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"So many artists are fast food. I wanna be the full course meal." he said.
KISS went to an exclusive Trey Songz playback party last night in London, where the artist gave us a preview of six tracks from his forthcoming album 'Chapter V'.
Filling us in on his success to date and how he plans to take it to the next level with his new material, Trey said: "So many artists are fast food. I wanna be the full course meal."
Previewing a mixture of slow jams and R&B club, the singer-songwriter is predicting that this will be his most successful yet.
Trey recently joined AJ at KISS to talk more about the album and past playback sessions around the world "The feedback's been amazing" he said. I got about 30 recorded for the album so I gotta compress."
The six tracks we heard were called 'Heart Attack', '2 Reasons (feat. T.I.)', 'Swimming,' 'Without a Woman', 'Ladies Go Wild' and 'Simply Amazing'. However, with over 30 tracks recorded there could be a possibility that not all make the final cut,
He also discussed hooking up with Kelly Rowland, his thoughts on the Jay Z and Kanye West 'Watch The Throne' show, dinner with Jessie J and why he's now ready for a relationship (yes Treys Angels…he did say ready for a relationship!)
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The man they call 'Triforce', deemed a (slightly mental) champion of the people by CVG readers, has been told to leave his spot in front of Best Buy by New York police.
Triforce made headlines yesterday for being quite possibly the first man (outside of Japan of course) on the planet to get in line for a 3DS. He started queuing on Monday. The 3DS isn't out until Sunday. And it's freezing cold in The Big Apple right now. Yeah, we know - bonkers.
It turns out though, that his plans to give the 3DS such a ceremonious welcome have been hampered by a Best Buy manager with a bee in his bonnet.
According to Triforce, a change in shifts saw the arrival of new staff who don't see the point in his campaign and asked him to leave, calling the police when he refused. NYPD arrived and shifted him along.
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"I don't get it," somebody said to me after I climbed out of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport and stood on the sidewalk in front of the new Waldorf Astoria hotel in Orlando. "Don't get what?" I asked. "This car. Two million bucks. I don't get it." It's a common refrain — I don't get it — but really, let's understand something: There is no getting or not getting the Veyron, any more than there is getting or not getting those $20 million trips to the International Space Station with a bunch of Russian cosmonauts. The experience is wholly singular and therefore not bound by the laws of reason or common sense. Period.
Trust me when I say this: Nobody who can afford such a car is highlighting the madness of its $2.3-million sticker price by shopping it against, say, a $354,000 Lamborghini Murciélago. There is no comparing specs or warranties or Consumer Reports reliability ratings at this level. There just isn't. In the automotive world, there is the Veyron, and there is everything else. That's not an endorsement; it's a simple fact.
A fellow automotive writer, reviewing the car recently for another pubication, decided after his hour with the Grand Sport that "the Bugatti isn't the future of the fast car; it's the past writ in extra-large type." I beg to differ. This car is the culmination of everything the Volkswagen Group knows about building cars, and probably a few things it didn't know it knew. The Veyron is an unwaveringly forward-thinking piece of machinery, one that — as the Space Shuttle has informed general aviation — will inform more accessible cars for years to come.
My Veyron's chaperon, racer Butch Leitzinger (who drove for Cadillac and Bentley at Le Mans and now races for Dyson in the American Le Mans Series), summed up the rationale quite nicely. Volkswagen, he noted, might have spent all that money on a Formula 1 team and seen only a small return on their investment in terms of usable, production-car technology. Instead, Bugatti engineers developed a from-scratch supercar that achieves Formula 1 levels of performance but does so within the parameters of a road car. It's safe, it's comfortable, it's reliable, it's street-legal, and, like every other model in the Volkswagen Group portfolio, from the Volkswagen Fox to the Bentley Mulsanne, it's easy to use. No, the car of the future may not have 16 cylinders and 1,001 horsepower and carry a seven-figure price tag, but that's not the point. VW has doubtless gathered reams of data on engine technology and aerodynamics and safety and the use of advanced materials in developing and building and servicing the Veyron. You may never own a Bugatti, but you'll doubtless own parts of it in a future car.
I'd be lying— and you would be too — to say I wasn't at least a little skittish about driving a Veyron. I've stood before fast cars before that gave me the jitters, and I've stood before expensive cars before that gave me a different sort of jitters. But the Veyron is both — the fastest and the most expensive car on the planet — and it inspires in the would-be driver a unique and heady blend of emotion: one part fear of death by 1,001 horsepower, one part fear of showing up on every car blog on the planet as the Moron Who Wrecked the Grand Sport. (And judging by the incessant recent coverage of the poor schlub who drove his Veyron into a lake, I knew damned well that if I so much as curbed the wheel of this Grand Sport, somebody's iPhone would capture it and relay it to the blogosphere with breathtaking haste).
The car, however, quickly relieved me of my fear — at least my acute equinophobia. It's just so damned benign, as content wafting along at 35 mph as it is exploring the depths of triple-digit territory. Seriously. The dual-clutch gearbox in Drive is as slick and seamless as the DSG transmission in a VW GTI; in paddle-operated manual mode, the only clue that you've changed gears is the snappy readjustment of the tachometer needle and the altered timbre of the engine. To bastardize a This is Spinal Tap line, the Veyron seems at times like an Audi R8 turned up to 11.
I'd always imagined that the Veyron would be an all-around handful to drive — tough to see out of, tough to maneuver, tough to get rolling from a stoplight. It showed itself to be none of those things. The driver's greatest challenge is chatting with his passenger over the roar and whoosh of 16 cylinders and four turbochargers. Ease onto the throttle to pass on the highway and the quartet spools up with a startling howl. "It's like we're riding the tornado from The Wizard of Oz," I said.
