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Val was bitten by a zombie and now she's scheduled for lethal injection. Breaking all the rules, 18-year-old Dean Walters snags an experimental serum. But it can't be tested until Val turns into a zombie: something authorities won't allow. Her execution is scheduled to happen before transformation is complete, giving Dean only hours to break her out. When their helicopter crashes straight into the heart of Zombie Land, his rescue mission becomes a fight for survival - and giving up on Val is not an option.
©2012 Christine Kleps (P)2013 Christine Kleps
I'm a horror nut! Zombies in particular! Epidemics, end of all things! Also enjoyed Game of thrones very much!
"Couldn't get past third chapter."
Next Iron Druid book until a new Zombie book comes out by someone I know.! I'm about to give up on new Authors selling Zombie Novels'
The narration was bad! It wouldn't be fair to Blame it fully on the narrator cause its hard to tell if its the story or the narration which really kills it! But its my belief that a Great Narrator can salvage a bad story with his Voices, & the personality he gives the characters just as a great story can make a bad narrator seem better then he is but when you put two negatives together its like a fart in church!
Didn't get far enough to say honestly!
Don't waste your credit or money!!
"Painful to read"
I have no idea.
not in this Genre, just this writer.
This book was painful to listen to! The story line was ok but the character were ridicules. It was like The cast of Happy Days fighting Zombies. I think this Writer would do well with other Genres, like Children and family.
"a zombie book for tweens"
I love zombie/monster/horror/supernatural stories. I did not like this.
From the first paragraph I kept hoping it would get better.
It didn't
"for teens"
it was good, not amazing but good but I am happy to report there is no swearing or sex.
When I discovered Audible it was like discovering love :-) I love receiving codes and in return I post reviews. Wife, and mom of two,
"A Great Zombie Story!"
I finished listening to Val, a prequel to The Zombie Chronicles. Author Chrissy Peebles blew my mind. This is a fantastic start to a series. Unfortunately I will most likely have to wait awhile before I will be able to listen to the third audio. I'm still anxious to learn what will happen to Val. This is a great zombie story and its not like the majority zombie stories I've listened to so I'm thankful for that. I am definitely going to go through withdrawals over this series once I finish the second audio. This story has it all and I guarantee you'll love these stories.
Mikael Naramore did a perfect job with his telling of this story. I can't believe how real he made this story feel and sound. He did a great job with distinguishing accents and voices to each character. He brought this story to life in the way that it made me feel as if I was there watching the story play out. I give it a perfect 5 star rating!
I love audiobooks!!!
"The Zombies are Coming!"
Yes. I liked it enough that I'll probably listen with my son. He loves zombies!
It was similar to Benton, but with no sex. They are both zombie apocalypse series, where humanity still has safe places to go.
He has a great voice, awesome inflections, and easily keeps the character voices correct.
A dramatic, post-apocalyptic, tale of family and friends, struggling to survive.
This book was graphic on a bloody scale, but not a sexual one. Some kids will be able to read it without nightmares... Some adults, too... Unfortunately, I fell asleep listening to this, and had some crazy scary dreams:-)
Happy Mommy
"Why oh why did I not listen to the other reviews?!"
This book managed to be every bit as bad as the negative reviews said. It wasn't meant to be a comedy but I found myself snorting in laughter at the lameness of the dialogue.
I really wanted to like it but it just wasn't going to happen. I made it to the end of the book, but there was no way I would have bought book two... or listened to it for free.
"Good story bad narration"
The narrator is way over excited in the entire book. You'd think the book is written in all CAPS throughout.
"Disappointing, I should have believed the reviews"
This book managed to be every bit as bad as the negative reviews said. I cant believe the author was able to publish this book. I made it to the end of the book, but there was no way I would have bought book two... or even listened to it for free.
Get an editor. Have someone that will tell her the truth when reading the book. I would be embarrassed and angry those I trusted to read and give their opinion didn't tell me the truth that this book needed work. I hate to be so harsh but I expect better quality from Audible.
The voices for the different characters were irritating. A good performance can make a bad book so much better, this was not the case. I am not sure that anyone could have made me enjoy this book.
The characters were OK, it was the overall book. The premise was nothing new but had potential to be an average entertaining listen unfortunately it didn't work out.
I hope I got this for free and didn't actually pay for it.
"hair raising!"
definitely geared for younger female readers. too much about the hair. come on. they are filthy. no regular bathing. dirty hair doesn't flow or blow or be soft. it's gross.
I don't like to not finish a book but this one came close. The overall story wasn't bad, some novel ideas.
The portrayal of the females was irritating, and the narrators voice grated when he was representing them.
I thought parts of the plot were weak and stereotypes abounded.
Hmmm...not sure, there are many other good zombie books.
A different aproach and a good start. Im heading streight for book 2. A good adition to any zombie library.
"Really Bad"
Really Really bad... I'm literally so disappointed in this ... Bad story, overly dramatic over acted narration, extremly frustrating ... I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed the story with better narration, but then again maybe not. such a let down and such a shame.
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Norwich companies join forces to grow business
PUBLISHED: 11:20 18 May 2014 | UPDATED: 11:20 18 May 2014
Two Norfolk companies have joined forces to grow their insurance businesses in Norwich and Cambridge.
Financial services company NW Brown Group, in Unthank Road, Norwich, has announced the sale of its Cambridge-based insurance arm to One Broker Ltd which already owns Knowlden Titlow Insurance Brokers (KTIB) on the city's Broadland Business Park.
NW Brown Insurance Brokers will continue to operate from its premises in Regent Street, Cambridge, under the same name.
Alan Kefford, chairman of NW Brown Group, described the deal, the financial terms of which remain undisclosed, as "the logical culmination of a long process of co-operation".
He said: "While our position in East Anglia as a top quality financial services operation is strong I am delighted to have access to better specialist services for our clients via KTIB as well as N W Brown Insurance Brokers Ltd.
"We are always seeking ways of improving service for existing clients and of introducing new clients for whom we can provide that high level of service and this closer partnership gives the prospect of doing both."
NW Brown Group chief executive Marcus Johnson explained that modern-day insurance broking was a highly specialist and niche business.
KTIB's expertise in fleet insurance could now be grown in Cambridge as well as Norwich; meanwhile NW Brown Insurance Brokers' experience in landlord and tenant insurance from the Cambridge market would be translated to Norfolk - building on work that had already started in recent years.
