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Seychelles, island republic in the western Indian Ocean, comprising about 115 islands, with lush tropical vegetation, beautiful beaches, and a wide variety of marine life. Situated between latitudes 4 and 11 S and longitudes 46 and 56 E, the major islands of Seychelles are located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) east of Kenya and about 700 miles (1,100 km) northeast of Madagascar. The capital, Victoria, is situated on the island of Mah.
Seychelles, one of the worlds smallest countries, is composed of two main island groups: the Mah group of more than 40 central, mountainous granitic islands and a second group of more than 70 outer, flat, coralline islands. The islands of the Mah group are rocky and typically have a narrow coastal strip and a central range of hills. The overall aspect of those islands, with their lush tropical vegetation, is that of high hanging gardens overlooking silver-white beaches and clear lagoons. The highest point in Seychelles, Morne Seychellois (2,969 feet [905 metres]), situated on Mah, is located within this mountainous island group. The coralline islands, rising only a few feet above sea level, are flat with elevated coral reefs at different stages of formation. These islands are largely waterless, and very few have a resident population.
The climate is tropical oceanic, with little temperature variation during the year. Daily temperatures rise to the mid-80s F (low 30s C) in the afternoon and fall to the low 70s F (low 20s C) at night. Precipitation levels vary greatly from island to island; on Mah, annual precipitation ranges from 90 inches (2,300 mm) at sea level to 140 inches (3,560 mm) on the mountain slopes. Humidity is persistently high but is ameliorated somewhat in locations windward of the prevailing southeast trade winds.
Of the roughly 200 plant species found in Seychelles, some 80 are unique to the islands, including screw pines (see pandanus), several varieties of jellyfish trees, latanier palms, the bois rouge, the bois de fer, Wrights gardenia, and the most famous, the coco de mer. The coco de merwhich is found on only two islandsproduces a fruit that is one of the largest and heaviest known and is valued by a number of Asian cultures for believed aphrodisiac, medicinal, mystic, and other properties. The Seychellois government closely monitors the quantity and status of the trees, and, although commerce is regulated to prevent overharvesting, poaching is a concern.
Wildlife includes a remarkably diverse array of marine life, including more than 900 identified species of fish; green sea turtles and giant tortoises also inhabit the islands. Endemic species include birds such as Seychelles bulbuls and cave-dwelling Seychelles swiftlets; several species of local tree frogs, snails, and wormlike caecilians; Seychelles wolf snakes and house snakes; tiger chameleons; and others. Endemic mammals are few; both fruit bats (Pteropus seychellensis) and Seychelles sheath-tailed bats (Coleura seychellensis) are endemic to the islands. Indian mynahs, barn owls, and tenrecs (small shrewlike or hedgehoglike mammals introduced from Madagascar) are also found.
Considerable efforts have been made to preserve the islands marked biodiversity. Seychelles government has established several nature preserves and marine parks, including the Aldabra Islands and Valle de Mai National Park, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. The Aldabra Islands, a large atoll, are the site of a preserve inhabited by tens of thousands of giant tortoises, the worlds oldest living creatures, which government conservation efforts have helped rescue from the brink of extinction. Valle de Mai National Park is the only place where all six of the palm species endemic to Seychelles, including the coco de mer, may be found together. Cousin Island is home to a sanctuary for land birds, many endemic to the islands, including the Seychelles sunbird (a type of hummingbird) and the Seychelles brush warbler. The nearby Cousine Island is part private resort and part nature preserve, noted for its sea turtles, giant tortoises, and assorted land birds. Bird Island is the breeding ground for millions of terns, turtle doves, shearwaters, frigate birds, and other seabirds that flock there each year.
The original French colonists on the previously uninhabited islands, along with their black slaves, were joined in the 19th century by deportees from France. Asians from China, India, and Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia) arrived later in smaller numbers. Widespread intermarriage has resulted in a population of mixed descent.
Creole, also called Seselwa, is the mother tongue of most Seychellois. Under the constitution, Creole, English, and French are recognized as national languages.
More than three-fourths of the population are Roman Catholics. There are also Anglicans, Christians of other denominations, Hindus, and Muslims.
More than four-fifths of the population lives on Mah, many in the capital city, Victoria. The birth and death rates, as well as the annual population growth rate, are below the global average. Some one-fifth of the population is younger than age 15, and an additional one-sixth is under age 30. Life expectancy for both men and women is significantly higher than the global average.
Seychelles has a mixed developing economy that is heavily dependent upon the service sector in general and the tourism industry in particular. Despite continued visible trade deficits, the economy has experienced steady growth. The gross domestic product (GDP) is growing more rapidly than the population. The gross national income (GNI) per capita is significantly higher than those found in most nearby continental African countries.
Agriculture accounts for only a fraction of the GDP and employs an equally modest proportion of the workforce. Arable land is limited and the soil is generally poorand the country remains dependent upon imported foodstuffsbut copra (from coconuts), cinnamon bark, vanilla, tea, limes, and essential oils are exported. Seychelles has a modern fishing industry that supplies both domestic and foreign markets; canned tuna is a particularly important product. The extraction of guano for export is also an established economic activity.
The countrys growing manufacturing sectorwhich has expanded to account for almost one-sixth of the total GDPis composed largely of food-processing plants; production of alcoholic beverages and of soft drinks is particularly significant. Animal feed, paint, and other goods are also produced.
Seychelles sizable trade deficit is offset by income from the tourism industry and from aid and investment. Although the countrys relative prosperity has not made it a preferred aid recipient, it does receive assistance from the World Bank, the European Union, the African Development Bank, and a variety of contributing countries, and aid obtained per capita is relatively high. The Central Bank of Seychelles, located in Victoria, issues the official currency, the Seychelles rupee.
Seychelles main imports are petroleum products, machinery, and foodstuffs. Canned tuna, copra, frozen fish, and cinnamon are the most important exports, together with the reexport of petroleum products. Significant trade partners include France, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Italy.
The service sector accounts for nearly four-fifths of the GDP and employs the largest proportion of the workforce, almost three-fourths of all labourers. After the opening of an international airport on Mah in 1971, the tourism industry grew rapidly, and at the beginning of the 21st century it provided almost one-fourth of the total GDP. Each year Seychelles draws thousands of tourists, many attracted by the islands magnificent venues for scuba diving, surfing, windsurfing, fishing, swimming, and sunbathing. The warm southeasterly trade winds offer ideal conditions for sailing, and the waters around Mah and the other islands are afloat with small boats.
The majority of Seychelles roadways are paved, most of which are on the islands of Mah and Praslin; there are no railroads. Ferry services operate between the islandsfor example, linking Victoria with destinations that include Praslin and La Digue. Air service is centred on Seychelles International Airport, located near Victoria on Mah, and the smaller airports and airstrips found on several islands. Seychelles has air connections with a number of foreign cities and direct flights to major centres that include London, Paris, Frankfurt, Rome, and Bangkok. Scheduled domestic flights, provided by Air Seychelles, chiefly offer service between Mah and Praslin, although chartered flights elsewhere are also available. The tsunami that reached Seychelles in 2004 damaged portions of the transportation infrastructure, including the road linking Victoria with the international airport.
Telecommunications infrastructure in Seychelles is quite developed. The country has a high rate of cellular telephone useamong the highest in sub-Saharan Africaand, at the beginning of the 21st century, the use of personal computers in Seychelles was several times the average for the region.
Under the 1993 constitution, since amended, Seychelles is a republic. The head of state and government is the president, who is directly elected by popular vote and may hold office for up to two consecutive five-year terms. Members of the National Assembly serve five-year terms. A majority of the available National Assembly seats are filled by direct election; a smaller portion are distributed on a proportional basis to those parties that win a minimum of one-tenth of the vote. The president appoints a Council of Ministers, which acts as an advisory body. The country is divided into 25 administrative divisions.
