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By RONNIE ELLIS
It was almost surreal.
The Kentucky General Assembly, divided between chambers along party lines, overwhelmingly passed a $20-billion, new two-year budget not only on time but with almost no debate.
In past years it wasn't unusual for budget negotiations to go down to midnight on April 15 with one side or the other threatening to go home without a budget in an attempt to bully the other chamber into accepting is version.
Not this time.
House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook, said it was the earliest he could remember completing work on the final legislative day of a legislative session.
Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, said the Senate would still like to receive the budget from the House sooner – but all in all, "it was a good process."
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, called the work of negotiators over the weekend on a budget compromise "democracy in action."
Perhaps it's a new attitude or perhaps it's the severe fiscal constraints, or just maybe lawmakers of both parties want to show voters they can get things done in an election year.
"I want to do something I haven't often done," Stumbo said in a floor speech. "I want to compliment the Senate.
"The gridlock that has gripped both parties in Washington didn't come to Kentucky," Stumbo said. Compromise and negotiation worked – "It was democracy in its purest form."
Two Democratic Senators criticized specific aspects of the bill but both voted for it. Sen. Walter Blevins, D-Morehead, is displeased that new student fees on the Kentucky Community and Technical College campus must be spent on the campus on which they're collected rather than being pooled throughout the system.
KCTCS' top construction priority in previous budgets was to a new building near the Rowan County Industrial Park. There aren't enough students at Gateway to generate the necessary funding for the new building, Blevins said.
"It's really going to put a hold on progress in eastern Kentucky, especially in Rowan County," Blevins said. But like Lexington Democrat Reggie Thomas who isn't happy funding wasn't provided for renovation of Rupp Arena, Blevins said there is enough good in the budget that he voted for it.
The budget increases funding for elementary and secondary education by $189 million bringing support to its highest level since passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990. But it still lags behind what educators want because funding was frozen for five years while enrollment increased.
Teachers and school employees will receive a required 1 percent raise in the first year and a 2 percent raise in the second. Districts will be allowed to use some funds from such restricted accounts as textbooks and afterschool programs to keep the salary increases within their resources.
State employees will receive tiered pay raises – 5 percent at the lowest paid positions; 3 percent in mid-range salaries; and 1 percent at the top – in the first year and they'll all receive a 1 percent increase in the second year. The budget makes the full payment to state employees' retirement fund.
The budget will continue pre-school enrollment at current levels in the first year but increase that from $73 million in the first year to $91 million in the second.
Higher education funding is cut 1.5 percent in the first year and flat-lined in the second at both four-year and KCTCS institutions. But each university will get one capital project from General Fund bonding and one to be financed with its own revenues. KCTCS campuses each get one project – if they can fund it with the fees collected on its campus.
The budget also splits the difference on new debt. The House budget would incur debt at a level of 7.05 percent of revenues while the Senate would have held that to 6.25 percent. The compromise puts it at 6.7 percent.
The budget contains language restricting the governor or constitutional officers from spending more than 55 percent of 2016 appropriations during the first half of that year. That's to prevent outgoing officers from leaving the cupboard bare when their successors or replacements are elected.
Here are some other highlights:
• $2.3 million for a new dual credit, in-residence high school at Morehead State University;
• $100,000 for domestic abuse early intervention services in Madison County;
• $14.6 million for local health departments' increased contributions to employee retirement;
• $15.9 million in additional funding each year for local Property Valuation Administrators;
• $38 million in year one to fund at 100 percent of the federal poverty line child care assistance for working poor parents and – $58 million in the second year to cover families making up to 160 percent of the poverty guideline;
• $1.4 million in new equalization funds in year one, $1.5 million in the second for 10 school districts which have enacted an extra 5 cents property tax for building funds;
• $840,000 for Kentucky State Police to hire back 15 of 25 Trooper R's, retired but experienced troopers who work on an annual contract and require no training;
• $420,000 in the first year and $850,000 in the second so that the Department of Public Advocacy can hire 15 social workers for diversion of drug and first-time offenders.
Rank and file lawmakers will return Monday, April 14, to consider overriding any vetoes by Gov. Steve Beshear.
Legislative leaders will continue to try to negotiate a compromise on a two-year road plan which still hasn't been passed. But both Stumbo and Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, said the road bill won't contain an increase in the gas tax.
That means about $107 million less for the road fund each year, 40 percent of which goes back to local governments.
Ronnie Ellis writes for CNHI News Service and is based in Frankfort. Reach him at email@example.com. Follow CNHI News Service stories on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ cnhifrankfort.
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Well, I guess if the object of this was to strip the film of any sense of mood or menace, they did an admirable job.
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At the other extreme is the Italian poster that showed a woman's legs hanging over the edge of a pool table, with blood running down one of them. Turns out the image was taken from a scene that wasn't in the final cut of the movie. I think some stills of the scene were included on the Blue Velvet DVD, but no footage.
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MONAVILLE — Murl Adkins, 79, of Monaville, passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013.
Services will be 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at Honaker Funeral Home in Logan, with Pastor John E. Godby officiating. Burial will follow at Highland Memory Gardens. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at the funeral home.
For e-mail condolences go to www.honakerfuneralhome.org.
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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. — Homer Ethan Ballard, 83, of Christiansburg, passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013.
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Thomas 'Tom' Bragg
OAK HILL — Thomas Lee "Tom" Bragg, 76, of Oak Hill, while surrounded by Heavenly Angels and a loving family, drew his last breath on this earth at Bowers Hospice House at Beckley, and peacefully opened his eyes in Heaven to be with the Lord and family members who include his Mother and Father and two brothers.
Raised by Christian parents he was taught the Word of God on a daily basis and accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior.
Though he lives on in Heaven in a new body no longer riddled with pain he will always be remembered by all who knew him as a man of honesty and integrity and kindness. His eagerness to help those less fortunate or those in need were qualities we must all strive to achieve.
He was a graduate of Fayetteville High School. A U.S. Air Force Veteran and prior to his illness he was a heavy equipment mechanic for Pittston Coal Group at Bolt, W.Va.
Those left to cherish his memory include his loving wife of over 50 years Shirley Marie (Patrick) Bragg; two sons Thomas David Bragg and his wife Rowena of Oak Hill and Kenneth E. Bragg and his wife Kathy of Fayetteville; sisters, Anna Marie Poore and her husband John of Beckley and Mary Elizabeth Burnside of Kincaid; three grandchildren Jason Adam Bragg and his wife Betty of Fayetteville, Kenneth Andrew Bragg of Fayetteville, and James Hendrix of Oak Hill; and two great-grandchildren Austin Tyree and Madison Tyree, both of Fayetteville.
