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It was only a matter of time before I would get the chance at Road & Track to drive a car that solicits "oohs" and "aahs." I just didn't expect the knockout punch to be delivered by something called a Qvale Mangusta.
On a Sunday afternoon drive I was thoroughly amazed by the attention it garnered along Pacific Coast Highway in Southern California. Associate Editor Mike Monticello, fresh from the East Coast, concurred, "Everyone stares which is saying a lot for an area where a is as common as a ."
But what exactly is a Qvale Mangusta? The story is as intriguing as the lines that grace the car, the most notable characters in this Italian soap opera being Alessandro De Tomaso and Kjell Qvale (pronounced Shell Ka-VA-lee) along with his sons, Jeff and Bruce.
The current Mangusta, originally called the Bigúa, was conceived in the mid-1990s by De Tomaso. Italian-car buffs will recall that De Tomaso was the father of the original Pantera, as well as the original Mangusta, which first appeared at the Turin show in 1966.
Qvale has been a successful automotive entrepreneur for more than 50 years. His British Motor Car Distributors, Ltd. at one point was the largest distributor of British cars in the U.S., including such marques as Triumph, Austin-Healey, MG, Jaguar, Lotus, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. The first collaboration between De Tomaso and Qvale took place in 1967 when Kjell became the importer of the original Mangusta. In the late '70s he imported and distributed Maseratis. A lifelong racing buff, Kjell also helped form the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA).
By early 1998 a licensing agreement was reached between De Tomaso Modena- S.p.A and the Qvales "for the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of all current and future De Tomaso products." But somewhere along the line the deal fell through, with the Qvale Automotive Group acquiring the rights to produce the Mangusta themselves. The car is manufactured at a former De Tomaso facility renamed Qvale Modena, located in Modena, Italy.
There are many eye-catching details on this new composite-bodied Mangusta, including multiple small headlights tucked under large plexiglass-covered openings; a metal grating surround over thetaillights; two large fender vent openings lurking behind each of the front wheels; a stylish fuel-filler door resting on the passenger-side rear fender that looks as though it has just been swiped from an . And who could miss those isosceles triangle-inspired cuts in the rear wheel wells?
The styling of the car's exterior is pleasing enough. With its attractive wedge-shape silhouette, coupled with tall, sturdy slab sides, the Mangusta (in coupe configuration) looks as if it evolved from the ultra-rare Aston Martin Zagato coupe of the mid-1980s (see R&T, July 1986).
I say "coupe mode" because of an ingenious design element (and the Mangusta's greatest asset) incorporated into this car by designer Marcello Gandini of Lamborghini Miura and Countach fame, not to mention the out-of-this-world Lancia Stratos masterpieces all.
The Rototop, as the Qvale group calls it, is a very clever yet simple design that allows the Mangusta to be configured as a coupe, targa or roadster. Just undo the two latches atop the windscreen that hold the composite targa top in place (the top weighs only 10 lb.), and the entire C-pillar/rear window section of the car can be lowered into the trunk with the push of a button.
Whether in coupe or targa mode, vision to the rear quarters or directly behind the car is very good, another indication of good greenhouse design. But putting the car through an automated car wash to test the water tightness of the top revealed a few drops of water near the driver's-side top latch.
The Mangusta intelligently borrows many of its components, primarily those found in the interior, from Ford's parts supplies. But the most notable derivative is the robust 320-bhp 4.6-liter V-8 from the SVT Mustang Cobra. Upon start-up, this engine rumbles and roars just as a big American V-8 should, immediately evoking memories of that other American-powered Italian, the De Tomaso Pantera.
The interior is well fitted with high quality materials but lacking in good ergonomics in some areas. The entire dash layout reveals its Ford Mustang origins all too quickly. While the seats are comfortable and supportive, larger than average people may find them too tight. "The interior leather is really handsome, well-crafted," notes Engineering Editor Dennis Simanaitis, "but the handbrake is all but inaccessible unless the door is open."
In fact, this rich, supple leather covers virtually every square inch of surface area inside the cockpit of the Mangusta: dashboard, door panels, steering wheel, side bolsters of the center console. International Editor Sam Mitani adds, "For $80,000 they should have thrown in better gauges than the stock Ford ones."
There are those niggling little problems that one would expect from a low-volume boutique car builder. Some interior bits, such as the top latches and storage compartment doors, feel as though they might begin self-destructing after just 25,000 miles. Much of the weatherstripping on the car looks chintzy. But the Qvale Automotive Group stands behind the car with a 2-year, unlimited-mileage warranty.


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Mike Moran worked for the USOC aschief communications officer for nearly 25 years. He's now with The Sports Corp.
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Good morning, Colorado Springs.......now you have something really special to talk about.
Did you see the kid from Cheyenne Mountain High on Saturday night on NBC?
With all due respect to Marlo Thomas, "That Girl," you know......Rachael Flatt.
