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Buying wheels on a budget doesn't mean buying lowest-common-denominator. Look past new-car lots and be prepared to cover somewhat higher maintenance costs, and you'll have your choice of upscale cars at mainstream prices. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best luxury car bargains.
The key to surviving your trip on the depreciation slope is upkeep. Anything on this list will require attention to service schedules and perhaps some expensive parts. That said, a well-kept car is a happy car, and the payoff comes in spades when it's time for something new. Keep maintenance in mind and you'll still be able to drive in high style and come out well ahead financially compared to more normal cars.
"Cost Now" prices are quotes from NADA factoring in most normal equipment and assuming approximately 10,000 miles per year.
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10.) 2006 Cadillac CTS-V
Suggested By: PontiacAttack
Cost New: $50,675
Cost Now: $23,675
Or About As Much As A: Honda Civic Si with nav
What You Get: An American-made medium-sized four-door with luxury trimmings, plenty of room, lots of safety and convenience gear — and a Corvette V8 engine. Dignified when it should be, brutally fast when you want it to be. An upscale sports sedan that needs no qualifiers or excuses.
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9.) 2005 Jaguar XJ8
Suggested By: Chairman Kaga
Cost New: $61,330
Cost Now: $17,225
Or About As Much As A: Kia Forte EX sedan
What You Get: The last word in rakish Brit charm: wood, leather, power, a glorious blend of handling and ride comfort, styling that's old-world elegant without being stuffy. The reputation for impossible unreliability is a thing of the past. The look and feel are timeless.
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8.) 2006 Volvo S80
Suggested By: Kate's Dirty Sister
Cost New: $37,585
Cost Now: $15,425
Or About As Much As A: Ford Fiesta SE
What You Get: The intelligent alternative in luxury. Discreet image, bank-vault body structure, subdued Scandinavian design, more concern about safety than the average preschool playroom, the best seats available pretty much anywhere. If you're more into impressing yourself than the neighbors, this is a brilliant choice.
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7.) 2004 Lexus IS300
Suggested By: Fighting Polish
Cost New: $29,435
Cost Now: $14,200
Or About As Much As A: Toyota Yaris
What You Get: A compelling BMW fighter with good looks, traditional Lexus intelligent details and appliancelike reliability. The early Lexus ISs are some of the best cars that were ever completely overlooked by the buying public. Their loss is an astute buyer's gain. Worth the sometimes necessary extended search.
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6.) Chrysler 300C SRT-8
Suggested By: trakslacker
Cost New: $39,370
Cost Now: $20,000
Or About As Much As A: base Dodge Avenger
What You Get:The 300C SRT-8 may be the most Panglossian ride on this list: it really is the best of all possible worlds. It's a classic big bad-ass Detroit V-8 propelling a Mercedes chassis with Bentley-inspired bodywork. Maybe the coolest American car of the last two decades.
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5.) 2005 Mercedes S500
Suggested By: syaieya
Cost New: $83,900
Cost Now: $24,000
Or About As Much As A: Ford Fusion SE
What You Get: The Mercedes S-Class is the traditional standard in top-shelf high-quality high-performance luxury cars. They're also something of a fashion statement, so last generation's necessary accessory becomes this year's severely depreciated bargain. Be prepared to pay for proper upkeep and you will ride like latter-day nobility.
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4.) 2002 Lexus LS430
Suggested By: CRXPilot is Peyton's weak link.
Cost New: $54,405
Cost Now: $18,000
Or About As Much As A: Toyota Corolla LE
What You Get: Since their introduction the Lexus LS sedans have been among the most perfectly crafted machines of any kind in the world. No other vehicle is as perfectly attuned to the tastes and desires of the mainstream upscale purchaser: any LS is impeccably well-fitted, faultlessly comfortable, and requires little more than normal care. It won't win races or score big with valets, but for luxurious long-distance touring on American roads it is unbeatable.
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3.) Volkswagen Phaeton
Suggested By: DasWauto - Stupid electronics, I like mechanical things
Cost New: $66,700 base MSRP
Cost Now: About $23,000
Or About As Much As A: A Volkswagen Jetta SEL
What You Get: Something between an Audi and a Bentley, the Phaeton was a fantastic car that answered a question no one asked. Volkswagen head Ferdinand Piëch intended to challenge Mercedes but reached a bit too far for the mentality of the market. The Phaeton remains a tremendous engineering achievement and sumptuous luxury car.
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2.) 2005 BMW 330i
Suggested By: BtheD19, V4 power FTW
Cost New: $36,600
Cost Now: $14,450
Or About As Much As A: smart ForTwo Passion
What You Get: The BMW 3-Series has been the definition of the small luxury sports sedan for over thirty years, and for good reason. The early-'00s cars, known by their in-house E46 designation, cover all the bases: a powerful and sonorous engine, exceptional handling and braking, everyday usability, impregnable build quality, and tasteful design.
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1.) 2006 Infiniti M45
Suggested By: F50F60
Cost New: $47,150
Cost Now: $22,375
Or About As Much As A: A Nissan Altima S
What You Get: These large, almost anonymous sedans combine serious V8 power, tasteful comfort, major tech, and Japanese reliability in a perfectly balanced package. Infiniti's M cars have always been among the most capable road warriors on the market, often overlooked in favor of their trendier G-series sisters. By any measure a great car, and at the price an unbelievable bargain.
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Today is Monday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2013. There are 351 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 14, 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama; his inaugural address included the ringing declaration, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" -- a view Wallace came to repudiate in later years.
On this date:
In 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1858, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escaped an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice (fay-LEE'-chay) Orsini, who was later captured and executed.
In 1900, Puccini's opera "Tosca" had its world premiere in Rome.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
In 1952, NBC's "Today" show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or "communicator."
In 1953, Josip Broz Tito (YAW'-sihp brawz TEE'-toh) was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.
In 1963, Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar" was published in London under the pen name "Victoria Lucas," less than a month before Plath committed suicide.
In 1968, the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the AFL's Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in Super Bowl II.
In 1969, 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, were killed when a rocket warhead exploded, setting off a fire and additional explosions.
In 1973, the Miami Dolphins of the AFC defeated the Washington Redskins of the NFC 14-7 to win Super Bowl VII. (This game featured the notorious "Garo's Gaffe" by Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian that resulted in a Redskins touchdown.)
In 1989, President Ronald Reagan delivered his 331st and final weekly White House radio address, telling listeners, "Believe me, Saturdays will never seem the same. I'll miss you."
In 1993, TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
Ten years ago: Kmart Corp. announced its biggest round of cutbacks yet, saying it would close 326 more stores and eliminate 37,000 more jobs in hopes of getting out of bankruptcy by the end of April 2003. (Kmart emerged from Chapter 11 protection in May 2003.) Thousands of General Electric Co. employees across the country began a two-day strike to protest higher health insurance costs.
Five years ago: Republican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana. Alvaro Colom was sworn in as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years.
One year ago: Rescue workers scrambled aboard the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner, seeking to help some 4,200 passengers the day after the ship ran aground and tipped over off Italy's Tuscan coast; the death toll from the tragedy eventually reached 25 with seven missing and presumed dead. Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeler won the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.
Today's Birthdays: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 77. Singer Jack Jones is 75. Singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint is 75. Former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is 73. Actress Faye Dunaway is 72. Actress Holland Taylor is 70. Actor Carl Weathers is 65. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 65. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 64. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd is 61. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 54. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 50. Actor Mark Addy is 49. Fox News Channel anchorman Shepard Smith is 49. Rapper Slick Rick is 48. Actor Dan Schneider is 47. Actress Emily Watson is 46. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes is 46. Rock musician Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne Band) is 46. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 45. Actor Jason Bateman is 44.
Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) is 44. Actress Jordan Ladd is 38. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is 31. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is 31. Actor Zach Gilford is 31. Rock musician Joe Guese (The Click Five) is 30. Actor Jonathan Osser is 24.
Thought for Today: "Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -- Robert A. Heinlein, American science-fiction author (1907-1988).

