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Around the beginning of this month, Mayor John Engen quietly won reelection. His seat was not hotly contested. As the Missoulian put it, he "landed a decisive win despite the crowded field of four candidates," three of whom filed on the day of the deadline.
Engen received 11,366 of 16,525 votes cast, for a sturdy majority of 66 percent. His closest rival was Peggy Cain, who took 16 percent of the vote on a platform of not letting Missoula College expand to the golf coursesomething Engen also opposes. The combined totals of the other two candidates plus the write-ins exceeded Cain's share by only 115 votes. In sum, Mayor Engen is secure in his office, probably because he is a competent and likable guy.
Let me say what a deplorable situation this is for me as a smartass. While other mayors smoke crack and guide their cities into bankruptcy, Engen conducts himself in a manner unbefitting the rich comic tradition of his office.
- Chad Harder
If he refuses to wear his sash when he travels about town, would it kill him to use a monocle? Now that he has won election both unopposed and multiply opposed, how about he says the n-word at a charity auction or makes his no-good cousin the sanitation chief? He could probably do those things and remain in office, but he doesn't.
As a result, I sufferto say nothing of how bad it is for you, the reader. I suppose our only consolation is that we live in a pleasant city ably administered by a guy whom pretty much everyone likes.
By "everyone," I mean 66 percent of the 24 percent of Missoula's population that voted, of course. Probably a lot more people than that like Engen, but we only know the numerical extent of his popularity among voters. Those people, like the people who go to city council meetings, naturally get a little more say. And for the most part, they are Engen's constituency.
No wonder, when you see how well the mayor runs a council meeting. This fall, I watched him preside over a crowded, emotional chamber that ultimately decided to prevent the Union Gospel Mission from renting the Sweetheart Bakery building. That night, Engen did what a good leader does: He created order gracefully.
He raised uncertain voices to a level city government could hear, and he lowered voices that were too certain to a level procedure could manage. He did it with good humor and evident affection for the people of Missoula, and in the end he listened to them. Engen made city government respond to citizens' concerns. He also put it into conflict with a religious charity by legally dubious means.
I do not mention this because I disagree with the mayor's and council's decision. I do, but my position is so unpopular that I have learned to bring it up as little as possible. I only mention it now because Engen has the virtues of his faults, and in this case his virtuous desire to make government reflect the will of the people led him to indulge us, maybe in a way that was not good.
Mayor Engen is the good kind of secure mayor. We like him and so he listens to us. The bad kind of secure mayor might take his popularity for granted, but Engen has remained responsive at a time when he might safely ignore what Missoulians want. I'm glad our mayor does not rule Missoula with a chewed cigar and a tin ear. Every once a while, though, I wonder if he should try it.
The Union Gospel kerfuffle was a moment when we may have sacrificed good government to popular sentiment. Engen is approaching another potential conflict between what the city wants and what's good for it in what will likely be the signature initiative of his career: the plan to buy Missoula's water supply from the Carlyle Group.
Plenty of loud voices oppose Engen's plan, for the usual reasons: taxpayers will have to pay for it with taxes, private enterprise can run water more efficiently than government, this is a new thing that might happen, etc. Those voices are mistaken.
Most other cities of our size administer their own water supplies, and buying Mountain Water will save Missoulians money for generations. Engen's plan is ambitious and smart. But will it be popular?
Cynicism says no. A taxpayer-funded improvement is never more resented than at the moment people are asked to pay for it, and the mayor's good plan will probably earn him significant political opposition for the first time in his career. He may have to choose between what's popular with Missoulians and what's good for us.
He will have to decide whether that can even be a choice. Plenty of respectable approaches to government say it isn'tthat a mayor's job is to give the people what they want. Maybe they are right. It so happens, though, that Mayor Engen is uniquely situated to give us what we need.
Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and lying at combatblog.net. His column appears every other week in the Independent.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The Marist football team (1-1) suffered a 19-17 non-league loss to Bucknell (1-0) on Saturday at Tenney Stadium. The game was the Red Foxes' home opener.
Junior quarterback Chuckie Looney (Ocala, Fla.) threw for 309 yards. Looney was 25-for-39 with two touchdowns and one interception, which came on a Hail Mary pass on the final play of the first half. Three Red Foxes had at least 75 yards receiving. Fifth-year senior wide receiver Michael Rios (Miami, Fla.) accumulated a team-high 82 yards on five catches. Sophomore wide receiver Matt Tralli (Croton, N.Y.) amassed 76 yards on seven receptions and a touchdown. Junior wide receiver Armani Martin (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) had 75 yards on seven receptions.
Defensively, junior free safety Nick Kaszei (Brook Park, Ohio) had a game-high 11 tackles. Senior linebacker Mike Hagemann (Vernon, N.J.) added nine. Sophomore cornerback Vinny Fuschetto (New Providence, N.J.) had an interception. Senior safety Tyler Ramsey (Southbridge, Mass.) forced a fumble that junior linebacker Paul Sakowski (Chester, N.Y.) recovered.
Bucknell never trailed in the contest. With 3:45 left in the first quarter, Brandon Wesley threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Travis Friend as the Bison took a 7-0 lead. But the Red Foxes answered with 53 seconds left in the quarter on a one-yard pass from Looney to fifth-year senior running back Calvin McCoy (Bronx, N.Y.).
The Bison took the lead for good with 10:37 left in the second quarter on a 22-yard field goal by Sean Cobelli. The lead extended to 16-7 on a seven-yard pass from Wesley to Jake Flaherty, but Rios blocked the extra point for the eighth blocked kick of his career.
With 1:42 left in the first half, senior kicker Jason Myers (Chula Vista, Calif.) hit a 36-yard field goal to cut Marist's deficit to 16-10 heading into halftime. After a scoreless third quarter, Cobelli hit a 36-yard field goal, which capped a 14-play, 65-yard drive and gave the Bison a two-score lead at 19-10 with 4:50 to play.
The Red Foxes used a 10-play, 80-yard drive to cut the score to 19-17, as Looney finished it off with an 11-yard pass to Tralli with 31 seconds left. The ensuing onside kick bounced several times before Bucknell recovered it, and then ran out the clock.
Marist held a 366-332 edge in total yards, but the Bison maintained a 142-57 advantage in rushing yards. Bucknell also had a time of possession of 32:49, and went 7-for-13 on third-down conversions. Each team had two turnovers.
For Bucknell, Ryan Morgan and Evan Byers had eight tackles apiece. Morgan also forced a fumble that he returned 55 yards in the first quarter, which set up the first score of the game. Wesley was 20-for-27 in the air for 190 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Victor Walker caught six passes for 81 yards, and Jeremiah Young had a team-high 71 yards rushing on 21 attempts.
Marist returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 15 at Columbia. Kickoff is set for 12:30 p.m. The meeting is the second between the schools all-time, as the Lions captured the first contest in 2007.
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Note: The contest, which was originally supposed to kick off at 6:08, did not start until 7:16. A thunderstorm moved into Poughkeepsie shortly after 5 p.m., which kept the teams off the field for nearly an hour-and-a-half.

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I will be 17 on April 15th. According to the Humans, this makes me quite the old lady. I prefer to think of myself as a teenager: I like my primping and preening, and the entire world revolves around ME.
