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Tony's Review of "Star Trek Into Darkness"
J.J. Abrams has graced the silver screen with his follow-up to the successful reboot "Star Trek", showing us as clearly as possible that he is not a fan of "Star Trek".
Since the events of the previous film, newly promoted Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are sent to the planet Nibiru to observe the indigenous primitive population. During a plan to save the population from an erupting volcano, Spock's life is put at risk. Breaking the "Prime Directive", Kirk chooses to expose the ship to the primitive population in order to save Spock. Seeing the large and unexplainable ship rising from their waters, the people of Nibiru start to worship the Enterprise. Back on Earth, Admiral Pike informs Kirk that he has been stripped of his command and will be sent back to the Academy for his actions. However, believing Kirk to be a valued officer, Pike later convinces Admiral Marcus to reinstate Kirk as Pike's First Officer on the Enterprise. Pike and Kirk are called to an emergency meeting at Starfleet HQ to discuss the bombing of Starfleet Archives in London by Commander John Harrison. During the meeting, Harrison arrives in an attack ship and opens fire, killing several people including Admiral Pike. Back in command of the Enterprise, Kirk is given the mission of hunting John Harrison down, having fled to the Klingon home-world, and ending him, using 72 special long-range torpedoes, which are of a special interest to new crewmember Dr. Carol Wallace. These 72 torpedoes end up revealing Dr. Wallace and even John Harrison are not who they claim to be.
For this review, I had to do something very difficult, go into the movie and not be a Trekkie. I did everything I could to remove my preconceived ideas and just enjoy the movie. And funny enough, I really liked it. It's a terrific sci-fi/action film, but it's a mediocre Star Trek movie. This is mainstream in every sense of the word, focusing on action and sex appeal over story and substance. The original films all had some underlying theme behind the movie. "Wrath of Khan" was a retelling of "Moby Dick", "Search for Spock" was about the then-current arms race, "The Voyage Home" addressed extinction in nature, "The Final Frontier" was about religion and brotherhood, and "The Undiscovered Country" dealt with the end of the Cold War. But both of J.J. Abrams' attempts at a "Star Trek" story are just about action and sexy actors/actresses, nothing more because today's audiences unfortunately don't seem to demand more from summer films.
I did like several things about this movie. The effects and action are truly top-notch, obviously the key focus for the film makers here. The Enterprise itself is far more impressive in this film, especially in a fight with a ship twice its size. The cast also stepped things up a bit, with Simon Pegg's Scotty playing a much more substantial role in the overall story, as it should be. Zachary Quinto seemed more at ease playing Spock, though the script may have been a key factor there as Spock's human side is more prevalent this time around. John Cho's Sulu doesn't have the same screen presence as the first film, but in a way he's better here. Instead of shining in an action sequence, Sulu instead has to take the Captain's chair briefly while Kirk is on the planet surface, foreshadowing Sulu's bright future as the only Enterprise senior staff member to get his own command.
Unfortunately, there's several things that just bugged me to no end. Let's get it out of the way, (SPOILERS) Benedict Cumberbatch is Khan, the Enterprise's greatest villain from the original series and films. They do a great job explaining why Khan has been found years before he was in the original series, but they don't bother to explain why an Indian with the name Khan Noonien Singh is played by the whitest man in the history of England. Yes, this is an alternate time-line to the original films, but a character's ethnicity is not something that would change here, especially since the character pre-dates the events in the first movie that caused the new time-line. Though Cumberbatch does an amazing job with the role and is a highlight of the film, long-time fans are probably going to be uncomfortable with the white-washing of this iconic villain. In the same respect, I wasn't impressed with Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Wallace/Marcus. During the lead-up to the film, no mention was ever made in the trailers as who this blonde in her underwear is supposed to be. Fans know Dr. Carol Marcus to be a former lover of Kirk's and the mother of Kirk's son David. Again, the background of the character is abruptly changed, this time from American to British. And Eve's presence is half story-driven and half sex-driven. She plays a key role in the discovery of the true nature of the special torpedoes, but prior to that she's in her underwear for absolutely no valid reason, a gratuitous scene that the writer of the film has recently apologized for.
As for the returning characters, the relationship between Spock and Uhura is just annoying at this point, feeling like it was written for a series on the CW. The "love story" of Star Trek has always been the brotherhood between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, but now we have the focus on Spock and Uhura, who start to have a lover's spat during a mission. And finally, my biggest complaint of the first film was the rushed narrative, promoting Kirk from a cadet on academic probation to captain of the Enterprise after one mission. His rushed promotion is dealt with in this movie when he's demoted back to the academy, but events result in him being re-promoted back to Captain within a day.
Overall, this film tried to straddle the line between appealing to people who never watched the originals and die-hard fans of the series. Unfortunately, the way they appealed to fans is by shoving in references to the originals every chance they got. While some worked perfectly, like Spock finally saying, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," and Scotty's nick name of "The Miracle Worker", the rest of the references just seemed like J.J. Abrams saying, "Ah! Ah! See that?! See what we did there?!" Given the use of Khan as the major villain, Abrams decided to parallel many aspects of the film "Wrath of Khan", making this a completely unoriginal experience. Yes, key roles were switched around, but we still got just about everything we did back in 1982, the biggest difference though being the final sequence. Where the ending of "Wrath of Khan" was shocking and definitive, the parallel take in this film carried no emotional weight because they basically slapped the audience in the face with the resolution before the scene ever started. While in sickbay talking to Khan, Kirk abruptly asks Dr. McCoy a question about a dead Tribble. Hmm… a completely random insert into this scene. I wonder if that will come back into play later.
I did find this film enjoyable when I removed my fandom of the franchise. However, that's not something I should have to do. This film carries the title and characters of Star Trek, but does very little to make it feel like a Star Trek movie. This will be a very enjoyable film for people with no emotional connection to the classics, but that's not who this movie should have been made for. When a geek property goes mainstream it has to alienate the original audience to appeal to a broader audience, in this case sacrificing the character and story arcs of the originals for fast-paced action, three-ways with alien women, and a script that references the originals instead of paying homage to them. This movie feels more like a Star Trek film than the previous one, but overall it still falls short of living up to the original franchise. It's the best sci-fi/action film in the series and something that anyone who didn't like the original Star Treks will find enjoyment in, but I don't fault any fans who feel disappointed with it.


