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A number of scandals have erupted in Israeli politics lately. The president and the justice minister have both made headlines for their involvement in separate sex-related controversies, while Prime Minister Olmert himself has been under investigation for possibly receiving an above-market price for the sale of his house. But the scandal that best captures the concerns of ordinary Israelis about the future of their country is the one engulfing Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. At noon on July 12, three hours after a Hezbollah raid that resulted in the deaths of eight Israeli soldiers and the capture of two others and just before the IDF began bombing Lebanon in retaliation, Halutz called his broker and sold off a $28,000 stock portfolio. The story broke a month later, unleashing an ongoing storm of criticism that Halutz was more worried about his personal wealth than the health of the state.
Fair or not, that criticism reflects a broader worry that Israelis are getting so fat and happy that they no longer have what it takes to defeat their numerous enemies. The case that Israel is "slouching toward Gomorrah" is not hard to make.
To begin, one only has to point to Israel's growing prosperity. A nation that began life with a poor, agricultural economy has become the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. The primary topic of discussion prior to the recent war was Warren Buffett's decision to spend $4 billion to acquire a majority stake in Iscar Metalworking, an Israeli precision tools company. This—the legendary investor's first purchase of a non-American company—was taken as a ringing endorsement of the robust Israeli economy.
And why not? Helped by the liberalizing reforms enacted by Benjamin Netanyahu when he was minister of finance from 2003 to 2005, the Tel Aviv stock market is up 87 percent over the past five years and the economy as a whole has been growing at over 5 percent annually. Per capita GDP has soared to over $18,000 a year. That may not seem like much (American per capita GDP is $42,101), but it places Israel solidly in the ranks of the world's wealthiest countries, substantially ahead of Saudi Arabia ($13,316), to say nothing of its poorer neighbors Lebanon ($6,033), Jordan ($2,219), Syria ($1,418), and Egypt ($1,316). In absolute terms, Israelis are 155 percent richer than they were in 1967, when they won one of the most lopsided victories in military history, and 50 percent richer than in 1982, when they last invaded Lebanon.
Tel Aviv and its prosperous suburbs seem little different from metropolitan areas in Europe and North America. Even in wartime. The closing of Israel's principal port, Haifa, and the evacuation of over a million citizens from the north were substantial inconveniences. So too was the partial call-up of army reserves, which affected all of Israeli society. But to a visitor, even in mid-August, there was little outward sign that anything was amiss on the crowded beaches or in the fashionable cafés of Tel Aviv. Hippies with funky hairdos and pierced eyebrows were a more common sight than soldiers with assault rifles.
Eran Lerman, a former colonel in military intelligence, noted the striking differences between northerners living under the rain of terrorist rockets and southerners living in the "Tel Aviv bubble." There is a widespread, if possibly unfair, perception that Israeli governments in recent years have been so preoccupied with stoking the economy that they have been reluctant to take the steps necessary to ensure long-term security for fear of spooking the markets.
In 2000, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew troops from southern Lebanon. The border area was occupied by Hezbollah, which claimed a great victory over Israel, and which proceeded to import over 13,000 rockets and to erect formidable, Maginot Line-style fortifications. Ariel Sharon's government did little about this situation because it was preoccupied with fighting Palestinian suicide bombers. Israel's victory over the Palestinians culminated in the erection of a security barrier along much of the West Bank and the withdrawal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. These were the physical manifestations of most Israelis' intense psychological desire to separate themselves from the sordid reality of the Middle East. They prefer to live in the wealthy, peaceful First World rather than the impoverished, violent Third World. Who wouldn't?
But divorcing themselves from their neighbors has proven difficult. The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was followed by the rise of Hamas, which continues to fire homemade Qassam rockets into southern Israel and to stage occasional raids, such as the one on June 25 that sparked the current crisis. Hezbollah, which has close links to Hamas even though the former is a Shiite group and the latter is composed of Sunnis, joined in the Hamas offensive by kidnapping more Israeli soldiers in the north. Israel had no choice but to send its armed forces back into the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon. But even when forced into war, the government has tried to fight in the manner least costly to its own people and (a less appreciated fact) to the enemy populace.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a former mayor of Jerusalem, and his defense minister, Amir Peretz, a former trade union leader—both national security neophytes—approved a war plan presented by Halutz, the first air force general to lead the IDF. The plan initially called for fighting Hezbollah only from the air. This was reminiscent of the small wars the United States waged in the 1990s (Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sudan), when it relied on bombs and missiles fired from afar and ran away as soon as it suffered any casualties (Somalia). The Israelis quickly discovered what the United States had learned: Airpower divorced from ground action seldom produces decisive results.
Yet Olmert was so eager to avoid a ground war at first that he ordered only limited raids into Lebanon. These met strong resistance from Hezbollah fighters, who proved better armed and more motivated than the Arab foes that Israel had gotten used to defeating handily. Olmert was forced to call up the reserves, but it soon became apparent that their training and equipment were not up to snuff. Complaints about inadequate logistics were rampant, with many soldiers grousing that they weren't even given enough to eat while in Lebanon.
Partly because of delays in mobilizing reservists, but mainly because of his own caution, the prime minister did not order an all-out assault to secure all of Lebanon south of the Litani River until just 48 hours before a U.N.-brokered cease-fire took effect on August 14. The premature end of hostilities kept the IDF from wiping out Hezbollah's terrorist army. Hundreds of rockets continued falling on northern Israel every day right up until the end.
Israel's hesitation is not terribly surprising given the trauma of its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, which finally ended in 2000 amid protests by soldiers' mothers. It's as if the United States were asked to send its army back to Vietnam. Indeed, Israel's "Lebanon Syndrome" has often been compared to America's "Vietnam Syndrome." Both have their roots in the humiliations suffered by a potent military at the hands of less advanced but more determined guerrilla foes, and in the deep reluctance of rich societies to risk their sons in open-ended, low-intensity conflicts.
Many Israeli combat veterans I spoke with expressed amazement and disgust with the casualty-preoccupation of the Israeli news media, whose coverage of the recent war was notable for its lengthy profiles of fallen soldiers and wrenching descriptions of their funerals. So much emphasis on the cost of war was startling for those who remembered much costlier Israeli conflicts. During the first week of the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Israel lost 170 soldiers—more than the 118 who fell in five weeks of fighting this summer. (Thirty-nine civilians also died in Hezbollah attacks.) And, at the time, the 1982 losses were considered remarkably light by the standards of 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973.
"Something has happened to our society when we think losing eight soldiers is a tough day," said Kobi Marom, a retired Israeli army colonel who guided a group of security analysts, organized by the American Jewish Committee, around the battlefront near the Lebanese border. "Well, I'm sorry, it's not."
Not only are Israelis averse to suffering combat losses. They are also, in another parallel with America, reluctant to inflict too many casualties on the other side. While the world's press and politicians decried Israeli soldiers as butchers—some even compared the IDF action in Lebanon, obscenely enough, to the Nazi destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto—the IDF actually showed tremendous restraint. Some Lebanese infrastructure was hit, but only enough to prevent the resupply of Hezbollah and to send a message to Lebanese society about the costs of turning over a large chunk of their country to a terrorist organization. The IDF bombed the runway at Beirut airport but not the new terminal. Bridges and roads leading south, which could have been used to ferry supplies from Iran and Syria, were taken out. So were Hezbollah headquarters in the Shiite suburbs of Beirut. But electricity, water, cellular communications, and other infrastructure in the capital remained intact. Sunni and Christian areas were for the most part spared.
