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Geno Auriemma's team felt the wall at its back and knew it had been here before.
After rallying from a 14-point deficit in the first half, the Huskies are headed back to the Final Four for the first time in four years after a 66-56 win against Rutgers. And if the win wasn't exactly scintillating, it was more than satisfying for the architect of a flawed favorite.
"We don't have all of the answers to every question like we have in other years," Auriemma said. "We struggle at times, just like other teams struggle. But this particular team didn't necessarily get to the Final Four on talent and the experience of having been there and having three or four college All-Americans. This team got there on a lot of intangibles that make you appreciate coaching."
Even after the tide had turned for good in the second half, with the clock ticking down under two minutes to play and Connecticut clinging to a 55-52 lead, Renee Montgomery was dropped to the ground by a solid screen from behind by Kia Vaughn. What was the distraction that prevented her from seeing, or at least sensing, the impending chiropractic event? Her own coach shouting out defensive instructions from the sideline.
It was just that kind of night.
"I really don't think this was a pretty win for us," Maya Moore said in an understatement worthy of a veteran. "This was one of our more ugly, kind of have to grind it out wins."
A team that entered the game leading the nation in field-goal percentage, and which hit more than half its shots in each of its first three NCAA tournament games, couldn't shoot straight, when it could get shots at all. And despite the misses, a group that averaged more offensive rebounds than any Connecticut team in recent memory collected a season-low five offensive boards.
The Huskies looked least like themselves in the game's opening minutes against a Rutgers defense trying to score an early knockout. Brittany Ray, who started for just the sixth time this season for the Scarlet Knights, face-guarded Moore in a concerted effort to neutralize the Big East Player of the Year. And with C. Vivian Stringer opting to employ her press more frequently than at any point since she lost Myia McCurdy to a season-ending injury, the Scarlet Knights scored 12 points off turnovers in the opening 20 minutes.
"That wasn't our best half at all," UConn senior Brittany Hunter said. "That was probably the worst half we had all season. And it just sucks because it was the first half, and that's when we usually try to get up on players. And the score looked too much like that should have been us and not them."
As things went from bad to worse early, it was hard not to look at Mel Thomas and Kalana Greene, both out for the season with knee injuries, on the end of the Connecticut bench and wonder if time had finally caught up with a team down two starters.
Montgomery and Ketia Swanier missed 9 of 10 shots from behind the arc in the first half, unable to exploit some of the open looks Thomas thrived on for the better part of four seasons. And minus Greene's inside-outside versatility on the wing, Connecticut lost control of Essence Carson (12 points on 5-of-6 shooting in the first half) and the glass.
But instead of letting things spiral out of control, as had happened in last year's regional final against LSU, Connecticut began to climb back into the game even before halftime. Charde Houston opened up a stagnant half-court offense and scored eight big points off the bench. Montgomery came up with two steals and converted in transition. And when Kaili McLaren executed a picture-perfect drop step in the closing seconds and converted, the Huskies found themselves down just 32-27 after once trailing by 14.
As they had over the course of an entire season, the Huskies found ways to fight through without two key components on the court.
"I think a few of us had that spirit more so, but over the course of the year, I think collectively, we developed it even more," Moore said. "And I think a big game was North Carolina, where we were down 11 at halftime and we had to fight back. We saw that we could do it. And just throughout the year, all the other challenges we've had -- [the possibility of] not having our seniors going to the Final Four -- we had no choice but to be fighters at that point."
As Rutgers, by Stringer's own admission, tired down the stretch in the second half, Connecticut made the plays it needed to make. Momentarily matched up against Epiphanny Prince after Montgomery slipped to the floor, Hunter came from behind to block a shot after being beaten off the dribble. Moments after kicking a sure layup out of bounds on a breakaway, Moore came off a screen and hit a 3-pointer to give the Huskies their first lead. And Montgomery hounded a weary Matee Ajavon into turnover after turnover.
As often as Connecticut cruised to wins in the second half during the regular season, it wasn't unprepared for the challenge ahead in the second half against Rutgers.
"He just puts us in situations that he knows we're going to be in down the road, and this is one of them," Tina Charles said of Auriemma. "In practice, he'll put us down 10 against the practice players and we'll have to come back. And we won't leave the gym until we beat him -- beat them and beat him as well. So I think that helps us a lot."
It was fitting that as the parade to the free-throw line commenced in the closing minutes, sophomore Charles calmly knocked down free throw after free throw. On a night when UConn struggled to do so many things it had done with relative ease in building the profile of the tournament's top seed, a 57 percent free-throw shooter calmly knocking down clutch shots seemed an appropriate symbol of survival.
Almost as fitting as Auriemma at a loss for words.
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A former Army sergeant based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
Sterling Hospedales, 26, pleaded guilty to the charges in July.
Prosecutors say Hospedales set up one juvenile in a Lakewood apartment to work as a prostitute and had a second juvenile flown in from Wyoming to do the same.
The investigation began in April 2009 when Lakewood police were alerted to a juvenile runaway from the Seattle area who was posting ads on Craigslist indicating she was a prostitute. Investigators from the Innocence Lost Task Force, a federal task force targeting sex trafficking of children, located and interviewed the girl and a second juvenile.
The first juvenile ultimately admitted that she worked as a prostitute out of an apartment Hospedales had obtained for her, and that Hospedales had helped her post the advertisements for prostitution on Craigslist. She also provided the money she earned from prostituting to Hospedales.
The second juvenile had flown to the area from Wyoming with a plane ticket paid for by Hospedales.The second girl stated that she had only been in town a week, and had taken pictures to post on Craigslist for prostitution purposes, but had not started earning money.
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A 28-year-old man from London has been arrested after a 62-year-old man was found dead in Brighton.
The body of Michael Polding, was discovered on Monday in a property in St George's Road.
Mr Polding had moved to the Kemp Town area about nine months ago where he felt more comfortable living as an openly gay man, his family said.
A post-mortem examination on Saturday found he had suffered a number of injuries.
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Mr Polding's family said he had grown up in Scotland but moved to London in the 1970s.
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In many ways, the life story of Masaaki Kobayashi is the story of Japan since World War II. He rose from poverty to ostentatious wealth and then fell from a mountain of debt.
