Determined not to have their first-ever trip to the Class A state basketball tournament result in a short stay in the winner’s bracket, the Tea Area boys turned to Connor Shaull on Thursday – and the senior didn’t disappoint.
Shaull paced the No. 5 Titans with 23 points, including 14 in the second half, en route to delivering a 60-53 win over No. 4 Spearfish at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center and setting up a semifinal meeting with No. 8 Platte-Geddes tonight.
But Shaull’s timeliness was more crucial than his point total. After Spearfish (18-6) erased a six-point halftime deficit to knot the score at 38-all with four minutes left in the third, it was Shaull who keyed a 7-0 run with five points to extend the lead once again.
And when the Spartans pulled within 51-50 midway though the fourth, the senior post checked back into the game with four fouls and calmly responded with five straight points, including a 3-pointer with 3:10 remaining.
“He’s a gamer. That kid can turn the switch,” said Tea coach Chris Fechner. “All year long he has always seemed to be in the right place at the right time for any loose balls and layups in the paint. He came to play and wasn’t going to let his season end the way he didn’t want it to.”
Riley Knutson added 11 points and Gunnar Ensz nine on a day where the Titans (21-3) shot 50 percent from the floor and tallied 23 points off 20 Spearfish turnovers.
Those totals aside, the Spartans remained in striking distance throughout the second half, but squandered away opportunity after opportunity in the fourth, most apparent of all at the free throw line, where they were 7 of 17 for the game.
“After an explosive third quarter when we put 20 points on the board, we missed opportunities at the rim and we left too many empty free throws at the line,” said Spearfish coach Erik Skoglund.
“Tea’s a great team, but we’re really down about our performance today.”
Brandon Kemp led the Spartans with 16 points while Dillon Orth added 15, Blaine Bacon 12, Zack Olson 10 rebounds and Ryan Couch six assists.
Meanwhile, for this being the Titans’ inaugural trip to the state tournament, they demonstrated how they’re anything but strangers to pressure situations.
Fechner attributed his team’s ability to remain even keel to the gauntlet of the Big Sioux Conference, most notably the group’s 57-55 overtime win over conference rival Dakota Valley to earn the tourney berth. But this is still the state tournament and the nerves are still there.
“It was an awesome environment,” said Knutson, who also had seven assists. “I think we got (the nerves) out of the way at shootaround, and then they all came right back coming into the locker room.”
Looking ahead to tonight’s contest with Platte-Geddes, which knocked off No. 1 ClarkWillow Lake by crashing the boards and outhustling the Cyclones, the Titans will need a stronger performance on the glass after losing the rebounding battle 32-28.
Then again, the Titans have had an answer for just about everything this season.
“I thought we did a really good job of when they would go on their run that we could answer,” said Fechner. “We’ve had teams go on runs on us all year, but our guys can answer and they believe in one another that the next guy is going to make the play.”
TEA AREA (21-3)
Taylor Czepull 0-0 0-0 0, Riley Knutson 4-9 3-4 11, Chase Deckert 2-4 3-6 7, Mitchell Nissen 3-5 0-0 6, Gunnar Ensz 3-5 2-2 9, Adam Waterman 0-0 0-0 0, Ryan Sabers 0-1 1-4 1, Connor Shaull 8-16 4-5 23, Tarin Smallfield 1-2 1-3 3, Taylor Roemen 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-42 14-24 60.
Brandon Kemp 6-20 0-0 16, Payne Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Ryan Olson 0-1 2-5 2, Ryan Couch 1-2 2-2 4, Zack Olson 2-4 0-0 4, Mason Kaitfors 0-3 0-1 0, Blaine Bacom 5-7 2-6 12, Dillon Orth 6-10 1-3 15, Michael Deichert 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-48 7-17 53.
Tea Area 14 30 47 60
Spearfish 10 24 44 53
3-pointers – Tea 4-12 (Knutson 0-1, Ensz 1-2, Shaull 3-9), Spearfish 6-19 (Kemp 4-16, Orth 2-3). Total fouls – Tea 16, Spearfish 19. Fouled out – Nissen. Rebounds -Tea 28 (Smallfield, Shaull 7), Spearfish 32 (Olson 10). Assists – Tea 11 (Knutson 6), Spearfish 13 (Couch 6). Steals – Tea 17, Spearfish 11. Blocked shots – Tea 4, Spearfish 3. Turnovers – Tea 17, Spearfish 20.


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Manchester and Burnley will create another remarkable step toward victorious Champions League football next season. When they will meet at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon. The Red Devils are 14 places and 30 points ahead of their visitors in the Premier League table. Here’s all you need to know about Manchester United vs Burnley lineup and prediction.
Manchester United Line Up: Henderson; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw; Fred, McTominay; Rashford, Fernandes, Pogba; Cavani
Harry Maguire, Scott McTominay, and Luke Shaw are all fit to start, After missing the match against Granada on Thursday due to suspension.
On Sunday, Eric Bailly could make the matchday squad as he came back from the ivory coast early last week after a bout of COVID-19
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would include Marcus Rashford against Burnley, although he was not in a good state mid-week
On Thursday, after playing for the whole 90 minutes, Mason Greenwood along with Pogba, Cavani, and Rashford will be resting on the bench due to return.
United’s number one goalkeeper Dean Henderson seems to be on track to finish the season as he has been forced to be careful this season.
Burnley Line Up: Peacock-Farrell; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters; Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Westwood, McNeil; Wood, Vydra
On Sunday, Burnley will expect to get Nick Pope back from a shoulder injury as he travels to Old Trafford. According to Sean Dyche, Pope’s position will be ‘touch and go’.
After picking up a bump, Dwight McNeil is listed as a question by Dyche, and his absence will be a major blow to the away side.
This weekend Dyche has Charlie Taylor, Jack Cork, and Jay Rodriguez as options if he wishes to make a shift.
Manchester United vs Burnley Prediction
By defeating Tottenham and seeing third-placed Leicester struggle, Manchester United took a huge step towards winning second place last weekend. A victory here will cut the deficit between Manchester City and the league leaders to eight points. Nobody expects City to lose, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would want to finish as close to Pep Guardiola’s team as possible in terms of points.
Burnley is now seven points behind the bottom three and has now lost back-to-back Premier League games. Burnley’s recent record at Old Trafford can not be overlooked, and they will head into this game with a higher level of confidence than they would under usual circumstances.
We predict the home team to win another major three points, even though it isn’t a masterpiece.
Our Prediction: Manchester United 1-0 Burnley

