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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Democrats would hold a presidential debate next week in New Hampshire before the state's first-in-the-nation primary and three more in the spring under a tentative deal reached Saturday between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns.
CLINTON, Iowa (AP) - For Donald Trump, Iowa is more than just a race for delegates. It's a test of whether the celebrity businessman and political newcomer will be able to transform his record crowds into caucus-goers willing to brave the cold on Monday night to cast their votes.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - First there was the promise of political change in Barack Obama's historic 2008 election. Then the pledge to upend Washington's ways after the 2010 tea party wave.
BURNS, Ore. (AP) - About a dozen people paid their respects Sunday afternoon at a makeshift memorial that has sprung up where rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum was shot and killed by police last week on U.S. Highway 395 north of Burns.
BONITA (AP) - Neighbors in a well-to-do section of this San Diego suburb knew him as Frank Szeles, a friendly Cub Scouts leader who frequently gave swimming lessons to young children in his backyard pool.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An antiquities dealer who inspired tens of thousands to search the Rocky Mountains for $2 million in hidden treasure now leads an increasingly desperate mission to find one of his fans.
PLANO, Texas (AP) - Baseball players at a Dallas-area high school had a "fight club" in the batting cages, according to a school district investigation that also found that the team's coaches subjected players to demeaning comments.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama sought to showcase progress on his watch on closing the pay gap for women while keeping up the pressure on business, Congress and individuals to tackle an issue he said was still far from being solved.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Ammon Bundy and his followers made ample use of social media and videos to summon armed recruits to join their takeover of a wildlife refuge and to declare their readiness to stand their ground. Now federal authorities are using the occupiers' own words against them.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck won't be moved to an adult jail as he awaits a hearing to determine whether his case will be transferred to adult court, where he could face time behind bars, a judge ruled Friday.
SITKA, Alaska (AP) - Authorities arrested a fugitive convicted on drug and theft charges after finding him hiding this week in what they called an "elaborate tunnel system" dug underneath a trailer home in Alaska.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton's home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails that contained material requiring one of the highest levels of classification. The revelation comes three days before Clinton competes in the Iowa presidential caucuses.
NEW YORK (AP) - Poor Barbie. She had plastic surgery to become more socially acceptable. But a lot of her critics still don't like her.
NEW YORK (AP) - Basking in the fanfare over its all-day breakfast menu, McDonald's is pushing its operational limits by testing the addition of another morning favorite to the lineup: the McGriddle.
NEW YORK (AP) - A coffee with an edgy name and made by a small business is getting a commercial in Super Bowl 50.
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HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) - Even as authorities in rural southern Missouri dismiss the possibility that a transgender teenager's death was a hate crime, questions remain ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Federal contractors on Tuesday began building prototypes of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, hitting a milestone toward a ...
DENVER (AP) - The United States and Mexico have agreed to renew and expand a far-reaching conservation agreement that governs how they manage the overused Colorado ...
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Parking Construction
In effort to consistently provide well-maintained parking facilities, Parking and Transportation Services, together with Facilities Planning and Management, will be doing necessary repairs and maintenance throughout the summer in the structures and surface lots.
Project Locations
Lot 12 (Harper and Woodward): Lot 12 will be closed starting May 10, 2016 and is to be completely redone with new lighting, pavement, and parking equipment. Once it re-opens it will no longer be a free lot as it will help offset current and future parking needs of the Integrative Biological Sciences Building (IBio).
Lot 14 (Cass and Amsterdam): Lot 14 is a newly purchased lot and is not currently being used. The lot will be completely redone with new lighting, pavement and parking equipment. This lot will also help offset current and future parking needs of IBio and other activity in the north end of campus.
Lot 34 (Ferry and Woodward): Lot 34 will have the entry/exit drive lane repaired, grading and fence work done as well as expanding the lot South and West to help accommodate the new School of Social Work parking needs.
Lot 70 (Cass and Prentis): Lot 70 will close beginning Monday, May 16, 2016 in conjunction with the Midtown loop project. The entrance and exit approaches will be redone and upgraded. The lot is estimated to be closed 4-10 days.
Parking Structure #1: Work is planned to begin May 16, 2016, and is scheduled to be completed before fall classes begin in August. This year's major projects include structural concrete repairs, including hydro-demolition, and waterproofing work. All levels in bays 5 and 6 will be closed for the majority of the summer, as well as stair/elevator "B" and stair "E". Gate 1, the northeast vehicle entry/exit, will also be closed for construction staging.
Parking Structure #2: Work is planned to begin May 16, 2016, and is scheduled to be completed before fall classes begin in August. This year's project includes concrete patching repairs and waterproofing work in localized areas throughout the structure. An estimated 300 parking spaces will be closed for the majority of the summer. The East stair tower will also be closed for a portion of the summer (adjacent elevator to remain open).
Parking Structure #3: Work is planned to begin as early as May 9, 2016, and is scheduled to be completed toward the beginning of August. Localized concrete floor patching, will occur on nights and weekends. Normal parking operations and stair towers should be unaffected, however there may be some minor disruptions.
Parking Structure #4: Work is planned to begin as early as May 9, 2016, and is scheduled to be completed toward the end of July. Work includes stair repairs and waterproofing on elevator tower exteriors and roofs. One stair tower will be closed at a time through the end of July. The elevator tower will remain open for normal use and normal parking operations should be unaffected.
Parking Structure #5: Work is planned to begin May 16, 2016, and is scheduled to be completed before fall classes begin in August. We will be working on concrete and waterproofing repairs primarily on level 3. Levels 3 and 4 and portion of level 2 will be closed through mid-June, then localized parking space closures will occur for the remainder of summer. The northeast stair tower will be closed for a large portion of the summer, whereas the southwest stair tower and southeast elevator should not be affected. The Anthony Wayne vehicle entry and exit will also be closed for a portion of the summer in order to redo the existing deteriorating concrete.