A couple of months ago, I was a judge on a Saturday morning when the Broadmoor Skating Club presented a series of home-made video tape productions made by the skaters themselves, which were "commercials" to promote the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.........Rachael Flatt's crew had a nice one that talked about traditions and the sort of "day-in-the-life" of a typical skater training here in Colorado Springs.....this exercise is just part of the kind of well-rounded experience that the Broadmoor Skating Club pupils receive while they train and prepare for whatever is next on the tough, demanding figure skating road.........as I watched Flatt's joy Saturday night after winning the U.S. National ladies crown in Spokane, and the trip to Vancouver next month as a member of the United States Olympic Team, I recalled the first time I ever saw her skate......it was the 2005 State Games of America, here in Colorado Springs, and there she was, winning the gold medal in the Junior Ladies division, just one of more than 1,000 skaters from across the country, all ages and skill levels..........now, she's the toast of the town, but her story is one of hundreds you will hear about in Vancouver, if you haven't already.....that story and countless others are the ones that separate Olympic and Paralympic athletes from the rest of the bunch........had enough of Tiger, A-Rod, McGwire, LeBron and the rest?.........Flatt became the first Broadmoor Skating Club senior woman to make an Olympic Team since Jill Trenary and Caryn Kadavy won trips to Calgary.......now, she's earned the chance to put her name up there with another young woman who lived and trained here, the magnificent Peggy Fleming, the 1968 gold medalist and American heartthrob........but in Spokane, her dream seemed to take secondary status in the frenzied vortex of sports journalism and the dizziness of its coverage of skating, which reached its nutty crescendo in 1994 during the Tonya-Nancy soap opera....most of the writers were riveted on the compelling return of 2006 Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen, now 25, coached by the iconic John Nicks.........It's women and girls," Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic champion, said to the New York Times' Jere Longman of the difference between Cohen and her competitors. "I don't want it to sound cruel. But what she has is a maturity and a confidence that other skaters are acquiring."............ "The sport is always looking for new stars, and right now they're in short supply," said Shep Goldberg, Michelle Kwan's agent. "If Sasha makes the Olympic team, she'll be the biggest American star in the Games, including Lindsey Vonn, given the popularity of figure skating," Goldberg told the Times.............but not on Saturday in Spokane, this was Rachael's time........mentored now by the great Dorothy Hamill, she nailed seven triples and was the only skater in the top group to land a triple-triple combination on the way to a dazzling 200.11 points, right there at the top of the world's best.........Cohen, gracious and mature, finished fourth.........Hamilton was chastened and admitted he was wrong and that Flatt was perfect under the complex new scoring system.........the 1984 Olympic champion described Flatt to Longman and others as someone who "punched her time clock every moment, she's consistent and solid, you can depend on her" ...........when it was over, all Flatt could say other than how thrilled she was, is that she thought she would come back to Colorado Springs after the Opening Ceremony in Vancouver on February 11 to attend her classes at Cheyenne Mountain until returning for the skating competition, which takes place in the second half of the Games.........that's not unusual for this dazzling young woman, a straight-A student who has applied to institutions like Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Duke, UCLA and Denver........her Pre-Olympic routine may now include a daily dose of Advanced Placement English, AP Physics, AP Calculus and AP French along with her grueling training at the World Arena.........Flatt now dons the same U.S. mantle worn in Salt Lake in 2002, when no American woman was expected to do anything, only to see another elegant teenager, Sara Hughes, a New York state kid (and Yale grad) come from nowhere to upset the field and take home the gold medal.......Flatt and her folks moved to Colorado Springs from California in 2000 so she could train with the BSC and chase her dream.......her Dad is an MIT grad with a Ph.D in chemical engineering, and her mom is also called "Doctor," with a degree in molecular biology.......What's ahead for the teenager and her family is precisely the reason that Colorado Springs can embrace her and the label of "The Place Where Olympic Dreams Begin" ..............It's the reason why the USOC, the National Governing Bodies and the Olympic presence are so special and meaningful for our community.........Flatt's dream, like those of more than 300,000 men and women who have trained here, lived here and struggled here for the last 32 years, now seems to be intensely possible to achieve...........as it was for the 20 young men chosen here after the 1979 National Sports Festival concluded to represent the USA at Lake Placid in the 1980 Olympic Ice Hockey tournament, and we all know how that worked out........how many times now will we hear the words "Colorado Springs," on NBC during the magical seventeen days from Vancouver?.....or hear Rachael Flatt's story and see cutaways of her proud parents? Imagine the emotion and screaming over at Cheyenne Mountain High on some maybe-so-special morning when Rachael walks into the school with her book bag and her headset on.............wake up and smell the coffee, Colorado Springs, she's ours, and you have to love it!
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Tickets for the Saturday of the Marriott London Sevens (May 10) have sold out ahead of the weekend for the first time in the event's history.
Seats are still available for the Sunday, when fans can see the finals action and the HSBC Sevens World Series winner crowned, as another anticipated weekend record-breaking crowd rocks up.
The fancy dress and entertainment theme always proves popular and this year over 115,000 are expected to get in the Monster spirit.
With the 16 top international sides battling it out, fans can enjoy over 630 minutes of rugby, as well as a whole host of off-field entertainment.
In a first, England Rugby has teamed up with global kids hit, Moshi Monsters, offering even more family fun on the Sunday.
Over 80 million kids around the world play BAFTA award-winning Moshi Monsters – the online world of adoptable pet monsters. Three of the main characters, Katsuma, Furi and Dr Strangeglove, will be meeting young supporters in Monsterville, Twickenham Stadium's West Fan Village, where the child activity zone will feature inflatables, rugby skill challenges and face painting.
Following on from its huge online success, Moshi Monsters has expanded into the real world with physical products including best-selling toys and a DS video game, a top-five music album, theatrical movie, books, apps and much more.
The Moshi Monsters magazine is also the number one best-selling children's magazine in the UK and one lucky reader has won the opportunity to be the England Sevens team mascot, running out with the players past the Heathrow Express flag bearers. The guard of honour for the Cup final will be formed by school classmates of the winner of a ball design competition which ran in over 5,000 primary schools.
Sunday's entertainment includes a performance from "The Roar of the Jaguars", official cheerleaders of NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars, who will also meet and greet fans in Monsterville alongside the big stage and screen, live music, interactive games and picnic areas.
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The pilot was on the fourth leg of a night flight when he reported to air traffic control that both engines had sustained a total loss of power. The airplane contacted a pole and landed hard during the off airport forced landing. The pilot had flown this route previously in the same make and model aircraft, however this was the pilots first time flying this route in this airplane. Only trace amounts of fuel were found in the airplane's center fuel tank which feeds both engines. No compromised fuel tanks were found on the airplane, and no odor of fuel, or fuel stains were found in the area around the accident site. Testing of the airplane's fuel gauge, and fuel sender following the accident did not reveal any discrepancies.
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The Traverse City area is located in the northwestern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Getting to Traverse City has never been easier. Thanks to continued growth in air service to Cherry Capital Airport, four airlines now provide over 1,800 seats arriving each day from the hub cities of Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis and Dallas-Fort Worth.
