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Q: I'm a big fan of Kiwisaver. I have contributed 4 per cent ($50) a week for six years and now have $30,000 in my account.
I was made redundant last November and have not contributed to my fund since then, as I am now a student (not working). However, the unit value of my KiwiSaver growth fund has risen from $1.08 to $1.137, adding $1500 to my savings!
I have 20-plus years to retirement so am happy with the growth fund for now.
For people who choose to or must take a contributions holiday, then all is not lost.
A: Indeed. But be aware that you won't always see growth when you're not contributing to KiwiSaver. All KiwiSaver funds can be volatile. And in growth funds in particular - which hold mainly shares - your account will grow only when the sharemarkets grow.
Usually they do. The New Zealand and US markets certainly have lately. And looking back 30 years - to get a better perspective - there has been only about a one-in-four chance that a fund invested fully in shares will lose value over a year, as our table shows. What's more, the longer the period, the less likely you'll lose ground. At 10 years, there's a mere one-in-56 chance.
The table also shows that if you're in a balanced fund that invests half in shares and half in bonds, the chances of getting the booby prize are lower still, especially over long periods. The one-in-2109 chance over 10 years means you are pretty much certain to see a balanced fund rise over that period.
I'm not saying, though, that you should move to a balanced fund. I agree that if you're more than 20 years from retirement, a growth fund is likely to give you higher long-term growth.
Still, there are certain to be periods - sometimes lasting more than a year - when your account balance will fall. And every now and then it will fall a lot. When that happens, stick with it.
KiwiSaver and new job
Q: Further to the lead Q&A in your column last week about a young man - already in KiwiSaver - who didn't realise for 18 months after starting a new job that the new employer wasn't taking contributions out of his pay or making employer contributions. I'm surprised a situation like that can arise and go on for 18 months because of the following.
When employment commences, the employer is obliged to ascertain whether the automatic enrolment rules apply. Obviously as part of that process the employer must ask "Are you in Kiwisaver?" If yes, then where is the KS2? If no, then the employee is automatically enrolled (but can opt out later).
As the employer did not ascertain whether the automatic rules applied, he or she contravened the KiwiSaver Act and should be subject to substantial IRD penalties pursuant to Section 215 of the act.
The act says when the employee starts work they are obliged to tell the employer whether or not they are in KiwiSaver. The act says the employer is obliged to tell IRD if the employee is automatically enrolled. The employer should have insisted on the employee confirming whether or not he was a member so that the employer could advise IRD if necessary.
The employer failed in his obligation to ascertain whether IRD needed to be notified. Again an offence under the act.
Although the employee failed in his obligation, the employer in this case was really slack and should be penalised by IRD accordingly.
A: I have a lot of sympathy with the idea that the employer should be held more accountable than seemed to be the case when reading Inland Revenue's responses last week.
But the department is sticking to its guns. In response to your claim that the employer should be subject to penalties, an Inland Revenue spokesperson says, "The obligation here falls on the employee not the employer. As there is no obligation on the employer under the KiwiSaver Act, they cannot be in breach and therefore subject to penalty."
And in response to your charge that "the employer failed in his obligation to ascertain whether or not IRD needed to be notified", the spokesperson says: "The employer appears to have met their KiwiSaver obligations in this case."
Maybe the KiwiSaver Act should be changed. In the meantime, as noted last week, it's a case of "let the employee beware".
Inheritance alternative
Q: In a recent Herald column you suggested three ways of keeping an inheritance as separate property. There may be another alternative - utilising the Public Trust's "inheritance trust" product.
This was offered to me about 10 years ago and with help from the Public Trust was easy to set up. Essentially on my death my estate will be transferred into an inheritance trust in the name of the person I have nominated.
This seems to differ from a family trust in that it is not set up until my death. I would be interested in your comments.
A: Good thought. And other solicitors can also draw up similar trusts. But they might not always work the way you want.
"The problem with this is that the first claim against an estate is under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976," says Deborah Hollings Chambers, QC. "So, if there is a surviving spouse, their entitlement gets considered effectively before the property is transferred into a trust created by a will."
The same thing happens if your children or others make a claim under the Family Protection Act 1955 - under which wills can be overruled if someone has a moral entitlement to inherit. Such a claim would be considered before the will is put into effect, she says.
"If there is no spouse, and the family are agreed that an inheritance trust is perfectly acceptable, and there is no challenge to the estate, then that will proceed," says Hollings Chambers. She adds, though, that that simply can't be predicted. "In my experience the views of relatives can change very rapidly after the funeral is over."
Still, the Public Trust says these trusts can work well. "Inheritance trusts are often put in place with the agreement of both spouses to provide a benefit for their children without transferring assets into their names. This provides some protection in the event a child subsequently faces a relationship breakup," says a Public Trust spokesperson.
Heritage trust
Q: A lawyer set up a heritage trust for a dear friend many years ago to protect her family in the event of any marriage breakup. As I understood it, should the couple part, then the inheritance must stay within the family and does not include other partners. Worth a look at it perhaps.
A: You're right, says Deborah Hollings Chambers.
Let's clarify first that your heritage trust, the inheritance trust in the previous Q&A and the separate property trusts some lawyers set up are basically all the same. We're not talking about a type of trust specified within the law, says Hollings Chambers. These are all just trusts set up to achieve a particular purpose.
A trust like this could own a house after the parents die, in which their child and a partner live. If the couple split up, the house wouldn't be relationship property to be divided with the partner. It would stay in the trust.
Hollings Chambers warns, though, that if you don't want to share property with your children's current or future spouses or partners, take care not to include those partners as beneficiaries - either by name or by "status category".
That last bit means you shouldn't say, for example, "my children's future partners".
"To minimise the risk of an attack on the trust in the event of divorce, the partners should not be referred to at all in the trust deed," she says.
"Historically, accountants and lawyers sometimes named spouses in trust deeds for tax reasons." A family might pay lower tax, for instance, if payments were made to a non-earning spouse. But you could lose more from a claim through the Property Relationships Act than you ever gained from tax.
Relationship property
Q: Thanks for publishing my letter about relationship property and your answer last week. Permit me a final brief response:
• I could live with the status quo if the consequences of the Property Relationships Act were better publicised and if an agreement to opt out of the act's provisions could be verified by a judge as sound when it's drawn up (not at breakup time).
• We've still got the problem that very few people who should contract out do - because it's the scariest thing to do when you're in love, optimistic and not wanting to scare your partner off. (Although proposing an agreement is one way of finding out if your partner has a hidden agenda.)
A: You're probably right; that many people aren't aware of the act until too late. There needs to be more info out there. Hopefully this column is helping a bit!
And I agree that it would be good to be able to get an agreement approved in advance. Still, if you can honestly say that your agreement has been drawn up fairly, with both sides fully aware of what it means, you should be reasonably confident it would stand up in court.
I doubt if anyone has measured how many people contract out. But yes, it must be difficult for some people to bring up the idea. A couple of suggestions:
• The dating websites could include a question in people's profiles: "Are you willing to contract out of the Property Relationships Act?" Would-be partners would know where they stood before meeting.
• You could say to your loved one: "My darling, I will never ever leave you. But you are so wonderful that many people must be wishing they were the lucky one who has you. One day, you might be tempted away from boring old me. Even though I would be devastated, it would help just a little to know that I wouldn't also be broke."
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got work to do on my romance novel.