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Posted November 16, 2017
Catch him if you can; "The Gingerbread Man" was the theme for Fall Storytime at the Pierz Public Library. Once a month, during the school year, the Pierz Library holds a storytime, complete with songs, rhymes, crafts and a snack. This month, the children enjoyed helping Leora, the storytime volunteer, tell the story of the Gingerbread Man on the felt board. Everyone took home a gingerbread man and enjoyed some gingersnap cookies!
Posted October 23, 2017
Bookworms, it could just be your lucky day … but you won't know it unless you visit the Pierz Library. Lucky Day is a new Great River Regional Library program meant to give library users immediate access to some of the newest and most popular titles… without having to wait. These new collections include 20 different books by popular authors like Dan Brown, James Patterson, Jan Karon, Robyn Carr, Vince Flynn and more. Oftentimes, these popular authors have a long waiting list....
Posted June 22, 2017
Every Thursday morning at 10 a.m., the Pierz Public Library hosts a summer storytime, and this week, the theme was "art," We begin the program with several stories, songs and rhymes before wrapping up with a craft. This week, we took our talents to the sidewalk outside the library. The kids drew a wide variety of art and enjoyed a popsicle. Summer storytime in Pierz runs through August 24, 2017. Registration is not required. Come and join in the fun this summer!
Posted July 21, 2016
Storytimes at Pierz Public Library are usually well attended, and today's was no exception. Forty-six patrons of all ages listened as the library's storytelling volunteer read books, did finger plays and sang songs accompanied by her ukulele. The theme was butterflies, and the group finished their time by making butterfly windsocks. Pierz offers storytime each Thursday at 10 a.m., June thru August.
Posted April 4, 2016
April is National Poetry Month. For the third annual year the Pierz Public Library will celebrate National Poetry Month by requesting teens to submit original poems. Poems will be displayed in the library without identifying names. A qualified local community member will judge the poems for originality, and one lucky winner will receive a gift card for a local business of their choice from the Friends of the Pierz Public Library. Teens submitting poems must complete a form, which includes...
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An entertaining show featuring songs and stories about the Old West will be presented at the Pierz Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 12 at 11:00 a.m. The show features songs written by songwriting legends like Bob Nolan, Leonard Slye, Marty Robbins and Ian Tyson. Learn about the real Ghost Riders in the Sky and the cowboy that lived to Tie a Knot in the Devil's Tail. The presenter, Lyndon Griffin, is an entertainer, singer, lecturer and historian. Lyndon presents an adventure in song and...
Posted January 9, 2015
A patron of the Pierz Public Library has shared a portion of their personal Elvis Presley memorabilia collection for public viewing at the library. Elvis was born Jan. 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi and would have celebrated his 80th birthday this year. An American singer and actor, he became known as the "King of Rock and Roll", but sang many genres of music including pop, blues and gospel. He had a rapid rise to fame in the mid 1950s, appearing on the radio, silver screen and TV. Some of...
Posted November 20, 2014
Do you enjoy holiday music? Get in the holiday spirit! Come and listen to jazz pianist and singer of the Great American Songbook, Andrew Walesch as he shares some of his holiday favorites at the Pierz Public Library. He will perform inspiring and delightful holiday classics and other songs on Wednesday, Dec. 17 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This is open to all ages. Bring along a friend!
Posted July 31, 2014
The Pierz Public Library is offering two classes this fall on job searching, resumes, applications, interviewing and networking. Staff from Rural MN CEP will be presenting. On Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 2:00 p.m., the topic will be job searching, resumes and applications. On Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 2:00 p.m., the topic will be interviewing and networking. These classes are free and open to the community. Registration is appreciated. Call the Pierz Public Library with any questions at 320.468....
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Chef, writer, and television host Amy Thielen will visit the Pierz Public Library on Wednesday, July 16 at 4:00 p.m. Thielen is writer of "The New Midwestern Table" and the host of "Heartland Table" on the Food Nework. She will sign her cookbooks and answer questions about her book and show. Amy has been a professional cook for over ten years, with seven of those in the finest restaurants in Manhattan. Now she and her family reside in northern Minnesota. On "Heartland Table" she cooks...


