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Ortiz angrily gestured toward the press box, displayed a "thumbs down'' sign toward the scoring call and after the game, maintained that scorers should side with players from the home team.
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Farrell said he didn't plan to speak to Ortiz further on the matter.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL - MAY 05: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland smiles during a practice round prior to the start of THE PLAYERS Championship held at THE PLAYERS Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass on May 5, 2010 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
MARANA, Ariz. – Sunday's World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship semifinal match between Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood has started at the Ritz-Carlton course at Dove Mountain. We'll have updates all day on PGATOUR.COM and we encourage your comments throughout the day. MORE: McIlroy scorecard | Westwood scorecard | Preview OTHER SEMIFINAL: Mahan-Wilson updates WESTWOOD-McILROY [...]
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Tue., January 1, 2013 6:02am
Georgia's Senators Vote To Avoid Fiscal Cliff
Senators Johny Isakson and Saxby Chamblis voted in favor of an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Mon., June 4, 2012 12:00pm
Harbor Comment Period Ending
Tuesday is the deadline for public comments in a plan to deepen Savannah's harbor from 42 to 47 feet. Supporters and opponents of the project have been picking over the massive proposal and have different conclusions for federal officials who'll make a final yes-or-no decision later this year. The US Army Corps of Engineers spent 14 years studying plans to deepen the Savannah harbor.
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Harbor Debate Enters New Stage
Georgia's business and political leaders eagerly awaited this week's final report on Savannah harbor deepening. But while it's the US Army Corps of Engineers' last word on the project, it's not the last word in the public debate over whether the deepening should happen. The agency next week will open a comment period.
Wed., November 2, 2011 8:25am
Isakson's Peace Corps Protection Bill Passes
A bill sponsored by Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson to give whistleblower protection to Peace Corps volunteers passed in the U.S. House Tuesday. Now the measure is headed to the president's desk.
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House Loan Bill Considers Energy Use
Georgia Republican Senator Johnny Isakson is co-sponsoring a bill aimed at mortgage underwriting. The measure would give federal loan agencies access to information that predicts a homeowner's energy bills.
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Georgia sends $1.1 billion in exports to Columbia, Korea and Panama. Republicans and some business groups say, those exports stand to rise now that Congress has approved trade deals lowering tariffs on the nations. Georgia chemicals, machines and transportation equipment are among the items that could be the most boosted by lower tariffs. But some labor unions are skeptical.
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Two Georgia Republican members of Congress want to help struggling homeowners make their mortgage payments. It's a push to allow penalty-free withdrawls from retirement savings. Senator Johnny Isakson and north Georgia congressman Tom Graves are co-sponsoring a bill to allow homeowners to tap their 401-K accounts.
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US Senator Johnny Isakson says, he'll press Congress to fund a half-billion-dollar expansion project at the Port of Savannah. Congressional Republicans recently have been pledging to cut spending to shore up the deficit. Isakson says, there is money for the project, which state leaders see as critical to the economy
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A periodic pattern of colors is applied to a vehicle tire. The periodic pattern provides an indication of relative vehicle speed to an observer. The periodic pattern will appear to blend into a single color above a predetermined speed.
1. A vehicle tire comprising at least one predetermined speed indicator located on a wall of said tire and having a periodic color pattern composed of at least a first color region and a second color region, said first and second color regions being of different chromatic colors from each other and from the color of said tire, said chromatic colors being arranged in each region in a pattern having a periodic frequency which is set to cause the colors of the first and second color regions to at least partially visually blend to another color during rotation of the tire, said another color indicating that said predetermined speed has been reached.
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1. Field of Invention
This invention is directed to the field of novelty speed indicators. In particular, the invention is directed to a periodic color pattern imprinted on a tire that provides an indication of speed as well as entertainment when the tire is moving.
