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That's why i think that Madam has different goals....maybe she is Amber's messenger, since she know so much things, which i doubt....To me her role in this anime is unknown @_@
But i'm sure in one thing: She is a BAD guy
|2009-12-08, 17:03
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Production staff of remaining 3 episodes were revealed.
Unlike earlier episodes of S2, most names are same with S1 (You can check it in the ANN site). One notable exception is Okada Mari, a female writer, who will write the next episode. Well... we will see. Okamura Tensai, the series director, will do the storyboard job for the episode, so it must not be horribly bad. Anyway, it looks like she was introduced to describe Suou's development, so the next episode is likely to be largely about Suou's change after she got to know her secret (and was rejected by the woman who she has believed to be her mom).
ps. As for the rumor I posted, please don't regard it too seriously. Yes, it's plausible (especially the Shion part), which is the reason why I posted it here. But a rumor is a rumor until proven! So let's wait and see whether Suou will get mad and wield her gun randomly in the next episode.
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Location: Germany
Theorie about Madame Oreille
I think that they have pretty much the same apperance. They have the same hair colour, eyes colour, violet (not sure which colour this is in English) make up and the presence of a Vamp. You know what I mean?
Here are two comparison screens I made.
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Both had contact with Amber and therefore the knowledge about the incidents. Furthermore, both seem to be American: Brita infiltrated the American embassy and Oreille is a agent of CIA. And the last evidence is that Oreille seems to be able to appear and disappear where and whenever she wants. And what kind of ability make you be able to to do this? Only time control or teleport. The age and the character (cold and calculating) would fit aswell.
But a point that does not fit is the question about the clothes. Why the hell are they not left behind?
Well, this is only a theorie. Let me know what you think about it. ^^
It could be that these similarities are just coincidences, but this would not be typical of Bones, because as we know in almost everything in the DTB story is bound together.
PS: This is my first post ever in English, I hope it is understandable. ^^
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If the PTRD (or something..the gun that Shion used to shot Tanya) was a product of Shion's ability..noticed that there's a difference between the real gun that was used by Suou and the gun that was used by Shion. Maybe that's the limitation of his ability..he can't copy anything perfectly.
I hope.
|2009-12-14, 08:42
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Although I still have a doubt on Shion's true gender, it looks like the rumor I posted was completely untrue.
Hm... Anyway, Suou's identity was revealed, so Shion's ability and objectives become main concern now. There are rumors, but I couldn't find an intersting one except this. Shion cannot only clone human body, but also copy and reproduce other things such as whale (ep10) and folded-paper crane (ep01). What about if he/she wants to copy and reproduce the Gate? This is a rumour hanging around at the moment.
However... whatever happens in next episodes, the conclusion of this season will be likely to be "a fangirl saved the world!", unfortunately.
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I thought he was going to copy Yin..with all that "don't let Izanagi and Izanami to meet" stuffs been going on. Reproducing the gates throughout the world might bring a new phenomone and create a new being, just like in the prophecy...perhaps ?
Hm, we're short for 1 episode and I can't wait to watch it ;_;
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I assume they are going to air it first, then release the DVD (will only make it later) afterwards. Still need something new to air on your average Saturday since they already have Durarara on the list.
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Erm, where are you guys getting this news about airing DtB II on tv from? As far as I know, the first season never was and the date in that trailer if the for DVD/BR combo release. Also, Funi doesn't own Durarara (that would be Aniplex) nor do they have any control over Adult Swim (the channel where DRRR airs) which doesn't air much anime these days anyway.
It's just the DVDs/BRs of the second season+OVAs folks, nothing strange and nothing we haven't seen before.
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As I took a few minutes last night to browse through some of my 2009 pictures, I was struck by the many ups and downs my family and most likely yours have experienced over the last twelve months. It made me realize how present God is with us even though He can't be physically seen. Uh oh! I'm getting all reflective up in here!
2009 at a glance:
- A friend called to offer us a family trip to Hawaii
- I was diagnosed with Melanoma, minor surgery, given the all clear!
- Lots of family time
- Helped people in the community
- Trip to Catalina Island and Mount Hermon
- Swine flu for all
- Pneumonia for Beach Bunny and Big Surf
- Got my first big girl camera
- Beach Bunny home one year
- Spent hours on the soccer, baseball and football fields
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NEWARK, N.J. -- Ilya Kovalchuk and the New Jersey Devils have thrived in shootouts, and that is why they are staying in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race.
David Clarkson scored the tying goal for New Jersey in the final minute of regulation, and Kovalchuk netted the only goal in the shootout as the Devils snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday.
Kovalchuk had the first attempt in the shootout and beat New York backup Martin Biron between the pads. That was enough to give the Devils a 9-2 mark in the tiebreaker.
Martin Brodeur preserved the win by stopping all three Rangers shooters: Derek Stepan, Brad Richards and All-Star MVP Marian Gaborik.
Kovalchuk improved to 8 of 9 in shootouts and credited Brodeur and backup goalie Johan Hedberg with helping keep him sharp.
"When you practice with Marty and Moose [Hedberg], I ask their opinions," Kovalchuk said. "They give me a couple of secrets about what angle I should take, and I listen."
The Devils feel confident when they enter a shootout.
"When Kovy goes down and scores practically every time, that first goal on the first shot, the stats say that the team to get the first goal usually wins," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said. "That's always a big boost. Whenever Marty's in net, you have a chance to do what he did tonight -- shut out the other team."
Kovalchuk and Zach Parise also scored in regulation for the Devils, who trailed 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2. Brodeur made 23 saves.
Anton Stralman, Brian Boyle and Michael Del Zotto had the Rangers' goals. Biron made 26 stops.
The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers. It was the first game for both teams following the NHL All-Star break.
It was a crucial win for the Devils, who are fighting to stay above the postseason cutoff.
"We've got a tough road ahead, and we've got to beat good teams in order to get in the playoffs," DeBoer said. "This was a big one."
Biron got the start for the Rangers over All-Star Henrik Lundqvist, who had a rare night off against the Devils. Lundqvist, who had made 32 consecutive starts against New Jersey, is expected to play Wednesday night when the Rangers take on the Sabres in Buffalo.
The first period started as a tight-checking affair with few scoring chances. Play opened up when the Rangers buzzed the Devils end with three minutes remaining following a turnover by the New Jersey defense. Brodeur scrambled in his crease to keep the game scoreless.
That sequence shifted momentum to New York, and the Rangers cashed in with 32.9 seconds remaining in the period. Gaborik fired a shot off a right-wing rush that hit Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov. Brodeur made a skate save, but couldn't prevent Stralman from knocking in the rebound from deep in the left circle for his second of the season.
Parise pulled the Devils even at 8:20 of the second with an extra-effort goal. Using Rangers defenseman Stu Bickel as a screen, Parise fired a shot from the top of the left circle that Biron stopped. Parise outsprinted Bickel to the rebound and beat Biron from a sharp angle.
Gaborik tested Brodeur with a shot from the top of the left circle late in the period, but the goalie came up big and kept the Devils in a 1-1 tie heading into the third period.
Biron stopped Kovalchuk early in third on a short-handed breakaway, and the stop was important because the Rangers took the lead again on Boyle's goal.
Bickel fired a shot from the right point that Brodeur stopped. Boyle pounced on the rebound and dragged the puck across the slot before flipping it in at 2:37 for his fourth goal.
