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How Tensilica verifies processor cores
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Thanks to the relentless enforcement of Moore's Law by semiconductor vendors, system-on-chip (SoC) design is now stuck in a messy verification quagmire. Most estimates place verification at around 50-80% of the overall design effort for mega-gate SoC designs. Custom-built RTL hardware blocks require custom-built verification tools. Millions of gates on an SoC lead to dozens, hundreds, or thousands of RTL blocks that all require the creation of verification test suites.
Writing verification suites for every IP block in an SoC is like testing every purchased component before soldering it to a circuit board. This once-common manufacturing method is no longer considered good practice. No company except Intel can completely test a Pentium microprocessor before putting it on a board -- and no company does. They rely on Intel's testing and verifying the processor before shipping it to customers.
Similarly, requiring design teams to verify every block of RTL for every project can no longer be considered good design practice. Unless legions of inexpensive verification engineers suddenly appear on the horizon, SoC design must switch to a more efficient development model.
To crawl out of the SoC design-verification quagmire and profitably exploit those millions of available gates, companies must acquire pre-verified IP blocks in the same way they buy pre-tested chips. To do this, SoC design teams must have the same faith in the functional abilities of IP blocks that systems manufacturers have in the ICs they purchase from reputable chip vendors.
For many non-configurable IP blocks such as fixed-ISA (instruction-set architecture) microprocessor cores and for some configurable IP blocks, we're already there. Microprocessor cores are categorized as "star IP," in part because these complex blocks come pre-verified from the IP vendor.
Pre-verification represents a significant part of the value supplied by the star IP vendor. Pre-verifying an IP core saves design teams a significant amount of time. In addition, an SoC design team, if it so wishes, can easily re-verify these star IP blocks using verification scripts generally included with the IP RTL.
The software programmability of fixed-ISA microprocessor IP cores allows them to accomplish many tasks on the SoC with no need to alter the hardware. Unfortunately, all fixed-core microprocessors run out of processing power at some point. Generally, SoC designers must then resort to RTL hardware coding to create hardware accelerators and coprocessors that can meet higher performance targets, and that's when design teams tumble into the above-mentioned RTL verification morass.
Configurable microprocessor cores can meet higher performance targets than fixed-ISA processors by giving designers the ability to tailor the processor's execution pipeline so that the processor can execute complex inner program loops in just a few instructions (or one instruction, in many cases). However, customizing a processor core can eliminate the verification advantages of purchased IP unless the product is designed to easily allow verification of the customized core. Fortunately, it's possible to create customizable IP while still providing the full benefits of pre-verification enjoyed by fixed IP blocks.
Tensilica's verification flow
Tensilica has developed a robust and flexible methodology encompassing checkers and monitors for the verification of its configurable and extensible Xtensa microprocessor core. The methodology generates a customized verification suite and a test bench for each configured processor. Using this approach, Tensilica is able to pre-verify a very large number of Xtensa processor configurations before delivering even one configuration to a customer.
To verify the large number of processors developed with its processor generator, Tensilica developed a simulation-based verification environment (Figure 1) that is automatically tailored to a particular processor configuration.
This approach differs from conventional IP verification environments in its use of configurable verification components and automatic customization of verification programs. Tensilica implemented this customizable verification environment by combining internally developed and standard EDA verification tools such as simulators, formal verification tools, and hardware verification languages (HVLs).
Figure 1 -- Tensilica's simulation-based verification environment
Architectural verification programs (AVPs) check each instruction's execution within the processor's ISA, and micro-architecture verification programs (MVPs) check pipeline control and data hazards as well as the processor's actual RTL implementation. AVPs and MVPs employ Perl scripts that use the processor configuration information to generate high quality tests tailored to a specific Xtensa configuration.
The scripts add blocks of diagnostic code to the diagnostic program, or omit them, depending on the selected processor configuration. The scripts also change the parameters within the diagnostic code as it's assembled into a tailored diagnostic program. In addition, each script employs a database entry to specify the run-time conditions necessary to trigger each diagnostic block.
The verification environment also employs pseudo-random program generators to further enhance verification testing. These random program generators create tests that trigger complex interactions across different parts of the processor. The present implementation of the environment employs two configurable pseudo-random diagnostic generators.
One of the pseudo-random diagnostic generators is written in object-oriented Perl and the second generator is based on Synopsys' Vera Stream Generator, which is provided with the Vera HVL. Both generators employ instruction-list templates that are combined in random sequences to create complex diagnostic programs.
A major issue with verifying complex logic designs like microprocessors is ensuring that the diagnostic programs test the entire design. This issue is especially bothersome with randomly generated diagnostic programs that may inadvertently check one part of a design repeatedly while overlooking the rest. Tensilica addressed this problem with a functional coverage methodology based on Forte Design Systems' Perspective results-analysis tool. The results of this analysis help to steer the diagnostic generators in new directions to increase the overall verification test coverage.
At the same time, Vera-based monitors (which help to verify the correct implementation of micro-architectural features) and 0-In Design Automation's assertion-based signal and bus monitors check the processor's internal RTL state. In addition, VCS Coverage Metrics, an HDL-code-coverage utility included with Synopsys' VCS Verilog simulator, checks the verification coverage of the processor's RTL code while FSM (finite state machine) monitors, also written in Vera, check coverage of state machine operations within the processor by checking each FSM's state and the state transitions triggered by the diagnostic programs. Finally, additional checking is performed by lint tools, Design Compiler synthesis checking, and formal verification using Conformal LEC from Verplex.
The diagnostic checking programs and monitors and the RTL and ISS simulation models run simultaneously within a co-simulation environment. The Vera-based co-simulation environment compares architecturally visible states in the RTL and ISS simulations. Tensilica selected Vera as the test bench tool because it works well with multiple HDLs and simulators. This verification methodology has allowed Tensilica to verify a very large number of Xtensa processor configurations using myriad versions of the verification programs and trillions of simulation cycles, over many months and all in an efficient and automated fashion.
Help for designers
Because SoC designers can add instructions to the Xtensa microprocessor, Tensilica's verification methodology must provide a way for designers to verify the added instructions. Tensilica provides three sets of tools to help designers verify their custom instructions: a framework that automatically generates AVPs using customer-provided test vectors, automatically generated MVPs that verify the operation of both the core and the designer's ISA-extension logic, and Verplex scripts for formal verification of extension semantics against instruction references.
It's not sufficient to verify a processor's operation in the absence of other system components (such as memories and bus interfaces) because a processor is never employed in an SoC without these other components. Consequently, a configured system verification test bench (Figure 2) is also part of this verification methodology. The test bench comprises modules for memory caches, local-memory RAMs and ROMs, a JTAG controller, and a bus interface that connects the processor core to other modeled system resources.
Ancillary modules in the test bench include interrupt, bus-error, and random interface stall generators; peripheral models; and a system memory model. Except for the processor models, all of the Xtensa test bench modules are behavioral models implemented in RTL, C, or Vera depending on the abstraction level required. Tensilica also provides a model test bench for post-synthesis, gate-level simulation. This gate-level test bench is used for sanity checking of the synthesized logic and for power estimation.
Figure 2 -- Configured system verification testbench
Automated verification methodologies, such as the one detailed above, offer SoC design teams the possibility of escaping the verification quagmire that's choking their ability to develop increasingly complex SoCs. By coupling these methodologies with configurable and programmable IP, more of the tasks to be performed on the SoC can be assigned to pre-verified microprocessor cores, which greatly reduces the hardware verification burden by removing the need to manually create individual test suites for each RTL block used in the SoC.
Dhanendra Jani is an Engineering Manager at Tensilica. He joined Tensilica in 1998 and currently manages different hardware and verification projects. Prior to joining Tensilica, Jani spent 10 years at Intel where he held various technical and management positions.
Steve Leibson spent the first 10 years of his career as an engineer, then spent 15 years as an award-winning journalist, publishing over 200 articles and serving as Editor in Chief of both EDN and Microprocessor Report. Now he is the Technology Evangelist for Tensilica.


