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The second is "Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter," which premieres at the Kasser, January 26-February 3, 2012. The opera is a collaborative work by a multi-award-winning team of artists: Robert Wilson (director), Bernice Johnson Reagon (composer), Toshi Reagon (composer), and Jacqueline Woodson (book). Stay tuned.
The Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University is located at 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey 07043. Tickets are $15, and are available at the box office, www.peakperfs.org, or by calling 973-655-5112.


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Monday, July 12, 2010
Do these people even like to read?
I spent this weekend reading John Sandford's Wicked Prey. I can see the little Common Sense Media icons lighting up, five little bombs for violence, five "#!"s for language, maybe three lips for sex, five cocktail glasses for substance abuse (bourbon for the good guys, crystal meth for the bad) and probably a couple of dollar signs for detective Lucas Davenport's vanity about his clothes and shoes. As far as role models (CSM's big thing) are concerned, there's a young girl who goes all vigilante on a pervert without telling her parents. (Deceiving one's parents seems to be the number one sin in the CSM bible.) Almost twenty-four hours have passed since I finished Wicked Prey, and I haven't yet killed anyone, abused any substances, or bought any shoes.
But it's different for kids, I imagine CSM would say. No, it isn't. It's different for parents. Parents who think Educational Value, Messages and Role Models (their caps, for what CSM calls "the good stuff") are what reading is about need to remember why they became readers in the first place.
15 comments:
- Peni R. Griffin said...
My own experience of censors is that no, they don't enjoy reading, they don't read, and it panics them a bit when kids do.
My experience is mostly based on Christian fundamentalists (I live in Texas), and my theory is that forcing themselves to believe that they read the Bible literally has screwed up their capacity to interpret narrative at all. I'm serious. Read the book of Isiah literally, as in no metaphors and no symbolism, and see if there's any rational way to conclude, on that basis, that Jesus is the Messiah predicted there.
For censors of other stripes, other theories may apply. But the CSM (hmmmm, also stands for Cigarette Smoking Man, that insidious villain of the X-Files universe - coincidence? Or conspiracy?) does sound like that stripe of censor. One wonders why they won't come out and say so.
- 3:43 PM, July 12, 2010
- professornana said...
I am happy to see more being written about CSM. Some folks have suggested it is somehow not censorship. However, to me, it smacks of narrowing down what our poor impressionable kids can read. We rated movies and music and TV. Is there a study somewhere that indicates we "saved" kids from all that bad stuff?
- 4:16 PM, July 12, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
A few weeks ago I found an openly homophobic reviewer working for CSM. She had written the following about Tamora Pierce's "Will of the Empress" in an Amazon review:
I was very disappointed to discover that this book had a homosexual character. This is absolutely inappropriate for a young adult book, and unless a parent has read the reviews that mention it, said parent would have no clue as it sure isn't mentioned anywhere on the blurb in the book.
I want to make clear that this was a CSM game reviewer, NOT a book reviewer. In a Facebook message to me CSM disavowed her stands and said she was no longer with them. The Amazon review disappeared . . . then reappeared when I pointed out to CSM that their ability to yank the Amazon review displayed a degree of control they denied having, and further was hardly non-partisan since, sadly, a substantial percentage of the population would agree with the reviewer's views.
My 13 year-old was also able to locate CSM's public tax returns and make them available to groups dubious of CSM's motives and methods.
We have repeatedly asked CSM to explain their relationships with "corporate partners" and to explian their vetting process for reviewers. They've so far refused.
- 12:25 AM, July 13, 2010
- Peni R. Griffin said...
Technically, of course, it isn't censorship, since the government is not involved; but we don't have a good and useful terms for "inciting of parents to challenge and withhold books for nitpicky, silly, and bigoted reasons instead of encouraging reading enjoyment and the opportunities offered by vicarious experience of another's point of view within the safe confines of a book."
We need one.
- 7:56 AM, July 13, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
Michael, I don't think we can hold CSM responsible for a review that was written for a different website, and I don't understand how you know that CSM was responsible for the yanking and reposting of the Pierce review.
Peni, of course it isn't censorship (the post has that tag because your suggested substitution is too long ;-) but that doesn't mean it isn't wrongheaded.
- 8:41 AM, July 13, 2010
- Liz B said...
I agree with Penni that the people who are the most concerned are not reading for enjoyment. They want books to Model Correct Behaviour.
I understand Michael's concern. This is how I see it: CSM has an official "we're not biased" policy. CSM appears to allow its reviewers to be as biased as they want, creating an official position that is only countered by extensive reading through reviews of books (I have not looked at other media). The bias that exists in CSM is hidden and so can be tricky to find, absent a great deal of time spent going review by review, reviewer by reviewer. The Amazon review provides an example of the types of biases that CSM allows, either explicitly or implicitly. The issue of corporate sponsorship calls into question motivations of what and how CSM reviews.
- 9:35 AM, July 13, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
Except that CSM's review of the Tamora Pierce book is very positive re the lesbian content, so I'm not sure what bias is being displayed.
- 10:08 AM, July 13, 2010
- Liz B said...
Roger, the review at CSM is not by the same reviewer Michael talks abouts. Part of my point is that CSM rarely reviews GLBT books so it is hard to determine what, if any, their official policy is towards GLBT content. Back in February I tried going thru various titles from awards & authors, and gave up when I kept getting 0 returns. One way to figure it out what CSM's policy is to try to determine the individual biases of the reviewers. As for the one on CSM, my concern with that review (and reviewer) is that it has omitted "the good stuff" portion, including only "stuff to watch out for." As with his review of OCTAVIAN and other books, there is only stuff to watch out, never any "the good stuff".
- 10:16 AM, July 13, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
The points I was making to CSM relative to the Hollingshead review were:
1) That they had not vetted their reviewers. It's not a question of holding CSM responsible for an Amazon reviewer, it's simply evidence that they don't know who they're hiring.
The review was taken down within hours of my posting the link on Facebook as CSM distanced itself, and pointed out (accurately) that the reviewer in question was no longer with them -- although she was listed as a current reviewer by CSM.
2) Their own (presumed) actions in ordering the Amazon take-down and in condemning the attitudes their reviewer displayed, belied their claim to non-partisanship. After this exchange the review re-appeared on Amazon.
3) I asked them to make clear what that vetting process was. They have not complied.
More generally, CSM needs to explain its relationship with various "corporate partners." We know that in 2008 they received substantial income from these partners for providing content. (The bulk of CSM's money seems to come from the MacArthur Foundation and the Omidyar Foundation.)
We don't know the details of these corporate partnerships. Nor do we know whether officers of CSM are paid to give speeches or render other services-- perhaps at these same corporations.
