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I mentioned in another thread that I'm going AG....first batch this weekend! Well, I'm also going to start kegging. I'm getting sick of having bottles all over the damn place. I asked the wife nicely the other day, and to my surprise she went for the kegerator idea. I've read that one of the best mini-fridges you can get for conversion to a kegerator is the Sanyo 4911. It seems that they're discontinuing it, and replacing it with the (as far as I can tell) identical 4912. This thing doesn't have a freezer, which is nice. Best Buy carries them for $199, and I've heard they put them on sale fairly often. But I'm impatient, and didn't want to wait for a sale. Luckily, I found this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....cmp=rdr0000057 If you follow that link and either sign into your account or create one, you should be able to get $10 off every $100 you spend, up to $500. So if you can find a cheap item to bump that $199.99 total to just over $200, you get the fridge for $179. Then you can go pick it up in the store. Still not a bargain, but I've read that it'll hold two cornies and a 5 lb CO2 tank internally. Don't quote me there, as I don't have it yet! I'll pick it up tomorrow. So anyway, there's the deal for those interested. Hopefully I get the conversion stuff (tower, faucets, CO2 tank, etc) soon, and I'll be able to keg up my wit.
I got a cheap fridge that holds two cornys and a CO2 tank. Now my problem is I just invested $200, when I should have invested $300 to get a chest freezer to convert which would hold a heck of a lot more. Now I'll end up spending $500 total. Go for the freezer conversion. You'll outgrow two kegs in no time. Plus with a freezer, you have the option of lagering (or at least cold conditioning)
The chest freezer is key, I hope to purchase one this summer (need the OK from the wife). Hey, if you have the room, you can never have too many fridges.
For fermenting and serving, I think it's best to separate these two things. If you are fermenting a lager at 55 F, this is awfully warm to serve the rest of the beer in your fridge. The best route is probably a chest freezer for fermenting and an upright for serving. The upright is a bit more suited to beer faucets, is probably cheaper, and a bit easier to convert. If you comb the classifieds, I can guarantee you will find a perfectly good upright fridge that will hold at least 3 kegs, maybe 6 if it's wide enough, for less than $100. Be patient, look around, they are out there. I picked up mine for $45. Refrigerators are extremely reliable, so I wouldn't worry too much about age. Spend your money on good beer faucets to mount on the front. That's the best facelift any old fridge can get. I can highly recommend the forward sealing faucets (Vent-Matic or Perlick), they are worth the money. No sticking and hardly any cleaning at all. Prosit,
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i did that same thing Dennis. I found a fridge from a friend for free. it was probably 10 years old when i got it (4 years ago). still works like a champ. spent my $$$$ on good taps, co2 bottle, guages, etc. i found a <1 yr old 7 cu ft chest freezer for $60 on a local classifieds web page that i use to ferment/lager/condition. i just asked everyone i knew to be on the look-out for fridge/freezer. just wish i had room for another, larger chest freezer, but my set-up works great...... i understand how these guy's feel, though. i'm an impulse kinda guy, and have to work on my patience every day!
Cheers! DeRoux's Broux
well I live in a college town, and it's probably the same in college towns all across the country - wait till school gets out and everyone moves, and mini fridges are guaranteed to pop up in dumpsters all across town. Just dive in!
(sort of) New to the Game up next: Kolsch secondary: altbier Keg: empty Bottled: maple pumpkin ale "Straight up" Pale Ale Java Porter Smiling Eyes Irish Red Vanilla Cream Ale
I know, I know. I should have shopped around more. I'm sure I could have found something a lot cheaper, but the one I'm getting (actually just got) is perfect for the conversion. Plus, I want to get it done before my wife changes her mind. You all's advice is great for someone with considerably more patience than myself, though!!

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I was going thru my referrers and the daily ones were coming but a new one got me confused. it was a google referrer and at first i thoguht a google blog search but it had mail/googleetc in that alphanumeric jargon as the link. my net is ont the fritz so the link isnt working but does anyone else get that type of referrer and what part of google is it from?
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Well, if it has mail.google in it, then it's from an email being read at gmail.com probably.
drmike - this is what I'm getting from google in my referrers google.ci/search?hl=fr&ie=ISO-885…
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That's an international version of google.com
timethief, this is where that is coming from:
Now if we can figure out what language that is, then we're in business. It's just like google.ca stands for Canadian Google.