Even though my 17th birthday is coming up, I'm still very healthy after all of these years. My eyesight and hearing are great (just because I don't acknowledge you doesn't mean I don't know you're there. I'm just ignoring you). What's that, you say? I'm not jumping up on chairs and beds, or hunting as much as I used to? Oh, that has nothing to do with creaky joints, ladies and gentlemen, it's because I have the humans so thoroughly trained to cater to my every whim that I don't NEED to hunt for my own food or set up my own sleeping spots anymore. No: dinner is A La Carte, and I get the finest heated and blanketed spots in the house. I even get the curtains adjusted for -maximum sunbeam action-.
I will admit, though, that I need the humans to help groom me a bit. I just don't have the time to do it anymore. When you're overseeing the entire household, there's just no time to make your hair 'star quality'. Unfortunately, those silly Humans can't seem to understand my directions, and I keep getting these ugly hair cuts! If only I had opposable thumbs, I'd be dialing Jennifer Lopez' stylist this very instant!
I have not been in a good mood, and so I've been taking out my aggression on that silly creature I live with, Oliver. I'M the one holding this house together, so he has all the time in the world to prance around with his super clean, fluffy long hair. It's like he just rolls out of the recliner in the morning, already brushed and ready to go! I just want to smack him.
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Title: Saint Seiya
Volume: GN 26
Pages: 200
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 2009-06-02
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Age rating: 13+
The Greatest Eclipse is coming - the fateful alignment of planets that will block out the sun, destroy all life and transform the Earth into a second Hades. To stop this ultimate disaster, Athena offers her own life to the lord of darkness. But her sacrifice changes the tide of battle in a way not even the gods could have predicted...
Now, to face Hades in his true form, the Knights must pass beyond the Wall of Lamentation, which only gods can cross, and find the paradise of Elysium. Such a quest is beyond the power of ordinary mortals, but if Seiya and his friends can summon the 12 Gold Cloths, they can work miracles even in the darkest depths of the Underworld!
Story and Art by Masami Kurumada.
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Holmstrom: 'I will take my time' on deciding future
DETROIT – Tomas Holmstrom is biding his time, uncertain what he wants to do next, even as the numbers indicate he has little chance of signing with the Red Wings.
"I have not decided what I'm going to do," Holmstrom said.
Holmstrom finished a two-year deal last season, leaving him an unrestricted free agent. His best friend, fellow Swede and longtime teammate, Nicklas Lidstrom, retired in May. Where Lidstrom left with a calm conscience, knowing that it was the right decision for him, Holmstrom is unconvinced about which path to take.
"I will take my time," he said.
Holmstrom is 39 and has 15 seasons of hard mileage on his body, earned in front of opponents' nets. He has missed chunks of time each of the last six years. He was healthy enough to play 74 games in 2011-12, but his production was limited to 11 goals and 13 assists. He had one goal and one assist in the playoffs.
At best, at this point, he'd have the same role he had when he entered the NHL in 1996: a fourth-line player and power-play specialist. That's all the harder a job for an aging player whose legs get cold when sitting on the bench for long stretches.
One thing is certain: He doesn't want to play hockey unless it's in Detroit.
"Wings it is," Holmstrom said.
The Red Wings, though, seem to have moved on without him. They have 15 forwards under contract for the 2012-13 season, and it'll be 16 when restricted free agent Justin Abdelkader is re-signed, which is expected to happen before the NHL's collective bargaining agreement expires Sept. 15.
The Red Wings have had three consecutive years of disappointment in the playoffs, the nadir of which came April 20, when they surrendered their first-round series to the Nashville Predators with a listless performance in Game 5. Management entered the offseason determined to get tougher and younger, and while they've fallen short on attempts to add to the defense, the forward group is considered well-stocked.
Holmstrom is a special guy to the Wings, however — a 10th-round draft pick who couldn't skate well nor stickhandle well and still came to Detroit and showed what hard work can accomplish. He made a fan out of his first coach, Scotty Bowman, and out of team owner Mike Ilitch. Holmstrom went on to win four Stanley Cups with the Wings, playing a pivotal role in three of them. He long has been recognized around the league as one of the game's best net-front players.
Holmstrom's family wants him to keep playing. He is thinking it over. The Wings are going to let Holmstrom make his own decision, but if he really wants a job, he'll have to earn it.
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I had some interesting firearm discussions with a consultant my company uses. He has a private plane in Texas that he sometimes uses to come to Northern Virginia and sometimes uses for other travel out of Texas. He also does some work with the Air Force Reserve and the Civil Air Patrol. I know he can't and won't take firearms onto a miltary base, but what about other things that are generally considered weapons?
Flying long distances (or any distance, in my opinion!) means you should have certain normally prohibited items in your survival gear. He has a small ax or hatchet, knives, etc. But what are the rules and potential consequences when he lands at an airport? Soon as he lands he's within the secure area. How do you declare that you have a weapon and to whom? And if the state you land in doesn't have a reciprocity agreement with the state you have your permit in, how do you get your stuff out to the rental car?
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Hot Ink — Powers #1, Giant-Size Thor Finale, Chew #6, Detective Comics #859, Blackest Night #5
ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest — and best — comic books hitting the shelves this week.
BACK ON THE CASE – Powers 1
It's been two years since we last saw an issue of "Powers," the superhero police procedural from writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. But this week the series is back and kicking off a third volume in its run with "Powers" #1. For me, the book's always had two sides. There's the "Powers" that creates its own universe of super-powered beings with a well-developed history. And then there's the "Powers" that riffs on prominent superheroes, usually with its own versions of DC characters.
The former has always been a much stronger read than the latter. The "Powers" world strikes me as strong enough to stand on its own and its knock-off characters haven't been done nearly as well as the same concept has been done by other creative teams. So to start with, I'm glad to see the latest storyline of "Powers" once more delving into its own history rather than borrowing from someone else's.
All right, all right, there's a small caveat there. When I say they're not "borrowing from someone else's" history, what I really mean is the characters here are drawing their inspiration from actual history rather than another publishing company's iconic characters. Detective Christian Walker and his new partner, former Internal Affairs Detective Enki Sunrise, are tasked with investigating the murder of Z. Decades ago in Las Vegas, Z headed up a superhero version of the rat pack that included Walker. The group mixed all the ego and swagger of Sinatra's boys, then backed it up with superhuman abilities and a tendency to brag about the dictators they personally put down during World War II. They made it clear Vegas was their playground, and that it would be great for everyone as long as nobody got in the way of them having fun.
Meanwhile, back in the present, Walker's girlfriend Heather is starting to get glimpses into his past. She isn't coping so well with the fact that her boyfriend's an amnesiac immortal who's left a trail of doomed romances behind him. And not doomed in the sense of "never meant to be", but rather doomed in the sense of "running out of cemeteries to store the dead girlfriends." Then to top it all off Walker's not having an easy time working with his new partner, mostly due to the fact that she was previously investigating him for covering for a murder committed by his previous partner. So feel free to start placing bets on which of these challenges will start ruining Walker's life first.It's all a welcome return to the "Powers" universe. With heroes that are neither completely amoral on the scale of many superhero deconstruction books nor total boy scouts the way many of the Big Two's headliners can be, Bendis and Oeming have carved out their own distinct little world. There's an element of fun pulp action mixed with a sense of what mundane life would be like in a world of capes, masks, flying men and people who can shoot laser beams from their hands. I've missed it, and it's good to have new stories back and headed in a promising direction.