Kobayashi, like modern Japan, was born amid the smoldering embers of the war. It was 1947, and Kobayashi's father, Shoichi, who came from generations of rice farmers, had just returned from selling vegetables to Japanese troops occupying Manchuria. When Japan was vanquished at the end of the war, the father had joined the sad procession back to his devastated homeland.
The elder Kobayashi raised his son and daughter in a rented room in the bombed-out ruins of Tokyo, where poverty was rampant and the family frequently had no money for electricity. Kobayashi raised goats, and Masaaki was up each morning before dawn to milk them and deliver the milk before school.
Kobayashi said he believes poverty motivated his son. Masaaki was forced to quit school at 16 to help with the goats, but soon he left to find something better. "I'm a simple person, and farming has always been my life," said the elder Kobayashi, who now tends cows on a small farm in the bamboo-forested hills east of Tokyo. "But my son I was starting to see that he was a leader, and he could get people to do what he wanted them to do. Each person has his own special capacity. Mine is to be punctual and faithful, and his was to be something big."
In the mid-1960s, when the wizards at Sony had perfected transistor radios and such industrial giants as Toyota and Honda were gearing up to dazzle the world, young Masaaki Kobayashi found his place on the edge of the revolution. By 1973, he started a business selling auto parts in what was fast becoming the world's vanguard car industry.
Auto Spot grew from a small storefront in which Kobayashi worked and slept to a chain of 17 stores that employed more than 145 people. It had sales of more than $60 million a year. Kobayashi swooshed into the boom years of the 1980s like a surfer riding a huge wave. He was making a fortune, and, like everyone else in a nation that seemed almost drunk with wealth, he spent it in showy ways.
He bought racehorses, including Ines Fujin, which won the 1990 Japan Derby, the premier horse race here, similar in prestige to the Kentucky Derby. The first-prize purse was nearly $1 million, and it made Kobayashi officially a player in Japanese high society.
Photos taken that day show Kobayashi wearing a wreath of fresh flowers as two other men stood close by his side: Shoji and Sudoh. The three had met more than 20 years earlier when they were all eager young men looking to make their mark in Tokyo's car industry.
According to friends and associates, the three became like family. It is not uncommon in Japan for business friendships to be closer than marriages; young businessmen, especially those of Kobayashi, Sudoh and Shoji's generation, often spend far more time at work than at home.
The three young entrepreneurs, united by their passion for cars and sales success, golfed and drank together, sang karaoke and played mah-jongg, gambled and lived together as a nearly inseparable threesome as their businesses flourished.
But shortly after Kobayashi's racehorse was crowned in the winner's circle in 1990, things began changing in Japan. The intoxication of the country's "bubble economy" was giving way to a painful morning after. Sky-high land prices fell back to as low as 30 percent of their former value. Banks that had lent billions suddenly were left in the lurch as real estate speculators went broke.
Kobayashi again found himself mirroring his country's fortunes. His success and taste of the high life made him keep looking for splashy big scores. He tried new car accessories, looking for that one hot product to strike it rich. Like the Japanese magnates buying up Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach, Kobayashi wanted trophies, status, impact. Nothing panned out.
A large part of his problem was increased competition. Japan in the 1990s has been slowly dragged into the global free-market economy. Car owners in Japan now don't have to go to Kobayashi's store to get seat cushions but can order them on the Internet and from foreign mail-order catalogues. At the same time, trimming costs to compete often means trimming staff, and that is hard to do in Japan, where loyalty to company often has been treasured more than loyalty to one's spouse.
Lawyers say Shoji and Sudoh begged Kobayashi to stop "throwing his money away," that he was spending too excessively, but he ignored them. And his troubles soon became theirs.
Kobayashi, Sudoh and Shoji operated their businesses in the traditional "Asian Way," in which friendly personal ties were more important than the bloodless Western system of credit checks and bottom lines. Banks and companies here have lent colossal sums of money, not because they scrutinized business plans and accounting books, but because of school or family ties.
In hard times, it's a messy system. One Japanese bankruptcy often means many friends and related businesses are dragged down too. When Kobayashi's business selling leather steering-wheel covers, funky fluorescent lighting and other accessories got into trouble, he did what was natural here. He turned to his buddies, Shoji and Sudoh. Kobayashi had helped them get started in business and been their mentor; now they, by custom, had little choice but to help the man who had helped them. They bailed out Kobayashi, to the point where they were hollowing out their own companies' reserves. According to lawyers now sifting through the wreckage, Shoji had floated $650,000 to Kobayashi, and Sudoh had quietly passed him $225,000.
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The loans were not entirely acts of charity; Shoji and Sudoh relied heavily on Kobayashi's stores to move their products. Their businesses were small fish riding the wake of Kobayashi's big-league success; if he failed, they could go down too.
Like Kobayashi, one of Japan's main problems is debt and the accounting practices that hide it. Because of accounting methods that mask actual debt, problems in banks and companies here often have been allowed to balloon to gargantuan proportions before anyone realizes.
The lawyers assigned to liquidate Kobayashi's business say that his books were also unclear and that the extent of his problems was hidden from his business associates. None of it was evident in any systematic accounting trail, and it only came to light after their deaths.
It was Kobayashi's deep feeling of "responsibility" to his employees that he wrote about in his dying notes, his lawyers said. He said he was "going to die so that his company would live." His life insurance payouts were to make up for his mismanagement. Then, because of his mistakes, nobody would lose his job.
"Why did he do it?" Sudoh's mother considered one day recently outside her home. "I have asked that question myself. ... I have been told he felt responsibility to his own company, to his employees, that he felt so indebted to Mr. Kobayashi."
Sudoh's friends said he was talking more and more often about how "the business world was changing too fast" for him. According to one television news account, one of Sudoh's notes said: "The [business] system we learned is no longer valid."
If Japan's bankruptcy laws were not so harsh, so unforgiving, maybe this wouldn't have happened, five lawyers connected to the suicides agreed. It has been nearly impossible to get a bank loan to start up a business unless one's home or that of a relative is placed on the line as collateral. In the United States, a much thicker line is drawn between personal and business risk.
Attorney Itoh said: "Entrepreneurs know if they fail, they lose everything. If Japan doesn't limit personal liability in company bankruptcies it cannot nurture the entrepreneurial spirit it needs to survive. ... Your whole personal life is wiped out if your business fails."
