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I had written saying that due to family commitments we could only hold classes in September this year and that classes will start up again in April of next year and the dates will be September will be 25th to the 28th.


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text: The Theatre October 31, 2011 Issue Bluebird of Unhappiness The comedy of grief in "Sons of the Prophet" and "Relatively Speaking." Table of Contents Perfetti and Fontana in Stephen Karam's very dark comedy. Photograph by Platon. "Ravishing" is the best word for Stephen Karam's new comedy "Sons of the Prophet" (elegantly directed by Peter DuBois, at the Roundabout's Laura Pels). At once deep, deft, and beautifully made, "Sons of the Prophet" stares unflinchingly at the Gorgon's head of grief—the kind of grief on which words have no purchase, the indigestible pain that never really goes away. In other words, the suffering that an audience expects theatre to deflect with laughter, rather than to embrace. "You . . . can't stand in your pain too long," a wise old woman says, late in the evening. "It's like quicksand, you'll sink, never get past it." In this episodic tale, all the main characters are caught, one way or another, in the tight grip of sorrow. Shit happens, as the T-shirt says, but Karam contrives to dump an entire outhouse on the luckless Lebanese-American Douaihy family. The Douaihys are very distant relatives of the Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran, the author of the inspirational text "The Prophet," and Gibran's famous mantra "All is well" haunts the hapless goings on at their house, in a run-down section of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, where all is definitely not well, and may never be. "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand," Mark Twain said. Even before the play begins, Karam tests Twain's assertion by dipping the audience into an acid bath of absurd disaster. Through a scrim, we see looming headlights collide with a silhouetted stag. The animal turns out to be the wooden mascot of the Mighty Bucks, the local high-school football team, which has been placed in the middle of the street as a prank; the resulting roadkill is the patriarch of the Douaihy clan. "The Douaihys have a habit of dying tragically. We're like the Kennedys without the sex appeal," Joseph (Santino Fontana), the newly orphaned twenty-nine-year-old elder son, says. Joseph, who is at the center of this dark comic storm, was an aspiring Olympic runner until an injury hobbled him. His eighteen-year-old brother, Charles (the droll Chris Perfetti), is a geography nerd. Both are gay. And, to add to the weight of Joseph's bag of rocks, their blustering, disabled uncle, Bill (Yusef Bulos), who is by turns pious and racist, insists on moving into the family home as the brothers' guardian, when it's as clear as the walker in front of him that he can't take care of himself. "Who's looking after me now?!" Joseph shouts at his infuriating uncle. "Who's taking care of me now?!—it's been a nightmare organizing you living here and you keep pretending you're taking care of us!" Topping the bill in this vaudeville of calamity is Joseph's torn meniscus, the primary symptom of a trifecta of unrelated debilitating ailments, which will cost a king's ransom to address—assuming, of course, that the doctors can figure out what's wrong in the first place. Standard comic anarchy turns the world upside down, then puts it back together again at the finale, returning us to the status quo ante. Karam's ambivalent, sly, subversive brand of laughter, however, dares to assert that that is not how the world works. He lets his characters exist in all their messiness and refuses them a tidy resolution. In this gossamer game, Karam is trying to capture both the process of suffering and the comedy of how we cope with it. Through a series of narrative jumps, his finely pitched, oblique dialogue teases the audience into thought. Projected above each scene is a title inspired by the chapter headings in "The Prophet"—"On Friendship," "On Reason and Passion," "On Home"—drawing us into the rueful central drama, which is the mystery of change over time. For instance, the Douaihys at first refuse to meet Vin (Jonathan Louis Dent), the star player of the Mighty Bucks, who was responsible for the deadly prank with the deer, and are doubly outraged when a local judge proposes postponing Vin's detention until after football season. "We're not meeting this kid," Joseph says. "No good can come of it. . . . That kind of healing only happens in Lifetime movies." He adds, by way of explanation, to Uncle Bill, "Television for women." By the end of the play, at a cleverly written school-board meeting, it's the Douaihys who endorse Vin and his football future. Grief, like hate, stops thought. To demonstrate this phenomenon, Karam has Bill retreat into superstition and his Maronite faith, praying to the blind St. Rafka, who wallowed in suffering as a means of getting closer to God. "She was, like, bring it on," Charles, who looks to numerology to impose order on his own out-of-control life, explains. But the most entertaining study of the refusal to parse pain revolves around Joseph's boss, Gloria Gurney (Joanna Gleason), a book packager whose reputation plunged after she published a nonfiction book that turned out to be a fake—a love story about a man who met his wife in a Nazi concentration camp. "His wife would disguise herself as a Christian farm girl and toss him a piece of fruit over the, you know, the big electrified fence at Auschwitz," she says. "Would you know the height of a concentration camp wall? . . . I'm not a detective, Bill. I wasn't at the Holocaust." Gloria has been "suddenly sidelined," but she has an idea how to get back in the game: taking on the story of the Douaihy family and their relationship