Midtown Loop
Midtown Detroit, Inc. will begin renovations to complete the Midtown Loop Phase III project. This project will complete the decorative colored concrete sidewalk on the east side of Cass Avenue from Kirby to Putnam and the west side of Cass Avenue from Kirby to Canfield. Site fixtures include LED pedestrian lights, benches, bike racks, drinking fountains, and landscaping. Decorative Comerica Street lights will be installed from I-94 to Canfield. Additionally, bicycle lanes will be placed from Grand Boulevard to Lafayette, Lafayette to Washington, Washington to Jefferson, Jefferson to Bates.
For a map of ADA alternative routes across campus, click here.
Project Update July 29, 2016: The contractor will be pouring the sidewalk on the west portion of Cass, from Warren to the north, on August 2 and 3. The contractor will then begin sidewalk removal from the east side of Cass. Pedestrians will need to detour around the work.
Project Update January 22, 2016: The project is due to commence come spring, after the cold weather breaks.
Project Update August 13, 2015: Midtown Loop construction has commenced on the east side of Cass Ave., in the first two blocks south of Warren Ave. The area in front of Old Main and the Hillberry Theatre will be under construction until late September.
Project Update June 22, 2015: Construction begins on July 6, 2015 at the corner of Cass Ave. and Kirby. Construction will continue in a southerly direction over the next few months until the southern most limit, Canfield, is reached.
Student Center Building
Originally constructed in 1969, the Student Center Building has seen a drastic renovation this year. The renovation touched the basement through third floor to provide a completely new food court and dining area, new student activity and organizaiton facilities, and significantly improved retail and recreation options. The building footprint has been expanded by converting the exterior colonnade on Gullen Mall into interior space.
With the basement through third floor complete, the fifth and seventh floors are on the docket for renovation. The project will renovate the remaining open space on the fifth floor for the Office of Housing and Residential Life and create an Office of New Student Orientation. The seventh floor will be completely overhauled to better accommodate the faith-based groups of the Newman Catholic Center and the Baptist Student Union, as well as the Ombuds Office, all of which support students in their transition to college life. The seventh floor will also accommodate the new office of multi-cultural student engagement.
The project scope includes interior demolition, the removal of hazardous materials, and the construction of new partitions with improved sound attenuation. The finishes and furniture will be upgraded to provide a more inviting environment. Mechanical systems will be replaced to provide better temperature control thoughout the floors, and floor-wide fire suppression systems will be provided to bring both floors up to code. The electrical and technology infrastructure will be also be upgraded to meet the needs of the departments.
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Booth had a career-high three receptions for 21 yards and a touchdown in Saturday's 47-17 setback to Pittsburgh at Heinz Field.
Brown returned a kickoff 77 yards against the Panthers. In all, he averaged 40 yards on three kickoff returns. The senior also returned a punt for 6 yards before sitting out the second half with a sprained left ankle.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Having as main character to Michael Madsen (see full cast), this film directed by Joe Gawalis was premiered in theaters in 2015. The feature film "Memoirs from the Streets of New York" was produced in USA. You can watch Memoirs from the Streets of New York online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2015.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
Michael Madsen, Al Sapienza, Renoly Santiago, Joe D'Onofrio, Luis Antonio Ramos, Bret Hart, William DeMeo, Vinny Vella, Mikey Jay, Bryant Boon, Gerard Cordero, Dan Miragliotta, Courtenay Turner and Joe Antonacci.
Drama, Action, Criminal.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Joe Gawalis.
The original audio of Memoirs from the Streets of New York has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2015.
Screenplay written by Joe Gawalis.
Tim Reeves, Al Sapienza, Yaron Urbas, Joe Gawalis and Bruno Rosato.
This film was produced and / or financed by Cliffside Productions.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Memoirs from the Streets of New York has a duration of 100 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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text: I just had my p61A installed. It's a corner installation, and the way the room is currently layed out, we have the output of the blower facing the back of one of our couches, which is about 3' away. The height of the blower output is about an inch higher than the back of the couch. I had hoped that the hot air on a medium-ish blower setting would rise enough over that distance to where I wouldn't be impeding flow too much with the couch. It is not yet clear that this is the case. I have some experimenting to do to see how the overall reach of the stove is affected if I move the couch out of the way... but I was wondering if anyone had a rule of thumb or some experiences of their own to help set my expectations.


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ITS jokey title has the ring of one of the many slips of the tongue made by George W Bush during his first 100 days in office, but the newly formed "White House Strategery Group" is proof, if anyone still doubted it, that America's 43rd president is serious about power.
|President Bush: a series of recent polls put his approval rating in the low 60s
As Mr Bush prepares to celebrate the first landmark of his presidency with a lunch for members of Congress tomorrow, some of his senior staff have begun weekly brainstorming meetings to map out a strategy for the next 1,360 days of his first term of office - and, just as importantly, for winning a second term.
Keenly aware that his election victory last year was only wafer-thin, his team is determined to put him in a stronger position in 2004, and ensure that he is not pushed off course by the pressure of daily events. They are also determined that he keep faith with what has emerged as a fully fledged conservative agenda, which has delighted his Republican supporters but allowed Democrats to claim that he has broken faith with some of his election campaign rhetoric.
He has won cross-party support for a wide-ranging education reform bill, but, in the face of powerful opposition, has been forced to back down on a plan for "vouchers" for parents of children at failing schools. He infuriated environmentalists by scrapping a Clinton plan to cut maximum arsenic levels in drinking water, a move which was manna from heaven for his opponents.
His approval rating in a series of recent polls stood in the low 60s, better than Mr Clinton's at the same point in the electoral cycle and broadly the same as most other presidents. Americans are beginning to adjust to the style of the new presidency.
That means accepting, as most seem to, the apparently endless supply of peculiar sentences and mis-spoken words which has fuelled popular lists of "Bushisms" on internet websites and provides ample material for late-night comics. Mr Bush himself joked at a joint charitable fundraising event with his parents on Thursday: "Some people think my mom took up the cause of literacy out of a sense of guilt over my upbringing."
Mr Bush has a different approach to that of President Clinton. He surprised Americans by not turning up to greet the aircrew of the downed spy aircraft when they returned home from China, and provoked criticism for not intervening personally in the attempt to calm racial tensions in Cincinnati. He explained: "I do not believe in stepping on somebody else's story."