DROPPING THE HAMMER – Giant-Size Thor Finale
Time to be blunt. This book made me unhappy in almost every way an issue of a comic book can. The story was a downer, intentionally so. It continued the trend Marvel's been following lately of taking an issue, tacking on a preview and a reprint, then calling it "giant-size". And it has all the flaws you'd expect in a poorly managed handover from one creative team to another.
This all started a little while ago when "Thor" writer J. Michael Straczynski announced he'd be stepping down as the book's writer in order to avoid being dragged kicking and screaming into Marvel's next big crossover event, "Siege," which promises a big role for the Norse gods. I've liked the job Straczynski's done re-launching and partially modernizing one of the Marvel universe's oldest characters, but one major facet of that run has been setting Thor and the rest of the gods of Asgard off on their own and giving them time to rediscover their place in the Marvel Universe.
Now that this has been accomplished, Marvel wants to pull them all back into the bigger picture, and Straczynski's not excited by the editorial edicts that's going to involve. It's a constant curse of the big event style of comics publishing: If a series is engaging enough, it'll be pulled into the larger universe of a company's story, probably derailing a number of story threads that its creator has been carefully building. This isn't the first time it's happened and it's unlikely to be the last.
But this one is particularly painful. First off, the title of "Giant-Size Thor Finale" is entirely misleading. There's a standard length comic here, followed by a preview of next week's "Thor" 604 by Kieron Gillen and Billy Tan and then a reprint of classic Thor stories. So it's deceptively giant in the style of one man standing on another's shoulders while wearing an enormous trenchcoat.
Second, it's not really a finale, at least not for the main storyline that's recently been running in Thor. What is resolved is the story of star-crossed lovers Bill, an ordinary guy from Oklahoma, and Kelda, a beautiful Asgardian woman. Spoilers will follow from here, because I'm going to need to go into what happens to describe why it's so disappointing.
Bill dies from wounds suffered in a fight, but not before he can successfully rescue and warn Balder that he is about to be betrayed by Doctor Doom and Loki. Balder needs someone else to tell him that it might not be a good idea to trust an alliance of Doctor Doom and Loki because Balder is an idiot. But that's not important to the matter at hand. Upon hearing of Bill's death, Kelda swears she will not rest until she has her revenge on Loki and departs. In the first six pages of the preview by Gillen and Tan, she's killed by Doctor Doom. And so two interesting supporting characters who'd been introduced in Straczynski's run and gone through as much if not more character development than anyone else in the book are effortlessly discarded because there's no time to pay attention to them while the big important superheroes are fighting.
This perfectly illustrates one of the major problems I've got with Marvel and DC. As long as big event books are the focus, there's not much room for these beautiful little character moments to exist. Seeing an example so brutally snuffed out hurts, and unfortunately it's done in a story that isn't even that good. Whether Straczynski simply didn't have enough time to resolve everything he wanted to resolve or whether he'd already mentally moved on to his next project while writing this, I don't know. But it doesn't feel like it's a one hundred percent effort here.
All in all it's a sad way to end the run. I'm left with little desire to keep up with the title when the creative changeover happens. I'd never really been a big fan of Thor prior to this and thought he actually worked better as a character more removed from the rest of the Marvel universe. This only clinched that feeling for me. Not even a fight scene demonstrating that angry naked Volstagg is the rock to a squad of suped-up Doombots' scissors was enough to leave me feeling good about this one.
THANKSGIVING THREE COURSE SPECIAL – Chew 6, Detective Comics 859, Blackest Night 5
As this week's comic releases coincide with Thanksgiving here in the U.S., I'
m going to conclude this week's reviews with a quick run down of issues that highlight different parts of the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
To start with, you can't talk about Thanksgiving without talking about food. And comics readers should remain thankful for "Chew," the Image series that hit its sixth issue and second story arc this week. As International Flavor, another five-parter, begins, Tony Chu becomes reacquainted with John Colby. Detective Colby was Chu's partner way back in the first issue of the series until an unfortunate encounter between his face and a meat cleaver landed him in a hospital bed for a brief stay. The FDA's agreed to provide Colby with a cybernetic replace to the half of a face he lost, complete with nifty red laser eye, in exchange for him joining as a special agent. Partnering with Chu, the two are ordered by their spiteful boss to solve a bank heist, which can be accomplished either by hard detective work or by cibopathic Chu eating the one piece of evidence left at the scene to discover the bank robbers' identity. As that piece of evidence is a neatly coiled pile of human excrement, they go with the first option. The issue serves mostly as a fun reintroduction to Colby, who's much more a risk-taker compared to the cautious, hesitant Chu. And it also introduces an object the arc's going to revolve around, a mysterious plant that looks like a pineapple invented by H.P. Lovecraft. "Chew" remains an excellent book and a wonderful side dish to your Thanksgiving feast.
Thanksgiving's also the traditional time for students to come back from college and experience awkward moments with their parents. Which is one of the many scenes on display in the continuing origin story of Batwoman in "Detective Comics" 859. While the last issue focused on one pivotal moment in Kate Kane's childhood, this one jumps to several significant points in her later life. It begins with her refusal to deny her homosexuality, resulting in her expulsion from West Point and ending a promising military career. Kate's father, a lifelong military man and role model, actually takes the admission pretty well. But the aftermath hits Kate hard, as she's directionless and tries to bury her sorrows under drink and parties. The issue goes on to tell the story of how Kate first met Renee Montoya, how their relationship faltered, and then of Kate's fateful first encounter with Batman. Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III continue to amaze with this book. I end every issue wondering how they can possibly top or even maintain the level of quality they're hitting, and yet they do it every time. Rucka's building a backstory up there with the best DC character origins and everything about Williams artwork, from his varied styles to his splash pages, remains jaw-dropping.
Finally, Thanksgiving is a holiday known for overblown conflicts. People exhausted and tense from traveling and cooking all day, relatives nursing old grudges, everyone overdosing on turkey and stuffing until gravy seeps into their brain and stunts more rational thought processes. It all ends up making Thanksgiving a holiday where every little thing eventually spirals into a matter of life and death that's going to cause the end of the world. Which of course brings us to "Blackest Night" 5.
The entire DC Universe has gathered to gather in an attempt to cook Nekron, the villain who was revealed as the crossover event's big bad at the end of the last issue. It looks like someone gave them the wrong instructions, because nothing they do seems to be working. Yes, this being issue 5 of and 8 part series, the heroes' plan to destroy the villain once and for all has (gasp!) backfired and made him even stronger. After a fight scene lasting most of the issue in which it's not all that clear why anyone is doing what they're doing, Nekron gains the power to reclaim heroes who've died and come back to life and starts turning some into Black Lanterns. In fact, he declares that he only let them come back to life in order to further his plans to stop the Guardians of the Universe from doing whatever it is he's unhappy about them doing. Let me repeat that. He stated that every single resurrection that's occurred in the Post-Crisis DC universe was all part of his master plan to thwart the Guardians. This is some pretty heavy retroactive justification.