to Gibran would allow her to cash in on Gibran's worldwide fan base. So she clings first to Joseph, then to his family, as ballast for her free-floating despair, which was triggered partly by her husband's recent suicide. Gloria, who is given a particularly bright and barmy spin by Gleason, embodies the comedy of melancholy, a woman so caught up in her internal drama that she can't listen to or retain anything. Even when she grabs the microphone to speak on Vin's behalf at the school-board meeting, it's the drama of her own life to which she obsessively returns. "Happiness . . . becomes this . . . thing . . . in other people's eyes," she says, hilarious and heartbreaking at once. Some things are lost; some are found; some are gone forever. "Sons of the Prophet" ponders this hard truth; it makes us consider the unacceptable. Just as darkness shows off brilliance, the play's poignant comedy makes us see that facing grief is one way to ease its terrible grip. Karam's bittersweet touch is as rare as his compassion; he loves his characters as much for their decency as for their eccentricity. His nuanced, comic storytelling—a delicate weave of the spoken and the unspoken, the outrageous and the unconscionable, delivered by a uniformly excellent cast—holds pain and pleasure together in startling equipoise, never trivializing either. The play ends not with words but with motion. Joseph and his kindergarten teacher, Mrs. McAndrew (Lizbeth Mackay), meet at a physical-therapy session. ("Kindergarten was a good year for me," he tells her.) Standing side by side, they go through a basic stretch, arms extended in front of them, gliding in unison. "The rhythm is simple, slow, mellow, steady, like a heartbeat," the stage direction reads. "The space feels a bit bigger, more open." For them, and for us. And let's give a huzzah for the return to Broadway of two of its merriest Merry-Andrews—Elaine May and Woody Allen, who arrive in a triptych of one-act plays titled "Relatively Speaking" (directed by John Turturro, at the Brooks Atkinson). May and Allen are old-school; they believe that humor is a great pesticide, and they can certainly kill. (I'm sorry to report that the third offering, Ethan Coen's "Talking Cure," doesn't belong in the same, seasoned company.) In May's "George Is Dead," Doreen (the ditzy, dithering Marlo Thomas) swans into the life of her beloved nanny's daughter, Carla (Lisa Emery), just as Carla's marriage is breaking up, and trumps Carla's catastrophe with bad news of her own: her husband has died while skiing in Aspen. To such a droll mimic as May, Doreen's air of insufferable, infantile entitlement is a comic piñata. "I'm always stunned that people listen to each other's stories," Doreen says. "It's like having someone give you their underwear to keep. You'll never use it. It doesn't fit. It just uses up your space." The joke is well written and psychologically astute. Doreen is a three-ring circus of shallowness. "I don't have the depth to feel this bad," she says, at one point. Her husband may be dead, but she has made no plans to bury him. When Carla suggests that the body needs to be shipped to a mortuary and a coffin chosen, Doreen is bewildered. "I don't understand any of this," she says. "I don't understand what you mean by 'ship.' Where will he be? Is there a special compartment?" May's sketch may be short, but she does something big with it: she puts our passion for ignorance on parade. The laurels of the evening go to Allen, whose high-spirited little farce, "Honeymoon Motel," turns the tables on the familiar erotic trope: in this case, the panting groom is the stepfather of the would-be husband—he has run off with his stepson's young bride-to-be. If this sounds self-referential, well, it's meant to; Allen deftly flips the bird to the moralizing public. "Life is short, and there are no rules," a pizza-delivery man (the amusing Danny Hoch) says, to silence the outrage at the finale. Gradually, the honeymoon suite fills with all the affronted parties: wives, husbands, rabbi, psychiatrist. In the hubbub, Allen's wisecracks zing back and forth like a shuttlecock. "I admit Freud was a genius," the rabbi (Richard Libertini) says. "Who else could make an hour into fifty minutes?" Since the revue sketch is now an almost defunct art, the style of how to play it has been more or less forgotten. To fill in their cartoon outlines, the actors have to bring their own vivid attitudes. A special shout-out, therefore, to Julie Kavner, a familiar Allen player, as Fay, the mother of the wayward bride; her grumbling voice and her put-upon shuffle convey the lament of ages. When her husband says that he wants to donate his organs to science, Kavner gives him the slow-eye: "Nobody's going to want your organs, Sam, unless you include Pepto-Bismol." Allen has just finished shooting his forty-third film. Although some of his tales over the past decade have shown signs of fatigue, in the annals of the last century's joy Allen, as filmmaker, stand-up comic, and joke writer, fills a large chapter. "Honeymoon Motel" offers not just a spectacle of comic bedlam but the pleasure of witnessing Allen kicking up his heels. In other words, it's a rollicking good time. ♦ You Might Like Jigsaw Puzzle Strongbox Submissions Goings On App About Us Caption Contest The New Yorker Festival ✕ The New Yorker Strongbox Strongbox is a new way for you to share information, messages, and files with our writers and editors and is designed to provide you with a greater degree of anonymity and security than afforded by conventional e-mail. 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Anonymous said: I love hockey so much, that I've chosen to go on exchange in Holland so I can play hockey on a higher level😂
I would love to do something like that tbh! Last year apparently my travel team had Irish girls come play with them, I wasn't on that team yet though!
