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The impact of the automotive industry on society is unlike that of any other industry. The automobile is not just a technology or mode of transportation; it is a fundamental determinant of the entire economy. In the United States, one of every six workers deals in some way with automobiles and trucks—making them, repairing them, driving them professionally, insuring them, licensing them, and building and maintaining highways for them. As for fuel, a steep rise in the price of gasoline seriously affects the entire U.S. economy, even causing a recession. Moreover, those nations that must import large quantities of oil find that their dependence has a telling effect on their balance of payments and creates potentially problematic relationships with the countries that produce oil, to the extent that dependence on foreign oil is an element of national security. Any nation's effort to build an automotive industry is, then, about far more than manufacturing cars and providing people with greater mobility. It is about changing the entire economic and employment structure of the nation.
China has one of the fastest-growing fleet of automobiles in the world. In 2001 its motor vehicles totaled 18 million, including 5 million cars, of which 600,000 were produced in 2000.1 If China's number of motor ve-
In this report the term motor vehicles excludes two-wheeled vehicles unless otherwise indicated. It does include cars, trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles. The 2001 figure for motor vehicles was obtained from the China Statistical Abstract, published by the China State Statistical Bureau in May 2002. The 2001 figure for cars is a projection based on 1998 data from the State Commission of Economy and Trade.
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Personal Cars and China 1 Introduction The impact of the automotive industry on society is unlike that of any other industry. The automobile is not just a technology or mode of transportation; it is a fundamental determinant of the entire economy. In the United States, one of every six workers deals in some way with automobiles and trucks—making them, repairing them, driving them professionally, insuring them, licensing them, and building and maintaining highways for them. As for fuel, a steep rise in the price of gasoline seriously affects the entire U.S. economy, even causing a recession. Moreover, those nations that must import large quantities of oil find that their dependence has a telling effect on their balance of payments and creates potentially problematic relationships with the countries that produce oil, to the extent that dependence on foreign oil is an element of national security. Any nation's effort to build an automotive industry is, then, about far more than manufacturing cars and providing people with greater mobility. It is about changing the entire economic and employment structure of the nation. China has one of the fastest-growing fleet of automobiles in the world. In 2001 its motor vehicles totaled 18 million, including 5 million cars, of which 600,000 were produced in 2000.1 If China's number of motor ve- 1 In this report the term motor vehicles excludes two-wheeled vehicles unless otherwise indicated. It does include cars, trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles. The 2001 figure for motor vehicles was obtained from the China Statistical Abstract, published by the China State Statistical Bureau in May 2002. The 2001 figure for cars is a projection based on 1998 data from the State Commission of Economy and Trade.
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Personal Cars and China hicles per capita were comparable to the world average, its fleet would have to number 160 million, with 10 million new and replacement vehicles acquired each year. But, as revealed in Chapter 2, vehicle ownership is strongly correlated with a country's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and average personal income. This suggests that a reasonable estimate for the number of vehicles in China in 2005 is about 25 million, a number in agreement with the general expectations of government planning. CHINA'S FIVE-YEAR PLAN In its eighth national five-year plan (1991–1995), the Chinese government designated the automotive industry as a "pillar industry" of the economy.2 In its most recent five-year plan for the automotive industry (2001–2005), the government proposes specific actions to restructure and strengthen the industry, which is now primarily engaged in truck manufacture and in joint ventures with foreign manufacturers for automobile assembly, and to produce a Chinese family car at a price that would encourage mass ownership (for specifics of the five-year plan for the automotive industry, see the appendix to this chapter and Chapter 3). The plan emphasizes advanced technology and the production of vehicles that will be competitive in the international market, and gives priority to investments in highways and oil and gas pipelines. More specifically, the plan suggests that only two or three of the 118 existing automotive manufacturing companies will still be active in 2005, and it indicates which technologies will be used in manufacture and which will be incorporated into Chinese cars. Government planners anticipate that the new automobiles can be produced by independent Chinese companies, but they acknowledge that Chinese accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will complicate that prospect. From the perspective of the Chinese automotive industry, the five-year plan represents short- and long-term opportunities and challenges. In the short term, the industry will receive government support to assist in consolidation and aid in expanding the domestic market. At present, nearly all the cars manufactured in China are produced by joint ventures, but the central government has indicated a desire to promote a Chinese-designed car, and additional resources may be made available for that effort. In the medium to long term, the automotive industry must adjust to the effects of China's membership in the WTO, which will open the 2 The five-year plan is a national economic plan prepared by the central government of China. It is intended to provide guidance to both government and industry.