When "Blackest Night" ends, I'm going to look back on this issue and say that this was either when the event started to disastrously collapse inward under its own weight or when it started to head in the direction of examining in-depth the issue of how death is handled in comics. Now, I've got a bad track record of giving big event comics the benefit of the doubt because they often start with a premise which I can picture going in an interesting direction. And I usually end up disappointed when that premise is abandoned in favor of big splash pages with dozens of people fighting.
The emotional horror of old friends coming back wrong and confronting people with their innermost fears that was present early in "Blackest Night" appears to have been abandoned in favor of different colored light beams shooting things. Honestly confronting the idea of how comics casually handle death is the only interesting premise remaining here, so I'm going to tightly clutch my blue ring in the hope that it's examined in the issues to come. But experience has taught me that may not be the case, and if that happens I'm going to be left choosing between either the willpower to stop buying this or the rage over the fact that I've been tricked yet again.


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As if being genetically blessed weren't enough, Gisele Bundchen can now boast that she's also the richest maiden in the land. The Brazilian supermodel came in at number one on Forbes.com's 2007 list of The Top Earning Models in the World. Her earnings of $33 million dollars easily dwarfed the income of her second-place competitor, Kate Moss, whose $9 million dollar intake seemed comparatively paltry. With nearly 20 major contracts that she steadfastly maintains, the South American supermodel's international fashion campaigns, including a record-making $5 million dollar a year contract with Victoria's Secret, have made her by far the richest supermodel out there today.
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But it's not all angel wings and money pools for Bundchen. She might be making some serious bank, but it sounds like her relationship with Tom Brady could stand to use a little perking up. Page Six reports that the photogenic couple are cracking under the stress over the arrival of Tom's baby, from his ex-fiancee, Bridget Moynahan. The stork is set to arrive on Friday, the same day as Giselle's birthday. According to a spy for Page Six:
The tension has grown so intense that the couple fought openly in front of hotel guests in Napa while staying at the five-star Auberge du Soleil.
Shit, with the kind of green Gisele's got, she could just buy herself a new Tom Brady. Or maybe two. Or hire a wacky scientist to invent a laser that magically dissolves baby mama drama upon impact. You know, whatever's easiest to do. I'm not a scientist, people, I can't explain the ins and outs of how this stuff works. I'm an idea woman.


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Other aspects of the plan include cost-cutting measures, a significant fuel economy improvement across the Subaru lineup, and the goal of being a leader in safety performance.
Details werent provided on how Subaru would reduce overall vehicle development costs, but the target is to reduce that number by 20 percent. One hint lies in the FT-86 sports car project, which was co-developed with Toyota. Subaru plans to launch this car and three others (including a hybrid) in the next five years and is looking to reduce its overall fleet fuel consumption by 30 percent.
As for safety, the Motion-V plan calls for new advancements in both active and passive safety systems.
Subaru isnt alone in forecasting tremendous growth over the next few years. Ford recently announced plans to increase global sales by 50 percent by 2015, while the Nissan Power 88 plan calls for that automaker to capture 8 percent of the global market by 2016, launching one new vehicle ever six weeks for the next six years.
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DYNO NUMBERS ARE IN FOR THE PR COLDer AIR INTAKE!
The final Dyno numbers are in for the Phoenix Rising (PR) Colder Air Intake. So in order to remain as conservative as possible these 5 consecutive runs were performed one after another in the brutal AZ heat. Additionally the numbers are done on a MAHA dyno which are notoriously lower numbers than other dynos out here. The final icing on the cake so to speak is that this dyno is a true all wheel drive dyno, so the following numbers are as accurate as you could hope for.
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The BSH/PR Golf.:R owned by BSHR on the ol' Maha Dyno
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So friends the final numbers are all groundbreaking firsts in the CAI market for VAG cars. So for the round up we got:
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Stage racing and working a day job is not something I would want to do more than once a year. Up at 6:30 and working/racing/driving until 10pm? There's no time for sleeping or doing anything else! Man, if I wanted to live like this I'd have kids and live in the suburbs (zing!).
This was my 3rd road race of the year and the shortest yet, at only 26 miles. I guess this is normal for Cat 5 races, and I've been just avoiding the short ones. In any case, we went "active" from the gun, which was much better than the usual softpedal-a-lap-or-more racing. One guy rolled around the first corner more aggressively than the rest of us, and I ended up second, five bike lengths behind him. Screw it, I was just talking about resolving not to chase anything, someone else can close that. So he started riding away. Half a mile in, some Noreast guy decides that letting him have 8 seconds was too much, so he gesticulates wildly while going to front and closes the gap down. As soon as we catch him another Noreast guy goes off the front. Ooooh a counterattack, I've heard about this stuff! Wheeee!
Another dude joined him and they hung out front for a while, before more panic from the field strung us out and reeled them in. It was a much sharper start than I was expecting, making me really regret the "pffffft who warms up for a ROAD RACE??" decision I had made earlier. But then we chilled out, just in time to bunch up for the worst pothole on the course. I saw it go by a few feet to my right at the last second and thought "yikes, don't hit that next lap" just in time to hear SLAM WSSSSSSSH WSHHHH WSHHH a few wheels back. Sounded like carbon wheels to me, although my exposure to them is pretty limited. I decided that staying in the front 10 guys was probably a really good idea from now on.
We rolled all together from there to the KOM hill. Solo's advice was that breaks tend to get started right after the KOM when the field eases, so I decided to try it on lap one. I made sure to tip my hand to Sam Evans-Brown, who was third in the TT with zero aero gear, one of the ten fastest college nordic skiers in the East, and has also kicked my ass easily in the past. Unfortunately, Sam is a super athlete and didn't know where the KOM line was, so instead of going once past it, he attacked up the hill and all the way across the false flat to the line, stringing out the field and then riding away from it. He probably had 10 seconds on us already when we crossed the line, and people sat up.
I tried to bridge over the top onto the downhill, but it didn't even start to work. I was pretty cooked from racing 3 of the last 4 days, not sleeping, and just racing up the KOM hill. Sam is a real endurance athlete and I am a guy who fakes it. I pulled out a healthy gap on the field, but barely dented the gap to him, he was riding away so fast. I sat up before the last corner of the lap and rejoined the field.
With 2 laps to go the field was unconcerned. so was I, at first, but he already had 25 seconds according to the whiteboard at the finish, and we just kept riding 23 miles an hour. Sam did the TT the day before at over 24 so I was pretty sure he could hold over 23 for two laps, which is really only 45 minutes or so. But hey, I didn't want to be that guy who burns all his matches to bring a break back so others can win, and no one else in the field did, so we poked along, and next thing you know the second lap was over, we hadn't seen him in a long time, and the board at the finish said 1:xx. Crap.
Alright guys, let's organize a chase! Said the Cat 5 rider. Okay! said the other Cat 5 rider. And then they both did one 20 second pull at 26 mph, and that was the chase. Shockingly we did not bring him back in that time.
My legs were mostly crap, but they still had 30 second bursts of effort in them, which is enough to take some pulls (and also enough to have a good sprint, I noted...) so I decided to do my share of the work. In the grand tradition of road race reports, I would like to complain that I was working hard and other guys were not pulling through nearly as hard. There were at best four of five people who were willing to get on the front, and many of them would just stay there instead of pushing hard and then swinging off. So we'd pick it up to 27 and then coast back down to 22, until someone went around the guy on the front. Maybe they were all secretly blocking for Sam, or maybe we just have no idea what we're doing. Or maybe they've all given up.