Incidentally, people might assume that these self-appointed moral police are a conservative group. They are not. Of the seven top corporate officers of CSM, five have made political contributions and all five were to Democrats, with a particular tilt toward Hillary Clinton.
We have now requested the full suite of tax documents that CSM is required to provide on request under the law governing non-profits.
- 10:35 AM, July 13, 2010
I'm sympathetic to your critique of CSM and to your ideas about why children and adults enjoy reading, and yet I still think there is a difference in the way children and adults read, and in what they take from reading, that should be acknowledged. Children don't read with as much critical thinking and context and life experience as you read John Stanford. Young readers are still often working to find their own and society's sense of what's right and wrong, what's acceptable and what's not, and their sense of themselves, to a degree that adult readers have moved beyond, most of the time. And kids look to adults and to other sources of authority for cues about these messy questions. And books, bless them, are a source of authority. They're made by adults, many are delivered from authority figures like teachers and parents and librarians, and maybe books are not the semi-sanctified objects they used to be to the youth, but the culture still sends them signals that there's something special about a book.
- 11:08 AM, July 13, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
One other point to make: CSM is a protection racket.
They begin by generating and hyping fear. In the CSM world view all technology is dangerous and all media are suspect. Media threats are all around us. Only CSM can keep us safe.
Having hyped fear they then toddle over to the media companies -- book stores, movie ticket web sites, cable companies -- and form a "partnership."
The corporate partner agrees to pay CSM for its content -- ill-informed reviews and magic number slides -- and that corporate partner can then wear the logo of CSM with all the purity of purpose that implies.
CSM also works cross-promotions for movies. For example, they promoted the latest Twilight movie. They also promoted MacAfee -- a new corporate partner.
So they go beyond mere protection and actively participate in corporate marketing and promotions.
As of 2008, compensation for the two top CSM officers was not particularly high -- in the quarter million range. But we may see a different picture when we get the 2009 numbers. And the big unknown remains whether CSM's officers get side deals -- well-paid speeches, consultancies.
- 11:11 AM, July 13, 2010
To Anon:
Not everyone feels that books are authorities. It seems as though people who love reading think of them that way because we love them and respect them, and often look to them for guidance, a way to relate to the world, and entertainment. However, as this conversation seems to establish and/or agree, people that attempt to censor reading material do not 'love' reading, so it seems odd to me that they would assign authority to something they do not love and respect. I only wish that books had as much power as censors claim they possess.
- 5:31 PM, July 13, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
I agree that kids don't read with the same experience--either life or literary--that adult readers do, but I don't think the CSM rating system is speaking to that.
Readers and non-readers ascribe power to books in different ways. While readers enjoy the way a book can allow them to imagine different worlds, non-readers think books are instructions, that books want you to do what they say. And maybe because adults want kids to do what they say, they (some of them) think they can use books as proxies. We all know the experience of catching ourselves saying something to kids we SWORE, as children, never to say.
I might be over-simplifying to say it's an adults and children thing. When I read kids' reviews on CSM and recall conversations I've had with teens, I see a tendency to use books as a way to define one's own maturity--"this book is great for me, but younger kids might not be ready for it." Fran Leibowitz said that people love to feel superior to their pasts!
- 7:21 AM, July 14, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
Very well put.
Kids read like good phenomenologists -- they bring fewer assumptions to the experience. It's one of the reasons it can be harder to write for kids. I have a scene in one of my books that's essentially a lynching. Just the word "lynching" calls up so many associations for adults, and the writer can use that as leverage. The kid reader has no notion of the weight of history behind that word. The kid reader sees what's right there on the page and doesn't let me play with his memory and borrow weight and importance from other events.
Kids aren't fragile. Adults are fragile. Kids are often fearless, we learn fear over time.
- 1:02 PM, July 14, 2010
- Peni R. Griffin said...
I can only speak from my own experience, but here's what happened to me as I read books by authors with strong opinions that often differed from each other and from what the adults in my life believed:
I learned to think for myself.
I read C.S. Lewis with considerable pleasure, and Voyage of the Dawn Treader is one of my favorite books; but when Caspian removed the Governor of the Lonely Isles and replaced him with a Duke, I thought he was making a mistake. I thought implementing a democratic solution would have sat better with abolishing slavery. And in The Silver Chair, the stuff that implied that no corporal punishment and co-education in schools were bad things I found quaintly old-fashioned and wrong-headed.
I was twelve at most when I first read these. I also read books with anti-heroes and books about girls who made serious mistakes, partly for enjoyment but also absorbing the consequences of those mistakes. Girls around me were constantly making mistakes that I already knew better than.
The more books you read, the less authority any one of them has and the more you learn to take what you need and leave the rest.
Later, when I was in my early 20s and realized I was an agnostic, working out my position on the issue was done largely in response to reading C.S. Lewis's popular Christian apologetics. This wasn't rebellion, either; it was reading someone I respected who was obviously intelligent and thoughtful, disagreeing with him, and feeling a responsibility to work out why, when he was so intelligent and thoughtful, I did so. I wouldn't know what I thought myself if I hadn't read somebody I disagreed with.
So I naturally tend to think that children should read difficult, confusing, and complex books as often as possible. And, since I more than once put back a book realizing I wasn't old enough for it, I expect them to be able to decide for themselves when a book's beyond them.
We all judge others by ourselves.
- 3:41 PM, July 14, 2010


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The Bronx is coming to Broadway! As first reported on Showbiz411, Academy Award-winning actor Robert DeNiro is set to direct a musical stage production of A BRONX TALE, a film he helmed back in 1993. Tommy Mottola, who will produce the show, revealed the news to the site's Roger Friedman.
Chazz Palminteri, who penned and appeared in the original film as well as the Broadway play, is currently writing the book for the upcoming stage musical. Bon Jovi's David Bryan, who wrote the Tony-award winning music for "Memhis" will write the music for the project, while Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys, Addams Family) will take on the choreography.
Mattola is currently working on a musical version of Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly," directed by Bill T. Jones. The production is scheduled to hit Broadway next winter.
The 1993 crime drama 'A Bronx Tale' was set in The Bronx during the turbulent era of the 1960s. It was the directorial debut of De Niro and follows a young Italian-American teenager as his path in life is guided by two father figures, played by De Niro and Chazz Palminteri. It also includes a brief appearance by Joe Pesci. It was written by Palminteri, based partially upon his childhood. The film grossed over $17 million domestically in the box office.


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The New Order
"24/7 Wall Street" posted a piece on January 13 entitled "The Ten Companies that Control the Death Industry." http://247wallst.com/2011/01/13/the-ten-companies-that-control-the-death... The first surprise was that Wal-Mart, Amazon and 800-Flowers were all in the top 10 influencers….Discounters that wouldn't even have been on the radar screen a decade ago. The rest of the article was same 'ol, same'ol at first blush. The order that they were listed was kind of random. The interesting stuff comes if you re-order them by industry sector.