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This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:30 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
1st Gear: Honda Doubles Profit
Yes, Honda's lineup is better than it was a year ago and they're in expanding markets. And no, there were no indeed major natural disasters in 2013 that impacted production. But if we're going to be honest here, they're getting a nice boost from a yen that's about 80-to-the-dollar right now.
As the AP points out, you can credit about $4.2 billion of the company's quarterly revenue just to the favorable currency situation. That's a lot of gravy.
Overall, the company's profits for the third quarter (the Japanese are one quarter off from the U.S.) reached $1.6 billion, double last year's third quarter profits.
Overall guidance for Tokyo is still at a profit of $5.7 billion which, if there's someone cool at Honda, will turn into something we want to drive.
2nd Gear: Ford, GM Sign Obama's Job Pledge
Long-term unemployment is a serious problem for the U.S., with more people dropping out of the job market or relying on government aid than I think anyone would like.
As such, the Obama Administration has put forward what seems like a fairly toothless initiative that encourages best-practices that don't discriminate against people who have been out of work for a long time.
I'm not sure a "pledge" is actually going to accomplish much, but since nothing is getting through Congress I guess it's better than nothing. Both Ford and GM signed it, with Ford telling the Freep:
"Ford supports the White House's initiative to promote the best practices for recruiting and hiring the long-term unemployed," the company said in a statement. "We are committed to hiring the most qualified individuals for positions, regardless of unemployment status or duration of time unemployed."
3rd Gear: VW Offers Renschler Big Money
Andreas Renschler jumped ship at Mercedes after it became apparent that he wasn't going to be the CEO any time soon.
Now Volkswagen is putting out the red carpet, offering him a job (and a lot of money) to reorganize its various commercial truck units (Scania, Man, VW).
Renschler is attractive to VW, which is seeking cost savings through closer cooperation among the Scania, MAN and VW commercial-vehicles nameplates, because of his extensive experience in Daimler's truck unit, the world's biggest by revenue. "It would be positive for VW to hire a successful executive from the largest truck manufacturer," said Frank Schwope, a Hanover, Germany-based analyst at NordLB. "As an external candidate, he's also less involved in any internal sensitivities between Scania and MAN."
4th Gear: Mitsubishi Does The Shuffle
Despite its troubles in the United States, Mitsubishi has actually done reasonably well under President Osamu Masuko. Smartly, they seem like they'll be promoting Masuko up to board Chairman and some kind of CEO job while Tetsuro Aikawa takes over the newly created COO position.
As Hans Griemel explains, this will have the effect of turning day-to-day operations over to Aikawa and allow Masuko to find some sweet, sweet partnerships with other automakers.
What does this mean for us?
"He's a real car guy," Mitsubishi spokeswoman Namie Koketsu said.
Well, the always say that, but let's hope it's true.
5th Gear: Nissan/Renault Still Trying To Save Money
It seems like Nissan-Renault have been partnered for basically ever, but the reality is that the now 15-year-old alliance hasn't exactly streamlined the entire company.
There's a WSJ story today with lots of talk of "synergies" and "expenses" and all of that.
Apparently, Carlos Ghosn has noticed that VW can produce roughly nine million cars for 6,000 brands without anyone caring and they're trying to do the same. Can one of those be a RWD platform that underpins sports cars and sport coupes?
Reverse: I liked that one song
On this day in January 2008 we learned that the Chinese were going to start paving their roads with unsold Robbie Williams CDs. [JALOPNIK]
Neutral: Who benefits most from the weak yen? Honda? Nissan? Subaru? Maybe Mazda?
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The challenge is daunting: Within 40 years, farmers across the world will need to double production and do it with fewer resources—especially water—to feed, clothe and provide energy for a global population of 9 billion souls.
"Farmers will need to produce as much food, feed and fiber during the first half of this century as has been produced over the last 100 centuries combined to meet the growing demand," says Greg Hart, John Deere sales manager for the U.S. Western Region.
Addressing the second annual Southwest Ag Issues Summit recently in Oklahoma City, Hart said the "future of the world depends on agriculture." And much of that increased production will come from U.S. farmers. "U.S. agriculture will be at the forefront of solving food production challenges for the world. No one is better positioned than U.S. farmers."
It will not be easy.
Most of the population growth expected to occur by 2050 will take place where diets are already less than adequate. Africa will account for 41 percent of the population growth, second to Asia's 49 percent. North American growth is anticipated to increase only 4 percent and South America only 7 percent. Europe's population could decline by about 1 percent.
Obstacles to meeting the demand include meshing productivity with sustainability and resource stewardship. Lack of a skilled labor force, especially in developing nations, also poses significant problems. "Our challenge is to do more with less skilled labor," Hart said.
Production variables will continue to challenge farmers. Weather is the big one. Hart said agricultural yield has followed a strong upward trend since the early 1990s. "But we also had a reduction in 2012 from drought. In 2013, the Southwest had a late spring that hurt production." Much of the region remains in a three-year drought cycle.
"We are just one or two weather events away from either a surplus or a deficit. That's the volatility of agriculture. We must continue to work to optimize production and continue to improve that trend line."
Agriculture has to increase productivity with more limited resources. "The resource base is shrinking. In 10 years, water demand will be 17 percent higher than availability," Hart said.
Improving irrigation efficiency will help. Currently, 18 percent of the world's agricultural land is irrigated, but that 18 percent provides 40 percent of crop production and 60 percent of cereal production. "But more than half of the world's irrigation is by the most inefficient method, gravity flow."
Focusing on more efficient systems, such as low energy precision application (LEPA) and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI), will help. "Agriculture will have to compete for water, and we will see more regulation and higher costs."
Including energy production into the equation puts even more pressure on agricultural productivity. Achieving production targets, he said, will demand "smart use of available resources.
"We will solve these problems by innovation such as precision guidance technology that allows more precise use of inputs, more productivity with fewer inputs and with more comfort and less fatigue for operators. Innovative technology and application will help provide the food, feed, fiber and fuel needed by the growing population. Agriculture needs change. We may not like change but it will be necessary."
Industry must do more than create the technology and also develop methods to increase per-acre or per-bushel efficiency. "We probably have not done as good a job as we need to do to communicate advantages technology provides," he said. "Industry needs to analyze that."


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Spring is here, and with it comes Easter -- a great reason to fill homes with fresh colors and whimsical accents in anticipation of a visit from everyone's favorite bunny.
Colorful eggs, chocolate rabbits, and marshmallow chicks are tempting to all and irresistible to kids –- but they're not always safe.
Krista Fabregas, the founder of KidSmartLiving, offers these tips to make family Easter activities fun and worry-free.
Kid-Smart Easter Treats
Some Easter goodies present choking hazards to children under 3, including jellybeans, small wrapped chocolate eggs and marshmallow shapes. Instead, treat little ones to iced animal crackers, shaped sugar cookies with colorful sprinkles, and large chocolate figures. Many chocolate products contain trace amounts of peanuts, so it's best to avoid these around children with food allergies.
Easter Candy Trivia
The following facts are from the National Confectioners Association:
- The first chocolate eggs were made in Europe in the early 19th century and remain among the most popular treats associated with Easter.
- 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year.
- 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter.
- Each day, 5 million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter.
- Easter is the second top-selling confectionery holiday behind only Halloween.
- 88 percent of adults carry on the Easter tradition of creating Easter baskets for their kids.
- 76 percent of people eat the ears on chocolate bunnies first.
- Red jelly beans are kids' favorite.
- According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest Easter egg ever made was just over 25-ft high and made of chocolate and marshmallow. The egg weighed 8,968 lbs. and was supported by an internal steel frame.
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Sludge Disposal
In recent years, methods formerly used for the disposal of sewage sludge, including landfill, incineration, ocean dumping and disposal on agricultural land have become much less acceptable. Ocean dumping of sewage sludge has been outlawed in the United States since 1998. Space for agricultural land disposal is not available in many urban areas and is meeting with increased opposition from farmers largely because of concern over potential heavy metal contamination from sludge.1 Cost-effective and environmentally sound alternatives to existing means of sewage sludge disposal clearly are needed.