His remains rest at High Lawn Funeral Home Chapel, 1435 E. Main Street, Oak Hill, where the funeral will be held 2 p.m. Saturday with Pastor Delmas Wolfe officiating and where the family will receive friends from 12 noon until time of the service. Entombment will follow in High Lawn Memorial Gardens Mausoleum, with military rites conducted by Oak Hill V.F.W. Post 3110.
Pallbearers will be Jason Bragg, Andrew Bragg, Austin Tyree, James Hendrix, and Timmy Bragg.
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Mike was born at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., on September 14, 1961.
He was a graduate of Shady Spring High School in 1980, and was a well-known local artist and sign maker who operated his own business in the area for many years. Mike was well known and well liked by all who knew him. He was a kind-hearted and generous man.
Mike was preceded in death by his son, Eric M. Dillon, in 2009.
He is survived by his sons, Adam S. Dillon of Shady Spring, and Ryan Dillon of Coal City.
Also surviving are his parents, Charles and Ruth Miles Dillon of Shady Spring, his sister and brother-in-law, Karen and Keith Cook of Roanoke, Virginia; his grandchildren, Tessa S. and Eli M. Dillon of Shady Spring, his companion Deborah Mitchell of Raleigh, W.Va., his former spouses, Anita H. Dillon of Raleigh, N.C., and Teresa S. Dillon of Coal City. Nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins also survive.
Son, brother, husband, father, grandfather — Your sweet memory will be with us always.
A Celebration of Mike's life will be held at the home of his parents Charles and Ruth Dillon, 116 Bessie Lane, Shady Spring, on Sunday, February 3, 2013, at 2 p.m. for family members and close friends.
There will be no visitation. Online condolences may be sent to our guestbook at www.roseandquesenberry.net.
Arrangements are by Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Shady Spring Chapel, 729 Flat Top Road, Shady Spring.
Irene Elizabeth Gutshall
RAINELLE — Irene Elizabeth Gutshall, 80, of Rainelle, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, January 30, 2013, in the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center at Fairlea, following a short illness.
Born September 21, 1932, at Sandstone, she was the daughter of the late Henry Earl and Margaret Anna Steninbeck Rookstool.
Irene was first and foremost a mother who raised her six children after the death of her husband, Glen David Gutshall. She worked at the G.C. Murphy Store before its closing and then at the Rainelle Medical Center until she retired. She was a loving grandmother and great-grandmother.
Irene was a faithful member of the Sewell Valley Baptist Church at Rainelle. She was a graduate of Sandstone High School; a volunteer at the Rainelle Christian Academy; and led a Bible Study Ministry at Heartland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for several years. Irene blessed many with her card ministry, her apple pies and rolls and many babies are cuddled in the soft flannel blankets she made for them.
Survivors include four sons, David Gutshall and wife Lisa of Rainelle, Danny Gutshall of Petersburg, Va., Joe Gutshall and wife Susan of Rainelle, and Johnnie Gutshall and wife Janet of Summersville; two daughters, Jennifer Toler and husband Harold of Rupert and Lori Alderson and husband Rick of Crawley; 15 grandchildren, Stephen Gutshall (Amie) of Morgantown, Stephanie Ash (Shane) of Culpepper, Va., Harold Lee Toler (Andrea) of Fairfax, Va., Brad Toler (Katie) of Columbus, Ohio, Zeke Gutshall (Rachel) of Delaware, Cam Gutshall and Lynlee Gutshall, both of Petersburg, Va., Caleb, Jacob and Isaac Gutshall, all of Rainelle, Jonathan Gutshall and Jessica Gutshall, both of Summersville, Nathan Alderson, Benjamin Alderson and Lauren Alderson, all of Crawley; and nine great-grandchildren; one brother Harvey Rookstool (Pat) of Indiana; seven sisters Glenna Daniels of Dawson, Madeline Howard of Rupert, Evelyn Williams of Rainelle, Dola Harris (Ronald) of Teays Valley, Essie McGraw of Cincinnati, Ohio, Margaret Heckelman (Jim) of Norwalk, Ohio, and Carolyn Knapp (Rodney) of Alderson; and special friend Mary Beth Surbaugh of Rainelle.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, February 2, in the Sewell Valley Baptist Church at Rainelle.
Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday in the Sewell Valley Baptist Church with Pastors B.J. Grimmett and Fred Fryar officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Paul Boggs, Lee Partain, Wesley Johnson, Charles Surbaugh, Tyler Surbaugh, Gary Gwinn, Garret Vestal, Isiah Tuck, Franklin Tuck, Joshua Tuck, Steve Vaughan, and Kelly Vaughan.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations of sympathy may be made to Sewell Valley Baptist Church Missions Fund, P.O. Box 784, Rainelle, WV 25962.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.smathersfuneralchapel.com.
Arrangements by Smathers Funeral Chapel, Inc., Rainelle.
Adam Lee Harvey
Adam Lee Harvey, 28, of Beckley, passed away on Wednesday, January 30, 2013.
Born March 6, 1984, he was the son of William and Sheryl Harvey of Shady Spring.
Adam was a machinist welder having at one time worked for WC Hydraulics. He had a love for the outdoors, enjoyed fishing, spending time with family and loved playing with his nieces and nephews.
Adam was preceded in death by his grandparents, James and Gladys Harvey and Bill Pettry.
Besides his parents, he is survived by his sister, Melissa Williams and her husband Chris of Beckley; brothers, Thomas Harvey and his wife Jessica of Beckley and Justin Harvey of Shady Spring; grandparents, Norman and Sandy Peters of Naoma; nephews, Tyler Christian Harvey and Zachary Williams; a niece, Aislynne MacKenzie Harvey; and numerous other aunts, uncles, cousins and family.
A celebration of Adam's life will be 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 3, 2013, at the Calfee Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Rick Metrick and Rev. Michael Harvey officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.
Friends may visit with the family two hours prior to the service on Sunday.
Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.
The family suggests memorial contributions be sent in memory of Adam to Jones Memorial Baptist Church, 401 Allen Ave., Beckley, WV 25801.
Online condolences may be left at www.calfeefh.com.
Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Gary Lee Hughes
LEWISBURG — Gary Lee Hughes, 69, of Lewisburg, died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.
Service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Community Pentecostal Holiness Church, on Brush Road in Lewisburg. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until time of the service at the church.
Arrangements by Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
Judith Abigail Lane
Judith Abigail Lane, age 97, of Cool Ridge, passed away on Thursday, January 31, 2013, at home following a long illness.