Unlike Mr Clinton, who seemed addicted to the capital, President Bush has spent only three weekends in Washington so far, preferring either the presidential retreat at Camp David or his newly built ranch at Crawford, Texas. Here, at his strikingly low-key single-floor home, he fishes for bass and enjoys the benefit of an environment-friendly heating system powered by hot rocks deep below ground.
He may have abandoned the Kyoto global warming treaty and supported oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but he is a personal practitioner of energy conservation.
Mr Bush is determined to keep faith with Republican activists; not only has he filled scores of top and middle-ranking posts with more conservatives than did Ronald Reagan, but he has taken decisions that have delighted his conservative base.
From his $1.6 trillion (£1.1 trillion) tax cut package, which Democrats at first opposed, he is now all but certain to get $1.4 trillion (£1 trillion) through Congress. He has begun tearing up regulations that hamper business, is moving stealthily to weaken trade unions, and is about to end the federal damages claim against the tobacco industry.
At home, he has won mostly good reviews for his handling of the spyplane stand-off with China, the subsequent announcement that America would act to defend Tawain, and for his forthright intention to press ahead with a national missile shield. If there is a discrepancy anywhere, it is between what Americans think of Mr Bush and the way he is seen internationally.
European leaders and their staffs still seem surprised to find a man who is on top of the subjects to be discussed, makes his points clearly without relying on briefing books, and has a clear sense of direction.
One hundred days is not much on which to judge how the next 1,360 will turn out, but, so far, Mr Bush is looking good - at least as far as governing America goes. The same may not be said of his ability to control his 20-year-old twin daughters whom he has been determined to keep out of the public eye.
Both girls grabbed headlines last week: Barbara for "shaking off" her police escort while travelling with friends to New York from Connecticut, and Jenna for being caught by police drinking alcohol under age.


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Genesis - Turning It On Again Trailer (2007)
"Genesis - Turning It On Again" 15 May 2007
This unique 3-DVD collection is the definitive critical overview of the work of Genesis. Taking the viewer on a journey from the band's early days through to the more recent past, the programs feature fascinating archive interviews with Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks and Michael Rutherford; also on hand to provide expert analysis of the music is a team of leading rock journalists and music industry insiders. And then there's the music – featured here are superb tracks from the ground breaking Gabriel era and the bands later years as a commercial super group, including I Know What I like (In Your Wardrobe), Supper's Ready, The Musical Box, In The Cage, The Knife, Turn It On Again and many more.
Watch the official Genesis - Turning It On Again 2007 trailer in HD below or find more Genesis - Turning It On Again videos on Vidimovie.


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Do you wish you could get luckier with women? It is now a proven scientific fact following 12 years of research that men who secrete more pheromones have better luck at picking up women. Women are naturally programmed to respond to male sex pheromones. If you have them in abundance you will be more attractive to women. Pheromones are like subconscious messengers that tell a women that you are a strong, fertile and healthy man. Women have a subconscious instinct to procreate which is activated by strong pheromones.
But listen guys, it's not just having lots of pheromones that matters. You see not all pheromones are attractive to women. Your pheromones transmit information to a woman about how fit and healthy you are. The fitter and healthier you are, the more likely a woman is to receive that message via your pheromones. So if you overweight and not in very fit physical shape guess what message you pheromones will be sending out! You're right, women will sense that about you from your pheromones and won't find you attractive. So the fitter and healthier you are, the more likely you are to smell better to a woman.
But don't despair guys if you are unfit because Nexus Pheromone cologne can really give you an edge. The guys at Nexus Pheromones have created a cologne by blending seven different human pheromone compounds. It has been specifically designed to mimic the pheromone scent secreted by men who women find fit, fertile and attractive. What's more is that they have concentrated this blend many times over to ensure that the effects are amplified enough that women will instantly respond sexually when the pheromones trigger their natural sexual instinct.
Have you noticed that some guys just seem to magnetically attract hot women even though they might be considered ugly or a total jerk? Why is that? It's like watching wasps being attracted to a jar of honey. I think you can probably guess that the answer is the guy's pheromones. What you are seeing in this situation is the guy's pheromones triggering the sexual instinct in the women that come into range of his pheromones. Not only is he giving off pheromones he is giving off the right kind of pheromones. The kind of pheromones that make women think he is fit, healthy and fertile. Sadly they don't seem to transmit that he's a total jerk! Women will sense this guy's pheromones and will become more sexually responsive and flirty with him.
Do you wish to be that guy? Minus the jerk bit obviously! There are two main reasons why men like you aren't releasing the types of pheromones that women find attractive.
- Social acceptance requires that we shower every day and that we dress in clean clothes and wear a nice smelling deodorant. Every time you get in a shower you are losing your own natural pheromones and every time you use deodorant you are masking them.
- Your current state of health can affect your ability to release enough pheromones. A poor diet and living a sedentary lifestyle can lead to poor pheromones.
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The thing I liked the best about Nexus Pheromones is the scientific research that has gone into developing the product. They've really taken notice of that 12 years of scientific research and used the information to formulate the best possible pheromone product. There are so many different pheromone colognes and many of them only contain as few as two or three different pheromones. Nexus Pheromones on the other hand contains seven and they are all listed below.
- Androstenone – A pheromone that sends signals of dominance that women find attractive.
- Alpha-androstenol – This is secreted in human sweat and is a powerful sex hormone that is both attractive to women and makes them feel comfortable with you.
- Androsterone – This pheromone make you seem more masculine to women and helps to elevate their mood when they are around you.
- Epiandrosterone – This pheromone will transmit that you are youthful
- Beta-androstenol – This is the icebreaker pheromone as it induces a feeling of friendliness in women and makes them more relaxed with you.
- Androstedienone – This one is known as the love pheromone as it alters a woman's mood and sexual responsiveness towards you. It makes you seem like a caring person and create a sense of intimacy and comfort.
- Androstanone – When combined with the previous pheromones this creates a powerful sense of masculinity.
You apply Nexus Pheromones using a single application to both your neck and chest which will last for 8-10 hours before needing to be reapplied. You can also wear it with an additional cologne if you have a favourite. That way you can have the effects of the pheromones with the scent of your choice.