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Personal Cars and China domestic market to a higher volume of imports that will challenge even the joint ventures in the growing Chinese market. In the longer term, Chinese companies will have to expand their capability in research and development (R&D), product design, and advanced manufacturing techniques in order to compete internationally in the car market. Such expansion will require major investments in research and development, which among successful international vehicle manufacturers is usually about 4–5 percent of revenues per year. To achieve that level of investment and support a high-quality research program, the China automotive industry would have to capture a significant share of the domestic market, in competition with joint ventures and imported vehicles, and at the same time conform to emissions and efficiency standards that will require the use of advanced technologies and high-quality fuels. There are, however, other kinds of vehicles, such as the agricultural vehicles and motorcycles in which China has a greater advantage and experience, that might be used to establish niches in the international market or to serve as a springboard to successful automobile manufacture and marketing, as they did for Honda (see Chapter 3). Although implementation of the five-year plan will certainly bring about several improvements in the domestic motor vehicle industry and in the quality of products sold in the Chinese market, it is still not clear whether the Chinese industry will be able to nourish and sustain an R&D effort sufficient to develop an internationally competitive, indigenous vehicle. Success stories abound among China's neighbors in Asia, but China faces a difficulty they did not have. In addition to its need to compete with strong, mature industries in Japan, Europe, and the United States that are already well established in the region and in China itself, the Chinese government, as a member of the WTO, will find it difficult to protect its domestic industry as it enters the period of high growth. Indeed, the Chinese industry will face many challenges in seeking the capability to produce independently an internationally competitive product. Among other things, indigenous Chinese companies will have to expand their R&D capabilities, including in new product design and advanced manufacturing techniques, and they will have to invest heavily in manufacturing facilities so they can accommodate all new vehicle designs. In any event, the growing automobile fleet, whether produced by indigenous Chinese industry, joint ventures, or imports, will present the Chinese people with both potential benefits and potential liabilities. In the short term, a more mobile population will have greater freedom of choice in housing location, employment, and leisure. But in urban areas, in the absence of government intervention, air quality will worsen, the number of automobile accidents will increase, and congestion will take a toll on the quality of life. In rural areas, increased motorization will likely
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Personal Cars and China produce less distressing effects and will bring new lifestyles and economic benefits without the immediate impact of congestion and pollution. In the longer term, the form of the cities will change, as they have nearly every-where else in the world, and the population will move outward, leaving the city centers largely to the very wealthy and to the poorer people without automobiles. Although these effects can be mitigated, as they have been in some cities of the world, a new approach to government management and regulation will be required. Nationwide, the costs of car ownership will increase as national performance standards on emissions, efficiency, fuel quality, and safety are applied. Of great concern is the expectation that energy consumption will rise, and China will become more dependent on imported petroleum. Many other countries have gone through a similar motorization process, though few in so short a time. Some countries provide models for coping with the economic, environmental, and societal effects of rapid motorization; others serve as successful examples of the rapid development of a viable, independent automotive industry. Singapore, Hong Kong (China), Curitiba (Brazil), and Houston (United States) provide different approaches for controlling congestion in cities, though they were not simultaneously trying to develop a local automotive industry. The United States and Europe have different approaches to controlling emissions. The United States, Europe, and Japan have active policies for limiting fuel consumption, but each has a different strategy. Japan, Korea, and Brazil have had varied experiences in the rapid development of an indigenous automotive industry, and the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) program in the United States has served as an example of a government-industry partnership to develop advanced technology. Each of these experiences, some more successful than others, offers a different lesson. None of these countries' experiences is closely reproducible in the present situation in China, but a careful examination of them will be helpful to Chinese planners. INTERACADEMY COLLABORATION In August 1999 a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) visited Washington, D.C., to enlist the collaboration of the U.S. National Academies in a joint study of the issues described in this chapter. When representatives of the National Academies visited Shanghai in October 1999, the institutions signed a memorandum of understanding and agreed on a plan to carry out a joint study (see Appendix A of this report). The National Academies have a nearly 140-year history of providing the U.S. government and other governments and organizations with sci-
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Personal Cars and China entific and technological advice. Generally, this advice is tendered in the form of consensus study reports by balanced panels of experts, who are not paid for their contributions. The Chinese Academy of Engineering also is developing a program of reports and conferences that offer technical advice to the government. For this study, the Chinese and U.S. academies formed a single committee of experts, half nominated by the CAE and half by the U.S. National Academies (the full list of committee members appears in the front matter). The committee was cochaired by Guo Konghui, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and W. Dale Compton, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. The committee met five times—in Beijing, Shanghai, and Changchun, China; Washington, D.C.; and Davis, California. The purpose of the study was to: achieve an understanding of the benefits and costs of developing personal-use vehicles in China propose options for solving the problems of congestion, pollution, increased energy consumption, and changes in the urban structure suggest strategies for developing a Chinese national car, as described in the five-year plan, while taking into account China's social development, the available technologies, opportunities for international cooperation, the possibility of cooperation between government and industry, the role of such a car in the national transportation system, and the impact of a large increase in the number of private cars on sustainable development. These issues are discussed in the chapters that follow. Chapter 2 describes the global patterns of motorization and compares China's present situation with that of other countries. Chapter 3 summarizes the present status of the Chinese automotive industry and describes some alternative future development paths. Conventional and advanced developments in automotive technologies that may be available in the near or long term to Chinese industry are described in Chapter 4. The status of the fuel and energy industries that will play a crucial role in the development of an environmentally and economically sustainable auto industry is reported in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 describes the probable societal effects of rapid motorization, including urban congestion, physical expansion of cities, and, at the same time, new lifestyle benefits for vehicle owners. The hazards associated with the atmospheric pollution caused by automobiles and the steps the Chinese government is taking to control emissions are described in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 is devoted to the prospects for government-industry cooperation for automotive research and development, and
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Personal Cars and China the last chapter presents the findings and recommendations of the joint study committee. The report also includes a case study of the effects of motorization on Shanghai (see Appendix B). It describes some of the municipality's innovative responses to congestion problems. APPENDIX: CHINA'S FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY—ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROBLEMS China's five-year plan for the automotive industry (2001–2005) identifies concrete goals and strategies for stimulating the rapid growth of the industry. (These goals and strategies are described in an appendix to Chapter 3.) Some of the achievements of the automotive industry and some of its remaining major problems also are listed in the plan. The achievements are: High production advantages. Eighty percent of the state's investment in the automotive sector is now concentrated in the 13 leading manufacturers. Progress in product structure. Cars as a proportion of total vehicle production rose from 8.3 percent in 1990 to 20.2 percent in 2000, and many of the new cars had electronic fuel injection systems. Higher exports of parts and components. Local suppliers provide up to 80 percent of the content of domestically produced vehicles, and they have been exporting 30 percent more parts and components each year. Greater product development capability. China has shifted from importing all manufacturing technology to developing some technology. New vehicle products have been developed jointly with foreign partners. Significant progress in foreign economic and technology cooperation. More than 600 automotive enterprises have been established in China with foreign participation. Foreign investment in the automotive sector has reached $21 billion (RMB174 billion).3 Four areas are listed as major problems: Uncultivated consumer market for automobiles. The automotive sector has not developed a consumer-oriented policy—that is, the product line, marketing, and pricing of manufacturers are not tailored to meet consumers' needs. Moreover, some local governments impose fees and complex registration procedures or ban imports from other regions. Weak product development capability. Chinese automobile manufac- 3 Currency conversions are based on an exchange rate of U.S.$1 = RMB8.3.
