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Shark Cartilage Capsules at Holland & Barrett
Holland & Barrett, the high street Natural Food Store, has come under fire from UK's leading shark and marine conservation organisation,
, for the continued sale of Shark Cartilage capsules alongside everyday vitamins and supplements.
According to Bite-Back, the sale of Shark Cartilage capsules is providing an unnecessary and additional incentive for fishermen to hunt and destroy shark populations.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: "Any industry that benefits from the death of sharks must be inspired to halt its trade. Counter arguments from health food stores about bycatch can be immediately rejected since the sale of Shark Cartilage capsules only adds to the argument that sharks are more valuable dead than alive."
The Shark Cartilage in the Holland & Barrett capsules is extracted from the hugely vulnerable and fiercely overfished spiny dogfish. Capable of reaching between three and four feet long, female dogfish have a gestation period that can last an incredible 22 months - the same as an elephant - before they give birth to live young.
The North East Atlantic stock is now considered to be depleted and may be in danger of collapse. The species also assessed as Critically Endangered by IUCN, the World Conservation Union.
Graham Buckingham said: "The inclusion of Shark Cartilage capsules in Holland & Barrett stores is yet another example of how the retail industry is masterminding and endorsing the extinction of sharks."
Priced at £16.99 for 100 capsules, the Shark Cartilage capsules are marketed as a natural remedy for ailments including arthritis, joint problems and even cancer.
John Coffey, a cancer biologist at John Hopkins University said: "I don't think there is any benefit in buying shark cartilage and eating it, any more than I think that eating rabbit will make me run faster."
Bite-Back is working to eliminate the trade in all shark meat and its by-products in the UK. Already its campaign has prompted ASDA to remove shark meat from 190 stores across the UK along with several restaurants including Wagamama.
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You will get 3 jeans upon winning the auction. You have the option of selecting 3 guess jeans.
Jean size is from 28 to 36. The jeans are brand new with tags on them.
They have different colours and are of different design.
Please note I am out of stock with boot cut but I have other straight, slim, wide, regular cuts.
the colours and styles differ every week depending on what my supplier has available.
Lastly I will not allow any buyer with a winning bid below R1200 to tell me which type of jeans he wants.
Although I'm selling these jeans at a huge discount to you guys, they still cost me a lot of money to get.
ps: upon winning the auction please try and make payment the same day you win the auction, I ask this beacuse I arrange the auction to end on the days I receive stock. So if the winning bidder pays later than that or the following day, he runs the risk of getting jeans that are available not the best jeans that arrive on the day the auction closes. I don't want to send anyone random jeans so please send payment within 48hrs upon winning the auction. I will making personal offers at my discretion from time to


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Kathleen W. O'Brien is President and Chief Executive of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, where she has worked in various capacities since 1988. During her tenure at TPAC, average annual attendance doubled, its total operating budget nearly tripled, and TPAC Education surpassed the milestone of serving more than 1.5 million Tennessee students and educators through one of the largest and most comprehensive arts-in-education programs in the U.S. Ms. O'Brien graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Intermont College, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. Her professional associations include Nashville Agenda's Steering Committee, Leadership Music, the Broadway League, Rotary International, Tennessee Women's Forum, the National Performing Arts Consortium, and Nashville's Sister Cities. She received the Broadway League's 2004 National Road Marketing Award. A member of Leadership Nashville Class of 2004-2005 and the Leadership Music Class of 2009-2010, she has been on the boards of the Nashville Institute for the Arts, the council of the Nashville Center for Non-Profit Management's Association for Non-Profit Executives, and the Nashville Entertainment Association, also serving as that organization's president. She is an annual volunteer for ArtRageous, a fund-raising event for Nashville CARES.
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9 Deadly Sins of Job Hunting
Ok, these may not be deadly but they can slow down your search. Take care of these and your search will go smoothly because you'll be building relationships and learning during your entire search.
You may not want to address these issues… but you'll be glad you did.
I borrowed some of these from 7 Deadly Sales Sins.
1. You don't know who you are so you can't concisely tell others. Seems simple enough but trust me, if it's been a while since you've looked for a job… you probably don't know yourself as well as you need to. Look into those dark corners, root out your foibles and shortcomings and learn to say great things about yourself and your capabilities.
2. You don't know what you want. If you don't know where you're going; any road will take you there. How can others help you if you don't know what you need or want. I know it's easier to define what you don't want. Start there.
3. You don't know how to easily help others (or worse you don't understand why it's important.) Being of service, listening, making referrals, introducing like-minded folks, etc. it's not hard but you do have to stop thinking about yourself long enough to consider what to do.
4. You don't understand what recruiters, hiring managers or human resource people need. If you put yourself in their shoes for a minute, you'll be much more effective at getting their attention.
5. You're afraid. We all are, you are not alone. Some of us just "fake it 'til we make it." Take a page from that book.
6. You stay in your house and tell people you can't network because you're: shy, introverted, technical, a geek, blah, blah, blah. Get over it. Most of us don't want to meet a bunch of strangers, but we do it.
7. You don't follow up. You know, thank you notes you talk yourself out of.
8. You don't have a process for your search. Do you have a spreadsheet of your contacts, companies and connections? Do you have a plan to meet 7-10 new people a week? Do you have a job search 'buddy' who can help you? Are you learning new skills?
9. You don't ask for the job or you ask for every job. Be clear about what you want, who you are and when the time is right, be sure to be clear that you believe this is the job for you and why.
Bonus: You don't have a complete LinkedIn profile with at least 200 contacts. sigh… what are you waiting for?
I believe in you. Go!
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By Carl Hoffman, September 14, 2012 @ 6:41 pm
I have luddites all the time ask me for help in finding a job. I ask them about any social site and they get antagonistic. With your permission I would like to print out this entry and use it as a hard copy because the information is valuable. On the Bonus section, I have a complete profile and 494 connections on LinkedIn but I am MISSING your connection. So I will send you another invite because I want to get 500+. I am competitive and love to surpass goals.
PS. I took my blog down about 4 years ago when CNN quoted me and called me a gadfly for my antiwar rhetoric. When it feels right I get another one going.
By Deborah, September 14, 2012 @ 7:10 pm
Please use my blog in anyway that serves a greater good. Looking forward to connecting to you Carl. I thought we were already connected! Blogging is a personal venture. You have much to share so I hope you'll consider sharing. Maybe some of that competitive spirit could help the unemployed move and shake. I challenged my undergrad students to get a mere 12 connections and most are doing well.
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The Jimmy Dore Show 12-8-11The Jimmy Dore Show dec 8, 2011
This Week:
Jerry Sandusky, lets us know he's really attracted to young people, but its nothing to worry about.
Herman Cain calls in, makes us laugh.
Rick Perry calls in and makes us laugh and feel pity.
Rip Torn's Hollywood Drunk Tank encore presentation!
With: Mike MacRae, Steve Rosenfield, Robert Yasumura, Jim HIghtower
Originating from KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, The Jimmy Dore Show is an irreverent and humorous take on today's headlines and hypocrites. The program skewers politicians as well as the corporate mouthpieces which make up today's mainstream "news media." Each and every week, The Jimmy Dore Show provides the unvarnished truth with a twist of funny.
Don't forget to subscribe, donate, and review the show on iTunes!
Jimmy Bean!
Why isn't anybody (TYT, Amy Goodman, RealNews, etc. The good guys) talking about this?
"Mr Attorney General We Believe You're With Holding Documents! Congressman Issa"
Here is a great example of someone in congress doing their job. This is how congress should conduct a meeting because it's the first time I have witnessed a person brought to testify is not allowed to run out the clock of the questioners. Issa goes to the heart of the problem and tried to get holder to testify under oath, plus threatened a subpoena. He also call out Holder's lies and I hope will hold him accountable.
