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Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy This lesson plan, for grades 3-6 from ReadWriteThink, teaches students to summarize information by graphically organizing information in response to questions, then reorganizing their answers into paragraph form.
Lesson 8: Summarizing Information In this lesson, students practice summarizing by extracting the Five Ws (who, what, when, where, why) and the H (how) from feature stories in local newspapers. The lesson could be adapted for use with other texts as well.
Synthesizing takes the process of summarizing one step further. Instead of just restating the important points from text, synthesizing involves combining ideas and allowing an evolving understanding of text. Into the Book defines synthesizing as "[creating] original insights, perspectives, and understandings by reflecting on text(s) and merging elements from text and existing schema." For students, the site provides the simpler "Put pieces together to see them in a new way."
As with summarizing, this higher-order thinking skill needs explicit instruction and modeling. In her book , Tanny McGregor provides examples of instructional sequences for synthesizing using common objects (nesting dolls), prompts or sentence starters, and a spiral-shaped graphic organizer inspired by the notes written and passed by her students. These activities provide the scaffolding needed to support students as they become familiar and then proficient with the skill and can be used with all types of text.
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Tanny McGregor's book includes chapters devoted to six reading comprehension strategies: schema, inferring, questioning, determining importance, visualizing, and synthesizing. Heinemann's page also includes links to web seminars about various strategies (click on Companion Resources).
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The Supreme Court's recent cases on patent-eligible subject matter have struggled to draw the line between unpatentable fundamental principles, such as laws of nature and abstract ideas, and patentable inventions. In Mayo v. Prometheus, the Court suggested that only "inventive applications" of fundamental principles fell within the domain of the patent system. Both Mayo and its intellectual forebear, Parker v. Flook, anchored this doctrine in Neilson v. Harford, the famous "hot blast" case decided by the Court of Exchequer in 1841.But the Supreme Court has founded the inventive application doctrine on a basic misapprehension. Neilson's patent on the hot blast was sustained not because his application was inventive, but because it was entirely conventional and obvious. In both England and the United States, the hot blast cases taught that inventors could patent any practical application of a new discovery, regardless of the application's novelty or inventiveness. And for over one hundred years, American authority consistently maintained that practical application distinguished unpatentable discovery from patentable invention.The inventive application test in fact originated in 1948, in Funk Brothers v. Kalo Inoculant, which departed radically from the established standard of patent eligibility. In the wake of Funk Brothers, the lower courts struck down a series of patents unquestionably within the technological arts — arguably the precise innovations the patent system sought to promote. This history is largely forgotten today, but it should serve as a cautionary tale of the patents that could be invalidated if the Court maintains inventive application as the test for patent eligibility.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Movie director Steven Spielberg says he chooses his work based on emotion, not business.
The multiple Oscar-winning American director told Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan in a television interview aired Tuesday that he chooses to work only on films that call out to him.
Spielberg is in the western city of Mumbai — the home of Bollywood — to celebrate the success of "Lincoln," which was co-produced by the Indian company Reliance Entertainment.
He attended a glitzy Bollywood party Tuesday night, mingling with several top Indian actors, including Bachchan and his wife, actress Jaya Bachchan, and his daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a former Miss World who is also an actress.

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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday continued to plot the course of the changing local criminal justice system, including voting to seek $40 million in state funds to replace the county's aging, barracks-style Honor Farm with medium-security jail space.
With a 4-0 vote, the board also gave its official approval to a plan already in the works to build a "community corrections center," a residential facility where inmates leaving the jail would have increased access to the kinds of programs designed to smooth their transition to the outside world and help prevent them from committing crimes.
The vote comes three months after a divided board voted to scuttle plans to expand the San Joaquin County Jail, which regularly releases inmates under a court order to prevent overcrowding. The county had money from the state to build the larger jail, but officials balked at the annual cost of operating a larger system and turned down the money.
"I'm glad to see we're moving forward," Chairman Ken Vogel said. "I think this is a good alternative. I think this will serve the county well."
Pressure on the jail to make room has increased in recent years with the advent of "realignment," an effort to relieve overcrowding in the state prison system by sentencing lower-level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons, putting certain parolees under county supervision and sending parole violators to county jails.
But realignment has also brought money to supervise lower-risk inmates outside of jails and create programs intended to keep former inmates out of jail. It has brought together officials from different branches of local law enforcement and other organizations to come up with ways to adapt to the new reality.
That partnership has been developing a new method to release inmates awaiting trial after they have been screened and determined to be a low risk.
Supervisors also heard an update Tuesday on the development of the pre-trial assessment tool.
The three elements - pre-trial screening, the new facility at the Honor Farm and the community corrections center - all have in common the ability to affect the need for jail space in the county, officials said.
"We're looking at ways to do things more effectively," County Administrator Monica Nino said. "Folks that need to be incarcerated will be incarcerated."