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This one features fabrics leftover from a couple of Lucy's Crab Shack quilts I made. (by Sweetwater for Moda fabrics)
I used up some larger scrap pieces of Joel Dewberry's Modern Meadow collection for the backing, as well as some scrap strips from the front. I like the tropical look -- it goes well with the beachy theme of the collection!
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First team stars Lee Sharpe, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Nigel Martyn were thrust into the spotlight alongside models on stage during a fashion show in April 1998. A show of a different kind was being premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse with the life of pools winner Viv Nicholson taking centre stage. Elsewhere traditional horse power returned to the city centre while a Leeds bakery was celebrating its 60th anniversary. This was Leeds in April 1998 - is it a city you remember? READ MORE: 16 iconic YEP front pages from down the decades LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
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HONOLULU - Many NFL stars are hoping that when it comes to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, aloha doesn't mean goodbye.
The NFL all-star game doesn't have a home beyond Sunday's game. League and Hawaii officials are negotiating a deal to keep the game in the islands, which is hosting it for the second straight year after it was played in Miami in 2010, breaking a 30-year run in Hawaii.
"It takes away from the game when it's somewhere else," said Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall, who also selected to the Miami game two years ago. "It's always a privilege. It's always an honor to be selected to a Pro Bowl. But this is what the Pro Bowl is about - paradise. So it would (stink) definitely if we no longer come out here."
Some players went as far as saying they wouldn't participate if the Pro Bowl was moved.
"That's a lot of the players' attitude, I think. If it's in an NFL city, you're in those cities quite often," Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said.
Allen and other players said the game belongs in Hawaii, where it's more family oriented, relaxed and considered a reward for the hard work they put in during the season.
Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew's first Pro Bowl was in Miami, which he said was a great experience.
"But it's nothing like coming over to Hawaii. This is my first time here for the Pro Bowl, and it's great," he said.
The state is paying the NFL $4 million for the rights to hold this year's game. About seven months ago, Gov. Neil Abercrombie opposed the state paying millions to host the Pro Bowl when the money could be used for education.
"We've got to get our values straight and our priorities straight," he said then.
On Tuesday, however, Abercrombie changed his tune when he crashed the NFL's press conference and spoke in favor of keeping the game here. The governor said the state would like to continue hosting the game, "and we're going to do everything we can to make sure that comes about in a fashion that will make everybody very, very happy."
Last year's Pro Bowl attracted 17,000 visitors to the state, generated $28.2 million in visitor spending and created $3.1 million in state taxes from people who traveled to attend the game.
Denver Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey is no stranger to the islands. Bailey is making his 11th trip to the Pro Bowl.
"A lot of people wouldn't come to Hawaii if not for the Pro Bowl," Bailey said. "It would be disappointing if they moved it, but I have no say in it. If I did, I would say keep it here because I love it here."

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Once upon a time, steel was a metal hard-won, from iron that itself might be coaxed a few drops at a time from a simple blast furnace, or extracted at great hazard through the muscle power of iron puddlers, then to be converted into small bunches of steel in crucibles that took a lot of hand labor in hot conditions to handle properly.
Then came the Bessemer converter to remove some carbon from the iron, perhaps with a proper heat of steel as the end product, the open-hearth reverberatory furnace, a scaling-up of the puddler's furnace, to obtain a more precise steeling of the iron. To make that steel on a larger scale required greater inputs of iron, and to reduce ores in the quantities envisioned meant improvements in logistics and in blast furnace practice.
Put all these things together and you have Kenneth J. Kobus's City of Steel: How Pittsburgh Became the World's Steelmaking Capital During the Carnegie Era, our Book Review No. 4. Mr Kobus worked in the steel mills of Pittsburgh, and was intrigued enough by what he saw to dig into archives and corporate records and put together a story of the accumulation of small advantages accompanied by occasional Aha! moments that converted steelmaking from a hot, dangerous, artisanal business to a hot, less dangerous, industrial activity.
And for all the Popular Perspective of the Gilded Age steel works being a dark, satanic place, the reality of technical change is one of providing safer working conditions in which fewer men can produce tonnages the old-time puddlers and crucible handlers would find inconceivable. And the safer working conditions turned out to be more productive working conditions as well. For instance, in the early Bessemer and open hearth plants, furnace tapping and ingot teeming took place in the same pit. Rearrange the plant and put in travelling cranes to move the larger ladles, now the teeming doesn't have to stop each time a furnace is tapped. Likewise, the early iron furnaces had to be charged by hand, one wheelbarrow at a time, through an open top. And yes, all sorts of toxic gases came out of that open top. Work out a skip hoist and an air lock that can handle the weight of the charge, and one hazard to the furnaceman's health is mitigated. Then figure out how to transport molten iron from blast furnace to open hearth, rather than casting pigs to reheat in a cupola furnace before charging that iron into the converter. Also, improve the rolling machinery, in order that achieving the final shape of the steel doesn't require strong men working in close proximity to hot steel to muscle it into shape. One steelworker characterized the conditions as "working aside of hell ahead of time," whether with the cupolas, in the tapping and teeming pit, or alongside the rolling mills.
Thus, yes, Andrew Carnegie and his financiers made a lot of money. But their gains coexisted with improvements in working conditions and compensation in the mills, in the quality and quantity of steel available for final consumption, and in the energy intensity of the business. (And the improvements go on.)
In part, Pittsburgh (and the western slope of the Alleghenies generally) emerged as the center of the steel trade because of existing ironmaking technologies and nearby coal deposits, although ultimately the competitive advantage would go to a plant with a deep water port, such as near Chicago or Cleveland. But that's a story for a different line of research.
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Comic Relief, Unbound Philanthropy & the Royal Society of Arts launch catalyst for social action
Are you passionate about improving the lives of communities in Africa or in the diaspora?
Diaspora ChangeMakers is an exciting new leadership project designed to bring together the UK’s most promising individuals of African origin.
Led by the Royal Society of Arts, Comic Relief and Unbound Philanthropy, Diaspora ChangeMakers provides a catalyst for social action, creating a platform for community leaders, businesses and social enterprises here in the UK and across the African continent.
Royal Society of Arts Fellow and Twenty Ten Club founder Octavia Goredema is an advisory board member and champion for Diaspora ChangeMakers.
The project will encompass leadership development courses and the creation of a new Diaspora ChangeMakers Network to share ideas and project collaboration.
Diaspora ChangeMakers is currently seeking participants to take part in this exciting new project. The deadline for the first wave of applications is September 15th.
Anyone who wishes to take part, or who wants to nominate someone, may do so by visiting the Diaspora ChangeMakers website – www.diaspororachangemakers.com