He confidently predicted the growth would lead to new jobs being created.
Under the deal, Robin Plaster, managing director of KTIB, will become managing director of N W Brown Insurance Brokers and Phil Thorpe will become broking director, with responsibility for running the operation on a day to day basis, along with fellow directors Shaun Lenton and Richard Rampley.
Mr Thorpe will join the board of KTIB and John Knowlden the board of N W Brown Insurance Brokers.
Mr Plaster said: "We have both built our firms on high quality advice and efficient execution. I look forward to working with our new colleagues to grow our business in what is perhaps the most exciting area of the country intellectually, technologically and financially.
"Our insurance solutions have applications in all areas and I look forward to working with Phil and his team to develop our strong presence in East Anglia. We are confident that the combined skill set of the two firms will make us a recognised leader in our chosen field. "
N W Brown Insurance Brokers will continue to develop business in its other specialist sectors such as education, technology and financial liabilities.

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Now BMW has revealed the next stage of its efficiency push with a three-cylinder, 1.5-litre engine family. They will power the next-generation Mini Cooper, as well as smaller BMW models such as the 1 and 2 Series, and possibly the 3 Series.
The petrols will produce between 122hp and 224hp and 133 and 177lb ft of torque. The diesels will be offered in various states of tune between 82hp and 184hp. Diesel torque figures range from 166-243lb ft which, from a 1500cc engine with three cylinders, sounds pretty impressive. Expect suitably astounding economy and C02 figures when they emerge.
BMW claims that every derivative of the new 1.5-litre three-pot shares 60% of its components and 40% of its structure, regardless of fuel, massively reducing costs.
It has also introduced a range of technologies to boost efficiency and refinement. These include variable load control, direct injection and, on the petrol versions, Valvetronic variable valve control. BMW has also fitted a torsional vibration damper to reduce the innate vibrations of a three-cylinder engine. It is also promising an "extremely vivacious and sporty" exhaust note.
So, with BMW making the transition to smaller, turbocharged units, is the game up for naturally-aspirated engines? Ford would seem to think so, with the groundbreaking 999cc turbocharged EcoBoost engine set to appear in the next Mondeo. But then manufacturers like Mazda are pursuing more efficient production methods to allow for non forced-induction engines to feature in cars like the upcoming 6. Weight reduction could will also play a key role; you only have to look at the efficiency achieved by Lotus models with fairly low-tech atmospheric powerplants to demonstrate the possibilities of 'adding lightness'.


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In anticipation for this weekend's limited theatrical release of Steven R. Monroe's I Spit on Your Grave, the good folks at Anchor Bay have released yet another bit of red band goodness that is totally not safe for work! Dig it!
The redux stars Andrew Howard (Devil's Chair, Blood River, Luster), Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese (Killer Pad, War of the Worlds), Rodney Eastman (Joey in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4: The Dream Master), Saxon Sharbino, Amber Dawn Landrum, and Chad Lindberg (Push).
Anchor Bay will launch the film theatrically on October 8th in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, and Baltimore, with additional markets to be announced.
"A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away.
As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn't about to happen. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her… only much, much worse."
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52 Perfect Days Fancies the Clever Travel Companion! February 27 2012, 0 Comments
Another excellent review, this time from 52perfectdays.com, an online travel site with real articles and local travel reviews. Besides their gear review, which this time was written by Becky Garrison, they have travel ides, city guides, destination information. All really useful and informative. Check out 52perfectdays here.


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Another week, another Monday! I keep dreaming of 2 weeks from now when I'll be in Minnesota escaping from reality. Must.keep.going. As I mentioned last week, life is kind of crazy at the moment. So crazy that it has gotten to a point where I've needed to make some changes. I've alluded to these changes before but it's about time I come clean on them, or at least one of them. So here goes!
As I subtly hinted on Instagram, in 2 weeks I will be leaving my full-time job. I swear I haven't gone off the deep end or made a hasty decision. I've been wanting this since about my second week at the job. As I quickly discovered, studying baby brains is not my passion. I want to share more details on my future plans but i'll save that for another post. The one thing I will miss about my job? The amazing ladies I spend 8 hours a day with. I have the best coworkers in the entire world and I will miss every single one of their beautiful faces. And they will miss my baking 🙂
Besides my incredible coworkers, I am also grateful to be getting back into the gym. I'm going once a week now and that is enough for me. I'll be honest, it was a bit dismaying seeing my weight on the trap bar halved from my strongest, but you gotta start somewhere. My lady muscles are hurtin' today!
And then to feed those lady muscles I ate my weight in sugar cookies. My nephew and I baked and decorated what felt like 300 cookies. He was the best helper and was down with my method of "sprinkles on the cookies, sprinkles in the mouth". Except that it's perfectly acceptable for a 4 year old to pull that off. Also, how awesome are those cookie cutters?
Then I spent that rest of the day rounding up my kitchen staples for this post. I had every intention of photographing things in my actual kitchen until I realized what a mess I am. This is something that majorly irks my Mom and makes me question whether I got any of her cleanliness genes. In case you missed it, I rounded up all of the ingredients that are commonly used in my recipes and in my daily eats.
Sunday was not particularly thrilling. I was hoping to sleep-in but my body had other ideas so I went to hot yoga instead. And since I omitted a selfie on yesterday's Spill it, Sunday post I'll include one of me looking fabulous pre-yoga. The rest of the day was spent working at my part-time job. I did manage to squeeze in a new recipe for the most delicious tasting and looking cookies that hopefully I can get my act together and post this week. Keep me accountable!
Thanks to the Diva for hosting! Monday is feeling marvelous…but maybe that's because I only have 2 work Mondays left eeeeee! <–serious excitement!
Have you ever quit a job? What did you get up to this weekend?


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What to bring home for Thanksgiving break
November 19, 2012
Thanksgiving break may be a brief vacation from classes, but it is also one of the most important reprieves. Many students will be leaving the city and traveling home — some for the first time in the fall semester. If you are planning to catch a plane or train in pursuit of family time and pumpkin pie, the one thing you are probably not looking forward to is lugging your bags through LaGuardia Airport or Grand Central Station. Pack your clothes efficiently by gathering your most versatile pieces and coordinating outfits in advance. With the right strategy, you can manage the trip with only a handful of items and minimal accessories.