• Mary Holm is a freelance journalist, part-time university lecturer, member of the Financial Markets Authority board, director of the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, seminar presenter and bestselling author on personal finance. Her opinions are personal, and do not reflect the position of any organisation in which she holds office. Mary's advice is of a general nature, and she is not responsible for any loss that any reader may suffer from following it. Send questions to email@example.com or Money Column, Business Herald, PO Box 32, Auckland. Letters should not exceed 200 words. We won't publish your name. Please provide a (preferably daytime) phone number. Sorry, but Mary cannot answer all questions, correspond directly with readers, or give financial advice.


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Announce: Default Posting Restriction Changed
Item posted by Mathieu Roy <yeupou> on Wed Sep 8 14:31:22 2004.
Savane now permits to configure posting restrictions. This setup can be done for any project by its administrators.
Unless a specific configuration is made, the default setup for the affiliated Group Type (Software, Organizational, Documentation) applies.
Previously, only the task trackers required a specific authentication level (group membership) to be able to post items. Now, by default at Gna!, Bug trackers, News trackers and Patch trackers requires to be logged-in at least (how inconvenient it is to get a bug report without being able to reply to the submitter!).
If you feel these requirements too strong for your project, you can configure, in "Set Permissions" section, the trackers to allow anonymous posts.
You may be interested in an alternative solution: you can tag the "originator email" field (in Trackers Administration/Manage Field Usage/Originator Email Field ) as mandatory (Allow empty value = no), while taking care the field is shown only to non-logged-in users.
If you find bugs in this new feature, please mention as Affected Release "DEV_2009-06-05_CERN" when submitting it at https://gna.org/bugs/?group=savane
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Platinum Tools' Todd Cota previews some of the company's must-see products at this year's InfoComm show.
By SSI Staff · May 28, 2014
Platinum Tools will demonstrate their patented twisted pair terminations and other wire and cable solutions at InfoComm 2014.
Todd Cota took some time to talk to Commercial Integrator, SSI's sister publication, about Platinum Tools and what it has planned for integrators visiting its booth at InfoComm 2014, June 18-20 in Las Vegas.
If we learn about only one product innovation in your InfoComm 2014 booth, what should it be?
Twisted pair terminations – as we have the patented EZRJ45 connector system that will allow a contractor to quickly and easily perform high performance in the field terminations for Cat5 and Cat6 cables.
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What if we have time to see one more thing?
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I'm working on a satirical, text-based multiplayer adventure and role-playing game set in modern-day London. The game is supposed to be fun because of a myriad of (venomous) allusions to all the things that go wrong in this world.
Some details about the game
Players can choose between character classes like bullshit artist (consultant), bankster, lawyer, mobster, celebrity, politician, etc. In order to complete the game, the player has to live so sinfully with regard to any of the seven deadly sins that a demon is willing to offer them a contract of sponsorship. (The player then has the option to play again with slightly different rules.) On their quest to live a sinful live, characters explore more and more locations of modern-day London (on a GoogleMap), fight "monsters" like insurance sales agents or Jehovah's Witnesses, and complete quests, like building a PowerPoint presentation out of marketing buzz words, selling overpriced loans to poor bastards, or following any of the seven sin paths. Defeated monsters sometimes drop their contact details, and after some "treatment" -- bribes, seduction, threats, blackmail, etc. -- the contact can be exploited in different ways. One of these ways is to combine several contacts to setup a crime. For example, two bribed bureaucrats of some influence, a hired smuggler, two blackmailed doctors and five threatened poor fellows result in a successful organ trafficking operation. Unfortunately, crimes and exploiting contacts result in bad conscience, which players have to get rid of in order to be able to continue their mischief. There are more mechanics, but I think you get the idea.
Brainstorming session
Players can have three kinds of skills: passive skills just provide some kind of bonus in the background. Battle skills can be used against "monsters". Non-battle skills can be activated outside of combat for various effects, buffs, cures, etc. Battles are over when one of the combatants is subject to a nervous breakdown (0 hp), or if any of a monster's special win conditions is met. (See below for examples.)
I would like to ask you to come up with funny ideas for skills that either the player characters or "monsters" in the world might possess.
Here are some examples that I have already implemented:
- The bullshit artist's standard attack is babbling. ("Our biggest challenge is cultivating fully operational performances at a much shorter duration and more limited scope" and other such nonsense.) Babbling adds a battle effect called "babble momentum", which makes successive babble attacks more deadly.
- Middle management manager guys try to setup a meeting. If that succeeds, the player is trapped and their skills are blocked with a certain probability. While trapped, the manager can waste the player's time, causing a high amount of sloth damage.
- Sales agents try to sell the player worthless items for cash. Lulling them into a positive relationship increases their chances of succeeding but makes them more vulnerable to getting finished off before they can finish their combo. (If they succeed, the fight is over and the player has lost.)
- Jehova's Witnesses appear randomly throughout the game and give you the current issue of the Watchtower. If the player collects too many of these, they become a Jehova's Witness themselves. (Groups, societies, and affiliations offer access to special skills, so this is not necessarily a bad thing.)
Collaborative game design
The project is an experiment in collaborative game design. The current code base can be found at github, and once my development preview version is finished, it will be uploaded with options for designers, texters, programmers, and gamers to add their own ideas, jokes, drawings, and game elements to the game. But feel free to join right now!
The working title of the project is "Modern Times". If you can think of a better title based on what I outlined in this thread, please let me know.
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In this salad, saucy, lemony beans stand in for a warm dressing, coating the arugula and wilting it just a bit to mellow its naturally assertive character. Add a piece of warm crusty bread and a glass of crisp white wine to make this an excellent light supper.
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Prep Time 35 min
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Crow Wing County Passenger Safety Coalition reviews crash reports
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Between August 2012 and February 2013, members of the Crow Wing County Passenger Safety Coalition who make up the fatal review committee reviewed nine fatalities in Crow Wing County. Aspects of these reviews include road conditions at time of accidents, were seat belts worn, did the air bags deploy, whether driver's were under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the crash, or if there were any other extenuating circumstances or conditions (i.e. weather, road surfaces, lighting or traffic) which may have been contributing factors in the crash.
Upon review of these crashes, it was determined that contributing factors may have been alcohol and driver inattentiveness in six of the fatal crashes; excess speed in two of the crashes; and weather conditions in one. An additional contributing factor may have been lack of seat belt use. Only 50 percent (3 out of 6) were wearing seat belts at the time of the collision. The remaining three vehicles were motorcycles.
Motorists are encouraged to slow down, buckle up, and remember that arriving at their destination safely is their goal. Motorcyclists are also encouraged to drive safely, obey speed limit laws, and wear a helmet for their protection.
The Crow Wing County Passenger Safety Coalition was a major player in the effort to get the county off the 13 Deadliest County list for alcohol-related traffic deaths. For more information about the Crow Wing County Passenger Safety Coalition call Myra at 218-330-8155 or go to the website at http://www.cwcpassengersafety.com/.


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Huggs Jenniky.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Huggs Jenniky.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Hello Ladies.
All but two of the sandwiches are completed. Just thought you might like to see the backing fabric -William Morris briar roses. Very pretty, very English.
OH! Muv I do love that!
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Wow, beautiful fabric design Luv! Can't wait to see your finished quilt!
"You have enough quilts made when your soul is filled, your creativity satisfied and your fingers just won't work anymore."
Glad you like the backing Dublb and JeanieG! I've been seeing an awful lot of it over the past few days.
Progress report... Been burning the midnight oil. All 25 sandwiches are quilted, corner block has a stitched label on the back, and three panels are now joined together. And I've decided on the binding fabric.
Muv I'm gittin' a bit excited ta see it. It's gonna be beautiful.
I thought I' let you guys know that I'm a bit sad. (Actually I can't quit cryin'.) My DMIL died yesterday after a very rough battle w/pneumonia. May I be as good a MIL as she was to me.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Big hug Bev. Heaven was made for people who knew how to show love - she's smiling down on you. xx Muv
Good morning! I'm new to this board and just wanted to say hi!
