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Little stories of life
As I mentioned recently, my customers at work sometimes share little stories about their lives.
One day, a woman told me about her three grandchildren. She has two grandchildren that are actually her blood, and one more little fellow that she claims as a grandchild. Her son married the little boy's mother. His grandparents in his blood-father's family won't have anything to do with him.
My customer decided even before she met the little boy that she would be a real grandma to him if a marriage came about. At that time, she didn't know that the real grandparents shun the little boy, but when she found out, she became even more determined to be his grandma. She loves him like he's her own. "Their loss is my gain," she told me.
Another grandmotherly lady was in the store recently, shopping for children's gifts and various items for travel. As she checked out, she told me that she will be flying to another state with the man she's dating. They're going to visit his son and family. She hasn't met them before and she's a little nervous.
She is a widow and her man-friend is a widower. She still misses her husband of 40 years. She would never have imagined herself dating again, but she's lonely. She and her man-friend went to high school together, many years ago. They enjoy each other's company. Who would have ever thought it would turn out this way?
Yesterday, as I lay on the sofa in my feverish haze, I thought about writing these two little stories, and I tried to find a common thread to tie them together. The best I could come up with is this: Never reject the opportunity to love.


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HOUSTON – The 2012 season has not gotten off to the start many envisioned for the Houston Dynamo's Luiz Camargo.
After coming to the club as an August transfer, the Brazilian found the field quickly with his sharp passing and creative play. After making an impact on the club's late season success, the playmaker was expected to pick up where he left off at the end of last year.
But visa issues surrounding his then pregnant wife delayed his arrival in camp and an offseason car accident further impacted Camargo's ability to get his season started.
"[The accident] had an effect because I had a cut low in my leg," Camargo told MLSsoccer.com through a translator on Thursday. "I couldn't run, I couldn't do anything. It really affected my fitness."
Camargo, who will miss the trip to San Francisco to take on the San Jose Earthquakes this weekend to be with his wife who had their child on Wednesday, was relegated to fitness work when he arrived in Houston and it has been a slow process coming back.
The 24-year-old played in seven preseason matches and showed spells of the creative play he displayed last season. However, he is still working his way back and was an unused sub for Houston's season-opening 1-0 win over Chivas USA.
While the former Clube Paraná man has been forced to watch from the sidelines during matches, there are positives to draw from early in the season – namely his continued integration into the club.
"It's a huge advantage," Camargo said about having a preseason with the club. "Now I know my teammates, the way they play and what they like to do on the field. I know my coach exactly the same way. It's a great advantage to be able to come in and assimilate everything that's being put on the field into what I can bring to the club."
When that will happen in an MLS regular-season match is yet to be determined.
Camargo went the full 90 minutes in Tuesday's 1-0 reserve win over the Colorado Rapids. The increased work has him optimistic about getting back on the field. However, there is still some work to be done before he's ready to contribute again.
"He looked OK [on Tuesday]," Head coach Dominic Kinnear said after Thursday's training session. "He's got some work to do and he's got some stuff going on off the field with his wife just having a baby so a lot of stuff's on his mind. On the field, I think he's still a little bit away."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com and can be reached for comment at email@example.com.

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Marilyn Burns as a bloody Sally Hardesty in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." (Sallye Richardson)Link
Marilyn Burns on the run in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." (Bryanston Pictures)Link
Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) wielding his weapon while Marilyn Burns' Sally Hardesty tries to escape in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." (Daniel Pearl)Link
Marilyn Burns in a scene from the film "Future Kill" in 1985, which reunited her with her "Texas" costar Edwin Neal. (Vestron Video / Getty Images)Link
Horror movie character actor Bill Moseley, a Yale graduate who has had a long and unlikely career as a low-budget actor, was featured in "Texas Chainsaw 3D." Moseley was photographed at his apartment in Los Angeles in December 2012. (Christina House / For The Times)Link
"Texas Chainsaw 3D" director John Luessenhop and Bill Moseley as Drayton Sawyer on the set of the movie. (Lionsgate)Link
Grandpa Sawyer (John Dugan, left) and Drayton Sawyer (Bill Moseley, center) in the movie 'Texas Chainsaw 3D.' (Justin Lubin)Link
Actress Marilyn Burns died Tuesday in her Houston-area home at age 65. Texas figured large in her career — Burns was perhaps best known for starring in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," Tobe Hooper's dark nightmare of murder and cannibalism in the South that has become, in the years since its original release, a landmark in the horror genre and in the world of independent filmmaking. Bill Moseley was one of the many viewers deeply affected by the film — his relationship to it helped shape his acting career. Below, the man who starred in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" as Chop-top offers an appreciation of Burns.
My first glimpse of Marilyn Burns was on the screen of the old Paramount Theater in Boston's Combat Zone in 1975, in Tobe Hooper's horror classic, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Marilyn was young, blond, pretty but not gorgeous, and tough as nails. She had to be. After all, what her character, Sally Hardesty, thought was going to be a fun weekend in the West Texas countryside with her hippie pals quickly devolved into a hellish Olympics of survival at the hands of the blood-thirsty Sawyer clan — with their straight razors, pig hammers, chainsaws and an aptitude for turning human beings into tasty roadside sausages.
Love at first sight for me? You bet your chicken in a birdcage! Unlike her hapless pals, Sally Hardesty survived those sociopathic lunatics. "She ran, she screamed, she got away," were the words I used to accompany my Facebook posting about her death on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at the tender age of 65. "Well, almost," commented my friend and fellow "Texas Chainsaw" alum William Butler. Right, almost.
The first time I met Marilyn must have been close to 20 years ago at a horror convention in Pasadena, Calif. I still have a curled snapshot of my now-20-something daughter, Jane, being tenderly choked by both Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) and Edwin Neal (the Hitchhiker). I had just come aboard the good ship "Chainsaw," having played Chop-top, the Hitchhiker's twin brother, in the Hooper-directed sequel. One of my favorite lines from "TCM 2" was uttered by the Cook, the late great Jim Siedow, who famously proclaimed, "The Saw is family!" And indeed it is.
First Paul Partain, who played Sally's wheelchair-bound brother, Franklin; then my good friend Jim, and now Marilyn. The family gets smaller, but as the original "Texas Chain Saw" celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the family remains as loud and scary and vital as it was those many years ago when a low-budget indie with a crazy title turned my life upside down.
I was so disturbed by the original "TCM" that I saw it at least a dozen times, figuring that it would become so familiar to me that I could push back from its gripping reality and make myself a little room to breathe. No such luck. All I succeeded in doing was driving that fear spike deeper into my brain.
It wasn't until I made a 5-minute film in 1984 called "The Texas Chainsaw Manicure," set in a beauty parlor on Staten Island, N.Y., that the Saw started cutting right for me. Tobe Hooper saw my short, loved my cameo and hired me to play Chop-top in "TCM 2." Once I saw Siedow in the parking lot of our Austin, Texas, hotel, once I was welcomed into the Sawyer family, the fear was gone and the fun began. Something about if you can't lick 'em…
Thanks to Chop-top, I went on to land parts in movies such as "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," and hit the horror convention circuit. I would occasionally bump into Marilyn, and even though I was "Saw 2" and not the original, she'd always have a smile and a chuckle for me. Marilyn Burns. Let's not forget her in Tobe Hooper's grisly fun "Eaten Alive," with the awesome Neville Brand, and my favorite Charles Manson movie, "Helter Skelter," with my "Devil's Rejects" pal, Steve Railsback.
I finally got to work with Marilyn on John Luessenhop's 2013 "Texas Chainssaw 3-D." I played Siedow's character, Drayton, and Marilyn played the family matriarch. It was such a thrill for me to hang out on the set with Marilyn, Gunnar and John Dugan, the original Grandpa, and to pass an evening cracking each other up as we reminisced about our "Chainsaw" days for a DVD extra. Marilyn was looking a little frail, but she always seemed in good spirits.
I was gratified to see that news of Marilyn's death made it onto TMZ's website. We horror workers for the most part toil in obscurity outside our beloved genre. To me, and to legions of horror fans worldwide, Marilyn was a Scream Queen extraordinaire and a real superstar. I just hope that for all the aspiring actresses and actors out there who dream of being chased by a large man with a mask of human faces and a roaring, smoking chainsaw, just watch Marilyn.
She ran, she screamed, she got away.
— Bill Moseley
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I hardly use Windows these days. But I do have a Windows PC around, so I tried installing WAMP, and then figuring out what it takes to change one's PATH on Windows these days. Here are the steps, with screen shots.