Gasification provides an attractive alternative to incineration for the thermal treatment of sewage sludge.2 Gasification is the thermal conversion of carbonaceous solids to combustible gas and ash in a net reducing atmosphere. This technique has all the advantages of incineration for sewage sludge treatment including complete sterilization of the sludge and reduction of mass to the minimum possible mass of ash. Moreover, gasification can circumvent problems commonly encountered with incineration such as the need for supplemental fuel, emissions of sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and fly ash and the potential production of chlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans.3 These advantages are possible because gasification is a net chemically reductive process in contrast to incineration, which is oxidizing.4
The ChemChar hazardous waste gasification process is a cocurrent flow process in which solids, reactant gas (oxygen) and product gases all flow in the same direction through a continuous flow gasification reactor.5 The principles of this process are shown in Figure 1 for a batch operation commonly used for laboratory studies. Gasification of solids occurs in a relatively narrow thermal zone (i.e., the incandescent thermal zone [ITZ]) reaching temperatures up to an estimated 1,200° C that moves through a bed of granular solids in a direction counter to the flow of oxygen. (In a continuous-feed gasifier, the ITZ remains stationary and the solids are fed through the gasifier.) In a single pass of the ITZ through the solids, only about 20 percent of the solids are converted to gas leaving a carbonaceous (char) residue containing the mineral matter present in the sewage sludge. This char product has excellent properties as a drying and conditioning medium for the treatment of additional sludge to produce a mixture of char and sludge that can be gasified, thus completing a complete cycle of dewatering and gasification.
The ChemChar process has been demonstrated to be effective in destroying a wide variety of wastes, some of which have the potential to be present in biological waste treatment sludges. These include PCBs,6 surrogate military poisons7 and highly refractory chlorofluorocarbons.8 During gasification, sulfur is converted to hydrogen sulfide that can be readily removed from the gas stream9 and nitrogen is evolved as elemental nitrogen gas.10 A major advantage of this gasification system is complete retention of heavy metals on the char matrix. Although a fraction of mercury escapes the gasifier as mercury metal vapor, it is completely retained within the gasifier system.11
An experiment was devised where secondary digester sludge with a solids content of 7 percent (drying for two hours at 150° C) obtained from the Columbia, Mo., wastewater treatment plant was used throughout. Gasification was carried out in a 20 mm I.D., 40 cm-long Vycor (heat resistant silica) tube using the apparatus shown in Figure 1. The sewage sludge used to prepare the initial batches of char was dried for several days under an infrared lamp and ground and sieved to 20—8 mesh size. Carbon dioxide in the offgas was determined by collecting a measured volume of the offgas in a two-liter graduated cylinder initially filled with water and inverted in a plastic tub of water, registering the total volume of gas, then adding sodium hydroxide to the water to absorb carbon dioxide and measuring the volume of gas remaining. Drying studies were carried out on mixtures of one part sludge to two parts char by mass. Drying of sludge/char mixtures was conducted in a 25 mm I.D., 100 cm long Vycor tube at a flow rate of 4 L/min. Densities of solids were determined by pulverizing the solids with a mortar and pestle, then measuring the volume of a weighed amount of the pulverized solid packed into a graduated cylinder.
The results of the gasification of sewage sludge and of char prepared by a single gasification of sewage sludge are summarized in Tables 1 and 2. Furthermore, it was observed that the mixture resulting from drying sludge mixed with char gasifies well, producing significant quantities of combustible gas. A plot resulting from the drying studies is shown in Figure 2.
The dried granular sewage sludge gasifies very well with the system used. The condensate removed from the gas product has a strong odor, but is not a problem because it is recirculated through the gasification system to destroy the odor-causing contaminants. The dried gas product burns very well with a luminescent yellow flame that probably is indicative of a higher hydrocarbon content than the gas obtained by gasifying a char material such as that obtained from coal. Analysis of the gas product showed a 50 percent content of carbon dioxide, consistent with preceding gasification studies. The remainder of the gas product is combustible and, based on preceding gasification studies, probably consists of approximately equal quantities of carbon monoxide and elemental hydrogen with smaller, but significant, quantities of methane. This means that the gas product can be used as a fuel for applications such as powering a gas turbine to provide electrical energy for the wastewater treatment plant.
Forward-mode gasification in which the ITZ is initiated at the top, upstream end of the solids column and allowed to traverse to the bottom, completely consuming all combustible matter and leaving an ash residue, produces a combustible gas product consisting of 51.9 percent carbon dioxide. This gasification mode can be used to convert spent char used for sludge treatment to an ash product that can be safely disposed.
The curve showing drying of a mixture of one part wet sludge to two parts char by mass is illustrated in Figure 2. This was found to be the maximum ratio of sludge to char that could be used and still maintain air flow through a porous sludge/char mixture. It was observed that under the conditions used, drying is complete within 12 hours, reaching 89 percent of the level of drying attained by an additional two hours of drying at 150º C. The dried sludge/char mixture gasifies easily, with production of significant quantities of combustible gas and a char residue that can be recirculated through the drying process. It also was observed that the dried sludge/char mixture without gasification functioned equally well as a drying agent for additional sludge through at least two more cycles of drying. This provides a means of loading the mixture with additional gasifiable matter if needed for gasification to proceed.
With repeated cycles of drying, eventually ash will build up in the char product, requiring its disposal. When this occurs, the char can be subjected to a final gasification in the forward mode. This step produces an ash product with minimum volume and reclaims all fuel in the char.
A system has been described based on the gasification of sewage sludge that enables facile drying of the sludge and ultimately the reduction of the sludge to its ash content. The process requires no materials or supplemental fuel other than those obtained from the sludge itself and oxygen from air. A combustible gas product is generated that can serve as fuel in a gas turbine, thus providing the energy needed to extract oxygen from air. It is anticipated that commercial membrane processes can be used to extract oxygen, which does not need to be in a highly purified form. The ash residue, free of organics and pathogens with heavy metals sequestered in it, can be safely disposed.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – The demand for canola, best known for the cooking oil it produces, continues to rise, and the industry is working to grow more of the plant in the U.S. to keep pace with increased sales.
Experts said the best hope for meeting demand is to grow a variety of canola that is planted in the fall and harvested in the spring, offering farmers in some regions a chance to make use of their land during a normally dormant period.
Most of the nation's canola crop is a spring variety, planted in the spring and harvested in late summer or early fall. About 90 percent of U.S. canola is grown in North Dakota, but by growing more winter canola, industry officials believe canola acres in the U.S. could more than triple.
"There is no reason we couldn't see 4 to 5 million acres planted from the Carolinas to the Great Plains," said Dale Thorenson, assistant director of the U.S. Canola Association.
Brian Jenks, a professor at North Dakota State University, said the country needs to keep pace with the growing demand for canola, which is seen as healthier than oils containing more saturated fat.
"We grow about 1.5 million acres in the U.S. and that is not enough to satisfy demand so we have to import a lot of canola from Canada," he said.
The U.S. used just over 3 billion pounds of canola oil in 2010, with about 2.5 billion pounds being imported from Canada, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
The canola plant, recognizable for its yellow flowers, produces pods that are filled with seeds. When crushed, those seeds yield oil.
The seeds also can be used for livestock feed.
Winter canola has done well in states such as Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, where it is planted after another crop is harvested, said Brian Caldbeck, a crop consultant from Kentucky. That process is called double cropping.
Caldbeck said growing winter canola in areas of the Upper Midwest, such as Iowa, is possible but would be more difficult because the region primarily grows corn and soybeans, two crops that often aren't harvested until late fall. That wouldn't leave enough time for farmers to plant winter canola.
"If it's not planted by the end of September it doesn't stand a chance," he said.
To grow winter canola, farmers in the Upper Midwest would need to rotate other crops, such as wheat and oats, with corn and soybeans. That would be a change for many farmers, who now often alternate between corn and soybeans.
"It would be impossible in the rotation as it is," said Stefan Gailans, a graduate student at Iowa State University who is studying the viability of winter canola as an alternative crop in Iowa.
Mary Wiedenhoeft, an Iowa State University agronomist who also is studying how to grow winter canola in Iowa, said planting the crop on ground that otherwise would sit dormant after the fall harvest would not only add a source of revenue for producers but would also help to retain nutrients in the soil.