I had made a quilt using fabrics from Fabric Freedom and the fabrics and colors were beautiful!
Oh abbimays I'm so lookin' forward ta seein' your quilt. Hooray another quilt!
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Three more blocks joined together today, so I now have two long panels.
Hello Abbimays, where are you? Is it a patriotic quilt?


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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Ndungu Wins Debut at Lake Biwa, Szost Sets 2:07:39 Polish NR, Yamamoto Takes Probable Olympic Spot
photos by Dr. Helmut Winter
a record-setting morning of half-marathon action across the country, the 67th Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, Japan's final domestic selection race for its London Olympics men's marathon team, was tense and exciting, with a string of strong debuts, a national record, and an unexpected last-minute Olympic berth upset making up most of the major results in the top ten.
In cold, rainy conditions Japan-based Kenyan Samuel Ndungu (Team Aichi Seiko) was the surprise winner, marking a steady 2:07:04 debut time for the win. Ndungu sat tight in the lead pack, which stayed on low-2:07 pace throughout the race, through km in 30:12, 20 km in 1:00:22 and halfway in 1:03:38. Virtually the entire elite field and the upper echelons of the general division went with him, more than forty men still in contention at halfway. Some of the few early casualties included Australia's Lee Troop, Canadian Dylan Wykes, and 2:11:00 man Naoto Yoneda (Team Konica Minolta). All three dropped out of the race, Troop with calf trouble and Wykes with stomach problems. All the other major contenders spent time hovering near the front of the pack, including Japanese favorite Hiroyuki Horibata (Team Asahi Kasei) who had at least two collisions with other runners.
Rounding the turnaround the pace quickened, and after 24 km Ndungu moved to the forefront as people set up for the pacers' departure at 25 km. Top seed Nicholas Manza (Kenya) went out hard at 25 km to break up the pack, with Bekana Daba (Ethiopia) following suit to open a gap and push the next km to 2:51. The lead group quickly diluted to eight, including Ndungu, Horibata, Manza and Daba along with Moroccan Abdellah Taghrafet, Poland's Henryk Szost, Nairobi Marathon winner Ernest Kebenei (Kenya), and, in his marathon debut, Aoyama Gakuin University junior Takehiro Deki. Further back an all-Japanese second pack assembled with Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Yasukawa Denki), Ryo Yamamoto (Team Sagawa Express), Takashi Horiguchi (Team Honda), Tomoyuki Morita (Team Kanebo) and Masashi Hayashi (Team Yakult) all hanging on to a more sensible pace in hopes of running down casualties later in the race.
As the front group tried to reel Daba back in Deki pushed to the lead of the pack at 28 km, forcing the others to work harder and upping the energy of the situation. Regaining contact the group of eight went through 30 km in 1:30:14, 2:06:55 pace, with the second Japanese pack around 15 seconds back. Deki, who along with his coach Susumu Hara earlier this week told JRN that he had not trained specifically to make a marathon debut at this point and was only doing it for future experience, with only two weeks of mileage training including three 30 km runs in one week off his Hakone Ekiden fitness behind him, recklessly pushed to the front of the race as Horibata began to look haggard. The race announcers' voices turned gleeful and Twitter exploded as Deki, totally unaware of but likewise unafraid to face what waited for him after 30 km, pushed on.
A km later Ndungu took things in hand, dropping what proved to be the race-ending surge. Taghrafet and Szost worked together a distance back, with Daba, Horibata and Kebenei forming the next group, Manza and Deki in a pair, and farther back the Japanese chase pack led by Daegu World Championships team member Nakamoto. As the rain intensified Ndungu pushed on all the way to the finish, staying on low-2:07 pace to end with a small negative split and the second-fastest time of the year so far by a Kenyan man, 2:07:04. Szost and Taghrafet continued to push each other until late in the race Szost cast off to smash the Polish national record by two minutes in 2:07:39 for 2nd, Taghrafet lagging behind and just missing his PB as he took 3rd in 2:08:37. The rest of the race was more unpredictable.
Manza faltered, then dropped out. Daba faltered, then dropped out. Deki, in completely uncharted territory, advanced on Horibata. Behind him, Nakamoto, a college teammate of the Tokyo Marathon's top Japanese man Arata Fujiwara (Tokyo T&F Assoc.) and 2:12 man Horiguchi, a teammate of 10000 m world champion Ibrahim Jeilan, picked up the pace to drop the rest of the Japanese pack and catch Deki with 7 km to go. Nakamoto went into another gear to get rid of Horiguchi just before making contact with Horibata, while simultaneously Yamamoto went by Deki. With all five of the top Japanese still on sub-2:09 pace it was turning into a wild race for the Olympics. If the second Japanese man broke the 2:08:38 time run by Tokyo's second Japanese man Kazuhiro Maeda (Team Kyudenko) then two men from Lake Biwa would have a good chance for the team.
Right on pace to break 2:08, Nakamoto went by Horibata and then the slowing Kebenei, moving up to 4th with 4 km and looking solid for an Olympic berth. But behind him the unheralded Yamamoto, with a PB of only 2:12:10 from the hot and humid Hokkaido Marathon, was coming on strong, closing down the gap quickly as he knocked favorite Horibata out of the 2nd Japanese position and Olympic contention. At 40 km the lights seemed to suddenly go out for Nakamoto as Yamamoto bore down. He rallied in the last km, but Yamamoto was right behind him coming onto the track and kicked by with 400 m to go to take the top Japanese spot in 2:08:44, a PB by nearly four minutes over Nakamoto's 2:08:53, also a PB.
The remainder of the Japanese chase pack succeeded in overtaking lead pack runners Horibata and Deki, with Morita running the all-time #3 Japanese debut marathon of 2:09:12 for 6th and veterans Horiguchi and Hayashi both breaking 2:10 for the first time. In a sprint finish Deki incredibly ran down Kebenei and Horibata to finish in 2:10:02, agonizingly close to a sub-2:10 but still the third-fastest ever by a Japanese collegiate, the all-time #9 Japanese debut, and gutsy considering he was on 2:06 pace at 30 km with no training runs longer than 30 km. Post-race Deki told JRN, "For a second there I thought about the Olympics." Kebenei clocked a small PB of 2:10:04 to round out the top ten, one step ahead of Horibata who collapsed after taking 11th in 2:10:05. One second behind Horibata was Italy's Ruggero Pertile, who also finished seconds behind Horibata in Daegu.
In just two races a week apart Japan is already having one of its best-ever years, with one 2:07, three 2:08s, four 2:09s, and a collegiate 2:10:02, all either PBs or debuts. While there is still a large amount of ground to make up it's a sure sign that the post-Beijing malaise has finally turned back around. Looking at the London Olympic team, Fujiwara and Yamamoto are both locks with their 2:07:48 and 2:08:44 from Tokyo and Lake Biwa. Up for contention for the third spot are Tokyo's second Japanese man, Maeda, 6th in 2:08:38 after finishing 6th in 2:11:46 at the Fukuoka selection race, Nakamoto with his 2:08:53 for 5th and 2nd Japanese man today and a 2:13:10 for 10th at the Daegu World Championships, Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref.) with a 2:09:57 for 3rd and the top Japanese spot in Fukuoka followed by a 14th-place 2:12:51 in Tokyo, and Horibata with a 7th place 2:11:52 and the Daegu World Championships and a 2:10:05 for 11th today. Although Maeda is the most likely candidate there's a case to made for each of them. The official decision will not be made until Mar. 12 following the Nagoya Women's Marathon, the last of the women's selection races.