The Seychellois judiciary includes a Court of Appeal, a Supreme Court, and Magistrates Courts; the Constitutional Court is a branch of the Supreme Court.
Suffrage is universal; Seychellois are eligible to vote at age 17. Women participate actively in the government of the country and have held numerous posts, including positions in the cabinet and a proportion of seats in the National Assembly.
The Peoples Party (formerly the Seychelles Peoples Progressive Front) was the sole legal party from 1978 until 1991. It is still the countrys primary political party, but other parties are also active in Seychellois politics, including the New Democratic Party (formerly the Seychelles Democratic Party), the Seychelles National Party, and the Seychelles Movement for Democracy.
Seychelles defense forces are made up of an army, a coast guard (including naval and airborne wings), and a national guard. There is no conscription; military service is voluntary, and individuals are generally eligible at age 18 (although younger individuals may serve with parental consent).
In general, homes play a highly visible part in maintaining traditional Seychellois life. Many old colonial houses are well preserved, although corrugated iron roofs have generally replaced the indigenous palm thatch. Groups tend to gather on the verandahs of their houses, which are generally recognized as social centres.
The basis of the school system is a free, compulsory, 10-year public school education. Education standards have risen steadily, and nearly all children of primary-school age attend school. The countrys first university, the University of Seychelles, began accepting students in 2009. The literacy rate in Seychelles is significantly higher than the regional and global averages for both men and women.
Seychellois culture has been shaped by a combination of European, African, and Asian influences. The main European influence is French, recognizable in Seselwa, the Creole language that is the lingua franca of the islands, and in Seychellois food and religion; the French introduced Roman Catholicism, the religion of the majority of the islanders. African influence is revealed in local music and dance as well as in Seselwa. Asian elements are evident in the islands cuisine but are particularly dominant in business and trade.
Holidays observed in Seychelles include Liberation Day, which commemorates the anniversary of the 1977 coup, on June 5; National Day, June 18; Independence Day, June 29; the Feast of the Assumption, August 15; All Saints Day, November 1; the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8; and Christmas, December 25.
Because of the exorbitant expense of the large and lavish wedding receptions that are part of Seychellois tradition, many couples never marry; instead, they may choose to live en mnage, achieving a de facto union by cohabitating without marriage. There is little or no social stigma related to living en mnage, and the arrangement is recognized by the couples family and friends. The instance of couples living en mnage increases particularly among lower income groups.
Dance plays an important role in Seychellois society. Both the sga and the moutya, two of the most famous dances performed in Seychelles, mirror traditional African customs. The sensual dances blend religion and social relations, two elements central to African life. The complicated and compelling dance movements were traditionally carried out under moonlight to the beat of African drums. Dances were once regular events in village halls, but these have largely died out in recent years; now dances take place in modern nightclubs.
Seychellois enjoy participating in and watching several team sports. The national stadium, located in Victoria, offers a year-round program of events. Mens and womens volleyball are popular, and several Seychellois players and referees participate at the international level. Football (soccer) is also a favourite, and Seychellois teams frequently travel to East Africa and India to play in exhibition matches and tournaments. The Seychelles national Olympic committee was established in 1979 and was recognized that year by the International Olympic Committee. The country made its official Olympic debut at the 1980 Moscow Games, but its first Olympic athlete was Henri Dauban de Silhouette, who competed for Great Britain in the javelin throw at the 1924 Paris Games.
Much of the countrys radio, television, and print media is under government control. There are several independent publications, including Seychelles Weekly and Vizyon.
The islands were known by traders from the Persian Gulf centuries ago, but the first recorded landing on the uninhabited Seychelles was made in 1609 by an expedition of the British East India Company. The archipelago was explored by the Frenchman Lazare Picault in 1742 and 1744 and was formally annexed to France in 1756. The archipelago was named Schelles, later changed by the British to Seychelles. War between France and Britain led to the surrender of the archipelago to the British in 1810, and it was formally ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. The abolition of slavery in the 1830s deprived the islands European colonists of their labour force and compelled them to switch from raising cotton and grains to cultivating less-labour-intensive crops such as coconut, vanilla, and cinnamon. In 1903 Seychellesuntil that time administered as a dependency of Mauritiusbecame a separate British crown colony. A Legislative Council with elected members was introduced in 1948.
In 1963 the United States leased an area on the main island, Mah, and built an air force satellite tracking station there; this brought regular air travel to Seychelles for the first time, in the form of a weekly seaplane shuttle that operated from Mombasa, Kenya.
In 1970 Seychelles obtained a new constitution, universal adult suffrage, and a governing council with an elected majority. Self-government was granted in 1975 and independence in 1976, within the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1975 a coalition government was formed with James R. Mancham as president and France-Albert Ren as prime minister. In 1977, while Mancham was abroad, Ren became president in a coup dtat led by the Seychelles Peoples United Party (later restyled the Seychelles Peoples Progressive Front [SPPF], from 2009 the Peoples Party [Parti Lepep]).
In 1979 a new constitution transformed Seychelles into a one-party socialist state, with Rens SPPF designated the only legal party. This change was not popular with many Seychellois, and during the 1980s there were several coup attempts. Faced with mounting pressure from the countrys primary sources of foreign aid, Rens administration began moving toward more democratic rule in the early 1990s, with the return of multiparty politics and the promulgation of a new constitution. The country also gradually abandoned its socialist economy and began to follow market-based economic strategies by privatizing most parastatal companies, encouraging foreign investment, and focusing efforts on marketing Seychelles as an offshore business and financial hub. As Seychelles entered the 21st century, the SPPF continued to dominate the political scene. After the return of multiparty elections, Ren was reelected three times before eventually resigning in April 2004 to allow Vice Pres. James Michel to succeed him as president.
In late 2004 some of the islands were hit by a tsunami, which severely damaged the environment and the countrys economy. The economy was an important topic in the campaigning leading up to the presidential election of 2006, in which Michel emerged with a narrow victory to win his first elected term. He was reelected in 2011. One of Michels ongoing concerns was piracy in the Indian Ocean, which had surged since 2009 and threatened the countrys fishing and tourism industries. To that end, the Seychellois government worked with several other countries and international organizations to curb the illegal activity.
In October 2015 Michel called for an early presidential election, rather than wait until it was due in 2016. Michel was standing for his third term, again representing the Peoples Party. The election was held December 35, 2015. For the first time since the return of multiparty politics in 1993, the Peoples Partys candidate did not win outright in the first round of voting. Michel garnered 47.76 percent of the vote; his nearest challenger was Wavel Ramkalawan of the Seychelles National Party (SNP), who took 33.93 percent. Ramkalawan was an Anglican priest who was the leader of the SNP and had run for president in previous elections. The runoff election was held December 1618. On December 19 Michel was declared the winner by a very narrow margin, taking 50.15 percent of the vote, with only 193 votes between him and Ramkalawan. Michel was quickly sworn in the next day for his third term. Ramkalawan voiced allegations of voting irregularities and filed two petitions with the Constitutional Court with the goal of having the election results nullified: one claiming that neither candidate had received an absolute majority of the votes cast and another alleging that voting irregularities and electoral noncompliance had occurred. In May 2016 the court dismissed both petitions and upheld Michels victory but did note that there had been instances of voting irregularities and noncompliance with electoral laws.
In April 2016 the constitution was amended to change the number of consecutive terms that a president could serve. The number of terms was reduced from three to two.
Legislative elections were held September 810, 2016. For the first time since independence, the Peoples Party did not take a majority of the legislative seats. Instead, a coalition of opposition parties took control of the National Assembly, winning 15 of the 25 directly elected seats and receiving 4 of the 8 proportional representation seats while the Peoples Party won and received the rest of the directly elected and proportional representation seats. The new legislators were sworn in on September 27, 2016. Later that day Michel announced that he would step down as president, citing the need for new leadership. He formally resigned on October 16, and vice president Danny Faure was sworn in as president to complete the rest of Michels term.