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LOBITOS, Piura/Peru (Saturday, November 7, 2009) – The Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl, Event No. 5 of 7 on the 2009 ASP Women's World Tour, completed Rounds 2 and 3 today in two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at Lobitos.
Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 18, 2009 ASP Dream Tour rookie and current ASP Women's World No. 7, was the form surfer of the day, lighting up the sand-bottom lefthanders with some incendiary maneuvers on her backhand. The young natural-footer netted the highest heat total of the event, a 17. 85 out of a possible 20, including the event-high single-wave score of a 9.00 in her trouncing of tour veteran Jacqueline Silva (BRA), 30.
"I guess I have been training hard," Fitzgibbons said. "I've just been doing my usual preparation. It is really nice to have a good heat in Round 3. Round 1 was a little bit wave-starved, but I am really looking forward to the next round and some really good waves here at Lobitos."
While certainly one of the event favorites after today's performance, Fitzgibbons will have no easy road ahead of her, facing current ASP Women's World No. 2, Silvana Lima (BRA), 25, in the Quarterfinals.
"I have had similar heat draws in the last few events," Fitzgibbons said. "Up against Silvana Lima (BRA) again and that is always a tough match up, but I'll just hope that the good waves come my way."
Lima, for her part, survived the tightest heat of the day, winning a count-back Round 3 battle against replacement surfer Megan Abubo (HAW), 31, 12.35 to 12.35.
"I couldn't believe I won that heat," Lima said. "I knew I needed the score on the last wave, and I came in thinking I had lost, but then someone on the beach told me I won. It was very hard for our heat. Not many good waves and I'm so happy to get through."
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 21, reigning two-time ASP Women's World Champion and defending two-time event winner in Peru, led the charge for those in the hunt for the 2009 ASP Women's World Title today, besting wildcard Anali Gomez (PER), 21, 15.00 to 8.75.
"We were both pretty excited out there at the start of the heat," Gilmore said. "We could see the opportunity to get barreled so we were on the hunt. Anali (Gomez) caught a great wave in front of me so that made me want to step it up."
While Gilmore maintains a narrow lead on the 2009 ASP Women's World Tour ratings, the young Australian is well aware that there are several competitors nipping at her heels.
"I'm not really thinking about the world title race, Silvana (Lima), Coco (Ho) or any of the other girls," Gilmore said. "I am just focusing on getting the waves, progressing through each heat and surfing hard at this event. This is my fourth time in Peru so I feel pretty comfortable here. The crowd is just amazing, I am pretty sure they have Sofia (Mulanovich) tattooed on them somewhere!"
Mulanovich, 26, former ASP Women's World Champion (2004) and current ASP Women's World No. 4, nearly received a tattoo of her own this afternoon, after suffering a horrific wipeout in the final heat of the day. Despite the injury, the national icon was able to oust Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS), 23, from their Round 3 match and expects a full recovery by morning.
Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow at 7am for a possible 7:30am start and will complete the Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl by day's end.
When competition resumes, up first will be Coco Ho (HAW), 18, up against Rosanne Hodge (ZAF), 22, in Quarterfinal 1.
Highlights from today's Movistar Peru Classic will be available via www.aspworldtour.com
The Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl will host the ASP Top 17 from November 3 – 8, 2009.
For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com
Heat 1: Megan Abubo (HAW) 9.25, Melanie Bartels (HAW) 9.15, Nadja DeCol (PER) 3.80
Heat 2: Paige Hareb (NZL) 10.55, Bruna Schmitz (BRA) 9.80, Anali Gomez (PER) 8.35
Heat 1: Coco Ho (HAW) 14.50 def. Alana Blanchard (HAW) 10.50
Heat 2: Rosanne Hodge (ZAF) 11.25 def. Melanie Bartels (HAW) 6.25
Heat 3: Paige Hareb (NZL) 11.60 def. Rebecca Woods (AUS) 9.40
Heat 4: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 15.00 def. Anali Gomez (PER) 8.75
Heat 5: Silvana Lima (BRA) 12.35 def. Megan Abubo (HAW) 12.35
Heat 6: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 17.85 def. Jacqueline Silva (BRA) 9.75
Heat 7: Chelsea Hedges (AUS) 11.65 def. Samantha Cornish (AUS) 7.00
Heat 8: Sofia Mulanovich (PER) 13.50 def. Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS) 8.50
QF 1: Coco Ho (HAW) vs. Rosanne Hodge (ZAF)
QF 2: Paige Hareb (NZL) vs. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS)
QF 3: Silvana Lima (BRA) vs. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS)
QF 4: Chelsea Hedges (AUS) vs. Sofia Mulanovich (PER)

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In 1996 Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Nutek) instituted the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In 2008 the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) joined FSF and Nutek to become the third partner in awarding the Prize.
At the same time the Prize sum was doubled to 100,000 euros, the name of the Prize was changed, and the procedure for nominating and evaluating prospective Award Winners was strengthened.
The partnership of IFN became possible thanks to a generous donation by the Swedish entrepreneur and industrialist Rune Andersson and his holding company Mellby Gård AB.
In 2009 Nutek changed its name to Tillväxtverket, and FSF changed its name to Entreprenörskapsforum. In 2013 Tillväxtverket was replaced by VINNOVA and Melker Schörling joined as donor. From 2016 and onwards, Stockholms Köpmansklubb is the donor.
A more detailed description about the Award can be found to the right in the article "The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research" by Magnus Henrekson and Anders Lundström published in Small Business Economics and in the article "Awarding Entrepreneurship Research: A Presentation of the Global Award" by Pontus Braunerhjelm and Magnus Henrekson published in Entrepreneurhsip Theory and Practice.
Small Business Economics and Springer Publishing have entered into an agreement with the three organizations behind the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research and will publish the presentation of the Award Winner as well as the prize lecture. A more detailed description about the partnership can be found in the article "In Partnership with The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research" by Editors-in-Chief Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch published in Small Business Economics.
A discussion about the evolving domain of entrepreneurship research written by Bo Carlsson, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Maureen McKelvey, Christer Olofsson, Lars Persson and Håkan Ylinenpää can be found in an article published in Small Business Economics.
The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (179 k)
Awarding Entrepreneurship Research: A Presentation of the Global Award (113 k)
In Partnership with The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (100 k)
The Evolving Domain of Entrepreneurship Research (483 k)