Researchers acknowledge many farmers would be reluctant to grow crops other than corn and soybeans, given the high prices the commodities are bringing now and the likelihood prices will remain strong into the future.
But Thorenson, of the national canola association, said once a canola crop is established it would bring about the same price as soybeans.
Mark Peterson, a farmer north of Joplin, Mo., said he's been planting winter canola for four years. Because his area's growing season for corn and soybeans is shorter than in states to the north, he has been able to rotate canola with corn, soybean and wheat.
"As far as profit goes, it's been a little more profitable than our wheat crop," Peterson said.
Brad Andrews, owner of Medoc Valley, Inc., a farm retail and consulting business near Joplin, Mo., said farmers in northern states should seriously look at working canola into their crop rotation.
"The market for it is there," Andrews said. "We are still importing the majority of canola we use in this country."


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People's Republic of China
|People's Republic of China
|Mao Zedong proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949.
People's Republic of China has been the long-form name of the Chinese government since 1949. As an era of Chinese history, the People's Republic follows the Republic of China and continues to the present. The previous regime led by the Nationalist Party fled to Taiwan in 1949. The Nationalists continued to represent China in the United Nations until 1971, when China's seat was transferred to the PRC. The PRC invaded Korea in 1950 and fought the United States in the Korean War (1950-1953). The Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) was a time of famine. The PRC has been a one-party communist state throughout its history. Until his death in 1976, Mao Zedong was its dominant leader. Since Mao's death, the PRC has moved away from communist economics and embraced the market system. As a result, its economy has experienced rapid growth. It now has the second largest economy in the world.
- 1 History
- 2 References
- 3 See also
- 4 External links
- 5 Further reading
In the face of economic collapse the Communists won the civil war in 1949 under Mao Zedong (1893-1976). Mao established a dictatorship, driving the KMT to Taiwan. Taiwan is recognized as an integral part of China in theory, but in practice has been independent since 1949. Mao liquidated millions of opponents, fought the United States in the bloody Korean War (1950–53), and broke with the Soviet Union over the issue of who best represented the Marxist orthodoxy.
Great Leap Forward
|History of China
|Xia c. 2070–c. 1600 BC
|Shang c. 1600 – 1046 BC
|Zhou 1045–256 BC
|Qin 221–206 BC
|Han 206 BC – 220 AD
|Three Kingdoms 220–280
|Jin 265–420
|Northern and Southern
Dynasties 420–589
|Sui 581–618
|Tang 618–907
| Five Dynasties and
Ten Kingdoms 907–960
|Song 960–1279
|Yuan 1271–1368
|Ming 1368–1644
|Qing 1644–1911
|Republic 1912–1949
|People's Republic 1949–present
The Great Leap Forward (1958–60) and the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) were the two worst periods of leftist domination in the history of China. Deng Xiaoping claimed the death toll to be 16 million, while the lowest estimate is 8 million [1]
Mao's grand strategy for Cold War competition inflicted a catastrophic agricultural failure in China and victimized tens of millions of Chinese peasants. After Nikita Khrushchev boasted in 1957 that the Soviet Union would soon surpassing the United States in key economic outputs, Mao decided to launch an even faster industrialization program that would push China past Britain in some production categories within 15 years. Beginning in 1958, Mao imposed unrealistic targets on Chinese grain production to extract funds from agriculture for rapid industrial growth. Maoists placed relentless pressure on Communist cadres for ruthless implementation of the Great Leap Forward. Contrary to Maoist plans, China's grain output in 1959-60 declined sharply from 1957 levels and rural per capita grain retention decreased dramatically. Throughout China, party cadres' mismanagement of agricultural production was responsible for the decline in grain output, and the Communist state's excessive requisition of grain caused food shortages for the peasants. But the key factor determining the famine's uneven impact on the peasantry in the provinces was the degree to which provincial leaders genuinely and energetically embraced Maoist programs.[2]Although the Great Leap Forward was much more disastrous in both human and economic terms, the Cultural Revolution receives the more negative assessment in China. This harsher review of the Cultural Revolution stems from the facts that it occurred more recently, was much longer in duration, and that many of its victims were cadres and intellectuals.[3] Mao said,
"What can Emperor Qin Shi Huang brag about? He only killed 460 Confucian scholars, but we killed 46,000 intellectuals. There are people who accuse us of practicing dictatorship like Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and we admit to it all. It fits the reality. It is a pity that they did not give us enough credit, so we need to add to it."[4]
Cultural Revolution, 1966-75
Mao's regime imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. The Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 was inspired by Mao and devastated the intellectual class. Tens of thousands of intellectuals and teachers were educators were insulted, tortured, driven to suicide or executed by their students. Mobilized as members of the Red Guards, a new youth organization, the students attacked the educators as "capitalist intellectuals." From 1967 to 1978, the state "send-down" (rustication) policy 17 million urban youth to live and work in rural areas, with a permanent negative impact on their intellectual development and careers.[5] The upheaval was not limited to the cities. Maoist political ideology and teachings provided the catalyst for village conflicts that brought out traditional grievances and further escalated the conflicts. Some of the catalysts were student activists carrying out Mao's teachings, factional disputes, and the Four Clean-up campaigns that purged village officials and corruption. These conflicts spread to traditional grievances like lineage and hamlet hostilities and disputes over leadership and rights. Often, the conflicts caused by Party politics intersected traditional conflicts to the extent that the root causes of the conflicts were lost. This resulted in further escalation of the conflicts, which became more complex and widespread. In rural China an estimated 750,000 to 1.5 million people were killed, and about as many permanently injured; 36 million who suffered some form of political persecution. The vast majority of these casualties occurred from 1968 to 1971, after the end of the period of popular rebellion and factional conflict and the establishment of provisional organs of local state power.[6] Mao's policies were illustrated in posters that used art for political purposes. The posters glorified Mao, criticized his opponents, urged cooperation among all revolutionary groups, and condemned capitalism and foreign imperialists.[7] Major leadership changes and purges occurred at the top, involving Lin Biao, the Gang of Four, and Deng Xiaoping. In 1976, after the death of Zhou Enlai in January, the replacement of Deng in April, and Mao's death in September, a short, dramatic struggle ended with the arrest of the Gang of Four, the end of the Cultural revolution, and the transition to the post-Mao era.
In 1972 the world was stunned when American President Richard Nixon visited Beijing, ending the cold war between the two countries and opening an era of détente and friendship that continues into the 21st century.[8]
After 1978, Mao's successor Deng Xiaoping focused on market-oriented economic development, and by 2000 output had quadrupled, population growth ended (by imposing a one-child policy), and good relations were secured with the West. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls and Internet censorship remain tight.
The "Great Leap Forward" and the Sino-Soviet Split
In 1958, Mao broke with the Soviet model and announced a new economic program, the "Great Leap Forward," aimed at rapidly raising industrial and agricultural production. Giant cooperatives (communes) were formed, and "backyard factories" dotted the Chinese landscape. The results were disastrous. Normal market mechanisms were disrupted, agricultural production fell behind, and China's people exhausted themselves producing what turned out to be shoddy, un-salable goods. Within a year, starvation appeared even in fertile agricultural areas. From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward and bad weather resulted in one of the deadliest famines in human history.
The already strained Sino-Soviet relationship deteriorated sharply in 1959, when the Soviets started to restrict the flow of scientific and technological information to China. The dispute escalated, and the Soviets withdrew all of their personnel from China in August 1960. In 1960, the Soviets and the Chinese began to have disputes openly in international forums.
The Cultural Revolution
In the early 1960s, State President Liu Shaoqi and his protégé, Party General Secretary Deng Xiaoping, took over direction of the party and adopted pragmatic economic policies at odds with Mao's revolutionary vision. Dissatisfied with China's new direction and his own reduced authority, Party Chairman Mao launched a massive political attack on Liu, Deng, and other pragmatists in the spring of 1966. The new movement, the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," was unprecedented in communist history. For the first time, a section of the Chinese communist leadership sought to rally popular opposition against another leadership group. China was set on a course of political and social anarchy that lasted the better part of a decade.
