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Whether you own a tractor or work in a company or farm that owns one, there's a cheap way to extend its useful life, or to get rid of old parts you don't use anymore. I'm talking about getting or selling tractor salvage parts.
Getting and selling tractor salvage parts is much easier than what people think. First of all, areas where there is a lot of agricultural activity usually have a tractor salvage yard nearby. This is because there's always someone who sees that all the people in the area use new and old tractors and they want to offer a trade service which allows them to buy cheap unwanted parts and then sell them for a small profit.
This is a good system that usually works for everybody. The main advantage of it is that you can get a tractor salvage piece you need much faster and cheaper than if you ordered it new from the supplier. Besides, while sometimes you do want a good, new, important piece, other times you just need something to do the job. For example, does it really make a difference if a front light bulb comes right from the supplier?
Another advantage of getting tractor salvage parts at a salvage yard is that you can find parts that are compatible with your tractor, even if they weren't manufactured by the supplier. Of course, this means that you really have to be very familiar with your tractor and how it works. You don't want to buy a tractor salvage part just to find out it doesn't fit your model. On the other hand, if you do know about tractor engines and parts, you can find something cheap or something that will get the tractor going at least until you find a more suitable part.
In fact, this knowledge is very necessary because it allows you to distinguish good parts that can still last a few years and tell them apart from parts that have reached the end of their useful life. If you're not familiar with the interior of your tractor, then you're much better off bringing the tractor salvage part you need in order to see that you get one exactly the same.
Finally, thanks to the internet, you can now also find tractor salvage parts online. These are also cheaper than the real thing, but they may take some time before you get them. You have to pay a lot of attention to the photos and description of the items before buying them. If you have a question, make sure you get it cleared before you purchase it, specially questions about whether the freight is included in the price and the good condition of the item.