In the end, only Sudoh's company survived.
On the day they died, the three men drove to Kunitachi, about 20 miles west of Tokyo. There they huddled together in the anonymity of a tiny restaurant inside a convenience store on a busy street. Employees there recall that the three men talked seriously at a table near the front window, between stacks of cigarette cartons piled against a beer cooler and a half-dead potted plant. Their lunch was rubbery boiled beef and onions over rice, served with a view of two trash cans.
After eating, they walked next door to the Hotel le Piano, a classic Japanese "love hotel," where trysting couples find a cheap, discreet rendezvous spot in the anonymity of a drab Tokyo suburb.
In the faux marble lobby, next to a white grand piano trimmed in gold, the men booked their rooms from a clerk hidden behind frosted glass. Payment $55 for an eight-hour stay and three room keys passed through a tiny slot.
Among them, they scribbled more than a dozen notes, apologizing that this was the only way to help their families from losing everything and to keep their companies going. That very day, Kobayashi changed his life insurance policy so that more than $1.5 million that was slated for his wife would go to his company. If he kept the company going, his family would be okay. But if the company went bankrupt, creditors would take his home, their cars, his horses, his bankbook.
Sometime after 4 p.m. on that cold, rainy Wednesday, the men adjourned to their rooms. Then, in the depressing fakery of a gilded flophouse, three friends who once had it all tossed nooses over ceiling heating ducts, kicked the chairs out from under themselves and dropped a few violent inches to their deaths.
Special correspondent Shigehiko Togo and researcher Akiko Yamamoto contributed to this report.
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TEACHERS have been ordered to give the Scots language "equal" treatment in schools despite fears it could further undermine literacy standards in formal English.
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The Scottish Government wants all children to learn to speak, write and read Scots even though many critics claim it is a dialect rather than a language.
Under new guidelines issued by the quango Education Scotland, pupils will take lessons from the age of four.
They will also read books in Scots, including translations of classic children's literature such as Winnie The Pooh.
Schools have been told to investigate "practical steps for the development of Scots language and texts".
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"We're already slipping back in world league tables. That's what people want the Scottish Government to be focusing on.
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"Perhaps if more effort went on the basics, our schools wouldn't be languishing in global league tables."
Education Scotland said using Scots in schools improves children's engagement with learning.
A spokesman added: "Scots can be a powerful motivator within the area of literacy, often for learners who are otherwise disengaged.
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A man was killed and two women were injured in a possible gang-related shooting near Koreatown early Sunday, police said.
A man and two women were sitting in an SUV when they were approached by a suspect, who shot at them, said Sgt. Marvin Mancia of the Los Angeles Police Department. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the women had non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
The male suspect was struck by a vehicle as he was running away from the scene, Mancia said.
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Officers were near the intersection of Vermont and Wilshire when they heard shots fired about 12:20 a.m., said LAPD Officer Rosario Herrera. They drove toward the gunfire and were directed to the suspect as he was running away, she said. He was then arrested, she said.
No additional details about the suspect or the victims was available.
In the last 12 months, there have been seven other homicides, four of them shootings, within one mile of the incident, according to The Times' Homicide Report database.
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During my clean up of the sledge hammer to remove the molded on clamps I managed to snap it in two. Undaunted, I grabbed some 1.2 mm plastic rod and sanded it down on two sides to give it a flatter appearance. Next, I drilled out a hole in the head of the sledge then carved out the area in the shape I needed for the shaft and fixed the new handle to the head. A quick and fairly simple fix. For the bolt cutters there was no way I was going to be able to remove the molded on clamps without destroying the part so I snipped off the end where the locking arm goes, cleaned it up and added said locking arm to the part. The kit part does not give you the the retaining loop that the bolt cutters slide into so I made this with some lead foil.
For the cleaning rods and tow cable mounts and the tow cables themselves, the kit gives you the all in one version which is pretty much standard with most kits. I didn't like these as the detail was soft especially on the tow cables. In looking through the sprues I found that AFV Club gives you the individual mounts/brackets for the tow cables and cleaning rods. This was a nice surprise as I was planning on scratching my own. Definitely a time saver. You can see them in the pics below. Also, I discovered that I had a set of Eureka XXL Tiger I tow cables which I had purchased and forgot about a few years back. Because I had forgot about them I purchased a Griffon set which also comes with the brass cleaning rods. So, no need to scratch the cleaning rods, another time saver. Of course both sets have the track changing cables as well which is nice.
Tiger 211 did not have its head lamp in place in the pictures of the actual vehicle so I am leaving it off. I punched a disc out from plastic card with my punch and die set to replicate the lamp socket. The lamp conduit is from lead wire. As you can see it has a distinct loop that clears the top of the armour plate. A number of models I have seed have this conduit flush with the top of the armor plate which was not the case. Finally, I added the camo net loops on the sides and rear of the hull.
The C-Clamps on German Tigers had two Butterfly nuts to secure and remove the clamp. Fortunately, I had some Bronco 1/35 German butterfly nuts so I used these on the top hull C-Clamp. I am going to add them to the rear C-Clamp as well. Didn't want to add them at this early stage as they would have probably broken off with all my rough handling of the model up to this point.


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Intent and Reality in Biostratigraphic Zonation: a Reply to Sandberg, Ziegler, and Bultynck (1988)
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Three principal interpretations are developed herein: 1) In my 1985 study of Ancyrodella, the taxonomic content of A. rotundiloba was not expanded and my concept of the species is in agreement with the original types of Bryant (1921); 2) The GSSP for the base of the Upper Devonian Series drawn in the Montagne Noire at the entry of A. rotundiloba is not below, but rather at the base of the Lower asymmetricus Zone; and 3) Sandberg et al. (1988) may have used an operational base for the same zone at a level three evolutionary steps above the entry of A. rotundiloba, that is at the level of the late form of A. alata.
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The intricately decorated gown created by Sarah Burton of the Alexander McQueen fashion house was roundly praised for its modern take on traditional designs, drawing comparisons to the 1956 wedding dress worn by Grace Kelly.