Born on January 28, 1916, at Ellison, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Elder Eli O. Lilly and Cora Clark Lilly.
Mrs. Lane was a homemaker, and was a member of the Salem Primitive Baptist Church at Mt. View. She had made her home at Cool Ridge nearly all of her life.
Mrs. Lane was preceded in death by her husband, John Lane, by grandson, Rick Lane, great-grandson Jason Propps, daughter-in-law Ann Lane, by brothers, Ralph, Carlos, and Elder Kenna Lilly, by sisters Lena Cox, Gladys Cox, Lucinda Lane, and Lola Thompson.
Those survivors left to cherish her memory include her son Mason Lane of Cool Ridge with whom she had made her home for the past 4 years; brothers Josiah L. Lilly of Cool Ridge, and Kelso D. Lilly and his wife Thelma of Beckley; two grandchildren, Terry Lane and his companion Mandy of Cool Ridge, and Michael Lane and his wife Karen of North Carolina; one great-grandchild, Robert Lane and his wife Jessica of Cool Ridge, and a great-great-grandson Brody Parker Lane. A brother-in-law, David Thompson of Florida, and several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be conducted to Celebrate The Life Of Judith A. Lane on Monday, February 4, 2013, at 2 p.m., at the Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Shady Spring Chapel, with Elder Tommy Pack officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park in Beckley.
Friends may call at the funeral home one hour prior to the services.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of Southern WV, PO. Box 1472, Beckley, WV, or to the Ghent Volunteer Fire Department.
Pallbearers will be Robert Lane, Mike Lane, Charles Basham, and David Pierce.
Online condolences may be sent to our guestbook at www.roseandquesenberry.net.
Arrangements are by Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Shady Spring Chapel, 729 Flat Top Road, Shady Spring.
Robert Vincent Lowery
Robert Vincent Lowery, 83, of Beckley, passed away Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.
A funeral liturgy will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at St. Francis deSales Catholic Church, with Monsignor Samuel Sacus officiating. A rite of committal will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. Friends may visit with the family from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Calfee Funeral Home, 800 S. Oakwood Ave., Beckley, where a scripture prayer service will be at 8 p.m. led by the Rev. Mr. Don Wise.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial contributions be made to St. Francis deSales Catholic Church, 614 S. Oakwood Ave., Beckley, WV 25801.
Online condolences may be left at www.calfeefh.com.
Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Esculine Muncy
OCEANA — Esculine Muncy, 79, of Oceana, passed away Thursday, January 31, 2013, at Logan Regional Medical Center.
Born September 10, 1933, in Moree, Ky., she was the daughter of the late Dim and Marybelle Blackburn Tiller.
Esculine enjoyed sewing, crocheting, baking, and spending time with her family. She fed everyone who entered her home.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by siblings, Beauford Tiller, Alistine Tiller, Virgie Tiller, James D. Tiller, Windell Tiller, Sandra K. Davis, and Judy Mae Hillis.
Those left to cherish her memory are her loving husband, Dallas Muncy; children, Itha Dane Muncy of Oceana, Terry Muncy and wife, Juanita, of Winchester, Greg Muncy of AZ, and Ilona Muncy Stepp and husband, Emerson, of Lewisburg; brothers, Virgil Tiller and wife, Gloria, of Columbus, OH, and Danny Tiller and wife, Michelle, of Columbus, OH; and a sister, Christine DeBoard of Columbus, OH.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday, February 3, 2013, at Evans Funeral Home Memorial Chapel, with the Rev. James Walker officiating. Entombment will follow at Palm Memorial Gardens, Matheny.
The family will receive friends 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, February 2, at the funeral home.
An online guestbook and additional information can be found at www.evans-funeralhome.com.
Evans Funeral Home of Oceana is serving the Muncy family.
Tom R. Plumley
HINTON — Tom R. Plumley, 77, of Hinton, died Wednesday, January 30, 2013, at Summers Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Hilldale, following a long illness.
Born March 15, 1935, at Glade, WV, he was a son of the late J. Amos and Nell Ward Plumley.
Tom lived most of his life in Hinton and was a 50-plus-year member of the Hinton Masonic Lodge AM&FM. He was a U.S. Army Veteran where he served as military police and was a retired conductor for CSX railroad.
He is survived by his twin sons, Tommy Plumley and wife Cheryl of Jumping Branch and Tim Plumley and wife Pam of Jacksonville, NC; three grandchildren, Jarrod, Matt and Jill; ex-wife, Wilma L. Plumley of Hinton; two brothers, Melvin Plumley and wife Vivian of Hinton and Fred Plumley and wife Rita of Hinton; and one sister, Norma Willett and husband Jim of Punta Corda, FL.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 2, 2013, at Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors Chapel with Pastor Robbie Merritt officiating. Burial will follow in the Fox Cemetery at Brooks. Friends called from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral parlors.
Hinton Masonic Lodge will serve as pallbearers and conduct graveside rites.
Arrangements are by the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors of Hinton.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.ronaldmeadowsfp.com.
Bentley Domanic Powell
Bentley Domanic Powell passed away Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Ark of Safety Church, Roderfield, with Sister Brenda Blankenship officiating. Friends may gather with the family from noon until time of service Saturday at the church. Burial will follow in D.L. Powell Cemetery, Iaeger.
E-mail letters of sympathy may be sent at www.staffordfamilyfuneralhome.com.
The family is being served by the Stafford Family Funeral Home, Lynco.
William Reed
HICO — William Reed, 72, of Hico, passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013.
Arrangements are pending completion at Rose and Quesenberry, 1901 S. Kanawha St., Beckley.
Loretta Sexton
FAYETTEVILLE — Loretta Jane Sexton, 63, of Fayetteville, passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, at Huse Memorial Park, Fayetteville, with Pastor Richard Midkiff officiating and the Rev. Alan Ledford singing. In keeping with her wishes there will not be a visitation.
For those wishing to express their condolences to the Sexton family, you may do so by visiting our website at www.doddpaynehessfuneralhome.com.
Dodd-Payne-Hess Funeral Home, 350 W. Maple Ave., Fayetteville, will be assisting the family.
Mildred Turner
ALABAMA — Mrs. Mildred Turner of Alabama, formerly of Beckley, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.
Arrangements entrusted to Ritchie & Johnson Funeral Parlor, Beckley.
Theodore Richard Weikel
PICKAWAY — Theodore Richard Weikel, 83, of Pickaway, passed away Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.