For Thanksgiving dinner
Skip the space-consuming array of blouses and shirts and make your dresses work overtime. A cozy sweater dress, such as the cable knit scoopneck dress from Victoria's Secret ($69.50), can be formal for a big family dinner when paired with sheer black or jewel-toned tights, black flats and a statement necklace, or it can be perfect for lounging around with friends and family later when worn with warm leggings and boots.
For outdoor activities
Since you are packing light, focus on versatile pieces like jeans. Bring just one or two pairs and style them differently for each occasion. Outdoor activities, like watching your high school's football game or playing in the leaves with younger relatives, will require clothes that are warm and comfortable. Throw on your go-to skinny jeans and tuck them into your boots, and layer up with a sporty shirt and a warm jacket, such as the hooded puffer jacket from American Eagle ($89.95). For anyone venturing home to a region as cold or even colder than New York, a warm jacket is a necessity. Be sure to pack gloves, a hat and a scarf, too.
For Black Friday shopping
For those who participate in the near-Olympic sport of Black Friday shopping, dressing is usually function over form. But that doesn't mean you can't pull together a cute and practical ensemble. Wear a plaid shirt, such as the flannel button-down from Forever 21 ($19.80), with your jeans. Pull on boots or the flats you wore to dinner, and wear the same jacket and cold-weather accessories you already packed to stay the practical but stylish.
By sticking to neutral-colored and versatile clothing, you can get away with bringing a minimal amount of clothing and accessories. Focus on staying warm and cozy with family, but remember that you will be wheeling your single suitcase back into the city soon.
A version of this article appeared in the Monday, Nov. 19 print edition. Ariana DiValentino is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected]


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Obama Nominates Man With Cayman Island Investments To Replace Outgoing Tax Cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
The only thing that surpises me, about the fact Obama first chose a tax cheat, Tim Geithner, to be Treasury Secretary and now that he is on his way out, Obama nominates a man to replace him who has offshore investments —which Obama is very much critical of— is that anyone is surprised. It has been well documented, time and time again, that Barack Obama is an enourmous hypocrite who almost always picks the worst person for the job. Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, Tax Cheat Tim Geithner, and Jack Lew, just to name a few.
Top 10 Reasons To Oppose Jack Lew For Treasury Secretary
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Silent On Jack Lew's Cayman Islands Investments
Obama Called Cayman Island Investments 'The Biggest Tax Scam On Record' (Below)
Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary nominee, previously held up to $100,000 in investments in an offshore hedge fund located in the Cayman Islands, according to financial disclosure forms. Lew's financial disclosure forms, filed in 2009 and 2011, showed that Lew had invested between $50,000 and $100,000 in a fund called Citigroup Venture Capital International Growth Partnership (Employee) II, L.P. — the very type of fund President Obama has repeatedly criticized.
The fund is an international venture capital fund for employees of Citigroup. According to his official White House biography, Lew served as managing director and chief operating officer of Citi Global Wealth Management and then Citi Alternative Investments (CAI) from 2006 to 2008. Lew himself isn't commenting, but a person familiar with Lew's investment told NBC News that Lew invested a total of $56,000 and sold it at a loss for $54,418 in November 2010 after being confirmed as director of the federal Office of Management and Budget.


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March 7, 2010
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Senior Sarah Berger put Villanova ahead with an early goal and the Wildcats went on to a 21-8 victory over the LIU Blackbirds in a women's lacrosse contest played on a sunny afternoon here. Villanova improved to 4-0, its best start in this decade, while LIU dropped to 0-3.
Berger's goal opened the scoring 1:12 into the contest and was followed quickly by a goal from junior Carly Miller. After LIU got on the scoreboard with a goal of its own off the stick of Annie Kalata, VU responded with goals from freshman Maria Bowman and sophomore Tricia Shanagan, who was assisted by Anne Fallon. The count was 4-1. Then came goals from sophomore Justine Donodeo and seniors Erica Rybinski and Samantha McKillip to extend the advantage to 7-1 with 18:38 to go in the first half.
After LIU scored to make it 7-2, the `Cats got goals from Rachel Lasda and Donodeo to make it 9-2. Bowman and Miller would score before halftime and Villanova held an 11-4 lead at halftime.
Any thoughts of an LIU comeback were halted when Donodeo scored her 18th goal of the season one minute into the second half. Villanova then pulled away for the 21-8 victory.
Donodeo scored four goals to push her season total to 19 while Rybinski tallied three. Thirteen different Wildcats scored a point in this contest.
Junior Maggie Langan made four saves and earned the victory in net. Senior Cassie Eure finished up in goal.
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Bulls to open WNIT at Fla. Gulf Coast
USF's women's basketball team, which won three of its last four games to clinch a winning record at 16-15, has earned a berth in the Women's NIT, the Bulls' fifth straight year playing in the postseason. USF will open the tournament Friday in Fort Myers at Florida Gulf Coast, which went 21-8 in a transition year to Division I.
"I'm just pleased for our kids, for the season to continue, especially when we have all those kids coming back," USF coach Jose Fernandez said Monday night. "There are a lot of teams across the country that would love to be playing right now. It puts another banner up in the rafters."
The winner of Friday's game will play Monday against Florida, which earned a first-round bye after being passed over for the NCAA Tournament.
It's USF's fourth trip to the WNIT in five years, along with an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006. FGCU only played three opponents ranked in the RPI top 100 and lost all three, including games against Florida (78-52) and Florida State (93-53). No date has been set, though the game will be Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.


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Jovanovic reaches Liverpool agreement
Highly-rated Serbia international Milan Jovanovic has revealed that he will join Liverpool on a free transfer this summer, after his contract at Standard Liege expires
Jovanovic has found himself courted by a number of clubs after impressing for Belgian outfit Standard Liege and Rafael Benitez has moved to bolster his attacking options after missing out on Moroccan Marouane Chamakh.
The striker, who scored two goals in this season's Champions League group stage, admitted his delight at sealing a move -subject to a medical - to the Premier League side.
"We have reached an agreement for three years, with the option to extend with another season,'' the player told Belgian newspaper Sporza.
"I have yet to undergo a medical exam, but that shouldn't be a problem. I don't have any physical problems and I'm feeling perfectly fit. I opted to sign for Liverpool because they're one of the biggest teams around in Europe.