When we couldn't see him on the climb up to South Hampton, I also gave up, and decided it was time to be a total lamer and hide from the wind until 200m to go and try to get 2nd place. After all, the benefit of a stage race omnium is that time gaps don't matter, only places. So I used what little positioning smarts I have (all gleaned from sprinter della casa's blog) to stay off the front but in the top five over the KOM hill, down the descent, and around the corner onto the long drag into the finish.
For reasons unknown, the guy on the front buried himself on the false flat almost all the way to the elementary school, so my status as 3rd wheel went unchallenged. Finally he eased and quickly there were people on both sides of me -- crap, this is what "boxed in" must feel like! Crap crap crap! I started to panic, but as we went past the school onto the shallow climb (800m to go?) people surged all over the place and some gaps opened back up. We started to round the last corner and the sprint opened up (way early, I might add) and it was pretty easy to surf wheels right up to the 200m mark, where the road opened up. The guy who I knew only as "Dylan's friend" beat me to jumping across the yellow line and I had to follow him around the exploding guys in the right lane, then back across the yellow to try to pass before the finish. There was a guy on a ladder about 20 meters after the tent and orange cones, so neither of knew where the line was. We both half-threw at the cones, pedaled once, and then threw again at the ladder. It was close, and with no line for reference I had no idea what happened, but the results eventually came out showing me winning the field sprint for 2nd.
That was good enough to move me up to 2nd overall by one point, trailing only Sam. If I can swallow my fear and get some luck at tonight's points race, I could still win this -- although after Sam's 20-mile solo TT I am expecting him to lap the field at some point tonight.
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When a new operating system comes to market the greatest excitement is arguably reserved for the cool kit which follows. Windows Phone 7 is rather different. Microsoft – traditionally liberal with its hardware requirements – has this time imposed strict hardware guidelines and even forbid tinkering with the interface.
The result is an army of clone-like devices with very little to separate them. The good news: LG has done just enough to enjoy the Optimus 7 on its own merits.
So what are we working with? As you might expect, all Windows Phone 7 demands are met. This means the Optimus 7 has a 3.8in 480 x 800 pixel 16:9 display, 16GB of internal memory, a five megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and 720p video recording and is powered by a 1GHz processor. Minimum requirements in these categories are a 3.5in 480 x 800 display, 8GB of native memory (no user accessible microSD), a five megapixel camera and 1GHz processor.
What hardware requirements don't enforce, however, is build quality and here LG has excelled. The Optimus 7 feels solid in hand without creaks and squeaks, the machined metal back plate adds a touch of class and it is the only Windows Phone 7 handset to launch with physical as opposed to touch sensitive buttons – a real boon to usability in our eyes. The embossed Windows logo on the home key is raised a little too high and can be scratchy while the on/off button on the top is needlessly small, but overall it is a handset you'll be proud to pull from your pocket.
Your pocket won't need to be on a pair of combat pants either since the Optimus 7 is relatively compact for its features measuring 125 x 59.8 x 11.5mm and weighing in at 140g. By contrast the iPhone 4 is 137g, the HTC Desire 135g, the Desire HD 164g.
So the exterior passes all tests, but what about actual usage? This isn't a review of Windows Phone 7 (Ed has covered that with his extensive write-up already), but rather how well has LG managed to implement it and differentiate it from the pack. In terms of the former the answer is extremely well – as have all launch partners to be fair. For all its limitations Windows Phone 7 is the fastest and most responsive mobile operating system on the market. Its detractors would argue this is because the OS is currently so stripped down - lacking the bloatware of endless apps, Flash support or multi-tasking – but regardless the Optimus 7 rockets along with fast, sensitive touchscreen feedback and extremely responsive multi-touch zooming both in photos and more complex web pages. That said there are bumps along the way…
Browsing may be fast, but LG's screen – while bright and crisp – doesn't measure up to the Super AMOLED displays seen in Samsung's latest handsets, the S-LCD on the Desire HD or the Retina display on the iPhone 4. As such text can look a little fuzzy when web pages are zoomed out. This isn't a huge problem given the responsive zooming of the Optimus 7 and it is by no means a bad display, just not a class leader.
hmm, while it might be slickly implemented, dlna isn't much of a usp or differentiater - dlna/upnp clients, players and remote control apps are freely available for Android and (perhaps not freely) for iphone. I've tried some and the novelty soon wears off.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Good review, DLNA is indeed the killer function for me on this.
PS. It's DLNA, not DNLA. :-)
@Virbo - many thanks, and fixed ;)
No "Wow" factor, nothing new on offer and no real reason to change from my existing phone. Mind you, Microsoft don't really do innovation so no surprise here. Just another case of trying to catch up with the leaders.
@lantics: Because Surface, Courier and the Ribbon interface just aren't innovative are they?
"Microsoft – traditionally liberal with its hardware requirements – has this time imposed strict hardware guidelines and even forbid tinkering with the interface. The result is an army of clone-like devices with very little to separate them."
I find this the right way to make mobile phones. I agree with Microsoft. Endless and completely nonsense craps litter almost all of the mobile phones.
Every single user can format the OS to his needs. Doesn't need every random company's perverted styling and way of living.
Companies should try to be different from the "pack" with serious features, like build quality from LG. There are many ways to be innovative, modern and respectable and attractive to customers. No more beads and mirrors "gentlemen".
@ffrankmccaffery did you honestly say "the Ribbon interface"? Seriously? That is your evidence of Innovation? Next you'll be telling me the Start button in Windows is innovation. Priceless :-)
(1) I wish that at some point the comments on WP7 handset reviews would stop being about the WP7 software, and instead focus on the hardware at issue.
(2) The cameras on almost all of these WP7 devices have been subpar. Is this a limitation of WP7 itself, or reflective of rushed efforts by the hardware manufacturers? Because, if it's not a WP7 limitation, then my advice for the hardware manufacturers would be to differentiate in this area.
@Lantic: How about actually arguing as to why the Ribbon interface isn't innovative? Details maybe? I'm sure it'll take less than two days for you to reply and than perhaps you could argue why the Surface and Courier aren't innovative either.
@Heelo - it isn't a software problem, so you're right handset makers have been slack in some cases. It often comes down to throwing more megapixels at the consumer, but this is never a real fix. The HDR integration in the iPhone 4 is a major step in the right direction so if Microsoft can help in any way this would be a good start...
@ffrankmccaffery no need to argue old chap. I'd prefer to discuss. In my opinion, the Ribbon is merely rearranging the old File, Edit menus into new locations. How is that innovation? More like house keeping and refresh of the old drop-down menus.
As for Courier .. where can I buy this Courier from? Is this not a rehash of a single tablet which failed miserably before? And where is it now? Surely this "innovative" product must have been snapped up by all and sundry? No?
Surface may be bordering on Innovation, but you blew all credibility by referring to the Ribbon in the first instance. Still makes me chuckle! Discussion - done!
The ribbon is merely rearranging the old menus! That's like saying the iPhone just made the icons more finger friendly!