They posted revenues and earnings for each. All companies listed were publically traded. I left Wal-Mart, 1-800 Flowers and Amazon.com out as irrelevant for this comparison---death related revenue is such a small fraction of their revenue. Net Income as a percent of revenue (Return on Revenue- below listed as ROR) provides a fair benchmark for comparisons of the 7 remaining true industry players. So here are the results when you "Sector" order them:
Sector: Manufacturing ROR
Rock of Ages (Granite Memorials) 13.9%
Hillenbrand (Batesville Casket) 9.4%
Matthews (Bronze Memorials) 8.0%
Interesting that three of the top four Return on Revenues are suppliers. They always complain about skinny margins at the wholesale level and talk about how much better the margins are at the retail level, but manufacturing leads the way.
Rock of Ages has always enjoyed this snobby culture that was all about only providing the finest quality granite for a 50% premium. They refuse to compete on the low end. Seems to be working for them, huh?
Sector: Consolidators – Funeral Home and Cemetery
StoneMor Partners: (Mostly cemetery and some combos) 8.8%
Stewart Enterprises: (Cemeteries and combos) 7.2%
Carriage Services: (Funeral homes and some cemeteries) 3.9%
Service Corporation International: (Mature consolidator –
Mostly funeral homes) 2.4%
It appears that the oldest and largest (SCI) of the consolidators with the highest percentages of funeral homes achieves the lowest return. The newest of the consolidators (StoneMor) are exclusively cemetery and combo with only a handful of free standing funeral homes. It is the highest achiever.
Stewart is middle-aged (as opposed to mature) and prospers from their formula of mostly large cemeteries, with large combination funeral homes on their properties and few free-standing funeral homes. Carriage is mostly free-standing funeral homes and middle-aged as well.
Point Being: Top two are cemetery dominated. Bottom two are funeral home dominated.
The 1990's is often called the decade of consolidation, and funeral home companies were high flying in terms of returns, multiples and purchase prices, with cemeteries and suppliers just trying to stay alive. What a difference a decade makes, huh? The Tortoise seems to have beaten the Hare.


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Top Shops: Shop on wheels
Dave Mowitz
Successful Farming magazine Machinery Director
The Leonards couldn't find the service truck they wanted, so
in true farmer fashion, they built the truck they needed.
The Morgantown, Indiana, farmers began their quest to create
the service truck tailormade for their operation by purchasing a used 1992
Model FL70 Freightliner.
A winter spent modifying that truck and equipping it with
the tools and materials needed to make it a true shop-on-wheels resulted in a
truck that not only is crucial to their operation, but also earned the Leonards
First Place in the Best Service Truck category of Successful Farming magazine's
Top Shops Contest.
With that honor came a portable toolbox from Montezuma
Manufacturing (www.montezumamfg.com) as well as a Lincoln Electric MIG 140C
welder (www.lincolnelectric.com).
The truck the Leonards chose to modify was well suited for
their purposes, providing a 30,000-pound gross vehicle weight rating and
22-foot box bed. But the van body that came with the truck didn't figure into
their plans.
"So off came the van body," explains Jim Leonard,
who farms with sons Dean and Duane. "Since we didn't need all that much
frame, we decided to shorten it by removing 9 feet from the center of the frame
to shorten the truck's wheelbase. In doing so we had to remove a section of the
driveshaft. We also removed 5 feet from the rear of the frame (behind the rear
Even with those modifications, the truck still didn't meet
all their needs as a transport vehicle. "We had seen a similar
Freightliner that had a double cab," Jim recalls. "We really wanted
that extra room but couldn't find a similar cab. So we found another cab
identical to the unit on our truck, which had been burned and salvaged."
The Leonards took to removing the back paneling and window
from the truck's existing cab. They removed the dashboard panel from the
salvaged cab. Then came the tricky part of marrying the two cabs together.
"We were concerned that they would not marry up together that well, but we
found that wasn't a problem," Duane recalls. "We had to add some
sheet metal and a few supports. But on the whole, it came together well."
After the expanded unit was painted, the front bucket seats
replaced, and a bench seat mounted in the crew part of the cab, the Leonards
had created a vehicle that could transport "six grown men to the
field," Jim reports. "We've even used the truck for transport when
going to farm shows."
After finishing the cab, the Leonards set about mounting a
utility body on the frame. "The used body we had came up short,
lengthways, on the frame," Dean explains. "To fill that gap, we built
two tall service cabinets positioned directly behind the cab."
Another embellishment to the utility body was the addition
of a 5,000-pound-capacity IMT crane. The body wasn't constructed to handle a
crane, however. So the Leonards reinforced the right rear corner of the body
with a 2x4-inch tube steel boxed structure mounted to the truck frame. The top
of that structure, which resides inside the right rear storage compartment, was
topped off with 3/4-inch plate.
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stability. Those outriggers were fabricated from 2x4-inch tubing that slides
into a homemade bumper. The vertical part of the bumper is fabricated using
3/4-inch plate upon which a pintle hitch is mounted. The horizontal step is
built of 1/2-inch plate and is home to a DMI spring-loaded drawbar hitch.
Other features on the Leonards' truck include a
225-gallon diesel fuel tank, hydraulically operating 110-volt generator, and a
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I like watching series and enjoy dexter and the wire a lot.
As for music i listen to just about anything but it changes from day to day.


text: Tell it coincidence or luck, Shahrukh Khan is becoming the friendship Khan of Bollywood. Earlier he was in news for extending hand of friendship to Shiv Sena by wishing Uddav Thackeray on his birthday, in a unique style. Now, it is about his friendship with his long time competitor Aamir Khan.Aamir and Shahrukh were seen having dinner together in London, which is one of the biggest surprises ever. All thanks to Karan Johar who recently become friends with Aamir. The master mind behind the plan for a combine dinner with both Aamir and Shahrukh was Karan. Well, chemistry has to workout when KJos mind is at work. Now, Aamir without missing the chance informed to the media in an interview that he is planning to invite Shahrukh Khan to the premiere of his upcoming film Peepli Live. Looks like Shahrukh is also quiet in friendship mood, hopefully he will accept the offer. Whether their friendship lasts or not is something still to be unfold, till then wishing them happy friendship day in advance.


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- "Mulciber! What do you see in him, Sev? He's creepy! D'you know what he tried to do to Mary Macdonald the other day?"