"The Duchess of Cambridge (Kate's new title) is considering a number of options to give members of the public the opportunity to see close-up the skilled British craftsmanship that went into the making of her wedding dress," a palace spokesman.
The palace official could not disclose when or where the dress might go on display although many of the gowns belonging to Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, were shown at London's Kensington Palace.
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The French outfit have insisted they want to hold onto the talented keeper, with general manager Pierre Dreossi insisting Chelsea will have to up the ante if they want to capture the Czech Republic star.
Parma's Sebastien Frey has now emerged as a possible alternative for Chelsea, which could scupper Cech's dreams of a move to Stamford Bridge, but Rennes are still said to be eyeing alternatives.
Vedran Runje's name has been thrown into the ring, following the arrival of Fabien Barthez at Marseille, as has Monaco's Tony Sylva.
Nicolas Penneteau of Bastia and Remi Vercoutre of Lyon have also reportedly come under the microscope, but the club's scouting network has cast its net out of France as Djurgardens' Andrei Isaksson has caught the eye.
Rennes, meanwhile, have been dealt a blow with the news that full back Francois Grenet has suffered a knee injury which is expected to sideline him for the next two months.
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Germany's demand for a rewrite of the European Union treaty aims to tighten up wording to provide a watertight legal framework for rushing to the rescue of EU states in financial distress.
"We're not asking for a terrible total overhaul. It's a question of two phrases," said a government source in response to growing fears across Europe of a repeat episode of the stuttering 10-year process penning the Lisbon treaty, that came into force last December.
Chancellor Angela Merkel says the "two phrases" are indispensable to stop Germany's unbending constitutional court from interfering in any future attempt to rescue a financially-troubled EU nation.
The court's judges are still examining the case of funds sent to help Greece last spring.
Moves to set up a permanent EU rescue fund for countries in trouble, as agreed between Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, could trigger a flow of endless judicial quarrels in Germany unless the Lisbon treaty is modified to the satisfaction of the court.
The treaty's article 125, known as the "no bail-out" clause, bans flying to the rescue of another member state.
It says that "the union shall not be liable for or assume the commitments of central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or public undertakings of any member state."
But Berlin's call for a rewrite of the EU rule-book is also about economics.
Europe's economic powerhouse, which only very reluctantly agreed to bail out Greece, is concerned that a permanent fund could lack strict supervision and be left under the loose control of member states.
Merkel wants to introduce a new procedure for states to embark on a sort of orderly insolvency, reducing the burden on national taxpayers and requiring much greater involvement from private banks.
Where the private sector has invested in government bonds, it should suffer a loss in such circumstances -- even if Berlin is careful to avoid using language that conjures up images of national bankruptcy.
Germany argues its revisions can be tacked-on at the point when the treaty is necessarily adapted to incorporate the EU's 28th state, Croatia, between now and 2012.


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Hugh Holland / mbart.comSkateboarding culture exploded in Los Angeles in the 1970s, and photographer Hugh Holland was on hand to capture the freewheeling lives of the city's skateboarders starting in 1975.
Holland's "Angels" series shows '70s skateboarders hanging out in Burbank, Huntington Beach, Balboa and other hotspots in California.
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Best things to do in Strasbourg and sightseeing in Strasbourg
Place d'Austerlitz - Strasbourg
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Petite-France - Strasbourg
Le quartier de la Petite France: located within the city, it's a place where people come to rest, chill and have a relaxing time in the park and by the water which runs through it. You will find many students laying in the grass, older people sitting on benches, kids playing on swings. This is the perfect place to come relax after a day of walking around or shopping!
Place Gutenberg - Strasbourg
Another square in Strasbourg, this particular one has been named after the inventor of the modern printing press - Johann Gutenberg, whose statue adorns the square. The Place Gutenberg is also the location of the Chambers of Commerce, which are housed in an old Renaissance styled building. There are also many cafes and restaurants located in the square.
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Place Kléber - Strasbourg
This is the largest square of Strasbourg, situated right in the center of the city and its commercial area. The square has numerous attractions like the Aubette Palace and the statue of Kleber, after whom the square has been named. Apart from the history of the Place Kleber, due to which it has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, numerous luxury and other brands also have shops here.


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Weekly Rankings: Week 11 Value Meter
Jimmy Graham and Rob Gronkowski both are finally back at full capacity and are top-10 players in this week's Value Meter.
November 5, 2014
On Target: Year of the Small WR?
Is Antonio Brown, and other small wide receivers, proving that size is less important at wide receiver than we assumed?
November 4, 2014
Weekly Rankings: Week 10 Value Meter
The tight end position is particularly tough this week with Rob Gronkowski, Dwayne Allen and a few other good options on bye this week.
November 3, 2014
Depth Chart Watch: Foster Owners May Have the Blues
With Foster (groin) uncertain for Week 9, Alfred Blue is a must-get.
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Weekly Rankings: Week 9 Value Meter
Dez Bryant tops Vlad Sedler's wide receiver ranks this week. Will he 'Wally Pipp' Jeff Erickson with his ranks this week?
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Depth Chart Watch: Bernard's Backup Worth a Look
With star RB Giovani Bernard ailing, Cincinnati's Jeremy Hill could be in line for an expanded role in Week 9.
October 20, 2014
Depth Chart Watch: That Escalated Quickly
The Bills lost their top two RBs in Sunday's win, leaving Anthony Dixon at the head of their backfield.
October 13, 2014
Depth Chart Watch: The Real Deal
San Diego's Branden Oliver could be the fantasy pickup of the year.
September 15, 2014
Depth Chart Watch: Cardinal Commotion
Carson Palmer's 'shoulder thing' knocked him out of Week 2 and could create a competition between Drew Stanton and Logan Thomas for starting duties.
August 13, 2014
Depth Chart Watch: Training Camp Job Battles
C.J. Spiller likely won't get 25 carries a game, which means there's value for his backup -- but it might not be who you think.
July 8, 2014
Montee Ball is expected to start for the Broncos, but he will have to outplay C.J. Anderson in training camp to win the job.
September 1, 2013
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Our first set of weekly rankings are now up. Tony Romo and the Cowboys should be in a shootout with the Giants in Week 1.
November 28, 2012
Game Capsules: Hoover Breaks Down Week 13
Can the Giants slow RGIII on Monday Night?