Services will be 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at the Groves Funeral Home Chapel in Union, with Pastor Herman D. Jones officiating. Burial will follow at the Lillydale Cemetery at Lillydale. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Groves Funeral Home in Union is in charge of arrangements.
Douglas Edward Wriston
SOUTH SALEM, Ohio — Douglas Edward Wriston, 72, of South Salem, formerly of Kingston, W.Va., died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.
In accordance with his wishes, Mr. Wriston was cremated.
Online condolences may be sent at www.tyreefuneralhome.com.
Arrangements by Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cleanthony Early heard someone say before the start of the NCAA tournament that only about 30 percent of brackets filled out by fans had Wichita State winning its first game.
Well, the junior forward has just one question now: How many had the Shockers winning two?
In a tournament that has given rise to the lower class, where double-digit seeds have become adept at knocking off the blue bloods, the ninth-seeded Shockers' upset of No. 1 seed Gonzaga has put them in a position to make an improbable run at the Final Four.
The Shockers (28-8) take on No. 13 seed La Salle on Thursday night in Los Angeles, and then would get sixth-seeded Arizona or No. 2 seed Ohio State for a spot in Atlanta.
"You hear stuff," Anthony said, "and people come up to you saying, 'What do you think, 70 percent of America has you losing the first game?' And you have to avoid everyone's opinion and go out there and play hard. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, because we play the game of basketball and that's what we're going to do to the best of our ability."
They've done it pretty well most of the season even if most of the country hasn't been aware of it.
Wichita State was overshadowed all year in the Missouri Valley by perennial contender Creighton and its high-scoring forward, Doug McDermott. And the school is naturally overshadowed in its own state by mighty Kansas, the No. 1 seed in the South Region, and Kansas State, which was ousted from the tournament in the second round by the Shockers' next opponent, La Salle.
So despite racking up 109 wins over the past four years, winning an NIT title and reaching the NCAA tournament each of the past two seasons, the Shockers continue to fly under the radar.


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Acura Introduces New Campaign for the 2014 MDX Entitled "The Extremely New MDX - Made for Mankind"
06/24/2013 - Acura today unveiled a new multi-channel advertising campaign for the all-new 2014 MDX entitled "The Extremely New MDX - Made for Mankind."
All-New 2014 Acura MDX Takes Luxury Refinement to a New Level with Signature Acura Technologies, Increased Comfort, Fuel-Efficiency and Performance
06/19/2013 - The all-new 2014 MDX, the third generation of Acura's acclaimed 7-passenger luxury performance SUV, goes on sale at Acura dealerships nationwide tomorrow, offering comfort, connectivity and performance every luxury customer wants at a...
Acura Earns Top Honors in Edmunds.com 2013 Best Retained Value Awards for Second Consecutive Year
06/17/2013 - For the second consecutive year, Acura led all other luxury brands in the Edmunds.com Best Retained Value® Awards with the highest projected residual value, of 45.1 percent, after five years of ownership.
New Acura TL Special Edition Debuts with Key Feature Upgrades
06/07/2013 - The new 2013 Acura TL Special Edition is now on sale with a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $37,405.
Acura Signs on as Exclusive Sponsor of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
06/05/2013 - Acura, one of the world's most technologically advanced luxury automotive brands, has signed on as the sole sponsor of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"
Award-Winning Accord and Record-Setting Light Truck Sales Fuel Hot Honda May; Acura RDX Sets All-Time Monthly Sales Record
06/03/2013 - American Honda Motor Co., Inc. today reported May 2013 U.S. sales of 140,013 units, a total increase of 4.5 percent compared with May 2012 (up 4.5 percent based on the Daily Selling Rate, or DSR*).
Press Kit: 2014 Acura MDX
05/31/2013 - The 2014 MDX is the third generation of Acura's seven-passenger luxury performance SUV, the first to be developed from the ground up using an all-new, purpose-built platform (body and chassis)
Honda Begins Monitor Leasing of Walking Assist Device in Japan
05/28/2013 - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. has begun leasing up to a total of 100 units* of the Walking Assist Device to hospitals in Japan...
GE Honda Aero Engines Approaches Final HF120 Certification Test
05/20/2013 - GE Honda Aero Engines announced today it is nearing completion of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification testing on its HF120 engine.
Fifth FAA-Conforming HondaJet Achieves First Flight
05/20/2013 - Honda Aircraft Company today announced that its fifth Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conforming HondaJet, equipped with a production interior matching the final customer aircraft, successfully completed its first flight on May 16,...
Acura NSX Production Site Selected in Ohio
05/14/2013 - Acura today announced that the all-new NSX supercar will be produced at a new Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio.
2014 Acura ILX Luxury Sports Sedan Arrives With Host of New Standard Features, Providing More Content and Value for the Luxury Brand's Gateway Sedan
05/13/2013 - The 2014 Acura ILX luxury sports sedan goes on sale tomorrow with a host of new standard features, further strengthening the gateway vehicle to the Acura brand.
Ten-City Acura "Style Tour" Pairs 2014 Acura RLX Flagship Luxury Sedan with Local Fashion Designers
05/03/2013 - Acura today announced the kickoff of the "Acura RLX Style Tour," a 10-city experiential marketing campaign that will showcase Acura's new flagship luxury sedan, the 2014 Acura RLX, in photo shoots with the works of up-and-coming local...
Production of 2014 Acura MDX Begins in Alabama
05/02/2013 - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley joined more than 1,500 associates at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) today to celebrate the start of mass production of the all-new 2014 Acura MDX luxury sport utility vehicle. HMA is now the exclusive g...
Honda April Sales Up on CR-V Monthly Sales Record; All-New RLX Flagship Sedan Bolsters Acura Sales Gain
05/01/2013 - American Honda today reported April 2013 U.S. sales of 130,999 units, an increase of 7.4 percent compared with April 2012 (up 3.1 percent based on the Daily Selling Rate, or DSR*).
Acura Announces Pricing for 2014 RDX
04/03/2013 - The 2014 RDX crossover SUV goes on sale today with a manufacturer's suggested retail price* (MSRP) starting at $34,520 Acura announced today.
New Accord Continues to Drive Honda Sales in March; Big Acura Sales Jump Fueled by Record-Setting RDX and All-New RLX
04/02/2013 - American Honda today reported March 2013 U.S. sales of 136,038 units, an increase of 7.1 percent compared with March 2012 (up 11.1 percent based on the Daily Selling Rate, or DSR*). The Honda brand posted March 2013 sales of 121,938 unit...
All-New 2014 Acura MDX Debuts at the New York International Auto Show
03/27/2013 - Acura today unveiled the all-new 2014 MDX luxury SUV at the 2013 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS).