The total civilian toll claimed by the Lebanese government—around 1,000 dead--was lower than the total (1,200 to 5,700 dead) claimed by the Serbian government after the NATO bombing campaign in 1999. (Human Rights Watch later estimated that 500 civilians died in the Kosovo war. In Lebanon, the real casualty count is also probably lower than the official figures released by a government that includes Hezbollah representatives).
In the IDF, as in the U.S. armed forces, targeting decisions that may involve collateral damage are reviewed by military lawyers and approved by multiple layers of command. Some targets are judged off- limits altogether. This laudable humanitarianism is, unfortunately, cynically exploited by non-Western enemies with no respect for the rules of "civilized" warfare devised by European rationalists. Groups like Hezbollah and Hamas fire their rockets from civilian neighborhoods precisely because they know that Israeli commanders will be reluctant to bomb those areas.
Given the American-style reluctance of Israel to suffer or inflict casualties, it is not surprising that the Second Lebanon War ended unsatisfactorily. Surveying the results, many Israelis now lament that the frontier spirit that kept their country strong through decades of adversity has disappeared, killed by rampant individualism and materialism and liberalism. In the pages of Haaretz, Ari Shavit, a moderate liberal and one of the country's most respected columnists, rages about the wrong turn that Israeli society took in the past few decades:
Any national idea was rejected because of the sanctity of the private sphere. Every cooperative ethos was dismantled in favor of the individual. Power was identified with fascism. Masculinity was publicly condemned. The pursuit of absolute justice was mixed with the pursuit of absolute pleasure and turned the reigning discourse from a discourse of commitment and enlistment to one of protest and pampering.
There is some truth to this. And yet it would be a mistake to conclude from Israel's experience—or from the even more severe setbacks suffered by the United States in Iraq—that postmodern societies lack the will to wage war effectively against enemies animated by ancient religious hatreds.
Even the most placid bourgeois communities can display heart-breaking self-sacrifice when necessary. Americans saw this on 9/11 when hundreds of firefighters and police officers rushed into the collapsing Twin Towers. Since then, U.S. soldiers and Marines have fought as bravely and skillfully in Iraq and Afghanistan as their forefathers did in World War II and the Civil War. Likewise, Israeli soldiers fought tenaciously and gallantly when finally given the opportunity to close in on and destroy Hezbollah. The most notable account of courage concerns a major in the Golani Brigade, Roi Klein, who was said to have jumped on a live grenade, sacrificing his own life to save his men.
The fact remains, for all the losses that IDF tanks and infantry suffered at the hands of Hezbollah fighters armed with sophisticated anti-tank missiles, Israeli soldiers won every tactical engagement. There is no doubt that, if given the necessary time and freedom, the IDF would have eviscerated Hezbollah. That was the preferred course of the Israeli public: Polls show a majority wanted to continue fighting rather than accept the U.N. cease-fire. That sentiment was shared by the mayors of towns in the north who met with a group of visitors on August 10 after having been under incessant rocket attack for a month. Over dinner on the Golan Heights, as Israeli artillery shells roared overhead and as Israeli attack jets and helicopters streaked through the night sky popping flares, local leaders told me that they were willing to stay in their shelters as long as it took to eradicate the terrorist menace across the border.
The failure (or, if you like, incomplete success)of this summer's Second Lebanon War was not the fault of ordinary Israeli soldiers and civilians. It was the fault of Israel's current leaders, civil and military, who were shortsighted and irresponsible in their lack of preparation for this war and vacillating and irresolute in its conduct. Those complaints should sound familiar to anyone who has followed the dispiriting course of the conflict in Iraq.
No doubt our jihadist enemies will conclude from the setbacks suffered by Israel and America in Lebanon and Iraq that the West is, as Osama bin Laden once put it, a "paper tiger." Such misapprehensions have long bedeviled liberal democracies. Recall the contempt that Napoleon expressed for Britain as a "nation of shopkeepers." Or the widespread assumption in the 1930s that liberal democracies were finished: that they were too degenerate and decadent to compete with such vibrant ideologies as Nazism, fascism, and communism. That illusion was buried in the rubble of Dresden and Hiroshima. As Dwight Eisenhower wrote his brother on the day that World War II began, "Hitler should beware of the fury of an aroused democracy." By the time the fighting ended six years later, American and British bombers had incinerated more than 600,000 German and Japanese men, women, and children.
Today this might be condemned as a "disproportionate response." The attack on Pearl Harbor, after all, left "only" 2,403 American dead. Yet I sense that even now America, Israel, even Europe would be capable of perpetrating violence on a similar scale if sufficiently provoked. Unfortunately, the way things are going, with Iran and its terrorist proxies growing powerful and increasingly impudent while the Western democracies lick their wounds, we may see this proposition put to the test before long.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.


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Girardi can't put finger on Yanks' success vs. Twins
NEW YORK -- His team's success against the Twins is a little bit surprising to Joe Girardi. Minnesota's been a strong organization for the past decade, and when the two sides meet, they tend to play games like Friday night's contest -- long, close and wildly competitive.
Girardi's first year as New York's manager taught him just what this series has been like. In 2008, the Yankees won all seven games against the Twins, but two went into extra innings and only one was decided by more than two runs.
Five years later, Girardi still can't put his finger on it.
"It's hard for me to say, because it seems like so many of the games are like the games [Friday] night, where it's a hit here, a hit there," Girardi said.
New York entered Saturday off to a 5-0 start against Minnesota. But this season, the margins had been a bit bigger, with Robinson Cano leading the way by going 8-for-17 with three home runs and 10 RBIs against the Twins entering play Saturday.
It still doesn't make much sense, but that's the nature of baseball, and the nature of Yankees-Twins series is that New York tends to win.
"The Twins have been a successful organization over the past 10 years," Girardi said, "and we've probably been fortunate to win as many games as we have."

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Jonah Goldberg seems to get it. In his latest at National Review Online, Goldberg dismisses the idea of an "impure GOP" as a silly wives' tale. His buried lede? Factions of the conservative movement exist solely to profit from the choir - without any intent of even seeking to convert people to the cause.
The good is obvious. The ill is less understood. For starters, the movement has an unhealthy share of hucksters eager to make money from stirring rage, paranoia, and an ill-defined sense of betrayal with little concern for the real political success that can come only with persuading the unconverted.
A conservative journalist or activist can now make a decent living while never once bothering to persuade a liberal. Telling people only what they want to hear has become a vocation. Worse, it's possible to be a rank-and-file conservative without once being exposed to a good liberal argument. Many liberals lived in such an ideological cocoon for decades, which is one reason conservatives won so many arguments early on. Having the right emulate that echo chamber helps no one.
Funny, that. Fortunately, I wrote the same thing a few days ago, provoking Breitbart.com, one such "huckster" outlet seeking to profit from stirring rage and paranoia, to respond with this steaming pile of Breitbart.


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text: Neil Gaiman's hugely popular 2002 children's horror novel "Coraline" has been given the animated 3-D treatment but you may want to keep the toddlers away from this one. Director Henry Selick, previously known for his collaborations with Tim Burton ("The Nightmare Before Christmas," "James and the Giant Peach"), is all too effective at conjuring grody ghastliness. He's less effective at giving that ghastliness a human dimension, a resonance, a reason for being beyond cheap thrills. Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) feels neglected by her mother and father and enters into an alternate world where she is cared for by look-alike parents who prove to be a lot more malevolent than her real ones. At least it's all in 3-D instead of 2-D. Grade: B- (Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language, and suggestive humor.)