Once here, you will find getting around town is just as easy. Cherry Capital Airport is conveniently located three miles from downtown and minutes from any of the hotel and resort properties. The major car rental agencies provide service at the airport for those persons wanting their own vehicle. Convenient taxi service or courtesy van transportation to certain properties are other options
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*The above pricing does not include 8% tax and $14.95 nightly resort fee. Based on double occupancy. Spa appointments must be made in advance. Above pricing includes an 18% spa gratuity. Rooms at this rate are limited. Not available to groups. May not be combined with other offers. Certain other restrictions may apply. For all accommodations, check-in begins at 4 p.m. and check-out is by 11:00 a.m.
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Canadian Music Week wrapped up this weekend and even though we're still reeling from the jam-packed week of music, we can say with confidence that Tegan & Sara and Ellie Goulding's show on Friday night was one of the festival's highlights. The two pop heavyweights joined forces at Toronto's Kool Haus to bring a memorable […]
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April 24th, 2013
This year, Much sent contest winner Kaleigh and her boyfriend Ryan to CMW in Toronto to check out Rihanna's concert and watch amazing bands all week. Kaleigh had an amazing time in the big city and sent us a recap of her week. Click here to sign up for your own MuchCloser account. Get points […]
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March 12th, 2013
Ever wondered what Canada's largest music festival is like? With acts like Metric, Marianas Trench, Hedley, and Rihanna, who wouldn't want to be here in Toronto during Canadian Music Fest, rocking out? And guess what? New.Music.Live.'s Lauren Toyota has FIVE pairs of wristbands to giveaway and we want to give one pair to you! What […]
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February 28th, 2013
MUCH is giving you and a friend the chance to attend this year's Canadian Music Week. Featuring performances from some of Canada's biggest bands like Metric, Marianas Trench and Diamond Rings, you'll get to spend an entire week watching amazing performances and checking out the next big Canadian bands.
Not only do you get passes to Canadian Music Week, but MUCH will also hook you up with a flight for two, four nights in a hotel and $500 spending money. Get the rockstar treatment from MUCH and click here to enter for your chance to win a trip for two to Canadian Music Week!
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March 22nd, 2012
We've got five pairs of wristbands to see some of music's best acts during Canadian Music Week and we wanna give 'em to you! Winning a pair of wristbands to the biggest week in music is as easy as repeating what we say. This is also known as a Re-Tweet. To win a pair of […]
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MuchMusic wants to send you and a friend to Canadian Music Week 2012 where you can party like a rock star and see The Sheepdogs, Hedley, Marianas Trench and more! You'll be flown to Toronto, put up in the legendary Royal York Hotel, given VIP passes to all the Festival and Conference events, and we'll give you $500 spending money!
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March 10th, 2011
In case you missed this week's episode of The Wedge, host Damian returned from a tour across Australia with his band F**ked Up to take on Canadian Music Fest. The weekly music festival began Wednesday night (March 9th) and will run until Saturday, March 12th, featuring more than 350 bands playing 35 venues across Toronto. […]
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March 10th, 2011
Listen up guys: I hope you've cleared your schedule of everything this week. No time for school, fam, appointments; even life or death matters you may want to consider if you REALLY need to be there. Why? Duh! It's Canadian Music Week peeps!
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February 17th, 2011
The 11th Annual Independent Music Awards, or Indies as everyone calls them, are set to happen the night of Saturday, March 12th at the Canadian Ballroom in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Nominees for the awards have just been announced and Arcade Fire, Danny Fernandes, JRDN and Marianas Trench lead the way with three […]
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March 29th, 2010
One of the highlights of Canadian Music Week is always The Indie Awards. This year, the awards boasted an awesome lineup of performers like Great Lake Swimmers, Plants and Animals, and The Rural Alberta Advantage. Jesse Giddings hit up the show to ask the nominees and winners about how they got to this point in […]
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- Studio: CBS Films
- Release Date: Jul 26, 2013
- Starring: Alia Shawkat, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Johnny Simmons
- Summary: Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Clark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
- Director: Maggie Carey
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
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Mixed: 15 out of 40
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In "Adventureland" and this summer's "The Way Way Back," disillusioned teens have worked through their issues in the weeks leading up to college by taking on quirky summer jobs. However, Carey's wacky sensibilities retain a notably fresh quality by using the same framing device as an excuse to bat around one funny idea after another. The story transcends the derivative scenario through a noticeable lack of verbal censorship.
Maybe someday there will be a better commercial comedy about a girl taking charge of her sexual education, but for now, this is the only one we've got, and it's a filthy-fun charmer.
A certain sloppiness prevents The To Do List from entering the female coming-of-age pantheon of "Sixteen Candles," "Clueless" and "Mean Girls."
Like first sex, writer-director Maggie Carey's debut feature, The To Do List, is quick and messy, fitfully pleasurable, full of promise but not quite adept at getting everyone off.
There's a potentially innovative teen comedy in here somewhere, but it's surrounded by one that's much duller.
The To Do List is a romantic comedy with no romance and little comedy, but with an ugliness of spirit that's surprising and unrelenting.