onatripinmyhead said: I also had 2 more questions: what's that about the goggles? Because we don't have them…And is it true that field hockey is often considered a "girls sport" in the USA? Because here it isn't! A lot of boys play field hockey and they're respected instead of being ridiculed.(Sorry for my bad English but we speak French and Dutch in my country so my English level isn't that great…)
Your English is great! And yes, at the high school level in my area of the US we have to wear goggles. I know colleges here don't require them, and high schools in other areas don't either. It's just for safety. And yes many of the boys at school say how hockey is a girls sport and it's dumb!
onatripinmyhead said: Heeey ! I'm from Belgium and I absolutely looove your blog! It's the second year I play field hockey and I'm frustrated I didn't start earlier because now I'm 18 and I don't think I will ever be able to do that on a higher level. I wondered if you had tips to give to me to play better? I often play back but it sometimes happens I have to play as an attacker.
Honestly just play your heart out. Practice as much as you can because it will help. Take advice from anyone who offers it. If you wanna be good play in a few different club teams that way you get a few different coaches to teach you a few different things. And don't get discouraged if you "mess up." Lastly have fun playing because you'll never be good if you don't enjoy it (:
So I was helping my coach out at the field hockey camp she runs and one of the little kids said "something smells like it's burning", I replied with,"that's my skin"
Anonymous said: Where are you from? xx
New york
So pumped for the Futures tournament Saturday ! Also, school is ending soon so hopefully I'll have more time to post! But…. I also got a new job, so that may take up some time, and of course I'll be playing fhockey, 'cause what would any of us rather be doing? Blogging about it or playing? I think we'd all pick playing ! Anyways, I hope all of you are well and are excited for your coming seasons !
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forever field hockey: What It Feels Like to Play
What it Feels Like to Play
Everything else doesn't matter. It's me, my team, our sticks, and a ball. All my focus goes to that one white, yellow, or orange ball. I know the girls behind me have my back, and I know that any trash talk given to me will be returned by those girls I love so much….
^^^ I wrote that on my other blog, so those are my exact feels, not just a reblog.
I like to watch field hockey matches of summer olympic games since one rarely sees this sport on telly. For some reason the dutch team was my favourite :).
OLYMPICS USA on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/46840860/via/0thatsnotmyname0
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sydney--15 said: hiii! i'm not sure if you remeber me but last year around indoor season i messaged you and asked if you had any advice for me because i got asked to play indoor with varsity and i was in 8th grade and i was extemeley nervous. Thanks to your advidce I wasn't so nervous and played pretty well, i then went and played with them for tournaments in the spring. It helped me alot. This year I made Varsity my freshman year (we have a jv team) and I started as a center forward. My team did really well....
that's amazing ! you took a chance and left your comfort zone and from the looks of things it worked out pretty well (: i'm very proud of you and happy to help (:
I'm Sorry I Haven't Posted in a while!
I've just gotten so busy with school and practice and all. And I'd like to say it'll get better in winter but I play a sport every season and ugh, idk I'll figure it out.


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Mfundo says it's surprising that ZANU PF is now in agreement with the two MDC formations on the new draft constitution and it's obvious they are up to something. They have the strategy to rig elections and cling on to power and it will be catastrophic to go for elections without all reforms implemented; while Nixon says ZPF is trying to penetrate Matabeleland by using money to lure people into joining their party, forgetting they have marginalised the region for 33 years. People are now so resilient they are not moved by any propaganda or handouts given to them and won't vote ZPF in a million years.
Alex Bell stands in for Tererai Karimakwenda and speaks to Ben Freeth from the SADC Tribunal Rights Watch group about the new constitution and the worrying sections that have enshrined discrimination and illegal land seizures into law.
Tanonoka Joseph Whande bemoans the fact that the funeral of the late Professor John Makumbe was used as a political platform by members of the MDC-T. He says the "sanctity of funerals is being violated by politicians who hijack funerals and take to the podium to talk about themselves and their inadequacies, neglecting those who gather in anguish to bid their loved ones farewell." He adds: "I did not expect this from MDC-T leaders."


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When sex becomes a production or performance that is when it loses its value. Be mutual. Be loud. Be clumsy. Make noises, be quiet, and make a mess. Bite, scratch, push, pull, hold, thrust. Remove pressure from the moment. Love the moment. Embrace it. Enjoy your body; enjoy your partners' body. Produce sweat, be natural, entice your senses, give into pleasure. Bump heads, miss when you kiss, laugh when it happens. Speak words, speak with your body, speak to their soul. Touch their skin, kiss their goose bumps, and play with their hair. Scream, beg, whimper, sigh, let your toes curl, lose yourself. Chase your breath; keep the lights on, watch their eyes when they explode. Forget worrying about extra skin, sizes of parts and things that are meaningless. Save the expectations, take each second as it comes. Smear your make up, mess up your hair, rid your masculinity, and lose your ego. Detonate together, collapse together, and melt into each other.
so perfect.
make me choose • Anonymous asked Martha Jones
orand Donna Noble?