Acura Press Conference Remarks: 2013 New York International Auto Show
03/27/2013 - Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. We're thrilled to be with you for the world debut of the 2014 Acura MDX, a first look at the production model we will be launching at Acura dealers nationwide in a few short months.
American Honda Announces New Advertising Structure for Automobile Business
03/18/2013 - American Honda Motor Co., Inc. today announced that its comprehensive review of advertising creative and media accounts for its automobile business has resulted in a multi-agency approach for the company's Honda and Acura brands.


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I've started playing a Facebook game called Backyard Monsters. It's a fun game. You build a base by harvesting sticks and stones to build buildings, and defenses like turrets and cannons. Then you harvest Goo to make Monsters to attack other peoples bases. If you are successful, you can loot their sticks and stones and goo.
The game has been fun, but recently I've discovered that some players have done a little number crunching, calculating Monster Health, Tower Health and Attack Speed and other variables. These guys pounded on their spreadsheets and came up with the 'ideal' base design. Now if I had done that, I'd keep the secret to myself and dominate the game. But these guys published their findings on the official forums. Now as I get to a higher and higher level in the game, I see more and more people copying this design. It makes your base nigh impregnable unless your opponent throws wave after wave of monsters at you, depleting his Goo resource in the process.
I think it's a danger in any strategy game. The game is not so much won, as it is solved. Now the developers are working on ways to break this strategy so that it isn't 'the way' to go.
I see something similar in the development of WoW. The players crunch the numbers and come up with the 'ideal' spec, or the 'ideal' spell rotation. Then we get what amounts to the solution key in the form of Boss Kill videos via Tankspot and the like.
The Developers try to mix things up and change some of variables each patch, and then change all the variables in an Expansion. WoW adds the added element of execution, but in many ways the game is solved, more than won.
For players, it can become a difficult decision. If you don't use the 'ideal' base layout, you'll have your resources farmed all day long. If you don't use the 'ideal' talent spec, or spell rotation, or Boss strategy, you'll get kicked from groups as a 'noob'. But somehow I think we've lost something along the way. Our games our solved now, not won through our own trial and error.


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McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP) is located on 45,000 acres in southeastern Oklahoma. McAlester and the surrounding area have become the regional center for commerce, retail trade, culture, recreation and heritage for Southeast Oklahoma.
MCAAP has six ammunition production, maintenance and renovation complexes and is a major ammunition storage site for all branches of the Armed Forces. With nearly 2,300 storage magazines and six million square feet of covered explosive storage space, it is the Defense Department's largest explosive storage facility.
The mission of MCAAP is to provide goods and services to ensure the war fighter is persuasive in peace and invincible in war.
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• Set daily objectives for each Recapture staff person on team
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• Post posters and flyers in the community to recruit new staff to work for the Recapture team
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(NECN: Ally Donnelly) - Over 26,000 runners took part in this year's Boston Marathon. There are the elite runners, and then there are the thousands of other people compelled to run for their own reasons.
From fundraisers, to personal goals, to overcoming life hurdles.
NECN's Ally Donnelly has their stories of inspiration from the finish line on Boylston Street.


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Porterdale's 8th annual Fourth of July Festival features vendors of food and gifts, as well as music, adult beverages, children's activities and fireworks later in the evening.
Main Street Porterdale will celebrate the Fourth with an all-day festival including live music, activities for kids, vendors, food and adult beverages.
The Porterdale mayor and city council appointed Lt. Jason Cripps as active police chief Tuesday evening, effective immediately.
County officials took the next step toward getting a stoplight at the dreaded Ga. Highway 81 and Crowell/Covington Bypass roads 4-way stop intersection, south of Porterdale.
This question-and-answer session came from an email response from Starbound Dance Studio owner Valerie Odom sent over the weekend.
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Porterdale's hurting.
Porterdale is moving closer to a public vote on Sunday package sales.
Porterdale officials are still planning to have a fireworks show tonight around 9:30 p.m., despite this afternoon's storms.
The City of Porterdale met in executive session Tuesday, but without Mayor Pro Tem Robert Foxworth.
Porterdale Police Sgt. Jason Cripps has been verbally reprimanded for fraternizing with city council members and presenting an unprofessional image.
Dog days: The ride to Provide has outfitted K-9 units in Rockdale County, Porterdale and Social Circle with first aid kits for their four-legged partners. Each kit cost $115. Donations can be mailed to We Ride To Provide, Inc., 15 Huntington Place, Covington, Ga. 30016. They can be reached at (770) 900-6494 or find them on Facebook. (Above from left) Rockdale County Sgt. Dougherty with K-9 Jimmy, Holly Cripps, Rockdale County Deputy Reed with K-9 Rudy and Porterdale Police Sgt. Jason Cripps with K-9 Beau.
The city of Porterdale has an opening for the solicitor position, as former Porterdale Municipal Court Solicitor Qader Baig has resigned.
The Learning Center, Newton County's only early literacy nonprofit organization, will offer performances of "Go, Dog. Go!" at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday and Friday at the Porterdale Mill Lofts.
Porterdale played host to the third annual Ride to Provide Saturday to benefit Porterdale police officers.
Jazz trumpter Marcus Printup and jack-of-all-trades musician Timothy Adams Jr. performed a variety of songs at the Porterdale Mill Lofts Friday night. All proceeds went to the Washington Street Community Center. They were joined by other local jazz musicians.
K-9 officers play a vital role in law enforcement agencies, and Porterdale Police Department's annual Ride to Provide will benefit those four-legged officers this year.
The Reader's Digest We Hear You America competition has been extended through May, and Porterdale still has a chance to win part of $7.5 million in financial support.
They're off! The Arts Association of Newton County hosted the annual Art on the River event at the Porterdale Mill Lofts on Saturday night. The theme for this year's event was The Kentucky Derby. For more photos of the event, visit www.covnews.com.
No place like home: Munchkins from Porterdale Elementary school practice for their roles in The Wizard of Oz, which the school will proudly present on May 14. The show is open to the public, and tickets will be sold for $5 at the door. Concessions will be available.
A lengthy investigation into allegations against Porterdale Volunteer Fire Department Chief Ronald Savage has found that although problems exist, they are mainly due to a lack of training, an issue that falls back on the city council.


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Original recipe yields 6 - 8 servings
- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until done.
- Meanwhile, mix together tuna, olives, pine nuts, garlic, parsley, basil, and crumbled feta cheese.
- Drain pasta, and toss with lemon juice and olive oil. Toss with tuna mixture. Serve hot or cold.