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On this laboratory each person will be assign a specific animal in which they will have to dissect and then present it to the classroom. The animal I was given was the Romalea guttata commonly known as the "Eastern lubber grasshopper". The species name guttata is Latin for spotted. Common lubber name means a clumsy or lazy person referring to their slow movements. The Romalea guttata are well known for its size and its unique coloration. Males usually grow from 45 to 55 mm while females tend to reach at least 50 to 70 mm. They have a vivid yellow/red coloration and they are flightless. The eastern lubber grasshopper is limited to the southeastern and south central portion of the
The body of the Romalea guttata is surrounded by an exoskeleton. The benefits of an exoskeleton are: armor- like protection from physical and chemical damage, also is an excellent platform for attachment of muscles, and provides an effective barrier against disease. The only disadvantage is that growth is limited until the exoskeleton is shed or molted. Usually grasshoppers shed their exoskeleton around 5 to 6 times until they reach their full maturity. One of the major components of the arthropod exoskeleton is chitin. Chitin is a biological substance which may be compared to the polysaccharide cellulose. Insects use chitin to create a hard plastic-like substance around the entire body for protection.
The external anatomy of both male and female is divided in to three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. The head is a functional unit that performs many various tasks: the major sensory area, the ingestion of food, and processes all body activities. The grasshoppers use the labrum, labium, and maxillae to hold the food between and against the mandibles which grinds the food. The palpi which are small muscles resembling antennas help manipulate the food and serve as taste detectors. In interesting fact is that grasshoppers have a hypopharynx that is a like a tongue that helps to digest food. The antennas are muscles that provide sensory structures for the sense of touch and smell. The most outstanding characteristic is their compound eyes. These eyes are made up of hundreds of separate lenses each with its on photoreceptor. All the lenses work together as one to form a unit called an ommatidium. Grasshoppers also have three simple eyes called ocelli, but they cannot form images. Their function is to sense changes in illumination. The thorax is the middle section of the grasshopper. It is divided into three smaller segments: the prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax. Each of the segments has a pair of legs that has a coxa which joints the leg to the body, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsus. We can also find a pair of wings in the thorax section. On the Romalea gutttata the wings never developed so they turn at small and useless for flight. The abdomen section is composed of eleven segments. The first eight segments have a pair of spiracles that is vital for respiratory system. The last three segments determine the animal's sex and the last segment has the cerci which are sensory structures.
The respiratory system consists on a series of tubes or trachea that distributes gases throughout body tissues. The spiracles which are the openings were oxygen and carbon dioxide enters are located in the abdomen area. The air travels inside the tracheal tubes and is disperse throughout the body. The digestive system gives the energy the animal needs to survive. The hypopharynx or tongue manipulates the food for swallowing. Meanwhile the salivary glands are working together by providing saliva so that the food can be chewed with ease. The food then travels to the esophagus and then to the crop organ where the food is grinded into small particle for digestion. After that the food enters the stomach and digestive enzymes are released from the gastric ceca. The nutrients are later absorbed and the remains travel to the intestines where the water is being absorbed. This causes the waste material to dry up into a small pellet in the rectum where it will be release through the anus.
Grasshoppers have an open circulatory system, with most of the body fluid filling up body cavities and appendages. The heart is a dorsal vessel that extends from the head to the hind end. The hemolymph is the blood used by all arthropods it fills up all the interior of the body and surrounds all cells. The hemolymph travels through the body throughout a series of chambers inside the dorsal vessel called ostia. When it reaches the aorta located in the head segment the blood is dispersed around the front of the head. Then pumps carry blood around the entire body all the way back to the abdomen where it begins its cycle again. The hemolymph distributes nutrients all over the body. The excretory system is made of malpighian tubules located in the abdomen area. There function is to remove urea from the hemolymph. The hemolymph Is composed of water, inorganic salts, and organic compounds.
The nervous system is made of a series of ganglions that are masses of nerve cells that serve as processing centers. The brain has three ganglions called: optic ganglion, cerebral ganglion, subesophageal ganglion. Each of these has a specific function that it to help maintain vision, to process information and for digestion. Each segment in the body has its own ganglion and five are located in the rear end. All of ganglions are connected through the ventral nerve chord which is like a chain-like structure. Because of this you can remove the head of the insect and the animal will still be able to function properly.
The reproductive system consists on the male grasshopper introducing sperm into the ovipositor through its aedeagus. The aedeagus is a reproductive organ males have that secretes the sperm from the testes and then surrounds the sperm with a cover called spermatophores. Once inside the ovipositor the spermatophones travel to the ovaries where they join together with the eggs to from an embryo. Finally the female deposits the eggs on the soil through the ovipositor. The embryo has to be held at a constant temperature of 30 degrees Celsius. That is why most Romalea guttata are born during fall. They also appear to have a shutdown of growth hormones which makes their developed slow and have stages.
The purpose of this experiment is to identify and analyze the anatomy and physiology of the Romalea guttata. One of the purposes is to learn the external and internal anatomy of the organism we are assign. We must also learn the function that each organs has and how they work together to perform different tasks.
- Find a Romalea guttata for dissection.
- Have all the materials necessary for work. Including dissecting equipment, gloves, dissecting tray, apron, goggles, the specimen, and text book or any other reference.
- First you must identify all of your equipments with labels.
- You will commence the dissection by determining out the animal's sex.
- Then you will cut off the Romalea six legs and wings.
- After that you will have to pin down the body to the dissecting tray with four pins.
- Once this is done you may commence cutting the grasshopper with the scalpel from the rear end to the thorax and then around returning to the starting point.
- Afterwards you can remove the exoskeleton and you will have all of the specimens organs exposed.
- Then you will need to identify all of the organs of the body.
- You will need to present it to the teacher with an oral presentation.
- Finally you can clean up all of the materials you used.
Scientific name: Romalea Guttata
Common name: Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Type: Herbivorous insect
The three pairs of legs and the two pairs of wings were remove from specimen.
The exoskeleton was cut out so that the organs may be exposed.
All the major organs were identified.
- Brown - Crop
- Green - Gastric ceca
- Red - Stomach
- Orange - Oviduct
- Blue - Intestines
- Yellow- Rectum
- Violet - Malpighian tubules
Diagram that demonstrates the six stages of the grasshoppers development.
Diagram of a female grasshopper showing characteristic external features.
Grasshopper head, front, side, and top views.
Grasshopper pronotum, side and top views.
Grasshopper hindleg, views of outer and inner faces.
Bandwinged grasshopper with left wings spread, top view.
Grasshopper male abdomen, side view and enlarged side and dorsal views of end.
The experiment began by identifying the animal's sex. After determining it was a female. I began cutting down the three pairs of legs and the two pairs of wings. Then I pin down the so that it will be facing up. I used the scalpel and the scissors to cut down the exoskeleton. The exoskeleton was completely removed leaving all the organs exposed while the right parts of the body staid intact. After removing the skin I went on to identifying all the major organs. The hardest problem was removing the exoskeleton without destroying the entire specimen. Since it is a small creature I had to very delicate and have patience. The organs were very easy to spot and identify.
The experiment was a success and the purpose was accomplished. I was able to make a perfect dissection of the Romalea guttata and identified all of its major organs. I learn how they function together as a team so that the circulatory, reproductive, digestive, nervous, and excretory system can be performs. I had never done a dissection and I was a great experience to learn from. Cutting the Romalea was difficult because of its small size, but at then I was able to do it thanks to the help of my classmates. One of my classmates was kind enough to take pictures of my specimen so that I may put them on the blog later on. This dissection taught me the similarities us humans have with different animals. Some of the interior organs are the same that we have and their digestive system is a lot similar to ours. I would recommend that the next group be more prepare by gathering more background information on the specimen they choose.
I had a great time making this experiment. It was something new I have never done before. Last year we didn't get to dissect any animals so it was a unique experience for me. The beginning was very difficult because I wasn't sure on how I was going to open the body. After the help of a few fellow classmates I was able identify all the organs with ease. For our final test we will dissect a fetal pig I can't wait for that experience. I manage to take a look inside the pig's anatomy and it's very much complicated than the grasshopper. It posses a challenge I want to face and learn from.