However, as much a I liked the Issa in this clip let's not be naive. Here we happen to see his motives aligned with reality. If Holder was a republican or it served Issa's interest in any way, Issa could just as easily had given Holder a pat on the back for looking forward and not backwards (especially on the ongoing financial crisis).
Thanks for the show Jimmy, I'm a big fucking fan. Why not do more TYT? Maybe replace Michael Sure?
Did Trump really to the Wharton School of business or he the only clown that BARNUM & BAILEY won't take credit for?
Boss unrepentant Newt hypocrite Gangrene: Kids working at the age he talks about are differentiated from "rich" by one thing, inheritance. Inheritance has become a forbidden word in the mainstream media even more that Carlin's seven words.
Mr. FN's comment brings up the point that the Republican Party is the subject of House Bill HR-999, which will outlaw the Republican Party as being "the biggest threat to humanity since the German Nazi Party," forbidding anyone from joining it, mentioning it, or contemplating its unbelievable nonsense. We just can't stand another day of such idiotic bile targeting the poor, the environment, the planet, Mexican people, women, readers, grandmothers, organic apple pie.
HR-999 will also pave the way for a real alternative to the discredited Democratic Party, currently cowering beneath a Luntz pole somewhere in Encino.
Carlo Mencia, I agree completely but maybe you should make the bill apply the democrats as well. The democrats are also pushing for more endless wars and a police state.
Why only two parties? This guy has a good explanation.
The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained
The Alternative Vote Explained
in today's podcast when talking about Frank Luntz's manipulation of the language you used the term 'enhanced interrogation techniques' instead of torture as one example. Unfortunately, you can't blame ol' Frank Luntz for that, the term actually came directly from the Nazi playbook – unbefreakinglievable.
Jimmy, The word you were looking for mid-podcast was "equate," not "equivocate." "Equivocate" is what the Democratic Party seems to be all about – giving no answers or misleading answers.
Yeah, I know that's dickish of me to point that out, but when you're a social critic, your SAT level better be up to par – I mean when you point out the foibles of others, better be ready.


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Asian Values Offer No Special Sauce for Europeby
The economic misfortunes of Europe and America have inspired glee among some Asian leaders and commentators, especially those who champion "Asian values." Exhorting Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi to learn from resurgent Asia rather than decrepit Europe, Kishore Mahbubani, the Singaporean diplomat-turned-pundit, pointed out recently how "quiet Asian pragmatism continues to deliver steady economic growth while Europe languishes."
Recalling how the International Monetary Fund prescribed austerity to East Asia after the financial crisis of 1997, Mahbubani wrote that many Asians feel "the time has come for you [the West] to administer the same bitter medicine you prescribed to us: stop living beyond your means."
Mahathir Mohamad, who was Malaysia's prime minister from 1981 to 2003, has also renewed his assault on the "double standards" of Westerners whom "centuries of hegemony" have convinced "they know best what is good for the world: their values are to be accepted as universal; Asian values are deemed irrelevant."
Mahathir's Mojo
Mahathir rebuffed the IMF's prescriptions in 1997, riding out criticism from Western leaders and media; and, for all his transparent schadenfreude, he has a point. In 1997, Western nations, represented by the IMF, told East Asian countries to let their banks go out of business. Faced with a financial crisis in their own backyard, Western politicians have used taxpayers' money to bail out lavishly remunerated bankers.
Mahathir is also right to deplore "the days of Eurocentricism," which he claims, a bit too confidently, "are practically over." Many of Asia's leaders and intellectuals have long chafed at the ignorant vanity and systematic misrepresentations -- from the white man's burden to oriental despotism -- that made Asians seem no more than people waiting to be made over in the West's preferred self-image.
The Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas and the Japanese philosopher Takeuchi Yoshimi in the past; the novelist Amitav Ghosh and the economist Amartya Sen in the present; or the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami calling for a "Dialogue of Civilizations," and Mahathir's former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, speaking of a necessary synthesis between East and West -- all these Asians have stressed the need to move beyond intellectual visions and assumptions bred by Western power.
Even so, Mahathir errs when he invokes Asian values against the apparently universal tyranny of Western values. For one, he echoes the culturalist rhetoric that accompanied the economic success of East Asia in the 1980s and 1990s -- what Anwar termed, a year before he was thrown into prison on false charges by his boss Mahathir, "an excuse for autocratic practices and denial of basic rights and civil liberties."
As Anwar clarified, the Asian values invoked by Mahathir and former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, and many intellectuals associated with their regimes, were explicitly ideological and self-flattering. The oppositions they proposed were stark: Asia's Confucius-sanctioned communal harmony against the West's amoral individualism; collective welfare versus human rights; respect for authority and discipline versus messy democracy; hard work and thriftiness versus rash consumption; and collaboration between government and business against reckless laissez-faire.
Confucius Power
As though reversing a Eurocentric view of Confucius -- who German sociologist Max Weber contended was responsible for China's backwardness -- these proponents of Asian values now credited the sage of ancient China with the postwar success of Japan and Singapore. The nominally communist Chinese regime of Jiang Zemin, too, signed up to the Asian Renaissance under Confucian auspices, promoting a "socialist spiritual civilization."
The talk of Asian values often tipped into outright chauvinism, as in the notorious tract "The Japan That Can Say No" by the Japanese politician Shintaro Ishihara. Mahathir, who co-wrote another book with Ishihara, proposed many disturbing racial theories in his 1970 book "The Malay Dilemma."
More damagingly, Mahathir's and Lee's ideas of Asian values failed to escape the trap of Eurocentricism. As the writer Ian Buruma caustically pointed out once, "what the likes of Lee Kuan Yew call Asian values are more or less the values they were taught by their colonial schoolmasters in the days when Kuan Yew was still called Harry. The white man's burden has been covered with a Confucian sauce."
Of course, more than public-school-style caning has shaped the political postures of East Asian leaders. Lee, as well as Mahathir, grew up in the colonial era when nonwhites routinely suffered racial humiliation; and it became almost mandatory for their generation of politicians to present themselves as anti-West revolutionaries committed to a higher idea of Asia. Furthermore, these men, trying to exert control over fractiously multi-ethnic societies in the postcolonial era, found that anti-Westernism was the best way to galvanize the masses around the ideal of national unity.
Over the years, however, their rhetoric of Asian values and neo-Confucianism has seemed more and more hollow -- no more than a cover for authoritarian regimes that fervently embrace global capitalism and snuggle up to powerful local businessmen while denying political rights to the majority. This phenomenon is particularly egregious in China, where the ruling elite, struggling for a coherent ideology amid successive crises of legitimacy, has plumped for a warmed-over Confucianism.
Blame Globalization
Does all this maneuvering sound oddly familiar? It is because European leaders in recent years have been going on about their national or civilizational values even as they immerse local economies into global flows of capital and trade, empower new elites, and open up wide inequalities. In India, too, a strident Hindu nationalism accompanied the emergence of a narrowly prosperous and deeply iniquitous society.
Politicians in the West, as well as the East, have increasingly reached for the rhetoric of cultural nationalism, especially as they surrender economic sovereignty to the transnational forces of globalization.
This is not to say that the traditions of Chinese Confucianism or European Enlightenment are a depleted cultural and political resource; and it is too easy to dismiss Asian critiques of Western political and economic arrangements as manifestations of a frustrated nativism. But any talk of values by powerful Asians ought to make us suspicious. As Anwar has written, Asia "is in the process of coming into being. The long and intense process of self-definition and self-understanding is just beginning."
