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2008 Volkswagen Passat Review
Pros & Cons
- Ample power with either engine, balanced ride and handling, spacious seating for all, elegant cabin with exemplary fit and finish, available all-wheel drive.
- Prohibitively expensive with the V6 engine, options-laden four-cylinder models are pricey, too, excessive road noise with 17- or 18-inch wheels, poor fuel economy on 4Motion models.
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Edmunds' Expert Review
With their European road manners and beautifully furnished cabins, the 2008 Volkswagen Passat sedan and wagon rank among our editors' favorites. However, budget-minded shoppers will find the midsize VW tough to justify over less expensive Japanese-brand rivals.
Vehicle overview
Our editors' love affair with the Volkswagen Passat dates back a decade. Following a seminal redesign in 1998, this midsize sedan and wagon duo became the ones to beat in the family car class -- if not in annual sales, then in out-and-out desirability. It wasn't just that the Passat looked different from mainstream Japanese- and domestic-brand competitors, or that its cabin was trimmed to luxury-car standards. It was the way this VW drove. Its crisp steering and solid road manners gave it a level of character rarely seen in this practicality-driven vehicle class. If the Passat had a weakness, it was its slightly too snug interior, and Volkswagen addressed this in a 2006 makeover during which the car grew 3 inches wider. Although today's VW Passat lacks the tidy geometric proportions of the late '90s car, it has as much real-world passenger room as most rivals and retains a unique personality.
Prices have edged up steadily with the midsize VW's rise in popularity, though, and many shoppers will be surprised to find that a V6-equipped 2008 Volkswagen Passat starts out around $36,000. Fortunately, the base four-cylinder engine, a turbocharged 2.0-liter good for 200 horsepower, provides perfectly acceptable performance and much better gas mileage. Although Volkswagen has reformulated the trim levels for 2008 (adding cute identifiers like "Komfort" and "Lux"), the base model (now called "Turbo") remains the best value and offers all the equipment most families will need. In addition, enthusiast types should note that only the base-trim VW Passat is eligible for a manual gearbox. The 4Motion all-wheel-drive system remains an option for buyers needing winter-weather capability, but given the near-$40K price of admission, you'd be wise to investigate the alternatives, including the VW group's own Audi A4 Quattro, along with any number of crossover SUVs, before committing.
As much as we like the current Volkswagen Passat, from its meticulously crafted cabin to its engaging dynamics, this car is the high-end option in a vehicle class patronized by consumers who worry about mortgage payments and preschool tuition. For those running on tighter budgets, the Honda Accord (redesigned for 2008), Nissan Altima and Toyota Camry will undoubtedly seem like better values. You can equip all of them with powerful and relatively fuel-efficient V6 engines for about what you'd spend on a comparably equipped four-cylinder Passat sedan. The competition isn't as heated among wagons, but the Dodge Magnum, Subaru Outback and redesigned Volvo XC70 are all worth checking out as lower-cost alternatives. All that said, we have no doubt that many consumers will determine that the 2008 Volkswagen Passat, thanks to its elegant and smart design, continues to be a very desirable choice for a family sedan or wagon.
2008 Volkswagen Passat models
The 2008 Volkswagen Passat is a midsize car available as a sedan or wagon. Both body styles come in Turbo, Komfort, Lux and VR6 trim levels. Passat VR6 sedans can be purchased in front-wheel-drive or 4Motion all-wheel-drive configuration; 4Motion is standard on the VR6 wagon.
The base Turbo model starts you out with 16-inch alloy wheels, leatherette upholstery, a power driver seat, a telescoping steering wheel, air-conditioning, a CD stereo with an auxiliary audio jack, cruise control, full power accessories, heated outside mirrors, a trip computer and rear-seat sunshades. Step up to the Passat Komfort and you'll get 17-inch wheels, a sunroof, an in-dash CD changer, satellite radio, upgraded interior lighting and double-blade front sun visors. The Lux adds automatic headlights, leather upholstery, a power front-passenger seat, driver-seat memory, heated front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control, and front and rear parking sensors. The high-line Passat VR6 adds 18-inch wheels, adaptive bi-xenon headlights, sport seats and an upgraded Dynaudio sound system.
Base Turbo models are very limited in terms of options, but you can get heated front seats and iPod integration. A navigation system and an underbody kit are available on other Passats. The Dynaudio system is optional on Komfort and Lux versions, while adaptive cruise control is an exclusive extra on the VR6.
2008 Highlights
Performance & mpg
All Turbo, Komfort and Lux models come with a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine rated for 200 hp and 207 pound-feet of torque. Base Turbo models can be equipped with a six-speed manual transmission or a six-speed automatic. The automatic is standard on the Komfort and Lux. All 2008 Volkswagen Passat VR6 models are fitted with a 3.6-liter V6 good for 280 hp and 265 lb-ft of torque that's also coupled to a six-speed automatic. Even the 2.0-liter turbo with the automatic is a quick combination: We clocked a Passat sedan at 7.7 seconds to 60 mph. Front-wheel-drive VR6 models better that time by about a second.
Fuel economy ranges from very good with the turbo four-cylinder (21 mpg city/29 mpg highway with a manual, 19/29 with an automatic) to dismal on the Passat VR6 4Motion (16 city/24 highway). Rated at 17/26, the front-drive VR6 model ranks about average for a V6-equipped sedan.
All Passats come very well equipped with safety features. Antilock disc brakes, traction control, stability control, anti-whiplash front head restraints, front-seat side airbags and full-length head curtain airbags are all standard. Optional for all trims are rear-seat side airbags. In National Highway Transportation Safety Administration crash tests, the 2008 Volkswagen Passat earned four (out of five) stars for its protection of front occupants in head-on collisions. Side-impact tests resulted in five stars for front passengers and four for those in the rear. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety scores the Passat as "Good" (the best rating possible) in its frontal-offset and side-impact crash tests.
An impressively rigid structure provides sportier handling than previous Passat generations. Although the chassis is still tuned more for comfort than attacking apexes, body roll is kept in check and the steering is responsive yet light, without feeling overboosted. Factor in the powerful engines and the Passat makes for one of the most entertaining rides in the midsize segment. The only significant negative we've found in road tests is excessive road noise on models with the larger wheels and tires.
Every Passat presents a comfortable and upscale cabin. Fit and finish is superb and there's a feeling of precision to all the controls. Starting the car is a bit unusual but easier than the normal stick-the-key-in-and-twist drill. One simply inserts the "key" into an easily seen/accessed slot on the dash and pushes it to start the car. Trunk capacity stands at 14.2 cubic feet, which is about average for this class. The wagon has 35.8 cubic feet of cargo room with the second-row seats up.
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I first encountered LUSH when I went to a Tails for Whales event they put on with Kristin Bauer from HBO's True Blood. AND just recently… Kristin Bauer started buzzing for the BEES!!
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Maine event: Retiring president v. plumber
Maine is famous for two things: Stephen King and everything else. Welcome to Mooseport isn't likely to change that.
This election-year comedy about an election would have been run-of-the-mill Hollywood fare half a century ago, when it probably would have starred Henry Fonda and James Stewart. Today it seems as if it would be more at home on television, in part because several of its actors are better known in that medium: Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), Maura Tierney ("ER," "NewsRadio"), Christine Baranski ("Cybill") and Fred Savage ("The Wonder Years").
Thus it's appropriate that a real movie star should play the outsider in the community. (Well, Baranski's an outsider too, but don't mess with my premise.) Gene Hackman stars as Monroe "Eagle" Cole, who's retiring to his Maine vacation home (Baranski, his ex-wife, took everything else) after two terms as President of the United States.
We're told Cole was a very popular president, but we're given no hint of his party affiliation. All the same, the idea of a president retiring sounds good to me right about now.
On the day President Cole arrives, Mooseport's mayor-for-life dies. The town council invites the newest resident to take the job, but a surprise candidate challenges him: Harold "Handy" Harrison (Romano), who owns the local hardware store and does plumbing on the side.
It seems the men have another rivalry going. Mr. President has flirted with veterinarian Sally Mannis (Tierney), not knowing she's been going with Handy for six years. Handy is unaware that Sally's finally understood what they say about men not buying the cow when they can get the milk for free; she's tired of being taken for granted.
(If it bothers you that Hackman is almost twice Tierney's age, there's also a nubile young woman about half Romano's age who's ready to throw herself at Handy. Does that balance things?)
The script by Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) is a model of efficiency in the way it sets up the situation, but is less impressive in where it goes from there. It's obvious that Grace (Marcia Gay Harden), the President's long-suffering assistant, is in love with him; so we mark time until he realizes it.