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Source: PPC Zimbabwe, Zimra in $3 million tax wrangle – NewsDay Zimbabwe December 11, 2017
CEMENT manufacturer, PPC Zimbabwe, has filed an urgent High Court chamber application seeking an interdict order to stop the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) from garnishing its bank accounts over a disputed $3 million interest and cost liability claim.
BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE
In its urgent chamber application, PPC Zimbabwe submitted that Zimra was threatening to institute recovery measures despite the fact that the matter was still pending in court.
“Seeing the manifestly unlawful nature of Zimra’s threatened actions the applicant has filed out of this honourable court, a court application in which it seeks a declarator to confirm the legality of the respondent’s actions,” the company submitted.
“The applicant therefore seeks an order to prevent the respondent from instituting any recovery measures as threatened by it until such time as the applicant’s aforesaid court application has been finalised.”
According to the court documents, in 2009 following the dollarisation of the Zimbabwe economy, PPC Zimbabwe recorded an assessed loss of $3,5 billion after converting its ledger from Zimbabwean currency to United States dollars.
In 2013, Zimra then carried out an audit of PPC Zimbabwe’s tax affairs for the period covering 2009 to 2013. It is alleged after completion of the audit, Zimra queried the assessed loss which resulted in a protracted legal battle.
Around December 16 2013, both parties reached an agreement in respect of the assessed loss which was reduced to $1, 9 million. Following the reduction of its assessed loss, PPC Zimbabwe paid tax liability to the tune of $22 million.
However in November 2015, Zimra subsequently returned with a fresh demand saying the applicant should pay interest of the principal amount of $22 million and this demand ignited a fresh dispute between the parties.

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Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa
edited by Kimani Njogu, Hervé Maupeu
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the region and beyond. Through an analysis of the voices from the margins, the authors (contributors) enter into the debate on cultural productions and political change.
The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s which was marked by hybridity, syncretism and innovativeness. It was a product of social processes inseparable from society, politics, and other critical issues of the day. The lyrics explored socials cosmology, worldviews, class and gender relations, interpretations of value systems, and other political, social and cultural practices, even as they entertained and provided momentary escape for audience members. Frustration, disenchantments, and emotional fatigue resulting from corrupt and dictatorial political systems that stifle the potential of citizens drove and still drive popular music in Eastern Africa as in most of Africa.
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa is an important addition to the study of popular culture and its role in shaping society.
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...a very useful reference on East African music. The repertoire is very impressive and the analyses accurate and convincing. The book is extremely invaluable in appreciating the political as well as the socio-economic tensions that characterize East Africa."Frederick Iraki. Mambo, Kenya
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Kimani Njogu, an Associate Professor of Kiswahili and African Languages, is a Director of Twaweza Communications and Africa Health and Development International (AHADI). He is a translator of significant works into Kiswahili and has been involved in developing socially committed entertainment programs globally. He has provided training on culturally sensitive and issue based entertainment programming in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, India, China, St. Lucia, Grenada, Madagascar, Peru, Pakistan, Palau, Nigeria, Laos, Mexico and Peru, among other countries. Kimani is also a writer, literary critic and columnist and his Kiswahili book Ufundishaji wa Fasihi: Nadharia na Mbinu on the teaching of literature won the 2000 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

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We are inviting past pupils to submit a profile of their career pathway to celebrate the school being open for 50 years.
Asking present pupils to survey past pupils about their career paths. Ties in with the schools 50 year anniversary. Hope to create a data base of contacts .
Speakers from ATU, Maynooth University and UCD will give presenations to senior cycle students
First Years will use a map of Ireland to plot all of the Universities and Institute of Technologies! Second Years will write an essay about which career they would like to undertake after school. They will also partake in a Kahoot Quiz about careers and courses. Third Years will complete the CAO demo online. We...