So this guy volunteers at the Olympics. He figures maybe he'll get to see some amazing athletes doing athletic things. And then the fastest man alive gives him a fist bump.
Look at all that happy.
this is still my favourite thing on the internet
I still love this
color palette + bonnie, part 2 (insp.)
Nothing can make Idris Elba look stupid - GM
you dont have to agree with his policies but you have to admit hes the coolest president weve had ever
Danai and Lupita
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something. (Anthony Mackie by Nicholas Maggio)


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BUFFALO, NY (Bisons.com) - Winning their past two games in walk-off fashion Bisons starting pitcher Dillon Gee made sure it did not need to come down to that in today's game. Facing the Gwinnett Braves in the finale of a four-game series Gee threw a gem and locked down the Braves in a 2-1 win at Coca-Cola Field this afternoon.
Gee tossed eight innings today, which was a season-high for the right hander this year. Throughout his eight innings Gee only gave up three hits and one run. That lone run for the Braves came in the fourth inning when third baseman Diory Hernandez hit a sharp line drive to right field that just went over the outstretched glove of second baseman Andy Green. Hernandez's single gave the Braves the first run of the game as left fielder Matt Young scored.
During his eight innings of work Gee also struck out eight batters, bringing his season total to 110 strikeouts. Gee is now only 27 strikeouts behind Vicente Palacios for the record for most strikeouts in the modern era and currently ranks sixth on the all-time single season list. The Herd would answer back from Hernandez's RBI single in the bottom half of the fourth when Green hit a double to center field allowing right fielder Valentino Pascucci to score, tying the game up at one. The Bisons would then take the lead by a go-ahead double from left fielder Jorge Padilla. After a sacrifice fly got the winning run home from the bat of Padilla last night his double was again the difference in today's contest as the Herd ultimately won 2-1.
After the Herd taking the lead Gee took control. From the fifth inning on Gee was in command as only one batter reached base when he gave up a four pitch walk to Young in the sixth.
Another notable stat for Gee's outing today was the number of pitches he threw. The starter managed to work through nearly the entire game while only throwing 97 pitches, 65 of them being for strikes.
Ensuing Gee's departure, reliever Mike O'Connor entered the game in a save situation. O'Connor breezed through the Braves top of the order needing only nine pitches to retire the side and pick up his second save of the year. The Bisons see their record improve to 49-45 and win their first series back from their All-Star break. The Braves are now 43-52 on the season.
BISONS NOTES: Padilla was the catalyst of the Bisons offense today, going 3-4 with an RBI while the rest of the team only managed to get four more hits. Padilla is now hitting .330 for the year. The Bisons will travel to Rochester tomorrow to begin a home and home series with the Red Wings. The Herd will send Tobi Stoner to the mound tomorrow (4-7, 5.66 ERA) to take on Ryan Mullins (4-7, 4.70 ERA).


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Soooo… i made a Johnlock poem…
I found my fate on a hospital rooftop.
My pride was faltered by his cocky grin.
My logic discovered the flaw in his plan.
My wit was no match for the bullets of steel.
My love stood on a ledge and called.
My fate told lies then jumped.
A man ran across a busy street,
My fate thrown out across the cold concrete,
Perhaps it was because the man believed so fate stepped in to prove him wrong.
The man came to fate on the side of the road heart broken, mouth a little open.
He fell into depression, the man, and wouldn't come out because all the kings horses and all the kings men could put fate together again.
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When summertime's heat begins to drag you down, no main course does a better job of making you feel refreshed and lightened than a main course salad. A plateful of fresh greens and other vegetables, combined with some chilled protein and a flavorful dressing, can excite and satisfy you without sending you into a stupor. And, of course, it may also help you continue to look good in your bathing suit.
One of my favorite summer main course salads is a classic known as Crab Louie, which you'll also sometimes see spelled as Crab Louis. The difference in spellings is a tipoff to the fact that varying accounts exist of how this popular salad came to exist. Some trace it all the way back to the late-17th/early-18th-century court of French King Louis XIV, renowned for his patronage of the arts and his opulent lifestyle at the Palace of Versailles. Others credit the origin to more recent times, variously placing its birth in the early 20th century to restaurants, hotels, or clubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane, or Portland -- all West Coast establishments with access to premium Pacific crabmeat.
As for the question of whether you call the salad "Louie" or "Louis," to tell you the truth I haven't come across any plausible explanation for the two competing spellings. I've just always spelled it the first way, but accept that others prefer the "s" to the "e."
After at least 100 and possibly more than 300 years, the salad's preparation has developed in many varied ways. There are constants, of course: the crabmeat, lettuce, tomato, and a so-called Louie dressing that's really a variation on mayonnaise-based Russian or Thousand Island dressing. Some versions may include hardboiled egg, or asparagus, chopped cucumber, or other vegetables.
