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I'm looking at getting a 09 328xi coupe and I just wanted to know if there is a
big difference (other than 0-60mph) in overall driving experience between the 328 and the 335
. Right now I have an 02 Camry which has around 157 hp so I think anything will be fast in comparison. I can afford the 328 but the 335 I'd be a bit tight on money. So I'd just like to hear your thoughts.
The very thought is absurd.
In truth, they are the same engine. One has valvetronic [328i] and the other turbos [335i].
Apples and oranges are, in the final analysis, both fruit.
Some say one if faster than the other, but that is often misinterpretation, depending on the driver and road conditions. Naked truth: Both vehicles sport exactly the same suspension and performance thereof.
One pays more for turbos. Do not be intimidated! Unless you wish to modify, you may not notice a difference. However, engine modification, on a 335i, will result in a much faster car at the cost of its warranty, invalidated.
We are interested in your decision - please post! And keep in mind that statistically, 328i is a more reliable machine.
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Denver Police slowdown captured in pictures: Kenny Be's Fotochop Friday
Signs of low morale are everywhere in the Denver Police Department.
After months of being criticized for their aggressive arrests and use of excessive force, Denver cops are trying to win back the trust of Denver citizens with a kinder, gentler, hands-off policing style.
A recent Denver Police Department audit shows that Denver's finest are initiating half as many investigations as performance-quotas require. Police Chief Gerry Whitman insists Denver cops are obligated to do their jobs, and that they are reducing public complaints about their performance simply by reducing public contact!
The photograph above shows how the police cars of District 6 will be modified to showcase the department's new work ethic. And all across the city, Denver police can be seen engaged in a new non-aggressive form of policing...
Denver Policeman Rose, Beiriger and Bedenbender look for suspicious andor unlawful activity.
Pictured above, Ofiicer James J. Rose, Officer Nathan Beiriger and Sergeant Dennis Bedenbender claim that the recent police department audit numbers are misleading. Making half as many stops allows an officer to spend twice the amount of time on an investigation. As seen below, Sergeant Marek Rykowski would rather be in hot water with suspects, than to be suspected by the public...
Sergeant Marek A. Rybkowski gives new residents some standard Hot Tub safety tips.
Sergeant Marek A. Rybkowski agrees that it is impossible to place performance quotas on good community policing. As shown above, even the length of a standard hot tub safety training session can vary depending on the trainee's interest, comprehension, number of hot tub pool toys, availability of snacks, beverage choices and gender. Motorcycle cops patrolling the Cherry Creek Mall have proven to be especially unproductive...
The secret is out, cops love to shop.
The favorite activities of Denver cops, like all cops, involve exercising authority over others and shopping. If they are doing less of the former, it probably means that they are doing more of the latter. And, in this time of massive city budget cuts, it is probably preferable to accept the less productive policemen as a means to save on settlement costs of excessive force lawsuits and encourage the extra sales tax income. Less productive police officers means more healthy police officers, as you'll see below...
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Subject: More on us Overstreets and the Indian thing
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:08:13 EST
The following was recently taken from information at the Bedford City museum
by "you all's" cousin Don Overstreet. If your from this line on Overstreet
or anyone having anything to contribute about this I like to hear from you
All from the Tree of James Overstreet b. 1740, John Overstreet b. 1774,
Charles Harrison Overstreet
James Overstreet b. abt 1740
m. May 31, 1767 Francis Eubank in Goochland, Co., VA. James made two claims
for public service during the Revolutionary War by renting wagons to the
Patriots. He served as an ensign in Capt. John Ware's Company Goochland
Militia 9-9-1777 and took his oath as1st. Lt. April 20 1778
James O 4th child was John Overstreet b. 1774 in Goochland Co., VA d. 8-21-53
at the home of his daughter Mary Overstreet in Bedford, VA m. 10-4-1797
Nancy Jeter (who had previously been married to Phillips) b. abt 1769 d. aft
1850. They had 8 children. John O. purchased land on and around Suck Mt in
NE Bedford Co.