November 19, 2012
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The devastating news that Rob Gronkowski broke his forearm will send shockwaves throughout the fantasy world.
September 24, 2012
Depth Chart Watch: Fallout From Week 3
Ryan Mathews returned Sunday after missing the first two games of the season but fell behind early and abandoned the run.
July 14, 2012
2012 New England Patriots Team Preview: Patriots Look to Continue Success
January 11, 2012
Weekly Rankings: Divisional Week Rankings
Can Tim Tebow have a repeat performance against the Patriots? Will the Patriots score so often that it won't matter?
January 3, 2012
Weekly Rankings: Wild Card Week Rankings
The running backs are pretty mediocre this week, though Arian Foster should fare reasonably well against the Bengals.
December 27, 2011
Weekly Rankings: Week 17 Rankings
Maurice Jones-Drew tops our RB rankings for Week 17.
December 20, 2011
Weekly Rankings: Week 16 Rankings
Ryan Mathews is even getting goal line carries now.
December 13, 2011
Weekly Rankings: Week 15 Rankings
Who will step up now that Greg Jennings won't be there to put that team on his back?
December 6, 2011
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Matthew Stafford and the Lions get their shot at the injury-riddled Vikings secondary this week.
November 29, 2011
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The Bucs expect to use Blount Force to try to beat the Panthers this week.
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Thanksgiving Day Feast of Games
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Do you start Tim Tebow on short rest this week given all the quarterback carnage?
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Cam Newton is back after the bye week.
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If you were drafting today, where would LeSean McCoy rank?
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Steve Smith tops the WR rankings this week.
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Before you wake up, take in five short breaths, hold for five seconds, and let out for five seconds. Do this five times before you even open your eyes or stretch. Then note the first things that come to your mind, memories, scents, anything. Get up and draw those things, write them, dance them, or play music to express them, then set them aside. When your day's done, go back to what you did in the morning, and enjoy it.
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A problem which was causing the chat-filter to incorrectly filter things it shouldn't has now been fixed.We are now using a more advanced system which shouldn't cause so many false positives and so should hopefully be much less intrusive.


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I have talked a couple of times recently about some results from the assignments in my MBA class this year. In assessing the Innovation Value Chains within their firms, 3 out of 60 identified their organisation as ideas-poor, while the other 57 had bigger problems with idea selection and idea execution. The paradox is that when firms try to become more innovative the first thing they usually do is take steps to generate more ideas.
In part, I think that this is due to the fact that we have relatively more resources available to help with this part of the process. There are plenty of books on improving idea generation and creativity. There are plenty of consultants around with methods for doing the same. It is the area where it is the easiest to see quick results, which makes it attractive. This is deceptive though, because the data from my MBA students strongly suggests that this is the area where organisations actually need the least help.
What do we have that can help with idea selection and idea execution? One approach that is very good to use for idea selection is idea jams – a technique originally developed by IBM. I've been talking about this some recently with my friend Kate Morrison, who uses this approach in her firm Vulture Street Innovation Software and Services. Here is how she describes the jam process:
A jam is an online, time-limited collaboration event specific to an invited group of participants and focused on a particular organisational problem, opportunity or challenge.
Compared with traditional problem solving and group decision-making techniques, the jam approach offers significant benefits because it is:
* focused around specific themes or challenges, as defined by management – hence avoiding non-productive and open-ended solicitations (such as suggestion boxes) or community discussions;
* specific to the group invited to participate, which can include customers and suppliers as well as employees;
* scalable beyond the limits of physical get-togethers, able to accommodate hundreds of participants; and
* time-limited, allowing a concentration of attention and energy and preventing the process from fading into the background of business-as-usual.
So it is a crowd-sourcing method, but it uses a specific, hand-picked crowd. The thing that I particular like about this approach is that it doesn't just generate ideas, it selects them. As ideas come in, people are able to comment on them, and vote on the ones that they like. Here are some results from one of Kate's projects showing the contributions of all of the people participating in a small jam, along with the 6 most popular ideas (indicated by the stars):
These results from illustrate some interesting points:
- Contributions follow a power law (roughly). This is very normal for interactive networks of people. There are usually a small number of people with really large contributions (in this case, the top 3 idea contributers generated 38% of the total ideas!), a slightly bigger number of people with a few contributions, and a majority of people who contribute only one or two ideas (Clay Shirky explains this really well in one of my favourite TED talks). In many situations, it is difficult to solicit the ideas from this last, largest group, which is important because:
- Idea quality is unrelated to idea volume! The idea voted the best was contributed by the 14th most prolific idea generator, and the one voted second best was contributed by the least prolific idea generator. The top two idea contributors support Linus Pauling's contention that 'the way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bads ones away.' But in good news for us introverts, the people talking the most aren't necessarily the ones coming up with the best contributions.
- The key point is that at the end of this process, you end up not just with a bunch of ideas, but with an idea of what the best ideas are. This is what I like about jams as innovation tools – it is actually a selection tool, which is one of the areas that firms are often weak. At the end of the process, you don't have hundreds of new ideas, you have 3 or 4 really promising ones.
So this is one method you can use to improve your capability in selecting new innovation ideas. There are more formal processes available like Stage-Gate too. If you're going to invest time and money in improving innovation within your organisation, I think it's essential that you focus on getting better at selecting and executing new ideas, rather than simply generating them.


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Keep an eye on your mana bar. Poke him to low health so he can't be agressive then farm as much as posible. before level 4 be very aware for ganks, after you got your satchel charge (W) it is possible to escape ganks.
Mid Game
When you get your ult try finding events where it could be usefull, steal enemy blue, scare enemys away so teammates can escape safely from ganks etc or just to nuke your enemy to hell. To find these events keep your eye on the minimap. be aware of ganks happening and even predict ganks that are going to happen and help your teammates make the best out of it.
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Featured Contributor Kat Gill shares her early lessons learned in this installment of our "What I Wish I Knew" series, chronicling the mistakes and revelations creatives made during their first years in business. We hope you find inspiration (and we're sure you'll find some commiseration!) in these stories. Here are Kat's top tips to maintain a consistent brand.