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Power listen to music in high quality It depends on several factors, including how the audio track is recorded or the headphones/speakers we use. However, there is an element that we do not always have and that is Bluetooth, a connectivity present in practically all Android mobiles and which is to blame (for better or for worse) that we can listen to music with wireless headsets.
While it’s true that we can’t work miracles and change the Bluetooth standard, at least not easily, we can. change your codec to improve quality and make the most of our phone’s capabilities. In fact, it is not complicated, although you have to know how to do it and that is what we are going to tell you in this article.
The different Bluetooth codecs
Android supports all major Bluetooth playback codecs, which mainly involves five major codecs
The first codec is SBC. It stands for (low complexity subband codec) and it is one of the most popular codecs today for all devices. It supports mono and stereo audio, as well as sample rates up to 48 kHz. Almost all Android phones come with SBC by default to ensure compatibility with headphones and speakers. The problem with SBC, without going into too much technical detail, is that not the best codec for listening to hifi musicbecause its sound transmission properties are not the best.
aptX generally performs better than SBC in terms of sound quality and latency, however, it is not as universal as SBC, present in all devices
This is where Qualcomm’s own codec comes into play, aptX (and all its variants). This codec operates with higher bandwidth and lower latency (around 40ms compared to the over 100s that SBC can achieve) compared to the aforementioned SBC. Specific, has better speed to transmit sound (at kbps level), allowing you to move more data in less time. Immediate translation? Superior sound quality.
Another codec compatible with Android is LDAC, a Sony codec which again far exceeds SBC
AAC is another major player in this Bluetooth codec territory. It is the most used in the Apple world, although in Android consumes a lot of energy, so it is not recommended. Its transfer rate is also not the best, so it is one of the few options to exclude if we are using an Android terminal.
Finally, we find the Scalable Codec announced with the Samsung Galaxy Buds developed in collaboration with AKG. This codec prioritizes stability by making constant adjustments to streaming speeds. This is the most suitable option if we use a Samsung device with Samsung headphones.
How to change the Bluetooth codec
Before changing the Bluetooth codec of your Android remember to the device you are going to connect it to, because some incompatibilities may arise if both don’t support what you want to modify. Once you know the codec you want to use and are clear about compatibility between devices, just go to your phone’s developer options.
Before changing the codec, we must take into account the compatibility of the device to which we are connecting and the playback quality supported by the content.
In them you will see an option called Bluetooth audio codecs. Here you just need to change the codec to the one you want. You must take into account that the greater the range of the phone, the greater the compatibility with different codecs. For the codecs to work well, it is also necessary to take into account the type of content you are going to listen to, its quality and others, because everything does not depend on the mobile and the headphones and speakers.
In the same way, the device to which you connect the mobile must have support for the new codec you are switching to, otherwise the one you were using will remain, even if you change it in the settings.


Tour Notebook: ESPN scores record ratings during Open Championship
With eight of the world's top-26 players and four of the top-10 on the weekend leaderboard, ESPN had record ratings and viewership for its broadcast of the Open Championship last week.
ESPN's final-round ratings on Sunday, when world No. 2-ranked Phil Mickelson rallied to win at Muirfield for his first Open title and fifth major, were 3.1 in U.S. households, a record for an Open cable audience. The telecast averaged nearly 4.4 million viewers and was the third-highest cable audience for a major championship, after the Tiger Woods-Rocco Mediate playoff in the 2008 British Open and the first round of the 2010 Masters, when Woods made his first start of the season.
In the third round, ESPN experience a Saturday Open record with a 2.7 U.S. rating and more than 3.7 million viewers.
Mickelson finished atop a leaderboard in which seven other highly-ranked players led, had a share of the lead or were in the mix: world No. 1-ranked Tiger Woods, Adam Scott (No. 4), Lee Westwood (10), Ian Poulter (14), Henrik Stenson (20), Hunter Mahan (22) and Zach Johnson (26).
ESPN also had big increases in traffic on its digital platforms. ESPN.com had an increase of 22 percent in visitors to its golf section during the Open, and the mobile platform had 32 percent more visitors.
A dominant streak
Tom Watson won five Open Championships and nearly captured a sixth, in 2009 at the age of 59, when he lost to Stewart Cink in a playoff.
He has continued that domination in the Senior Open since it became an official Champions Tour event in 2003. Watson won that tournament at Turnberry and has gone on to capture three titles and seven top-10s in 10 starts. Watson will attempt to build on that record this week when the Senior Open is played at Royal Birkdale, the site of his fifth Open title in 1983.
Watson is the only player to have made the cut in every Senior Open since 2003 and hasn't finished lower than a tie for 24th. He's especially dangerous at courses where he won Open championship. In addition to Turnberry, he won at Muirfield in 2007. He and Mark O'Meara are the only players in the field this week who have won at Royal Birkdale.
Ready for the stretch
This week's Albertson's Boise Open has attracted the best field of the season on the Web.com Tour, with every top-10 player on the money list, 24 of the top-25 and 56 of the top-60.
There's a reason, other than the highest purse ($775,000) in a regular-season event: There were five tournaments remaining for players to finish among the top-75 on the money list and qualify for the Web.com Tour Finals. That four-tournament series ends on the First Coast Sept. 26-29 with the Web.com Tour Championship at the TPC Sawgrass Dye's Valley Course.
There are six area players currently inside the top-75: Tim Wilkinson (No. 7), Steve Wheatcroft (49), Nick Flanagan (59), Len Mattiace (61), Aron Price (65) and Russell Knox (71).
The top-25 on the final regular-season money list are still assured of PGA Tour cards for next year. But most will likely play in the Finals for the $1 million purse each week and to improve their priority status for the beginning of the 2013-2014 PGA Tour season -- which begins only 11 days after the final round of the Web.com Tour Championship.
Working for the Walker Cup
Sean Dale of Jacksonville had a spot in next week's Web.com Tour Mylan Classic in Pittsburgh, along with the other members of the 2013 Ping All-American team. However, the former UNF player is passing on that to play in the Western Amateur at the Alotion Club in Roland, Ark. Dale is trying to lock down one of the five remaining spots on the Walker Cup team and a good finish at the Western will help. ... A week after Jordan Spieth became the fourth-youngest player to win on the PGA Tour, Woody Austin became the eighth-oldest when he captured the Sanderson Farms Championship in Madison, Miss. Austin turns 50 years old Jan. 27, 2014 and will be eligible for the Champions Tour. However, the victory last week bought him two more years of PGA Tour eligibility. ... No player will be able to finish among the top-10 in all four major championships this year. Jason Day, who was third in the Masters and tied for second in the U.S. Open, was the only player to have a chance last week at the Open, but he tied for 32nd. He is one of seven players who have two top-10s among the three majors played so far this season, a list that includes Mickelson, Woods, Scott, Mahan and Westwood.