John O first child Tilman J. Overstreet (listed as Tilghman and Tillman, or
Tilman as per his signature on a marriage license and from where your cousin
the undersigned descended) . b. abt 1802 in Bedford. VA d. June 3. 1878 in
Giles Co, VA m. Nancy Stanley 12-12-1828 b. abt 1812 in Bedford, VA d. after
1880 in Giles Co. Va living with her son Henry J. Overstreet and daughter
Martha Overstreet as per 1880c.
And Charles Harrison Overstreet b. 9-7-1800 4th child of John and Nancy
Overstreet m. 8-10-1827 to Mary Newman daughter to Arthur Newman, Sr. and
Lucy CREASY that lived in Western Bedford Co.
About 1832 Charles Harrison Overstreet and his older brother Tilman J.
Overstreet obtained a joint land grant for 153 1/4 acres on the south side of
Headforemost Mt. which is one of the Blue Ridge Peaks across the little
valley north of Suck Mt. In 1837 they sold it to Zachariah Wheat.
Overstreet Creek ran through the valley and today it is known as Wheat
Valley. Charles H. and Mary Overstreet had 8 children Wm. Henry, Ann
Lucinda, Charles Arthur "Pomp", Sarah P, Mary Francis, Perlina M, Amanda D,
and Martha P.
Remember all this and now we got to a family named Ruff.
About 1790 Joseph Ruff appears in the Bedford area. His father was Thomas
and was involved in the
Revolutionary War. Joseph was b. in 1774 per 1859 census. He bought 30
acres of land on Goose Creek in 1799 and sold it in 1810. In 1807 he bought
a 50 acre tract on the South side of Taylor's Mt. on the headwaters of
present day Camp Creek and moved there and lived until he died in 1850. All
records of Joseph Ruff and his children show them as black, free black, or
mulatto. There is no record of a free black named Ruff in the free slave
register book for Bedford Co. There is no record of any marriage for Joseph
Ruff or any of his children. The record at the museum refers to pictures of
the Ruff's as being dark skinned, straight black hair, and high cheek bones
or characteristics of Indians. Cherokee in particular since Cherokee Indians
were in this area moving westward to western N. Carolina and North Georgia
around present day Cherokee, NC. in early 1800's. In 1838 Congress voted to
remove all Indians east of the Mississippi River to OK. It was better to
call one's self black than to risk being jerked from your house and sent to
OK. (now some people volunteer to go to OK to live :-) and for free, some
preferring to live there over GA) About 1805 Joseph Ruff and Catherine
"Kathy" Boblitz (later Boblett) were taken to court for living together out
of wedlock. They could not legally marry if he was in all probability
Indian. They probably had 5 children. sons James b. 1810 and David b. 1807.
James had two 2 mates. First was Mary Lewellyn. James and Mary were
summoned to court for adultery in 1836 and the case was never settled. The
actual charges read "living together in adultery under a pretended marriage.
Apparently Mary died abt. 1840 and James had a new mate Emmiline in 1840.
Similar charges were filed against David and his mate Nancy Blankinship.
James and Mary had at least 4 children and James and Emmiline had 7 children.
James and Mary's 3rd daughter Violitta was b. in 1832 and became the mate of
William Henry Overstreet b. abt 1829 son of Charles Harrisson Overstreet and
Nancy Newman previously mentioned as brother of Tilman J Overstreet both
owning property in Wheat Valley near Suck Mt. in Bedford Co, VA. The problem
was they could not marry because of the Indian marriage thing. Apparently
they were known at the Bedford courthouse. They were married in Roanoke, VA
35 miles to the west of Bedford on 1-6-1852. They both claimed there parents
were white. Then moved back to Taylor's Mt. in Bedford Co.
Perlina M "Paulina Perline" Overstreet b. abt 1838 and brother of William
Henry Overstreet previously mentioned was the mate of Wm. Hopkins "Hoss"
Ruff. Son of David Ruff and his mate Nancy Blankinship previous mentioned.
On 1-31-1856 they went to Roanoke and were married. However "Hoss" Ruff took
his mothers last name Blankinship and they returned to Taylor's Mt. as Mr. &
Mrs Blankinship. During the following 10 years they had 3 maybe 4 children,
Samuel Thomas b 1-1-1857, Mary Ann b. 11-1- 1858, Lee H. b. abt 1864 and Wm.
