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We're picking things out of our tom yum soup at Jax Thai Bar, a Tempe restaurant that's the newest addition to Mill Avenue's increasingly cosmopolitan culinary scene. Barklike nubs of galangal, a southeast Asian vegetable that's a member of the ginger family. Whole kaffir lime leaves, dark green and similar to bay leaves. Long stalks of lemon grass, the perennial plant of tropical Asia. Residue piles up like colorful kindling next to our soup bowls.
It's an odd presentation -- usually these potent spices would be powdered, or at least strained out before serving. The pumpkin-orange soup is stocked with chunks of chicken breast and sliced mushrooms and served in a large metal pot centered by a propane burner. We're sitting just inside the front door; when it opens, the breeze whips in and flames char our cheeks.
The fancy tricks are an important component of this hip restaurant. When Jax debuted this summer, it promised to bring something different to our local Thai dining landscape. Catering to an easily bored clientele of yuppies, Gen X'ers and Y's, Jax needed to put a novel twist on a cuisine that's invaded America so profusely over the last several years that in food-savvy cities like L.A., it's hardly even considered ethnic.
Jax Thai Bar
420 South Mill, Tempe
Chicken or beef satay: $7
Tom yum: $10
Spring roll: $4
Thai prawns: $17
Pork and coconut noodles: $9
Pad Thai: $10
Fried bananas: $7 480-921-8800. Hours: Lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; dinner, Sunday, 5 to 10 p.m.; full appetizer service daily until 12:30 a.m.
Jax has succeeded with stylish service and good looks. There's a lot of sophistication packed into a small space, with exposed brick walls, a sleek bar and lounge and retro-modern decor with lots of red and black. There's another, more private lounge upstairs, looking over the crowd beneath 20-foot ceilings. Guests can grab a tall table or settle at the dining counter in front of the exposed kitchen to watch the chefs slice and dice.
Jax, too, is turning heads with its attitude. Thai food is hot, as in spicy. But here, it's called "atomic." In a chichi kind of "we dare you" taunt, dishes can be prepared in increasing levels that, at the max, will leave scorch marks on your tongue. Drinks aren't just drinks, they're "high performance cocktails." And most entrees arrive in small black bowls, with small plates alongside. Whether it's intentional or not, the bowls have a dual benefit -- they don't hog much space on Jax's too-tiny tables, and they keep the food warm longer than the usual, flat-plate presentation. The individual dishes of rice served with meals are nice touches, too.
It's all quite trendy, big-city and boisterous. Keep in mind -- this is not your typical family-friendly Thai joint. Lunch is quiet, but dinner is loud and dark, packed with the young, beautiful and restless. After the food service stops at 10 p.m., the place turns into a pulsating nightclub.
Happily, however, Jax owner Julian Wright has stopped the trendiness at the ambiance. The food here is basic Thai, and at times, it's dynamically delicious. Although his background consists of managing chain restaurants, Wright appears to have taken every cheap trick he must have learned there and promptly forgotten it -- ingredients are high-quality, fresh and cooked to order.
Once we dispose of the debris, the tom yum is terrific. Ordered at regular heat level, it's spicy enough to be considered hot at most other Thai places, prancing on the back and sides of the tongue. Woon sen is much milder, tossing clear-as-glass bean thread noodles in an aromatic broth of scallions, garlic, white pepper and cilantro, jumbled with chicken, snow peas, baby corn and carrot. This isn't first-date food, though -- it's virtually impossible to eat the noodles, so long and slippery they demand scissors.
Appetizers are served until 12:30 a.m. every day, and some are worth battling the loud techno music and party crowd for a late-night snack. The chicken rice wrap is particularly satisfying, with a burrito-size roll of feather-light rice paper stuffed with ginger lime-dressed shredded green leaf lettuce, salty shredded chicken breast, julienne cucumber, mint, basil, carrot threads, rice noodles and mung bean sprouts. Spunk comes from dipping sauces of kaffir/yellow curry, mint/cilantro cream and plum.
One of Thailand's most familiar dishes is satay, considered street food. Jax's version puts it in an upscale neighborhood, with large slabs of chicken breast or slightly chewy steak seasoned with yellow curry, coconut milk and coriander, then grilled on bamboo skewers. Many places dump satay unceremoniously on a plate, but here it comes splayed prettily on top of a pineapple half, the fruit's insides diced and grilled. Peanut sauce is a mainstay of good satay; this one is so nicely nutty it's reminiscent of melted, caramelized peanut butter. The "cool Thai cucumber" dip, though, is just boring, a sweet-and-sour sauce with cucumber bits.
There's not much excitement in vegetarian spring rolls, either, a generic plate of bean thread noodles, carrot, celery and cabbage tucked into won ton wrappers and deep fried. Instead, turn to Thai-style baked wings, a half-dozen meaty drumettes marinated in soy, hoisin, coriander, curry and lemon grass, then baked. They're grilled upon ordering, and served with truly spicy coconut glaze.
For horrific heat, though, nothing so endearingly sears as keao wan, ordered at atomic level. Holy bejesus. The thin green curry is liquid fire on its own; at atomic, it's painful to eat. Sure, my server warns me it'll be hot, but how many restaurants around town promise that, then send out a wussy smattering of chiles? Be warned: The friendly, efficient staff speaks the truth. My choice of puffed tofu mingles with skinny green beans, bell pepper, water chestnuts and zucchini in the coconut-based sauce topped with fresh basil, but I lose all taste sensation after just a few bites. This dish, at this heat level, is not for amateurs.
The only time hot isn't hot, in fact, is with Jax's Thai prawns, ordered one level below atomic. The two butterflied and broiled tiger prawns and three smaller shrimp are marinated in garlic and red curry, the menu says, but don't taste of anything special. A surrounding pool of panang curry blended with mint/cilantro cream is dull, weighted down further by a pasty mass of rice noodle angel hair pasta ringed with snow peas and shredded kaffir lime leaf.
Pork and coconut noodles are more reflective of Jax's skill. A smallish portion of marinated tenderloin has been baked, then grilled, with the charred tattoos to prove it. The fuchsia meat adorns wide rice noodles tossed with yellow curry, coconut milk, scallions and mung bean sprouts. What a charmer -- firm pork, soft noodles, silky sauce spiked with medium heat and juicy chunks of grilled tomato. Ginger chicken is excellent, too, ordered medium, with breast meat, julienne onion, mushrooms, red bell pepper and thick rice noodles in a garlic-ginger oyster sauce topped with fresh scallions. There's no MSG, no cornstarch thickener, nothing to gunk up a classic, elegant creation.
Even pad Thai, so often too sugary, has been left pretty much alone in an already sweet lemon/vinegar paprika sauce. The noodles are topped with chicken, shrimp, mung bean sprouts, fresh roasted ground peanuts and scallions. Prig khing is another good bet, uniting chicken, beef, pork, shrimp or tofu with fresh carrot and green beans in red curry and peanut sauce.
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Jax has plenty of the more familiar dishes, too (think Chinese). This is no Emperor's House o' Chopsticks, though. The only throwaway dish is pud prio wan, garden-variety sweet-and-sour battered, fried chicken, shrimp or tofu with red and green bell pepper, onion, pineapple, cucumber and tomato. Kao pud is pleasingly clean fried rice, studded with meat, peppers, baby corn, snow peas, water chestnuts, broccoli and egg. There's nothing boring, either, about atomic-style himapan (cashew chicken with hoisin, oyster and garlic sauce), or pud tour run tow (chicken and shrimp in a garlic/sweet soy sauce). On their own, they're not that much better than what's offered by your favorite Chinese restaurant, but spicing brings them alive. These mild-mannered dishes can take the heat without melting the mouth.