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"Perks Of Being A Wallflower" is a book that is really close to my heart, and I'm almost positive that I hugged the book when I was finished reading it. It's an understatement to say that I couldn't be more excited to see this flim. Above is a sneak peek of the movie, but really blog readers you have to read the book, it's super short and you'll bulldoze through it: I promise. I'm seriously considering giving it another go.
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Going Steady
If only it were that simple to get a girlfriend. Life would have been so much less dramatic in those painful early teenage years.
Coco must be thinking, "WTF?" I guess Tripp has some 'splainin' to do. I'm sure Prox has a good reason for busting that one out and maybe we'll find out what it is next strip. We'll also get an answer for something that was brought up long ago. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not it's good news for Tripp.
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There's no doubt that Tripp will find a way to screw this relationship up.
Isn't that what he's best at?
Tripp, your next words are going to determine just how deep in the doghouse you really are. Think carefully. If you ever want to date Coco, now is the time to tell the truth and blow Proxy's cover story.
You'd hope that he would understand that. Then there's always Poe opening his mouth as a big x-factor.
"always with you, it's double or nothing. or double AND nothing…"
hope Tripp gets a payoff somewhere or we're going to have to nickname him Job.
Oh, he'll have some memorable moments in his favor, for sure.
Sitcom shinanagins shall ensue.
Can't imagone our hero being able to win this one.
He will definitely have some explaining to do.
Meh. I like the redhead better anyway.
Everyone likes the redhead until she disembowels and… Oh. NO SPOILERS.
I still like her better… Im an extreme masochist.
Haha, fair enough.
I bet Coco's jealousy will somehow activate the combat chip or whatever and she'll attack poor Proxy…or not..
Something will activate it… Will it be Proxy? Hmm…
Thanks, Courtney!
Why is this shocking to YOU, Tripp?
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ST. CROIX - The 26th annual "The Children Race" will be held at 10 a.m. Friday. The race is open to boys and girls 13 years old and under. The runners will start at the corner of Fisher and King Street in Frederiksted and finish at Fort Frederik, which is also the Children's Parade route.
The 31st annual 3Kings Mile Road Race will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, and this race is open to all runners. Participants will start at Claude O. Markoe Elementary School in Frederiksted and finish at Fort Frederik, which is also the Adult Parade route.
Awards will be presented to the top finishers in the 13 and under, and under 10 categories in the Children Race, and to the top overall, top 13 and under, top under 10 and top masters finishers in the 3Kings Mile.
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USVI women's select team to play this month
The U.S. Virgin Islands Women's National Select Team will host Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, N.C.) for three games from Monday through Jan. 12 at Sion Farm Field on St. Croix.
The games will begin next year's tune-up for the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football qualifying for the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups in 2014. CONCACAF hosts qualifying games for international tournaments like the World Cups and Olympic Games. The Warren Wilson College Owls play in NAIA Division III.
The games will be played on Jan. 7, Jan. 9 and Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m. Members of the Select Team are vying for spots on the two national teams.
The U-17 Women's World Cup will be held in March and April 2014 in Costa Rica. The U-20 Women's World Cup will be held later that year in Canada.
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Rugby practice
ST. THOMAS - The USVI Rugby Football Union practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week from 6 to 8 p.m. at Charlotte Amalie High School. Veterans, novices and first-time players are all welcome to participate.
The group is training for upcoming scrimmages with the BVI and other down-island teams.
V.I. Open Tennis Tournament
ST. THOMAS - The Choice Wireless V.I. Open Tennis Tournament is set for Feb. 15-18 at The St. Thomas Yacht Club, Sugar Bay Beach Resort & Spa, and Anchorage Condominiums.
The event is the only tournament sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association's Caribbean District.
The tournament includes Open Divisions for men NTRP ranking 4.5 and above in singles and doubles. The B Division, for men and women NTRP ranked 4.0 and below, includes singles, doubles and mixed doubles play, as well as men's Over-60 doubles. Play will be best of three sets for all divisions.
The deadline to register is 5 p.m. on Jan. 25. Registration forms can be downloaded at styc.net. The entry fee of $45 per person for one event or $60 per person for two events includes an event T-shirt, souvenirs and a welcome buffet dinner at St. Thomas Yacht Club.
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Yacht club race, fundraiser
ST. THOMAS - The St. Thomas Yacht Club is hosting a race and pig roast in January to benefit the club's youth sailing program.
The $40 entrance fee includes two tickets per boat for the pig roast following the race. Sailors of all ages are welcome, and the race is open to IC-24s, Racers, Cruising boats and any boat 24 feet or longer.
Trophies and gift certificates will be presented to the top three boats. The race will start 8:55 a.m., but skippers will meet at 8 a.m. The event is sponsored by Scotiabank and Budget Marine.
For more information, contact the club at 775-6320.
40th Rolex Regatta adds Melges 32 class
ST. THOMAS - The 40th International Rolex Regatta, set for March 22-24, has added the Melges 32 class.
Melges 32 is a one-design class recognized by the International Sailing Federation in 2008, and joins the Beach Cat and IC-24 classes.
"This is good recognition from a strong class," International Rolex Regatta chairman Bill Canfield said, "and the fact that we are the only event that is not stand-alone in this class's Caribbean series speaks volumes about our professional race management team."
Canfield is the manager of the St. Thomas Yacht Club.
The Rolex Regatta is one of four Virgin Islands Sailing Series events the Melges 32 series will race at early next year. The class will participate in the Sportboat Regatta at North Sound, Virgin Gorda, from Feb. 21-14. The Rolex Regatta is the second VISS event and is followed by the BVI Spring Regatta at Nanny Cay, Tortola. The Caribbean Championship, the fourth VISS event, is at Peter Island on April 26-28.
Junior tennis program
ST. CROIX - Tennis pros Don deWilde and Kristopher Elien is running an after-school junior tennis program through Christmas at the Buccaneer Hotel for players between the ages of 5 to 18. For more information, or to ask about times, costs or registration, call 718-3036.
Beach wrestling
ST. THOMAS - The V.I. Wrestling Federation invites the public to beach wrestling at Brewers Bay beach on the first and third Sunday of every month at 3 p.m. For more information, call Shamsie at 690-8632.
Youth tennis program
ST. THOMAS - The USTA Quick Start 10-and-under Youth Tennis Program will be held Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at Doris E. Hodge Tennis Courts in Sub Base.
The program is open to children between the ages of 5-10. Space is limited and registration is $75 per child. For more information, call Sharon Flamon at 626-3663.
Soccer clinics
The USVI Soccer Association is conducting free soccer clinics on St. Croix and St. Thomas that are open to boys and girls ages 5-13. The clinics take place from 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday at Good Hope School and Educational Complex on St. Croix and at the University of the Virgin Islands soccer field on St. Thomas.
Players are encouraged to bring shin guards, cleats and water. Balls and nets will be provided. For more information, call 719-9707 or 513-8733, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Taekwondo classes
ST. JOHN - There will be taekwondo classes at St. Ursula's Anglican Church Multipurpose Center from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students ages six to adult are welcome.
Free tennis instruction
ST. JOHN - The first 10-and-under Tennis Play Day was held in September at the Cruz Bay tennis courts and because of the event's success, free tennis instruction will now be offered Fridays from 3-6 p.m. and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. For more information, call Pat Harley at 776-6643.
USTA 10-and-under Youth Tennis Program
ST. THOMAS - The USTA Quick Start 10-and-under Youth Tennis Program will be held Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at Doris E. Hodge Tennis Courts in Sub Base. The program is open to children between the ages of 5-10. Space is limited and registration is $75 per child. For more information, call Sharon Flamon at 626-3663.
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The Belmont Bridge Paradox: is the best solution … no solution?
An Op Ed Piece by Brian Wimer
– reprinted from C-Ville Weekly 2/23/2012
Is it Opposite Day? One entry in the Belmont Bridge Design Competition took all the top awards. But, it designed no bridge. Here's why.
The Belmont Bridge was falling down. We needed a solution. MMM Design (of $7.5 million bricklaying fame) was paid $800,000 and they drew up: The Belmont Bridge, rebuilt, with flags. We held our own competition. Thirty-six entries later, we found a huge mistake had been made – in 1961.
Then, the same civic forces that buried Vinegar Hill also bulldozed Belmont, and left us with another ugly legacy: The Belmont Bridge, a hyphen of highway, fit for Eisenhower. Four lanes of liberty from the city's perils to the cul-de-sac's promise, ready to ramp to a highway to tomorrow … which never quite materialized.
So, Belmont's viaduct-junction, what's your function? What are you bypassing now, besides the heart of the city? The trains? Not so fast.
A word on choo-choos and coal. Our neighborhood's Buckingham Branch Railroad hauls mostly freight, primarily coal from West Virginia mines out to Newport News for export. OK, it's not all coal. Most of the150-car freights are empties. An omen of trains to come.
Coal is running out. The Appalachian Basin passed peak coal in 1990. The DOE's 2012 Overview predicts a huge decline in Appalachian coal by 2020. CNN Money reports that the feds predict coal from Central Appalachia "will decline 40% in the next five years." It's what the Charleston Gazette calls: "The Coming Coalfield Crisis."
So, let's back-track logically: No coal … no trains … no bridge … no 1961 mistake repeated. And we get? Belmont (Un)Abridged, the winning entry. Retrospectful. Radical. Our ideal could be our inverse.
Inspired by the Downtown Mall's original "Halprin Plan," UVA students removed the bridge, in favor of an at-grade crossing, allowing acreage for a permanent Farmer's Market, public orchards and a shade park, while recouping old bridge easements for low-profile mixed-use.
"Rather than leaving large areas of urban potential to languish beneath and around a highway viaduct that bypasses the city," wrote one juror, "this scheme uses Avon St to integrate underutilized publicly and privately owned blocks into the city fabric." Another juror noted, "The discussion of the bridge site is no longer the by-pass end of the Downtown Mall but the cross roads of an extended city center."
Taxpayers save millions on a bridge. And the City gains revenue on valuable parcels at their best use. Idealistic and pragmatic. A bargain on both sides of the tracks.
Impossible? That's up to you. And what you foresee. City planners predict problems. That's their job. Yours is to envision opportunities. Picture our city without the coal trains, the bridge or the bureaucrats asking you to live according to their ledger sheet. It looks like a farmer's market, with a trellised path where you walk with your kids and tell them about how you wrote a letter to the Mayor one day about a bridge.
Fig 1: Appalachian Coal Production – Based on Reserves.
Fig 2: Appalachian Coal Production – Current Trends. (note: red line = our coal trains)
BELMONT unABRIDGED
Winner: Jury Award Best Urban Design, Jury Award Best Bridge, People's Choice Best Urban Design, People's Choice Best Bridge.
Our idea is to connect the Downtown Mall with Belmont and views beyond of Jefferson's Monticello Mountain and the Southwest Mountains. In order to do this we have created a civic plaza with broad terraces leading to a vibrant new farmers' market located on the Belmont side of the railroad tracks. On the plaza is the 12th bosque of willow oak trees, extending Lawrence Halprin's beautiful pedestrian mall groves, while completing his unrealized vision for an east end plaza. The new farmers' market incorporates the iconic flourmill (Beck-Cohen) where local farmers historically brought their harvest.