@rav Uh, no.
@Lantic: You really should have taken another two days if that's your reply. I'm struggling to respond really to such a shockingly blinkered explanation and instead will leave it to rav's response above.
And how does the Courier's lack of availability deny its innovative design? Microsoft canning it's development dismayed many in the tech industry and no doubt regret from the company itself considering the march the iPad has since stolen in that sector.
Thanks Frank - I can see why you're struggling!
@ffrankmccaffery, @rav
The Ribbon Interface is nothing new!!, this is a bit like me saying Apple was innovative when they came out with FaceTime, which I'm sure you'll agree is nothing more than just Video calling most of us have been doing for years with MSN etc. Basically the Ribbon Interfaces is Microsoft's fancy name for a "Tabbed Toolbar".
But I wouldn't go as far as @Lantic and say Microsoft don't do innovation.
There very innovative when it comes to charging top bucks for a hard drive for the Xbox360 :)
At the minimum, the ribbon is a fresh take on an old idea. Beyond that we could argue all day about the level of innovation. The only innovation FaceTime brings to the table is it's lack of compatability with anything non Apple. Having used it on my iPod I think it actually works quite well but is hampered by it's limited userbase.
In regard to charging for peripherals I don't think anyone is more innovative than Apple. SD card adaptor, mini display port adaptor, USD to ethernet adaptor, magic rechargable batteries. That's not even to mention their upgrade prices for RAM and other components.
That isn't to say that 360 hard drive prices aren't a joke.
And just when you thought the standard couldn't drop any further up pops regular TR irritant Keith - trademark multiple exclamations and all - to drag further this discussion into further incomprehensible nonsense.
@Keith things were going so well until ffrankmccaffery added his "innovation" fairy tale to the thread.
I think you agreeing it's not an innovation, so not sure what's to argue all day about.
And about the 360 HD, my comment was meant to be a little joke. But were the Mac does differ with the 360 is that I have the option of buying my memory from somewhere else, so it's not really the same is it?.
@ffrankmccaffery: discussion into further incomprehensible nonsense.
I thought that was your speciality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, it might be easer for everybody @ffrankyboy if you explain why you believe the Ribbon Interface from M$ was such an innovation. (who am I joking, that's not likely to happen, goal post moving response more likely).
I bought this phone the other day from Expansys for less than £150. I've updated it to Mango and it's really very good. I had a San Francisco before, which was fine, but I much prefer the slick simplicity of the Windows OS to Android.
i have windows lg mobile. now touch screen not working. if it is service or not
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My young puppy Toby, a 23 week old shih-tzu/poodle mix, was recently shown with roundworm. Me and my mom took him to the vet and they gave us a worming pill and the dose he needs. I'm not sure of the brand. Few hours after having that pill, he puked up mostly everything he ate, but wasn't acting any different then he normally would, and was still eating. We called the vet and they said "The pill we gave him can make the dog puke, but its quite rare. Although, it could be trying to have him puke them out." We waited 2 weeks like they said to and there was nothing at all different about our puppy, but he was passing the worms. Today, we went back for his second dose, and the vet gave it to him this time. I had fallen asleep for a bit, but my mom says he was puking off and on all day and had a bit of the runs. The vet said to let her know if it happened again, but my mom was busy today and it didn't cross her mind.
Toby is sleeping right now, but before he fell asleep he was playing and biting me and trying to chew on whatever he could like normal.
So my question is, is it rare for puppies to puke after worming? Could it be the pill?
The vet will most likely call tomorrow for an update, and I will make sure my mom mention this.
No one has any idea? :(


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It's not always the case that the launch of a new CSC heralds a major technological advancement, and quite often it's a case of an incremental progression of the models that came before it. There are exceptions, however, just take a look at Sony's recent innovation of placing a full-frame sensor in to a CSC body with the A7 and A7R as an example.
The new Panasonic Lumix GH4 is another such exception, as it arrives as the first CSC to offer 4K video - the very latest in high resolution video capture. It's not all about video with the GH4 as the model inherits a host of the high-end features that have made the GH series so popular to date, as well as offering a host of improvements over its predecessor.
On paper at least, the GH4 looks like one of the very best CSCs on the market, so let's take a closer look to see if that's the case.
At the core of the GH4 sits an all new 16.05MP APS-C CMOS sensor, a chip developed specifically for the new model. As you might expect for a camera capable of such impressive video performance, the new sensor is designed so as to facilitate faster response and read-out times than the GH3.
The sensor also provides an extensive native ISO range of 200-25,600, once again a substantial increase on the model's predecessor. While the GH4 remains an impressive still image shooter, the real USP of the camera is the model's video capture capabilities.
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As you might expect, to handle this much information the GH4 will need to have some fairly hefty processing power under the bonnet. This is very much the case as the GH4 packs the new Venus Engine image processor as well as a quad-core CPU specifically aimed at making video capture as smooth as possible.
The processor also delivers some impressive burst mode figures with the GH4 managing 7.5 frames per second with continuous AF enabled, increasing to around 12 frames per second in AF-S mode.
Another area of the camera's performance which has been improved is auto focusing. The model sports an AF system complete with 49 precision contrast-detect AF points as well as Panasonic's own 'Depth from Defocus' technology, with the whole system delivering AF speeds of as little as 0.07 seconds.
When it comes to image composition and review, Panasonic has equipped the GH4 with a pair of well-specced options. The rear of the camera houses an eye-catching 3-inch 1,043k-dot vari-angle touchscreen OLED monitor complete with a 3:2 aspect ratio, rather than the 16:9 aspect ratio seen on some other Lumix CSCs.
The GH4 also sports an all-new OLED viewfinder complete with 100% field of view and a resolution of some 2.36-million dots.
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The first week of the Spring Parade of Homes is in the books and it looks like we're in for another great event. The weather hasn't been doing us any favours but, if the first week was any indication, crowds will continue to grow as the Parade progresses. Each year, we print a primer for Parade attendees; just a couple of tips to maximize your enjoyment. For the benefit of Parade veteran and rookie attendees, the Manitoba Home Builders Association offers the following tips for a successful Parade:
Wear comy slip-on shoes
There are 122 fantastic new homes available to visit. Although you likely won't get to all of them, you will find yourself trying to get to as many as possible. Many of the neighbourhoods have multiple homes being shown and so you will probably park in one location and walk to all of the homes. The developers have been doing their best to clear snow in order to maximize good parking. Upon entering each new home, you must take off your street shoes in order to tour. Therefore, be sure to a comfortable walking shoe that easily slips on and off. It will make your visit that much more enjoyable.
Bring your SmartPhone
Remember, this year you get to decide who gets the hardware for favourite home in each category. Inside each show home, there is a QR code chart. Simply click on the QR code and rank that home from one to five stars in each of the four criteria. You can also go to www.paradeofhomes-select.ca if you're taking notes instead. At the conclusion of the Parade, compare your rankings with who won the awards.
Map a strategy
If you have a particular destination site, make sure you look for additional homes along the way to visit. Many of the subdivisions are in close proximity to each other and it's easy to get to a number of them in one tour.
Don't forget the one-offs
Although there is tremendous variety in those subdivisions that have multiple homes, make sure to visit those areas with a single listing. There are entire new neighbourhoods to discover and builders with unique designs.