2. Description of the Related Art
Cyclists presently must rely upon bicycle cyclometers to determine the speed at which the cyclist is traveling. Analog cyclometers have a movable arm on a circular gauge face that points to an approximate indication of the speed at which the cyclist is traveling. Cyclometer gauges are difficult to read by cyclists. Typically, a cyclist is pumping the pedals and the bike and the cyclist, together, are subject to the irregularities in the surface across which the cyclist is traveling. The vibrations of the gauge caused by this movement can make it difficult for the cyclist to ascertain the speed at which the cyclist is traveling with any degree of accuracy. Typically, the resolution at which the cyclist may determine the speed is between 3 to 5 miles per hour. Digital displays, by contrast, may provide a more accurate reading, however, the vibration of the bicycle relative to the cyclist can make it difficult for the cyclist to read the digital display. Additionally, conventional speed indicators are just plain boring.
The present invention is a periodic pattern of color applied to a tire. The frequency of the color pattern is determined based upon a predetermined rotational speed at which the colors will appear to blend together to form a new predetermined color. For example, a periodic pattern of yellow and blue will blend above a predetermined speed to appear as a consistent green color.
The periodic pattern of colors may be applied to a bicycle tread such that when a cyclist is riding a bicycle having tires incorporating the present invention with the periodic color pattern applied to the tread of the tire, the cyclist will be able to determine when a predetermined speed is attained merely by viewing the tread of the tire.
The periodic pattern may be purely functional as in a series of blocks of colors. However, the periodic pattern may also include decorative patterns which are aesthetically pleasing. The periodic pattern of colors may also be applied to a side wall of a tire such that an observer of the cyclist may also determine when a predetermined speed is obtained by the cyclist.
The present invention also provides a substantial entertainment value. It is fun to watch the pattern change colors when riding the bicycle. Children can be entertained when watching the colorful display of the tire speed indications of the present invention.
These and further objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings which, for purposes of illustration only, shoe several embodiments in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic side view of a cyclist riding a bicycle having tires that incorporate an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the tire tread of the bicycle of FIG. 1 as viewed by the cyclist;
FIG. 3 is a plan view of a portion of a tire tread having first embodiment of the speed indicating tread pattern according to present invention with multiple periodic patterns;
FIG. 4 is a view similar to that of FIG. 3 showing a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a view similar to that of FIG. 3 showing a third embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a view similar to that of FIG. 3 showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 7 is a elevation view of the color pattern of the present invention incorporated on a side wall of a tire of an automobile.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view of a cyclist 10 riding a bicycle 20. The cyclist 10 is observing the tire tread 22 of the bicycle 20 along a line of sight that is indicated by arrow B while the cyclist is traveling in the direction of arrow A. FIG. 2 is a plan view that the cyclist sees along the line of sight B from FIG. 1. The tire tread 22 includes 4 tread regions: A, B, C, and D. Each tread region includes a periodic color scheme which differs from the adjacent regions in order of decreasing frequency from A to D. As the rider rides the bicycle, the rider may observe the top of tread 22 and determine the approximate speed of the bicycle based upon the blending of the colors in each tread region.
FIG. 3 shows a first embodiment of a tire tread pattern 30 in accordance with the present invention. Similar to the tread pattern at FIG. 2, the tire tread pattern 30 includes 4 regions A through D. Each of the tread regions A through D includes colored areas having a first color area 32 and a second color area 34 that are distributed periodically within each region A through D. In the embodiment of FIG. 3, region A includes a periodic color pattern having a frequency that is twice the frequency of the periodic pattern of region B. As the tire tread 30 moves, a rider 10 observing the pattern will initially be able to distinguish the color regions 32 and 34 from each other. However, as the speed of the tread increases, the color patterns 32 and 34 will appear to the observer to blend together above a predetermined speed. For example, the color regions 32 may be colored blue while the color regions 34 may be colored yellow. As the tire tread increases in speed, the colored areas 32 and 34 will appear to blend together above a predetermined speed and will appear to the rider as a continuous green strip. Even though the rider 10 may perceive the color region A as being a single blended color, the other periodic color pattern regions B-D will still appear to the rider to have distinct color areas 32 and 34. However, as the rider accelerates the bicycle, the tread will increase in speed until a second predetermined speed is attained at which the colors areas 32 and 34 in the second periodic pattern region B will also appear to blend. As the rider continues to accelerate, the remaining regions C and D will, similarly, appear to blend as they reach their corresponding predetermined speeds. In this manner, the rider may determine his approximate speed merely by observing the color patterns and their blending characteristics as the cyclists rides.