H b. abt 1866. Lee H. and Wm H. may be the same. Abt 1864 Hoss Ruff or
Blankinship died and his wife Perlina reverted back to Overstreet. Samuel
Thomas records indicate he used Ruff but mostly Overstreet. Mary Ann used
Blankinship (Ruff/Overstreet) when she married Charles Lewis Overstreet in
1892, son of Charles "Pomp" Overstreet and Phoebe Ann "Lucy" Carter. Wm. H.
used Blankinship when he married Eliza Trent on 1883.
Apparently these native American Indians used more than one name. Especially
if they wanted to be part of the main stream way of life of the white man
that was taking over their land.
>From what I have been able to determine from research records at the Bedford
museum the Taylor's Mt. area has been an area of where even to this day the
locals are hesitant to talk about the marriage or absent of marriages of
several families marrying cousins or not marrying because of the native
American thing with children being born out of wed lock. Because of Public
opinion of the Western thing between the cowboys and Indians it just wasn't
practical to acknowledge an Indian ancestry. (Remember how John Wayne won
the West, the same John Wayne that won WW 2) Then along comes "Pomp"
Overstreet becoming prominent on Taylor's Mt. pushing the families of
Taylor's Mt. to "legitimate" these families by obtaining legal marriage. It
would have started in his own Overstreet family.
All those creeks and hollows around Taylor's Mt. there has bount to have been
a few moon shine still's. That's another story and I'm sure none of our
Overstreet's have been involved with such nasty tasting stuff.
Cousin Don O
?, James, John, Tilman J, Silas C., Silas A., William, Don, Denny, The END
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|Season starts anew for Eagles
|Joseph Elerson | News-Telegram Sports Writer
Nov. 12, 2004 - COMO - Saturday afternoon will be a whole new ball game for the Como-Pickton Eagles when bi-district round action begins in the Class 2A Division II state playoffs at Sam Parker Field in Mount Pleasant.
The Eagles, as the No. 3 seed in 17-2A (4-2 in district) will suit up against the No. 2 seed Omaha Paul Pewitt Brahmas (6-0 in District 18-2A) as both teams finished regular season play with identical 8-2 overall records.
After a 1-9 season last year under head coach Joe Ryzman in his first season, the only losses for the Eagles this season came against fellow playoff members in Quitman and Edgewood.
The previous three years, Como-Pickton made it into the playoffs only to be knocked out in the first round each year, and Ryzman hopes that scenario does not happen again this season.
"We have our hands full with Paul Pewitt and all of my focus has been on Paul Pewitt and containing the speed that they have over there. Their skill positions are very fast and their fullback is very powerful," Ryzman said. "I am just focusing on stopping Paul Pewitt offensively and being able to have our team move the ball well offensively, and we will worry about round two when round two gets here."
The winner of Saturday's contest will face the winner of the Hawkins Hawks (5-5) and the Garrison Bulldogs (9-1) match-up being played Saturday in Gladewater in the area round of the playoffs next week.
Paul Pewitt is led by juniors Teric Williams at quarterback along with running back Jessie Harrison for the majority of their offense, according to Ryzman, and they will be key players for the C-P defense to try and contain throughout the contest.
"You are going to try and contain those players, and you have got to stop the plays that they run and have success with, but just like our offense you don't contribute all of the success to just the running backs but a lot of success to the offensive line and the same goes for Paul Pewitt," Ryzman said.
Ryzman said he believes if C-P can stop their offensive line throughout the game then he feels that the Eagles will have a chance to pull out the victory even though the Harris Ratings has them as 21-point underdogs.
"Their offensive line is very quick off the line of scrimmage and very aggressive and a lot of the success that their skill kids have at Pewitt is because of their offensive line, so we have got to start with the offensive line and we have got to neutralize them in order to stop these guys," the coach said.
Last season, Williams passed only 62 times during an 8-5 regional finalist season and Ryzman knows from what he has seen on film that they will use their running game with three key players.