Speaking of the open-top experience, let me add a few words on the subject of the Grand Sport's oft-maligned soft top (which, for the uninformed, lives in a bag under the front lid when not in use). Yes, it's true enough that the canvas top (I've included a pictured) is recommended for speeds only as high as 100 mph, but that's merely for the sake of rain-worthiness, not — as the aforementioned reviewer noted — because it's in any danger of popping off like a bad toupée. It may look like an umbrella, and open up like one, but this thing doesn't have a Totes label on it. Bugatti has tested the soft top to 200 mph — it's engineered just like the car it attaches to: thick rods of carbon-fiber composite connected by knuckles of billet aluminum. "Flimsy" it isn't.
Of course, the removable hard top (which, too large to be carried aboard when not in use, comes with a garage stand) is the more elegant solution. It weighs 36 pounds and most of it is clear polycarbonate. When the top is latched in place (affixing it takes two people), it'll take a keen eye to differentiate the Grand Sport from the Veyron 16.4 coupe.
Leitzinger and I found a lonely stretch of smooth asphalt for the gotta-try-it launch from a full stop, and it turned out to be everything I'd imagined, and a good deal more. I knew in advance that 60 mph shows up in 2.5 seconds. In reality, though, that factoid seemed less than relevant. The needle blew past 60 so fast I never even noticed it. Before I'd spewed forth my favorite expletive phrase, the digital speedo flashed 130. As I had launched, Leitzinger gave me a word of advice: "Don't let it coast; as soon as you think of it, you're going to want to use the brake pedal. You'll be going much, much faster than you expected." He was so right.
Unless you've piloted a top-fuel dragster down a quarter-mile track or an F-18 Hornet off the deck of an aircraft carrier, there's really nothing quite like full-throttling a Bugatti Veyron on an open stretch of road. Your internal organs slop back against your spine and your eyeballs feel like they're deforming under the g-load. The Veyron has a little horsepower gauge, showing engine output at any given moment, from zero to 1,001. At at steady 75 mph, the needle sits at 50 — a measly 50 hp to maintain Interstate speed! Under maximum throttle, however, that same needle swings all the way around to the magic number: 1,001. It's absolutely astonishing.
I'm pleased to note that I survived my two-hour tour and returned the Grand Sport sans damage, sparing myself a fiery demise or a Jalopnik-style crucifixion. My internal organs redistributed themselves and my eyeballs returned to their original shape. This week, I'm driving the new Kia Forte, which, for those who make such calculations, is roughly equivalent to 1/168th of a Veyron Grand Sport. Seems fair to me.


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Jennings Uses Fitzgerald For Motivation
May 14th
Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings is one of the best in the game, but he's getting his motivation from someone who's a little better — Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is a five-time Pro Bowler and one of the hardest workers in the NFL. Jennings, who has four fewer Pro Bowl selections, began working out with Fitzgerald in Arizona this week, under former NFL receivers coach Jerry Sullivan.
Seven Green Bay Packers Make Top 100 List
Apr 20th
Seven Green Bay Packers made CBSSports.com senior writer Pete Prisco's top 100 NFL players of 2011 list. The top-ranked Packer should come as no surprise. QB Aaron Rodgers came in at No. 6 overall — behind Texans wideout Andre Johnson, Raiders cornerback Nmandi Asomugha, Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware and (puke) quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton […]
Greg Jennings' Response To 'Put The Team On Your Back' Video
Mar 8th
Back in April of last year, some dude became a YouTube sensation when he uploaded a video of a particular Madden play where he, as Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings, went 99 yards on a broken leg for a touchdown.
The commentary is pretty awesome, but completely NSFW.
Jennings Is NFC Player Of The Week
Nov 24th
In what seems to be pretty much a weekly occurrence, a member of the Green Bay Packers will be handed an NFC Player of the Week award. This time, receiver Greg Jennings will get the offensive award. Jennings had seven catches for 152 yards and three touchdowns in the Packers rout of the Minnesota Vikings, […]
Jennings' Increased Production Directly Related To Finley's Demise
Nov 24th
Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings is playing some outstanding football of late. In the last five games, Jennings has 32 receptions for 520 yards and six touchdowns. Those are pretty nice numbers, especially when compared to his first five games — 14 receptions for 183 yards and three touchdowns. Additionally, Jennings' targets have increased […]
Greg Jennings: Actor
May 4th
Apparently, Green Bay Packers' receiver Greg Jennings can do more than catch footballs and run fast. Or, at least, we'll see… Jennings will make his acting debut Wednesday on the CBS drama Criminal Minds, where he plays a lab technician. Jennings' appearance is brief – only one scene – but he does have a few […]
Greg Jennings: Just Give Me the Damn Ball!
Oct 13th
Taking a page out of Keyshawn Johnson's book, Green Bay Packers' receiver Greg Jennings has put the team on notice: just give me the damn ball! Actually, those weren't Jennings' exact words – that's the title of Keyshawn's book – but the sentiment was the same. Jennings, who has a measly 11 catches for 240 […]
Jennings Deal 3 Years, $27 Million
Jun 23rd
As we reported earlier, Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings is about to get paid. ESPN says the deal isn't finalized. However, earlier, Milwaukee's Fox 6 reported that it was. So let me cut through the bullshit – Jennings deal is all but signed. As ESPN reports, the Packers will pay Jennings $27 million in […]
Collins May Hold Out, Jennings Negotiations Progressing
Jun 23rd
Update: Milwaukee's Fox 6 has reported that Jennings' deal is done. The deal is expected to make him the second highest paid receiver in the game, behind Arizona's Larry Fitzgerald. More on the actual numbers as they become available. It's the good, the bad and the ugly at Green Bay Packers minicamp this week (although […]
Nick Collins' Disappearing Act and Upcoming Distractions
Jun 22nd
As the Green Bay Packers open their first mandatory minicamp of the offseason today, the biggest question is whether safety Nick Collins will practice. Collins, the Packers starting strong safety last season, made a brief appearance in Green Bay last week – only the second day he showed up at any of the Packers OTAs. […]
Free Agency 2009: Our Guys
Feb 16th
The 2009 free agency signing period begins on February 27 and the Green Bay Packers are in very good shape, at approximately $25 million below the projected $123 million salary cap. Before we reveal our list of free agency demands for 2009, let's take a look at the Packers own free agents. The most substantial […]
Vikings vs. Packers: Who Sucked And Who Didn't
Nov 10th
Every week the Green Bay Packers are starting to look more and more like a team that simply won't live up to expectations. Yesterday, the Packers lost yet another close game to an inferior opponent, this time, 28-27 to the Minnesota Vikings. The Packers should be better than this. Maybe it's time to accept that […]


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TrackMania United
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- Uitgever: Deep Silver, Focus Home
- Genre: Racing
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TrackMania United revolutionises the series with its new connected* functionality. When equipped with an Internet connection, players can directly exchange all their creations through the game, its interface and its closed Internet network. Each player can have, much like the famous Myspace, a true online personal space, accessible by entering an address in the game browser or by referencing Manialinks. In this personal space, the player can trade his tracks, vehicles, skins, videos and any other creations for Coppers, the game's monetary unit.