Over time, I've developed my own favorite version. In place of the usual Romaine or iceberg lettuce, I like to use spears of Belgian endive that guests can use as scoops for the crabmeat mixture if you serve the salad as an appetizer; and mixed baby lettuces add more color and flavor to the presentation. I leave out the cooked egg, but add diced avocado for its own rich flavor and luxurious texture. In place of plain tomato, I make a relish-like chopped tomato salad. And rather than spooning prepared dressing from a bottle, I make my own simple version, which I also share with you here.
Try this salad for your own warm-weather lunch or, in smaller portions, as a starter for a casual summer party. Then, in the spirit of Crab Louie's ever-evolving nature, start coming up with your own variations -- including other vegetables, for example, or adding different kinds of cold cooked seafood to the mix.
Serves 4 as a main course, 8 as an appetizer
2 medium-sized sun-ripened organic tomatoes, halved, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1/4-inch dice
1/2 medium-sized red onion, finely diced
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
1/8 teaspoon sugar
Freshly ground black pepper
1 pound jumbo lump crabmeat
6 tablespoons Thousand Island Dressing (recipe follows)
4 tablespoons finely chopped fresh organic chives
32 Belgian endive leaves
6 cups mixed organic baby salad leaves, well chilled
2 ripe but firm Hass avocados, halved, pitted, peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch dice
First, make the Tomato Relish. In a mixing bowl, combine the tomato, onion, olive oil, parsley, sugar, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir thoroughly. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving time.
Shortly before serving, thoroughly pick through the crabmeat, removing any traces of shell or cartilage. Put the crabmeat in a mixing bowl and gently fold in the Thousand Island Dressing and the chives, taking care to leave lumps of crab.
Arrange the individual endive leaves in flower patterns on chilled serving plates. Arrange a bed of baby salad leaves in the center of each plate. Distribute the crabmeat mixture evenly among the plates, mounding it on top of the salad leaves. Spoon the diced avocado and the Tomato Relish on top of the crabmeat. Serve immediately.
Makes about 1-1/4 cups
3/4 cup store-bought mayonnaise
1/4 cup tomato ketchup
2 tablespoons bottled tomato-based barbecue sauce
2 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
1 tablespoon finely chopped dill pickle or sweet pickle, or bottled cucumber relish
1/2 tablespoon finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
1/2 tablespoon finely chopped fresh organic chives
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The March Of The Black Queen - Queen II - Queen - 1974
Fun fact: This is the hardest song that Freddie has ever written. It was too complicated to play live.
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Which vehicles are the easiest to maintain?
Which vehicles are the easiest to maintain?
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you have to love Honda's, they keep going! VW's if you don't mind payin a little more, Toyota even? but take it from me NO Daewoo/Hyundai etc
I agree your safe with a Toyota, my first car was an '86 Camry and that thing ran trouble free for over 200,000 miles before the body fell apart, well not counting the winter I filled the radiator with coolant from my dads garage not knowing he had already mixed it 50/50..... (I of course mixed it again)
That turned into one solid block of ice... that I discovered after the smoke cleared and the head had cracked!
Just threw in a cheep head from a salvage lot and the thing ran for several more years. :smile:
VW's if you don't mind payin a little more, Toyota even? but take it from me NO Daewoo/Hyundai etc
Hmmm, not sure I'd agree with the comment re: VWs. It depends a lot on the model year I suppose, but their reliability wasn't that great. While general maintenance on my wife's 1999 Passat wasn't too bad, it was plagued with problems. After research and talking to a friend who sold European cars, I was not alone.
Of course on that one, you had to remove the air diverter underneath in order to change the oil and filter. It could have been pretty simple to install a little access door like my Infiniti has.
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I've also been given an overall recommendation of rear-wheel-drive Chevys. Is there any truth to that?
GMs might fail a little more frequently than its asian counterparts, but with the cost of parts it makes little difference. For instance; on most RWD cars, replacing an alternator, power steering pump, or water pump is a super simple job. They are all on the front of an engine that has plenty of room around it, the parts themselves are insanely cheap, and often times it can take a very short time to replace them. FWD cars tend to have accessories buried in nooks and crannies. I tried replacing an alternator on a Saturn which was on the rear bottom of the accessory drive. Not only did I have to remove the passenger-side driveshaft, I had to remove the transaxle case. That meant new CV joints (might as well while you're in there), new axle seals, new tranny case seals, a new alternator, plus crazy labor just to replace an alternator.
A comparison for you. I had a 1973 Impala Station wagon with a 454 big block. I replaced the front brake pads, calipers, and hoses, the rear shoes, cylinders, and had the drums and discs machined. I also bought a new master cylinder. Total cost for parts and machine work was $170. An alternator for that car was $35 and could be replaced in 10 minutes.
Contrast that with my wife's Mercedes 99 E300. A fan blade broke off and killed the radiator. It wasn't a big deal since I could epoxy the radiator and use a junkyard fan, but it took me a good 4 hours to remove the radiator. Then replacing it required an impossible combination of inserting tab A into slot B while also keeping item C and component D inline with item E.