Cote D'Ivoire stands for the Ivory Coast. It's a country in Africa.
All that refer means is that somebody in the Ivory Coast searched for a term that found her website.
Sifting out the search queries from the referrers requires us to maintain a list of search engine urls and query keys. google.ci will be added now!
Thanks for the report.
um ... there's another search engine queries beside google.ci (i got this from my admin page)a9.com/?q=*******
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MU is France I think. Bs is Bahamas. And Lk is Sri Lanka.
MU is for the Republic of Mauritius. They speak French there but are a different coutry. An island off the East Coast of Africa.
nosysnoop: what in the world made you think that MU concealed with France? :)
However I'm trying to figure out how to see my own referrers, but I'm still in the quicksands. Any help? I can't find it here in the forums.
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Dear Mike Thierry. Since I cannot quote the previously closed thread....
I did Not pull anything out of my butt. It was an observation made after reading posts on other boards, Cardinals...even just regular MLB boards.
When you started posting here I had no problem with you and defended you a few times when it seems people were piling on, when you were merely asking innocuous questions or posts. The only time I gave you a hard time...was when you said you were a Yankee fan as well. Now where do you get off asking me what I pulled out of my butt?
I have seen people Go at you worse than me, but yet you got a problem...with me?? pointing something out and not accusing you of doing it.
Sorry I do not have a bunch of stats to show you or give you samples of what I was talking about. I imagine though you were a Cowboy fan as well?
Pirates win 6-3. That club has some impressive young arms.
Apparently Jason Grilli is suddenly the second coming of Mariano Rivera.
Speaking of Mo, he, David Robertson, and CC Sabathia are very close to costing the Yankees a 6-0 lead in the 9th. Now 6-5 with the bases loaded and Pujols (0-3 on the day) up.
Pujols struck out on 3 pitches, game over.
Mike, I was refering to the 2 days of whining from the team over the Votto game ending call. They were still badgering that ump the next night. Your crew is geting sore loseritis again. Must be the ghost of Managers past showing up.
And it is ironic every time you act surprised that Reds fans view the actions of their primary rival in a negative light
Pirates have run differential of only +18, well below the Reds, and exceptionally behind the Cards.
They has a ways to go to convince they are in the race to stay.
But Liriano has pitched well, and if Cole is indeed ready, they certainly have a better chance than last year.
The best record in the rest of MLB would be good for fourth in the NL Central right now.
Wait... so asking the umpire to get help from the home plate umpire on the play was whining? That's all Matheny asked the umpire to do and he refused to do so. The reason why the next night he was being badgered is because his strike zone was all over the place and there was no consistency for both the Reds and the Cardinals. You act as though this stuff only happens to the Cardinals when every team or coach disputes calls.
It's not that I'm surprised that Reds fans view the actions of their primary rival in a negative light. What surprises me, because it seems it's on a middle school/high school mentality sort of level, is the things some of you tend to bicker over. Rather than focus on major, legitimate things that could be questioned, you tend to focus on things that every club does (ie, argue a disputed call) and correlate that with whining. It makes some of you look rather petty and silly to be honest.
And Tony, I'm no apologizing. You are pulling stuff out of your butt on this one. I went to the other boards and maybe there were one or two threads on the subject, nothing spectacular or overblown. One or two threads in a forum does not equal an entire fan base complaining about something. If I were to take the same stance you are taking, then everyone in Reds nation wants Dusty Baker fired going by what I've seen here. However, I'm not going to judge a fan base based on one or two threads, like you seem to be doing. All I ask is enough with this middle school stuff and I'm finished with this conversation. If you want to talk more, send me a private message.
You realize that all of this started years ago, when the Cardinals really did whine about everything, from balls rubbed the wrong way, to fireworks going off, to a pitcher's own fielder not wearing tne right glove, and is more of a running joke than anything. And it will continue for some time now. It's a well deserved reputation that will takes years to fade away.
I've previously asked that these threads not turn in to more Reds/Cardinals bickering matches - they're for discussion about the MLB games of the day. If you want to ignore my second warning, that's up to you, but I hope you understand you will not receive a third.