Coppers are used for exchanges made directly through the game and its network. The players can, for example, earn Coppers by unlocking single player medals or by exchanging their creations with one another.
In the single-player Official mode, players will earn Coppers by establishing the best race times for any single-player track races. The online-ladder rankings system will allow each player, depending on his level, to appear in the regional, national, team or friends rankings. To help players improve, ghosts of top ranked players can be downloaded and raced against… which guarantees plenty of fun and challenge
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March 26, 2014
No Crime, No Punishment
Why do dangerous drivers receive more protection from the law than their victims do?
When a dangerous driver injures somebody, or takes another person's life, we pretend that it's somehow normal. We're all so aware of our own driving mistakes that we do everything we can to avoid holding other drivers—even dangerous drivers—accountable when somebody dies.
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Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program
Student Handbooks
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is committed to developing and certifying teachers who demonstrate research-based and practice-validated strategies for teaching and learning. In this context, the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program aims to cultivate reflective teachers who not only create a learning culture where students exist at the center of the educational situation; but, who also teach with the conviction that all students can learn at high levels.
UMUC believes that in order to nurture the highest levels of professionalism in teacher candidates, the candidates must be immersed in the experiences of the PreK-12 schools, both to observe and to teach. Therefore, the MAT program is inherently a clinically- based teacher development program, where the courses in the program underpin the field and clinical experiences in which the teacher candidates participate throughout the program.
Every course in the MAT program has at its core a field experience. This document provides an overview, course by course, of what the teacher candidate should expect when taking the course. It is the teacher candidate's responsibility to be prepared to engage in the field experiences. In many school systems, this will often entail having to complete specific forms and paperwork in a timely manner, having background checks, and even being fingerprinted. Each school system is different.
The handbooks linked here will provide an overview of MAT policies, expectations, guidelines as well as a description of course by course field experiences, how to prepare for the internship and what is expected during the internship semester.
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Welcome to the Parkrose High School Alumni Page!
If you would like to post information about an upcoming reunion, please email the High School Webmaster.
ALL Parkrose Alumni Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ParkroseAlumni run by PHS Alumni Committee
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50th Reunion - Parkrose High School Class of 1964
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2014
Time: 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
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Parkrose High School, Class of 1994, will celebrate their 20-Year Reunion July 19-20, 2014. For more information about the reunion, please contact Carrie Woo Myrah at firstname.lastname@example.com. Our Facebook group page is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/627609067289878/
The 1984 PHS Alumni Group wants you to know that they will be having the 30th year reunion this summer on July 12th, 2014. It will likely be at the Rossi Barn Bash, but we are waiting for confirmation from Joe Rossi on this point.'Save The Date' for July 12th, 2014
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noun \ˈläk\Definition of LOCK
a : a tuft, tress, or ringlet of hair b plural : the hair of the head
: a cohering bunch (as of wool, cotton, or flax) : tuft
plural : dreadlock 2
Origin of LOCK
Middle English lok, from Old English locc; akin to Old High German loc lock, Greek lygos withe, Latin luxus dislocated
First Known Use: before 12th century
nounDefinition of LOCK
a : a fastening (as for a door) operated by a key or a combination b : the mechanism for exploding the charge or cartridge of a firearm
a : an enclosure (as in a canal) with gates at each end used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from level to level b : air lock
a : a locking or fastening together b : an intricate mass of objects impeding each other (as in a traffic jam) c : a hold in wrestling secured on one part of the body; broadly : a controlling hold <his paper … had a lock on a large part of the state — John Corry>
: one that is assured of success or favorable outcome
Origin of LOCK
Middle English lok, from Old English loc; akin to Old High German loh enclosure and perhaps to Old English locc lock of hair
First Known Use: before 12th century
verb: to fasten (something) with a lock
: to fasten the door, lid, etc., of (something) with a lock
: to become fastened with a lock
Full Definition of LOCK
transitive verb
a : to fasten the lock of b : to make fast with or as if with a lock <lock up the house>
a : to fasten in or out or to make secure or inaccessible by or as if by means of locks <locked himself away from the curious world> b : to fix in a particular situation or method of operation <a team firmly locked in last place>
a : to make fast, motionless, or inflexible especially by the interlacing or interlocking of parts <lock wheels> <lock a knee> b : to hold in a close embrace c : to grapple in combat; also : to bind closely <administration and students were locked in conflict>
: to invest (capital) without assurance of easy convertibility into money
: to move or permit to pass (as a ship) by raising or lowering in a lock
intransitive verb
a : to become locked b : to be capable of being locked
: to go or pass by means of a lock (as in a canal)
— lock·able \ˈlä-kə-bəl\ adjective
— lock horns
: to come into conflict
— lock on or lock onto
: to acquire (as a target or signal) automatically using a sensor (as radar)
Examples of LOCK
- They locked the door when they left and unlocked it when they returned.