Talk to the agents
The sales agents know their show homes. Ask them about anything -- unique features, energy savings, specific materials and what makes this particular home special. These individuals are a wealth of knowledge and, if they don't have the answer, they will find out and get back to you in short order.
Have Fun
The Parade of Homes is an enjoyable three weeks where you can see the latest and greatest in new homes. It's all about what interests you. Enjoy the 2014 Spring Parade of Homes.
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Re: using functions with package name prefixed.
On 1/16/04 at 6:04 AM, nma124 at hotmail.com (steve_H) wrote:
> is there a way to use a function from a package without loading
> the whole package, but by simply prefixing the package name to
> the function name?
While it is possible to use a function by prefixing the context, I am not aware of any method to load part of a package.
> For an example, suppose we have a function foo[] in a packge called
> Boo.m
> Now, one must load the Boo package by typing something like
> Needs["`Boo"]
> then one can write
> foo[]
> But notice that when calling foo[], the package name is not prefixed to
> it, hence one does not know in which package foo[] is in by looking
> at the function call.
Right. In addition to loading the code in the package into memory, Needs adds the package context to $ContextPath. To evaluate expressions, Mathematica searches the contexts found in $Context path and evaluates it according to the first match it finds. This eliminates the need to specify the context path.
But, you can whenever you like specify the context path for Mathematica to use.
For example, after loading the package NumericalMath`Microscope` either
Ulp[1] or
will give the ulp on your machine near 1.
Note, I think of "package name" as being the filename of the code to be loaded. Perhaps you do as well. If so, it is important to realize it is the context path that must be prefixed not the package name. Typically, these are the same and the distinction I am making here is not important.
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I bought this foundation last month, as during the summer months I always find my make up falls off my face. This product sounds ideal as it promises a natural look and weightless feel. Perhaps I should have been wary at the weightless claim, but it promised to even out skin tone and texture so I figured it must be reasonably well covering. Also it was oil free which I hoped would improve the chance of it staying put in hot weather. So biting the bullet, I hand over my £9.99. The problem is when I applied it, I might as well not have bothered! Yes it DOES look natural but only because it makes absolutely no difference to the appearance of my skin at all. It just sank in like a moisturiser, never to be seen again. Even a layer of powder over the top didin't help. So whilst it looked "natural" it definitely didn't even out my skin tone. The only plus side was that it didn't seem to slide off my face - but who could tell??!
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watching: The Middle, which reminds me a lot of my own family. If I didn't know better I'd swear the writers have a hidden camera in my house -- sometimes the dialogue in the show is verbatim to conversations we've had recently. It freaks Claire out.
drinking: Diet Coke, which I will regret about an hour from now when I am tossing and turning in bed.
wearing: jeans and a new grey and black striped t-shirt from Target.
eating: pear and gorgonzola pizza from Temecula Pizza Company.
listening: to a variety of ring tones for my new phone. I'm picking custom tones for each of my kids.
avoiding: unpacking my suitcase from my trip to Utah last weekend.
wishing: I could have seen all the kids arriving at the high school's senior prom.
feeling: off . . . tired . . . a little overwhelmed. Not sure why.
missing: Shauna, Shelly, Diane, Gail, Julie, Bart, Paige, Shell, and Arthur. I had fun seeing all of you last weekend.
thankful: for friends who made time to come have breakfast with me, even though they were hosting a party at their house three hours later.
craving: Shauna's Toll House Pie. Can't stop thinking about it.
wondering: how I'm going to Eden's closet cleaned out before the guy comes to install a new floor.
praying: for the Graesser family, who just lost their sweet mother.
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Dot Jackson was born to Appalachian parents in Miami in 1932, and gave up her college studies of music and dance to become a writer. She turned an abiding curiosity into a lifelong career in newspapers, where she covered the mountain regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee, going from murder trials to snake-handling prayer meetings to some of the hardest-fought environmental battles of our times.
As an investigative reporter for the Charlotte Observer, she wrote about, and often brought to justice, the industrial polluters whose stories garnered Jackson several Pulitzer Prize nominations and a National Conservation Writer of the Year award. She also has collaborated on several acclaimed books of non-fiction.
Jackson, now 73, is co-founder and on-site manager of the developing Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. She has spent her life exploring the dusty back roads and forgotten hamlets of Appalachia, and still fights to preserve the culture of this threatened region.
Refuge is Dot Jackson's first book-length work of fiction. It spent many years as a yellowing manuscript under the bed - and more recently was stored in a mentor's refrigerator, to protect it from the hazards of life in the intensely rustic setting in which its author thrives.
Refuge (2006)
I thank you that you're here, beloved friend. We need to have a talk. There's something in the wind - I've not ever had such a feeling as has come over me today. I was sitting here sewing on this baby quilt a while ago; you were out fishing, tearing up ducks, whatever - which I thank you also for eating outside. Feathers and bloody mess scattered all over is not what we need this evening, on account of what I am about to tell you.
Which is, well, I don't quite know. A while ago I made this little fire. I go down for wood and I see it is running out, which is the first time that has happened, that it's not stovewood enough I'd say to get us through a week. And when the wind blew so hard a shower of rocks fell down the chimney; I know we ought not to use this fireplace but it got so chilly I was cold to my bones. That wind!
I get the fire going and I sit down here and must have, just a little bit, dozed off to sleep. And that old mournful wind howling down the gap, moaning in the hemlocks, playing the deep strings.
And I hear Isolde singing.
Now, I've heard plenty of strange singing on this place; heard it down the chimney, and out amidst the briers. But this was something else again. Nothing like that other. I've not heard Isolde in I guess thirty years, and now she wakes me with a jolt. Oh, it was glorious. I woke up with the tears just streaming.
First thing I thought, It's my mother. Aw, no - my mother is lying dead for years and years, somewhere in France, beside that last old man she married - the tenor. I never can bring back his name.
Fact is, when I thought about it, my mother never was this good a singer. She tried. She aspired. But beside this she'd sound like a wind-up canary. And now it dawns on me: it's Pet. It's my daughter. Although you would never put us together. Pet is big-boned and blond; big chest. She has this Isolde voice my mother would have died for. And I bet she has (excuse me) pissed it away, in that snobby Episcopal choir. Maybe this was just the ghost of dead possibility.
Whatever else, my dear friend, it is a sign.
You have never seen my daughter but I think that's fixing soon to change. She has been real put out with me for quite some time, as I have probably told you. She thinks it is not civilized the way I live. I am an embarrassment; a family disgrace. The crazy old woman.
Can't say as I blame her. But since I put my dimestore glasses down somewhere I can't see to write worth a toot. If that nice old guy can't get up here with his logging truck, I can't get any mail and can't send any. I know it's been at least a month now. And Pet's off down there in Charleston with her step-ins in a wad.
Odds on, it's her all right, in my dream. I'll give you ten to one she's out there, wroth as the Queen of the Night, rolling this way. Pet and her sweet, fat man are in their big car, heading for a showdown. And this time I may be just too spent to fight her. Plus, she's got reason to act up. Last letter I got I made out that she is fixing to have another baby, at way past 40 and her two girls nearly grown. Didn't sound thrilled. Maybe she does need me. Do you think I'm too absolutely crazy to be of any use?