Earlier this year, the board approved the spending of realignment funds to pay for probation officers to screen pre-trial inmates for possible release.
Tuesday's vote directs staff to evaluate the feasibility of building a 165-bed community corrections center that would focus on re-entry during the final 30 to 90 days of a jail inmate's sentence. Programs at the center could include job training, medical care or programs to help returning inmates cope with mental health issues or treat drug addiction. The cost is not known, but money from realignment could help to build and staff the facility, according to the county.
And the vote directs staff to develop a proposal to net $40 million from the state toward an estimated $47.7 million project to replace the 60-year-old Honor Farm with higher-security beds on adjacent land. The completed proposal will later come to the board for approval before the Oct. 24 to submit it to the state.
The Honor Farm, on average, houses 405 inmates, which is below the number of beds there because of a staffing shortfall and the security classifications of inmates that can be incarcerated there, according to the county. The project lowers the number of beds at the Honor Farm from 571 beds to 508 beds, but the new facility would have the flexibility to house inmates of different classifications, according to the county. "The replacement beds are more versatile in handling various types of inmate classifications," Senior Deputy County Administrator Rod Kawano said.
Effectively, it would allow the farm to handle about 100 more inmates, officials said. Early estimates are that this could increase operations costs by about $1 million annually.
"We're not increasing our bed space," Sheriff Steve Moore said. "This is straight replacement, taking us out of the late '40s dorm style to a higher-security level that will allow us to better utilize the space that we have, better utilize the staff that we have and provide the much-needed programs that are required for (realignment)."
This plan also includes space for additional programs for inmates.
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By the time your babe is six-months-old, you have getting out of the house down, but now it's time to keep the lil one occupied as you run errands! Mama's diaper bag becomes more of a snack station and toy stash. Until your tot celebrates his or her first birthday, these five essentials in our slideshow should suffice.
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Scottish documentary filmmaker John Samson died at the age of 58 in 2004. But sadly, for someone of his distinct talents, he unceremoniously faded into obscurity two decades before his death.
Samson was a hugely influential artist who never got his due during the seminal years in which he was actually engaged in creating the films he would later be lauded for. It is only in retrospect that his films are being heralded as being too honest, too real and too thoughtful for the British television corporations he depended upon for the distribution of his work. Years after his death he's finally getting some recognition in a case of too little too fucking late.
Samson's films often focused on compelling and unorthodox (for its time) subject matter such as tattooing, fetishism, dwarfism and sex. He approached his material objectively, never editorializing, letting the subject speak for itself. Perhaps it was his own outlaw status that helped him relate to social outcasts, the stigmatized and the proudly defiant.
In 1977 Samson made Dressing For Pleasure, a documentary about ordinary people who enjoyed dressing in rubber and who approached their fetish with a matter of factness that seems almost quaint. The film was an immediate sensation among British fashion designers and within the London punk scene and was promptly banned as a video nasty. It ended up becoming one of the most ripped off British films of the 1970s.
The BBC used segments of Dressing For Pleasure in a 1995 documentary on the Sex Pistols. Having not seen the BBC documentary, I assume the parts they used are the scenes with Jordan in Vivienne Westwood's boutique Sex and the one where it is alleged that it is Malcolm McClaren's oversized head stuffed into the inflatable black rubber gimp mask. Exactly where John Lydon wanted him.
During Vivienne Westwood's 2004 career retrospective in London, Dressing For Pleasure ran on a continuous loop and Julien Temple featured the Sex segments in his Pistols documentary The Filth And The Fury.
The lasting impression of Samson's film is not of aggressive provocation (of which punk was often accused by its mainstream detractors) but of an affectionate tribute to a characteristically English strain of bloody-minded eccentricity.
John Samson and his plastic fantastic lover.
The long overdue appreciation for John Samson is a small victory for good art. He's not around to benefit from it. His heart knocked him out the game. I wonder if the stress of the competitive art world, the politics and business of it all, was just more than he cared to handle. The hassle of selling yourself can be deadening. His style of egalitarian filmmaking was life embracing and opened up doors into worlds that may have seemed strange to some but contained a certain purity that was undeniable. He found the flesh under the rubber. But perhaps he couldn't put up enough latex and plastic between himself and the corporate pigs to protect his own beating heart and it attacked him.
The director Don Boyd, an executive producer on The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, is still appalled by the ease with which John Samson was allowed to fade away. "He represented a different breed of film-maker," Boyd says. "He had commitment, vision and a respect for the truth. He was criminally ignored by tyrants in an editorially fascist television era which, thank God, looks as if it's coming to an end. His best work represents everything they have destroyed."
Here's the rarely seen Dressing For Pleasure in its entirety. As you watch it, take notice of how beautifully the film is composed and shot. At times I'm reminded of the films of Kenneth Anger.


