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A downpour can elicit many emotions, but only those in public works think of rain in terms of overloaded sewers and surcharged manholes. Sometimes even the forecast of rain can bring about visions of backed-up basements, overflowing inlets, and angry citizens.
For wastewater operators in a community with combined sewers—those carrying both sanitary and storm flows—protection of the wastewater plant is a primary concern when the weather is stormy. The operator must draw upon knowledge and experience to make operational decisions to maximize treatment while preventing damage to plant facilities from the extra flow.
In a combined sewer system, excess flow caused by wet weather is either diverted within the collection system or within the footprint of the treatment plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines the discharge from a collection sewer system at a point prior to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) as a combined sewer overflow (CSO). In a 2004 report to Congress, the EPA listed 9348 issued permits for CSO outfalls in 32 states with an estimated annual discharge of 850 billion gallons. The majority of these states are located in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions.
If during wet weather, high flows reach the POTW, biological units designed with limited capacities can become threatened, and a portion of the flow must be diverted within the plant to prevent these facilities from flooding. Typically the flows that exceed the capacity of the biological treatment units receive primary treatment and chemical disinfection and are then mixed with the plant's fully treated effluent prior to discharge into the receiving stream. This process of splitting flows and mixing of effluents during we weather events is referred to as blending.
Wet Weather Concerns
Rainfall or wet weather events have been a concern for engineers and operators ever since the first sewer pipe was designed and constructed. For communities installing sewers in the 1880s, the pipes were usually designed to collect both sanitary and storm flows, creating a combined sewer system. Up until the 1900s, most collection systems discharged directly to a receiving stream.
As the role of pathogens in causing disease became understood and concern for the environment grew, efforts to reduce pollution in streams focused on providing some form of primary treatment for sanitary flows. The cost of providing treatment made it prohibitive to handle all storm flows at the newly constructed plants. To limit flows reaching the plant, many of the old direct discharge points in the collection system were converted to CSOs, allowing diversion of combined sewage during wet weather.
After the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972 and the EPA was established, more stringent water quality standards for plant discharges drove the construction of facilities that provided secondary treatment for sanitary flows. Due to the variation in water quality and quantity, each community developed a customized approach to meet effluent standards using a combination of clarification, biological processes, and chemical disinfection. While the primary treatment process may have been designed to handle a portion of the storm flows, the high cost of constructing biological units and difficulties in operating biological treatment units during high flow conditions did not allow for treatment of all wet weather flows.
Once acceptable treatment of sanitary flows was achieved, attention was directed to the wet weather flows that were being discharged into streams. In 1994 the EPA issued a CSO Control Policy representing "a comprehensive national strategy to ensure that municipalities, permitting authorities, water quality standards authorities, and the public engage in a comprehensive and coordinated effort to achieve cost-effective CSO controls that ultimately meet appropriate health and environmental objectives."
Under the CSO Policy, CSO communities were required to implement, by Jan. 1, 1997, minimum technology-based controls often referred to as the "nine minimum controls." These controls, as defined by the EPA, are "measures that can reduce the prevalence and impacts of CSOs and that are not expected to require significant engineering studies or major construction." The CSO Control Policy brought wet weather flows into the limelight and changed years of operational practices in which wet weather flows were routinely diverted in the collection system.
"One of the nine minimum controls is maximizing flows to the plant," said Kevin Weiss with the U.S. EPA. "This practice reduces overflows by getting the water to the plant." But because treatment units at the plants are not sized for this excess flow, operational tools such as blending are used to accommodate wet weather volumes.
"The permit program addresses this bypass or routing around biological units," said Weiss. "A POTW can have a bypass approved under limited circumstances, if their long-term plan demonstrates there is no feasible alternative. However, this is considered an interim solution; we don't expect it to last forever."
In administering the policy, the EPA has recognized that each plan is site-specific and implementation within each city is heavily dependent on finances. In order to achieve a determination of "no feasible alternatives" an analysis of a community's financial capabilities must be performed in accordance with EPA guidelines. Based on this financial study and other water quality considerations, a phased approach to CSO control is developed.
"Our goal is, at some point in the future, to have municipalities eliminate the bypass at the plant," said Weiss. "However, we realize that this can take a long time to implement for some CSO cities."


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Hey, I'm on another forum and we got this thing going called "last movie you watched" where we list the last movie we watched as we watch them.
I guess I'll start it up and if anyone wants to keep it going, go ahead. Just to get this board alive a bit.
Amazing Spiderman and Goon
Both great movies.
I like this new Spiderman better than the original.
Goon is also a pretty fun and exciting movie to watch and it's a short watch (1hr 30 mins) of your time, it was great

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Vergne, Philippe. "Bruce Nauman." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
If one wanted to argue that the major artistic innovations and breakthroughs in the second half of the twentieth century happened through sculpture, Bruce Nauman would be one of a small handful of artists on which to base the argument. Confronted with the question of what to do in the studio after he graduated from the University of California at Davis in 1966, Nauman made the following assumption: "If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art."1 From this premise he has expanded the field of sculptural practice through confrontations with language (spoken, shouted, or written), with dance and performance, with film and video, with photography, and with architectural environments. He gives value to time and process.
Because his work resists categorization, it might be more convenient to define where Nauman does not stand, rather than where he does. He did not participate in Pop Art, he does not belong to Funk Art, he does not conform to Minimalism, he is not associated with Fluxus, he cannot be contained by the mantle of Body Art, and he demonstrates too much freedom to match the definition of Conceptual Art. Defying canonical definitions, he encompasses and overcomes all of them, showing less interest in what art is than in what art could be.
Since his earliest experimentation with painting and sculpture in the mid-1960s, Nauman has developed a complex body of work built on the assimilation and the digestion of models coming from a diversity of fields and disciplines. Though Marcel Duchamp and Jasper Johns found their rightful places in his genealogy, Nauman claims Man Ray as the artist who—through the versatility of his activities and his radical denigration of style—freed him to open the practice of sculpture to a wide range of media across the disciplines.
Programmatically, Nauman imbibed Samuel Beckett's solipsistic sense of the absurd, Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations of meaning and representation through the logic of language, and V. S. Naipaul's interpretation and denunciation of sociohistorical rage and grievance. From investigations of the individual body and its phenomenological perception, Nauman's work has increasingly addressed the body politic and its awareness. From a depiction of bodily functions to the experience of solitude, from psychology to profanity, from self-violence and humiliation to political torture and domination, Nauman's program has never ceased to capture primary emotions; avoiding the anecdote, he reaches the universality of an open work.