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The power tower matches the power rack training load. The Power Rack is the foundation of any serious weightlifting experience. For those who rely on the body, they are trained in, the Tower of Strength does the same job.
Finding the best power tower for your needs can mean the difference between training success and failure. With the right equipment, you can exercise with more weight than you can only do with your arms and legs. In this article, we will review the MIKING Power Tower.
Design and Build
This device has a maximum weight of 200 kg. It is made of a strong steel tube and padded armrest and backrest for maximum user comfort. The handlebar is covered with a non-slip grip.
The dive stations are 38.6 from each other and 40 from the floor, making them suitable for users at almost any height.
The padded arms and backrest of the vertical knee lift station are extremely comfortable, and the non-slip handle of the extendable station makes it ideal for chin lifts and chin lifts with a wide, tight grip.
Additionally, the retractable strap is 82.6 above the floor, up to 4 inches taller than many others on the market, making it a bonus for taller users.
While all the support stations are fairly simple, the Miking Power Tower works flawlessly and is easy to use thanks to the molded handles. Like the calf raise station, it’s a simple but fully functional place.
Ease of Assembly
Assembling the Weider Power Tower was fairly easy, although there were a few issues marked by the holes not being perfectly aligned.
Therefore, it is recommended that you wait until everything is fully seated before tightening all the screws completely. Some users have also complained that the packaging was damaged in shipping or that the fasteners were mixed up.
Due to its size, this element must be installed in the room to be used because it is too wide to fit through a standard door frame.
Adjustable Pull-Up Bar
The pull-up station is height-adjustable in 5 levels and can be adjusted in multiple gears to suit your training needs.
Multifunctional fitness equipment
This reusable power tower can effectively train the shoulders, arms, waist, buttocks, and legs. You can do vertical knee lifts and drops, pull-ups, and push-ups whenever and wherever possible. Perfect for adults, fitness enthusiasts.
Comfortable Stand Workout station
The electric tower has a stable backrest and elbow pads that effectively relieve pressure on the spine, corrects limb movement, prevent sports injuries.
This is a great addition to any home gym, especially for the price. As long as you can fit your size, you can’t go wrong with your 200 kg. Weight limit, extension height, stable construction, and stability. Purchase all your fitness equipment at the Banggood 15th Anniversary which started August 25th and will end September 13th. Buy items at the lowest rates and get up to 85% discount. Banggood is the global leading online shop; passion shopping on Banggood.


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Let us know your trip plan and we’ll make the necessary services available at your doorstep exactly as per you itinerary. Our years of experience in services sector has never let us down in providing quality services to our clients on time.
If you book hotels from us, we are determined to provide service at its price. Many visitors complain about the hospitality and services at the hotels. Himlachuli Trek books you the best price hotels.
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We provide you the luxurious bus tickets for your entire trip as planned. Occasionally flights may get delayed where we make sure that your trip schedule is met.
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Paragliding from Sarangkot is number of youths bucket list. We have the professional paragliders who will take your wish to another level of fun and adventure. Apart from this if your traveling in group we serve you the helicopter for mountain flights. Rafting with your friends during the tides is equally fun.

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Chicken Bacon Ranch Casserole - Creamy, cheesy and comforting! Loaded with Ranch chicken, homemade alfredo sauce and bacon. Can be made ahead of time!
An amazing no bake pie with a chocolate crust filled with a creamy strawberry filling. It gets topped with fresh strawberries and drizzled in chocolate and will be a huge hit wherever it goes!
Crescent Wrapped Apple Brie.... A Thanksgiving and Christmas must!
Lay the rest of the salmon over top, and top with aromatics. (I don't recommend adding a third layer.)
Easy, Crispy, Parmesan Garlic Roasted Baby Potatoes have amazing flavor and texture. They can be prepared quickly for a healthy dinner side, Game Day or party snack, or breakfast and brunch potatoes. TheYummyLife.com
Loaded Twice Baked Potato Casserole – Turn twice baked potatoes into an easy cheesy potato casserole that will be sure to please. Loaded with garlic, cheese, and bacon!
One Pot Wonder Chicken Lo Mein is simple. Just put uncooked pasta, chicken, veggies, broth, and seasoning into a pot, simmer, and it creates a yummy sauce. Pinned over 684k times.
Maple Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin (4 Ingredients) - Pork + Maple + Bacon + Olive Oil is all you need to make this. Easy enough for midweek, fancy enough for dinner parties.
Healthy Strawberry Chia Jam Recipe - www.SeedsofRealHealth.com
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A difficult colour to describe. The flowers are large, double and clear rich pink-red. They are compact, frilly and borne on upright stems above a robust clump of leaves. Excellent for cutting. Mid season to late season.
Peonies will grow in most soils as long as they are not wet, including clay soils. They require a sunny or partially shaded site. Herbaceous peonies need to be planted with the eye (the dormant pink buds) no more than 2.5cm below the surface of the soil. Do not mix manure in the soil before planting as this may rot the eyes.