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Life magazine photographer Bill Eppridge was on assignment taking pictures of wild horses in the Montana mountains in 1968 when he got word that Robert F. Kennedy was running for president.
"I jumped into my Jeep, drove about 20 miles down the worst roads in the world," Eppridge said in a 2008 radio interview. He had photographed Kennedy in 1966 and was so taken with the senator that he desperately wanted to cover the presidential campaign. "I've got to do this," he begged his editors.
The assignment ended tragically on June 5, 1968, with what is widely considered one of the greatest news photos of all time. Eppridge took the haunting picture of Kennedy slumped on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just after Kennedy was shot by an assassin, with busboy Juan Romero trying to comfort him.
Photo editor Karen Mullarkey, who worked with Eppridge at Life and other publications, described him as a brilliant photographer. "He went on to many other assignments," she said. "But I believe in my heart that part of Bill perished that night."
Eppridge, 75, died Thursday in a Danbury, Conn., hospital after a short illness, according to his wife, Adrienne Aurichio.
His friend Bill Snead, former photo director at the Washington Post, said Eppridge had recently suffered a fall.
Eppridge had taken other revered photos in his long career working for numerous publications. In 1964 he shot the landmark Life photo essay "Needle Park" about drug addicts in New York that inspired the 1971 film, "Panic in Needle Park." He also photographed in Vietnam during the war years.
On the lighter side, he captured the Beatles' first appearances in the U.S., the Woodstock music festival and a young Barbra Streisand in her tiny New York flat.
Eppridge's work is featured in several books, including "The Beatles: Six Days that Changed the World," due out in February.
By his own admission, Eppridge sometimes got emotionally close to his photo subjects, even if they were politicians.
"Most journalists tried to maintain a separation between themselves and the politicians, and most accomplished that," he said on the Leonard Lopate radio show on WNYC in 2008. But then there was Kennedy. "He was too powerful a figure for me to try and distance myself from him," Eppridge said.
Bill Eppridge was born March 20, 1938, in Buenos Aires, where his father was a chemical engineer. After earning a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, he worked for National Geographic. He started at Life magazine in 1964.
After leaving Life in 1972, he worked for other magazines including Time and Sports Illustrated.
Survivors in addition to his wife include two sisters, Randi Norum and Terry Eppridge. All were with him when he died, Aurichio said.
Though Eppridge was known as a boisterous, even brash figure at times who enjoyed a night on the town, he was not above helping young photographers just starting out.
One of them was David Hume Kennerly, a photojournalist who won acclaim for his Vietnam War pictures. But in 1966, Kennerly was a teenage photographer at the now-defunct Oregon Journal on assignment to take a picture of Kennedy on the campaign stump for a local candidate. "I got to the labor hall and it was totally crowded," Kennerly said. "I was panicked and I asked a photographer standing there how I get through."
That photographer was Eppridge. "He took pity on me," Kennerly recalled, "and said, 'Grab on to my coat,' and he just sliced through the crowd." When they got to the front, Eppridge even told him where to stand to get the best angle.
Two years later, Kennerly — then working for UPI — was also at the Ambassador Hotel when Kennedy was shot. Kennerly was at the back of the auditorium, not close up like Eppridge and others. Kennerly said none got as great a photo as Eppridge's. "There was a light from the one TV guy who was there, and it gave the photo a kind of eerie sense. There is almost a religious feel to it," he said.
The assassination and Eppridge's role in recording it devastated him because of his long association with the candidate. "He practically lived with the guy," Kennerly said. "He loved the guy."
A fellow Life photographer in the 1960s, Bob Gomel, said Eppridge knew he had taken a picture that would live on.
"He said in effect he was no longer a photographer. He became a historian at that point," Gomel said. "He meant the picture was of such consequence it became a moment in history."
Mullarkey and others said Eppridge was never the same afterward. "You couldn't look at Bill," she said, "without seeing a bit of sadness in his eyes."
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When I was twelve years old, I had my first marriage proposal. The person was my aunt's sixteen-year-old grandson. My parents were furious at the boy's family because I was a child who didn't know the meaning of marriage. In addition, I had three older sisters who were single and I was supposed to be the last in line.
When I was fourteen, another person asked my parents' permission to propose to me. He was a rich twenty-four-year-old man. At that time, two of my sisters were married, although an older sister was still single.
At first, I was not concerned about this proposal because I thought my parents would deny this person the same way that they had denied the other one. However, I was wrong. This time, my parents not only liked the guy—they were also pleased by his wealth. As a result, I became worried my parents would accept the offer and I started to plan how to tell them I did not want to marry the person. In my family, it is disrespectful for a child to stand against the parents' decisions. I was too shy to talk to my parents face-to-face. Instead, I decided to write the following letter:
My dear parents, please accept that I am not prepared to get married. I am fourteen years old and I need to find my life's way. In order to do this, I must become educated. I need to have new experiences to become independent and to help my country's women.
First, I know that you both want the best for me. You helped me to walk, talk and eat, and while I was sick you stayed awake with me all the night. I just want you to know that I don't need a partner to take care of me. I can be independent and take care of myself.
Second, this is the best time for me to get a better education and learn new skills. You know that in Afghanistan we don't have enough educated people. I feel this as my responsibility to get an education and help my people. For almost six years during the Taliban regime, the schools were closed for the girls. Now that I have the opportunity to get my education, I want to use this opportunity. I want to travel to the other countries and study in a better system. I am like a bird in a cage, I want to fly to other countries and see new people with new cultures.
Third, today the women in Afghanistan are the poorest women in the world. They don't have any rights, but in other countries, women have the same rights as men. The women in Afghanistan don't have the right to choose, to work outside of their homes or to get an education. Most women in Afghanistan are punished and hit by their husbands or brothers if they don't obey them. Dear parents, you know that women in Afghanistan need help to understand their rights. So I want to become a lawyer to know and understand their rights, and to fight this injustice. I don't want to be one of these women; I want to help them.
My dear parents, you are angry with me because you think if I become a lawyer, I would be killed. But I cannot stop trying because of this. It is very important for me to finish my education successfully and help my country's poor women.
At the end, I promise you that I will be an independent person and I will try my best to become an honest lawyer to fight for women's rights. I will make you happy and proud if you let me do this.
Your daughter always,
After writing the letter, I placed it on my parents' bed. That night I slept poorly; I was worried about my parents' reactions and I was thinking about what other ways I might be able to change their minds if they rejected my letter. My sisters said nothing to me, but I felt they were not happy with me for writing the letter. Even though I was eager to know my parents' reaction, I decided to go to school early and wait until after school when my father would be at work and I would see only my mother, since I am more open with my mom. When I returned from school, my mother's smile showed she was proud of me. She told me she and my father would try their best to help me accomplish my goals.
As a result, after that I entered a program to study in the United States for one year and then I worked for women's rights for two years. Now I am in college and getting closer to achieving my goals of receiving an education to help women in Afghanistan, and I'm becoming more independent every day. Until today, my father still talks about me writing that letter. I think he is proud and happy for what I did.