It took me two days to remove and replace a radiator on her Benz, but on my Impala I could do it in 20 minutes, and that included draining the coolant.
Do a search for parts costs of commonly failing items and then compare that with how easy it is to replace them. If you want a real challenge, try replacing the timing belt on a Toyota FWD car. It needs to be done every 60k miles or 100k km. Cost of parts is pretty cheap, but when you look at the 1/4" clearance between the timing cover and the shock tower it gets pretty daunting.
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Well, that's it then. I'm chucking this FWD for a RWD of some kind. I hope I can get away with it without having to replace anything else.
One of the biggest advantages of front wheel drive is decent performance in the snow, which makes up for its disadvantages. If you do not get snow, then IMO RWD is better, for the most part.
As for ease of maintenance, get a truck. I owned several compact pick up trucks; they got the same mileage as a smaller car, nice to drive, but had easy maintenance and repairs, parts were cheap and IMO the basic design was more robust and durable that a typical car.
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Thank you all for the advice. Now.. I just have to figure out how much this vehicle is worth for a trade-in.. probably not much..
Hmmm, not sure I'd agree with the comment re: VWs.
I agree completely. VW's are not one of the friendlier cars to work on in general (or diagnose...or buy parts for)
In general, anything japanese, preferably 4 cylinder will be reliable, mostly-easy to work on, and fairly cheap to maintain....and lets not forget mpg also. Of course, there's always exceptions to any rule, but thats a pretty safe generalization
As for ease of maintenance, get a truck.
Especially a 4wd one. Being able to roll underneath on a creeper and still having room to move is fantastic.:smokin:
As a very general rule, American RWD cars have below average reliability, but the parts are insanely cheap and easy to replace with duct tape in 20 minutes.
UK cars are metallurgical nightmares with poor electrical systems. Parts are poorly reproduced, often times difficult to find, and have a high rate of defects.
Mainland European cars are metallurgically brilliant, but the high-ish cost of parts can be prohibitive. I find the VW to be very American-like, but the earlier models like the A1 and A2 are a dream to work on and parts are dirt cheap. I replaced both axles with new VW parts, a water pump and housing, timing belt, valve cover seal, and some various other parts and the total bill was $300 for parts. BMWs are wonderful little gems and they have gone to great lengths to make maintenance and repair an absolute breeze. Mercedes tends to get a little mired down in packaging and neatness, so some repairs require rather invasive surgery with little regard for mechanic comfort, but they're fine cars.
Japanse cars rarely fail, but when they do it can be a little more costly on parts and sometimes a horrific nightmare to repair. I had to replace the alternator on an early Civic once. Not only did it require removing it from the bottom, it required a complete disassembly of the right suspension, removal of the axle shaft, and removing the side cover of the transaxle. On any of my RWD American cars, its 15 minutes tops. On that civic, it was an 8-hour job that required gaskets, lifting the car, mondo disassembly, and an alignment job when it was done.
There are huge exceptions to all of those, but I just thought some generalizations could help.
There are huge exceptions to all of those, but I just thought some generalizations could help.
And of course it all changes if your in a different country. :licka:
To give you some idea of American parts costs here, a 1 year old, second hand V6 mustang sells here for about twice what it costs in the US.
While I was able to replace the alternator on my partners Civic for a total of US$40.
'86 Chevy Silverado K20. I have had to replace the following: Master cylinder, water pump, rear brake lines/hoses, P/S pump, tierod ends, fuel pump... the $40 and two bolts kind, not the drop-the-tank module nightmare on today's cars. 170,000 miles on it (I've owned it since 124,000) and as far as I know nothing else has been replaced (and I drive my vehicles HARD). It failed to start on me two times. One time a rodent chewed through a fusable link. The other time the starter housing cracked while cranking on a VERY cold morning. That said, I strongly disagree about the unreliability of older RWD American cars.
I've also got a '96 Beretta (171,000 miles) and a '98 Grand Am (192,000 miles). The Beretta has had the A/C compressor, sway bar links, and the head gasket replaced, all easy jobs and cheap except for the compressor. I also had to replace a rear wheel bearing, but that was probably my fault, right before I rolled it the rear swung around and hit the ditch pretty hard. The Grand Am has had the head gasket replaced and needs a water pump as it is begining to leak from the weep-hole (long job, but not too hard and fairly cheap). Both have had the heater cores replaced (very common on the ones that use PLASTIC pipes)
In general, the smaller the engine is in the same car, the easier it is to work on it. I like the compact and midsize GMs with a 4-cyl that had a V6 option.
I've got an 89 Honda Prelude that has had the igniter, cam belt and 1 set of brake pads replaced in 19 years and 140,000kms, it is now due a new set of front pads, and could use a clutch.
My mother has a 96 Accord with 213,000kms that has had even less work done. Just oil, cam belt and brake pads.
Of course anyone can end with a good example of a model, or get the lemon that should have never left the factory.
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Mr. Damian W. Enneking, Jr.
Enneking Medical Inc.