- Grasshoppers: Their Biology, Identification and Management. Retrieved October 5, 2008, from ID Tools - Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers: External Anatomy Web site: http://www.sidney.ars.usda.gov/grasshopper/ID_Tools/F_Guide/extanat.htm#2
- Whitman D.(2006). Invertebrate Anatomy Online. Retrieved October 5, 2008; from http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/romalea.html.
- Clay Scherer,
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/orn/lubber.htm of University (1996-2006). Featured Creatures. Retrieved October 5, 2008 from Florida.


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Review for Temple of the Sacred Gift ATC, Memphis, TN, USA
I left Temple of the Sacred Gift when they "accepted the resignation of" (read: fired - no resignation was ever submitted) two clergy for nothing more than disagreeing with the High Priestess, Rev. Sonya Miller. In the four years this church has been around they have lost no less than five clergy to firings or resignations, all resulting from conflict with the HPS. I have seen her behave badly at events she is invited to, including verbal abuse of event staff and vandalism of a rented site. She has also given grievous disrespect to community elders.
TSG expects a whopping amount of financial support from all members. In addition to their $120/year "dues" (compared to no dues asked from members of Neshoba Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans and $25/year asked -- but, at this time, not required -- from members of Summerland Grove) TSG holds a fundraising event nearly every week. Even those contributing their time and skills to present a workshop or energy share at these events are expected to pay for the privilege, something I have never seen from any other Pagan or Wiccan organization anywhere.
TSG is run on the "coven model" -- all final say is vested in the High Priestess. TSG, at least during the time I was a member, tried to cover this up by having clergy councils and member representatives, all for show as their decisions could be (and were) overridden by Sonya. This is not a healthy model for a church and not one that I support. Once I found out that I had been deceived about the locus of control, I was no longer willing to be a part. Worryingly, the church rewrites its own history every time clergy leave or are fired: names of founders removed from the church history, long-time clergy being told they were never clergy once they quit even though evidence exists that they were previously listed as clergy on TSG sites. This behavior reminds me of another problematic church -- Scientology.
The Mid-South Pagan community is vast, but you wouldn't know it from asking TSG, which likes to pretend it's the only game in town. Please, before deciding to involve yourself with this money-focused and problematic organization, research and see what other options the community holds for you. Find a group that will value you as more than a pocketbook and sycophant. Don't get burned.
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Get rid of the High Priest and High Priestess, which unfortunately the charter does not allow. As long as the Millers are running this church, it will continue to be a problematic organization.
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Thousands of jazz albums are released every year, but Winter & Winter has had little problem standing out among the crowd. The secret? Ceaselessly creative, spare-no-cost packaging. Perhaps you can judge a book by its cover.
Winter & Winter releases come in a durable case called a "Smart-pac." The exterior, made of the same material as a hardcover book, is wrapped in colored paper with vertical ribbing embossed into the surface. Inside is a heavy-duty, angled pocket that holds the disc itself. (Unlike jewel cases and Digipacks, Smart-pacs stow the CD on the left.) In most instances a non-removable booklet, made of the finest paper, appears opposite the disc. Along with the usual information—track and personnel lists, recording dates, acknowledgements and such—the booklet may contain abstract art, photo montages, exaggerated typefaces, or other sorts of cryptic imagery. Every item in the Winter & Winter catalog is an objet d'art, carrying an implicit promise: something extraordinary lies inside.
The label wouldn't have gotten far without Stefan Winter's commitment to visionary music first and foremost. Based in Munich, the 45-year-old Winter is talkative and intensely determined. He started his own restaurant at age 19, and caught the jazz bug when he heard Keith Jarrett's 1969 masterpiece, Somewhere Before. Now he runs Winter & Winter with his co-director and life partner Mariko Takahashi. There is no second Winter, per se. The name "Winter & Winter" was chosen because it sounded good.
When Winter set about breaking into the recording business, he looked to book publishers, with their distinct cultural and aesthetic profiles, as role models. His first venture was the influential JMT label, which released 81 albums between the years 1985 and 1995. JMT's first offering was Motherland Pulse—the debut of altoist Steve Coleman and the inaugural blast of M-Base (macro-basic array of structured extemporizations), a Brooklyn-based collective that fashioned a new musical language from bebop, hip-hop, funk, and non-Western rhythmic traditions. Other M-Base-associated figures recorded their first solo efforts for JMT, including Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Robin Eubanks, Jean-Paul Bourelly, and a young vocalist by the name of Cassandra Wilson. JMT also released work by leading avant-gardists such as Tim Berne, Craig Harris, and Herb Robertson. Then there was Paul Motian, the very drummer who had so enthralled Winter on Jarrett's Somewhere Before. Motian's JMT entries included the three-volume On Broadway series, featuring Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, well before they were major attractions.
Not long after the demise of JMT, Winter began conceptualizing his new label along quite different lines. "When I was doing JMT, my main goal was to document unique artists, but not try to influence them," he explains. "Today it's very different. I still love documents, but there are so many other possibilities. Comparing it with film, you can make a documentary or you can make a feature movie. Right now we have not so many movies, but we have many documentations. So I'd rather work with musicians the way a director works with actors."
Nothing illustrates Winter's new philosophy in action more clearly than Uri Caine's multifaceted output for the label. Caine, a brilliant pianist, has cooked up readings of Wagner, Schumann, and Beethoven that are about as heterodox and hyper-eclectic as can be imagined. He has brought cantorial music, turntables, and jazz improvisation to bear on the High Romanticism of Mahler. In a move that would have either thrilled or incensed Glenn Gould, he has read the Bach Goldberg Variations through the lens of drum-n-bass, gospel, and jazz. While album concepts don't necessarily originate with Winter, his production is hands-on, from inception to execution. The result often shows some hitherto unknown aspect of an artist's identity and capacity.
As the Uri Caine example makes clear, Winter is keen on fostering interaction between jazz and European concert music. (In this sense, he's not unlike Manfred Eicher of ECM.) He has also produced cabaret albums, solo cello albums, chamber and early music albums, projects inspired by Verdi and Edith Piaf. Long before trumpeter Dave Douglas was sweeping the critics' polls, he recorded Charms of the Night Sky and Songs for Wandering Souls on Winter & Winter. Jim Black, one of the most distinctive drummers on the New York scene, has weighed in with his avant-rock outings Alasnoaxis and Splay. He can also be heard on Astereotypical, the Winter & Winter debut of the pan-Mediterranean quartet Pachora. JMT veterans Gary Thomas and Paul Motian have continued their relationships with Winter as well.
In 2001, Winter began reissuing all 81 JMT albums on his current label. He is a vehement foe of alternate and unreleased takes ("disgusting," he calls them), and has insisted on leaving the musical content as it was. But in one important sense, Winter is righting an old wrong. "The JMT covers and booklets were done mostly by Steve Byram," he notes. (Byram now does the Winter & Winter designs as well.) "All this art was incredible, but when it was printed on this glossy paper and put into this plastic box, something was lost. Plastic is just so ugly. It's like with hardcover and paperback books: At the moment 90 percent of CD releases are essentially paperbacks." Now each entry in the JMT Series gets a jet-black Smart-pac, with Byram's original booklet inside, printed on textured paper. On the cover is a simple label in red-and-black type, with a sidebar revealing the catalog number (e.g., #06/81). The look—deliberately more generic than normal for Winter & Winter—is not unlike that of a bound volume in a library. (The label also has plans for a DVD series, although Winter is quick to point out his lack of interest in concert footage. The first item will be Step Across the Border, a road film featuring multi-instrumentalist, composer, and Winter & Winter artist Fred Frith.)
In its day, JMT was distributed by PolyGram, which has since been consumed by Universal. (Ms. Takahashi met Winter while working in Tokyo for Polydor KK, a PolyGram subsidiary.) Now Winter relies on the Allegro Corporation for U.S. distribution. Allegro is a large company that sells everything from rap records to home-schooling materials, and Winter has only good things to say about them. "I used to fight with PolyGram all the time," he recalls. "When I started working with Allegro, I never believed anything they said. They probably thought I was an idiot, sitting here in Munich, giving them hell. It took me a year to realize, 'wait a minute, it's not necessary to fight.'"
From Declaration of Independents: A HyperHistory of Independent Jazz Labels
by David R. Adler
© 2003 NewMusicBox