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March 10, 2006
LOS ANGELES – Francis Longstaff, Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance and chair of the UCLA Anderson finance area was honored for his paper, "Losing Money on Arbitrage: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities." The paper was co-authored with former UCLA Anderson finance professor Jun Liu. The award recognizes important research in the field of finance and is given annually to the best paper published in The Review of Financial Studies. The award brings a $20,000 cash prize. The award is named after UCLA Anderson emeritus professor Michael J. Brennan who served as founding editor of the journal.
Award Announcement
Read "Losing Money on Arbitrage: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities," in The Review of Financial Studies (PDF)
We derive the optimal investment policy of a risk-averse investor in a market where there is a textbook arbitrage opportunity, but where liabilities must be secured by collateral. We find that it is often optimal to underinvest in the arbitrage by taking a smaller position than collateral constraints allow. Even when the optimal policy is followed, the arbitrage portfolio typically experiences losses before the final convergence date. In fact, its initial performance may be indistinguishable from that of a conventional portfolio with a poor track record. These results have important implications for the role of arbitrageurs in financial markets.
Mark Garmaise Named Runner-up
Mark Garmaise, assistant professor of finance at UCLA Anderson, was named runner up for the award for his paper, "Confronting Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Real Estate Markets," co-authored with Tobias J. Moskowitz.
Read "Confronting Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Real Estate Markets," in The Review of Financial Studies (PDF)
There are relatively few direct tests of the economic effects of asymmetric information because of the difficulty in identifying exogenous information measures. We propose a novel exogenous measure of information based on the quality of property tax assessments in different regions and apply this to the U.S. commercial real estate market. We find strong evidence that information considerations are significant. Market participants resolve information asymmetries by purchasing nearby properties, trading properties with long income histories, and avoiding transactions with informed professional brokers. The evidence that the choice of financing is used to address information concerns is mixed and weak.
Garmaise and Moskowitz also received the 2004 BGI Michael Brennan Award for their paper, "Informal Financial Networks: Theory and Evidence."
Read "Informal Financial Networks: Theory and Evidence," in The Review of Financial Studies (PDF)
We develop a model of informal financial networks and present corroborating evidence by studying the role of property brokers in the U.S. commercial real estate market. Our model demonstrates that service intermediaries, who do not themselves supply loans, can facilitate their clients' access to finance through informal relationships with lenders. Empirically we find that, controlling for endogenous broker selection, hiring a broker strikingly increases the probability of obtaining bank finance. Our results demonstrate that even in the United States, with its well-developed capital markets, informal networks play an important role in controlling access to finance.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. UCLA Anderson constituents are part of a culture that values individual vision, intellectual discipline and a sense of teamwork and collegiality.
Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson School of Management provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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Review: Written on Skin
Helen Wallace reviews George Benjamin's radical new opera
How often can you say of a new work that for 90 gripping minutes an audience collectively held its breath? Written on Skin, George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's new opera, playing at the Royal Opera House, is a quietly radical masterpiece with a long, long life stretching ahead of it.
The drama is timeless and yet absolutely of our time, drawing on the medieval French troubadour 'legend of the eaten heart' to explore themes of identity and sexuality, man's gifts of creation and destruction, the repositories of memory, their power to change and distort. Its subtle shifts in time perspective reveal a rich trove of pregnant, carefully unresolved ideas: no wonder a revival is already planned and opera houses round the world are crying out to stage it.
Written on Skin is intensely erotic, and, unusually, it is the female, Agnès – the mesmerising soprano Barbara Hannigan - who generates, controls and luxuriates in her own eroticism. This is particularly striking given the bare outline of the story: a cruel Protector (bass Christopher Purves on formidable form) invites a young artist (possibly an angel, ethereal Bejun Mehta) into his home to record his achievements and property; his young wife falls in love with him, and discovers her individuality. Her husband kills the artist, and feeds her the heart. She leaps to her death from an upstairs window.
Crimp has taken an age-old tale of woman-as-victim ('invent her, strip her, blame her for everything' nicely sums up the story since Eve) and turned it on its head. With the artist's assistance ('can you invent another woman?') her burgeoning and sensuous sense of self gradually fills the stage until her suicidal leap turns into triumphant flight, as she rises, running in slow motion, up a staircase. It's a twist on Tosca I never expected to see.
Benjamin wrote each part for these singers, and they rise to it spectacularly. So what of his score? So perfectly do words and music entangle themselves, it seems wrong to judge it separately. It can – and will - be compared to Debussy's Pelléas in that here we have an exquisitely sensitised tissue of sonorities responding so precisely to each poetic sung line, they become one; bass viol, glass harmonica and mandolins add their eery magic to muted, dream-like music, which is always rhythmically alert. While Agnès speaks with the Boy, their voices overlap in a highly naturalistic way in which people interrupt each other, but here creating ravishing harmonies; the clarinet catches Agnes's note and it blooms in the darkness as she sings 'Come to me!'. Violence is just outside the window ('why is that man picking up a baby on the point of a stick?') and it seethes and explodes out in raucous brass between scenes. The line: 'Her eyelashes scrape the pillow, click, click' encapsulates the way Benjamin seems to put the orchestra under a microscope.
He talks of Crimp's deftly poetic language 'which lifts a few inches off the ground and that's where there is space for music to enter.' He enters it as an illuminator would, colouring, emphasising, gilding with minute precision, and yet giving the singers lavishly lyrical, long-breathed lines or, when needed, a form of simple sprechgesang.
This production may baffle some. Martin Crimp observes in the programme that director Katie Mitchell 'had to create her own solution to justify the characters narrating themselves', something that Crimp found intuitive. Sadly, this means she loads the stage with two strip-lit laboratories, the paraphernalia of archeologists and archivists, doubling as 'coldly fascinated' angels, the idea being they are 'recreating' and investigating these corpses from the past, now lying under a car park. It was a distraction: my eyes never left the single, subtly-lit room where the drama unfolds.
'Written on Skin' is on at the Royal Opera House until 22 March
Photos: Royal Opera House/Stephen Cummiskey
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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris to Convene Multinational Law Enforcement Summit on Technology and Transnational Crime
SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris will convene state and federal officials from the U.S., Mexico and El Salvador for a multinational summit focused on the use of technology to fight transnational organized crime. The summit, held in association with the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG), will focus on human trafficking, intellectual property violations and money laundering.
"Transnational criminal organizations are increasingly using sophisticated networks and technology to commit crimes against the people of California, the United States, and globally," Attorney General Harris said. "This summit will build on the partnership we forged in Mexico City this March to combat the increased use of social media in human trafficking and disrupt money laundering schemes in the U.S.-Mexico border region. I want to thank my colleagues and international partners for joining me to address this serious issue."
Attendees at the summit, the 2014 CWAG Alliance Partnership Binational State Attorney General Exchange, include U.S. state attorneys general, U.S. federal officials, Mexico Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, El Salvador Attorney General Luis Martinez, and Mexico state attorneys general.
The summit follows a U.S. delegation visit led by Attorney General Harris to Mexico City in March to strengthened relationships between government officials in both countries and enhanced efforts to combat transnational crime. During the visit, the bipartisan delegation met with Mexico Attorney General Murillo Karam to discuss shared priorities in the fight against transnational crime.
The delegation, which included the state attorneys general from Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico, also with Mexican state attorneys general from Sonora, Baja California, Chihuahua, Campeche, Distrito Federal, Zacatecas and Jalisco. The delegation also signed a letter of intent with the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico to establish a binational working group on money laundering enforcement. (https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-us-state-attorneys-general-sign-anti-money)
Prior to leading the delegation, Attorney General Harris issued the first comprehensive report in California analyzing the current state of transnational criminal organizations highlighting the increasing use of technology to facilitate criminal activity, recruitment, intimidation and harassment. The report called for increased international partnerships to leverage technology against transnational crime. (https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-comprehensive-report-transnational)
WHEN: Sunday, July 20, 2014
WHERE: CWAG annual meeting - Park City, Utah
Mexico Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam
El Salvador Attorney General Luis Martinez
U.S. State Attorneys General from Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.
Mexican State Attorneys General from Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sir, Coahuila, Colima, Mexico, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oazaca, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Zacatecas.
NOTE: Media interested in covering the summit should contact Nick Pacilio at 415-703-5837.