1. Open Windows Settings and click the System icon:
2. Click the "About" link
3. Click the "System info" link
4. Click the "Advanced system settings" link
5. Click the "Environment Variables..." button
6. Select the "Path" variable and click the "Edit..." button
7. Click the "Browse..." button
8. Browse to the directory "C:\wamp64\bin\php\php5.6.19" and click the "Ok" button
9. Continue clicking the "Ok" buttons for all the windows that you opened during this exercise
10. Open a command shell window and run "php -v" to confirm you can now use PHP via your PATH.
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the Best and biggest gang in Long Beach Southern Califas made up of Mexicans and are down for their hood the East Side longo Sur 13 Gang based in the Harbor Area
hey cuh look at that ese lets go cuz hes a cholo from East Side Longo, they are crip killas and hell smoke us
by Ese Stranger December 09, 2004
dumb-ass wetbacks who dont know wut da fuck they talkin bout livin in long beach and bangin east side mutha fucka it's west side, oh by da way burrito burrito burrito
east side longo are dumbass little dicks with little dicks
by SiR Gro February 24, 2005
The east side longos original name was Cheese side chongos . There are 3 factions of chongos. The ES Ws and Norf Syde also known as nasty side chongeros... the chongos main rival is the EAST SXDE L20NG BKEAC1H RXCH R20LLXN 20 CRXPS ... THE 20 CRIPS HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF CHONGOS ACCROS AMERICA .
The East side longo are buster cuz .. I personally popped one of them pinche winos ....
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The Green Bookmobile will be open for library service at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the first FREE Tuesday of each month. Get your art and literature fix at one great stop!
We'll be parked out front of the museum bookstore at 151 3rd Street.
Note: This event will be taking place at a location outside the San Francisco network of public libraries. For questions concerning the event, please contact the hosting library: Bookmobiles / Mobile Outreach.
Upcoming Events
- Swing Into Stories
- Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 9:30 am
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Tom Thomson: Prices for everything will rise if the state gas tax is raisedBY TOM THOMSON
February 18. 2014 5:20PM
Another gas and diesel tax increase is back on the table in Concord. Senate Bill 367 would increase the fuel tax four cents per gallon, going from the current 18 cents to 22 cents per gallon — a 22 percent increase! Then it would tie it to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), so when the (CPI) goes up in the future so will your fuel tax automatically. This will make it much easier for the government bureaucrats to dig deeper into your pocketbook without any accountability. And you, the consumer, would have no say in the matter.
Those sponsoring the bill say it will only increase the cost $16 per passenger vehicle per year, based on 25 miles per gallon, traveling 10,000 miles per year. What they don't tell you is how this tax will have a devastating impact on the trucking industry. As a tree farmer, I know that a typical log truck gets about 3.5 miles per gallon and travels on average 64,000 miles per year moving forest products. This trucker will pay approximately $800 more annually if SB 367 is passed. This is in addition to the $3,290 these vehicles already pay in New Hampshire fuel tax. And, at this point, there is no telling what the tax increase will be in the future due to the (CPI) factor. All truckers have seen an increase of 250 percent in the last 10 years for diesel fuel; recently it was posted at $4.29 per gallon, far more than regular gas per gallon.
Today's truckers are running on razor-thin margins, and any increase will put some out of business. The others will just pass the increase onto the consumers. Everything we consume moves by diesel, as many as three to five times before it reaches the consumer. Raising the tax makes the price of everything, including food, higher due to any increase in the diesel tax. So the prospect facing New Hampshire families is not only will this bill cost them more to fill up their tank to drive to the store, but when they get there everything they need to purchase will be more expensive as well.
In 2009 and again in 2013, the lead sponsor for the gas and diesel tax increase was Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, and both times it was defeated because Republicans stuck together and voted against this job-killing tax. What is shocking to me and others is that this year's gas/diesel tax is sponsored by three Senate Republicans! They are Sen. Jim Rausch (District 19) (firstname.lastname@example.com), Sen. Nancy Stiles (District 24) (email@example.com), and Sen. David Boutin (District 16) (email@example.com).
I encourage you to email to these senators today. I believe if they continue to support this huge tax increase on the people of New Hampshire, the Republicans will lose control of the Senate come Nov. 2014, and what a shame that would be.
I, like many in New Hampshire, am appalled at what has happened to the position of the Commissioner of the Dept. of Transportation (DOT). Many of us thought it was a very important position in which the commissioner worked nonstop to provide New Hampshire with the best transportation system possible, while living within its financial means, becoming more efficient and streamlining every area within the department. Yet instead it appears that Commissioner Christopher Clement has decided to become DOT's top "lobbyist" and take his Power Point presentation to every corner of the state claiming his agency is short of revenue by $70 million to $100 million. He threatens to lay off 300 to 700 DOT employees if he does not get additional revenues.
One phone call from the governor to the commissioner would end the DOT lobbying; one wonders why that hasn't happened. The phone number for Gov. Hassan is (603)271-2121. Contacting her office may make the difference and may be the only way we can put the brakes on this gas and diesel tax increase.
Tom Thomson is an Orford is a tree farmer and the honorary chairman of the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity.


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September 2012
Early in 1912, as the White House campaign began in earnest, a question of great national interest, especially within the Republican Party, was whether former president Theodore Roosevelt would remain on the sidelines, or, in spite of his vow in 1904 not to seek a third term, reenter politics. Roosevelt was increasingly unhappy with the course that his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, had taken as president. On 21 February, in a speech to a state constitutional convention in Columbus, Ohio, Roosevelt laid out a progressive agenda of government reform and business regulation as a precursor to a formal announcement of his candidacy. Roosevelt's arguments for judicial recall and popular referendum in his "Charter of Freedom" speech in Columbus threatened to ignite a civil war within the Republican Party.
Judge Robert Grant, who liked and admired the former president, but not some of his recently adopted radical political views, had invited his fellow Harvard University overseer to stay with him when in Boston. Roosevelt's visit on 25-26 February 1912, described in this letter written almost a month later, coincided with the release in New York City of his announcement that he would run for the presidency again. Grant, realizing that he had been present at a momentous historical occasion, prepared a long, detailed report of all that had transpired during Roosevelt's visit to send to a friend, historian James Ford Rhodes, who then was vacationing in Italy.
Over the course of that memorable weekend at 221 Bay State Road, the Grant family residence in the fashionable Back Bay district of Boston, Judge Grant had the opportunity to interrogate Roosevelt and to try to determine the motivation of his apparently quixotic return to politics. He was especially interested in Roosevelt's explanations for both breaking his vow not to seek a third term and his disloyalty to Taft.
"I had approached (or rather dwelt on) the point of loyalty to Taft already," Grant writes, "but just as he [Roosevelt] was going up to bed I spoke of it again. He turned and standing on the bottom stair reiterated 'What do I owe to Taft? It was through me and my friends that he became President. I had him in the hollow of my hand and I had merely to turn my hand and he would have dropped out.' He had his pocket knife in his palm and suited his action to the word."
The son of a marriage alliance of families of New England merchants, Judge Robert Grant was born in Boston in 1852. He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College (Class of 1873). He went on to receive one of the first Ph.D. degrees granted by Harvard for literary studies, as well as an LL.B. from the Harvard Law School. More than fifty years later when he wrote his autobiography, Grant believed that the ten years he had spent as a student at Harvard remained an unsurpassed record.
As far removed as his studies of literature and the law might appear to be, Grant seems to have been able to move easily between careers in public service, and as a prolific novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was appointed a probate judge in 1893 and an overseer of Harvard University in 1895. He published his first novel, The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl in 1880, and followed it with more than thirty other volumes, mostly social satire and commentary in the form of novels, but also collections of essays, poetry and autobiography.
Today, Judge Robert Grant's reputation as a novelist has faded and his legal career is best remembered from a case that he reviewed after he had retired from the bench. In 1927, Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller appointed Grant to a three-member advisory committee to review the controversial Sacco-Vanzetti case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, had been convicted of robbery and murder in 1920, and by 1927, they had exhausted a series of appeals to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Governor Fuller could pardon the defendants or commute their death sentences, but not grant them a new trial. While the advisory committee was extremely critical of the actions of Judge Webster Thayer who presided over two trials of the defendants, they did not recommend clemency, and Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in August 1927. During the course of the advisory committee's investigation, Judge Grant was accused of prejudice because he had criticized a public comment on the trial by Felix Frankfurter, a member of the Harvard Law School faculty, while the case was under judicial review. The Sacco-Vanzetti case remains controversial to this day. In 1977, after receiving the report of a new advisory committee, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation exonerating the defendants because they had not received a fair trial.