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Congress passes sweeping financial reforms
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Alaska Airlines offering $39 fares, too
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The mass media have suddenly discovered Jeffrey Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower.
Are there trends in evolution — cosmic, biological, and cultural — that support the claim that life is meaningful, or is becoming meaningful, or is becoming increasingly meaningful? Perhaps there is a progressive direction to evolution, perhaps the meaningful eschatology of the universe will gradually unfold as we evolve, and perhaps we can articulate a cosmic vision to describe this unfolding — or perhaps not.
There is ample opportunity to explore blockchains as a new form of information technology, including what consensus models as a core feature might mean and enable. A key question is "What is consensus-derived information?" that is, what are its properties and benefits vis-à-vis other kinds of information? Is consensus-derived information a different kind or form of information?
In the fall of 2014, a young dying woman, Brittany Maynard, captured the hearts of millions around the world. Now her husband and mother have teamed up with a national advocacy group, Compassion & Choices to honor her final wish—that aid in dying be available to terminally ill Americans in every state.
Many futurists are fond of projecting historical trends into the future. Ray Kurzweil is perhaps the most prominent champion of making bold claims about what the future holds based on what the past has held, but he's not the only one. Interestingly, though, few have applied this predictive methodology to the phenomenon of existential risks. For the purposes of this paper, I'll define an existential risk as a catastrophe that's terminal in intensity, transgenerational in temporal scope, and global in spatial scope, and which affects either our current population (Homo sapiens) or some future population that we value. (See this article for details and criticism of other definitions, such as Nick Bostrom's.)
When I first learnt of the idea to genetically modify mosquitoes (GMMs) as a strategy for controlling the diseases transmitted by these much-maligned insects, I thought it was refreshingly innovative. Little did I know that scientists had been fiddling with mosquitoes, and other insects, for the same reason long before I was born.
History is littered with dead gods. The Greek and Roman gods, and thousands of others have perished. Yet Allah, Yahweh, Krishna and a few more survive. But will belief in the gods endure? It will not. Our descendents will be too advanced to share such primitive beliefs.
A general rule that rarely fails is: "Be wary of books written by multiple authors". Multiple authors tend to amplify each other's crap instead of edit it down, and the results are often embarrassing ideological pamphlets, no matter how smart the premise.The premise here is interesting. The digital age has changed the world in which we live in not only from the point of the consumers but also from the point of the producers. We live in the age of Web platforms that were not designed top-down but sprung up bottom-up. The future may be more of it, and faster.
Today's American right is burdened with a highly specialized and hyper-amplified sense of outrage. That outrage was triggered during this week's State of the Union speech, especially by the president's off-the-cuff response to a group of Republicans who sarcastically applauded the line, "I have no more campaigns to run."
Some of humanity's technological innovations are things we would have been better off without: the medieval rack, the atomic bomb and powdered lead potions come to mind. Religions tend to invent ideas or concepts rather than technologies, but like every other creative human enterprise, they produce some really bad ones along with the good.
What is an existential risk? The general concept has been around for decades, but the term was coined by Nick Bostrom in his seminal 2002 paper, here. Like so many empirical concepts – from organism to gene to law of nature, all of which are still debated by philosophically-minded scientists and scientifically-minded philosophers – the notion of an existential risk turns out to be more difficult to define than one might at first think.
Cosmic evolution gave birth to our sun and planet; chemical evolution brought forth atoms, molecules and cells; biological evolution led to us. The process ran itself, there was no intelligent designer. But consciousness emerged, we are here, and within limits we are free. And yet we will die.
Midway through the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, one comment stands out. "A criminal case," defense attorney Edward MacMahon told the jury at the outset, "is not a place where the CIA goes to get its reputation back." But that's where the CIA went with this trial in its first week — sending to the witness stand a procession of officials who attested to the agency's virtues and fervently decried anyone who might provide a journalist with classified information.
Looked at in the longer historical perspective we have already achieved something our ancestors would consider superlongevity. In the UK life expectancy at birth averaged around 37 in 1700. It is roughly 81 today. The extent to which this is a reflection of decreased child mortality versus an increase in the survival rate of the elderly I'll get to a little later, but for now, just try to get your head around the fact that we have managed to nearly double the life expectancy of human beings in a little over two centuries.