From his protean output, the Walker Art Center, in collecting his work, has focused on the moving-image genre in its diversity. Hence, a grouping of early videos provides a broad understanding of Nauman's experimentation with the potential of moving images. The fifteen or so films and videos that he produced in the late 1960s testify to both his recurring interest in representation of the body and his awareness of the avant-garde dance and music scenes. In front of a stationary camera set in the studio, he performed mundane and often obsessive activities, such as walking (Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square, 1967–1968), bouncing (Bouncing in a Corner No. 1, 1968), pinching himself (Pinchneck, 1968), torturing himself (Pulling Mouth, 1969), or frantically playing an instrument he was unfamiliar with (Violin Tuned D.E.A.D., 1970).
Exploring physical awareness and limitation, these performances, during which the camera is the audience's proxy, use redundancy and duration to exhaust and then liberate the body. His research, based on repetition and everyday gestures and behaviors, paralleled the work developed in the early 1960s in New York by the Judson Dance Theater (its movement-research performances) and choreographer Meredith Monk, whom he met in 1968. Through his friendship with Monk, his collaboration with Merce Cunningham, and his acquaintance with musicians Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young, Nauman became aligned with a generation of artists who attempted to apply to their own practices the methodology of chance, the consideration of everyday sounds and gestures that John Cage employed in his own art and way of life.
When not questioning the status of the "artwork" itself, Nauman challenged the concept of the artist as an author. In Art Make-Up (1967–1968), he applies different colors of makeup (white, pink, green, black) to his face and upper body, successively erasing his identity, thus making the author more and more invisible, as Alain Robbe-Grillet did when he, with the other protagonists of the Nouveau Roman, challenged the traditional structure of the novel. Knowing the political context of the moment, it is difficult not to see in this portrait of the artist as a clown2 an echo of Frantz Fanon's anticolonial, anti-xenophobic book Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (Black Skin, White Masks).3
With Poke in the Eye/Nose/Ear 3/8/94 Edit (1994), Nauman continued to investigate intimate behaviors. A large video projection shows a slow-motion image of the artist poking his finger into his eye, nose, and ear. The nature of the image and its weird relationship to "real" time alter its narrative quality. It also stresses the thin line between pleasure and pain, as well as increases the discomforting spectacle of a finger poking into bodily orifices. These orifices are the conduits for sensible and cerebral perception, which Nauman attempts to awaken from a passive lethargy.
Challenging perception through time reaches an extreme degree in MAPPING THE STUDIO II with color shift, flip, flop & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage) All Action Edit (2001). The work consists of seven large video projections. The footage was shot at night over several months in 2000. Nauman installed seven infrared video cameras at different locations in his New Mexico studio and recorded the remnants of past works, tools, crates, detritus, and the night stillness interrupted by mice, insects, cats, noises from trains, horses, weather, and coyotes. From this databank of images—echoing his 1966 statement that "whatever I was doing in the studio must be art"—he produced several generations of works.4 In the "All Action Edit," Nauman has edited the seven different tapes to only incidental, visual, and sound disturbances. The color of the images alternates from red to green to blue and back to red. The running time of each projection varies, and the images flip left to right or right to left and/or upside down.
With its meditative though uncanny relation to space and time, MAPPING THE STUDIO II crystallizes many elements that constitute Nauman's syntax, from his critical relationship to duration in film that he inaugurated in 1966 with Fishing for Asian Carp5 to his interest in the technology of surveillance that became central to his work in the early 1980s. Also, as the subtitle suggests, tribute is made to Cage and his inclusion of chance, silence, and every single component of life in the making of his work.6
Meanwhile, by projecting the images on the walls all around the audience, Nauman has inverted our perceptual conventions. Whether in a museum, in a stadium, or in a movie theater, what we normally experience is frontal and disconnected from the work or the event. With MAPPING THE STUDIO II, the audience is at the center, surrounded by an oppressive panoply of media, controlled by the pace the artist has inflicted on the images. Whether an exercise in acute perception, absolute meditative escapism, or intense frustration, Nauman keeps it open. As with many of his works, MAPPING THE STUDIO II's conciseness leaves us wanting—not more, not less, just wanting—triggering our desire to be fully alive, aware.
Quoted in Ian Wallace and Russell Keziere, "Bruce Nauman Interviewed," Vanguard (Canada) 8, no. 1 (February 1979): 18. ↩
The clown is recurrent in Nauman's cast of characters, appearing in such works as the neon sculpture Mean Clown Welcome (1985), the drawing Clown with Video Surveillance (1986), and the video Clown Torture (1987). ↩
Frantz Fanon, Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (Paris: Edition de Seuil, 1952); Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (New York: Grove Weidenfield, 1967). ↩
To date, Nauman has created four unique installations and two editioned works from the same source footage, all dated 2001. The unique works are MAPPING THE STUDIO I (Fat Chance John Cage); MAPPING THE STUDIO I (Fat Chance John Cage) All Action Edit; MAPPING THE STUDIO II with color shift, flip, flop & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage); and the Walker's work. The single DVD projections Office Edit I (Fat Chance John Cage) Mapping the Studio and Office Edit II with color shift, flip, flop & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage) Mapping the Studio were issued in editions of six. ↩
Nauman filmed painter William Allan in the titular activity. The film lasts until a fish is caught: 2 minutes, 44 seconds. ↩
Nauman discussed the subtitle of this piece: "'Fat Chance,' which I think is just an interesting saying, refers to a response to an invitation to be involved in an exhibition. Some time ago Anthony d'Offay [Gallery] was going to do a show of John Cage's scores, which are often very beautiful. He also wanted to show work by artists who were interested in or influenced by Cage. So he asked if I would send him something related. Cage was an important influence for me, especially his writings. So I sent d'Offay a fax that said FAT CHANCE JOHN CAGE. D'Offay thought it was a refusal to participate. I thought it was the work." From "A Thousand Words: Bruce Nauman Talks about Mapping the Studio," Artforum 40, no. 7 (March 2002): 121. ↩
Vergne, Philippe. "Bruce Nauman." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Geithner: We Didn't Have Great Options on Housing Relief
In "Stress Test," his account of the financial crisis that hit shelves Monday, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he regrets the Obama administration's rollout of programs designed to soften the crash of the housing market. But he says there wasn't a game-changing policy that fully lessened the pain.
