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GRP / GRE Pipe Productsby EPP Composites Pvt Ltd based in Rajkot, INDIA
FRP composite pipe is also referred to as GRP i.e. glass reinforced plastic pipe, because the majority of the manufactured products are reinforced with glass fibres. While not as stylish as powerboats and sports cars and often buried and out of sight, glassfibre reinforced plastic (GRP) / glassfibre reinforced epoxy (GRE) composite pipe has little ...
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GA - Model Series 624, 625 , 626 - Surge Relief Valvesby GA Industries LLC based in Cranberry Township, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
SEWAGE VALVES Figure 624, 625 Long Radius Elbow Body, Figure 626 Wye-body. GA Industries offers a wide range of surge relief valves especially designed for use with raw sewage, wastewater, raw water and other solids-bearing fluids. These valves are available from 2' to 16' (50mm to 400mm) and are standard with ANSI Class 125 flanged streamlined ...
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Model Century 3000 Series - Indoor Refrigerated Wastewater Samplersby Quality Control Equipment Company (QCEC) based in Des Moines, IOWA (USA)
The Century 3000 QLS – Quick Lift Sampler provides the 'Next Generation' of sampling technology. It delivers accurate, repeatable samples, even with long horizontal runs and high heads. With programmable sample sizes, and a patented 'self-calibrating' collection system, these samplers offer performance far superior to ...
Burt Process Equipments - Model PHX pH Seires - Adjustment Systemsby Burt Process Equipment, Inc. based in Hamden, CONNECTICUT (USA)
Burt Process Equipment's PHX pH Adjustment Systems are engineered, integrated and completely prepackaged units with automatic controls and instrumentation designed for ease of installation and maximum reliability. These pH adjustment systems provide completely automatic pH neutralization of wastewater. The compact design of offers a minimum size ...
RoeVac - Vacuum Sewer Systemsby Roediger Vacuum GmbH based in Hanau, GERMANY
High groundwater table, low population density, flat terrain (lack of natural slope); unfavourable soil conditions like sandy, unstable or rocky ground are the ideal circumstances to use RoeVac® vacuum sewer systems. In areas along rivers, lakes or coasts as well as in water protection zones, vacuum sewer systems are often the only choice. ...
Clearford One Systemby Clearford Industries Inc. based in Ottawa, ONTARIO (CANADA)
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IEC's Floating Covers are customized for each client's lagoon or tank size and shape. A series of lateral floats provide pathways for gas to flow underneath to the perimeter collection pipe and on to a single collection point. The lateral floats keep the entire cover floating on the waters' surface, and eliminate cover inflation, and ...
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Day 1 - June 21,2013
Orting, WA to Ardenvoir, WA
227 Miles
At my house in Orting ready to start. I'd say we are both a bit on edge. Not much sleep the last few nights because we are too excited. Can we actually do this? I've riden motorcycles most of my life but I've never riden 300 miles in a day on any bike and my motorcycle camping consist of a weekend trip last year when the WR was new. Might as well start big. Lets go!
Our plan was to go over the Nachees to Whistlin Jacks then hook up on parts of the WABDR for the trip north to Canada. We snomobile here a lot and its a good thing they leave these grooming maps up year round. I'd hate to lost on day 1.
First fuel stop at Whistlin Jacks and Dean is still giving me the "this might be a bad idea" look.
On the WABDR heading to Cleman Mountain
A couple of shots from Cleman Mountain
Wenas Road to Ellensburg
This is our elk hunting camp that was burned last year in the table mountain fire. Dean was bow hunting here during the fires and was told by the Forest Service he should leave. Good thing he listened. I happened to be camping there also the night of the lightning storm. Remember my one and only bike camping trip? I left the next morning not knowing what was heading our way.
Near Lion Rock
Deans look has changed by out last fuel stop in Ardenvoir. I just told him 10 more miles and we can stop for the day and drink beer. See how happy he is.
Final stop for the day at my parents house near Ardenvoir. We eat a steak dinner, have hot showers and beds to sleep in. This Adventure riding is easy.
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DD needs the MMR vaccine and I am 35 weeks pregnant.
Do I get it for her now while still pregnant, or does it not matter to get it when the baby is born?
Is there a possibility of it shedding to the newborn?
DD needs the MMR vaccine and I am 35 weeks pregnant.
Do I get it for her now while still pregnant, or does it not matter to get it when the baby is born?
Is there a possibility of it shedding to the newborn?
There is absolutely NO risk to transmit the vaccine virus to your baby.
That is not true. Live vaccines can and do shed. They can also cause the very same illness it's supposed to prevent. Read the vaccine insert.
Educate before you Vaccinate..
I was also told (by a dr) that vaccines can shed if they contain live viruses, and that the varicella vaccine is especially likely to do so.
Is that not the case?
M/C #1 - 3/2011 (MMC @ 10 wks); M/C #2 - 6/2011 (CP @ 5 wks); M/C #3 - 10/2011 (BO); Rainbow baby M 1/11/13
Larissakissa - read before you ramble, please. The question was specifically about MMR and there is NO risk of transmission to the newborn from an older sibling. None, squat, keins.
DreamingBoo - as my PhD advisor said "anything is conceivable", but in this specific situation, older sibling gets the MMR, transmission is NOT possible.
I've posted articles about MMR shedding before and I'm not going to do it again since I know you saw them catherinab. MMR can and does shed and it can give the person the very same disease it was supposed to prevent. Once that child gets that disease he is obviously shedding that virus. Can you guarantee that that vaccinated child will not come down with measles after the vax? Nope! Happens quite a lot, and they call it "the measles looking rash". LOL. It's not "the measles looking rash", it the measles for goodness sake! Like I said, read the vaccine insert.
Educate before you Vaccinate..
Larissa - the MMR does not transmit any of the three diseases from vaccinated toddler to infant. It doesn't. You can make up whatever you like, but MMR is not transmissable in the OP's scenario, at all, ever.