"They're definitely among the 10 biggest sides. I'm absolutely delighted that the deal is completed. From now on, I can focus on Standard Liege again. I want to leave the club in a good way.''
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Amoeba Music and Phil Blankenship are proud to present some of our film favorites at Los Angeles' last full-time revival movie theater. See movies the way they're meant to be seen - on the big screen and with an audience!
Saturday April 25
For everyone on the outside looking in... your moment has arrived!
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Good Morning, I know there are a couple of you here with gastroparesis, and I'm sorry I can't remember exactly who you are (stupid fog) anyway I'd like to ask if any of you have used Botox as a treatment and how did it work for you. I know i've heard it should be repeated every 6 months but my new GI dr. who I love by the way says he does it yearly and it has good results. Im really scared as I have to come off my coumadine and be sedated but its been really acting up lately although I've gained weight instead of loosing. I don't understand that but do blame it on my meds.
Hopefully some of you will reply, have a great one!
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text: Bankruptcy: 'Pension tsunami' August 1, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Washington Examiner included Charleston in a report titled "Nine cities that could soon follow Detroit into bankruptcy." The reason:"Charleston has the worst-funded pension system of any major city in the United States, with only 24 percent of the necessary funds to cover more than $337 million in pension debt."It added: "Charleston won't be able to look to the state for help. West Virginia is dealing with its own pension crisis -- only Illinois has a lower funded ratio of its state pension plans."Mayor Danny Jones scoffed at the Examiner analysis, saying Charleston slowly is securing funds to cover future shortfalls in pensions for police, firefighters, City Hall workers and others.This skirmish spotlights a dilemma facing thousands of local governments across America.Politicians love to grant government benefits to large groups of voters (gaining future election victories for the politicians) -- but they hate to raise taxes to pay for those benefits (which can bring future election defeats). That's why many government pension and medical care plans are overpromised and underfunded.When Detroit sank into America's worst municipal bankruptcy, part of the blame fell on posh municipal pensions and medical insurance, and the lack of reserves to cover them. Numerous U.S. states, counties, school districts and cities -- with 19 million total employees -- are in the same boat. "Today, public pension debt stands at an alarming $4.4 trillion, with outstanding state and local municipal debt at nearly $3 trillion," a U.S. Senate report said last month.Nobody knows yet whether Detroit will be forced to slash pensions and health care for thousands of retirees left in limbo by this crisis. Nobody knows yet how many other U.S. cities might follow Detroit's demise. The looming menace is so huge that one website is titled "Pension Tsunami."One problem is that Americans keep living longer -- so they collect pensions for more years and run up astronomical geriatric medical bills."As the baby-boom generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) retires, fewer workers must support more pensioners," The Economist observed. "New York City now has more retired policemen than working ones, and spends more on cops' pensions than on cops' wages."Many private corporations have addressed this dilemma by switching to "defined contribution" pensions, in which employees pay into 401(k)-style investment plans and collect stock market earnings when they retire. But most governments still provide old-style "defined benefit" plans that guarantee public employees fixed pensions -- usually more lucrative ones.Despite the Washington Examiner report, West Virginia has taken bold steps to cure its underfunding nightmare. Wise leaders sensibly used state surpluses to shore up set-aside funds.When Joe Manchin became governor in 2005, he and legislative leaders such as then-Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin faced a more-than $10 billion shortfall in teacher pensions, public employee pensions, judge pensions, trooper pensions, plus workers' compensation debt. They privatized workers' comp and funneled large surpluses into the skimpy pension reserves. Hurrah. Today, West Virginia is more solvent than many other states.Meanwhile, the pension tsunami is deluging various parts of America. The number of looming Detroits can't be predicted. We hope Mayor Jones is correct in declaring that Charleston won't be among them. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent 3 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 4 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says 5 WVU hopes to get injured defenders back for TCU Frank E. Grant, Ph.D: On homosexuality, change hate to love Previous Story Shift: Gas up, coal down Next Story


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Car Electronics
Car Electronics Questions? Ask an Electronics Expert for Answers ASAP
Here are the Car Stereo wire colors and designations for your 1995 626::
i need to know what wire colors conect together to hook my pioneer stereo up from the stereo to the car i don't know what colors go together to hook my stereo up
Here are the Car Stereo wire colors:
Match up what I told you above with these colors here.
Read the responses please. I have outlined EACH and every wire you need to interface on the 626, as well as all of the wires on the Pioneer Radio.
Go down the charts from top to bottom and fine the wire designations. For example: top chart: 12 V Constant BLUE/RED on 626 wiring. Lower chart" 12V constant is Yellow. Just go through them one at a time matching what each chart says to the wire label. The top chart is your car's wiring, and the lower chart is your radio's wiring.


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Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Officer Issues Warning
Against a Synthetic Drug called "Bath Salts"
Drug can lead to kidney failure, seizures, and other potentially deadly effects
The Los Angeles County Health Officer is issuing a warning against the use of "bath salts," a synthetic drug that can cause severe side effects such as kidney and liver failure, seizures, increased suicide risk, and even death. The drug has been gaining popularity in recent years, leading to increased reports of violence and other harm.
"Bath salts are particularly dangerous in that not much is known about what goes into the drug and even less is known about what people are capable of while on this drug.
We do know that there are harmful risks to users, and there is an increased potential for others to be harmed if someone near them is high on this drug," said Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, Director of Public Health and Health Officer. "All illicit drug use should be avoided."
Other side effects of "bath salts" use include sweating, chest pain, rapid heart rate, hallucinations, violent behavior, and mental illness. Symptoms of "bath salts" abuse can include lack of appetite, decreased need for sleep, self-mutilation, and severe paranoia.
"Bath salts" is not the same product as the cosmetic, bath-related product sold online, or in bath, beauty, or drug stores, and should not be confused. The bath-related product is safe to use as directed on packaging, however it is not safe to consume any product labeled as "bath salts."
The drug has several street names in addition to "bath salts," including White Lightening, White Rush, and Hurricane Charlie, among other names. It is often sold in tobacco or smoke shops, may be packaged in small plastic bags, canisters, or jars, and may be labeled as "plant food" or "pond water cleaner." The drug should not be consumed, used as plant food, or used to clean pond water.