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You may know of Boreas, the Greek god of North Wind, but did you know that it's also the name of a German team for Formula 1 in schools? This is no coincidence; it describes their strong will to develop race cars that are "as fast as a storm". With this spirit and COMSOL Multiphysics, the team won several qualifying races, reached third place in the 2014 world finals, and was honored with the innovation award for Research and Development.Read More
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- Engine: 2.4L DOHC 16-Valve i-VTEC 4-Cylinder
- Transmission: 8-Speed Dual-Clutch -inc: torque converter and Sequential SportShift paddle shifters
- Transmission w/Driver Selectable Mode and Oil Cooler
- Front-wheel drive
- 4.57 Axle Ratio
- Battery w/Run Down Protection
- Gas-pressurized shock absorbers
- Front And Rear Anti-Roll Bars
- Automatic Ride Control Suspension
- Electric Power-Assist Speed-Sensing Steering
- 17.2 Gal. Fuel Tank
- Quasi-Dual Stainless Steel Exhaust
- Strut Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Multi-link rear suspension w/coil springs
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front Vented Discs, Brake Assist, Hill Hold Control and Electric Parking Brake
- Vehicle Name : Acura TLX
- Body Style : Sedan
- Drivetrain : Front Wheel Drive
- EPA Classification : Mid-Size Cars
- Base Curb Weight (lbs) : 3548
- Engine Type : Premium Unleaded I-4
- Displacement : 2.4 L/144
- Fuel System : Gasoline Direct Injection
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM : 206 @ 6800
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM : 182 @ 4500
- Trans Type : 8
- Trans Description Cont. : Auto-Shift Manual w/OD
- First Gear Ratio (:1) : 3.08
- Second Gear Ratio (:1) : 2.18
- Third Gear Ratio (:1) : 1.61
- Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) : 1.22
- Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.96
- Sixth Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.74
- Reverse Ratio (:1) : 2.22
- Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) : 4.57
- Suspension Type - Front : Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear : Multi-Link
- Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) : Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.) : Multi-Link
- Steering Type : Rack-Pinion
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) : 39.2
- Brake Type : 4-wheel disc
- Brake ABS System : 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front (Yes or ) : Yes
- Disc - Rear (Yes or ) : Yes
- Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 12.6
- Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 12.2
- Seventh Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.62
- Eighth Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.48
- Wheels: 19" x 8.0" Shark Gray Aluminum Alloy -inc: Machine-finished, Split 5-spoke
- Tires: P245/40R19 High-Performance All-Season
- Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Clearcoat paint
- Express Open/Close Sliding And Tilting Glass 1st Row Sunroof w/Sunshade
- Body-Colored Rear Bumper
- Body-Colored Front Bumper w/Black Bumper Insert
- Body-colored door handles
- Rocker panel extensions
- Black Side Windows Trim And Black Front Windshield Trim
- Body-Colored Power w/Tilt Down Heated Side Mirrors w/Convex Spotter, Manual Folding and Turn Signal Indicator
- Fixed Rear Window w/Defroster
- Light tinted glass
- Front Windshield -inc: Sun Visor Strip
- Speed Sensitive Rain Detecting Variable Intermittent Wipers
- Galvanized Steel/Aluminum Panels
- Lip Spoiler
- Dark chrome grille
- Trunk Rear Cargo Access
- Programmable Projector Beam Led Low/High Beam Daytime Running Auto High-Beam Headlamps w/Delay-Off
- Perimeter/Approach Lights
- LED brakelights
- Front fog lamps
- Front Tire Size : P245/40VR19
- Rear Tire Size : P245/40VR19
- Front Wheel Size (in) : 19 x 8
- Rear Wheel Size (in) : 19 x 8
- Front Wheel Material : Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material : Aluminum
- Wheelbase (in) : 109.3
- Length, Overall (in) : 191
- Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) : 73
- Height, Overall (in) : 57
- Track Width, Front (in) : 62.8
- Track Width, Rear (in) : 63.1
- Trunk Volume (ft³) : 14.3
- Radio: ELS Studio Premium Audio System -inc: 10 speakers, SiriusXM satellite radio, Pandora compatibility, USB audio interface w/smartphone integration, Bluetooth streaming audio, MP3/auxiliary input jack, Song By Voice, HD Radio, Speed-sensitive Volume Compensation (SVC), On Demand Multi-Use Display (ODMD) 2.0, Siri Eyes Free (iPhone only), Apple Carplay and Android Auto integration, Bluetooth HandsFreeLink wireless telephone interface, Phone-book exchange for Bluetooth HandsFreeLink and SMS, MMS text message and email capability
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, In-Dash Mounted Single CD, Clock, Steering Wheel Controls, Radio Data System and 15 Gb Internal Memory
- Audio Theft Deterrent
- Window grid antenna
- Acura/Els Surround Speakers
- Digital Signal Processor
- 2 LCD Monitors In The Front
- Heated & Ventilated Front Sport Seats -inc: 12-way power driver's seat w/power lumbar support, power thigh extension and 8-way power front passenger's seat
- 10-Way Driver Seat
- Passenger Seat
- 60-40 Folding Bench Front Facing Fold Forward Seatback Rear Seat
- Manual tilt/telescoping steering column
- Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Trip Odometer And Trip Computer
- Power Rear Windows
- Leather steering wheel
- Illuminated Front Cupholder
- Rear cupholder
- Compass
- Proximity Key For Doors And Push Button Start
- Valet Function
- Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, 2 Door Curb/Courtesy, Illuminated Entry, Illuminated Ignition Switch and Panic Button
- Remote Releases -Inc: Power Cargo Access and Power Fuel
- HomeLink Garage Door Transmitter
- Cruise control w/steering wheel controls
- Distance Pacing w/Traffic Stop-Go
- HVAC -inc: Underseat Ducts And Console Ducts
- Voice Activated Multi Zone Auto-Climate Control Air Conditioning w/Gps Linked
- Illuminated locking glove box
- Driver foot rest
- Full cloth headliner
- Leatherette door trim insert
- Leather gear shift knob
- Interior Trim -inc: Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Metal-Look Door Panel Insert, Metal-Look Console Insert And Metal-Look Interior Accents
- Prem Perforated Milano Leather-Trimmed Interior -inc: contrast stitching and piping
- Day-Night Auto-Dimming Rearview Mirror
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver And Passenger Illumination
- Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage And 2 12V DC Power Outlets
- Front And Rear Map Lights
- Fade-to-off interior lighting
- Full Carpet Floor Covering -inc: Carpet Front And Rear Floor Mats
- Carpet Floor Trim And Carpet Trunk Lid/Rear Cargo Door Trim
- Cargo Area Concealed Storage
- Cargo Features -inc: Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Cargo Space Lights
- Memory Settings -inc: Driver Seat, Door Mirrors and HVAC
- FOB Controls -inc: Trunk/Hatch/Tailgate, Windows and Sunroof/Convertible Roof
- AcuraLink Tracker System
- Acura Navigation System w/3D View -inc: AcuraLink Real-Time Traffic w/exclusive street and freeway conditions, Traffic Rerouting, voice recognition system and AcuraLink connected services
- Instrument Panel Covered Bin, Driver And Passenger Door Bins
- Power 1st Row Windows w/Driver And Passenger 1-Touch Up/Down
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Systems Monitor
- Trip computer
- Outside temp gauge
- Analog Display
- Seats w/Leatherette Back Material
- Manual Anti-Whiplash Adjustable Front Head Restraints and Manual Adjustable Rear Head Restraints
- Front Center Armrest w/Storage and Rear Center Armrest w/Storage
- 2 Seatback Storage Pockets
- Perimeter alarm
- Engine immobilizer
- 2 12V DC Power Outlets
- Air filtration
- Passenger Capacity : 5
- Passenger Volume (ft³) : 93.3
- Front Head Room (in) : 37.2
- Front Leg Room (in) : 42.6
- Front Shoulder Room (in) : 57.5
- Front Hip Room (in) : 55.3
- Second Head Room (in) : 36.7
- Second Leg Room (in) : 34.5
- Second Shoulder Room (in) : 55.4
- Second Hip Room (in) : 54.9
- Vehicle Stability Assist Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
- ABS And Driveline Traction Control
- Side Impact Beams
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
- Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) Lane Keeping Assist
- Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) Lane Departure Warning
- AcuraLink Emergency Sos
- Blind Spot Information System Blind Spot Sensor
- Collision Mitigation Braking System and Rear Cross Traffic Monitor
- Front And Rear Parking Sensors
- Tire Specific Low Tire Pressure Warning
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
- Curtain 1st And 2nd Row Airbags
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Driver knee airbag
- Rear child safety locks
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
- Back-up camera
EPA Fuel Economy & Specification
- Fuel Economy Est-Combined (MPG) : 26 (2019)
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) : 23 (2019)
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) : 32 (2019)
- Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year : 6.8 (2019)
- Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) : 17.2
* These are the standard features and specifications for this vehicle. Actual features may vary. Please see the details for this vehicle above.