We seek an optimistic act of urban place-making, gateway, connection, and recovery. The design drops the Belmont Bridge roadway to a narrower grade-level railroad crossing. It moves the Pavilion tent to a more historically and environmentally appropriate place. At the former Ix factory, where thousands of Charlottesville workers produced silk parachutes that helped win World War II, we propose a new billowing performance tent.
Located in a low-lying valley the tent is bounded by earthen protectors and Oakwood Cemetery to dampen concert noise. This location aligns on axis with the Downtown Mall's Central Place and extends recent urban developments along South Second Street.
We do not need the proposed $14.5 million bridge; historically over 100 trains moved daily through this area. Now the number is often only 5 trains a day, taking less than 7 minutes to pass. We propose widening the nearby 4th Street underpass to two lanes. When trains approach downtown, signals can direct traffic to the underpass and west to the bridge at Ridge Street. Land recovered from the bridge right-of-way and approaches will provide excellent sites for new dwellings and businesses.
By unABRIDGING we will strengthen our neighborhoods and our city.
Excerpt from Project Gait-Way: The Belmont Bridge Design Competition, an experiment in urban planning … and soon to be a feature documentary film on civic process.
After three hours in jury and a week of public input, the results are in for Project Gait-Way. And the results are unanimous. Both local stakeholders and individual citizens agreed that the best solution to the Belmont Bridge is … no bridge.
Entry #2 "Belmont UnAbridged" proposed removing the current bridge in favor of an at-grade crossing, activating underutilized city property, allowing for a permanent home for a Charlottesville Farmer's Market, public orchards, a trellised shade park and the utilization of former bridge easements for mixed-use, low-profile development in the city's center.
This solution won the People's Choice last week when the designs were unveiled in a UVA pre-exhibit. This Sunday, the design won the Jury Awards for both Best Bridge Design and Best Urban Planning – as well as People's Choice Awards for Best Bridge Design and Best Urban Planning.
Students collaborating on the winning design were: Kate Martin, Wyatt Hill, Nell Connors, Charlotte Miller, Jason Truesdale, Joanna McKnight, Madeleine Hawks, Kirsten Sparenborg, Chris Barker, Enrique Cavelier, Meghan Maupin, Rodrick Cruz and Kelly Hitzing. The UVA team was advised by WG Clark, UVA's Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture, and Architectural History Professor Daniel Bluestone (watch his contextual history of the previous Belmont Bridges at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXM4TAqTWBs).
The complete list of winners follows
Project Gait-Way: The Belmont Bridge Design Competition
Competition Jury:
Joe Atkins (VMDO Architects), Phoebe Crisman (Architecture, UVA), Heather Higgins (Bike Charlottesville), Greg Jackson (Pres., Belmont Carlton Neigh Assoc.), Peter Waldman (Architecture, UVA), Brian Wimer (Project Gait-Way organizer), Zack Worrell (Bridge PAI co-founder)
Best Bridge Design
1st PLACE ($500 prize): Belmont UnAbridged – UVA Team 18
Students: Kate Martin, Wyatt Hill, Nell Connors, Charlotte Miller, Jason Truesdale, Joanna McKnight, Madeleine Hawks, Kirsten Sparenborg, Chris Barker, Enrique Cavelier, Meghan Maupin, Rodrick Cruz, Kelly Hitzing, Madeleine Hawks, ARH students: Joanna McKnight, Kirsten Sparenborg. Faculty Advisors: WG Clark + Daniel Bluestone.
2nd PLACE ($300 prize): Ninth & Avon – Jim Rounsevell
3rd PLACE ($200 prize):(Re)Connect Charlottesville – Daniel LaRossa, Amadeo Bennetta
Honorable Mention: The Belmont Bridge – Tim Tessier
Honorable Mention: The Belmont Ridge – UVA Team 29
Students: Kathryn Elizabeth Fowler, Eric Michael Gillwald, Malorie Torrey, Morgan Taylor Stackman, Aneesha Baharani, Andrea Brennan, Rachel Vassar, Parker Sutton, Jonathan Bernard, Isaac Hametz. Faculty Advisor: Michael Petrus.
Best Urban Design & PLANNING
1st PLACE ($500 prize): Belmont UnAbridged – UVA Team 18
Students: Kate Martin, Wyatt Hill, Nell Connors, Charlotte Miller, Jason Truesdale, Joanna McKnight, Madeleine Hawks, Kirsten Sparenborg, Chris Barker, Enrique Cavelier, Meghan Maupin, Rodrick Cruz, Kelly Hitzing, Madeleine Hawks, ARH students: Joanna McKnight, Kirsten Sparenborg. Faculty Advisors: WG Clark + Daniel Bluestone.
2nd PLACE ($300 prize): Bridge over Rubbled Water – UVA Team 21
Students: Alexander Dean Kaplan, Samantha Lynn Weiser, Jamar Dimitri Moore, Timothy James O'Neill, Brittany Olivari, Kelly Pierson, Harriett A Jameson, Benjamin Sessa, Tom Gibbons, David Holzman, Catharine Killien. Faculty Advisor: Lucia Phinney.
3rd PLACE ($200 prize): Gaitway Loop – UVA Team 26
Students: Timothy John Morris, Stephanie Marie Smid, Timothy Edwards, Diana Fang, Hugo Fenaux, John Conroe Spiess, Andrew Brown, Megan Driscoll, Kate Boles. Faculty Advisors: John Quale + Sara Osborne.
Honorable Mention: The Grid, The Flour Mill & The Landscape Line – UVA Team 17
Students: Mikhail Maclaine Payson , Irene Preciado Arango, Evan Shepherd Burch, Laura Jean Burden, Eduardo Diaz-Etchevehere , Eric Hanna, Brianne Doak, Ryan Lewandowski, Luhan Zhou, Silas Haslam, ARH students: Jessica Lankston, Ryan Van Sickel, Kim Larson. Faculty Advisors: Maurice Cox + Daniel Bluestone.
Honorable Mention: Mini Bridge Mega Connector – UVA Team 11
Students: Christopher Wertman, Lu Xu, Robert Grooms II, Yujing Han, Jude Ghassan Majali, Eric Kuhn, David Matthews, Andrew Milner Katherine Treppendahl, Dasha Lebedeva, Charles Sparkman. Faculty Advisor: Nana Last.
Best BRIDGE Design Award ($150 prize): Belmont UnAbridged – UVA Team 18
Best URBAN Design Award ($150 prize): Belmont UnAbridged – UVA Team 18
Bridge Brief
Project Gait-Way:
BELMONT bridge design competition
The Belmont Bridge in the city of Charlottesville, VA must be rebuilt. But it doesn't need another "raised road." The city needs a "Gait-way" – an iconic, pedestrian-centric, bike & auto friendly gateway bringing Charlottesville into the next era of world-class cities. (Budget $14.5 million.) We're looking for creative, inspiring, innovative and extraordinary solutions – in both bridge design and urban planning. Examine the city's assets. Provide the plan.
For all tech specs, please refer to: http://www.belmontbridge.com/design-scenarios
• Bridge would ideally remain open during construction.
• Lower clearance over the train tracks of minimum 23 feet.
• 5% upper limit of the curvature of the roadway (for sight lines)
Familiarize yourself with the process. Pay attention to the community feedback*
– as well as suggestions from the community charrette.
*This design did not meet approval.
III. Belmont Bridge Guiding Principles:
1. Multi-modal — serving pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit.
2. Gateway – to downtown/neighborhoods, a vital link for residents and commuters.
3. Iconic – an aesthetically important piece of public infrastructure with architectural treatments reflective of the contemporary Charlottesville community.
4. Green – incorporate green features (low-energy/living) and sustainable materials.
5. Feasible – built within its existing footprint,** in compliance with design standards.
**Footprint is subject to debate – innovative urban planning solutions will be considered.
Design presentation limited to one mounted vertical 36″ x 40″ board. Site plan, section, elevation, aerial/axonometric view. Plus a short, written description of your concept (max 300 words – Helvetica 11 pt). Include your contact info in an envelope and attach it to the back – no identifying info on the design display side. (You will be assigned a number.)
Although not required, models are encouraged – as a secondary component in addition to board. (max size: 30″ x 30″ x 8″)
Mail designs to:
Project Gait-Way: The Bridge PAI, 209 Monticello Rd, Charlottesville, Va. 22902.
Digital submissions: You may send a digital file. But you must also mail a letter (received by deadline) and check for $60 for printing/mounting to The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd, Charlottesville, Va. 22902 – payable to The Bridge PAI (memo: Bridge Competition). Email digital file (PDF or jpg) to email@example.com.
• Open Submission: Deadline 6pm February 11, 2012.***
• Public Display: February 13 – 19, 2012 at the City Space in Charlottesville, VA
• Judging will be comprised of public votes and a jury of local stakeholders.
• Award: 8pm February 19, 2012
• $1,000 Bridge Jury Award
• People's Choice Award (prize TBD)
• $1,000 Urban Planning Jury Award
• People's Choice Urban Planning Award (prize TBD)
***Note: Wall space is limited. The competition might not display designs of lesser quality.
For specific questions, contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Can a Bridge be a Gait-Way?
After six meetings and nearly a year of community involvement, Charlottesville's Belmont Bridge re-design is complete. Or is it?
This October, during a tense presentation in Charlottesville City Council Chambers, community members picked apart the schematics created by the VA design company, who was hired by the City for roughly $1 million to engineer the bridge project. Some community members question whether the efforts so far have produced the design quality expected for the fee.
Stairways were characterized as impractical "Escher" labyrinths. Aesthetics like faux gas lamps and brick described as out of tune with the times. Overall the audience was underwhelmed by the design's lack of scope and vision – and by the design team's failure to have incorporated community input. At a meeting a week later, A BAR member called the design not a bridge, but a "raised road." And one important question remains unanswered: So what happens now?
Community members aren't waiting for results. They hope to get the results themselves, even if it means finding a new design team. The solution: Project Gait-Way – an unsanctioned $2,000 design competition for the Belmont Bridge to create "an iconic, pedestrian-centric, bike & auto friendly gateway bringing Charlottesville into the next era of world-class cities and communities."
Call it creative protest. Community members felt it necessary to step up, where dialog with the current design firm seems to have deteriorated – much like the bridge itself. Built in 1960, the Belmont bridge is allegedly near the end of its useful life.
According to a recent assessment, the bridge's reinforcing steel has reached its "corrosive threshold." This rusting is causing the concrete in the bridge deck, sidewalks and piers to lose its bond with the reinforcing steel. The rate of deterioration is accelerating. Hence the closing of the eastern sidewalk. The City is starting the design process before future closure of the bridge becomes necessary. While the bridge still stands, just where the redesign is going is now up in the air.
"This isn't just a bridge," says Project Gait-Way coordinator Brian Wimer. "It's an opportunity." Charlottesville will be spending roughly $14.5 million on this new piece of city infrastructure. Wimer asks, "Can we do better than another VDOT asphalt bandaid?" On February 19, 2012 the residents of Charlottesville will weigh in on the answer.
The competition, soliciting entries from all comers – encouraging collaboration between architects, engineers, urban planners and artists – began November 29, 2011.
• Open Submission: Deadline 6pm February 11, 2012.
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Originally posted by Lasse Koskela: Ah. I see Sathya was faster in typing I also second the suggestion for Uncle Bob's ASD book.
Originally posted by Sathya Srinivasan: Liskov Substitution Principle Open-Closed Principle Single Responsibility Principle Dependency Inversion Principle Interface Segregation Principle and optionally Law of Demeter Design by Contract For reference, you can look at Agile Software Development by Robert Martin.
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu: what is uncle bob's ASD book??
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu: I have been doing oo systems development for almost 7 years. I have no clue what the above principles are.
Can some one shed a light where I can read through them??
Originally posted by Daniel Mayer: The best really would be to read the above book. It's worth every single penny. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrinciplesOfObjectOrientedDesign also has some information on them.
Originally posted by Kishore Dandu: I am not talking about polymorphism etc. I am talking about the principles.
U can ask around the javaranch(ask the experts), I am confident at least 50% of gurus did not go through those principles. Still they are likely to have produced high quality, highly appreciated oo based complex systems.
Originally posted by Scott Ambler: ...then you might want to look at The Object Primer 3rd Edition (www.ambysoft.com/theObjectPrimer.html).