~ My child's welfare is far more important than my ego...
Thank you Daynes for supporting my point:
Shedding to the baby from a vaccinated sibling is not regarded as a significant risk. There is no confirmed evidence to indicate that such virus is transmitted to susceptible persons who are in contact with the vaccinated individuals.
Just as I said. On the other hand, unvaccinated children can pass the actual diseases to their infant siblings, which should be avoided by vaccinating them. It is really very easy in this situation.
Yes. I am unsure about the warnings now, but they used to give out a sheet you had to sign of risks (but try to dismiss it as a formality). If you read it and ask questions, they are dismissive and claim it is just a formality, but not real.
Anyway, on those sheets, in the past, they warned about having the vaccinated child around pregnant women, immune compromised people too. So yeah, it can be transmitted that way.
No, MMR can not. I just simply can't. Measles and (Jeryl Lynn) Mumps vaccine virus are not shed at all, vaccine rubella virus is not shed in quantities that are suitable for transmission (unless you drink a liter of virus containing fluid/day: transmission of the rubella vaccine virus to infants via breast milk has been documented). There is no transmission warning on the VIS (www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downl...).
Why do you ladies insist on spreading false vaccine fears? The OP asked a specific question which has a very clear answer.
There is NO/Squat/zero risk of transmission when getting an older sibling of an infant vaccinated with the MMR.


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Now that WordPress is unpacked and ready to go on your computer, it's time to install MAMP. Earlier in this course I downloaded MAMP from the mamp.info website as a zip file, and I also unpacked the zip file. So I got my MAMP package file. To install MAMP, now I just have to activate that package file. So I'll double-click on it, and here I get taken into the MAMP installer that'll walk me through the process of installing MAMP on my computer.
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Performance evaluation of Cognitive Radio Network Predictive MAC (P-MAC) access algorithm and its enhancement
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Salwa Elramly , Electronics and Communication Eng. Dept. Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt
Cognitive radio (CR) technology is envisaged to solve the problems in wireless networks resulting from the limited available spectrum resources and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by exploiting the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. In this paper, Predictive MAC (P-MAC) is the MAC protocol that we propose as a new one for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN). This MAC protocol can be applied on centralized or distributed networks. It is based on a prediction model called Exponential Smoothing model (ESM) [6]. The ESM predicts the channel distribution behavior for an ON/OFF channel scenario with various distributions. The P-MAC has the ability to fill the channel's vacancies as much as possible with less sensing time and RTS/CTS exchange. Therefore, the proposed model occupies the vacancies much better than the other ones. Also by using a simulation model we proved that it has higher throughput and less sensing overhead.
exponential smoothing, medium access control, spectrum sensing, cognitive radionetwork
Salwa Elramly, "Performance evaluation of Cognitive Radio Network Predictive MAC (P-MAC) access algorithm and its enhancement", ICOIN, 2013, The International Conference on Information Networking 2014 (ICOIN2014), The International Conference on Information Networking 2014 (ICOIN2014) 2013, pp. 434-439, doi:10.1109/ICOIN.2013.6496418


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New Cardinal Rashard Mendenhall: 'Everything's going great'
Not long ago, Rashard Mendenhall was considered to be one of the better young running backs in the NFL.
A first-round pick out of Illinois in the 2008 draft, he had rushed for 1,108 yards and seven touchdowns in 2009 before tallying 1,273 yards and 13 scores in 2010, when he helped lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to Super Bowl XLV.
Mendenhall rushed for 63 yards and a touchdown in the game, but a late fumble ended a fourth quarter drive and led to a Packers score. Pittsburgh lost the game 28-25.
The following season was going well enough for Mendenhall, as he had tallied 928 yards and nine scores through 15 games, but a torn ACL in his right knee in a Week 17 win over the Browns derailed things and now, less than two years later, he's an Arizona Cardinal working on a one-year contract.
"I don't really think about that," he said when asked if he feels like he has to re-prove himself as an NFL player. "For me I'm here right now, everything's going great.
"I just look forward to grow and build off of that."
Though Mendenhall, who rushed for just 182 yards last season, may not see a need to reassert himself, the Cardinals would certainly benefit if he does. As a team, Arizona rushed for a league-worst 1,204 yards last season, which is a number 10 running backs bested. On their own.
So it's not like there's any pressure on Mendenhall to fill anyone's shoes or keep a strong running game going.
But that does not mean the team didn't recognize a need to improve. Adding Mendenhall to a running back group that already included Ryan Williams, William Powell and Alfonso Smith, and then later added Andre Ellington and Stepfan Taylor, gives the team some serious depth. Add in quarterback Carson Palmer and rookie guard Jonathan Cooper, among others, and the hope is the offense now has talent, too.
"We've been building it since day one and when our minicamp started and beginning of OTAs, having all the same guys here, we've been learning the offense and kind of growing and gelling together, so we feel good about where we are," the 25-year-old said.
And of course, part of the reason Mendenhall feels good about Arizona is his head coach. Bruce Arians ran the Steelers' offense from 2007-2011, and the running back's best seasons came with his new boss calling the shots.
"That's a big part of it, you know, having somebody you're familiar with," he said of the influence Arians had on him coming to Arizona. "He wanted me down here, he's seen me work, really believes in me.
"So that meant a lot to me, and it just seemed like a good situation overall and I'm happy I'm here."
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Because I Said So: Low-tech telecom new frontier for digital kids
For more than a decade, we haven't had a home telephone. Like so many others, we grew tired of telemarketers, wrong numbers and the double billing on top of our cell phones.
But our kids continue to age and become more social. It had become time for either a home phone or pockets full of cell phones when a giant corporation made us a deal promising free HBO, a land line and terrible service.
How could we say no?
The kids have never known a home phone. It was like a prop from one of those classic films they like, one from the 1980s. They approached the thin, silvery wand the way a pet might advance on a new animal in its territory. They walked around it, sniffed it and pushed at it with their filthy paws.