Judge Grant continued to write prose and poetry on into old age, reciting a poem that he wrote for the occasion at the celebration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary in 1930. He died in 1940.
The 22 March letter from Robert Grant to James Ford Rhodes is located in the James Ford Rhodes papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. In a later letter to Rhodes, Grant thanks him for calling his attention to a mistake on page eight of the 22 March letter. There also are manuscript notes by Rhodes on the verso of each of the last two pages of the letter that he used in replying to Grant in two letters dated 11 April 1912 (retained copies are in the Rhodes papers). Grant later published a long extract of his 22 March letter in his 1934 autobiography (p. 318-322), and it was published in full as an appendix to The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, volume 8, p. 1456-1461.
On 4 September, the Massachusetts Historical Society will open In the Arena, an exhibition on the presidential election of 1912 in Massachusetts. In 1912, there were four major presidential candidates from distinct political parties: Republican William H. Taft running for reelection; Woodrow L. Wilson, the Democratic Party candidate; Theodore Roosevelt, after bolting from the Republican Party, the presidential candidate of the new Progressive "Bull Moose" Party; and Eugene V. Debs, the standard-bearer for the Socialist Party. Roosevelt garnered the most votes ever for a third party candidate, finishing ahead of Taft almost everywhere except Massachusetts, and Debs, with almost a million votes, gained the most support ever for a Socialist candidate.
In the Arena includes the Robert Grant letter displayed here, as well as photographs, political memorabilia, broadsides, political pins and buttons, letters, and pamphlets from the campaign, but focuses on the correspondence between Theodore Roosevelt and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Roosevelt and Lodge were political allies who corresponded for almost forty years, but the divisive 1912 presidential campaign put a severe strain on their long friendship. The exhibition is free and open to the public, Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, and runs through 27 November 2012.
Grant, Robert. Fourscore: An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. 8 Volumes. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1951-1954.
There are many fine biographies of Theodore Roosevelt. Two that focus on his life after the presidency are:
Dalton, Katherine. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Morris, Edmund. Colonel Roosevelt. New York: Random House, 1910.
O'Toole, Patricia. When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
For the 1912 Presidential Election:
Chace, James. 1912. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Gould, Lewis L. Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008.


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I read that Eichler had a color palette for his homes.
Does anyone have this palette?
Does it come in PMS (Pantone) colors?
Any leads is much appreciated.
I'd want to see this as well...
I found this on the internet. I googled "Eichler color palette" and got a website that had information on this as well as other. The info that was pertinent to your questions is as follows:
9) He was very particular about the overall look of his house. He gave his clients very limited choice regarding exterior color-scheme. He used to choose two or three color-schemes and then let the client chose the final one.
10) He used gray and earthy color palette for the interior. The ceiling would be gray washed, stained, redwood. The dark brown or black beams would provide an excellent contrast to it."
You can also look at the popular colors in the artwork at that time because interior art and home color palettes of the same time period would be very similar. That's why you see so many 1950 and 1960 vintage paintings in earth tone browns, burnt sienna, greys, oranges, olive green, and reds and so on. Because Eichler made homes that invited the exterior landscape into the living area, the color schemes were part of that fusion, thus the use of earthtones. The names of colors may have changed to match designer savvy lingo. For instance in the 70's "avacado green" was the rage - today it has been slapped with a new label "wasabi green" and is a tad brighter than the drab "avacado green" of the 70's.
I've studied the vintage color palettes for years as a modern retro artist and found a correlation between the colors that Eichler was doing his homes in and what the interior artists of that time period were doing. I can't state it as a fact but I'm sure that these things aren't a coincidence.
Do a search on this forum using "paint colors and you will get a bunch of information. I don't know where you are located but there is a paint store in Sunnvale on El Camino called California Paints that has some of the original colors for the local Eichlers.


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A contest in memory of one of the's most famous residents is seeking the county's most talented young musicians.
The Dalesman Male Voice Choir is holding its third annual Dalesman Student Award Scheme, which provides the winner with £500 and the crystal 'Reg Dean trophy'– named after the former Wirksworth resident who died aged 110 last year.
Past winners included pianist Eleanor Kornas, of Darley Dale, who went on to become a music scholar at Trinity College Cambridge.
The 2014 competition will take place at Ecclesbourne School, Duffield, on Saturday, May 3, and is open to all students who have achieved grade seven or above in their music exams and are at school or college in Derbyshire.
This year's head adjudicator will be Christine Palmer, a professional pianist and an international examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and she will be joined by two other qualified adjudicators.
Details of how to enter are available by visiting www.dalesmen.org or by calling Paul Sheward on 01773 748986. Entries must be received by March 29.


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Band Concert
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Christmas Pageant
Preschool Pageant practice
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Motorists have criticised the response of emergency services after snow caused the closure of a section of the M6 motorway in Lancashire.
Hundreds of drivers spent up to eight hours stuck in their vehicles, while others abandoned their cars on the M6 in Lancashire after a foot of snow fell on Friday night.
The motorway became blocked in both directions between junctions 25 and 27, near Wigan.
And the turbulent weather is expected to continue as heavy rain and rising temperatures spark flooding fears.
Many drivers were affected along the stretch between Wigan and Standish after struggling to make it up inclines in the treacherous conditions, while a number of accidents including jack-knifed lorries also blocked lanes.
Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: "Huge sympathy for those affected by heavy #uksnow. Govt working closely with transport operators to minimise impact on everyone."
Mountain rescue teams were brought in to help police and the Highways Agency clear roads and assist those who were stranded.
One man had to be taken to hospital after becoming ill in his car while it was stuck.
And some of the stranded drivers passed the time with snowball fights and building snowmen.
The M6, as well as the M56 and M58 which were also blocked, are now all moving again but remain heavily congested with long tailbacks, Lancashire Police said.
Motorists contacted Sky News overnight to share their tales of woe.
Kevin Collister, stuck on the motorway just past the M58 junction heading northbound, said: "There is absolutely no movement whatsoever on my side of the carriageway, all the snow is squashed down into ice and there are wagons trying to move and sliding sideways.
"It's an absolute nightmare, we've been here for three hours so far. A few people are saying we might be here for the night but we're just hoping we can get through."
Conservative MP David Morris, stuck on the southbound carriageway, said: "We've ground to a halt on both sides. Nothing is really moving.
"But the emergency services have been fantastic and are doing the best for us, and everyone is in good spirits.
"I've just seen a snowball fight and the man next door to me has built a snowman on top of his car roof ... it's very surreal."
Barry Pinches, on his way to Blackpool, told Sky News: "At one stage we didn't think we would make it but it looks like things are moving slowly now. We saw some snow ploughs on the southbound carriageway but there doesn't seem to be too many of them - they have their work cut out."
Pete Martin, from the Highways Agency, confirmed to Sky News that the carriageways had been gritted before the snow came down.
"We had an extremely intense fall of snow across Lancashire between 8.30pm and midnight and basically there wasn't enough traffic to keep the lanes moving," he said.
"A number of HGVs lost traction between junctions 25 and 27 and once they blocked the carriageway the snow stacked up and the result was a number of stranded vehicles."
The agency worked throughout the night to clear the routes with snow ploughs. It urged those who had abandoned their cars to return to them as soon as possible.
A spokesman said: "With the rain falling and ice melting onto very cold road surfaces, we are now warning drivers of the danger of ice."


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Location: Mosquito and Fly ResearchTitle: Semi-field evaluation of several novel alkenol analogs of 1-octen-3-ol as attractants to adult Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus. Author
|Cilek, J. - Florida A & M University
|Ikediobi, C. - Florida A & M University
|Hallmon, C. - Florida A & M University
|Johnson, R. - Florida A & M University
|Onyeozili, E. - Florida A & M University
|Farah, S. - Florida A & M University
|Mazu, T. - Florida A & M University
|Latinwo, L. - Florida A & M University
|Ayuk-takem, L. - Florida A & M University
|Bernier, Ulrich - Uli
Submitted to: Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/2/2011
Publication Date: 9/1/2011
Citation: Cilek, J.E., Ikediobi, C.O., Hallmon, C.F., Johnson, R., Onyeozili, E.N., Farah, S.M., Mazu, T., Latinwo, L.M., Ayuk-Takem, L., Bernier, U.R. 2011. Semi-field evaluation of several novel alkenol analogs of 1-octen-3-ol as attractants to adult Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus.. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 27(3):256-262. Interpretive Summary: Scientists at the USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology in Gainesville, FL, in collaboration with scientists from the Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL have studied a series of similar compounds to determine how well these compounds attract mosquitoes. There were 20 experimental compounds that were synthesized in the laboratory. These alcohol compounds were similar in structure to the well known mosquito attractant, 1-octen-3-ol. Experiments were designed to test if having carbon dioxide present with each alcohol resulted in a combination that was much more attractive. One alcohol, (Z)-3-hepten-1-ol, when tested without carbon dioxide was more effective than 1-octen-3-ol for the Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). When carbon dioxide was added to the experimental alcohols, the combinations of alcohol plus carbon dioxide were only as good as 1-octen-3-ol plus carbon dioxide in three cases for the Asian Tiger mosquito and in two cases for the Southern House mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus). For the other 17 compounds, the numbers of mosquitoes caught in traps was suppressed by the alcohol and carbon dioxide combinations.