- —Lily to Severus[src]
Mary Macdonald was a British witch of unknown parentage.[2] She attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1970s with Lily Evans and Severus Snape, and was Sorted into Gryffindor House.[2]
Sometime during her time at school, she was assaulted by Mulciber, a pure-blood Slytherin and a future Death Eater, with Dark Magic.[2] The incident was quickly publicised and was heavily criticised by several students.[2] Several other Slytherins, however, felt that the event was a joke, and that it was merely for a laugh.[2]
She later informed Lily Evans when Severus Snape intended to spend the night outside the entrance to Gryffindor Tower to apologise to her for having previously called her a "Mudblood."[2]
The name "Mary" is the usual English form of Maria, which was the Latin form of the New Testament Greek names Μαριαμ (Mariam) and Μαρια (Maria) - the spellings are interchangeable - which were from the Hebrew name מִרְיָם (Miryam). The meaning is not known for certain, but there are several theories including "sea of bitterness," "rebelliousness," and "wished for child." However it was most likely originally an Egyptian name, perhaps derived in part from mry ("beloved") or mr ("love").
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- It is unknown precisely why she was assaulted by Mulciber except as a random target. It is possible that she was Muggle-born, or else that she and her family were blood traitors.


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I recently brought up OxiClean on the All About Cloth Diapers Facebook page. And oh boy, did we get a big response. I wanted to know how people felt about using it. Is it a big no no? Or do many moms secretly get their cloth diapers squeaky clean by using it?
There was an overwhelming response in favor of using what works. And for many, OxyClean is where it is at!
I recently had a struggle with my wash routine. I have an old school top loader and semi-hard water. Brace yourself ….I use TIDE.
I had no problems at all up until Tide switched their formula. You know the one that now includes the little blue flecks. After that, things started to go awry. Everything seemed clean. I didn't have any stink problems or leaks. There was, however, one major problem. My daughter's bottom seemed to be red all the time.
At first I thought it might be an ammonia problem. It wasn't. I thought maybe the detergent wasn't rinsing out. I did what seemed like a million rinses. Still red. I tried Calgon. Didn't help.
Next, I soaked all my diapers in bleach. Guess what? No redness!!
There was some bad news about the bleach. I had faded 2 or 3 of my favorite WAHM diapers. It was a sad day. I didn't really want to use bleach on my daughters diapers and I REALLY didn't want to fade any more of them! I had to find something *like* bleach, but not bleach.
Then I tried OxyClean. It was the solution to all my problems. Do I think it is ok to use it? Yes, I do. May it shorten the life of my cloth diapers ever so slightly? Maybe…but my newly clean cloth diapers and my daughter's clear bottom was way more important.
There are also a few other greener OxyClean alternatives on the market. One of Autumn's favorites that she uses occasionally in her own wash routine is Grab Green Bleach Alternative.
Here is how I now wash my diapers:
-I usually wash cloth diapers the night of the third day. (I used to do it the morning of the forth day, but I think that was just too long to go).
-Warm pre-rinse
-Hot wash; Tide to the 2 line, OxyClean to the 2 line
-Cold rinse
-Additional Hot rinse
-Sometimes I still have bubbles so I will do another cold rinse. Usually it's all clear after the 2nd rinse.
Just in case you are wondering, I line dry my shells and dry the inserts and wipes in the dryer. I have been including the OxyClean for about 2 months now and it seems to be working.
As we all know, things can change at the drop of a hat with a wash routine. What works for one, may not work for another. If you are having problems with your cloth diapers and you can't seem to figure it out. Reach out!!!
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Android will be entertaining the passengers on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft
13 Comments
1. Laron (unregistered)
This is pretty amazing to say the least.
4. iKingTrust (banned) (Posts: 716; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
I think so too
2. Mooooo (Posts: 212; Member since: 27 Aug 2011)
Android strikes again
Actually Linux!!
15. Phullofphil (Posts: 805; Member since: 10 Feb 2009)
isnt apples os based of linux too
3. Alantef (Posts: 288; Member since: 14 Sep 2011)
loving it....nice...thinking about a trip to japan so this would be really cool
5. G-Reg (unregistered)
Freaking sweet. It nice to see major corps. haveing faith in the somewhat new boy to the game.
I hope we see a tumble effect from this and we start seeing other companys follow suit.
6. andro. (Posts: 1999; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
They better carry doctors on all those flights as islaves will go into convulsions and seizures over being exposed to a superior system with so much choice and customization. Their apple conditioned brains will fry the poor fools
7. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
Boeing chose... wisely
8. PeterIfromsweden (Posts: 1230; Member since: 03 Aug 2011)
iSheep will never enter a airplane with Android entertainment system : P
12. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
Lol at how u say isheep… ironic to say the least.. and what else wud boeing use besides android… thats the wholegood thing about android..
13. PeterIfromsweden (Posts: 1230; Member since: 03 Aug 2011)
Maybe they should use bada when it becomes open source ?
9. Mooooo (Posts: 212; Member since: 27 Aug 2011)
But a iPhony will?


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Oil fell below $110 a barrel in choppy trading on Thursday as investors weighed mixed U.S. economic data against a backdrop of ongoing U.S. budget talks, which have stoked concerns about the outlook for the world's largest oil consumer.
U.S. GDP growth for the third quarter of this year was revised higher to 3.1 percent from 2.7 percent previously, but an initial report on U.S. jobless claims showed a slightly larger increase in unemployment than traders and analysts had anticipated.
Brent crude slipped 53 cents to $109.83 a barrel by 1347 GMT, after settling $1.52 higher in the previous session, the biggest one-day gain since Nov. 19. The front-month contract tested the 200-day moving average of $110.31 earlier in the session, touching a high for the day of $110.47.
U.S. oil fell 59 cents to $89.39, threatening to snap four straight days of gains.
The conflict over the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" talks is expected to grow more heated as the action shifts to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time.
U.S. President Barack Obama has accused opponents of holding a personal grudge against him, while the top Republican negotiator John Boehner called the president "irrational".
"I don't think there has been a material shift in position. There is going to be some sort of muddle-through agreement," said Jack Pollard, commodities research analyst at Sucden.
"At the moment we're subject to some political posturing, and as a result we have the oil markets moving with the ebb and flow of the headlines."
Oil prices and other riskier assets will remain under pressure as the deadline for a budget agreement at the end of the year comes closer with no sign of a deal yet.
A patch of promising data from Germany kept a floor under prices, however.
Morale within German businesses climbed in December as confidence in the outlook rose at its fastest rate in 2-1/2 years, boosting hopes Europe's largest economy will bounce back quickly after a weak end to 2012.
Oil prices found early support from a drop in U.S. crude oil and distillate stocks reported on Wednesday.
Crude stocks fell by 964,000 barrels to 371.65 million barrels, compared with an average forecast for a 1.1 million barrel drawdown in a Reuters poll of analysts. Crude imports fell 101,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 8.36 million bpd.