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Central's baseball team will try to down the Spartans of Dubuque on the diamond in the first Iowa Conference series of the season for both teams this afternoon. Central dropped two-of-three to Grinnell to open up the season, but really heated up when they flew down to Tucson, Arizona and won seven of eight contests to improve to 8 – 3. Dubuque is 4 – 7 coming into play today, but battled some tough teams in their spring break trip to Fort Myers, Florida. Coach Adam Stevens echoes the comments from Dutch men's basketball coach, Craig Douma: there is a lot of parity throughout the league this season. You can hear today's doubleheader live on 92.1 KRLS and streamed live at KNIAKRLS.com with Cory Houser on the play-by-play. Pregame coverage starts at around 12:50 p.m. with first pitch of game number one at 1:00 p.m.
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MILTON, Ga. ŌĆō It sounds like a dream job. Travel across America, visit ŌĆō and sample ŌĆō the wares of Irish pubs, and then write a book about oneŌĆÖs exploits. Or maybe it is just a mid-life crisis fantasy.
But for the two Milton men who did it ŌĆō Ron Wallace and Robert Meyers ŌĆō it was more like a labor of love. And the product of that labor is ŌĆ£Irish Pubs in America: History, Lore and Recipes.ŌĆØ
Meyers caused a stir with his well-received photo book, ŌĆ£Barns of Old Milton County.ŌĆØ He created an arresting photographic record that documented the areaŌĆÖs vanishing landmarks. His histories of these barns also tell the history of the people who first settled Milton.
Wallace, former president of UPS International, has written a book on organizing political campaigns, ŌĆ£Power of the Campaign Pyramid: Hope Is Not a Strategy,ŌĆØ which has quickly become the Bible for aspiring political candidates.
He will soon have another book out on ideas about leadership, ŌĆ£What Brown Meant to Me.ŌĆØ
Wallace had admired his friendŌĆÖs book on MiltonŌĆÖs barns, and the way it not only was an extraordinary picture book but delved into the history of the structures. Meyers half-jokingly said they should collaborate on a book about Irish pubs.
That set Wallace to thinking. He owns two Irish pubs, both called The Olde Blind Dog, with one in Crabapple and one in Brookhaven. The more he thought about it, the more he liked the idea. It took all of two seconds to talk Meyers into collaborating.
ŌĆ£There is something of a mystical quality that every Irish pub has,ŌĆØ said Wallace. ŌĆ£You can travel the world to Mumbai, Hong Kong or San Francisco and there will be an Irish pub there. But we concentrated on just the ones in America.
ŌĆ£They all have the same qualities,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£All have the same food, the same music and a lot of junk on the wall. But there is still something special about an Irish pub.ŌĆØ
Wallace says it has to do with the roots of pubs in Ireland. It was the public place to meet.
ŌĆ£It is no coincidence that the words public and the Irish word for the owner/bartender publican have the same root,ŌĆØ Wallace said. ŌĆ£This was the gathering place where people met, gossiped, celebrated their good times and mourned in their bad times.ŌĆØ
That is when Wallace and Meyers realized what the approach of the book should be. It should be the individual story of each pub. And they all do have their own story.
In one way or another, the Irish pub becomes part of the fabric in the neighborhoods they serve. Some are low dives; others are right out of central casting as quintessential Irish. Some serve the captains of industry on Wall Street, others the hoi polloi of the Bowery.
It was not as easy a task as one might expect. There are at least 70 books by WallaceŌĆÖs count on Irish pubs, and the more famous ones ŌĆō and there are more than a few ŌĆō are disdainful of yet another pestering Finnghoill (foreigner).
Wallace and Meyers approached one such New York Irish pub and sat for 10 minutes before the bartender looked up from his newspaper to ask their order. They got about 10 words out of him in another hour.
But they must have said something that clicked, for he finally went upstairs to tell the owner he ought to talk to these two guys from Georgia.
ŌĆ£He asked us up and said he could spare us an hour. We left 12 hours later after having breakfast,ŌĆØ Wallace said.
And that is how it would go, Meyers said. It usually took some ice-breaking. But once that was done, they became adopted sons.
ŌĆ£And that is what sets this book apart. We went to maybe 200 pubs, but we only kept in the book those that had a story to tell,ŌĆØ Meyers said.
There is the pub in Atlanta that had its floor imported from Dublin. It turns out it came from the Royal Navy Yard there where the Titanic was designed. They contacted the authorities in Dublin and it was true.
ŌĆ£So the Titanic connection became that pubŌĆÖs story,ŌĆØ Meyers said.
Then there was the Chicago pub. It was in a tough neighborhood, but it became the watering hole of the local constabulary, many of whom were Irish. Two rather misguided thugs walked into the place, one through the front door and one by a side door, with guns drawn ready for a stick-up.
The lore is, about 200 shots were fired ŌĆō none by the thugs. Well, it was Chicago in the ŌĆś30s.
Several pubs have ghost stories, but one is about resurrection. This was a pub in one of the Ninth Ward neighborhoods in post-Katrina New Orleans called McCoolŌĆÖs. The family and staff had evacuated, but returned to begin again. When the neighbors saw them cleaning out the mud and debris that was as high as the bar, they came around ŌĆō by ones, and twos and threes.
Soon, the whole neighborhood was lending hands to get the pub back on its feet. That is what it meant to those folks.
But the pub is all about its food also. And Wallace and Meyers did not want to leave that out.
If this was to be the definitive book on Irish pubs ŌĆō and they would settle for nothing less ŌĆō then you had to have the best of the recipes they could find.
Each pub is a small chapter of the book. Each pub has a title and a quote that is unique to that pub. For McCoolŌĆÖs, it was ŌĆ£Phoenix Rising.ŌĆØ And its quote was, ŌĆ£If you want love in abundance in life, give it away,ŌĆØ by Mark Twain.