Technical Abstract: The compound 1-octen-3-ol is a known attractant of some mosquito species which has led to the hypothesis that olfactory stimulation by this alkenol may be associated with the following structural elements: a terminal site of unsaturation or high electron density, a structural capability for hydrogen bonding e.g. -OH, -NH2, NHR, NR2 etc., a saturated hydrocarbon chain of a certain minimum length, and a certain relative distance between the region of high electron density and the alcohol (or other hydrogen-bonding) functional group. Using this logic, we synthesized 19 alkenol analogs based on the octenol double-bonded carbon skeleton. The attraction of adult Aedes albopictus Skuse and Culex quinquefasciatus Say to these analogs was compared with 1-octen-3-ol as a standard in semi-field trials. For both species, collections from MMX suction traps without carbon dioxide and baited with the alkenol analogs were not significantly different from octenol with the exception of (Z)-3-hepten-1-ol which collected significantly more Ae. albopictus. In the presence of CO2 most of the collections from traps baited with an alkenol were considerably increased for both species but again not different from octenol plus CO2 with the exception of Ae. albopictus where (Z)-4-hexen-1-ol, 7-octen-2-ol, and 8-nonen-3-ol significantly depressed trap catches. Also, MMX traps baited with carbon dioxide and 4-penten-2-ol or (E)-2-decen-4-ol significantly enhanced Cx. quinquefasciatus collections up to nearly 3-fold compared with octenol plus carbon dioxide.


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Benjamin E. Sprague
January 17. 2014 11:50AM
The U.S. Marshals Service District of New Hampshire/Joint Fugitive Task Force has named Benjamin E. Sprague as New Hampshire's fugitive of the week.
Sprague, 27, is wanted on warrants from Peterborough police for a charge of aggravated felonious sexual assault.
He is described as 5 feet 8, 190 pounds, with hazel eyes and blond hair. He has tattoos on his chest and upper right arm and scars on his back, left shoulder, and right eye. He has connections throughout southern New Hampshire, including Merrimack, Litchfield, Peterborough, Jaffrey, Swanzey and Keene.
The U.S. Marshals Service advises the public not to attempt to apprehend a fugitive, who should be considered armed and dangerous. Instead, report any information to the U.S. Marshals Service's Concord office at 225-1632.
For more information visit usmarshals.gov/district/nh
Crime Litchfield Merrimack Jaffrey Keene Peterborough Swanzey


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Dear Abby: This is my wife�s second marriage. When we were dating, she led me to believe that I was the second sexual partner she had ever had. Shortly after our wedding, I found out through some mutual acquaintances she had attended college with that she had been very promiscuous during her college years and that the number of men she has been with is far greater than two.
I feel lied to and trapped in my marriage. (If I had known this, I would not have married her.) She knows I know. She dismissed it by saying the past doesn�t matter, but what she fails to recognize is that it matters to me. I can�t help but wonder if she has lied to me about something this important, what else will she lie to me about?
I love her and want to stay with her, but I feel betrayed and, frankly, embarrassed by her now. What do I do?
� Confounded in the South
Dear Confounded: People lie when they feel threatened, when they want to impress someone or when they�re ashamed of something. The lie your wife told you may fall into the latter category. She wasn�t honest about the number of men she had been with because she knew you would react the way you have.
You say you love her, but if you truly feel embarrassed by the fact that you�re not the second man she has slept with, then you either need to change your attitude or do her a favor and think about ending your marriage. From my perspective, the number of lovers she has had since the wedding is far more important than the number she had before.
Please be aware that many women in our society have had multiple partners, so if you�re looking to replace your wife anytime soon, you may be hard pressed to find a woman with no experience. If you want to salvage your marriage, I strongly recommend you talk to a therapist, but don�t spend your money unless you can forgive your wife for being afraid to tell you the truth.
Dear Abby: I�m a 16-year-old guy, and I have a problem. I recently met a girl in a chat room, and we seemed to hit it off pretty well. As we�ve been talking, she has told me she is suicidal, and in the past three days she has made three attempts to take her life. (As I�m writing this, she is in the hospital.)
Being a sensitive person, I try to talk her out of it, but she keeps shutting me out, and once she�s OK, she is a completely different person. I still want to be her friend, but this is getting to be too much for me. Please help.
� Worried in Vermont
Dear Worried: You are a caring person, but you must recognize that the girl you are corresponding with is emotionally fragile. Right now she is unable to respond to you and, frankly, you are not equipped to help her. It�s good that she is in the hospital because that is where she needs to be until she can be stabilized.
If you continue to stay in touch with her and she tells you again that she is suicidal, you should ask her where she is and if she has done anything to herself. Then call 911 and report it so she can get help quickly.
Dear Abby: What do you do with a husband who is loud and rude, who curses constantly and argues with you and the TV, and is a bully to you and your daughter?
� That�s It in a Nutshell
Dear That�s It: As little as possible!


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Sense of desperation as Bruins ready to battle Red Wings
BOSTON – In theory, the President's Trophy-winning Bruins have home-ice advantage throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs.
In reality, they've already surrendered it in their opening-round Eastern Conference quarter-final.
With that in mind, there will be a sense of desperation on Sunday afternoon when the Bruins face the Detroit Red Wings in Game 2 of the best-of-seven. And leading the focus will be finding a way to create some offence against the stingy Wings defenders, who shut down the Bruins with a 1-0 victory in Game 1 on Friday night.
"It was a tight checking game," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "I think everybody's got to find a way to create more, and that's going to be the challenge in this series with two teams playing really tight.
"It's about everybody working a little harder and then gaining your space."
The youthful Red Wings came into the series confident and it showed on Friday against a Bruins group that was tentative much of the night. Expect more of the same from Mike Babcock's team Sunday at the TD Garden, especially with the prospect of opening up a commanding 2-0 lead before the series shifts back to the Motor City for Games 3 and 4.
"[Boston is] going to push hard," said Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard, who made 25 saves for the shutout in Game 1. "They're going to push hard the whole game.
"They're going to ratchet it up and we're going to have to answer. It's just part of the playoffs. As each game goes you just try and get better and better."
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Awww man, I got so excited for this, then I realized it wasn't the Bill and Ted phonebooth...
Looking through this thread it's obvious we need a B&T Phone Booth vs. TARDIS shirt (on a better color) ASAP.
Not to be a negative nancy...but are we sure this is the designer's original work? I've seen this image popping up for at least a year now, if not more.
Still in for one though, love WHO and love BTTF.
Oi! Mosh good! Gotta get this one...will be the envy of all who don't have. Will make me the uber geek!! I agree the color scheme embrangles though. Black background woulda been cooler. In for 3.
This will DEFINITELY get you laid at a Sci-Fi convention.
"Wear this shirt: if you think you're going to die. That way, the next guy wakes up to a free shirt."
Excellent Doctor Who reference.
i would buy this if it were the phone booth from bill and ted
it would be better if it were a port-a-potty
I practically died when I saw this.
TARDIS/Delorean???? BEST EVER.
First time I've bought a non-random shirt.woot.
In for 1.
<3 <3
slicerd wrote:Why heather gray??!! Why!!! Awesome shirt worst non color ever.
i agree...
i hate this type of grey but sooooooo tempting
p.s. heather grey embrangles when you sweat
Jaems wrote:I have the image this shirt appears to be copied from.
http://yfrog.com/12wallpaperaj <--
That picture was uploaded today....>_>
But if you are actually just using sarcasm, then I wholeheartedly approve of your post. :D
So, I tried ordering one, and went through the motions, but at the end it just booted me back to the main page without telling me my order went through or not.
Also in my account it doesn't say I've ordered anything from shirt woot yet....
Did my order go through yet (and it takes a little while to register) or did something go wrong?