Reflecting on my first year as a photographer, I distinctly remember all too often feeling that I wasn't shooting what I wanted to be shooting, and despite how much my clients loved their photos—I myself, was not in love with what I was producing. I wasn't attracting the kind of clients I wanted, and I definitely wasn't in the driver's seat when it came to my shoots. It was the all-too common story of insecurity and inexperience that I know many new photographers struggle with. But fortunately I've learned a ton over the last 7 years, and here's one of the things I really wish I knew back then: The importance of maintaining a clear and consistent brand. Essentially— attracting the right clients for you, shooting them within your style, and sharing the photos afterwards with intention.
There's so many aspects that go into this—from your editing style right down to your business cards, but I'm going to focus more on the ways to do this right from the time a client books you and then to the time right after the shoot.
Tip #1: As soon as a client books me for an engagement session, the first thing I do is email them an electronic Welcome Package that includes information to help them prepare. This PDF touches on the types of locations I prefer to shoot at, tips on what to wear, and makeup and hair stylists I recommend. Throughout the PDF, there are photo examples from some of my favorite past shoots that show off great locations, outfits and styling.
What I've come to learn is that most clients have no clue what they actually want and are really looking to me to guide them in the right direction. They love my work and depend on me to help them achieve the same kind of look and feel that they've fallen in love with. Leading up to the shoot date, I also encourage them to text me if they need any second opinions on their outfit selection. I used to fear this would be the worst idea ever (forecasted nightmares of 2am texts) but that's never been the case luckily! I've instead found this to be a really great way to not only help steer my clients in the right direction with what will photograph best, but it's also a nice way to start developing a more casual, friendly relationship with them. I think my clients also really appreciate the personal care I'm giving them and they feel that I'm committed to making sure their shoot goes just as well as they're hoping it will.
Tip #2: Let's now touch on the powers of social media and how you can turn it into your most effective marketing tool. More than ever, clients are using social media to discover and research everything.
In order to ensure that the right kind of clients are finding you, make sure that what you're posting and sharing is geared towards showing what you love to shoot and what you'd like to shoot more of.
After every session, (even the trickier ones) I pick out my favorite couple of shots-- they can highlight anything from a great location, to creative composition, to what they were wearing, to the sweet way they were interacting. And when you're not getting the kind of bookings you want, set up your own creative styled shoots. So many of my clients will reference shoots I've done and will use them as inspiration for their own shoot. A lot of thought is put into every teaser or blog post I share-- if it doesn't represent what I want to be shooting, I don't post it.
The objective here is consistency. Consistency breeds trust. You're taking the guesswork and gamble out of it for them if they can see quickly by looking through your feed exactly what your style is. I've seen so many new photographers establish themselves quickly because they were able to recognize and apply this early in their careers.
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If you are seriously considering writing and publishing a book I'd strongly suggest writing it in your own language so it's exactly as you'd like it. Then get somebody to translate it from your language into english. You will probably have to pay somebody to do so but the quality of the work will be far superior and will truly get across the meaning you wanted.
One of my first pieces of advice to new writers is: When you've got something in your head, bursting to come out, just write it down.
You have an idea for a book you want to write. I'm assuming you want to publish it for an English-speaking audience.
Start putting the ideas on paper or your computer or a notebook, or whatever. Don't worry about the perfection of your English.
At some point, find someone (hopefully in the area where you live so you can meet with the person) and ask the person to look over what you wrote. As an English instructor, I can say it is easier to correct the grammar and sentence structure where the content already has value and substance, than to try to add substance where the English grammar is perfect.
Let me toss some questions to you as you start writing: What is your main idea? Who is the audience you want to reach? How do you want the audience to react to what you have written?
If you're clear on those goals, that will help you as you put words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs into chapters.
Don't worry about perfection at this point. Just start writing. You will find that as you write something down, other thoughts will come. And you may find that the actual "act" of writing will help you in improving your English.
At any rate, go for it! Best wishes.
First i would like to say thank you for your answer, and also to tell you that English, is not my first language but i love it. I was happy when i have see your answer thanks you again.
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Estimates suggest that ~100 million ha of tropical forest was lost between 1980 and 2012 and that ~20% of the tropical forests were selectively logged in the 5 year period between 2000 and 2005. These changes are ultimately driven by increasing human population size and consumption and it is estimates that between 1.2 and 1.5 billion people rely on tropical forests for food, timber, medicine, and ecosystem services. One estimate suggests that approximately 1 billion ha of additional land - an area larger than Canada - primarily in developing countries, will need to be converted to agriculture by 2050 to meet the demands of the growing human population.
This is a situation that cannot persist if a world that I would like to envision will exist, so it is my belief that we must each play our part and try to set things on the "right path". Through my role as faculty at McGill University, Honorary lecturer at Makerere University, and as a Research Associate of the Wildlife Conservation Society, I am actively involved in a number of conservation efforts. Some of these efforts are academic in nature and are designed to provide managers, particularly the Ugandan Wildlife Authority, with the information needed to construct informed conservation plans, while others involve training or are strictly applied. Activities we are currently engaged in include:
1 Continuing to promote a clinic and a mobile health clinic system for Kibale National Park, Uganda to provide basic health services and health and conservation education. This next year we will run a special program to provide 2000 bed nets to local people.
2 Training of Ugandan students in the needed tools, academic skills, and knowledge to address conservation issues in Uganda – I currently am supervising 4 students at Makerere University in Uganda.
3 Exploring tropical forest restoration to provide managers with the information to restore degraded tropical forests and the animal populations that they could support.
4 Working with media groups around the world to increase awareness about the conservation of tropical ecosystems.
5 Investigating the impact of animals, particularly primate and elephants, on long-term forest dynamics.


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It wasn't enough for Gu Bar to occupy our weekends with their shenanigans and our Saturday's with their Heshek Beshek antics, no. They basically took over our entire week with their all new Walkman Night, featuring a mix of nostalgic classics by DJ Tough Guy from Beirut. Check it out
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Support » Plugin: WordPress File Monitor Plus » [Plugin: WordPress File Monitor Plus] Just updated to latest version and plugin not working
[Plugin: WordPress File Monitor Plus] Just updated to latest version and plugin not working
Resolved jupiter23
I get this error when I scan for file changes
Also it doesnt even work, hmm
This happened after I updated the plugin just hours ago
Text of error in photo:
"Warning: file_put_contents(/home/simply/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/data/.sc_wpfmp_scan_data) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/simply/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/classes/wpfmp.class.php on line 566"
Extra notes: I also noticed that this file doesnt exist: .sc_wpfmp_scan_data
EDIT: Problem solved, we changed the Data folder to 777 then ran a scan and it created the other files. Then we changed the Data folder to 775.