The Eagle's team also includes Savage as whipping boy, and a couple of visible secret service agents, with several more in reserve for important jobs like cheating at golf. Campaign Manager Rip Torn comes up to assist as the Maine event becomes national news.
Mooseport has the requisite number of colorful residents, including a guy who jogs naked down Main Street. Some are more interesting than others, but all wear thin before the movie's over.
Most of the actors are overqualified for their roles, so the question mark is Romano. It took him some years to earn respect as a television actor when he moved over from stand-up comedy, and it will probably take as long for him to establish himself as a movie actor– if it ever happens. It will certainly take more than what he does here.
Some of Hackman's funniest moments are when Cole compares himself to Clinton in terms of speaking fees and the size of their libraries. Baranski is appropriately over the top as the woman he calls "The Wicked Witch of the West Wing." As former first ladies go, she makes Sherry on "24" look like Mother Teresa.
Director Donald Petrie (Mystic Pizza) is unable to find the right balance between the small, whimsical story this really is and the overblown, overlong epic it needs to be to justify its budget, let alone the price of admission. You should find it more entertaining when it reaches your home screen.


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x86 reaction and rebellion
Moir's platform picks after the BBC Micro? Acorn, again, with the Archimedes following a brief flirtation with the Atari ST. Xara's website calls the Atari ST "revolutionary" - the first affordable 32-bit architecture that was "a delight to work with compared to the x86-based processors in IBM PCs." The Atari ran a Motorola 680x0 8MHz processor, came with between 512KB and 4MB memory, and had a Mac-like interface all running the Digital Research GEM operating system. The Archimedes, meanwhile, was a 32-bit ARM-powered design that Moir's Xara says "easily beat the rather poor 8086 16-bit processor that powered the IBM PC at the time". The Archimedes line ran Acorn's RISC OS and RISC iX operating systems.
Moir's enthusiasm for those early platforms is clear: power and performance at a price affordable to the average person without a corporate expense account behind them. His preference for excellent systems meant he initially passed over the IBM and Intel architectures because he thought they were inferior even though they set the standard.
According to Moir "the early Intel processors were awful" - the first IBM PC ran a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 CPU. IBM PCs running Microsoft's DOS stormed the desktop. "Had I taken a purely commercial view of it, I should have done IBM," he says.
He might also have plumped for Apple's platform, which today has around 7 per cent of the desktop market thanks to Mac OS X, but he didn't. A declared "Apple fan", Moir considered programming for the doomed Lisa but decided against it because Apple's machines were extremely expensive compared to systems like the BBC Micro. Also, there weren't enough Mac computers in the UK to justify the software development. Moir already had a 250-strong packaging and manufacturing channel operation in place.
"I almost had a rebellion on my hands because the developers said they didn't want to work on x86 processors" – Charles Moir on his staff's reaction to switching from Acorn
And he made this decision even though Computer Concepts had a successful vector-graphics design package called Artworks and Mac computers were popular among designers. The people he consulted at the time thought Apple, which had dumped Steve Jobs, was a doomed vessel. This was long before the return of Jobs and ahead of all things 'i'. "It would have been nuts to do stuff for Apple even though it dominated the graphic design market and we were doing design software," he said.
Moir eventually succumbed to the PC and Windows in 1992 out of frustration with Acorn. "We knew Acorn had had it. They were doomed," he says. The company that had inspired him at 17 had fallen under the control of accountants, he said, who overpriced the Archimedes to protect the BBC Micro. Then: "There were a series of marketing cock-ups from Acorn that I found frustrating; that's when we made the decision to switch."
Going to the x86 PC wasn't an easy move. "We were vilified in the Acorn market because we were now developing stuff for Windows. We had a lot of loyal customers," Moir says. His own engineers objected, too - not helpful given Artworks, which became Xara Studio for Windows in 1994, required a complete graphics-engine re-write. It was the second re-write - the first put Artworks on ARM.
"I almost had a rebellion on my hands because the developers said they didn't want to work on x86 processors," Moir recalls. A re-write that had been scheduled to take one year instead took three. It also ran out of money.
Today, under MAGIX, Moir hopes for greater international exposure and the kind of marketing and sales funding and support that was missing before. Does he regret not going with Intel-based systems sooner? Yes, he says, and he's been open about that.
"Had we been more successful on the whole marketing side, things would have been different but then again, it's largely a platform decision: the fact I hadn't done IBM software in the beginning... I think the whole story would be completely and totally different."
He's hopeful Xara's new owner MAGIX will mean a change - at least when it comes to communicating with the world. "MAGIX are very good at the whole marketing and distribution thing... that's one of the good fits because we are strong on engineering and technology side," he said.®
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CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – The Clay County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in identifying a woman suspected in a car burglary.
Detectives believe the woman may be traveling back and forth between Clay County and the panhandle.
While doing that in November, she broke into a woman's car in Keystone Heights, stealing the victim's phone and purse, and then used the victim's credit cards in Middleburg and then later in Destin, investigators said.
A surveillance photo shows the woman at a Regions Bank drive-through teller machine in Destin.
Anyone who recognizes her is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 904-264-6512.
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Monday, January 26
Phil Mickelson Comes Out of Hibernation
Wedge man Phil Mickelson returns to work this week.
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WITH THE ARIZONA CARDINALS in the Super Bowl and the FBR Open at TPC Scottsdale, it's sure to be a raucous weekend in the Phoenix area. World No. 4 Phil Mickelson is set to make his 2009 season debut in an FBR Open field that includes 99 of the top 125 players on the PGA Tour money list.
"Phil, of course, is our largest draw," Phoenix Thunderbirds chairman John Felix told The Arizona Republic, "but we have a lot of other great players who will have a significant impact with our crowd."
Lefty is a two-time winner of the event. Last year he lost to J.B. Holmes in a playoff.
So, what's up with Phil carrying all those wedges (including five at Colonial, where he won)? Here's how he explained it at Callaway Golf:
"My scoring takes place around the greens," Lefty said, "so I want to have as many options as possible to tackle the different lies and the different shots that we encounter in some of these conditions."
This will be Phil's 20th appearance at the Phoenix-area tour stop, where he's always been a fan favorite. We'll soon find out if that fan love and those clever wedges translate to a strong season opener for the left-handed one.
Mickelson File
Turned pro: 1992
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
College: Arizona State University
World ranking: 4
PGA Tour wins: 34
Major wins: 3
Teacher: Butch Harmon
Equipment: Callaway
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4 comments:
- Bedlam said...
good morning/evening armchair, Phil ughh!!! he's good, has a great record, but that ego ruins him. He may finish in the top 7, if he starts in the first 13. you know how he plays, watch him drop sunday, if he is leading
I know that 34 wins speak for themselves, but I think Mickelson is overrated. He gives a great and always intelligent interview but he just doesn't do anything for me. Shame, really, because he seems to be a very nice guy. I agree with MH that he tends to fall short when he begins in a very good position.
- The Reverend said...
Mickelson is not overrated. If he's overrated what is everyone else? His record speaks for itself.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
MH and Lancer: I expect that many share your views. I've always felt that Phil had the talent to win more but threw away some opportunities. That could also be said of others on tour.
Rev: Yes, compared to everyone except You Know Who, Lefty has an enviable record. No question.


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Traditional French Recipe for Spring Lamb Stew With Vegetables
Navarin of Lamb
Navarin of Lamb
Adapted from Saveur
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
1-1/2 pounds trimmed lamb shoulder, cut into 1-inch cubes
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
5 medium carrots (1 chopped, 4 peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces)
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon tomato paste
4 medium turnips, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
4 medium new potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 teaspoons sugar
1 bouquet garni
12 pearl onions, peeled
1/3 cup fresh peas
Finely-chopped chervil or parsley, for garnish
- Heat oven to 350ºF. Heat oil in a 6-quart Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Season lamb with salt. Working in batches, add lamb and cook, turning once, until browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer lamb to a plate; set aside.
- Add the chopped carrot and yellow unions and cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are soft and brown, about 10 minutes.
- Add garlic, flour, bouquet garni, and tomato paste and cook, stirring often, until tomato paste begins to brown, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in 6 cups water and reserved lamb. Cover, bring to a boil, and transfer to oven; cook until lamb is tender, about 50 minutes.
- Using a slotted spoon, transfer lamb to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm.
- Set a sieve over a 4-quart saucepan and strain cooking liquid. Discard solids and bouquet garni. Bring liquid to a boil over medium-high heat, skimming surface occasionally; cook until reduced to 2-1/2 cups, about 25 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Set liquid aside.