And for those who think that vegetarian dining has to be boring, health food tastes better when the heat's on. Most of Jax's dishes can be ordered without meat.
Meals end on a strong sugar note with fried bananas, a pile of small fruit dipped in rice flour, coconut and sesame batter, deep fried and drizzled with sweet jasmine/coconut syrup topped with more toasted flaked coconut. It's extremely sweet, and not a confection we're used to seeing on Valley menus -- fried bananas, sure, but not taken to this fashionable level.
Jax has turned up the heat on the Valley's Thai scene. It's an atomic reaction of the tastiest kind.


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F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone believes Michael Schumacher will make a comeback to race at Mercedes next year.
The past month has seen growing speculation that Schumacher will join the German team in 2010. On Tuesday, Mercedes CEO Nick Fry dropped a hint that Schumacher would drive for the team next year but no official announcement has been made by either the team or driver.
Now Ecclestone has added his opinion to the ongoing saga, suggesting Schumacher has signed a contract with Mercedes. When asked by The Times if Robert Kubica might leave the newly-purchased Renault team in order to drive for Mercedes, he said: "Well, they've got Michael haven't they? They won't want Michael and Kubica."
He added: "I'd be surprised if he [Schumacher] is not driving for them but I don't know if that's fact. It looks like it's going to happen."
Schumacher had planned to make a comeback with Ferrari last season to replace the injured Felipe Massa - who fractured his skull during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix. However, Schumacher's return was scrapped after a medical examination revealed that a neck injury, sustained in a motorbike testing crash, had not fully healed.
On Tuesday, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said Schumacher was free to leave his consultancy position at the Italian team and drive for Mercedes. German newspaper Bild then reported that a deal had been signed in principle, with just a medical examination standing between Schumacher and a race drive in 2010.
The latest reports from Bild say Schumacher will test a GP2 car in Abu Dhabi before the end of the year. However, Daimler Mercedes boss Dieter Zetsche has told the same paper that a deal would not be announced until 2010.

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Special status for Srebrenica
Several hundred returnees claim Srebrenica should be excluded from the jurisdiction of Republika Srpska (RS), because the International Court of Justice, ICJ, declared in February that it holds RS forces accountable for genocide which took place in this eastern Bosnian town in 1995. The ICJ acquitted Serbia of responsibility for the Srebrenica genocide and put the blame on Bosnian Serb forces. Muslim returnees to Srebrenica threatened a mass exodus if their demands for special status were not met. Bosnian Serb authorities led by RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik described these attempts to change the status of Srebrenica 'illegal' and 'against the RS constitution'. He also warned that 'appropriate measures will be taken against all persons who attempt to undermine the integrity of Republika Srpska'.


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If you've ever fantasized about a device that could launch snacks into your mouth, the Popinator is your fantasy come true. The machine uses your voice to pinpoint the location of your mouth and launches popcorn at it. Once you see it in action, your snack imagination will be forever changed.
The video, which was created by viral-video-focused agency Thinkmodo, was made for Popcorn Indiana so it could sell more of its above-average kernels. Now, if only the company would put some money into making this a viable product that anyone could buy!
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How could the explosions have been prevented?
I'm still pretty convinced based on the pressure data (the drywell pressure stops rising at a single value, at a point in time before venting by the operators began) that the drywell lids might have lifted and leaked hydrogen out into the secondary containment.
Otherwise, how did the explosions at Units 1 & 3 occur at all? The gas coming out of the vents should have gone out the offgas system and out the tall vent stacks, not into the secondary containment. It seems much more likely that the drywell failed in some way and allowed the hydrogen out and onto the refueling floor area.
The same thing happened during testing of a Mark 1 BWR drywell at Brunswick in the 70s. They pressurized it with air and it began to leak around the lid before reaching its rated pressure.


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I am sitting home today recuperating from some minor outpatient surgery, feeling uncomfortable enough to stay away from the office but alert enough to do something mildly constructive.
What to do? Wish I had thought to stop at the video store. What`s in the refrigerator? Say, what about that drawer across from the refrigerator, the one that, in addition to wax paper, aluminum foil and crystal clear polyethylene wrap, is overflowing with all those food and health clippings I`ve been dropping in for ages?


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Randy Allar: You have a new disc out called "The Maze." How did you come up with "The Maze?"
Vinnie Moore: It is pretty much an abstract concept. It just popped into my head one day.
Randy Allar: No life experience in this?
Vinnie Moore: There's life experience in everything I do. Otherwise I won't even write a song. It has to be related to something I'm going through in my life, and so the whole record is like that. "The Maze" is just like going through life and not knowing exactly what is going on at all times. I'm just trying to figure it all out. The title cut is a big long song with a bunch of different sections, moves through a bunch of different feels, a real loose type of conceptual idea.
Randy Allar: You have some great players on the disc.
Vinnie Moore: Yeah. Dave LaRue plays with the Steve Morse Band and the Dixie Dregs. I've known him for a long time. He's been a friend and he's always been incredible and I always wanted to work with him, so I gave him a call and enlisted him to do the record. Shane Gaalas, the drummer was recommended by my record label. Tony MacAlpine on keyboards worked on my first record way back, and got the idea to use him again.
Randy Allar: The disc has some neo-classical as well.
Vinnie Moore: Right. I've kind of gone back to my first couple of records with some of the songs anyway. Not totally. I was out touring and doing clinics and I would hear from the fans, "Hey Vinnie, when are you going to go back and do some stuff like the first couple of records?" My heart wasn't into it for many years, I would always kind of dismiss it. But then about a year and a half ago, I started coming around. It felt right. It was in my heart again. I thought it's time, I want to do it. So I went back and did some stuff that is in that vein.
Randy Allar: "The Maze" has acoustic and electric guitar. It is a real good sampling of your career.
Vinnie Moore: Yeah, I try to make my records diverse. I don't want to put the same type of thing, you've got to have different stuff and experiment with different ideas, or it gets boring, especially on an instrumental record. So I try to cover a lot of different ground and I'm in to a lot of different things, so it's natural for me to try to express all the different things that I'm into.
Randy Allar: If all your records are diverse, doesn't the diversity become commonplace?
Vinnie Moore: No!! As long as you keep growing and experimenting and exploring new areas, and covering new ground, not just doing the same old thing over and over again. As long as the new things I'm working on don't sound like the new things I worked on years ago, you have to keep it diverse with new things.
Randy Allar: Speaking of years ago, your first release came out in the mid '80s.
Vinnie Moore: The first release came out in '87 and was called "Mind's Eye." "Time Odyssey" came out in '88 or '89. "Meltdown" was actually '91. "Out Of Nowhere" was '96.
Randy Allar: This has to be media week for you, calling print media and radio stations. We have to be driving you crazy.
Vinnie Moore: I love it! I love talking to people about what I do, and just happy that anyone out there is even interested.
Randy Allar: There are a few of us out there. Are you in support of the new record by touring?
Vinnie Moore: We're going on the road April 29th. It's my band and the Michael Schenker Group, and we're doing a tour together of America. It starts off in Seattle and then we head across America.