2012 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon
67th running, Otsu, 3/4/12
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1. Samuel Ndungu (Kenya/Team Aichi Seiko) - 2:07:04 - debut
2. Henryk Szost (Poland) - 2:07:39 - NR
3. Abdellah Taghrafet (Morocco) - 2:08:37
4. Ryo Yamamoto (Team Sagawa Express) - 2:08:44 - PB
5. Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Yasukawa Denki) - 2:08:53 - PB
6. Tomoyuki Morita (Team Kanebo) - 2:09:12 - debut
7. Takashi Horiguchi (Team Honda) - 2:09:16 - PB
8. Masashi Hayashi (Team Yakult) - 2:09:55 - PB
9. Takehiro Deki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) - 2:10:02 - debut
10. Ernest Kebenei (Kenya) - 2:10:04 - PB
11. Hiroyuki Horibata (Team Asahi Kasei) - 2:10:05
12. Ruggero Pertile (Italy) - 2:10:06
13. Suehiro Ishikawa (Team Honda) - 2:11:13 - debut
14. Tomoyuki Sato (Team Asahi Kasei) - 2:12:19
15. Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 2:12:31 - PB
DNF - Nicholas Manza (KEN)
DNF - Bekana Daba (ETH)
DNF - Dylan Wykes (CAN)
DNF - Lee Troop (AUS)
DNF - Abdellatif Mefta (FRA)
DNF - Yohanis Abera (ETH)
DNF - Naota Yoneda (Team Konica Minolta)
(c) 2012 Brett Larner
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9 comments:
- TokyoRacer said...
It was a fun race to watch.
Deki was really impressive in not falling apart after falling off the pace, and even managing a good kick. You picked the right guy to interview.
- March 4, 2012 at 6:54 PM
- Brett Larner said...
Thanks. I didn't pick him by accident.
For Spanish readers, Spain's Ayad Lamdassem was 23rd in 2:14:39 in his debut.
- March 4, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Hello Brett, any idea how Shota Hiraga did?
- March 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM
- Brett Larner said...
Hi, yes, Hiraga was 32nd in 2:16:30.
- March 4, 2012 at 9:47 PM
did canadian steve osaduik race/finish?
- March 5, 2012 at 4:08 AM
Henryk Szost ran amazing, Polish hero!!! great job, everybody is so proud of him.
- March 5, 2012 at 5:17 AM
- Brett Larner said...
Looks like Steve was a DNS. Not sure what happened.
- March 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM
- Brett Larner said...
Thanks to a question from Running Times' Scott Douglas I found that this was the third-greatest Japanese men's single-race performance ever:
Fukuoka 2003 (Athens Olympics selection race) – six Japanese men sub-2:10
2:07:52 – Tomoaki Kunichika
2:07:55 – Toshinari Suwa
2:07:59 – Toshinari Takaoka
2:08:37 – Tsuyoshi Ogata
2:08:48 – Tadayuki Ojima
2:09:58 – Michitane Noda
Lake Biwa 2004 (Athens Olympics selection race) – five Japanese men sub-2:10
2:08:18 – Tadayuki Ojima
2:08:36 – Atsushi Sato
2:08:56 – Kazutoshi Takatsuka
2:09:25 – Yuko Matsumiya
2:09:55 – Shinichi Watanabe
Lake Biwa 2012 (London Olympics selection race) – five Japanese men sub-2:10
2:08:44 - Ryo Yamamoto
2:08:53 – Kentaro Nakamoto
2:09:12 – Tomoyuki Morita
2:09:16 – Takashi Horiguchi
2:09:55 – Masashi Hayashi
- March 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Does anybody remember Fukuoka 1980 and 1983 ? Seko and the Soh brothers . Those were the days
- March 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM


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ESPN Around The Horn Eli
Opinions I see in this thread, I heard in this debate.
ESPN Around The Horn Eli
Opinions I see in this thread, I heard in this debate.
One of the things that blows my mind is that if you asked fans of every team, "if you could have same season as any other team in the league over the last 10 years", I would think the answer would be the Giants more often than not.
How many starters that could push Eli is irrelevant, they aren't going to go out and sign any of them.
I am not suggesting they should go out and try to find that next guy, just yet, I am questioning your notion that it isn't possible. At some point in every athletes career, they start to decline. Some would suggest that has already started with Eli, I don't agree with that, but when it does happen they need to have a plan in place or face some pretty rough seasons scrambling after the fact.
I understand your appreciation for Eli, but trust me, there will be other QBs that play for the Giants, and it is very likely they will eventually find one just as good or better. When that day comes, you will hear people talking about how this new guy is irreplaceable, and you will remember that you once thought the same thing about Eli, reveling in the knowledge that they too will one day learn that no one is irreplaceable.
I have suggested that the search for TC's replacement has started, and will be done throughout this season. The Giants will have a plan in place when they pull that trigger (or TC does)


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I guess more (tons) have been written about the 9mm Vs. .45 than any other pistol subject in history. But it is still a valid question. I don't have .40 but do have 9mm & .45. I use both with the same confidence. I won't go into the ballistics, but you just don't get a guarantee with either round. Way back eons ago when I was in the Army they issued a verbal guarantee with the M1 rifle. They said they would guarantee if you shot at the BG and he was still standing...then they would guarantee you missed! Even that is an exaggeration, not even a 30-06 with 180g @ about 3000ft lbs. will always do the job....so a .45 & 9mm @ about 350-400 lbs. must depend on shot placement. Both work. On my own testing my 9mm normally penetrates better than my .45, but enough penetration is all you need.
I know one difference. It is easier for me to load my fat .45 rounds into my mags than the skinny 9mm rounds!
You are OK with the 9mm, but if you like having lots of guns then you might as well add a .40 & .45. The .45 is always fun to shoot...for me anyway.
I am going to add one thought. I normally don't weigh in on the 9 Vs 45 issue because of so many posts. But I have come to my own personal conclusion through the years by looking at results. Not the FBI one stop caliber results, but actual accounts of incidents related in reliable gun books & TV video. For me a picture emerges. If the BG is really hit in a vital area (head/heart) then most cases he is down instantly. Video about 2 years old of (I think Boston) Cop shooting a BG with a knife. The BG dropped like a sack of potatoes....not knocked back like the movies. He was dead. They did not say but you could see he was not hit in the head..so I assume hit in the heart. But these kinds of incidents are the exception. Usually the BG gets shot more than once and does not die...or at least continues fighting for some period. It is also clear that if you hit the BG in center of mass with any good caliber that he will be in trouble in short time. If he is running he will finally stop. If he is attacking he may stop while he is engaging you. Anyway, it says to me if (your life is in danger)....shot more than once and get as many critical area hits as possible...no matter the caliber.
Now, I think I will go another decade (I promise) without weighing in on the 9mm vs .45 issue.


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lol. You might be right, but I've always seen him as the kinda of guy who talks players up. I guy who if he doesn't have something nice to say he doesn't say anything.
I think he was being honest and I didn't take it as a slight against Eli. But what I do think is if you are a HOF'er then you are among the best. And Phil said he thinks Eli is a HOF'er, so I'd say he might be talking out both sides of his mouth.


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Romo has one more year on his contract. My guess is that Jerry Jones lets him play out his contract and goes for a QB in the 2014 Draft.
Silly me, how could I forget? Tebow!
Maybe Jerry's waiting for Johnny Football.