- Meanwhile, using a paring knife, trim each piece of remaining carrots, as well as the turnips and potatoes, into elegantly tapered football shapes (alternatively cut them into a large dice). Set potatoes aside in a bowl of water.
- Heat a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat and add carrots, butter, sugar, salt, and 1 cup water. Partially cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add turnips and pearl onions, partially cover, and continue cooking until liquid has evaporated and vegetables are tender, about 10 more minutes.
- Uncover and continue to cook, swirling skillet, until vegetables are golden brown, about 3 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons water, swirl skillet to glaze vegetables, and remove from heat; set aside and keep warm. Season with salt and pepper.
- Bring a 4-quart saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the reserved potatoes, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer potatoes to a bowl; set aside.
- To serve, put the lamb, carrots, turnips, pearl onions, potatoes, and peas into the sauce and cook until hot, about 2 minutes. Divide the stew between bowls. Garnish with chervil.
Serves 4.
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By Rachel McDaniel
A family hopes law enforcement officials will search a 63-acre plot of land in Pike County as a result of their $5 million wrongful death lawsuit which was filed Monday, June 17 in federal court in Macon.
Stephen McDaniel is charged with the gruesome murder and dismemberment of Lauren Giddings (main photo). Giddings' family wants land on Dripping Rock Rd. in Pike searched for parts of her body. The land is owned by the estate of Paul Hollis Browning who died recently.
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BEIJING/DETROIT (Reuters) - Chen Dong, the 42-year-old owner of a cellphone wholesale business in Beijing, is a big fan of Hollywood movies and the Chicago Bulls basketball team, and sends his daughter to college in the United States.
He thought of stretching that love of all things American to his car, but instead opted for a new black Audi A6 sedan over a rival Cadillac - underscoring the challenge facing General Motors Co as it seeks to promote Cadillac in China and transform it into a fully-fledged global luxury brand.
"The Cadillac SLS was one of our options, but we thought the look was just way too aggressive," said Chen, who also called in at BMW, Volvo and Infiniti showrooms. "The Cadillac's (exterior) lines were not smooth."
GM's Cadillac problem is that many other car buyers in China feel the same as Chen: that Cadillac's edgy look, with its sharp, angular lines and creased edges - inspired by the design of American stealth military planes - is a turn-off, say analysts and, indeed, Cadillac marketers' themselves.
The U.S. automaker now seems ready to phase out the angular look to woo more buyers in China, the world's biggest market for cars and a beacon for global luxury brands - where a Mercedes S-Class 300 sedan can set you back $157,000.
GM Chief Executive Dan Akerson wants Cadillac sales in China to reach U.S. levels by 2015 or 2016, part of a broader push to globalize and revive the brand from decades of neglect and turn it into a serious rival to BMW.
"Successful global automotive companies must have a major global luxury brand that ... wins around the world, and in China," Akerson said at the Beijing auto show earlier this year.
Focusing on China with Cadillac is a must for GM. Demand for luxury cars in the world's second-biggest economy is forecast to grow to 2.7 million cars a year by 2020, overtaking the United States as the world's leading luxury car market.
It's a high-stakes, high-risk push.
If GM can't convince the Chinese to fall in love with Cadillac, the 110-year-old American luxury car brand will face a leaner future battling for business even on its home turf behind global powerhouses BMW, Mercedes and Toyota Motor's Lexus luxury brand.
Research firm LMC Automotive forecasts GM will sell more than 35,000 Cadillac cars in China this year, up from about 30,000 in 2011. It predicts those sales will climb to just over 75,000 in 2018, still less than half last year's U.S. total of more than 152,000. The United States and China account for nine of every 10 Cadillacs sold globally.
Chinese car buyers' antipathy towards the Cadillac design has a partly cultural basis, too. The preference for smoother, curvier cars stems from 'Zhongyong,' a Confucian concept that stresses harmony, according to Fu Liming, who teaches transportation design at Jilin University in northeast China.
"In cars, the Zhongyong concept translates into unified lines and curves," Fu said. "Cadillac's design isn't soft, its angles and arcs aren't smooth enough."
GM has reached a similar conclusion, independently, and is toning down the Cadillac design, according to the brand's China sales and marketing chief Kevin Chen, who said the company's research found some Chinese buyers passed up Cadillac because its design was too "futuristic" and "bold".
"If you ask our customers what's the motivation for choosing Cadillac, they would say design. If you ask Audi buyers why they don't choose Cadillac, they'd say it's too bold," he said.
China is not the only market GM is focusing on, but as the luxury auto market there has grown so fast, GM is altering Cadillac's design to please local buyers: "instead of too much futuristic and too advanced, more towards modern contemporary design," sums up GM's Chen.
Like Cadillac, several foreign luxury car brands are piling into China, drooling over the success there of German brands. Nissan Motor's Infiniti and Honda Motor's Acura face similar challenges to Cadillac. That's in part because China's economy is no longer growing explosively. Its upscale car market is crowded and dominated by Germany's Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
GM's crosstown rival Ford Motor Co is also staking its luxury brand Lincoln's global survival on China. With plans to launch the Lincoln there in 2014, Ford executives admit they are late in the game. But "the market is enormous," global marketing chief Jim Farley told Reuters in Beijing on an August visit. "You can't ignore the size of the luxury market here."
GM's drive to make Cadillac a global brand took shape after its 2009 bankruptcy and restructuring. While Cadillac has been sold around the world, a pre-bankruptcy GM lacked the financial clout to boost demand beyond the small numbers sold outside the United States. Don Butler, GM vice president of marketing for Cadillac, said that changed with Akerson's arrival in late-2010, as the new CEO pushed for the brand to go global.
One key element of that makeover is to go where Cadillac has not gone in recent years, prompting the creation of two main products: a full-size Cadillac XTS sedan that GM launched in the United States in June, and the new compact ATS sedan, Cadillac's smallest and most-affordable model that GM hopes will be a viable alternative to the BMW 3-Series.
The addition of the XTS and ATS will push up Cadillac's coverage of the U.S. market's luxury segment, for example, to 80 percent from 50 percent. That will rise further in the next three years as Cadillac introduces 10 all-new or significantly refreshed products, including the ELR plug-in electric coupe and possibly a flagship sedan.
But Cadillac's problem is not just lacking full market coverage in the United States. In China, its cars have a reputation for being big gas guzzlers. That, say dealers, is a big minus in China where even luxury car buyers are thriftier than their U.S. counterparts.
While GM is tweaking its Cadillac designs for the China market, the Detroit automaker is not going for a full visual makeover. Its challenge: how do you tone down the design while also ensuring a unique and differentiated style?
As many luxury car buyers in China have chauffeurs, GM has stretched the wheel base of the SLS to make its rear seats more comfortable. China is also the only market where the SLS comes with a 2-liter turbo engine.
GM produces the SLS - the only Cadillac car it makes in China - at a joint venture plant with SAIC in Shanghai. It also plans to make the new XTS there. Akerson said in April that Cadillac would add a new model each year in China through 2016. To help boost China sales, GM also aims to add 30 Cadillac dealers by end-2013, raising its total to 200.
This is all good news for dealers like Liu Guilin, general manager of a Beijing Cadillac dealership, which now counts largely on the SRX, a sports utility vehicle, to win customers.
"The edgy design works pretty well for the SRX because SUV buyers want to stand out in the crowd, but that's not something people look for in a business sedan," Liu said.
GM still has some way to go to convince potential buyers.
Qi Lin, a 28-year-old state-owned company employee in the northeast port city of Tianjin, had enough money to buy a luxury car and looked at the Cadillac CTS - but bought a Hyundai Sonata.
"The CTS's interior looked too conservative. It's not for young buyers like me," said Qi, who was also worried about the car's gas guzzling 3-liter engine.
Additional reporting and writing by Norihiko Shirouzu; Editing by Ian Geoghegan


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"A po'boy has to drip down your arms after the first bite," says Chef Kelly English, explaining his comfortable and delicious menu at the Second Line.
Chef Kelly English tried to down play the opening of the Second Line, slipping out a tweet the Friday after Thanksgiving. His strategy didn't work. So many people flocked to the refurbished bungalow on the corner of Cooper and Monroe that the kitchen ran of food on the restaurant's first day.
The most anticipated new restaurant of the year, the Second Line shares a kitchen with its acclaimed big sister Restaurant Iris, but the similarities between the siblings stop there (except for an exceptional fried oyster salad served on both menus).