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Bears locking up Jay Cutler was the right thing to do
Don't give me this crap that his aging backup signed off the scrap pile is a better option than Jay Cutler.
The Chicago Bears had no choice but to extend Cutler, a deal they announced Thursday. He's a franchise passer. They don't come around that often.
Is he top-tier? No. Is he as good as some of the guys who won Super Bowls in recent years -- see Eli Manning and Joe Flacco? Yes.
During the season, when Cutler was hurt and Josh McCown went in as the starter, there was this thinking that the Bears were better off without Cutler playing and to keep playing McCown.
That's just crazy. Numbers. Throw out all the numbers you want. Study their tapes and come back and tell me McCown was better. If you do, you need new eyes.
Take a look at the quarterback landscape. How many off-the-scrap-heap guys win Super Bowls? Yes, Tom Brady is an exception -- a rare one. But pedigree matters.
The Bears did the right thing locking Cutler up to a long-term deal.
It's so hard to find Cutler-type of quarterbacks. Giving up on him would have been foolish.
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Darnell Foreman said he was getting worn out, the train rides to and from North Jersey had him yearning for a place closer to home.
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Just a few days before Christmas, the junior point guard enrolled at Pitman. With the fifth of six required practices under his belt Saturday, Foreman is scheduled to make his debut Thursday in a nonleague game against Palmyra. ...