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Mar 23, 2014A great vehicle for Aubrey Plaza and she did great. First time for me seeing her as a lead, would like to see more of it. . Her quirks really came out well here. Also, this is the most I've enjoyed Rachel Bilson. In anything. Ever. And Connie Britton did her bast to steal the show. Throw in nice performances from Hader, Glover and Skwiat and its quite funny. A truly underrated film.… Expand
Aug 23, 2013Despite working in the industry for over a decade, The To Do List is Carey's first feature and it shows. For better and for worse, it's clear the writer/director put a lot of heart and passion into the movie. The film successfully marries its 90s backdrop with retro hipster chic and even makes fun use of its check list premise by punctuating each of Brandy's conquests in freeze-frame shots labeled with their respective sex acts. Still, while The To Do List throws a lot of creative ideas and jokes at the screen, only a fraction of them are essential to the larger development of the story and characters as if Carey didn't quite nail the balance between what to include in the final film and what needed to be cut. That said, The To Do List includes plenty of ridiculous (and cringe-inducing) moments that are sure to entertain moviegoers looking for a raunchy teen comedy. The setup may not be as original as it would have been back in the time of the film's 1993 setting but there are enough clever pop culture references and awkward comedy setups to keep the movie feeling fresh even when it covers ideas that audiences will have seen play-out onscreen before. Carey's coming of age tale isn't a must see, but with a strong lead and some honest insight, filmgoers who are intrigued by the premise or the assembled cast have good reason to put the movie on their own To Do List.… Expand
Nov 23, 2013This was so funny, It's Dirty and very inappropriate. I love it. Sure it may be very forgetable but the laughs kept cumming ha ha pun and is very entertainng.… Expand
Aug 5, 2013Now I have to say that I had high hopes for this movie with all the name that we all love and I'm not going to take the time to list here we all have better thing to do right now. With that said I did have a few problems with this and the biggest was not the movie fault if I want to do this the best I can. First the joke never felt like there like they played out the way they did in a writers room some where which is sad cause as I sat there I wanted to see them in the writers room that would have been funnier and I don't want to think that when I looking at the finished product … Expand
Jul 29, 2013Aubrey Plaza plays an over-achieving HS senior, who sets out to learn all about sex during the summer before college. If this sounds familiar, it's been done many times with guys, so the unoriginal twist is girls! There's every effort to be as verbally crude (sex talk) and visually gross (bodily fluids) as possible, but none of it's very funny. Bill Hader provides the only true comic sensibility, while everyone else is just there (and about 10 years too old for their roles). The early 90s references are enjoyable, but so are a few noticeable anachronisms. There's a good-spirited energy that keeps it from being too dull, but nothing about the writing or performances is especially original or amusing.… Expand
Jul 28, 2013Stupid teenage crap. Who in their right mind can honestly say that this was a good movie. It is all about sex sex sex. Is there anything else that haunts these stupid teenager's minds.?… Expand
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Google joins Bloglines with iPhone version of Reader
Monday Google unveiled yet another beta site. Google Reader is now formatted for the iPhone. iPhone users tired of pinching and stretching and tapping text only links in the normal version of Reader or dealing with the plain Classic mobile version of Reader can head over to http://www.google.com/reader/i/ to check out the new beta site.
With the iPhone-enabled web-app, Google joins Ask.com in the web-based RSS reader marketplace. Ask.com's Bloglines has had an iPhone version available to users since July 19, 2007. iBloglines was created with less than a 1000 lines of code on a lark by an internal developer who bought an iPhone and wanted better access to the site.
The biggest difference between the two sites is the lack of an easy way to get from Google Reader for iPhone to Google Reader for a normal browser. In Bloglines, a user can always choose to deal with the normal desktop browser version of the site via a link to 'Full Bloglines,' but Reader does not appear to have the equivalent link, though Reader does allow a user to transfer to the regular mobile version of the site easily (the mobile non-iPhone Bloglines site pales in comparison to Google).
Also, Google Reader allows the user to see more posts, up to 15 at first, in a feed at a time by keeping the content minimized. Bloglines forces the user to view only 5 posts at a time in the default read view (full entry, summary, or feed determined) and requires a step through process via a 'More Items' button at the bottom of the page. Reader includes a 'mark all as read' link that clears all the unread items from a user's feed. Bloglines does not have this feature via the iPhone without using the full version.
Google Reader's other features include an inline image zoom to show the user full sized images from RSS feeds, show new items only, a Refresh button to reload the current feed, and the regular Google Reader navigation (Starred Items, Shared Items, Friends' Shared Items, and Notes). Users can also load more items from a feed into the current view in 15 item increments via a 'Load More Items' link at the bottom of the current feed view.
Reader also takes advantage of some iPhone web-application methods that weren't in wide use when Blogines was developed, including the AJAXy loading of pages and a more original look and feel of the page than the iPhone OS impersonating Bloglines. But Bloglines was a rush job that could still be improved upon in future releases, even though it has been doing a great job for almost a year now).
Unfortunately, both RSS readers lack an easy way to add feeds via the iPhone. Google requires a user to return to the desktop and Bloglines requires the user transfer to the full version of the site.
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Yes, there is an official Apple RSS reader for the iPhone at http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/CURRENT_FEED that auto loads when a user tries to goto an RSS url in Mobile Safari, but that is not on the same level as these two applications.
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The Soul CUV, Kia's HALO Car Is A Hot Seller
It was just four short years ago that Kia introduced a boxy little 4-door hatchback that we all now know as Soul.
Back then, the Koreans described it as their HALO car, which is a title usually reserved for a flagship vehicles like the Corvette sports car.
While it seemed odd that Kia would put a halo over such a humble little car seemed odd, but their decision to market the funky roadster to the younger crowd was genius.
In order to appeal to younger drivers, Kia unleashed an advertising campaign that combined music and a trio of hip hop hamsters whose mode of transport was the Soul.
The ads were an overnight success, making that hal shine brighter than ever before.
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The boxy car was not entirely new, as the Scion xB and Nissan Cube also sported the same style.
The latter of the two never caught on with the consumer, while the second generation xB pulled a U-turn away from the boxy style it started out with.
That left the Soul as the front runner in the category, selling 90,624 units in the first nine months, compared to the lukewarm 13,992 and 4,422 units sold by the xB and Cube, respectively.
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When it came tome to deliver the second generation Soul, Kia decided to to make the same mistake that Scion made with the xB.
The iconic look remained basically the same, but refinements were made inside and out that made the second generation Soul all the more desireable.
Kia have upped the ante in delivering more for the price, which is very much the case with the 2014 Soul.
The base model starts at just $15,610, despite the fact that it has standard features that include Satellite radio, Bluetooth connectivity, and a host of other features usually reserved for pricier models.
The 2014 Soul comes in three different trim levels. The base model sports a 1.6-liter 4-cylinder engine that delivers 130 hp and is mated to a 6-speed manual. That is enough to deliver 24/30/26 mpg city/highway/combined.
The Plus and Exclaim model have 6-speed automatic transmissions and employ a 164-horsepower, 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that delivers 23/31/26 mpg.