Distillates, which include diesel and heating oil, fell 1.09 million barrels to 116.97 million, versus expectations for a 1 million barrel build.
In the Middle East, oil shipments from autonomous Iraqi region Kurdistan have fallen to around 5,000 bpd from around 30,000 bpd at the start of the week, Iraqi oil officials said without giving a reason for the decline. (Additional reporting by Jessica Jaganathan in Singapore, Shadia Nasralla and David Sheppard in London; Editing by Alison Birrane)


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The word "skonsa" (the singular form of "skonsur") is the same word as "scone" in English. We Icelanders use the word to refer to a kind of thick pancake. The taste is similar to American breakfast pancakes, but we serve them differently. We usually cook them on the same kind of skillet as we use to make the delicious Icelandic pancakes.
250 g bread flour
4 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tbs sugar
40 g margarine, melted
250 ml milk
2 eggs
Mix together the dry ingredients. Add the eggs and melted margarine, and thin with milk. Stir until smooth. Pour on a greased skillet and fry on both sides at low temperature. Cakes should be like thick pancakes.
-serve cold with any kind of topping that is good with bread: cheese, slices of meat, salads, etc.
-make a sandwich-cake: make a mayonnaise/sour-cream based salad (shrimp, tuna, egg, salmon, etc.), and layer with whole pancakes. (More on sandwich-cakes later).
-serve warm like American pancakes, with butter and syrup
Jo's Icelandic Recipes has moved here (the old website is still up but I have stopped updating it). Covers recipes, Icelandic foodstuffs, food culture and history. Please post questions under the appropriate recipe. If there is an Icelandic recipe you're looking for, you can either leave a comment or email me (see sidebar) with a request and I'll see what I can do. Comments are moderated.
Skonsur - Thick pancakes/pan-fried bread
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French version available now. I appreciate emmacr for her translation^^)/
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Now "work in the round" version is also available for download. You will see three files upon purchase (old flat version in English, in French and IN ROUND in English). IN-ROUND version doesn't have neck drawstring in instruction. If you prefer to have drawstring, please refer old flat version.
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Happy Camper
Nice run Lou. 8 - easy for me today. The run I'm doing is Go St. Louis Marathon on 4/10. I get my bib number emailed Tuesday.
Determination: The feeling you get right before you try something incredibly stupid.
didn't get my miles where they should have been this week - oh well. Enjoyed the heat (not so much) and did 5 just now 7:54 average.
holy moly you're super close. I'll be in vegas that weekend, then the Olathe marathon the weekend after. G'luck!
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Awww, I'm sorry I'm missing it (STL Mara); I'd wanted to do it, but stuff got in the way. One year I'm doing it.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
10 miles which gave me 56.4 for the week. Not too shabby. I had planned on running 15 HOWEVER during my run I started to think WHY 15? I could get away with 10. I'd get more time to spend with Ken before he leaves for the week (later in the day) My blisters will have more time to heal (one on pinky to from MB101 and a few on bottom of toes and one on the side of foot from VIbrams) AND mabye I'll have even more energy for Tuesdays speed work out. It's not like I'm ultra training or training for a marathon in the new future. This is new to me and I think I'm going to enjoy running "low mileage"
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- I am realizing every day that technology giant Apple ( AAPL) is becoming more and more like that next-door neighbor you just can't keep up with no matter how much you try, and he knows it. What makes it even worse is that he knows that you can't stand him for it and he loves it!In an article on Tuesday by TheStreet author Rocco Pendola, he reminded investors of just how tactically savvy Apple can be sometimes. Although I say "savvy" with a great deal of admiration, the more appropriate description, however, is "shrewd" -- and I say this with a great deal of respect. In the article, Pendola pointed out succinctly the key differences between Apple and its chief rival in Google ( GOOG) with the following statement: If Google wasn't busy building cars that drive themselves and tinkering with other projects that do not generate revenue or enhance its competitive position, it might have used its acquisition of Zagat to put an end to the experiments known as Yelp (YELP) and Open Table (OPEN). Apple is so nimble that it's able to coolly and calmly pick and choose the things it will keep in-house and what it will outsource to mere mortals. At the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple, for all intents and purposes, threw aircraft flotation devices out to both Yelp and Open Table by integrating them into iOS 6. It also raised the stakes, in a good way, by finally integrating Facebook (FB) and saying such nice things about Twitter. Although I have a slightly different take from Pendola regarding Google's business acumen, his points were well taken -- which is essentially, as we applaud Apple for its brilliance in creativity and having become an endless well of exceptional growth, Wall Street often overlooks and underestimates the company for having mastered the art of war -- or in this case the art of competition to the extent that not only has it killed off Research in Motion ( RIMM), but it continues to make even market leaders such as Microsoft ( MSFT), Amazon ( AMZN) and Google feel grossly inadequate. The company has become not only the anchor of the stock market, but the beacon of innovation for the world. That it has surpassed Exxon Mobil ( XOM) as the world's largest company -- to the extent that it is now larger than Microsoft, Cisco ( CSCO) and Intel ( INTC) combined. As great of an accomplishment this is, many fail to appreciate that Apple did not acquire its current status solely from its "iProducts." More than anything, what has made the company the powerhouse that it has become is something that it has begun to do better than anyone else -- run a clever and sometimes outright brutal business operation. Also Monday, it was revealed the company plans to nix the popular Google maps app in place of its own in-house mapping software currently in development for its IOS6 -- something that, in my opinion, has likely sealed the fate of mobile GPS leaders in TomTom, Garmin ( GRMN) as well as satellite radio giant Sirius XM ( SIRI). I say this because in addition, it was announced that Apple is working with auto makers such as BMW, Land Rover as well as General Motors ( GM) to add buttons on steering wheels that will allow drivers to enable its voice command tool Siri from a docked iPhone - all without lighting up the phone's display.


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Gulf Oil Growth: First Stop, Mid-Atlantic
After years of focusing on its image renewal, the regional player gears up for its first steps in a major expansion.By Mehgan Belanger
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- With Gulf Oil supplying roughly 10 percent of the retail fueling stations in its 11-state market region, and successfully growing its network with the help of Gulf Sunrise, an image refresh program, the petroleum marketer and subsidiary of Cumberland Farms Inc. was approaching saturation -- and feeling some constraints.
"We've done a good job at culling out sites that didn't meet the new Gulf image and working with our branded partners at re-establishing and reinvigorating the Gulf mark. And as a [result], we're bringing in really great sites that wouldn't look at the Gulf brand before," Rick Dery chief marketing officer for Gulf, told CSNews Online. "We truly became geographically constrained in [the 11] states."
Ron Sabia, president of Gulf, added: "As we got more sites, we had conflicts with some new sites. Our universe was reduced to roughly 25,000 stations in the markets we're active in."