1801 Guinotte Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64120
Dear Mr. Enneking:
During an inspection of your establishment, on July 27 through August 2, 2004, our investigators determined that you manufacture whirlpool systems which may include integrated disinfectant systems, an ultrasonic option, patient lifts and/or patient scales. These products are devices as defined by Section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act).
The inspection revealed that these devices are adulterated within the meaning of Section 501(h) of the Act, in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, their manufacture, packing, storage, or installation are not in conformity with applicable current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements, which are set forth in FDA's Quality Systems (QS) Regulation, codified at Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 820. Specifically:
Failure to establish and maintain procedures for implementing corrective and preventive action [21 CFR 820.100], Your firm does not consistently investigate the failure of a device to meet performance specifications after a device has been released for distribution, and make a written record of the investigation including conclusions and follow-up. Such investigations should address the cause of nonconformities relating to product, processes, and the quality system.
Failure to establish and maintain a complaint handling system [21 CFR 820.198]. Complaint handling procedures for receiving, reviewing, and evaluating complaints have not been established. Complete complaint files are not maintained. Complaints involving the possible failure of a device to meet any of its specifications were not reviewed, evaluated, and investigated where necessary.
Failure to develop, maintain, and implement written Medical Device Reporting procedures [21 CFR 803.17].
Failure to establish a formal quality system [CFR 820.20]. You have not established a quality policy and objectives for, and commitment to, quality. You have not established procedures for management with executive responsibility to review the suitability and effectiveness of the quality system.
Failure to establish and maintain procedures to control the design of the device to ensure that specified design requirements are met [21 CFR 820.30]. Procedures were not established for the identification, documentation, validation or verification, review, and approval of design changes before their implementation.
Certain measuring and test equipment is not suitable for its intended purposes or capable of producing valid results [21 CFR 820.72(a)]. Case to Ground Leakage Current test specification is 300 µA. Your "RLI-300 C" Ohmic Instrument used for testing Case to Ground Leakage Current on your whirlpool tubs and patient lifts is only able to achieve a 200 µA reading.
Failure to maintain device history records all devices to demonstrate that the devices are manufactured in accordance with the device master record [21 CFR 820.184]. Procedures have not been established to ensure that device history records for each batch, lot, or unit are maintained to demonstrate that the device is manufactured in accordance with the device master record and the Quality Systems regulation. Device history records do not routinely include manufacturing dates.
For your clarification, 21 CFR Part 880.5500 defines an AC-powered patient lift; 21 CFR Part 880.5510 similarly defines a non-AC-powered patient lift; 21 CFR Part 880.2720 defines a patient scale; and 21 CFR Part 890.5100 defines a whirlpool tub (immersion hydrobath).
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You should take prompt action to correct this deviation. Failure to do so may result in FDA regulatory action without further notice. These actions include, but are not limited to, seizure, injunction, and/or civil penalties. Federal agencies are advised of the issuance of all Warning Letters about medical devices so that they may take this information into account when considering the award of contracts. Additionally, no premarket submissions for Class III devices to which the violation above is reasonably related will be cleared or approved until the violation has been corrected. Also, no requests for Certificates to Foreign Governments will be approved until the violation related to the subject devices has been corrected.
Please notify this office in writing within 15 working days of receipt of this letter, of the specific steps you have taken to correct the noted violations, including an explanation of each step being taken to identify and make corrections to any underlying systems problems necessary to assure that similar violations will not recur. If corrective action cannot be completed within 15 working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which the corrections will be completed.
Your reply should be sent to Nadine Nanko Johnson, Compliance Officer, at the above address.
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The agency also lacked visibility into how many data centers it funds, and had yet to adopt plans to identify all of those and consolidate wherever needed. Previous numbers indicated the agency operated 58 unclassified data centers but the IG audit found at least 520 more data centers or server rooms existed.
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Our planned itinerary for this trip of the 2014 Tour de France - please note, this is the intended itinerary at this stage but things may change between now and the actual time of the Tour.
Friday the 11th of July:
Arrange your own flight into Basel-Mulhouse airport, where we meet you and offer regular transfers from the airport to the centre of Mulhouse where we shall spend 4 nights on Half board at the 3* Hotel du Parc.
Saturday 12th July:
Our location in Mulhouse is ideal for accessing the stage. After breakfast we leave Mulhouse and travel the short distance to the town of Gerardmer for the stage finish. Those with bikes will be able to ride from Mulhouse to Gerardmer (70km) or travel part way on our vehicle and ride the rest.
Sunday 13th July:
When more details of the stage are released we will arrange bike rides accordingly. Those without bikes will be able to spend the morning at leisure in Mulhouse prior to seeing the stage finish in the afternoon.
After seeing the stage in our chosen location we return to our hotel in Mulhouse and enjoy our evening meal.
Monday 14th July:
After breakfast we leave Mulhouse and travel the short distance to the base of the climb to La Planche des Belles Filles, where those without bikes will be able to walk onto the climb to see the stage. Those with bikes will be able to ride from Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles (72km) or travel part way on the bus and ride the rest.
After the stage finish, we return to our vehicle and get back to our hotel in Mulhouse for the evening meal.