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The following is the usual height and shade dimensions for a majority of these beautiful table lamps. Keep in mind that a few lamps in either style will be taller or shorter. If you have something special in mind, you might also consider having your Tiffany Table Lamp or Tiffany Accent Lamp custom made. Of course at a cost, there are several Tiffany Lamp or Tiffany Lighting manufactures that will work with you to custom build exactly what you are looking for.
For the last hundred plus years people have been falling in love with Tiffany Table Lamps and Tiffany Accent Lamps. In fact since the first leaded glass shades started being produced by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company somewhere around 1898, they have been collected, cherished and displayed in many various room settings along with other Tiffany Glass products and collectibles.
One of the main considerations when choosing a Tiffany Table Lamp or Tiffany Accent Lamp for your bedroom is the size. Whether its in your living room, den or even a bedroom, having a large Tiffany Table Lamp in a smaller room setting makes it look out of place. If your Tiffany Accent Lamp is to small it might look just as out of place and not supply the right amount of lighting.
This table lamp has a brass base in a step up design beginning with the largest step on the bottom. The carved feet really set off this lamp very well, and the glass stem gives the lamp a stylish yet open feel. The white fabric shade is 16", and it has a 3-way rotating light switch so that you can set your desired lighting level. The maximum bulb you should use is a 100-watt bulb. There is just a slight bit of assembly required for this Waterford Crystal lamp that will take all of 5 minutes.
This lamp is classically designed and the glass stem will really fit into any contemporary or modern setting. And while you might think a Waterford crystal lamp is very expensive, you can actually get this beautiful crystal lamp for at discount at about $425.
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From helping to get project start-ups such as Bone Daddies off the ground to refreshing more established brands like BAFTA YGD, ITV and BBC Worldwide, my responsibilities with The Council are ever increasing. Working alongside both developers and designers I ensure each project’s potential is realised.
Here I worked on a series of short projects. Ranging from producing App layouts shown to possible funders of the Passion Project to assisting the Relative launch event showcasing the Panna Paint motion capture technology.
Working alongside the Global iPlayer team, I created the designs for the Global iPlayer App. Designing for current-events, I produced solutions ranging from 'The American Collection' running alongside the 2012 American elections, to the Christmas 'Advent Calendar' revealing new content each day, for a 24-day run up to Christmas. I also created designs to represent prestigious brands such as BAFTA and TopGear.
Created the VOD service's Halloween graphics for the 'Fright Night Collection'. Designing both in App (mobile and tablet devices) and out of App (social media and Web platforms) tiles.
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There are some writers who will be remembered asgreat masters of the word. Then there are others whowill be celebrated not only as literary personalities but also as public intellectuals whose impact is felt across language, culture, education and politics. U.R. Ananthamurthy belonged to that latter, rare, tribe of luminaries.
He never forgot his roots during his travel from the Karnataka village of Melige in Shimoga to the University of Birmingham and then back to the country where he became one of its tallest literary giants, winning the Jnanpith and Padma Bhushan, heading the Sahitya Akademi, the National Book Trust and the Film and Television Institute.
He was meshtru (master) to his thousands of admirers and students. To me, he was like an unconventional elder in the family with whom I could argue, a superior colleague at the Sahitya Akademi whom I could take into confidence, a writer whose fictional world ever held me in thrall, a "rooted cosmopolitan"-to borrow a term from Benedict Anderson-who never stopped arguing with tradition as a "critical insider", a term he often used to qualify his tenuous relationship with India's mixed cultural heritage.
Anantha, as I called him, drank "life to the lees". He was passionately involved in whatever he did: a good argument, a little magazine, an environment movement, an organisation like dramatist K.V. Subbanna's Ninasam, a Bergman movie, the Kannada vachana poetry, an evening drink, the company of women he cared for. He loved to walk the thin line between the sacred and the profane, as did many of his fictional characters.
Anantha, above all, was a great storyteller. His six novels and eight collections of stories are testaments to his narrative skill as well as conceptual strength. Even his poetry dealt with the concrete: events, places and people; they seldom revelled in the abstract. His fictional magnum opus, Samskara, will remain a unique civilisational document. He knew his milieu intimately, with its myths, legends, customs and conventions, and through that he could gauge the whole society.
He identified himself with the fallen and the outcast.
Praneshacharya, the revered priest seduced by Chandri, Naranappa's voluptuous mistress, embodies a moral dilemma, the battle between the laws of the book and the rules of life. Praneshacharya is unable to solve the problem of Naranappa's funeral-that bohemian Brahmin who ate meat and lived with Chandri had not been excommunicated and hence Brahmins alone could perform his funeral rites but Brahmins are scared to touch the body as that might pollute them. Naranappa's body symbolises the moral, intellectual and spiritual paralysis of a community. Jagannatha of Bharatipura too has similar conflicts.
One of Ananthamurthy's central themes was the relationship between tradition and modernity. He was neither a blind traditionalist nor an unthinking modernist. This is what distinguishes the Navya literary movement in Kannada that he spearheaded along with Gopalakrishna Adiga and others. They discovered the tools to critique tradition within the tradition itself-call it counter-tradition, if you will-as many Indian thinkers like Gandhi did.
He was a compulsive innovator. The Sahitya Akademi has never had a president like him. He celebrated mother tongues and marginalised languages and recognised and published the best in oral traditions. He had no patience for any particular language's claim to be called 'national'; he would say all languages spoken by Indians are national languages and the Eighth Schedule should be scrapped.
Ananthamurthy never shied from public debates. His battles are well known, be it to compulsorily teach in the mother tongue in schools or against the rise of the right wing.
His last work, which he discussed with me just a few weeks ago, is a treatise that contrasts Hindutva ideology with Gandhi's idea of Hind Swaraj. Our last conversation was also about launching a writers' forum to defend the plurality of Indian literature and culture. He never ceased to fight those who upheld an artificial and standardised notion of national unity. Without Anantha, my world has become smaller, less colourful.
- K. Satchidanandan is a poet and ex-secretary, Sahitya Akademi