You should be aware that any pheromone spray is going to be limited by the fact that they are only icebreakers that trigger the initial spark of attraction. Once you have broken the ice they aren't going to disguise the real you if you are not the type of guy that a woman wants to be with. So you still have a lot of work to do if you want to convince her that she should be spending her time with you.
But where Nexus Pheromones really excel is to make you more approachable to women and you will find that they will be far more likely to come up to chat to you and starting flirting. If you are a shy guy then you will likely find this to be a great confidence booster. Your new found confidence will put you more at ease and it will be easier to be yourself and for women to see the real you too. Nexus Pheromones can really take your success with women to a whole new level by turning the tables. You will start to see women begin to compete for your attention rather than you having to compete with other guys for the women.
With so many different pheromones available to choose from such as the #1 rated Pherazone, you should look for ones that offer a money back guarantee. Pheromones can be a bit hit and miss and some work for some guys that don't work so well for others. How effective they are can tend to vary between men as they all have different body chemistry that is interacting with the pheromones in the cologne. A money back guarantee is a good sign that it works for most men that use it. Nexus Pheromones offer a 67 day guarantee and you still get your money back after using the whole bottle if you aren't satisfied with the results.


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Forget Tillerson, Bolton Will Drive Foreign Policy
Kurt Nimmo
John Bolton will be deputy secretary of state. It was predicted he would be picked as secretary of state but that went to Rex Tillerson.
From ABC News on Monday:
A former diplomat and State Department veteran, Bolton will likely serve as an influential deputy to a possible secretary of state with far less foreign policy experience: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson.
That paragraph pretty much wraps it up. Bolton will be driving foreign policy. Tillerson is an oil man with no foreign policy experience.
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Then there is the status of John Bolton as the State Department's number-two, a prospect that would make realists the world over shiver in their boots. How much power will Tillerman delegate to the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who once marveled in the thought of the U.N. collapsing into nothingness? A more fundamental question is how Donald Trump, a man who railed against nation-building throughout his campaign, could even think about hiring Bolton in the first place — even mulling Bolton as the top dog at the State Department for more than a month.
Forget the United Nations. Bolton is a frontline neocon who wants war with Iran.
Bolton's ideas about Russia, however, may be a sticking point with his boss.
Tillerson is friendly with Vladimir Putin. He is involved in the Russian oil business. For Democrats, this association makes Tillerson a Russian dupe when in fact Tillerson is doing what businessmen do—conduct mutually beneficial business.
Now that Bolton has Tillerson's ear, the possibility of war and more mass murder increases.
I wrote shortly after the election:
Bolton writes the top concern for America on the foreign policy front are "the closely related threats of radical Islamic terrorism and the Middle East's spreading chaos."
This is followed by "nuclear proliferation" by Iran, a country that does not have a nuclear weapons program.
Trump may say he wants to make peace with Russia, but this is not on Bolton's agenda. "Vladimir Putin's Russia is on the prowl in Eastern Europe and the Middle East in ways unprecedented since the Cold War," he writes.


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Swimming Instructor Trailer (1978)
03 March 1978 Drama, Comedy 95 mins
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
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text: And now for something completely different! While the focus on v1.0.0 right now is good I wanted to spend a moment looking to the time beyond. I picked a topic close to my heart that has come up again and again and might make up one of the big features of v2.0.0. Let me start with a simple scope progression: Block - Chunk - Sector - (simulation) - Cluster (multi-node) - World - Universe (multi-world) - Metaverse (inter-server) Right now we just have the three in bold: blocks, the chunks that contain them, and the world that contains chunks. I think but am not sure if @msteiger started something sector-like for placing cities, please chime in if that's the case, I vaguely recall it coming up. Currently we have no collection type object between the world and the chunks in it. We can store world and chunk level entities (I think) and deal with "bigger" stuff than plain blocks that way, but we don't have a good way to handle multi-chunk objects or things that need to simulate something without being attached to live chunks. If Cities does sector-level stuff I'm guessing it would use a world entity of some sort? Over time we've discussed concepts that need something more, and even have had independent code for a few, like a climate simulator @Nym Traveel built ages ago. PlaTec is another similar example. Both just produce disconnected artifacts like height maps we'd then import into the game as a one-time event, their output remain static forever. I'd like to see (and correct me if I'm way off-based architecturally here) us expand the setup to support sectors or something like it (different name?). Goal would be to have a place to store and process sector-local data without needing a single chunk loaded, along with some more stuff I'll cover further down. A simple example would be cities that grow and connect to each other via trade routes. Better and more trade routes lead to faster growth, that happens even with no players around. On a new server/world creation you'd initialize a 3x3x3 grid of sectors, but for ease I'll pretend we're 2D and just imagine a flat 3x3 area. In a new phase of world gen that could be tied to @msteiger's new world preview in the UI you would: Create the sector storage and add the minimal amount of needed sectors Run some basic noise-based placement of the "city eggs" we've talked of in the past - each a single entity that lives in the sector storage with some basic generated information about the cities (location, name, size, etc) Run another basic step downstream of that (like how current facets can be chained) to let each city connect to a set/random number of neighbors. Cities already has roads like that. If a city is in an outlying sector near enough to the void outside, our normal approach with chunks would be to create the neighbors enough to start generating stuff, In this case we don't have much actual concrete content so can probably just say city x has y connections to void sector z and when that generates make the connections formal. Optionally simulate city development and trade routes in an accelerated way before starting the game (think Dwarf Fortress' world generation step with visual progress) Sector-level features would get the same per-game-loop chance to do whatever they want, although probably more rarely (every minute? Every 5? Every hour?) and they'd normally only have access to sector-level data on themselves and neighbors (and world if needed). During accelerated simulation it would run as fast as allowed to speed up progress. After the game starts you begin to generate appropriate chunks including turning the city eggs into actual cities made of plots, buildings, etc. The actual city generation will attach to the earlier sector-level data to check for needed stats like size of city. If you opted for an accelerated start the cities will have grown while in the egg state. The original starting state of city eggs was based on pure noise but now we've added a small layer of augmented data on top. As the game starts running normally the simulation of city growth continues to run in the sector layer, applying changes at the chunk and block layer (spawning new buildings when appropriate, sending out caravans) only if those chunks are loaded. If they're not the change is just done in sector data and queued for block-rasterization next time a player gets near When a player gets near enough to a sector void you: Create it in storage Do initial city egg placement based on original noise Hook up trade routes, checking with neighbor sectors that already said they expected x routes to the new sector Run the accelerated simulation based on world age, taking into account any queued events in neighbor sections (city x sent y caravans via trade route z with a large amount of red-dye based goods so those could be particularly common in the new city) Similar examples could be made for climate simulation - how does the temperature vary and impact crop growth through the seasons in some location? What if the player builds a giant mountain that blocks the warm wind from the equator? You can't have simulations take the changing world into account without somewhere to store that level of data. River simulation and weather are two more. But wait - we pretty much could do that already with world entities! We totally could. I think. It is just code and some storage somewhere above chunks. So why sectors? Long-term for aging servers and larger player counts we're going to hit performance issues from the sheer number of entities and things to track. Storing stuff at the world level is like global variables - use them sparingly! The real reason for sectors is helping split apart entity storage to where we can have entirely independent areas. If two players are 200 kilometers apart there's no reason they need to know about each other for local data. Just chat and some other limited stuff like that. Heck they might as well be in different worlds. Oh! I expect this would be a stepping stone to both multi-world and multi-node (wondered about those above in the scope statement?) as well as a new use of @Florian's Context architecture tweaks. I don't know how large sectors should be, but most likely they shouldn't all be independent from their neighbors. We might actually want to make that determination dynamically based on active player population and location. EVE Online does something similar with their server nodes. How many solar systems one node serves changes dynamically based on player population. If a large battle commences the affected node can throw off outlying systems that aren't involved to a different node and focus all resources on the battle. Our sectors could be akin to their solar systems, which admittedly are better isolated from each other (connected by stargates) than our large pieces of contiguous world. Maybe more accurately we'd group sectors together in clusters, like EVE has solar systems in constellations, and one of our nodes would run one or more clusters. Another theorized need I figure is that sectors wouldn't be adjacent with no overlap like chunks are currently, they would likely have a border a few chunks thick that both neighbor sectors would contain. That eases processing when entities (like players or creatures) are right on the edge between borders. Rather than switching what sector data is available each time a player crosses the line you'd stay in the one sector until you've walked a few chunks in. The system would need to be able to figure out what side is primary for some related entities. I'm less sure about that though, since a fight between a few players and/or creatures right on an edge might not need sector data. Not sure what would. But if you are on a cluster edge where two different server nodes are serving each side there might be some need to have all the intense data/processing happen primarily on just one node. But in that case maybe you would've just kept track of the sectors better and not split them between nodes in the first place? In any case we won't need multiple server nodes for quite some time. But I wanted to bring it up for future planning anyway since we still haven't split out gestalt-entity and could keep this in mind on that journey. Multi-world is maybe more interesting and less complicated. There you'd have a truer comparison to EVE as two whole worlds would have a nice separation like two solar systems in EVE. With some form of travel you'd be able to move between them, but you don't need both in the same entity store / Context. Something as simple as splitting two entity stores might be a huge win for taking advantage of threading on many-core servers. So in summary: Sectors would contain chunks, multiple sectors per world. Sectors can be used for data storage beyond chunks without making excessive world-level "globals" to allow for better world gen and simulation. Sector level data could be processed without any chunks live/loaded Sectors would likely be of a set size like 32x16x32 chunks (to take chunk height into account), but maybe other options are worthwhile for optimization reasons (even 2D sectors if you just care about the main world surface for one particular simulation type?). Maybe you don't need a lot of layers high up in the sky etc. Unsure here. World simulation could occur in an accelerated fashion during world setup/preview plus when a new sector is needed (it can catch up to current world time). Large scale systems like climate simulation would have a home independent of chunks and could be consulted by local systems for details as the world changes. Although in some cases like a finite world (flat "planet") you might want a climate sim at world level, then deal with impacts on biome at the sector level. A Cluster would be a dynamic selection of sectors that could be isolated from other clusters as far as entity storage / other storage / Context is concerned. They could run in parallel as long as they stay in time sync. Keeps down storage sizes and allows for better multi-threading on a single server. On saving / exiting you'd probably still "just" write stuff at a sector or even chunk level. A Node would be a single server machine that can be part of a multi-node game server. A node can run one or more clusters independently of other nodes, excepting some minimal overhead like staying in time sync, handling chat, logins, etc. You'd likely have a single master node or even a controller node of some sort. A World is simply all the sectors making up a planet, a dimension, or some other geographically separated concept. You could still have infinite worlds that keep growing forever as each would have its own coordinate system, chunk storage, etc. Current "global" scope, nothing bigger exists at the moment. A Universe would be the next "global" up from world in a future where we support multi-world. Could probably have more layers like solar system, but that doesn't seem important yet. A Metaverse is just silly, but if somebody really wanted inter-server teleportation they could probably make it work this way. It came up at some point. Forgive me for my almost certain architectural missteps or poor memory above. I'm sure I got some details wrong, so please help me correct them! At current I'm only really thinking about getting started brainstorming and maybe working on the sectors and simulation over the coming months (may make this another GSOC candidate). Something else to fill in those boring idle moments between working hard on v1.0.0 issues and opening presents!


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|Reviews for What Polly Did Next
| Falero lero lero chapter 3 . 6/5/2013
I like your story a bit
| Sanorace chapter 3 . 10/30/2012
Aww thats so cute! Well written, comfortable length, believable progression, good supporting characters. It really is a beautiful story.
| Corporal Maladict chapter 3 . 12/5/2010
This was at times sad, and at times very sweet. I love how you build up the romance with extraordinary patience. Nothing to complain about in this chapter at all. The conclusion was worthy of the story.
| Corporal Maladict chapter 2 . 11/27/2010
Laura shut up! I don't need to employ people to do my bragging for me! *headdesk* (Sorry, that was aimed at Imladviel, she's my official creepy internet stalker but I love her anyways)
Anyways about your story: It is lovely, and well written, and has some moments approaching true Pratchett language, which is a rare achievement indeed.