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Thomas and Diane Kurowski of Warwick announce the engagement of their son, Jonathan Thomas Kurowski, to Maria Gerardina Inelli, daughter of John and Pam Inelli of Chester, N.J.
The future bride graduated from the University of Rhode Island. She is an account executive for Adrianna Papell in New York City.
The future groom is a graduate of Bishop Hendricken High School and the University of Rhode Island. He is an assistant vice president for Barclays Investment Banking Division in New York City.
A July 13, 2013 wedding is planned in Newark, N.J. The couple will live in Hoboken, N.J.


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Staples boys lacrosse rallies past Amity and into Class L final
The Staples boys lacrosse team's quest for a second straight Class L final appearance was almost derailed at the final hurdle on Wednesday as No. 5 Amity Regional gave the Wreckers all they could handle at Brien McMahon High School.
After yielding four goals in the third quarter, the Staples backline, which has been the backbone of the team's entire season, posted a shutout over the final 14 minutes while the offense finally found success at the other end.
Patrick Lesch fired a hat trick and the No. 9 Wreckers scored the game's final five goals in an 8-6 win over Amity at Casagrande Field. On Saturday, Staples will meet Greenwich, which defeated Ridgefield 7-5 in the other semifinal for a chance at the school's first state title.
"That was a great team win," Lesch said. "It was a little scary in the middle of the game when (Amity) made their run, but the defense played amazing, (goalie) Cole Gendels made some huge saves and our offense did what we do best."
Lesch scored what proved to be the game winner with 4:28 left in the fourth quarter. On a man-up opportunity, the Wreckers (15-5) moved the ball around to an open Lesch, who fired a shot from in front of the cage that went past Amity goalie Evan Campbell to break a 6-6 tie.
"We have a few (man-up) plays," Lesch said. "We ran through a few plays; we were just looking for that one seam where someone would get an open shot. We found it, so it worked out well."
Following Lesch's goal, Amity (15-5) had one quality chance down the stretch to tie the game. Joseph Choiniere found himself in front of the cage, but Gendels made a save on a shot high that preserved the lead. Choiniere stole the ball from Gendels after the save and scored, but the goal was ruled out for goalie interference.
Staples regained possession following the infraction and ran out the rest of the clock. Will Johnson sealed the win with a goal with 1:14 left as the Amity players attempted to force a turnover.
"Amity is a very good team," Wreckers coach Paul McNulty said. "They have disciplined players that hustle on ground balls. We knew it was going to be a tough game and we were going to have to be at our best to win."
Both teams defenses canceled each other out in the first half as Staples took a 3-2 lead into the break.
The Spartans showed signs of life during the second quarter, outshooting the Wreckers 10-5 and scoring the quarter's lone goal. Amity's offense came alive in the third as Brad Uscilla and Choiniere each scored twice to put the Spartans up 6-3 with 2:11 left in the third.
"We were still trying with the same will and determination, but so was Amity," McNulty said. "They made some better plays. "They kept getting the ball back and we didn't possess the ball at all on offense. Good things were happening for Amity and bad things were happening for us."
Jon Pacilio gave Staples a lifeline with 1:10 left in the third on an isolation move before the Wreckers took over in the fourth quarter. The comeback was aided by Wreckers faceoff man Eric Zurmuehle, who won 13 of 16 draws.
"I've been working hard all year; my whole career," Zurmuehle said. "I'm a senior now so I wanted to leave it all out there. I knew what I had to do; I had to play my role and that's what I did."
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Staples 8, Amity 6
Records: Staples 15-5; Amity 15-5. Scoring: S -- Michael Reale 1g; Patrick Lesch 3g Will Johnson 1g; Teddy Coogan 1g; Connor Chamberlin 2a; Jon Pacilio 1g, 1a; Peter Blevins 1g. A -- Joseph Choiniere 2g, 1a; Tyler Burns 1g, 1a; Jacob Milner 1g; Brad Uscilla 2g. Goalies: S -- Cole Gendels (8 saves); A -- Evan Campbell (7).


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I have to say the Knight of skeleton icon doesn't work. When will this be fixed?
Soon. We're still doing some adjustements.
Does this mean I have to change all of my "Knight of Skeleton"'s on my website too!!! What a drag! Hehehe. JK.
Think of the upside: now we use the same name AOW does.
So.. is it too late to veto?
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A Quinnipiac poll, conducted in conjunction with The New York Times and CBS News, was released Wednesday showing Obama with large leads in Pennsylvania (12 points), Ohio (10) and Florida (9).
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Additive sound synthesis is the oldest method of making synthetic instruments; this is how an acoustic organ produces tones with its pipes and stops. The organ dates back many centuries to the Romans and also Medieval Europe. The construction of the church organ and cathedrals in the Middle Ages was that ages space program. Of course for electronic music additve synthesis is done on electronic keyboards or via a computer program by adding sine waveforms produced by oscillators. Here is an amplitude output which is graphed as
y = a sine( ft) add b sine( 2ft) add c sine( 3ft) add d sine( 4ft) add ... etc where add means the addition sign, the a,b,c,...s are the amplitudes of the oscillator sine wave output, t is time and f is 2 times phi times the fundamental of the tone being produced. Each sine term in the above sum is like the output of one organ pipe. With different amplitudes for enough added sine waves, for example, one could get a "stringy" sounding ramp waveform.
However, large acoustic pipe organs with many pipes are very exspensive; some can cost around $200,000; also even on a modern personal computer programs that can add a large mumber of waveforms still use large amounts of memory.
So around 1967 John Chowning and his students at Stanford University created a new technique to create synthetic sounds by using frequency modulation(FM) much like FM radio does to produce a broadcast. By 1983 they produced the famous DX7 electronic keyboard which used this technique.
Here is one mathematical function which could be used for this type of modulation technique:
y = A*cos[( 2*phi* fc*t) I K*cos(2*phi*fm*t)] where A and K are amplitudes and t is time and fc represents the carrier wave frequency; fm represents modulating wave frequency. The " * " means multiply and " I " is the phase shift.
FM synthesis produces excellent percussive sounds and with proper filtering other excellent sounds as well. In my opinion it is unfortunate that sampling keyboards and sampling computer progrqams have almost completely replaced FM synthesis
There are other types of electronic applications such as sound processing and algorithmic copmposition used in electronic music.
Vocoder, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder, and granulations, see
http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/gran.html or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular_synthesis , are interestiong techniques which as far as I know are unique to electronic music. Also synthetic reverberation both as hardware and software has been created for many types of actual reverberation.
A good website to begin learning about algorithmic composition is http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html .
Also Fractals can be used in electronic music or composition. There are web sites listed below in" Some related web sites" for fractal information.
Personally, over the years I have collected a folder full of adopted formulas from various sources. I have used these transformed formulas for sound or music creation. I often transform these formulas from computer graphics programs which generate fractal graphic designs. To do this effectively one needs skills in algebra and some knowledge of a sound processing computer system which uses some programing language; I use the Kyma sound processing system which uses Script (Small Talk).
Then I use the arithmetic of modular numbers to a base such as 12, 18,24, etc. to get the set of tones in a particular range from the numbers the fractal formulas are generating.
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To create a music which is instrumentally expressive and which uses mainly electronic instrumental technology and which is also based on contemporary acoustical knowledge and mathematics.