In the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, Mao and his "closest comrade in arms," National Defense Minister Lin Biao, charged Liu, Deng, and other top party leaders with dragging China back toward capitalism. Radical youth organizations, called Red Guards, attacked party and state organizations at all levels, seeking out leaders who would not bend to the radical wind.
Gradually, Red Guard and other radical activity subsided, and the Chinese political situation stabilized along complex factional lines. The leadership conflict came to a head in September 1971, when Party Vice Chairman and Defense Minister Lin Biao reportedly tried to stage a coup against Mao; Lin Biao later died in a plane crash in Mongolia.
In the aftermath of the Lin Biao fiasco, many officials criticized and dismissed during 1966-69 were reinstated. Chief among these was Deng Xiaoping, who reemerged in 1973 and was confirmed in 1975 in the concurrent posts of Politburo Standing Committee member, PLA Chief of Staff, and Vice Premier.
The ideological struggle between more pragmatic, veteran party officials and the radicals re-emerged with a vengeance in late 1975. Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, and three close Cultural Revolution associates (later dubbed the "Gang of Four") launched a media campaign against Deng. In January 1976, Premier Zhou Enlai, the #2 leader, died of cancer. On April 5, Beijing citizens staged a spontaneous demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Zhou's memory, with strong political overtones of support for Deng. The authorities forcibly suppressed the demonstration. Deng was blamed for the disorder and stripped of all official positions, although he retained his party membership.
The Post-Mao Era
Mao's death in September 1976 removed a towering figure from Chinese politics and set off a scramble for succession. Former Minister of Public Security Hua Guofeng was quickly confirmed as Party Chairman and Premier. A month after Mao's death, Hua, backed by the PLA, arrested Jiang Qing and other members of the "Gang of Four." After extensive deliberations, the Chinese Communist Party leadership reinstated Deng Xiaoping to all of his previous posts at the 11th Party Congress in August 1977. Deng then led the effort to place government control in the hands of veteran party officials opposed to the radical excesses of the previous two decades.
The new, pragmatic leadership emphasized economic development and renounced mass political movements. At the pivotal December 1978 Third Plenum (of the 11th Party Congress Central Committee), the leadership adopted economic reform policies aimed at expanding rural income and incentives, encouraging experiments in enterprise autonomy, reducing central planning, and attracting foreign direct investment into China. The plenum also decided to accelerate the pace of legal reform, culminating in the passage of several new legal codes by the National People's Congress in June 1979.
After 1979, the Chinese leadership moved toward more pragmatic positions in almost all fields. The party encouraged artists, writers, and journalists to adopt more critical approaches, although open attacks on party authority were not permitted. In late 1980, Mao's Cultural Revolution was officially proclaimed a catastrophe. Hua Guofeng, a protégé of Mao, was replaced as premier in 1980 by reformist Sichuan party chief Zhao Ziyang and as party General Secretary in 1981 by the even more reformist Communist Youth League chairman Hu Yaobang.
Reform policies brought great improvements in the standard of living, especially for urban workers and for farmers who took advantage of opportunities to diversify crops and establish village industries. Literature and the arts blossomed, and Chinese intellectuals established extensive links with scholars in other countries.
At the same time, however, political dissent as well as social problems such as inflation, urban migration, and prostitution emerged. Although students and intellectuals urged greater reforms, some party elders increasingly questioned the pace and the ultimate goals of the reform program. In December 1986, student demonstrators, taking advantage of the loosening political atmosphere, staged protests against the slow pace of reform, confirming party elders' fear that the current reform program was leading to social instability. Hu Yaobang, a protégé of Deng and a leading advocate of reform, was blamed for the protests and forced to resign as CCP General Secretary in January 1987. Premier Zhao Ziyang was made General Secretary and Li Peng, former Vice Premier and Minister of Electric Power and Water Conservancy, was made Premier.
1989 Student Movement and Tiananmen Square
After Zhao became the party General Secretary, the economic and political reforms he had championed came under increasing attack. His proposal in May 1988 to accelerate price reform led to widespread popular complaints about rampant inflation and gave opponents of rapid reform the opening to call for greater centralization of economic controls and stricter prohibitions against Western influence. This precipitated a political debate, which grew more heated through the winter of 1988-89.
The death of Hu Yaobang on April 15, 1989, coupled with growing economic hardship caused by high inflation, provided the backdrop for a large-scale protest movement by students, intellectuals, and other parts of a disaffected urban population. University students and other citizens camped out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mourn Hu's death and to protest against those who would slow reform. Their protests, which grew despite government efforts to contain them, called for an end to official corruption and for defense of freedoms guaranteed by the Chinese constitution. Protests also spread to many other cities, including Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou.
Martial law was declared on May 20, 1989. Late on June 3 and early on the morning of June 4, military units were brought into Beijing. They used armed force to clear demonstrators from the streets. There are no official estimates of deaths in Beijing, but most observers believe that casualties numbered in the hundreds.
After June 4, while foreign governments expressed horror at the brutal suppression of the demonstrators, the central government eliminated remaining sources of organized opposition, detained large numbers of protesters, and required political reeducation not only for students but also for large numbers of party cadre and government officials.
Following the resurgence of conservatives in the aftermath of June 4, economic reform slowed until given new impetus by Deng Xiaoping's dramatic visit to southern China in early 1992. Deng's renewed push for a market-oriented economy received official sanction at the 14th Party Congress later in the year as a number of younger, reform-minded leaders began their rise to top positions. Deng and his supporters argued that managing the economy in a way that increased living standards should be China's primary policy objective, even if "capitalist" measures were adopted. Subsequent to the visit, the Communist Party Politburo publicly issued an endorsement of Deng's policies of economic openness. Though not completely eschewing political reform, China has consistently placed overwhelming priority on the opening of its economy.
Third Generation of Leaders
Deng's health deteriorated in the years prior to his death in 1997. During that time, President Jiang Zemin and other members of his generation gradually assumed control of the day-to-day functions of government. This "third generation" leadership governed collectively with President Jiang at the center.
In March 1998, Jiang was re-elected President during the 9th National People's Congress. Premier Li Peng was constitutionally required to step down from that post. He was elected to the chairmanship of the National People's Congress. Zhu Rongji was selected to replace Li as Premier.
Fourth Generation of Leaders
In November 2002, the 16th Communist Party Congress elected Hu Jintao, who in 1992 was designated by Deng Xiaoping as the "core" of the fourth generation leaders, the new General Secretary. A new Politburo and Politburo Standing Committee was also elected in November.
In March 2003, General Secretary Hu Jintao was elected President at the 10th National People's Congress. Jiang Zemin retained the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission. At the Fourth Party Plenum in September 2004, Jiang Zemin retired from the Central Military Commission, passing the Chairmanship and control of the People's Liberation Army to President Hu Jintao.
China is firmly committed to economic reform and opening to the outside world. The Chinese leadership has identified reform of state industries and the establishment of a social safety net as government priorities. Government strategies for achieving these goals include large-scale privatization of unprofitable state-owned enterprises and development of a pension system for workers. The leadership has also downsized the government bureaucracy.