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Actress and model Gal Gadot, best known for her work in the "Fast & Furious" film franchise, has been cast as Wonder Woman in Zack Snyder's upcoming "Man of Steel" sequel.Link
Gal Gadot as Gisele in 2011's "Fast Five." (Jaimie Trueblood / Universal Studios)Link
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Wonder Woman is finally coming to the big screen.
Gal Gadot has been cast as Diana Prince in Zack Snyder's upcoming untitled Superman/Batman film.
The film is set to begin shooting early next year and to make its way into theaters July 17, 2015.
"Wonder Woman is arguably one of the most powerful female characters of all time and a fan favorite in the DC Universe," Snyder said in a statement. "Not only is Gal an amazing actress, but she also has that magical quality that makes her perfect for the role. We look forward to audiences discovering Gal in the first feature film incarnation of this beloved character."
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Gadot, the Israeli actress and model who is best known for her work in the "Fast & Furious" films, will join a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, who portrayed Superman in Snyder's "Man of Steel" earlier this year, and Ben Affleck, who takes over the role of Batman from "Dark Knight" trilogy actor Christian Bale
Affleck, of course, has a history in the superhero genre. He previously starred as the blind Marvel hero Daredevil in writer-director Mark Steven Johnson's 2003 film.
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Dartmouth rallies for big Saturday night hockey win
February 17. 2013 8:04PM
Dartmouth's hockey team turned a disastrous situation into a victory.
The Big Green, down 4-3 in the third period against the ECAC's 11th-place team, Colgate, rallied for two goals in the final 8:26 to prevail, 5-4, before 3,924 fans at Thompson Arena on Saturday night.
The win enabled Dartmouth to break a four-game winless streak. A loss would have meant a pointless home weekend for the Big Green, who succumbed to another second-division squad, Cornell, on Friday night.
Sophomore Jesse Beamish scored twice for Dartmouth, including the tying goal off a rebound at the 11:34 mark of the third period. Fellow soph Eric Neiley potted the winner with 5:19 remaining, tapping one home from the doorstep after some nice passing during a power play.
Freshman goalie Charles Grant made 29 saves for Dartmouth, including some beauties with the Big Green trailing in the third.
Dustin Walsh also scored for 17th-ranked Dartmouth, 8-7-3 in the ECAC and 12-9-4 overall. Colgate dropped to 5-10-3 in the conference, 13-13-4 overall.
The Big Green are tied for fifth with Yale with 19 points. They are one point behind third-place St. Lawrence and Union, and two points behind RPI.
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The Mets received good news on three pitching questions this afternoon, two of them were injury related.
Despite not liking his performance, Zack Wheeler threw three scoreless innings to highlight the Mets' 8-2 victory over Atlanta. In addition, there were positive reports regarding Jonathon Niese and closer Bobby Parnell.
It was more than just numbers for Wheeler, who said he'd like to forget about his performance, adding he was overthrowing his change-up.
"Today was really just going out there and working on some stuff, just because you're going to face those guys at times during the season,'' Wheeler told reporters in Port St. Lucie. "I was trying to work on my changeup. I was a little erratic, because I was sort of rotating my shoulders a little bit.
"Every time you get out there on the mound, it's been a little problem for me. There's a little too much adrenaline, I guess.''
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* Niese said he would be able to make his exhibition debut Tuesday against St. Louis in Jupiter, Fla. Niese is coming a strong performance in an intrasquad game Thursday. Niese complained of a sore shoulder earlier in camp and underwent a MRI, Feb. 26.
* Parnell made his first game appearance since last July, and gave up a run in one inning. He was pleased with how he reached another level to blow away Tyler Greene to end the game.
* Veteran relievers Kyle Farnsworth and Jose Valverde combined to throw three scoreless innings.
* Center fielder Juan Lagares threw out Andrelton Simmons attempting to advance from first to third. Lagares set a club-rookie record with 15 outfield assists last season.


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STOCKTON - On Dec. 4, 1997, Joshua Daniel, an angry 15-year-old, stood next to Interstate 5 at Smith Canal and threw a chunk of concrete that would forever change his life and that of Sacramento trucker Billie Collins.
STOCKTON - On Dec. 4, 1997, Joshua Daniel, an angry 15-year-old, stood next to Interstate 5 at Smith Canal and threw a chunk of concrete that would forever change his life and that of Sacramento trucker Billie Collins.
Struck in the forehead, Collins remains to this day at age 60 in a vegetative state. Daniel, now age 26, is a California prisoner, serving out a sentence for assault with a deadly weapon.
On Wednesday, Daniel took the witness stand wearing red prison clothes and shackles and quietly described how he chucked a 2 1/2-pound piece of concrete at the passing big rig.
"Much like a baseball player would throw a baseball - overhand," he said. "I would say, if I was a pitcher and I beaned someone, it would probably hurt them."
Daniel is a key witness in the civil trial launched by Collins' wife, Barbara. Her attorneys argue that Caltrans should have fenced off the roadway there and that Navistar International Corp. failed to build Collins' rig with a windshield that protected its driver.