text: Hallo Jan, > That is not 100% correct. There are at least 6 mod that the bonding > device of linux supports. balance-alb and balance-tlb are not > assigning the same MAC to the interfaces in the bond. Therefore you > don't need a switch that supports trunks or something similar. Hmm, we tried balance-tlb. After view seconds either the bonding device was down with a bunch of kernel logs or the node hang-up. Maybe, somebody can report on this problem. > > The problem ist that the performance of the bonding device under linux > is far away from being optimal (as far as i saw). The round-robin or > ad modes do not bring more than 140 to 150 MB/s out of 2 Gigabit > links. > The load balancing modi allow multiple connections to be fast but are > not speeding up a single connection (each connection is limited to the > speed of a single link in the bond). Exactly. Using the VLAN trick the student reported a transmission rate of 240MB/s using round-robin, NFS (reading from a ram-disk) and 2 Gigabit links, also, if one establishes a single connection. We don't know yet, how it scales in a cluster. There might be a problem with reordering the packages. Regards Henning


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UW Religion Today Column for Week of April 28-May 4: Wanted: An American Islam
By Paul V.M. Flesher
We readily speak of "American Christianity" and "American Judaism" and are even wrapping our minds around the notion of "American Buddhism," particularly on the West Coast. So why does the notion of "American Islam" strike us as strange?
Part of the reason, of course, stems from 9/11 and the events and politics following in its wake. But as the fourth (or is it now the third?) largest religion in the United States, it should be more settled than that. More than 3 million Americans believe in Islam, about the same number as American adherents of Buddhism, and only a million or two less than Judaism. So why does Islam not yet seem settled? Perhaps because it is only beginning to develop as an American religion.
Living in a land of immigrants, Americans have always had a back-and-forth relationship with religious centers abroad. At America's founding, European Christian churches supported their followers by sending missionaries and preachers to lead them. But many of our earliest institutions of higher education were founded to educate the clergy: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, St. Mary's in Baltimore, and William and Mary. Americans wanted their own religious leaders, so Catholic and protestant churches opened colleges and seminaries to supply them.
America's Christians wanted more than trained clergy; they also wanted their lay people to know the details of their religion and to practice it. Toward this end, the churches invested in education and founded primary and secondary schools. Since there was little state-sponsored education in America prior to the 20th century, these schools often provided the only education available.
When Jews began settling in America in large numbers, they followed the same pattern. After drawing upon foreign-trained rabbis for a century or so, Jewish synagogues joined together to found Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1875 for training rabbis. Other Jewish seminaries and yeshivas were created in the ensuing decades. At the same time, Jewish high schools and educational programs sprang up across the U.S. in areas of Jewish settlement.
At the start of the 20th century, Buddhism followed a similar pattern. Asian-trained monks had come to the United States during the 19th century, along with the waves of Asian immigration. After 1900, some founded sanghas (Buddhist monasteries) here and started to train others, Buddhists of both Asian and European ancestry, in the monastic form of leadership common in Buddhism. Buddhist schools also became widespread, especially on the West Coast, to educate Buddhist youth.
How is Islam doing in its Americanization process? It has gotten a good start, but has not moved very far along yet. While Muslim primary and secondary schools have arisen in regions with larger numbers of immigrants, institutions of higher education have not yet developed.
In particular, there are no seminaries dedicated to the education of imams for mosque leadership. Muslim communities either bring in foreign-trained imams or follow dedicated lay leaders. That means there are no American institutions where Muslims can gain the education and training they need to lead a mosque and its congregation.
Religions always reshape themselves to fit into the nation in which they are practiced. When Judaism entered England in the late 1600s, for example, one of the first things it did was create the post of Chief Rabbi, imitating Anglicanism's Archbishop of Canterbury.
Religious reshaping does not come overnight; it comes from a process of debate and discussion by religious authorities. Muslim seminaries would provide a location for that discussion by religious clergy who understand America's social dynamics and can think about how Islam fits into them. And, more importantly, those clergy can then train others.
The lack of Islamic seminaries in the U.S. means there are no training programs through which an American Islam can be formed and passed on. American Muslims recognize this need and have begun taking steps to address it. In Connecticut, Muslims have worked with Hartford Seminary (Christian) to establish the first certified training program for Muslim chaplains to supply the requirements of the military and hospitals. At Claremont University, a master's degree has been established to train Muslim educators and other community workers.
What America needs, however, is a full-fledged Islamic seminary (or two) so that our Muslim citizens can have their religious necessities and practices met by Americans who have been trained here -- just like America's other larger religions.
Thanks to the University of Wyoming's Seth Ward for providing background for this essay. Read some of his remarks at http://drsethward.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/on-teaching-islam-in-the-united-states/.
Flesher is director of UW's Religious Studies Program. Past columns and more information about the program can be found on the Web at www.uwyo.edu/RelStds. To comment on this column, visit http://religion-today.blogspot.com.