Randy Allar: Don't forget about Cleveland.
Vinnie Moore: Cleveland, May 28th, the Odeon Theater.
Randy Allar: That means that if you are coming through Cleveland in May, we can hang up on you now.
Vinnie Moore: There you go. I get no respect! The life of a musician.
Randy Allar: What got you interested in playing guitar?
Vinnie Moore: You know, the early rock bands that I was into, like Deep Purple and Queen were very guitar oriented bands. I just wanted to start playing, so I got a guitar one year for Christmas. I had no interest in the guitar on Christmas day, I played more with the box. It grew on me and I got real serious after a couple of years. It is just sort of a thing that happened.
Randy Allar: You played with the box?
Vinnie Moore: Exactly. I was like banging holes in the box with a pen, and drawing all over it. The guitar just kind of sat there.
Randy Allar: Then as you started playing, you evolved into instrumental music. Why instrumental?
Vinnie Moore: You know, when I first started playing guitar, I heard an ad on the radio for the Jeff Beck "Wired" record. That was one of the first records that I ever bought. He became a big huge influence on me and probably one of the big reasons I went into an instrumental direction. It was one of the first records I bought, it was instrumental, and it was engrained in me at a very early age.
Randy Allar: Do you keep current with today's music, or do you put it aside?
Vinnie Moore: I always kind of ignored it and try to go down my own path. I check things out, definitely, no doubt about it, but I don't pay attention too closely to what is going on because I don't want to emulate and jump on any band wagons. I just want to go in my own direction, and be on my own path.
Randy Allar: Was it difficult to get your first recording contract?
Vinnie Moore: Some good things happened early on in my career. I sent some tapes out to record companies and they liked it. They began making plans to book me in the studio to make my first record. Things kind of happened quickly, and everything went great.
Randy Allar: That sounds like a storybook career so far.
Vinnie Moore: It was. I didn't even realize it at the time. I was only like 19 or 20 when I did that first record. I had no idea how difficult this business can be.
Randy Allar: What do you have coming up?
Vinnie Moore: On the tour we're going to do music from each record and mostly music from the new one, but I'm covering songs from the old records also. Basically do the tour, come back and start writing. I have a bunch of sons all ready finished. I always write, so I have more tunes than I can put on a record. Maybe I'll use some of those and also write some new stuff. I don't know when I'm going to begin work on a new record, this tour is going to last six weeks first, so we'll do the tour and see what happens from there.
Randy Allar: At least it's not too long a tour.
Vinnie Moore: We're doing a lot of shows in a short period of time, which is the way I prefer it. I just want to go out there, do my business and get back home. I need one of those transporter beams like in "Star Trek" so I can go home every night.
Randy Allar: You could have all your meals at home.
Vinnie Moore: Exactly! Beam me to the gig, Scotty!
Randy Allar: AAAEH Vinnie Moore...impulse power.
Vinnie Moore: Dammit, Randy, I'm a guitarist, Randy, not a doctor!
Randy Allar: Moore's honest and laid back approach to the music industry are refreshing amidst all the hype and panic of most musicians. His time spent with Alice Cooper reflects a sense of humor needed to get one through a twisted industry.
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text: NACS Online / Media / News Archive EEOC Provides Guidance on High School Diploma Requirements An informal discussion letter about how employers could be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act by requiring applicants to have a high school diploma has led to confusion. February 20, 2012 Page ContentWASHINGTON - On November 17, 2011, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued an informal discussion letter about how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to qualification standards for jobs �" namely a requirement for an employee to have a high school diploma to be considered for a job opening. Below are a few questions and answers from the EEOC website: Question: Have you just made it illegal for businesses to require a high school diploma? Answer: No. Nothing in the letter prohibits employers from adopting a requirement that a job applicant have a high school diploma. However, an employer may have to allow someone who says that a disability has prevented him from obtaining a high school diploma to demonstrate qualification for the job in some other way. Question: Are you telling people that they are protected by the ADA if they decide not to graduate from high school? Wouldn��t this create a disincentive to finish high school? Answer: No. The ADA only protects someone whose disability makes it impossible for him or her to get a diploma. It would not protect someone who simply decided not to get a high school diploma. Employers may continue to have high school diploma requirements and, in the vast majority of cases, they will not have to make exceptions to them. However, if an applicant tells an employer she cannot meet the requirement because of a disability, an employer may have to allow her to demonstrate the ability to do the job in some other way. This may include considering work experience in the same or similar jobs, or allowing her to demonstrate performance of the job��s essential functions. The employer can require the applicant to demonstrate, perhaps through appropriate documentation, that she has a disability and that the disability actually prevents her from meeting the high school diploma requirement. Question: So, does that mean the employer must hire the person with a disability? Answer: No. Even if the applicant with a disability can demonstrate the ability to do the job through some means other than possession of a high school diploma, the employer may still choose the best qualified person for the job. The employer does not have to prefer the applicant with a disability over someone who can perform the job better. Question: Is the informal discussion letter a new interpretation of the law? Answer: No. Like all of EEOC��s informal discussion letters, the letter simply applies the existing standards under the ADA and the EEOC's regulations. The EEOC��s informal discussion letters are meant to provide assistance for employers in complying with the laws. In this case the letter was intended to explain how the ADA applies when any job requirement (although a high school diploma was the specific example that we were asked about) excludes someone with a disability from a job. Question: Is this the first time that a high school diploma requirement has been questioned as a possible violation of employment discrimination law? Answer: No. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1971 that a high school diploma requirement was discriminatory because it had a disparate impact on African Americans who had high school diploma rates far lower than whites in the relevant geographical area, and because the requirement was not job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity. Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971). The courts and the EEOC have consistently applied the Supreme Court��s interpretation of the law ever since, and Congress confirmed it in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Additionally, in 2003, EEOC brought a lawsuit on behalf of an employee with an intellectual disability who was fired from her job as a nursing assistant in a residential care facility when the employer adopted a requirement that nursing assistants have high school diplomas. She had worked successfully in the job for four years and had several times tried to obtain her GED, but could not do so because of her disability. Her GED instructors offered to work with the employer to find an alternative way to assess the employee��s ability to do the job, but the employer refused. The employer settled the case with EEOC. Subscribe to NACS Daily News Feed Also in This Issue from NACS Daily EEOC Provides Guidance on High School Diploma RequirementsIllinois Online Lottery Could Cost JobsRestaurant Traffic to Remain Flat in 2012Small Companies Embrace Social Media for GrowthYou're Fired!In China, EVs Could Be More Harmful Than Gas-Powered Cars Advertisements Related News NACS Pens Support of Biodiesel Blender Tax Credit ExtensionNov 17, 2017Registration Now Open for NACS Government Relations Conference Nov 17, 2017Next Up? Credit Card ReformNov 10, 2017


text: Monster Hunter has been one of my favorite franchises from Capcom. We all know it's coming out for Wii exclusively. But when!? I can't wait to know the launch date. And i wonder how the online interface is going to be. I wouldn't mind friend codes for it, and i don't use voice chat on my friends consoles. All i want is a solid frame rate, expanded custimization, and misions, missions, and more missions. Does anyone know any other news about this game, besides the beautiful teaser video?


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I made a mistake and built the latest gcc-3.4 source package so that the libgcc1 and libstdc++6 binary packages were created. This is wrong because these binary pacakges are also create by the gcc-4.0 source package. I will fix this by uploading new versions of the gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 packages soon. I cannot correct this just now because alioth is down at the moment.