Once we convinced them that it was OK, that it was like any other piece of technology they know, they relaxed. It was lifted gingerly from its cradle to be further scrutinized and then pointed at the television. It was aimed at the Wii and searched over for an Internet portal. In an effort to dial up YouTube, my son may have dialed Japan.
Alexander Graham Bell shouted into the first telephone, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!" My 9-year-old daughter first shouted into her new telephone, "It's Somerset! Hello? Is this thing even on?"
The receiver was not a room away as he had been in 1876, but blocks away, and I'm certain Somerset's friend heard her as much through the windows and over air as she did through the telephone.
A recent cartoon in The New Yorker shows two children walking, each carrying a backpack as if to school, and one says to the other, "So, hw ws yr smmr?" The caption reads: First Day Back To Verbal Communication.
We've taught our children to say "please" and "thank you," to clear their dirty dishes and to hold the door for those behind them, but phone etiquette is a new frontier. They've grown up in a world of cell phones, texts, instant messaging and the shorthand required to navigate these networks. It has seeped into their speech. The phrase, "May I speak to ..." is as foreign to them as how and why to make an emoticon is to me.
Technology is not lost on kids today. They are able to grasp the intricacies of buttons, touch screens, mice and cursors. It's the concept of technological regression they can't quite fathom. The rotary phones of my childhood would have been out of the question for these children of the 21st century. They would lose interest in whatever it was they or their friends had to say by the fourth digit in the telephone number.
"My voice travels through wires?" they said that day, looking at the cordless phone.
"Eventually, yes," I said, exasperated. "It's like a telegraph machine. Go look it up on Wikipedia. No, you can't get to Wikipedia on that phone."
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Guyana: where's the money pledged for saving rainforests?
(12/09/2010) Funds ostensibly set aside to reward tropical countries for protecting their rainforests are being held up, threatening to exhaust the political capital needed to advance the proposed reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) mechanism before it even gets off the ground, warned the president of Guyana during a lively panel organized by Avoided Deforestation Partners on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.
Sulawesi groups recognized for efforts to save endangered wildlife, forests
(12/08/2010) Two groups working with local communities to conserve forests in Sulawesi have won mongabay.com's 2010 Conservation Award. The Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo), which works in Central Sulawesi, and the Nantu Forest Conservation Program, which operates in North Sulawesi, were recognized for their efforts to protect endangered forests on the Indonesian island, which is known for its high levels of endemic species.
Mountain gorilla population up by 100 individuals
(12/07/2010) Conservation appears to be working for the Critically Endangered mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in the Virunga massif region, as a new census shows an additional 100 individuals from the last census in 2003, an increase of over a quarter. The Virunga massif is a region in three nations—Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda—and covering three protected area.
Extinct giant stork towered over 'hobbits' on Flores
(12/07/2010) Scientists have discovered an extinct massive stork, standing nearly 6 feet tall (1.8 meter) and weighing 35 pounds (15 kilograms), which would have shared the island of Flores with the 'hobbits'—dwarf hominin species known as Homo floresiensis—reports the BBC. According to the researchers the meat-eating stork was big enough to prey on young Homo floresiensis, and stood about 2 and a half feet (0.8 meters) above adult hobbits.
Can RED Hot California Heat Up A Sedated Cancun?
(12/07/2010) In his concession speech after the 2010 mid-term elections, President Obama said that prospects for meaningful U.S. climate change legislation are doubtful and will be for years. With the US and the international community unable to take even modest steps to combat global warming, the State of California has stepped up in a big, big way. Despite record unemployment rates, deficits and unemployment, California voters trounced a measure that would have suspended AB 32, California's landmark climate change law. California's AB 32 cap and trade program will soon be the biggest market for compliance emission reductions outside of Europe. In the wreckage of the Copenhagen talks and the new political landscape in America, California is the most dynamic jurisdiction for climate change implementation.
Forgotten species: the plummeting cycad
(12/06/2010) I have a declarative statement to make: cycads are mind-blowing. You may ask, what is a cycad? And your questions wouldn't be a silly one. I doubt Animal Planet will ever replace its Shark Week with Cycad Week (perhaps the fact that it's 'animal' planet and not 'plant' planet gave that away); nor do I expect school children to run to see a cycad first thing when they arrive at the zoo, rushing past the polar bear and the chimpanzee; nor do I await a new children's book about a lonely little anthropomorphized cycad just looking for a friend. In the world of species-popularity, the cycad ranks pretty low. For one thing, it's a plant. For another thing, it doesn't produce lovely flowers. And for a final fact, it looks so much like a palm tree that most people probably wouldn't know it wasn't. Still, I declare the cycad to be mind-blowing.
Saving the maleo, a geothermal nesting bird, in Sulawesi
(12/06/2010) More species are threatened with extinction in Indonesia than any other country on Earth. If we are to save them, it will take more protected areas, radical shifts in deforestation, and better anti-poaching efforts, but in many cases it will also take species-specific conservation efforts that work directly with local people. The Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo) is a model organization for this method, founder Marcy Summers describes it as 'very small, community-based, and efficient, with very low overhead.' By focusing on the wonderfully bizarre maleo, a ground-dwelling bird on the island of Sulawesi, the organization has succeeded in protecting a vital nesting area while initiating a moratorium on the egg-harvesting, which once devastated the species.
Saving Sulawesi's 'pig-deer', the babirusa
(12/06/2010) The babirusa of Sulawesi may be one of the world's oddest looking—and acting—mammals. Literally meaning 'pig-deer' the babirusa, which includes four species, belongs to its own genus 'Babyrousa' in the pig family. Males are especially unique, sporting four tusks, two of which appear to come right out of the animal's snout. To make it to the top of the babirusa hierarchy, males will combat each other in an activity dubbed 'boxing' where they will rear up on their hind legs and club at each other. Despite their many oddities, the babriusa were not formally studied until the late 1980s when Dr. Lynn Clayton spent four years in Sulawesi's forest observing them.