Mr. Geithner offered a defense of several crisis-era decisions on housing, but notably steered clear of one: his 2012 decision to sweep away the profits of mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury Department faces a rash of lawsuits by investors who argue that the decision to replace the initial terms amounted to illegal expropriation.
Fannie and Freddie remain one of the last major pieces of unfinished business from the 2008 crisis.
Here's a look at key passages framing the administration's struggles with housing and mortgage issues:
Fannie and Freddie didn't cause the financial crisis:
"Some on the right have tried to blame the crisis on Democratic-led efforts to combat discrimination against low-income and minority borrowers, such as the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 or Fannie and Freddie's affordable housing programs. But the erosion in underwriting standards, the rush to provide credit to Americans who couldn't have gotten it in the past, was led by consumer finance companies and other nonbank lenders that did not have to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act—which, after all, discouraged redlining for nearly three decades before the crisis. These firms took credit risks because they wanted to, not because they had to; they believed rising home prices would protect them from losses, and their investors were eager to finance their risk-taking. Fannie and Freddie lost a lot of market share to these exuberant private lenders, and while they did belatedly join the party, the overall quality of mortgages they bought and guaranteed was significantly stronger than the industry average."
On the future of the U.S. mortgage market, including Fannie and Freddie:
"We also decided early in the financial reform process that trying to overhaul housing finance in Dodd-Frank would be too heavy a political lift. There was no immediate rush; we knew Fannie and Freddie would be in conservatorship for a while, and that private mortgage lending was too deeply damaged to come back soon….For now, the U.S. government—through Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration—remains the dominant force in mortgage finance.
"Eventually, Congress will have to make some tough choices about the mortgage market—not just how to reduce the government's dominant role, but how to balance the trade-off between safety and accessibility. We should require substantial down payments for borrowers, which would make it harder for some families to become homeowners but would help reduce the risk of the terrible collapses we saw in this crisis. Higher down payment requirements would help serve as shock absorbers for the system—much like capital requirements for financial firms or margin requirements for derivatives investors—limiting the risk of excessive booms by limiting highly leveraged borrowing. And while I believe some kind of government guarantee for mortgage finance is necessary to support lending when the private market retreats during severe recessions, the guarantee should be explicit, more limited in scope, and more expensive, with private actors assuming larger losses to reduce the risks for taxpayers. Powerful real estate and financial interests tend to align with progressive consumer advocates to fight measures that could make mortgage lending more conservative and mortgage credit less affordable, so change will be a challenge, but it can't wait forever."
On a silver-bullet for the foreclosure crisis:
"Housing was an impossibly complex issue that didn't lend itself to simple solutions, and the limitations of our housing programs were a lot easier to identify than they were to fix. We were under intense pressure to improve these programs—not only from our many critics, but from the President, who was deeply unsatisfied with our early results, and constantly pushed us to do better… We were dissatisfied and frustrated, too. Some of our programs were stumbling out of the gate. Others weren't ambitious enough. We would keep looking for ways to expand their power, reach, and effectiveness throughout the president's first term.
"If there had been a game-changing housing plan that could have provided much more relief, we would have embraced it. We had some of the nation's best progressive talent working on housing. We also had powerful incentives to throw everything we had at the problem; the press was killing us and so were our political allies… We tried to do what we could within the constraints we faced. It wasn't enough. But it was more than most people realized."
Why a massive loan-principal reduction program wasn't in the cards:
"We did not believe, though we looked at this question over and over, that a much larger program focused directly on housing could have a material impact on the broader economy. Jan Eberly, the assistant secretary of economic policy, took a fresh look at these alternatives later, and her analysis concluded that even if the federal government had borrowed and spent $700 billion to wipe out every dollar of negative equity in the U.S. housing market—a "principal reduction" program of utopian proportions—it would have increased annual personal consumption by just 0.1 to 0.2 percent. The projected impact on employment was relatively modest, too, amounting to a cost of about $1.5 million of federal spending per job created. By contrast, our auto rescue cost about $14,000 for each of the one million jobs it saved. In other words, even if Congress had authorized the mother of all principal reduction programs, as expensive as TARP and almost as expensive as the Recovery Act, it wouldn't have changed the trajectory of the recovery."
On the shortcomings of the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, the administration's primary mortgage-relief campaign:
"We ended up requiring a mountain of paperwork for permanent relief, in part to appease critics such as [Neil] Barofsky, [the special inspector general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program] who warned that the limited safeguards in our initial proposal were an invitation to fraud; we decided that in this case he had a point. But Larry [Summers, the director of the White House National Economic Council] warned that we were so worried about "false positives," providing aid to the underserving, that we would allow too many "false negatives," denying aid to the deserving. He had a point as well….
"By [late 2009], it was clear that HAMP's reliance on the broken infrastructure of the mortgage servicing industry was a serious problem. This was probably unavoidable; we didn't have the authority to start up a new government agency or hire thousands of loan specialists ourselves, and even if we'd been able to get the authority from Congress, it would have been a long and messy process. But the servicers, many of them owned by the banks, had little experience modifying loans, and nowhere near the capacity or the resources they would need to modify millions of loans. They had been completely unprepared for the housing crisis, and had laid off staff in droves after the bubble popped. Now we were asking them to conduct a challenging and time-consuming form of triage, and they were terrible at it—slow to hire, slow to figure out how to provide relief, just slow. In fairness, many of the borrowers they were supposed to track down were hard to find and harder to engage; homeowners also struggled to find every required document. But many times incompetent servicers found ways to lose those documents multiple times…."
Explaining how HAMP became the object of intense public scorn:
"I once played a prank on [top adviser] Gene Sperling, pretending I had told a reporter he was the secret architect of HAMP—not just the substance, but the communications and media strategy. My press secretary got so worried that Gene would have a heart attack that she called to spill the beans; that's how universally reviled HAMP was."
More direct control of Fannie and Freddie might not have made a huge difference:
"We also tried to push the Federal Housing Finance Agency to pursue a similarly targeted [principal reduction] program for loans backed by Fannie and Freddie. But acting FHFA director Edward DeMarco, a competent but cautious civil servant who did not want to inflame our Republican critics, refused to allow any principal reductions, even though FHFA's own analysis showed they would save the government money in about half a million cases. It was amazing how little actual authority we had over Fannie and Freddie, considering they were entirely dependent on Treasury's cash to stay alive.