Attorneys for the state and truck manufacturer have said in court that there was nothing their clients could have done to prevent Daniel from harming Collins.
Led in by a bailiff, Daniel quietly walked across the courtroom to the sound of his shackles. The 5-foot-9, 180-pound inmate wore a neatly trimmed beard and round glasses. He showed little expression on his face, other than a solemn look.
San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Lauren Thomasson is overseeing the case argued by 11 attorneys before a full panel of 12 jurors and 12 alternates.
Answering questions first from Collins' attorney, Davey Turner, and then the defense lawyers, Daniel described much of what happened but said details escaped his memory more than 10 years later. He repeatedly said: "I can't clearly remember" or "I can't recall."
The morning of the tragedy, Daniel recalled wandering to the levee south of Smith Canal at Interstate 5, angry, in part, at his strict step-father. For about 10 or 15 minutes he said he picked up pieces of asphalt or concrete and threw them at three to five northbound vehicles.
He hit most of his targets, and the final throw squarely struck Collins 20 to 30 feet away, Daniel said. Turner asked what next happened to the big rig.
"It went out of eyesight," he said. "And I heard a large crash."
After pleading guilty, Daniel was sentenced to 12 years. He extended his sentence by two years for having a weapon in prison, his attorney Gregory Davenport said outside of court. He was brought down from the High Desert State Prison in Susanville to testify.
Collins' wife sat observing the trial. She said outside of court that the trial has thrust her again into an emotional roller coaster. She hadn't set eyes on Daniel for a decade since his criminal proceedings, she said. His demeanor appeared changed to her.
"I at least feel now that he has a little remorse," she said. "Maybe he's had time to think about it."
She broke down when asked to describe her husband, who is under constant care in a home and fed through a tube. She said he is blind and used to recognize her voice. Anymore, he's "not there," she said.
Daniel is expected to continue his testimony today.
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Exeter Hospital faces lawsuit from latest drug diversion caseJAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
August 04. 2014 7:34PM
BRENTWOOD — A Stratham woman filed a lawsuit against Exeter Hospital for allegedly being a victim of drug diversion by a former EMT who was convicted of taking 100 micrograms of fentanyl.
The lawsuit in Rockingham County Superior Court comes roughly three months after the former EMT, Peter McGlynn, pleaded guilty in federal court to obtaining controlled substances by fraud. He is expected to be sentenced Aug. 28.
The incident happened Jan. 16, months after another employee diverted fentanyl and caused a hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital that left 32 patients infected with the virus.
The woman, identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, is a 33-year-old married mother of two from Stratham. She was not infected with any virus by McGlynn. But the woman's lawyer said her client endured nearly an hour of excruciating pain, until she was given more fentanyl.
Lindsey B. Gray said in court papers that her client woke in the middle of the night Jan. 16 with a sharp pain in her lower right abdomen "so excruciated that she was reduced to the fetal position."
The woman and her husband drove themselves to the hospital and learned the pain was caused by an ectopic pregnancy, the lawsuit says. An emergency room doctor prescribed 100 micrograms of fentanyl to the woman, and directed a nurse to administer the drug, according to Gray. But the nurse "delegated that important task to Peter McGlynn, an EMT whose primary responsibility was typically limited to providing care outside the hospital setting," the lawsuit says.
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"He appeared super chatty to the point of nervousness," Gray said in the lawsuit. "At one point, he tried to stay in Ms. Doe's room during a gynecological exam, but his presence was barred by hospital staff."
Former hospital technician David Kwiatkowski was sentenced in December for infecting 32 patients at Exeter Hospital between April 2011 and May 2012 through drug diversion. He spread hepatitis C to unwitting hospital patients by injecting himself with the painkiller, then allowing the dirty needles to be used by patients. He is currently serving a 39-year federal prison sentence.


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2011 Hyundai Tucson ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Strong value in a compact SUV.
Launched all-new for 2010, the Hyundai Tucson employs the latest technology. A compact crossover SUV, the Tucson is shorter in length but slightly wider than its chief rivals, the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape and Subaru Forester. The Tucson is available with front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive.
For 2011, the Hyundai Tucson lineup includes a new value-priced Tucson GL with a smaller, more fuel-efficient 2.0-liter engine and front-wheel drive. The 2011 Tucson GL rates an EPA-estimated 23/31 City/Highway mpg when equipped with its optional 6-speed automatic transmission. The 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine is rated at 165 horsepower.
The Tucson GLS and Limited models are powered by a 176-horsepower 2.4-liter engine. 2011 Tucson Limited and GLS models come with more standard equipment than before.