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Originally posted by Keith Rosenfield: Hi Anselm, Yes, I do make typos. As I said, I strive to eliminate them as everyone else should. I do know how to spell learning. I just missed the n when I typed it. That's different than not knowing the spelling of a word and just taking a stab at it. If you are only concerned with technical stuff then you shouldn't take part in this thread. My hope is that there will be individuals who are receptive and will work towards improving the exchange in this forum and all java ranch forums. All the best [ December 10, 2003: Message edited by: Keith Rosenfield ] [ December 10, 2003: Message edited by: Keith Rosenfield ]
Originally posted by Vish Kumar: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Originally posted by v giri: We all talk of *great* communication skills as a need but they can never substitute for technical expertise. If we start pointing out english errors of members of JR, they would feel very emabarrassed and simply stop posting or look for other forums.
Originally posted by v giri: I recall an instance when a supervisor addressed his team as G*ys when he wanted say Guys and spellchecker did not stop that person. So much for the reliability of spell checkers.
Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat: I agree that it very important to improve one's English. I am working hard on doing that myself. I have not yet succeeded yet. In my opinion pointing out errors in someone's post will make her/him not to make further posts. What do others feel? You are welcome to find errors in my posts though.
Originally posted by Keith Rosenfield: Eliminate as many spelling and grammatical errors as you can. It's difficult enough learing ejb, a highly complex subject, then to have to decifer the point that is being made because of the poor use of English.
Originally posted by Vladas Razas: Why should we improve english? I don't get any "english" money I would better spend my time taking a girl to date, or read some books. Nobody pays me for the english... Besides I know two other languages which are considered more complex than english. So where is my money for my english?
Originally posted by Vladas Razas: And why didn't I hear anybody complain to american person for not knowing other language well, like french? Because people understand that it is very hard to master foreign language. Honestly I would be offended if someone would start complaining about my english. I would say "ok. so we can talk MY language!".
Originally posted by Tim Cerillo: What is decifer?
Originally posted by Anselm Paulinus: More so the only thing Java language has in common with English language is the word "Language" else they are strictly independent of each other; this site on the other hand is designed to improve ones Java and not ones English.
By the way, Je parle un peu Francais (please correct my spelling, if necessary).
Originally posted by Vladas Razas: English doesn't hurt indeed. But I am afraid it doesn't matter how hard I would try to perfect my english. I will never be able to compete with Shakespeare. Just to put it simply - english is not my native language.
I wish you the best on Friday.
Originally posted by Vladas Razas: Regarding communication vs programming language Let me go ahead and disagree! Whichever is more important depends on your job position and what you want to do with your life. If you want to go to management, become a sales person or public relations representative then english is way more important. But if you enjoy coding and technical stuff.. I guess people will forgive you your little english mistakes as long as you develop faster than 3 other developers who dream to become managers.
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COVINGTON -- Although Newton County School System students on average scored below state averages on the spring CRCT, system officials said that scores have improved from last year.
Last school year, Newton County Schools performed below the state in all levels of the Criterion Referenced Competency Tests, and this year, the system as a whole performed below state levels in all but one area, according to Sherri Davis-Viniard, director of Public Relations at NCSS.
The system as a whole saw gains in 22 of 30 areas this year, compared to last year's results, according to NCSS.
In reading, changes ranged by a drop of .3 percent to an increase of 3 percent of students in grades three through eight meeting or exceeding state standards.
In English language arts, changes ranged from a drop of 2.1 percent to an increase of 2.8 percent.
In math, there was a drop of .6 percent in grade six, compared to an increase of 9.6 in grade four. A gain of more than 5 percent was posted for eighth-graders.
In science, fifth-grade scores dropped by .8 percent and eighth-graders on average increased 4.1 percent.
Social studies results showed that student averages in fifth grade dropped 3.9 percent, and sixth-grade averages increased 9.6 percent, compared to last year.
"We're pleased to see the upward trends for grades 3 through 8, while recognizing that there is still plenty of room for improvement," said NCSS Superintendent Gary Mathews in a press release Wednesday afternoon. "It's a good thing to be on the upswing."
Although students in grades one through eight may be tested in reading, math, science, social studies and English/language arts, state law requires students in third , fifth and eighth grade meet or exceed standards on the CRCT in reading in order to be promoted. Fifth- and eighth-grade students must also meet or exceed expectations on the CRCT in mathematics.
This year, the state did not fund first- and second-grade CRCTs across the state, but some systems gave students mock exams.
Students have the opportunity to retest over the summer and may be promoted to the next grade level after not passing required portions of the CRCT if school-level administration and teachers agree to it in some instances. Final results of the CRCT will be released later this year after retest results are in.
The test also counts toward a school's and school system's Adequate Yearly Progress, which determines if it is on the state's Needs Improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Earlier this year, Mathews predicted that up to 19 NCSS schools may not make AYP if results remained the same as last year, when the system as a whole did not make AYP. Now, he said NCSS might see a bit better situation, considering these improving results.
"I do believe that NCSS will considerably best the dire prediction," he said. "We're going to do better than this when these federal results are released."
School-level results should be released by state officials no later than July 6, according to the Georgia Department of Education. Schools already have received individual student reports and may have calculated some preliminary numbers, GaDOE officials said. Preliminary AYP results usually are released in July.
More information about the CRCT and AYP is available on the GaDOE website, www.gadoe.org.
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Last updated at 16:54, Saturday, 15 March 2008
Today Derek Lacey commentateson his 500th Carlisle United match. He tells Roger Lytollis why one game in particular will always stand out.
So... deep, deep, deep, I make it 60 seconds. Jimmy Glass knocks it long. It comes now to Bagshaw. Bagshaw back to Anthony. Up to Stevens... and the ball goes out now for a corner to Carlisle United – will they have time to take it?...
Derek Lacey has commentated on 499 Carlisle United matches for BBC Radio Cumbria. The Blues have been through more dizzying highs and lows and nausea-inducing twists and turns than any other Football League club during that decade. But Lacey and his listeners need not spend long in the archives to conjure up the most memorable moment. It came at Brunton Park nine years ago, courtesy of the last-minute swing of a goalkeeper's right boot.
Referee looks at his watch... and here comes Jimmy Glass! Carlisle United goalkeeper Jimmy Glass is coming up for the kick – everyone is going up... there isn't one player in the Carlisle half!"
This afternoon's game at the County Ground, Swindon, is unlikely to rival May 8, 1999 for drama. But match number 500 will doubtless still be imbued with Lacey's trademark frenzied enthusiasm.
When the British Broadcasting Corporation's founders stressed the importance of impartiality, they probably did not envisage Derek Lacey screaming his delight whenever Carlisle United scored a goal.
The BBC's elders presumably had their minds on things less passionate and partisan than association football. "The BBC sometimes tell you when you go on courses 'The BBC is impartial'," says Lacey. "I don't think you can be impartial when you're commentating on your local team. Part and parcel of that is the passion you show.
"In the early days it used to be a conflict. I used to see myself as a supporter standing in the paddock commentating. Then I realised you have got to be objective. I try to tone it down if the opposition are playing well. But the conflict is still there."
Lacey's commentaries do dip a toe in neutral territory but there is a tendency to leap into the blue side of the divide whenever Carlisle United cross the halfway line. This is a man with no time for what he calls "straight" commentaries – "A passes to B passes to C" – is how he dismisses that genre. "You've got to have a bit of individuality. My commentary is probably my personality. I like to have a laugh, a bit of banter."
Talk to Carlisle United fans and you'll find some who love and some who loathe Lacey's style. "Bumbling" is a word occasionally used, and that's by his admirers. During a Derek Lacey commentary Stockport may well mutate into Scunthorpe and heaven help us if there's more than one player with the same surname.
His self-confessed most embarrassing gaffe came several years ago at Luton. Carlisle midfielder Steve Soley scored in the first half. Lacey watched the ball cross the line and scribbled down a description. At half-time he announced that Carlisle were good value for their lead, before discovering to his horror that the goal he'd spent the past 20 minutes discussing had been instantly disallowed.
"People were phoning in saying why wasn't this goal on Teletext? Ten minutes into the second half, Steve Soley did score. So I was right; I just had hindsight."
He may mean foresight but, as is usually the case with Lacey, you get the idea.
His description of events at Exeter City was enlivened by the sound of a club official applying fly spray to the press box ceiling.
"All the scribes left and my co-commentator Gavin Skelton and me were left there with flies dropping on our heads. Gavin had a number-one haircut at the time. It looked like his head was covered in currants."