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Consider your wedge line-up
You only have space for 14 clubs in your bag so choosing the right ones to carry with you is essential. The really tricky area to get right is the bottom end of the bag. Do you carry two, three or four wedges? What are the ideal lofts? What exactly is bounce angle and how will it help? These are the questions you should all be asking and as club professional, I am here to help you make smarter decisions about which wedges to carry.
The obvious piece of advice is to carry a range of lofts that leave as few awkward pitching distances as possible. A popular option is to carry a set pitching wedge, a 52° gap wedge, a 56° sand wedge and a 60° lob wedge. However, this line-up may not be exactly right for your game and there are more than just these lofts available to make sure you can hit all the key distances when you pitch.
What is bounce?
The other main consideration is bounce. Before we get into the bounce angles you should be thinking about, first I need to explain what exactly it is. If you hold the wedge perpendicular to the ground and look at the head you'll notice how the sole angles down, below the leading edge of the face. The amount of the sole below the leading edge represents the bounce angle.
The bounce angle will help the club to glide through thick grass and sand without the wedge digging, losing energy and causing a duff strike. The simple rule relating to bounce is that the harder the surface, the less you need. From tight lies on the fairway, you need the leading edge to sit as close as possible so that you can nip in behind the ball. From fluffy lies in the sand or rough, more bounce will help the club retain speed through impact for those high-flying, soft landing shots. Having a squad of wedges with different lofts and bounce angles is the key to having a solution to every on-course scenario.
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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Wagner: DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG
|Band 2
Act III, Scene 2: Final Chorus: "[Ehrt eure deutsch]en Meister"
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra--
Alfred Hertz (?)
February 20 or March 21, 1903 (?)
[Slip, undated;, Glackens 64, undated.]
At the opera's end, the populace and principals take up Sach's exhortation to honor German artists, and then turn once again to hail Sachs himself. (In these pages, Wagner asks the soloists to sing along with the chorus, so the soprano heard ascending to the optional high C may well be Johanna Gadski, who sang Eva in all six relevant performances.)
[L'arte Tedesca o]nora
e sia sovrana ognora!
Fin ch'essa č cara al nostra cor,
quand' anche lo splendor
cessasse del Roman,
eterna vivrŕ l'arte del German! ecc.
Gloria! Gloria!
Gloria ad Hans Sachs!
Honor German art--
may it rule forever!
As long as it is dear to our hearts,
though even the splendor
of Rome should crumble,
German art will live forever! etc.
Hail! Hail!
Hail! to Hans Sachs!


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Smeal alumni in profile: Wall Street's 'best athlete' fuses finance and fitness
Smeal alumni in profile: Wall Street's 'best athlete' fuses finance and fitness
Smeal alumnus Mark Rubin, 2008 finance and 2010 masters of business administration, is a familiar face to many Penn State football fans because of his years playing safety on the team. He's pursuing a Wall Street career at Barclays now as a futures trader, but he hasn't lost touch with his athletic roots.
At the end of July, Rubin took part in the Wall Street Decathlon, winning it for the second straight year and retaining the title of Wall Street's best athlete. The decathlon, a charity event in support of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, requires all competitors to raise at least $2,500 to enter.
Rubin said that participating in the decathlon brought him back to his Penn State years.
"I think people choose Penn State to be challenged and push themselves."
— Mark Rubin, Smeal alumnus
"At Penn State I was involved with THON [Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon] and Uplifting Athletes," he said. "The decathlon here on Wall Street raises money for a terrific cause, and that was something I wanted to be a part of."
As an undergraduate at Penn State, Rubin pursued a double major in finance and public relations. And if it seems uncommon that a football player should choose such a demanding course of study — well, it's really not, said Rubin.
"I think people choose Penn State to be challenged and push themselves," said Rubin. "We had mandatory football study halls. We were constrained for time a bit, but we were always pushed to do well academically."
Rubin said that he chose his two majors after talking with a number of Penn State alumni — including football program alums and some who worked on Wall Street. And that same alumni network helped encourage him to apply for the Smeal MBA Program.
"Because of the diversity and the breadth of the MBA Program," said Rubin, "despite my concentration in finance I felt like I was prepared for everything."
And this prepared him well for the challenges of Wall Street, he said.
"Penn State prepared me for my career in every way — not just through coursework and knowledge but also the resources and networks."
— Mark Rubin
"I work with people from all over the world and deal with global markets," he said. "I have to know how everything connects — you can't have tunnel vision in this job."
It wasn't just his curriculum that prepared him well for his career, though. Rubin said that it was the whole of his Penn State experience that gave him the tools and skills necessary for Wall Street success.
"Penn State prepared me for my career in every way — not just through coursework and knowledge but also the resources and networks," he said. "Penn State has a tremendously valuable alumni network."


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Reunion Island in the World Heritage following IUCN's recommendation
"New natural jewels on the World Heritage crown"
Following IUCN's recommendations, the landscapes of France's La Reunion Island, Russia's Siberian Putorana Plateau and the Phoenix Islands Protected Areas of Kiribati have been added to the List of Natural World Heritage sites by UNESCO. The Committee also decided to add Danxia (China) to the List.
Following IUCN's recommendations, the landscapes of France's La Reunion Island, Russia's Siberian Putorana Plateau and the Phoenix Islands Protected Areas of Kiribati have been added to the List of Natural World Heritage sites by UNESCO. The Committee also decided to add Danxia (China) to the List.
Two other natural sites were extended upon IUCN's advice: Monte San Giorgio, from Switzerland to Italy, and Pirin National Park in Bulgaria.
Reunion Island contains the most significant remaining natural habitats for the conservation of terrestrial biodiversity in the Mascarene Island Archipelago, including a range of rare forest type. Towering volcanoes, including steep rock walls and natural amphitheatres, as well as deep forested gorges and escarpments form dramatic scenery of striking beauty.
"La Reunion contains an impressive mosaic of dramatic landscapes and very valuable ecosystems and also serves as a last refuge for the many threatened and endangered species on the entire Mascarene Archipelago," says Tim Badman, Head of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "Controlling alien invasive species will be an ongoing challenge in the management of this property."
Russia's Putorana Plateau represents one of the only centres of plant species richness in the Arctic. The striking natural beauty of Putorana Plateau includes more than 25,000 fjord-like lakes, dozens of deep canyons, rivers and creeks, and thousands of waterfalls.
"The combination of extraordinary landscape diversity, remoteness and naturalness makes the Putorana Plateau one of the truly wild places remaining in the Arctic at a time of increasing pressure on this fascinating region," says Badman. "World Heritage status not only provides a strong and permanent conservation framework but there's a great opportunity to better understand the impacts of climate change in large undisturbed arctic ecosystems."
Kiribati's Phoenix Islands Protected Area is one of the largest marine environments in the world that has remained intact thanks to its remoteness.
"The Phoenix Island's exceptionally healthy species of fish, turtles and its bleaching-resistant corals deserve the highest degree of protection," says Tilman Jaeger, IUCN World Heritage Project Management Officer. "Continued international support to Kiribati for the management of the site will be vital to guarantee its conservation."
Monte San Giorgio is the single best known fossil record of marine life in the Triassic period (245-230 million years ago) and comprises important remains of life on land as well. Vast amounts and diversity of fossils, many exceptionally complete and detailed, have been excavated in Monte San Giorgio.
"Monte San Giorgio is an exceptional place for paleontological research," says Jaeger. "This extension into Italy adds new value to the existing Swiss area, and reinforces this World Heritage Site as the principal global point of reference for future discoveries of marine Triassic remains."
An area of exceptional beauty, the diverse mountain landscapes of Pirin National Park contain a number of important endemic and relict species.