And the bracing revelations yet to come will take us far from any instrumentalist or crudely triumphalist notion of "Asian values."
(Pankaj Mishra, whose new book, "From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia," will be published in August, is a Bloomberg View columnist, based in London and Mashobra, India. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Cardio routine can nurture sweet dreams
By Dorene Internicola
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Sleepless and sedentary? Instead of counting sheep in a field, try running through a meadow.
Experts agree that an aerobic exercise routine during the day can keep you from tossing and turning at night, even if they're not sure why.
"The bottom line is we really don't know why people tell us that exercise helps them sleep," said Dr. David Davila of the National Sleep Foundation.
"But if people are normally active, reaching their aerobic goals, chances are they will sleep the right amount for what they need."
Davila, who practices sleep medicine in Little Rock, Arkansas, said the low-grade sleep deprivation suffered by many time-pressed, under-rested Americans has a cumulative effect.
"People have more car accidents and what they call 'presentee-ism', or poor performance, at work," he said. "There are fallouts for the average person."
But evidence is emerging that aerobic exercise can offer relief from insomnia.
A recent study at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois tracked 23 previously sedentary adults, primarily women 55 and older, who had difficulty falling or staying asleep. Continued...


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If it was me I'd get it. And it would be my 2nd G26.
This is a discussion on Glock 26 - Should I ?? within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Glock 26 - Should I ?? If I were you I would!...
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If it was me I'd get it. And it would be my 2nd G26.
I would grab it,The only sub I own is a G27 which I use for EDC.
Good price, I don't think I could have left the store without it.
My normal carry was a Taurus P145, I like the stopping power of a 45 so the P145 was a replacement for my Rugers, but it was a little large for summer apparel and heavy to carry after a few hours. I had purchased a G19 at a bargain price.
I decided to get a few more toys with the changing of the guard, etc. and visited one of the larger ffa shops. I looked at both the Taurus P111 and the G26. I couldnt make up my mind so I bought both. (BTW my wife was standing next to me when I bought them )
I like the P111 because the grip is a little longer and my small finger rest on the grip but I can easily live with the G26. I am planning to get some 10+2 Glock mags and/or some clip extensions to compensate for the short, for me, grip.
One nice thing about the G26 is that it takes G19 mags as well. So I have 10 round G26 mags plus 15, 17 and 30 round G19 mags that work as well.
I have more than one shirt, pair of pants, suit and tie so I dont carry the same defense support system all the time I adjust to the environment I am going into.
NRA Endowment Member
Dependable gun, great price!
Stay armed...get it...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
Certified Glock Armorer
NRA Life Member
OF COURSE, everyone NEEDS a GLOCK !!!!
I would get it.
Thinking about a 27 or 30 myself.
Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!
Well, the price is definitely right!
You say you don't need it, the real question is do you WANT it more than you WANT the G19 you've been thinking about.
Personally, if I wanted 'em both but could only afford one, I'd save my money until I could afford to get the G19.
NRA Endowment Member
GOA Life Member
I would get it. You won't regret it.
Police Defensive Tactics, Firearms, Carbine Rifle and Taser Instructor
Glock Armorer
NRA Life Member
It is better to have your gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it!
You cannot choose the conditions for a gunfight, so train in all conditions!
That's a very good price out the door for a great weapon... the Glock 26 has become one of my favorite gun for carry or the range... I just love seeing how much better I can get every time I take it to the range.
Be Observant and Be Safe.
Current: DW V-Bob 1911, S&W 442, Springfield XD9sc, XDm9,
and Glock G26, G19, G23C, and SIG P226-40 TT, and Ruger GP-100, and Beretta 92FS
Former: Taurus 92SS, SIG P220 TT, S&W 360, SIG P239-40, Ruger 22/45 MKII
Sounds like a good price to me mine was about $530+tax. As far as the Love it or leave it , I'm or the fence , haven't really made up my mind on it. I like it but I guess not having a manual safety is whats got me.
I'll just give myself time to get used to it and see. If I can't get used to it I'll trade for another 1911A1.
But I like the fact of having a 9mm in the fold, so I'd say get it if you think you'll like it. The only time mine has had a couple of FTE's is when my 12 year old daughter limp wristed it. As soon as we realized what was going on we didn't have anymore trouble out of it.


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Whether you're a parent, a student, or member of our community, I welcome you to Minuteman.
School year 2016-17 is already an extraordinary one, perhaps the most significant in Minuteman's relatively brief history.
Why? On September 20, 2016, voters in our member towns supported construction of a new 628-student high school designed for the 21st century. They did so by overwhelming margins. Nearly 7 out of 10 voters cast ballots for Minuteman, its faculty and students, and generations of students to come.
Edward A. Bouquillon, Ph.D.
Minuteman High School
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LAHORE, Oct 18 (Reuters) South Africa won the toss and will bat first in the opening one-day international against Pakistan today.
South African seamer Vernon Philander was ruled out of the game with a hamstring injury, while Pakistan's Mohammad Asif has an elbow problem and also miss the second match on Saturday.
Left-arm seamer Sohail Tanvir, 22, makes his debut for Pakistan after being blooded in last month's Twenty20 World Cup.
Teams: South Africa: Graeme Smith (capt), Justin Kemp (vice-capt), Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers, Mark Boucher, Shaun Pollock, Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Makhaya Ntini, Charl Langeveldt.
Pakistan: Shoaib Malik (capt), Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal, Misbah-ul Haq, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar, Sohail Tanvir.


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Fallacies of American Constitutionalism
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Fallacies of American Constitutionalism
Fritz, Christian G.
"Fallacies of American Constitutionalism" examines the pervasive assumptions in the scholarship of historians, lawyers, and political scientists that impute the central role of the federal Constitution to how Americans understood written constitutions after their Revolution. American struggles to come to grips with the meaning of the sovereignty of the people before and after 1787 reveals very different views about the people as the sovereign from those reflected in the federal Constitution and dispel the notion that our prevailing constitutional view is an unbroken chain stretching back to 1787.
Rutgers School of Law
35 Rutgers L.J. 1327 (2004)
42p. Previously published by Rutgers Law Journal
American Constitutionalism
Written Constitutions
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional Tradition
Sovereignty of the People
Federal Constitution
Constitutional Revision
People's Sovereignty
Federal Constitutional Convention
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breakfast, Butcher's Grill & parking
Very good location, just 15 minute walk to the Waterfront and 3 minutes to Long street. In room safe stopped working and even after the supposed fixing it didn't work properly. The internet connection is bit too expensive.
Friendly staff and comfortable rooms with all the ammenities.Good location.
The staff were particularly helpful and friendly. Having a pianist playing at breakfast was a very nice touch
Good hotel that offers value for money A little too far from the waterfront. Taxi's arranged by the hotel are far more expensive than those that can be self organised.
They upgraded us to a loft and the staff were very accomodating. I know it was no the hotels problem, but starting early Sunday morning and crane was busy being anchored at 9 Dorp Street for a generator to be hoisted onto the roof of the building. It was extremely noisy and disturbing. The sound proofing of the room is not very good either, making the main road below very audible and once again disturbing.
Relaxed but better class
The rooms are clean, and well supplied with knickknacks if you'd like to spend that kind of money on drinks and snacks. I was disappointed that I was given a room with a single queen size bed. I'd ask for a double bed, which I thought would mean two separate beds. When I checked in with my daughter, I was disappointed that the front desk told me I should've asked for twin beds. There was no option on their website for twin beds. There was an option for two adults which I interpreted as double beds, since that was an option.
size of room, location, very competitive price, excellent restaurant attached
we were upgraded to a Loft Apartment
Very close to the V & A waterfront which is a gateway to lots of tours etc.... I was only there for one night.