The 2014 Soul Plus starts at just $18,995 the Exclaim checks in at $21,095. For an extra $2,500 you can also add a loaded package that Kia calls the Whole Shebang.
The Plus already comes with a ton of standard features that include automatic climate control, panoramic glass sunroof, pushbutton starting, leather seat trim, heated and ventilated front seats with a power driver's seat, rear camera, upgraded Infinity audio system and a heated, leather covered steering wheel.
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President Obama's State of the Union call for all states to raise their minimum school-leaving age to 18 could be dismissed as just another political exhortation that sounds good and perfectly reasonable, but is not apt to turn the gears in most state's education machinery. Twenty-one states have already done it. Tennessee and seven other states have raised the minimum age to 17. And those that remain stuck at 16, for whatever reason, apparently are not easily moved.
That's too bad. Whatever whiny arguments remain against raising the minimum school-leaving age -- classroom costs, controlling students, restraining truancy -- the benefits are too great to ignore. Here's the short list, according to research by education and economic professors Henry Levin and Cecilia Rouse, reported Thursday in The New York Times:
Reduce the drop-out rate. Raising the minimum school-leaving age actually works to keep students in school longer and raise graduation rates. And that must be accomplished for both economic and social reasons. On the nation's current track, about 1.3 million students drop out of high school annually. Three out of 10 tenth-grade students in American schools do not graduate. About 20 percent of the drop-outs are white or Asian; 45 percent are blacks and Hispanics.
The high percentage of drop-outs relative to the graduation rates of our formidable economic competitors paints an increasingly bleak picture, and a more dismal economic future. The United States led the world in high school and college graduation rates in 1970. Recent figures compiled by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development show that the United States now lags behind 20 other nations in high school graduation rates, and behind 14 nations in the percentage of college graduates.
Social costs vs. economic benefits. Studies prove that students who fail to get a high school diploma usually fall far behind the economic curve of higher educational achievers. They earn less throughout their lives, cost taxpayers more in social expenditures related to public assistance, health care and crime, and produce far less tax revenue and job productivity gains than higher earners.
The flip side of that equation is equally obvious and well documented. Citizens and workers with high levels of educational achievement generally earn more, produce more in the their jobs, contribute more to social stability and stronger communities, generate higher tax revenue to the local, state and national economies, and raise the nation's rate of innovation and technological advances.
Levin and Rouse report that cutting the current high-school drop-out rate by just half would raise those graduates' life-time incomes by 50 percent to 100 percent, generating a net benefit to taxpayers of around $127,000 per graduate above the cost of programs designed to keep students in school longer. That amounts, they estimate, to nearly $90 billion for each year of success in keeping 700,000 more students in high school until they graduate, or around $1 trillion in net national benefits over 11 years.
Even if the net benefit fell short of that estimate, it is undeniably clear that a legal requirement to keep students in school to the age of 18 would yield a significant return in social health, welfare and economic and overall benefits.
States, of course, generally set their own educational course, and make their own rules. A president cannot mandate a national policy, but the president could tie federal benefits, particularly grants for Race to the Top funds, to a higher minimum school-leaving age. Obama may not choose to use that option, but the nation -- and especially the laggard states with lower school-leaving ages --would reap the benefits.
But think of the sixteen and seventeen year old voters he's going to lose! Newt will snap them up with his janitorial staff policy!
sixteen and seventeen year olds can vote? When did that start?
For some youths 12 years of schooling aren't necessary. Many youths are mature enough to come out of school and begin their lives as adults at the age of sixteen and seventeen.
After sixth grade I'd already pretty much learned everything I needed to know to 1. go on to college 2. attend a trade or vocational school. 3. Or three go to work.
In fact, it was only a few decades ago, give or take, that America's youth already had enough skills by age sixteen or seventeen to begin their lives as adults. The rules may have changed, bu psychologically humans have remained the same.
Plus, if you're going to keep students in school longer, you must have something their to keep them interested in coming. After sixth grade, middle school is usually a dead zone, where nothing much is being taught. It was that way when I was in school. Things somewhat started to pick up again in nineth grade, but by then all that we'd learned in sixth grade that would have bridged us to what we were to be taught in nineth grade had pretty much been lost during those two or three years of not absence in learning in middle school (referred to as junior high in my day).
A well rounded learning experience should include much more than just the three R's. The experience just include lessons in the arts, such as music, and developing natural creativity skills, and introduction to world languages. These should be taught earlier on. As they were taught when I was in school. Because the earlier a child is exposed to various means of learning the more they will retain it later on in life. When we wait to teach a child music, foreign languages, expose them to artworks later in years, their brains have already solidified into that one track learning. And they are less likely to be able to comprehend and retain newer information.
I would have preferred to see an accounting of how our own students were doing here in Tennessee. I have had some people tell me that as many as 50% of our high school students in some rural counties were not making it to graduation. I haven't seen any easy to find reports of what our graduation rates look like. I imagine that the state's Department of Education doesn't have any real success to crow about because the conditions are probably poor to dismal.
We also haven't been presented with a clear picture of how our students have been doing on a year to year basis in topics like reading, math and laboratory sciences.
This editorial might have been a good opportunity to showcase information like that. Instead, we read how our local editors are relying on a report from the New York Times. We can read The New York Times on our own. Conditions are probably different here.
Some primary research into our own educational condition would have made for better reading.
Advocating behavioral controls is a weak argument for extending anyone's participation in public education. It's not a babysitting service.
Adopting realistic educational goals and facing observably true conditions about our local students are two innovations we sorely need. Until those changes are made, we'll be stuck with the same cheap and lazy approach to schooling that we have now.
Our main local innovations have included ideas like "Slaves learned to read" and removing teenagers from public gatherings. Wake up and get real.
We don't need to fuss about raising the drop-out age. We need to face the fact that we have young people who are not students because we don't care.
When students are already falling behind at the primary level, they will never catch up. Most will give up and drop out at first chance. If they're going to fix the problem that's where the fixin' should begin, at the primary level.