Kovalchuk pulled New Jersey even 2-2 with a power-play tally at 16:01 for his team-leading 20th goal.
Del Zotto, set up nicely by Gaborik, gave the Rangers their third lead 36 seconds later. That appeared to be the game-winner, but Clarkson tied it again with 47.6 seconds left.
Andy Greene hammered the puck into the Rangers zone with Brodeur on the bench for an extra attacker. The puck bounced off the end boards into the slot, and Clarkson fired it in.
"A lucky bounce," Biron said.
Rangers coach John Tortorella agreed, chalking it up as one bad break.
"We were in total control," he said. "Then we get a bad bounce. I liked our game. We played good. We'll take the point and go on to Buffalo."
In overtime, Derek Stepan came very close to tucking the winner past Brodeur with under 2 minutes left.
- The teams will play five more times from now until March 19, including a meeting next Tuesday in New York.
- Greene returned after missing 22 games because of a fractured toe.
- Lundqvist hadn't missed a start against the Devils since Dec. 17, 2006. "We talked about this prior to the All-Star Game, that we were going to go this way," Tortorella said of his decision to play Biron.


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ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican judge has ordered six men detained in the rape of six Spanish tourists in Acapulco to stand trial, saying prosecutors have presented sufficient evidence to try the defendants.
Judge Victor Arellano hasn't released the names of the defendants, saying he wants to respect "the principle of presumption of innocence."
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BE: So, Pennsylvania Republicans must be pretty distraught and looking for ways to change their ways.
JB: You'd think so. They lost the presidency, a shot at a Senate seat and all three state row offices.
BE: But they're not distraught?
JB: Well, no. They still control both chambers of the Legislature and the governor's office.
BE: Yeah but surely Tuesday's results bode ill for the GOP future. Surely they're looking to revamp their direction and policies to recapture the Philly burbs again. Surely they're rethinking hard-line positions on budget cuts, immigration, voter ID, the female vote, guns, gays...
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BE: But city turnout was about 60%.
JB: I'm just telling you was he said he was told. And, trust me, other GOPers are saying similar things less publicly, and a little more graphically.
BE: But they also lost Bucks, Montco and Delaware counties. Shouldn't they be rethinking stuff?
JB: They already have. It's called voter ID and redistricting. Both issues got tied up in court this time but GOP thinking put them in play and GOPers say they'll be in place come next election: new district lines more favorable to Republicans, and a new ID law to help keep down that "questionable" Philly vote.
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Curated by Raffaella Guidobono, Detour is both a visual and tactile experience. As in the digital version of the exhibit, the public has the opportunity to leaf through the notebooks -- wearing special cotton gloves -- to follow the artist's creative process as it unfolds, one page after another. Director Mike Figgis fills a notebook with notes written on little pieces of paper, old photographs and clippings from his films. The notebook of Maira Kalman is marked by 7 pairs of shoes, as if to tell the story of a slow walk on tiptoe. Abigail Hunt retraces the long path of the Thames on accordion-folded pages. Sketches in pencil and highlighter, portraits of women, furniture designs and objects fill the notebook of Karim Rashid. The many different notebooks on display include, in particular, those by Giuseppe Amato, Ron Arad, Martí Guixé, Yves Behar, Ross Lovegrove, Antonio Marras, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Karim Said, Valerio Berruti, Giovanni Sollima, Zhang Yuan and many more.
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Ron Fowler described the O'Malley-Seidler family as the primary owner and said he's the control owner. As such, Fowler will represent the team to MLB. Fowler gave no percentage breakdowns of ownership positions. A reporter asked for percentages from Peter Seidler, a nephew of Peter O'Malley and spokesman for the O'Malley-Seidler family. Seidler holds one degree in finance, another in business administration. He oversees an investment firm worth about $1.5 billion. His response:
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In the Padres' press release, eight additional members were listed within ownership: Rick Barry, Glenn Doshay, Alexis Fowler, Patrick Graham, Alfredo Harp Helu, Harvey Jabara, Lee Ross and Wayne Seltzer.
Seisler said he expects Phil Mickelson to join the group in two weeks, which, by my count, will raise the count to 14 people who either own or will own shares in the Padres.
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text: Student Profiles Curtis Bateman '05 Curtis Bateman '05 Hometown: Auburn, Maine Major: Classics (with a concentration in Archaeology) Why did you come to Bowdoin? I originally thought I'd go out of state somewhere, and I didn't want to go to Bowdoin in particular because it was close [to where I live] and I had driven by it so many times. But I had never actually been on campus until my senior year in high school. When I finally came on campus, I stood on the quad - I had never really seen it before - and I looked around, and I turned to my parents and said, "I have to come here." I looked around at other schools, and they were nice, but I didn't feel a certain something. The first day I was here I had to come. But I slowly began to realize that it has one of the best archaeology programs on the East Coast for undergraduate schools. The museum is great - it was the first college museum built in America. I knew as a senior in high school that [the museum] would be a good asset because there would be a lot of opportunities to study archaeology if they had the actual stuff there. How did you decide on your major? I've wanted to be an archaeology major since I was six or seven years old. I saw Indiana Jones for the first time in kindergarten, and I fell in love. In grade school, whenever we had to write creative stories, I always did Indiana Jones. I was always Indy for Halloween. And then in high school, I always loved the ancient history courses - we didn't have that many, but the ones we did have I was thrilled about. And when college came I said, "Now I can actually get a major in archaeology." So basically, Indiana Jones is the reason why. Ever since I was little, I've wanted to study archaeology, and it is fascinating - it hasn't gotten boring at all. You're always learning new stuff. There are so many ancient cultures. The more I study it, the more I appreciate it. Seeing how things a thousand or two thousand or three thousand years ago still have effects today - that's what amazes me. All these people have done so much work thousands of years ago and archaeology gives it that sense of purpose. Do you have any special talents? Before senior year in high school, I went to a speech camp, and I told my coach that I wanted to do Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the first Star Wars movie, because I loved it so much, and I do some of the voices pretty well. So we took the 180-page script and condensed it to eight pages - we took a two and a half hour film and condensed that to ten minutes. So I did 16 different scenes, on five planets, in 22 voices - and each one was very distinct. I won every speech tournament in Maine and I got to go to the national competition in New York City. I finished in the top 100 in the country. When I came to Bowdoin, I went on a Pre-Orientation trip, and as an icebreaker, our trip leader asked, "Anyone have any talents?" So I said, "Yeah, I can do a lot of voices." Even though Star Wars is kind of nerdy sometimes, when people hear Jar Jar Binks or Yoda or Darth Vader, they get lit up. Their inner sci-fi being comes out. So I entertained my little group and my troupe leader said, "We're going to bring you to all the other groups." So I said, "Sure!" We went around to about four other groups and they had me sit in front of them and I did voices. People would shout out names of people they wanted to hear, and by the end, Pete Durning ['05], who's one of my best friends now, he literally thought I was a hired entertainer, not a student. What extracurriculars do you participate in? I'm a member of the Bowdoin College Democrats. I'm not an officer, so I'm not heavily involved, but I'm pretty involved. We went to go see John Edwards speak, and we're helping out, volunteering, calling people, and for the election we [drove] people to the polls. I'm in Masque and Gown, the drama group. I've been in three one-acts. I love one-acts because it's