- She locked the bicycle to the railing with a chain.
- He forgot to lock the car.
- The car locks automatically when you start the engine.
- The wheels locked and the car skidded off the road.
- They were locked in each other's arms.
- She locked her hands around the steering wheel.
- The file is locked for editing.
First Known Use of LOCK
14th century
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Mechanical or electronic device for securing a door or receptacle so that it cannot be opened except by a key or a code. The lock originated in the Middle East; the oldest known example was found near Nineveh. Possibly 4,000 years old, it is of the pin tumbler type, otherwise known as an Egyptian lock. The Romans were the first to use metal locks and to make small keys for them. They also invented wards, projections in the keyhole that prevent a key from turning unless it has slots that avoid the projections. Probably the most familiar lock today is the cylinder lock, a pin tumbler lock opened by a flat key with a serrated edge; the serrations raise pins in the cylinder to the proper heights, allowing the cylinder to turn. Also common are the unit lock, housed within a rectangular notch cut into the edge of a door, and the mortise lock, housed in a mortise cut into the door edge, the lock mechanism being covered on both sides. Other types include lever and combination locks. Electronic locks that open with a magnetic card key are popular for banks, hotel rooms, and offices.
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Diane Graham with her autistic son Atreyeu Graham, and Zandralee Graham January 3, 2013.
Credits: DAVE ABEL/QMI AGENCY
TORONTO - The mother of an eight-year-old autistic Toronto boy says labour action is impacting special needs children.
Diane Graham says a key meeting to help support her son Atreyeu was cancelled on orders from the union, despite pledges their job action wouldn't adversely impact kids with special needs.
A letter from Gracefield Public School's principal confirms that the union pulled the plug on the Dec. 11 session, ordering their members, school support workers, not to attend.
"I was really discouraged about this," Graham said. "This was an opportunity for them to learn about my child so they can meet his needs. I felt very deflated. This isn't an extracurricular activity, this is his life."
The intent was to draw up a plan to help Atreyeu who had been doing well in school.
But with an autism and an ADHD diagnosis, his focus in the classroom has been waning this year.
"With the dual diagnosis there is more to be done with him at school," Graham said.
What she's found even more frustrating is the union claims in the media that special needs students won't be impacted by the labour strife.
"It's affecting Atreyeu, he's going to lose a whole year," she said. "He can't afford to lose a whole year. ... My child is not part of these labour problems and he does not deserve to be put in the middle of it."
She's been a supporter of organized labour for much of her life but this conflict has tested her resolve -- her son has to come first, Graham said.
"I don't blame the (workers), they have to do what their union says," she said. "I do blame the union because they shouldn't be telling anyone not to attend a meeting that is so important to my child."
Calls and an e-mail message to OSSTF District 12 were not returned by press time.
An official with the Toronto District School Board declined comment citing privacy rules.
Graham said she is not contemplating pulling Atreyeu out of the school in an effort to meet his needs at home. She would rather keep him in the school with his friends with a new plan put together using the evaluation.
"I want them to keep their word," she said. "They said their job action would not affect special education needs children. It is."


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MS a poodle twisting round on hind legs.
CU pan of the six dogs. We see their owner, Mr Leslie Townsend.
CU a poodle skipping through a hoop.
CU a poodle pushing a pushchair.
CU dog licks plate and then carries it to table in its mouth.
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Why is transportation in the driver's seat?
Seven questions about Seattle's transportation obsession — the one that has Mayor McGinn and the city council fighting furiously over a signature on a piece of paper.
Transportation. It's always trouble.
And it's in the news.
The Seattle waterfront tunnel debate blew up again last week over the controversial signing of a draft supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, leading to a crisis between Mayor Mike McGinn (a tunnel skeptic) and the city council President Richard Conlin, a tunnel supporter. Conlin's defenders say, "It's the right thing to do"; his detractors compare him to Richard Nixon.
Unfortunately, that brouhaha tended to overshadow the city's choice of a top-notch design firm, James Corner Field Operations, to begin laying out a vision for the park that will replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, a piece of urban planning that could have a major impact on the city for a century to come.
Sound Transit made headlines when it raised the possibility that it might (once again) delay extending light rail, this time south of SeaTac, due to revenue shortfalls.
And a lawsuit is before the Supreme Court, one that holds that putting light rail on I-90 violates the state constitution.
We also learned that the Elliott Bay Seawall can withstand a direct hit from a water taxi. At least the gribbles, the little creatures nibbling away at the pilings, haven't won yet!
Bigger gribbles, however, are gnawing away at transportation regionwide. I was recently asked to speak to a transportation committee of the League of Women Voters to put some of these issues in a regional, historical and cultural context.
Rather than provide them with answers, I raised a series of seven questions about Seattle transportation that might help them navigate and assess the issues and roadblocks. Here they are:
1. Why is there so much emphasis on transportation? You would sometimes think there are no other issues in Seattle or the region as important as transportation. Roads, bikes, bridges, and trains seem to trump schools, arts, crime, education, environmental clean-up (Puget Sound), social services, neighborhood scale, heritage. We seem to have turned our lives over to traffic engineers.
We also seem to have forgotten putting any emphasis on not moving people around. Whatever happened to Bill Gates' Information Superhighway? Didn't his book The Road Ahead suggest a future with less emphasis on actual roads? Ironies abound, such as Microsoft's influence in banging through an expanded 520. And isn't it interesting that while we're supposed to be moving ideas around rather than people, the Gates Foundation (a Crosscut funder) used its clout and money to bend Sixth Avenue around their new headquarters? Give them the Uri Geller award!