I have to agree with H. When I was in school the foundation was laid at the primary level and everything went upward from there. Now there's disconnect from one year to the next. America's children are being confused. They're brains rewired wrongly at such a young age that when they get into high school it's like having a room full of German only speaking students being taught by a Russian only speaking teacher. The students have no idea what the teacher is saying.


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Although production actually began during September, the new £50m McLaren Production Centre (MPC) – the specially designed and built factory where the MP4-12C and all its forthcoming derivatives will be built – has been formally opened by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Octane was invited along for the day to have a guided tour of the new facility, designed by the architect Lord Foster. And, for anybody who has ever seen pictures of (or, better still, been invited inside) the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC), it's predictably fastidious. A 20,000-square-metre plot next to the Technical Centre (just outside Woking in Surrey, UK) has been turned into an 11m-high block within which the cars are painted and assembled. A 12,000-square-metre floor below, set a matching 11m into the ground, is dedicated to just-in-time component storage, and the whole factory – if we can call it that – shares the equally low-profile MTC's water-cooling system, which discharges and dissipates heat via the curving lagoon that laps against the main façade of the MTC.
Staffing levels at the Woking site are now up to 750, slightly ahead of projections that had predicted a gradual rise to 800 (from the 500 post-McLaren-Mercedes SLR) once the whole range of new McLaren sports cars is in place. Yet the place is hardly crowded.
You access the MPC via an underground tunnel (workers use it to visit the canteen in the MTC) and climb stairs so you can survey the entire shopfloor. First impressions? It's white. Very white. Even the floor. And it's quiet. No sparks, no clang of metal on metal. They could be assembling watches in there. And the forklift trucks that sometimes scuttle about bearing components are shod with white tyres, so as not to mark that floor.
Cars start life as carbonfibre 'monocells' (actually moulded in Austria, in a process that takes just 3.5 hours – compared with 60 days to cure the McLaren F1's!), mated to a cast/extruded/welded aluminium rear subframe, and then gradually move through the first assembly process on 'skids' (actually labelled – in the McLaren font, naturally – as Build Staples), gaining roof, scuttle, rear glazing and front subframe, before being masked and carried through the paint booth. They're hand-sprayed in a 56-stage process along with their associated body panels, in colour batches, then held in a 'colour bank' to be matched to an order – and there's currently an 18-month waiting list.
There follows a 33-stage assembly process that culminates in a completed car, with Ricardo-built, McLaren-designed twin-turbo V8 and seven-speed, dual-clutch Graziano gearbox installed, and the interior fully trimmed. Ready to go… as far as the Dynamic Test booth (a rolling road in a glass box), then the Monsoon Test booth, to be blasted with deionised water at high pressure, which is subsequently air-bladed off and recycled. Finally, each car is protectively clad and sent on a 30km test drive. Once it's de-clad and cleaned, the McLaren badge is applied as a seal of approval.
Each build stage is scheduled at 45 minutes; currently ten cars are being built per week. More than 30 cars have so far been delivered; the eventual aim is to pump one out every 45 minutes, and the whole process has been future-proofed for a 15-year programme, which means that the whole layout can be rejigged in just a couple of hours.
Just as fascinating as the workings in the new assembly building is the approach of the different divisions within the company itself. CEO of McLaren Group (and a face familiar to viewers of Formula 1 racing on television) Martin Whitmarsh said: 'We set out to develop the best sports car in the world – we could only do that by design. And it's something we've been doing for years in motor sport.'
And did you know that every new McLaren Formula 1 car carries over 6% of componentry from the previous season? Yet 75% of that car is then completely re-engineered during the racing season. As MD of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes (the racing team), Jonathan Neale said: 'We love winning races. We just want to win a few more Championships!' His solution to that problem? 'Graft!'
Peter van Manen, MD of McLaren Electronic Systems, was keen to point out that, since 2008, Formula 1 teams had to run with standardised electronic control units. McLaren makes them. It also makes all the ECUs for Indycar racing. And now NASCAR too, necessitating the shift to fuel injection after 60 years with carburettors! 'We want to be at the leading edge, yet as conservative as you need to be for reliability,' he said.
It's that insistence on reliability that has taken his division into aviation. Final federal certification for McLaren's electronic control systems for the Lycoming aviation piston engine is now in due process. His philosophy: 'The fear of letting someone down means that you don't.' So don't be surprised to hear that the youngest company in the group, McLaren Applied Technology, is taking techniques learnt in racing elsewhere. Its MD Geoff McGrath said it 'exists to exploit the decades of resources that have gone into racing'. So far, thinking has been applied to athletics – the design of racing cycles, bobsleds and boats, and the optimisation of the athletes themselves by telemetric measurement during performance – as well as air traffic ground management (optimising the passage of aircraft from runway to gate, minimising taxiing time), medicine (applying pitlane techniques to minimise the time taken to transfer emergency cases from the ambulance into the operating theatre), the military (telemetry again, this time in the field of battle) and even rocket science. Remember Beagle 2? Its heat shields were made of the same plastics that protect an F1 car from its own exhaust.
Ron Dennis concluded proceedings with an upbeat reminder about McLaren's illustrious racing past: 20 Formula 1 Championships and 175 race wins (actually 1-in-4 of the those it's contested since 1966); three Indy 500 victories, and an outright win at Le Mans first time out. So at the end of this story of a British company at the international leading edge of technology, it's worth considering Ron's reminder: 'We will always be a Formula 1 team.' One whose future, it seems, is assured by the industry that has developed alongside it.


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Food labels: Major ingredient is confusionOctober 06,2013Most visits to the grocery store these days leave me shaking my head in disbelief. Im not referring to breaches of cellphone etiquette Im referring to the bewildering complexity of food labels.
It should be simple. Labels for fresh, natural food should say fresh and natural, and labels for frosted sugar-bomb cereals in neon colors should say ... well, what exactly should they say?
Some say multi-grain or a source of dietary fiber or some other catchphrase that makes these products sound good for you.
Consider some of the words used to identify our edibles and what they mean or dont mean. The term certified organic is a good starting place. It has a real definition, created and enforced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: grown or produced without the use of chemical fertilizers or additives.