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Henry Sinks, 88, of Morenci, Mich., died Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008, at the Provincial House in Adrian.
He was born May 26, 1920, in Clarkesville, Tenn., the son of Jerry and Nancy (Powers) Sinks. On June 3, 1941, in Clarkesville, he married Geneva Harris. She preceded him in death April 20, 1991.
Henry worked for more than 40 years at Ace Drill in Adrian, Mich., from where he retired in 1980. He owned and operated Sinks Antiques in Canandaigua from 1972 through 1987. He attended the Main Street Baptist Church in Leesburg, Fla., and was a past member of the Masonic Lodge in Medina.
Survivors include three daughters, Linda (and Lynn) Richardson of Delta, Ohio, Nancy (and Kim) Valentine of Morenci and Carol (and Brad) Moran of Morenci; three sons, Robert Sinks of Lady Lake, Fla., Donald (and Sandi) Sinks of Lady Lake, Fla., and John (and Karen) Sinks of Morenci; one sister, Jackie Holden of Milford, Mich.; 17 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; a daughter-in-law, Peggy Sinks, of Adrian; and several nieces and nephews.
Besides his wife, Henry was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Roger; three sisters; and two brothers.
Funeral service are scheduled at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Eagle Funeral Home-Charles Fink Chapel in Morenci with Rev. Ned Newlin officiating. Burial will follow at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Morenci. Visitation is planned from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of donor's choice.


text: Jack Mirkinson: "New York Times reporter James Risen said Monday that he has formally taken his legal battle to prevent him from having to reveal confidential sources all the way to the Supreme Court. Risen was ordered last year to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent charged with leaking classified information about covert American operations against Iran. Risen wrote about that topic in a 2006 book, but has thus far refused to reveal who gave him the information. He has lost a series of appeals, most recently in October. When he lost that court argument, Risen told the Times that he intended to ask the Supreme Court to rule on his case. If the Supreme Court declines to take Risen's case, he would then have exhausted his last legal avenue. Click here to read a copy of the brief."


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text: High, with your permission, I'd like to post the following survey in several of the more popular forums to get the highest possible response. It's rather simple, just thought I'd get the ok from the mods. Smartphone Hardware Survey FYI, I'm already going to post it in a main forum, just wanted permission to post it in other forums too.


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Barrios makes Guangzhou move
Borussia Dortmund striker Lucas Barrios will leave the Bundesliga after this season to sign for Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande, with Dortmund confirming the move on Wednesday morning.
Barrios, 27, has signed a four-year contract with his new employers after an undisclosed fee was agreed.
Barrios said: "I want to thank the fans for their great support during the past three years. I will never forget my time at Borussia Dortmund and will always cherish it.''
The Paraguay international joined Dortmund in 2009 from Chilean side Colo Colo and has helped them to back-to-back Bundesliga titles.
He has lost his regular place in their first team this season due to the emergence of Robert Lewandowski, but scored a hat-trick in Saturday's 5-2 win at Kaiserslautern.
Chief executive officer Hans-Joachim Watzke told Bild: "This is Lucas' decision. He wanted to begin a new adventure and we must allow him that.
"We have always dealt fairly with each other. It is clear that he wants to play regularly. He had great years here and we are indebted to him.''
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On the heels of Hurricane Sandy and the re-election of President Obama last week, the Congressional Budget Office released a report titled, "Offsetting a Carbon Tax's Costs on Low-Income Households." Right on time, Al Gore premiered another 24-hour online global warming scarefest last night entitled, "24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report" aiming to promote "climate reality. (Starts at about the !;30 mark, unless you want to stop the TSA like I do.)
Al Gore, aka 'Captain Planet', Can't Save You
Tipper Gore got rid of Fat Albert, the rest of us need to do the same.
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He was full of crap when he was in vietnam and he is still full of crap nowThis jerk lives in a house that is 22000sq ft and here he is telling other people about their cabon foot print i can see why his wife left this loser.
Has anyone ever taken the time to ask Mr. Gore and others like him, what caused the Ice Age and what caused the end Of the Ice Age? Does he believe the cavemen and the fires they built to cook over, when they discovered cooked meat tasted much better then raw meat or the fact that the fires they also built to keep warm, polluted the atmosphere to such a point that they caused a global warming condition that eventually ended the Ice Age, or could it be that the earth actually goes through a cycle of climate change every few million years and we may possible be at the biginning of one now? I truly believe we should begin to find better ways to do things so as to, slow down our polution of the atmosphere but listening to Al Gore and others like him, trying to convince the masses that they are so knowledgable that their way is the only way to go, makes me and others, like me I'm sure, sick of listening to him.,
This fantasy dreamer is nothing but a control driven moron who refuses to recognize that his original Conspiracy has been exposed and proven to be bogus and yet he continues to puish his agenda. Our liberal media keeps giving him air and press time and space to further his moronic agenda.
They both need to be removed from our society to allow us to deal with reality and its issues like the fraud in the white house.
It's not the earth that is warming it is the Sun.
Someone has to explain cyclic to TUBBY. Not only is he challenging the auto mfrs. on KWH usage, he is probably the single biggest producer of methane on the planet.
He should be siting in prison right next to Madoff. Shjould through Obumer & Holder in there too.
Taxpayers finance his security service by virtue of his having been VP. Gore's greatest danger is his promotion of a hoax about climate change. If he wants to do that; fine but let him pay for his own security. There is no reason taxpayers should be on the hook for providing security for every elected official for life once they leave office.
Gore is pusing this so he cam accumulate an additional billion dollars.
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For several years there was a You Tube video showing Professor JoelRrogers, a supporter of global warming, of University of Wisconsin showing Prof. rogers caught on a student camera laughing and joking about global warming and what a scam it really was with dying polar bears and no snow for Santa Claus. Joel rogers thought is was quite clever to rip off the nation with carbon taxes knowing it did nothing but steal money to give to those involved in th scam. That video was scrubbed recently after Obama's reelection….I wonder why?


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Earlier this month Sherrard Harrington worked out for a lot of college coaches that have been showing interest, and now some new schools are in the picture.
The 6-foot-1, 170-pound corner from Washington (D.C.) H. D. Woodson now has offers from Duke, Tulsa and Marshall, but that list could grow very soon thanks to his performance at that workout.
"It went very well," he said. "I impressed a lot of coaches, especially a new (school) -- Virginia. Cincinnati and Illinois as well. They've been talking to me a lot lately. They're having a meeting as a staff finishing up the spring evaluation period. A lot of schools definitely like me.
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Harrington said he does not plan to camp at any schools over the summer. He has a friend that will be training for the Olympics in Arizona and he plans on going out west to work out with him.
"Now I think I'm going to wait it out," Harrington said, ruling out an early decision. "I haven't even gotten into the recruiting process yet. I stepped away from it. I know a lot of schools are going to come in once I send my highlight tape out. I haven't even done that yet."
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In other boys games Saturday, Oconee County fell to St. Francis 89-65 despite 20 points from Ty Anderson; Gainesville topped Jackson County 75-42, with the Panthers led by John Richardson's 11 points; and Steven Barrett's 15 led Franklin County in a 63-37 loss to Dacula.