World has run out of fishing grounds
(12/06/2010) The world's oceans can no longer accommodate fisheries expansion, confirms a study conducted by joint effort between the University of British Columbia and the National Geographic Society. The study is the first of its kind to analyze the geographic expansion of global fisheries. Published in the journal PLoS ONE, the study lends additional credence to reports that current fishing practices are unsustainable. Researchers holistically determined the ecological footprint of commercial fisheries by looking at primary production—the tiny organisms that make up the bottom of the food chain—and calculating the amount necessary to support current fishing yields around the world from 1950 to 2005. The study finds that the amount of primary production required to maintain commercial fishing at current levels far exceeds that which exists.
Jane Goodall and David Attenborough: overpopulation must be addressed
(12/06/2010) In a recent interview with The Telegraph world famous primatologist and conservationist, Jane Goodall, and wildlife documentarian Sir David Attenborough agreed that overpopulation must be addressed to protect the global environment.
US most vulnerable to climate change among world's wealthy nations
(12/06/2010) While the US has done little to mitigate climate change, a new report by humanitarian research organization DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum states that of all industrialized nations the US will face the most harm from a warming world. Together with Spain, the US's vulnerability to climate change has been listed as High by the newly released Climate Vulnerability Monitor.
Climate change to take the lives of 5 million by 2020, mostly children
(12/06/2010) A new report by humanitarian research organization DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum finds that if nations continue to fail at lowering greenhouse gas emissions, five million people—mostly children—are likely to die from climate change impacts over the next 10 years. The report, called the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, predicts, in addition, that by 2030, one million people every year will perish from climate change impacts. The dire predictions come as nations struggle at a UN Climate Summit in Mexico this week to come up with a coordinated response to climate change, although an agreement is not expected this year.
Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund
(12/04/2010) A half-century ago, Brazil's Suruí people knew little of the world beyond their cluster of villages – and nothing of the European settlers who dominated their continent. By 2006, that world beyond had engulfed them – a fact their young chief, Almir Narayamoga Suruí, saw all too clearly the first time he logged onto Google Earth.
Brazil to help African, Asian countries in satellite-based forest monitoring
(12/03/2010) Brazil will provide technical assistance to help tropical countries improve their forest monitoring capabilities, according to an official with the South American country's satellite agency.
Google lends its massive computing cloud in fight against deforestation
(12/03/2010) Google officially launched Earth Engine, a technology platform that enables scientists using the search giant's massive computing infrastructure to monitor and measure environmental changes. A group of scientific partners is already using the Earth Engine to track deforestation; map vegetation, biodiversity and water resources; and analyze fire patterns, but Google will open the platform to scientists around the world.
2,700 sq km of Brazil's most endangered rainforest destroyed in 8 years
(12/03/2010) 270,000 hectares of the Mata Atlântica, Brazil's most threatened ecosystem, was cleared between 2002 and 2008, reports a new assessment by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA). Less than 8 percent of the Atlantic forest—famed for its biodiversity—remains.
Brazil's largest national bank signs zero deforestation pact for Amazon soy
(12/03/2010) Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-owned bank, announced it has joined a zero deforestation pact for soy grown in the Amazon. The bank will now require farmers applying for credit to certify the origin of their soybeans.
Will dumping mining waste in peatlands help mitigate climate change?
(12/02/2010) Indonesia's national climate change strategy document includes text suggesting that dumping mining waste in peatlands could be used as an approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
'These are the facts': 2010 to be among top three hottest years
(12/02/2010) Despite La Nina arriving at the end of the year—which bring cooler than average conditions—and bitter cold showing up recently in the Northern Hemisphere due to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), 2010 was smoldering enough worldwide that it will very likely be among the top three hottest years since record-keeping began 160 years ago, reports the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) today.
Breaking all of life's rules: scientists discover bacteria that can survive on arsenic
(12/02/2010) While for days rumors have circulated around the Internet that NASA had discovered alien life, the truth may be even less expected. Instead of aliens, NASA-funded researchers have discovered a microorganism on Earth that breaks all the rules of life: in Mono Lake in California scientists found a bacterium that can survive wholly on arsenic. The microorganism is capable of replacing phosphate, one of the essential blocks of all known life, with the toxic chemical arsenic according to new researched published in Science. Uncovered by lead author and NASA-funded scientist, Felicia Wolf-Simon, along with astrobiolgist colleagues at Arizona State University, the discovery is thought to have widespread implications on how life may survive on other planets.
Rainforest protection should focus on boosting resilience to climate change
(12/02/2010) Efforts to protect tropical forests under the proposed reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) program should focus on conserving large-scale moisture gradients and areas that provide connectivity between major ecozones in order to reduce the impacts of climate change on ecosystem function and the compounding effects of deforestation, argue scientists writing in the journal Nature.
Thousands pledge to boycott restaurants serving bluefin tuna
(12/01/2010) So far over 14,000 people have pledged to boycott eating bluefin tuna or visiting any restaurant that serves the imperiled species. The boycott, begun by US-conservation organization Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), is striving to raise awareness about a species that many scientists say is being fished to the brink of extinction.
Rwanda government: one third forest cover coming seven years ahead of schedule
(12/01/2010) Rwanda expects to reach its goal of 30% forest cover in three years, according to the Minister for Forestry and Mines, Christophe Bazivamo. If achieved this would be seven years ahead of the government's pledge for 2020.
'Environmental and social aggression': oil exploration threatens award-winning marine protected area
(12/01/2010) The Seaflower Marine Protected Area (MPA), which recently won top honors at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Japan, is now under threat by planned oil exploration in the region, according to the Providence Foundation which is devoted to protecting the area. Proposed blocs for exploration by the Colombian government lie in the North Cays adjacent to the park, and perhaps even inside MPA boundaries. Spreading over 65,000 square kilometers (6.5 million hectares), Seaflower MPA lies within the Colombian Caribbean department known as the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence and Santa Catalina. This richly diverse Archipelago is home to a known 57 coral species, over 400 fish, and some 150 birds, as well as the ethnic and cultural minority: the Raizal people. The prospect of massive infrastructure or, even worse, oil spills in the area could devastate the park and locals' livelihoods.