That should be clear, right? But there is always wiggle room. Organic means that the product is 95 percent organic or higher. Made with organic ingredients means at least 70 percent organic, and some labels just say made with organic oats.
This gets more complicated when you consider that the organic label doesnt say anything about how workers are treated and paid, or about living conditions for animals, or about how far the food traveled to get to our table.
In one possible scenario, New England organic yogurt could be made from organic milk from New Zealand processed into powdered milk, shipped to this country, reconstituted here and cultured into yogurt.
Organic? Yes, but not fitting our image of happy cows grazing on Vermont hillsides. To meet rising demand, organic fruits and vegetables are increasingly grown in China where labor is cheap and oversight is lax.
One telling food label reads made with real fruit. Close scrutiny of some fruit beverages reveals up to 10 percent fruit juice, with the remainder being water, sugar and flavorings. There was even a lawsuit over a strawberry fruit roll-up made with real fruit which contained pear concentrate but nothing remotely resembling a strawberry.
Meat and poultry labeling is even more opaque, with such claims as free range, pasture-raised, grass-fed and all natural. These inspire visions of quaint family farms with clucking hens and cows named Daisy and Buttercup.
But free range means only that the animals have the opportunity to go outside and says nothing about the specifics of that opportunity. A huge factory farm housing 100,000 uncaged birds can have two small openings in the wall leading to a small fenced concrete pad. The birds are terrified to leave the security of the flock and dont go near these strange openings, but because the opportunity is there they are free range chickens.
And grass-fed beef may never see a pasture but be packed into dusty feed lots and fed grass shipped from far away.
In recent years consumers rebelled against the revolting product that the beef packing industry refers to as lean finely textured beef. It consists of beef trimmings and scraps heated in a centrifuge to separate out the fats and then exposed to ammonia gas to kill bacteria.
The creamy glop, widely referred to as pink slime, was used as up to 25 percent filler in hamburger and other processed meats until public outcry cut back its use. Yet this food product can still be described as natural.
So what does natural really mean? Your guess is as good as mine. In theory natural food has no artificial preservatives, coloring or ingredients. But all natural products may still contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), high-fructose corn syrup, highly processed and refined ingredients and be loaded with sugar, fat and calories.
What is a conscientious eater to do? Cultivate good relationships with farmers and growers and know where your food comes from. Shop at farmers markets, grow your own, and lobby Congress to create labeling requirements when Congress figures out how to function.
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Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery is surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries र defects in the head, neck, face, jaws र the hard र soft tissues of the oral र maxillofacial region. It is a recognized international medical specialty, which requires a minimum length of formation of 5 years for a basic medical training र 4 years for a basic medical र dental training, in the European Union. In the U.S.A. र Canada it is one of the 9 dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association र the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.
Area of Specialty[सम्पादन गर्ने]
Oral र maxillofacial surgeons are trained to treat problems such as the extraction of wisdom teeth, misaligned jaws, tumors र cysts of the jaw र mouth, र to perform dental implant surgery. They are also trained to administer anesthesia, र provide care in an office setting.[१] The scope of this specialty is extensive र concerns the diagnosis र treatment of diseases affecting the oral (mouth) र maxillofacial (face र neck) regions, including the following:
- Oral र Dentoalveolar Surgery (removal of impacted र buried teeth, cysts, etc.)
- Preprosthetic Surgery (bone augmentation)
- Dental implant surgery र associated bone grafting (to replace missing teeth or stabilise dentures; rehabilitation of patients having undergone surgery for tumours; to retain facial prostheses)
- Orthognathic surgery (dentofacial deformities)
- Facial trauma surgery (facial bone fractures र injuries)
- Surgery of Odontogenic र non-odontogenic Tumors
- Reconstructive surgery
- Cleft lip र palate surgery
- Congenital craniofacial deformities
- Facial plastic surgery (rhinoplasty, rhytidectomy, blepharoplasty, facial implants, etc.)
- Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD)
Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeons (OMFS) frequently work alongside other specialists including dentists, orthodontists, prosthodontists, radiologists, pathologists, oncologists, ENT surgeons, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons र professionals allied to medicine (British Association of Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeons [२]).
Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery is often found at the bridge of dentistry र medicine, and, as such, is recognized as a medical specialty in most countries, a dental specialty in others. Most countries require dual-certification in both dentistry (DDS, DMD, or BDS) र medicine (MD, MBBS, MBBCh, or equivalent) to practice Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery.
United States[सम्पादन गर्ने]
In the U.S.A., Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery is one of the 9 dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association र requires 4–6 years of further formal University training after dental school (DDS or DMD). The 4-year residency programs grant a certificate of specialty training in Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery. The 6-year residency programs grant the specialty certificate in addition to a medical degree (MD). Specialists in this field are designated registrable U.S. "Board Eligible" र warrant exclusive titles. Approximately 50% of the training programs in the U.S. are dual-degree programs, leading to dual certification in dentistry (DMD, DDS) र medicine (MD).
The typical training program for a U.S. Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeon is:
- 4 Years Undergraduate Study (BA, BS, or equivalent)
- 4 Years Graduate Dental Study (DMD or DDS)
- 4 - 6 Years Residency Training (6 Year training includes MD Degree)
- Total Length after Secondary School: 12 - 14 Years
In addition, graduates of Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery training programs can pursue advanced fellowships, typically 1 – 2 years in length, training in the following areas:
- Craniofacial/Pediatric Maxillofacial Surgery (cleft lip र palate repair)
- Head र Neck Surgical Oncology (cancer र microvascular surgery)
- Facial Cosmetic Surgery
- Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery
Europe, UK र Australia/New Zealand[सम्पादन गर्ने]
The Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeon (OMFS) is a person with a medical (MD: 6 years) र a dental degree (DDS or DMD : 5 years) or equivalent qualifications, examples of which would be a specialist certificate in Stomatology. This training must be a University Course authenticated by a certificate.
This specialty is defined within Europe, including the United Kingdom, under the medical Directive 2001/19/EC (Official Journal of the European Communities L 206, 31.07.2001). It requires 5 years for a basic medical training (MD) or 4 years of further formal University training after a dual qualification in Medicine (MD) र Dentistry (DDS or DMD).