2. Why is transportation rarely about transportation? A road isn't just a road; a pothole isn't a pothole, a bike lane isn't a bike lane. Each is either a step toward Utopia, or the Apocalypse, a move to stop global warming, or a key to staving off the city's imminent industrial collapse. Bikes save the planet, SUVs destroy it.
Transportation projects are about real estate, markets, who profits from access, and social engineering. Transportation projects are often prioritized for other than the stated reasons. Mike McGinn suggests moving on the seawall and is immediately suspected by city council members of trying to sabotage the tunnel. Mercer Mess fixers says they want to improve traffic, but move ahead even when consultants report the project will have minimal impact on traffic congestion. Calling it a South lake Union Beautification Project just won't sell.
People argue that rail will either destroy their business, or funnel it all to some other part of town. There are powerful agendas behind proposals and fueling both proponents and opponents. Arguments frequently become "pragmatism" vs. "Utopia," but often have nothing to do with either.
3. Why do we have a have 20th century appetite in 21st century reality? Crosscut writer Jordan Royer recently asked about transportation, "What century is this?" The answer: Not the 21st. We're still planning and spending like tomorrow limitless growth is inevitable. It's the kind of bubble thinking that gave rise to the real estate and dot-com bubbles, and subsequent collapses. We've yet to adjust our eyes and our stomachs to fiscal reality: that we can't keep using the credit card.
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Posted Tue, Sep 28, 7:57 a.m.
Why is transportation in the driver's seat?
Because social engineers have seized on it as a way to push a political agenda.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 8:24 a.m.
Fascinating piece! I'd add that we are a city of engineers, thanks to Boeing and Microsoft, and so those slide rules tend to come out and shape local political disputes. Better to argue about road configurations than whether anti-poverty programs are working. My second observation is that Seattle is hung up on cars because it's in a perpetual war against the suburbs, the realm of cars. The city has always worried that it's not really a city (too small, too far from LA and New York, too young), so we make ourselves feel like a city by bashing those sub-cities. Real cities don't bash their metro regions, I might add.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 9:36 a.m.
"The idea that we need a downtown tunnel in order to hide traffic, instead of, say, a new soaring elevated that could be inspiring on its own, seems both foolish and expensive. We shouldn't be paying extra to bury our lack of imagination."
You know, Knute, that's heresy to the Green Taliban that thinks it speaks for the rest of us. But it had to be said.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 9:38 a.m.
A portion of the article lumps high speed rail improvements in with some of the unfunded transportation proposals. "On top of these are proposals for light rail to Ballard and West Seattle, high-speed train service between Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland, the need to fully fund Metro transit service, and a legislature that wants more roads in Pugetopolis."
Earlier this year, Washington state was selected to receive $590 million in federal High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail grants. As a result of this funding, Amtrak Cascades passengers will see two additional daily round trips between Seattle and Portland, for a total of six. Results will also include travel time reduction, improved service reliability and on-time performance. These funded projects will have real benefits for people and businesses traveling between the two cities. For more information about this program, visit: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Funding/stimulus/passengerrail.htm
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 9:51 a.m.
I was impressed with your suggestion that a viaduct might actually be a solution was interesting and i'd like to hear you explore and expand on the idea.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 10:04 a.m.
I recently read about the Incas' abundance of unneeded transportation projects in Charles Mann's 1491. Supporters of projects such as SoundTransit expansion, the waterfront tunnel, and the 520 replacement would obviously question the appropriateness of an analogy to the Incas, but I do think that it is good to ask what we need these projects for, as you do.
My view is that we do indeed need the infrastructure to move larger volumes of people and freight, justifying all three of these projects as important investments in the region's future economic vitality. People are moving into the Puget Sound region, particularly the cities outside of Seattle, and are projected to continue doing so for many years to come. This is not a choice or an "ideology of growth", but merely a reality which we can choose to deal with or not to deal with. Likewise, if you do believe in The Road Ahead as a vision for the region's economic future, then does it not follow that global trade, and hence substantial investments in the Port's capacity, are a part of that vision?
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 10:20 a.m.
Good piece. As someone who lived in Boston, NY, DC and LA before returning home to Seattle 10 years ago, I can attest that local transportation congestion is minimal compared to that experienced in those metro areas. We are not at some transportation crisis point.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct and Evergreen Point Bridge must be replaced or
retrofitted because they represent a threat to public safety. We are nearly 10 years late in dealing with them.
We have a totally unneeded Allentown trolley, from downtown to South Lake Union, to feed Vulcan Inc.'s desire for such a link (and with a bit of
tourist-appeal trolleyism thrown in). It has been running near empty since Day One. We are beginning a First Hill streetcar system not to meet any particular transportation need. Existing buses could do it.
Sound Transit light rail actually will cost far more than the $18 billion sum you cite. The three-county system now being planned---which includes
retrofitting the I-90 bridge for light rail---will take many years of capital construction. At the end of the period, congestion will not be reduced---same as with the Mercer Mess redo. The transportation need could be met immediately with simple and far less costly expansion of existing bus service.
We should not underestimate the degree to which these projects are driven by the economic self-interest of powerful local players---the Mercer Mess redo and trolley for Vulcan; light rail to feed the ST bureacracy, contactors and sub-contractors, law firms, financial and p.r. firms, and unions which feed at the light rail trough---and who keep campaign money coming to the elected officlals who support light rail.
Badly missing in all of this are elected officials, at federal, state, and local level, with the capacity to examine priorities and options and, then, to choose those in the public interest.
Transportation should not be consuming such a disproportionate amount of local energy and resources. Much is being driven not by public need but
by the voracious appetities of those who benefit financially from transportation projects.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 10:26 a.m.
Great questions Knute. I yearn for answers as I recall my gruelling Saturday as it took me more than 45 minutes to drive from the Central District to Ballard via Wallingford (usually a 25-minute trip.) It was a little depressing, but hey, I'm over it.