Some liberals blamed the President for their failure to provide relief, since he could have fired DeMarco at any time. But we couldn't just appoint a new director on our own….This was frustrating, but I don't think a more compliant FHFA would have produced a dramatically different result."
Not a huge fan of rewriting the bankruptcy code to allow write-downs of mortgage debt, or so-called "cram-downs":
"I didn't think cram-down was a particularly wise or effective strategy…. The bankruptcy courts were already overwhelmed, and the bill had the potential to push up mortgage costs for all borrowers—though perhaps only slightly given its limited scope—which would have further weakened the recovery."


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1.Pass Rusher - Somehow this board has forgotten how this team has won 2 Super Bowls.They didnt win because of RT's. When Osi leaves the Giants wont have 1 edge rusher on the roster. Getting someone that can threaten the edge can change a whole Defense with 1 player
2. Strongside End - Tuck at best is now just an early down player. its possible if the Giants draft a player Like Mingo that he could take over at LB pushing Kiwanuka here
3. Cornerback -Preferably a CB that can play press coverage. If they draft 1 and play off all game then i will be on the Fire Fewell Bandwagon myself
4. MLB- Giants LB's did not play nearly as well as i thought they would this year.On paper this group as good as the Giants had in a long time.. Boley was nowhere near as good as he was in 2011. Jacquain Williams I expected to become a legitimate starter was hurt all season. Keith Rivers was just as disappointing in NY as in Cincinnati,Herzlich great story but not a long term answer and will struggle to make the roster next season, Blackburn is to physically limited to play this many snaps and for every splash play come 10 snaps of not good enough. Paysinger I thought played well with the snaps he received.
I still like some of the bodies at OLB. I thought the Giants would be able to move on from Boley and they still might. Williams didnt take the spot like i thought he would. MLB still needs an upgrade. MLB's the last 2 seasons have been found in FA fairly cheap maybe they can find a stop gap there.
5. OLine- This will move up if Beatty isnt resigned but I believe he will be the Giants top priority and will be back. I cant see the Giants allowing a rookie or god forbid Diehl protect Eli's blindside next season. C and RG I think will remain the same for 2013. A lot of people want the Giants to draft a RT however I believe the Giants are intent on turning that spot over to James Brewer. James Brewer was a raw physically talented prospect that was going to be a 2 year project. The 2 years are up. My guess is the Giants will bring in another cut vet and try to roll with Brewer. Is a RT possible yes but the with Brewer and Mosley recently drafted I believe that the Giants feel the answer is on the roster already.LG is the other spot that I could see a draft pick being used. Quite frankly had they drafted Cordy Glenn last yIear instead of a split time RB we wouldnt be having these discussions about the line.He could of played either Guard or Tackle spot and we would be set. I dont think Boothe will be replaced in 2013 but he only has 1 year left and he is the definition of average
WildCard Safety- The Giants could be very deep here or in trouble depending what happens in FA we must wait and see


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AJ Swearingen
A.J. has been writing, performing and producing his own style of acoustic music for the last twenty years. His voice is rich and uniquely soulful and his contemporary songwriting clearly pays homage to the standout iconic folk-rock-pop artists of the past. "A Straight Line", released in 2011, is AJ's finest work to date. This new collection is a fresh yet familiar extension of AJ's songwriting, production and musicianship. These songs will grab your heart in ways that only your favorite artist can. A.J.'s musical journey started in Bethlehem, PA and has expanded to a national / international following through performances and cd sales to Germany, Belgium, Japan and Spain.
A.J has also shared the stage with numerous recording artists including Livingston Taylor, Kenny Rogers, Jonathan Edwards, John Gorka, Dave Mason, and Tom Rush. As a songwriter, A.J.'s compositions have gained the attention of his peers. In fact, Tom Rush's latest release, "What I Know", includes A.J.'s previously recorded, "You're Not Here With Me".
AJ Swearingen is a Voyage-Air guitar endorser. He now uses his VAOM-06 for all of his performances, all over the country. In the video player below, he performs "Realize" from his latest CD "A Straight Line."
Swearingen & Kelli
Swearingen & Kelli's self-titled debut album is the blending of AJ Swearingen and Jayne Kelli's unique artistry. Known for their rich and silky vocals, this folk-pop duo is a powerful songwriting union. They've been performing their signature sound in theaters and opera houses across the United States with a style that echoes the great songwriter's of the past. Folk icon Tom Rush recorded one of Swearingen's tunes, "You're Not Here With Me", on his latest album. This song is also included on Swearingen & Kelli's highly anticipated debut album. Swearingen & Kelli deliver an undeniable chemistry with their unfiltered, from the heart songwriting and performing.
- http://www.swearingenandkelli.com
- http://www.facebook.com/swearingenandkelli
- http://www.twitter.com/swearingenkelli
AJ, Voyage-Air - on tour with Pop-Symphony Orchestras
This from a "Martin Guitar" fan and player for many years. "I have used Martin Guitars for touring and recording for many years. I have to admit that the Voyage-Air has been an outstanding replacement and the carry-on design has made airline travel much less stressful"
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In Reese We Trust

BREAKING NEWS: According to Mike Garafolo, Eli Manning did a simple restructuring of his contract to lower his base this season by about $9m. #ALLIN

A champion doing champion things.
my guess though is that it just gets paid out later to him...but it's awesome that he will allow us to free up some funds for this season!!! ELI ****ING RULES!!

[/quote]That is awesome. Anything that Eli can do, he does. I am in bromance with Eli. I believe he can touch the sky![/quote]

I'm telling you guys, this is not an act of kindness by Eli. Its a move that is definately in his interest.

Great guy...but in this case he is undoubtedly getting something from the team.

[/quote]Who are the poor spellers in here again?[]
Either way hes still making a sacrifice this year for the better of the team and yet another classy gesture from the best QB in New York Giants history.
Not sure what your point about the spelling is.

But it's essentially like an investment. If (in theory) you give up $7mm this year and know that you're getting $12MM in a few years from that, you would be nuts not to do it.
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Frans Lanting:
The story of life in photographs
In this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Soundtrack by Philip Glass.
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no one needs to throw Sanchez under the bus..........he resides under the bus along with Tony Romo LOL
I'll take Nicks, or Cruz any day of the week over that head case. Coughlin finally has this team on the same page.