NASA images reveal disappearing mangroves worldwide
(12/01/2010) In August, NASA and the US Geological Survey released the first-ever satellite analysis of the world's mangrove ecosystems. What they found was dire: mangroves covered 12.3% less area than previously estimated. Now, NASA has released images of the world's mangrove ecosystems (see below), which currently cover 137,760 square kilometers. Yet this number keeps shrinking: mangroves are vanishing rapidly due to rising sea levels, deforestation for coastal developments, agriculture and aquaculture.
Brazil's Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record
(12/01/2010) Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to the lowest rate on record, putting Brazil well on track to meet its targets for reducing rainforest destruction. Analysis of satellite imagery by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows that 6,450 square kilometers of rainforest were cleared in the Amazon in the 12 months ended July 31, 2010, a 14 percent drop from the year earlier period.
Study: REDD could save species from extinction, if well-funded
(12/01/2010) The burgeoning global program REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) could do more than mitigate climate change, according to a new study in Conservation Letters by scientists with Conservation International (CI). Analyzing a sample of 2,500 forest animals, including mammals, birds and amphibians, researchers found that REDD+ could reduce the rate of extinction among these species by 46-82% over five years. The wide range in the study's findings depends on the amount of funds devoted to REDD+: more funds means greater forest preservation and, thereby, less extinction.
Logging concession could extinguish endangered Sumatran elephant population
(11/30/2010) Local conservationists are urging the Indonesian government to halt the destruction of a 42,000 hectare forest in the renowned Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape for a pulpwood plantation. According to researchers, the forest concession—owned by PT Lestari Asri Jaya, a subsidiary of Barito Pacific Group—contains the last population of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in the Bukit Tigapuluh and approximately 5% of the island's total population. In a letter being sent to the Ministry of Forests, conservationists write that the destruction of the forest "would immediately lead to local extinction of elephants in Bukit Tigapuluh". They argue that given its ecological importance, the PT Lestari Asri Jaya forest concession should be placed under permanent protection.
Climate change linked to 21,000 deaths in nine months
(11/30/2010) Extreme weather events linked to climate change has caused the deaths of 21,000 people worldwide in the first nine months of 2010, according to Oxfam. This is already twice the casualties of 2009. In a new report More than ever: climate talks that work for those that need them most, the organization outlines the casualties of such weather-related disasters, for example devastating floods in Pakistan which killed 2,000 people and affected more than 20 million.
Sarawak to double oil palm plantations by focusing on native customary forest
(11/30/2010) Sarawak plans to double its oil palm estate by 2020, reports The Star.
Consumer goods industry announces goal of zero deforestation in Cancun
(11/30/2010) While governments continue to stall on action to cut greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, global corporations are promising big changes to tackle their responsibilities. The Board of Consumer Goods Forum (BCGF) has approved a resolution to achieve net zero deforestation by 2020 in products such as palm oil, soy, beef, and paper. Announced yesterday at the UN Climate Summit in Cancun, the BCGF has stated the goal will be met both by individual actions within companies and collective action, including partnerships with NGOs, development banks, and governments. With such giants as Walmart, Unilever, Carrefour, and General Mills, BCGF is made up of four hundred global consumer goods manufacturers and retailers totaling over $2.8 trillion in revenue.
Pulp plantations destroying Sumatra's rainforests
(11/30/2010) Indonesia's push to become the world's largest supplier of palm oil and a major pulp and paper exporter has taken a heavy toll on the rainforests and peatlands of Sumatra, reveals a new assessment of the island's forest cover by WWF. The assessment, based on analysis of satellite imagery, shows Sumatra has lost nearly half of its natural forest cover since 1985. The island's forests were cleared and converted at a rate of 542,000 hectares, or 2.1 percent, per year. More than 80 percent of forest loss occurred in lowland areas, where the most biodiverse and carbon-dense ecosystems are found.
Slight rise in mangrove forests in Eastern India
(11/29/2010) While mangrove forests are vanishing around the world, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests is reporting a slight uptick of mangrove forests along the nation's eastern coast. According to a report, mangroves expanded from 4,581 square kilometers in 2005 to 4,639 square kilometers in 2007, an increase of 58 square kilometers.
Earth could see 4 degrees Celsius warming in less than a lifetime
(11/29/2010) By the time children born this year reach 50 years old, the Earth could be 4 degrees Celsius warmer (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warns a new study as governments meet in Cancun for this year's UN climate summit, which is not expected to produce an agreement. Last year governments pledged in the non-binding Copenhagen Accord to keep temperatures below a 2 degree Celsius rise, but a new study in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A argues that even with current promises to cut emissions this is unlikely and, in a worst-case scenario, a rise of 4 degrees Celsius is possible by 2060.
Google Earth now features 3-D trees
(11/29/2010) With world leaders meeting at climate talks in Cancun to discuss the future of forests, Google has added 3D trees to the latest version of Google Earth. Google has populated several major cities with more than 80 million virtual trees based on an automated process that identifies trees in satellite images. The realistic 3D representations are based on actual tree species found in urban areas. But Google has also extended realistic tree coverage to sites in some of the world's most biologically diverse forests.
Brazil strikes oil in the Amazon
(11/29/2010) Petrobras, Brazil's state oil company, announced a new oil discovery in the Amazon, reports Reuters.
Don't ignore biodiversity when conserving carbon stocks
(11/29/2010) A focus on conservation of high carbon landscapes via the proposed REDD mechanism could come at a detriment to biodiversity, argues a new paper published in Carbon Balance and Management.
