to invite me to ride shotgun with him in their 1928 Bentley 4½-liter during a drive in New Hampshire last year that was organized by the New England Region of the International Bentley Drivers Club. It was time to break out the goggles and leather helmet–the latter anointed with Rolls-Royce Merlin oil from the belly of a two-seat Spitfire after a flight in 1990.
Let's push aside all the misty-eyed nostalgia for a moment. These old Bentleys are dashing, all right, but the motoring experience they provide bears almost zero resemblance to time spent in a Mulsanne–no surprise, considering they are separated by the most breakneck century of technological advances in history. The enduring trait both generations exhibit is massive engine displacement measured to the fraction rather than the decimal point: the Nobles' 4½ produces about 100 hp and is modest in the context of the blower and 8-liter Bentleys, but both the old cars and the Mulsanne spurn downshifting and dole out seemingly limitless propulsion from impossibly low revs.
The 1928 car gives its driver an unrelenting workout. "You steer old Alfas and Ferraris with your fingers and Bugattis with maybe a flick of the wrist. But with these old Bentleys you use your whole upper body and shoulders to steer and turn," noted Roger, recalling Ettore Bugatti's observation during Bentley's dominance of the Le Mans 24-hour event in the late 1920s that "W. O. Bentley builds the fastest lorries in the world."
Anticipation can lessen the physical workload of driving an old Bentley to some extent–swing wide before turns to increase the radius, for example–but these priceless classics are relentlessly demanding when in motion. The driver has to be acutely tuned in to the raw mechanical pulse of the car, nailing downshift revs and timing gearshifts by ear and feel and coaxing the power from the cylinders to the rear wheels through a transmission with no synchromesh and, if faithfully original, a leather clutch. The Mulsanne has an eight-speed ZF automatic with paddle shifters, well calibrated to grab onto all that low-end torque and not let go. The old Bentley is incessantly noisy, a symphony of wind, gear-whine glissando and a bass line of deep engine growl from cylinders each displacing about a liter. A glance behind our 4½ shows Bob and Betty Sue Reed keeping pace in their 1929 Speed Six.
At rest, the old Bentleys exude the aroma of old leather and a long life of crude combustion; the new car tickles the olfactory with the scent of virgin wool and flawlessly hand-stitched leather. How quiet is the Mulsanne? So silent that the noise of the climate-control fan and breeze from the stainless-steel bullseye vents (polished so deeply a bug could swim in their luster) is prominent in a steady cruise. So quiet that at 70 mph the $7,415, 2,200-watt, 14-speaker Naim audio system can still reveal intricacies never before heard in well-known recordings. Virtually all the car's brightware inside and out is polished stainless steel and the Naim amp is the most powerful fitted to any production car; more than 170 hours–almost half the build time for the whole vehicle–goes into crafting the Mulsanne's interior.
Step on the gas, however, and a Bentley burble and growl break the silence to announce the effortless jetlike surge of thrust that comes with more than 750 lb-ft of torque just a few hundred rpm beyond idle.
Among the many improvements to the "totally revised" 6¾-liter V8 in the Mulsanne are two firsts for the "ultra-luxury" sector: cam phasing and variable displacement, which shuts down four of the eight cylinders when the vehicle has settled into a low-workload cruise. Typically in a car like the Mulsanne, cruising on the level at 70 mph leaves about 95 percent of the engine's potential power untapped.
How obtrusive is the semi-shutdown in the Mulsanne? Until I read more deeply into the literature a couple of days into the loan of the car, I was unaware that the engine had variable displacement, so smooth was the snuffing and relighting process. Despite its 6¾-liter gulp and three-ton bulk, the mighty Mulsanne averaged 15.7 mpg over the 966 miles I drove the car. Bentley says that compared with its 6¾-liter forebears, the new engine has reduced reciprocating mass and internal friction for swifter response and that overall it is 15 percent better on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The Mulsanne conceals its heft. You know it's there because your eyeballs see it before you settle into the leather and wool, the long bonnet confirms it once you're seated, but once under way the car has a sprightliness belying its hulking dimensions. There's no sway or wallow, no marshmallow float.
The Mulsanne succeeds in delivering exactly the surprise one would hope for from the flagship Bentley sedan. Seemingly regardless of the setting chosen for the adjustable steering response and air suspension (Bentley, Sport, Comfort or Custom), the car feels taut and poised far beyond what one would expect of three tons of steel (the monocoque body structure, polished-stainless brightware, including the front grille and winged B badge), glass, rubber, aluminum (the bonnet/hood, doors, side impact beams and superformed front wings/fenders), leather (17 hides) and wood and overall gravitas. All this for a few dollars shy of $325,000–modest in the context of vintage (pre-1931 merger with R-R) Bentleys, which currently fetch from the mid-six figures to eight figures.


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The Lone Tree and Columbus Junction boys will play tonight after the girl's game.
Lone Tree has dominated through the first half of their scheduled, beating every conference school by double digit points.
Lone Tree is 8-0, and is shooting 42 percent from the floor, 44 percent from beyond the arc and 70 percent from the free throw line.
Bryan Forbes has 199 points this season, and 71 rebounds.
Lone Tree head coach Tom Squires said he doesn't like Monday games, but he thinks his kids will be up for the challenge.
"I'm not a big fan of Monday games, because you don't get to practice on Sunday, because it is Sunday," Squires said. "We're coming off a win on [Friday] against Louisa-Muscatine, so we'll have to play Columbus without any practice, but I think our kids will be ready for that game, it's kind of nice to have a couple of days off."
Columbus Junction is still looking for that first win.
They are shooting 43 percent from the floor, and 41 percent from the free throw line.
Chase Finke leads the team with 72 points, while Kenan Todd has 41 rebounds.
Wildcat head coach Mark Beerends said if his team can break the press, they may be able to break through with some points.
"Lone Tree has just been pounding on everybody this year, they've beaten IMS who is a really good squad, and taken care of everyone else," Beerends said. "They will press and force turnovers, and the biggest thing is to be patient with them, and we did that against WACO. Being patient on press break and finding guys who are open and moving to the open spots during press break, and hopefully if we do that successfully enough against Lone Tree's press, they'll pull that press off and we can get into the game a little bit."
Lone Tree and Columbus Junction play tonight at Lone Tree after the girl's game.