Trim the color of cooper patina and warm rust walls make the Second Line feel like a seasoned haunt for the workers of New Orleans and the food they love to eat. So does the menu, a simple one-sheet kicked off by appetizers that earn the heading "Eat These Things First." Try a pair of meat pies or a skillet of slender skin-on fries loaded with crawfish, Andouille sausage, and pimento cheese.
While the appetizers mate well with drafts from local breweries, stay attentive to the menu's mainstay, a genuine rendering of the po'boys English ate growing up. "People try to make po'boys too fancy," English said. "A po'boy is tomato, mayo, lettuce, pickle, and the right bread. It's the same sandwich over and over with a different filling."
At the Second Line, the right French bread comes from Leidenheimer in New Orleans, a bakery family owned and operated for more than a century. Fillings change seasonally, so don't miss the best choices for cold winter months: slow roasted beef or braised chicken thighs served with Swiss cheese and gravy and messy by design. "A po'boy has to drip down your arms after the first bite," English explained. "And if you can't figure out how to put it back on the plate, you know it's authentic."
For now alcohol is limited to beer in bottles and draft, but English expects his liquor license within the next week. The restaurant is open Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. to closing with extended hours on the weekends starting at 11 a.m. If the weather warms up, check out the spacious patio out back, a lovely outdoor space protected by a wrought iron fence and two stately oak trees.
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dumiretech brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 58 Designs von 18 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I need a photoshop design for a volunteer fire department website. I will provide the wireframe (which you will need to follow) but you can pick the colors as long as they compliment the logo. Three separate page designs will be required, one home page and two interior pages.
Desired Color Scheme:
Complimentary to the logo
Desired Style:
professional but exciting
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I've been working with a volunteer fire department to redesign their website. We have mapped content, designed a wireframe and now we're ready for a prototype.Â
On the wireframe, you will see three boxes designated "incident graphic", "Incident Title", and the third with 6 incident thumbnails. This will be a flash viewer that reads news items from a database. You will NOT be required to program this interface, but I will need you to design this area's graphical elements.
Getting a workable logo has been a little difficult so for the purposes of this content, you'll need to grab a logo out of a photo I have. Bonus points for people willing to touch up the logo good enough for the website. I also have the logo in PS format but the colors are wrong. I do not have access to the font for the fire department name as of yet.
Do not use stock photos that you may find somewhere on the web. The client wants their own photos used. I am in the process of uploading the clients photos to fotki for everyone's review. They are also on my own web server but the upload bandwidth is only 768k so it may be very slow to browse them all. All required files and photos can be found on my development site at http://sp.dumire.net
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I want to be up front with everyone and let you know that I have done I think 6 different sitepoint contests now. Every one of my contests has had a winner and every one of the winners has been paid. I do want to be clear though that this is not a 1 week job. There will likely be a few rounds of revisions with clients that may take up to a month. I don't expect it to take that long but I do think it's possible. As such, I'm willing to pay you 1/4 of the amount when your design is selected and AFTER you deliver me a psd file. I will then pay you an additional 1/4 AFTER you deliver two interior page designs consistent with the homepage and acceptable to the clinet. I will pay the remainder after all revisions have been complete and you have delivered the final psd files. When I say I pay after you give me the files I mean just that... you email me the files and THEN I pay... not the other way around. I also would strongly prefer someone who can take paypal. If you are in a country that does not accept paypal, then you will need to either pay the wire fee out of your winnings, or wait for a check to be delivered to your country and to clear your bank account. Please note that wire fees can be in excess of $50.
I'm currently offering the top prize for un-coded web designs right now and I hope that the submissions reflect the kind of quality that I'm paying for. I know that I have lots of terms and conditions to follow but I think the top prize makes it worth your while.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
24 comments:
Sounds like fun, looking forward to it :)
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:15:00 PM
- Allison said...
Please make it so that those of us that have droids can watch also not just Iphone Please .
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:15:00 PM
- Boney said...
Kurt, ever thought of commentary podcasts? Ron Moore did them for BSG and they were a wonderful insight on the making and meaning of a show. With SOA'a Shakespearean elements, it would be epic to hear your viewpoint while watching an episode.
Brgds, Matt.
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:18:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Awesome idea Mr.Sutter! Have I told you lately your a genious?
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:27:00 PM
- Unknown said...
this is going to be real SOA. fucking cool
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:30:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Love the idea. Can't wait to see the first vids. :)
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:31:00 PM
- marjorie morningstar said...
Awesome! This is beyond exciting for fan geeks like me. Thanks Kurt :)
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:32:00 PM
I *love* it!! That's one thing I keep asking for is more behind the scenes stuff...Document the process!! :-)
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:38:00 PM
- Debi413 said...
Can't wait! The extras on the DVDs and the Commentaries with you and the Guys are parts I look forward to. Good Luck with the writing!
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:38:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you, Kurt! You're the shit!
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:41:00 PM
- shovelhead said...
Bro believe me when I say this.I love your show have all three seasons on itunes and I am stsrting to know all the lines,what a fucking geek I am,anyway I love the shit on the DVD of the cast being themselves.The Q&A round table was very intersting how you and the rest approach their craft.I am a patch holder in club in detroit and enjoy the glimpse of the life on the tube.Hope you have a chance to get on your scoot everyday.
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:44:00 PM
Good idea. It will be great to see the part that is usually left on the "cutting room floor". We can see your creative process.... hummmm v. interesting.
- Apr 20, 2011, 4:51:00 PM
- Chris said...
Very cool!
- Apr 20, 2011, 5:19:00 PM
- Anarchy FC said...
Awesome sauce. I cannot wait to geek out on this type of content!!
- Apr 20, 2011, 5:23:00 PM
- ellie said...
That's quite awesome good sir. Thank you for letting us into the world of SOA.
- Apr 20, 2011, 5:34:00 PM
- diakonos777 said...
Kurt, I think it'll be big and thanks. Far as link up's from FB folks putting the links on their live feed, sure to increase the fan base. And keep us from the start fans fed. ;)
- Apr 20, 2011, 6:05:00 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm not a geek, but play one on line!
This is terrific news, Kurt. I'm fully into the behind the scenes stuff. SAMCRO_BLOGGER did a terrific job during S3 of keepin' us informed and deserves a pat on the back.
You can count on me to be a subscriber. Having a theatre and broadcast background makes the behind the scenes stuff very interesting to me. I can't wait.
- Apr 20, 2011, 6:58:00 PM
- niimki said...
Sounds good. It would be cool to see how the best show on TV is actually put together. Should be interesting. Thanks.
- Apr 20, 2011, 7:25:00 PM
- Laughing Out Loud said...
Im unhealthily excited!
- Apr 20, 2011, 9:50:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Sounds like a great idea, I like it. I just hope you don't make the mistake of listening only to us the fans...sometimes an outsider view is good to have as well.
- Apr 20, 2011, 10:47:00 PM
- J.B. said...
oh......SO FUCKING EXCITED!!!
- Apr 21, 2011, 11:32:00 PM
Sounds really cool..always wanted to see what happens behind the scenes specially on the best show on freakin tv...Can you make sure its droid friendly. When does season 4 premiere and when does Ethan Zobel finally get what is coming to him....zman sends
- Apr 22, 2011, 4:56:00 PM
- Bonnie said...
Hope you add some Bloopers as well...Looking forward to it :)
- Apr 27, 2011, 7:40:00 AM
- Madam President said...
Kurt, I'm not above revealing myself as one of many [much to my always-fancied-myself-an-"individualist" chagrin] fawning fans, so... You rule!
More importantly, shouldn't Mr. Coates be giving us "insiders"/longtime fans an 'Aye, but you've got a wee orchard there...' sometime soon? (Who gives a shit that he doesn't play a "foreigner" in SOA---Kim and Dennis Hopper are what made 'Waterworld' a cult classic!)
Sign me,
STILL Fighting with the Old Man About Whether HA/Bikers are Fundamentally Good or...
(Or, just sign me Kelly-in-Ojai)
- May 1, 2011, 7:05:00 PM


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Not a biggy, but I found myself on a line of text today and wanted to move to the end of the line. So I got out my trusty '$' and found (to my absolute horror) that I ended up at the end of a group of whitespace characters that had snuck onto the end of the line. 'Ha!' I thought, a bug in Viemu, surely Vim would have taken me to the last non-whitespace character but, alas, Vim's behaviour is identical: $ really does mean the end of the line, whitespace or not.
So, I looked up the Vim command for moving to last non-whitespace character on a line and discovered it was 'g_'. It appears this command is not supported in Viemu (perhaps it is in Viostrich). Would be a nice minor addition to a subsequent version.