It looks better here...
tortureman wrote:you know how this shirt could be better?
If it had a brontosaurus and it was napping and then in a dream bubble, it was shooting an asteroid....
that would make it an AMAZING SHIRT...
Ninjas too!
djaxis wrote:So, I tried ordering one, and went through the motions, but at the end it just booted me back to the main page without telling me my order went through or not.
Also in my account it doesn't say I've ordered anything from shirt woot yet....
Did my order go through yet (and it takes a little while to register) or did something go wrong?
I'm having the same problem here...is it sold out already?
EDIT: Evidently it was only a very temporary glitch or something, because I was just able to order it. Awesome.
Hmm... I evidently don't get the doctor who reference and think it should have been the bill and ted phone booth.... so not in for one unfortunately.
"Wrong place, wrong time" just doesn't quite cover it.
Not sure if it was mentioned yet... There should be two offset handles instead of just one on the TARDIS. Still - a nice design.
Jokercard wrote:Or any girl he'd want :P
Damn, why aren't there more women in the US who loves Doctor Who as I!
I'm an American woman who LOVES Doctor Who...and just joined so I could buy this t-shirt that is full of awesome.
Meh i guess i don't have too many grey t-shirts...
Evidently, The Doctor forgot to put the shielding back up again...
I love it but WHY GREY!!!!one!!!1! ugh. It is the bane of the larger gentleman. I LUV the design, but not grey! Roars x infinity. Can I pay extra for a print on black???
Sms4001 wrote:I think this would have been a lot cooler shirt if the phone booth they crashed into was the one from bill and teds excellent adventure.
The "phone booth" on this shirt is the TARDIS from Doctor Who. It is supposed to adapt its appearance to its surroundings, but that mechanism is faulty and it's stuck in the form of a police public call box. (Police boxes were common in England in the 1950s (tapering almost to extinction by the '90s). They served as communications terminals for foot police and for the public to call for police, as well as micro jails to hold arrested persons whilst the van came for them. They were not regular telephone booths.)
I tend to think that the TARDIS is more of a classic icon than Bill & Ted's phone booth. (If you don't know why, then you have about 30 years worth of television to catch up on. ☺) But i suppose BTTF and the B&T movies are more balanced with each other in scope. (Though B&T—while amusing enough—is easily the least interesting of the three.)
Meanwhile, i'm now envisioning The TARDIS and the phone booth facing each other with The Doctor and B&T coming out with surprised expressions. :P
Just wait for the Daleks...
there's a fine border between cool, funny and just stupid. this design crossed that line.
Damn you Shirt.Woot. I had resisted your shirts for a month or so and now in the past 4 days I've bought 3 shirts.
this shirt is brilliantly fantastic. i must have it.
mouseandcat wrote:The artist also submitted it on Threadless. It_Came_Out_Of_Nowhere
Aw man! Why couldn't Woot have put it a dark background? Works much better—incl the smoke being more visible.
uncle pennybags wrote:Also I'd say the Delorean isn't going to running for much longer with that front end damage. The TARDIS might still be able to function. Soooo, I'd give the accident win to the TARDIS.
Definitely. The exterior of the TARDIS is only a matter projection after all.
This is the first time a shirt description actually made me laugh loudly enough to wake someone up.
In for 3. I'd have been in for 4 if it had let me - then my husband, our two nerdlings, and I could all have had one. Ah well.
enigma42 wrote:Yes that was my thought as well.
noway the doctors phone booth is the right one
Awesome design! Craptacular shirt colour. Please try again.
i am a new docot who fan but i can til you i am hooked...i can't wait till i get my shirt
This shirt has a flaw. This is the Delorean from BTTF II (or III). So, it should technically be airborne, and thus no skid marks - and potentially no collision.
In spite of that, I do like the spirit of the shirt, but since I've never seen Dr. Who, I'd feel like a poser...
I also agree the color doesn't help sway me...
Carry on.
In for two; one for myself, one for my g/f.
natecarlso wrote:not sure, but from the description, I don't think the woot writer even knows what a TARDIS is. the writing seemed a little more...confused...than usual.
NotGoddess wrote:No, he mentions the 'sound of drums' and the 'wear this shirt' is a regeneration reference.
And the 88 piano keys remark, whilst obviously alluding to the 88 MPH critical velocity of the DeLorean, is also a reference to the TARDIS sound effect (which involves dragging an object along piano strings). (Got a grin out of me.) :D
dashablade wrote:This is the first time a shirt description actually made me laugh loudly enough to wake someone up.
In for 3. I'd have been in for 4 if it had let me - then my husband, our two nerdlings, and I could all have had one. Ah well.
You could just buy an extra tomorrow.
NotGoddess wrote:Falls to temptation with the rationalization that she can use this as a 'date filter'-any guy she'd want to date would recognize both objects instantly (or be really cute and willing to be enlightened on the subject).
Moot point for me, as i already have a girl who recognises 'em. (In fact, it was her busting out laughing at it that woke me up a while ago.)
[edit: No, it wasn't dashablade.]
HOLY guppy, IT'S THE TARDIS!!!!!!!!!!!!THIS IS MY DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!WOOT MAKING A DOCTOR WHO SHIRT!!!!!!YES!!!!!!!I AM SO GETTING ONE, AND ILL TELL ALL MY DOCTOR WHO OBSESSED FRIENDS ABOUT IT, TOO!!!!!
so whatever happened to the great survey that Joel gave us after Mon Petit Chou?
Where we chose different colors for their blanks, and we were gonna do away with heather gray and replace it and others with a nice silver blank, eggplant, and/or others???
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Editor's note: Estimated mileage ratings have been lowered to reflect a November 2012 EPA audit of this car's stated mileage.
The 2013 Elantra GT hatchback is a new addition to Hyundai's growing arsenal of Elantra models, including an Elantra Coupe that's also new for 2013 and a hot-selling sedan that was redesigned for the 2011 model year. Compare Elantra body styles here. The GT is a stylish replacement for the Elantra Touring, which looked like a mutated wagon/hatchback version of the previous-generation Elantra sedan.
The 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT doesn't settle for being just a utilitarian hatchback version of the sedan; it's a more premium experience with a few tricks up its sleeve.
The GT takes a sport-minded approach compared with the comfort-oriented Hyundai Elantra sedan, so replacing the name "Touring" with "GT" is a good call. The name "Touring" implies laid-back driving through the countryside, while "GT" sounds more "go go go." Both the outgoing Touring and the GT are an evolution of the Hyundai i30 hatchback sold overseas, which accounts for the numerous variations between the sedan and coupe.
Not All Elantras Are Created Equal
The GT is a unique experience. While the Elantra sedan and coupe have similar interior appointments and styling, the GT's enhanced style and pleasant materials give the hatchback a more premium feel than its counterparts.
The sedan is nice enough, but the GT uses less painted plastic around the center console and adds additional textured materials on the lower dashboard to create a unified look. The gear selector on automatic-transmission cars has a stitched boot surrounding the base instead of an ugly exposed stalk like the sedan has. Those little features pop, separating the GT from other Elantras. Other editors were also impressed, pointing out the superior quality of the optional leather seats and the more expensive-looking door panels.
You'll find features on the GT that are absent from the sedan and coupe, like the optional panoramic roof and flip-out backup camera, which I'll touch on later.
Hatchbackability & Interior
Compared with the fugly Elantra Touring, this new, stylish hatchback pays a price in maximum cargo volume, which is down to 51 cubic feet from the Touring's 65.3 cubic feet. To give perspective, the Elantra sedan's total trunk volume is 14.8 cubic feet. Even so, the GT's cargo room is large compared with other compact hatchbacks, like the Ford Focus, Mazda3 and Subaru Impreza. The Impreza is closest to the Elantra GT, with 52 cubic feet of space. (See the models compared.)
One of the Elantra GT's tricks to maximizing cargo room is the backseat's design. The bottom cushions flip up and forward, allowing the folded backrests to provide an almost flat load floor. A true flat load floor is rare when backseats are folded because the seat's bottom cushions prevent the backs from resting flat. The GT's load floor is "almost" flat because, while the small section of the 60/40-split backrest lays flat, the larger portion is slightly inclined.
Though many automakers have moved away from this multistage seat-folding scheme, it's beneficial for carrying level-sensitive items, like plants, as well as creating the most space from the floor to the ceiling. You can also leave the bottom cushions in place and make do with the ramp-like angle if your cargo is long but not too tall.
In the 23 cubic feet of space behind the raised rear seats, we fit two adult-sized golf bags flat on the floor.