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Watch SNN's forecast for our area. A tornado watch is in effect until 3 p.m. for Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties.
Officials say a waterspout came on shore along Tampa's Harbour Island, causing minor roof damage.
Bay News 9 reports the National Weather Service confirmed the damage was caused by a tornado Tuesday morning.
The television station also reported wind gusts of 91 mph were reported in Cedar Key, along Florida's Gulf Coast, causing some downed trees.
Earlier Tuesday, the weather service warned of a risk of severe weather as a cold front moved across west-central and southwest Florida.
A tornado watch remains in effect until 3 p.m. Tuesday for Citrus, Hernando, Sumter, Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee, Sarasota, Hardee, DeSoto and Highlands counties.
EARLIER: Floridians are under a tornado watch until early afternoon today, the result of another winter storm that savaged the Midwest Monday and is expected to sweep across the East Coast today.
The storm, which brought blizzard conditions to the Plains States, is expected to bring heavy rains, strong winds and the threat of tornadoes across much of the western Florida peninsula through at least 3 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasters issued a tornado watch for Levy County in Florida until 9 a.m. today, a watch that was extended to 3 p.m. for the remainder of west-central and southwest Florida, save for Charlotte and Lee counties. In addition to possible tornadoes, the storm has the potential to pack winds of 60 mph or more, and heavy rains.
Elsewhere, the storm brought wild winter weather responsible for at least two deaths as it forced higway closings, knocked out power to thousands in Texas and Oklahoma and even dealt hurricane-force winds to the Texas Panhandle.
Already under a deep snowpack from last week's storm, Kansas was preparing for another round of heavy snow Monday evening and overnight, prompting some to wonder what it could do for the drought.
"Is it a drought-buster? Absolutely not," National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy said. "Will it bring short-term improvement? Yes."
The storm is being blamed for two deaths on Monday. In northwest Kansas, a 21-year-old man's SUV hit an icy patch on Interstate 70 and overturned. And in the northwest town of Woodward, Okla., heavy snow caused a roof to collapse, killing one inside the home.
Earlier on Monday, blizzard warnings extended from the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles into south-central Kansas. The blizzard warnings were dropped Monday evening for the far western portion of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
Meanwhile to the east, lines of thunderstorms crossed Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida, bringing heavy rain and an occasional tornado warning.
As many as 10,000 people lost power in Oklahoma, as did thousands more in Texas.
"I have a gas cooking stove and got the oven going," said Ann Smith, owner of the Standifer House Bed and Breakfast in Elk City, Okla., late Monday afternoon. Her daughter and grandchildren had come over because they lost power.
"If it gets cold tonight, I guess we'll have to put pallets in the kitchen," Smith said with a laugh.
Colorado and New Mexico were the first to see the system Sunday night, with up to 2 feet falling in the foothills west of Denver.
As it moved into the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles Monday, the storm ground travel to a halt, closing miles of interstates and state highways.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Daniel Hawthorne said about a dozen motorists had to be rescued, but no one was injured. The National Weather Service in Lubbock reported at one point that as many as 100 vehicles were at a standstill on Interstate 27.
Extremely strong winds whipped around at least a foot or more of snow in the Texas Panhandle, and a hurricane-force gust of 75 mph was recorded at the Amarillo airport. Amarillo recorded the biggest snowfall total in Texas — 19 inches, just short of the record of 19.3 — while Fritch was second with 16.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed all highways in the Panhandle and much of the state's northwest because of blizzard conditions. Trooper Betsy Randolph said several dozen motorists have reported being stranded or have abandoned their vehicles.
Chris McBee, a storm chaser, got stuck outside Woodward in northwest Oklahoma in the mid-afternoon. By then, the city was leading Oklahoma's snow totals with 15 inches of snow.
"We were planning to go back to Oklahoma City tonight, but the road was just impassable," McBee told The Associated Press. "You couldn't see 50 feet in front of you." A man with a bulldozer dug out McBee's vehicle.
"He's just helping people," McBee said, adding he assumed the man was still out there. "We tried to pay him and he refused."
While the wintry precipitation is "a shot in the arm," National Drought Mitigation Center climatologist Mark Svoboda said, the drought in the Plains and Midwest is far from over. Svoboda, speaking from Lincoln, Neb., said 12 inches of snow is equivalent to about 1 inch of rain.
"We would need 2-4 feet of snow to just erase the October to present deficits," in Kansas, he said.
Jim Shroyer, a wheat specialist with Kansas State University Extension, said snow is more efficient than summer rain in replenishing soil moistures because rain tends to run off or evaporate during the summer months.
But it can take months or years for pastures and rangeland to recover to the point where there is good forage there for livestock.
"There is a lag coming out of drought where some of these impacts will linger on long after 'climatological drought' is gone," Svoboda said. "And there is always a sense of false security there."
Texas rancher Jay O'Brien warned the storm could be deadly for grazing cattle, with the wind pushing animals into a fenced corner where they could suffocate from the drifts.
"This type of snow is a cattle-killer," he said.
Parts of Kansas are bracing for anywhere from 8 to 24 inches of snow as the system moves through the state overnight. Wichita figures to take another hit after last week's storm that dumped about a foot and a half of snow.
In preparation, many Kansas school districts already have called off Tuesday classes, as has the University of Missouri-Columbia. And Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James declared a state of emergency Monday, as another foot or more could fall, adding to last week's 10 or so inches.
"This one has the potential to be quite serious," James said at a news conference.
Through the day Tuesday, the storm is forecast to spin toward the upper Midwest, bringing snow to Chicago and eventually Detroit before heading toward Buffalo, N.Y, and northern New England in the middle of the week.
Associated Press writers Jill Zeman Bleed and Kelly P. Kissel in Little Rock, Ark., Daniel Holtmeyer in Oklahoma City, and Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kan., Bill Draper in Kansas City, Mo., and John Milburn in Topeka, Kan., contributed to this report. Information from the National Weather Service supplemented this report.


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Will Lady Gaga Put Lindsay Lohan in an 'ARTPOP' Video?
Lady Gaga has been paling around with disgraced actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been reduced to appearing in Lifetime TV movies after her career plummeted. Gaga and La Lohan even had a sleepover at a Hollywood hangout last month. Now, rumors abound that the ladies' personal friendship will escalate into a professional one. Word is the Mother Monster would like LiLo to appear in one of her upcoming videos from her forthcoming 'ARTPOP' album.
"Lady Gaga and Lindsay caused a stir last month when they had their 'sleepover' at the Chateau [Marmont]," a source told The New York Post's Page Six. "And now it turns out that Lindsay will be starring in Gaga's new video from her upcoming album."
A gig in a Gaga vid would certainly be more high-profile for LiLo than a Lifetime movie, since Gaga is the biggest pop diva on the planet and all media attention is turned on her. "Due to Gaga's superstar status, this would be Lindsay's biggest [role] by far in many, many years," a source said.
Linds is effectively a little monster!
Sure, starring in a Lady Gaga vid is cool. Look what it did for Taylor Kinney, who was Gaga's co-star in
'You & I.' He went on to be her boyfriend, so perhaps LiLo will become Ma Monster's BFF. But at the end of the day, Lohan was once a major A-list star who was on the rise and she's pretty much C-list and on the downtrend, so this feels like a bit of a desperate attempt for relevancy.