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Ryan Seacrest is no stranger to playing referee on "American Idol." (Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell--holla!)
Those diplomatic skills are sure coming in handy these days after video surfaced Tuesday of an epic cuss-fest involving Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey during "Idol" auditions in Charlotte, N.C.
(Cliffs Notes version: Minaj wails about someone's "f--king problem"; Carey points Minaj toward the door.)
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Enter Seacrest, who addressed the blowup on his radio show Wednesday and busted out his best U.N. Peacekeeper bona fides.
Nicki Minaj goes off on Mariah Carey at Idol judges' table
"It got heated between Nicki and Mariah," he admitted, before adding, "There's nothing wrong with disagreeing, and that's gonna happen, and that's OK."
But the ever-affable host, who noted that he was outside the judging room when the spat erupted, made sure to keep a fair and level-headed perspective on the verbal scuffle.
"These are all very different individuals with different perspective and different opinion that provide for interesting conversation and dialogue and feedback for the contestants," he tactfully explained. "Each one of those members of the panel this year is an essential ingredient to the sum of the show."
But wait--didn't Nicki just give props to Mariah and call her a "legend"?
That doesn't mean things didn't get nutty inside that North Carolina audition room.
"It was intense, I'll be honest with you," he copped. "And it was towards the end of the day, and there were just a few contestants to be seen...So it did get intense, and we did wrap after it."
Indeed, a source close to the show confirms to E! News that the divas' tiff is more than just a convenient publicity stunt to boost the show's sagging ratings.
Steven Tyler's down for an Idol redux--but not as a judge
"It's real," insists the source, noting that although the conflict may make for "good TV," it's proving to be a "nightmare" for showrunner Nigel Lythgoe and his team.
At least Carey's hubby, Nick Cannon, has found a way to make light of the fracas: During an appearance on "Access Hollywood" Wednesday morning, he gamely participated in a table reading of a transcript of the throwdown.
To echo the inimitable Seacrest, we can only say: Now this is American Idol.
--Reporting by Ken Baker
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My good friend and former Professor, Bernie Frischer, Ph.D., just announced a game that resulted from his collaboration: Rome 320AD. You can see Bernie giving a brief overview of 4th century Rome in this Kahn Academy Video.
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CSS is fundamental to the web, but it's a basic language and lacks many features. Sass is just like CSS, but with a whole lot of extra power so you can get more done, more quickly. Build better web pages today with Pragmatic Guide to Sass. These concise, easy-to-digest tips and techniques are the shortcuts experienced CSS developers need to start developing in Sass today.
Pragmatic Guide to Sass
by Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin
Pragmatic Guide to Sass
by Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin
Customer Reviews
Packed with plenty of code examples, this is a primer that shouldn't be missed.
- Midwest Book Review
Pragmatic Guide to Sass is a snappy little book that effectively hits you with
the right dose of Sass magic to either pick up Sass as a newcomer or give
you a refresher if you're already using it. The guide is written in a style
that's both a tutorial and a reference at the same time, and it'll be a handy
go-to book for anyone working with Sass, whether on a daily basis or only
on rare occasions. It gets two thumbs-up from me.
- Peter Cooper
Editor, "Ruby Inside" and "HTML5 Weekly"
Sass is the best way to write maintainable CSS. This Pragmatic guide will
get you up to speed on Sass's most powerful features, including nesting,
variables, and mixins—an invaluable reference.
- Sam Stephenson
Creator of Sprockets and the Rails asset pipeline
Michael and Hampton, in Pragmatic Guide to Sass, have put together the
most comprehensive and thought-out guide to Sass to date. No matter
what server-side technology you use, Sass can be used in anyone's development
stack to help organize your CSS. Pragmatic Guide to Sass shows
you the best practices in DRYing up your CSS with the power of Sass. It
teaches you how to become a CSS heavyweight without the bloated CSS.
This book should be on every web developer's shelf (and e-reader).
- Andrew Chalkley
technical writer, Screencasts.org
Chock-full of unexpected goodies such as extras on Compass and Haml,
Pragmatic Guide to Sass is hands-down the best Sass resource printed to
date—a must-read for web developers and smart designers.
- Dan Kissell
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About this Title
Pages: 128
Published: 2011-12-16
Release: P1.0 (2011-12-20)
Written by Sass creator Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin, Pragmatic Guide to Sass shows you how to improve your CSS, from the basics to advanced topics, from first installation to sprucing up your buttons. You'll see how to code the right way in Sass thanks to short, clear examples. Two-page spreads show the explanation on one side and code examples on the other. You'll learn how to improve your pages in minutes.
You'll be able to perform amazing feats of CSS including using variables, calculating layouts, and modifying colors. Did you ever want to make a color 10% less saturated? We'll show you how to do that without needing a calculator.
Plus, learn about Compass, Sass's library of carefully built hacks, reusable parts, and frameworks. Find out how to shortcut cross-browser issues and develop mixins for shortening text and making lists more exciting. You'll wonder how you spent all those years styling sites without it!
Make things even easier with Blueprint, and discover how to use its predefined classes that you can apply to your Web site. From selector scoping to bundling, debugging, and designing custom functions, Pragmatic Guide to Sass will help you build the pages you've always wanted.
What You Need:
- An installation of Sass and Compass
- Some basic command line knowledge
What You Need
Sass 3.1 and above.
Contents & Extracts
- Acknowledgements
- Welcome! excerpt
- Part I — Basics
- Task 1. Installing Sass
- Task 2. Compiling Sass into CSS
- Task 3. Using Sass with Rails
- Task 4. Avoiding the Command Line: Using Scout
- Task 5. Commenting
- Task 6. Selector Scoping excerpt
- Task 7. Going Further with Advanced Scoping
- Task 8. Altering the CSS Output
- Task 9. Defining Variables excerpt
- Task 10. Calculating a Layout
- Task 11. Creating Themes with Advanced Colors
- Task 12. Importing
- Task 13. Building a Font Family Library
- Task 14. Resetting CSS
- Part II — Advanced
- Task 15. Keeping It Semantic: @extend excerpt
- Task 16. Keeping Code Clean with Mixins
- Task 17. Taking Mixins Further with Variables
- Task 18. Debugging
- Task 19. Generating Cross-Browser Rounded Borders
- Task 20. Using Cross-Browser Opacity
- Task 21. Interpolating excerpt
- Task 22. Stop Repeating Yourself with @each
- Task 23. Determining Conditions with @if
- Task 24. Changing Looks with Nested @media
- Part III — Compass
- Task 25. Setting Up for a Compass Project
- Task 26. Resetting: Much Easier with Compass
- Task 27. Sprucing Up Your Lists
- Task 28. Making Lists Horizontal
- Task 29. Sticking a Footer to a Window excerpt
- Task 30. Stopping Overflow with Clearfix
- Task 31. Truncating Text Using Ellipses
- Task 32. Stretching Elements
- Task 33. Jazzing Up Layouts with Columns
- Task 34. Spriting excerpt
- Part IV — Blueprint CSS
- Task 35. Producing More Two-Column Layouts
- Task 36. Using Predefined Fancy Fonts
- Task 37. Making Beautiful Buttons
Hampton Catlin is the inventor of Sass, a CSS generating language, and the Haml markup language. He is the original creator of Wikipedia Mobile (m.wikipedia.org) and is also the creator of several successful iPhone applications including Dictionary!
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Graphic data charts, devised by analysts at UCL, now allow child heart surgeons to spot and investigate trends in survival and act promptly on any concerns.
Published today in the journal Heart, a new paper describes how charts showing survivals to, and deaths within, 30 days of surgery are being generated and studied by teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Evelina Children's Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.
The study follows recent controversy around comparisons of deaths rates following surgery.
Importantly, the charts account for very different levels of risk faced by different children – from under one percent risk of death to more than 25% – and help hospital teams spot any underlying trends. The risk estimates come from peer-reviewed work by the same team published last year using UK national data.
Dr Christina Pagel, lead author of the paper from the UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, said: "The software tool that we've developed provides teams with a way of routinely monitoring their own risk-adjusted results, which they've not been able to do previously because of the complexity and diversity of their work."
The software tool that we've developed provides teams with a way of routinely monitoring their own risk-adjusted results, which they've not been able to do previously because of the complexity and diversity of their work.
Dr Christina Pagel
She added: "This is important because it means that the teams can learn from their recent outcomes and respond quickly where necessary. By working closely with the surgical teams, we could explain the limitations of the risk-adjustment, which is never perfect, as well as the strengths."