Despite the loss in cargo room compared with the Elantra Touring, the Elantra GT's passenger space compares favorably with other hatchbacks in its class. The GT takes a 1.6-inch hit in legroom up front versus the roomy Elantra sedan, but I never felt uncomfortable in the driver's seat, and I'm a slender 6 feet tall.
I had more trouble fitting in the backseat, where the top of my head grazed the ceiling. I might have found a little more clearance without the optional panoramic roof. A Hyundai representative tells us there's about an inch (0.9 inches) more rear headroom in models without the panoramic roof, though I haven't sat in one yet. Otherwise, the rear is a comfortable experience. If I were an inch shorter I'd have nothing but nice things to say about it.
Gadgets & Gizmos
It's no secret Hyundai packs a wallop of features in its cars for bargain prices. The GT is no exception: It not only includes a raft of standard features at its reasonable $19,170 base price (including a $775 destination charge) but it also offers optional features that are rare among economy hatchbacks. Notable standard equipment includes heated cloth front seats, a USB input, satellite radio, Bluetooth, BlueLink telematics system, a tilt and telescoping steering wheel and more (see the full list).
There aren't many features in sub-$25,000 cars that elicit ooooh and ahhhh responses, but the Elantra GT's optional backup camera did exactly that. It's incorporated into the rear Hyundai "H" badge, which flips up to expose the camera when the car is in Reverse.
It's a slick feature, but every editor who drove the car noted the loud, mechanical sound the camera made when it opened and closed; I thought I had run over something when I put the car back in Drive to haul off. The backup camera is part of a Technology Package ($2,350) that includes navigation and smart key entry — but it also requires a $2,750 Style Package as a prerequisite.
The Style Package equips the GT with a panoramic moonroof, leather seats, 17-inch wheels, a sport suspension and more. Though not foreign to cars priced below $25,000, the panoramic roof is a notable feature that's typically relegated to more expensive cars. With a power-retractable shade to shield the entire roof from the sun, the feature doesn't feel like a budget add-on. I'm a fan of large glass roofs because of the open-air feeling of sunlight illuminating the entire interior. In the Hyundai Elantra GT, the roof's front segment slides back like a traditional sunroof.
A feature we haven't seen in this vehicle class is the multiple-mode power-steering assist, called Driver Selectable Steering Mode, which is standard. A button on the steering wheel selects modes that vary how much force it takes the driver to turn the steering wheel. (Sports cars often have heavier steering wheels for precision driving.) In the GT, the different modes feel artificial; I preferred to use Comfort mode, which is the easiest to turn. Sport mode didn't make the experience any more precise or sports-car-like.
Under the Hood
The GT's differentiation from the sedan continues in the driving experience. It's fun to take on on-ramps with some speed. The GT is tuned for sportier driving, with a stiffer suspension than the comfort-oriented sedan. Our tester had the optional sport suspension, with calibrations tailored to the lower-profile 17-inch tires that made the car's handling crisp and balanced. Both the sports suspension and the wheels are part of the $2,750 Style Package.
The Elantra GT is modestly powered, using the same 148-horsepower, 1.8-liter four-cylinder from the Elantra sedan and coupe. Being a few ponies down compared with the Mazda3 and Focus doesn't cost the GT in acceleration because it's more svelte, at around 2,700 pounds. The EPA rates fuel economy of the Elantra GT with a six-speed automatic transmission at 27/37 mpg city/highway, and the six-speed manual Elantra at 26/37 mpg.
While the Elantra GT adds some extra fun to the Elantra lineup, overall it's still not as tossable or composed as the Mazda3 or Ford Focus, which are stunners in this segment, sporting less body roll and additional road-holding ability.
The Elantra GT earned a best five-star overall rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Elantra GT has not been crash-tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Being a different body style, the hatchback doesn't share test results with IIHS testing of the sedan.
Standard safety equipment on the Elantra GT includes frontal airbags, side-impact airbags for front occupants, a driver's knee airbag, side curtain airbags for the front and rear, an electronic stability system and antilock brakes. For additional safety equipment information, see here.
To see how well child seats fit in the Elantra GT, see the Car Seat Check.
Elantra GT in the Market
The hatchback comes at a price premium compared with the sedan, which is typical for hatchback versions of compact cars. Checking in at $25,365 with options and destination charge, our fully loaded GT cost about $2,000 more than a fully loaded Elantra sedan.
Despite the added cost, the GT's hatchback usability — combined with a more premium interior, a sporty driving experience and trick features — means the extra dough is easy to part with.


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Carpenter lauded as one of Cardinals' all-time greatsBy DERRICK GOOLD
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 21. 2013 8:22PM
ST. LOUIS — When Cardinals stalwart Chris Carpenter, the team's most decorated starter in the past decade, notified the club last weekend that he intended to retire, he official stated what he and team officials had long expected: that he wouldn't take the mound again as an active player.
Now the club can begin its pitch to make sure he doesn't leave the organization.
The Cardinals announced Wednesday that Carpenter, 38, had decided to end his career after 15 total seasons, the 2005 Cy Young Award, and 95 wins in 11 years with St. Louis. A persisting nerve condition kept him on the disabled list the entire 2013 season and led to his decision.
Carpenter did not attend a news conference at Busch Stadium, though the Cardinals expect him to speak publicly about his decision after Thanksgiving.
In the meantime, he'll be among the featured guests at the Granite State Baseball Dinner in his native New Hampshire on Saturday. Raised in Raymond, N.H., and educated at Trinity High School in Manchester, N.H., Carpenter makes an annual return to Manchester for the dinner, which benefits Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, one of his favorite charities.
Carpenter's presence in the dugout for Game 6 of the World Series won't be his last appearance with the club if the Cardinals have their way.
In early January, general manager John Mozeliak plans to meet with Carpenter about joining the front office or taking on some other role with the organization.
On Wednesday, Mozeliak said Carpenter will "go down as one of the greatest we've ever had."
"We think back to his career and what an amazing one it was for the St. Louis Cardinals," Mozeliak said at Busch. "He did so many things and was part of so many highlights. I think he really created a culture of higher expectations for this organization. For him to be a part of that era was really something that made us all better."
Carpenter retires with the franchise record in playoff victories (10) and a handful of rings — including two World Series championships and four National League titles. He compelled the Cardinals toward the 2011 World Series championship with an epic 1-0 victory in Game 5 of the National League division series, outdueling his friend and former Blue Jays teammate Roy Halladay for the shutout. Carpenter's demonstrative scream to the heavens at the end of the game will remain a perpetual part of club highlight reels. Carpenter started Game 7 of the World Series that same fall and was the winner as that team claimed the franchise's 11th title.
That was his penultimate win as a Cardinal.
Carpenter was limited to six starts and 30 2/3 innings in 2012 and did not throw a pitch for the big-league club in 2013 because of chronic nerve issues in his right shoulder. Carpenter experienced numbness in his right hand, a lack of strength, and fatigue as a result of the condition. In 2012, he had a rib removed to clear space for the choked nerves and was able to contribute 13 2/3 innings and a win against Washington in the 2012 playoffs. Weeks before spring training started this season he experienced familiar symptoms and notified the team that he would not be able to pitch.
An attempted comeback in the middle of the season was abandoned when he could not complete a rehab assignment. He had trouble maintaining strength into a start at Class AAA.
"He had been through so much to get back on the field so many times," agent Bob LaMonte said, referencing Carpenter's return from elbow and shoulder operations. "I think this last one got him. He had given the game enough."
LaMonte said that he has received some feelers from media outlets about Carpenter, but that he knew his client planned to talk with the Cardinals about options. Late in the season, Carpenter acknowledged that he was unlikely to pitch again but said he wanted to discuss it with his family after the World Series. He dialed Mozeliak over the weekend to let the general manager know about his decision. Travel schedules kept the two from meeting about a position within the organization, though "myriad things" had been talked about over the course of the season.
LaMonte said he wasn't sure if Carpenter would return immediately to the game or look to do so later in 2014 or after a full season.
Mozeliak said Carpenter's residing in St. Louis "is going to allow him to engage with the club more conveniently if he chooses."
The righty was lauded for his influence this season, without throwing a pitch.
"Everybody can go and look and see the statistics and the accomplishments, but how this guy went about his business to impact other people — to me that sets him apart as somebody really special," manager Mike Matheny said. "A guy like that with that kind of ability and that kind of makeup and that kind of clout and that kind of respect, hopefully he'll stay active in this organization and continue to help guys out for a long time."
Carpenter was Toronto's first-round pick, 15th overall, in the 1993 draft. Hours after his selection, he made his final pitching start for Trinity High and blanked Manchester West, 2-0, in a state tournament game.