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Kai Ryssdal: It's not every day that save-the-planet types go head to head with save-the-planet types. Today, though, it was clean power versus habitat protection. The federal government proposed some new rules that're supposed to open up and speed approval of giant solar farms -- so giant they could spread over million and millions of acres of public lands out west.
From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, Scott Tong reports.
Scott Tong: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar knows the deserts have NIMBY issues, too: historical sites versus habitats versus solar farms. So in a conference call today, he laid out federal zones in six southwestern states with low fuss: lots of sun, not many living things.
Ken Salazar: These are areas in those states which have been determined to have the highest solar potential and the fewest amount of environmental and resource conflicts.
And to limit conflict between stakeholders, he laid out ways to design solar projects the Feds are likely to approve. Basically a cheat sheet for industry.
Nathaniel Bullard: Or more than that, it's basically the rules of the game.
Nathaniel Bullard is an analyst with Bloomberg Clean Energy Finance.
Bullard: You've got the playbook. If you play along, you're likely to be right. And if you don't play along, you do so at your peril. This is very positive for the development of any kind of infrastructure.
He figures this shaves off 5 to 10 percent of a project's cost -- less spent on lawyers and on borrowing.
But Alex Daue at the Wilderness Society has read the nitty-gritty. He says the plan identifies areas conducive to solar plants, but doesn't force companies to build there. They can still apply elsewhere, including more fragile habitats.
Alex Daue: This type of scattershot approach that has caused huge problems in the oil and gas development program does not need to be way we approach clean solar energy on our public lands.
Speaking of fossil fuels, regulators have greenlighted 78,000 projects on federal land in the last two decades. Mega solar farms? Seven.
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Photos: Kansas at the Plaza
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ALBANY - The 70s rock band Kansas performed at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center Wednesday.
The concert scheduled for the Empire State Plaza was moved indoors because of fear of rain.
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By day he was Officer Jim McDermott, keeping the peace in his adopted city of Holyoke, Mass. By night he was Irish Jimmy McDermott, the fighter who returned to Portland once or twice a month to step between the ropes of the boxing ring at the Portland Expo.
He had earned the cheers that echoed off the old arena's walls by winning and remembering his roots. To the thousands of fight fans who paid $3 or $1.50 for a ticket to the Thursday night fights some 45 years ago, McDermott was the kid off the Scarborough farm who had made something of himself as a man.
"It's true," said McDermott. "I'd be nothing without boxing."
Saturday night, Bob Russo of the Portland Boxing Club will pay tribute to McDermott and dozens of other men who made Portland one of the busiest fight towns on the East Coast. Russo will do so by promoting the first fight card of young pro prospects and amateurs at the Portland Expo in 20 years.
Ryan Kielczewski of Quincy, Mass., is 24 years old, unbeaten in 17 super featherweight fights and in the main event. Current and former Portland Boxing Club members Russell Lamour and Jorge Abiague of Portland, and Jimmy Smith, formerly of Biddeford now living in Rhode Island, are on the undercard, as is Brandon Berry from tiny West Forks Plantation.
McDermott doesn't know their names, only that their common ground is the desire to move ahead in their lives and have the confidence to do it. McDermott wasn't a contender for the world light heavyweight title. He was a busy New England fighter whose pro record of 52 wins (31 by knockout), 16 losses and three draws is impressive in any era.
He was a draw for promoter Sam Silverman, especially when he fought Pete Riccitelli of Portland, whose flamboyance played off McDermott's man-in-the-street persona. They were the local Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier rivalry and fought five times. McDermott won two of the five.
They weren't friendly outside the ring and certainly not inside. Riccitelli died almost penniless in December 1997 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 54. Russo, who was a young boy running boxing gloves from the ring to the Expo dressing rooms when Riccitelli and McDermott fought, organized a memorial service the following spring.
McDermott, 71, lives in a large retirement community in central Florida called The Villages. He works a heavy bag three times a week. We spoke recently by phone. He sounded well.
He left the Portland area shortly after he married at 16 and fathered a child at 17. "I was the son of Jack McDermott and people didn't let me forget it. I had to start over somewhere else."
McDermott said his father was physically abusive, even after his son became a popular fighter. Jack McDermott showed up one night inside his son's dressing room at the Expo minutes before a big fight. The father slugged him, the punch landing near an eye. Jack McDermott needed to prove he could still beat his son.
"I never touched my father," said Jim McDermott. "I want you to know that." That he was telling me something so personal was meant to show what he did with his life.
"I got my GED (general education development diploma) in my 30s. I went to college. I got into local politics (in Massachusetts). I ran for alderman, or city councilor as you would call it. I lost my first two elections by four votes each time.
"I won the next seven. My campaign slogan was simple: "I'll fight for you, just like I fought for myself." Powerful words if voters looked at that record.
For the first four years, McDermott fought mostly in Massachusetts. He became a headliner at the Expo around 1966. Silverman paid his fighters in cash. The money came from the box office. Successful fighters like McDermott might have gotten between $800 and $1,200.
"If you lost, you got a couple of hundred less for the next fight. Sam (Silverman) said it was because my value went down. When I won he only gave me $10 or $20 more for my next fight. He said I was supposed to win."
McDermott took his fight earnings and threw it into a drawer when he got home.
His wife, who could "take a nickel and grow a dime" banked it.
McDermott's big payday came far away from the Expo. He fought contender Frankie DePaula at Madison Square Garden in 1968.
McDermott was knocked down five times and knocked out in the fourth round.
"I froze. I was in Madison Square Garden. I was so ashamed. But the money helped pay off an apartment house I bought and put a new roof on it."
"McDermott was a fighter's fighter," said Tony Lampron, who fought McDermott once, in 1970. Lampron put himself through what is now the University of Southern Maine with his purse money. Years later he trained Joey Gamache, the world lightweight champ from Lewiston.
"Jimmy was a fearsome competitor with a big right hand," said Lampron. "I had a pretty good left jab and I outboxed him."
Lampron won a 10-round unanimous decision and earned $800. But then, his tuition that semester was $350.
"I thought it my crowning fight of my career," said Lampron. "You know, he spoke to me only once in the time I knew him. It was that night, during the fight. He whispered in my ear: 'Tony, I heard about your left jab but I didn't know until now how good it was.' "
The decision and the money meant a lot to Lampron at the time. The one sentence McDermott ever said to him meant the world.
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Tampa Bay Lightning
Goalie Smith gives Bolts a chance after bold call
BOSTON - It was a tough spot that Lightning goalie Mike Smith was asked to step into: his first playoff start. He was taking the place of mainstay Dwayne Roloson, who was as big a reason as any why Tampa Bay had racked up 10 of the 16 wins needed to win a Stanley Cup. That they didn't get No. 11 on Monday was no fault of Smith's. If anything, his work forestalled what became a 3-1 Bruins victory. Smith stopped 17 Boston shots, allowing two goals, in his first playoff loss."He made the saves," said gritty Tampa Bay center Nate Thompson. "He gave us a chance." Said Smith: "I thought I played pretty well. I gave up two goals. They were tough plays. You're never satisfied when you give up a goal." The first of those, the game-tying tally by Nathan Horton, was a laser from the left circle, unstoppable by virtually any netminder outside of hockey's Hall of Fame. "I think I could have gotten a better push across," Smith said. "But it was a tough one. You can always get better. There's always something you can do." There was little he could do on Brad Marchand's second-period game winner. Same spot. Same result. Smith was something of a surprising, and gutsy, choice made by Lightning coach Guy Boucher to start such a key contest. Boucher kept the decision to himself until informing Smith after the morning skate. "All year we've used everybody and we prided ourselves on giving everybody a good chance,'' Boucher said. "When people deserve things, whether they're a fourth line or a third line or seventh or eighth D, when they deserve -- I'm one of those guys that I'll give people a chance. And I felt that Smitty had been terrific for us for a long, long time, and he deserved to get a game. "At the same time, I felt that giving a little breather to Roli. It's a decision I don't regret at all. So it wasn't something emotional at all. It was something thought of methodically and it was unanimous as a staff, that we wanted to give a breather to Roli and give a chance to Smitty to participate in something he's been a part of.'' In fact, Smith was the second goaltender off the ice. Roloson was the first. "When the coach told me," said Smith, "he just told me to have fun and enjoy it. I tried to keep it in the back of my mind. I think he was more nervous when he told me than when I got out there.'' Smith saw only four Boston shots in the first period, hardly enough to get into a rhythm. However, Smith said he wasn't concerned about that. "We've been a team all year that didn't give up many shots," he said. "I learned to deal with that and stay calm when the puck is not in your end. And when it is, try and get your focus back." As to whether Smith will be asked to keep the Bolts from being eliminated in Tampa on Wednesday night, he said he didn't know and wasn't even thinking about that. "I have no expectations right now," he said. "It's up to the coach. If it's me, I'll be ready to go."
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TMZ is reporting on the stir caused by the November issue of GQ, which features three of the stars of Glee – (from left to right) Dianna Agron, Cory Monteith and Lea Michele.
According to the site, The Parents Television Council has released a statement that "denounced" the show's creators for the "hyper-sexualized" photo shoot that will appear in the magazine.
"It is disturbing that GQ, which is explicitly written for adult men, is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-aged characters on Glee in this way," the statement says, quoting PTC president Tim Winter. (For the record, these three actors are all over the age of 18.)
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Mets Prefer Lo Duca Not Delay Suspension
By BEN SHPIGEL
Published: June 27, 2007
There is no way, no how, Paul Lo Duca said, that he intends to miss any of the Mets' four games this weekend in Philadelphia. But he may not have a choice.
The Mets are considering asking Lo Duca, who is appealing his two-game suspension for his on-field tirade Saturday, not to wait for a hearing and to begin serving the suspension this week.
Lo Duca would either miss tomorrow night's finale against St. Louis and the first game of the day-night doubleheader with the Phillies on Friday or the nightcap of the doubleheader and Saturday's game. By serving the suspension sooner, Lo Duca would not force the Mets, who will have to play with 24 players until he returns, to manipulate their roster that much.
He was not going to start both games of the doubleheader anyway, and Manager Willie Randolph has already said that the Mets would recall a catcher from the minor leagues, most likely Sandy Alomar, Jr., from Class AAA New Orleans, to back up Ram?astro. The Mets would need to create space to promote a catcher, but they could then send him down to make room for Mike Pelfrey, who will start in one of the games Friday.
Asked if there was a chance that he would drop the appeal, Lo Duca said: ''None. I really feel I should get only one game.''
Lo Duca said he did not expect the hearing to be held anytime soon because he had been told that there were several other hearings that had priority. He added that he would probably be unable to attend the hearing because the Mets would be on the road until the All-Star Game.
SUBTLE LESSON FOR G? A few pitches before hitting a home run in the third inning Monday night, Carlos G? thought he hit one out. He did a little dance near the plate before the ball twisted foul. The television cameras showed Willie Randolph and the Mets' bench coach, Jerry Manuel, enjoying a good laugh. But when G? returned from circling the bases Randolph had a brief chat with him.
''He plays with flair, and I told him to keep it under control, that's all,'' Randolph said.
G?, a 21-year-old rookie, said he took away something different from the conversation.
''He told me: 'Every swing, I want you to swing like this. The swing is beautiful. You should do that every day,' '' G? said.
REYES'S STREAK IS STOPPEDJos?eyes did not reach base Monday night for the first time since June 8, in Detroit, and for only the sixth time in 73 games. Entering yesterday, only three National League players who have appeared in at least 50 games had reached base more than Reyes, according to the Elias Sports Bureau: Barry Bonds (58 of 63), Ryan Howard (49 of 53) and Chipper Jones (48 of 52).
Keeping Reyes, who leads the majors with 38 stolen bases, off the bases is always a wise move. But it is particularly so considering the Cardinals are without their strong-throwing catcher, Yadier Molina, who has not played since May 29 because of a fractured left wrist. The backups, Gary Bennett and Kelly Stinnett, have combined to throw out only 2 of 27 attempted base stealers, but Willie Randolph said he would not try to take advantage any more than usual.
''We don't react to who's behind the plate,'' Randolph said. ''We need to get guys on base first, play our game and stay true to who we are.''
MART?Z MAKING PROGRESSPedro Mart?z, originally scheduled to throw a bullpen session yesterday, felt well enough to throw live batting practice for the first time. He threw 45 pitches in Port St. Lucie, Fla. ... Several players wore orange T-shirts beneath their jerseys last night that featured a likeness of Bozo the Clown and the words ''Enough!'' on the front and the saying, ''There ain't a big top big enough for this circus'' on the back. ... The Mets released the ''GourMets'' cookbook, a collection of recipes from players, coaches and members of the front office. Proceeds will benefit local charities. Some highlights: Moises Alou's stewed goat, Willie Randolph's linguine with white clam sauce and Carlos Delgado's grilled snapper and avocado salsa. ''It's not rocket science,'' Delgado said. ''If you mess up fish, you're in trouble anyway.'' ... The former All-Star closer Troy Percival, who has not pitched in the majors in nearly two years, was activated by the Cardinals before the game. Percival, 37, has 324 career saves but retired because of arm problems..