For more information about "bath salts", please visit the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration fact sheet at
or the Partnership for a Drug Free America website at
For information on drug abuse prevention and treatment, visit the Public Health Substance Abuse Prevention and Control page at
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Brief History
This famed jazz composer and pianist was a child prodigy who attended Lincoln School from 1919 to 1923. Ms. Williams played for Andy Kirk in the 1930s, then arranged music for Duke Ellington and others. Her major works include "Zodiac Suite" and "Mary Lou's Mass."
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The odd fit between Tyler Dorsey and the Arizona Wildcats is no longer a factor.
Dorsey announced today he has decommitted from the Wildcats, saying "I rushed my college choice and did not provide myself with the greatest opportunity to explore and thoroughly investigate all my possible college options."
The big problem appeared to be that Dorsey wanted to play point guard and he wasn't going to do that at Arizona. So speculation built in recent weeks that he might decommit and the Wildcats' sudden offer to guard Allonzo Trier last week appeared to be a final message.
It was also interesting that Trier made the cut to 15 at the USA Basketball's U18 trials, while Dorsey did not, and Miller is an assistant coach for that team (though the roster decisions were made by both the team coaches and a committee of coaches).
Dorsey sent out the email to some media though not the Star. However, his father did confirm via text message that Tyler decommitted.
CBS has the version of Dorsey's email statement listed here.
Dorsey's commitment was something of a surprise in January, coming late at night when the Wildcats were in town to play UCLA and USC.
His decommitment leaves just Justin Simon left in the class of 2015 so far, though the Wildcats are pursuing both Trier and Isaiah Briscoe at guard as well as a number of forwards and centers.
UA coach Sean Miller said this week it is likely he will sign four high school players in November, then possibly add one as next season goes on.
ICYMI, our coverage of Arizona connections at the U18 trials this week also included:
-- A feature on Stanley Johnson, who is likely to be one of the standouts in the FIBA Americas U18 tournament next week.
-- A look at how USA Basketball is trying to keep continuity in its program with guys such as Johnson.
-- A feature on Trier and his long road under the spotlight.
USA Basketball has a feature on Miller.
Here's more on the Aaron-Gordon-free-throw-issue, and a CSNPhilly.com breakdown of his game.
Draft Express now has Gordon going 10th to Philadelphia and Nick Johnson going 53rd to Minnesota.
CBS's Matt Norlander has an offseason look at the Pac-12.


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(SOCHI, Russia) — Germany won the first ever Olympic luge team relay, beating Russia by 1.03 seconds.
The new competition involved sending a single female, a single male and a doubles pair down the 16-curve track one after another. As soon as one team member finished the course, he or she would reach up and slap a touch pad to open the gate for the next team member to fly down the track.
The German team did it in 2 minutes and 45.649 seconds.
Germany's team was a favorite to win the relay. The country's Natalie Geisenberger and Felix Loch both won gold in their singles luge competitions earlier this week. German luge doubles team Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won gold in their event as well.
The U.S. luge relay team placed sixth in the competition.
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The provincially-created Northern think-tank has released a Ring of Fire report suggesting that the creation of a port authority is the most prudent way to gain overland access to the mineral-rich James Bay lowlands.
The Northern Policy Institute released a report, July 17, authored by former deputy minister of Transport Canada, Nick Mulder, who proposes an authority model similar to ones established for federal ports and airports.
He said this would be a "more effective model in the Ring of Fire infrastructure development than a traditional Crown Corporation model."
Mulder is a senior associate and lobbyist with Global Public Affairs in Ottawa.
How mineral development in the Far North region will come together, who will pay for the infrastructure, and how it will be planned, managed and executed has yet to be determined.
Without funding support from Ottawa, the Wynne government is prepared to spend $1 billion on infrastructure to access the remote mining region by land.
The province created a Ring of Fire development corporation last November, but contracted out the determination of its governance structure and makeup to Deloitte Canada. A report from the consultants is expected sometime soon.
Mulder said the port authority model would spread the among the broad spectrum of stakeholders given so many uncertainties associated with the exploration camps including the Ontario government's extreme deficit and debt situation.
"Under a Crown corporation model, the responsibility would be on the shoulders of the Province," said Mulder. "The provincial government would be expected to review and approve plans on all major projects, fund the largest portions of the costs and accept most of the risks. Simply put, the buck would stop at Queen's Park.
"This alternative model would involve creating an independent, representative and arm's length statutory Ring of Fire Infrastructure Authority," said Mulder. "All parties would have formal representation on the board and the board, not government, would plan and procure facilities and services for road, rail, power and air, while sharing costs and risks with the private sector."
To read the full report, go online at www.northernpolicy.ca.


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ECAC Makes Changes
by Avash Kalra/Staff Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. In 2004, when the ECAC became, for all intents and purposes, an independent hockey league distinct from the main ECAC office in Massachusetts, the hockey conference became officially known as the "ECACHL" — the ECAC Hockey League.
Now, as announced by league commissioner Steve Hagwell on Saturday afternoon, the "ECACHL" is dropping the cumbersome addition to its name and going back to ECAC Hockey, while, at the same time, further distancing itself from the overall ECAC by undergoing a facelift.
In 2000, the ECAC began using its current logo, with the familiar red ellipse encircling the ECAC text. Then, when the league separated itself as a distinct entity in 2004, CHN suggested 10 things to make the "ECACHL" truly new and improved. By 2005, only a year later, nine of those 10 suggestions had already been fulfilled.
The only suggestion that remained? The need for a new logo.
Well now, the ECAC is a perfect 10-for-10. Hagwell unveiled a new logo for the league, to be effective starting next season. The league will also revamp its web site, starting next season.
Said Hagwell, "[The logo] has been in the process for 12 to 18 months or so, when this league decided to separate from the ECAC on the Cape and do its own business and set up office here in Albany. Part of that development was that we had to change our logo and go from ECAC Hockey to the ECAC Hockey League."
But now they're back to ECAC Hockey, as shown in the new design, which perhaps can best be described as strong, bold, and confident.
"It modernizes it," said ECAC assistant commissioner Laura Stange. "We wanted to modernize the look, but we didn't want it to be cheesy. We didn't want it to be trendy. We wanted it to be something that down the road could still be useable and viable for us."
One thing the ECAC didn't change was the venue for its postseason tournament. Now in the second year of a three-year deal with the Times Union Center in Albany, the league extended that deal two years, through 2010.
Meanwhile, the colors remain the familiar red and blue, keeping with the league's tradition while at the same time heading in a new direction.