Plantations on peatlands are huge source of carbon emissions
(11/29/2010) Converting peatlands for wood-pulp and oil palm plantations generates nearly 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare, making these ostensibly "green" sources of paper, vegetable oil and biofuels important drivers of climate change, reports new research published by scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Island nations say climate treaty should be completed in 2011
(11/29/2010) The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), making up 42-island and low-lying coastal nations, has told Reuters that a deadline should be set for the UN climate treaty to be completed by 2011. After a disappointing meeting in Copenhagen last year and the low expectations for the up-coming climate change conference in Cancun, the AOSIS says a hard deadline should be set for 2011.
Hairy enigma of the Serengeti photographed again
(11/29/2010) A mysterious—and extremely hairy—animal has been photographed again in the Serengeti. Robert Berntsen, a frequent traveler to East Africa, photographed the creature, almost certainly a gazelle, in Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve. It was earlier photographed by Paolo Torchio in the same reserve.
Environmentalists: fishing quota could be death sentence for bluefin tuna
(11/28/2010) Once again, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) has flouted warnings from conservationists, evidence from scientists, and even recommendations from the European Commissioner Fisheries and Maritime Affairs in its most recent fishing quota for the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Meeting last week in Paris, ICCAT agreed to a 2011 fishing quota of 12,900 metric tons, 600 less than this year's quota. Yet, environmentalists from a wide-range of organizations have been warning for years that without a moratorium on bluefin fishing—or at least a drastic reduction in quotas—the species is at risk of extinction. ICCAT's own scientists say that the current quota gives the species a 70% chance of recovery.
Despite strong local opposition, Malaysia to push forward on second-hand coal plant in Borneo
(11/26/2010) Despite strong local opposition, a Malaysian utility company will resubmit a detailed environmental impact assessment (DEIA) for a coal plant in Sabah, on the island of Borneo, according to Green SURF, a coalition of Malaysian environmental groups. The plant—twice relocated due to opposition and environmental concerns—had earlier been rejected due to gross errors in the original DEIA.
Leading model undervalues true cost of reducing deforestation, says report
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Indonesia's forest protection plan at risk, says report
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Ad warning of mass extinction appears in Times Square
(11/24/2010) An advertisement warning holiday pedestrians about mass extinction—and asking for their help—first appeared in Times Square this week. The ad which flashes on CBS's Super LED Screen between 7th and 8th avenues was created by US conservation organization, the Center for Biological Diversity.
Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad
(11/24/2010) As more nations adopt better laws and policies to save and restore forests at home, they may, in fact, be outsourcing deforestation to other parts of the world, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Looking at six developing nations where forests are recovering—instead of receding—the study found only one of them did not outsource deforestation to meet local demand for wood-products and food, a process known as 'leakage'.
Tiger summit reaches bold agreement and raises $300 million
(11/24/2010) The summit to save the world's biggest cat, and one of the world's most popular animals, has agreed to a bold plan dubbed the Global Tiger Recovery Program. Meeting in St. Petersburg, 13 nations have set a goal to double the wild tiger's (Panthera tigris) population worldwide by 2022. Given that tiger numbers continue to decline in the wild, this goal is especially ambitious, some may even say impossible. However, organizations and nations are putting big funds on the table: around $300 million has already been pledged, including $1 million from actor, and passionate environmental activist, Leonardo Dicaprio.
Indonesian logging company makes 'deceptive' claims on carbon conservation project
(11/24/2010) A major wood-pulp company is misleading the public over its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a carbon conservation project in Sumatra, claims Greenomics, an Indonesian activist group.
Unprecedented tundra fire likely linked to climate change
(11/23/2010) A thousand square kilometers of the Alaskan tundra burned in September 2007, a single fire that doubled the area burned in the region since 1950. However, a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that the fire was even more unprecedented than imagined: sediment cores found that it was the most destructive fire in the area for at least 5,000 years and maybe longer. "If such fires occur every 200 years or every 500 years, it's a natural event," University of Illinois plant biology professor Feng Sheng Hu explains in a press release. "But another possibility is that these are truly unprecedented events caused by, say, greenhouse warming."
Genetic analysis uncovers new parrot on the edge of extinction
(11/23/2010) Down to just over 100 individuals, DNA analysis has revealed one of the world's most imperiled bird species: the western ground parrot Pezoporus flaviventris.. Genetic evidence collected from museums specimens, some well-over a century old, have led scientists to "cautiously suggest" that Australia's ground parrot be split into two distinct species—the eastern and the western—and not subspecies as they are currently considered. According to the study, the ground parrot species split apart some two million years ago, around the same time as the first members of the genus Homo evolved.
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THE Greens have slammed Transport Minister Troy Buswell's approval of a $9 "turn up on time" taxi fee, branding it legalised extortion.
From tomorrow, Swan Taxi passengers will be asked if they want to pay a premium to ensure their cab turns up at the required booking time.
Swan Taxis will start charging the $9 fee to encourage drivers to turn up for advance bookings on time, giving customers the option of paying a $7.50 "advanced confirmed booking fee" on top of the usual $1.50 call-out fee.
The optional fee only applies to Swan Taxi bookings 24 hours or more ahead and it will be waived if the taxi driver is more than 10 minutes late.
Greens transport spokeswoman Lynn MacLaren said the fees were outrageous and showed "just how out of touch the minister was".
But at press conference this afternoon, Mr Buswell said he doubted passengers will take up the premium option.
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Disappointed of Perth of Perth Posted at 5:21 PM January 08, 2013
WA = Wait Awhile Taxis in Perth are the worst, no idea where they are going, no idea of time and no concept of value. Overpriced and poor quality just like most things in WA.
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John Posted at 8:04 PM January 08, 2013
Does this mean all the SWAN CABS will now ALWAYS be at least 10 minutes late ( probably more like 15-20) if you do not pay a premium. Who would ever want to book one!!!! Although I suppose it will be great for those public servants who book cabs at taxpayers expense.