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Gizmo Guys coming to Memorial Auditorium
The Gizmo Guys, a winning combination of jugglers and humorists will be performing from the stage at the Memorial Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 23 beginning at 7:30 p.m., as part of the current series of concerts lovingly provided to Wadena by the Wadena Area Concert Association.
The Gizmo Guys are: Allan Jacobs and Barret Felker, and they have amazed and amused audiences around the world. They work in a great variety of venues including theaters, corporate functions of all types, Concert Associations, Arts Councils and even cruise ships.
They have made numerous television appearances, won international juggling competitions and taught at top circus schools. But what makes their act so appealing is their uniquely winning combination of dazzling technique and infectious humor.
The Gizmo Guys rapid-fire juggling act exhilarates and inspires side-splitting laughter in audience members of all ages, from toddlers to great-grandparents. Adults have as much fun as the kids so families thoroughly enjoy the show together.
For school audiences, which will be performed at WDC Elementary School, the Gizmo Guys provide a user-friendly study guide "Objects in Motion" which makes it easy for teachers to tie the show to lessons across the curriculum.


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SPENDING; Now, Even Those Temporary Wheels Can Be Greener
By BARRY REHFELD
Published: August 12, 2007
ROO ROGERS, who lives in Lower Manhattan, is helping to reduce auto emissions by not owning a car. But he still likes to take the wheel for occasional multistop spins around town, for hundred-mile drives to a vacation home on Long Island and for business trips when he's in California.
When he rents a car or uses a car-sharing service, Mr. Rogers tries to help the environment a little more by driving only a hybrid vehicle, the Toyota Prius. And he has ridden to the airport by using OZOcar, a car service of which he was a founder; it has an all-hybrid fleet of Priuses and a few Lexuses.
''The Prius is the most practical and sustainable car with the best gas mileage,'' he said. ''And I don't have the problems of parking, the insurance and even the gas whenever I go anywhere.''
In city driving, the Prius gets 60 miles for each gallon of gas -- a dozen more than its main competitor, the Honda Civic Hybrid, and double the urban range of the highest-mileage gasoline-only cars, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
As more consumers express concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and as gasoline prices rise, rental car companies are reshaping their fleets. In June, Enterprise, Hertz and Avis, the largest renters, added several thousand Priuses to their fleets, as well as other hybrids, and more are on the way.
Car service companies are another source of Priuses. Evo Limo, based in Los Angeles, began adding the cars to its fleet two years ago -- the same year when Mr. Rogers started OZOcar.
To be sure, rental hybrids are not necessarily bargains, nor are they always available. The biggest range of services and the greatest number of hybrids can generally be found in West Coast cities including Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Northeastern cities like Boston, New York and Washington.
Some cities offer more choices than others -- at least for now. In the Los Angeles area, for example, Hertz branches and EV Rental Cars, a smaller company with an all-hybrid fleet, have had Priuses readily available for years.
When Chloe Ellers of Los Angeles had to take her Audi in for repairs, she got a Prius as a replacement vehicle from Midway Car Rental, without even asking for one.
Avis has joined the competition in Los Angeles and several other West Coast cities. ''It's all about demand,'' said John Barrows, a spokesman for Avis.
In the East, change is coming more slowly. Hertz has only recently moved into New York with its hybrids, and Avis plans to follow by year-end.
To make online reservations for a Prius from Hertz, renters need to click onto the ''green collection'' category under vehicle type. For a recent midweek reservation, the Prius cost $127 a day in Manhattan (not including any insurance). That was $7 more than for a regular gas-powered Toyota Corolla.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has hybrids across the nation, and among the lowest rates. Priuses account for half of the company's more than 3,000 hybrids, said Pat Farrell, a company spokesman. Other hybrids in its fleet include Saturn Vues from General Motors, Ford Escapes and Toyota Camrys. Its midweek daily rate was $56 in Manhattan for the category that includes the Prius. But customers may not necessarily get the hybrid because Enterprise doesn't rent specific models, only vehicle types, and the Prius is just one of a number standard sedans.
Torshana Towles tried to rent a Prius from Enterprise in Silver Spring, Md. -- asking for one twice in the last few months. She came up empty both times. Instead, she got a Ford Escape, a sport-utility hybrid.
''It was cool, though,'' she said. ''It doesn't get any better mileage than a sedan does, but it does much better than other S.U.V.'s and it's so quiet when it's on the electric motor.''
Priuses are easier to get from car services -- for customers in the two cities they serve. OZOcar in New York charges rates of $65 from Manhattan to Kennedy Airport and $50 to LaGuardia or by the hour. The cars are equipped with laptops, Sirius radio and Internet service.
But it may be the car-sharing services that offer drivers the best way for drivers to reduce their impact on the environment. The two most successful companies, Zipcar and Flexcar, rent cars by the hour and the day to members only. Members pick up cars from various locations in a city and return them to the same spot. Gasoline and insurance are included in the rental costs.
Both Zipcar and Flexcar have had Priuses in their fleets for more than two years and have been adding them as their businesses grow.
Flexcar, based in Seattle, has a 2,000-car fleet, including about 30 percent that are Priuses (250 cars) or Honda Civic Hybrids (350). Flexcars can be found in 12 cities on the East and West Coasts (but not in New York), and in Chicago. Rates start at $8 an hour and $63 a day. There is a $35 annual membership fee.
Zipcar, based in Boston, has 3,000 cars, including 150 Priuses and 20 Honda Civic hybrids. The hybrids are in New York and 13 other cities, mostly on the East and West Coasts. Priuses at Zipcar rent for $8 an hour and $85 for a weekday in New York, with drivers paying a $50 annual membership fee and a $25 application fee.
Renting a hybrid is just one way for drivers to reduce their impact on the environment when using a car-sharing service, Scott Griffith, chief executive of Zipcar, said. ''We see that drivers change their behavior when they become members,'' he says. ''They're being charged by the hour, so they tend to group their trips together and so they don't drive as much as they did before. Many members who owned cars sell them. Of our 100,000 members, some 40,000 have sold their cars or decided not to buy one since joining.''
Mark Norman, chief executive of Flexcar, reports a similar experience at his company.
RUSSELL CAPRIO is one of the converts. He lives in downtown San Francisco, one of the few cities where the two car-sharing companies compete, and owned a Subaru until he sold it after becoming a Zipcar member earlier this year. He hadn't used his car much, and when he took into account all the costs of owning it -- insurance, gasoline, depreciation and parking -- he found that sharing cars would cost hundreds of dollars less. He can also drive a Zipcar in Boston, where his family lives, rather than rent a car.
While he drives other cars, he prefers Priuses because he sees them as better for the environment.
''It depends on availability,'' he says. ''I'll walk for one, though. The most I ever had to walk was eight blocks, which was O.K. That's the same distance I had to walk to the garage where I had my Subaru parked.''
PHOTO: Roo Rogers, a co-founder of the car-sharing company OZOcar, with one of his Toyota Priuses in Lower Manhattan. Below, New York's Clean Pass sticker certifies fuel efficiency. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY HIROKO MASUIKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)


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Daniel Sturridge replaces Luis Suarez on Liverpool kit promotion poster at Anfield
Daniel Sturridge may have enjoyed a fruitful relationship on the pitch with Luis Suarez last season, but in 2014/2015 it very much looks like the former will be replacing the latter.
Sturridge is very much Liverpool's main striker this coming season and looks set to take on much of the responsibility following the Uruguayan's departure.
Whether up front on his own or in tandem with Rickie Lambert, expect Sturridge to get the goals and provide support for the midfield, as Suarez did to such devastating effect.
And, for the Liverpool marketing team, it appears that Sturridge has replaced Suarez in other ways as well.
There was much surprise before Liverpool's friendly rout of Borussia Dortmund on Sunday, that there was still a very visible reminder of Luis Suarez at Anfield.
The Uruguayan striker, long since left for Barcelona in one of the summer's biggest moves, was featured on the Liverpool kit promotion banner alongside Steven Gerrard and Phil Coutinho.
Now a new picture has emerged, see above, showing how Daniel Sturridge replaced Luis Suarez on the kit promotion poster at Anfield.