FIG. 4 illustrates a second embodiment of a tread pattern 40 in accordance with the present invention. The tread pattern 40 includes a periodic pattern of colored areas 42 and 44. The color pattern 40 is simpler than the first embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 1 because it only includes a single periodic color pattern region. And therefore, a rider may only determine whether his speed is above a single predetermined speed when the color regions 42 and 44 appear to blend together.
FIG. 5 illustrates a third embodiment of a periodic color pattern 60 in accordance with the present invention. The third periodic color pattern includes color region 62 and 64. The color regions 62 are much shorter than the color regions 64. As a result, the color patterns 62 will not appear to blend with the color pattern 64. Rather, the rider will be able to observe the speed of the individual color regions 62. In this manner, the rider may be able to more easily determine when the rider is slowing down or increasing speed.
FIG. 6 is a plan view of a fourth embodiment of a periodic color pattern 70 in accordance with the present invention. The periodic color pattern includes color regions 72 and 74. The periodic color pattern 70 is different from the previous embodiments in that the periodic color 70 pattern includes periodic ornamental colored regions 72. The colored regions 72 may be randomly designed but yet still provide necessary degree of periodicity to enable a rider to determine a predetermined speed.
FIG. 7 is an elevational view of a vehicle 80 incorporating a vehicle tire 82 having sidewalls with a periodic color pattern 84. The periodic color pattern includes colored regions 86 and 88. In this embodiment of the present invention, an observer of the vehicle 80 may determine whether the vehicle exceeds a predetermined speed by observing the rotation of the periodic colored pattern 84. The periodic colored pattern 84 has a frequency which appears to an observer to blend above a predetermined speed. Such an embodiment may be useful for law enforcement officials in enforcing the speed limit on public highways. A law enforcement officer merely needs to observe the periodic color pattern on the sidewall of the tire of the vehicle to determine whether the predetermined speed is being exceeded.
While various embodiments in accordance with the present invention have been shown and described, it is understood that the invention is not limited thereto, and is susceptible to numerous changes and modifications as known to those skilled in the art. For example, the number of color pattern bands need not be limited to four and may be coordinated to each of the appropriate shift point speeds of a multi-gear bicycle which is equipped with the tire (which can be as much as 21 or 28) to facilitate gear-shifting by a novice rider through visual identification of particular color band changes. Therefore, this invention is not limited to the details shown and described herein, and includes all such changes and modifications.
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An underground walk with torches
Above Erfurt there is a citadel, called Petersberg. It used to be a monastery first and was later transformed into barracks for soldiers.It's huge and you have a great view over the cathedral and Erfurt.There are many underground passages, very narrow, which had been used as escape routes in case of a siege. Erfurt Tourist Information offers guided walks into these passages, the only light coming from torches. I mean the ones with real fire, not a flashlight.We did this walk and really enjoyed it.Not everybody gets to carry a torch, but there is enough light to see. You have to walk in a single file as it's so narrow. Sometimes you can look up and see escape chimneys, even narrower. I felt a lot of pity for the poor soldiers who had to climb out there, wearing their heavy armour, not knowing what would await them once they're out there.
Today the tunnels are safe, provided people are careful with their torches. You may encounter a few bats and mice and the occasional spider, but apart from this it's quite safe.