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MADISON COUNTY 53, Hart County 38: Rebekah Faulkner led three Lady Red Raiders in double figures by scoring 11 as Madison County (1-0) advanced to the final of the Northeast Georgia Invitational Tournament. Faulkner also had five rebounds.
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Kristen Cartledge led Hart County (0-1) with 11 points. The Lady Bulldogs will play Eastside Tuesday.
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|26th March 2002, 03:37 PM
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Amps for tri-amped HT setup
Hi all,
I'm new to the DIY game but I've been trying to do my research for the past 5 months on the web, etc. I've built a Pro 60 amp from seal electronics and a Foreplay tube pre-amp for practice, but now I'm itching to build my real project - the Phoenix speakers from www.linkwitzlab.com. The Phoenix are a pair of tri-amped open baffle speakers with a 3-way active crossover. I would like to build two full speakers and a "mini" for the center channel (minus one of the mids) for use in an HT setup.
Ideally, I would like to use a digital crossover and digital amps (ones that accept digital in). I'm using a computer as a scaler, DVD player, CD player and music jukebox. (I realize purists may be gasping at this point - using a computer as a CD player, but that's the next project...) Anywho, my point is that I would be happiest using a sound card with DSP chips and software to create and modify the crossover points, with the possibility of room correction. From the posts and research I've done on other sites, it seems that this isn't quite possible, yet. So, unless someone here can correct me, I may have to go with the electronic crossovers Mr. Linkwitz designed for the speakers, which means analog out, nullifying the need for amps with digital ins, at least for now.
I've been looking at amps from CAD Audio (PWM Amps), LC Audio and Tripath, primarily. I don't foresee myself being able to do listening comparisons... Does anyone have any direct experience with one or more of these (besides the 104s - those that have built with them seem very happy?) Another possibility is the TA2022 6-channel reference board from Tripath (www.tripath.com /Technology/Data sheets - available for $600 each, but I'm not sure what modifications are possible).
Are there any suggestions for an amp not mentioned above (preferably digital) which is:
1. high quality (at least THD <1%)
2. low cost - I need 9 channels!
3. capable of 200W per channel or more?
I've considered building the modified Tripath 104s as described in another thread here and on Chris Broderson's website, but I think that this solution may be a bit too pricey (~$900 for 2 channels, so close to $4000 for 9 channels). I'm hoping to keep this around $2000, especially since I would like to move to the digital crossover mentioned above as soon as it becomes practicable.
|26th March 2002, 05:11 PM
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Well, $2000/9 channels = ~$222 per channel. Are you sure you need 200W per channel. That seems like major overkill for a tri-amped system. I can't imagine that you need 600W per speaker, if you do however you'll likely need to up that $2000 some. The power supply components alone will eat up a large chunk of that $$. Although effiecient amps like tripath will certainly help.
|26th March 2002, 05:35 PM
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Actually, the 6-channel Tripath I mentioned is 90-100W per channel, depending on the power supply... That would be fine, I think. My concern with the Tripath is modification. From what I've read, people have felt the need to modify the 104s a great deal. I'm looking into which of those mods can be applied to the 2022 6-channel reference board, but, as a newbie, this is a long and confusing process....
I had an email conversation with Dave Reite who also built the Phoenix. He used the 40W version of the LM 3886 shown on the Linkwitzlab site. He said that the speakers were way underpowered and has since bought a couple of Adcom 6550's (if I remember correctly) to power them with a combined 12 channels of audio from those amps.
The bottom line is that I've never heard the speakers or the amps. I haven't even heard that many speaker/amp combinations in my life. So, I'm not quite sure how much power I need per channel. Tri-amping with the 104's at 400w / channel (at 4Ohms) definitely seems like overkill. But, I've also been told that 40W is insufficient. So, I guess I need something in-between.
I'm wide open to suggestions.
|26th March 2002, 06:27 PM
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You could maybe use the LM3886's for highs and four channels of ESP3a's for the Mid's on the mains, and 3886's all around for the center channel.
|29th March 2002, 07:37 PM
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this is answer by email , i just menat it could have interest for others so i post it here.
i suggest the following:
you buy 3 stereo boards from us (they can be 3504 stereo or tripath 0103 boards) each board is 350w/ch.
you make (or buy) 3 a/b amplifiers for the high freqs , i think this is cost effective and gives you more power where its needed.(they could perhaps be lm 3886 amps)
you buy power suplies for the above and 3 cases if you dont allready have that.
the pwm amp boards are like $225 each , the a/b amps should be like $60 each and the power supplies (the parts) will be around $100 each , a round figure of $1100 should give you a high power (2200W +) and high quality 9 ch audio system.
k madsen - cad audio dk
ps. $2000 ?? where did that come from?
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|29th March 2002, 11:36 PM
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You were right - I was looking for about 200W per channel, but I think that that might be overkill, especially on the tweeters.
I've still got about a month to decide exactly what I want to do, but, unless somebody here talks me out of this, I think I'm going to go with the 6-channel TA-2022 reference board from Tripath (up to 90W per channel) for the mids and highs and 3 3504's for the bass. The 3504's come in mono, correct? Your website quotes $140 as a price, but you quoted $225. Is that for a pair?
The suggested tweeters have an impedance of about 4.5 ohms, the midranges 3.5 ohms and the woofers just over 6.5 ohms. So, to the best of my knowledge, and depending on the power supply, I should be able to get about 80W out of the tweeters, close to 100W out of the mids and about 250W from the woofers. This should be more than enough, no?
What about putting the power supplies in their own case(s) instead of in with the amps? Does anyone see a terrific advantage in doing so?
Thanks for all your advice.
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I currently have a Treo 680 (previous phone was a 650) in my last two vehicles (both Chryslers) my 650 synced up easily but my 680 had problems that were insurmountable. In the MKS the 680 works like a charm - couldn't try out the 650 because after giving it to my son it lasted less than 3 weeks before he lost it while snowboarding. Oh, well. Have you used your 650 in other vehicles?
No I have never paired it with Sync before. This is the first vehicle I've had that had this feature.
It seems the phone will recognize sync, but the car after I have entered the pass code, and a few min. and it says pairing failed.
The dealer's phone paired right off, he tried mine a couple of times, but no luck.
I use the bluetooth with a ear bluetooth device with no problem.
Sure hate to get rid of my 650.
Thanks for your reply.
It's possible that the 650, being an older model (3+ years old), is not supported by Sync. I'd check their website for confirmation one way or the other.
There are problems with that model. Check www.syncmyride.com for more details.
Yeah, I'm finding that out. I've read nearly everthing on Palm and syncmyride, trying to find out which phones will work, before buying a new one.
greggm2 Posts: 1I just ordered a new MKS and surprised to hear there is no under the hood light on a vehicle with this price tag. What other interior lights are missing that you would expect to be there? Is there a glovebox and center console light? Also, are there courtesy lights in the front floormat area?
Yes to all. I guess LM figured they could skip the underhood light because they put 2 lights in the trunk. Seems petty to me.
The map lights illuminate the glovebox just fine, and I can't remember the last time I needed to look under the hood after dark.
You probably didn't realize that passenger doors no longer have locks either.
Yep, I was shocked when I realized that I couldn't change the spark plugs in my MKS after dark without a flashlight.
When is the last time you used your brake assist? Probably never, unless you have been in a severe panic stop. The point is a car of MKS caliber should have an underhood light, whether or not you ever use it. After all, so many non-luxury rides (even many econoboxes) have had one as standard equipment for decades. Ford has made great strides cleaning up their intentional cheapness, but there are a few spots yet to polish on the MKS. In time.