The training program for an E.C. Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeon is:
Spain, France, Italy, Austria[सम्पादन गर्ने]
- 6 Years Graduate Medical Study (including MD Degree)
- Certificate accompanying qualification: certificate of experience in Medicine
- 5 Years of formal qualification in specialised medicine for Maxillofacial Surgery
- Total Length : 11 Years
Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Finland, United Kingdom[सम्पादन गर्ने]
- 6 Years Graduate Medical Study (including MD Degree)
- Certificate accompanying qualification: certificate of experience in Medicine
- 3 (to 5) Years Graduate Dental Study (DMD or DDS)
- Certificate accompanying qualification: certificate of experience in Dentistry
- 4 Years of formal qualification in specialised medicine for Maxillofacial Surgery
- Total Length : 13 (to 15) Years
Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Finland र the United Kingdom grant entry to higher years (usually year two or year three, depending on the course structure) to applicants with a medical or a dental degree. This shortens training time by a year or two.
Italy does not grant any shortening of training time for both degrees र specialty.
The European Directive 2001/19/EC also distinguishes Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery from other evidence of formal qualifications in specialised dentistry, such as Oral Surgery , which requires a minimum length of 3 years, is limited to Oral Surgery र is reserved to the dental practitioners, who consequently are not allowed to practice Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery.
Switzerland grants shortening of training time for Medicine र Dentistry. A formal qualification in Medicine (MD: 6 years) grants entry to the 3rd year of Dentistry (DDS or DMD : 3 years), while Dentistry (DDS or DMD : 5 years) to the 3rd year od Medicine (MD: 4 years). In Switzerland Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery requires 3 years of formal qualification in specialised Medicine.
In Eastern European states that were Communist before the end of the Cold War (U.S.S.R., D.D.R., Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland), Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery was a specialty of Dentistry.
Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery occupies a unique position in Australia, New Zealand र the UK, र is regarded as a true specialty of both medicine र dentistry combined.
Changes in length of training र course curriculum[सम्पादन गर्ने]
Traditionally training in Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery in the UK was of four years duration र was regarded as a discipline of dentistry alone. Trainees would emerge with a Fellowship in Dental Surgery from one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (England, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ireland) र the entitlement to use the FDSRCS title. Training in Australia र New Zealand followed a similar pathway, with four years of clinical training but this time generally administrated through universities, earning a Master of Dental Science degree.
However in the 1980s र 1990s due to changing trends in the practice of oral र maxillofacial surgery around the world, legislative changes occurred, first in the UK र followed shortly by Australia र New Zealand, whereby in order to train in Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery, applicants needed to be dually qualified with undergraduate degrees in dentistry र medicine. This represented official recognition of the unique position Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery occupies at the interface of the "traditionally medical" र "traditionally dental" spheres of health care.
Here the UK र the Antipodes diverged somewhat. In Australia र New Zealand, training courses were adapted to provide "integrated" training in Medicine र Oral Surgery i.e. singly qualified dentists (who at that time were the overwhelming majority of trainees) would enter into a comprehensive program, the first 3 years of which were spent as a full time medical student in order to obtain the necessary prerequisite qualifications to proceed to the surgical training. Obtaining a medical degree in Australia any other way at that time took 6 years. The shortened time was a reflection of basic sciences knowledge already possessed by the trainees. Unfortunately for trainees, training time suddenly doubled to 8 years.
In the UK however, persons wishing to practice as an Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeon had to obtain a medical degree independently of any training program. Once qualified as a dentist र as a physician, the trainee could then apply for training as an Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeon. Some UK medical schools grant entry to higher years (usually year two or year three, depending on the course structure) to applicants with a dental degree. This shortens training time by a year or two.
Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeons trained in the UK (and also in Australia र New Zealand, if training requirements increase as predicted) probably spend more aggregate time in training than any other surgical specialty.
Aggregate training time:
- 5 years Dental degree
- 4–6 years Medical degree
- 1 year Internship
- 2 years minimum Basic Surgical Training (training in a wide range of surgical disciplines)
- 4–5 years Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery Training
- 1 year Fellowship (a common practice of spending a year training at overseas institutions)
Total time: 19 years training (average)
By comparison, US-trained surgeons generally spend more time as undergraduate "Pre-med" students र less time in residency training. One might therefore regard US doctors as having a more well-rounded education, but shorter clinical training.
The popularity of oral र maxillofacial surgery as a career for persons whose first degree was medicine, not dentistry, seems to be increasing in Australia. Integrated programs are available to medical graduates allowing them to complete a dental degree in about 3–4 years in order for them to advance to surgical training.
India[सम्पादन गर्ने]
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) in India is a post-graduate degree in Dentistry. The prospective surgeon has to take an examination to enter an undergraduate program in dentistry. This course is usually 4 years long. Upon completion of the program, the student has to do a 1 year internship in a dental college to get the BDS (Bachelor in Dental Surgery). In order to specialize in OMFS, the student has to take another examination to enter a 3-year MDS (Masters in Dental Surgery) program. During this period the student does a residency in general medicine, anaesthesia, general surgery, र neurosurgery . A dissertation has to submitted as part of the master's degree, र is followed by a theory exam र practical surgery exam. The degree is conferred after he is found eligible by the examiners.
There are about 3500 Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons in India.
Organizations[सम्पादन गर्ने]
- American Association of Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeons [३]
- American Board of Oral र Maxillofacial Surgery [४]
- American College of Surgeons [५]
- Directive 2001/19/EC (Official Journal of the European Communities L 206, 31.07.2001) [६]
- European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery [७]
- Internacional Association of Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeons [८]
- British Association of Oral र Maxillofacial Surgeons [९]
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie [१०]
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften [११]
- Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Mund-, Kiefer- र Gesichtchirurgie [१२]
- Société Française de Stomatologie et Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale [१३]
- Société Royale Belge de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale [१४]
- Société Souisse de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale [१५]
- Società Italiana di Chirurgia Maxillo-Facciale [१६]
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