a small cast and you can really get into your role. There's not a lot of pressure, and the audience really appreciates it. It's not an overblown thing, it's just three or four people on stage. I really enjoy that and I've made some good friends through drama. I'm also a member of the Young Alumni Leadership Program (YALP) and the Recycling Club (which you may not be familiar with, since we like to keep it pretty secret). What is your best Bowdoin memory? Well, I'm a huge Star Wars fanatic. When I came here, a lot of my classmates knew about it, but some of them didn't really know about it, like the real in-depth story. And some of them had never seen the movie. So my whole freshman quad came together, and we watched the movies because we all appreciated them. That was a common thread [among us], that we were all fans. I don't know all the technical stuff, but I love the archaeology behind it - the myths and the history behind it. I also organized trips for us Ladd House members and our affiliates to see The Two Towers, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and Return of the King. Several of us from Ladd would go to the theater about two hours early and stand in line. We'd even bring food since we'd be there for so long - we even brought UNO cards to pass the time! Once in the theater, we'd take up about two rows. [Those trips] were great times and they were all topped off with Return of the King. For the last hour of that movie I was crying like I had never cried before. The movie was so beautiful! I even screamed out loud when Aragon rushed the field with the Army of the Dead, and everyone screamed with me. I was in such a sad shape afterwards that my friend Pete had to drive my car - I just couldn't take it. Those were the best times, because we all came together to enjoy something that was part of history, that was epic, and that we all truly appreciated. I've had a blast here, and it's hard to pinpoint a favorite memory. What's been your favorite class at Bowdoin? My favorite class was Pagans and Christians taught by Professor James Higgenbotham [of the Classics Department], who's the best professor on campus. The way Higgenbotham teaches, it's a lecture, there are slides behind him, and every five minutes, he'll change the slide and he'll talk about it. All he does is talk about it. You never ask questions - even though he wants you to, he loves it - because you don't want to interrupt him. The way he says his lecture is like a story - it's beautiful, and sometimes you just forget to write things down. You just drop everything and you look at him and listen. He's the most patient man I've ever met. He's so smart, he knows every language. He knows how to joke and how to make archaeology funny, and that's why his classes are always full. There's never an empty seat. It's still a fact that one third of each graduating class has taken one of his courses. He makes you want to study, he makes you want to learn. Pagans and Christians - that was the height of Rome, so that was my passion, we studied all the best stuff of the period. What are your plans after graduation? Well, I took my GREs, and I've sent out a lot of letters to graduate schools that offer programs in archaeology, so I still want to keep up with it. There's not many career paths for an archaeologist - there's being a professor, doing government work (as an engineering consultant), or working at museums, and I think museums is where I want to be. I love getting in front of crowds and I love class lessons and presentations, so professorship may be something I'd be interested in, but with a museum, you can prepare an exhibit and you can make it accessible to an audience. You love the subject so much that you want so many people to enjoy it, too, so you want to present it in a way that's enjoyable. A career in museums, maybe curating, dealing with the actual objects all the time, that kind of fits my interest. I'll bring a new edge to it, bring some humor to it. Is there anything else about Bowdoin or your experiences here that you'd like prospective students to know? Get involved. Those two words, they can do so much for you. Do intramural sports or get involved in drama or a political group or the audiovisual club or whatever fits your interest. Go to coffeehouses and read stories and write poems, and if you can play an instrument, write a song or something. There are so many opportunities every weekend where Bowdoin loves to come together and celebrate any talent people have. Just come with your gifts, and we'll appreciate you. Getting involved gets you out of your room and out of the classroom. It introduces you to so many different people. College is your chance to diversify yourself and meet other people from other parts of the country and the world - the only way to do that really is to get involved. Story posted on November 03, 2004 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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After surrendering a seven-goal lead in a loss to South River in last year's state championship, the Westminster boys lacrosse team vowed to return to the final game this season.
The No. 8 Owls will do that with a chance to finish with a perfect record.
A dominating offensive performance in Saturday's Class 4A-3A state semifinal against Winston Churchill assured the return trip for the Owls, who scored the first 11 goals in the second half against the Bulldogs, from Montgomery County, to pull away for a 23-9 win at Franklin.
Ryan Drenner (six goals, three assists) led the Owls (18-0) offensively, while CJNichols scored five goals. Ryan Hursey added two goals and two assists for Westminster, and Nick McDonough had two goals and two assists.
Westminster gets the chance to avenge last year's 10-8 loss to defending Class4A-3A state champion South River, which advanced with a 15-6 win over Howard in Saturday's other semifinal. The state title game will take place 8 p.m. Wednesday at UMBC.
"Since that game ended last year, it's never left my mind — every game, every practice, every time I work out, I always think about that game," said Drenner, who scored the first two goals in the third quarter to quickly increase the Owls' lead to 11-8 on Saturday. "South River is a great team. I'd love to get some revenge on them. They have serious ballers on their team, so we're going to have to do our thing."
The Owls came into Saturday averaging more than 16 goals per game, and Churchill (15-2) did everything it could to keep up in the first half.
But the Westminster defense buckled down on Bulldogs standout Matt Leonard — he scored all six of his goals in the first half — and the Owls put on an impressive display on attack to coast to a second straight appearance in the championship game as they seek the program's first title.
No. 10 South River 15, Howard 6: South River boys lacrosse coach Paul Noone's plan is simple — attack the opposition in waves.
The fresh legs kept coming as 12 Seahawks scored at least one point in a 15-6 victory over Howard in Saturday's Class 4A-3A state semifinals at Annapolis.
Sophomore Brandon Senft had five goals and an assist, while senior Ben Chisolm finished with four goals and three assists for the No. 10 Seahawks (17-3).
Cody Ford scored three goals to pace the Lions, who ended the season with a 16-3 record and the program's first regional title.
South River broke a 2-2 tie with three straight goals in the last 26 seconds of the first quarter.
Matt Gaskins started the run with a jump shot in front of the goal. Senft scored quickly on a restart, and Michael Ward added a goal with eight seconds left in the quarter.
From that point, the Seahawks controlled the game. Nick Striebich scored for the Lions early in the third quarter to cut the Seahawks' lead to 8-5, but Howard never got closer.
Patterson Mill 9, Oakdale 0: In Class 2A-1A, Patterson Mill (11-9) advanced to the championship game for the second time in three years with a shutout victory over Oakdale (10-9) at Bel Air on Saturday.
Three players — junior attackman Chase Tallon, senior midfielder Sam Caretti and junior midfielder Michael Dinatale — scored two goals each to lead the Huskies, who will face defending Class 2A-1A state champion Fallston (15-4) in the title game 6 p.m. Tuesday at UMBC.
Patterson Mill junior goalkeeper Will Urban had seven saves, while Oakdale senior goalkeeper John Hoffman stopped 11 shots in the loss.
Senior attackman Brendan Egan had one goal and five assists for the Huskies, while senior attackman Josh Wilson and senior midfielder Patrick Springer added one goal each.
Patterson Mill lost to Glenelg, 5-4, in the Class 2A-1A state championship in 2011, and South Carroll eliminated the Huskies, 6-4, in the state semifinals last season. Fallston then beat the Cavaliers, 14-7, to win last year's Class 2A-1A title.
Baltimore Sun Media Group reporter Brandon Hopp contributed to this article.