"We felt that the colors were familiar with our institutions," said Stange. "People saw the red and blue and they knew it was ECAC. We just richened them and made them deeper colors. And we stuck with a traditional, strong collegiate font."
Part of CHN's original suggestions two years ago was for the league to maximize its resources when making decisions, including the one to go to a new logo design.
And the league has done just that, receiving input from a variety of sources, from the administrative level to the student level.
Explained Stange, "First, we worked with the administrators and then we broke it up, going with a couple [Sports Information Directors], a marketing person, and a graphic design artist within our own school system. In the end, for direct hands-on input, we had eight people from eight different schools."
Now, with the new logo revealed, the ECAC will look to gain even more exposure in coming seasons. This year, although the league championship game is televised on CSTV, neither semifinal game was available on television, and the ECAC has tended to lag behind other major college hockey conferences in terms of television exposure.
"From a league standpoint, we want as much exposure as we can," said Hagwell. "We certainly want our semifinal games and our championship game to be televised at the very least. We ran into a situation this year where the women's Frozen Four took place yesterday, and CSTV is locked in to that. So they were boxed out from doing our semifinals."
Added Stange, "We talk to the major [networks]. We talk to ESPNU, to CSTV. They're looking for games, we're willing to give them games, and it's negotiating between those parties as far as what dates they have available, what they're looking for, what demographic or regions they're trying to reach.
"It's become more competitive, with ESPNU coming onto the front. And with CBS buying CSTV, that changed that dynamic in their standards and priorities a little bit too. Television needs money to function, and we try to do what we feel is best for us financially and what's best for our teams as far as getting them exposure."


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CAR park charges for blue badge holders in Monmouthshire council car parks moved a step closer yesterday after councillors voted in favour of the contentious measure.
But officers will seek to find whether exemptions could be implemented for people in financial hardship.
The deputy leader of the council, Cllr Phil Hobson, told the economy and development select committee: "It's something that we have struggled with and consulted widely about and we (propose charges) with a heavy heart."
He said charging blue badge holders in the council's car parks now would be unfair because "standards aren't up to scratch". But he said improvements that will be made to the car parks, and updating all their ticket machines, would justify charging.
The secretary of Monmouthshire's Cair group, Jenny Barnes, opposed the charges and said: "To charge (disabled people for parking) is against the MCC's stated beliefs."
Cllr Susan White, who called the plans "wrong and immoral", opposed the measure. Cllr Kevin Williams also voted against the proposal.
The committee also recommended that any plan to cede control of its car parks in Usk to the town council will be completed within nine months, much shorter than the original expected date of January 2016.
Usk's mayor, Cllr Roger Gellatley, said if any plan to give control to the town council failed, the townspeople would oppose any introduction of car park charges with "every fibre of our being".
A plan for a possible flat rate of £1 in all county council car parks was rejected in a move the council's head of operation Roger Hoggins said could cost the authority £25,000 in revenue. And he said the recommended measure for Chepstow for one hour's free parking would look to combat competition from Newport and Bristol.
Other plans for increased charges were passed. If accepted by the authority's cabinet, charges would increase by 20p for each hour.
A stay of up to two hours in short-stay and long-stay car parks across the county would be £1, £1.50 for up to three hours, and £2 for up to four hours. The charges are currently 80p, £1.30 and £1.80 respectively.


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DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE #3 (of 4)
Written by MATT KINDT
Art by TREVOR HAIRSINE
Cover A by JELENA KEVIC-DJURDJEVIC
Cover B by TOM MULLER
Variant Cover by JEFFREY VEREGGE
Variant Cover by GREG SMALLWOOD
Variant Cover by ADAM GORHAM
Red rebellion!
Across continents, the world bows to the oppressive and ruthless might of the global Russian regime. Former Russian intelligence officer Colin King, however, knows that this reality is not his own. With the truth on his side, Colin King is about to mount a resistance with aid of the worlds most feared undesirables and release the classified asset known as Abram Adams from a prison guarded by the CCCPs greatest super powers. But when Myshka the divinely powered enforcer of the Soviet Union comes to crush their uprising, will the man once known as Ninjak live long enough to discover the sinister reason that the Stalinverse came to be?
The truth behind Valiants shocking new reality will finally be revealed as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (NINJAK) and blockbuster artist Trevor Hairsine (DIVINITY II) pull back the iron curtain and reveal the insidious mastermind who will stop at nothing to preserve this twisted world order!
$3.99 | 32 pgs. | VALIANT PRESTIGE | T+ | On Sale FEBRUARY 22
Written by SCOTT BRYAN WILSONArt by ROBERT GILL
Cover A by CLAYTON CRAIN
Cover B by MARCO RUDY
Cover C by DIEGO BERNARD
Character Design Variant by TREVOR HAIRSINE
Variant Cover by KANO
Welcome to the world of today. Welcome to the Stalinverse! The visionary, event-level epic of the winter continues here in an all-new, all-star special introducing the secret weapon of the Soviet Union: Shadowman, agent of the USSR!
To save the devastated and oppressed island of New York, Jack Boniface might just have to annihilate it first by leading an army of Deadside-spawned monstrosities onto the streets to fight the Soviets super-powered shock troops wherever they stand. But freedom fighters like the one they call Shadowman seldom get the happy ending they deserve
Out of the pages of DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE, discover the haunting origin of Amerikas last resistance when magic clashes with military might in a must-read tale of the Valiant Universe as we now know it from red-hot new talent Scott Bryan Wilson (Batman Annual) and acclaimed artist Robert Gill (BOOK OF DEATH)!
$3.99 | 32 pgs. | ONE-SHOT | T+ | On Sale FEBRUARY 8
Written by RAFER ROBERTS
Art by DARICK ROBERTSON with JUAN JOSÉ RYP
Cover A by DARICK ROBERTSON
Cover B by DAVE JOHNSON
Cover C by MONIKA PALOSZ
Variant Cover by DAVID LAFUENTE
Variant Cover by CRYSSY CHEUNG
Variant Cover by JIM MAHFOOD
Faith Herbert, the heart and soul of the Harbinger Renegades, has been captured! Now, Peter Stanchek, Kris Hathaway, and John Torkelson must put their powers to practice and rescue their beloved ally from a radicalized group of psiots bent on fraying the fabric of society. But as the rechristened Renegades make their move, their newfound rivals strike first by making Peter an offer he cant refuse. As the clock ticks closer to tragedy, will the omega-level harbinger make a do-or-die decision to save his friends or himself?