I'm actually finding myself feeling sorry for both Romo and the Cowboys. I don't think Romo will ever win with the Cowboys but maybe somewhere else. I think for the sake of both Dallas should move Romo. How about Romo to the Bears for Cutler? I'm a Giant fan but also a football fan and think this might be a good one for the game. I think the Giants D can welcome the challenge of Cutler with the Cowboys.


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A sexual position where a female is bent over and one male gets behind her doggy style while another male gets in front so the female can perform fellatio. Then the two males do a double high five connecting and finishing the bridge.
Cris and and I slapped hands so hard doing a brooklyn bridge last night that my palms are still sore.
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When 2 guys and a girl are doing the eiffel tower and someone else walks in (usually dirty blonde) and joins. The two girls make out while being bent over and the two guys reach over and do a double high five.
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The battle cry for a new addictive game this summer in New York City, usually (not not exclusively) played by at least two friends, in which one person (the "car" or "pedestrian" in this case, who is either walking towards or walking behind the person to be the target of the game or the "bridge") yells "Brooklyn Bridge!" and proceeds to run, crawl, and/or dive towards the target friend, who has no choice but to open his/her legs and allow the "car" or "pedestrian" to pass through. Injuries may be sustained. The game involves a seemingly complex point system to keep track of winners and losers. Roller skates optional.
Friend 1: "Brooklyn Bridge!" (starts running towards Friend 2)
Friend 2: "Holy Shit!" (spreads legs and grabs package)
Person 1: "Man, why are you walking funny?"
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This involves 3 men and 2 women. 2 of the men are doing their respective women "doggy style". The women facing each other. While the third male is standing between the 2 women getting dome. As he is getting dome, he high fives the other two men, to his left and right.
Greg, Herman, and Kyle took Christina and Krystal sightseeing at the Brooklyn Bridge with their cocks out...end of story.
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Checked my hives a couple of weeks ago and everything was fine. Bees everywhere near the hives last week when I mowed. Checked again yesterday and they're gone! This is only my second year and I have 2 hives. One was completely empty. The other had maybe 50-100 bees in it. No queen. I looked and found only a half dozen or so dead bees under the hive. The frames all look fine, nothing out of the ordinary that I can tell. Actually, I have about 8 frames loaded with capped honey. Took the hives all apart looking for anything out of the ordinary and didn't find anything. They ONLY thing I found was 1 yellow jacket in the completely empty hive. Needless to say I'm heartbroken
So I've decided to try again and ordered some more bees. Although I don't know what to do with the hives. Do I just leave them as they are and add the new bees or do I need to start with clean, new foundations? Do I leave some of the honey frames? Will the capped frames "go bad" if I just leave them waiting on the new bees? Any and all advice is appreciated!


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GLORY 6 Weigh-Ins - Daniel Ghita: 108.8kg, Gokhan Saki: 108.5kg
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The GLORY 6 Istanbul weigh-ins took place today, as all fighters competing tomorrow in Istanbul stepped on the scale to make the fights official. The event of course can be watched live here on LiverKick by clicking here.
Gokhan Saki and Daniel Ghita of course are rematching in the main event and weight-wise, things are a lot different compared to last time. Saki and Ghita both weighed in at basically the same weight. Saki weighed 108.5kg (239.2 lbs) and Ghita weighed 108.8kg (239.9 lbs).
I've been saying it for a while, but the days of Gokhan Saki being a small heavyweight are long gone. This isn't the first time he's weighed this heavy either. Against Carter Williams in May of 2012, Saki weighed 108.9kg (240.1 lbs) while fully clothed. At the GLORY Grand Slam, he weighed 103.4kg (228 lbs).
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The way things end up with is sad. In fact, from the end of last winter I was waiting for the outcomes of the queens believed to be the most exiting step after the invention of wheel. Some other time, lets say.
The way things end up with is sad. In fact, from the end of last winter I was waiting for the outcomes of the queens believed to be the most exiting step after the invention of wheel. Some other time, lets say.
Specialkayme, I guess I am the Johnny on the spot breeder. I book less than I know I can produce each week. That way I ship when people need queens, not when I can get around to it. If my customer orders queens for a particular date, he usually has splits made up waiting on those queens. If you consistantly overbook queens you can never catch up, sounds like poor planning on the queen producers part to me.
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
All I know is that "Johnny on the spot" ships his queens on time and the product is great. Can't ask for more than that. To top it off he's very reasonable in price.Another plus.
Cam Bishop
Instead of the Seinfeld Soup Nazi its the "Bee Nazi." "No bees for you!"
Again, my biggest mistake was failing to google Russell Apiaries which would have informed me that poor communication and late deliveries has been their mode of operation for at least 3 years. One can't blame bad weather -- even a tornado -- for a long-term failure to run a business in a business-like manner.
A cold bee smoker is bad for the soul.
I ordered a Sunkist Cordovan January 2012. I gave three possible ship dates. Two in March and one in April. I received my queen first week in May. I have no complaints about the delivery time. However, here it is June 9 and the hive she was placed in is already dead. She laid less than one frame of eggs and then stopped laying. Not sure what happened. Could have been something I did or could have been just a bad queen.
Mr. Nay cancelled his order on 6/5. The funds were reversed then. His queens were caged and in the Georgia hub being bundled when they crew went to print his label and realized that the funds had been reversed. His queens were sent to someone else as a result. 5 days later than he requested. You can't please everyone. If 5% is late, that's unfortunate but not so terrible given the limited staff and high volume of orders. What's terrible is that 5% race here to make a big deal out of every delay. Then there are those that play devils advocate to cause panic and distrust. People read this and flood us with emails and calls. That's why we are so behind on responses. 50 queens a week is a lemonade stand next to a cola company. I alone deal with that many customers in a day and I am part-time. Of course the service will because I better with so few to cater to. I'm not suppose to be "fueling these fires" I just thought people should try to remember that there are two sides to every story and the devils advocates here make it seem a lot worse than it is. There are more rave reviews on the consumer reports than concerned customers yet there are more posts by the devils advocates than any actual customers. I don't have the time or energy to discuss it. Just want you all to think about these things when you are on here.
I ordered a Moonbeam a couple of months ago for late June delivery be interesting to see if it shows up. I have already been charged for it. I leave July 1 for 10 days of camping with my sons. If it shows up then it will surely die.
For example, if you sell 20 queens a week on average, if you count all your variables together, you should probably have enough mating nucs for 40 queens a week. Some weeks you may end up with 20 good queens, others you may end up with 35 queens, and on a rare occasion you may end up with 15. Overall the average wins out. But the larger the operation gets the greater the swing in either direction the numbers get. If you sell 2,000 queens a week, and you have mating nucs for 4,000 queens a week, some weeks you may end up with 3,500 queens. Others you may end up with 1,000 queens. When you are selling 2,000 a week, and you missed a week by one thousand, it's tough to recover. I don't consider that poor planning on the breeder's part. I consider that statistics.
You are right about the variability of queens produced per week. But the size of the operation doesn't matter. If I am short 20% one week and 20% over the next its the same as a big operation being over or under 20%.
I do not bank any queens. If I have extra I call up next weeks customers to see if they want theirs early, many do. That way if next week is short I already have some breathing room. I also have a will call list of people who might want queens. Any queens not sold I use in my own operation to requeen or make nucs.
Most large queen rearing operations bank excess for use in the next week in case they have a shortage. I have seen several post by Robert explaining about banking queens.
I still consider it poor planing on the producers part if you cannot deliver queens and responses in a timely manner.
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
"The charge is there. They have my money -- paid in full. I'm leaving town on June 13 for three months of work away from home. If I don't get my queens by then, they will die in the Post Office. I planned my order based on my work schedule -- not on a supplier that can't even answer the phone."
Regards, Barry
1 - I needed queens. I didn't get them.