Class 4A-3A
(at Franklin)
8 Westminster 23, Churchill 9
Goals: C – Leonard 6, Altobello, Dubick, Moshyedi; W—Drenner 6, Nichols 5, Davis 4, Hursey 2, McDonough 2, Uhlman 2, Kohr, Ruby.
Assists: C—Rhodes; W—Hursey 4, Drenner 3, McDonough 2. Saves: C— Gloger 8; W – Aler 7. Half: W, 9-8.
(at Annapolis)
10 South River 15, Howard 6
Goals: SR—Senft 5, Chisolm 4, Gaskins 2, Chaney, Schimolar, Thomas, Ward,; Ho – Ford 3, Striebich 2, Sementilli. Assists: SR – Chisholm 3, Hirata, Mansur, O'Hara, Pendleton, Schimolar, Senft, Stanton, Thomas; Ho—Bruner 2, Travisano 2. Saves: SR—Gavin 8; Ho—Judy 11. Half: SR, 8-4.
Class 2A-1A
(at Bel Air)
Patterson Mill 9, Oakdale 0
Goals: PM—Caretti 2, Dinatale 2, Tallon 2, Egan, Springer, Wilson. Assists: PM—Egan 5, Holloway, Springer, Tallon, Wilson. Saves: PM—Urban 7. O—Hoffman 11. Half: PM, 6-0.


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Two days after three well-funded Columbus City Council incumbents won re-election, a group of residents called for campaign finance reform.
Two days after three well-funded Columbus City Council incumbents won re-election, a group of residents called for campaign finance reform.
The Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government said it is trying to bring competition back to political races in the city.
Thursday, Nov. 7, the group took to the steps of City Hall and dropped off petitions representing 23,000 signatures calling for a change in the city charter that would make candidates eligible for public financing, airtime on public-access cable TV and city-sponsored debates.
The charter amendment essentially would encourage office-seekers to opt-in. Council candidates who set voluntary caps on their campaigns -- $85,000 for council and $350,000 for mayoral races -- would have access to $300,000 total in public dollars from casino revenue.
Jonathan Beard, spokesman for the coalition, said the current structure makes it almost impossible for other candidates to compete. City Council routinely appoints candidates to council vacancies.
"The way our city is structured right now does not make it competitive," Beard said.
He said he realizes there are constitutional protections against limiting campaign contributions. He called the proposal an "investment in democracy."
The issue could appear before voters as soon as the primary election next spring.
Democrats currently hold all elected city offices. Nov. 5, council incumbents Priscilla Tyson, A. Troy Miller and Eileen Paley were returned to their seats.
All had a significant cash advantage over their challengers: Republicans Greg Lawson and Brian Bainbridge, and independent Nick Schneider.
For example, each Democrat had $58,000 in in-kind contributions from council President Andy Ginther's political action committee.
Of the challengers, Lawson had the most cash on hand: $2,826.
Bob Fitrakis, a member of the group, likened the process to the machine-style politics of Chicago and New York.
"This functions like a well-oiled, slick political machine," said Fitrakis, who ran for council as an independent in 2003 and was able to raise only $3,000.
Beard said campaign finance is one of four planks in the residents' group's "Dare 2B Fair" initiative, which also calls for ward representation on council, putting public funding of Nationwide Arena up for a public vote, and restoring city funding for public-access TV.
The coalition had tried to put the ward-representation issue on the ballot in 2012, but failed to collect enough valid signatures.


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WASHINGTON – The nominee for director of the CIA, John Brennan, defended the agency's controversial killer drone program Thursday claiming it saves lives, but he expressed concerns the program was changing the agency's role as an intelligence-gathering organization.
"We only take such (lethal) actions as a last resort to save lives," he told a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing committee.
The killer drone program is considered America's worst-kept secret and committee members asked Brennan if he intended to share details of it with members of the Senate intelligence committee and the American people.
He said he would do his best but had to balance openness with national security.
"There is a misimpression (sic) on the part of some American people who believe that we take strikes to punish terrorists for past transgressions. Nothing could be further form the truth," he said.
"There has never been the occasion that I am aware of that we had the opportunity to capture a terrorist and we didn't and we decided to take a lethal strike."
As Brennan began his opening statements, protesters from the peace group Code Pink stood up one after another shouting anti-drone slogans and waving signs.
Some experts claim U.S. drones have killed up to 3,000 people in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and are contrary to American and international law. Brennan has been labelled the "high priest" of the drone program.
With hands and faces dyed a blood-red, protesters displayed signs in the hearing room stating, "Brennan = Drone Killings." Some shouted that Brennan is a "threat to our democracy."
One woman carrying the effigy of a dead baby asked: "Are our children more important than the children of people in Yemen and Pakistan?"
At one point, committee chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein ordered the room cleared. The hearings began later without the protesters, who had filled most of the public seats.
Brennan testified that the protesters "really have a misunderstanding of what we do as a government and the care that we take and the agony that we go through to make sure that we do not have any collateral injuries or deaths."
Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, opened his questioning with the blunt statement that "every American has the right to know when their government believes it's allowed to kill them."
He was referring to the drone killing in Yemen in September 2011 of Anwar al-Aulaqu, an al-Qaida recruiter and an American citizen, and his brother, also an American citizen.
He then asked Brennan how much evidence the president needs to decide that a particular American can be lawfully killed and whether the administration believes the president can use this authority inside the United States.
Brennan sidestepped the question saying that the government has to be as open as possible about the drone program without compromising national security.
"I think the American people will be quite pleased to know that we have been very disciplined, very judicious and only use these authorities and these capabilities as a last resort," he repeated.
Senators questioned Brennan about whether the program marked a departure from the CIA's role as an intelligence-gathering agency. Brennan said that he too is concerned about the CIA shifting into a more militaristic role.
Brennan also said the threat posed by cyber attacks as well as the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons are priorities for the CIA.
Brennan served since 2009 as U.S. President Barack Obama's senior strategic adviser on counter-terrorism and homeland security. He has been a promoter of the CIA's use of killer drones in Pakistan and Yemen.
Brennan has served 25 years with the CIA, including a tour as the station chief in Saudi Arabia.


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R. H. wrote:Why do some people blame everyone but themselves for their problems, if they don't get that they are the problem, than there is no solution!
Belasco wrote:The arrow keys on your keyboard will give you even finer tuning than the mousewheel for zooming in and out. Playing an archer as my main, I've gotten good at adjusting my view as I go along...I don't even notice when I'm doing it anymore.
R. H. wrote:Why do some people blame everyone but themselves for their problems, if they don't get that they are the problem, than there is no solution!
Just to throw my voice in as well... The trees are griefing me.
Mark Oban wrote:As a player I like it, gives me the sense of limited visiblitity, As a DM, I find it quiet restricting that I cannot zoom back to get an overall picture of the action.
Gorgon wrote:I love the look of the trees, but don't like them not fading out higher up if you choose that option. I'm sure there are a few hardcore players who do things with no upper fade, but sorry, it isn't for me. Realism vs playability issue, and since the wilds sees a good chunk of the action, it is gonna make a mess out of quite a few events IMO. I'll be overriding annoying trees with old versions to make the wilds playable and live with the other areas that use them being fugly.
Daecon wrote:There's actually two versions of the DC Forest hak out there if I recall. One overrides Bioware's forest tileset (which gives the tall trees to all existing areas originally built with Bioware's Forest Tileset), and one doesn't.