Philip D. Appleman (1926 – ) is an American poet, a Darwin scholar, and Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He has recently published a new book: The Labyrinth: God, Darwin, and the Meaning of Life. It is a short book, only about 60 pages, but it is carefully and conscientiously crafted, so I will quote extensively from its beautiful prose.
Here it was again. This holiday weekend we saw a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr. But we heard very little about who he really was – a brave and visionary leader whose vision is as relevant today as ever. Dr. King's life and legacy stand as a challenge to an entrenched society of privilege and injustice. Here are nine quotes that reflect that legacy.
The future world could be one of multi-species intelligence. The possibility space could include "classic" humans, enhanced humans, digital mindfile uploads, and many forms of artificial intelligence: deep learning neural nets, machine learning algorithms, blockchain-based DACs (distributed autonomous organizations), and whole-brain software emulations.
Religion is just one part of the lethal cocktail, but it is a powerful intoxicant. The year 2015 has opened to slaughter in the name of gods. In Paris, two Islamist brothers executed Charlie Hebdo cartoonists "in defense of the Prophet," while an associate killed shoppers in a kosher grocery. In Nigeria, Islamist members of Boko Haram massacred a town to cries of Allahu Akbar—Allah is the greatest! Simultaneously, the United Nations released a report detailing the "ethnic cleansing" of Muslims in the Central African Republic by Christian militias, sometimes reciting Bible verses.
Consider your smartphone for a moment. It provides you with access to a cornucopia of information. Some of it is general, stored on publicly accessible internet sites, and capable of being called up to resolve any pub debate one might be having (how many U.S. presidents have been assassinated? or how many times have Brazil won the World Cup?). Some of it is more personal, and includes a comprehensive databank of all emails and text message conversations you have had, your calendar appointments, the number of steps you have taken on any given day, books read, films watched, calories consumed and so forth.
Transhumanism is: The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities … transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end of our development but rather a comparatively early phase.1 Jan 15, 2015 • Security > Rights > Life > Access > Innovation > Health > Vision > Contributors > Tery Spataro
If you attended CES 2015, you probably found it was stuffed with the excitement of connected devices, homes, cars, robots and even drones! While record numbers of attendees embarked on CES 2015, I observed every few seconds Twitter buzzing with enthusiasm and wonder for automating routines and tasks will improve our lives. This year's conference let us in on what is and what will be our future, – at least our future for the next few years. My observations cause me to conclude:
An increasing number of people are worried about the way in which our data is being mined by governments and corporations. One of these people is Evgeny Morozov. In an article that appeared in the MIT Technology Review back in October 2013, he argued that this trend poses a serious threat to democracy, one that should be resisted through political activism and "sabotage". As it happens, I have written about similar threats to democracy myself in the past, so I was interested to see how Morozov defended his view.
The challenges of governing emerging technologies are highlighted by the World Economic Forum in the 2015 edition of its Global Risks Report. Focusing in particular on synthetic biology, gene drives and artificial intelligence, the report warns that these and other emerging technologies present hard-to-foresee risks, and that oversight mechanisms need to more effectively balance likely benefits and commercial demands with a deeper consideration of ethical questions and medium to long-term risks.
John Cottingham was born in London in 1943 and received his PhD from Oxford University. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is a proponent today of the view that life is meaningless without a god.
Getting out of Earth's gravity well is hard. Conventional rockets are expensive, wasteful, and as we're frequently reminded, very dangerous. Thankfully, there are alternative ways of getting ourselves and all our stuff off this rock. Here's how we'll get from Earth to space in the future.
The Middle East has often been perceived as a constantly belligerent area, where human life has been held cheap, since the time of despots and tribal wars well to the present. Yet, in fact, the Middle East would be more appropriately seen as a cradle of civilization, where many ideas of human development had their roots, where many technological and scientific concepts were first formulated, and where the goals of preserving and extending human life, even ideas of radically extended longevity, have been pronounced among the earliest.
The advent of blockchain technology has prompted the questioning of many concepts that have been taken for granted for years such as money, currency, markets, economics, politics, citizenship, governance, authority, and self-determination.