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Personal Cars and China turers lack a strong vehicle development capability, in part because of limited investment in research and development—less than 1 percent of revenue, which is much lower than that of most international manufacturers. Underdeveloped supply industry. Despite the gains just noted, China's auto supply industry is fragmented and uncompetitive compared with international norms, with little economy of scale. Duplicate construction and serious fragmentation. Local protective high tariffs and market restrictions have led local governments to launch new independent automobile assembly projects. The plan also describes the effects of impending WTO membership in three areas: Tariff reduction and abolition of quota and import licenses. Imports will place new pressures on domestic manufacturers, especially imports of passenger cars, advanced engines, drive axles and key parts assemblies, and high-end heavy-duty trucks. Opening up of the automobile service trade. The arrival of foreign companies providing sales and distribution, franchise dealerships, shipping and transportation, financing, and car rental and leasing will further open channels for imports at the expense of locally produced vehicles. Abolition of the "localization policy." The disappearance of China's present policy of preference for local enterprises will have a negative effect on foreign investment, technology transfer, and new product development in the Chinese automotive sector.


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Stay tuned!
Major blog redesign coming!
Knitting, crochet, cakes, crafts, stitching, the kids, even me… soon we'll all have our own place and everything will be organized properly. I'm going to go through the older posts and repost anything of note, and share all the cool new things that I've worked on in the last year or so. Hope it's worth the wait!
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happy new year!
It's 2013! If I go back through my archives I've been blogging since September 2004. In September 2014 I'll have been blogging for 10 years. Whoa.
It's a new year, and instead of making resolutions to DO, I'm making resolutions to TRY.
I'm going to TRY to blog more. I'm going to TRY to knit for ME. I'm going to TRY to publish more patterns, or at least let you know about ones that have been published. (Did any of you know I've got a pattern in the Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts Issue? Didn't think so).
We started the new year off right by doing something different. We took a family vacation! Plattsburgh, NY is under 2 hours away, and there's a hotel there with lots of activities for the kids.
(ps that tarp isn't because of any leak- they were getting ready to fill it with balloons to drop at midnight on NYE)
There are good restaurants in the area and right near a 24 hour Walmart, a Sally's Beauty Supply, a Michael's… :D
We drove down with 5 other families that have kids about the same ages, and in the hotel were other groups of 2-5 families that we all knew, so we were always around friends. We did a lot of shopping, a lot of socializing and I even managed to squeeze in a bit of knitting while the boys watched TV as we changed for dinner.
I worked on my fun fur vest…no pics yet 'cus I keep forgetting to take one.
Speaking of shopping in the States…the shopping carts for when out with kids are awesome! If the store doesn't have a double-seater cart, my boys have to take turns walking, or scrounge around for one of the few carts with a car attached to the front. But checkit the carts at Price Chopper:
Awesome no?
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timing is everything
I started a vest for myself. I shouldn't have, but I did.
At guild on Tuesday I won a mini raffle we did, and got a 2012/2013 Bergere de France magazine. There are some GORGEOUS patterns in there, but I was taken by 2 in particular. One of them I'm not sure what yarn to use, but the other…well…it's a fun fur vest. I know.
I know.
But it's really cute, and worse comes to worst I'm always cold at home so…. Yeah. Moving on…
The body is worked on 8mm needles so it's a fast knit. It's kinda a shrug/vest hybrid, and on Wednesday night I cast on. I finished the back ribbing and the first few rows of the body. And then I brought it to work with me on Thursday so I could photocopy the pattern out of the magazine to make it easier to work on.
Now, I shouldn't have started this project on Wed. I had realized just that morning that Christmas might be in 2 weeks, but the last day of daycare/kindergarten is next week, which means I'm running out of time to do the holiday teachers' gifts which I haven't started yet. I *should* have started those. But I didn't.
Which makes it only fitting that I forgot the project at work last night, and then today both boys woke up with fevers, meaning I had to keep them home, and be home all day, and NOT be able to work on the vest.
Which means that in about 5 minutes I'll be starting the holiday teachers' gifts, all due next week. :)
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i'm a proud crafty mama!
I'm so proud of Jakob!
For a while now he's had "His Knitting" on the living room side table. It's worsted weight, garter stitch and it's red of course, and every few weeks he asks if he could knit and I remind him how and he does a stitch or two before getting distracted and then I finish the row so we can put it aside again.
Last night after I picked him up from school we detoured at my LYS before going to get his brother. I had Spidey with me to find yarn to BO and work the spines. At the door I happened to notice a knitting nancy…a modern plastic version of the old spool knitters used for "French knitting". Jakob saw it too, didn't know what it was, but wanted it. When I explained it could help him knit but faster than the two needles for while he was learning, he really wanted it.
I think I have an old spool knitter somewhere but have no idea where to look, and this version, while modern and plastic, also has a nice hook, and 3 interchangeable heads with different post numbers, and is designed for working with beads so the central opening is quite large. It's by Clover, and is quite easy to work with because they designed a really smart groove down the side if each post, making it super easy to get the hook down into the stitch to pull up/over.
Today is a ped day for the elementary schools so I sent Henri off to daycare for a rare one-on-one day with Jakob.
After lunch we're going to the library to get him some audiobooks for bedtime, and then to Tim's for hot chocolate. But first this morning I taught him to spool knit. And he rocks.
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go figure
So. Cast on for a special blankie for my 2nd child in July of 2009. Spent the last 3 years slogging through ever-increasing rows that started with 14 sts and ended at 728 sts per row. Just finished the last, 149th row. About to work row 150- the bind off. And ran out of yarn.
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how to make a viking vest
Henri has wanted to be a viking for a while now. Not for Hallowe'en, I mean he wants to be a viking in general. (It's either viking or pirate, depending on the day).
Jakob got a light-up viking helmet at the How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, and unfortunately when we brought Henri the next day they were all sold out of helmets, so he got a Toothless plushie instead. (Jakob, you'll remember, got the one I knitted for his birthday…which I think I never blogged. Oops).