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Martin, Frederick L. (1882-1954) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Major Frederick L. Martin graduated from Purdue University in 1908 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Major Frederick Martin was the commander of the first around-the-world flight. The aircraft were U.S. Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers. They were part of a fleet of five big (for the time) double-wing planes built especially for the historic world mission by the then four-year-old Douglas Aircraft Company. The World Cruiser flight crews were Army Air Service officers and enlisted men chosen and trained for the mission as carefully as the first U.S. astronauts in the 1960s.
The epic journey took just over six months; four of the World Cruisers took off from Clover Field on March 17, 1924, with one aircraft held in reserve. Two aircraft -- but no crew members -- were lost in the globe-circling mission. The reserve aircraft joined the two surviving planes in Nova Scotia and completed the mission with them. The flight covered more than 26,000 miles with 72 stops along a west-to-east route.
Two of the historic aircraft survived. One, named the "New Orleans," is on display at the place of its birth in Santa Monica. It is a centerpiece exhibit at the Museum of Flying, located on the original site of the Douglas Aircraft Co. at Clover Field, now the Santa Monica Airport. The other holds a place of honor at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Success of the world flight is attributed as much to a carefully planned global support network as to the World Cruiser airplanes and crews. The U.S. State Department obtained clearances for the flight from 15 different governments. Inter-service rivalries were suspended as the U.S. Navy pre-positioned supplies, spare parts and support teams at key way points in various remote areas. Support ships were stationed at intervals along major over-water stretches of the route. The world-wide effort made it one of the most prodigious military logistics operations ever attempted up to that time.


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It may be one of the best options for saving for college that very few people know about.
The START Saving Program is a 529 College Savings plan. It's a savings account for college, called an Education Savings Account, that can be opened on behalf of a beneficiary as long as the account owner or beneficiary is a resident of Louisiana.
As an incentive, the State of Louisiana annually matches a percent of the deposits during the course of a calendar year. The percentage matched is based on the adjusted gross income reported by the account owner in the previous year.
To learn more about how to open an account, go to: http://www.startsaving.la.gov/savings/index.jsp


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First of all, I want to congratulate you and your wife on your conversions (however long it takes for the both of you). Secondly I want to advise you to calm down: just keep calm and pray! In many cases, the fear that you are describing is from the devil. He will always try to keep you down, he will try to keep you from the church, and he will try his best to lead you from salvation. Im no monk but I think that what you have described is a form of temptation. Sometimes we can accidentally think too much. Orthodoxy is not a game, your wife isnt beating your score, and your definitely not behind. I advise you to talk to your priest and talk to your wife. The catechumenate stage usually takes a year (for some people, the catechumante stage could be longer or shorter). Concerning the chanting: Not everyone has the vocals of an opera singer or of a middle eastern maqam singer, thats okay! You dont have to sing well (as long as you arent in the choir), I know many people who dont even sing at all! May God guide you and your wife on your journey to the Church.
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As a reader, I'm all over the spectrum of speculative fiction. I've been known to enjoy everything from hard science fiction, like Peter Watts's Blindsight, to epic fantasy, like George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. (I've written a pretty big variety of stuff, too. I also read and occasionally write outside speculative fiction, but that's beyond the scope of this post.)
One thing that has always fascinated me is the way subgenres nudge up against one another, how the lines are drawn, where they grow fuzzy. Is a zombie story science fiction or horror? What about a time travel story or a superhero story? How about things like Star Wars, whose genre classification depends on whether you prioritize scientific accuracy over the presence of spaceships? Today I'm looking at one of my favourite areas of genre-bending — science fantasy and variations thereof.


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Over 123 million Americans are visiting hospital emergency rooms every year, according to the National Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics.
Over 123 million Americans are visiting hospital emergency rooms every year, according to the National Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics.
The sooner someone receives medical attention, the better chance they have for a favorable outcome.
Air Evac Lifeteam is dedicated to quick responses in medical emergencies via a team of highly trained medical experts using the world's largest fleet of more than 110 medically equipped Bell 206 Long Ranger helicopters, along with Bell 407 helicopters.
The local emergency service provider has already come to the aid of several victims in Morehouse Parish since opening its first base in Louisiana last year, located in Rayville.
Representatives with the company have been visiting organizations in Morehouse Parish to spread information about their Outreach Education services, many of which are free of charge.
Some of the certification courses they offer include 12 Lead EKG Interpretation, Adult Respiratory Emergencies, Critical Incident Stress Management and Snake Bites. Membership Sales Manager Sherry Eidt said Air Evac always has a crew on hand to conduct training classes.
"We teach a lot of classes," she said. "We always have a crew on duty, but we also have another crew that goes out and teaches classes. We trying to reach a lot of the schools and educate the children on age appropriate subjects such as safety measures or job opportunities."
The Air Evac Lifeteam will have an exhibit at this year's Cotton Festival. They'll be on hand Sept. 15 to answer questions and let festival goers view their Bell 206 Long Ranger Helicopter.
On Aug. 24, Air Evac personnel will be at D & H Sports for a membership drive.
"We're trying to get one of the helicopters to come and land at the baseball park behind the sports store," Eidt said. "We're trying to reach as many people as we can to let them know about all the services we have available."


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Towards the top of the cover of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, a new book by Jonathan Gottschall, there is a one-word blurb: "Enthralling." The blurb comes from Jonah Lehrer, superstar author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, which recently debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. That book was blurbed by Malcolm Gladwell, world-beating one-man-brand responsible for The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), and Outliers (2008). These degrees of blurburation unite a particular genre of books, a tasting menu of pop-intellectual dinner-party conversation fodder peppered with anecdotes and infused with water-weak or spoiled-rotten science, which usually ought to be taken with a granary of salt. With the Pandora and Amazon algorithms in mind, it might be fair to say that if you like The New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer and Lehrer is a frequent contributor, or Freakonomics, or NPR, then "you might like" The Storytelling Animal. However, as is the case with anything we put into to our bodies, we should be careful about which books we consume.
There are some important differences between The Storytelling Animal and its cousins in terms of both content and cookery. Unlike Gladwell and Lehrer, Gottschall is a working academic; he teaches at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. Although his PhD is in English, he also completed graduate research under the distinguished biologist David Sloan Wilson. In this spirit of consilience, the unity of the sciences and the humanities proposed by another biologist Wilson (E.O.), Gottschall has emerged as a prominent voice in the new school of criticism known as "Literary Darwinism." "Literary Darwinists," who hold that human nature is constructed first and foremost by biology, and not by culture or discourse, interpret and analyze the arts through evolutionary theory and using scientific methodologies. For example, in his On the Origin of Stories (2009), the literary scholar Brian Boyd presents a scientifically-rooted theory of storytelling as an adaptive trait. That book, over 500 pages, contains the kind of scrupulous and exhaustive research you might expect from an excellent biographer (of Vladimir Nabokov). On the Origin of Stories is a brilliant and invaluable text, but it is not a bestseller. Writing one of these calls for a different recipe.