On March 14, 2013 Xi Jinping was "elected" as new president.[9]
- ↑ Mao: The Real Story by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472
- ↑ Yixin Chen, "Cold War Competition and Food Production in China, 1957-1962," Agricultural History 2009 83(1): 51-78,
- ↑ William A. Joseph, "A Tragedy of Good Intentions: Post-mao Views of the Great Leap Forward." Modern China 1986 12(4): 419-457. Issn: 0097-7004 in Jstor
- ↑ http://www.ninecommentaries.com/english-3
- ↑ Xueguang Zhou and Liren Hou, "Children of the Cultural Revolution: the State and the Life Course in the People's Republic of China." American Sociological Review 1999 64(1): 12-36. Issn: 0003-1224 in Jstor
- ↑ Jonathan Unger, "Cultural Revolution Conflict in the Villages." China Quarterly 1998 (153): 82-106. Issn: 0305-7410 in Jstor ; Andrew G. Walder, and Yang Su, "The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: Scope, Timing and Human Impact." China Quarterly 2003 (173): 74-99. Issn: 0305-7410
- ↑ Patricia Powell, and Joseph Wong, "Propaganda Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution." Historian 1997 59(4): 776-793. Issn: 0018-2370 in EBSCO
- ↑ For primary sources and details see "Record of Historic Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks in February 1972 Now Declassified"
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9929619/Xi-Jinping-elected-Chinas-president-Telegraph-dispatch.html
See also
External links
Further reading
- Barnouin, Barbara, and Yu Changgen. Zhou Enlai: A Political Life (2005) excerpt and text search
- Baum, Richard D. "'Red and Expert': The Politico-Ideological Foundations of China's Great Leap Forward," Asian Survey, Vol. 4, No. 9 (Sep., 1964), pp. 1048-1057 in JSTOR
- Becker, Jasper. Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine (1996), on the "Great Leap Forward" of 1950s
- Chang, Jung and Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story, (2005), 814 pages, ISBN 0-679-42271-4
- Dittmer, Lowell. China's Continuous Revolution: The Post-Liberation Epoch, 1949-1981 (1989) online free
- Dietrich, Craig. People's China: A Brief History, 3d ed. (1997), 398pp excerpt and text search
- Kirby, William C., ed. Realms of Freedom in Modern China. (2004). 416 pp.
- Kirby, William C.; Ross, Robert S.; and Gong, Li, eds. Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History. (2005). 376 pp.
- Li, Xiaobing. A History of the Modern Chinese Army (2007) excerpt and text search
- MacFarquhar, Roderick and Fairbank, John K., eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982. Cambridge U. Press, 1992. 1108 pp.
- Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, 3rd ed. (Free Press, 1999), dense book with theoretical and political science approach. excerpt and text search
- Spence, Jonatham. Mao Zedong (1999) excerpt and text search
- Shuyun, Sun. The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth (2007)
- Wang, Jing. High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China (1996) complete text online free
- Wenqian, Gao. Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary (2007) excerpt and text search
Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
- Clark, Paul. The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History (2008), a favorable look at artistic production excerpt and text search
- Esherick, Joseph W.; Pickowicz, Paul G.; and Walder, Andrew G., eds. The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History. (2006). 382 pp. excerpt and text search
- Jian, Guo; Song, Yongyi; and Zhou, Yuan. Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. (2006). 433 pp.
- MacFarquhar, Roderick and Fairbank, John K., eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982. Cambridge U. Press, 1992. 1108 pp.
- MacFarquhar, Roderick and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution. (2006).
- MacFarquhar, Roderick. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966. (1998). 733 pp.
- Yan, Jiaqi and Gao, Gao. Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution. (1996). 736 pp.


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Dove Awards 2013: Joyce Meyer, Daily & Vincent, Tankard Family Attend Nominees Luncheon (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The 44th Annual GMA Dove Awards started in Nashville, TN., on Tuesday and a star-studded luncheon was held Monday in honor of the nominees.
Among the guests were Joyce Meyer, Daily & Vincent, the Tankard family, Capital Kings among others. Meyer, who was a special guest, gave a passionate and eye-opening speech which touched on humility and centered on faith.
"It is important not be to impressed when you win, and oppressed when you lose," Meyer told the crowd of this year's Dove award nominees.
The popular Christian author and speaker, 70, emphasized the importance of remaining humble despite one's accomplishments and putting all faith in Christ.
"God is making His appearance on the world through us," she said.
Jackie Patillo, Executive Director of the Gospel Music Association (GMA), applauded Meyer's speech. GMA organizes the Dove Awards each year.
"Joyce Meyer is food for the soul and the spirit. She's a very practical teacher and I was very grateful that when I called her she was willing to come and invest in the lives of artists," Patillo told The Christian Post.
She also explained the importance of the Dove Awards in helping spread God's word.
"Not only does Christian music exonerate the creativity of God but these artists have toiled hard on the road and made sacrifices with their family so they can spread the gospel through music," she said. "This is the time for us to come together and shine a light on it and ultimately God gets the glory."
Members from Daily & Vincent, an award-winning Bluegrass music group nominated for five Dove awards, were also in attendance. Two members Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent spoke exclusively with CP about their nominations, which includes "Song of The Year" for "From My Rags To His Riches" with Devin McGlamery.
"It's a blessing, it's wonderful to be recognized especially in an industry that we're not really a part of because we do a lot f secular music and in our shows you'll see a lot of secular music and then about almost half way through our shows we'll do a gospel section of the show where there's about four or five gospel songs... it's our favorite part of the show," Jamie told CP.
"One of the good things that we're able to is we go into a field of secular music where there are people who... may have never heard of Christ... especially when we go into foreign countries like secular nations," Darrin Vincent said. "For instance we were in Switzerland several years ago... we were told to keep the gospel light on the show... one of the first gospel songs we did was a duet with guitar and two vocals and it was 3000 seats sold out... as soon as we ended the last note we had a full house standing ovation. In that instance we were able to reach a lot of people with a gospel song that we were told couldn't be reached."
The Dove Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in the Christian music industry and honors various Christian music styles including hip hop, country, pop and rock.
Former professional basketball player Ben Tankard, who is widely known as the Godfather of Gospel Jazz, opened up about his family's upcoming reality TV show "Thicker Than Water: The Tankards." The Dove Award nominee and pastor, 49, will star alongside his wife, Jewel, and their "blended" family when the show premieres on the Bravo TV network on November 10.
"The show is kind of like a combination of "The Brady Bunch" and "The Cosby Show," ... [we're] an African-American, Christian family," Jewel said. "My husband already had four children and I had one so it's about how we blend the families together and how we manage business and how we try to instill core values in them. God, family and business... it's super funny too!"
"We're real... It's a full family circus in our house. A lot of life lessons. I call them Christian calamities with a Kingdom conclusion," Ben said.
When asked about the best advice he's ever recieved throughout his career he replied: "To keep God first. To not take yourself too serious and to never give up."
The 44th Dove Awards will be held at Lipscomb University's Allen Arena on Tuesday, October 15.
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This fly veil from the Favouritas collection by HV Polo provides the ideal protection against flies and insects for the ears of your horse or pony. Because the fly veil fits snugly around the ears of the horse, flies cannot get inside. Best of all, it matches you Favouritas saddlepad! The Favouritas series is the flagship series of the HV Polo collection, and is known to equestrians around the world for its excellent materials and beautiful finishing.
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The Elaysian homeworld was an inhabited planet.
The planet had low surface gravity. This was the homeworld of the humanoid Elaysians and the garlanic tree. Only a handful of Elaysians ever left the homeworld, one of whom was Melora Pazlar. (DS9: "Melora")
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At StarTrek.com, the planet was named Elaysia and was classified as a M-class planet. [1]
According to the reference book Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets I"), Elaysia was listed as a member planet of the Federation in 2378.
The Pocket TNG novels Gemworld, Book One and Gemworld, Book Two stated that the Elaysian homeworld was Gemworld, a planet considered artificial by some, due to the fact that it should have been extinct long ago, but was kept alive with a "shell" force field and shield setup that also collected different chemicals and substances to convert into energy to feed the Crystal that was now all that was left of their planet. It concluded that, whereas the Frills were native to Gemworld, the planet had been populated with Elaysian, Alpusta, Gendelli, and Yiltern, who were all transplanted from a different dimension by the Lipul, oldest of the planet's inhabitants.
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- Gemworld at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Jennifer Lopez may become the busiest celebrity mom of 2016.
The 46-year-old actress and singer will not only reprise her role as a judge on "American Idol's" 15th and final season, but she also stars in a new cop show she is executive-producing, "Shades of Blue" and perform 20 concerts as part of her "All I Have" Las Vegas residency. And that's in addition to being a mom to 7-year-old twins, Max and Emme. And she manages to do it all and still look fabulous.
In an interview with InStyle, which features her on the cover of its February 2016 issue and dubs her "Wonder Woman," Lopez talks about balancing work and family.
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"I am busy, and they know it," Lopez told InStyle, about her kids. "And they know part of their job is helping me get sleep. If I'm sleeping in, they're very quiet, like, 'Mommy needs to sleep! She worked late last night!' We're a team."