"They don't pass the ball much offensively and they run the ball a lot. They have three players that really carry the load for them - their slot back in Harrison, quarterback Williams, and their fullback," the coach said. "They will try to stretch it on the outside with their speed and then they will pound it up the middle with their fullback."
During the regular season, both teams averaged over 30 points per game with C-P putting up 36.2 ppg., while Pewitt averaged 33.2 ppg., and Ryzman believes the offense and defensive units will be able to do the job they have been doing throughout the year.
"Whether it is going to be an offensive shoot-out between two teams or a defensive struggle, that is really hard to say before you get into an actual ball game. You are playing a different opponent than you have been playing all year, but our defense has played tough all year and I expect them to play tough Saturday," the coach said. "Our offense has been able to move the ball all year and I expect the same thing out of them on Saturday."
The Eagles will have the duo of senior running back Tyrin Porter (163-1,452-17 TD) and junior Ray Hayden (95-1,053-18 TD) for the majority of their running game Saturday as they have taken on the load this season in the backfield.
Ryzman said from what he has seen on film, the Brahmas' defense is quick and their nose guard could cause problems Saturday for the CPHS offensive line.
Defensively, Paul Pewitt has given up 13.9 ppg. this season, and 12.5 ppg. in district play, while CPHS has given up 17.5 ppg. and 10.3 ppg. in district.
During the regular season, the Eagles had 21 turnovers and 66 penalties, and Ryzman said those areas need to be cut to a minimum for them to pick up the win and move on to the area round.
Quitman, as the Division I team in 17-2A, will play Hughes Springs tonight in bi-district action in Gladewater, while Edgewood, as the top seed in Division II, suits up against Linden-Kildare Saturday at 6 p.m. in Longview at Pine Tree High School.
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Nirvana's 'Nevermind' Turns 20 [VIDEO]
This week I have done several posts that celebrate the anniversary of some of the biggest albums of all time. Yesterday it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" that I posted about. Tomorrow (September 24) is the 20 year anniversary of the release date for this classic album. Tomorrow is also the anniversary for the release of what is maybe one of the greatest albums of all time. More after the jump.
That's right — it's hard to believe that two albums of such magnitude were release 20 years ago tomorrow – on the same exact day. In addition to the Chili Peppers was Nirvana's "Nevermind." MTV spoke with Chili Peppers Bassist, Flea, where he tells them that a bands like Nirvana only come around once in a lifetime:
So many hits came from Nirvana's "Nevermind" that it's hard to single out just one song. I have to go with the first single release off the album. It turned the world upside down and became an anthem for a generation! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit."


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Art Deco and Other Figures, 2nd Edition (9781851493821): Bryan Catley: Books
As a lover of all things Deco and Neauveax, this book is filled with scuptures more than its history. Sorry that I'm not a women who believes in Valentines Day. I'll just have to wait until I can afford to purchase this one myself.


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Pete Kotz
February 29, 2008 at 1:57PM
There was a time when Michael Kaminski was making headlines as the guitarist of Cop Shoot Cop, an NYC three-piece whose dark, jazzy dirges landed them spots on MTV's Headbanger's Ball and tours with Iggy Pop. Now Kaminski is simply getting ink for being a total idiot.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 12:12PM
To most Clevelanders, sneakers are those things that protect your feet from dog crap and syringes. But to a select, slightly demented few, sneakers are life itself.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 11:57AM
Every Friday, Scene calendar editor Cris Glaser provides a random but reliable sampling of things to do this weekend. For more options, log onto entertainment.clevescene.com.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 11:16AM
After what seemed like an eternity of remodeling, the taps are flowing again on the corner of West 117th Street and Clifton Boulevard, where Score has finally unlocked its doors to reveal a sports-bar vibe, anchored by a ginormous bowling-pin-shaped punching bag in the middle of the club. Yesterday, the club worked out the last of its opening-day kinks as a chorus line of barmaids served cocktails and bottled beer to a predominantly neighborhood clientèle in the old City Place restaurant, which closed in the fall.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 11:03AM
Que Tal, Que Tal, oh how you will be missed. Sure, we enjoyed visiting you for a lunch or dinner of taco-y goodness, with your selection of fresh ingredients and snappy service.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 10:18AM
Tim "Ripper" Owens – the Beyond Fear/former Judas Priest-Iced Earth vocalist who recently signed on with guitar hero Yngwie Malmsteen – still has room on his roster for you … if you have the chops. Sunday, March 2, a real-life rock-band contest kicks off at Sadie Rene's (7200 Whipple Avenue NW, North Canton, 330-499-8246).