The data presented in the paper captures all procedures performed in 2010 and 2011. All three centres got useful insights from looking at their outcomes in this way.
Dr Pagel said: "Our work is about facilitating improvement rather than comparisons between centres. Comparisons between centres remain challenging – for instance, some centres treat a higher number of very premature babies and this isn't accounted for in our risk-adjustment because those data were, historically, not routinely submitted to national audit.
"This sort of additional information is, of course, available to the clinical teams, who are able to put the risk-adjusted results into context. That's why we think that these charts are most useful at a local level. I'm glad that each centre is still using the prototype software and there are plans in place to roll-out the tool nationally."
Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director of the NHS, who has previously called for all NHS trusts to publish surgical outcome data, said: "This is a great example of constructive collaboration between academics and clinicians to give clinical teams that the tools they need for quality assurance and to further improve outcomes."
Stephen Thornton, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, which part funded the study, said "We are delighted to have supported such an innovative piece of research and hope the tools produced from this project will have a wide appeal across the paediatric heart surgery network."
Media contact: Clare Ryan
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Question: "How does God see me in Christ?"Recommended Resource:
Several places in Scripture refer to believers being "in Christ" (1 Peter 5:14; Philippians 1:1; Romans 8:1). Colossians 3:3 gives a little more insight: "For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." When we come to Christ as broken sinners, He exchanges our sin nature for His righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21). We cannot remain as we were and enter into the presence of a holy God. We must "die" to self and be "hidden" in the righteousness of Christ. Galatians 3:27 says, "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Here the purity of Christ is presented as a garment we wear when we repent and accept God's offer of salvation.
Imagine this scenario: A powerful king sits on his throne, judging the people. Guards attend him, and commoners wait in long lines for an audience. Suddenly, the doors of the throne room burst open. Heads turn, and everyone gasps. There stand two little boys. One is clean, but one is covered in mud and crying. With brazen boldness the unsullied boy tugs the other down the red carpet toward the throne. The guards pull their swords, waiting for a nod from the king to get rid of the intrusion. But the king holds up a hand, and his face softens into a smile.
The first little boy stops at the king's knee and pulls his buddy into the circle of his arm. "Dad, this is my friend. He's scared and hurt. I told him you could help." The king opens his arms to envelop both boys, not caring that mud is smeared on his royal robe. He looks into the frightened eyes of the muddy waif and says, "Any friend of my son's is welcome here. How can I help you?"
We cannot come to God on our own merit. We must be escorted by His Son. No amount of self-cleansing can make us pure enough to warrant the attention of Perfection. The Bible says that in our natural, sinful state we are enemies of God (Romans 5:10). But, escorted by the Son, we are welcomed into His presence. Through repentance and acceptance of Jesus' death on our behalf, we are even called His children (John 1:12; Galatians 3:26). God no longer sees our imperfections; He sees the righteousness of His own Son instead (Ephesians 2:13; Hebrews 8:12). Because we are in Christ, God sees Christ's righteousness covering us. Only "in Christ" is our sin debt cancelled, our relationship with God restored, and our eternity secured (John 3:16-18; 20:31).
How does God see me in Christ?
Who am I?: Identity in Christ by Jerry Bridges
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A notorious sound wanderer, sonic sculptor and dancefloor master, Pedestrian's intricate, crystallised production and an instinct for DJ sets that can captivate any club has seen him ranked in K Magazine's '10 Bass Music Artists To Watch Out For In 2012'. And with very good reason.


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Who loves giveaways? Well I know I do! So I thought to boost my views even more that I would start doing this as a daily post.
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Physics 371 - Acoustics for Musicians
This course is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate music students who wish to learn about the physical basis of sound and musical instruments. Elementary physics principles are used to describe oscillating systems, waves, and wave propagation. The relationship between the physical stimulus (frequency, amplitude, sound pressure, Fourier components) and the perception of sound (pitch, loudness, timbre) are discussed. The fundamental frequencies of strings and pipes and their overtone structure (partials) are treated quantitatively. The physical basis of consonance is used to show the origin of the diatonic scale. Differences between tunings (just tuning, tempered, meantone) are studied. The physics of musical instruments is explained, including the mechanism by which steady tones are excited, enhanced, and propagated in the string, reed, brass, and percussion families, as well as the voice. The origin of formants in the sound spectrum is discussed. Other topics treated are physiology of hearing and the fundamental principles of room acoustics. In every lecture, a number of lecture demonstrations is presented. A short term paper on a topic of the student's choosing in the area of musical acoustics is due at the end of the term.


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Looking Back at Cindy Sherman
All hail the retrospective! It seems as though New York City has been home to more blockbuster retrospectives within the past year than ever. This summer, the work of the American Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning filled the entire sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art in a grandiose, spectacular examination of the artist's seventy-year career.Art, Art News, Art Retros


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The competition for the title of World's Ugliest Dog, held annually in Northern California, is stiff, judged on "the natural ugliness in both pedigree and mutt classes." 28 dogs competed this year, and while they're scraggy and gross, they're also sort of beautiful in their own way. I'm lying, they're just gross. Don't believe me? Watch the video.
Given this abundance of aesthetic horror, It was a shame there could only be one, but in the end it was Mugly, a hideous Chinese crested 8-year-old rescue dog from England, who took home the gold. Mugly, with his underbite and weird flyaway whisker-eyebrows that freak me out on some kind of essential level, is no stranger to being professionally disgusting, having won Britain's Ugliest Dog in 2005. He and his touchingly, unironically proud owner Bev Nicholson got to take home $1,000 and a year's supply of dog treats. So... congratulations to the ugliest fucking dog ever, right?!
'Beady eyes, short snout propel 'Mugly' to victory at annual World's Ugliest Dog contest' [Washington Post]


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It was only a matter of time before Mexico would tally the first strike during Monday night's soccer exhibition against Senegal. El Tri was in complete control from the get-go with a far superior possession game.In the 60th minute, Mexico finally struck as Alberto Medina's goal provided the difference en route to a 1-0 victory over Senegal in front of a sold-out crowd of 60,610 at Soldier Field.
But Mexico head coach Javier Aguirre had reason to be a bit unsatisfied with the performance. El Tri had a bunch of scoring opportunities, and Medina particularly had several other chances. The one-goal win did the trick, but Mexico clearly could have done more."We missed a few [opportunities] in the last third of the field," Aguirre said. "We need to look at connecting short passes. In the great leagues you only have one opportunity and you need to score it."
For two-thirds of the match, Senegal goalkeeper Khadim Ndiaye did his best to keep his squad in contention. He was efficient coming off of his line to intercept a bunch of threats and had some key saves to try to silence Mexico's attack.In the 60th minute, Ndiaye nearly replicated his previous efforts when he disrupted Andres Guardado's deep send for Medina. But in this instance the ball popped out a bit from his gloves, and Medina found the far left netting for the 1-0 Mexico lead.
Just a few minutes before that play, former Chicago Fire midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco made what nearly proved to be a picture-perfect entrance. Blanco did not get the start, but to the pleasure of the Mexican faithful in Soldier Field, he came off the bench for a shade more than half an hour.
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Hello and Happy New Year to all.
I'm away to use the Ajax Side Panel script for my website.
First thing is I'm needing script to open from left to right and NOT right to left.
Second thing script works great in all browsers apart from Opera (v9), script works and opens file in side panel window, but when I close panel it looks closed but its not as I cant click any link on main page and the panel shadow is still there. Looks like not closing correctly. Any help!
Third thing, I'm going to use script for an external pdf link (http://www.notmysite.com/afile.pdf)
and asking whats best way i.e. rel="ajaxpanel" data-loadtype="iframe" or just rel="ajaxpanel" ????
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Week 2 kicked of with a low key Saturday that ended with a game night at Andrew and Kelly's. We got Andrew Pandemic Legacy for Christmas. It is a long play game that builds on itself. We plan to play it over the year. We won the first game and saved the world. It was a good start.
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This is huge. Before the New York Auto Show opened this morning, specially-trained Jalopnik operatives with surgically-removed collarbones squeezed through the Javits Center mail slot to get this incredible first shot of the SRT Viper in the snakeflesh. There's still maintenance workers getting it ready, the show lighting's not on yet, but yeah, that's an SRT Viper right there. Right?
Or, you know, on second thought, maybe it's really just a quick Photoshop of a gigantic Hot Wheels car. Oh well! Guess we'll have to wait until 6:30 PM EST tonight to see it in the slithering flesh.