Valiants latest smash-hit series fires back onto the frontline as multiple Harvey Award nominee Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm) and superstar artist Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, The Boys) present the final moment of truth!
$3.99 | 32 pgs. | T+ | On sale FEBRUARY 22
Written by MATT KINDT
Art by MARC LAMING
Cover A by RYAN BODENHEIM
Cover B by BEN OLIVER
Cover C by FELIPE MASSAFERA
Variant Cover by BILQUIS EVELY
Variant Cover by BEN TEMPLESMITH
At the mercy of Sandria Darque!
As Master Darque fights to return to the land of the living, his former disciple the deadly assassin Roku will build an army to put him down for good. But not even the Shadow Seven the underworlds deadliest cabal of murderers and mercenaries will be enough to assure victory. To truly defeat an undead lord of death and resurrection, shell need the complete and unquestioning allegiance of Ninjak who isnt interested. But when Darques long-missing sister Sandria returns with a gambit that could reveal his greatest weakness, an unholy alliance of light and darkness will be forged that could upset the balance of good and evil once and for all time
THE SEVEN BLADES OF MASTER DARQUE strikes again as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and acclaimed artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) bring the biggest Ninjak story ever to a dark and terrible boiling point and reveal the ultimate secret behind his greatest foes!
$3.99 | 32 pgs. | T+ | On sale FEBRUARY 8
Written by JODY HOUSER
Art by PERE PÉREZ with MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by PHILIP TAN
Cover C by DAVID LAFUENTE
Variant Cover by JENN ST-ONGE
Variant Cover by COLLEEN COOVER
Pain from the past!
From Hollywoods darkest shadows, an old enemy rises to extract revenge on Faith! A superheros work is never done and, now, one of Faiths former adversaries has returned for a fateful rematch that will put the life of Los Angeles greatest hero into a tailspin. And when this familiar assailant finally shows their true face, will the high flying psiot have the strength to put them down for good?
Ready your spoiler alerts because rising star rising star Jody Houser (Mother Panic) and acclaimed artists Meghan Hetrick (Red Thorn) and Marguerite Sauvage (DC Comics Bombshells) are going to pull the curtain on Faiths most shocking adventure yet with the surprise moment of the year!
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Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by DIEGO BERNARD
Cover A by JUAN JOSÉ RYP
Cover B by PHILIP TAN
Variant Cover by RYAN LEE
Animalia enters the HEROSCAPE!
Tap into the uncharted plane of reality called the Heroscape and you can see the world through anyone elses eyes and find out how their reality is governed by their own inspirations! Now, as a mysterious force preys upon Rooks citizens, Animalia must enter the Heroscape and experience a world filtered through her own twisted imagination! But as Generation Zeros most militant adolescent wunderkind enters a world populated by colorful monstrosities of her own design, Animalia must lock horns literally with demons both outward and within!
HEROSCAPE travels to the darkest corners of the mind right here as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and acclaimed artist Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) transform Generation Zeros deepest desires into their darkest nightmares!
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SAVAGE #4 (of 4)
Written by B. CLAY MOORE
Art by CLAYTON HENRY & LEWIS LAROSA
Cover A by LEWIS LAROSA
Cover B by JARED FLETCHER
Character Design Variant by LEWIS LAROSA
Variant Cover by MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
B&W Sketch Variant by LEWIS LAROSA
Out of the jungle, into the fight
When all hope seems lost, the final threads tethering the Sauvage family to their humanity will finally be severed. Just as the beasts within begin to take hold, the final revelation about the prehistoric island that has claimed them will finally stand revealed. But will this twist of fate offer a last chance at rescue or forever seal their doom?
The past and present collide as Valiants next great hero rises in a baptism of bloodshed! Be there as acclaimed writer B. Clay Moore (Hawaiian Dick) and explosive artists Clayton Henry (HARBINGER WARS) and Lewis LaRosa (BLOODSHOT REBORN) bring their primal origin story to a close!
$3.99 | 32 pgs. | VALIANT PRESTIGE | T+ | On Sale FEBRUARY 15
Written by RAFER ROBERTS
Art by MIKE NORTON with RYAN LEE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by BRENT PEEPLES
Variant Cover by BROOKE ALLEN
The final smackdown!
Archer and Armstrongs cross-country travels through the weird, the wild, and the downright wrong have all come down to this: One final showdown with their greatest enemies! As Ivan the Soviet scientist bear and his army of Florida Men unite with the One Percent to unleash the ultimate death trap, the Valiant Universes premier adventure duo are gonna need all the help they can get!
Who will live? Who will die? Will Gub Gub ever find true love? These answers and more will stand revealed as multiple Harvey Award-nominated writer Rafer Roberts (HARBINGER RENEGADE) and Eisner Award-winning artist Mike Norton (Revival) bring Valiants critically acclaimed series to a whirlwind finale that will leave no man or mackerel behind!
FINAL ISSUE | $3.99 | 32 pgs. | T+ | On Sale FEBRUARY 1
Written by PETER MILLIGAN
Art by JUAN JOSE RYP with RAUL ALLEN
Cover by CARY NORD
On the fringes of civilization, the worlds first detective is about to make an unholy discovery
Ruled by the Fates. Manipulated by the Gods. Commanded by Caesar. In the year 65 A.D., ones destiny was not his own. At the height of Neros reign, a veteran of Romes imperial war machine has been dispatched to the farthest reaches of the colonies to investigate unnatural happenings In the remote outpost of Britannia, Antonius Axia the First Detective will become Romes only hope to reassert control over the empires most barbaric frontier and keep the monsters that bridge the line between myth and mystery at bay
From comics mastermind Peter Milligan (X-Statix, Shade the Changing Man) and incendiary artist Juan Jose Ryp (NINJAK, Clone) comes a psychological journey into terror, temptation, and bloodshed in Valiants latest magnum opus.
Collecting BRITANNIA #1-4
$9.99 | 115 pgs. | T+ | On Sale FEBRUARY 15
Written by MATT KINDT
Art by KHARI EVANS with ANDRÉS GUINALDO
Cover by DIEGO LATORRE
The Fist & The Steel fight onward!