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Mobile Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Valentine’s with pops concerts packed with songs of love and featuring coloratura soprano Diane Penning and baritone Ken Weber at 8 p.m. Feb. 12 and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Saenger Theatre, downtown Mobile.
“It’s a mile-a-minute collection of great, exciting, romantic, luscious music for lovers,” says MSO music director Scott Speck. “There’s no shortage of great romantic music, but we’re combining this music with two fabulous soloists.
“Both Diane Penning and Ken Weber have a great deal of experience with Broadway music, and they will sing their hearts out for us.”
Penning and Weber will perform selections from Broadway hits “West Side Story,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “My Fair Lady,” “Kiss Me Kate,” “Camelot” and “Oklahoma.” The program also includes romantic music from Bizet, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
Weber, who appears frequently with opera companies along the Gulf Coast, was a huge hit in the title role of Mobile Opera’s 2010 production of “Sweeney Todd.” Equally at home in classical repertoire and pops, Penning has performed with orchestras throughout nationwide.
To add more allure to the Saturday evening concert, MSO is partnering with popular downtown coffee house Serda’s to offer a package that includes a wine and chocolate tasting before the concert and a concert ticket for $30.
Individual tickets to the concert are $15 to $55 and can be purchased online at www.mobilesymphony.org, by phone at 251-432-7080, or at the symphony box office, 257 Dauphin St. Student tickets to all performances are $8.
All concerts are at the Saenger Theatre, 6 S. Joachim St., downtown Mobile. Information ,visit the Web site: www.mobilesymphony.org.
Weber has performed frequently with New Orleans Opera, Mobile Opera and Shreveport Opera, and other companies around the country. Most recently he performed the title role in “Sweeney Todd” for Mobile Opera and Dancairo in “Carmen” for New Orleans Opera.
He performed the role of Germont in Shreveport Opera’s production of “La Traviata.” Before that, he appeared as Tonio in the Opera Las Vegas production of “I Pagliacci.” Other credits include the Reverend Olin Blitch in Carlisle Floyd’s “Susannah” for Opera in the Ozarks, Conte di Luna in “Il Trovatore” for Mobile Opera, and dozens of supporting roles.
A native of Los Angeles, Weber now resides in Mobile. He holds degrees in vocal performance from Boston College and New England Conservatory. His Web site is http://www.kennethweberbaritone.com.
Penning holds degrees in music and voice from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University. Her Web site is http://www.dianepenning.com.
Equally at home in classical repertoire and pops, she has performed with orchestras around the country with some in programs of both genres including: the Adrian, Arkansas, Battle Creek, Bijou and Colorado Springs symphonies; Dayton Philharmonic; the Dearborn, DuPage, Elgin, Elmhurst, Grand Rapids and Grant Park Music Festival symphonies; Interlochen Arts Academy; and the Kalamazoo, Lafayette, Midland, Park Ridge, Pensacola, Rockford (Ill.), Saginaw Bay, Sheboygan, South Bend, Traverse and West Michigan symphonies.
Her musical theater credits include Cunegonde in “Candide,” Marian in “The Music Man,” Amalia in “She Loves Me,” Maria in “West Side Story” and The Grouch in Kapilow’s “Green Eggs & Ham.”
Oratorio performances include Bach’s B minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; Fauré’s Requiem; Handel’s “Messiah”; Haydn’s “Creation”; Mozart’s Requiem; Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and more. Opera roles include Adele in “Die Fledermaus,” Frasquita in “Carmen,” Musetta in “La Boheme” and Papagena in “The Magic Flute.”

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Iraqi Parliament has not managed to reach a consensus over provincial election legislation for Kirkuk as Turkmen and Arabs have demanded special status within the Kurdish majority-populated province.
Mahmood Osman, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi Parliament, told Kurdistan 24 on Saturday that the efforts of all political parties and the Parliamentary Speaker will continue until they reach an agreement to approve the electoral law for the Kirkuk province.
He added there had been a couple of hours-long meetings with representatives of Kirkuk's various communities over the past two days, supervised by Iraqi Parliamentary Speaker Salim al-Jabouri.
“We suggested that the governorship goes to the representative with the most votes, the runner up would get Head of the Provincial Council, third place would be the Governor’s first deputy, and lastly, the role of second deputy would go to the Christians,” the Kurdish MP said.
Arab and Turkmen representatives in Kirkuk allegedly refused to give any of the posts to the Christians in Kirkuk, and insisted the group with the third most votes should get the posts of first and second deputy, Osman added.
Osman stated that Arab and Turkmen parties do not believe in the rights of Christians in Kirkuk. He affirmed, however, that Kurds insist on safeguarding the rights of all communities in the province, including Turkmen, Arabs, and Christians.
Farhad Qadir, another Kurdish MP in Baghdad, stated that “Kurds have no issue regarding provincial electoral laws but insist that Kirkuk have the same status as other provinces under the purview of the electoral commission.”
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Flapping wings in place on Maplewood Drive | Throght Your Lens
Last updated 4/14/2022 at 8:56am
A rufous stopped by Henry Draper's home on Maplewood Drive to get some energy from a hummingbird feeder.
According to Draper, this handsome little bird tends to move through the Seattle area and Puget lowlands before heading for their preferred nesting habitat in the mountains.
Expect to see them for the next month at most.
There is still snow in the mountains, but it will go fast through April. A few hang around to nest locally, but the vast majority take a right turn and head up into the Cascades.
So maybe you'll be lucky and have a pair in your suburban habitat....


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Linkin Park’s new album TheHunting Party recently reached the number 1 spot on the Billboard charts. The Inquisitr reported that Linkin Park had made into the top five, but now it seems they’ve gone all the way to the top position on Billboard’s list of Top Rock Albums.
This isn’t Linkin Park’s first time topping the charts. According to Billboard.com, Linkin Park has done it three times before with their debut 2000 album Hybrid Theory and Meteora from 2003, which each placed high on the Alternative Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts. Hybrid Theory peaked at the number two spot, never quite making it to the number one slot. Linkin Park’s most recent album, Living Things, sold 223,000 copies and shot to the number one spot of the Top Rock Albums chart shortly after its debut. While Linkin Park’s latest effort might not have opened in the number one spot, it eventually advanced to the top over bands like OK Go and Arctic Monkeys.
Some early reviews of Linkin Park’s TheHunting Party suggested it wasn’t their best effort. Some critics called it a mess, others suggested it was underwhelming. But the sales seem to disagree. Linkin Park’s newest release sold 110,000 copies within its first week and continues to climb. This could be a result of Linkin Park’s exceptional promotional efforts, including their own video game, many contests and concerts and even a charity event.
Linkin Park has revealed many details about Hunting Party in the past, including the scoop behind the featured guest musicians. But surprisingly, this is Linkin Park’s first effort without their go-to producer Rick Rubin since 2003. It seems they’re doing all right without him. Linkin Park’s new hit single “Guilty All the Same” lasted three weeks in May on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart.
You can see the music video for Linkin Park’s song below:
The Hindu claims that Hunting Party could have been Linkin Park’s debut album before Hybrid Theory.
“A lot of The Hunting Party is nostalgic in many ways, the collaborators (Tom Morello, Rakim, Daron Malakian) included. If you grew up listening to Linkin Park’s first two albums, The Hunting Party is almost the kind of album you would have expected from the band before their debut album, Hybrid Theory– it’s raw, with hints of electronica and rightly aggressive.”
Have you heard Linkin Park’s newest album? If you have, what did you think about it? Do you think Linkin Park deserves to top the charts for a fourth time, or should they step back and let another band have some glory for awhile? Let us know in the comments.