But with the acquisition earlier this week of all rights, title and interest to the Gulf brand in the U.S. from Chevron Corp., the fishbowl just became much larger for the company.
"Now there's about 170,000 stations we can market to," Sabia noted in an interview with CSNews Online.
For the last 20 years, Gulf-branded gasoline in the continental U.S. has only been available in an 11-state region in the Northeast through a licensing agreement between Gulf Oil L.P.'s parent company and Chevron U.S.A. Inc., CSNews Online reported yesterday. The new deal, effective Jan. 12, between Chevron and Gulf gives the Massachusetts-based company the right to market the brand throughout the United States and its territories, enabling Gulf Oil to expand its use of the Gulf brand throughout the U.S. for the first time since it first acquired certain rights to the brand in 1986, the company stated.
While Gulf Oil wanted the rights to the mark when it began an overhaul of the brand in 2005, it wasn't until Chevron decided to pull out of 10 mid-Atlantic markets in late 2009 that the pieces fell into place for Gulf to expand its agreements with the major oil company. Gulf wanted to purchase the rights to market the brand in the states where Chevron had announced it was pulling out, and "one thing led to anther, consistent with Chevron's operational direction at this time, which led us to the full rights" to market the Gulf brand nationwide, Sabia said.
In the immediate future, Gulf is looking to pick up stations that lost the Chevron brand in those mid-Atlantic states.
"We're six weeks behind the eight ball. Retailers have had six weeks to try to decide their next best option. We weren't a thought before. Now we are," explained Dery. "We're getting the notice out that the brand is available and … focusing on this geography without any interferences."
Sabia added: "Those first 1,100 sites Chevron is withdrawing from are our obvious targets. They are free agents today, and in the last 24 hours, the communication activity we've seen in the area shows they are thirsting for banded alternatives."
While Gulf has no terminals in that region currently, the company would be open to one in the future, according to Sabia. Primarily, it will focus on the distribution channel in the area to fuel its network growth, rather than real estate or company-operated locations, he added.
But the growth Gulf is planning will be well thought out, the executives noted.
"More important than quick growth is maintaining the level of service people have been accustomed to," said Sabia. "Our differentiation is a focus on downstream -- it's the primary business and all we do. We provide a high level of service and can react quickly to customer needs."
Dery added: "Growth will be smart. We'll choose the right partners and the best partners in the various markets, who will proudly fly the [Gulf] mark."
Gulf is seeking well established, tenured distributors in the markets, and has a volume objective of 10 million gallons a year, but will work with those that are not at the mark, but have a desire to grow, he said.
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OK great job by all on stop number one, as we continue our journey on the "Highway to Heinz". Everybody got a chance to use the restroom, got something to eat, and we have fresh batteries for the DSs and the DVD players. Play a quick game of "rock, paper, scissors" to determine who sits in the middle then jump in and, let's get rolling. Ahhhh!!!! Do not poke your brother again or I will turn this car around! The best part of our trip is straight ahead. Quarter finals week is here and as always, it is all exclusive to the MSA Sports Network.
AAAA Quarter Final
#4 Seneca Valley Raiders (9-1) vs #5 Mount Lebanon Blue Devils (8-2) Friday November 9th at 7:30 pm @ North Allegheny high school broadcast on the MSA Sports network by Paul Paterra and Josh Rowntree
This AAAA quarter-final features a pair of big time offenses and, arguably; the two best passing attacks in AAAA. Lebo rolled through their first round match up with Butler 31-7 behind Tyler Roth's 288 yards passing including a pair of touchdown passes.
Seneca Valley also went uncontested in round one, smoking Hempfield 50-20 with Forrest Barnes scoring four touchdowns and wracking up 203 all-purpose yards in the first half before taking the second half breather.
The Raiders' only loss of the season came at the hands of the North Allegheny Tigers, Lebo also lost to North Allegheny way back in week one.
The Raiders and Blue Devils will meet for the first time since the days of the old "Quad North" in 2005. Mount Lebanon won three straight from the Raiders from 2003 -2005, with Seneca Valley last winning against Mount Lebanon 29-8 in 2002.
The Raider offense is balanced, experienced and very talented at the skill positions. Senior quarterback Jordan Brown continues to excel throwing and running with great success. During the regular season Brown completed 93 of 157 passes for 1354 yards and 15 touchdowns. He also rushed for 447 yards and a pair of scores.
Jonothan Dorogy is the leading receiver for the Raiders, but he is multi-faceted as well with over 500 yards receiving, 300 yards rushing and nearing double digits in touchdowns for the year.
The key to Seneca's great offense though resides in senior running back Forrest Barnes, he is the total package as a running back, size, speed, moves and toughness. For the season he has rushed for 1500 yards on 191 carries, and has 20 catches for 223 yards and has scored 33 touchdowns. This kid is the real deal and worth the price of a ticket to go see.
Lebo meanwhile has a senior quarterback in Tyler Roth who made his debut as a starter at that position here in 2012. Pretty good debut you might say, as he has shattered nearly every passing record for the history of Mount Lebanon high school. Through the first round of the playoffs he has completed 144 of 263 passes for 2373 yards and 27 touchdowns and only thrown four interceptions. Junior Troy Apke has 50 catches for 1015 yards and 13 touchdowns. A pair of seniors in, Mike Briercheck and Mark Buda are also big time targets for Roth.
The Blue Devils have a running back by committee approach that is doing quite nicely as well Time Briercheck, Jake Rolfsen and Doran Graham are all capable of breaking the big run or pounding you for those hard to get yards behind a monstrous offensive line.
AAA Quarter Final
#4 West Allegheny Indians (9-1) vs #5 Montour Spartans (9-1) Friday November 9th at 7:30 pm @ Chartiers Valley high school broadcast on the MSA Sports network by Justin McKim and Steve Nagler
If you like yourself a little low-scoring, hard-hitting defensive football how about this rematch of a week nine thriller that went the way of the Indians as West Allegheny's bullpen shut down the Spartans hitters for a 5-3 win back on October 19th in Spartan country.
These two teams are so familiar with one another you should definitely be on the look out another low scoring physical game.
The Spartans and Indians have met ten times since 2003 with West Allegheny holding a slight edge 6-4 in that span but Montour has won four of the last six meetings.
This will be about adjustments made from week eight and about who wants it more as a pair of storied traditions try to get back to the semifinals.
The Spartans have a great two way player in Devin Wilson, an outstanding defensive back, running back and wide receiver. Wilson has rushed for 509 yards and five touchdowns, caught 63 passes for 1002 yards and 14 touchdowns, and recorded a pair of interceptions, a fumble recovery and forty total tackles for Lou Cerro's team.