"When I was 15, I could not believe how dumb my father was.....when I was 25, I could not believe how much he had learned in 10 years"
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Charles Lieberman, the founder of Advisors Capital Management, has developed a successful equity-oriented strategy that is geared toward investors at or near retirement and designed to provide generous income.
That approach, called "income with growth," uses a mix of publicly traded securities, including master limited partnerships, real-estate investment trusts, and high-dividend stocks to construct portfolios that provide a yield to investors after fees of about 5.5%. This strategy has returned 7.8% annually since 2001, ahead of a 4.3% yearly increase in an 80/20 blend of stocks and bonds. The goal is to find stocks whose dividends will increase over time and therefore allow an investor to preserve principal during retirement. "Income with growth" is one of six strategies employed by Advisors Capital Management, a Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., firm that now runs more than $400 million.
Lieberman, 64, was a leading economist at banks such as Manufacturers Hanover in the 1980s and early 1990s; he later teamed with Salomon Brothers' noted economist Henry Kaufman to form a hedge fund before launching Advisors Capital in 1999. As an economist, Lieberman appeared regularly in Barron's.
"I'm fearful that rates are going to rise...and create one of the largest bear markets in bonds in a long time." -- Charles Lieberman Peter Murphy for Barron's
Fearful of a sharp rise in rates, Lieberman generally is steering clear of Treasuries, mortgage securities, municipal bonds, top-grade corporate debt, and preferred stock. He believes that the housing recovery has a long way to go, and he has identified stocks he calls "twofers" that should benefit from a better housing market and continued low natural-gas prices.
The firm manages client money in separate accounts. It has no mutual fund. It takes investments as little as $100,000, although portfolio customization requires a $250,000 minimum. For more on the firm's distinctive approach, read on.
Barron's: How is the firm run?
Lieberman: Our strategies are based on client objectives and risk tolerance, not Morningstar-style boxes like value or growth, or small-cap or large-cap stocks. We don't care about style boxes because clients don't care. They just want the asset value to go up, and so we organize our portfolio offerings from "growth" to "growth with income" to "income with growth" to "fixed income," to give clients a spectrum to choose from based on their risk tolerance and objectives.
How many securities are in each client portfolio?
Anywhere from 30 to 50. We buy individual securities and avoid the fees associated with mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. With ETFs, you get a whole gamut of securities—the good, the bad, and everything in between. What we try to do for clients is pick the best and avoid the worst.
What's your annual fee? Is it around 1%?
It's a bit more than that for smaller accounts, and it can be less for large accounts. We are less expensive than most mutual funds, even though we effectively are creating a personalized, tailored mutual fund for each client. There is no commission on our transactions. We are not a brokerage firm. We don't get paid by anyone other than the client, so our entire focus is on the client. We, in fact, are on roughly 25 broker/dealer platforms, including Fidelity's.
Give us a sense of your strategies.
We may use securities of the same or related companies in different strategies. For example, we own Kinder Morgan KMI -0.819672131147541% Kinder Morgan Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD19.36 -0.16 -0.819672131147541% /Date(1495659466646-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15128398 P/E Ratio 62.306451612903224 Market Cap 43577266803.1808 Dividend Yield 2.588661661920787% Rev. per Employee 1188830 More quote details and news » [ticker: KMI], which is the general partner of an energy-pipeline company, in our "growth with income" portfolio, and the higher yielding Kinder Morgan Management [KMR] in our "income with growth" portfolios. We own JPMorganChase jpm -0.019239738805970148% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD85.7435 -0.0165 -0.019239738805970148% /Date(1495659464774-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8262952 P/E Ratio 13.214175654853621 Market Cap 304688474777.108 Dividend Yield 2.332089552238806% Rev. per Employee 440858 More quote details and news » [JPM] in our "growth with income" portfolios and Citigroup c 0.9560849133041647% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD62.3 0.59 0.9560849133041647% /Date(1495659465927-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13278386 P/E Ratio 12.543259557344065 Market Cap 169903552154.61 Dividend Yield 1.0266281681103626% Rev. per Employee 384900 More quote details and news » [C] in our "growth" portfolios for more risk-tolerant clients.
"Income with growth" is your most popular strategy. How does it work?
The portfolio has income as its primary objective. Growth of that income and growth of the value of the portfolio are secondary objectives. So, the universe of investments includes master limited partnerships, real-estate investment trusts, preferred stock, bonds, and dividend-paying common stock.
What do you like now?
We consider MLPs to be one of the most attractive income-producing areas right now. We like BreitBurn Energy Partners [BBEP], an oil and gas producer. Gas prices are very low, but the company has locked in a lot of its future revenue by hedging. Like many producers, it's shifting production to oil from gas. When BreitBurn buys oil and gas properties, it tends to hedge future production out to as far as three to four years. So there's a lot of visibility to the earnings stream, and that gives us confidence in the yield, which is 9.6%.
What other MLPs do you like?
Energy Transfer Partners etp -1.183431952662722% Energy Transfer Partners L.P. U.S.: NYSE USD23.38 -0.28 -1.183431952662722% /Date(1495659464669-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1872912 P/E Ratio 10.420939980379917 Market Cap 27621487314.5395 Dividend Yield 9.157038938810441% Rev. per Employee 4145630 More quote details and news » [ETP], which has a yield of about 8%. It's a big company, a classic pipeline with lots of growth opportunities. It recently did a significant acquisition in buying Sunoco. Companies like ETP are doing a lot of investment in pipeline infrastructure to bring domestic oil and gas to market.
What do you think of REITs?
The popular parts of the REIT space, including shopping malls and apartments, have been bid up by investors desperate for yield, and they no longer look attractive. We have turned to some of the more esoteric parts of the REIT universe to get a little more yield. We like Sun Communities SUI 0.7004248478585371% Sun Communities Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD87.7 0.61 0.7004248478585371% /Date(1495659448274-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 180201 P/E Ratio 208.85714285714286 Market Cap 6426283867.34985 Dividend Yield 3.0551755585955314% Rev. per Employee 333533 More quote details and news » [SUI], which operates mobile-home parks and yields 6.1%. It's a little like an apartment play because many people forced out of single-family homes during the recession ended up in mobile homes. There are very few mobile-home-park operators.
Mortgage REITs yield a lot now as their share prices have come down. Any favorites?