Here's a couple unoriginal thoughts:
1) Our beautiful geography complicates our corridors, creating lots of bottlenecks as we funnel into bridges or thoroughfares to get across and around our lakes. It will always be this way, no?
2) As you note, our multifarious transit authorities seems to add more complexity to the regional transportation challenge. Better regional coordination / authority seems to be at least a partial answer.
3) We fancy ourselves a world-class city. Well, we have world-class potholes, that's for sure!
What can we learn from other cities that take more diverse approaches to moving people? Why are we wedded to big buses that drive around half-empty most of the day (on many routes) and are prone to clogging up city intersections during rush hour? Some cities around the world use more vans or jitneys -- smaller vehicles that are a little quicker and more nimble. Seems like these would be appropriate in some places.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 12:10 p.m.
On author Berger's point about moving ideas instead of people:
Ongoing research from academics continues to suggest that the Internet, cell phones, and other forms of telecommunications stimulate the physical movement of people to a greater degree than substituting for it, which was the case for dial telephones and CB radio earlier.
Think of Expedia, Travelocity, meet-ups based on texting and Tweeting, and dating websites encouraging travel near and far. Online freeway cameras and computer-coordinated electronic signs on smart highways smooth the way. Satellite radio provides ad-free background music while sitting in traffic.
The Internet is more about arranging travel and making it efficient, rather than suppressing travel over all. The exception is corporate long distance travel being a bit suppressed with web-conferencing and video, especially in a recession.
Bill Gates once called the Microsoft campus a high-bandwidth environment for professionals interacting and sharing ideas, a concept important for other organizations, such as Gates Foundation, with healthy team functioning. The employees want to be there most of the time, and not telecommuting more than occasionally.
Berger's point that "we're supposed to be moving ideas around rather than people" hasn't panned out for the human animal that is us. We do both.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 12:24 p.m.
jniles: that's a very intriguing idea, and I have never heard it before. Do you have a link to some specific research on how telecommunications are increasing travel? I would be very interested in looking at some of that.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 1:44 p.m.
Incompetence, corruption, sabotage. As much as I use these words to describe what I see wrong with Seattle's transportation systems and planning, they are not "easier" to use as Knute suggests. I've explained specific shortcomings of Link LRT, monorail, streetcar, trolleybus and regular bus transit system designs and design proposals in detailed layman's terms at length and often but rarely will Seattle's knee-jerk transit advocates respond to such analysis other than with unkind words mixed with amateurish drivel. I can argue Link extension to Federal Way and a spur through Southcenter to Renton have more potential than U-Link. I can justify Link on the 520 sinking bridge. I still believe monorail could work to West Seattle, Ballard and beyond. I've explained how to expand the trolleybus system and maximimze efficiency at low cost. I've laid it out over the years for any reader to consider but most won't give it two seconds of competent thought. I've submitted detailed drawings to agencies whose obligation to such public submissions is just as rudely dismissive.
Incompetence, corruption, sabotage. A waterfront viaduct was always a poor engineering choice. Perhaps it's excusable for its time, but not now. The only AWV replacement option that's worse is the DBT. How is it that WSDOT can make fools of so many people? Incompetence, corruption, sabotage. The people of the State of Washington and City of Seattle deserve better from their elected officials and appointed department directors. Mayor McGinn is right to oppose the DBT.
Recently, I've come to agree with Mayor Mike (in part) on the Mercer West project. I now see why the Broad Street Underpass should be decommissioned. Still, I can only support rebuilding Mercer Street between 5th and 9th Aves N at 4-lanes (NOT 6-lanes) plus the left-turn for access to 6th Ave and the southbound on-ramp to SR99 leading to the Battery Street Tunnel, NOT the DBT. I would explain, but I don't find it "easier" to annoy the incompetent and the corrupt with analysis.
Seattle is set in such amazingly beautiful landscape. Too bad it's abused and polluted. Don't pretend tourists up close don't see reality hidden behind the PR hype.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 2:35 p.m.
No other proposed configuration for the AWV matches the existing viaduct in any transportation related category. The rights of ways already exist. The configuration already can handle 110,000 vehicles a day. It already provides a bypass for downtown and off ramps for the core, Ballard and West Seattle. It already meets the demands for commercial vehicles. It can incorporate modern seismic protections and other enhancements for noise abatement, bikes, pedestrians and aesthetics. It acknowledges the fact that rubber-tired, multi-passenger vehicles are still the choice of over 90% of us. And it's billions of dollars cheaper than this present mistake in the making.
Any solution that doesn't provide at least the capacities and transportation features of the existing viaduct is a waste of money and a giant step backwards for the region. There is a scramble on now to start demolition before common sense results in some honest public review. This wrong-headed march to destroy the viaduct to create a billion dollar park and make shift tunnel for one neighborhood is incredibly irresponsible during this time of rising layoffs, reduced operating hours, and budget cuts for social, community health and emergency services.
It's too bad that Frank Chopp traded away his preferred solution of an elevated shared use structure for the AWV, so he could get a billion dollar tunnel under his neighborhood. He possibly had the horsepower to allow an elevated concept to receive an honest assessment.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 3:32 p.m.
Ivar's appears willing to do its part regarding the sustainability and vibrancy of a fully functional Alaskan Way Tunnel. Slated for 2023, the Ivar's tunnel drive-thru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOSTSnI-w7I.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 4:33 p.m.
The elephant in the room here- and I'm surprised that such accomplished journalists and long-term residents as Knute and Ted Van Dyk haven't noticed this- is the 50-year freeway and road-building binge to convert farmlands into suburbia.
Yes, amazing as it may seem, land developers actually lobbied in Olympia (with a whole-hearted chorus of cement companies, car dealers, homebuilders, and shopping mall retailers) to get roads built to vacant low-priced land.