Another source finds Gaga's choice unsettling, pointing out that there is less of a benefit for her, especially since Gaga is a focused, determined and ambitious while Lohan let her career falter in favor of celebrity, which is a notion Gaga addresses in her lyrics. The source said, "Why this huge artist — who could literally have anyone she wants — chose someone currently at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain remains a mystery."
Well, Gaga is a warm-hearted person and likes to hook people up, so maybe that's why.
Still, a Gaga source has denied the rumors, saying she is not shooting a music video "at this time." Right, no kidding. It's too early. But that doesn't mean she's not considering treatments and co-stars in advance. Gaga leaves no detail to chance.
Reps for both Gaga and Lohan nixed comment
So we've established that Lohan appearing in a Gaga video would be good for Linds. But what about Gaga? Is it good for her? What do you guys think?
Watch the Lady Gaga 'You & I' Video


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This week at the 14th annual National Ethanol Conference in San Antonio, TX, Bob Dinneen, president and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), put the ethanol industry in a proper perspective.
"In the effort to navigate the trees of falling ethanol values, rising input costs and credit woes, we miss the ever growing forest that is the U.S. ethanol industry today. Some see a crisis. I see an industry with the perseverance and determination to succeed," Dinneen said.
In the face of a flagging economy and unprecedented commodity price volatility, the U.S. ethanol industry produced and sold a record nine billion gallons of renewable fuel in 2008, Dinneen said. Moreover, in these difficult economic times, the U.S. ethanol industry grew by 34%, adding $65 billion to the GDP; $20 billion to household incomes and 256,000 more jobs to the U.S. economy.
While 23 ethanol plants were idled in 2008, 171 plants were in operation, including 31 new plants. Even with recently announced plant closures, the U.S. ethanol industry is operating at about 85% capacity, compared to the U.S. manufacturing sector (as a whole), operating at 68% capacity.
With 171 plants in operation and 21 more under construction, Dinneen says the ethanol industry is still an industry "in ascension."
"I see an industry that is constantly remaking itself," Dinneen told ethanol producers. The ethanol industry is finding new technologies and developing new feedstocks to "put it on a more sustainable path that will chart a new course for our nation's energy future."
An RFA survey, compiled by the Argonne National Laboratory, indicated how ethanol production plants are more efficient than just a few years ago. They consume 20% less electricity, 26% less water, and require 15% less overall energy inputs.
Low heat fermentation and corn fractionization are among the new technologies that have helped ethanol production facilities become more energy efficient.
Taxpayer ROI
The ethanol tax incentive that refiners receive for blending ethanol continues to be a cost effective mechanism for growing domestic renewable fuels, Dinneen said. Last year, the combined cost of the volumetric ethanol excise tax credit and the small ethanol producer tax credit totaled approximately $4.7 billion, but the benefit to the federal treasury from increased tax revenues attributable to ethanol production was greater than $11.9 billion, resulting in a savings to consumers of $7.2 billion. That is roughly a 2.5:1 direct return of the taxpayers' renewable energy investment, the RFA president stressed.
"Add to that the indirect savings from reduced farm program costs, improved balance of trade and increased employment, and the taxpayers' return on investment improves exponentially," Dinneen said.
The benefits of ethanol go beyond cost effectiveness, Dinneen said, adding that ethanol displaced 321 million barrels of oil in the U.S. last year. The production and consumption of nine billion gallons of ethanol last year also reduced CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions by about 14 million tons.
"These statistics reflect this industry is facing these economic times with resolute commitment to address the economic, environmental, energy and national security crises facing the world today," Dinneen said.
To listen to Dinneen's "State of the Industry Report," visit http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/audio/nec09-dinneen-open.mp3


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May I make a humble suggestion? It's based on a few of the inquiries I've received. If you're uninsured, barely insured with a high-deductible health plan or operate a small business, it behooves you to get familiar with the Covered California website (coveredca.com) now.
May I make a humble suggestion? It's based on a few of the inquiries I've received. If you're uninsured, barely insured with a high-deductible health plan or operate a small business, it behooves you to get familiar with the Covered California website (coveredca.com) now.
The site does its best to provide a guide on what to expect when the Affordable Care Act's largest expansion of coverage goes into effect Jan. 1.
Enrollment opens up Oct. 1 and will continue for the next six months.
Those going into the enrollment period with the most knowledge and best idea of what coverage they need and can afford will be able to get into and out of the exchange fairly simply.
And while there is no one officially available to answer questions today, that will change soon as the state and community organizations gear up to hire and train assisters (see below).
Once on the site, look for a comparison chart that lays out the key benefits of the four standard categories dubbed the Metal plans - Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. You'll pay progressively more for each plan, but you'll receive more benefits, too.
An individual purchasing a Bronze plan would pay no more than $6,400 a year out of pocket for medical care, while an individual covered by a Platinum plan would pay no more than $4,000 out of pocket. For a family of four, the maximum out-of-pocket expense annually would be $12,800 under the Bronze plan and $8,000 under the Platinum plan.
The private carriers such as Blue Shield, Kaiser, Anthem Blue Cross, Health Net and others are developing products to meet the standards of the Metal plans that must include the same list of Essential Health Benefits.
Many of those insurers discuss on their websites what actions they have taken already to comply with the Affordable Care Act.
Stockton-based El Concilio (Council for the Spanish Speaking) and the University of California, Davis, Center for Health Disparities will be the recipients of a $1 million grant from Covered California following a highly competitive process that attracted about 200 applicants to provide outreach and education within their respective communities about the Affordable Care Act.
The grant was one of 48 for a total of $37 million that Covered California will be awarding to organizations throughout the state to help with the assister program.
El Concilio will conduct outreach and education efforts in San Joaquin County, while the UC Davis Center will focus on Sacramento County.
"We look forward to educating the residents of San Joaquin County on the Affordable Care Act to ensure that California's diverse population will have fair and equal access to quality health care coverage," El Concilio President Jose Rodriguez said.
Send me your questions. Contact reporter Joe Goldeen at (209) 546-8278 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/goldeenblog.


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Mini Wing (with sword)
Mini Pheasant wing finished with a peacock sword feather and plumage.
Comes mounted on a 19mm elasticated black or white headband.
Looks great attached one of our bowler, top or military hats!.
All our feathers are real and sustainably sourced - each one is unique. This also means they're quite delicate and shouldn't be stored in direct sunlight.
We endevour to get your piece out to you as soon as possible. But please appreciate that every piece is hand made and we are sometimes on the road during the summer festival tour, so there can be delays - please allow up to a week for some deliveries.
We post first class (to be signed for) via Royal Mail, unless otherwise specified. The hats are delivered in boxes. The headdresses and taller feather pieces arrive in tubes. They can also be stored and travel in these. Headdresses with wing and skull finishes have to be sent in larger boxes, as they are wider and more delicate to transport.
If you're buying a large number of items please email us at email@example.com for a custom shipping quote.


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A faucet doesn't have to be leaking to keep us up at night. Considering how costly home repairs can be, it's a wonder that we ever stop worrying about household emergencies. How prepared are we for a broken water heater or an air conditioner on the fritz? To help understand how consumers around the world save and invest for household emergencies, Nielsen conducted a global study that polled more than 30,000 Internet respondents in 60 countries about current and future financial goals and the strategies we use to prepare for them.
It turns out that, worldwide, people expect to save for unexpected household emergencies. It was the single financial goal (of 14 reviewed) that reported the highest percentage of active savers in North America, Latin America and Europe, and the second highest percentage in Asia-Pacific and Middle East/Africa. Nearly half of Asia-Pacific respondents (47%) said they actively saved/invested to fund this financial goal, followed by Middle East/Africa (40%), North America (39%), Latin America (38%) and Europe (32%).