One small point I would like to point out, because I am a pointy kind of person: at this time, Polly should HAVE two swords. Jackrum sent her the two cutlasses in the parcel, with the book of names. She took them with her to war. So unless something happened to them (and in that case, it should be worth mentioning), Mal should ask 'where are your swords?'. Also, knowing the character of Polly, she would know a weapon she doesn't know how to use belongs to her enemy, so she would also be at least passable in using two swords.
This, of course, would play havoc with your plot and the sub-lieutenant's presence... however I am sure a skilled writer like you could get around it.
Or just ignore me. What do I know, I write Mal/Sally so I'm probably an abomination in my own right. *grin*
| Imladviel chapter 2 . 11/26/2010
This was beautiful. Just perfect. I cried a little.
Chapter 1 - Hedgehog song - that made me LOL. A friend of mine (rainbowregiment on livejournal, and as it happens, 'Corporal Maladict' on ...) - anyways, she got thrown out of a bar once for singing the Hedgehog song. In real life. I'm going to have to show this to her. *insane giggle*
I love how rich your language is. And Mal and Polly are sweet, and cute... Mal overdosed on coffee is just like I always imagined she would be.
| fledge chapter 2 . 10/9/2009
Thanks for the didication, it makes me proud.
A truly monstrous chapter here, worthy of the fandom.
So what you are saying is that both of them found it hard to adapt to the rules and customs of a society that treats women as inferior, if I understand you correctly. Moreover, and this is quite paradoxical, you seem to imply that in the army, where individuality is considered counter-productive to pretty much everything, they find the opportunities to fully realise who they are, and what emotions they have been hiding from each other and themselves. The imagery - in the open county, outside of barracks and towns - stresses the idea, imho, at least. "Would you have wanted to miss those stars?" seems to me to sum it all up in a nutshell: neither in the castle, nor the tavern, there is a chance to see any stars.
In addition, Mal's statement of how she saw herself for the first time is very touching. At last she can find it in herself to let her guard down. Things must be a hundred times more difficult for her than for any human. "She thinks too much, such girls are dangerous" - but while Cassius is dangerous to Caesar, Mal is dangerous to herself.
Of course, honour is a dangerous concept, too, depending on how you define it. (Aslan's words to Reepicheep come to mind...) But I guess it is something for Mal to cling to - at least as long as she does not find a more personal goal in her life [1].
What I'm quite sure about, though, is that she is very wrong in saying she has "no finer feeling, no empathy". She just has not found the courage to admit it to herself. And, hopefully, this story is going to show her finally doing exactly that [2].
Needless to say, extremely bautifully written once again, with only a minor slip-up here and there, just bound to happen in a long piece like this one. And the humour, even with a serious background like this, is exquisite, too. Not to mention the fact that you have out-footnoted TP by a long margin.
[1]Or existence, perhaps.
[2] Hint, hint...
| Part-Time Irish chapter 2 . 10/8/2009
I like this story. It's the first Discworld fic I read.
It's good.
| ComatosRoses chapter 2 . 10/8/2009
Oh wow. I don't even know where to begin, this was just so amazing. I haven't written a fan fiction review since I was 13 (and needless to say I'm a few years older now) and I was never planning on doing so again until I read this and saw that, at the time, there were only 4 reviews. I know that the Discworld category isn't exactly bustling with activity, but it seemed incredibly unfair. Reading your story I felt like you put time, effort, and emotion into it, which is something I don't find very often on this site. The cast is kept wonderfully in character (although I haven't read Monstrous Regiment in awhile, I feel like even if I read it tomorrow I'll feel the same way) and your writing style is stylish and flowing. I really hope to read more from you (though I probably won't review - I'm very lazy sometimes and not really bright when it comes to things like this.)
| CrayonMentality chapter 1 . 8/24/2009
This is pretty good, look forward to reading more! :)
| igbogal chapter 1 . 8/3/2009
This is an altogether lovely piece of work, from the lyrical and witty introduction (loved the part where 'the gods of the Discworld don't play well with others') to the tender reunion at the end. It was heartwarming to see these two stalwart women let their guard down long enough to find comfort and companionship in each other. Thanks a heap!
| A.A. Pessimal chapter 1 . 8/1/2009
This is good because it's realistic and conforms to the type of what women soldiers have routinely been expected to do, at least in the British Army.
From my own Army experience, I can tell you - although I suspect you may have done a little research - that women in the Atmy are routinely directed into rear-echelon jobs to do *exactly* the sort of regular administrative desk job that Polly has founds herself routed into.
It's not that long since the British Army ceased to segregate its women soldiers into a unit of their own - the Women's Royal Army Corps (no longer extant) which trained and directed women into anonymous rear-echelon and admin jobs, the idea being that every woman who could be placed in such a job freed up a male soldier to take a more active role nearer to the frontline.
I'd argue this is part of the long slow assimilation of women into the armed forces: they were only formally accepted into military service in the First World War so as to free up men for fighting roles, and fearsome restrictions were placed on what they could and couldn't so.
This was relaxed somewhat in World War Two - our current Queen, for instance, served as a vehicle driver and mechanic, an option unavailable in the previous war - but a woman could still not go anywhere near a fighting front except in very limited or desperate circumstances.
Even in my day (early 1980's) the best job available to a talented woman officer was as Asistant Adjutant to an infantry battallion - ie, she'd be an office manager with the rank of captain, processing all the paperwork. (ie, just like Polly). Occassionally you mght see a female acountant working in the Pay Corps, or a woman lawyer working with the Army Legal Dept. (Apparently, when the Church of England started ordaining women, Army regiments got the first female chaplains, but that was after my time).
I've heard it's been relaxed even more since then and women soldiers are being deployed to front-line units...
It would seem that the Borogravian Army is following this historical pattern of slowly, reluctantly, absorbing, containing, and restricting what women soldiers can and can't do, (I guess a vampire makes her own rules?) which gives your story that greater hint of realism! Well done!