The kids share the helmet, and last month when it was time to pick costumes for ComicCon (which I think I also forgot to blog…crap) Henri REALLY wanted to wear the helmet and be a viking, but a quick search through the closets revealed that we didn't have any viking clothes. All we had even close to a viking vest (like Hiccup wears in the movie) was a gray zippered sweatshirt-style vest. The kids dressed as Avengers instead but Henri had it stuck in his mind that that was his viking vest and he has worn it non-stop ever since. He's worn it to school on back-to-back days, he's worn it over his fall jacket, he wears it around the house, and on more times than I can count I check on him at night to find that he's put it on over his pjs and worn it to sleep.
(Something about a 3 year old with tousled sleep hair in footie-pjs, amirite?)
He stops strangers to point out his "viking vest", but commented a few weeks ago how "it's not a REAL viking vest, Mommy, because it has a zipper and REAL viking vests have buttons". Oh. Right. 'Cus vikings didn't have zippers.
I promised I'd make him a viking vest, and yesterday I did just that. I took photos throughout so if you want to make one, you can too.
I used some fur fabric my neighbor gave me, a sheet of newspaper, a sharpie & a pair of scissors, plus a sharp large-eyed needle, black acrylic yarn and white cotton yarn. The only other thing you need is a vest that fits your child (or you!).
I started by laying the vest on the paper and traced half of it. I used my finger to push down then traced to know where the neckline in the middle lined up.
I knew I wanted to add some length to the bottom and the armhole so it would fit him longer, as well as lowering the neckline to a v-neck, so I made those changes on my template.
I cut it out and checked against the vest.
I decided I wanted to make the neckline more sloped so marked off the changes on the pattern…
…then cut it out and checked again.
I was happy with the shape so I traced it onto my fabric. It's hard to see, but I traced out the half-vest pattern, flipped it and traced again for the other front, then traced it back-to-back, flipped, for a piece to fit the back. The only thing I didn't realize is that the fur fabric had a direction to it in which the fur laid flat. I tried to be as economical with the fabric as possible so didn't have a choice, but you would probably rather make sure you're lying the pieces with the fur running from up to down, like natural fur.
I cut the pieces out on the porch which was a great idea because there were bits of fur flying EVERYWHERE. I used my fingers to fluff up and pick at all the edges to make sure I'd gotten as many stray cut bits as possible before bringing it into the house.
I used a sharp needle and black chunky acrylic yarn from a big-box store to work a blanket stitch edging around each piece. I eyeballed it, placing the stitches roughly 0.5″ apart, and 0.5″ down into the fabric.
The simple edging really gave the pieces a finished, yet still "handmade by Vikings" look. (In this light you can see my fur runs in the opposite direction from how the vest will be worn, oops!)
This is the inside of the pieces, for those who like that kinda thing. :)
I used the same black yarn to seam the two sides and the shoulders together. I did something similar to mattress stitch, butting up the two pieces to be joined and catching a loop from each edge all the way along.
Almost done!
Inside shot.
For a finishing touch I used white worsted-weight cotton yarn (dishcloth cotton) and made large stitches across the joined pieces. This is purely decorative, but makes it look like Vikings really made it! according to my 3 and 5 year olds, and I trust them.
This is Henri's final costume- a green long-sleeved tee, brown cords, his new vest and the light-up plastic helmet. I may make a Viking axe if I have time/remember by Hallowe'en.
Henri the Brave!
Back view.
He thought he was dancing for me. I just wanted to see the decorative stitches.
That's one happy Viking!
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useful skills
It's a good thing I can crochet without looking, because I'm trying to watch last night's episode of CSI:NY and so far its a silent episode! It's like Buffy's HUSH all over again, except this one seems to be sponsored by Green Day.
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Holly, I sense, will manage with or without her darling Puffin. Even if her heart is broken (and I'm betting that she'll be at Hef's side until he gives up the ghost), she is aware of the possibility of an "expiration date" and assures me that being on the show has pushed her to do more than "sit around and eat bonbons."The ever-buoyant Bridget, whose father's copies of Playboy inspired her to want to be "really pretty," has kept her eye on the ball as well, planning for a future by taking voice-over classes and extension courses in broadcast journalism at UCLA.
So it is Kendra I worry about. For all her claims that Hef is her "her" and the person who "saved" herq"I have a reason to live now,"she saysshe seems terrified that she'll fail to earn her keep and end up back in the grungy circumstances where she started. Kendra seems to have had little in the way of an upbringing or education, and she tells me that she still feels "intimidated" when she talks to Hefner. And although she insists that she loves to laugh, her rat-tat-tat bray never suggests that she finds anything remotely funny.
Where will Kendra go when she is no longer the Pimp My Ride version of Alice in Wonderland? To the extent that Hefner has really saved herKendra's father left when she was four, and she appears to have developed no skin under her sassshe has the most to lose when she is once more outside the mansion's gates. "I go with my gut," she says confidently (and she used her earnings from the show to buy an apartment in San Diego), but in the next breath she says that she feels like she's on quot;a roller coaster." She knows she wants kids and a husband "after I get cut from here," but beyond that, it all seems hazy.
A month or so after I've returned home, it occurs to me that what Holly doesn't like about Kendra may be the same thing that left me feeling so uneasy after my visitwhich is the dark mirror she holds up to the pampered bird-in-a-cage existence the girls lead. When I asked Holly at the close of our chat whether she'd ever want a daughter to follow in her footsteps, her answer was an emphatic "No!" She went on to say that she has "big plans" for her hypothetical daughters, just as she always had "big dreams" for herself. Who, I wonder, has plans or dreamseven little onesfor Kendra? And without them, will she become just another casualty of the starmaking machine, like former centerfolds Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith? Or is this where Hef's fatherly beneficence will come in, enabling her to seek refuge in the Playmate House if life gets too bumpy? Stay tuned.


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Flash: Nasty XML load bug in Internet ExplorerNovember 17th, 2005 by Thomas
Loading XML files in Flash over an SSL Connection in Internet Explorer fails if the Pragma:no-cache or Cache-control:no-cache HTTP headers are set on the XML file.