Whether dollars, euros or yen, it's always helpful to have cash on hand when emergencies pop up. The common thread across all regions was the use of local currency as the primary investment strategy to save for household emergencies: Europe (65%), North America (61%), Asia-Pacific (56%), Latin America (49%) and Middle East/Africa (47%). Aside from cash, other methods to save varied. Asia-Pacific respondents were most likely to utilize whole life insurance (27%), saving plans (24%) and pure-term life insurance (20%). Meanwhile, Latin Americans most commonly relied on whole life insurance (27%), pure-term life insurance (20%) and government-initiated products (20%). And one-fifth of both Europeans and North Americans counted on saving plans.
The report also contains insight into saving/investing strategies used to fund other financial goals, including:
Other findings include:
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Global Saving/Investing report.
The findings in this survey are based on respondents with online access across 60 countries. While an online survey methodology allows for tremendous scale and global reach, it provides a perspective only on the habits of existing Internet users, not total populations. In developing markets where online penetration has not reached majority potential, audiences may be younger and more affluent than the general population of that country. Additionally, survey responses are based on claimed behavior, rather than actual metered data.


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Making Life from Scratch
By Robert Dorit
Artificial intelligence is not human intelligence, nor is synthetic life the same as life with evolutionary history.
Artificial intelligence is not human intelligence, nor is synthetic life the same as life with evolutionary history.
On May 11, 1997, Garry Kasparov pushed his chair back from the table and walked away from the chessboard. After only 19 moves, he conceded the game to Deep Blue, a massive parallel-processing computer built and programmed by IBM. For the first time ever, a machine had succeeded in defeating a chess Grand Master.
Around the world, headlines declared the victory of machine over man. Some proclaimed that a computer was now as smart as a human being. Although the outcome was most certainly a landmark in the evolution of computers and in the field of artificial intelligence, many commentators missed what was perhaps the most profound lesson of that encounter. Deep Blue indeed managed to defeat Kasparov, but only by doing what computers do best: crunching numbers. Some reporters spoke anthropomorphically about Deep Blue's "strategy," but as strategies go, it was remarkably lacking in finesse. Deep Blue mindlessly analyzed virtually every conceivable play and its consequences several moves down the line. After that, the machine countered Kasparov according to predetermined criteria.
Deep Blue's display of computational brute force had nothing to do with the way Kasparov (or even I, for that matter) plays chess. Far from being a defeat for human intelligence, the outcome demonstrated that Kasparov could, through training and intuition, play a beautifully thoughtful game of chess, whereas a computer could play only crudely and mechanically—through exhaustive calculation. It had taken IBM 12 years of concerted work to build a machine powerful enough (not smart enough) to defeat Kasparov. Even so, Kasparov was demonstrably rattled by the result. He should not have been.
I do not mean to downplay the significance of Deep Blue's win. Tremendous human ingenuity went into developing its hardware and software. But the route to Deep Blue's victory underscores the fact that artificial intelligence, although compelling in its own right, is not a silicon-based version of human intelligence. When Deep Blue won at chess, the machine did so precisely by not mimicking the operation of the human brain. Deep Blue did not triumph by being intelligent. It triumphed by being big.
Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory. But here, too, I suggest that language—word choice fueled by an ambitious agenda—misleads us. Just as Deep Blue shed some light on, but did not replicate, the workings of Kasparov's brain, synthetic biology imitates but cannot replicate living organisms.
Today, the prospect of understanding life by making life is no longer untenable.
Fueled in part by the triumphs of reductionist biology—the deciphering of the fundamental molecular mechanisms of life, the full cataloguing of chemical reactions in the cell, and the decoding of genomes—researchers are seeking not just to understand life but also to make organisms that will do our bidding: make biofuels, synthesize pharmaceuticals, make chemicals sustainably, clean fouled water, produce food, and fight disease. Technological breakthroughs, including the automation of laboratory tasks and dramatic increases in computational storage and power (comparisons with Deep Blue beckon) have expanded the scope of synthetic biology. In 2000 the first synthetic genomes, assembled by "cutting and pasting" sequences from existing genomes and then parsing them together, were successfully inserted into Escherichia coli. In 2008 researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute announced the successful synthesis of the smallest bacterial genome, that of Mycoplasma genitalium, over half a million bases in length. In 2010 a one-megabase synthetic Mycoplasma mycoides genome was inserted into a Mycoplasma capricolum recipient cell, effectively transforming one Mycoplasma species into another in a single stroke.
Today, the prospect of understanding life by making life is no longer untenable. The goals of synthetic biology are Promethean, and I suspect that both our failures and our probable eventual successes will indeed end up teaching us about the actual world of the living—just not in the ways we might expect.
Trading on the multiple meanings of the word synthetic, two radically different approaches to synthetic biology have emerged, each of which embodies different assumptions about the living world and about the goals of the field.
The first of these approaches, sometimes called bottom-up or de novo, seeks to synthesize new kinds of cells from scratch. This strategy addresses a profound—literally, a fundamental—question in biology: To what extent is the history of life on this or any other planet constrained by the chemistry of the building blocks of life?
For a long time, questions about alternative unfoldings of the history of life were no more than the stuff of late-night musings at scientific meetings. But my colleagues and I knew the questions to be profound and not merely abstract. Over the past two decades, scientists have begun seriously investigating alternative chemistries and organizations for living systems on other planets. This effort has gained importance as astronomers have intensified the search for life on Mars, and as the estimate of potentially habitable planets in the Solar System and beyond continues to expand. If the only life known (that on Earth) is but one of many conceivable ways of building what is called a cell—a system capable of evolving—then scientists risk overlooking life forms that do not exhibit the signatures of Earthlike life.
In the past, my colleagues were confined to raising such issues without being able to address them experimentally. After all, life reflects its single common origin by relying on nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) for the preservation and transmission of information and on proteins for most of its essential molecular functions. Everything, in every cell of every organism on this planet, evolved in response to these fundamentals. There were quite literally no alternatives on Earth to study.
The lack of points of comparison did not daunt us, however. Instead, a number of labs decided to address the question by chemically synthesizing novel building blocks—modified amino acids and new nucleotides—and exploring how these new chemistries might throw open previously closed evolutionary pathways. This synthesis approach proved to be no simple undertaking: Aberrant amino acids and nucleotides occasionally arise spontaneously in living cells, but they are always bad news for a healthy cell because they can cause misfolding of proteins or stop replication in its tracks. As a result, multiple systems have evolved in all organisms precisely to guard against the incorporation of such novel building blocks into the cell's nucleic acids and proteins. But over the past decade, experimental imagination and persistence have enabled investigators to select variants of existing molecular machinery that can work with these new building blocks. In so doing, my colleagues have succeeded in adding new text to that Rosetta Stone of living systems, the genetic code. New or modified nucleotides expand the canonical A–T and G–C DNA pairings, thus increasing the potential number and nuance of hereditary information. For instance, two novel nucleotides, called NaM and 5SICS, have recently been shown to pair (albeit in an unusual way) within the DNA double helix and can be replicated by the cell's machinery. These novel nucleotides have novel geometries and hence differ slightly in how they pair with their counterparts across the DNA double helix. Similarly, the expansion of the amino acid vocabulary beyond the 20 or so amino acids normally encountered in living organisms, in turn, makes possible the synthesis of proteins with novel stabilities, architectures, and functions.
These are early days still, but new building blocks with unique properties continue to be synthesized. At the same time, they remain compatible with the roles played by existing nucleic acids and proteins. These results already make one thing clear: The world of naturally occurring genetics here on Earth is certainly not the only possible world.