The 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine in the Tucson GLS and Tucson Limited wins the power-to-weight battle, the key to good performance with good fuel mileage, against every four-cylinder competitor except the turbocharged Forester XT. The 2.4-liter four-cylinder achieves an EPA-estimated 22/31 mpg City/Highway. The GLS and Limited come standard with the 6-speed automatic. This compact, extremely light transmission places Hyundai in an elite group of manufacturers who have built their own 6-speed automatic. We think it's a superb transmission and it offers better fuel economy ratings than the standard 5-speed manual gearbox.
Inside, the cabin is a model of straightforwardness and simplicity. It's excellent ergonomically, meaning everything is easy to reach and operate. The materials are nice. The seats are supportive and comfortable. There's plenty of room in both the front and rear seats, with comfortable seating for four, capability for five.
Though Korean, the Tucson design is decidedly European in flavor, sporty and aggressive, capturing the crisp, agile look German styling studios are famous for. And the Tucson skillfully tricks the eye, to its benefit. Just as the huge Audi Q7 manages to appear smaller and more athletic than it is, the new Tucson does just the opposite. Its high beltline and squinty side-window configuration make the Tucson appear larger and more capacious than it really is. This may give the buyer a feeling of getting more for the money.
In short, the Hyundai Tucson is a well calculated vehicle that delivers roomy interior space, crisp performance and very good fuel efficiency.
The 2011 Tucson GL ($18,745) comes with cloth upholstery, air conditioning, AM/FM/satellite radio/CD/MP3 audio with six speakers, iPod/USB input jacks, iPod cable, roof antenna, power windows, mirrors and locks, remote keyless entry, trip computer, tilt steering, front and cargo area power outlets, bottle holders in all four doors, rear armrest with cupholders, 60/40 split fold-down rear seatback, bodycolor rear spoiler, rear wiper and washer, and 17-inch steel wheels. Tucson GL comes standard with the 5-speed manual but is available with Hyundai's 6-speed automatic transmission ($19,745). The GL is front-wheel drive only.
Tucson GLS 2WD ($21,845) upgrades with leatherette upholstery with cloth inserts, leather-wrapped wheel and shifter, Bluetooth hands-free phone, illuminated vanity mirrors and glovebox, cruise control, steering wheel audio and cruise controls, faux leather inner door trim, soft-touch interior paint, black garnish moldings, and silver roof rails, 17-inch alloy wheels, bodycolor door handles, heated fold-away outside mirrors, privacy glass, roof cross rails, and an engine cover. The GLS comes standard with the 6-speed automatic. The GLS is available with AWD and heated front seats ($23,495). The GLS Navigation Package ($2,000) adds touch-screen navigation, a review camera, premium audio with external amplifier and subwoofer, and automatic headlights.
Tucson Limited ($24,695) and Limited AWD ($26,195) upgrade to leather seating, heated front seats, eight-way adjustable driver's seat, power lumbar support for driver and front passenger, dual-zone automatic temperature control, solar glass, cargo cover, chrome grille and door handles, automatic headlights, front foglights, front wiper de-icer, side repeater exterior mirrors, and 18-inch alloy wheels. New for 2011 are an auto-dimming inside mirror with HomeLink, and high-tech shock absorbers called Amplitude Selective Dampers (ASD) from German supplier Sachs. The Limited Premium Package ($2,850) adds navigation with rearview camera, premium audio, and a panoramic sunroof that deletes the roof rack.
Safety features on all Tucson models include electronic stability control, traction control, hill-start assist, downhill brake control, four-wheel disc brakes, ABS, EBD, brake assist, six airbags with rollover sensor, active front adjustable head restraints, lane-change assist turn signals. All-wheel drive is optional.
This crossover SUV is nothing if not modern. The Hyundai Tucson takes advantage of the current European taste for dynamic thrusting forms and aggressive angularities. It has swoopy lines darting to and fro along its flanks, nose and tail. The side windows have not the slightest hint of being rectangular, with the little triangular windows behind the C-pillar almost squinted shut.
The Tucson has an athletic, muscular look, the four wheels barely contained by their swollen, stuffed-tight wheel arches. A huge, deeply slanted windshield provides excellent forward perspective for the driver, but for rear seat passengers, looking out of the Tucson's narrow side windows is a little like peering out the gun slit of an armored car.
And there will be those who find the Tucson's exterior a little busy looking, while others will find that standing next to the Tucson and looking down its door sides, it looks oddly slab-sided, bigger and heavier than it really is.
As always, there is ample room for debate about the Tucson's styling. The one point that is not debatable is this crossover's high expectations. Its styling is up to the minute, as aggressive as any crossover in the world market. For those youngish families with a taste of sportiness, Hyundai has opened the door wide.
The Hyundai Tucson is roomy and comfortable. The front seats are excellent both in terms of firm support and quality leather. The one-touch up/down driver's power window is one of those conveniences that once you've gotten used to it, you'll never be satisfied with less. Back seat room is lavish for two, adequate for three. If you're looking for a third row, forget it. This is a compact crossover.