Many years from now, Earths immortal master of war and the worlds deadliest intelligence operative fight side-by-side. As was foretold in the BOOK OF DEATH, an aging Ninjak and Eternal Warrior are fated to spend their days as humanitys guardians, protecting it from the myriad threats that loom over the horizon of Earths future. But when the ultimate menace rises to obliterate all traces of life, can Colin King and Gilad Anni-Padda Ninjak and the Eternal Warrior cement their status as the Valiant Universes greatest heroic duo or will their legacy go up in flames?
Plus: Back in the present, the unthinkable has happened to Ninjak and his fellow MI-6 agents that survived the horrors of the Deadside! Infected with an aggressive and lethal cancer from his exposure to a noxious parallel dimension, Ninjak must race against the clock for a cure before he makes a permanent trip to the realm of the dead!
Jump on board the steel-shattering adventures of Valiants number-one super-spy here as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (4001 A.D.) and explosive artists Khari Evans (IMPERIUM) and Andrés Guinaldo (Justice League Dark) read from the BOOK OF DEATH and bring the full weight of the future crashing down on Ninjak and the Eternal Warrior!
Collecting NINJAK #1821.
$14.99 | 144 pgs. | T+ | On sale FEBRUARY 8
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
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There was a time when the object of driving games was just to cross the finish line first. Some of those games still sell well. But many of the most interesting new driving games are testosterone-heavy shoot-'em ups inspired, apparently, by road rage.
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Rollcage, as the name implies, is a race car that can flip over with no damage. In fact, the car appears to be indestructible and can defy gravity. It can drive along walls and zip upside down on tunnel roofs without falling, all the while blasting away with its mounted weapons. The guns and rockets are used only to impede the other drivers, since their cars are equally indestructible. You can slow them down with homing missiles and ''electronic ice'' and teleport them behind you if you hit one with the wormhole weapon.
You can also just slow opponents down by putting obstacles in their way. But the obstacles are collapsing buildings that you bring down in front or on top of them with well-placed missiles. Other obstacles include chunks of road blown away with eye-popping fireballs and boulders that can be blasted from the side of mountains. And then there is the old-fashioned method of simply running them off the road.Continue reading the main story
The game play is straightforward. You become one of seven drivers (choosing from an ethnically diverse group of men and women) and pick a racing environment. I say environment because your options extend far beyond simply choosing a racetrack. You can race in a city, by the shore, through the mountains and even on the desolate terrain of Mars, with its lighter gravity. Each of those four venues has four tracks, giving you 16 options. As a bonus, four extra tracks are added randomly to the mix.
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President Obama's budget document includes tax hikes for the richest among us to go with the tax increases resulting from the implementation of the Chained CPI. Obama claims that this is the bipartisan, reasonable solution to whatever budget problem he is worried about. P. 36. He admits that if he doesn't raise taxes, he is endangering Social Security and Medicare, but he deliberately hides the real connection between Social Security and Medicare and the absurdly low taxes on the rich.
The whole point of increase in FICA in 1983 was to conceal the impact on the budget of the Reagan tax cuts for the rich. It worked perfectly. The Democratic-controlled congress increased the regressive FICA tax and cut the progressive income tax on the feral rich. At the time, the grandfatherly Reagan assured his children that the FICA increase would insure that Social Security would be here when we were old and sick, and the money flowing to the rich would trickle down to benefit all of us. Now that the bill has come due, and it turns out the oligarchs don't like this end of the deal. President Obama agrees. He thinks old people should live badly, and in some kind of incomprehensible balance, the leech class will pay a few dollars more, at least until their lobbyists and legislators can get things back to normal. Ronald Reagan would be so sad.
Obama proposes that millionaires have to pay at least 30% of their income in taxes, and people in the highest brackets can't use deductions to reduce their tax rate below 28%. P. 36. These two changes produce $53.4 and $528.3 billion respectively over the 10 years covered by the budget. P. 201. That $582 billion dwarfs the savings from cutting Social Security, which President Bipartisan estimates at $130 billion.
Here's my idea. Let's make it so that no millionaire pays less than 31%, and no one can reduce their tax rate below 29%. Then we'll direct that money into the Social Security Trust Fund. Problem solved, and correctly, because with my plan the rich pay for their tax cuts, and the Middle Class doesn't have to eat catfood. Ronald Reagan would be proud of President Obama. And it's so bipartisan it just sends my animal spirits soaring.
Well. Now that I've fixed Social Security, lets look at Medicare with fresh eyes. President Bipartisan budgets an increase in Medicare premiums on a huge but undefined number of Medicare beneficiaries, charges a co-pay for home health care, increases deductibles on Part B, and charges a premium on people who buy near first dollar medigap coverage, all beginning in 2017. That medigap thing is to stop the olds from going to the doctor for funsies. He predicts these will raise about $57 billion over 10 years. So we need to raise $57 billion from someone to make up for whatever balance Obama in his infinite wisdom has settled upon as your fair share of the misery.
Let's take a look at Tenet Healthcare Corporation. According to its most recent annual report to the SEC on Form 10-K, it had net income of $334 million. What did it pay in taxes? Nothing. P. 29. And they don't plan to pay income taxes for the foreseeable future. See Note 16 at 116, where we learn that Tenet has about $1.5 billion in Net Operating Loss Carryforwards expiring over the next 12 years. At current rates of profitability, we won't see a dime out of these toads.
So, let's take rich human persons as a model for rich corporate persons, and install the rules suggested by Obama: your deductions cannot reduce your income tax rate below let's say 10% of your profits as reported to the SEC, and every corporation that has more than $1 billion in profits as reported to the SEC must pay a minimum tax rate of 15%. Problem solved. Why bother changing the stupid income tax code? Let the corporate wealth defense industry (H/T Jeffrey Winters) play its merry games. At the end, we just grab the 10-K and do some fifth grade arithmetic to calculate the income tax of corporate persons.
See how easy this stuff is? But apparently it's just too hard for the political clownshow and their champions in the media, the think tanks and veal-pen organizations that supposedly represent the average citizen, and our economic theory elites at Florida Gulf Coast University, the University of Chicago and the rest.
President Bipartisan thinks he can lead us all to drink from the fountain of wisdom he found between the Crazy Party and the Spineless Party, that gap so beloved of the pundit class. He can't see beyond that tiny window to a land of political possibility that doesn't involve protecting the oligarchs from any potential loss to their wealth and power. That too would make Ronald Reagan so proud.