The hotel is right on the beach and has an excellant view of table mountain. This hotel is an example of doing the right thing but not doing it right. It has no atmosphere, its staff unprofessional and its restaurants, room service and other services are over priced.
View of Cape Town. Size of rooms.
Spacious room, friendly staff, comfortable bed and appreciated teh assistance with teh baby cot. Breakfast was fantastic. Thank you!
easy acces to Cape Town and the West Coast
Modern rooms Good breakfast Overpriced.No atmosphere of a hotel Not convenient to the city
The staff was very Friendly and that was fantastic to stay there. We enjoy the restaurant. What a feast.
We notice that a room service food was outside one room for two days before they removed it. The breakfast was poor, we asked for Honey and we received an empty bottle of honey.
The friendliness and helpfulness of staff The lack of signage en-route to hotel. Housekeeping should not be turning my bed down at 21h00, but earlier
Amazing view on Cape Town. Close to industrail area for customer visits. Hotel on the beach Every single service you have to pay: internet, you can not even borrow an iron they charge you...
Mostly the view, the room was well laid out and clean particularly the bathroom and shower. We both found the mattress to be very hard.The restuarant was a bit over priced
The staff were very considerate. it was peaceful. the food was excellent.
location, privacy and ambience with friendly staff. should have been warned of renovations in progress
Attention to service from the staff and their friendliness. Quality of the food (breakfast, Garden Lounge and Splash).
Total experience.feel good feeling.breakfast
Total relaxation. Staff friendly and courteous. Cannot fault anything in this lovely hotel. I look forward to returning. Location was a slight problem without own transport. The hotel claims to have a 'shuttle' bus to and from Cape Town. This is hardly a shuttle, leave hotel at 10 a.m, nothing back until 13.00. 13.00 from the hotel returns at 18.00.At 90R per person each way it's quite costly. I feel the hotel should look closely at this facility.
The staff was EXCELLENT -- accommodating, friendly, and on-the-ball. I was very impressed!
Vineyard is a favorite of mine - have stayed there many times since 2000, upgrades evident, very clean, quiet, beautiful rooms, great views of Table Mountain - very peaceful and historic. Great restaurant and lounge, wide array of breakfast foods. Staff is super! No
A quality hotel with a nice feel and ambiance with top class facilities
The Spa was great though fairly expensive. The room was comfortable and breakfast was great
Quite, clean rooms and friendly staff made stay very enjoyable TV selections (limited stations
It is a very relaxed hotel with friendly staff and a quiet location in lovely grounds For my last 2 visits there have been noisy building works during the day so one cannot have a nap in a bedroom
The Spa on the 19th floor is really relaxing and very clean. The breakfast downstairs was of a high standard and obtuse there was awareness re health eg smoothies etc. The room was comfortable, very corporate- the bathroom is cleverly designed and very user friendly.
Location House Keeping
Good location. Very neat and modern. Staff friendly. We had to pay for our parking ticket every day. At these rates I think it is rediculous
We received an upgrade to the Executive Club Floor This hotel is not the place to stay for couples or any romance. It is all business and has limited facilities for leisure. No outdoor pool. limited food selection. very sterile place!
Comfortable, clean and modern; we stayed in a suite which comes with a great breakfast and cocktail hour
The location is a right between downtown and the V&A Waterfront. Everything is walkable plus you have great cab service as well as the hop-on hop-off bus right out in front of the hotel. Since this hotel is adjacent to the convention center, getting to anything you want for business or please is easy to do. The breakfast spread in the mornings was excellent and the rooms were nicely appointed wth hotel being very clean. Since the hotel is at the convention center, if there is a large convention in town (that you are not a part of) you may get overwhelmed by conventioneers. There was a large ANC convention in town while we were there. The hotel was able to handle the added quests, so it reallly wasn't a problem but could be an issue for some. Check the Cenvention Center schedule prior to booking. The only other issue I had was the customer service in general. I really thnk this issue is more cultural to South Africa than it is an issue at the Westin. I just didn't feel like the conceirge's were as helpful as they should be getting tickets for me or helping me find a good restaurant. I sat in the bar area of one of the hotels restaurants (1 meter from a restaurant table - didn't realize it) and we asked to order a desert and was told we needed to get up an move 1 meter to the next table. This kind of rigidity does not exist in the USA..,.the customer is always right and we would have been served. That night we decided to get up and move back to our room. At breakfast, there was mixup with the number of people in our room booking (they claimed the reservatin was for one and we had two in the room). Breakfast was supposed to be complimentary but they made us pay for one breakfast each morning (200 Rand)....an inconvenience. I think this would have been handled differently in the US. Overall, I would recommend the hotel for its location and nice amenities, just don't expect 5 star American style service anywhere in South Africa. (Although I will say the overall service level in South Africa is much higher than anywhere I have been in Europe....espeicallly restaurants)
The room was clean & fine. Bathroom was with tile heating & very clean. Although it was written free wi-fi is only at the lobby, there was hotel wide wi-fi, including rooms. Everything was perfect about the hotel. Shuttle service is very useful. Just one of the reception staff was rude. Other than that everything was flawless.
The breakfast.....was very good All three times my car parking was a problem...... First they misplace my key and had to wait 20minutes to find it..... then they brought my car out to early standing in the sun for 30minutes after I arrange when I wanted the car. We I wanted to leave after check out, my car was parked in and they could find the owner......so this experience that was suppose to be something nice..... was very frustrated.
The location of this Hotel is perfect for business trip. The price for this hotel is quite worthy.
Extremely pleasant, capable, and helpful staff ! Well appointed room with great view ! Exceptionally good black-out shades in room that permitted good sleep while adjusting to new time zone ! Very comfortable, Quiet room! Good spa facilities. Good on-sight restaurants. Good buffet breakfast. Excellent wifi, including in the room !! Beautiful design/architecture. Bright and cheerful. I REALLY LIKED THIS HOTEL !! Minor complaint: The "lap pool" usually did not serve for swimming laps as it was the only pool at the hotel, it was only one lap wide, and was used by guests for simply lounging in the water. However, the gym was well equipped, so I was still able to get good exercise.
Excellent location, shuttle to waterfront reliable, excellent breakfast, very pleasant surroundings, intererior excellent, comfortable atmosphere, friendly and helpful restaurant staff, very clean sporting facilities, pool, shower, jacuzzi, etc. Swimming pool too small, cleaning of bedroom was erratic,
high quality facility providing full service. Staff is competent, professional and helpful. Room are comfortable and clean. Food is very good. Internet works well Sometimes prices on high side for Cape Town where there are plenty of options
staff were super supportive. very good location and close to Waterfront Security reaction toward the incident of theft I had in the hotel House keeping is not up to 5 star level, we had to request soap and shampoo although they had cleaned the room just hours before our request.
After a week on safari and in some bed and breakfasts in Stellenbosch, my wife and I very much enjoyed our two-night stay at Cape Royale. It was indeed luxurious. The whole hotel, including the rooms were very clean. The staff was extremely professional, efficient and friendly. The parking was good, safe and reasonably priced. The location was also good. We didn't make use of the hotels facilities, but we enjoyed our stay very much. Our only small gripe was there were no towels and no napkins in the kitchen. A roll of paper towels at least would have been nice.
Very nice hotel and very friendly staff. Great Location, excellent SPA. Highly recommend it. I heard that If you add your tip to the bill, the hotel do not give it entirely to the staff.