2 - I disputed the order through PayPal nearly 2 weeks after requested delivery date and 6 futile attempts to communicate. I waited as long as I dared to initiate the dispute so that the transaction could go though without having the queens arrive after my departure date. Only after the dispute did I get a response from Russell Apiaries -- a claim that I canceled my order (I did not). I do not have a refund.
No, I did not get my wish.
One good outcome though: At least the queens won't die in in the Post Office.
A cold bee smoker is bad for the soul.
You requested a shipping date of May 28. Two weeks have not passed SINCE THIS POSTING. You began complaining on here about it two days ago. At which point your order had already been canceled because you disputed it on Paypal. You didn't wait two weeks. You didn't wait "nearly two weeks."
I'm not saying everything has run like clockwork at Russell's this year. But you should call things like they are. If you waited one week and didn't want your order anymore, fine. Don't tell me you waited two weeks, then magically your order got canceled when we both know that isn't true.
Is SpecialKayMe Dr. Russell or something? I have never seen so much time spent by a disinterested third party attacking consumers who have experienced less than stellar service from a vendor.
Okay - granted Dr. Russell must make some kind of magic bees, and that is great. But why the aggressive attacks at people who have spent their hard earned money purchasing queens that they never received, or have received late.
I can understand how many of the people are upset - maybe they are just hobbyists, but it still doesn't make it okay not to provide them with good customer service and contact. For many people - $100 - $200 is a lot of money, and to have sent it to someone and them not deliver the goods, and then to be unable to contact them either by phone or email, is very upsetting.
And I don't think it is wrong for people who have received poor service to come on a forum and state as much. No one complains when someone spreads good information by word of mouth. People posting their bad experiences help inform others into making good decisions with their money.
No, I'm not Dr. Russell. I've been on this site before he showed up (selling to individuals) and he has long since moved away from this site. He considers it a waste of his time.
No doubt individuals should inform others of poor service. I'm actually an advocate of that. The invisible hand always wins.
But if you really got bad service, post it. Don't make it up. Don't exaggerate the truth. Don't tell me your order was two weeks late when it was 3 days late. Don't tell me you can't get a refund when you disputed an order through paypal and the vender already refunded your money.
Call things like they are. That's all I ask. If that's "aggressively attacking" someone, I apologize. I don't think so myself, as I think it's more about making someone accountable for what they say, but I understand where you are coming from and I'll try to be better in the future. More reasonable?
Specialkme, I agree with you.
I have no axe to grind here. In fact, I have been excited about acquiring some Russel queens in the future. I completely understand the agricultural, weather, hard luck issue. However, i do not understand the lack of communication issues. To me, that is a zero tolerance issue, when doing business on the internet. In today's technology, an immediate response and tracking info is something that even the most basic laymen (like myself) can achieve. There are tools out there through paypal, UPS, and Fedex, that make these things automatic. There is no excuse for a client to go days, weeks, or months without any communication or acknowledgement of their order. I'm sorry, but i don't care if you offered the cure for all diseases and pest and there was a waiting list. THIS ALONE would be enough to discourage me from placing an order. NO EXCUSES. JMHO and in no way am I questioning the quality od the product.
I thnk Russell Apiaries has gotten the message by now. Selling to the general public is a different game than to commercial apiaries. They responded to my email within 6 hours. If they desire an online retail presence they will get their act together. There are plenty of software tools for them to utilize to increase the customer experience. If they don't they will revert to providing queens to commercial operations as they have done and eliminate the sideliners and hobbyists like us. It is a financial decision they will make and we will all know soon enough. So far they have been forthright and honest with me. I look forward to introducing their Moonbeam genetics to my area.
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No need to get into the details (drama) of my order to Russell Apiaries because there is always room for debate but PayPal contacted him and he agreed to a refund.
Got a notice from PayPal this evening telling me the refund was issued and then another about an hour later telling me it failed because it did not clear their account.
Just a heads up, looks like they have bigger problems brewing.


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|Serving Size: 1 Packet (9.1 g)
|Servings per Container: 30
|Amount Per Serving
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|Thiamin (as thiamine hydrochloride)
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|Riboflavin (as riboflavin 5'-phosphate sodium)
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|Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine hydrochloride)
|10 mg
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|12.5 mcg
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|Phosphorus (as potassium phosphate, calcium phosphate, sodium phosphate)
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|1 mg
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Good product, but too sweet
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Emergen-C is a great way to get a vitamin boost, especially if you're coming down with a cold. But... This particular flavour is much too sugary. I have to add about 3 times the recommended amount of water and it may sometimes be difficult to drink so much at one time. I recommend the Cranberry-Pomegranate flavour, it's much easier to drink.
This is a wonderful product
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If purchased in the UK, iHerb's delivery firm, DHL, will not only demand 20% duty but also an additional £10 handling fee!! It's bang out of order, if you ask me, that these extortionate additional charges are not made clear upon purchase.
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The product is ok. The price is much much higher (+25%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) as last time!!! I wont order it again!


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Cuba's a battle Bush can never win
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
President George W. Bush faces a battle he can never win.
I notice things we take for granted because of my visits to
Cuba. Sometimes simple things.
In Havana, off 41st Street between 34th and 36th Avenues
lives my aunt. It's a large, old house. In that home also
live her daughters, my two cousins, with husbands and four
children ranging from the 8-year-old to the oldest who is
now 20 and attending the Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba's
fine art university where so many great artists began their
The recently announced proposals by President Bush's
Commission on Cuba brought back memories of the past decade
- the time I started regularly visiting the island since
I left it as a very young boy in April, 1960. I will
celebrate my birthday this weekend, the time of the year
when I first traveled back.
That visit changed my life. I have never been able to fully
explain it. But I also know I am not the only one who's
experienced the feeling. Feet touching ground that is
yours: a sudden jolt of energy that gives new meaning to
your life.
This feeling has much to do with a lot of the work that
I do now. Work that gets done no matter the cost.
I am not alone. There are many others.
President George W. Bush will never win the Cuba battle
because he does not understand it.
How do you defeat an ideal? Bombs won't do it. Blow up the
place; burn it to the ground. The ideal becomes greater,
more important.
And how do you explain family. Apparently, except in the
case of money and continuation of power, Bush doesn't
understand it. It's more perplexing, yet, when you consider
that he calls himself a good Christian.
It is why I both raged and laughed at the proposed measures
announced this past week. I travel to Cuba as the
journalist I am, something allowed by the embargo. Under
different conditions I would not get to see my aunt ever
again. She is not of the immediate family - a father, a
mother, brother or sister. So this holy crusader we call
our president - he who claims to speak to god - has now set
out to define what determines a Cuban family. And in all
his goodness he has decided that real family members, those
decided by him, can only be visited every three years.
Also, he of the holy connections has decided that
remittances that I might send to that 80-year-old aunt and
my cousins are now disallowed. I guess I will email them
and inform them that President Bush has decided that they
are no longer an important part of my family.
He is so wrong...
But this is also the time that the majority of Cubans in
Miami need to wake up to what's happened, and what will
keep happening if they don't act.
Sure I blame George W. He has plenty to be blamed for:
there are even things on his conscience that are worse than
the Cuba situation. Or, have you not followed the news in
Iraq lately?
What burns me the most though, is that the measures
announced are the result of strong lobbying by persons born
in Cuba. Most - if not all - want these measures applied
because in one way or another it will represent money in
their pockets. Yes! Good old American dollars.
Whatever country they feel they're from, they're sell-outs.
Consider the aircraft they want flying around the Caribbean
that will help transmit Radio and TV Marti to the island.