Plugin is working fine now, although it is safe to keep the Data folder to 775 right?
CheersPlugin Author Scott Cariss
What happens is that when you update the plugin WordPress removes all the plugin files and re-add's files from the download.
The download doesn't contain the data files as these should be made on the first scan.
If you have an existing alert while upgrading what happens is that alert is still flagged but the alert data has been wiped and you get a blank popup with no way to clear the alert.
What you have to do is what for a file change for the alerts to start working again.
As for file/folder permissions. the data folder should be set to 755 and the files inside set to 644.
I cannot get the plugin to work now.
I have installed it on a half dozen sites and it was great, but now when I try to install on other sites it is impossible.
I have tried everything, I've changed permissions on the uploads folder to 777, I've even created the WPFMP_DATA folder and files manually, and I've tried copying them from other working sites. Nothing works.
I've tried removing all other plugins, renaming the htaccess, going back to the default theme etc… nothing works.
The plugin will not create the folders/files in the uploads folder when it is installed/activated, regardless of permissions placed on the uploads folder.
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /home/Cpanel_Account/public_html/site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/classes/wpfmp.settings.class.php on line 106
Warning: copy(/WPFMP_DATA//.htaccess) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/Cpanel_Account/public_html/site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/classes/wpfmp.settings.class.php on line 641
Warning: copy(/WPFMP_DATA//.sc_wpfmp_admin_alert_content) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/Cpanel_Account/public_html/site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/classes/wpfmp.settings.class.php on line 641
Warning: copy(/WPFMP_DATA//.sc_wpfmp_scan_data) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/Cpanel_Account/public_html/site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/classes/wpfmp.settings.class.php on line 641
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/Cpanel_Account/public_html/site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/classes/wpfmp.settings.class.php:106) in /home/Cpanel_Account/public_html/site.com/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881Plugin Author Scott Cariss
It looks like the plugin isn't setting the defines correctly.
/WPFMP_DATA//.sc_wpfmp_admin_alert_contentis not a correct path…
This is how the defines are setup:
define( 'SC_WPFMP_PLUGIN_FILE', __FILE__ ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_PLUGIN_FOLDER', dirname( SC_WPFMP_PLUGIN_FILE ) ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_CLASSES_FOLDER', SC_WPFMP_PLUGIN_FOLDER . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'classes' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_FUNCTIONS_FOLDER', SC_WPFMP_PLUGIN_FOLDER . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'functions' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ); // Set data directory $uploads = wp_upload_dir(); $uploads['basedir'] = str_replace( array('\\', '/'), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $uploads['basedir'] ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_DATA_FOLDER', $uploads['basedir'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'WPFMP_DATA' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_DATA_FOLDER_OLD', SC_WPFMP_PLUGIN_FOLDER . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'data' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_FILE_SCAN_DATA', SC_WPFMP_DATA_FOLDER . '.sc_wpfmp_scan_data' ); define( 'SC_WPFMP_FILE_ALERT_CONTENT', SC_WPFMP_DATA_FOLDER . '.sc_wpfmp_admin_alert_content' );
Can you check what each of these define are coming back with?
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
It looks like for some reason the wp_upload_dir(); is not returning basedir or anything else.
Notice: Undefined index: basedir. I get the same thing with url, subdir,baseurl etc….
Here's what I had to do to get the plugin working:
A) manually create the WPFMP_DATA folder under /uploads
B) Add/change the following code in wordpress-file-monitor-plus.php:
// Set data directory
2.then comment out:
#$uploads = wp_upload_dir();
#$uploads['basedir'] = str_replace( array('\\', '/'), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $uploads['basedir'] );
3. Add this line:
$Up = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/wp-content/uploads/";
4. Change this:
define( 'SC_WPFMP_DATA_FOLDER', $uploads['basedir'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'WPFMP_DATA' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
To This:
define( 'SC_WPFMP_DATA_FOLDER', $Up . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'WPFMP_DATA' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
Basically swapped $uploads['basedir'] for $Up
I have no idea why it's not finding the basedir but I'm happy that I can at least make it work on my other sites from here on out.
It's very strange that I didn't have this issue with the first 4-5 sites I installed this on. I even checked the WP/includes/functions.php to make sure it was correct and it all looked fine. There's no reason I can see why wp_upload_dir() is not working.
I'm running WP 3.4.1 and PHP Version 5.3.10
It's a great plugin. Nice clean code and great commenting. Thanks for all your time and effort in putting it together.Plugin Author Scott Cariss
I'm glad that you have fixed it though I'm not happy that you have had to alter the plugin code to make it work.
I can only presume you are going to look into why
wp_upload_dir()is not returning the correct info?
Only thing I could think of is that some settings are not right somewhere. Possibly these sites have moved location, like to a different server, and they haven't been migrated properly where URLs and paths are now set incorrectly in the database.
Glad you find my code clean and good commenting. This only happens on my public released content 😉
Thanks again for your assistance.
I found what was causing problems on these sites. Just as you said, these sites were migrated and there was an old setting that was wrong.
Here's where I fixed it:
In wp admin area
Settings–>Media—->Store uploads in this folder:
The cpanel dir was still pointing to the old one instead of the new one.
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Take a look at Mark Jenson's yellow interceptor. Take a look at Alan Overton's yellow interceptor, built from a Ford Capri. Jens Jankuhn's Yellow Interceptor, built from a 1976 Opel Commodore B. Adrian Bennet's Yellow Interceptor, based on a Datsun. Jose Trigo's "White Interceptor" Andy Holmes' Yellow Interceptor, based on a MK3 Ford Cortina. Mirko Belik's Big Boppa replica. Bart Mangrum's Replica The Information Society car. Take a look at Joe Rice's '75 Chevy Nova Police Interceptor Replica. Ken Stone's Enforcer. George Kritty's XC Coupe, complete with "MADMAX" license plates. Sam Costanzo's XB Falcon, a nice example of a standard XB, before any replica treatment.