Luton and Exeter – two of hundreds of long-haul journeys Lacey has made on behalf of Carlisle fans listening back home in Cumbria and all around the world. During his 10 seasons in the job United have had five narrow escapes from relegation, one plummet into non-League, two promotions, one play-off bid and, now, a surge towards the Championship. No wonder he gets so excited.
Lacey, 65, grew up in north London as an Arsenal fan. His job with the Royal Mail brought him to Carlisle in 1969. Lacey felt an immediate connection with the city and its football team, investing in a Waterworks End season ticket. He joined the NHS and presented a sports programme on the Cumberland Infirmary's radio station, which led to freelance work at BBC Radio Carlisle, as it was then called. Lacey became the station's Carlisle United commentator in October 1998.
The club was struggling. The season ended with Carlisle needing to win their final match to have any hope of staying in the Football League. They had recently sold their goalkeeper, signing an emergency replacement called Jimmy Glass.
"I didn't sleep the night before the last game," recalls Lacey. "I got up at half past two in the morning and drove to Southwaite Services. I bought a bacon sarnie and a cup of coffee. Two other lads were there – Carlisle fans who couldn't sleep. The three of us sat there 'til five o'clock in the morning,"
Fast forward 11 hours and 55 minutes and Lacey is in Brunton Park's commentary box, preparing to read the last rites on Carlisle's 71-year Football League life. Then the impossible happens. And he has to describe it.
"When Jimmy Glass scored I just forgot everything else. It just went on a personal note. I turned to my co-commentator Graham Moss and said 'I'm sorry, you're going to have to carry on.'"
Nine years on the memory still produces a hint of moisture in his eyes.
The lowest point came five years after Glass's astonishing intervention, when Carlisle were relegated to the Conference. "On the day of the last League game, at Doncaster, all I was thinking was 'I don't want to be here'.
"It was horrible. I was thinking 'One day, just maybe we might be back.'"
United did bounce back but the memory of years of struggle still remains: "It's difficult to describe the trauma of those early years. Every game you went to, you wondered if you were going to get a point. Now you're disappointed if you only get a point.
"This is why I appreciate what's going on at the moment, and I think supporters should as well. The question you've got to ask is, does the city of Carlisle and the county of Cumbria want Championship football? The hardcore 5,000 will be there but what about the other 8,000 who turned up for the Leeds game? Where are they?"
Strong words from a man who has been accused of going easy on United's managers in post-match interviews, but utterly consistent with his unbending support for team and club: "You never say to a manager 'Why don't you play so and so?' I don't think it would be right to query the tactics. And I don't believe in pillorying individual players."
The only fall out Lacey has had with anyone at the club was with former manager Paul Simpson, who was unimpressed by the commentator's suggestion that Paul Arnison was a better player than David Beherall. "You can pick the team," Simpson told him. They soon made up.
"Before I came here I thought it would be lovely to come to a town where there's only one team and you can support your local team with pride," says Lacey. "My children Stephen and Helen are born and bred Cumbrians. I think after 39 years in Carlisle I'm entitled to be called a Cumbrian."
Well, well... and the corner kick comes in... and... the goalkeeper's punch... oh... Jimmy Glass! Jimmy Glass! Jimmy Glass, the goalkeeper, has scored a goal for Carlisle United! Oooooh... there's a pitch invasion! There is a pitch invasion! The referee has been swamped – they're bouncing on the crossbar!
"If I was doing it today I'd probably have done it more professionally instead of the emotional side of it," says Lacey. "But then again... people remember it."
First published at 09:12, Saturday, 15 March 2008
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I'm going to get my first oil change soon. I was wondering if I should go to the dealership and do it or go through place like Jiffy or so?
Do it yourself! Save A LOT over dealership! Did my first one a couple weeks ago, it was super simple with this thread!
If you are not doing it yourself, we recommend you going to a GM authorized dealership for maintenance. This helps to ensure the process is done correctly and also if there are any other issues; it is documented and taken care of properly. If you would like, I can also help to locate a dealer nearest you and make an appointment for you. Here to help.
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I just picked my new '13 Camaro up on Saturday (about time)..Dealer offered service for the first year, includes oil changes. They got it figured at 7500 miles with this new synthetic blend they have..The dealers regular price is actually pretty good around $34 with free tire rotation. Compared to the hassle of doing it yourself..ie, buying everything, jacking up the car, draining, changing the filter and then disposing of the waste..I waste and hour minimum doing it myself and trust the GM tech more than myself
Do it yourself !!! I did (first time) and I never change anything in my life ! Great experience. GL :)
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When I did my first oil change I asked the auto parts guy what dexos oil is better mobil 1 or pennzoil platinum and he had no idea what I was talking about and I had to explain to him what it is so I just went for mobile 1
I personally don't trust the quick lube places. Having personally known the caliber of people those places employ at times...I'd rather not test the odds. I don't go to the dealer just because I'm not paying for something I can do myself. A set of ramps, and catch pan, a 14MM wrench (drain plug) and a 22MM socket (oil filter cap) and your set. With the amount of driving I do, it's about twice a year oil changes. Mobil 1 and a Wix filter. Less than $40 per change.
Change it yourself!
It's a great bonding experience with your car!
Not sure I would recommend a dealer. Call around if you want, but pound for pound they've always been more expensive in my experience.
If you feel up to the task, as others have mentioned, it's a fairly simple driveway job, just make sure you have a catch pan or some other way of dealing with 2 gallons of old oil :)
Any lube shop can handle it as well, just make sure they're using decent oil and filters. If you're concerned about it you can always bring your own oil and filter to most places as well (it usually costs a bit less this way too, depending on their synthetic markup).
On the whole as long as you go with a good 5-30 synthetic and decent filter, you can't go wrong :)
I just had mine done. I took a book to the dealer. Sat in air conditioning while they changed oil, reset oil meter, checked other fluids, topped of my wiper fluid, checked air in tires, rotated tires, and checked for any other problems that might be out of my mind.
Cost? Nothing, just the gas and time to get me there and back home. Even took me towards end of shift cause I could not make the morning appointment they gave.
Was worth it for me to stay clean and not have to look of where to dispose of the used stuff.
But, when I was younger, hot oil dripping down my arm was a badge of honor.. ;-)
For Warranty purposes, keep all receipts on self oil changes.
Having the dealer do it is added insurance as the record is with them.
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Changed mine at 5,000 and used Mobil 1.
When you refill poor slowly; it has a tendency to run out if done to quickly through that little fill spout they have.
The oil should flow in well enough, just have to be careful not to completely cover the fill hole in oil (nowhere for the air to go at that point, and it bubbles up making a mess). I use a funnel with a smallish neck that fits down in the fill tube, and makes it much easier to see what I'm doing and help prevent that issue.
Depends on the stealership and how many miles you drive.
I have a good place that changes my oil and filter, vacuums the car, checks the tranny, diff, tires and cleans the windows, while I watch. They then show my the oil level after, and I can see them put in the good oil I paid for. I'm outta there in 15 minutes TOPS for $70 Mobil One oil change 6 quarts.
That said, the service advisors at my dealership know less about my car than a 6 year old child. It takes me 15-30 minutes just to get my car checked in there. They are total ass clowns. They touched my car once and that was the last time, unless I have a warranty claim. Idiots.
Thanks for the tips guys, lots of good reading in here. I'm at 2,000km on my 2013 1LT so I think I'll go to the dealership for the first change and see what the experience is like.
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I cannot speak for other regions of the USA but the 4-Mess engine has not been a hit with commercial users in our neck of the woods. Here in just our small town we have three 2nd generation equipment dealers that have sold Stihl for years. All three say they'll sell a ton of saws but try to steer commercial users away from the 4-Mess engines.
I suspect Stihl would not be spending the time and money to bring the FS94 2-stroke to the market if the 4-Mess was an overwhelming success. Ditto for Shindiawa's version of 4-Mess. When I purchased my Stihl 4-Mess trimmer the dealer tried to nudge me away from them but my previous 2-stroke Stihl ran great for over ten years so I purchased based on that previous experience.
The 4-Mess was Stihl's marketing attempt to please the tree-huggers. They knew they could meet all EPA regulations with 2-strokes just like RedMax, Shindiawa, Tanaka, were already doing but they gambled that they would be able to lead in a new engine design that would take the power equipment world by storm. I think the design of the 4-Mess is sound but to make it reliable would require a much higher level of quality components and materials which would have driven the cost way up. Add to that commercial users who were used to just keeping a good gas/oil mix in their 2-strokes and nothing else was needed for the useful life of the machine.
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Editor's choice British Lawyers Build Case Against Wigs
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Lawyer John Baldwin stood in Courtroom 61 of the Royal Courts of Justice last week, holding his curly white wig in his hands.