"Pirin is a wonderful example of a diverse mountain landscape," adds Jaeger. "There is a need to balance tourism and conservation and our advice is a clear message that there are ways to achieve this balance but also that some forms of tourism development are incompatible with World Heritage status."


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In an interview with Playboy, Jason Sudeikis says he doesn't think it's hard to date a female celebrity, but acknowledges that in showbiz, women have it a lot tougher than men do.
"Tabloids in general are more about the ladies than the fellas… There are exceptions, like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, but of the nine or so people who are usually on the covers of those magazines, seven of them are women."
Well, yeah. Gossip magazines are marketed to women and feature stories about famous women. That's the way it goes. Gossip's been around since the ancient civilizations, and creates a way for humans to pass information, learn about each other and find common ground. These days, we don't all live in the same "community," so it doesn't always make sense to talk about what went down at the watering hole. And in the defense of Midweek Madness, when making chit-chat with friends, strangers, acquaintances or in-laws, it's easy (and fun) to find a conversation topic if you can all agree that Angelina should really wear green more often, as it brings out her eyes. Safe smalltalk, if you will.
The downside, of course, is the Ms. Judgypants culture that comes from intense scrutiny, and the need to negatively comment on women's love lives and bodies. Women gleefully tearing each other down for entertainment. But let's get real: Given the choice between a Jason Sudeikis cover and an Angelina Jolie cover, you can bet we're spending our hard-earned cash to read about Angie. Sorry, dudes.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Charles Woodson pushed back a visit to Oakland to pursue a reunion with the Raiders because extending his career in the NFL isn't his only mission.
The 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year would've traveled to the Bay Area from Denver after meeting with the Broncos on Wednesday, but he had charity obligations this weekend to support Mott Children's Hospital.
"It's important for me to be here even though I'm looking for a job," Woodson said in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday.
The eight-time Pro Bowl player said he's scheduled to meet with Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie and members of the coaching staff on Tuesday.
"We'll see if things fit," he said at The M-Den before being the part of a WTKA radiothon that raised more than $90,000 for The Charles Woodson Clinical Research Fund.
Woodson's agent, Carl Poston, told The AP earlier in the day that the 36-year-old defensive back had also drawn interest from the New York Giants, Carolina Panthers and other teams he declined to identify.
The Green Bay Packers cut Woodson in a salary-cap move three months ago. He went on to visit with the San Francisco 49ers and Broncos and left both times without agreeing to a deal.
"I thought I would have been signed by now," Woodson acknowledged. "You do have to be patient, but there is some frustration even though I am not the first nor will I be the last guy to go through this."
"I feel confident I'll be playing somewhere next season. I'm feeling great, and I'm ready to roll."
Woodson spent his first eight seasons in Oakland after leading Michigan to the 1997 national championship. He developed a relationship with and a passion for the patients at Mott Children's Hospital while he and the Wolverines made visits.
He later joined former college teammates Brian Griese and Steve Hutchinson to raise more than $5 million over the previous six years for the hospital during the Champions for Children's Hearts Celebrity Weekend, which includes a gala dinner Saturday night and a golf outing on Sunday.
Woodson committed to make a $2 million donation in 2009 to support a pediatric research in his name.
The fund has spent $350,000 this year, according to Dr. Dr. Valerie Castle, to support two surgeons and two cardiologists trying to find ways to keep donated hearts alive for more than three days to improve the success rate of transplants.
Woodson said he is amazed at what the fund has accomplished.
"It's great to be in a position to help people do what they do best, which is to help humanity," said Woodson, who has 4- and 2-year-old boys. "Having two healthy boys, running around and enjoying life, it makes you want to do whatever you can to improve somebody else's situation."
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AMR board to study merger option
Directors of American Airlines' parent company likely won't make a decision when they meet Wednesday to consider a possible merger with US Airways, even as momentum for a deal is building.
Investors have been bidding up US Airways' stock price, and leaders of the two pilot unions agree on how to combine contracts, two developments that analysts say strengthen the case for a tie-up.
Still there could be a way to go. American parent AMR Corp., which filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011, and US Airways Group Inc. have been talking about a potential merger since late summer but have not agreed on price, each side's ownership share, and who would run the company, according to people familiar with the situation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are confidential.
AMR CEO Thomas Horton raised expectations of a speedy outcome when he told employees last week that the company would decide "within a matter of weeks" whether it would be better to merge with smaller US Airways or remain independent.
That fueled speculation that AMR's board would make a decision this week. Bruce Hicks, an AMR spokesman, tamped down the rumors Monday, saying, "I am not expecting any news regarding the review of strategic alternatives this week."
There is no guarantee that American and US Airways will ever reach a friendly deal to create a single airline roughly the same size as United Airlines, currently the biggest, and larger than No. 2 Delta.
Robert W. Mann, an aviation consultant who once worked at American, believes that AMR will try to "run the clock" - avoid announcing a merger decision for as long as possible because rejecting US Airways' overtures could trigger an immediate hostile takeover bid. If the economy and the airline industry grow stronger, a delay gives AMR more time to post better financial results and boost Horton's argument that he's already fixing the company, Mann says.
AMR could use more time to figure out what to do with its American Eagle regional-airline subsidiary, which it has tried unsuccessfully to sell. It could even consider alternatives to a merger such as deeper partnerships with airlines other than US Airways.
"There won't be a rush to judgment because Horton doesn't want one," Mann says. "I think it'll be midyear before anything happens."
Horton's airline could be out of bankruptcy protection by then. A federal bankruptcy judge in New York has given AMR exclusive rights to present a reorganization plan until March 11. American won new, cost-saving labor contracts with all three of its unions.
In a letter disclosed Tuesday, AMR's chief bankruptcy lawyer even raised the chance that shareholders might get something back because of AMR's "remarkable progress" in stabilizing the business. In most Chapter 11 cases, shareholders' value is wiped out and the company issues new stock.
An AMR spokesman cautioned that buying AMR stock is speculative and that the shares could still turn out to be worthless. The shares, which were taken off the New York Stock Exchange but can still be traded over the counter, have gone from 36 cents to 90 cents since mid-November.
For its part, US Airways is hoping to complete a merger deal as early as this month, according to people familiar with the situation. US Airways, the fifth-biggest U.S. airline, declined to comment.
While the prospects and timing of a deal remain uncertain, recent events have increased momentum for a merger, in the view of Hunter Keay, an analyst for Wolfe Trahan & Co. He said a rally in airline stocks gives US Airways more power to pull off a merger by increasing its market value. US Airways shares are up 41 percent since Oct. 1, following a 2.2 percent gain Tuesday.
Leaders of the pilot unions at both American and US Airways have approved a plan for combining their contracts and seniority lists in case of a merger. They won't disclose details, and the plan must still be ratified by US Airways pilots, but analyst Daniel McKenzie of Buckingham Research Group says it boosts chances of a merger.
"At this point, it's very difficult for AMR management to say no, lest they suffer the wrath of their creditors," who expect to get a better return than AMR can offer on its own, McKenzie wrote in a note to clients Monday.
Combining with US Airways would strengthen American along the East Coast and slightly expand its international routes, but airline mergers are notoriously difficult.
US Airways is still dealing with two largely separate workforces nearly seven years after it was formed by a combination with America West. It has taken United longer than expected to combine workforces and reservations systems with Continental. AMR has an unhappy history with mergers; acquisitions of Reno Air and TWA created more problems than prosperity.
Size matters in the airline industry. Business travelers in particular are attracted to airlines that fly more often and to more of the places that they want to go.