In The Storytelling Animal, Gottschall's main idea is a magical one: we are Homo fictus (a term coined by the novelist E.M. Forster in his classic critical work Aspects of the Novel), fiction fiends, creatures of an imaginative realm called Neverland, "where we ramble in make believe." If this sounds like a tale you would tell your children, it is; Gottschall refers frequently and charmingly to the play habits of his two daughters, who serve as examples of what is, according to the author, an evolutionary principle. "Fiction is a powerful and ancient virtual reality technology that simulates the big dilemmas of human life," he writes (echoing the cognitive psychologist and novelist Keith Oatley, and others) and it "lay(s) down grooves in our brains, making our actions crisper, faster, surer." This is metaphorical make-believe in itself (Gottschall, like all popular authors, is an excellent storyteller, which might be most of what accounts for their success). But how do stories actually aid us in our survival? Gottschall states the essential "Literary Darwinist" position: "Fiction allows our brains to practice reacting to the kinds of challenges that are, and always were, most crucial to our success as a species." Stories teach us how to better navigate the world as individuals and, in the complicated case of religion especially, they strengthen social bonds and group identities.
These explanations, which attribute adaptive advantages to our universal behaviors, are key to any argument about evolutionary necessity. Literary Darwinists have proposed and studied hypotheses about why we need stories (such as that reading improves our capacity for empathy) in response, seemingly, to the sentiments of the scientist Steven Pinker who once dismissed the arts as evolutionary trivialities, like "cheesecake for the mind." At that time, his famous view was that the arts are sensual confections, all sugar and fat and no nutrition. Another word for this is "spandrel" (which seems bastardly, and sounds like "scoundrel"), an architectural term for the accidental space created between a curve of an arch and the rectangular framework that surrounds it. In the biological sense is has come to mean a non-adaptive byproduct of the evolution of another characteristic. (Pinker's position, on stories at least, has since evolved.)
But The Storytelling Animal is less an argument than an appreciation; the book is a celebration of stories. Although he has written and edited scholarly works, where he has developed his own ideas and theories, Gottschall does not bite off any more than he can chew in The Storytelling Animal. In other words, it is a light meal. The text of The Storytelling Animal is not so heavy on science (although the end notes refer to a wide range of sources, including biological journals). But when Gottschall does introduce data, he seems to do so respectfully and responsibly, which is rare. About the discovery of mirror neurons in macaque monkeys, which some believe to be hard evidence for human empathy, the author disclaims: "As with any area of emerging science, controversies rage." He resists the temptation to use these theoretical vapors to fuel his own fantastic conclusions. Gottschall also manages to describe the split-brain research of neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, which can be confusing because of our criss-crossed brain-to-body wiring, in a clear and attractive way. Gazzaniga and his collaborators found specialized circuits in the left hemisphere that unconsciously organize information into a meaningful account but, again, Gottschall does not over-indulge his own speculation. His eyes are not bigger than his reader's stomach.
But there is an inherent problem with pop-intellectual book-cooking that every top-chef-author must negotiate. How do you make the science tasty, but still true? How do you make the anecdotes easily-digestible, yet still filling? Do you sacrifice painstaking gourmet challenges for simple comfort standbys? Gladwell has been dismissed by some for his empty recipes and Lehrer has been criticized for his misleading labels. Although Gottschall passes inspection, there is something that still keeps him from an 'A' grade. And it has to do with storytelling.
"Evolution is ruthlessly utilitarian." This is a sentence that appears early on in The Storytelling Animal. Although simplification is the name of the game for popular writing, this reductive equivalence kicks too strongly. After all, evolution can refer to a number of intricate processes, operating on multiple levels, which can contribute to manifest change across generations. "Literary Darwinists" are concerned almost exclusively with one particular process: natural selection. But although natural selection is the basis for Darwinian evolution, it is not all there is to evolution itself, as we continue to learn. For example, one might say too that "Evolution is lazy and random," describing genetic drift and random mutation, molecular-level evolutionary processes that may also be significant in the course of our history. This storyline should not be edited out of the evolutionary narrative which, like any great narrative, is so thoroughly nuanced. And Evolution, personified as it is, should not be rendered two-dimensional, but rather it should remain as complex and mysterious as it truly is. The Storytelling Animal is not a book about genetics, of course. But it does employ "evolution," and the use of evolutionary ideas should always be qualified as a part of a whole. There should be a functional explanation of evolution itself, for the sake of the intellectual public that might not know about such a powerful and often, unfortunately, unpalatable topic. If nothing makes sense without the light of evolution, and more and more of our culture, like the art of storytelling, is now being heated under this light at some strength or another, then an author should include this sort of intentional statement, a "What We Talk About When We Talk About Evolution". This is for the sake of transparency, so we know what it is we are supposed to be eating.
Gottschall could have maintained the sensational kick of his statement by writing, instead: "Natural selection is ruthlessly utilitarian." (Natural selection is not listed in the book's index, not even as a subset of Evolution.) This may seem like pickiness, but every popular book represents an opportunity to nourish people. Natural selection may be the most popular evolutionary idea precisely because of its narrative seductiveness. It offers those timeless appeals to our animal appetite: sex and violence. In The Storytelling Animal, Gottschall discusses the role of these fantastical factors in various film, television, and video game conventions, but does not reflect the evolutionary narrative back onto itself. The fact is that, despite their empirical standards, scientists tell a story of evolution—of the ape that becomes man, of relentless change and the eternal problem of survival. Literary Darwinists, inspired by this story, are telling a story of their own to try to explain the persistence of storytelling. Our lives are our stories, and Jonathan Gottschall's book is a testament to their ubiquity and variety but, being an appetizer, there is a certain lack of depth and fullness to it.
At the end of The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall compares stories to food, because we crave both. Some are healthful, yet too much or the wrong kind can be harmful for you. This is a good analogy, as we have seen. But consider stories, and the books that contain them, to be another form of similar stimulation: drugs. Books alter the mind, sometimes profoundly. As a drug, The Storytelling Animal is somewhere between the recreational and the hardcore, somewhere between Malcolm Gladwell and a gritty academic collection called Narrative and Consciousnessness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain (2003). The Storytelling Animal could be called the perfect "gateway" book, a term used to argue against the use of rather benign drugs because they might lead to more serious usage. The Storytelling Animal is light, mild, and stimulating. One could surely follow the blurbs toward pop-intellectualism and less potency. It could be a gateway away from science. However, the book suggests another path as well, one toward real consilience, a productive and progressive relationship between the sciences and the arts, the erasure of artificial boundaries, the unity of disciplines, the future in higher education, the serious and difficult story of the quest for knowledge no matter where it might be found. This would be a wonderful addiction.


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NEW BRUNSWICK — New Brunswick Elks Lodge 324 is hosting its annual golf outing on Oct. 11 at the Rutgers University Golf Course to raise funds for the Elks many charities, including programs designed to help children with special needs and veterans.
Participants may pickup a registration form at the Lodge at 40 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, or may register on the day of the event at 8 a.m. at the Rutgers University Golf Course at 777 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway.
The day includes a full round of golf, breakfast, an afternoon reception for guests, dinner, awards, and an after-festivities party for all who sign up for the annual event.
Tickets are $150 per player, and $500 per foursome.
Local merchants and civic organizations are invited to participate as sponsors to advertise their products and community offerings.
For more information, call the lodge at (732) 545-0658 and leave a message for Mike Blackwell.
The New Brunswick Elks is a charitable organization dedicated to serving the community. In addition to helping special needs children and veterans, the Elks provides facilities for a variety of community groups, awards college scholarships to local youths, and offers a range of athletic and educational programs geared toward keeping children drug-free.
The New Brunswick Elks has 450 members from New Brunswick and surrounding communities, including North Brunswick, Milltown, Highland Park and Franklin Township.