Wow! I've been chewing on this one for a while… We have a Flash site running on https with dynamically generated XML content. The server always returned the Pragma:no-cache header so that the dynamic data isn't cached in the browser.
The bug is especially hard to find because the request goes out to the server successfully, but the XML object in flash remains undefined for no apparent reason. Only after removing the header output on the server it started to work.
Not nice.
This MS bug report seems to be related.
This post has been replaced by a more recent one, including an application to test the caching behavior of Flash in different browsers.
Flash loading and browser cache test-suite
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lo is 4 months, 30 minute naps, tops. second one today was 15 minutes.
heather3879:My lo will be 6 months this week and still does cat naps. I think it's just her cycle for now.
This! My LO just doesn't take long naps. She will cat nap all day. She used to have a schedule and now she is all over the place. (she is preemie so adjusted right now at 4 months) She all sorts of messed up on her sleep. Poor kiddo!


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|Fri, 02-04-2011 - 12:44am
Hello everyone, I love obsessing about babies and pregnancy so I think I will hang out here with you guys until DH and I decide to work on #2. I'm Natalie and DH is Dennis. We welcomed our son last March 15th and named him William, we call him Will.
DH has been begging for #2 since we could dtd! I am thinking on reality and $$ for daycare, diapers, etc... So, my ideal time for ttc will be next January. I truly would love to try before then but we have to do some serious planning. DH works 18+ hours a day from July-mid-October. No babies will be planned to be born during those months.
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello and I look forward to obsessing over everything pregnancy with all of you!
|Wed, 02-09-2011 - 4:47am
Welcome to the board, Natalie! I can understand the need to work TTC'ing around one or the other partner's job. My husband has a job that's pretty demanding from about mid-September to mid-March, so it's always been my goal to aim for a birth between late spring and early fall.
This is a great group of ladies, so you've found an awesome place to hang out while you wait! Looking forward to seeing you around the board.
Edited because I forgot to introduce myself!
|Sun, 02-06-2011 - 12:54pm
I'm Victoria, 29 and DH and I are WTT our first! Our TTC date is currently unknown.
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Welcome to the group! My partner and I are waiting to try for our first. We haven't set a date because we're just sort of waiting to "feel" ready. We have a few things we'd like to do first (I want to lose some weight, we have some home renovation projects, etc). My partner would like to start asap, I'm thinking more like the end of the year. So it sounds like we are very similar in our waiting times! I'm definitely flexible, so we'll see where we are in a few months. Jump right in and start posting -- this board is so welcoming and friendly. I've popped in and out over the years, and it's always been one of my favorite communities on the web.
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The Project Management Workshop Suite
"For Working and Managing in a Project-Based Environment"
This suite of practical courses is aimed at project team members, team leads, project managers, and
individual contributors who all must work together to execute a variety of endeavors. This suite is
aimed at managers and team members - because project success depends on everyone, not just the
project manager.
From small department projects to major initiatives, projects carry out the business strategy of the
company. In these courses, participants learn the project and relationship skills to work or manage
effectively in this project-based environment. Participants increase their value and contribution on
current projects and advance their ability to manage or participate in a variety of project roles and
Every workshop uses case study exercises and real project examples to bring the tools and techniques
to life. Practical, powerful, and taught in an engaging way, this workshop series gives participants
tools they can use the next day on all their projects.
The ICS Group Five "Golden Rules" of Project Management
Woven into the workshops are the ICS Group Five Golden Rules of Project Management. Mastery of these rules is essential for individual and project team success. They create the alchemy that turns a group of individual contributors into a high performing project team.
Golden Rule #1 - Accountability
Cultivate personal responsibility, accountability and initiative in every team member.
Golden Rule #2 - Communication
Master proactive and productive communication and managing expectations.
Golden Rule #3 - Customer Focus
Maintain business and customer focus and continual team alignment.
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Master the art of applying "Just Enough" project management.
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all who desire to build their project management knowledge and skill.
Duration: 2-days
This 2-day course adds practical simulated case experience to build the mastery of using PM
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techniques to use the PM process in collaboration with team members to improve individual and
team performance. It uses simulated project cases and situations to demonstrate adapting key
project management tools and techniques to the real and challenging project situations teams
encounter every day. Participants learn to create and maintain strong project collaboration and
to use various tools, templates, and management approaches effectively in every project situation.
This 1-day course teaches in depth step-by-step project planning techniques for creating sound
schedules that the team can buy into and successfully execute. Participants solve planning challenges
in the roles of project managers, leads, and team members in a cross-functional planning process.
The workshop covers the collaborative use of practical tools such as milestone charts, quality and
release criteria, estimating techniques, review checklists, tradeoff analysis, and budget/cost
worksheets, all aimed at getting to a thorough, doable, team-committed schedule.
Duration: 1-day
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despite common challenges and obstacles. This 1-day course shows project leaders and team members how
to use project management tools and techniques effectively to ensure that issues are spotted early,
collaborative decisions are made quickly, and scope and resource adjustments are made intelligently
so that in the end the project meets the critical business objectives.
Duration: 1-day
Participants in this 1-day interactive course learn to identify, categorize, and prioritize risk factors and experience the use of tools and techniques to manage project risk successfully. This course covers the collaborative use of practical tools such as Qualitative Risk techniques (e.g. Probability and Impact Matrix), Quantitative Risk analysis (e.g. decision trees), Risk Response Templates and Risk Monitoring and Control Plans.
This 1 and a half-day course shows Project Team Leaders how to be far more than the chief implementer of project
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|Dave Dunaway
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|University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
|Civil Rights Documentation Project
|Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the Army in 1947, he returned to Mississippi State University to finish his education. In 1950, he graduated with his undergraduate degree and then went on to graduate with his master's degree in education in 1951. In 1964, Dunaway was appointed principal of Solomon Junior High School where he worked until his retirement in 1979. He then became director of the Mississippi Delta Junior College Continuing Education Center where he remained until 1982, when he became superintendent for the Western Line School District in Washington County. In addition to his successful professional career, Dunaway also worked with other Greenville parents to establish a local school for children with cerebral palsy.