American was the world's biggest airline by passenger traffic as recently as 2008. But Delta Air Lines Inc. leap-frogged it by buying Northwest Airlines, and United became No. 1 in 2010 when it combined with Continental to form United Continental Holdings Inc.
AMR and US Airways had combined revenue of $37.03 billion in 2011, just behind United's $37.11 billion and ahead of Delta's $35.12 billion.
Airlines are often ranked by traffic measured in miles flown by paying passengers. By that standard, AMR and US Airways together slightly surpassed United, 207.71 billion miles to 207.53 billion, while Delta had 192.77 billion, according to each company's 2011 results filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


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By Ed Wallace – Fri May 15, 8:08 am ET
"Does the average citizen understand what this means? In from 10 to 20 years this country will be dependent entirely upon outside sources for a supply of liquid fuels paying out vast sums yearly in order to obtain supplies of crude oil from Mexico, Russia, and Persia." — Yale Professor Harold Hibbert, ethanol promoter, 1925
More than one major transportation-based industry in America besides Detroit is on the ropes. For the fourth time in our history the ethanol industry has come undone and is quickly failing nationally. Of course it's one thing when Detroit collapsed with the economy; after all, that is a truly free-market enterprise and the economy hasn't been good. But the fact that the ethanol industry is going bankrupt when the only reason we use this additive is a massive government mandate, is outrageous at best.
Then again, the ethanol lobby and refiners have a solution to ethanol's failure in America: Hire retired General Wesley Clark as your point man and lobby the government to increase the amount of ethanol in our fuel to 15%. The problems with that proposition are real — unlike ethanol's benefits.
Where's the Logic?
First, the primary job of the Environmental Protection Agency is, dare it be said, to protect our environment. Yet using ethanol actually creates more smog than using regular gas, and the EPA's own attorneys had to admit that fact in front of the justices presiding over the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1995 (API v. EPA).
Second, truly independent studies on ethanol, such as those written by Tad Patzek of Berkeley and David Pimentel of Cornell, show that ethanol is a net energy loser. Other studies suggest there is a small net energy gain from it.
Third, all fuels laced with ethanol reduce the vehicle's fuel efficiency, and the E85 blend drops gas mileage between 30% and 40%, depending on whether you use the EPA's fuel mileage standards (fueleconomy.gov) or those of the Dept. of Energy.
Fourth, forget what biofuels have done to the price of foodstuffs worldwide over the past three years; the science seems to suggest that using ethanol increases global warming emissions over the use of straight gasoline. Just these issues should have kept ethanol from being brought back for its fourth run in American history.
Don't let anybody mislead you: The new push to get a 15% ethanol mandate out of Washington is simply to restore profitability to a failed industry. Only this time around those promoting more ethanol in our gas say there's no scientific proof that adding more ethanol will damage vehicles or small gas-powered engines. With that statement, they've gone from shilling the public to outright falsehoods, because ethanol-laced gasoline is already destroying engines across the country in ever larger numbers.
Got a Spare $1,000?
Last July was bad enough for motorists on a budget — gasoline prices had shot up to more than $4 a gallon. But for some the pain in the pocketbook was about to get worse. At City Garage in Euless, Tex., for example, the first of numerous future customers brought in an automobile whose fuel pump was shot. A quick diagnosis determined that that particular car had close to 18% ethanol in the fuel. For that unlucky owner, the repairs came to nearly $900.
The ethanol fun was just beginning.
City Garage manager Eric Greathouse has found that adding ethanol to the nation's gasoline supply may be a foolish government mandate, but it has an upside he'd rather not deal with. It's supplying his shop with a slow but steady stream of customers whose plastic fuel intakes have been dissolved by the blending of ethanol into our gasoline, or their fuel pumps destroyed. The average cost of repairs is just shy of $1,000.
It gets better. Scott Morrison is the owner of the City Garage chain in North Texas and he related the story of his technical director's run-in with ethanol; in December he filled up his E85 Flex Fuel Chevy Suburban at the Exxon station in Ovilla, just south of Dallas. His Suburban died on the spot because even an E85-equipped vehicle will not run on the 100% pure ethanol that Exxon station was pumping that day. In that case it was not Exxon's fault but a mistake at the distribution center, and Exxon (xom.) quickly made good for the cost of repairs.
On Jan. 16 of this year, Lexus ordered a massive recall of certain 2006 to 2008 models, including the GS Series, IS and LS sedans. According to the recall notice, the problem is that "Ethanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal surface of the fuel rails." In layman's terms, ethanol causes pinpoint leaks in the fuel system; when leaking fuel catches your engine on fire, that's an exciting way to have your insurance company buy your Lexus.
Using ethanol will cost Toyota (tm.) untold millions.
An Unpublicized Trend
Though the media is ignoring it, one can easily find many stories on BMW (BMWG.DE) blogs relating to similar problems with fuel systems damaged by the use of ethanol. Certainly that was the case with Christi Jordan and her 2007 Mini. For weeks it was difficult to start; Moritz BMW in Arlington, Tex., inspected it and found severe carbon buildup inside the engine. On her second trip to the mechanics they decided to test the ethanol content of Christi's fuel and found it was much higher than the federally mandated limit of 10%. This time the fuel pump had been destroyed by the ethanol. The repair bill came to $1,200: As in all cases where vehicles are damaged by ethanol, legally the factory warranty no longer applied.
Jim Keppler, Moritz's fixed operations director, said he's had at least 10 other cases of ethanol poisoning in Minis over the past six months. Christi was one of the lucky ones; Moritz covered her repairs. But there's no telling how many motorists across the nation have had to pay for fuel pumps, or fuel systems, that ethanol damaged. Most were probably unaware of the real culprit behind the breakdown because virtually no repair shop tests the level of ethanol in the gasoline when these fuel system problems occur.
And there are active lawsuits from boat owners; ethanol broke down the resins in their fiberglass gas tanks, destroying their marine engines. Additionally, those who deal in small gas engines for lawnmowers, edgers, and weedeaters have quickly learned that, as Briggs & Stratton's (bgg.) Web site warns, "Ethanol-blended gasoline can attract moisture, which leads to separation and formation of acids during storage. Acidic gasoline can damage the fuel system of an engine while in storage. B&S strongly recommends removing ethanol-blended fuels from engine during storage."
Like motorists, if landscaping tool owners put gasoline with more than 10% ethanol in their small engines, that immediately voids any factory warranties. In the case of the Lexus recall, using just a 10% ethanol blend was found to be destroying many of these engines also.
Another Government-Mandated Mistake
It now appears that in just a few years since the government forced ethanol use on the country, engine and fuel system failures caused by ethanol are causing major damage to more and more new and used vehicles. This means the hapless owners are not only paying for snake oil in lower fuel efficiency and more smog but pay again when it damages their vehicles and lawnmowers.
We seem to have forgotten, but the promise of turning over farmland for fuel production was to reduce our nation's demand for imported crude. But until this massive economic slowdown, as Gusher of Lies (PublicAffairs, 2008) author Robert Bryce pointed out, even while the ethanol mandate was being ramped up we were increasing our imports of foreign oil.
Translation: The entire politically stated purpose of using ethanol had already been proven to be a false one before the program even got fully underway.
No surprise there. The premise that ethanol could give America the freedom to one day stop importing oil has always been fraudulent. Another fun fact: If we outlawed gasoline and diesel, thereby removing every last car, truck and SUV from our highways — no vehicles anywhere on any road in the country — America would still have to import oil because we would still use more crude than domestic production can supply.
Why is that? Crude oil is also used to make fertilizers, aviation fuel, home heating oil, and many other products. Not to mention polyester suits for car salesmen.