We like American Capital Agency AGNC 0.2922552362396493% AGNC Investment Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD20.59 0.06 0.2922552362396493% /Date(1495659466405-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1610936 P/E Ratio 4.722477064220183 Market Cap 7299359418.63357 Dividend Yield 10.490529383195726% Rev. per Employee 27740700 More quote details and news » [AGNC]. The yield is about 16%. The company hedges a lot of the interest-rate risk in its portfolio, and it's more selective than other mortgage REITs about the mortgages it buys. The result is that its prepayments have been lower than others in the industry, and its cash flows have held up a lot better.
Is the dividend sustainable?
The stock is priced as if the dividend is going to be cut in half. The dividend should largely remain in place until the Federal Reserve is ready to start raising interest rates, and at that point we would be looking to get out.
Anything else in REITs?
Hotels. The sector got hit pretty hard in the 2008-09 recession, and, as a result, very little building has been taking place. Occupancy has increased quite sharply since the recession, as have room rates. So earnings and cash flow are coming back very strongly. We like Hospitality Properties Trust hpt 0.380754586362063% Hospitality Properties Trust U.S.: Nasdaq USD29 0.11 0.380754586362063% /Date(1495659451287-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 367899 P/E Ratio 25.29227010992846 Market Cap 4745702574.90966 Dividend Yield 7.174887892376682% Rev. per Employee 4581540 More quote details and news » [HPT], with a dividend yield of 7.6%, and Ashford Hospitality Trust aht 0.625% Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD6.44 0.04 0.625% /Date(1495659465166-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 372919 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 623603231.948662 Dividend Yield 7.470817120622568% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » [AHT], yielding about 4%. They fly many of the major hotel brands in their portfolios.
How about electric utilities?
We've severely curtailed our exposure. The stocks rallied quite a bit in 2010 and 2011, and, as a result, the yields have come down pretty sharply to an average of about 4%. We do own Pepco Holdings [POM], a Middle Atlantic utility yielding above 5%.
Anything in telecom?
We own Vodafone Group [VOD], now yielding about 6%, and Frontier Communications ftr -2.142857142857143% Frontier Communications Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD1.37 -0.03 -2.142857142857143% /Date(1495659466172-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20787031 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1642306441.75825 Dividend Yield 11.808118081180812% Rev. per Employee 349717 More quote details and news » [FTR], at 9%. Frontier bought a whole bunch of Verizon phone lines, and it hopes to cross sell other products to those customers. Vodafone is a play on Verizon Wireless [it owns a 45% stake in the country's top wireless carrier].
What other high-dividend stocks appeal to you?
We look for companies with high yields that can increase their dividends over time. A good example is Aircastle ayr -0.5284015852047557% Aircastle Ltd. U.S.: NYSE USD22.59 -0.12 -0.5284015852047557% /Date(1495659435615-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 197882 P/E Ratio 11.3 Market Cap 1787594797.24366 Dividend Yield 4.601769911504425% Rev. per Employee 7780060 More quote details and news » [AYR], which is a growing aircraft-leasing company yielding over 5%, with a price/earnings ratio of 7.5. SeaDrill [SDRL], a deepwater drilling company yielding about 9%, has a record backlog and a young and sophisticated rig fleet. It has rising cash flows and the clear potential to raise dividends. Regal Entertainment Group rgc -1.4383227693807898% Regal Entertainment Group Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD20.215 -0.295 -1.4383227693807898% /Date(1495659466308-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2070536 P/E Ratio 17.86725663716814 Market Cap 3220739566.98573 Dividend Yield 4.358593363051015% Rev. per Employee 127418 More quote details and news » [RGC] operates movie theaters and has excellent cash flow, a solid yield of over 5%, and a history of paying special dividends.
Talk about your concept of twofers.
The housing story remains underappreciated in the stock market. This is where having an economics background has been an enormous benefit. What many people don't realize is that most housing demand comes from household formation, and that was severely constrained in the recession when kids couldn't get jobs out of school and moved back home with Mom and Dad. As a result, there is a tremendous backlog of household formation, which should run at roughly 1.4 million per year. So we've got a lot of catch-up to go with housing demand, and there are still a lot of housing opportunities. Another one of our investment themes is cheap natural gas, which is helping many U.S. manufacturers. One twofer is Trex trex -0.906816760475297% Trex Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD63.38 -0.58 -0.906816760475297% /Date(1495659429894-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 90244 P/E Ratio 25.858132898491643 Market Cap 1880551920.40832 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 593670 More quote details and news » (TREX), which makes composite-wood decking. Natural gas is a critical element in the production process.
Where does it trade?
The stock is up dramatically, and we have owned it for a while. It has gone from the upper single digits to almost $40, but it's still attractive. The company is operating at a low rate of capacity utilization. The Street consensus for 2013 is $2.41 a share. We think there is at least $6 per share or more of annual earnings potential a couple of years from now.
Give us another twofer.
Georgia Gulf [GGC]. It makes PVC plastic piping, which is used in housing construction. So it's a play on the housing market, and natural gas is an important element in the production process. So we get the benefit of both investment themes working on our behalf.
How is it valued?
It's now around $45. The consensus earnings estimate for this year is about $4.75, but Georgia Gulf has $6 or $7 a share in earnings power within a few years.
Do any of the major home builders appeal to you?
NVR. nvr 0.6750871080139372% NVR Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD2311.5 15.5 0.6750871080139372% /Date(1495659419370-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20845 P/E Ratio 20.418290854572714 Market Cap 8605407785.41565 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1211140 More quote details and news » It's a Middle Atlantic-based home builder that managed to remain profitable right through the credit crisis because of its differentiated business model. Most home builders buy land and then inventory it until they are ready to build. NVR options land. It pays an option fee to the landowner for the right to be able to buy the land at a later date. It doesn't have as much capital tied up in land inventory. That flexibility served the company well during the credit crisis, because it didn't have massive write-downs of land inventory.
Obviously, the housing market is recovering, and so is NVR's business. It has tremendous cash flow, and because NVR doesn't have to inventory land, it has been able to buy back stock [NVR]. The share count has shrunk dramatically over the course of many years.
The stock trades close to $1,000. It's expected to earn about $50 a share this year. What kind of earnings power does it have?
North of $100 a share a year or two out.
What do you think about the bond market?
Our fixed-income portfolios are almost devoid of Treasuries and mortgage securities, and we have minimal holdings of munis and high-grade corporates. Our whole strategy is to trade off interest-rate risk for credit risk. We want to minimize interest-rate risk, and we are willing to accept more credit risk. If the economy does well, credit spreads should continue to tighten.