The first thing that strikes you climbing into the Tucson is its reassuring feeling of harmony and simplicity. This car's chief designers and stylists may have been German, but in the Tucson there is no hint of the German tendency towards self-indulgent complexity, of making you learn all over again how to do something you already know perfectly well how to do. Decidedly to the contrary, the Tucson offers excellent ergonomics, that all but lost discipline of making a car's controls self-explanatory and intuitive. This Hyundai gets an A-plus in the avoiding annoyances category.
The dashboard's black pebble-grain covering is handsome and anything but econo class. The dashboard instruments are straightforward and dignified, with a water temperature and fuel gauge delivered in electronic readouts. To the left of the steering column are controls for hill assist, a stability-control off switch and the differential locker control. Cruise control and audio switches are provided on the steering wheel, with phone controls partially hidden inside the wheel rim.
The center console is simply laid out, offering audio controls, a navigation system and Bluetooth MP3 capability. Here we encountered one weakness in the Tucson, its forward-slanting navigation screen was all but blinded by glare on sunny days. On the other hand, it is blessedly straightforward to use, with a proper radial knob provided for tuning the audio. Defrost front and rear and individual seat-heater controls are easily selected, while XM is the satellite server of choice, and it should be. Life should always be this easy. But in too many other cars, it isn't. The Tucson interior deserves an A.
Driving Impression
The Hyundai Tucson is reasonably agile and responsive, competitive with the other small utilities in its class, such as the CR-V and Escape.
Hyundai's 2.4-liter engine is smooth and quiet in normal driving, but accelerating hard onto a freeway to join the flow of traffic, its thrust is only adequate and the yowl it makes reminds you that it has a small, four-cylinder engine. The 2.4-liter engine is rated 176 horsepower at 6000 rpm and 168 pound-feet of torque at 4000 rpm. It's comparable to the other four-cylinder engines in this class, which do not offer the thrust of a more powerful but more expensive V6. Fuel economy for the 2.4-liter Tucson engine is 22/31 mpg with front-wheel drive.
The Hyundai-designed 6-speed automatic transmission is smooth-shifting and excellent, giving the Tucson a big advantage in efficiency over other vehicles in its class. Additionally, its manual shifting capability is particularly good. In all but the most dramatically ill-advised shift requests, it gives you the gear you command.
The Tucson GL 2.0-liter engine features dual overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, continuously variable valve timing and a variable intake system. The 2.0-liter produces 165 horsepower at 6200 rpm and 146 pound-feet at 4600. We haven't driven the Tucson GL with the 2.0-liter engine. As the GL is not significantly lighter than the GLS, we have to suspect that performance suffers accordingly. The automatic 2.0-liter is the fuel-economy champion of the line, albeit only by a whisker, with an EPA rating of 23/31 mpg City/Highway. EPA mileage estimates for the 2.0-liter with manual transmission are only 20/27 mpg.
In states that follow California regulations, the GLS and Limited are Partial Zero Emissions Vehicles (PZEV), with horsepower reduced to 170 hp and torque to 163 pound-feet. Pricing and equipment remain the same, so you can satisfy your environmental good intentions with little or no sacrifice.
The motor-driven electric power steering is one of the Tucson's greatest strengths. We found it perfectly calibrated, giving firm steering response and flawless road, leaving us no excuse to become uninterested in the driving experience. Absolutely first class. For 2011, Hyundai says it's even better integrated into the vehicle's Electronic Stability Control.
Ride and handling are good. In corners, the chassis had only mild roll, as would be expected of a vehicle engineered and tuned in Germany.
However, we noted a significant difference between the front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive versions. Ride quality with the all-wheel-drive models was noticeably harsher than that of the front-drive versions. This proved particularly true when driving the top-of-the-line Limited AWD with 18-inch wheels and therefore tires with shorter sidewalls. This is not to say that the AWD chassis is terrible, and if your planned use for your vehicle dictates all-wheel drive for climatic reasons, then the AWD Tucson will serve your purpose admirably. But if you have no particular need of all-wheel drive, save some money, and get a gentler front-wheel-drive package.
We found the brakes felt good with firm pedal feel and exemplary modulation, meaning nice, smooth, precise stops. All in all as utilities go, a satisfying driving package.
The Hyundai Tucson is a compelling choice among compact SUVs. Tucson offers a lavishly equipped package, with all the engineering, comfort, and over-the-road advantages demanded of a contemporary crossover utility. Far from being just Korean, this vehicle is nothing less than world class, at a price slightly below world class.
Ted West filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com after his test drive of the Tucson upstate New York.
Model Lineup
Hyundai Tucson GL 2WD ($18,745), automatic 2WD ($19,745); GLS 2WD ($21,845), AWD ($23,495); Limited 2WD ($24,695), AWD ($26,195).