It's all an $18 million a year scam that won't fly. All for
a radio transmission nobody listens to, and a TV reception
that has never been seen.
Ask yourself in whose pocket those millions end up in?
These Cuban patriots don't have much love for Miami either.
First, they helped make it the poorest city in the country
by instituting a system of corruption - or what would you
call it? Now, they steer taxpayer dollars away from people
in need right here - for phantom projects.
Shame on them!
Visit Calle Ocho in Miami on any given day or night and you
will find restaurants full of people gorging themselves on
delicacies that make us an area (and country) with an
expanding waistline. We then return home to turn on the
late night news while enjoying a dish of ice cream. Before
turning in we'll tease ourselves with an intoxicating peek
at a variety of so many things we find in our overstocked
and brand new refrigerators that filters our water as it
dispenses it without having to open the door.
These are many of the same people who want 11 million
Cubans to go hungry while they continue their daily feast.
By backing the Commission on Cuba's move, they're saying:
"Hey we need for you over there to tighten your belt, while
we loosen ours. But don't worry, it's all for the good of
our country."
It's time our outrage be put to practical use. When we just
sit and complain... we're dealing with an administration
that just doesn't care. There is a way to hurt them: the
ballot box.
Yet, we're still apathetic. All the rich food and the
luxury have made us lazy, I suppose. "Let somebody else
worry about it" is a feeling that pervades.
Every time I visit Cuba my rail-thin 80-year-old aunt who
Bush now says is not an immediate member of my family runs
around half her neighborhood looking for mamey - a tropical
fruit found on the island. She knows I love mamey
You see, in Cuba, it's the little things that count.
That's why I continue to work on fixing what's wrong.
I know I'm doing my part. Are you?
If you haven't done so yet, then it's time you registered
to vote. The most important election of our lifetime is
right around the corner.


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Top Three Likes/Dislikes
What are your top likes and dislikes on your CTS?
1. Chassis (handling, steering, etc.)
2. Exterior styling
3. Interior styling
1. Rear subwoofer rattle
2. Seats move too much during braking, acceleration, etc.
3. Creaky interior
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
Hm, an inteeresting question....here is my take on this one:
1. Engineering/performance/ride/steering
2. Exterior styling
3. Interior styling
1. Reliability
2. Reliability
3. Reliability
- 02-03-12 03:21 PM #3Cadillac Owners Fanatic
- Automobile(s): 2011 CTS 3.6 AWD
- Join Date
- Nov 2009
- Posts
- 135
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
Nice one, here's mine:
1. All wheel drive system
2. Exterior styling
3. Ride/Handling
1. Front seats
2. Power (part-throttle torque, specially down low)
3. Transmission (slow to downshift).
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
I think most people here are fans of the CTS's exterior/interior styling and driving dynamics (or else we would not have purchased), so I'll leave those off my list and focus on more specific features.
1. LED lighting pipes -- front, back, and interior accent lighting. Immediately distinctive and very "Cadillac" without resorting to strings of "Xmas light" LEDs in the headlights. In fact, the front LED pipes sort of remind me of modern-day opera lights.
2. Audio/NAV system: Robustness (DVD/USB/Hard Drive/Tivo-like function. The Tivo function still blows people away) and ease of use (I like how most features can be controlled by hard buttons in addition to touchscreen). This system was miles ahead of its time when the CTS was first released and can still hold its own in terms of functionality.
3. Ventilated seats -- not a feature I even cared about when purchasing, but as someone who "runs hot," I've grown to love this feature
Close runner ups for Likes:
1. Remote start feature
2. Moonroof -- something I did not care about on purchase, but I like how much light is let into the cabin. I rarely actually open it, though, and would be satisfied with just a glass roof to be honest.
3. Actual instrumentation: Oil pressure, battery charge, real temp gauge
1. Creaky seats, interior, and various rattles
2. Audio/NAV system: Lack of "night mode" on NAV maps that reverse the map colors to dark colors when headlights are on (the SRX has this feature). Also, don't like how current audio source is not displayed when in map mode (again, corrected on newer NAV system in SRX). I'm sure both of these will be addressed in CUE.
3. Worthless dead pedal positioning -- way too far forward; makes the car feel "too big" if that makes sense.
Close runner ups for dislikes:
1. Trunk hinges -- I know struts like the ones on the CTS are considered more premium, but I'd gladly give these up for goosenecks that truly popped the trunk all the way open when you released it for those times when your hands are full when you approach the vehicle.
2. Lack of proper start/top button on keyless vehicles. The "fake key" looks tacked-on to me.
3. Lack of electronic parking brake. The pedal and clunky release feel cheap to me.
- 02-03-12 06:24 PM #5Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 2009 CTS 3.6DI FE3 MN6
- Join Date
- Dec 2008
- Age
- 32
- Posts
- 58
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
Likes - Pretty much everything but these are my top as of late:
1. Front engine/RWD layout
2. Direct linkage of the shifter and the feel of the transmission it gives. Also how it bounces and shakes with the suspension.
3. Handling.
1. "Idiot" shift light on the instrument panel that wants me to shift gears for maximum fuel economy. I got the manual gearbox to drive it how I want to.
2. Auto-door lock cannot be disabled and it doesn't unlock the doors until i take the key out of the ignition.
3. Engine is missing 2 cylinders.
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
About the assisted gear shifting... Does it basically lock out second gear when at low speeds/RPM?
I don't have a manual tranny so I don't know but I had another car that did the same thing. If it bothers you that much I'm sure there's a way to reprogram the ECU to disable this??
- 02-03-12 09:21 PM #7Cadillac Owners Fanatic
- Automobile(s): 2011 CTS Sedan RWD Radiant Silver|Ebony
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Location
- Knoxville TN
- Age
- 41
- Posts
- 231
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
-Interior styling and aesthetics, especially gauge cluster and center stack
-Exterior body lines and front fascia
-Moon-roof sunshade allows way too much light in and in summer heats the cabin
-AC vent temps is not cold enough (works properly as designed)
-Key and fob way over-sized
One beef that I have on all cars is privacy glass is not offered, wish GM would start doing this on cars.
- 02-03-12 10:33 PM #8Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 2009 CTS 3.6DI FE3 MN6
- Join Date
- Dec 2008
- Age
- 32
- Posts
- 58
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
1. Interior styling (incredible upgrade from 1st gen)
2. Ventilated seats
3. Moonroof
1. Nav updates (cost too much for updates) but I do still like the nav
2. Lack of proper start/top button on keyless vehicles. The "fake key" looks tacked-on to me. (agree with Breaking Through)
3. Not getting the supercharged version
- 02-04-12 10:42 AM #10Cadillac Owners Fanatic
- Automobile(s): 2009 CTS4
- Join Date
- Aug 2011
- Posts
- 240
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
1. Everything about the lighting on the car(HID headlamps, adaptive forward lighting, all LED taillights)
2. Keyless access/starting
3. Combination of quiet, smooth ride and sharp handling.
1. Sunroof(both the noises from the shade and the fact the shade doesn't block 100% of the light.
2. Bose audio system. Sound quality is very lacking for a car of this class(and bearing a name brand audio system!) Truly lives up the "no highs, no lows, must be a..."
3. Seats- Love the ventilated feature, but comfact takes a hit due to this. And the seats lack any sort of side bolstering. And the plastic surrounds creak when you move around in them.
>>>Immediately distinctive and very "Cadillac" without resorting to strings of "Xmas light" LEDs in the headlights. In fact, the front LED pipes sort of remind me of modern-day opera lights.