I'm more in the camp of "why does any car need one"? There's nothing you can do without tools and if you carry tools you can carry a flashlight, because even with a dinky light you can't see well enough to do any type of meaningful repairs. And most people never open their hoods in the first place. Trunk light makes sense because of the spare tire or needing to get something out of the trunk at night.
Maybe it gives the perception of non-cheapness but I doubt it's ever affected a sale.
Gregg, you are preaching to the choir. No one is more fussy about the little things than I am. Prop-rod hood = no sale to me, for example.
As for the underhood light, I was of course kidding. The fact is that I have never found an underhood light to be bright enough or positioned well enough to be of value. I probably had the hood open a thousand times on my LS and I honestly can't recall if it had a light under there or not.
If an under hood light would have cost them a dollar to include, and they chose to spend that dollar to make the adaptive headlights work as flawlessly as they do, I would say they made the right decision. Short of really high-end vehicles, I haven't found any that include every possible doo-dad that technology can provide and that some buyers would find valuable or entertaining.
You folks are right - an underhood lite is seldom used but the MKS's competition (the CTS) has one. If you've ever refilled your washer fluid reservoir at nite (the jug was easy to find thanks to the trunk lite) like I have you'd appreciate having one. Holding the jug and a flashlite at the same time can be a challenge when you're trying to get as much washer fluid as possible into that narrow reservoir opening; believe me two hands on the jug works better than one.
Allen, your defense of every little bonehead cost-savings decision notwithstanding, I want a hood light in my cars, and there is one on all three of my vehicles. I don't need it or want it for repairs. It is bright enough to pour windshield washer fluid in with, and it is bright enough that I can find the oil (or transmission) dipstick, as well as hold the dipstick up to the light and tell if the level is normal or not. It helps me connect the battery when I use jumper cables. It tells me if a plastic cover or shield is loose or missing. As for the dollar savings going to better headlight operation, don't kid yourself. Those headlights will operate flawlessly whether or not a hood light is included, or the reliability Ford has worked so hard to achieve takes a tumble.
I get it that the addition of little things can often provide value beyond their cost. Given the choice, I would rather have an underhood light than NOT have it - even though I never add fluids or check under the hood at night unless I am in my well-lit garage or maybe at a gas station which has a nice bright parking area.
OK, the CTS has an underhood light and the MKS doesn't. You also know that the MKS offers things that the CTS, STS, or DTS do not. Living in deer country on a twisty county blacktop road, I have come to appreciate headlights that swivel in the direction I turn the steering wheel. Somehow, many cars costing more than mine lack that feature and apparently the owners get along fine. My dual panel moonroof is much appreciated by me but my neighbor with his Acura RL seems satisfied with his little single panel one.
I have yet to find an automobile that is completely perfect - or that I wouldn't change or add something if I could. In the price range that I can afford, they all have compromises. The question is when does the compromise become a deal-breaker.
Oh, come on. A hood light that has been standard equipment on most vehicles for years is not the same thing as including or leaving out options like swiveling headlights or a dual panel moonroof. Like a glovebox light, coat hooks, and a remote trunk release, it is an inexpensive, ubiquitous item; it just should be there.
xando05 Posts: 42Funny you should mention the Healy USA Today review. Turning every negative into a positive:
After reading that goofy review back in 2008, I went out and leased a brand new 2009 MKS. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
This lack of an underhood light was really starting to bother me. I decided to look over my MKS a bit closer. Those dirty cost-cutting cheapskates left out the lighted ashtray, the vent windows in the front door glass, the full-sized spare tire and the gas cap!!
Funny. So go ahead. Ignore my point. I am not saying the car isn't wonderful or that you made a poor choice, or that it isn't very well-equipped, or that this is even an important issue. It certainly does not rise to the level of for example using a prop rod v. struts. I say once again (and no more) that given the tiny cost of an underhood light, and the fact that every other luxury car (and most non-luxury cars) in the world has one, it should be there. Period. Regardless if YOU ever use it.
laxman Posts: 30I agree that there should be light under the hood. All cars should have a full size spare and not the "donut". However, these things are not deal breakers. If you enjoy the car overall and feel that you have to have these "little things" you can go out and drop a few hundred dollars and have them installed or added.
Yes, you would think that a $40K+ car would have most things...well it does. It just doesn't have everything. If you want everything then drop an additional $20K to $40K more on a vehicle that has everything supposedly. But I suspect even then there will be something to complain about. Something that is missing. Of all the car "rags" I have read, critic reviews and personnel experience, to my knowledge, there has yet to be a vehicle labeled as perfect. There are the "ultimate" cars but they are not perfect. Just some of the best of what is available...not "all inclusive".
So yes it is a forum and we can state the pro's and con's or our "wishlist". Just remember...life is short. If what you have or the life you live is not what you want...then do something about it. Everyone have a blessed day :-)
rsblaski Posts: 68What I find more perplexing is that my '09 MKS does not have turn indicators in the side view mirrors. These have become almost universal on better quality cars. My last two cars had them and I was really surprised when I finally noticed the MKS didn't.
Did the '10 model add these?
And really expensive cars like MBs and BMWs don't have a keyless entry keypad, either, which is a million times more useful than an underhood light IMO. You can nitpick all you want but for every feature you want that's missing I can find one that the competition doesn't have.
I can't believe that something you can add yourself for $10 in 10 minutes would be a deal breaker.
My Lexus LS460 doesn't have one either, so I think it's pretty irrelevant at the price point of a Lincoln.
Excuse me, but no one, and certainly not me, said anything was a dealbreaker here. It is just nuts sometimes how a comment or feedback gets enhanced or misinterpreted. One apparently can't say anything that might be construed as constructive feedback without somebody getting all defensive about it. No car is perfect, and it is ok to truly love a car that is not absolutely perfect. Why anyone would even need to be reminded of that is beyond me.
Sorry - I was responding to Bruce's no-sale statement about prop-rods. You never said it was a deal-breaker.
The point is a car of MKS caliber should have an underhood light, whether or not you ever use it. After all, so many non-luxury rides (even many econoboxes) have had one as standard equipment for decades. Ford has made great strides cleaning up their intentional cheapness, but there are a few spots yet to polish on the MKS.
If you had just said "I want an underhood light" then I would say fine. But you were implying that it was somehow required for the MKS to be competitive or that it was a huge mistake for Ford not to provide it - neither of which I agree with.
every other luxury car (and most non-luxury cars) in the world has one, it should be there. Period.
Apparently the WAY more expensive LS460 doesn't have one either. And I thought Lexus could do no wrong.......
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But you were implying that it was somehow required for the MKS to be competitive or that it was a huge mistake for Ford not to provide it - neither of which I agree with. And neither of which I said nor meant to imply. If that is how you choose to interpret it, then no wonder you get into so many pissing matches. For the record, a hood light is NOT required for competitiveness and leaving it out was NOT a huge mistake.
I prefer one for the reasons I have already clearly stated. But apparently I cannot say what small things I think should be included as a matter of course (like I think coat hooks should be included) without someone's hackles going up. I would never not buy a car that did not come standard with a hood light if I really liked the car. They are cheap to install (but of course that is why I think they should just be there...Ford saves almost zip by this move).