A second approach in synthetic biology, the top-down strategy, aims to create customized organisms from a growing catalog of existing molecular parts. Proponents of this second approach argue that biologists have finally come to describe and understand living systems in sufficient detail that they can now customize those systems to create specific desired outcomes and address specific human needs. I call this the "LEGO view" of the world. Here, the genome is regarded simply as the sum of its parts. These parts are, in effect, modular, and supposedly retain their integrity and function independent of the context in which they occur. If this were so, biological engineers would be able to select desired genes, assemble them into a genome and, in so doing, give rise to an organism that might never have evolved on its own.
Modularity, particularly at the molecular level, seems at first to be quite common in the living world and underlies the entire biotechnology revolution. Modularity, after all, enabled early practitioners to transfer a human gene into the genome of a bacterium and still have it direct the the production of a desired human protein. Nature, too, often trades in modular subunits: Protein domains, individual genes, or clusters of genes that confer particular phenotypes (for example, resistance to multiple antibiotics) have moved from one location within a genome to another, or from one genome to another, all the while retaining their integrity and function. For example, the well-known Hox genes, responsible for controlling embryonic development along a central axis, have undergone repeated expansions, contractions, duplications, and changes of address within eukaryotic genomes while retaining their fundamental role: determining crucial patterns of early development in multicellular animals. And even larger genome segments spanning thousands of genes have, over evolutionary time, moved from one location to another without losing their function.
A short leap separates these observations from the conviction that all genetic information is fundamentally modular, and so can be disassembled and reassembled in virtually infinite combinations. As the catalog of known genetic elements continues to grow, the vision of creating organisms that will do exactly what researchers want them to do beguiles. Synthetic biology promises that the power of the living world, fully dissected and deconstructed in the first triumphant half-century of the Age of Biology, will finally be brought to bear in solving humanity's most complex and recalcitrant problems, from the production of virtually inexhaustible food supplies to the waste-free transformation of sunlight into usable energy.
Despite our growing knowledge of cellular circuitry, engineering novel organisms from existing genetic elements with the use of the top-down strategy has proven surprisingly hard. Individual genes drawn from one bacterium do not always behave as expected when placed in a different host. The more heterogeneous the collection of novel elements introduced, the less likely they are to perform as expected. Regulation, synchronization, and feedback collapse as the subtle conversation underlying all the networks in living systems degenerates into babble.
A truly synthetic cell will be a cell without ancestry, and it will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life.
My colleagues and I wrestle with the seeming contradiction between the apparent modularity of genetic information and the maddeningly difficult task of designing a new organism from preexisting and well-characterized genetic information. The explanation, I suspect, lies in one of the fundamental differences between biology and engineering: the importance of history.
When researchers combine genetic information from disparate sources into a single genome, they are by definition dismissing history. In so doing, they are foolishly expecting genetic elements to behave predictably independent of their surroundings. But virtually no gene is an island, and all genetic information has been shaped by evolution in the context of an entire genome, itself harbored within an organism. As a result, only a handful of genetic elements really do behave independent of their location. Antibiotic resistance genes may be an example: Actively traded among species in the microbial world, they seem strangely impervious to their surroundings—but only because they have evolved to be so.
Evolution is a blind, brute-force experiment, testing innumerable solutions, much like Deep Blue's playing chess by methodically examining virtually every possible move. This natural experiment, ongoing for more than three billion years, is constantly placing functional genetic elements in novel contexts. Sometimes this relocation is the result of an orderly evolved mechanism (such as recombination during cell division), sometimes it is the consequence of unexpected random events (such as breaks in a chromosome or translocation of genes across species barriers).
In evolution's natural experiment every movement of genetic information into a new neighborhood is carefully scrutinized by selection. Genetic elements placed in new contexts coevolve with their neighbors into higher-order networks that contribute to the survival and reproduction of the organism. Those that do not are quickly weeded out by selection. This history of coevolution—of genetic elements having evolved together in the same genetic neighborhood—is what synthetic biology will need to incorporate into its approach if it hopes to realize its stated ambitions.
Similarly, practitioners of the bottom-up strategy have to contend with the myriad ways organisms have evolved to operate with the amino acids and nucleotides that were exploited—in what may have been only a fortunate accident—early in the origins of life. The entire history of life—from its beginnings as organized chemistry—has given rise to enzymes and organelles that are exquisitely dependent on the chemistry and architecture of the existing nucleotide and amino acid building blocks. The complex interlocking cellular machinery of life evolved around this small subset of available (or easily produced) building blocks and simultaneously learned to discriminate against variants and alternatives. As a result, synthetic biologists seeking to expand the size and meaning of the genetic alphabet are constantly contending with history. Other chemical beginnings can be envisioned and synthesized, but the contingent history of life as it has actually unfolded cannot be so easily overcome, and it constrains what synthetic biology can hope to achieve with new fundamental blocks.
Our efforts in synthetic biology have already taught us a great deal. By confirming the fact that life as it exists today is but one realized embodiment amid many possible and by reminding us yet again that contingency matters, the research agenda of synthetic biology has already borne fruit. I suspect that we may eventually succeed in creating an artificial cell from novel starting materials. This truly new synthetic cell may be able to sustain a complex network of coupled metabolic reactions and may even be capable of reproducing and evolving. But I would wager that it will do so in ways radically different from existing living cells.
Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov's mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them. In so doing, it will remind us yet again that biology is not just engineering, that organisms are not just machines assembled from preexisting parts, and that history matters to living systems in profound and inescapable ways.
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I improvised on my standard tart recipe and created a creamy tart composed of a macadamia nut crust and macadamia and peach custard. I sweetened the dessert with smoked sugar from our friends at Bourbon Barrel. When served slightly warm with Häagen-Dazs macadamia nut brittle ice cream, seriously, who could resist?
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Gilbert M. Anderson, the first western movie star, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Better known as "Broncho Billy," the name of the western hero he played in over 300 short films, Anderson was the first western movie star. Furthermore, he played several small parts in one of the first movies ever made, The Great Train Robbery. In 1903, Anderson won a role as a bandit in the film after telling the director he could ride like a Texas Ranger. When it became clear that Anderson could hardly get onto a horse, he was made an "extra" and played several minor parts. Later that year, the 10-minute movie received an enthusiastic reception from the public, and Anderson decided to make a career in the promising new business of telling stories in moving pictures.
Anderson moved to Chicago, which was becoming a minor moviemaking center. After a few years directing and occasionally starring in movies produced by others, Anderson decided to create his own production company. Forming a partnership with old friend George K. Spoor, in 1907 Anderson created the Essanay Company, which would later be credited as one of the best of the early movie studios.
At first, Anderson made comedies, but remembering the brilliant success of The Great Train Robbery, he eventually turned to Westerns. Anderson was one of the first movie producers to realize that the public needed a central character in the movies, a "star" on which they could focus their attention. In 1909, though, there were no movie stars and stage actors were reluctant to risk films. Anderson decided to make himself the star, creating the character "Broncho Billy" out of ideas about the West culled from popular dime novels.
In 1909, Anderson released his first western, Broncho Billy and the Baby. It was an enormous success and convinced Anderson that he should stick with Westerns starring the Broncho Billy character. Over the next five years, Anderson made over 300 short one- or two-reel movies featuring Broncho Billy. Physically, Anderson was not especially handsome or dashing, but audiences liked Broncho Billy for his courageous virtue and bravery.
In 1915, Anderson released his last film in the series, Broncho Billy's Sentence, and thereafter turned to writing. A few years later he attempted a comeback, but by then the western field was dominated by more dashing actors like Tom Mix and William S. Hart. He made comedies for several years before retiring. Later recognized and honored for his pivotal role in the development of the Western, in 1965 he made a cameo appearance in a modern Hollywood Western called The Bounty Killer, his first talking picture.
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