Everything was excellent. The staff couldnt do enough to help make our stay exceptional down to the duty manager spending over an hour getting my laptop up and running. To be able to have a car and driver to take us around free was an absolute bonus. The little bit extra that we paid for this hotel was easily compensated by the savings we made in not having to use taxis. Nothing
The size of the rooms, excellent design details of the hotel, the butler service and the complimentary shuttle service to the waterfront. Inconsistent housekeeping services
good proffesional service. rooms are spaceous. location is excellent. the rooms are fully equiped with everything you need and are well maintained.
the way they welcome their guest is awesome. I really enjoyed the dignity given to the clients.
A very luxurious feel -a little over the top even w door man, front desk walkin you to your room... Full apartment, lots of room to spread out, large bedroom, nice bathroom, 2-3 blocks of nice places to eat and shop right next door, but not real close to attractions No black out curtains on living room/hall windows and no door in the bedroom prevents you from getting it dark in bedroom to go to sleep- brin an eye mask
The rooms were very clean and the staff was very helpful and accommodating to us. They went out of their way to ensure our short time there was enjoyable. The location was fantastic and within walking distance to many things we wanted to see and do.
Amazing hotel with prompt and courteous service. The staff were great and the hotel was terrific. Minor draw back was that you need to take a cab to most places but can easily walk if you have 15 minutes to get there.
Well located and staffed hotel/residence with fine decor. Breakfast is not up to 5 star expectations. Used towels disappeared quickly without being replenished.
Pool deck, 1800º Restaurant, Hotel Staff, Hotel Facilities, Parking lot, Good Location Bed Size, Living room Window without shades
Didn't like additional pay for parking and sometimes there wasn't enough parking spaces.
Very good location. Great rooms and service!
Spacious room Parking is terrible. it is badly designed.
spacious accommodation poor kitchen utensils
Location, the size of the room and lounge room Problems with wireless seemed never ending. Little things like salt n pepper, some dishwashing liquid should be provided. If you stay for a night or two, is it worth going outside looking for some salt? I know it's cheap but I didn't have the time.
The apartments are beautifully appointed N/A
Privacy, Easy smooth booking, check-in/out. Centrally located. The rooms are modern and clean Lack of basic kitchen items such as a dishcloth, salt & pepper & dish washing liquid.
Very central location and just 1/2 km from the Civic Centre if you are flying, cost one way R50-00 per person. A small quantity of dishwashing power and liquid detergent could have been supplied.
Good value for the size of the room. Good for downtown business location. Breakfast was poor. Reception calling up on staff to check on room as you check out felt disrespectful to a paying guest. Was poorly handled. Was marketed as a waterfront hotel, it is not a waterfront hotel.
The room was very spacious and clean, the decor was modern, and the staff was helpful. The fact that there was no free internet or gym or pool facilities but was advertised during booking. However I was there on business so I did not need it.
The size of the suite with enough windows to open and let the light in The staff seems untrained. There were only 2 clothes hangers each of us and after asking 3 times for more hangers, we finally got a few on the third day. On the Saturday morning the cleaning lady was knocking on our door at 8.30, telling us she wants to clean the room now. There is also no dressing table or full length mirror in this very spacious room.
Staff superb, rooms excellent - perfect distance from conference centre. A longer flex on the iron would be good !!!!!!!
Excerllent location, very comfortable and clean room, nice finish and decoration matching with seaside, quiet but convinient with shops, bars and retaurants within walking distance. Against to the price and rank of hotel, the breakfast shall have plenty of choices and also be free of charge, however, only buffet is free with limited choice and others, specially hot food will be charged.
absolute perfection and professionalism, bar facilities with the fire places briliant views from room, friendly and efficient service of the staff, 24hour deli and the cocktails are for sure the best in town - brilliant in all ways
Wonderful location, beach front and great friendly staff
The staff were genuinely friendly and welcoming. The ground floor bar could be a little more organised - slow to get the bill and ran out of nuts....not a major problem though
5 star without the attitude Nothing
Confort of the hotel
The staff were friendly and helpful. Our room was excellent.
This hotel is all about location. 5 stars for location but not for anything else! If its location you are looking for then its worth the money. Not a high standard at all. Rooms very basic and cheap looking! The service in this hotel is extremely poor from reception to lounge staff. I would give it 2* tops! If its service you want do not stay here.
When the sun is shining there is no better hotel in Cape Town to be a guest at. Very luxurious yet trendy and the staff are excellent, a number of whom have worked there for decades.
At the heart of Camps Bay. Restaurants and the beach is next to you. Hotel staff was so helpful.
Comfortable high class luxury hotel with friendly serviceminded staff at a great location.
Initial impressions was one of apprehension as I had to ask to be helped. Otherwise the staff was very helpful and displayed a level of professionalism Nothing
Breakfast was excellent, and the staff is amazing, particularly the concierge. Bathrooms have windows to the bedrooms above the tub... why?
Wonderful, friendly, helpful staff Dinner at the Mint restaurant was only ok
Location, reception staff Breakfast takes long, Indian tea which should be available take longer than everything same for Indian menu not available immediately
The service was great. Nice people....Good location. They have a free shuttle service for a 3km radius. The Rbg grill restaurant and the one one the roof had some great tasting food on the menu. We were in room 505. The toilet had a bad odour. Additionally, the A/C wasn't working on the first day but we didnt worry much because it was cold outside. They fixed the A/C on the second day but it again stopped working on the last night of our stay.
The lights wouldn't and air conditioner wouldn't work even with the key card
The hotel is 5 minutes from the conference site where our conference is held. This is what I like the most as walking in Cape Town is not extremely safe after dark. It is not close to many attractions but it was okay for me. Other than that, services and staffs are reasonable. I did not get a chance to stay at other hotels in Cape Town so I can't make a fair comparison.
Close to conference centre, affordable off street parking, free internet, nice breakfast buffet, quiet room. One international power point provided. Some obvious missing features -- no iron in the rooms, no soap or moisturiser, and yet premium international prices for a Cape Town location. The internet required daily renewed login which was a little annoying. Twin-share room was rather small, only ~25 cm between the beds. Only one chair in the room. Only total two spare power points. Our water bottle kept disappearing and re-appearing depending on the day.
lovely room & service no real water view at Dock House-dining room small with no view. However, breakfast at main hotel wonderful - view, service & cuisine. Sorry we took the upgrade. rather stayed at V & A with waterfront view.
only the location too expensive for such one
Good location rather expensive for the type of room and hotel
Location Bed was hard
location, location, location.....Excellent Staff!....Great Value!!
The location of this hotel is incredible, right in the centre of the bustling Cape Town waterfront....you walk out of the front door and you are where you need to be. Very upmarket and classy!
The service, the food, the gym and the pool were all very nice. The rooms were comfortable with great views.
Breakfast buffet and view
The hotel was fabulous. The location and facilities were outstanding. The breakfast was wonderful. Most of all the staff was phenomenal. They were consistently courteous, friendly, knowledgeable and went above and beyond to make our stay absolutely phenomenal.
Great hotel, Great rooms, Exceptional breakfast We had a "bad" luck, since our room shared a wall with a famous Jazz club Green Dolphin. We enjoyed the fine music from 8-11 in the night. (there are maybe 3 rooms in the whole hotel affected). One night we also went there. Nice club.
Location and spacious room. the hotel need renovation. The staff does not respect the guest. They made me wait at reception to go verify if I stole in the room.
On the whole very good with one or two small reservations Hefty charge for late check out even though the room was not to be immediately occupied
Excellent setting next to One and Only at V&A Waterfront. Upmarket furnishings. Spotless.
Our apartment was on the lower level, so we could pop out and into The One & Only Hotel for dinner and right opposite the spa. We loved that we could walk to the V & A at night and feel totally safe and secure staying at the apartments. The staff went out of our way to collect us, as unfortunately we had a problem with our rental car. So thank you for fetching us!