You thought Lexus could do no wrong? Where do you get that from? Did I somehow imply that too? I merely think that both these cars should have a hood light. That is my preference and does not imply anything else.
BTW, I just used the hood light on my F150 (standard equipment) when I needed to use jumper cables yesterday. Of course I could have just called my motor club and not opened the hood at all on either vehicle. Didn't care to wait, To each his own.
At the risk of further inflaming this discussion, my observation on some high end cars is they may not put a light in there because they don't WANT you to lift the hood. Why I say that is my LS460 has the battery nearly under the cowl, and it is mighty hard to attach jumper cables to it. You really have to work at it, and put them under this cowl piece, or somehow take it out. Not sure how you jump this car, but clearly, Lexus doesn't want you to, so why put in the hood light? Practically no user serviceable points under there besides the oil. Now, Mercedes S Class doesn't use an oil dip stick, you get the oil level inside on the dash in a readout, so there is truly no reason to open your hood, particularly at night, right?
markcincinnati Posts: 5,343My wife and I have had 29 Audis, 3 BMW's, 3 VW's and, as I recall, a Chrysler Cordoba with fine Corinthian leather (all since 1975) -- yep, I am an old fart at 58.
I started down a path over the past 10 years of thinking it would be a good thing to have an American car. But I believe in voting with your dollars (in other words, if you buy a car you think is inferior but you buy it "just because" it was built in the US, well, you actually are contributing to the demise of the US car company who made your "inferior" ride; competition breeds better cars, i.e.) -- and there haven't been any American cars that even came close to the Germans, until the CTS came along.
Lincoln? Never even on the LONG list until about 6-7 months ago when I saw an MKS sitting in the space next to my 2009 Audi in a parking lot. I made a mental note to put in on the list (but I am 13-15 months out from ordering a new car and 17-18 months out from taking delivery.)
Ford? Below Lincoln, until I saw a couple of TV shows (no pun intended) featuring the SHO -- but even tho, it was powerful and glitzy, well, it was NOT a member of the LPS crowd (which I believe the MKS should be).
So, I am now looking at the long list (which, for the time being at least, includes two Americans: Lincoln [and Cadillac]) and starting here, as usual, with Edmunds.
Yet, I find out that pages and pages are devoted to an underhood light and that an MSRP $55,000+ MKS won't have one.
My nearly $80,000 Audi A8 didn't have one, my $53,000 A6 didn't and my $49,000+ A4 doesn't have one. But, then again, there is no dip stick (on new Audis) and, other than windshield washer fluid refills, no reason I can think of, ever, to open the hood -- but it doesn't have a prop stick, for what that is worth.
I am keen to learn how they drive (and not the kind of learning even an hour long test drive would likely reveal.) I gather they are quick and fast. I have downloaded the on-line brochure and they certainly seem to be a lot of car for the money.
But, other than the glaring underhood light omission, how does it drive on a curvy stretch of road. How are the brakes, the sound system the seats (supportive or Barco Lounger?) etc?
Assuming they go ahead and add the underhood light, well, this Lincoln "could be a contender!"
I am all ears, regale me with your driving enthusiast's impressions, opinions and facts.
And, BTW, it seems to me the hood should be only able to be opened by the service department with their special key. I mean after all, there probably aren't even "any user serviceable parts" under there anyway, are there?
Even the battery in my German cars is either under the back seat or in the spare tire wheel well. And, at least with the cars I am familiar with you can "never a jump-er or jump-ee be," the electronics won't tolerate that crap. Skull and Crossbones, Jumping is "verboten!"
Seriously, give up your best Car and Driver, Motor Trend or Road and Track review for someone looking (better said, hoping) to vote 'merican with his dollars about a year or so from now.
Mark, I have had an MKS ecoboost since late September so I will share a few thoughts. Keep in mind that I am a Ford guy but I am not afraid to criticize them when I think they deserve it. I drove a Lincoln LS for 10 years because from the time that model was discontinued until the MKS ecoboost arrived, they didn't have anything that I would even consider and I was about ready to jump ship.
The MKS is softer and more of traditional American ride than a CTS. The CTS is smaller and more nimble - more like my LS. The MKS is certainly firmer and more handling responsive than a Cadillac DTS or Buick Lucerne but would not be the handler that the CTS is. The MKS seats are nicely bolstered and very supportive - again, not the lounges that you would find in a Cadillac DTS or Lincoln Town Car. In terms of quietness, the 2010 MKS is among the best.
The brakes have been criticized by the enthusiast press. If you did several 0 - 100 MPH and back to 0 stops in a row, no doubt they would pale in comparison to a more sporting machine. I have absolutely no complaints about the brakes but I really haven't put them to a harsh test, either. The pedal feel is like every other Ford I have ever driven - some would say soft - but I would say progressive in feel.
I think you will find the Sync and Nav systems to have the best voice recognition and most friendly capabilities in the industry. The adaptive headlights and rain-sensing wipers are superb.
The Ecoboost engine is fantastic, IMO. It is every bit as smooth as my LS V8, would eat it alive in acceleration, and gets better mileage. The car is geared very high - 60 MPH is around 1500 RPM. Since the torque peak is 1500 rpm, you have lots of power without downshifts and no engine noise until you put you foot in it. The AWD system is very confidence inspiring on wet or slippery roads.
The MKS is not perfect by any means. It is heavy, its weight distribution is not optimal and it is built on the same platform as a $25,000 Taurus. Ford basically did about all they could do with the platform and the available technology to build a competitive entry. They did a pretty good job of hiding the inherent shortcomings.
Much depends on the driving dynamics you like and what is important to you. Would I put the MKS up against an Audi A8, Lexus LS series or BMW 7 series? No way - not in the same league. An A6, Acura RL or Cadillac STS? Absolutely. CTS? Not in the same size class or aiming for the same market but I prefer the MKS hands down.
I hope you give the MKS ecoboost a good once over and let us know your thoughts.


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The shocking news spread first via text and cell phone messages on the Fourth of July holiday.
It was almost too strange and terrible to believe.
Former NFL star Steve McNair had been shot to death. Air McNair, the seemingly indestructible quarterback who had played through all sorts of injuries and pain. The happily married man, a father of four who was smart enough to walk away from the NFL in 2008 while he still could.
Then came uglier news.
He had been killed by a woman he had been dating – one 16 years his junior – who then turned the gun on herself. A week after it happened, as McNair was laid to rest Saturday, friends, relatives and fans still struggle to understand the relationship between young waitress Sahel Kazemi and the former Pro Bowler.
Gloria Allen taught English to McNair in high school here, and chooses to remember a respectful young man who always did his best.
"One mistake doesn't define a life," she said.
It certainly doesn't change what McNair did on the field or his charitable work, which was substantial. What investigators and interviews have revealed does point, however, to a mistake that had disastrous consequences.
McNair noticed Kazemi at the Dave and Buster's restaurant a few months ago and apparently pursued her. Then 19, the waitress was slender but curvy, with long black hair and an olive complexion. Kazemi was so striking two other customers had their photo taken with her within the past month.
The former quarterback was a charismatic figure with virtually everyone he met, but especially to a young woman who dropped out of high school in Florida and moved to Nashville with a boyfriend when she was 17. She often worked up to three jobs to support herself. With McNair, she traveled to Las Vegas, Florida, California and even his home state of Mississippi.
In photos posted on TMZ.com that apparently show the two parasailing, McNair is smiling as he gazes at Kazemi. She introduced him to her family in May at her 20th birthday and told friends and relatives he was divorcing his wife to marry her.