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Week In Tweets: Jay-Z's #NewRules, Diddy Starts A Revolt, RIP Vine?
Week In Tweets: June 16 – June 21, 2013
When Jay-Z tweets, the whole world retweets. Yeah, #NewRules. This week was extremely popular for new music, as Kelly Rowland (Talk A Good Game), Kanye "Yeezus" West, J. Cole (Born Sinner) and Mac Miller (Watching Movies With The Sound Off) each released new albums. In sad news, meanwhile, Meek Mill paid his respects to a young dreamchaser who passed before his time. Click through for a recap of celebrity tweets of the week.


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2011 Optima Pricing
The recently listed MSRP and invoice pricing on the edmunds website seems to indicate that the pricing for the new Optima is a little out of whack when you compare it to the Sonata. The Optima LX is more expensive that the Sonata GLS and the turbo option upgrade in the EX trim is an additional 2000 dollars, whereas it's only 1550 additional in the Sonata SE and only 1750 more in the Sonata Limited, and you also get dual exhaust, paddle shifters and a tire upgrade from 17" to 18" when you upgrade the Limited to the turbo version.
Also, a turbo Sonata Limited without the navigation is under 28 k, whereas the Optima SX with the premium package and no navigation is 28,840
Also, a turbo Sonata Limited without the navigation is under 28 k, whereas the Optima SX with the premium package and no navigation is 28,840
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,922That's surprising that the Optima, e.g. the LX, is more expensive than the Sonata. The Optima has always been a little less than the Sonata. I wonder if that means we'll see a price increase on the Sonata soon, or at latest when the 2012 model debuts (early in 2011?). Hyundai can probably get away with a small increase on the Sonata, given the popularity of the car.
EDIT: I just noticed one reason why the Optima may be priced higher than the Sonata: more equipment. For example, the Optima LX AT has alloys and power lumbar adjustment standard; those are extra-cost on the Sonata (and isn't the Sonata's lumbar adjuster manual?). Also, the Optima LX AT has a hill-holder feature, and has 200 hp (per Edumuds) vs. 198 for the Sonata GLS. And the Optima LX has turn signals in the mirrors, which are available only on higher-trim Sonatas. So maybe the Optima's higher price isn't out of line after all.0
it's probably due to the fact that the optima has more air-bags and features.0
Purchased Optima 2011 EX almost 1 week ago. Drove Sonata first for comparison. Very disappointed in the Sonata. Tight handling and rough ride. When this Optima proves itself worthy over time (a very short time), my prediction is this car will list for $28,000-34,000. Body style, Luxury, Performance is awesome!0
Where did you buy, what options and how much did you pay before TTL? I'm interested in the EX with the premium package. Dealers in my area are getting deliveries around the end of next week (12/10).0
Purchased at Lakeshore Kia in Slidell, La. 1st and only one off the truck. Sugg retail 23,190. Dealer added Paint & Fabric Protection 995.00 and AMV 749.00 for total of 24,934. Cash price I paid 22,628 before TTL & additional warranties. A few Standard: Hill-start Assist Control, Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Dual-Zone Temp Control w/rear vents, AM/FM/CD/MP3 w/6 speakers, SIRIUS w3 month subscrip, BLUETOOTH Wireless Tech, Leather Seat w/Leather Wrapped Steering Wheel, Power Driver Seat w/Power Lumbar Support, Heated O/S Mirrors, Push Button Start w/Smart Key, Auto-Dimming Rear View Mirror w/Homelink & Compass; Front Door Mood Lighting, Cooling Glove Box, Outside Mirror Turn Signal Indicators (cool), Front Fog Lights, Solar Glass, Dual Exhausts.
I too wanted the Premium Package (mainly for the heated front/rear seats & steering wheel). Did not necessarily want the panoramic sunroof. Wanted the Bronze or Graphite color but only had bright silver (which fits this car beautifully). Dealer said would not be getting many more in soon nor was Kia accepting orders. Said it would be hard to find the exact car I wanted because dealers are receiving very few and want to hold on to them.
The only complaint I have is the passenger seat is manual back & forth and sits low. I think the premium package includes power passenger seat. I LOVE THIS CAR.
I keep my vehicles for 10 years or more. I added Gap Insurance for 395.00 and Extended Bumper to Bumper Warranty w/roadside asst. for 10 yr/100,000. miles for 1295.00 (Basic is 5 yr/60,000 mile). Also included is 10yr/100,000 mile Powertrain. I hope this helps!0
Appreciate your info....luckily for me I have at least 30 dealers within a 50 mile radius, so I will be sending out requests for internet pricing soon and meeting face to face with a handful of the lowest bids. I'll also go in with zag pricing, once it becomes available online, hopefully within 2 weeks after more dealers get their initial inventory. The smaller volume dealers will only get a few, while the larger dealers will get more. I spoke to a dealer yesterday who said he's getting 8 in next week. By the way, what is AMV? The paint and fabric protection 995 charge is total BS.....The invoice price for the basic EX is 21,020 + 695 destination totaling 21,715, so it looks like you paid 913 over invoice, but this does not take into account whatever AMV is.0
dash5 Posts: 421Congrats on your new ride! Please stop in again to give thoughts after you've had it a week or so. I'd be interested to hear them.0
waltchan Posts: 124My local Kia dealer is currently charging $3,000 over MSRP on all new 2011 Optimas on the lot right now (huh). The salesman told me people are indeed paying $3,000 over MSRP, and he has proof to show it. I told him politely that I am only allowed to buy at invoice price and will be happy to wait when it comes. Then the manager shouted at me, "you're nuts," expecting I won't get it at invoice price. Right when I walk out the door, the manager and salesman agreed to sell me at invoice price. Then they told me I'm the first person ever to ask for it. Nobody has asked about invoice price. But I still decline it because I was just playing around, and then they said "you're nuts" again to me for not taking their invoice offer. Too funny.
Was I foolish to not accept their invoice offer, or was this dealer playing a trick to me only to be entertained?0
I had an offer of 1900 under invoice for the Hyundai Sonata Limited Turbo. There is a manufacturer to dealer incentive on them right now which expires in early January. The Optimas will be spoon-fed to the dealers just like the Sonatas were and in about 2 months there will be plenty to go around, just like there are dealers now that have over 50 Sonatas on their lots.