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Premium Package ($2,850) includes panoramic sunroof, navigation system, rearview camera, premium audio w external amp and subwoofer; PZEV (no charge).
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Hyundai Tucson Limited AWD PZEV ($26,195).The Hyundai Tucson features a sleek and fluid exterior design and competes in the popular CUV (Crossover Utility Vehicle) segment. The Tucson is offered in front-wheel and four-wheel drive arrangements, and is available in GL (FWD only) GLS, and Limited trims. The GL is powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder with a standard five-speed manual or an optional six-speed automatic transmission. GLS and Limited trims receive a 176-hp 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine mated to either a six-speed manual transmission or a six-speed automatic transmission. Standard safety features include six-airbags, anti-lock brakes with electronic brake assist, electronic stability control, traction control and active front head restraints. The Tucson receives several notable changes for 2011. A new GL base trim has been added that features a 2.0-liter four-cylinder and five-speed manual transmission (optional six-speed automatic). The GLS now boasts standard 17-inch alloy wheels, telescopic steering wheel, cloth seats with leatherette bolsters, Bluetooth, leather-wrapped shift knob and steering wheel, and more. The Limited gains a standard auto-dimming interior rearview mirror with HomeLink.
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Penn State said Monday its fundraising efforts rebounded last year after a drop-off in donations followed the arrest of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on child molestation charges.
Total alumni giving reached nearly $88 million in the year that ended in June, up from about $71 million a year earlier but still down from $131 million in 2010-11. That year a major donation for the school's ice hockey program caused a spike in total donations.
The total number of donors rose to an all-time high of about 193,000, and the school was 92 percent of the way toward meeting a $2 billion goal for a campaign that began in 2007. "For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students" has raised $400 million for facilities and $688 million toward the endowment, in addition to hundreds of millions of additional funds.
Rod Kirsch, vice president for development and alumni relations, said giving to the university remained solid despite the Sandusky scandal, a transition to a new president, a rough national economy and uncertainty about federal tax laws.
"The resiliency and commitment of the Penn State family is pretty remarkable," Kirsch said. "A lot of universities would love to have a base of 193,000 donors."
Total receipts, a measure of how much the money the university actually collects, amounted to about $238 million last year, an increase of $29 million from a year earlier.
The arrest of Sandusky and two university administrators in November 2011 was followed last summer by Sandusky's conviction and the release of a damning report, commissioned by Penn State, about how the school handled complaints about the former coach's encounters with children.
The school's trustees are meeting in southwestern Pennsylvania on Friday, which will mark a year since the release of the Freeh report, as it has become known.
Some alumni have objected to how the school handled the Freeh report, which was critical of the actions by former head coach Joe Paterno, who died of lung cancer in January 2012.
Others have criticized the university's consent agreement with the NCAA, made a year ago, that avoided a complete ban on football but kept the football team out of post-season play for four years, and required a $60 million fine, among other things.
Sandusky is serving a lengthy prison sentence and pursuing appeals. Former administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, and former school president Graham Spanier, await trial for an alleged cover-up of Sandusky complaints, charges they all deny.
Kirsch said fundraising has been resilient despite the two years of negative publicity and turmoil.
"`There has been a lot of noise on a variety of items," Kirsch said. "But at the end of the day I think you ultimately go back to resiliency."
"The proof is in the numbers, and the numbers have remained very strong here," he said.


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What a great time to be a Steeler fan, the Bungals are coming to town ! You know they've been pointing to this game all off season and ever since camp started. Everytime you hear them do an interview, "I can't wait to play Pittsburgh again" or "Yeah we want another shot at them" .
Bring it on boys, we're waitin for ya ! You think you're all that? One of the best teams in the league? We knocked you out of the playoffs last year and we're knocking you back down a few notches this sunday afternoon !


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On a faster computer, autoloading might not be a big deal. But on this 300Mhz Pentium II, it causes a considerable boot delay.
The problem, as I understand it, is that the autoloading sequence first senses the modules you need, then loads them in the correct order.
Which is fine, except on a machine like this — a laptop, with no real opportunities for hardware changes — it's really only needed once. After that, if I run into a hardware switch, autosensing the modules it needs would probably be nice. But that's one boot out of a thousand, and I'm just weird enough to convince myself that I need a rebuild if I get a new piece of hardware. I'm a glutton for punishment. … 🙄
Disabling autoloading does cause one problem, though: Modules have to be inserted in the proper order for some of them to work. It's just like dependencies. If you try to start something and it's missing another piece, it's going to crap out on you. Only this time you'll be left without a mouse. Or video. Or a functioning hard drive.