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|Dunaway, Dave, 1927-
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|Speaker occupation:
|Educational administrator
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|Pyle, R. Wayne
|Organizations discussed:
|National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; White Citizens Council
|Historical events discussed:
|Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
|Locations discussed:
|Mississippi; North America; United States
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|African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements--United States; Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; Mississippi; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; North America; Oral history; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-; United States; White Citizens Council
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- After-Hours Lecture Series
- and Case Writing to steep fellows in industry practice and acquaint them more broadly with others in the industry.
The Program is run by Margaret Cannella '76. Margaret is the Administrative Director of the Private Equity Program and has been teaching at Columbia Business School as an Adjunct Professor since 2008. She spent thirty years at JPMorgan and Citigroup in investment banking, retiring as Managing Director and Head of Global Research. She is currently working with Oaktree Capital, a private equity firm and sits on the boards of several manufacturing and financial services companies.
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Breaking Down Global Portfolio Amid Turmoil
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- CNBC recently broadcast a show on six ETF portfolios constructed by Jim Lowell from Forbes Magazine, Matt Hougan from Index Universe and Tom Lydon from ETF Trends. The investment themes were diversified global core, global bull, global bear, global sideways market, emerging market and rising inflation.
A few days ago, I wrote a blog post deconstructing the global sideways portfolio, noting the exercise is a positive effort that do-it-yourself investors can learn from. In this article, I'll deconstruct the diversified global core portfolio. No portfolio can be perfect. So this portfolio will have plusses and minuses that we can learn from.
The diversified global core portfolio consists of: Vanguard FTSE All World Ex-U.S. (VEU), 30% target weight; iShares Russell 3000 (IWV), 20%; SPDR S&P China (GXC), 10%; iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond (LQD), 10%; Vanguard Total Bond Market Fund (BND), 10%; SPDR Barclays International Treasury Bond (BWX), 5%; PowerShares DB Commodity (DBC), 10%; and PowerShares G-10 Currency Harvest (DBV), 5%.
The asset allocation is 60% in equities, 25% in fixed income, 10% in commodities and 5% in absolute return. The Currency Harvest ETF goes long on the three highest-yielding currencies in the G-10 and shorts the three lowest-yielding currencies. It's billed as an absolute-return vehicle. It's crucial that an investor have the correct asset allocation for his circumstances. The asset allocation for the diversified global core seems very reasonable for this sort of exercise.I'm not a fan of broad-based index funds like the Vanguard FTSE All World Ex-U.S. and the iShares Russell 3000. There are two reasons for this. One is that the correlations are very high. According to ETFreplay.com, the Vanguard FTSE All World Ex-U.S. and the iShares Russell 3000 currently have a 0.92 correlation. One of the complaints from the crash of 2008 was that all correlations went to 1.00, and these two are practically there right now, which means there is almost no diversification benefit between them. The other reason to dislike these funds is that the broadest indexes tend to be heaviest in the least attractive parts of the market. For the Vanguard fund, the largest sector is financials, at 26% of the fund, and Europe is the largest region, at 44%, including 14% in the U.K. The ETF allocates 14% to Japan. Between the headlines out of Europe these days and the fundamental problems in Japan (debt equaling 200% of GDP, among others) the fund owns a lot of things that are very unattractive. It has very little exposure to other, fundamentally healthier investment destinations like Australia, Latin America and Scandinavia.
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Linda Woordrow, author of the Permaculture Home Garden, said permaculture "is about saving the planet and living to be a hundred, while throwing very impressive dinner parties and organizing other creatures to do most of the work." Perhaps a new concept to many folks in the region, tonight is an opportunity to learn more at the "Designing and Implementing Permaculture Systems in Spokane Valley" with guest speaker Ed Bryant. The meeting will go from 6-8pm, at Spokane Public Schools building at 200 N Bernard St.
At this workshop, you'll get the chance to share food and talk with other people interested in discovering how we can better meet our needs and provide for our communities in ways that benefit the earth. Details after the jump from organizer Mary-Kate Wheeler.
Spokane Public Schools building
200 N Bernard St
(Corner of Bernard & Main in downtown Spokane)
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Bring a snack or drink to share if you'd like!
Presentation by Ed Bryant
Snack break
Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference update
Other announcements
Remember to pick at least one permaculture design principle to investigate before the meeting. Do a bit of research or reflection on what it might mean, what it could look like in the landscape you call home, how you already practice it or could practice it more. We will have time to share our thoughts in small groups next time we meet. You can find a list of permaculture principles here: http://permacultureprinciples.com
It has been exciting for me to see the level of interest in permaculture design and its applications in the Spokane area. Over the last few months it seems that there have been a growing number of people sharing their interests and ideas. We hope that new folks will continue to join us in investigating these ideas and building a community to support each other in the process.
So what is Permaculture?
Permaculture is a whole-systems approach that can be applied to design problems at any scale – from your back yard garden to a regional master plan. Can you envision a living landscape that collects and cleans water, builds nutrient-rich soil, supports a variety of wildlife AND produces an abundance of food, fuel and other resources throughout the year?
suehoman44 on April 02 at 9:08 a.m.
I had not heard of permaculture, but it sounds very worthwhile!


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Lee Westwood won his 40th career title Saturday with a five-stroke victory at the Nordea Masters at the Bro Hot Slott GC, in Stockholm, Sweden. He relied on new i20 irons and a Nome 355 putter. Leading by three to start the final round, he pulled away with an eagle at 12 and a birdie at 15. He said the new clubs will make the trip to the U.S. Open. "They've earned the right to say in. You're never too sure first time in the bag, but they fit the clubs so well to m. It's part of being with PING for 26 years. They know exactly what I want."
Category Archives: PGA Tour
Dustin Johnson Shoots 66 to Win St. Jude's Classic
Congratulations to Dustin Johnson on winning the St. Jude Classic.. Johnson won the St. Jude Classic on Sunday in his second event back after a back injury cost him nearly three months away from the PGA Tour, shooting a 4-under 66 that held off John Merrick by a stroke. It was Johnson's sixth career victory as he prepares to head to California to compete in the U.S. Open after tying for 23rd last year at Congressional.