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The Finnish rising star, who had one of the Top 60 Singles of 2017 with “Chasing Highs,” has just rolled out her Heavy Rules mixtape and it features 6-brand new tracks, including collaborations with MØ (“Dance For Me“), Tove Styrke (“Good Vibes“) and Kiiara (“Chit Chat“).
The entire mixtape — from the empowering opener “Legend” to the chic club pulsations of the MØ-assisted “Dance For Me” to the #SomethingMoreUrban “Fake Gucci” and “Back2u” — plays like a complete soundtrack for the summer. They’re all instant bops, but I must highlight closer “Chit Chat,” featuring “Gold” hit-maker Kiiara. The track is a pulsating cross between Tove Lo‘s Lady Wood and the dreamy disco pulsations of Disclosure. It’s major, for sure
It simply bursts at the seams; a kitchen sink of powerhouse vocals and big melodies dressed up with the right kind of modern production sheen. And yet, there’s an underlying sense that this is only a small sampling of what ALMA still has to offer.
This week, ALMA also announces an anticipated tour with stops in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and more.
ALMA’s brand new Heavy Rules mixtape is also available on Apple Music now!


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The Politics of Constitutionalism: International Institutions and the Relationship Between Law and Politics
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall there has been both noticeable optimism and anxiety for the future of international institutions. In European international legal scholarship in particular, there has been both a renewed hope to enhance international regulatory governance, influenced by regional and global economic integration, but also a fear of hegemonic abuse, perhaps taking advantage of fragmented, incoherent and unordered regimes and networks, or through institutional "capture" under abusive hegemonic domination. Scholars have reacted developing "constitutional" perspectives on international institutional governance: promising political restraint and political coherence; effective but hierarchical, limited governance. This offers a palliative to concern over depleted sovereignty, accountability in opposition to hegemony, and a normative, structural hierarchy in opposition to fragmented incoherency.
I take a critical stance to these claims, situating these aspirations as part of a perpetual liberal promise. A promise of a cosmopolitan future under the rule of law: lawyers looking inwards to Western tradition and offering a universally verifiable future: the idea of the Western state. This narrative is inseparable from international law’s “professional” transformation in the nineteenth century, where legal structures were interwoven with the terms of post-revolutionary domestic politics. The “constitutionalists” rely on two fatal suppositions, however. An ideological supposition of an imaginary international rule of law, secured by liberal elites through supranational governance, and a structural supposition, ignoring the schizophrenic nature of institutions as autonomous, functional entities, but also as agorae for political contestation - a necessary role which can give voice to the otherwise disenfranchised, giving direction to politics as a positive end in itself.
Keywords: International Law, International Relations, International Organizations, History, Political Ideology, Liberalism
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- Competes with: 2014 BMW M6 Gran Coupe, 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG, 2014 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG
- Looks like: Four-door coupes with 550-plus horsepower are all the rage for 2014
- Drivetrain: 560-hp, twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 with eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive
- Hits dealerships: Fall
Four-door coupes like the Audi A7, Mercedes-Benz CLS and BMW Gran Coupe offer elegant, sleek styling a step above traditional sedans. Audi’s RS 7 is a beefed-up version of the A7/S7 with an additional 140 horsepower over the S7. With the RS 7, there’s now a trio of super-sedan coupes — Mercedes CLS63 AMG and BMW M6 Gran Coupe — with more than 550 horsepower. Audi’s reign as the all-wheel-drive leader could also be challenged in the super-sedan segment by the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLS 63AMG with standard all-wheel drive to combat wheel spin. Let the games begin.
With 560-hp, Audi says the RS 7 accelerates from zero to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds. The standard Quattro all-wheel drive splits power 60% to the rear wheels and 40% to the front. Continue past 60 mph and you’ll find the RS 7’s electronically limited top speed of 155 mph — only on some models, however. A Dynamic Package raises the top speed to 174 mph and a Dynamic Package Plus bumps it to 190 mph. Stopping the RS7 are 15.4-inch brakes up front with six-piston calipers; higher-performance carbon fiber ceramic brakes are available and bump rotor size up to 16.5 inches.
When it’s time to turn corners, the RS 7 has two suspension choices. The standard air suspension lowers ride height by 20 millimeters and features adaptive dampening to adjust the suspension’s response to the road. As an alternative, a Sports Suspension Plus Package uses steel springs in place of the air suspension and three-stage adjustable dampeners.
The RS 7 balances performance and fuel economy with a cylinder deactivation system that shuts down four of the RS 7’s eight cylinders during medium-to-light load conditions to save fuel. When all eight cylinders are firing during acceleration, the RS 7’s exhaust features switchable flaps in the exhaust for a fuller sound, Audi says. An optional sports exhaust system is also offered.
Other options include a Carbon Styling Package with a more boldly shaped front splitter and diffuser, side mirrors with exposed carbon housings, all-LED headlights, a head-up display and Comfort Package. Standard equipment includes RS sport seats with pronounced side bolsters covered in Alcantara simulated suede and leather (all leather is optional), xenon headlights, 20-inch wheels and navigation.