Combined with the federal mortgage interest deduction on the income tax, it spurred suburban development. And now you have your installed base, but you also have skeptics. As it becomes plainer even to the dullest of intellects that global warming is real, you have more people wondering how many of those simple 'solutions' of the past are suitable for the future.
And then you have your pure BS angle. Knute has written three pages without discussing the basic issue, but somehow manages to take potshots along the way at a surprising variety of targets- even the Incas don't escape being woven into the fabric- but- fabric of what?
Transportation is something most of us do every day, and something most of us believe affects the value of our home, the wage we can earn, how much free time we have, and how much money we have. At any time the price of fuel could double, and when that happened recently, the economy had a cardiac arrest and had to be artificially resuscitated.
Why would this not be number one on our list of concerns? That's why transportation is in the driver's seat.
Posted Tue, Sep 28, 11:06 p.m.
Berger's sixth point could be emphasized more. Maintenance and basic infrastructure are starved in favor of the mega projects. It is worse than stated; he left out the $2 billion needed to rehab I-5 in Seattle, the $1 billion needed to add sidewalks to the north Seattle arterials that lack them, additional pavement management, a new Magnolia Bridge, and a new South Park Bridge.
We have done this before. In the first half of the 20th century, the streetcar network was allowed to fall apart, as its farebox revenue alone could not meet bond payments, operations, and maintenance. in 1940, the electric trolleybus network replaced it, but by 1970, it too was allowed to fall apart with too little subsidy and maintenance.
We suffer from tax aversion at all levels of government. The federal gas tax could use a $2 per gallon increase. The recent state gas tax increases have gone to expansion and have not been shared with the local governments. Perhaps a brocolli candidate is required; eat it because it is good for you.
the health of Puget Sound is related to transport via the connection between the limited access highways induced sprawl and non point pollution.
transport issues draw our attention as they and land use and the economy are firmly linked. some say land use = transportation. time = money is similar.
a new paradigm in transport is called for to address global warming and the coming increases in petroleum prices. The 21st century is not time to build 1950s highways.
partial solutions include a significant gas tax increase and systemwide dynamic tolling for both revenue and demand management on all the limited access highways of King County.
but there is plenty of disfunction in other sectors. we are in a prolonged recession. K-12 education is under funded. all three levels of government are in fiscal crisis.
we have governments designed in the 19th century to be weak. the governments must work together or fail.
Posted Wed, Sep 29, 7:40 a.m.
From a comment above: "We suffer from tax aversion at all levels of government." What a crock. All levels of government crave taxing. They've found that transportation issues afford an effective means of obtaining vast amounts of new tax revenues - far more than what their peers confiscate.
It's fair to say transportation issues here are very different than in other regions, and not in good ways. What's truly unique about what's happening here is how abusive transit financing practices are, in terms of harming individuals, families and the economy.
What Knute failed to list in that piece was how poorly managed the overlapping transit services providers here are, especially when it comes to financing bus and train services. It's as if he thinks Metro and ST don't have peers against which they should be compared. He's echoing the "we're special" refrain heard far too often around here from civic figures.
Compare the costs to the people and families here to the costs to the people and families in the greater Portland region – anyway you look at it we are getting screwed in the name of buses and trains:
- Progressive taxing of businesses there, vs. regressive taxing targeting families and individuals here.
- TriMet will collect about $250 million in taxes this year, vs. the transit taxing in the Puget Sound region will be about $1.3 billion this year.
- Minimal debt for all kinds of transit and most of the capital costs are covered by federal grants there, vs. $8 billion in bonds secured by $80 billion or so in sales tax collections (with minimal federal grants) just for Sound Transit here.
- A couple of billion dollars of a reasonable mix of federal grant money and progressive tax revenues used to build out a 50-some mile light rail system there, vs. a $100 billion mostly-regressive local tax revenue package to pay for the same number of miles of track, and fewer stations, here.
- $0 direct regressive taxing targeting individuals and families for bus and train service there, vs. $455 per year direct regressive taxing on the average family for bus and train service, with that amount growing every year for decades, here.
As far as effectiveness and results go, there they have the 7th highest percentage of commuters using transit, and here we have the 13th highest percentage of commuters using transit.
None of those differences can be attributed to the excuses invariably trotted out ("they build rail at street level and we elevate and tunnel" and "we have a somewhat larger geographical area and population").
Those gross disparities are not an anomaly. Pick any peer region running buses and developing light rail systems - the Twin Cities, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver - it doesn't matter which one. No peer's leadership abuses people and manages transit as poorly as the government managers here. They are not behaving reasonably with respect to the financial interests of people subject to their power.
Posted Wed, Sep 29, 11:54 p.m.
Serial catowner observes that the price of fuel could double at any time. That seems downright optimistic when one considers that the only reason that Americans, 5% of the world, still manage to consume 20 to 25% of its oil, is that these things called dollars are still of some value. Considering how they are now being created at an ever faster rate - you can almost hear the mighty roar of the presses in the other Washington from here - I wouldn't count on them holding that value forever.
The light rail and transit skeptics never tire of pointing out how few people ride them at present. That will change in a heartbeat when the world stops believing that dollars are worth trading for oil. We will lament our lack of preparation for that day.
Posted Thu, Sep 30, 9:50 p.m.
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I have lived here since 1986 and I have seen time and time again that some Big Budget construction was going to "save the city".
First it was the bus tunnel. Well, I look at the surface avenues in downtown, and for most of the day they are empty. Even during rush hour, and given the tunnel backups, I don't really see the efficiency. Plus you have to light, heat, and maintain tunnel stations, when a simple curbside stop does the same job.
Next it was the stadiums and "SODO". The Kingdome was one of the best and most efficient public structures ever built. But they destroyed it during heat of the one (and only) winning Mariners season (funny how that happened) because SODO would turn into a new Chelsea. Several knife fights later, it hasn't happened.