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Saturday, December 05, 2015
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Pakistan will block access within the country to a YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad and sparked protests at U.S. embassies this week in Libya and Egypt earlier this week, and in Yemen on Thursday, a spokesman for the country's telecom regulator said Thursday.
The 14-minute film trailer, which portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and killer, set off protests earlier this week in Libya and Egypt. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed when that embassy in Benghazi was stormed by gunmen.
The authenticity of the full film, "Innocence of Muslims" has been called into question since the embassy protests began, but the trailer has continued to circulate on the Internet and by Thursday had 1.3 million views on YouTube.
"We have orders from the ministry of IT and communications to block whatever links are there on YouTube to this video clip," said the spokesman for the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said.
Google has also decided to block the video in Libya and Egypt, even though it does not violate its guidelines, according to various reports.
The Afghanistan government also decided to block the video on Wednesday.
Google has often refused to remove content considered religiously and politically objectionable as long as it meets its guidelines. In India, for example, it and some other Internet companies have been sued and also criticized by the government for certain controversial religious content on its website.
Google now finds itself having to make a choice between Internet freedom and helping keep the peace, analysts said.
"This video -- which is widely available on the Web -- is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube," Google said in a statement. "However, given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we have temporarily restricted access in both countries. A Our hearts are with the families of the people murdered in yesterday's attack in Libya."
The company said it works hard to create a community everyone can enjoy that also enables people to express different opinions.A "This can be a challenge because what's OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere," it added.
John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is email@example.com


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What is TNT Basic?
TNT Basic is the easiest way to make your own games for the Mac!
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Latest TNT Basic : 1.31
OS X Lion Beta : 1.42
7th Apr 2012
TB 1.42 released
Posted by
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I've just released TNT Basic 1.42 and pushed its source to
. It contains the following fix:
* Sounds now load and play correctly under Intel when using the .tbproj (aka 'bundle') project file format
Please let me know if you have any trouble. You can report bugs via the
git hub issue tracker
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17th Mar 2012
TNT Basic source re-released on GitHub
Posted by
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The source for TNT Basic 1.41 (the Lion Beta) has been released onto its new home on GitHub. The source has also been relicensed under the much simpler BSD license.
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14th Feb 2012
TNT Basic for OS X Lion - UPDATED
Posted by
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I've just released TNT Basic 1.41 which contains the following bug fixes:
* .tbproj profile files now work
* Should now run on OS X 10.5 as well
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24th Jan 2012
TNT Basic for OS X Lion Beta - now available
Posted by
Mark Tully
I've just uploaded TNT Basic 1.40, which is a beta release which is compatible with OS X Lion. It is also Intel native (at last!).
Please note, this does not yet include the Hieroglyph editor
The source code for TNT Basic 1.40 will be made available soon.
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18th Dec 2011
TNT Basic on OS X Lion - UPDATE
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As per Danny's post recently, TNT Basic is known not to work on OS X Lion. I am pleased to announce that I have an update in progress which will remedy this.
Head over to the forums for more info!
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14th Dec 2011
TNT Basic and OS X Lion...
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As of version 10.7 of the OS,
TNT Basic will no longer run on Intel based Macs
Apple has dropped Rosetta support (the interpreter that allowed older PPC software to run on Intel hardware) from Lion, the latest version of OS X.
In order to continue using the existing TNT build on Intel machines running Lion it will be necessary for you to implement some sort of duel boot (from either a separate partition or external drive), or utilise a VM and run an older (pre Lion) OS from there.
This solution is, however, far from ideal and we'd like to throw down a challenge to Mac developers... Can anyone get the current version of the TNT source to compile under Xcode? Is anyone trying to get it to work? If so drop by the forums and let us know how you are getting on, or what you are stuck on.
TNT is open source software, and if it is to evolve we need people to pick it up and run with it. Does anyone fancy trying to give the old girl a new lease of life?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
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10th Sep 2008
tntbasic.com server software update
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I've just updated the server software on tntbasic.com for compatibility reasons. If anyone sees any crazy new problems with the forums or any other part of this website please drop me an email.
19th Sep 2006
Minor site updates
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I've made a series of small improvements to the web site.
Now all email addresses are obscured to defend against spam bot harvesting. I know it's a bit late for those of you who, like me, post on the TNT Basic forums and get spammed to death because of it - but hey.
I've also updated the support section and the user docs to direct people to post feedback on the forums and to use the proper bug trackers and feature request trackers on sourceforge.net to submit bugs and feature requests.
Finally, at the bequest of forum regulars, I've added a new forum for people to discuss the games they're working on and bounce ideas of one another.
Like I said - minor!
12th Jun 2006
First version of TNT Basic XCode project available
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The CVS version of TNT Basic on sourceforge.net finally compiles as a Universal Binary using XCode.
It's not finished yet and it basically doesn't work properly. So don't think you can do anything useful with it other than peruse the project and try and see how it fits together. I would advise everyone to wait until I've finished fixing and testing it before they start trying to do anything with the code.
The README that's distributed with the source contains instructions on how to get it to compile in XCode, you need to get PowerPlant and OpenPlay source code AND make modifications to both of them to get THEM to compile in XCode, so it's not for the faint of heart.
But, it's there, it compiles, links and runs as a Universal Binary and things can only get better from here.
Watch this space.
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1st Feb 2006
TNT Basic 1.31 released!
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TNT Basic 1.31 has just been released. This version is entirely bug fixes that I gathered from the TNT Basic forums. I hope I fixed your favourite bug.
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GYA: Why are some deacons married?
Celibacy isn't required for all clergy.
Last year, with the creation of the personal ordinariate for Anglicans, more people became aware of the presence of married clergy in the Catholic Church. Long known for its celibate priesthood, many media outlets began covering the church with profiles of these former Anglican priests who were to become Catholic priests despite having wives and children—the very thing other clergy, like Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, have lost their jobs over.
Married men have been admitted to the clergy of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the form of permanent deacons. These men receive the same sacrament of orders that priests and bishops receive, and are thus considered clerics. They just do so without the obligation of celibacy that priests and bishops have been held to beginning with the Gregorian reforms of the 11th century.
In 1840, in perhaps the first written record on the restoration of the permanent diaconate, J. K. Passavant, a German physician, sent a letter to Melchior van Diepenbrock, the future Archbishop of Breslau (then a part of Germany) suggesting married men, "drawn from the best educated ranks of the so-called laity," could do the work of deacons in the church. Deacon William T. Ditewig, who studies the diaconate, writes that Passavant's suggestion likely came from the observation that "the priesthood was too divorced from the daily life of people."
But during the Second Vatican Council some bishops, who were eventually convinced of the need for the restoration of the ancient order, still feared that without an obligation of celibacy, the church would lose priestly vocations to the permanent diaconate. The council eventually determined that mature married men (age 35 and older in the United States) could be ordained permanent deacons, but younger men must promise celibacy.
Permanent deacons still face restrictions regarding dating and marriage. Mature men who feel called to the permanent diaconate and marriage must already be married before beginning the process of formation for ordination. Otherwise, they have to accept the obligation of celibacy.
In the National Directory for the Formation, Ministry, and Life of Permanent Deacons in the United States, the U.S. bishops state, "In one way or another, celibacy affects every deacon, married or unmarried," particularly in the case where a deacon's wife dies. Barring a special dispensation from the Holy See (for example, in the case of young children), these deacons cannot remarry.
Most dioceses in the United States with a permanent diaconate expect wives to go through formation with their husbands, often a three- to four-year process. The U.S. bishops' guidelines only require wives' formal consent to their husband's ordination.
Still, the evidence shows that wives (and 92 percent of American deacons have them, according to a study of the permanent diaconate in the United States by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate) are involved with their husbands' ministry, joining them as they minister to prison inmates or helping to coordinate baptisms and marriages at the parish.
This article appeared in the March 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 3, page 46).


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Anti-microbial air treatment systems will become a "very important" hygiene factor in the food manufacturing industry in coming years, Ecolab's Marcus Ley told reporter Mark Astley.
Speaking with FoodProductionDaily.com at Brau Beviale in Nuremberg, Ley claimed that demand for this type of technology will increase across the food industry as manufacturers look for innovative methods to ensure product quality and extend the shelf life of their finished products.
Anti-microbial air treatment systems, such as Ecolab's own Airspexx technology, eliminate airborne bacteria before they can reach and contaminate food in during production and packaging, and in storage environments.
Ley – manager of food and beverage corporate accounts in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Ecolab – expects demand for the technology to increase.