"Some people think it gives them more authority," Baldwin said of his traditional horsehair headpiece, which trial lawyers are required to wear in British courtrooms. "But most of us just think they're itchy."

The wigs are drawing increasing criticism from lawyers who say they are as quaint and outdated as quill pens or suits of armor. As the country's legal system undergoes a raft of changes — including the creation of a Supreme Court modeled after the U.S. high court — the call to cast off wigs is growing louder in courtroom hallways and lawyers' chambers.

"It is an ancient practice that many of us don't think has a place in the modern world," said Kevin Martin, president of the Law Society, a national group representing 120,000 lawyers. Martin said he was hopeful that change is near because in April the judiciary will get a new leader, Nicholas Phillips, who is considered a modernizer not wedded to the 17th-century adornments.

Phillips is not ready to comment on court dress, a spokesman in his office said, but in 2003 he was quoted as saying that in civil cases, "I would like to see wigs go."

More than 300 years ago, wigs were worn by the learned and well-to-do in all walks of life. But after they went out of fashion among the general public, the judiciary retained them, with the argument that wigs lend an air of solemnity, impartiality and anonymity. Critics say wigs are fusty, if not ridiculous.

In recent decades, various surveys have reached conflicting conclusions about the profession's and public's view on wigs. "If you were to make a significant decision to get rid of them, I would like to see overwhelming public support for their abolition," said Tom Little, chairman of the Young Barristers Committee of the Bar Council.

Little said many young lawyers like the wigs because they serve as a "leveler" against those who have much more experience. The profession should focus on "more important issues" such as legal aid for poor defendants, he said, rather than worrying about wigs. "Just because something is old, you shouldn't get rid of it. If that were the case, we would knock down all our old buildings."

As the debate continues, so does the traditional craft of turning horsehair into a headpiece by hand. Ede and Ravenscroft, a company dating to 1689, sells the typical "bar wig," for more than $800. The more elaborate "bench wig," for high court judges, with hair teased high in front, can cost $2,000, while the ceremonial "full-bottom wig" with long curls reaching to the shoulders goes for more than $4,000.

"I had to take a bank loan out to get my wig and gown," said Kirsty Brimelow, a criminal lawyer in London who thinks it's time to toss off the wigs.

Lawyers typically buy one wig to last a career; many complain that they yellow and smell bad as the years go by.

At a time when the judiciary is trying to show the public it is "in touch and modern," she said, onlookers enter courtrooms only "to step back to the 17th century." "I think it has a more negative effect," she said: Wigs can be intimidating to witnesses.

Another rap against wigs is that only certain types of lawyers can wear them — barristers can, while solicitor advocates, who perform similar functions, cannot. Many critics argue that this has set up an absurd inequality in the courtroom. "Jurors may form an impression that a non-wigged lawyer is less credible," Martin said in a recent letter to Phillips. Martin, like other critics, thinks the wigs are an all-or-nothing matter: Everyone wears them or no one does.

Among the faction in favor of keeping them, people are typically more adamant about retaining wigs in criminal trials. They say they offer judges and lawyers a welcome degree of anonymity and distance from defendants who might want to seek revenge on them outside court.

Baldwin, the lawyer who says wigs are itchy, obligingly slipped his on when the judge walked into his courtroom the other day. Baldwin is representing Random House publishers in the copyright infringement suit brought by two authors who allege that "The DaVinci Code" author Dan Brown stole his central ideas from them.

Perhaps not surprising, his opponent in the case, Jonathan Rayner James, had different views — on the issues of the case and legal headgear. In James's view, wearing wigs is second nature for British lawyers, something they rarely think about but a useful way of demonstrating the status of lawyers and judges in the courtroom.

"Every system has that, whether it's gowns or something else," said James, a copyright law expert with neatly trimmed brown hair peeking out from under a row of perfect white curls. "But wigs are unique."
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Mark your calendars...APRIL 27th, 2013. This favorite Spring Classic is on the schedule.
Once again - we will try to combine this race with Spokane's race for a combined overall champion.
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Once again - we will try to combine this race with Spokane's race for a combined overall champion.
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Race season is officially over for many of us "raodies". I know it's by choice but there are other great things to do in the off season. ...like dress up in camo and top it off with flourescent orange !!! Nate shows up in a full-on hooded, hunters orange, long sleeve jersey....what!!!! I think he needs to do some group rides in that thing so we can all keep him in our scopes :)
Nate and I had a great morning of hunting last week. This little 3 pt buck was just what we needed to end the day.
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Thomas Smith Webb says that "the sword pointing to the naked heart demonstrates that justice will, sooner or later, overtake US." The symbol is a modern one; but its adoption was probably suggested by the old ceremony, both in English and in Continental Lodges, and which is still preserved in some places, in which the candidate found himself surrounded by swords pointing at his heart, to indicate that punishment would duly follow his violation of his obligations.
With the Cherubim, Yahveh stationed at the gale of Eden, "to keep the way of the tree of Life," the lahat ha'hereb hammithhappeteth, meaning the revolving phenomenon of the curved sword, or the flaming blade of the sword which tarns There were two Cherubim, one at each side of the gate. These angels, or winged bulls, did not hold the weapon in their hands, but it was apart, separate from them.
The lahat ha'hereb was endowed with preper motion, or turned upon itself. There was but ones and presumably it was between the Cherubim suspended at a certain height in the air. Professor Lenormant, in speaking of this terrible weapon, states, that "the circumferenec, which was turned fully upon the Spectators could have been full of eyes all around and that when the prophet says 'that they had a circumference and a height that were dreadful,' the second dimension refers to the breadth of their rims," and when advancing with the Cherubim against the irreverent intruder at the forbidden gate, it would strike and cut him in pieces as soon as it should graze him.
The symbolism of this instrument has been fixed by Obly as the Tchakra of India, which is a disk with sharp edges, hollow at the center, which is flungg horizontally, after having been whirled around the fingers. "A weapon for slinging, shaped like a disk, moving horizontally with a gyratory motion, like that of a waterspout, having a hollow centre, that the tips of the fingers can pass through, whence seven divergent rays issue toward a circumference, about which are studded fifty sharp points" (see Cherubim).


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Travel Photography Photos taken by Dishtravel Photo op at sunset in Angkor
Trying to block the people out by leaning against the rock. It appears I am there alone, yeah right? People around like flies on a popsicle stick.
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Every year, people, things and trends emerge on the scene that we weren't talking about the year before. Some have staying power, some fade as the calendar turns.
USA TODAY Network offers up a few possibilities of actors, politicians and athletes who may not be on your radar but could be household names this time next year. We also look at a few trends in tech, Wall Street, housing and autos that could help define 2014.