The staff was welcoming, the room/apartment was fantastic (clean, spacious, good location) and it was convenient to restaurants, shopping, and taxis. We only spent one night at the apartment before we moved into a beach house in Clifton and then headed out on safari. I wished I would have booked it for my last 2 nights in Cape Town after returning from safari and before heading home.
Everything was excellent Nothing
We love the compound which is so beautiful and quiet. Especially it is very close to Waterfront with safe and short walking. The apartment is very well equipped and designed. With the good room conditions and location and reasonable rate, it is definately a place I will recommend. Super!
The view is incredible and location. However very lacking for a 5 star hotel, service was terrible and slow, and the hotel looked very tired in places and dated. As a business traveller the room service menu was very limited. Very expensive for what you actually got. On a positive note did feel safe and secure. Yes service for a 5 star hotel was very poor, they did not get one of my orders right!
View from terrace at breakfast / evening.
Willingness to assist in extraordinary requests. i got the impression the B team was on duty compared to my previous stays.
Staff from the reception to the hotel operators are largely incompetent, at least the dozen or so we met. Especially the mid-level is a problem. The bottom level staff were fine, but from there up, it was a disaster! see above
Hotel was fantastic ! My cc was billed twice as kayak or get a room.com says they received two reservations at the sand time from me! I only received one confirmation! I spend 30 min on the phone on my dime trying to get them to refund the second charge and it's still not done!
We felt very secure at this hotel. The staff were all very friendly and helpful.The hotel was very close to city. For the price of the stay at this hotel we feel it was very overrated.The price was far too high.The room was nice but needed to be renovated or updated.
I could walk to the V&A waterfront or take the shuttle. As always the staff was wonderful. Safe location. Used Jarat for tours and pick-up which was a great choice. You can do cheaper but you get what you pay for. Would have liked it if you could have ordered food at the bar past 10:30pm.
The staff was very helpful in arranging outings for us, very accommodating to all our needs. The food in the restaurant was wonderful and the service was top-notch. There wasn't anything I didn't like about the hotel. Would definitely book this hotel again.
Stunning location in on of the world's most beautiful cities. The cocktail deck is simply gorgeous. The views from the rooms, inlcuding a large balcony. Outstanding. Hotel is in an aging building, not quite up to scratch given the room cost. My plumbing groaned and shower flooded! Service is average, simply no edge. But, the location...!
Courteous, pleasant, helpfulFront Office and Guest Reataions. Excellent, knowledgable Concierge attention. Fantastic location on the Waterfront with stunning all-round views. Perfectly located for the World Cup Green Point Stadium. Houskeeping well-meaning but occasionally under-performing. Dining facilities lets them down: poor selection of dishes and rather indifferently prepared and amateurishly served. Lets them down.
location room price was excessive
Beautiful hotel, pool area, spa. The breakfast buffet is excellent. The staff is incredibly helpful and attractive. There's plenty of parking and the facility is clean and hip. The rooms are perfect, including a computer in the room. Not much negative to say, as this place is great, but the pool gets overly crowded with locals buying day passes and the never-ending deep house mixes booming from the speakers get a bit mind numbing after 4 or 5 days.
the fact that sex workers are alowed on the premises.
What is there not to like? ha ha
The fact that we were upgraded to a suite. The friendliness, the personal attention and absolute luxury - we felt very special. A special place for our anniversary (our 2nd time and many to come). Meal at Reuben's fantastic. The attitude of "manager" (in charge of seating) at breakfast.
Happy,self assuared staff in all departments. Golf carts to move around hotel. Location of hotel. All good. Could do with better design barth.
Location is perfect for the full Cape Town experience and staff could not have been more helpful or friendly. Rooms are very comfortable and clean and hotel felt very safe. They also have a sister beach club at Camps Bay which is complimentary and a fantastic added bonus to an already superb hotel and holiday experience
Breakfast was excellent and staff very friendly and understanding. Maintanace department must up their game. Reportted one problem in two days without resolution.
Good value for money and good service None
We stayed for a week end and enjoyed the comfort, the staff is very good, rooms are clean. The deco is beautiful and unusual nothing to complaint about
The look and feel. The hotel is fairly new and there are some teething problems which need to be attended to. For example, I was nearly electricuted in the shower, the access cards had to be reset every day of my stay (5 days), my wall plugs were not working and kept on tripping, the gym is of a poor standard for the size of the hotel, waited for an iron for more than 2 hours despite phoning 3 times at reception and even walking down to let them know face to face. The staff at reception needs to be properly trained though, I do not think they fully appreciate/understand the needs of the paying guests. On the contrary, the managers are exceptional and the maintenance guys are super.
Pleasant and efficient staff. Comfort and modern design. Bar area was very interesting and availability of draft beer most welcome. Locality is not the best.
Prices and service The view
It is very trendy! Such a beautiful hotel!
Breakfast was very comprehensive Good location, close to motorway Clean spacious rooms Plenty of parking Toilet had issues flushing
I liked the style of the rooms and the futuristic designs and incredibly clever layouts of the rooms with your television rising from the bottom of the bed. Our view was awesome with the infinite pool outside the window with a backdrop of table mountain! Fantastic hotel!! I wasnt keen on the fact that the staff didnt know everything about their services, example the cost of the nanny service and how much in advance you had to reserve a nanny etc,but hey its a brand new hotel with brand new staff and by the time you stay there,this will all have been sorted!! I would recommend this hotel to others for sure and would gladly stay there again!! (No need for a nanny this time)
Comfort and accessability No
The hotel is beautifully designed , The rooms are stunning! The restaurant not what you'd expect from a 5 star hotel....but good.It is part of a new development and has an excellent shopping centre across the canal. I felt it was a bit too far from Cape Town (Waterfront and CBD). However you'd pretty much need a car wherever you choose to stay.
Great service good breakfast Very minor but felt being charged £7.20 for 4 small waters at breakfast was not correct
excellent staff and rooms very good spa not really finished when we arrived. Pool small and not always useable due to wind. Did not get mountain view from all rooms as promised
Ambience, accessibility to the essential needs such as shopping, restaurants, None


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SANTA BARBARA WEDDING IN MAYMay, 2008 in Santa Barbara
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- Ceremony & Reception: Montecito Country Club
- Hotel: Parkside Inn
- Hotel: Franciscan Inn
- Hotel: Sandpiper Lodge
- Hotel: Harbor View Inn
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- Hotel: Hotel Mar Monte
- Restaurant: Glen Annie Golf Club
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Montecito Country Club920 Summit Rd
Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2326, US
Franciscan Inn109 Bath St
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
(805) 963-8845
Harbor View Inn28 W Cabrillo Blvd
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Hotel Mar Monte1111 E Cabrillo Blvd
Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Parkside Inn424 Por la Mar Cir
Santa Barbara, CA 93103, US
Sandpiper Lodge3525 State St
Santa Barbara, CA, US
(Possible) Rehearsal Dinner1816 State St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101, US
"Cafe Buenos Aires... A great way to introduce yourself to the exciting Latin American fusion of Argentina, Italy, Spain, Cuba, mildly spiced tapas (appetizers) that have made Argentine cuisine famous."
Glen Annie Golf Club405 Glen Annie Rd
Goleta, CA, United States


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low oil pressure question _chevy 4.3
My chevy 4.3L has low oil pressure. I have not had the pressure tested with a professional gage. I am only going off the in dash gage.the engine has @100K miles. My question is a bit general, but here goes. Where is the loss of pressure most likely coming from? I am pretty sure the entire engine is worn, and worn consistently, but it sounds good, and runs good. Also, there seems to be no play in the distributer shaft. It seems that there is no excessive wear at that point.