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I don't get it. If cramped maps are such a burden, then the fact that the Gorgon is the only class that starts with ENDISWAL should be a huge advantage. In fact, I'm pretty sure it is a huge advantage. Combine that with poison strike and one of the only sources of non-resistable damage in the game and she packs quite a punch. If she were to get buffed at all, IMO it's her Death Gaze that needs a buff, but even that's mostly because it's overshadowed by her other advantages.
(Try giving her the venom dagger and possibly a level or two of Tikki Tooki's poison strike, and she might be a contender for top regen-based spellcaster...)
I'd actually say the Half-dragon is the weakest monster class. He's utterly dependent on knockback damage, which is very unreliable, particularly in vicious dungeons. Magical attack is even more unreliable, especially since he has no way to turn it off (everyone else can get a temporary magic attack from Cleansing - maybe the Half-dragon should get a temporary physical attack? ). His other two class features become obsolete pretty quickly.


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The Ravens will finish up the first of three voluntary offseason team activities today, though they'll do it outside the glare of the media. Yesterday was the one day for media availability, and while no big news came out of it, it was still good to see some action after so much attention has been placed on off-the-field stories over the past couple of months. Making any conclusions after a two-hour practice -- which did not include some of the team's top veteran players, including running back Ray Rice, linebacker Ray Lewis and safety Ed Reed, and featured most of the players in jerseys, gym shorts and no shoulder pads -- would be foolish. However, I think it is appropriate to make a couple of observations:
Ravens coaches rotated everybody around pretty regularly, so to say, 'This guy practiced with the first team or this guy was with the second team' would be sort of misleading. The offensive linemen, especially, were moved around. Rookie second-round pick Kelechi Osemele was getting most of his snaps at left guard, where there figures to be a nice competition in training camp for the starting job vacated by Ben Grubbs. But that's not necessarily where he was for Tuesday's practice. Jah Reid told reporters that he got extensive reps at left guard that day. Justin Boren and Gino Gradkowski also got looks with the projected first-team guys. Barring the signing of a veteran, I still say that it will be a two-man competition at left guard between Osemele and Reid, but it's a little too premature to suggest one has the edge based on how they were used the first week of OTAs.
One thing that does appear clear – Paul Kruger said as much – is that he is more likely to line up at the rush linebacker spot, normally held by the injured Terrell Suggs. That would leave rookie Courtney Upshaw as the strong-side linebacker, a position long occupied by Jarret Johnson. Upshaw and Kruger moved around as well, but Kruger has now said on two occasions that he'll likely rush from Suggs' spot after replacing Johnson for much of last season in third-and-long situations.
I've already heard and read several critiques of sixth-round draft pick Tommy Streeter and I'm not going to argue with them. We've only seen him over two practices and the reasons that he dropped to the sixth round despite averaging 17.63 yards per catch and scoring eight touchdowns last year for the Hurricanes have been on full display. He looks raw with his route running and he's also dropped quite a few balls. But let's remember that those same criticisms were being lobbed at Torrey Smith when he was struggling during training camp last year, and I'd say his rookie year worked out just fine. Don't misunderstand: I'm not comparing Streeter to Smith, who was a second-round pick. I am suggesting it's far too early to label somebody a project or a bust. The game is moving fast for all these guys right now. The Ravens may not have a game-breaking No.1 wide receiver, but they have gathered some depth at the position. With Anquan Boldin, Smith and Jacoby Jones, along with second-year wide receivers Tandon Doss and LaQuan Williams, the Ravens may not need immediate contributions from Streeter.
Billy Cundiff's locker attracted more reporters than any other Raven yesterday, and that's hardly surprising being that his missed kick against the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game was essentially the final play of the 2011-12 season. However, despite all that's been written and said about his job security, there is something to remember: the Ravens don't have another kicker on their roster. Justin Tucker, an undrafted free agent out of Texas, was at the team's rookie minicamp earlier this month but he has not been signed as of yet. That could change, as Tucker put on his Twitter page late yesterday afternoon that he was headed to Maryland next week, presumably back to the Ravens' facility. However, he's since deleted the tweet and it isn't clear if he'll return on a tryout basis or he'll be signed to the roster. There's also not a clear veteran free agent alternative unless you consider Dave Rayner, who has kicked for eight different organizations and converted just over 72 percent of his career field-goal attempts. Bottom line, Cundiff's job looks pretty secure at this point.
It was pretty interesting to watch the interaction between Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco and his new position coach, Jim Caldwell. We obviously weren't close enough to hear exactly what they were saying but I think these two will develop a pretty good rapport. Caldwell has a real nice demeanor about him. He looks calm and focused, and I think he'll be a good match for Flacco's personality. And before it's brought up, Flacco was interacting with offensive coordinator Cam Cameron as well. But it's probably a little too early to resume the daily analysis of their relationship.
The Ravens asked left tackle Bryant McKinnie to come into training camp in better shape and the early indications are positive. I wouldn't say that McKinnie looks drastically different by any means, but he did look in better condition than I remember seeing him at any point last year. Another guy that looked a little leaner to me was linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, who I think could be a key player this year if he stays healthy. An offseason in the weight room appears to have done Doss and Williams some good as well.


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Talk:Gallican Rite
I would point out that the quote from the 'Catholic Encyclopedia' dates from the early 20th century. The fallacy of 'all serious liturgiologists' is undefendable, and is quite dated: it was a few Roman liturgiologists at a period when the German Rationalists were having a most degrading influence on Catholic thought (see 'Northern Catholics' or 'Modernists'). The Ephesine theory returned with some currency a few decades into the 20th c. as comparison with texts has shown that the early Western rites depend heavily on Near Eastern liturgy. "Ephesine" we only know by the local councils describing its replacement by the Byzantine in Ephesus - in all likelihood it was simply part of what scholars consider the 'Antiochian' family. That the Gallican seems to be a Syriac/Antiochian liturgy in Latin would support the Ephesine theory if Ephesine is simply understood as a local variant of the wider 'Helleno-Syrian' liturgy. (which was claimed by the Church in Britain and Gaul - see 'Cursus Gallorum'.) - Aristibule
Needs reworking
This article needs reworking. For example, "Gallican" does indeed refer to the rite of ancient Gaul, although it is also used in a broader sense to non-Roman Western rites. It also repeated the inaccurate description of the restored Gallican rite of the Orthodox Church of France as mostly Byzantine in content.
Some corrections
First, I changed "Mozarabic" to the more correct "Spanish." Mozarabic would refer to the time when Spain was under Muslim domination, whereas the Spainsh liturgy refers to the autonomous liturgy of Spain from the early sixeth through the late eleventh centuries. Second, I added the outline for the Gallican (proper). I don't know what the other outline was intended to describe, but the Gallican proper did not use the Roman anaphora. Third, I removed "Neo-" as a modifier for "Gallican" when referring to the liturgy of the French Church. Not only is their modifer not used by the French Church, but "Neo-Gallican" is a term describing a 17th century movement in the Fraench Catholic Church. --Fr Lev 14:02, March 12, 2006 (CST)