Comment Now, Public!
Pushed into it by the corn growers' and ethanol refiners' lobbying organizations, today the EPA is starting to go through the public comment phase on increasing the level of ethanol in our gasoline from 10% to 15%. Time and time again we have heard from these groups, who now claim that there is zero scientific evidence that a 15% blend of ethanol would do any damage whatsoever if the mandate for ethanol was raised. As with all statements made by vested interests, few outsiders have actually taken the time to look and find out whether this statement was true.
In fact, it's false.
Not one mechanic I've spoken with said they would be comfortable with a 15% blend of ethanol in their personal car. However, most suggest that if the government moves the ethanol mandate to 15%, it will be the dawn of a new golden age for auto mechanics' income.
One last thought: Most individuals who have had to repair their fuel systems in recent years never had the gasoline tested to see if the ethanol percentage might be the problem. Today most repair shops and new-car dealers are still not testing for ethanol blends. They're simply repairing the vehicles and sending their unhappy and less wealthy customers on their way.
But, where dealer and repair shops are testing the gasoline, ethanol is becoming one of the leading culprits for the damage.
Sadly, when a truly bad idea is exposed today, Washington's answer is to double-down on the bet, mandate more of the same, and make the problem worse. Only this time around motorists will be able to gauge the real cost of ethanol when it comes time to fix their personal cars.


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I just saw the first episode and I have to say...I didn't really like it all that much. It's basically the same as Hajime no Ippo but not nearly as good. It's more like Saint Seiya in a boxing ring than actual boxing. (Although Saint Sieya fans might like that...) I guess this is because the manga on which it's based is so old. I'll give it a couple more episodes, maybe it'll grow on me.
|2004-11-10, 08:49
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And I only got 200 or so downloads on my torrent (raw and script), so no worries. Considering the Elfen scripts only got a few hundred downloads, then the hard subs (based on the scripts) got several thousand...
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While I was downloading the ep, I googled the name, saw a blog review, and was looking forward to it. I knew coming in that it was a bit old, and stuff like that but...
To tell the truth, I didn't particularly like it either.
The story starting in the middle and things like that I don't mind, it's just that, because it was based on such an old title, that if I didn't know better, I'd have thought it was a parody. The style in general is cliche, though it probably wasn't cliche back when, but as it is, right now, it's hard for me to get into it. It all just seems so overly dramatic and cliche, and since it starts in the middle, there's no chance to get to know the characters enough for the drama to build to its current state.
I think the worst bit for me though, is the boxing itself. A mixture of dramatic boxing that's just a little too dramatic for a first ep, and what to me was an unsuccessful illustration of a certain boxing principal, well, it all adds up as too much too soon. I don't really mind the shounen drama all that much, but combined with the boxing, the first ep just doesn't do it for me.
The ending had me wondering if I should stick with it for at least another ep though.
Anywho, that aside, I'm not an expert on subbing or anything, but as a viewer, I think the subbing's pretty good. I admit I skipped the ending theme though.
|2004-11-10, 13:27
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I think it's a pity so many people seem to be turned off by it. Though I can understand why, perhaps because I'm coming in after having read the manga, I enjoy the anime a lot.
I think part of the problem is that they had to skip so much of the backstory, because that's actually pretty strong point of the series. Two runaways trying to make it in a big city, a boy realising that he can't just sit around and cry his entire life away when things don't go smoothly, a young girl that has to struggle between protecting her younger brother and allowing him to grow into a capable man...those things are naturally interesting, at least to me. And the flashbacks just don't give you the same sense of what these characters have gone through and how they reached this point in the series. This is actually the third big match between Kenzaki and Ryuji.
In that respect, I think the anime flounders a bit in the beginning before finding its footing. Shounen fights are at their most interesting when you know the two characters behind them. So for someone completely unfamiliar with the work, it probably seems weird, silly, and boring. I don't think it stays that way for very long--boring, I mean--but if it doesn't grab you it doesn't grab you.
But, at the same time, I don't really think this series is particularly aimed at newcomers. From what I've seen on the BBS on the official site, most of the viewers read this manga in their childhood, so they're able to fill in the blanks the first episode leaves. I myself enjoyed the first ep...but I loved the second episode. I think it gets its groove back there and becomes stronger and stronger as the series continues.
|2004-11-10, 17:10
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Lord Of Darkness
Anyway the anime is great at least better than Monster, Gankatsou, Sounabozu...etc (Of course it's my own opinion not the public)
|2004-11-10, 22:52
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Now that I've read this thread, I'll take this anime out of The Kempis Curious List of Bad Anime and put it in The Kempis Curious List of Anime for Fans Only. I might get more of it too... I liked what little I've seen of SS, and since so many people like it here. It's good to read this forum. (This forum turned me around on Azumanga Daioh... I used to think that anime was odd but forgettable. People here convinced me to watch more and now it's one of my top 10 favorites.)
|2004-11-10, 23:04
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From reading some flattering reviews of series I've found mediocre this season, I can't help but wonder if thise series would have been lauded if it had the right amount of nine year old little girl panty shots. Or maybe if Ryuji had fifteen girls after him... >_>
Sorry, I know that's snarky, but I suppose I'm a little bummed out that there seems to be no place in the modern anime fandom for silly, over the top, passionate fighting series...
|2004-11-10, 23:34
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Haha, is that Patariro in your sig?
Ring ni Kakero, I kinda like boxing so I've been thinking of trying it. But I want to wait and see if Deph will be releasing regularly before I get myself into it. I'm more than willing to give it a fair chance.
|2004-11-11, 00:00
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Rock Lee PWNz
but this season's stilll been pretty good, with RnK, Rozen maiden, Gundam SEED Destiny, Diebuster, Gankutsuou, and BlackJack TV
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Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham performed before an enthusiastic, sold out crowd at Headliners Music Hall Tuesday night. And while it may have been a one-man show – he rocked the house like a full band.
Buckingham took the stage at 8 pm and for the next hour and fifteen minutes made it very clear he is one with the guitar. In fact, he was one with a steady stream of guitars switching them out between nearly every song in a fast-paced, high energy show both he and the crowd truly enjoyed. Time and again, Buckingham demonstrated his mastery of the instrument whether using the fingerpicking style he made famous on the acoustic, or rocking out on an electric guitar. At one point, one fan noted, "He really gets into it!"
The crowd was so strong and responsive throughout the show – Buckingham raised his guitar several times in appreciation and acknowledgement.
He played a number of songs he's written and recorded as a solo artist like "Trouble" and "Seeds We Sow," as well as Fleetwood Mac favorites such as "Never Going Back Again" and "Looking for Love." All were very well-received, but it was "Go Your Own Way," that had everyone singing along.
It's hard to believe Buckingham has been playing music for more than 40 years and turned 63 in October. Thanks to his energy and intensity on stage however, age doesn't seem to be a factor.
He says he's enjoyed doing this solo tour and towards the end of the show referenced how the big machine (playing in a band like Fleetwood Mac) and the small machine (his individual solo efforts) work together. He said it's the smaller endeavors, like the one-man show in Louisville, that keeps him aspiring to be an artist. And he thanked the crowd for being a part of that.
Buckingham has just released his first ever solo acoustic album titled, "Lindsey Buckingham: One Man Show," now available on iTunes. It was recorded during a September 1st stop on the tour in Des Moines, Iowa.
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- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Front center armrest: w/storage
- Front seats: bucket
- Heated front seats
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Power 2-way driver lumbar support
- Power driver seat
- Rear seat center armrest
- Rear seats: bench
- Rear seats Folding position: fold forward seatback
- Split folding rear seat
- Cylinder configuration: H-4
- Drive type: all-wheel
- Engine liters: 2.5
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 26mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 29mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 33mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 18.5gal.