Good luck with the epic - I've written one ("The Graduation Class") and while it's 95% complete and needs a bit of final tweaking, it was a bugger to write and I thought I'd never complete it. It got to 75,0 words in the end - short novel length! So put your eveneings free for the next three months to a year, depending on how fast you write... I'll be watching!
| fledge chapter 1 . 8/1/2009
A really beautiful and highly promising start - I am really looking forward to the epic dimensions you are announcing. I've never understood why those stupid girls went back to the stupid army; perhaps they'll learn a lesson in your story.
And Mal teaching Polly about the stars most certainly sounds intriguing...


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The Adelaide Crows believe an inside edge, rather than need for speed, is key to halting Greater Western Sydney's record AFL winning streak.
While most marvel at the Giants' flashy speed, the Crows have studied their knack of winning contested ball ahead of Saturday night's encounter at Adelaide Oval.
"Rather than speed, it's going to be the ability to win the ball at the contest and try and limit their ability to spread and run off us," Adelaide assistant coach David Teague told reporters on Friday.
"Their speed is enormous when they have got the ball. If we have got the ball, it's going to be our ability to move the ball quickly against them.
"We feel if we can win the ball and move the ball forward, we can test them out too. We have got some handy players forward of the ball that they have got to defend."
The Crows are highest-scoring team in the league and the Giants, on a club-best six-game winning streak, are second-highest.
GWS lost Tim Mohr (hamstring) and Matt Buntine (concussion), recalling Adam Tomlinson and Jack Steele for the night match.
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Brown's defensive speed is vital for the Crows, who Teague said were improving at covering the slick spread of opponents after being caught out in a loss to Geelong a fortnight ago.
"It is something we have focused on and we were a lot better last week," he said.
"The challenge this week is a different opposition .. but we need to make sure we can match them on the inside and then when the ball leaves, that we spread.
"We will go into the game playing our style. We believe that our best is good enough to beat GWS … we have got a strong belief that we can get the job done playing our way, our style and our brand."


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This week, the President began using the refrain "we can't wait" to push for passage of his jobs bills. I agree that we can't wait to empower job creators to bring down unemployment. The House of Representatives has been doing nothing that could be categorized as "waiting."
The House is actually the first to act on part of the President's jobs plan. This week, we passed repeal of a 3 percent withholding requirement on certain payments made to contractors doing business with federal, state, and local governments. The President actually issued an official Statement of Administration Policy supporting the bill.
In 2006, the withholding provision was created as part of a larger tax bill. The intention was to keep part of a government payment until it was assured that a contractor had paid all of their taxes. While it certainly is only right that government contractors pay what they owe, the withholding provision was not the best way to make this happen.
If the provision goes into effect, businesses would be deprived of the resources they need to hire and complete the work. Also, state and local governments would be burdened with new administrative costs trying to ensure compliance. Right now, the withholding rule is set to take effect in 2013. Both the President and House Republicans agree that it should never go into force.
Right now, we're waiting on the Senate to take action. The other chamber voted on a similar bill last week. While it received full support of Republicans and some moderate Democrats, it fell three votes short of the 60 needed for passage. In the House, our bill passed 405-16. I hope that the overwhelming response of our chamber will convince the Senate to give the bill another chance.
This piece of the President's jobs plan isn't the only thing waiting in the Senate. Since the beginning of the year, House Republicans have been passing bills to protect and create private sector jobs. Right now, there are 15 waiting in line.
None of these bills are baldly partisan. They each passed the House with at least some bipartisan support.
H.R. 872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act, reduces overlapping and unnecessary regulations on pesticides. It passed the House on March 31 with support from every Republican and 57 Democrats. That's more that one-quarter of Democrats in the House. If just one out of four Senate Democrats support this bill, it would pass with 63 votes.
H.R. 1938, the North American-Made Energy Security Act, directs the U.S. State Department to issue a timely ruling on the construction of a new pipeline between the U.S. and Canada. This pipeline could create thousands of jobs during construction and would supply oil from our friendly northern neighbor for decades. The bill again received overwhelming bipartisan support, passing 279-147.
H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act, alleviates the regulatory burden of the EPA's new Boiler MACT rule. This rule could cost the economy more than $14 billion and 224,000 jobs. The bill passed with 41 Democrats supporting, 275-142.
There are 12 other bills just like these, passed by the House and waiting in the Senate.
Why do we need these bills? The U.S. is falling behind in important measures of ease of starting and running a business. The World Bank recently released its "Doing Business" report of conditions around the world.
While the U.S. was ranked fourth in the world overall, some of the individual measures used to make the broader ranking show a disconcerting trend. In the "ease of starting a business" category, the U.S. is ranked 13th in the world. Just four years ago, we were third.
The vast majority of new businesses are small ventures. These small businesses account for the majority of job growth--65 percent of new jobs created in the last 17 years.
We have to stop making it harder for businesses large and small to create jobs. While there are lots of things Republicans and Democrats disagree on, we all want to see new jobs created. The actions of the House this week, and throughout the year prove that we can work together.
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Cross connected multilevel voltage source inverter topologies for medium voltage applications
Multilevel voltage source inverters where first introduced in the early 1980s. Since then, they have been continuously developed, offering a wide new research area in power electronics. The popularity of multilevel solutions come from the advantages that they offer: improved output quality, voltage sharing in high voltage applications, increased power density or reduction of filtering costs. Two completely new and innovative cross-connected topological families for advanced multilevel voltage source inverters are introduced in this thesis. The motivation for this work stems out from the need to generate multiple output levels while keeping the reliability as high as possible. The offered solutions are able to address the problematic, but of course they do not come without a price: A higher control complexity and more semiconductor blocking voltage capability are necessary in the design of such advanced converters. The Cross Connected Intermediate Level (CCIL) Voltage Source Inverter is the first of the two new topologies presented here. It is built as a cascade of stages using capacitors which are connected to each other by means of cross connected cell structures. The CCIL can be used in several configurations, like redundant or non-redundant switching state configurations for instance. A graphical model based on the physical properties of the inverter is proposed and an original fuzzy logic controller is designed for the balancing of the capacitor voltages and modulation of the inverter. The control algorithm is implemented and verified in simulations. The results are used to benchmark the topology against standard solutions and the conclusions are used to define what applications could benefit from such a converter structure. The Common Cross Connected Stage (CCCS) Voltage Source Inverter is the second original contribution of this work in terms of topology. It is built using the cross connected stage and its capacitor in a common configuration for the three phases of the inverter. Such a design allows to use only one stage per three phases. Because of the intrinsic three phased properties of this topology, a model based on space phasor representation is introduced. With the help of this model, a novel space phasor modulation strategy is derived and proposed. It allows to generate the three phased output voltages while using the available redundancies for balancing of the capacitor voltages. The resulting algorithm is first implemented and tested in simulation, and in a second step a test setup is built and the modulator is coded in VHDL. The simulation and experimental results obtained validate the topology and control concepts. A benchmarking of the CCCS solution is also done to understand what are the benefits and drawbacks of this solution. Analysis and comparison of the new topologies allow to evaluate in an objective way the contributions brought by this work. It is found that the newly proposed solutions cover an area of multilevel inverters where not so many solutions were available prior to this work: Generation of multiple output levels with reduced number of passive and active components (thus increasing the reliability). The drawback is a higher blocking voltage requirement. Conclusions and case study are proposed to help assess the expected performances and choose the most suitable solutions for given applications.