How are your bond accounts invested?
Largely in double-B and triple-B corporate bonds with short maturities in 2013, 2014, and 2015. The average maturity of our fixed-income portfolios is less than 2½ years. I'm very fearful that interest rates are going to rise significantly in the next few years, and create one of the largest bear markets in bonds in a long time. Interest rates obviously are at historic lows, and that's unsustainable. As the economy improves and unemployment reverts to more normal levels, the fed-funds rate could rise to 4%. In that environment, the 10-year Treasury could easily yield 5% or 6% [it now yields less than 2%], and the rest of the bond market would trade off that.
So, all the bonds that people are looking at today have the potential to decline pretty dramatically in value over the next couple of years.
That's a pretty bearish scenario. How would you sum up your strategy?
We are a "world cap" manager. The world is our oyster. We can go everywhere, look at any investment, as long as it makes sense and we are comfortable with the risk.
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Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by TrIpLeTs06, Apr 30, 2006.
nooooooooooo.. oh well.
Hey, no biggie. We're waiting for next year: Brady Quinn, Chris Leak, Drew Stanton, Jordan Palmer, etc.
Was a pick I wanted but realistically knew it wasn't going to happen. He wants to play QB and from all accounts, sounds like Bill is happy with Bledsoe, Romo & Henson for this year at least.
JMO but I think cincy got a steal, he has a good head on his shoulders, and may develop into a player. But then again maybe not.
I would be a very happy man if we got Quinn next year
I wouldn't, because it we mean we would have really sucked it up this year!!
Or like manna from heaven he magically fell way down in the order a la Aaron Rodgers in '05.
Bingo! There's no doubt that Quinn will be at least a top 5 pick next year which means he's going to go to a really bad team.
Hopefully, that won't mean us.
Funny how all I heard from aggies 2 years ago was how Reggie was the best NFL QB prospect in Texas and VY would be a receiver or go undrafted...
word. we probably wont get quinn. maybe leak or the other two that were mentioned above.
I think it'll be the Packers, or maybe the Bills.
I think Quinn will be the No. 1 pick.
Who said that!? I don't remember that!
I was thinking the same thing. I remember bashing Vince Young, and giving my man McNeal props. Funny how things change.
But... I still think Young is a huge project in the NFL, I don't care where he was drafted.
I still think Reggie will end up being a top notch QB. Anyone that saw him play consistently realizes the incredible amount of talent the guy has. He probably has the strongest arm in the draft and is one of the fastest players in the draft. I happen to be really frustrated we didn't pick him in the 6th, just because of the potential. He might not pan out, but he has far and away the highest potential of anyone in the last 2 rounds.


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2005 GTA: NY Mod
GTA: San Andreas - Modifications | @ 06:55 PM MDT | By Zidane
Heres an interesting mod you may have heard about. A team of modders is creating the city of New York, a whole bunch of real cars to go with the map, and there's an entirely new storyline and more - all in the San Andreas engine. Check out some of these preview screenshots:
Find out more about this mod at their site!
2005 This Week in Mods
GTA: San Andreas - Modifications | @ 12:04 PM MDT | By rappo
So, I'm back from vacation obviously, and the mods keep coming. Luckily, it was sort of a slow week in mods, so I didn't miss much. I'll still be posting weekly, last week was just a minor exception. You may notice some things different about the downloads page. It's not much, but it's something! I'm thinking of completely redoing it, I just have to figure out a good layout. We'll see. Until then, here are your mods:
GTA San Andreas Mod Manager - gives you the choice of switching between mods that require replacing save files and script files (main.scm and script.img).
Player Mods:
England Shirt
Miscellaneous Mods:
Nintendo Entertainment System - replaces the game console in CJ's house with a Nintendo Entertainment System.
Pimp-Juice - perfect vending machine mod for Carl.
Cloudless Skies - removes the clouds that you get at high altitudes. Many people have had problems with these clouds making their game lag - and now it doesn't! Ideally this mod is for people who's systems slow down when the clouds are being rendered - but if you just hate clouds, this mod's good for you too.
Script Mods:
All In One Mod v0.8 - view the documentation for complete details
Vehicle Mods:
Maserati Ghibli II
1968/1978 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40
Chrysler 300c
1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler
Maserati Quattroporte
BMW M6 e63
John Travolta's Qantas 707B
TRD Toyota Supra
BMW M5 e60 v2
1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV
BMW 760Li E65
Lamborghini Murci�lago
Mercedes Benz S600 V12
AMG H2 Hummer Limousine
Nissan Skyline R34
1986 Hummer Police Vehicle
BMW E36 Cabrio
Weapon Mods:
Commando Weapons Pack - awesome weapon pack by Silent Viper. This one contains an M870 Commando Version, AK-47, Springfield XD, and a K98K.
Hk Transparent Magazine Series MP5/40 & G36 - beautiful guns that are excellent replacements for the SMGs in San Andreas. This download comes with different models including high poly and low poly versions of the guns, depending on your computer's capablities or your own preferences.
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The stunning, spectacular and the sentimental, nzherald.co.nz lists the top ten sporting matches of 2012.
Number 6: Breakers win in double-overtime
April 12, 2012
Many had predicted the 2011/12 grand final series between the Breakers and Perth would be an epic matchup but few could predict just how immense it was.
It is now referred to as one of the best in ANBL history and the tone was set in game one at a sold out Vector Arena (9125 fans) when the Breakers won 104-98 in overtime.
A lot of the pre-match was dominated by debate around Tom Abercrombie's dodgy ankle that had been badly sprained late in the semifinal win over Townsville in a needless and dirty foul by Peter Crawford. Abercrombie was suited and booted for the match but he wasn't right and didn't feature.
It was a game of incredible thrusts and counter-thrusts. Just as one team looked to have taken control, the other replied.
Perth jumped out to an early 11-0 lead as the Breakers looked to be suffering stage fright. The defending champions made errors, missed shots and lost the dribble but they didn't panic and soon scored 22 of the next 26 points, including five three-pointers, to claim a 28-24 first-quarter lead.
Their swagger - Perth coach Rob Beveridge calls it arrogance - returned as the Wildcats lost their range. By halftime, the Breakers led 50-35 and there seemed no path back for Perth.
Yet they found one. The Wildcats rattled off quick points to take an unlikely 53-52 lead inside five minutes and it was one they held for most of the rest of the match.