"Becoming a mom makes you stronger but also more gentle, especially with yourself--and that changes everything," she added.
PHOTOS: Jennifer Lopez's best looks
Lopez told InStyle Max and Emme come with her everywhere and that her mother, Guadalupe, and sister Lynda help her take care of them. She added that she FaceTimes with her twins in the afternoon and that if she comes home after they've gone to sleep, she takes a photo of herself by their beds "so they know I was there." [[364022851, C]]
Lopez also talked to InStyle about her new show, NBC's "Shades of Blue."
Lopez plays Harlee Santos, a detective and mother who grew up in the actress and singer's real life hometown — the Bronx borough of New York City. Santos is forced to help the FBI capture her shady boss after she is caught up in a federal anti-corruption probe.
"She's human," Lopez told InStyle. "Most people think they're the good guy. We're trying to do the best we can, but we all do bad things sometimes, whether it's lying or cheating ourselves or other people." [[238904721, C]]
"Shades of Blue" also stars Ray Liotta, 61, and Sons of Anarchy alum Drea de Matteo, 43, and premieres on NBC on Jan. 7. "American Idol's" final season debuts Jan. 6 on FOX.
Lopez's Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino will run from Jan. 20 to Feb. 9 and then from May 22 to June 12.


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Scott Belsky, Co-Founder & Head of Behance, VP – Product-Community, Adobe
We became part of the Adobe family a few months ago. While we have a lot of new acronyms and systems to learn, we've been pleasantly surprised by the warm welcome and bounty of ideas from across the company. There is also a strong desire to better understand the creative community's needs, take a more design-centric approach to product, and support the creative process in new ways. Adobe reaches millions of creative people around the world every day, and our team at Behance has the opportunity to help connect the creative world throughout the creative process. We feel at home, and now we've got a lot of work to do!
In the year ahead, here's what you can expect from our team at Behance:
- The Behance platform is going to get a lot better, faster, and offer even more exposure for your work. We have a full roadmap of improvements and features that help you connect with your peers and with career opportunity. We're excited.
- We will start integrating some of Behance's best community features into Adobe tools. Want feedback? Adding new work to your portfolio? We want to make this more efficient and more integrated into your everyday workflow. Stay tuned for updates in May!
- We have grand plans for ProSite – and other "Pro" features – that will make Behance a more powerful utility for creative careers. We've got a long list of enhancements and features that will bring online portfolios to a whole new level.
We are also working closely with our new colleagues at Adobe to make the "Creative Cloud" offering more integrated into our everyday workflow. For those of you that don't know, Creative Cloud is a subscription service for all of Adobe's creative applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, and the list goes on…) for a low monthly fee. Creative Cloud also keeps your applications up-to-date with frequent updates and new features as they are ready (no more waiting 16+ months for the latest and greatest). But the vision for Creative Cloud is about much more than the apps themselves. Ultimately, the service should make the entire creative process more seamless and collaborative. The roadmap ahead is amazing, and we hope to share updates in a few months.
Over time, we also want to offer some of the best benefits of Behance as part of Adobe's Creative Cloud service. Starting today, ProSite (normally $99/year) will be available at no additional cost for Creative Cloud paid members. For those of you that don't know, ProSite transforms your public Behance portfolio into a fully customized personal portfolio site with your own URL. You can design an incredible portfolio site that stays in sync with your projects on Behance, increasing your efficiency and helping your work get more exposure from Behance's 18+ Million visitors every month.
If you're ready to get started building and customizing your Behance ProSite, just a few quick steps:
- Login and go to the Apps page on creative.adobe.com
- Find the ProSite icon under "Other Services" and click on the "Get Started" link
- You'll be brought to the ProSite welcome page on Behance, where you can either log in or sign up for Behance to build your portfolio and launch your ProSite when you're ready
We will be offering additional "Pro" features over the coming year, and these will also be made available to all Creative Cloud paid members. If you want to learn more about the Creative Cloud offering, visit http://creative.adobe.com.
Needless to say, this is just the beginning… Our team at Behance is working on some of the most exciting projects of our professional lives right now. We can't wait to show you.
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Push off, Pixar. Take a snooze, DreamWorks.
The next computer-animated blockbuster like "Brave" or "Toy Story" or "The Croods" may not be coming from your studios. Rather, your CGI competition may just hail from an elementary school classroom in Chula Vista.
The artists? A group of iPad-wielding students in second through sixth grade at Eastlake Elementary School.
Despite their youth, these 30 members of the Eastlake Animation Club, who range from 8 to 11, are learning the vector-based graphics that are the industry standard for places like Pixar, Disney and DreamWorks Animation. Under the direction of professional graphic artist Marie Zhivago, the students meet for one hour a week and use their school-issue iPads and an $8 app to transform geometrical primitives (think points, lines, curves and shapes) into graphic images.
Such as a princess with blonde hair. Or a talking trash can that admonishes litterers. Or a smiling tear drop.
"These second graders are learning stuff that high school students are learning," said Eastlake Elementary Principal Eric Banatao. "Talk about innovations in the early grades. It's happening."
The after-school animation club started just this quarter after winter break and already Zhivago has her pupils learning how to storyboard and generate color gradient to give their artwork a 3-D-like depth. Soon, they will be learning how to animate their characters.
"These kids are doing great," said Zhivago during a recent animation club meeting, adding that she didn't know of any other school offering such a program to this age group. "I had to take this stuff in college to learn it."
Zhivago said the computer animation is another dimension of art and creativity. She hopes it will help her students use their minds and the tools that are available to them today.
"What they are learning now they can take on to high school, keep practicing, then in college, they will have the necessary skills to know what they are doing."
Amanda Challburg, 8, a second grader, normally draws with colored pencils and paper at home. Her mother encouraged her and brother Sean, 10, to join the animation club because if they were good enough they could grow up to be like Dr. Seuss.
Still, Amanda, was having a hard time crafting her character, Princess Isabel, into an image pleasing to her.
"I erased her because I messed up the ear," said Amanda, bending over her now blank iPad screen. "It's hard because there are a lot of princesses in the world. I want to make her look really pretty."
Third grader Sydney Nguyen, 8, said she named her smiling tear drop "Sparkle." Her graphic image is rolling freely down the cheek of a human face.
"Sparkle is smiling because he could get out of the eye now and not be crowded with all the other tear drops stuck in the eye," Sydney explained.
Eventually, Banatao wants these students to have the skills to compete in countywide animation contests. He's confident that day will come soon.
Zhivago has her eye on a bigger prize.
"I hope to create the next Disney Pixar star."
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First, take a look at the jaw-droppingly drool-worthy quilt I received from krom_mama:
This beautiful creation from Sarah is absolutely perfect for me ... perhaps because of the sneaky recon work she did ahead of time. She showed a few sneak peeks over on Flickr and tricked me into giving her my opinion (which, of course, was that I loved it), so she knew she was on the right track.
It's been living on the back of our chair-and-a-half until I get a chance to hang it. Looks right at home, doesn't it? And, as a bonus, it was appreciated as part of our Thanksgiving decor this past week. (Actually, this was our Thanksgiving decor ... but that's OK : ).
Thanks so much, Sarah! It will be cherished.
Now for what I sent off to my partner (who shall remain nameless until the package's receipt is confirmed) ...
I started with 2 charm packs of the "Winter" line by Minick & Simpson for Moda. Turns out the charm squares were the perfect size to cut up for these flying geese units. I've really enjoyed seeing what different kinds of small quilts that I can make from charm packs ... they're affordable, and I really enjoy working with all of the different prints within a line.
I'm very happy with how this quilt came out. Quality-wise, I think it might be the best finished quilt I've made yet. I was even happy with my binding!
Once they knew there was a photo shoot going on, the kids wanted to get in on the act :
I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to quilt this one, but I wound up just following one of the patterns created by the flying geese and stitching in the ditch. I love how the zig-zag pattern came out on the back:
With the Christmas season upon us and a completed project in my hands, it was really difficult to convince myself that I did indeed have to put this one in the mail!