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1Having or relating to two axes.
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Aug 22, 2014
We moved in about 3 months ago. It is such a nice area with lots to do. Their pools are clean as are the rec equipment. We live in a remodeled version and I must say I can really tell the difference when I got the electric/gas bill!! They have an amazing dog park that is HUGE. I have gone through the reviews from the last couple years and have not experienced any negative aspect. Except ceiling fans would be nice. Keri was the first person of contact when we were first looking for a new place to live , she was amazing ,along with the rest of the staff we have had to deal with. I recently was laid off at my job and they were very understanding and willing to work with me as far as payment. They didn't make it a nightmarish headache like they easily could have. I have noticed the maintenance crew is very efficient and friendly and keep the place clean. One other thing I really like is there are lots of doggy waste and clean up stations. And when we have company there is plenty of extra parking where I'm at. Very happy here.
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I have lived here for two- plus years. I have loved it. Maybe the staff was different before, I don't know but in the 2 years I have lived here not much has changed, thankfully. My apartment is on the first floor, and yes, of course I hear the neighbors if they have their music on high, or if their kids are pretending to be elephants on the stairs. But I have had a really good experience. The staff has been wonderful, very responsive! They have even come to remove a spider from the bathtub. I haven't had more than 2 in the 2 years, but they removed both! The maintenance staff has been very kind and professional which has been a blessing they usually come same day and in fact same few hours. Most places cannot say that. If they can't fix something, they find someone who can. I can only speak for myself, but this is how it has been for me. I just recently broke my foot in 3 places, it has been very painful and my dog has suffered only in that the walks are shorter and slower due to me using a walker. The office and/or maintenance staff, whoever is available, has come to my apartment to get my dog and take him to the dog park or on a long walk! If that isn't customer service, I don't know what is!! They have a person to stand under the trees to make sure there is enough room to walk, the maintenance staff goes around the community once a month to pick up dog feces that their owners were to lazy to pick up, and refill the bags. The grass is watered all spring/summer long to keep the area looking green! I think its an excellent place to live. Yes, it is expensive, there is no doubt, but with the light rail within the community, the dog park two steps away, for someone with a decent salary, or a couple, its perfect!
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My wife and I have resided here in a two bedroom unit with our small dog just short of two years and it's has been a great experience. The facilities (including fitness center) and grounds are well maintained and the entire staff has been courteous, friendly, and helpful. Mike and his maintenance staff have been exceptionally responsive to our maintenance requests, and do a great job on snow removal, litter pick-up and cleaning up after negligent pet owners. The office staff . . Leticia, Angela, Melissa, Kari and Haylee will do anything within their power to assist their tenants and have even let my dog out in an emergency. This is a pet and kid friendly complex. For those that have school age children, a bus pick up for the Cherry Creek School District is in front of the leasing office. We have not experienced rowdy or noisy tenant behavior during our tenure here. Convenient location to major highways and rail station. Definitely recommended!
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Jul 22, 2014
I leased a 1-bedroom unit sight unseen. Needless to say the amenities the unit was "supposed" to contain were not present. Despite an "upscale" price, the contractor's and materials installed are sub-standard. There's paint on EVERYTHING: carpets, mirrors, fixtures... it was obvious no drop cloth was used as they slopped on the paint. I suppose management considers the streaks of running/dripping paint as 'decorative', the carpet is cheap builder grade and worn (should have been replaced), the cabinets were "resurfaced (meaning they applied wood grain adhesive tape to cosmetically hide their condition). The grounds are always littered with trash and debris; it often feels as if the tenants are low income housing/Section 8 types. To confirm this there's been incidents which someone has spray-painted obscenity on the interior walls and carpets. The management staff lacks any follow-up ability and maintenance is a joke. We have had several issues and it seems the groundskeepers double as the maintenance crew.
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Jul 12, 2014
I have lived in the savoy for two years. Although the homes are nice the main office people are very unprofessional. The manager is very rude to children and her own employes. I have often seen her yelling and giving attitude to her employes and people who live in the complex. Also, the other employes often make you wait and aren't professional. Personally, I have seen them walking around the office singing very loudly and i have seen seen one of the girls making out with the maintenance man. Overall, the people who work there are rude and unprofessional and the homes are over priced. There is dog poop everywhere and I often see people smoking although is is a " smoke free living environment". I would not recommend living in the Savoy.
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Third Cherry Creek, Aurora, 80014
Some errands can be accomplished on foot.
A few nearby public transportation options.
Flat as a pancake, some bike lanes.
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Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from The Savoy at Dayton Station Apartments.
The Savoy at Dayton Station Apartments has some transit which means a few nearby public transportation options.
Rail lines:
H-Line Light Rail H-Line
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Bus lines:
105 Havana Street
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73 Quebec Street
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35 Hampden Avenue
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27 Yale Avenue
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The Savoy at Dayton Station Apartments is in the Third Cherry Creek neighborhood. Third Cherry Creek is the 13th most walkable neighborhood in Aurora with a neighborhood Walk Score of 48.


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