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Grant Trotter of Southlake Posted at 8:37 PM January 08, 2013
This would be the stupidest decision ever are taxis not providing a service arriving on time should be what they strive to do as its how they make their living why should they need and incentive isn't making $$$ their incentive
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jumbo Posted at 9:18 PM January 08, 2013
Perth taxis are a disgrace. They should get punished for their poor service, not rewarded. I have caught taxis in every capital city and Perth is by for and away the worst. Increased taxis=lower cost and more reliable service
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Frana of Byford Posted at 9:26 PM January 08, 2013
How stupid is this country going, now I have heard it all, what do you think that is going to achieve taxis being late on purpose just to get more money we are NOT money cows for this government.
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boycott Posted at 2:34 AM January 09, 2013
Bribery to get basic services is what you expect in Mafia run dictatorships, not Australia. This country has gone to the dogs and now resembles the corrupt regimes that are triggering the revolutions in other countries. If they don't know how to run a business, they should get out and let someone else do it, or have the licenses taken off them. Maybe a black market pick up service, where 1 or 2 people in each street operate as couriers for the rest of the street would be safer and more acceptable than the present dodgy taxi set up.
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Andrew of Perth Posted at 10:49 AM January 09, 2013
How about we pay for trains, planes and thatres to run on time too?
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Lee Rowe of Perth Posted at 11:04 AM January 09, 2013
Wow. How about this. If you book a taxi, and it isnt on time, then you get a discount! I think that would definately improve reliability! Taxi drivers are able to take up the bookings to garuntee a job, but then also take on the responsibility to be there as expected. The discount can be worked out according to how late the driver is. C'mon Troy... if I can come up with better solutions than you, then perhaps I should be on the big bucks!
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Reality of Perth Posted at 11:10 AM January 09, 2013
I asked my boss this morning if I could also get paid $9 to turn up to work on time. He replied that I already get a bonus - that I get to keep my job if I turn up on time. Same should apply to cab drivers.
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H of Perth Posted at 11:23 AM January 09, 2013
I cant get over how absolutely stupid this. Sadly the negative effects I can see from this: An increase in drink driving, a decrease in tourism. And the drivers still wont know where they are going.
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Jon of Perth Posted at 11:28 AM January 09, 2013
Clearly, Buswell has no clue about running the transport system in WA. Too busy with media stoushes with x lovers or drunken parties. Even a 2yr old monkey could tell you where the problems are Troy, why is it so hard for you to comprehend whats going on? The quicker your out of office, the better for this state, your'e a joke.! More Taxi's. More Train Serviecs after hours More Bus routes and thats just so we match the eastern states!
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Harry of Perth Posted at 11:28 AM January 09, 2013
Avoid the fee and don't book 24hr in advance. If you ring up when you want a taxi, you have the same guarantee as pre-booking. Or perhaps with the $7.50 fee you can ring early, and then just ask the driver to wait. Your choice.
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T of Perth Posted at 12:06 PM January 09, 2013
Taxis are a service industry ie: to serve the public. They already refuse fares or fail to show up if they do not want to go to the destination. What is to stop them blackmailing customers into paying the fee? More taxis, more competition equals better service.
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Bryan of Perth Posted at 12:06 PM January 09, 2013
whats next? extra $10 for the driver so he doesn't take a detour? are they going to charge an extra $20 to get to the correct destination?
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River Ralphie of Perth Posted at 12:13 PM January 09, 2013
Here's an idea, how about Swan Taxis pays US when they accept a booking and the taxi is late?
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Garry Posted at 12:40 PM January 09, 2013
This is rewarding poor service. The minister needs to sack his advisor for even suggesting he put his name to such a illogical and unpopular charge. I will a) book with an alternative operator, b) not book more than an hour in advance, or (most likely) utilise family and friends and abandon use of taxi services altogehter.
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Expat of Kuala Lumpur Posted at 12:45 PM January 09, 2013
More taxis? Yeah right, that won't improve things at all. The standard of Perth's taxi services has decreased noticeably over the past decade and more taxis will lower the declining standard even more unless changes are made. Who will drive these extra cabs and why would they offer better service?I live in KL and there are taxis everywhere but they are terrible almost without exception so more taxis does not equal better service. What the taxi industry needs is a new entrant who is prepared to offer a better service. Start with guaranteed on time pick up, drivers who are properly trained, safe, courteous and know where they are going, cabs which are clean and well maintained, good online booking and tracking systems... Then innovate from there...change the business model and the way taxi drivers are remunerated to encourage a professional service perhaps.. I'd happily pay MORE to a company that actually consistently delivered a better service but I am not happy to pay top dollar for substandard, disinterested taxi drivers who need me to tell them how to get me where I want to go, who stand around while I juggle my suitcases into their cabs and who drive like idiots.
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Fed up of Perth Posted at 1:08 PM January 09, 2013
Swan taxis are already the worst of the worst! They overcharge EVERY time, the drivers have NO idea where they are going and consistently take the longest route possible to get a larger fare. Then on top of that they charge an extortionate EFTPOS fee, a call out fee, an ultra peak fee... surely 3 outrageous fees are already enough? I hope this plan fails miserably for them, maybe then they'll start looking at what the consumer wants rather than money grabbing.