Perth led by six points with under two-and-a-half minutes remaining but American import Cedric Jackson, who led the Breakers with 25 points, and Vukona landed a couple of crucial buckets which, combined with some terrific defence, saw the Breakers send the game into overtime.
The home side slowly took control in the five minutes of overtime as firstly Vukona and then veteran CJ Bruton stepped up with big plays, much to the delight of the delirious crowd.
As a perfect post-script, Beveridge said the Perth players were upset with the way the Breakers celebrated their victory, especially livewire red-headed America Gary Wilkinson. They wouldn't have enjoyed, then, the Breakers cutting down the net at Vector after winning the third game to claim back-to-back titles.
What they said:
Breakers veteran Dillon Boucher
"It has been touted as one of the best finals that's ever been in the ANBL. As long as people even throw that around, you know it was a good game.
"The first thing I remember was the atmosphere at Vector Arena. Man, it was defeaning. There were times in the game when guys were talking right next to me and I couldn't hear what they were saying. The intensity of the game... every possession was coming down to monster plays every time. It was like that for about 10 minutes. Guys were hitting the floor, bodies were diving on the floor, guys were getting their heads split open. It had everything you expect a final should have.
"Every time you go into a battle like that, it's relief. You are so emotionally drained afterwards because you have been on a high for so long in a game that when it finally finishes you almost plummet off the high. Obviously the jubilation of the win was amazing. For me, I reflected afterwards on all those years when the Breakers struggled. And we were playing in front of 10,000 people. And they had paid to watch us play in a grand final.''
APNZ sports editor Michael Brown
"I have covered a lot of big games in a lot of different sports over the past 15 years but none were as difficult as this - only Winston Reid's last-minute goal for the All Whites against Slovakia at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa came close as it required a complete re-write on deadline.
"My report was due only a minute or two after the final whistle but it was virtually impossible to tell who would win as the game swung wildly on the back of significant momentum swings. It made writing a coherent report very challenging. I had a handful of different strands on the go at one time but, in the end, none felt like they were working so I stopped and decided to back myself to write something in about four minutes after I could tell who was going to win. It allowed me to watch more of the action as it unfolded and capture the drama. And what drama.
"Veterans CJ Bruton, Dillon Boucher and Mika Vukona came up with some big plays and import Cedric Jackson sometimes made the basketball dance. But Perth refused to lay down and have their tummy scratched and you had to admire their tenacity in extremely hostile territory.''
Top matches of 2012
No.7 - Epic Aussie Open final
No. 8 - Blues suffer last minute heartbreak
No.9 - Arsenal make astonishing comeback
No.10 - Black Sticks go down fighting
Over the next week we will count down the best matches of 2012. Which ones stood out? Have your say below.


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Discussion in 'Photo & Video Gallery' started by Calbaby968, Sep 17, 2008.
These were taken today with my covers on and all fender extensions on.
Can the ac/heat/air induction piping be wrangled into the hole by the fog light?
Looks good - how do you like the fender extentions?
I tried to do the entire thing in 6", but it's to big. That is why I went into a 4". I have a body lift on the truck as well, so I couldn't fit it in the hole by the fog light. Without the lift, it could fit.
I really like the fender extensions. They were very easy to install. However, with my wide 15.50" tires, it's the only thing I found that would fit.
Truck looks awesome! 15.5 is a fat tire even for a 38. Do you offroad your truck or keep it nice and clean? If you keep it clean maybe you could throw some black paint on that rear axle and make it look perrtty.
nice, mean lookin truck!
Looks good!
That thing looks mean. Nice!
I was wondering where my rock edging went to and now I have found!
thems be some wide tires!! truck looks great!
All i have to say is WOW!
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Mileage for kilometers
Can you help me find the best word that covers the same concept as 'mileage' but for kilometers:
mileage (mileages) 1. Mileage refers to the distance that you have traveled, measured in miles. Most of their mileage is in and around town. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
Are such neologisms as 'kilometerage' or 'kilometrage' used in English?
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My Canadian friends assure me they would indeed use the word mileage, at least in terms of cars. "The mileage on the car is 110,000 km." Were you thinking of non-car uses? If so, give me a specific sentence and I can ask them.
I want to refer to the distance (measured in km) travelled by any means of transport.
Just FYI Mileage can also mean how far the car can go on a certain amount of fuel. e.g. What kind of (gas) mileage does your car get? 30mpg(miles per gallon).
And no I've never heard a similar word used for kilometers, but maybe that's because I'm from the states.
When, I'm Canadian, and the only time I'd use the word mileage are the two ways already mentioned, although to mean "kilometres per litre" no "miles per gallon".
You already know the word you want. It's "distance". Or, more colloquially, something like "How far is it to Sudbury?" or "How many kilometres to the nearest Tim Hortons?"
That post was supposed to start with "Well". I am, in fact, always Canadian.
Yes, I think GP is right in several regards. First, he is always a Canadian. Second, you only need to know the distance involved. If you were getting a rental car, for example, you could ask, "How many kilometers are included in the contract?" There is no term like kilometerage that I know of.
Also, if you wanted an alternative to mileage in the sense of miles per gallon, you could use the term fuel economy, or fuel economy rating, etc.
Try "distance."
Well I need "mileage" for a rental contract meaning the mileage on the car when it is received, and I don't think any of the above suggestions cater for this eventuality... Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I found the word "odometer" to use instead of milometer (the device that counts kilometers/miles driven), but I've never heard this word before, has anyone else?
Thank you in advance for any help...
Except kilometrage doesn't seem to be in most dictionaries. Europcar, one of the biggest car rental companies serving European and international markets, uses mileage (71 references on their site). There is one for kilométrage, but it's in a French-language page.
On the other hand, there is a reference on the website of the government of Nova Scotia to "Kilometrage Rates, Monthly Allowances and Transportation Allowances Regulations", so maybe Canada is an exception.
We use kilometres here in NZ, but people still talk about mileage, just like mara said they do in Canada.
"What's the mileage on that car?"
"Eighty thousand kays."
People also say things like "it's done a lot of kays" but I've never heard (or seen) kilometrage. It's just not a pleasant word to say. For all the advantages of the metric system, I'd say its biggest shortcoming is linguistic: the imperial measurements are nicer and more convenient to talk or write about.
As for fuel economy, the metric equivalent of "miles per gallon" tends to be "litres per 100 km", in NZ at least. That feels weird because it's the inverse, i.e. a low number is good.


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