Keywords: DC-AC voltage source inverter ; multilevel converter ; cross connected ; phase capacitors ; medium voltage ; harmonic distortion ; power density ; topology ; convertisseur de tension DC-AC ; onduleur multiniveaux ; cross connected ; capacités de phase ; moyenne tension ; distortion harmonique ; densité de puissance ; topologieThèse École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 4162 (2008)
Programme doctoral Energie
Faculté des sciences et techniques de l'ingénieur
Institut de génie électrique et électronique
Laboratoire d'électronique industrielle
Prix Asea Brown Boveri Ltd (ABB), 2009
Record created on 2008-06-05, modified on 2017-05-10


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May 8, 2008
American liberals have to be frustrated by the rebirth of European conservatism. America's liberal press hopes to perpetuate the myth of a solidly social democratic Europe by ignoring this transformation of European voter preference—at least until after the U.S. presidential election. So then, who will share this good news with the American electorate that despite liberal denial, conservatism is alive and well in Europe? It's up to the new media, and time is of the essence.
Newsweek recently chose to address this inconvenient and unfathomable truth by publishing an anti-conservative tirade by the Honourable Denis MacShane, British Labour Party MP, and admitted Europe worshipper. The title to MacShane's article says it all: "The Right-Wing Resurrection: Conservatives rule almost all of Europe. What they will do with all their power is an open question." MacShane opines, "Today's conservatives running Europe have plenty of ministerial limousines, but they have no leaders, thinkers or philosophies." What they do have, MP MacShane, are the voters.
Could it be that European voters are just as "bitter" as Americans about energy and food prices, open borders, radical Islam, the threat of terrorism and other issues that Barack Obama dismisses as "wedge" issues? Could it be that "bitter" Europeans are clinging to "wedge" issues because governments run by social democrats or democratic socialists have failed the European voters? This is a conclusion that the old media will never even consider.
The Europeans, although steeped in big government, are today not buying the liberal solution. Yet, if asked, most American voters would probably think that Europe is populated by, and governed by, liberals – and that America is headed in that direction. While the stories of conservative landslides across the continent are truly astonishing, they are simply trees falling in the forest for now. The new media has its work to do, but there is no lack of cannon fodder.
The New York Times characterized the May 1, 2008 election of Conservative Boris Johnson as Mayor of London as, "… a sure sign of a deep national weariness with the Labor government. London has been resolutely Labor in recent years, and its loss is a bitter blow to the national party." Perhaps not surprisingly, The Times completely omits any discussion of why London voters are weary with Labour.
One glaring reason for the ouster of Mayor Livingstone was his unwillingness (or inability) to push back against anti-democratic demands of the Islamic separatists, such as demands for Sharia law jurisdiction. Call this a "wedge" issue if you like, but Londoners had endured enough of Livingstone's pandering. Conservative MP Paul Goodman gets it right in his congratulatory post entitled "Boris Johnson defeated Islamic extremists as well as Ken Livingstone." MP Goodman gives us an inside look at how Livingston tried to paint Johnson as an Islamophobe, and how it backfired.
Nor are British voters keen on Labour Party Prime Minister Gordon Brown who is in a political free fall with daily calls for his resignation (from members of his own party). National elections are scheduled before 2010, maybe even this year or early 2009. The Conservatives are salivating.
These are not random and isolated conservative gains. 71-year-old Conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has recently unveiled his new conservative government appointing what is regarded as the "most right-wing cabinets since World War Two." The Italian voters must not think he is too old or too conservative to lead.
So, whether it is conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, re-elected in Greece, or German conservative Angela Merkel, replacing a former liberal leader, Schroder, the conservative movement is spreading like a wild-fire in Europe. And, contrary to what the Democrats and liberal media would have American voters believe about President Bush's lack of popularity in Europe, Germany's Angela Merkel has embraced the Bush missile defense shield at the risk of being accused of the "Americanization" of German foreign policy.
Europeans are sending Americans a message that the big government, social policies do not work, and that wedge issues are real issues. Those Americans who are paying attention to the conservative gains in Europe are encouraged, if not elated. If American voters hear the truth about Europe, they will be, too.
Freedom lovers of the world—unite!
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This 740 is a 5 speed manual, which completely changes the car's personality, it drives in a much more spirited way than the lazy 4 speed auto, which I used to own. Nevertheless, you will find it very hard to find a genuine 5 speed around. The few manuals that do exist tend to be 4 speed plus overdrive - very 1970s.
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Lovely, as the leather in mine is in good condition. Visibility is great. The turning circle is marvelous.
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I use Precision Automotive in Alexandria and they are very reasonable. Providing nothing major goes wrong, normal servicing is the same price as any other similar 4cyl car. My 5 speed manual does 8.5L/100km on the open road. With it's 90L tank, I can get to Byron Bay without filling along the way - fantastic. The automatics use more, but they are OK.
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While I know they were built well, these cars are now 20 years old - so I doubt they stack up against modern cars with crumple-zones, air-bags, stability control, ABS etc. Nevertheless, I think the overall slow and steady driving style keeps most 740 drivers out of trouble. People will keep out of your way too!
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