Here's what is happening: I have @ 40 psi when the engine is cold at idle.
As soon as it worms up the pressure is 0 at idle. The pressure stays in specs for most of the rpm range. But at idle and higher rpms the pressure falls too low. Should I look to the main bearings and oil pump first? I want to get the pressure back up and get as many miles as possible out of this worn engine.
Not looking to do a rebuild at the moment. It really doesn't sound like an oil starved engine. oh yea,..the compression is perfect and consistent. 150 psi 1-6, give or take a few pounds.
I am praying that the oil pressure sensor is wrong!
As an engine wears out over the years, all of the bearings in the engine wear out. So you loose pressure from the mains but also from the cam bearings and connecting rod bearings. The distributor is not a wear indcator so just because it is good is good news but that is about all.
The reason you have good oil pressure when the engine is cold is because the oil in the crankcase is "thick" and doesn't leak past the worn bearings so you get a good reading. As the engine gets warmer the oil thins out and yeah you guessed it the oil pressure drops. I am not so sure that it is really 0 PSI at idle because you would hear the valve lifters rattling and ticking and since you say it sounds good then I think you have at least 4 pounds of oil pressure.
Now what you want to do is bring the oil pressure up all the time without rebuilding the engine. Well here is what we did WAY BACK IN THE DAY.
Put in some thicker oil like 40 weight. Not 10-40 but straight 40 weight. I once put in 90 weight gear lube to get one of my cars home from college. I made it home but I knew I was going to rebuild the engine as soon as I got home so I was just worried about getting home.
You could put in new main bearings but you would want to replace the connecting rod bearing too. The only problem with this is if there is any ridge in the cylinders the top ring will more than likely strike that ridge and break the ring and then the engine will start smoking. Oil pump would help too but this is a lot of work for an engine that is on it's last legs, RIGHT?
Good Luck
thats the advice i was looking for. i am not "ASE", but i know FAR more than than the average grease monkey, and more than most "certified" mechanics. I hear no "clackity click click click" from the top end, but i do know the engine is very worn-nearing the end.I was hoping to get away with new crank bearings, rod bearings, oil pump, and maybee some top end work - anything i can get away with without removing the engine. but if its going to cost too much ill probably have a rebuilt 4.3 installed. if the oil pressure does check out to be too low, how long do i have? and is it worth my time to try and save the engine w/ new bearings?
I once tried to install new crank bearings with the engine and crank in place. it did not work. I cuoldn't get the top halves to rotate into place. I have heard roomers that it is possible.
thanks so much for the input. i have fixed problems that "certified" mechanics could not solve. but i am confused on what i should do next w/ this engine. FIX OR REPLACE???
heavy oil rebuttle
oh yea. I poured a BUNCH of the Lucas oil stabilizer in there, and it made no difference at all. i am running thick oil/w stableizer-no help. I'm going to pull a bearing soon to see what it looks like. my guess is that it will show a lot of wear.....but i have never seen a running engine with oil pressure that low.
you seem like you know what your talking about. I would like to pull a bearing, look , and report back to you. i am pretty swift with the mechanics.
The stock oil pressure gauge is proably not telling the truth. The sending unit that's at the back of the block there by the dist. is the cause.
Before I'd pull anything apart... go get a cheap oil press. guauge (mechanical) at Autozone or Advance (similar) and take out the stock sending unit and hook the mechanical one up to see where it "realy" is.
I've seen 4.3L's go well over 200,000mi.
They have soft cyl. bores and the TBI's coke up on the PCV system along with a few other annoying things but overall run decent for a long time.
If you've tried thicker oil and Lucas and did not see a difference in the gauge AND have no noise I'd do a manual gauge to confirm pressure.
You can replace crank bearing with out pulling the crank but it's worthless and a total pain in the butt. You'd want the crank to be machiened to get any real "Lasting" results. Plus working under a dripping oil panless engine sucks.
Do a real gauge check first...
Just built the 4.3L in my wife's GMC Typhoon a few months ago.. The factory gauge reads a little different every day that's with a new sending unit.
I'll bet the engine's ok.
Just my guess after seeing and working on many abused 4.3's.
Don't trust a factory gauge... EVER. Like posted above get a cheap mechanical oil pressure gauge and plumb it in and see what you REALLY have for pressure. I'd hook it in to a T fitting and keep the stock sending unit though in case there is a safety feature that shuts down the fuel pump if the oil pressure drops to zero. Plus that way you can compare readings between the two gauges.
Factory idiot light = useful, factory gauge = worthless for meaningful results.
Agree with the others - put in a mechanical gauge and see what you really have.
low oil pressure
check with a meckanical gauge first, like earlyer posts factory gauges are not reliable. also replacing bearings will not move the pistons up higher in the bore damageing rings. if the bearings are worn replaceing them will have a positive efect, loose bearings allow the crank tomove farther up and down same with rods. if bearings worn to the point of low oil pressure you ar in trouble. i sugest if pressure realy low throw in a new oil pump most likely solve the problem enough to get aditional life cliff
Use a good mechanical gage to check pressure before getting too excited. My Greek grandpa once told me, "Don't start kicking your feet until you are on the donkey"
If your pressure is really low, then......
A high volume oil pump should kick up hot idle pressure by 5 to 10 psi.
What weight oil are you using now?
I see a bearing change in your future. You should be able to buy a crank kit and just pull the engine and flip it over and throw in a new crank and bearings. Should not take more than a weekend to do that plus crank kits are pretty cheap.
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oil pump is a high wear item, un filtered oil goes threw it cotinuously, have fixed many such problems with new pump and pangasket,bearings are not the most comon wear items to cause oil pr loss. worn push rods worn cambrgs loose lifterbores, and mainbrgs rodbrgs. plus we stil do not know if we have low pressure.if the oilpump does not help then a comp overhaul is the answer, but run the thing to destruction which can be lots mor miles, you dont need high oil pressur to keep a old engin alive. 10ps at idel hot 25 at high idelif driven reasonably will live.
OK....cam bearings have the biggest effect of all the bearings on oil pressure. Have you ever re-placed your oil pressure sending unit? With 100K I would think it would be a good time to replace it. Sending units are cheap.....put a new one on and see how your guage reads then...if it does not come up then check it with a manual guage...some fittings a rubber hose and a manual guage will do it...Just install it in the hole that you take your oil sending unit out of.
I dunno if this will help any, but I wanted to add in any oil pressure gauge is not accurate below 20 psi. The 4.3 in my chevy pickup had 270,000 miles on it before I pulled it for a rebuild, why I did so then was since it was just starting to loose oil pressure and power but it never went down to zero. I would pull the sending unit and replace it, Clean the oil pressure bung it screws into as well. Many 4.3`s are gunked up with sludge, mine sure was when I got it, after time this stuff breaks loose, falls in the oil pan and is picked up by the oil pump screen which reduces oil pressure. I would check all these areas. Since you plan to pull the pan and if everything looks okay I would replace the timing chain, it`ll make a big difference power wise. If there is a considerable amount of sludge, give the engine a couple of baths of Sea Foam. All I did was pour in a can, run it about a week, then change the oil and filter.
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HUDSON -- In Hudson's 17-14 loss to Gulf last week, Cobras WR Jamie Tello had 10 catches for 91 yards and a touchdown.
But according to his coach, Tello didn't play his best.
"Actually, he didn't have a very good night for him," Hudson coach Mark Nash said. "And it was still a solid performance."
Translation: Nash thinks Tello, a transfer from Land O'Lakes who caught 20 passes for 243 yards in 2008, can be very, very good this season.