It's a great walk for kids! There were several in our group and they all loved it. Of course they all wanted to carry a torch.
For those of you who have watched the movie The Lord of the Rings: Sometimes we felt we're right in the middle of it.
This walk costs 6,50 Euro per adult, 3,50 for kids/students. It's absolutely worth it.
Make sure you wear good shoes and bring a jacket. And you shouldn't be too claustrophobic.
We were able to get tickets one hour prior to the walk, but we were told it's safer to book ahead.
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Poor Wolfram
Inside the cathedral in Erfurt you see a candleholder which looks like a man. It's mansize and he is holding up his arms with a large candle in each of them. This is Wolfram. He was a man in 12th century who must have been some kind of criminal. The citizens of Erfurt were very angry with him and sentenced him to stand in front of the cathedral, holding two heavy candles in his arms. By this they wanted to make sure he'd "see the light". You can imagine how heavy the candles must have been and how difficult and painful this must have been for him. After a few Sundays the citizens took pity on him and allowed him to have a candleholder made which looked like him. He had it done in bronze and it's said to have been first free-standing
bronze statue in Germany.
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Woad Barn
One of the goods which had made Erfurt rich and famous as a trading town was the dyer's-weed woad.
It grew in the woods around the town, was collected, ground,dried and formed into small balls. These balls had to be in barrels for several months, covered with urine ! to give them a nice, blue colour.So instead of going to the toilet people there went to the barrels. Some hotel owners even made money by selling the contents of their chamberpots.During my last visit in Erfurt I learned that it had to be male urine. Female urine didn't work.
How does anybody find out about this?? I mean, you see a green plant . How does anybody get the idea that these green leaves will make a nice, blue colour when , well, you know what I mean. I guess, I'd never make a good inventor.
These barrels were kept in the attics and it must have been a VERY smelly affair. This is why these attics had a lot of windows, certainly a lot more than any normal house.
Today this house is a theatre. It has been thouroughly aired.
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Petersberg Citadel
The citadel is not only interesting in its underground passages, but also from the outside. You can walk around and enjoy the view. There are canons standing around and you can still see the many look-outs. The citadel was never conquered.
The draw bridge has been turned into a cobble stoned street now, but you can still see the main gate with the spiked fence coming out of the ceiling. Next to the drawbridge there is a small door. This was used for latecomers, so that they soldiers didn't have to let the bridge down for just one person. When you look up inside the main gate, you can see holes in the ceiling. From there unwelcome people were covered with hot water. Not a very friendly way to get rid of unwelcome guests.
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An unusual doorknocker
Again, I like to look for the smaller details. To me, there are more interesting than the huge cathedral as such. On the main door to the cathedral you see a doorknocker in the shape of a lion.You can see this more often, but this one here happens to be eating a man. I don't know if there is some medieval significance to it or if the artist simply liked to add this detail for some extra thrill.
Update March 2008:
I learned from a priest at the cathedral that there are two possible explanations:
1. It says in the bible - 1 Peter,5,8 - that the devil is like a lion, trying to devour mankind. So if a lion eating a man is part of the door knocker, the medieval artists were trying to say."If you don't want to be eaten by a lion = devil, enter this church here.
2. If the lion's mane is shaped like the sun, then it's not just a lion but a symbol for the sun = light = God. Especially when the lion is sculptured so much bigger than the man he's eating, this was supposed to tell the people how much bigger God is than mankind.
So again, as with many symbolic sculptures, several possible and sometime contradictory explanations.
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A Gossip Stone/Klatschstein
When I first heard about gossip stones I thought it was something to punish gossipers.
But people in Erfurt were much nicer than my thoughts. They knew, people would stop and gossip, no matter what . So they had these gossip stones built at their houses. There are two stones, shaped like a chair, one right and one left of the front door. Instead of having to stand while gossiping, probably with heavy baskets full of shopping, the gossipers could just sit down and enjoy talking about who had done what with whom.