Love and Couples Welcome Nick Price as Newest Member of Bridgestone Golf Captains' Club
Bridgestone Golf Tour Team Members Set To Captain Golf's Marquee Team Events in 2012-13
COVINGTON, GEORGIA – Bridgestone Golf, the #1 ball-fitter in golf, is proud to congratulate Fred Couples and Nick Price on their official selections as 2013 Presidents Cup American and International team captains, respectively. Captain Couples will attempt to lead his 3rd straight U.S. squad to victory in the prestigious event. For 2013 International captain, Nick Price, the 2013 Presidents Cup will provide his first opportunity to lead an international team.
The 2013 Presidents Cup will take place on the venerable Muirfiled Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio September 30th – October 6th of next year. Couples and Price shared the distinction of two of the best players in the world during the nineties, with a combined career total of 33 PGA TOUR victories, including 4 major championships, between them. With his selection, Price now has the distinction of being the captain with the most Presidents Cup experience, having played for the International team a total of five times (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2003). Couples played in four President Cups as a member of the United States team (1994, 1996, 1998 and 2005). Couples compiled a 9-5-2 record in his Presidents Cup career, compared to Price's 8-11-4. Presently, Couples and Price both rely on the 2012 Bridgestone Tour B330 golf ball as they continue to add chapters to their storybook careers on the Champions Tour.
The announcement of Couples and Price as Presidents Cup captains in 2013 gives Bridgestone Golf the honor of claiming 3 out of 4 skippers in golf's marquee team events over the next 18 months, with Davis Love III preparing to lead the U.S. team at this September's 2012 Ryder Cup Matches at Medinah.
"Team Bridgestone members are captaining golf's biggest team events and winning some of the sport's biggest individual championships, so we could not be more proud of our tour team than we are right now," said Dan Murphy, Vice President of Marketing – Bridgestone Golf, Inc. "Like the rest of the golf world, we look forward to seeing the creative ideas Davis, Fred and Nick have for inspiring their teams."
Congratulations to Zach Johnson on His Victory at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
See what equipment Zach Johnson used to win the 2012 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial CC in Forth Worth, Texas.
Jason Dufner Earns Second Victory in 22 Days, Leads 4-Win Week for Titleist Players
Titleist Brand Ambassador Jason Dufner charged to his second PGA Tour title Sunday evening in Texas in statistically-stunning fashion, just 22 days after winning his first.
Trusting a Pro V1 golf ball and a bag full of Titleist equipment, Dufner, 35, made a 25-footer for birdie on the 18th hole at TPC Four Seasons Resort, to capture the HP Byron Nelson Classic by one shot and lead a four-win week for Titleist golf ball players around the globe.
Following in Dufner's recent footsteps, Azahara Munoz (Pro V1) and Jay Choi (Pro V1x) each found the winner's circle on their respective tours for the first time, while Nicolas Colsaerts (Pro V1x) claimed the biggest win of his career in Europe.
Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have now combined for 61 victories across the worldwide professional tours in 2012, more than eight times the nearest competitor with seven and more than all competitors combined.
A total of 7,571 players have teed up Titleist golf balls in those same events, more than six times the nearest competitor with 1,235 and more than all other golf balls combined.
How to best sum up Dufner's week in the Lone Star State? Fairways and greens. (And birdies, too.)
Dufner, who closed in 3-under 67 for an 11-under 269 total, one shot ahead of Pro V1 loyalist Dicky Pride, put on a clinic when it came to his key golf stats.
Dufner, who carries new AP2 (712 Series) irons and Vokey Design SM4 wedges (54º & 60º), lead the field in Greens in Regulation at 80.6 percent.
Using his Titleist 910D2 9.5º driver, he also ranked second for the week in Driving Accuracy, hitting 75 percent of fairways at TPC Four Seasons.
That all added up to 19 birdies (tied for first), including two over his final three holes Sunday.
On the par-5 16th, Dufner used his SM4 60º wedge to blast his Pro V1 out to 6 feet for birdie.
On the 18th, Dufner stood over a 25-footer for birdie with his Scotty Cameron GSS Circa 62 No. 2 Prototype in his hands.
You know what happened next.
"For some reason I had a really good visual on that putt. I don't read putts, I don't say to myself, that putt breaks a cup or two cups, I just try to see visually where I want the ball to roll, see it going in the hole visually, and that felt good," said Dufner.
"I really got locked into the line that I wanted and focused on making the putt, thinking about making a good stroke and about halfway there I thought it had a good chance."
Dufner broke through with his first PGA Tour victory April 29 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. A week later, he got married. As of today, he is No. 1 in the FedExCup Playoff standings.
"You probably couldn't dream it any better than what's been going on here. …," he said. "To win two events and get married in the span of 22 days, pretty remarkable."
Dufner was one of 102 players in the field that relied on Titleist golf balls for their success, more than five times the nearest competitor and more than all competitors combined. Titleist was also first in sand, lob and approach wedges (121); and putters.
Titleist golf ball players occupied four of the top six position on the leader board, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Marc Leishman (Pro V1x) and rookie Jonas Blixt (Pro V1x), who tied for third.
Here's a closer look at Jason Dufner's Titleist equipment:
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: Titleist 910D2 9.5º (Diamana 'ahina 60)
3-wood: Titleist 910F 13.5º (Diamana 'ilima 80)
5-wood: Titleist 906F2 18º (Grafalloy Prolite)
Hybrid: Titleist 910H 19º (Project X PXi Steel)
Irons: Titleist AP2 (712 Series) 4-PW (Project X PXi Steel)
Wedges: Vokey Design SM4 54º, 60º (Dynamic Gold Spinner)
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS Circa 62 No. 2 Prototype
Ping Tour News – May 21, 2012
Justin Rose Joins the Ashworth Team – Enter for a Chance to Win his Tour Bag
Rickie on a Roll
Enhanced Ergonomics help PING's Hoofer bag win "Hot List" Gold
PHOENIX (May 8, 2012) – PING's Hoofer® carry bag has won Gold on the 2012 Golf Digest "Hot List" ranking of the industry's highest-performing products. The results are published in the June issue of the magazine.