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This recipe is so quick and easy, but that does not prevent this from being a very very tasty dish. I make only a few, inexpensive modifications that result in an improved final product. 1. Instead of Starkist or Chicken of the Sea tuna, splurge on any brand of Tonno tuna. Tonno is yellowfin tuna canned in olive oil, and it is found in the same aisle as regular tuna. Yes, it is more expensive, but it is usually only about $1.50- $1.80 a can and the taste is WELL worth the extra money. After you eat tonno, you will never ever want to eat any other canned tuna. For best results, don't drain the oil off when you open the can; instead, flake the tuna and the oil together in a bowl before adding to the pasta. 2. Toast the pine nuts for about 4 minutes, and add them just before serving. Toasting really enhances the flavor of the nuts. 3. If you can, use fresh lemon juice and not the bottled juice. I am a huge fan of going the easy route, but not here. Bottled lemon juice really does not work so well with this recipe. If I don't have fresh lemons but do have bottled juice, I just leave the bottled juice out. That's how much I don't like it in this recipe. But the fresh lemon juice is really a great addition. 4. If you like salt a lot, add capers. Use wild capers, if you can find them. They are found in the same aisle as regular capers, and they cost about $1.50 more per jar, but they sure do have an amazing flavor that is perfect here.
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This is delicious and a very adaptable recipe that can be changed up to suit your taste. I liked it cold and of course changed it up to what I liked more of which was the olives and I did add capers. I did use the feta cheese and tossed it with red wine vinegar instead of lemon juice and used an Italian blend of herbs instead of just basil because that is what I had. If you make this recipe as is or change it up according to your taste you can't go wrong. It's a great pasta salad.
This is exactly what I was looking for. It was quick and easy. I am amazed how great it tastes. I used plain macaroni since thats all I had. I did add extra nuts afterwards since I felt they complimented well. I don't see how theres much more to alter. And its great hot or cold. Very versatile, can be served as a nice dinner entrée with a glass of wine, to potluck to a brown bag lunch!
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Amount Per Serving (7 total)
- Calories
- 459 cal
- 23%
- Fat
- 18.9 g
- 29%
- Carbs
- 51 g
- 16%
- Protein
- 23.8 g
- 48%
- Cholesterol
- 22 mg
- 7%
- Sodium
- 225 mg
- 9%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Who's shaping the character, morals and values of our children today — Paris Hilton, Tommy Lee, Lindsay Lohan, Flavor Flav, Anna Nicole Smith, Eminem, or parents? Either way today you can bet that, in most cases, our youth is in serious trouble. Role models for today's kids, whether on television or sitting across from them at the dinner table, are increasingly deteriorating the fragile essence of our adolescent's character. Join me as I take a look at this anomaly of child-rearing.
I had one of the cable news channels keeping me company as I worked on another article earlier today, when all of a sudden something caught my ear. At first, I wasn't sure if I was hearing things correctly. However, as soon as the wave of shock and awe subsided, I realized that there was absolutely nothing wrong with my hearing. It was actually some sort of dysfunction with a pair of lips, attached to some sorry excuse for an expert on modern-day teen role models, which were cackling away on the screen. The last sentence that I could stomach from this woman, who no doubt took her teenage daughter to get her first tattoo and her nipples pierced for her thirteenth birthday, stated "Young girls today like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are living proof that peer role models do in fact instill goals for achievement within our teenage community."
I just sat there for a second. I hadn't turned the television off yet. People's lips were still moving, but I couldn't hear a thing. My brain was in overload mode as it tried to process this woman's words, and find some semblance of rational thinking. My immediate thoughts were that this woman was either not a parent, or that she routinely shared her monthly condom and tequila allotment with her ninth-grade daughter. Also, could somebody please rush the definition of the word "peer" to this woman?
So I started thinking about our present-day pop culture icons. It really is a sad state-of-affairs. Of course, I have neither the time, nor the space available here, to make a laundry list of our troublesome celebrities who pollute our youth with what is perceived as so, so dope. Let's just stick with the two names that I was previously graced with by our role model expert.
Let's see . . . what has one of our little role models been up to lately? Well, the most recent exciting news about the Hilton Heiress was publicity touting Paris, and porn star Jenna Jameson's, upcoming TV show entitled 'Virgin Territory'. The series will feature Paris and Jenna helping virgins in their quest to have sex for the first time. Wow. Thank goodness, these two caring girls are willing to give up their valuable time to help other less fortunate girls experience what the rest of humanity has found out for themselves since the dawn of mankind. Yep, if that doesn't instill goals for achievement within our teenage community, then I don't know what does.
I also recently read, no doubt written by the twin sister of our illustrious TV role model expert, that "Paris Hilton is an extremely resourceful young woman. Since coming of age, Paris has since branched into several careers." Coming of age . . . I guess that's one way of describing how a rich young heiress enters into the spotlight of the world's stage — via a video of her having sex that inadvertently ended up on the Internet. You know . . . now that I think of it . . . that is pretty damn resourceful isn't it?
Other recent gossip headlines that I have seen in the past two weeks regarding Paris are as follows: "Paris Sees Porn Penis," "Paris Wins Bedroom Battle," "Paris Pleads No Contest In Alcohol-related Reckless Driving Incident," and "Paris' Sexy Bubble Bath Video." I have to stop now — my gag reflex is gagging.
How about our other shining example of teen mentoring? Ah yes, Lindsay Lohan, another fine paragon of perfection. As a bona fide alcoholic at twenty years of age, not even legal drinking age mind you, she takes a break from the rigors of alcohol rehab to attend what, a funeral, a visitation with a sick family member? No silly, a wild party hosted by Paris Hilton. It seems that this little stunt had naysayers up in arms about the actress rehab sincerity. However, Lindsay's publicist lashed back with, "This isn't the Betty Ford Clinic. It's not a lockdown facility. There is personal time." Well of course. I mean, God knows we wouldn't want to lock down this bi-polar alcoholic while she's in rehab. How in the hell would she get a drink? Also, can anyone tell me how much a crappy publicist pulls in annually?
Other noteworthy Lindsay headlines of late are-"Lindsay Lohan Says Rehab Is A Drag," "Lindsay's Rehab Sex Cravings," "Lindsay Thumbs Nose At Underage Drinking Laws," "Lindsay Sends Sexy Text Messages To Admirers," and "Lohan Is Bad Influence On American Girls." Amazing — how much person-to-look-up-to press can one role model garner in a month?