"Whether there will be a legal demand or not, I believe that we will see many, many more applications in this industry in order to control the air - not only the air flow, not only the air quality, but also the air's microbiological load," said Ley.
Source: http://www.foodqualitynews.com/Product-Categories/Plant-Safety-Equipment/Anti-microbial-air-treatment-will-become-important-hygiene-factor-Ecolab


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Sunday School – 10:00 am
Worship Service – 11:00 am
Bible Study – 12:15 pm
Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 pm
12859 Martin Road Spur
Northport, AL 35473
It's easy for us to view these seven verses through red, white and blue lenses. How often we think the entire Christian world lives and has lived in the same situation that we currently do. However, that is not the case. Pastor Todd explains this and much more in this heavy passage on our responsibility to our government. We are sure this sermon will be a challenge to you.


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International UFO Museum & Research Center
114 N. Main Street
New Mexico 88202
Ever wondered if there is extraterrestrial life out there? Curious about the famous 'Roswell Incident'? The Tourism Association of New Mexico has awarded this museum the 1996 "Top Tourist Destination of New Mexico." You and your dog are absolutely welcome inside this very popular and large UFO Museum and Research Center. They have many dog visitors every day. At the museum you can view exhibits about The Roswell Incident, Crop Circles, Ragsdale Crash Site, Ancient Cultures, Worldwide Sighting Map and a Childrens Area. You can also sit and view videos (with your pup, of course) in their small theatre room. After viewing the exhibits, your pup is welcome in the gift shop too. Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.
DogFriendly.com, with tens of thousands of places listed to take your dog to, will be releasing on it's Dog News blog, Facebook page and on Twitter a list of 200 Top Places that you can take your dog in the U.S. and Canada. This list, while intended to highlight top places that are especially pet-friendly, is not designed to be the absolutely top 200 places that we could find, but a sampling of the top places so that all regions, types of attractions, hotels, B&Bs, vacation rentals, parks, beaches, shopping and more can be considered. No doubt each of you will find many other places not on this list or our full list of dog-friendly places at https://www.dogfriendly.com. Please let us know about them by commenting on the blog or emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also let us and our readers know if you agree or disagree with the selections, or your experiences there. Please keep in mind that places often change their policies regarding dogs and thus may have different policies at any time in the future.
The blog entries can be found at https://dogfriendly.com/dognews/?cat=243, our Facebook page, or Twitter.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014 11:30-12:15pm
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It feels like an eternity since I last swam, but according to my FLOG it's only been since Monday. I've done a ton of work between now and then, and had little sleep to fully recover for the most part, and that's what is taking a toll on my body.
Tuesday night ended up being a late night for me at work, having an emergency repair that kept me over 3 hours into the early morning hours. Friday night as well was a scheduled 12 hour shift till 3:00am, and I'll be doing it again tonight too. It'll be about a 60 hour week at work, as well as the countless hours I've been putting in at home on the remodel.
Needless to say, I'm a normal working person who swims as a hobby now, rather than a swimmer who works. It's tough mentally wanting to be able to do so much with my swimming too, but it'll have to wait. I am signed up for a meet next weekend in Seattle, but I am scheduled to work, which is probably for the better. I'd have to be rescued from the pool for not completing the 200 Fly anyway!
Speaking of that type of stuff, one of our head lifeguards at the pool got to do real life CPR earlier this week. Not at the pool, but at home. She was visiting her mother, and her mother's boyfriend collapsed on the ground. I guess she did CPR for 10 minutes solo, until EMS arrived to take over. They credit her with saving his life. Nice job to her!
Anyway...my short painful swim:
500 Free - this actually felt good
10 x 50 Flutter Kick w/ board @ 1:00 (held :50s and under)
10 x 50 SDK w/ short fins @ :45 (:40s and under) my legs were sore from this
3 x 100 Free Pull @ 1:20 - UGH!!!
both my left shoulder and my cardio told me to stop on this one! I'm not a young kid anymore, and need to ease back into things.
200 really EZ
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I am testing the Dr. Web Enterprise Security Suite under windows.
What we are experiencing in the computers where the agent has been installed is a slow down loading web pages, up to 10 seconds since the installation.
In one of these stations the web surfing was blocked, I mean, the user can google but once he clicks on any link to open another web site it is impossible to navigate, a timeout in the request is shown after a while. Uninstalling the agent in this computer bring back brought back the computer navigation to its normal status, i mean, web surfing with no problem.
Is the slow down on the navigation normal?
How can I check the reason for this web blocking?
On the other side, in the log of the administration console there are hundreds of messages (severity Minimal) like this one "Sorry, processing error on XXXXXXXXX has been detected!". What does it mean?
Thank you for your comments on this topic.


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Rays Rumors: Giambi, Dye and Sonnanstine
There has been alot of chatter and speculation that the Tampa Bay Rays might be talking to former Yankee Jason Giambi about a possible Designated Hitters' position with the club. I have always been a defender and distractor of the "Giambino" because his past behavior and his hitting prowness .
To say that the Rays would not listen to his agent would be obsurb. We will listen to anyone talk about their client or even tap dance on the top of the dugout, but the price has to be right for the Rays to bite on Giambi. He would have to be willing to give the team a "AL East" discount.
By this I mean he will have to give them a discount to be able to face his former team at least 17 times in 2009 and rub their noses in their refusal to even consider him for the team. He would be an upgrade to the DH position without a doubt, but he will also have to come with the stipulation that fater BP he throws his gloves into his locker and doesn't look at them again until the next day.
To say he would be a defensive downgrade would be a joke. He has gone from being an ample first baseman, to being a liability with a glove. He no longer has the range or the motion to adequately play the position for an extended time. And considering the Rays have one of the best at the position in house, He will need to stow the gloves after BP.
For the Rays sake, that might have to be written into the contract. For intimidation factor, Giambi gets a "10". I always say when I see him on the big screen that he has serial killer eyes. Those baby blues seem to stare right through you even from 50 yeards away. I can only imagine what they look like when he sees a hanging curveball or breaking pitch and is about to thrust it over the wall in one long swing.
Jermaine Dye is another guy who has been getting a lot of Rays trade talk in recent weeks. He is a powerful hitter who is also right-handed. that plays right into the Rays plans looking for a above average bat who can also play a great defensive outfield position.
But what might not play into the Chicago White Sox plans is the fact that the team is asking for a proven starter and a fielder player at the triple-A level for Dye. He is still under contract for the 2009 season, and will certainly be considered a prime free agent next season.
He has been pretty injury free and has taken his batting game up a notch the last 2 seasons. In the recent American League Divisional Series, the Rays got a lot of first hand looks at Dye as he hit and drove in runs for the White Sox in the series against the Rays.
What is also known around baseball is that White Sox GM, Ken Williams wants to lower his payroll a bit before filling his holes on his squad. He will have to start to make deal soon to be able to capitalize on the top tier players before the market goes thin and he will have to trade for his desired postions.
Also of consideration is if the Rays are on the list of 6 potential trade destinations that Dye will veto any trades. The Rays might have been on that list in 2007, but would Dye either void the list or are the Rays a desination that suits Dye………..We shall see in the coming weeks.
The New York Mets have been actively asking and looking for information on the Rays 4 and 5 starters this off-season. Edwin Jackson had early interest from the team, but based on his career numbers and his consistant pitching, they have moved onto inquiring about Andy Sonnanstine.
Sonnanstine has been a fierce competitor for a long time. He was not an orignal target of the Rays in the amatuer draft, but former owner Vince Namoli was interested in Sonnanstine after a win against his alma mater, the Norte Dame Fighting Irish. The Kent State pitcher had always fought the Irish hard and Namoli liked the young pitcher's style.
So the team drafted him and Sonnanstine displayed this same knack for consistancy all the way through the minor leagues. When he got to the majors, he had already been selected as the Rays "minor League Pitcher of the Year" twice during his tour in the Rays farm system.
He came to the majors and set a presence of consitant pitching and low run and walks totals, which have kept him into games deep last year and this season for the Rays. He was the first pitcher to hit the 11 win plateau this season, but got mired at that number before finally posting his 12th win. He is one of those inning eater pitchers who can make a staff better by pitching his game and staying on top of the opposition.
I really do not think the Mets have the fair trade prospects in their farm system to make a ideal trade with the Rays. If they were to get Sonnanstine, it would have to be a 3-team deal that would bring in a few pieces that would be heading Tampa Bay's way.
That is not say that the wheels are not already at work trying to locate pieces that would entice the Rays to give up their young pitcher. The Rays are still under control of Sonnanstine until 2010, when he will be up for his first taste of arbitration.