There is a local Kia dealer that has a radio campaign that proclaims you can buy a Kia for 1 dollar over invoice.0
I was told I paid $50 over invoice for Optima EX with premium package. Out the door price with T, T & L was $26,2500
So, before TTL, you paid 23,775?0
Close $23,7450
That's 20 bucks over invoice....since it has just come out and there is not much discounting, you made a good deal!0
Good to know how they do things. I think they did something similar with the Forte SX koup. They're cashing in on the buzz. That will wane. When the camry redesign rolls out prices may really come down. We'll see.0
i agree with you about the forte sx koup.i purchased a blue 2010 forte koup sx last march and only got 300.00 off of the msrp.however,i do enjoy all the comments i get about the car and all the looks and stares at the car everywhere i go.you can't put a price on that.0
Definitly a nice car and you can't beat the price. Hope you're enjoying the heck out of it. I would have gotten one if I was younger and not so used to the soft ride of my 01 camry. The blue SX was my favorite as well. It's what got me back into a KIA dealership and interested again. I never thought I'd even consider KIA. Now I think KIA is moving in the right direction and most every other car maker is going the wrong way.0
conwelpic Ontario, CanadaPosts: 600LX - $21,995, LX auto - $24,195, LX+ - $25,595
EX - $26,695, EX+ - $28,095, EX Luxury - $30,595, EX Luxury + Nav - $32,095
SX Turbo - $33,6950
rjqman Posts: 6Car manufacturers print an invoice price that is not really what the dealer pays - check with Consumer Reports. For $12 US you can find out the true price, or even the price of that exact car. The dealer gets rebates based on volume and other similar hidden incentives. Often a dealer can realistically sell for several hundred below invoice and still be making a comfortable profit. In some cases, the dealer will actually sell close to his true price if he anticipates that he will make money on service from you, or if he can fudge the figures around legally with respect to a trade-in. And watch out for last second add-ons. I am not 100% sure but I have heard that even the freight figure is bogus. A few years back I bought a car in Illinois and took delivery in Florida - the freight from Illinois to Florida was not very much compared to the freight charges on those invoices. Best of luck0
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NWS: Heavy rainfall, possible flooding in Jefferson Parish Sunday
NWS: Heavy rainfall, possible flooding in Jefferson Parish Sunday
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. —
The National Weather Service says Jefferson Parish is expected to experience potentially heavy rainfall and possible street flooding Sunday.
Forecasters say there could be brief, heavy downpours, which may produce 2 inches of rain per hour and possible wind gusts of up to 35 miles per hour
Jefferson Parish says drainage pump stations staff and field crews are available for the duration of this anticipated weather.
Stay tuned to WDSU.com for weather updates.
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Nicole Kidman: 'Paperboy' Set with Matthew McConaughey!
Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey walk around the set of their latest film, The Paperboy, on Saturday (August 6) in New Orleans, La.
The 41-year-old actor enjoyed some downtime with his adorable 3-year-old son Levi, who munched on a bowl of fruit.
The day before, Nicole, 44, shot some scenes sporting her character's platinum blonde hair with co-star Zac Efron.
Nicole's husband, singer Keith Urban, recently told The Tennessean how he balances his concert schedule and spending time with his wife.
"I go back and forth all the time. When I put a tour together, I usually go for about three days and then have a couple of days off, sometimes even a day off," he explained. "My preference is to come home, even for a day."


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Former Manchester teacher admits assaulting, abusing special education studentsBy PAT GROSSMITH New Hampshire Union Leader
April 11. 2014 8:57AM
MANCHESTER -- A former McLaughlin Middle School special education teacher pleaded guilty earlier this week to pushing and dragging a non-verbal, blind 12-year-old student down a school hallway and tying another non-verbal 12-year-old special education student to a chair with a blanket.
Martine Gambale, 56, was sentenced Wednesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court, Northern District, on one count of simple assault and one count of false imprisonment, both misdemeanors. She was given two, twelve-month sentences, suspended for 10 years; ordered to relinquish any and all teaching certificates to the New Hampshire Department of Education, and continue mental health counseling.
The incidents happened in the fall of 2011 and during the 2011-12 school year. A gym teacher saw Gambale push the student on the back with both her hands several times to get him to move when he refused to go back to her classroom.
When the student sat on the floor, Gambale grabbed both his wrists and then dragged him down the school hallway. The gym teacher reported the incident to the school's administration, but police were not notified of the assault until months later in April of 2012, according to Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia M. LaFrance.
The second incident happened during the 2011-12 school year. Gambale admitted to tying another non-verbal 12 year old special education student to a chair.
Another McLaughlin teacher saw the student tied to the chair by the waist with a blanket that was knotted in the back. The special education student was yelling, screaming and dragging the chair around the room.
As before, the teacher reported the incident to the school's administration but, like the assault, it was not reported to police until April 2012, according to LaFrance.
She was placed on paid administrative leave in April 2012 when the accusations were reported to police. Her employment ended at the close of the 2012-13 school year, according to Matthew H. Upton, the school district's attorney.
As part of her sentence, Gambale was ordered not to teach, or be in a position of authority, over children or handicapped individuals, in any capacity paid or unpaid. She also must appear in court every six months for the next ten years to affirm that she is in compliance with that prohibition.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Rose-Maire Balboni and First Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Maureen O'Neil prosecuted the case.


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ATLANTA, GA (CNN) Taking a cue from Twitter, Facebook will be rolling out "verified accounts" for its most popular users -- presumably hoping to encourage the Lady Gagas of the world to get active on the site.
Starting Thursday, the site began testing a system that lets people with a large number of subscribers submit a government ID to prove they really are who they say they are.
"This update makes it even easier for subscribers to find and keep up with journalists, celebrities and other public figures they want to connect to," a Facebook spokesman said in an e-mail.
Once verified, a user will be able to "more prominently display an alternate name (nickname, maiden name, byline, etc.) on their timelines in addition to their real name."
Unlike Twitter, Facebook has required users to register under their real names.
So, now presumably Stefani Germanotta can be Lady Gaga on Facebook, Declan McManus can be Elvis Costello, and Madonna Louise Ciccone can share photos of her Super Bowl performance using just her first name.
Twitter, which lets folks create an account using any handle they want, has long had "verified" accounts for public figures to distinguish the real people and their tweets from the impersonators. While at one point users could request one, the site now makes its own decisions about who gets the coveted check-mark.
The nickname issue has been a thorny one for social-networking sites like Facebook that stake their brand (and target their advertising) based on people using their real identities. Last month, Google's upstart networking site, Google+, settled the issue with a compromise similar to Facebook's -- allowing people to display a nickname or other pseudonym alongside their real name.
In the early going, Google+ had taken flak from early adopters, some of whom were booted for signing up with names that were not real. Many of those people argued they were more widely known by nicknames on the Web.
Celebrities, sports stars, journalists and the like who have been verified by Facebook will now get more prominent display on the site's "People To Subscribe To" list.
Facebook has been allowing subscriptions for about five months. They let users share information with anyone who chooses to subscribe to their feeds without having to actually become Facebook friends with them.


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Michael F. Stewart is the author of the award winning Assured Destruction Series. He likes to combine storytelling with technology and pioneered interactive storytelling with Scholastic Canada, Australia and New Zealand's, anti-cyberbullying program Bully For You.
He has authored four graphic novels with Rubicon Publishing's award winning Boldprint series. Two non fiction publications on Corruption and Children's Rights published by Scholastic (2014) and four early readers with Pearson (2014).
Michael lives in Ottawa where he runs free workshops for teens and adults.


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Portsmouth bar faces alcohol charge
Police say bar was scene of assault
Portsmouth bar faces alcohol charge
Police say bar was scene of assault
The owner of a New Hampshire bar that was the scene of a dance-floor beating of a man who later died is facing a charge of serving alcohol in a restricted area.
The Portsmouth Herald reported that Police Chief Stephen DuBois said Tuesday the charge against New Adventures Entertainment LLC, the parent company of The Page Restaurant & Bar, will be presented to a grand jury.
Zachary O'Neill, of Dover, has been charged with first-degree assault. He's accused of striking Josh Krantz repeatedly on the head on the bar's dance floor. Krantz, 24, did not seek medical treatment and went home, where he died April 6.
A phone message seeking comment from an attorney representing the bar wasn't immediately returned Tuesday morning.