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Darren Posted at 1:44 PM January 09, 2013
There are other taxi companies to choose from ;)
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Over at Concurring Opinions Ronald Collins asks why none of the four "liberal" justices wrote a separate concurring opinion in Obergefell and he notes the same phenomenon in Romer, Lawrence, and Windsor. I have a theory. My guess is that there has long been in place an agreement among the "liberal" justices not to do anything that might upset Kennedy in hot-button cases in which he is in their camp and has taken the majority opinion for himself. A concurring opinion that tilts further left than Kennedy's own opinion risks his rethinking his vote: thus it is best not to write anything at all. (O'Connor in Lawrence didn't have this problem: she concurred in that case on more narrow grounds.) I suspect the agreement among the "liberal" justices extends also to feedback on the draft opinions Kennedy circulates. (And it's quite possible Kennedy's law clerks are in on the game.) My guess is that by agreement such feedback is limited to "Good job, Tony! The only thing I have is that it looks like there is a typo at page 27, line 11." Again, anything more serious or substantive would risk losing the Kennedy vote. Obergefell is just the latest bit of evidence for my theory. It is impossible for me to believe that the amateurish, clunking majority opinion is the product of significant back and forth among five seasoned jurists (and their clerks). Justice Ginsburg is among the best writers in the history of the Court; Justice Kagan, the former Dean of Harvard Law School, knows dreadful prose and half-baked arguments when she sees them. Could these two justices possibly have read without cringing such sentences as "[t]he lifelong union of a man and a woman always has promised nobility and dignity to all persons, without regard to their station in life" and "marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out only to find no one there?" Knowing one's own limits is a virtue. It is a real shame that Kennedy didn't have the good judgment to assign the majority opinion in Obergefell to a colleague who could produce a tight, well-reasoned opinion informed by critical feedback.
Gay rights, religious accommodations, and antidiscrimination law
Andrew Koppelman
A symposium on "Religious Accommodations in the Age of Civil Rights" has just been published in the Southern California Law Review. My contribution,"Gay Rights, Religious Accommodations, and the Purposes of Antidiscrimination Law," is available here. This is the abstract:
Monday, June 29, 2015
Obergefell and the End of Religious Reasons for Lawmaking
Nelson Tebbe
Micah Schwartzman, Richard Schragger, and Nelson Tebbe
A Note to Append to Justice Scalia's Dissent in Arizona Redistricting
Mark Tushnet
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Carlsson's race-tuned versions of the Mercedes-Benz SLK have been taking checkered flags for years, and we won't be surprised if its SLK 340 hill climber fares any different. Developed by multiple German and Swiss hill climb champion Reto Meisel, the carbon-bodied SLK 340 with lightweight brakes and a closed underbody weighs 1,716 pounds. Propelling that tiny bit of weight is a 3.4-liter V8 from Judd with 610 horsepower, and it rolls on 18-inch wheels shod in Avon tires.
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(Vocus) April 13, 2010 -- According to Pollen.com, the most visited allergy site on the Web, the five areas of the country with the highest pollen activity today are: Grand Island, NE; Lincoln, NE; Topeka, KS; Wichita, KS; Des Moines, IA.
Pollen.com provides conditions by ZIP code, updated daily, and offers 4-day forecasts. The accompanying map shows, in red, areas of the country that are experiencing the highest pollen levels.
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- Recommend this vehicle to a friend? Yes
- How long have you owned this vehicle? 1 year
2005 Dodge Neon
nice car for young people
- Recommend this vehicle to a friend? Yes
- How long have you owned this vehicle? 4 years
2004 Dodge Neon
My best car so far
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Cons: No power windows in the backIt was fun a great car.
- Recommend this vehicle to a friend? Yes
- How long have you owned this vehicle? 4 years
2007 Dodge Caliber
One of the best I've owned
Pros: The R/T suspension and stability control
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- Recommend this vehicle to a friend? Yes
- How long have you owned this vehicle? 2 years
2010 Dodge Nitro - Detonator 4x2
Pros: The color (inferno red pearl coat) and the style of the exterior
Cons: The interior materials and quality
Advice: Look at all your options and decide what kind of suv your looking for.the 2010 nitro should not be confused with non truck like suv's.the ride and handeling of this suv is firm and can transmit jolts to its occupants when the pavement is any thing less than smooth.Though the front seats are comfortable and the dash layout and controls are easy to reach and use,the interior plastic should be brought to par with its competetors. I don't think the dodge boys were trying to make a posh suv but one that was rugged and had truck like ability and tough looks. The 3.7l motor works fine but could use a five speed trans and 3.55 gears instead of the 3.73 that came standard in my vehicle that is a 4x4. this would help the mpg's. Overall I like this suv and if properly maintained it should last a long time. This is a utility/truck suv that has a true off road feel to it with up right seating without to much posh. So if all out comfort is what you are looking for this may not be your cup of joe. but if rugged good looks solid practicality and true 4 wheel drive ability are. Then you might just want to look at the dodge nitro 4x4 or 4x2 models.
2009 Dodge Caliber - SRT4
Pros: The drivetrain.
Cons: The console.
Advice: The '09's are pretty rare, so it may take some searching around to find one.I bought my 2009 Caliber SRT-4 in August of '09. It now has 10,000 miles. I have been very impressed with this vehicle so far and have had zero problems. The performance is excellent. Using the in-dash performance computer, I can achieve 0-60 in 5.6 seconds and have hit the 1/4 mile in 13.7 seconds at 100 mph. I think that's pretty quick for a 100% stock car. I love the aggressive look of the car and also the extra room versus other compact hot rods. My only (slight) dislike is a somewhat awkward seating-to-console position. There's no clearance to use the console iPod mount while shifting gears. Other than that, I give the '09 Caliber SRT-4 a 9 out of 10.
2007 Dodge Caliber - AWD
Pros: spacious
Cons: the engine
Advice: Don't know the reliability of this carI bought a 2007 Dodge Caliber. It had 20, 450 miles on it and was still covered by warranty. I haven't had the car for a month and it's been in the shop twice and is about to go in again. First, the brakes made a crunching sound within the first week. Second, the engine started to sound like there were parakeets living in it. I brought the car to the dealer where I bought it and they brought it to the Dodge dealership and after having the car for four days, they said that it's normal for the engine to chirp. What? Now, I finally get my car home after not driving it for four days. Lock it like I always do and when I go to get in it later, the alarm would not stop going off. If I tried to start the car, if I tried to open the doors, it would go into panic mode. I gave up my 1987 Toyota Celica that ran perfectly for the Dodge Caliber. How is it that a car from 1987 runs better than a 2007? What's wrong with this picture?


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