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Corolla chief engineer Takeshi Yoshida even told his development team the first thing they had to do was forget about the last car when they started work on the new one.
But while in many ways this is a more refined and slightly swifter effort than before, Yoshida-san and his crew have still managed not to inject much excitement into the equation. It is solid, dependable and probably reliable as well, and all those qualities have been part of the Corolla equation from year dot.
The 100kW engine promises much, and because the new range of sedan, hatchback and wagon is on average 36kg lighter than its predecessor, there's the expectation of zippy performance, backed by Toyota's claim of zero to 100kmh in 9.1 seconds.
That doesn't quite happen. The 1.8-litre engine is smooth enough, quiet as well, but needs quite a few revs on board to deliver its best, thanks to the peaky torque output.
It is helped by quite low gearing in the manual, which has the engine spinning busily (but still quietly) at over 3000rpm on the highway. Interestingly, the taller-geared four-speed auto version is claimed by Toyota to have better fuel economy than the manual.
Handling is effortless without being remarkable, apart perhaps from a vague wandering sensation on less than smooth or cambered roads. The ride itself is soft, but the suspension not as well controlled as a good European hatch or sedan – and for that you can read Holden Astra.
But the seats are comfortable, steering and pedal efforts light, there's quite an amount of room in the rear seat and in the back of the wagon. Pain-free, hassle-free motoring with little to complain about, but nothing to shout about, either.
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Sporty Corolla heads upmarket
Cameron McGavin
Hands up those who have poked fun at some Toyotas in the past for being more like a personal appliance than a passenger car. Well, you might want to stop laughing because Toyota has just launched an all-new version of its top-selling small car, boasting the kind of attributes that should transform its occasionally dull but worthy reputation.
Not that the Corolla's conservative image has got in the way of commercial success, with more than 25 million sold internationally since its introduction in 1966 – making it the most popular nameplate in history. It is also the king of its market segment in Australia, outselling competitors such as Holden's Astra, the Mazda 323/Ford Laser twins and Nissan's Pulsar.
But despite continuing to sell beyond the grasp of its rivals, Toyota is trying hard to reposition the all-new, ninth-generation Corolla as a more upmarket proposition in the face of increased competition from niche European brands.
Central to the new Corolla's sassier image is its more aerodynamic styling, which was developed in-house at Toyota's Japanese base. In typical Toyota style, the latest model bears no resemblance to its predecessor. It also brings with it slightly larger external dimensions (it has a longer wheelbase, is 5mm wider and 85mm taller), which provide a more spacious interior, with higher seats and loads more headroom.
There are three body styles to choose from – a hatch, a sedan and, for the first time since 1994, a wagon – and each benefits from the more contemporary look.
The mechanicals have also come in for attention. Biggest news is the addition of the MR2 sports car's 1.8-litre four-cylinder engine to the entire range, along with slightly different camshafts to provide more flexible mid-range pull at the expense of top-end power. Equipped with twin-overhead camshafts, 16 valves and variable valve timing (which Toyota calls VVTi), it develops a healthy 100 kilowatts of power at 6000rpm and 171 Newton-metres of torque at 4200rpm.
In five-speed manual form (there's also the option of a four-speed automatic), Toyota claims the engine is strong enough to push the new Corolla from standstill to 100kmh in 9.1 seconds.
The improved performance, however, hasn't come at the cost of fuel efficiency, with Toyota claiming an improvement of up to 21 percent, depending on the driving conditions. The new model is also efficient enough to be classified as a Low Emission Vehicle.
Ride and handling also benefit from some major suspension revisions. Up front, the familiar MacPherson strut system remains but has been improved by detail refinements and the addition of linear control valve shock absorbers, while the rear suspension is an all-new trailing torsion beam axle design that reduces weight and intrusion into the body.
Safety, meanwhile, has been improved across the board, thanks to a more rigid bodyshell (with the basics common to the Celica) and the availability for the first time of side airbags on upper models. The stronger bodyshell also contributes to a reduction in noise, vibration and harshness.
Despite the increase in body strength, kerb weight has been reduced by an average of 37kg across the range and up to 85kg on some models, which is no doubt a large contributor to the improved economy.
It's also a welcome change in an age when most new vehicles are bulking up. However, the weight reductions come largely as a result of a lighter engine, suspension system and transmission.
But if there's a sting in the tail with the new Corolla, it's the prices. The entry-level Ascent still sells just below the all-important $20,000 mark in sedan and hatch forms (the wagon lists for $21,390), but it misses out on many consumer-friendly features such as a CD player (hold on to your tapes), passenger airbag, power windows, remote central locking and air-conditioning (which is a $1640 option). Want automatic transmission? Then tick the box and be prepared to fork out another $1800.
However, the price-leading Ascent is planned to account for half of the estimated 30,000 Corolla sales next year. The hatch is expected to be the most popular body style, accounting for two-thirds of production.
Step up to the Conquest, which sells for $23,590 in sedan and hatch forms ($25,190, wagon), and you'll notice plenty more standard gear. It picks up power front windows, CD player, air-conditioning and remote central locking over the Ascent.
Next is the sporty-looking Levin, which is available only in hatch ($28,290) and wagon ($29,090) forms and picks up alloy wheels, front and rear spoilers, front passenger airbag, front side airbags, fog lights, power rear windows and anti-lock brakes.
The top-of-the-line Corolla is the automatic-only Ultima, which is available in sedan ($30,990) and hatch ($30,990) forms and picks up a six-stack CD sound system and more luxurious interior trim over the Levin, as well as optional satellite navigation – the first time such an option has been offered on a small car in Australia.
Go-fast Corolla
By Toby Hagon
Expect to see a more sporty entrant to the Corolla range by the end of next year. Toyota is gearing up to import a performance version of the Corolla – possibly to be badged Sportivo – from the company's plant in South Africa.
The faster Corolla will be an image leader and could get the more powerful 140kW engine from the Celica. That engine is itself based on the MR2's 1.8-litre variable valve timing powerplant, but adds variable lift control.
Toyota says it plans to offer a complete performance package for the Sportivo, a true performance variant, not the marketing-inspired Levin.


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