At quarterback a combination of senior Ryan Mihelcic and junior Tynen Greer has completed 117 of 188 passes for 1947 yards and 22 touchdown passes. Both can hurt you with their legs as well having rushed for three touchdowns each on the season.
West Allegheny meanwhile has a tremendous rushing attack running it for nearly 225 yards per game on the season. Their lone loss came to Central Valley in week five 28-14. The Indians allow a best in the conference 10.3 points per game defensively this season. A number made even more remarkable when you consider the Parkway conference.
Sophomore Andrew Koester completed 35 of 81 regular season passes for 640 yards and four touchdowns. On the ground is the way the Indians will come at you. Junior Tory Delmonico leads the charge there with 99 carries for 670 yards and seven touchdowns. A pair of sophomores in Armonde Dellovade (57 carries, 545 yards and seven touchdowns) and Chayse Dillon (55 carries 433 yards and five scores) also chip in. Senior Nick Halbedl (yes that is the correct spelling) gets the tough yards with 399 yards and three touchdowns on 93 attempts.
AA Quarter Final
#4 Jeannette Jayhawks (9-1) vs #5 Beaver Bobcats (9-1) Friday November 9th at 7:30 pm @ Hampton high school broadcast on the MSA Sports network by Don Conde and Jimmy Lee Santorella on WHJB-FM 107.1
Jeannette is a blocked punt return for a touchdown by Washington's Shai McKenzie away from a perfect season. Beaver is a loss to the number one team in the state the Aliquippa Quips away from perfection. That makes this a great match up at Hampton high Friday night. Jeannette rolled South Allegheny in round one play, 40-7. Beaver battled to a 28-14 win over Valley in their opening round tilt.
These teams have met twice since 2003 both times in the playoffs and, both times with Jeannette coming out on top, in 2003 in the semis the Jayhawks prevailed 10-8, and in 2008 in the quarterfinals Jeannette rolled 57-28.
The 2012 Jayhawks are deep, experienced and talented they lost to Aliquippa in the championship game last season and really aside from Demetrius Cox most of the key players from that team have returned for the 2012 season.
Senior quarterback Seth Miller is getting it done with his arm and legs both this year. On the season Miller has completed 49 of 104 passing attempts for 780 yards and five scores. On the ground he has rushed it for over 400 yards and eight more touchdowns.
Senior Jordan Edmunds leads them in both receiving and rushing. Edmunds has 15 catches for almost 200 yards and has 859 yards rushing on 112 attempts. He is also the leading scorer for the Jayhawks with a dozen touchdowns.
Shavonta Craft is having a solid year running the football for Jeannette as well he has 667 yards on 74 carries for an impressive average of 9.01 yards per attempt. He has hit pay dirt 11 times on the season.
The Bobcats have been getting it done with a pair of quarterbacks in Austin Ross and Alex Rowse, the pair has combined to complete 61 of 131 passes for 799 yards and half a dozen touchdowns.
Darian Bradley is their leading rusher and receiver. The 5'10'' 205 pound senior has caught 16 passes for 232 yards, rushed it 115 times for 756 yards and, scored an amazing 25 touchdowns for Jeff Beltz's team this season.
Another senior Anthony Fidurski has also chipped in big time in the running game with 414 rushing yards and five touchdowns for they year.
Beaver is big and strong and, physical up front on both sides of the ball. Guys like Jeremy Teams, Tyler Weeks, Colin Reese and big Dutin Rogalla at 6'5'' and 330 pounds keep the Bobcats in control of a lot of football games.
A Quarter Final
#5 Monessen Greyhounds (9-1) vs #13 Neshannock Lancers (9-1) ) Friday November 9th at 7:30 pm @ Chartiers-Houston high school broadcast on the MSA Sports network by Mark Schaas and Lee Mohn on WJST-AM 1280
This, despite the disparity in seed numbers, is a game many people have been anticipating greatly. The Lancers rolled the four seed Jefferson-Morgan in the opening round 42-14 and in doing so garnered the first ever football playoff win in school history.
Monessen as expected had no trouble in their first round ousting the 12 seed Apollo-Ridge 48-19. The 'hounds' lone loss of the 2012 campaign came back in week four to Clairton 52-7 on a Thursday night game. Meanwhile Neshannock responded to their lone loss, a week six loss at Rochy 28-21 by rattling off four straight wins to reach the quarters for the first time ever.
Monessen is riding high on the arm and legs of senior quarterback Chavas Rawlins. Rawlins at 6'3'' and 188 pounds is one of the top athletes in the WPIAL. He has completed 61 of 151 passes for 1253 yards and a dozen touchdowns for the year. He is also the leading rusher for Monessen with 88 carries for 546 yards and 16 touchdowns.
Rawlin's favorite receiver is junior running back Clintell Gillespie who has 21 catches for 507 yards on the season, he also has 69 rushing attempts for 530 yards on the ground and has scored 11 touchdowns this year.
The Greyhounds' defense is allowing 21.6 points per game on the season but; if you through out that clinker against Da Bears, that number drops down to around 18 points per game, much more impressive for Andy Pacak's club.
Neshannock is one of the best stories in the WPIAL this season after finishing in a three-way tie for the Big Seven crown with Rochester and Sto-Rox.
They have a thousand-yard rusher and a thousand-yard passer featured in an offense that has scored over 40 points per game for the season, I don't have the numbers to back this up but I would be willing to bet that is a school record for the Lancers.
Junior quarterback Ernie Burkes has been more than solid, he has been tremendous. His numbers on the year are every head coaches' dream. He has completed 101 of 164 passes for 1356 yards and thrown 17 touchdown passes, to go along with not a single interception.
Burkes' top two receivers are a pair of seniors in John Congolose and Alex Welker. Congolose has 40 catches for 557 yards and five touchdowns, while Welker has 34 catches for 584 yards and 10 scores.
On the ground Burkes has rushed for 740 yards and 10 touchdowns. The leading rusher for the Lancers is sophomore Eli Owens who has amassed 1180 yards and eight touchdowns on 140 carries this season.


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UAE Teams And Drivers Impress During 2014 Sws World Finals Weekend At Le Mans
CG Racing finish second in Endurance Final by narrowest of margins
UAE based teams and drivers impress during weekend at Le Mans
Teams and drivers from the UAE flew the flag impressively for the local leisure karting scene during the Sodi World Finals at the brand new Alain Prost Kart Circuit in Le Mans, France this past weekend.
Four teams, who contested and excelled in the 2013 Duba Kartdrome Endurance Championship driven by Mini, qualified for the 500 Miles Endurance Cup World Final race. Reigning champions CG Racing, along with Dubai Falcon Racing Team and Batelco Racing lined up on the grid alongside 40 top international teams.