He made his debut with the Blue Jays four years later, striking out Hall of Famer Paul Molitor for the first of 1,697 career K's. Injuries slowed his career with the Jays, and he signed with the Cardinals in 2002, though he didn't throw a pitch for the Cardinals until 2004. In 2005, Carpenter went 21-5 with a 2.83 ERA and won the club's first Cy Young Award since Bob Gibson. Carpenter would finish in the top three for the award twice in the next four seasons.
In 2009, he led the NL with a 2.24 ERA and won the game's Comeback Player of the Year award. The next season he received the third of his All-Star Game invites.
His five opening day starts tie Dizzy Dean for second behind Gibson's 10.
But beyond the raw stats was his fierceness on the mound, a competitive burn that spread through the Cardinals clubhouse and singed opponents. Adam Wainwright mimicked Carpenter's poise on the mound as a young pitcher. Michael Wacha said he borrowed from Carpenter's intensity to find his fire during October. It was after the Cardinals' victory on the obstruction call in Game 3 of the World Series that Carpenter helped reset a team unsure of why it won and whether Allen Craig had been injured. He shouted in the clubhouse: "Hey, boys, we just won a World Series game!"
More than his yells will echo.
"He will always be remembered as one of the great players in Cardinals history," chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said during Wednesday's news conference. "A core piece without whom we wouldn't have been (able to win) four pennants and two world championships during his tenure here as the leader of the pitching staff."


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In her more than thirty-year career, the itinerant painter Pacita Abad was known for her colorful paintings, mixed media collages and assemblages. After briefly studying painting in Washington, DC and New York, she traveled the world to more than 80 countries. Abad's journeys and experiences living in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean had a major impact on her artwork, and her subject matter was largely drawn from her personal experiences. In the 1970s and 80s, influenced by Social Realist painters like Ben Shahn, she created figurative political and social documentary paintings of refugees, rural villagers and urban street scenes, and later, mixed media paintings of tribal masks.
Abad's style changed continuously as she experimented with painting on a wide variety of materials, including prints, pulp paper, bark cloth, ceramics, metal and glass. During the last two decades of her career, she explored abstraction in her three-dimensional "trapunto" paintings. These sculptural painted works include hand-stitched fabric and embellishments, incorporating traditional designs, fabrics, shells, buttons and mirrors. Her last major work, a 55-meter long pedestrian bridge in Singapore which she covered entirely with colorful circle patterns, was completed just a few months before she passed away at the age of 58.
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Internet Radio Saved?
Wired's Listening Post Blog claims that internet radio has been "saved" (for now, anyway) and that SoundExchange executive director Jon Simson "promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the new royalty rates. Webcasters will stay online, as new rates are hammered out."
Tim Westergren told Listening Post: "It was getting pretty close. I always had underlying optimism that sanity was going to prevail, but I was beginning to wonder." He also said that everyone who contacted their Congressperson should feel that they had an effect on the process.
"This is a direct result of lobbying pressure, so if anyone thinks their call didn't matter, it did. That's why this is happening."
No word on what the new rate will be or how it will be "hammered out," but this is at least a stay of execution and Pandora and other internet radio stations will not have to stop broadcasting this Sunday.
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oh dear god... his belly button looks like the bottom of an orange rind... you know... this part...
I'm going to be printing up around 2 dozen of the Miley pics... I'll hand them out to members at Legends and one by one we have to go ask him for his autograph
someone needs to edit in a tongue sticking out and it would be perfect!
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Here it is early February, and many of us are itching to start some seedlings. Well don't. Or at least don't start your tomatoes – they only require 6 to 8 weeks and would be ready to go in the soil by April if you started them now. That's way too early. But if you really want to get your fingers dirty and are willing to baby along plants for 4 months, there are things you can start.
Many years ago I commented to a professional grower that I loved lisianthus, a flower that is often sold by florists and occasionally sold by nurseries selling starts of annual flowers. In addition to looking gorgeous in an arrangement, it lasts forever in a vase. I've had them look good for 3 weeks or more. But she told me they were fussy. Difficult to get started. She told me I wouldn't be able to start them myself, but should just buy seedlings (from her, presumably). That sounded like a challenge to me, so I decided to start some.
I did a little research and discovered that there are at least three sizes, or heights of lisianthus. I bought a packet of seeds of each. And they come in 3 colors: white, pink and purple/lavender. I learned that germination is slow: it takes 10 - 18 days at a constant temperature of 72 degrees. Like any seedling, they require good light, not just the sun of a south-facing window. I set up a light stand with fluorescent lights and set the thermostat in the bathroom where they were at 72 degrees. These babies were gonna be happy!
My lisianthus germinated in 18 days. Oh boy! I had a hundred or more seedlings! I adjusted the lights so they were just 6-8 inches above their tiny leaves. Every day I checked them, watered a little if need be, made encouraging murmurs. But nothing much happened. Those tiny green leaves just sat there, glaring at me. They refused to grow. One week, nothing. Two weeks, no change. And on and on. After several weeks they were the size of week-old radish leaves.
Eventually they started to grow, and when they went outside in full sun and got into the soil they took off like foxes in front of hounds. They grew and bloomed in prodigious quantities. When frost came I dug up big clumps of them and brought them into the house as I couldn't bear to see them succumb to the cold. In the house they finished up their life cycle after Halloween, if memory serves me well.
But most flowers are easier to start than lisianthus. The advantage to starting by seed is simple: a $4 package of seeds will provide dozens, even hundreds of plants. If you want to overwhelm guests at an August event with bushels of blossoms, you can. And many flowers you can start later, right in the ground. Some flowers that are relatively easy to start outdoors by seed include: bachelor buttons, calendula, California poppies, cosmos, marigolds, morning glories, nasturtiums, scarlet runner beans, sunflowers and zinnias.
On the other hand, starting flowers indoors means getting blossoms earlier. Most seed catalogs are primarily interested in selling you the seeds, so they tell you all about a flower's wonderful characteristics or history – but not necessarily much about germination time, or how many weeks from seed to flower. One exception to that is Johnny's Select Seeds (www.johnnyseeds.com or 877-564-6697). They sell to commercial growers and home gardeners and really tell you everything you need to know.
If you are looking for truly rare and wonderful seeds to start, you might want to check out a British company, Chiltern Seeds (www.chilternseeds.co.uk) . The late Tasha Tudor introduced me to their catalog years ago when I visited her at her home in southern Vermont. Chiltern Seeds is the exact opposite of Johnny's Seeds: they provide no growing information at all, not even hardiness zones for perennials. Of course most of the United Kingdom has a mild climate so cold hardiness is not something they focus on.
What I like about the Chiltern catalog is that it has species of perennial flowers that I can't find in even a most extensive nursery collection. Now it may be that I do not find Dicentra scandens for sale in New Hampshire or Vermont because it is a perennial that will not grow here. It's a relative of our bleeding hearts but is a yellow (or pink) climber that it comes from the Himalayas - so it just might. My copy of the plant encyclopedia Botanica lists it as hardy to Zone 4 (minus 30) but I went on line and most people selling seed say it is only hardy to Zone 6 (minus 10 degrees). Either way, germination can take months, even a year, so I shall not buy seeds for it.
My Johnny's Seeds catalog tells me to plant lisianthus 12-13 weeks before lost frost, so I still have time to order seeds. They have a tall one that is supposed to be dark red that looks awfully good. But I'd better get started soon. I know they're fussy.
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At the main Dining Hall, sustainable, locally grown, and locally-processed foods are chosen as often as possible. Examples of local businesses include: Utz, Hershey's, Roaring Spring, Musselman's, and dozens more. Additionally, the Dining Hall obtains seasonal fruits and vegetables from a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), Everblossom Farm, taking advantage of the College's perfect placement in the agriculturally rich Adams County.
In the summer of 2012, Dining Services decided to become even more locally minded, with the introduction of honey bees to campus! In collaboration with Graybill's Bee-Haven, Dining Services has installed a bee hive on the northwest end of campus near the Painted Turtle Farm. These bees will pollinate the garden and much of the campus as well as provide delicious honey to the Dining Hall!
To reduce its ecological footprint, the Dining Hall uses paper products constructed from recycled material and energy efficient appliances such as the eco-friendly toaster ovens. Servo also utilizes a pulper in the dish room which reduces waste volume by 80% and water consumption by 66% while reusing 95% of the water continually during operation.