Which brings up the saddest point: this may be goodbye for us, my dearest, best bird. You can have no notion what your companionship has meant to me. It is not just the fish and rabbits and things that you have brought to keep me alive. It's not just that you've literally saved my life more ways than one. All that was certainly a blessing these last years. That and having something live, something wise and kind as you to talk to. Without you I think I might have lost the power of speech. Maybe the rest of my mind, too.
Now, whether or not I wish it - and I can't say whether truthfully I do or do not, a change is on the wind. If you come home one evening soon and find your window closed, please understand a rumpus is going on, and just go on back into the birch grove, and make your life where my heart will always be.
What I have to think of, from this moment, is what I'm going to say to humankind. How will I explain a lot of things? Down in Charleston I have two granddaughters that I do not know at all. And another baby coming. Folks in high society. What will they make of this old wraith? What on earth do I say to them?
By their lights nothing but softening of the brain would bring someone back up here to live this way. And they don't know the half of it. Am I to tell them why? Am I to tell them what it was I did? Bird, I did a dreadful thing. I came here desperate, and I thought my heart would break for the love of what I found. And then I would not rest until I destroyed it.
And you want to hear the worst? I would do it again. Oh yes, oh yes, I would do it. God forgive my soul, but I don't think I could help it.
Now, how am I going to put this so those girls will not despise me? And it still be every bit the truth? Go on to sleep, beloved. I have to study about this. I have to think.


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Different sound between a pair of Tannoy Mercury-S
I have a pair of olf Tannoy Mercury-S which sounds awesome with my NAIM NAP90.
However, I noticed that one speaker sounds mych more accurate and clear/clean than the other. The separation is much much better while on the other unit there is much more low mid as if the woofer is responsible to more content.
Could that be a result of bad crossover ? is there a simple way to compare the crossovers but monitoring capacitance/resistance on the leads of the tweeter and woofer, without taking parts out ?
Or could this be simply a defect on one of the speakers ?
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Speakers deteriorate gradually with age. You might suspect a loose or corroded connector behind the woofer access. Dried out ferrofluid in the tweeter clogging it up. Or Non-polar electrolytic capacitors having dried out and gone open circuit.
Nothing stopping you swapping the tweeters around to see if the fault follows, or giving them the 1.5V battery crackle test to see of one is dead.
Capacitors are easy enough to replace.
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Polypropylene or polyester capacitors might be considered an upgrade. I expect you'll get them singing. It's fun to do this. :D
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I once had a boyfriend who bought me as many roses on Valentine's Day as years that we had been together. We only got to three, but it was still a sweet gesture. And like most gift recipients, I was too pleased with the flowers to care where they came from, what florist my boyfriend had chosen (or more likely, the corner store that obliged him when he realized he'd forgotten the holiday) or, for that matter, to consider where they were grown
But this past Valentine's Day, I read about a debate raging in Britain about flowers and "food miles" - whether it is better for the environment to buy flowers imported from Africa and flown thousands of miles on carbon-emitting airplanes, or from within Europe, where a comparable amount of energy is used to heat the necessary greenhouses. One columnist from Britain called this scrutiny of flowers just an excuse for environmentalists to add another item to their "killjoy hitlist." I chuckled at the turn of phrase, but I did wonder: Could my flower-buying habits have an impact on the world?
It turns out that anyone buying a bouquet, myself included, is just the end point of a long journey for those flowers, which are cultivated and then harvested into cold storage, shipped via international airlines, trucked to a neighborhood grocer, and - finally - delivered to the vase on the dining room table. Often these flowers travel more miles than their buyer might on a long vacation. And they leave in their fragrant wake pesticide-ridden farms and a trail of greenhouse gases. But from within the floral industry, an awareness of these effects has led to certifications and labels that allow us to buy flowers - without sprouting guilty consciences.
About 70 percent of flowers sold in the United States come from abroad, and most of those are imported from Colombia and Ecuador. This trend toward importing started back in the '60s, when a few businessmen began looking for sunnier climes in which to grow popular types of blooms year-round, according to Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. Global transportation had improved, and it became feasible for us to ship flowers over longer distances, kicking off an industry that today warrants a closer look.
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Nolan Jago scored twice and drove in three other runs for the Brandon Marlins as they beat the Oak River Dodgers 7-3 in the Manitoba Senior Baseball League on Sunday night.
Elsewhere in the MSBL, it was: Brandon Cloverleafs 3, Reston Rockets 1.
At Andrews Field, Shayne MacGranachan held the Dodgers (5-8-0) to three runs in 5 1/3 innings of work, despite walking 10 and giving up a pair of hits, to pick up the win for the Marlins (10-4-1). Jeff Wiebe came on in relief of MacGranachan and allowed just one hit during the rest of the game.
Taw Fredrickson took the loss after giving up seven runs on five hits in six innings.
Jesse Goertzen was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored for the Marlins, while Fredrickson, Duncan Paddock and Mike McFadden each had a hit and crossed home plate for the Dodgers.
Cloverleafs 3 Rockets 1
In Reston, Justin Funk went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBIs for the league-leading Cloverleafs (13-2-0). Sean Dryden gave up one run and five hits in seven innings of work to collect the win, while Funk had an adventurous final two innings on the hill, giving up two hits and walking three, but hung on for the save.
Brody Pinkerton went six innings, surrendering three runs — two earned — and six hits, to take the loss for Reston (4-8-1). Rory Tycoles was 1-for-2 with a pair of walks and scored the Rocket run.
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text: A Delegation from the Ghana Oil Company Discusses Cooperation with Emarat Search website Customers' portal Customer's log-in Legal notice 01/02/12 Back to previous page Print story A Delegation from the Ghana Oil Company Discusses Cooperation with Emarat A delegation from the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL), Accra, Ghana visited Emirates General Petroleum Corporation "Emarat", at its headquarters in Dubai, to examine the possibility of obtaining lubricants and related products from Emarat. GOIL is an oil company of Ghana with majority shares owned by the Govt. of Ghana. The company operates in the areas of Petroleum fuels such as Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosine, Fuel Oil and Lubricants and special products. It is considered a leading lubricant supplier of Ghana. The delegation comprised of Mr. Kojo Bonsu, Managing Director and Mr. Alex Josiah Adzew, Technical & Special Products Manager. During two days of discussions and deliberations, the delegation met Mr. Abdulrahman Qassim Al Ali, Commercial Sales Manager and other officials at Emarat. Mr. Abdulrahman welcomed the delegation and assured Emarat's resolve to strengthen cooperation with GOIL and to exchange experiences with them. Emarat has also provided a list of lubricating oils and related products which can be supplied on a regular basis to GOIL ex Emarats Lube Blending Plant. The delegation then made a field trip to the Middle East Lubricants Co ("Melubco") in Jebel Ali where the officials were able to see the processes involved in blending of lubricants, production and filling lines, quality controls, storage and shipping facilities, etc. Mr. Abdulrahman Qassim Al Ali reiterated the keenness of Emarat to provide the highest quality of lubricants at their best possible prices. Development of new products meeting various newer technical specifications has been an on-going effort at Emarat as its products reach many of the GCC counties and beyond, he said. - Ends - Officials of Ghana Oil with Mr. Abdulrahman Qassim Al Ali Home