- Horsepower: 182hp @ 5,800RPM
- Manual-shift auto
- Number of valves: 16
- Recommended fuel: Regular Unleaded
- Torque: 176 lb.-ft. @ 4,400RPM
- Transmission: continuously variable automatic
- Variable valve control
- Approach angle: 19 deg
- Departure angle: 22 deg
- Ground clearance (min): 221mm (8.7")
- Ramp breakover angle: 19 deg
- Bumpers: body-color
- Door mirrors: body-color
- Heated door mirrors
- Power door mirrors
- Roof rack
- Spoiler
- Turn signal indicator mirrors
- Compression ratio: 12.00 to 1
- Curb weight: 1,657kg (3,654lbs)
- Engine bore x stroke: 94.0mm x 89.9mm (3.70" x 3.54")
- Engine displacement: 2.5 L
- Engine horsepower: 182hp @ 5,800RPM
- Engine torque: 176 lb.-ft. @ 4,400RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,854mm (73.0")
- Exterior height: 1,687mm (66.4")
- Exterior length: 4,859mm (191.3")
- Front hiproom: 1,410mm (55.5")
- Front legroom: 1,087mm (42.8")
- Front shoulder room: 1,476mm (58.1")
- GVWR: 2,200kg (4,850lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 920 L (32 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 2,144 L (76 cu.ft.)
- Rear headroom: 993mm (39.1")
- Rear hiproom: 1,392mm (54.8")
- Rear legroom: 1,003mm (39.5")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,458mm (57.4")
- Towing capacity: 1,225kg (2,700lbs)
- Turning radius: 5.5m (18.1')
- Wheelbase: 2,746mm (108.1")
- Auto high-beam headlights
- Display: analog
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Forward collision: EyeSight Pre-Collision Braking mitigation
- Front fog lights
- Front reading lights
- Fully automatic headlights
- Lane departure: EyeSight Lane Keep Assist active
- Low tire pressure warning
- Outside temperature display
- Rear window defroster
- Rear window wiper
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
- Variably intermittent wipers
- 4 wheel disc brakes
- ABS brakes
- Adjustable head restraints: driver and passenger w/tilt
- Brake assist
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Electronic stability
- Ignition disable
- Knee airbag
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Panic alarm
- Perimeter/approach lights
- Security system
- Tracker system: STARLINK Safety and Security (Subscription Required)
- Traction control
Dealer Notes
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
- 2.0
Don't buy this car
By KatyK on Monday, May 18, 2020So we have outback 2019 and right now 2020. The biggest problem is a windshield. The windshield of outback 2019 had cracked without any reason,so we came to dealership to change it. Before we did some research and find out that many Subaru's windshields broke very easily since 2015 and there is even a law suite. Anyway dealership contacted the corporate with a claim and it was rejected so we have to pay $1000 out of pocket to fixed and calibrate. While they were fixing it we've got a loaner outback 2020 and guess what it was parked 2 days and windshield cracked again, it's May so there isn't any big difference in temperature, it wasn't raining. I DO NOT recommend this car until the company change windshield supplier. Such a disappointment...
- 5.0
Great Upgrade to our 2011 Outback
By WayneB on Friday, May 22, 2020We replaced our 2011 Outback with a 2020 Outback with nearly identical amenities. The 2011 was our first Subaru and proved to be rock-solid for 150,000 miles so we're hoping the same will be true with this one. I'll start with my my negative comments - 1) the Auto Start/Stop is beyond annoying. Takes a minimum of 3 steps to turn off EVERY TIME YOU START THE CAR. Hoping for a software upgrade that at least moves it to the home page; 2) too many features are driven from the center screen (e.g., HVAC, audio...etc.), which can be hard to see in certain light conditions, making it quite dangerous; 3) way to much focus on fuel economy (we purchased another Outback partially because of its frugality, so I don't need numerous indications of MPG, accelerator depression... etc.). Some of the plastic parts in the back are a little cheap feeling, but at least they don't rattle or vibrate (yet). The dash-board glove-box is a joke - really miss the larger one on the 2011. Still getting used to the myriad of electronic features, so I won't pre-judge. Needless to say - read the book. And again. Now for the good - This 2020 Outback is a pleasant improvement over the 2011. Road handling is much improved (very little body roll and better steering response/feel), fuel economy is improved (32 mpg first tank) even with added horsepower. Interior noise is reduced. Seats are very comfortable (I'm 6/1 250 lbs). Finally, car seats for children can be installed without ruining your fingers and hands (not to mention your attitude for the rest of the day). Also, I change my own oil so the placement of the oil filter is a welcome relief (should be no more permanent scars due to burning the skin off my hands).
- 5.0
Great Vehicle
By Cruisenal on Thursday, November 07, 2019We took a road trip thru Colorado in August 2019 and had an option of a Mitsubishi or the Subaru Outback. I chose the Outback as we had never drove one and knew from ratings it was a better vehicle than any Mitsubishi. It performed very well all over the mountains of Colorado. Nice and comfortable and good mileage. So we came home, went to the Subaru dealer and ordered a new 2020 Outback Touring model. Love this car. It us very well appointed. I do wish there was a couple other leather color options though. But this car handles great. Corners very nice and is quiet. The only thing I dislike about the car is the Auto Stop Start feature. You can't turn it off. You can while using it, but when you turn off the car, the Auto Stop Start reverts back to being on. I want my option to have it OFF until I want to turn it on. Subaru, please change this feature. Most new cars today have this feature, so when your stopped the engine will stop. But this stops the A/C from cooling and that causes the engine to kick back on and off particularly in warmer climates. In a hybrid car, the battery keeps the A/C running when the engine shuts down. So this really needs addressed. Until it is, I want my option to not have the Auto Stop Start feature on or off, not have to change it to off every time I use the car. Another thing to mention is the shifter. When in drive, it's too easy to hit the shifter to the left into manual mode. That could be made a bit harder to do, because the driver or front passenger can easily bump it to the left dropping it into the manual mode. And I did a U turn to the left and I hit the left manual shifter, and the transmission dropped into low gear and of course the engine started racing. I let off the accelerator and it reverted back to normal. So be careful not to hit the manual shifters located behind the steering wheel unless your in manual shift mode. We love the dash electronics interface. Fairly easy to use once your experience using it. Tons of settings to learn. This car has a more stiffer suspension than earlier models. It is very roomy in the rear seats and ample room in front without knocking your knees into the dashboard. All in all, we love this car. My wife told the salesman to be looking for a year or two older Outback next summer when our Ford C-Max lease is up.
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Pregnancy.org Is Great Website For Parents
I recently became acquainted with Mollee Bauer, the General Manager-Publisher for the fabulous Pregnancy.org. After meeting Mollee on a popular social media channel, I made a beeline for Pregnancy.org to check it out.
Although I'm not a parent or wannabe parent, I did write a hair and beauty column for a handful of pregnancy magazines in the late 1990s into 2000. I think it's fair to say I have awareness of what it takes to produce exceptional content in the pregnancy, baby and parent genres.
When I stopped by Pregnancy.org I was completely blown away. The site's mission statement is that they're built "By Parents, For Parents™."
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Pregnancy.org was built to "educate, empower, and connect parents and people try to become parents." The purpose of the site is for "love of children" and the "desire to do" the "very best raising them to become good adults."
If that doesn't impress you away, they also note that they believe "parenting is a sacred responsibility and that education and communication will help us fulfill this responsibility the best we can."