These gossiping stones can be seen at several of the old houses in Erfurt.
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House to the Green Field and to the Cardinal
This is a large house, standing on the Anger, the square in the centre of Erfurt. Its German name is "Haus zur grünen Aue und zum Kardinal". I don't know where this name comes from. About two hundred years ago a famous guest was sleeping there, Russian Tzar Alexander. Today it's a café and an ice-cream parlour.I must admit, when I saw the two statues on the roof, my first thought was one of them was eating ice cream. It was a very hot day in July and everybody was eating ice cream, so it just seemed possible to me. But of course, it's a torch she's holding, not an ice cream cone.
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The choir in the cathedral
I was really impressed by the beautiful carvings of the choir seats in the cathedral. They were carved in the 14th century, with lots of attention to the detail. The men you see on the picture aren't smoking, but playing the flute.
I think these seats are beautiful to look at, but probably not very comfortable to sit in. But then, in 14th century, you were supposed to sit upright when in church and pay attention all the time.
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Buy your stamps here
The main post office of Erfurt is in the centre of the town, in the walking area.It's the most magnificent post office I have ever seen. I don't know what this building used to be, maybe some VT members living in Erfurt can tell me.
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Flowers on the water
There are many cafés and bistros in the old part of Erfurt,on bridges or near bridges, where you can sit and enjoy the pretty flowers on the water. The gardeners have planted flowers in pots looking like boats, so when there is enough water, it looks like they are swimming. Unfortunately, when we were there, it hadn't rained for some time, so the water wasn't high enough and you could see how the flowerboats were fastened. But it still was a very pretty sight.
Beer holes in the houses
On some of the old houses in Erfurt you see holes above the doors, about 20 cm in diameter. They are called beer holes, because they were made to show passer-bys when the beer was brewed and ready to drink. If you've read my tip about the woad, you know that the woad traders needed lots of urine. One way to make sure you have enough of this valuable liquid is to drink lots of beer. So the woad traders also started a beer brewing business. They took turns and to indicate which brewery is ready to serve beer, they stuck straw into these beer holes.
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Martin Luther in Erfurt
Erfurt University once had a famous student: Martin Luther studied there for four years, from 1501 to 1505. Then, after he was almost hit by lightning he changed his plans for the future and became a monk instead. The monastery he chose was the Augustinerkloster, also in Erfurt. At this time, there were three different monasteries in Erfurt. Supposedly Luther chose the Augustinerkloster because there he could continue his studies.
There are references to Luther throughout Erfurt:
On the main shopping square there is statue of him, the monastery offers walks on the premises which include the room he once had and you can visit several churches in which he had been preaching.
The tour guides of the tourist information can do a "Luther walk", but this is only possible for group bookings. It's usually students of theology who book them.
Even without a special walk, just being in the very same church that Martin Luther once preached in makes history come alive.
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Early "Gas" Stations
Being an important trading point meant lots of horses and carriages arriving in Erfurt. The city had the right for stockpiling the goods for some days, so that everything could be counted, examined and properly taxed. During these days the horses had to be fed, of course. The people who took care of this were paid very well. Their houses and stables were close together in a street which is still called "Futterstrasse" - "feeding street", a sort of early service station or gas/petrol station. The feeders were quite rich and were able to have grand houses built for themselves and their families. In Futterstrasse you can still see some of these old houses.
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The Baptismal Font
In the corner in the cathedral there is a sort of a column, a pillar, reaching up to the ceiling. This is the baptistery. It is supposed to show the connection between the earth and heaven. A few steps from the floor take you up to the actual font, then a long pillar "grows" up towards the ceiling where it ends in a painting of a cloud. This is supposed to be the place where God is. The whole baptisterey is 18 meters high and was built in 16th century. It is certainly a very impressive place to be baptised.
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St Michael's Church
When you compare this small church to the splendour of the cathedral,
you'll be disappointed. But the Church of St. Michael has seen quite a few of "firsts" in the course of the centuries.