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Military Couple Jonathan and Dwayne: 20 photos from our wedding day
April 04, 2013
This weekend, on Saturday, March 30, Jonathan Franqui and Navy Senior Chief Dwayne D. Beebe hosted their wedding ceremony among all of their loved ones at Old Christ Church in Pensacola, Florida. The couple met in 2011, had an instant connection, and have had a whirlwind romance ever since. They've fallen in love, been accepted into each other's family circles, and got engaged during the San Diego LGBT Pride Parade, the first Pride parade where gay and lesbian service members were authorized to wear their uniforms. Read our previous story on Jonathan & Dwayne HERE.
The wedding ceremony was a true testament to Jonathan and Dwayne's life together. It nodded to key moments in their relationship - their first date, their marriage proposal - and included their friends, family members, and colleagues. It represented the next step in their life together.
Here, they shared 20 photos with us of their big day and explained why marriage matters to them. (Photos by Red Stone Photography)
A Wish from the Past, a Wish for the Future
Before the ceremony, the couple took their wedding party to Plaza Ferdinand Park in Old Pensacola, FL, where Jonathan and Dwayne met for their first date two years ago. "We took photos by the fountain where we met for our first date," Jonathan explained. "It was crazy because everyone there knew how important that fountain was to us. To have all of our friends and family surround us at that very spot where it all started was so cool."
The men made one final wish in the fountain before heading to the church. A wish for their family and future together, framed In a broader wish: That soon, every loving same-sex couple in the country would be able to share in the freedom to marry.
Later, while exchanging vows during the wedding, Jonathan and Dwayne both revealed their wishes from their very first date. "My wish was that I wanted to start a family so that my own family could be proud of me," Jonathan said, describing how his wish has come true: "After I met Dwayne and introduced him to my family, my dad and mom opened up a little more and saw that we were truly in love."
Surrounded by Support
Although Jonathan and Dwayne legally married in Maryland on New Year's Day, they don't consider that day their "true" wedding. This weekend, when they were surrounded by their friends, family members, and Dwayne's fellow service members, standing up in their home community, was the day they felt like they were truly sharing their commitment for each other with the people they love. And though the ceremony was denied legal respect in Florida - and though Florida and the federal government do not respect their Maryland marriage - they look forward to the day when their commitment is not viewed legally as inferior to marriages between different-sex couples.
The wedding party was full of the grooms' brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, and Dwayne's son and daughter. The couple explained in their wedding program notes, "A relationship is a connection between two people - but the others that support and encourage and surround them help that relationship grow and remain strong. ... Historically, marriage is not just a relationship between two individuals recognized by the state - it's also a relationship between those individuals and the rest of society."
A large contingent of Dwayne's colleagues also came to celebrate. Included in the group were nine members of the American Military Partner Association, a network of gay and lesbian service members and their same-sex partners. The members - and the group as a whole - speak out against the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which denies legally married same-sex couples over 1,100 protections and responsibilities of marriage. From survivor benefits to shared health insurance to the ability to file federal taxes jointly, same-sex couples nationwide are hurt by DOMA, a point that AMPA demonstrates clearly by amplifying stories of committed military families denied respect and recognition from the country they serve. Jonathan and Dwayne are just one of the couples hurt by DOMA - because of the discriminatory law, Jonathan is not allowed to take part in programs designed to make military families stronger - like the Military Spousal Jobs Program, which helps military spouses find employment after transfers. Since Dwayne is now stationed in Tennessee, exclusion from the program makes it especially challenging for Jonathan to move with his husband and find employment near Dwayne's new base.
Down the Aisle
Jonathan and Dwayne both walked their mothers down the aisles once in the church. It was important to each groom to share the day with their family members, some of whom have recently grown to understand why marriage matters and fully accept Jonathan and Dwayne's relationship.
"People are coming to support us from all over the country, and it's a wonderful thing," Dwayne said.
Jonathan and Dwayne exchanged their vows, listened as Jonathan's father - who also served in the armed forces - gave him away, took part in a sand-mixing ritual to represent the merging of their lives, and listened as a Navy Chaplain officiated their wedding.
Parading to the Party
The church was on the same street as the reception hall, so Jonathan and Dwayne decided to invite their loved ones to join them in a "second-line parade," a reference to their wedding proposal from last summer, when Dwayne, dressed in his military whites, proposed to Jonathan in the San Diego LGBT pride parade.
They hired a jazz band, who played "When the Saints Go Marching In," and paraded to the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce, where they hosted the reception.
Giving 'Em Hope
The wedding party celebrated for the rest of the night, dancing, laughing, and eating a particularly festive rainbow cake in the beautiful, New Orleans-style reception building.
They danced with their mothers, then danced to their wedding song, "Diamonds," their first dance together as a married couple. Looking back on their wedding, Jonathan and Dwayne reiterate why marriage is so important to them, and what it means to be able to stand before friends and family and commit themselves to each other.
"We were able to show our loved ones that we are committed to each other," Jonathan explained. "We've made a promise to each other about our goals and our future together, and that's important. It's important to have that union recognized in your community, and in your home, and in your family. It's important because marriage is the ultimate commitment you can make to the person that you love, and we want our community to understand how strong our commitment is to one another - how strong our commitment is to the person we love."
Read more about Jonathan & Dwayne HERE. All Photos by Red Stone Photography.