Oh, then it's Light Rail. It would transform the slums of Soberg into Kensington Square...if only anyone rode it...and bought condos there.
Oh yeah, I forgot Belltown...and Pioneer Square.
Now it's the waterfront and the tunnel.
How many times are we going to be called to pay billions for some project that promises faster, better, and end up with yet another boondoggle and the same smell of urine on the sidewalks, higher parking prices and another losing season.
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yecats20 Posts: 1Hi all, my MIL keeps coming on every couple of months. I had the recall fixed for the ball joint...my A/C compressor fixed (3times) and supposedly during one of those visits they fixed whatever problem was associated with the MIL. It doesn't blink...just stays on. HOWEVER...right before it came on this last time, I was paused on a street, and when I pressed on the gas to go I thought I was on ice or something because I wasn't really going anywhere! I was scared to death that I would be stuck there...but finally it decided to go and I haven't had it do that hesitation stuff anymore (been about a week). Are the two related? The hesitation and the MIL?? Oh yeah...and periodically my dome light comes on and off...usually when i barely touch my turn signal. Lovely eh? Thanks for any words of wisdom!
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zeta1 Posts: 5Hi - I tried everything and spent a lot of $$$$$ - finally found a smart mechanic who - removed the EGR value and cleaned it - very quick - replaced it and the car ran perfect - however, he also order a new EGR value and installed it a week later - have not had a problem since --might be your problems solver as well. Ronald
ndetello Posts: 1Same problem here - except check engine light comes on also (sometimes all sometimes two sometimes one light). Service has replaced computer (twice), anti-lock brake sensors, and who knows what else. Chrysler service has had our 2007 Liberty for about 6 weeks and are at a loss on how to fix it. I asked about the clockspring/steering angle sensor but didn't get much of a response. Did you get yours fixed? Thanks. :lemon:
zeta1 Posts: 5Hi Ndetello -- yes, I am happy to report that it is fixed - here is what they did -- well to start with, they replaced switch, for Parking Brake Warning lamp - did not work. Next guy replaced that switch with another -- still no luck. Final word from that dealer -- it is all normal!! It was not normal, so, went to another dealer. He also changed the same switch -- no luck -- anyway, This guy check the Brake switch again and found -- one pin of the brake switch spread and in backwards!!!! They repaired the connector and the Jeep has been running fine since - apparently this could have happened at the factory or when a recall part was replaced -- anyway, working fine now. Hope this helps. Zeta
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megrow Posts: 3i have a jeep liberty 3.7L 4x4 2002 with 119,000 miles had the transmission fluid changed 1month ago, just a couple days ago the check engine light came on so i stopped put the hood up and the fluid needed a qt of tranny fluid so i poured in went back into town went to local autozone and got more tranny fluid and filled it where it goes and the light still on i checked gas cap got gas were i always do put additive in just in case, checked hoses. i drove 100 mi with on seems to drive fine no noises or knocking change gears fine, stops alright no jerking but seems like it doesn't go as fast but could be my imagine nation cause i go at least 70mph and i drove 60-65 mph cause others at least go 70 im not use to going that slow but anyone expereance this situation oh yea autozone hooked that gadget to it and came up transmission pressure so i wasn't satisfy with so i went back yesterday and had him hook again and to look the code up and it wasn't for my car the code came up for some volts wagon my car didn't have one of those in it. well HELP!!!! i never had no trouble till now hope its an easy fix not a hard one , i'm praying!!!
megrow Posts: 3went to dealer to get light checked. they hooked to diaganoises said something about silanoid but they checked it and it was fine so they reset the light have not came back on either when i put the tranny fluid in that was problem or the wiggled or put something back cause it was loose. out 63.00 better then 635.00 which they could of took out my pocket for silanoid . so far so good while i waited for my car i applied for a loan for a new car , just in case but did'nt use the offer yet . im still riden my jeep :shades: !!!!
megrow Posts: 3engine light back on , came on in 3 days but runs ok i think it might be the converter cause it hissed when i bought it its a little louder then when i got it. i dont no the code is the same. im going to get rid of the jeep and be done with it after hearing what everyone else is going through . :mad:
drgums Posts: 51I am looking to buy a used 2002 Jeep Liberty 4x4...
Should I avoid this vehicle?
I could get the 2002 Jeep Liberty for $4600 with 78K miles?
Any advice? It seems that most of the people on this forum are not happy???
This used Jeep Liberty 2002 would be for my daughter.
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mwolf9000 Posts: 29Is the vehicle in good condition? Does it look like it's been well-maintained? Can you get warranty records? It could very well be a good car and a good buy.
And understand that people don't post here unless they're having a problem with their car. And with so many Liberty's out there on the road it shouldn't be a surprise that some have had problems. For the record, I've been very happy with my 2006 Liberty and my neighbors have been happy with their 2002. -
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corndog Posts: 8Have had so many of these same problems as those posted gas cap, stained seats, engine light, part time and full time 4x4 lights, every dash light is on now.Chrysler doesn't have mechanics that know anything about diesels and all they want to do is change the computers to the tune of 1200 dollars. We have 100 thousand miles on jeep high yes but that was why we bought this jeep to have a dependable car wrong! Friends have gas 2005 liberty have alot of problems also with theirs. Hope someone can tell us what to do.
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jweber52376 Posts: 1My 07 airbag light keeps coming on, took it to the dealer and was told some sensor is bad and would cost $265 to fix, seems crazy their is nothing wrong with the physical aspects according to them, it has never been in an accident, is their a way I can make this light go away cheaply? Is their a fuse?
stever Viva Las CrucesPosts: 42,453Sounds like your tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) light.
You'll have to look for a manual on eBay or at your local auto salvage yard. You can download a manual from Chrysler but they only go back to 2004. You can buy one from Jeep too:
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