I installed hwdetect via pacman, and started it with the –show-modules flag. This is the output, on my nifty Dell Latitude CPi A300XT:
AGP : agpgart intel-agp
PATA : ata_generic
SATA : ata_piix
USB : usbcore uhci-hcd
NET : ppp_generic slhc ieee80211_crypt hermes hostap hostap_cs orinoco orinoco_cs
INPUT : evdev pcspkr psmouse serio_raw tsdev
PCMCIA : pcmcia pcmcia_core rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket
SOUND : snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-bus snd-ac97-codec snd-nm256 soundcore
OTHER : cdrom lp ppdev rtc i2c-piix4 i2c-core parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp
Unless I'm mistaken, those are all the modules this system needs to function properly.
I've seen another way of doing this since I tried it, a couple of days ago. This is modified slightly from a seemingly unrelated post on the Arch forums:
modprobe -a --show-depends $(find /sys/devices/ -name modalias -exec cat {} + ) | sort -u
I think the net effect is the same, although the second method does leave in the paths to the modules. For my purposes, the first method was preferable. I copied that into a text file and made it into a raw list of modules.
Then I did a little Googling and tried to figure out what each module did, and whether or not I wanted to keep it. Some were easy; I don't use a modem, so I suspected ppp_generic of being useless to me. It was, and was thrown out as a result. Same with parport and parport_pc, and some others.
To test it, I blacklisted the module in rc.conf but kept autoloading enabled, and rebooted. If things worked, it was discarded. If not … well, as an example, I thought serio_raw would be pointless, but when I blacklisted it and rebooted with autoloading still enabled, I suddenly had no external mouse. So you can't be sure. Keep autoloading on for a while and blacklist to test.
(It's worth mentioning at this point that there's a
load_modules=off flag that might save you if you're having problems booting after tweaking your modules. It's a one-time emergency override that prevents any modules from loading, which means almost nothing will work … but on the other hand, you should be able to get back on your feet.)
After about 20 minutes of searching and Googling, I had two lists: needed and unneeded.
agpgart intel-agp ata_generic ata_piix usbcore uhci-hcd ieee80211_crypt hermes hostap hostap_cs orinoco orinoco_cs evdev pcspkr psmouse serio_raw pcmcia pcmcia_core rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-bus snd-ac97-codec snd-nm256 soundcore cdrom rtc i2c-piix4 i2c-core pci_hotplug
shpchp parport parport_pc lp ppdev tsdev ppp_generic slhc
I blacklisted all the unneeded modules, and rebooting worked fine. And yet, if I copy those needed modules into the MODULES=() line, I still ended up with a borked system. That's the dependencies playing tricks on you again.
I don't know if there's a better way to do this, and if there is, I'd love to hear about it. But my solution was to search through the modules.dep file, which has a canonical list of modules available on your system, sorted in insertion order.
nano -w /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep. It'll probably be about 1450 lines long, if not longer. So be patient on an older system.
Use CTRL+W (the "Where Is" search) to search for the name of the module with a .ko suffix. Make sure you're on the line that lists that module, then press CTRL+C, which will show you the line count.
Keep a list of all those modules and the lines they appear on. Something like this:
agpgart 943
intel-agp 949
ata_generic 1108
ata_piix 1086
usbcore 1179
uhci-hcd 498
ieee80211_crypt 843
hermes 861
hostap 856
hostap_cs 858
orinoco 861
orinoco_cs 848
evdev 737
psmouse 736
serio_raw 719
pcmcia 839
pcmcia_core 839
rsrc_nonstatic 1002
yenta_socket 1007
snd-mixer-oss 249
snd-pcm-oss 249
snd-page-alloc 249
snd-pcm 264
snd-timer 264
snd 264
snd-ac97-bus 266
snd-ac97-codec 267
snd-nm256 289
soundcore 289
cdrom 663
rtc 980
i2c-piix4 1055
i2c-core 1055
pci_hotplug 682
It's an ugly list, but when you've sorted all those into the order determined by their line numbers, you have a perfect, concise and sorted list of all the modules your machine needs — that you want, that is.
Now go back into the rc.conf file, turn off autoloading and insert those lines into the MODULES=() line. In my case, it looked like this:
MODULES=(snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-bus snd-ac97-codec snd-nm256 soundcore uhci-hcd cdrom pci_hotplug serio_raw psmouse evdev pcmcia pcmcia_core ieee80211_crypt orinoco_cs hostap hostap_cs hermes orinoco agpgart intel-agp rtc rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket i2c-piix4 i2c-core ata_piix ata_generic usbcore)
(Don't ask me why the sound stuff is at the front. I just work here.) You can comment out the MOD_BLACKLIST line now, unless you feel safer with your unneeded modules in there. If autoloading is off and you've inserted the modules you want manually, they shouldn't ever be touched.
On reboot, my machine was working great — external mouse, touchpad, video, audio, even wireless. No problems whatsoever.
If I was better at scripting, perhaps I could come up with a more elegant way of doing this than to output a list, sort it, search-search-search, sort-sort-sort, and then rebuild it into a shape that rc.conf wants.
But for now, I'm content: My boot time went from 46.13 seconds to 42.24! 😀