But Kazemi was the one paying for her Kia and a 2007 Escalade, even though McNair was co-registered on the Cadillac. Her roommate had moved out, leaving her with doubled rent. She told a customer in the middle of June that McNair didn't seem like he wanted to be with her anymore, and police said she even followed another woman she suspected of being involved with McNair.
Then came Kazemi's arrest on suspicion of DUI around 1:30 a.m. July 2.
McNair was a passenger in the Escalade that morning. He wasn't charged, left the scene in a cab and can be seen in police video walking behind the vehicle. He had been arrested for drunk driving himself twice before – including in 2003 by the same officer who had pulled over Kazemi.
McNair bailed Kazemi out. Hours later, she bought a 9mm semiautomatic pistol in the parking lot during a break from work.
The former quarterback spent most of July 3 fishing with his sons and was alone at a restaurant before he arrived at a condo he shared with a friend sometime around 2 a.m. Soon after, he was dead.
Some who knew McNair still don't think Kazemi killed him. A slight young woman? No way she could have stopped a man massive defenders couldn't slow.
Authorities, however, believe McNair was asleep when Kazemi put the pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. She put two more slugs into his chest and a fourth bullet into the other side of his head before shooting herself. She was laid to rest Friday, in a private family ceremony in Florida.
Capt. Robert Bradley of the Mississippi Highway Patrol knew McNair since the quarterback played at Alcorn State. He volunteered after work to help with traffic Friday night at a visitation in McNair's hometown. To him, McNair's biggest weakness was being too kind, something that he said Kazemi took advantage of.
"He was just an angel," Bradley said.
That is why thousands turned out in Tennessee and in Mississippi to pay their respects to McNair.
On Saturday, approximately 5,000 turned out at Reed Green Coliseum on the University of Southern Mississippi campus in Hattiesburg for his funeral. A private burial followed 30 miles away here in his hometown.
The focus here has been trying to help some of the people most hurt by the tragedy, his wife and four children.
Baltimore receiver Derrick Mason, also a teammate in Tennessee, told McNair's sons he will be there for them. Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and Titans quarterback Vince Young, so close to McNair he called him "Pops," said at the funeral they are only a phone call away.
The work of McNair's foundation should continue even if only a few of the thousands who turned out to mourn the man this week followed the family's request and made donations to it.
Bishop Joseph W. Walker III said Mechelle McNair – a trained nurse and Steve's college sweetheart – has an incredible contribution still left to make. She hasn't made a public comment since her husband's death, and the family kept photographers from taking pictures of her or her sons to provide some privacy.
"I want people to understand she's not an airhead," Walker said. "This is an incredible woman who stood by her husband. She's in shock as anyone could be. She was taken aback, but she'll get through it."
The Titans, an organization still grieving as well, likely will commemorate McNair in some fashion this season. McNair already is in the team's Hall of Fame and Ring of Honor.
"Now we all need time to heal," Titans coach Jeff Fisher said.


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Eight Canadian university students face expulsion for mounting a pro-life display with pictures of Nazi and Armenian genocides alongside photos of abortion.
The University of Calgary had previously convinced police to charge some of the same students with trespassing, but prosecutors stayed charges on the eve of trial last fall.
So when the pro-life club remounted the Genocide Awareness Project's graphic series of images in a high-traffic area on campus early in April, as they have each semester for five years, school administrators initiated an "internal misconduct" process against eight club members that could see them expelled.
"I am extremely disappointed in my university," Leah Hallman told the Register. "They are not upholding our freedom of speech. University is meant to be a place where there is discussion between people that disagree."
University of Calgary spokesman Grady Semmens said, "We aren't commenting because this is a confidential matter." The administration stated in the past that it only took action against the club after the latter refused "a reasonable compromise." This would have seen the pictures of genocide victims arranged in an inward-facing circle.
The university has never tried to remove the signs, explaining that "this action would elevate the risk of confrontation and give the organization the publicity it is seeking."
In earlier years, it posted warning signs around the display, reports Hallman, including an assurance that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom protected the students' display.
"Then they put up the same signs but with the line about the charter pasted over," Hallman said.
"Canadian and American universities have very similar ideological mindsets, but in the U.S. we have more protection for free speech," said David French of the Alliance Defense Fund's Tennessee-based Center for Academic Freedom. The center defends pro-life clubs against university administrations in the U.S. on First Amendment grounds.
Canadian public universities have argued for several years that they are not government institutions and are not bound by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, which protects individuals and private organizations from governments.
"We fight all our cases against U.S. public universities," French said. "As for private universities, they are usually Christian, and we are usually defending them."
The Alliance Defense Fund is a Christian nonprofit devoted to defending religious and free-speech rights and educating lawyers and law students in those rights.
Other Cases
French says the U.S. Center for Bioethical Reform also runs into problems from university administrations over its Genocide Awareness Project display, but because "they stick to public universities, we win all the cases."
In fact, often schools cave in as soon as the local pro-life club or its lawyers sends a "demand letter" invoking the First Amendment right to free speech. Others wait until the trial to give up, perhaps hoping the club will give up first.
The University of Maryland recently attempted to move the Genocide Awareness Project from a high-volume area to a remote field, citing fire hazards, crowd-control problems and "emotional harassment" policies, but when ADF advanced First Amendment arguments, the school agreed to change its policies.
"The spaces schools are denying GAP have been used for decades to protest everything from the war in Vietnam to detentions at Guantanamo Bay," French pointed out. "This weakens their argument."
Last year, when Spokane Community College attempted to deny the pro-life club the opportunity to display a written statement unless it included pro-abortion rights arguments, then threatened club members with expulsion, the justification the school offered was that "Washington is a pro-choice state." Eventually, the school settled, changed its policy and paid the club president damages as well as legal costs.
In March, Brooklyn's Kingsborough Community College abandoned its ban on pro-life pamphleting after ADF sent it a "demand letter" asserting First Amendment rights.
In January, after ADF intervened, Middlestate Tennessee University withdrew a special security fee applied only to pro-life displays. In November, ADF got Sacramento City College to reinstate the student president, who had been ousted by an illegal recall vote aimed at punishing him for protecting the free speech rights of a pro-life group.
In August, after ADF intervened, Wayne State University gave up efforts to deny the pro-life club funds and space for a weeklong display. The school justified its initial refusal on the grounds the club used religious arguments, "crossed the line" into political advocacy, and might offend female students.
'We Shall Not Back Down'
Stephanie Gray of the Calgary-based Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform and the producer of the Genocide Awareness Project in Canada, says several Canadian universities have gotten away with the kind of restrictions ADF has overturned in the U.S. "At the University of British Columbia they restricted the display to two hours, allowed protesters to block it from sight, and forced the club to turn the pictures inwards." Several other universities have let protesters effectively disrupt speeches by the center's staff. They later apologized.
Hallman said the students would take the University of Calgary to court if it took action against them. "We've been warned that we should worry about our education," she said. "We do care about our education, but we care about the children more."
At a news conference to announce the university's action, fellow club member Cameron Wilson defiantly declared: "Our message to the university is this: Punish us however you wish; our convictions shall not change. We shall not abandon the unborn child to be murdered. We shall not desert the single mom in crisis. We shall not allow the evil of abortion to remain unexposed. … We shall not back down from the stand we have made."
Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.
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