Developments with the new Transhumanist Party (TP) in Europe have been very rapid in the last few days. A couple of days after Christmas, the only TP to exist was in the USA. Now, only two weeks later, there are groups working toward registered parties in seven European countries, an emerging umbrella organisation for the European parties, and another group in Australia for good measure. You can find details of all these groups at http://transhumanistparty.eu.
"Americans don't want angry, defensive figures running for president," Democratic operative Will Marshall told McClatchy's David Lightman this week. But who, precisely, is angry and defensive? As the pushback to Wall Street's influence on government grows stronger, it is the banking industry's supporters who sound enraged. And as economic populism gains traction in Democratic circles, it is corporate Democrats like Marshall who find themselves increasingly on the defensive.
The increasing ability of people to exchange goods, services, and labor directly, via online platforms, is transforming how modern economies operate. But to ensure that the rise of the "sharing economy" works efficiently and improves conditions for all parties, some regulation is needed.
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A more rapid approach to systematically assessing published associations of genetic polymorphisms and disease risk: type 2 diabetes as a test case
Authors Cho AH, Jiang X, Mann DM, Kawamoto K, Robinson TJ, Wang N, McCarthy JJ, Woodward M, Ginsburg GS
Published Date January 2012 Volume 2012:2 Pages 1—20
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CER.S26220
Received 16 September 2011, Accepted 19 October 2011, Published 26 January 2012
Alex H Cho1, Xiaolei Jiang2, Devin M Mann3, Kensaku Kawamoto4, Timothy J Robinson5, Nancy Wang6, Jeanette J McCarthy2, Mark Woodward7, Geoffrey S Ginsburg1,2
1Center for Personalized Medicine and Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, 3Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 4Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 5Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 6School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; 7George Institute for Global Health and University of Sydney, Australia
Background: Comparative effectiveness research and research in genomic medicine are not orthogonal pursuits. Both require a robust evidence base, and each stands to benefit from applying the methods of the other. There is an exponentially growing literature reporting associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and increased risk for diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Literature-based meta-analysis is an important method of assessing the validity of published gene-disease associations, but a traditional emphasis on exhaustiveness makes it difficult to study multiple polymorphisms efficiently. Here we describe a novel two-step search method for broadly yet systematically reviewing the literature to identify the "most-studied" gene-disease associations, thereby selecting those with a high possibility of replication on which to conduct abbreviated, simultaneous meta-analyses. This method was then applied to identify and evaluate the validity of SNPs reported to be associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk, to demonstrate proof of principle.
Methods: A two-step MEDLINE search (1950 to present) was conducted in September 2007 for published genetic association data related to SNPs associated with risk of type 2 diabetes. The top 10 "most-studied" genes were selected for focused searches and final inclusion/exclusion determinations. To demonstrate the ability to efficiently update this two-step search for additions to the literature, an update of the second-step search was conducted 9 months later. Abstracted data were sorted based on study design, risk model, and specific SNPs. Meta-analyses were performed for individual SNPs, with separate analyses done for case-control and prospective studies, and were compared with the results of more recent genome-wide association studies.
Results: The first-step search found 1116 articles covering 108 different genes. The top ten "most-studied" genes were: ABCC8 (or SUR1), ACE, CAPN10, KCNJ11 (or Kir6.2), HNF1 alpha, HNF4 alpha, IL-6, PGC-1 alpha, PPAR gamma 2, and TCF7L2. The second-step search found a total of 658 articles, yielding 124 articles for initial data abstraction and analysis. We also demonstrated the ability to update this search as newer studies appeared, using the same method almost a year later to find an additional 107 articles (77 were ultimately excluded), bringing the number of included studies to 154. From these studies, data on 90 different DNA variants within the ten genes were abstracted. Simultaneous meta-analyses found that higher-risk alleles for SNPs rs7903146 and rs12255372 in TCF7L2, rs1801282 in PPAR gamma 2, rs5219 in KCNJ11, rs3792267 in CAPN10, rs2144909 in HNF4 alpha, and rs1800795 in IL-6 appeared to be associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk. These findings were generally highly concordant with the results of traditional literature-based meta-analyses performed for individual genes.