"He has the potential to be one of the best I've ever coached," Nash said. "He's got all the tools. He's got above-average speed, and he's the best route runner I've coached."
With Zack Wynn at QB, Hudson will throw it and catch it a lot.
That means Tello will have plenty of chances. For starters, at least.
"More and more teams will probably double cover him or scheme to him," Nash said.
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Tony Parker called it's a game that "could have gone either way." But with an ideal performance in the 2nd overtime, Parker made sure his Spurs came out on top.
Parker scored 6 of his 32 points in the 2nd OT, Tim Duncan had 26 and the Spurs beat Raptors 111-106, their 4th straight victory over the Raptors.
Duncan related no one was more vital to San Antonio's win than Parker, who made all 3 shots he took in the 2nd overtime and topped 30 points for the 2nd straight game. "He's our closer and he has been that way for the last couple of years," Duncan expounded. "He steps up and makes big shots for us. That's what we ask him to do and he's delivered for us."
Manu Ginobili scored 15 points; Danny Green had 13 and Boris Diaw 11 as the San Antonio Spurs won their 3rd straight and improved their NBA-best road record to 7-1.
"We show pride in winning on the road," Ginobili announced.
Parker made jump shots on consecutive possessions with less than 1 minute, 15 seconds left in the 2nd overtime as the Spurs held on.
"We had to work hard for this one," Parker declared.
Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich concluded not that he was happy about it.
"In a lot of ways, (Toronto) played better than we did," Popovich said. "They destroyed us on the boards. For almost all of the meat of the game they just threw it up there missed it and they'd go get it again. That kept them in the ballgame. We did a better job in the overtimes defensively and on the boards, and that got us over the hump."
DeMar DeRozan led Toronto with 29 points, while rookie Jonas Valanciunas had 21. Kyle Lowry scored 20 points and Ed Davis had 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Raptors, who've lost their past 3 games by a combined 7 points.
Toronto's Andrea Bargnani had a disappointing game, scoring 4 points and making only 2 of 19 field goal attempts.
"Today was certainly an especially bad night," Bargnani claimed, "maybe the worst."
Raptors coach Dwane Casey dismissed recommendations that he should have benched Bargnani, the 1st overall pick in the 2006 draft.
"I've got to go with Andrea," Casey said. "He's our guy."
Valanciunas calmly made free throws to tie the score at 88 with 24 seconds left in regulation. San Antonio gave the ball to Parker, who let the clock run down to 6 seconds, but almost turned it over as he drove. Parker's 3-point effort slid short, giving Toronto one-10th of a 2nd to try for the winning basket, but Bargnani's no-look shot went wide, sending the game to overtime.
Spurs led 92-90 on Duncan's dunk with less than 30 seconds left in the 1st overtime when a nasty by Parker gave possession to the Raptors. But Parker nicked Jose Calderon's inbounds pass and raced in for a layup, giving the San Antonio Spurs an 94-90 lead with 24 seconds left. NFL scores


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For regular indoor range talk with your eye doctor and get a pair of eyeglasses that meet impact requirements. For outdoor use get a set of impact resistent prescription sunglasses. I arranged with my eye doctor to go in with my carry pistol and got an eye prescription "tuned" to the front sight.
Both the Revisionware and ESS products exceed impact requirements. Both crimp peripheral vision more than I would like. While wearing a hat, both fog up a little. Changing the lens tint is not as convenient as I would like and the ESS maybe a little easier. Both get dirty in a high dust environment.
I am thinking of going with:
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for my next pair. Front sight in focus. EyePro is one area I refuse to stint on.


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2014 is one of the biggest hotel years we've seen since before the recession. New boutiques are popping up throughout the city, the international Soho House brand is coming to Chicago, and Richard Branson has chosen Chicago as a location for Virgin Hotels.
The Virgin Hotel folks are pretty tight lipped about the new property, but we know the new hotel will move into the Loop's Old Dearborn Bank Building (203 N. Wabash Ave.). The current plans will restore the architectural features of the 27-stoy building, while adding a bit of Virgin style to the historic art deco property.
The newest name to join Branson's Chicago team is Chef Rick Gresh. For seven years, Gresh served as the executive chef at Primehouse at the James Hotel. Chef Gresh's final day at Primehouse is June 1 and his first day with Virgin will be June 9.
The exact opening date is unknown but we're guessing sometime between mid-summer and early autumn. For more details on the new property, here's a helpful infographic from Virgin Hotels.


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I don't usually street race, but I couldn't resist it this time. I was monday night at 1am...
my gf and I are sitting at a light, about 1/8 mile ahead the 2 lanes merge into one. This black SLK 320 pulls up besides us, music blasting and 2 chicks in the front seat. They look at me and my car, whisper, laugh... OMGHI2U. Anyways, the light turns green and I drive normal, don't launch. They chirp the tires and gun it so I floor it. By the time boost built my front was at their rear wheel, at the end of first I had about half a car on them, end of second I had pulled another car length and a half. I shut down shortly after shifting into third because of the merger. They tailgate me until the next light when they get along beside me and give me a smile and the thumbs up. I give the thumbs up back, and my gf smacks me cause she thought I was flirting.
Good competition, nice race. It was the first real test with my rex. I am stock except for the grounding mod, and IC hoses. I think they drove stick because I heard their tires chirp when they went into second.
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Employee Cost - X-Plan
I just realized that my work place offers that X-Plan program, but I've purchased my Focus back in October 2012 already.
I think I negotiated a pretty good deal on my own, but just out of curiosity, how much of a savings is this X-Plan program? I got my 2012 SEL Focus for $20,500 before taxes.
I used x plan pricing on my '13 Titanium. The dealer told me that the mark-up on the focus isn't that big, so the savings versus somebody who walks in off the street and negotiates well was maybe only $400 or so.
They said the savings on an Edge or Explorer or other higher cost vehicle is much greater - maybe a few thousand.
E.X. sticker price 22,565, a/z price 20 and change before tax, -2000 for a rebate, and the out the door total was near to the price without the rebate due to the taxes.
I've got a Focus SE sedan with automatic, reverse sensing, sirius radio, keyless entry pad, and premium paint.
X Plan is $20,114
95% of MSRP.
Invoice is 94.7% of MSRP on this vehicle.
A/Z plan is $19,283
91.7% of MSRP.
$900 is $900 but still, complaining about $400 seems trivial to me. Just my .02 however. Plus how many people qualify for A/Z plan, not a lot here.
I'm not sure why people like fighting over $100.
It was closer to 4% + 150 over either a plan or over invoice for x plan, but still that can make the difference between going with a better equipped car or a more entry level model.
Here is how X and A plan pricing is calculated, so anyone can make an accurate comparison:
X plan = Dealer Invoice - (0.4% Dealer Invoice) + $275 administrative fee.
Easiest way to calculate X plan pricing is to total Dealer Invoice, multiply that by 0.996, add $275.
X plan "invoice" also includes any regional advertising fees charged to the dealer. These are legitimate charges and are simply passed through to the customer.
X plan sets the maximum limit on document fees (doc fees) to $75, but do check if your state/local law sets a lower maximum. The maximum dealer doc fee under X plan is whichever is less: $75 or your state/local law's maximum.
A plan is dealer invoice - advertising - holdback ( I believe currently 3% of msrp) + $275.00 administrative fee.
Limits on Dealer Documentation fees are the same as X plan.
Of course, any applicable rebates can be applied to either plan, but most bonus offers like the $500 or $750 coupon you may receive in a mailer cannot be combined with AXZD plans.
I sell cars, but not Ford products, but hopefully this clarifies things for you.
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