Oh my gosh! I have to concur 100%. I think Audi started the whole LEDs in the headlamps or "xmas lights" as you put it and it looked okay at first. Then MB, Lexus, and now Kia have copied and it looks cheap and tacky. The light pipes are definitely the way to go.
- 02-04-12 12:16 PM #11Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 2009 CTS, 2003 CTS - It's gone - Deer Collision
- Join Date
- Nov 2011
- Location
- Springfield, MO
- Posts
- 14
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
Everything except below
Seats don't keep me in place during corners
Miscellaneous rattles.
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
jurzdevil: "3. Engine is missing 2 cylinders"
- 02-04-12 10:05 PM #13Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 2011 CTS4 Coupe Premium
- Join Date
- Nov 2010
- Location
- Brooklyn
- Posts
- 78
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
1)Styling (In & out)
3)Handling/suspension etc.
1) "Tilting moonroof"
2)Trunk hinges
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
I've had Cadillac cars for quite a while, my first one being a 1973 SDV in 1979. So i have a lot to draw on.
1. interior & exterior look - more refined and nicer than 1st gen. very close to STS
2. Audio system & NAV,especially the HDD which is so much faster then switching b/w tracks & 'discs"
3. Remote & keyless start, even though the twisting 'fake keypad' is really hokey IM(not so)HO.
Ventilated seats (heated seats go back to the 60s!)
IPOD -audio hookups in console
1. STOOOOOPID logic or lack thereof with the memory recall on the seat and wheel tilt. As soon as you open the door, it moves the wheel down and moves the seat forward. It should leave those ALONE until AFTER you start the car!!! THE STS has this partially right. It leaves the wheel alone until you start the car, then it tilts it down. Further, it sometimes won't move the seat back & wheel up when you shut it off. And its not because of my not having it set correctly. Otherwise it would NEVER mote these.
2. More brain-dead lack of logic on copying single tracks to the HDD. The manual says you can, but you cant!!!
3. Tilt is pitiful compared to STS and older non-electrical Saginaw tilts. The hinge is too far down the column. Why did they EVER put in an electric tilt is beyond me...
DIC display does not show gallons used, ???????
No Bluetooth for hands free phone use (STS has it!)
No cornering lights
No power trunk pulldown,and trunk is not properly sprung to really open like my Fleetwood or Eldorado.
Parking brake lacks an auto pulloff and its not the same as STS prompting many an accidental hood opening when switching cars
Too many little differences b/w STS & CTS making every switchover b/w mine & my wife's car a mental
Moonroof is noisy (might be fixed with new seal)
Lack of leg room on passenger side with AWD
No Chrome wheel option - but my CTS has the factory 18s chromed as does my STS (Platinum ed only!) (polished do look very good, but chromed is ALWAYS better!).
- 02-06-12 01:33 PM #15Cadillac Owners Member
- Automobile(s): 2010 CTS wagon 3.6
- Join Date
- Jun 2011
- Age
- 45
- Posts
- 56
Re: Top Three Likes/Dislikes
I wish I could produce a vehicle with SOOOO many problems and yet you still dropped 40 grand +- on it???? Did you drive it?


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Some days Dan Kaercher just longs for an old-fashioned treat from an old-fashioned soda fountain. And he knew right where to go --to Wilton, in eastern Iowa.
I don't know about you but some days I long for an old fashioned treat from an old fashioned soda fountain. And I know right where to go, to Wilton in East Central Iowa. Can you imagine walking into this very building to order homemade confections just before the Civil War? That is more than 150 years ago. Which is way before my time by the way.
Customer: Do not get between me and my vanilla --. That's all.
Thelma Nopoulos: Green River coming up.
Dan Kaercher: The Wilton Candy Kitchen has been serving up sweet treats since it opened in 1860. Today you can get confections, ice cream -.
Thelma Nopoulos: Green River is lemon-lime and Red River is strawberry and cherry --.
Dan Kaercher: A variety of fountain drinks and a sandwich all in a setting that hasn't really changed much over the last century.
Thelma Nopoulos: The back bar, the big ice and the big mirror and the marble, that Italian marble, they said they brought it over on the covered wagons. It is very, very old.
Dan Kaercher: Thelma and her husband George Nopoulos are part of the family that has owned the Wilton Candy Kitchen since 1910. Four generations of the family have worked here. Now I understand you started here when you six years old.
George Nopoulos: That was a few days ago.
Dan Kaercher: A few days ago. Yeah. And what was your job when you were six years old?
George Nopoulos: Something very simple. Just crank a victrola machine.
Dan Kaercher: Crank a victrola. So, that was the music of the day.
George Nopoulos: That's right.
Dan Kaercher: George's duties have expanded a bit since age six. Among his jobs is to make eight flavors of ice cream. He does this at the front window of the shop so he can talk to customers and watch the action on Main Street. Now tell me about your ice cream making machine.
George Nopoulos: Well, this is a Taylor machine and we started using this about 55 years ago. That's when we bought the fountain at the same time was 1955 and it has been running ever since and makes a batch every 15 minutes.
Dan Kaercher: Now it is the real deal? You don't make any light ice cream or diet ice cream.
George Nopoulos: No, none of that. We have - butter fat.
Dan Kaercher: Plenty of butter fat.
George Nopoulos: Well, it is good for you. Heck it hasn't killed me yet.
Dan Kaercher: Obviously and how old are you?
George Nopoulos: 91, I guess.
Thelma Nopoulos: I started washing dishes here when I was ten years old and I am 80. So, I guess it is 70 years.
Dan Kaercher: You must like being together 24 hours/7 days a week.
Thelma Nopoulos: Yes, we have never thought anything differently. We love each other and we work together and share the load.
Dan Kaercher: Thelma and George's romance blossomed here at the candy kitchen. But theirs wasn't the only courtship in this iconic local setting.
Carla Thurston: We came in here almost every day when we were teenagers and we carved these in here in about 1957 and we have been married 53 years. That's the only place we sit.
Lisa Werner: I can remember coming here for ice cream when I was their age.
Dollie Ayres: I first cam in here in 1938.
Ed Williams: Can't say enough of what he and his wife have done for the town Wilton. Just phenomenal what all they have helped. So many different - well the churches and the Boy Scouts and everybody.
Ted Marolf: I was born here. So, there has never not been a candy kitchen as far as I know. It is an institution.
Dan Kaercher: There is a lot of local loyalty to the Wilton Candy Kitchen but many tourists stop by too. Including some of the thousands of bicyclists on the 2011 Ragbrai ride across Iowa. A couple nationally known actors have dropped in including Brooke Shields who was filming a movie nearby in 1991. In 1995, actor Gregory Peck was in the area and stopped by.
Thelma Nopoulos: They came down here. Then they set at table three, we have it marked, and Gregory Peck, his wife, and producer. And the seat is still warm. Everybody likes to sit in that seat where Gregory Peck sat. And then he came behind the soda fountain when I found out that his father Peck's Drug Store in La Jolla, California and that is why he came here to renew his roots with a soda fountain.
Dan Kaercher: Well, I am no Gregory Peck but I wanted to help out behind the counter too. Do you mind if I try to scoop some up sometime? How does that look?
Thelma Nopoulos: Well, that is pretty good. Can I help you just a little bit?
Dan Kaercher: Yes. I bowed out after scooping up one cone so I could let the professional show me how to make a banana split. Which by the way is said to have been created by George's father, Gus, after he obtained access to an oversupply of ripe bananas. Oh, look at that. George and Thelma say they have no plans to retire any time soon. Both being children of Greek Immigrants, Thelma says, makes them hard working and besides running the Wilton Candy Kitchen is just plain fun.
Thelma Nopoulos: We enjoy the people. We enjoy the work we do. We serve happiness to the customers.
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