Conclusions: The methodology described in this manuscript represents a reasonable approach to more rapidly identifying and evaluating frequently studied genetic-risk markers for diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Comparison with results of traditional meta-analyses suggests that these gains in efficiency do not necessarily come at the price of reduced accuracy. Given the quickening pace of discovery of such markers, more efficient, unbiased, and readily updatable methods for systematically assessing and re-assessing a changing literature could prove valuable. Good methods for evidence evaluation are also important to the potential application of genetic markers to comparative effectiveness research, and vice versa.
Keywords: meta-analyses, genes, inclusion/exclusion, data, genetic risk
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A comparo is about to be posted on these 7 economy cars - what are your thoughts on how they stack up with each other? Can you predict the winner? How about the loser? What are your criteria for your predictions?
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montecobaltfan Posts: 18what kind of competetors r those, mazda 3 is its closest. spectra-no forenza-no way, just get the impreza spectra- hahahaha elantra- no way for hyand,
civic, bla and focus-;et go of the good one
the real battle comes wit in the neon for cobalt base, srt-4 for the SS
the ion which the original cobalt is built like, or the redline, like the cobalt
and thr rsx, thats when u face them
unfortanatly, the cobalt does not win in any oif these except the neon and base cobalt, but the SS does not beat out the 130 hp of srt 4, the cobalt does not beat the lux of the acura, and it doesnt beat the price of the reline
thopugh the cobalt appeals, in the long run it just doesnt have the HP, doesnt have lux inside and cant even price down to a spitting image f itself the redline.
but hopefully with in the next year they reintroduce the SS with a higher standard HP like the srt-4 did in 2003, thank you and goodnight
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montecobaltfan Posts: 18u r forgetting the dodge, and subaru and acura, i dont believe this, no one is gonna buy a elantra, whatever, here is how i stack them up
susuki and kia should not even be a thought they r cheap cats with nothing, people should buy a car cuz they like it with a great price, not because it is cheap and runs good at the time.
even though i like the cobalt the best i know, acura makes it better woth rsx and integra interior and exterior wise, and dodge has so many aftermarketthings for the neon and the best advanced version of itself, the srt-4
yea mazdas r sweet now adays, but i wouldnt pass up a mazda 6 sport for a mazda 3, it just isnt worth it, the back end of the car looks too much like i dunno, blaa
and there is no way susuki, kia or hyundai pass a FORD car, no way. especially kia or susucki.
i like elantra cuz of wht its got under the hood, but come on ur competing against these highly defined and milded cars, ur not from the nindies, u can just get a used chevy lumina with more kick than the hyundia for way less.
i like hyundia's motor, but for gods sake u want these type of cars to appeal to teens, and young adultsd with out families and stuff, if u work and have a job and u want the hyundai, u should pass on it and get a cad with kick, mercedes, or somen
notice, the kia, hyundai and i guess susuki, tried to make there economic car look lux or somen, but no one is gonna buy it, it becomes a mind game with urself,, its like people who buy the base civics and think they r in an EX supped up. no sure ur iin ur 93 hp base civic.... if the hyundia had a better, sportier look to it, then it would be at the top of the list. saturn used to be like hyunia, but luckily the saturns r making ions a more futoristic sporier car with a spoiler.
as far as kia, in my mind its like a BJ's wholesale special or something, or price club, costco, whater, it is cheap,, period.
and susuki, is by the worst, where have they been, cars look real bad, and absolutley nothing behind them.. car and driver said for a pro: cheap and gets u from A to B and if all u want is that ur better off buying a used car, heck a used car from back to 1992, they r bad.
Jim, and id like to say the best non super vehhicle is the cobalt, they r light they fly they look awsome, they are not a lot at all. -
pat Posts: 10,421The subject vehicles have been defined by an upcoming editorial review. They aren't really open to change. :-)
Your message is extremely difficult to understand. This isn't a chat room and chat speak is hard to follow. If you want folks to understand what you are trying to say, you need to use plain English, not all of these shortcuts. Thanks. -
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blane Posts: 2,017I'm afraid that this new forum is going to turn into one of those "He says, she says" two sides to every story situations where each of the seven brands will have their advocates calling the other members names and calling other than their favorite automobile brand junk, etc. That's why I won't be visiting here again. There is too much of that kind of drivel in a number of these forums, with the Hosts trying to calm things down and having to delete posts.