It was built in 13th century and used both as a Christian church and as a Jewish synagogue. There is a small churchyard, where you can still see tombstones from this time,some with a cross, others with the star of David.
In the beginning of 16th century a student named Martin Luther was attending service here and a few years later he himself was preaching in this church.
In the year 1520 the first ever evangelical sermon was held here, three years later for the first time a protestant priest got married in this small church.
I think it's true to say that these events shaped the course of European history.
When we were there I noticed a new window, dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg. He had saved many Jews during World War II, but vanished without a trace somewhere in Russia after the war. This window had been given to the church as a donation to point out the special relationship between the Christian and Jewish community in this area of Erfurt. There was also an exhibition about Wallenberg's life, but this is only temporary.
There is a beautiful organ in the church. Since almost every street in the old part of Erfurt seems to have a church of its own, there simply wasn't enough money to keep all the organs in good shape. The one in the St Michaels church was built in 1650 by Compenius and is called the Compenius organ.
A few years ago it was in really bad shape, when a visitor happened to see it and managed to raise enough money for a complete restauration.
This church is one of my favourite places in Erfurt, even though it's not one of the most beautiful. But you can truly feel history in there.
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(The following is a reformatted version of a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Defense and obtained from http://www.defense.gov) U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contract No. 456-13 June 21, 2013 CONTRACTS MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., was awarded a sole-source, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification to contract HQ0276-13-C-0001. The total value of this effort is $126,000,000, increasing the total contract value from $53,446,254 to $179,446,254. Under this modification, the contractor will procure the material required to manufacture up to 29 SM-3 Block IB missiles. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz. with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2016. Fiscal 2013 Defense Wide Procurement funds will be used to fund this effort. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is not a foreign military sales acquisition. Missile Defense Agency, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity. ARMY Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC, Oak Brook, Ill., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum value of $25,590,800 for the services in support of beach restoration project in Monmouth, N.J. Fiscal 2013 procurement funds are being obligated on this award. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with four bids received. The Army Corps of Engineers, New York, N.Y., is the contracting activity (W912DS-13-C-0033). Etcon Inc., doing business as JHL Construction, Gatesville, Texas, was awarded a firm-fixed-price, multi-year contract with a maximum value of $22,130,444 for paving services at Fort Hood, Texas. Type of appropriation will be determined with each order. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with seven bids received. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Hood, Texas, is the contracting activity (W91151-13-D-0009). Aerostar SES LLC, Anchorage, Alaska, was awarded a firm-fixed-price, multi-year contract with a maximum value of $10,000,000 for environmental remediation services. Fiscal 2013 military construction funds are being obligated on this award. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity (W912EP-13-D-0028). AIR FORCE Boeing Co., Springfield, Va., has been awarded a $15,940,000 modification (P00006) for the Combat Track II (CTII) sustainment contract (FA8707-11-D-0002) for CTII sustainment and tech refresh. The total cumulative value of the contract is $30,310,000. No money is being obligated at this time. Work will be performed at Chantilly, Va., and is expected to be completed by June 25, 2016. This is a sole-source acquisition. The contracting activity is Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/HBBI, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. 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2012 Honda Civic Si 2dr Coupe (2.4L 4cyl 6M)
Sorry guys but in terms of factory performance and day to day driving. This takes the cake. Yes it's a tight race on the streets (From a dig, though honda kids don't know anything but roll starts), but in the SCCA events I have used the 9th gen in, it blows my times from the 8th Gen I traded to get it. It is still more oriented to day to day driving so I get the pain. It doesn't feel Raw like the 8th Gen. Then again I said that when I traded my GSR for the 8th gen. This car is solid, has proven me well both on the track and on the streets.