In recognizing the Hoofer, editors singled out its dual sliding shoulder pads and innovative strap slider, which provides a backpack-style fit and makes the bag easy to slide on and off. These features are part of PING's Enhanced Ergonomics (E2®), which includes a leg-retention strap that keeps the legs snug while walking. A reinforced bracket with leg stops ensures stable, secure leg extension on all surfaces. At approximately 5 pounds, the Hoofer has a roomy five-way, reinforced top to make club removal and replacement easy. Eight pockets include those for valuables, a range-finder, and apparel.
"The Hoofer is a wonderful example of how E2 has enabled us to advance comfort, adjustability and durability while ensuring that our bags can be fit to any player's body type and carrying style," said John A. Solheim, PING Chairman & CEO. "At PING, our emphasis on innovation, performance and custom-fitting extends well beyond golf clubs. The Hoofer winning 'Hot List' Gold is further validation of our efforts to make sure every product carrying the PING name is the highest quality."
Of the 65 bags tested, only eight were awarded Gold. Including the Silvers given to its 4 Series® and Pioneer® bags, PING tied for the most awards.
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New Network to Give Two-Year Colleges Big Boost
by Robert Bell
Posted 1/31/2011 12:00 am
Updated 2 years ago
In addition to the telemedicine component, there is a strong educational aspect to the new broadband network the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is spearheading.
(Click here to read about how the network will affect health care for rural Arkansas residents.)
Four-year colleges in the state already have access to a very high-speed network through the Arkansas Research & Education Optical Network. The new network, of which AREON is taking a large role in building, will allow the state's two-year colleges to get in on the high-speed action.
First and foremost, that means increased capacity, said Ed Franklin, executive director of the Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges. "Currently, most of our campuses have 6- to 10-megabits-per-second capacity, and we're going up to between 100 and 110 megabits per second."
With such dramatically faster delivery the schools can have many more bandwidth-hungry applications - such as high-definition video streaming - running simultaneously, he said.
"We're going to have the capacity to do what most other states' community colleges don't have the capacity to do: the capacity to work with the universities, to tie together computers for solving complex problems or for software applications that could never have been done before," Franklin said.
Community colleges also provide work force training for about 50,000 workers every year, Franklin said. The new connection will dramatically increase the possibility for distance learning for businesses, he said.
"Whenever Eisenhower created the interstate highway system, he connected states through cars and trucks," Franklin said. "This is going to be connecting folks through knowledge and information."


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My dream car....
Japanesse, Hatchback, desiel, automatic, powered steering, parking sensors, cruise control, self parking - you get the picture. Maybe what I really want is an oriental chauffeur on less than minimum wage?
BMW Z3, 2001 model, 'X' plate, British Racing Green (BMW call it Forest Green, but it's BRG, really), beige leather interior, just a tad under 60,000 on the clock.
Used for:
1. Fun
2. That's it, there is no 2.
Completely impractical for anything other than fun, as I found out when I moved house last year.
Grandboys are getting bigger and want to start coming out places with me, so I have to sell it this year-ish for something more 'Grandad' like.......any suggestions that I can immediately dis-count?
I have a Y reg 2001 Golf SE with a 1.6l 16v engine. It has just over 100000 miles on the clock. It has a noisy exhaust and I think one of the wheel bearings might be on its way out but other than that I love it and I have no plans to replace it any time soon.
Compared to the POS Focus Zetec that it replaced, it's driving nirvana :)
a nissan pixo (sky blue) 1L engine got back last year and the previous owner was the show room
My Winter hack is a Citroen Xantia 1.9 TD. When the salt is off the road, I can be found in a either a Citroen GSA 1.3, Citroen XM 2.1 TD VSX or a Peugeot 605 2.1TD SRDT. I like my French barges!
My "Family taxi" is my trusty 2000/2001 Astra 1.6 8 valver auto. Club spec, so PAS, E/W etc. Simple, comfy, £1900 5 years ago, so owes me nothing. It gets used and abused, filled with kids things and muddy clothes/boots/hay bales. 90k on the clocks now, 55k when bought, second owner, FSH, ex motability. Love it. Love the 8 valve lump too..nice and torquey, cheap to maintain and reliable proven design.
Backup family wagon is a W reg Fabia Classic 1.4MPi - skoda engine, the rest is VAG. 104k on the clocks, hewn from granite and about as indestructible. The engine is chain driven, not belt..so while it may rattle a bit (and I have a whole new timing kit for it at some point), it's going to run forever. Goes well now I've junked the extremely restrictive stock induction system..heh. Missus loves it, it grows on me too...VRS DSG..tempting...
I traded in my Skoda Fabia Sport 1.9TDI just after Christmas - it was far to tight in the back for the kids. It was a really good car though - nippy and could still do 50-55mpg. Stuck to corners pretty well with it's low profile wider tyres.
Got myself a Nissan Qashqai 2.0 DCI with the 4x4. I know it's a soft roader / cross over but I saved you all from a snowy February as a result. A few tanks in it's returning about 40mpg at the moment. Much better for the family.
I've got an 06 Mondeo Hatch 2.0TDCi 130.
It's my daily driver, the family weekend-mobile and (the main point of having it) the tug for our caravan.
Only had it since September and it's been quite good so far, although cost me about £400 as soon as I got it for service, two tyres and a wheel and is about to cost me £550 for aux belt tensioner and pulleys which rattle and bang like crazy at idle currently :-(
And being a Mondeo TDCi at 75k ish, it's bound to cost me £££ for injectors and DMF at some point.
I did get £750 trade in for it though!
13' Audi A1 S-Line. LOVE it. Had it a year in June.. :D
Ford Focus Estate - General commuting and lugging large amounts of nothing, unless I have to ;-)
currently driving a 61 plate yellow and black ds3 dsport+. So far no issues other than a recal and the rear brakes are sticking a bit but im 90% sure thats the wet weather and the fact i barely use the brakes