biggus3 Posts: 32from the look of the cars, this is an entry level car comparison. hence you can forget about subaru, acura, cobalt ss, and neon srt4. the 3 in here is probably the i not the s. regardless, my guess goes something like this:
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montecobaltfan Posts: 18i was just trying to state an opinion, and all i was trying to do was state the order of cars and why. and biggus from uzbec or whatever, the subaru is a cheap econo, im not talkin the sti or wrx. The only person you r flaming is yourself, so one time would have been enough from Pat (boy or girl)
but this Board is not that good if people just stae what they think and flame, you have to have thought on what you picked and why, just a little. I stated my thoughts and i get flamed. whats it going to be like when there are a million list, the idea should be, you make a list of what you think and match it up with someone else that posted before and see their pros and cons, and see if you messed up on something or whatever. im just trying to help here -
pat Posts: 10,421Again, the subject vehicles have been defined by the upcoming article from the Edmunds.com editors. Please do not continue to argue about what vehicles should or should not be included here.
You are getting "flamed" because your posts are difficult to understand, as I explained earlier. If you keep to the subject and speak to us without all of the hard to understand "chat speak", I'm sure we'll all get along fine, regardless of our differing points of view. -
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igor2 Posts: 148Edmunds didn't like Coablt when they reviewd them, they will not like it now... and I don't like it either...
I would say:
Mazda3 will take the win.
Elantra and Focus are 2 and 3. Elantra for value, Focus for all around excelence.
Civic and Spectra will be 4 and 5. Civic for being a honda and Spectra for being a good value.. but crippled by poor-er performance/and outlook.
Forenza - daewoo never built good cars, and I don't see how rebranding it as Suzuki will make any difference.
BTW to acknowledge my bias: I am blue oval all the way: I own 2005 Focus ZX3 and even mazda scores high in my eyes BECAUSE it is with ford. I deeply dislike everything GM, and I am tired of people thinking only the japanese can make cars, so I would like to see more reviews truthfully showing that while they are fine cars, they are not on top anymore.see the sonata-accord-camry shootout.
Recap for fquick scannings:
1. Mazda 3
2 -3 Ford Focus and Hyundai Elantra
4-5 Hinda Civic and Kia Spectra
6 Forenza
BTW ATTN EDMUNDS: I would like a new type of comparison based on the full line oferred. IF you select only a singe build of the line there is a bias... My point: Civic, Spectra, Mazda3, and Elantra all offer the stupid idea that hatchbacks are for masculine youth only. Only Suzuki and Ford understand that some people do not buy econoboxes as second cars, and need the trunk in the back. I want a hatch (or a wagon) but I do not need a 150 hp engine and flares on the side.(and 18k starting sticker).. If a "utilitarian comparison was made across the whole model line, the order would be as follows:
1 Focus (nothing beats 4 body styles)
2. Forenza (finally a wagon)
3 4 5 Civic, Elantra, Spectra - at least there is a hatchback, but get over the sports hype.
6. Cobalt - I would like a trunk with my car, thank you.
Igor -
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mdaffron Posts: 4,421It ain't hard to see who's "BUY AMERICAN" all the way here!
Me, I have no such blinders on!
I like the Mazda3 best (after all, I do own one), but the Cobalt ain't a bad car either! Now if Ford would've just gotten the Focus right the first 20 times, we'd have one in our driveway right now instead of the 2002 Protege5 that's parked there.
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igor2 Posts: 1481. Mazda 3
(edmunds likes it and that will overpower small trunk and higher price)
2. Civic
(it';s a well build honda, good resale, asseptable on all counts. if the 06 is tested
(which I doubt) it will win over Mazda)
3. - 4 Elantra and Focus
(Both well built, with several years of tweaking done, good track behind them, and
good value, good reliability, and ford has fun to drive factor)
5. Cobalt
(I stand behind my first claim Edmunds didnt like how it drove the first time (mostly
suspension and electronic steering, they will not all-of sudden channge their
6 - 7 Spectra and Forenza
(both try hard, but they have weak body, low mileage and I expect an unrefined
engine they will not like.)