Comfort. It's not too loud, the stereo is nice especially with the tiny little sub from the factory. My days of 2 12's is over. That is too much weight for so much attention. I enjoy hearing my highs and mids too much now days. I really like the dash layout. It is love or hate with the dash and I sway to love it. The seats are by no means good for the cross country trip but they do well for about 98% of every day society. I don't mind the harder seats thanks to the soft-ish suspension. Again I just like living with it. Some people with hate it.
I say since mine is a 12 they did good with interior accent changes in 13. I would like to see stiffer suspension. That is just me. If I wanted too soft I wouldn't have bought the SI. I just don't think they are firm enough for my taste. That is only a minor gripe though. I would like to see more power. and if possible some more torque, but I know that has never been hondas' strong point. So I won't complain too much on that. I don't like the carpet in it. It's too thin, but again that is most modern cars spending cut as well. Also just for the sake of performance, plastic is great and all but go back to a cast manifold for the 10th gen. please.
2012 Honda Civic LX 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl 5A)
I really just wanted something that got great gas mileage and was a car that will last me for years. I HATE car shopping!
My reason for selecting a Honda was my last car was a CR-V that had 324,000 when I traded it in.
My favorite feature is at the gas pump! Lots of city driving, especially in cold weather, 28 MPG. Highway driving in warmer weather, 41MPG.
The one thing that annoys me is I'm 5'8", and cannot see the front end of the car from the driver's seat. I have the seat raised, but cannot even see the hood, so parking in a tight spot is a leap of faith.
And being a small car, the ride leaves something to be desired.
2012 Honda Civic LX 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl 5M)
I wonder why people buy GMs, fords and chryslers when they can get a Civic. As far as reliability goes, I think there is enough data out there to prove that Civics are way better than most American cars. Same thing for resale value. I read somewhere that there is more American content in a Civic than in a Cruze. I don't know of this is true, but I know Civics are built in America! Anyhow, I had an Aries K when I was student and this was a constant problem (when it would start). When the engine blew up, I bought a Civic and have always been satisfied since. I drove all four of them up to about 160 000 Mi without any major trouble and managed to get a good trade-in value every single time.
Just a good reliable car. No more fun to drive than any comparable car, just extremely reliable.
2012 Honda Civic Hybrid 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
From start to initial speed car vibrates a lot or call it shudders
Bought a used car and returned in two days
Gave me headache from vibration
Saving that dollar from hybrid was not worth
My son who is seven could not stand the vibration
Will never buy a hybrid again
When it switches between electric and engine
I cannot bear that vibration and noise
Saving some dollar for vibration is not worth it
Please test drive throughly before you buy hybrid
Do lot of stop and go before you buy
On high way any car runs good
Good luck on buying hybrid
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I started out the summer with a pre-owned 2013 Ford Focus SE.
I was swayed into buying the Focus because of all the great tech and the quality interior.
Unfortunately, all the comforts in the world could not make up for the awful DCT.
Two months into owning the Focus I decided that I needed to trade it away as soon as possible.
I went with a pre-owned 2012 Civic with 22,000 miles on it.
I could not be more happy with my decision!!
I first felt that the interior was a downgrade to the Focus until I actually drove the car for a while and found it to actually be much better in all respects save for the hard plastics.
The smooth driving experience is much better than the Focus!
Eco button to save gas, easily turned off to boost power.
It is a very smooth car and makes my commute actually something I want to do just to drive this car!
It runs circles around the newer, more technical Focus in almost all possible ways.
I love the two-tier dash with the driver feedback lights.
I also love the design of the infotainment system and is very easy to use.
The maintenance minder should also prove very useful.
There is also far more leg room in the back seating area as opposed to the Focus.
I ended up losing money because I traded the Focus so soon, but it was worth every penny!!!
This is trivial, but I would like to have more choices when using the intermittent wipers.
The look of the interior plastics also put me off at first.
I can say now however that after driving one of the "best-in-class" Ford Focuses and then "downgrading" to the Civic that those are trivial points and I would recommend the Civic to anyone!
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