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Land Rover Defender
The biggest change to the Land Rover came in late 1990, when it became the Land Rover Defender, instead of the Land Rover Ninety or One Ten. This was because in 1989 the company had introduced the Discovery model, requiring the original Land Rover to acquire a name. The Discovery also had a new turbodiesel engine. This was also loosely based on the existing 2.5 litre turbo unit, and was built on the same production line, but had a modern alloy cylinder head, improved turbocharging, intercooling and direct injection. It retained the block, crankshaft, main bearings, cambelt system, and other ancillaries as the Diesel Turbo. The breather system included an oil separator filter to remove oil from the air in the system, thus finally solving the Diesel Turbo's main weakness of re-breathing its own sump oil. The 200Tdi as the new engine was called produced 111 hp (83 kW) and 195 lb·ft (264 N·m) of torque, which was nearly a 25% improvement on the engine it replaced (although as installed in the Defender the engine was de-tuned slightly from its original Discovery 111 hp (83 kW) specification due to changes associated with the exhaust).
This engine finally allowed the Defender to cruise comfortably at high speeds, as well as tow heavy loads speedily on hills while still being economical. In theory it only replaced the older Diesel Turbo engine in the range, with the other 4-cylinder engines (and the V8 petrol engine) still being available. However, the Tdi's combination of performance and economy meant that it took the vast majority of sales. Exceptions were the British Army and some commercial operators, who continued to buy vehicles with the 2.5 litre naturally aspirated diesel engine (in the Army's case, this was because the Tdi was unable to be fitted with a 24 volt generator). Small numbers of V8-engined Defenders were sold to users in countries with low fuel costs or who required as much power as possible (such as in Defenders used as fire engines or ambulances).
Along with the 200Tdi engine, the 127's name was changed to the Land Rover Defender 130. The wheelbase remained the same; the new figure was simply a tidying up exercise. More importantly, 130s were no longer built from "cut-and-shut" 110s, but had dedicated chassis built from scratch.
1994 saw another development of the Tdi engine, the 300Tdi. Although the 200Tdi had been a big step forward, it had been essentially a reworking of the old turbocharged diesel to accept a direct injection system. In contrast the 300Tdi was virtually new, despite the same capacity, and both the Defender and the Discovery had engines in the same state of tune, 111 bhp (83 kW), 195 ft·lbf (264 N·m).
Throughout the 1990s the vehicle attempted to climb more and more upmarket, while remaining true to its working roots. This trend was epitomized by limited edition vehicles, such as the SV90 in 1992 with roll-over protection cage, alloy wheels and metallic paint and the 50th Anniversary 90 in 1998 equipped with automatic transmission, air conditioning and Range Rover 4.0 liter V8 engine.
A new variant was the Defender 110 Double Cab, featuring a Station Wagon style seating area, with an open pick up back. Although prototypes had been built in the Series days, it was not until the late 1990s that this vehicle finally reached production.
Land Rover South Africa offered a unique Defender during the period the group was owned by BMW. Between 1997 and 2000, the Defender 90 and 110 were offered with a BMW petrol engine alongside the normal Tdi engine. The engine was the BMW M52 2800 cc, straight-six, 24-valve engine as found in the BMW 328i, 528i, 728i and the Z3. Power and torque output for this engine was 142 kW (190 hp) @ 5500 rpm and 280 N·m (207 lb·ft) @ 3500 rpm. This option was offered due to a demand for a petrol-driven alternative to the diesel engine after production of the V8 Defender had ended. The vehicles were built at Rosslyn outside Pretoria. Total production for the 2.8i was 632 Defender 90s and 410 Defender 110s. Early models were not speed-restricted, but later models were limited to 160 km/h.
Source: Wikipedia, 2011


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Artist: Old World Vulture
Title: Old World Vulture
Label: Self-released (Canada)
Details: DL/CD. 6 tracks, 24 minutes.
Links: http://oldworldvulture.ca/
Instrumental rock / post-rock (call it what you will) has largely been disappearing up its own arse for years now. Most of it is a catalogue of tired clichés – predictable chord progressions, tiresome arpeggios, plodding tempos and quiet-loud dynamics so ubiquitous that they could be mass-produced in a sweat shop in China.
Toronto quartet Old World Vulture are very much a work in progress, but their debut EP manages to niftily avoid most of the obvious bear-traps. They keep a lid on the arpeggios for the most part, the tempos are largely reasonably upbeat, the keyboard is as much a lead melodic instrument as the guitar and although there are quiet bits and loud bits, they don't follow each other in an obvious progression. Their musical DNA owes more to the likes of Grails and fellow Ontarians Do Make Say Think than to the rentapostrock crowd.
Destroyer is a dramatic and darkly operatic prologue to the main business. The remainder of the tunes all manage to accomplish their mission in under five minutes without letting the attention wander. The curiously titled Too Much Eye Make Up is perhaps both the best and the most typical of the band's sound, with the bass providing the melodic framework while the keyboards and guitars both take their turn in the spot light before combining into a powerful finale that still manages to avoid the end-of-album-wig-out cliché. Another nice cover keeping up our birds of prey theme too.


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Even Renault looking forward to summer shutdown
Even F1's engine suppliers will take a 'summer break' in August.
Eleven races into the season, and after the hectic back-to-back dash from Germany to Hungary, there are a lot of tired faces in the paddock this weekend.
They are looking ahead to the rare and deliberate three-weekend gap between Hungary and the resumption of hostilities in Belgium.
Not only that, teams must close their factories for a mandatory period of cost-cutting and rest, with even the activity of email servers strictly forbidden.
But the factory shutdown applies only to the actual teams, not the engine suppliers.
It means Renault, but also the engine operations at Ferrari and Mercedes, can keep working.
"If the units responsible for the engines want to continue to work, they can," Renault's Remi Taffin said at the Hungaroring.
"But, to be honest with you, even in Viry there will not be much activity. We want to give the people a break.
"We will not work at 100 per cent during this period, because at some point everyone needs a break," he added.
But even a break will not end all of Renault's headaches, after a pre-season crisis and an ongoing struggle to continue to improve the turbo V6 'power unit'.
One looming problem is that reliability issues, and necessary upgrades for the troublesome unit, means that many Renault-powered drivers will unavoidably exceed their allocation of five engines during the second half of the season.
"We do not hide the fact that sixth components will have to be used by some of our customers," said Taffin, acknowledging that it will result in penalties for the drivers.
"Of course it's not what we planned, but after three or four races we realised that it was going to be very difficult.
"Caterham is in pretty good shape in that regard -- they will be able to meet the limit. But for the rest it's more complicated," he admitted.


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