And to add a personal note: In my personal list Cobal falls last BECAUSE it is too american in its driving - i test drove it before buying focus - I agree with Edmunds: the suspension is too soft and the steering it too separated from the road. -
mdaffron Posts: 4,421Sedans are 50 years gone everywhere but US, BECAUSE they are impractical: just compare Focus ZX4 has cargo capacity of 14 cu.in. The ZX3 and ZX5 have 18cu.in.
Wow, my Mazda3 hatch is INCREDIBLE! It's got 17 cubic FEET!!!
(I know whatcha meant!) :P
Hear hear on the cargo-swallowing capabilities of a hatch. Thank God Mazda brought it back in 2002. My wife drives a Protege5 hatch and I just bought a Mazda3 hatch. I've already been able to carry loads of stuff that would never have fit in my Protege -- seats folded or not -- because of the trunk opening. I really wish I'd had my 3 hatch two Christmases ago when I bought my 3-year-old son a Power Wheels electric four-wheeler -- the box that thing came in would not fit in my Protege's trunk. With the 3 I can put our humongous suitcases in the trunk, standing on end! I've also carried our lawn mower to the repair shop in it. Now I no longer need the Protege AND a mini pickup. The 3 does it all, and also serves as sports car!
Meade -
igor2 Posts: 148"Wow, my Mazda3 hatch is INCREDIBLE! It's got 17 cubic FEET!!!
(I know whatcha meant!) "
Well.. (if you can't tell by now) I am from europe, so give me liters and I'll get it right .. but thanks for the note..
And thanks for the support on hatchbacks - really if the Mazda 3 5-door came without the big engine, body flares and the hefty price I drive it ( I am still jealus that we won't get the all-new european focus)... and finally, the reason why drive 05 zx3 is that I it was better value than mazda (and with the insane rebates this summer I drive one with over 5k off)..
Igor. -
igor2 Posts: 148z7bill..
yes. The thing is it took me a whil;e to realize this comparison is going to be on the sedan versions, so I went on to argue about overall value etc...
Hence my last post =- about the sedan comparison..
And I know that the US prference for sedans drives the market, and it just means I will have a harder time finding my car...
and don't even get me started on "image" and "design" eurpeans while caring about versatility and utility completely don't care about reliability (see VW, Mercedes BEnz, BMW etc.... and brands like itroen, Fiat, Renault are notorious on problems, while being beautiful and practical..
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- 1Place lamb liver in a small bowl, sprinkle with sea salt, cover with water and refrigerate for a few hours.
- 2Peel skin off lamb's fry and remove any other pieces of tissue, slice and lightly coat with the flour. I normally like to cut any long strips in half again so they're bite size.
- 3Remove excess fat and rind from the bacon and chop coarsely. Leave a bit of streaky fat on the bacon, it adds to the flavour.
- 4Melt butter in a frypan, add bacon and onion and fry around 8-10 minutes over medium to high temperature until onion is soft and bacon is fairly well cooked but not crisp.
- 5Add lamb's fry and lightly fry a few minutes turning often to brown evenly, you don't need to cook it through at this stage.
- 6Blend water, vegemite and cornflour and add to the pan and mix through well.
- 7Bring to a gentle boil, reduce temperature to a simmer and continue to cook for 20 minutes stirring every 5 minutes or so. It may take a little more time but you want a fairly thick gravy runs a little slowly off a spoon.
- 8Serve with mashed potatoes or it's also good re-heated and served on toast for breakfast.
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- 167%
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- 101%
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Nicole Richie Swings Through NYC Ahead of Fashion Star's Return
Nicole Richie was well accessorized to make the talk-show rounds in NYC yesterday. Wearing round glasses, a leather jacket, and a statement necklace, Nicole visited the Today show and The Rachael Ray Show after a trip to Paris Fashion Week, where Nicole sat front row at Valentino and mingled with other stylish celebrities. Later on in the afternoon, Nicole changed into a furry black jacket and fringed top to continue making the Big Apple rounds.
Nicole's not just a spectator, but also a designer herself, and she's been busy building her own fashion empire. She recently found a new face for one of her lines — Nicole chose Sasha Spielberg, daughter of Steven Spielberg, to star in a Spring 2013 campaign. Nicole will also be showing off her style chops on Fashion Star, which returns to NBC tonight, and has been chatting up the reality competition at her various interviews this week.
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