Now let's not place all of the blame on our exemplar celebrity beauties. The saddest part of this fiasco of pubescence is that these so-called teen pop culture icons have such a large impact on our teens, because so many parents are even bigger losers. The youth of today are being raised by mothers who want to be desperate housewives, and fathers who think that Internet porn is the owner's manual for how to please your spouse. Now there's a recipe for a healthy home life for a teenage kid who is battling puberty and peer pressure. I can't imagine why domestic violence is at an all-time high. It's a confusing time for kids — kind of like taking your dog to the fire hydrant with a chastity belt on.
I'm not saying that kids, who have good home lives and great parents, are not going to still find what is going on in pop culture interesting. I mean, let's face it folks, footage from a grizzly fatal train wreck on the news captivates us far more than the story of a local pet store that is giving away gerbils, but that is just human nature. We are attracted to the macabre, and anything that makes us shudder and be glad of who we are at a given moment. However, that doesn't mean that we shut off the TV, go drink a bottle of tequila, commandeer an Amtrak locomotive, and try to derail it (although there is a bagger at my local grocery store that I'm not too sure about).
Kids with parents who raise them properly can see things for what they are — embracing their innate voyeuristic tendencies, yet knowing if what they see is right or wrong — and be glad that they are in their own shoes. However, when you have this barrage of pop culture attacking our kids from every angle, and parents who are sleeping in separate rooms, because they don't meet up to each other's vision of their favorite celebrity hunks and babes, then how can we expect the poor children of our society to stand a chance?
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A Streetcar Named "You're Fired": A Tragedy in One Very Short Act
Just wrote this. Hoping to get it up in the New York Fringe Festival this year…
The curtain rises on a tidy, spartan office in the Pentagon. ARMY SECRETARY JOHN MCHUGH — a former Republican congressperson and civilian leader of the U.S. Army — sits behind a desk with his hands folded across his chest. A visibly nervous GAY SOLDIER sits across from him trying to unsuccessfully to look casual.
Army Secretary John McHugh: Tell me, son. Are you gay?
Gay Soldier: No, sir.
Army Secretary John McHugh: Really?
Gay Soldier: Yes, sir! I mean, no, sir! I mean… I find breasts to be quite comely.
Army Secretary John McHugh: That doesn't sound very convincing.
Gay Soldier: It's true. I'd like nothing more than to make a sandwich out of breasts. With extra mayonnaise.
Army Secretary John McHugh:What?
Gay Soldier: I don't know. It sounded good in my head.
Army Secretary John McHugh: Now listen, son. I need you to tell me the truth. How am I supposed to get your feelings on the U.S. military's policy on homosexuality so that we can repeal this terrible Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy unless soldiers like you are open and honest with me about their sexual orientations?
Gay Soldier: But, but… You'll discharge me.
Gen. John McHugh: Nonsense! I have no intention of discharging you. "[I]t would be 'counterproductive' to 'take disciplinary action against someone who spoke with me openly and honestly.' "
Gay Soldier: Really?
Gen. John McHugh: Really.
Gay Soldier: Okay. I'm gay.
Gen. John McHugh: You're fired, fag.
I'm still working on it. Need to figure out a way to cram some frontal nudity and menstrual blood in, and it'll be ready to go.
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Sadie Jones's highly entertaining third novel seems perfectly conceived to appeal to two current popular tastes our fascination with the Edwardian country house and the revival of the English ghost story. The Uninvited Guests marks a stylistic departure for Jones too on the surface the tone is lighter and more comic than her two previous novels, The Outcast and Small Wars, which both examined the unravelling of family relationships and the ways violence and tragedy can erupt from repression. But surfaces can be deceptive, as Jones's characters discover over the course of one satisfyingly stormy night. The conventions of middle-class English manners are revealed as too flimsy an overlay to hide the filthy passions and cruelties that seethe underneath.
Sterne is an isolated 18th-century manor in the north-west of England, bought by Horace Torrington and now home to his widow Charlotte and family. Elder children Emerald and Clovis resent their mother's new husband, Edward Swift, who departs for Manchester one morning in April 1912 in the hope of securing a loan to save Sterne, which is crumbling for lack of funds and may have to be sold. As storm clouds, literal and metaphorical, gather over the house, preparations begin above and below stairs for a dinner in honour of Emerald's 20th birthday.
Thus far, it's an elegant comedy of manners with the usual undercurrents of jealousy, desire and conflicting loyalties. But the mood changes when Clovis, returning from the station with family friends, brings news of a dreadful accident on a branch line. A mysterious representative of the Railway requests that the survivors be put up at Sterne.
These uninvited guests appear as if from nowhere as dusk falls, heralded by a chilling gust of wind; they seem to multiply as the night goes on, and give off a growing scent of decay though none of this alerts the family, who have not read the novel's epigraph from Byron's Don Juan: "Their table was a board to tempt even ghosts/ To pass the Styx for more substantial feasts."
The ghost story genre is necessarily formulaic, which is perhaps why it continues to fascinate writers; the challenge is to create something new from within its confines. Jones concentrates on the way the unexpected intrusion affects the family and their friends, bringing out their best and worst qualities, revealing long-buried secrets and unexpected depths of passion and rage. Where there should be kindness for the traumatised passengers, there is at first resentment and impatience at the disruption, made all the sharper by the fact that the incomers are from third-class all except the dashing, wolfish Charlie Traversham-Beechers, a sinister figure from Charlotte's past.
Jones has a vivid eye for period detail, lingering lovingly on shimmering dresses, hairstyles and jewellery, so that the contrast is all the more vivid as filth, mud and dissolution gradually strip away the glitter and finery that separates the classes, reducing all the characters to a common, almost bestial, humanity. "You were [kind], in the end,"' murmur the passengers, when all the lessons have been learned.
The Uninvited Guests also carries echoes of Shakespearean comedy; though menace hovers close to the main characters, it never tips into genuine danger, and there is a pleasing resolution in which everyone assumes their proper place, a little wiser and less proud. Jones shows that she can turn her talent for storytelling to a more stylised form with a light and playful touch, and without compromising her sharp insights into the human heart.
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the guardian Wed 14 March 2012
Naming, as the book of Genesis affirms, is a dominant and defining act. For parent or for author, the choice of a name creates echoes and reveals a ragged tapestry of relationships. The more unusual the name, the stronger the associations. In The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones calls her young male lead character Clovis, and thereby summons up Saki's tart, macabre voice and his stories of Edwardian country-house life with its shibboleths, comeuppances and cruelties. Saki (HH Munro) was greatly interested in revenge, with the supernatural frequently acting as its agent. His recurring hero, Clovis Sangrail, is a lord of malice and misrule, cloaked in the lazy elegance of a young English gentleman.