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Father: Myron MCCORD b: 22 APR 1806 in Dutchess Co., NY
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Marriage 1 Maria MURRAY b: BET 1842 AND 1843 in Indiana
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Teenager's First World War fashion exhibit goes on display
Former Immanuel College student Jennifer Murad used to spend hours in the National Army Museum in Chelsea, south-west London.
She would sit by the glass cases, sketching the military jackets worn by British officers who fought in the First World War, as part of the research for her A Level art exam — for which she received an A*.
Now, three of the 19-year-old's designs all made out of recyclable materials, from bottle tops to metal spoons - are being displayed in the museum that originally inspired her.
One piece, described by Ms Murad as a "decomposing jacket" has dried flowers and moss to symbolise the tombstones of fallen soldiers.
She said: "I was looking for a deeper meaning behind what the soldiers wore."
Ms Murad searched pubs for the thousands of tops from drinks bottles she needed for her designs.
"A lot of people have called the jackets 'quirky' or 'eccentric' — I don't really know how to describe them," she said. "It's a new way of representing the old."
The museum's curator, Natalia Wieczorek, described the pieces as having "technical brilliance — we wanted to showcase them. I am hoping it will inspire other students to come in and look at our collection from a different perspective."
Ms Murad, a member of Lauderdale Road Synagogue, says she hopes to work in fashion when she has finished her studies at Birmingham University.
The jackets have been insured for a total of £6,000 by the museum. They will be on display as part of its Coatee to Couture exhibition, until March 3.
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3.10.3 Letters and Letter-like Forms
Greek Letters
You can use Greek letters as the names of symbols. The only Greek letter with a built-in meaning in StandardForm is , which Mathematica takes to stand for the symbol Pi. Note that even though on its own is assigned a built-in meaning, combinations such as 2 or x have no built-in meanings. The Greek letters and look very much like the operators for sum and product. But as discussed above, these operators are different characters, entered as \[Sum] and \[Product] respectively. Similarly, is different from the operator \[Element], and is different from µ or \[Micro]. Some capital Greek letters such as \[CapitalAlpha] look essentially the same as capital English letters. Mathematica however treats them as different characters, and in TraditionalForm it uses \[CapitalBeta], for example, to denote the built-in function Beta. Following common convention, lower-case Greek letters are rendered slightly slanted in the standard fonts provided with Mathematica, while capital Greek letters are unslanted. Almost all Greek letters that do not look similar to English letters are widely used in science and mathematics. The capital xi is rare, though it is used to denote the cascade hyperon particles, the grand canonical partition function and regular language complexity. The capital upsilon
is also rare, though it is used to denote particles, as well as the vernal equinox. Curly Greek letters are often assumed to have different meanings from their ordinary counterparts. Indeed, in pure mathematics a single formula can sometimes contain both curly and ordinary forms of a particular letter. The curly pi is rare, except in astronomy. The final sigma
is used for sigmas that appear at the ends of words in written Greek; it is not commonly used in technical notation. The digamma
, koppa
, stigma
and sampi
are archaic Greek letters. These letters provide a convenient extension to the usual set of Greek letters. They are sometimes needed in making correspondences with English letters. The digamma corresponds to an English w, and koppa to an English q. Digamma is occasionally used to denote the digamma function PolyGamma[
Variants of English Letters
By using menu items in the notebook front end, or explicit StyleBox objects, you can make changes in the font and style of ordinary text. However, such changes are usually discarded whenever you send input to the Mathematica kernel. Script, gothic and double-struck characters are however treated as fundamentally different from their ordinary forms. This means that even though a C that is italic or a different size will be considered equivalent to an ordinary C when fed to the kernel, a double-struck will not.
In standard mathematical notation, capital script and gothic letters are sometimes used interchangeably. The double-struck letters, sometimes called blackboard or openface letters, are conventionally used to denote specific sets. Thus, for example, conventionally denotes the set of complex numbers, and the set of integers. Dotless i and j are not usually taken to be different in meaning from ordinary i and j; they are simply used when overscripts are being placed on the ordinary characters. \[WeierstrassP] is a notation specifically used for the Weierstrass P function WeierstrassP.
Complete alphabets of variant English letters.
Hebrew Letters
Hebrew characters are used in mathematics in the theory of transfinite sets; is for example used to denote the total number of integers.
Units and Letter-like Mathematical Symbols
Mathematica treats or \[Degree] as the symbol Degree, so that, for example, 30° is equivalent to 30
Degree. Note that µ, and are all distinct from the ordinary letters (\[Mu]), Å (\[CapitalARing]) and Ø (\[CapitalOSlash]). Mathematica interprets as Infinity, as E, and both and as I. The characters , and are provided as alternatives to the usual upper-case letters E and I. and are not by default assigned meanings in StandardForm. You can therefore use to represent a pi that will not automatically be treated as Pi. In TraditionalForm is interpreted as EulerGamma.
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Shapes, Icons and Geometrical Constructs
Shapes are most often used as "dingbats" to emphasize pieces of text. But Mathematica treats them as letter-like forms, and also allows them to appear in the names of symbols. In addition to shapes such as \[EmptySquare], there are characters such as \[Square] which are treated by Mathematica as operators rather than letter-like forms.
In[2]:= Expand[( + )^4]
Since Mathematica treats characters like as letter-like forms, constructs like BC are treated in Mathematica as single symbols.
Textual Elements
In[3]:= Underoverscript[Expand[(1 + x)^4], \[UnderBrace], \[OverBrace]]
Extended Latin Letters
Mathematica supports all the characters commonly used in Western European languages based on Latin scripts.
Most of the characters shown are formed by adding diacritical marks to ordinary English letters. Exceptions include \[SZ], used in German, and \[Thorn]
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Toomey outraises Specter in 4Q
If Republican Pat Toomey is going to upend Pennsylvania's party-switching senior senator, he'll likely have to do it at a significant financial disadvantage.
But the former House GOP member unveiled some promising news for his campaign Saturday, announcing he outraised Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) by a little more than half a million dollars during the final months of 2009.
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Toomey reported raking in about $1.6 million between October and December, the final fundraising quarter of the year. Specter took in about $1.1 million over the same period.
Specter still holds a more than three-to-one cash-on-hand advantage over Toomey, with $8.6 million dollars to spend over the next nine months. Toomey has just $2.8 million in the bank.
But before Specter gets to Toomey, he has to survive a primary challenge from Rep. Joe Sestak, who has not yet released his fourth quarter fundraising totals.
The fundraising lift comes on the heels of a Franklin and Marshall poll that shows Toomey leading Specter among likely voters 45 percent to 31 percent. In a hypothetical match-up, Toomey also leads Sestak 41 percent to 19 percent.
The poll of 1,165 people, conducted from Jan. 18-24, has a margin of error of 2.9 percent.
On Sunday, Specter will continue to shore up support in the Democratic party, announcing an endorsement from state Rep. Bill Kortz in Turtle Creek, which sits just 10 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Kortz dropped out of the Senate race two weeks ago, ending a bid that had trouble gaining much attention.
"I am proud to endorse Senator Specter for re-election," Kortz said in a campaign statement Saturday. "After much consideration, I believe that Sen. Specter is the best person to help the working class in this state. And of critical importance, he is best positioned to help the people of western Pennsylvania," he added.


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I remember the Duck!! Loved them!!
Bazzill just came out with a refillable dispenser that seems to use the same type of adhesive. I've only been using it for about a month, but I think I really like it The refills hold three times the amount of adhesive than the 3L tape runners that I've been using.
There's also another one similar to that type of adhesive that is also refillable, but much cheaper. Let me see if I can find it in the superstore because I don't remember the name of it.
OK--I can't find the 2nd tape runner, but I'll try to remember to look up the name this weekend. I have it at home.
Here is the Bazzill runner and refill though. The only trick with this one is that when you're applying the adhesive, you have to keep the runner flat. Other runners you can tilt it in your hand as you apply, and you can with this one also, but you'll get the top of the runner all gummy. Not a big deal, just pull it off and keep on going, but holding it flat avoids that problem.


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Your role as an educator
If you're an educator, you should encourage and plan for the kids in your care to be active every day. Like parents and carers, you're often seen as a role model, so whenever possible, join in with the activities you plan for the children.
To keep your students interested and engaged with their activities, plan a wide variety of structured and unstructured opportunities for active play, and then mix things up by rotating the program every couple of days.
If you keep a record of these activities, you can develop your own active play resource folder. This can be particularly useful for new staff.
Your role as a parent or carer
Whether you're a parent or a carer, you're a role model for your kids. It's great to show the kids around you how to be active every day.
If you keep play items – like blow-up beach balls, soccer balls, bats, buckets and spades – in your car and at home, it'll be easier to create regular, spur-of-the-moment opportunities for active play. If you get the opportunity you could plan activities for all the family to be together. Other carers and family members – such as grandparents – often love to be involved. Sharing the fun and responsibility of planning activities can make life easier for you. So it's a win/win situation!
Factsheet - active play tips for parents and carers
Nature Play CBR
Nature Play CBR is about getting more children outdoors more often so they can reap the benefits of unstructured playing, learning and being physically active. Children need nature play for their physical and mental health, for their cognitive and emotional development, and because they have a right to run, climb, build, get dirty, and imagine the world for themselves through play. For ideas and inspiration on things to do in the great outdoors visit Nature Play CBR.


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After installing 10.10 on an AMD FX 8350, I got to booting it, and first i booted normally with just npci=0x2000, this got it all the way past the loading screen up to the point where I had just a grey screen.
Thus i went and complete the Grafix steps to get that working, now i am unable to get past the loading section with the hackintosh zone logo. Then I used npci=0x2000 -v to see where it was stopping, and here it is
"hfs: mounted Yosemite Zone on device disk3s2"
"hfs: unmount initiated on Yosemite Zone on device disk3s2"
At this point I have no input from my keyboard, but it is still illuminated
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Tarsila do Amaral
Abaporu, 1928
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Malba - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires.
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / AUTVIS, São Paolo
Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
The exhibition is part of an ongoing artistic exchange between the MFAH and Malba, a partnership formed in 2005. Founded by collector Eduardo F. Costantini in 2001, Malba is the only museum in South America dedicated to collecting and exhibiting Latin American art from 1900 to the present. The Houston exhibition, curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez, MFAH Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the MFAH International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), features artists well known in South America's Southern Cone but new to many North American audiences.
"Displaying Latin American masterpieces from Malba furthers the goal of the MFAH to recognize the original contributions of Latin American artists to Modernism, and to expose the public to this legacy," said Mari Carmen Ramírez, the MFAH curator. "This is a unique chance to see 'textbook examples' of major Latin American masterpieces here in the U.S.," said MFAH Director Gary Tinterow. "Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini will include works by many of the key avant-garde Latin American artists who pioneered modern art in their respective countries or participated in the principal European movements."
A major highlight of the exhibition is a 1928 painting central to Brazilian national identity: Tarsila do Amaral's "Abaporu". Amaral was a leading Latin American Modernist painter who lived and worked in Paris and São Paulo. An early Cubist work by Diego Rivera, widely considered among the greatest painters of the 20th century, is another exhibition highlight. Monumental scenes of workers' lives by Cândido Portinari, one of the most important Brazilian artists working in the 1930s in the Social Realist style, will be on view, as will the work of Argentine artist Alfredo Guttero, who is virtually unknown in the United States but is renowned for the unique textures he achieved in his work.
The well-recognized face of Frida Kahlo also makes an appearance. Kahlo's Autorretrato con chango y loro (Self-portrait with Monkey and Parrot) (1942) is a classic late work, showing the artist surrounded by two of her favorite pets. The acquisition of this painting by Costantini in 1995 for approximately $3.2 million (at that time the highest amount paid for a work by Kahlo), catapulted both Kahlo's reputation and Costantini's art collection to international attention.
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The still-life paintings of Willem van Aelst at the MFAH (exhibition, 2012)