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Pregnancy.org empowers their visitors by providing on-line webinars and educational events, forums that cover fertility, conception, pregnancy, labor, delivery and parenting and more.
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Hair And Pregnancy
The brilliant site offer some interesting and information articles about hair ranging from pregnancy and postpartum hair loss to addressing issues with bleaching, dying or highlighting hair during pregnancy. There's also celebrity hair talk and answers to questions such as whether laser hair removal is acceptable and when during the pregnancy cycle.
Since this website covers all stages of parenthood, they also address preschoolers, toddlers and children who pull hair or have other aggressive hair related behaviors. All parenthood related hair issues are covered in a variety of formats from articles, tips, blogs and columns to forums.
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Pregnancy.org is a for-profit site. They make no bones about it. However, they're not just in existence to make money. They have the highest of ethics refusing to advertise products which might be lucrative, but not necessarily of the highest ethics.
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Bottom line, Pregnancy.org is a group of people working together to create a common goal: the greatest resource and community for people who want to have kids, are pregnant, are raising children or even beginning to take care of our own parents. Nobody's above, or below, anybody else.
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Bella Vista Town Watch
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NEVER EVER gets plowed. Acknowledged100 -- 400 Blocks Of East Walnut Lane Philadelphia, PA - GermantownDaycare center serving 60 families on 300 block of East Walnut Lane is a nightmare to try to reach after a snow storm.
NO TRASH CANS Archived3201-3249 Ryan Ave Philadelphia, PA - MayfairThere is a 2.5 mile stretch called the "loop" were their aren't any trash cans. I've contacted Boyle and Henon's office months ago and haven't been promised anything yet. We have the trash cans, just need someone in the "Streets Dept" to tell them to collect it.
18th Oregon Philadelphia, PA - Girard EstatesLets make South Philadelphia a cleaner place to live and put a new big belly solar powered trash unit so we don't have dirty streets. With chaos on this corner it will be of great use. Please help
924 S 20th St Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA - Schuylkill SouthwestThis new store getting ready to open on the NW corner of 20th & Carpenter Streets is a disgrace. First, they breached the party wall through the back into the neighboring property. Next, they installed an air conditioner unit right out on the sidewalk (Carpenter St side). And today they have installed very ugly & DEFINITELY ILLEGAL awnings. They have no permission, variances or anything else that would be required to allow them to do these things. Neighbors unite against this blight!!
872 N. 40th Street Philadelphia, PA - Belmont872 N. 40 th St. is a church (True Holiness Temple). The building next next to our church, 874 N. 40 St was demolished last month and when the demolition crew completed the work and left it appears that both central air units for upstairs and downstairs also left as they were located in the backyard at 872 N 40th St. This needs needs to be investigated immediately as I am sure the demolition crew was contracted by the city.
Public Nuisance Open2842 W Girard Ave Philadelphia, PA - BrewerytownThis deli not only sells food but also those nice large 40 ounces of beer. It won't be such an issue if the patrons of Non-Stop Deli won't relieve themselves on 29th Street especially in front of residential homes where there are children. Please help the residents of 29th Street by Non-Stop Deli.
738 S Chadwick St Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA - Schuylkill SouthwestThere is a sidewalk/curbside parking issue on the 738-769 block of Chadwick street. Emergency and delivery vehicles cannot access the street and visually impaired pedestrians cannot walk on the sidewalk of the street, all because folks are parking their cars halfway on the sidewalk and street. I almost hit a family of 5 with my car that was walking in the middle of the street because there was no room for them to safely walk on the sidewalk. Citations need to be given to those who illegally park. Phila Parking Auth explains that, in any situation, it is illegal to park on a sidewalk. Most of those who park don't reside on the block at all!
illegal dump Open1238 N. Palethorp Street Philadelphia, PA - FishtownThere is an abandoned house at this location & the back yard has become a dumping ground for all sorts including: bikes, bricks, cartons, & general trash items.
Sidewalk Unsafe Archived305 E Walnut Lane Philadelphia, PA - GermantownNEC Walnut Lane & Morton - brick sidewalk on corner property that has been allowed to become overgrown with grass and weeds and is in general disrepair. Exposed brick is narrow footpath with grass/weeds covering remainder of brick. Uneven brick path is as narrow as approx 18 inches most of the way around the corner. Additionally, property is often strewn with trash on Walnut Lane exposure and overgrown vegetation from property partly blocks sidewalk. Neighborhood is home to many elderly and disabled persons. Children's daycare is just north of property on Walnut Lane.
prostitution and drugs being sold Acknowledged2200 Saint Albans Street Philadelphia, PA - Schuylkill SouthwestThis issue has been reported to the police on multiple occasions to no avail. The building on the eastern end of the 2200 block of Saint Albans is falling apart, with broken and boarded-up windows. Yet it still houses a suspicious-looking "Checks Cashed" store and several unsavory characters, while serving as the location for the ongoing, blatant and shameless sale of both drugs and sexual favors. This is unsightly, a fire hazard, and a drive-by waiting to happen, despite the police's nonchalance. Please help us stop this!
1817 E York St Philadelphia, PA - Kensington
Brickwork on curtain walls on E YORK ST and E BOSTON ST is failing. Brick dust on pavement. Holes in brickwork.
70+ missing/damaged windows throughout complex
Fire tower on E BOSTON ST has collapsed stairs and open entry door. This is unsecured and open to anyone to enter.
Aluminum gate along JASPER ST side of complex is not secure, vagrants entering/leaving complex
Presence of vagrants / fire hazard
Missing roof structure on E YORK side of complex, in danger of collapse
Unsecured elevator shafts in complex - death trap
Large hole in fume tower on E BOSTON side of complex you can see through this hole into the building. Bricks above hole are shifting. Danger of wall collapse.
Missing doors on JASPER ST fire tower. Fire escape decks poss. separating from structure. Poss. collapse hazard.
Drug dealers on corners daily Archived22nd & Saint Albans Street Philadelphia, PA - Schuylkill SouthwestDrug dealers on corners daily around 22nd & St. Albans & 22nd & Fulton. Usually in the evenings on both East & West sides depending on the group and the night.


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Acts on Recommendations Made by Advisory Committee on Biotechnology in 21st Century
WASHINGTON, September 20, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) will soon publish a notice in the Federal Register asking the public to comment on how agricultural coexistence in the United States can be strengthened.
"The Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture recommended that USDA support agricultural coexistence by strengthening education and outreach on this vital issue," said Secretary Vilsack. "In response, with this notice, we are asking all those with a vested interest in coexistence to help us learn more about what coexistence means to them, how they are already contributing to it, and what more is needed to achieve coexistence. With this input, we can continue the dialogue begun by the AC21 group and find practical solutions that will help all sectors of American agriculture be successful."
The AC21 made recommendations in five major areas regarding agricultural coexistence. In the area of education and outreach, the committee recommended that USDA foster communication and collaboration to strengthen coexistence. USDA's notice seeks public comment to identify ways to foster communication and collaboration among those involved in all sectors of agriculture production. The comment period begins upon publication of the notice in the Federal Register and will be 60 days.
Coexistence is defined as the concurrent cultivation of crops produced through diverse agricultural systems including traditionally produced, organic, identity preserved, and genetically engineered crops. USDA supports all forms of agriculture and wants each sector to be as successful as possible providing products to markets in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=AC21Main.xml&contentidonly=true.#
Note to Reporters: USDA news releases, program announcements and media advisories are available on the Internet and through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Go to the APHIS news release page at www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom and click on the RSS feed link.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).


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