Sterne, the Edwardian country house which is the setting for The Uninvited Guests, is under threat. Clovis, Emerald and Smudge Torrington, their mother Charlotte and her second husband, Edward Swift, are all clinging on to Sterne, but there is no more money. The house will have to be sold, unless Edward can pull off the vaguely shameful feat of borrowing from "an industrialist of low morals". But meanwhile there is Emerald's 20th birthday party to be held, in Edward's absence. The neglected youngest child, Smudge, plots a Great Undertaking in her bedroom. Charlotte hides a guilty past, while her children don't bother to conceal their resentment of the man who has replaced their father. So far, so Saki. But Saki was of his time and he died with it, an over-age volunteer who enlisted as a private and was shot by a sniper in a shell-crater on the western front. Jones, by contrast, looks back on the Edwardian era across 90 years of interpretation and cultural accretion.
The ingredients have been used so many times: the isolated house that generates its own society, the sharp class distinctions, the hurdle race towards matrimony, the aromas of crime, mystery and intrigue. Sterne's giant black yews, ancient, extravagant roses and softly bowed boards are familiar to the modern reader, not because they reflect our first-hand experience but because books, films and television have made them, oddly, our own. Jones plays with this familiarity, prompting it, teasing it, and then, disarmingly, undermining it. Her tone is coolly playful, even detached.
The birthday party is to be a small affair, just family and a few close friends. It expands, terrifyingly, when a railway crash brings to the house a flock of stunned survivors, like birds who have flown into glass. The railway authority decrees that it is Sterne's responsibiity to take in these travellers until further arrangements can be made. They are third-class passengers, and immediately recognised as such by Sterne's inhabitants, who lurch from pity for the "poor things" to wariness in case they become "rowdy and unmanageable now that they're warming up and realising their good fortune". Their good fortune, as Jones slyly emphasises, consists in being given a cup of tea and kept pent up, away from the other guests. Even the relatively considerate Emerald "did not stop to consider that the morning room was not large, or that the fire in it may be dying". The passengers, hungry, quelled but desirous, seem to grow in numbers and uncanniness as the evening wears on. Meanwhile, Jones's own lord of misrule, Charlie Traversham-Beechers, takes charge of the party.
Where Saki would be ruthless, Jones relents. There is sunlight and the smell of bacon. There is resolution, even restoration. Evil only seems to show its face, and it is energy itself which becomes the hero of the narrative. The task of the living, it appears, is to make sure that the dead stay dead, rather than to appease them. Fear won't do it; anger won't do it, and it turns out that the operative force has got to be love. The story scuds along, veering close to pastiche, although the luscious prose is precisely steered.
But another current is at work within the novel, and because The Uninvited Guests is a creation of the 21st century, historical knowledge cannot help but force itself on the narrative. Clovis, the guests Ernest and John and all the other young men may sit at their breakfast tables on a spring morning eating bacon, relieved that the battles of the night are done. Jones and her readers know that they are plunging towards a collective fate. Mud and death wait for them; the passengers are not the only ghosts in the novel. And we, reading it, see for a moment our own ghostliness coming through to us.
Helen Dunmore's The Greatcoat is published by Hammer.


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Reporting from Washington — President Obama cautioned against "bluster" and "loose talk of war" with Iran even as he assured U.S. supporters of Israel that he will use American military force if necessary to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
In an address heavy with election year defenses of his record, Obama argued Sunday that open talk of war in recent weeks has benefited the Iranian government by causing a run-up in the price of oil, Iran's main export. He told an audience of thousands at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference that opponents of Iran's nuclear program should wait to see the impact of new economic sanctions on Iran's oil and banking sectors. The sanctions take effect this summer.


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Big disks--really big disks--are here. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) pulled the wraps off its 1TB capacity hard drives just five days into 2007, and Seagate says it will spin out its version before the end of the first half of this year. Both vendors say they're not just pushing the disk version of Moore's Law to the limit; rather, they're responding to user need for even greater capacities.
Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 is the first 1TB drive and, at a $399 list price, it will be marketed initially to consumers. But while it might start life as a receptacle for family photos and YouTube videos, it's also destined for the data center.
"It wouldn't shock me if you saw this in enterprise systems, shipped from the enterprise storage suppliers, by the end of the third quarter," says Doug Pickford, director of market and product strategy at Hitachi GST. "They'll be very motivated to get that product into the field."
Seagate Technology, which held the capacity crown with its 750GB Barracuda ES drive, says its 1TB drives will show up in enterprise systems at approximately the same time. "We expect volume shipments in the first half," says Pete Steege, Seagate's marketing manager for enterprise storage. Unlike Hitachi GST, however, Seagate doesn't plan to lead with a consumer model before an enterprise version. "Our goal is to have them come out at pretty much the same time," says Steege.
Capacity-starved storage managers will welcome the big
Both vendors' drives spin at 7,200 rpm, so they're not a good fit for performance-hungry apps. But they'll be suitable for a wide range of less-demanding apps. "The first thing we're going to see, is we're going to see it in nearline," says Hitachi GST's Pickford. Although these drives may end up in workgroup or small- to medium-sized business arrays, other storage-hungry apps, like data protection, appear to have the inside track. "Backup to disk using VTL [virtual tape library] is a good candidate," says ESG Lab's Garrett. "Archive applications are prime candidates."
If you've used 500GB or 750GB drives, you're not likely to notice any drop in performance. Pickford says Hitachi GST didn't have to make many tradeoffs "to stuff all the gigabytes in the drive." Similarly, Seagate says the increase in areal density actually boosts performance a bit.
"In one spin of that disk you're going to see a lot more bits," says Seagate's Steege. But don't expect souped up 1TB drives spinning at 10,000 rpm or 15,000 rpm. Both vendors say they could spin the disks faster, but the results would be counterproductive.
"If you spin a disk faster, then the power consumption goes up dramatically--by the fourth power of the diameter," says Willis Whittington, senior manager of product marketing at Seagate's enterprise storage division. "So it's a huge increase." But if you crave still more capacity, you won't have to wait very long. Perpendicular recording is the key to ever-higher capacities, and it's a technology that still has a lot of legroom. Using the same number of platters as in today's 1TB drive, Pickford says perpendicular recording "probably takes us to a 5TB device."
It might be prudent to approach these big drives with some caution, however. "Big jumps in SATA capacity can be risky," says Garrett. "Very early adopters may want to consider dual-parity schemes for an extra measure of protection."
--Rich Castagna
This was first published in March 2007