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Northlight Theatre Announces THE WHIPPING MAN, 1/18-2/24
Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, continues its 2012-2013 season with Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, directed by Kimberly Senior. The production will run at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie, from January 18-February 24, 2013. The Press Opening is Friday, January 25, at 7:30 pm.
When Caleb, a wounded Confederate soldier returns to his family's home at the end of the Civil War, he finds it in ruins and abandoned by all but two former slaves. United by their Jewish faith, the three men celebrate a Seder while wrestling with a shared past they can't escape-and uncover a tangle of secrets that threatens their family and their faith.
Artistic Director BJ Jones comments, "There is historical precedence for the storylines in Mathew Lopez's compelling and surprising play The Whipping Man. The context of the fallen South at the end of the Civil War, the newly freed slaves, the returning Confederate soldier - son of a Jewish slave owner, makes for an exotic and combustive cocktail for a play, which is at once gripping and intellectually satisfying."
The cast features Derek Gaspar, Sean Parris, and Tim Edward Rhoze.
The design team includes Jack Magaw (set design), Rachel Laritz (costume design), Chris Binder (lighting design), Christopher Kriz (sound design), Eva Breneman (dialect coach) and Chris Rickett (violence design).
In conjunction with The Whipping Man, Northlight is hosting a number of special events with community partners. All events are subject to change, and new events may be added. For up-to-date details, visit northlight.org/events.


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CodePlexProject Hosting for Open Source Software
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KSP CrewManager is a simple plugin for "Kerbal space program" - sandbox-style space flight simulator game. For now it allows to move crew
members through your spaceship without EVA. Just by three clicks to any crew-capable module.
Main goal of this project is fully managable spaceship crew with everyday tasks and needs. Like very small DwarfFrotress... may be text or schematic only.
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Bryan Adams has become one of the safest high schools in Dallas for LGBT teens. More than 100 students have joined the school's gay-straight alliance.
GSA adviser Danielle Jones sent over a few pictures of the school's National Day of Silence observation held on Friday.
According to GLSEN, National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.
Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.


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A 26-year-old man was arrested after a weekend assault in Mira Mesa over cab fare that left another man dead, San Diego police said Monday.
Reynaldo Torres was booked into jail Sunday on voluntary manslaughter charges after the man he is suspected of hitting early Saturday morning died, homicide Lt. Ernie Herbert said.
Torres is accused of punching the 39-year-old victim about 2 a.m. in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at Gold Coast Drive and Camino Ruiz after the two arrived in a taxi and started to argue, Herbert said.
The older man, whose name has not been released, fell backwards and slammed his head on the pavement. He died at a hospital about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Herbert said.
Torres is being held on $100,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.


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|January 29, 2013, 12:06 AM
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Interested in the 6.5 Creedmoor
I'm interested in learning more about the 6.5 Creedmoor. What rifle would this caliber be best suited in? What are its effective ranges? What personal experiences do you guys have with the 6.5? Thanks
|January 29, 2013, 01:24 AM
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Hornady has pretty good data on their factory 6.5 creedmoor ammunition.
Go onto their website and do an ammunition search for 6.5 creedmoor.
|January 29, 2013, 01:33 AM
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I just bought a Ruger M77 Markll VT in 6.5 Creedmoor and it should be here Wednesday. Ruger is also chambering it in their Hawkeye Preditor and standard Hawkeye. Hornady make the ammo and Nosler is getting into the act as well.
Supposed to be very accurate round.
|January 29, 2013, 05:45 AM
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Im pretty sure Hornady is the only one who makes factory 6.5 creedmoor ammo and you can only get it in their "Superformance" and "Match" lines
Ive never fired a round of 6.5 creedmoor but everyone Ive heard of who has a Savage chambered for it are very pleased.
Savage and Hornady are closely linked anyway so it makes sense that they would design their rifles with Hornady ammo in mind.
You could always ditch the 6.5 creedmoor idea and get a .260 remington
|January 29, 2013, 06:18 AM
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Ive got the DPMS LR6.5, all i can say is WOW. This rifle and cartridge are scary accurate. Its heavy but man that thing shoots tight. Only complaint is the trigger on the DPMS. Effective ranges for what? Hunting or groups? I havent shot it past 400yds but im sure its good well beyond that. The only thing about the Creedmoor is finding the Creedmoor. My Gander Mtn doesnt carry it, nor would i pay the outlandish prices they would want, the LGS is constantly sold out and Cabelas is an hour away with a 50/50 shot of it being in stock. Brownells has been out for the duration of the scare, found some elsewhere online with a bit of searching at a reasonable price, $26 per box. If you reload thats a non-issue.
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Range- as far as you're able to shoot it. The 6.5's have excellent ballistics and are one of the best for long range target.
Look, it all comes down to the intended use of the rifle, and the range.
If it's target use, energy at any range is irrelevant.
If it's hunting, then energy has all the relevance...and the choice depends on the game, and the maximum range.
|January 29, 2013, 12:44 PM
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I own a Savage model 16 fcss in 6.5 Creedmoor and I love it. Browning, DPMS, Thompson Center, Savage, and Ruger all carry rifles chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor.
The cartridge itself was designed off the .30 T/C, which is a shortened .308. It has a 30 degree shoulder, and the body has less of a taper compared to .260 or .308. The shortened length of the case is what makes this cartridge excel when it comes to the longer 140+ grain bullets. The shortened case allows these longer bullets to be seated with less intrusion into the case compared to the .260. When you subtract bullet intrusion from the .260's case capacity with these longer bullets, the .260 has a minimal 0.7 grain advantage. When you combine the 30 degree shoulder (20 degree shoulder in .260), reduced body taper, and shorter case length you get a more efficient cartridge that burns less powder and gets the same numbers as the .260. If you reload, that means more bang for your buck. If you don't, the Creedmoor Hornady ammo is less costly compared to the .260. Hornady offers match ammo in 120 and 140 grain A-Max and cost around $26/box. Nosler will start producing ammunition for the 6.5 Creedmoor this spring, as well as brass. One of Nosler's 6.5 Creedmoor loads will be match ammo ($40/box).
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Concept and future cars
Take a glimpse into the future of driving by sharing some of the pioneering innovations and potential we're currently working on for our cars.
The world première of the T-ROC concept car.
Cross Coupé concept
The new Volkswagen Cross Coupé concept is even more efficient.
The Volkswagen Bettle with e-lectrifying performance
Volkswagen ID
A highly automated electric car that will cover a distance of 400 to 600 kilometres on a single battery charge.
The Golf R 400
The muscular and turbocharged Golf R 400
The Sport Coupe Concept GTE
Concept combines exclusive sports car design with four-door body and large boot lid
It's contemporary form is impressive from all angles
Volkswagen shows revised concept at New Delhi Motor Show
The T-Cross Breeze
A completely new attitude to automotive life.
The Golf GTE Sport
The Golf GTE of the future
The new Volkswagen XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle (SEV) had been unveiled at the Qatar Motor Show
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Well, the title says it all. I think its better anyway and much more Sweet and Yummy. :) I hope more people like it too. (From a Ref Pic)
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Very Very nice.::) To the previous comment...what face...??
err to me the face looks weird to me, and the head isnt big enough at the top. but the rest is good........
This Looks Beautiful! 5/5 'n I Might Also Draw A Girl In Thier Bikini:) You're Amazing Love
Hey thats great ! I like the good use of colors that match each other very well. But how did you get such effects in her hair? Anyway this is great, keep it up tony !
Delicious oranges and great pose! Nice job ^^ I just think the head needs to be a bit bigger, but besides that, good one
My favorite thing in this pic would have to be the hips! i love when someone draws a body part really well, it gives the whole entire pic character ;D
i want some slices!
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A Badger's Drift schoolteacher thinks that she is having intruders at night. A couple of days later a local man is found murdered in her garden. Barnaby and Jones go in search of the killer.
A cat burglar is on the loose, but what connects the victims? And has the burglar, dubbed "the Creeper", now resorted to murder?
DCI Barnaby finds himself investigating a crime committed in the art world after a man is murdered following the sale of painting.
When a former agent is murdered after a cricket match in Midsomer Parva, Barnaby's past as a spy is revealed. Barnaby links the murder to some spies who operated in Cold War Berlin but finds the investigation harder than he thought.
A player is bludgeoned to death on the fairway at an exclusive local golf club. Barnaby and Jones uncover a world of intense snobbery, illicit gambling and a history of unreported assaults.