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Oksana Masters and Rob Jones win historic Paralympic bronze medal
Highlighted by the London 2012 Paralympic Games, called the greatest Games ever by International Paralympic Committee President Sir Philip Craven, 2012 was a thrilling year for the Paralympic Movement in the United States and around the globe. Records were broken and legacies were made. From Dec. 20-31, USParalympics.org will unveil the Top 12 moments of 2012 for U.S. Paralympics in chronological order.
At the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Oksana Masters and Rob Jones won the first U.S. medal in the trunk and arms mixed double sculls event.
Only two years after he was injured while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan, Rob Jones and partner Oksana Masters became the first Americans to win a Paralympic medal in the trunk and arms mixed double sculls event. On Sept. 2 at Eton Dorney, the site of the rowing competition for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the U.S. crew came back from a sixth place start to secure the bronze medal.
"I promised not to cry," said Masters (Louisville, Ky.), a bilateral above-knee amputee adopted from the Ukraine at 7 years old. "I feel pretty amazing. Oh my God I thought we came fourth, I had no idea. I am speechless, this is unreal. We have been together less than a year."
China won gold in 3:57.63, with France taking silver in 4:03.06. The U.S. crew was in sixth place at the start, but they worked their way through the field, crossing the line in 4:05.56 to edge out Great Britain by 0.21 seconds.
"My body hurts," Jones (Lovettsville, Va.) said. "I couldn't really tell where we were at the end. We just sprinted and pulled out everything we had. We just couldn't quite catch France. I knew we were pretty close in the last 600 meters. I knew that was the time to empty the bank account of all the work we have been doing over the last year to get the bronze. Thankfully that was enough."
London marked the first Paralympic Games for both.
Jones, a U.S. Marine Sergeant who became a bilateral above knee amputee in July of 2010 when he stepped on a landmine during a patrol with his unit, was named the USRowing Man of the Year. The award, which he received in December, is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to men's rowing or to an outstanding man in rowing
"Rob Jones is such a unique story in American rowing that it warrants man of the year," said USRowing Chief Executive Officer Glenn Merry. "An athlete, a Marine and a Paralympian, Rob came to rowing relatively late in the game. His accomplishments on the field of play during the past year, from qualifying the trunk and arms mixed double to winning a bronze at the Paralympics, is remarkable, as is his personal story in how he came to become an adaptive athlete. Congratulations to Rob on his fantastic accomplishments."
Masters received the USRowing Female Athlete of the Year award, marking the first time an adaptive rower has been selected for one of USRowing's Athlete of the Year honors.
"I am shocked and honored," Masters said of the award. "There are so many amazing athletes out there. This is such an honor. My Paralympic experience in London was amazing and I was sad to see it end. I was proud to be part of the Paralympics and part of Team USA. It was an indescribable feeling – everything I have ever dreamed of and more."


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The commander of the USS Bremerton was removed from his post and demoted last summer. At the time, the Navy did not elaborate on his dismissal, only saying that there were "questions of inappropriate personal conduct" and that his superior officers had lost confidence in his ability to lead his crew, according to an article in the Navy Times.
The Kitsap Sun filed a Freedom of Information request to find out exactly what happened and discovered that Capt. Travis Zettel was relieved from command because he had hired prostitutes while in the Philippines. A tipster called the inspector general's office and said that Zettel had requested ten local women to come to his hotel room in Subic Bay.
When confronted by investigators Zettel admitted to hiring the prostitutes. Another sailor who was seen with "local females holding onto his arm as he was wandering around" was interviewed by investigators but did not receive punishment because it was determined that he "did not participate in prostitution."
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ESPN on tap
While the team hopped aboard the bus at 3:15 this afternoon for a 30-minute trip east to Tampa to take on the Yankees tonight, a small group of players remained in Clearwater.
Lakewood BlueClaws athletic trainer Ichiro Kitano put the small group (six pitchers and Chris Coste) through a series of exercises and jogging at Bright House Networks Field. Coste, nursing a sore right hamstring, took ground balls at third base on the half-field and then served as the first baseman as Tom Gordon worked on fielding ground balls.
Before calling it a day, Coste went into the batting cage and hit off an iron mike machine. Joe Bisenius and Matt Smith spent time in the weight room.
Cole Hamels, working on mechanics, pitched in a minor league game in the afternoon at the Devil Rays' minor league camp. Pat Gillick, Ruben Amaro, Charlie Kerfeld and Rich Dubee were there to observe. They then headed for Tampa.
Tomorrow is another night game, this one in Dunedin, the best spring training trip for the Phillies: three miles.
The Phillies are back home Thursday afternoon (Boston) and Friday afternoon (Atlanta). Both games will be televised by ESPN. The broadcasting crew will be Gary Thorne, Buck Martinez and John Kruk. It is the first ESPN telecast in Clearwater since 1995.
Both games will also be broadcast on phillies.com.


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There are a pair of papers in PLoS Genetics that shine some light on the effect of common GWAS variants on complex traits. The first investigates the effect of 22 common variants on sub-phenotypes of systemic lupus erythematosus, in how well a model including clinical measures plus GWAS variants can predict specific complications of lupus, over a model including just clinical outcomes. In some cases, there is little improvement (GWAS variants add nothing to prediction of renal failure, for instance), but in many there is a measurable improvement (such as for hameatological disorder and oral ulcers, the former of which is largely unpredictable from clinical outcomes). The second paper is a breakdown of the effect of the common obesity-associated variant FTO on BMI across age ranges; we see an interesting effect, whereby the variant that causes an increase in BMI in older children actually causes a fall in BMI in children under the age of 2. [LJ]
It's budget battle season in the United States, and biomedical research funding looks likely to be caught in the crossfire. President Obama has proposed a $745 x 106 increase in the NIH budget, bringing it to $31.8 x 109 in total. This wouldn't quite keep up with inflation, leading to a slight decrease in grant success rates from America's largest biomedical research funder. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, by contrast, has slashed the NIH budget by $1.6 x 109 in their proposed budget (bill HR1), which would be a heavy blow to research funding. Of course, scientists, non-crazy editorial writers and activist groups have been rallying around protecting research funding (in the NIH and beyond). Unfortunately I wouldn't expect a speedy resolution, as veteran US politics blogger Nate Silver likens the whole situation to Zugzwang. [JCB]
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This week we turn our attention to the busy start-up ManRos Therapeutics, based in France. Laurent Meijer, CEO & CSO of ManRos, details the company's efforts to address several unmet medical needs. (more…)


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I'm a moderate web developer. I haven't managed any high traffic websites. Generally, I observe that only high traffic websites are down for maintenance. stackoverflow.com will also go down for maintenance.
I always wonder. What kind of maintenance do they do? I mean, the process is automated.
user request --> web server --> server side programs --- > Database server.
What is there to maintain?


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No. 22 Missouri Rallies Past South Carolina
COLUMBIA (AP) -- Earnest Ross and Jabari Brown hit key 3-pointers in the final 1:11 and No. 22 Missouri overcame 5-for-27 shooting from long range and a 13-point second-half deficit to beat South Carolina 71-65 on Tuesday night.
Ross had a career-best 21 points and Brown had 17 for Missouri (14-4, 3-2 Southeastern Conference), which is 11-0 at home this season and has won 12 straight at the Mizzou Arena since losing to Kansas State and coach Frank Martin, now in his first year at South Carolina, on Feb. 21, 2012.
Brown had eight points in a 20-2 run that gave Missouri a five-point lead with just under 12 minutes to go. Alex Oriakhi was 10 for 10 at the line and fouled out in the final minute with 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Tigers, who won despite 33 percent overall shooting.
Brenton Williams had 16 points with four 3-pointers for South Carolina (11-7, 1-4).


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The Museum of Modern Art in New York is considered to be the world's leading museum of modern art.
|The museum included a Grundfos SQFlex in its design exhibition "SAFE; Design Takes on Risk", and this special event attracted the highest number of visitors in 2006.
Grundfos' sustainable water supply pump, which operates on energy from the sun and the wind, was so popular that, after the exhibition, the museum asked if it could include the SQFlex in its permanent collection.
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