The Dining Hall is also dedicated to preventing its wastes from entering the waste stream. The Dining Hall recycles at all stages of food preparation and directs its pre-consumer compostable material to the Painted Turtle Farm. In 2011 alone, the Painted Turtle Farm composted almost 1,000 pounds of pre-consumer material. The Dining Hall also donates used fryer oil to a local grape farmer, who converts it into biodiesel. The Dining Hall then purchases the finished product to fuel its biodiesel van which travels frequently around campus. The Dining Hall also donates its pre-consumer leftover food to Campus Kitchens, which benefits local individuals and agencies in need.
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U.S. rice growers could plant 330,000 to 340,000 fewer acres in 2003 or about 10 percent less acreage than they did in 2002, according to Extension specialists from across the Rice Belt.
The specialists, speaking at the annual Valent Rice Seminar, said low prices will be the major driving force behind the potential drop from 3.2 million to 2.86 million acres this spring, but the 2002 farm bill — and water availability in California — will also play a role.
The biggest percentage decline could occur in Louisiana, where growers have been shaken by a combination of adversities that include a "Catch 22-like" wrinkle in the new farm bill and a lack of any meaningful help from the recently passed federal disaster assistance legislation.
"I think we could go down about 100,000 acres," said Johnny Saichuk, Extension rice specialist with the LSU AgCenter's Rice Research Station in Crowley, La. "Unfortunately, that's 20 percent of our acres. I'm hearing everything from 15 percent down to 40 percent because of the economic conditions, but I feel it will be around 100,000 (acres)."
The last 12 months have not been kind to Louisiana rice growers, according to Saichuk. "We had probably one of the best second crops ever, and it was ruined," he said, referring to the hurricane (Lili) and tropical storm (Isidore) that destroyed much of the ratoon (second harvest) rice along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in October.
As details began to emerge about last year's farm bill, Louisiana farmers received another blow, he said. Many could not take advantage of the long-sought opportunity to update their program yields because they had not fully planted their rice acreage base under Freedom to Farm.
Meanwhile, growers have also lost the premium they often received from the average world price calculations and loan deficiency payments along with the decrease in domestic rice prices.
"Our growers have gradually increased their yields, but the price has taken a nose dive down to $3.85 to $4 per hundredweight," says Saichuk. "We started out with growers in our Rice Research Verification Program receiving $280 over variable costs a couple of years ago, and we're down to $30 over variable costs."
He said some farmers in northeast Louisiana have indicated they will plant "a little rice to keep their acreage base up. But that is where most of the change will occur with many of those growers switching to corn.
"We're not sure what growers in south Louisiana will do because of the lack of alternatives. They've tried soybeans, wheat and milo with little success. Some who left their fences up may go back to cattle because that's about all they have."
Despite the total loss of their ratoon crop in 2002, many Louisiana growers won't meet the 35 percent qualifying threshold in the new Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003, he noted. "We're still hoping for an economic emergency assistance package."
Arkansas could see a decline of 105,000 acres — 7 percent of the state's 1.5 million acres, says Chuck Wilson, Extension agronomist for rice with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.
"I think our overall acreage will go down — maybe 7 percent — a little over 100,000 acres," he said. "A lot of it will have to do with the choices in the farm bill and the $1.50 per bushel rice.
"Other factors dictate that we will still have a substantial amount of rice — landlords may insist on it, we have substantial investments in the rice infrastructure. I don't think we will take as big a hit as what I've heard in recent weeks."
Wilson said Arkansas farmers will probably benefit more from the new farm bill than Louisiana growers. "Ten years ago, we had 1.2 million to 1.3 million acres of rice, and we were up to 1.6 million in 2001. The farm bill gives us the ability to increase base, and I know our yields have gone up."
Mississippi growers could decrease their rice acres by 10 to 15 percent — 25,000 to 38,000 acres — from 2002's 255,000, said Joe Street, rice specialist with the Delta Research and Extension Center at Stoneville, Miss.
"I'm closer to 15 percent today because of the price outlook, which isn't good," he noted. "Some growers have told me they're planning to cut back because they can't make it on rice and others said they're planning to double their acres."
Street said Mississippi farmers appeared to be headed for record yields prior to the hurricane and tropical storm that moved through Louisiana and Mississippi last fall.
"One grower who got his rice out before Isidore hit averaged 186 bushels of rice across his whole farm," he noted. "Those who had only 70 to 80 percent out lost a considerable amount of rice. A lot of acres went underwater; a lot stayed on the ground 30 days. What we thought was a bumper crop didn't turn out to be."
Street said the hope of higher soybean prices is putting pressure on rice acres in Mississippi, although some area buyers are offering contracts with premiums for certain types of rice. "This is encouraging and may help stabilize acreage," he said.
Missouri growers, who missed both the hurricane and the tropical storm last fall, harvested a record average yield of 6,050 pounds per acre in 2002, said Bruce Beck, an agronomy specialist with the University of Missouri Extension Service in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
But the higher yields weren't enough to offset low prices, and Beck expects farmers could plant 10 percent fewer acres of rice from last year's 200,000 "as an emotional reaction to prices."
Beck thinks most of those acres could go into cotton because of the stronger prices for the latter in recent weeks. But some of it could go to corn.
Farmers in the Texas Rice Belt could plant 10 percent fewer acres from 2002's 206,000, in part, because their options are narrowing as rains continue to pound the Gulf Coast area.
"Corn planting time is already behind us, and rice planting time will be behind us if it doesn't stop raining soon," said Arlen Klosterboer, retired Extension specialist with Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. "I think we could be down 10 percent. Some say it could down more, but, as of today, I think it could be 10 percent.
"A lot of farmers were unable to get in their fields last fall, so they can't use stale seedbeds even if they wanted to," he noted. "That's another factor contributing to the acreage reduction."
The farm bill could also have an impact, he said. Seventy to 80 percent of Texas rice farmers lease their land, and land owners are catching on to the new program. Some haven't decided if they will let their growers plant rice or collect their check and walk away from it."
California growers could also plant 10 percent fewer acres in 2003 due to the prices of competing crops and uncertainty over water supplies, said David Cheetham, weed scientist with the University of California, based in Davis, Calif.
Such a decline would drop California's rice acreage from 540,000 to under 490,000 in the Sacramento Valley, where most of the state's rice is planted. "Wheat prices and acreage are expected to be up and safflower prices are likely to attract some acres," said Cheetham. "But water may be the deciding factor."
Water supplies reportedly are highly variable in California this winter, he noted. "The snow pack is up in the northern part of the state where most of the rice is grown, but supplies are down in southern California."
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Gasoline jumped to a four-month high as the March contract's discount to April futures narrowed for the first time in four days.
The March-delivery gasoline rose the most since Nov. 9. The March-April spread shrank 3.66 cents to 19.98 cents, after reaching the widest in seven years yesterday for the contracts nearest to expiration on speculation winter-grade supply is ample. April futures represent summer-grade fuel, which costs more to refine and blend. East Coast supplies rose last week while total U.S. inventories fell, Energy Information Administration data show.
"It's surprising that gasoline continues to rally," said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates LLC in Houston. "National inventories drew this week due to the lower inventories in PADD 5 while RBOB on the East Coast in PADD 1 built substantially."
Gasoline for March delivery advanced 8.12 cents to $3.1166 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange on volume that was 42% above the 100-day average. It was the highest settlement since Sept. 28, when futures reached $3.342. Prices extended gains to $3.1364 after the trading floor closed at 2:30 p.m.
The motor fuel has been the top performer this year on the Standard & Poor's GSCI index of 24 commodities with an 11% gain. The April gasoline crack spread versus Brent crude on the ICE Futures Europe exchange rose to $21.29 a barrel, the biggest difference since May 2011.
The rally accelerated as prices rose above key chart points, instigating further buying.
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"When it passed $3.085 and $3.10 today, it triggered a lot of program buying from hedge funds and commodity trading advisers," said Michael Smith, president of T&K Futures & Options in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
Gains also widened as spot markets climbed in Chicago and the Gulf Coast as Citgo Petroleum's Lemont refinery in Illinois had a process unit upset and Motiva Enterprises LLC began shutting units at its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery for work and was gradually ramping up rates on its largest crude unit.
"The rumor was there was a fire at Citgo Lemont and the Chicago cash market heated up," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.
The futures contracts are based on reformulated gasoline, or RBOB. Gasoline stockpiles in the East Coast, or PADD 1 region, which includes the Nymex delivery point in New York Harbor, jumped 1.7 million barrels to the highest level since March 16 last week, according to the EIA, the Energy Department's statistical arm. Total U.S. supplies fell 803,000 barrels to 233.2 million.
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