Throughout the race a dozen teams were always within a lap or two of the leaders and in among them were all the Dubai Kartdrome championship contenders, and when the chequered flag fell to end the race it was French outfit Ask Performance 360 who clinched victory by a mere 3.140 seconds from second placed CG Racing, CER Karting from France taking the final podium spot in third.
Fourth went to Batelco Racing from Bahrain, who currently lead the 2014 series in Dubai. Dubai Falcon Racing Team were tenth and CG Racing 2 were 38th.
Six of the top drivers from the Dubai Kartdrome 2013 SWS Sprint Series were selected to represent the UAE in the Sodi World Finals Sprint Grand Prix, where they were part of and 80 strong field of drivers from around the globe. The title was decided in a series of qualification races, followed by four points scoring races - top points scorer would be declared champion.
The only downside for the Dubai contingent was that being used in the Sodi World Finals for the first time were the GT Max Sodi kart, powered by a Rotax max engine delivering twice the power they have been used to in the UAE based series, while most of their rivals were familiar with the new machines.
Flying the UAE flag were reigning Kartdrome SWS Sprint champion Atef Al Barwani, Ali Al Mansoori, Abdullah Al Ali, Sam Zian and wildcard Moeen al Sarraj who all enjoyed races where they won or were at the sharp end of proceedings. Collectivel, on day one, they bagged five podium finishes despite their lack of experience in the karts being used.
When the points were scored at the end of the final day, of two, it was Germany's Marcel Prokscha who emerged as 2014 SWS Sprint champion ahead of second placed Belgian driver Simon Delvenne and Briton Piers Prior in third.
Highlights of the weekend for the UAE team contesting the Sprint Grand Prix were: a one-two by Al Ali and Al Mansoori in the Final 2 Qualification Race and first place for Al Barwani in the Superfinal 1 Qualification Race.
At the end of the final day Al Sarraj was best of the UAE brigade in 20th place, next best was Al Ali in 29th, Sam Zian in 30th, Al Mansoori in 33rd and Al Barwani 43rd.
Dubai schoolgirl Hannah Logan and schoolboy Mansour Al Sarraj (younger brother of Moeen Al Sarraj) represented the UAE in the Sodi World Finals Junior Grand Prix, where they lined up alongside 20 of the best SWS juniors from around the globe.
Four points scoring races over would determine the final standings, and after two days of action it was Russian teenager Michael Belov who claimed the top prize ahead of French duo of Bastien Flahaut and Erwann Varlet who finished second and third respectively.
Al Sarraj was 17th when the points were tallied, with Hannah 17th.
Kartdrome manager Ryan Trutch summed up the 2014 SWS World Finals, " Once again our teams and drivers did the UAE proud as they proved that the local scene is on an international level. Particularly impressive was our performances in the Endurance format where teams contesting the Kartdrome Endurance Championship by Mini were excellent. The GT Max Sodi karts, which none of our drivers had ever used, proved to be a challenge, but I was impressed by how our drivers adapted and were impressive throughout the weekend."
"In the end it was a great experience for all concerned, and a well deserved reward for drivers and teams who have contested and supported the Kartdrome based SWS championships. We go home proud of what we achieved as a collective and believe that we impressed our rivals not only with the speed shown by UAE based comeptitors, but also the enthusiasm and sporting spirit which we showed throughout the weekend," added Trutch.
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By Johnny Kampis | Missouri Watchdog
ST. LOUIS – A second ballot initiative summary penned by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan was upheld in court Tuesday.
Now voters must decide in November if they want to give the governor more authority appointing high court judges.
Both Carnahan's office and opponents of the measure praised the ruling by Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem that doesn't change the original ballot wording of Constitutional Amendment 3.
"The secretary of state's office has a legal obligation to provide Missourians with fair and sufficient summaries of ballot measures," Carnahan said in a statement. "The judge's decision supports our position that the summary drafted by our office meets that legal standard."
Former Missouri Bar Association president Skip Walther, who leads a committee opposing the proposal, called the amendment "dangerous" because he said it further politicizes the process of judicial selection.
"The last thing we need is for politicians to be in charge of this process," he said.
The summary will read as follows on the ballot:
"Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to change the current nonpartisan selection of supreme court and court of appeals judges to a process that gives the governor increased authority to:
- appoint a majority of the commission that selects these court nominees; and
- appoint all lawyers to the commission by removing the requirement that the governor's appointees be non-lawyers?"
Amendment proponents sued because they say the wording is misleading.
James Harris, executive director of Better Courts for Missouri, which filed the lawsuit, said he was disappointed by the ruling.
"Amendment 3 is a modest measure which will allow voters to decide if they want to increase public accountability and eliminate trial attorney special interests' monopoly over judicial selection," Harris said. "However, the hopelessly biased ballot wording offered by Secretary Carnahan does not reflect this at all."
The current nominating commission for the Missouri Supreme Court and Court of Appeals includes three members of the Missouri Bar Association, three gubernatorial appointees who cannot be members of the bar association and one Missouri Supreme Court judge. The proposal would give the governor a fourth appointee (replacing the judge), and would allow the gubernatorial appointees to be lawyers.
Better Courts for Missouri argues that the amendment gives Missouri residents more control over the appointing process by allowing the voter-elected governor more discretion. The group notes that Missouri is one of only seven states that allows a sitting judge to be involved in the process.
Under the current state court plan, the governor picks one of three finalists for these court positions who have been selected by the commission. The amendment will also increase the number of finalists to four.
Although the ruling went in Carnahan's favor, Beetem agreed that the wording could have been better. He ruled, however, that the true test was whether the summary "reflects the legal and probable effects of the proposed amendment without bias, prejudice, deception or favoritism."
"Governing case law requires this Court to afford great deference to Defendant's summary statement, particularly when viewed through an aperture of no more than 50 words," Beetem wrote.
Carnahan's office noted this was the final roadblock to getting ballots ready to print for the Nov. 6 general election.
"With less than two weeks to go before the September 22 deadline for local election authorities to send ballots to military and overseas absentee voters, this is a positive development to avoid any delay in printing and mailing ballots to these voters," Carnahan said.
However, an attorney representing the plaintiffs told the Kansas City Star he plans to appeal.
A previous challenge to Carnahan's summary on a ballot initiative concerning a state health-care exchange resulted in the Democrats' language being replaced by a new summary backed by top state Republicans.
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The Doubleclicks are a pair of Portland-based sisters who sing about Dungeons and Dragons, Mr. Darcy, and
The Doubleclicks' clever brand of nerdy folk music has been called "relentlessly likable" and "face-meltingly wry."
Their fans tend to be software developers, writers and their loved ones, as well as anyone who loves Star Trek, grammar, dinosaurs or video games. ... more
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