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 9:56AM
Alternative Press, the Cleveland-based music mag, shows admirably little local bias, aside from hiring a couple local hacks to write now and then, present company included. But three homegrown acts get the spotlight in the April issue, which includes its annual industry tip sheet, the 100 Bands You Need to Know list.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 9:52AM
The first time we saw the Hives was probably similar to most U.S. fans' initial experience with the rockin' Swedes: It was during the Veni Vidi Vicious tour in 2002, and they were playing to a packed club. A very hot and sweaty packed club.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 9:44AM
Writer Chuck Klosterman made a name for himself by breaking out of the Akron Beacon Journal with the heavy metal memoir Fargo Rock City. The hilarious, insightful book established the Minneapolis native as a sort-of Hunter S. Thompson with pretentious glasses, a guy who can write about himself while (usually) addressing something larger.
Joe Tone
February 29, 2008 at 6:12AM
Hot on the trail of a book deal and a new Food Network gig, Cleveland's Iron Chef Michael Symon (Lola, Lolita) is seeking your input. At least, that's what he claims on his blog, Symon Says, where a recent posting includes the skinny on such topics as his pending move to Shaker Heights, his upcoming cook book (tentatively titled Symon Says, 'Live to Cook'), and his pitch to the Food Network for an "edgy but educational" cooking show.
Pete Kotz
February 29, 2008 at 5:35AM
With Alex Arshinkoff's last day on the Summit County Board of Elections fast approaching, the local GOP is busy trying to find the gay godfather's successor. Last week, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner refused to reappoint Arshinkoff to his seat, citing numerous complaints from board workers who claimed that Arshinkoff is a divisive and manipulative leader.
Joe Tone
February 28, 2008 at 2:13PM
An anonymous caller left a voicemail about our recent story on Joe Cimperman's Congressional campaign, "Dumping Dennis." His take on the whole thing is pretty self-explanatory, unless you don't understand sarcasm, in which case, parts of the following will be very confusing. Yes, I'm calling about the article about Dennis Kucinich, "Dumping Dennis." I believe that you guys have it all wrong, and that Cimperman, he's the one that abandoned the homeless downtown, and he's in the pocket of Sam Miller.
Joe Tone
February 28, 2008 at 1:54PM
Between now and next week, the face of the Cleveland Browns could be a lot prettier and way less into fishing. Today, the Browns and Derek Anderson failed to reach an agreement on a long-term deal that would keep the Moose in town past next season.
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February 28, 2008 at 1:31PM
If you see throngs of sobbing women draped in long black veils today, rest assured they are not mourning the death of William F. Buckley — as sad as that may be. No, they've just heard much worse news: Drew Carey, Cleveland's most eligible bachelor, is no longer on the market.
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February 28, 2008 at 1:24PM
The flier on the wall at the gay-friendly Twist says it all about tonight's drag-show-of-sorts: "Take a cup of cabaret, add a teaspoon of jazz, pour in a pinch of the blues, and top it off with a drop of humor." And what do you get? The "often silly, indefinably unique" Lounge Kitty.
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February 28, 2008 at 1:16PM
You've got to hand it to a band that's been jamming for 26 years and still manages to sound funny and quirky while singing about atomic particles and Istanbul. When They Might Be Giants kicked off their latest tour last night at the Beachland, all their trademark enthusiasm and weirdness was in full swing.
Joe Tone
February 28, 2008 at 1:03PM
This just in: The Warped Tour is coming back to the Time Warner Cable Amphitheater on July 17. As usual, there are far too many bands to list.
Joe Tone
February 28, 2008 at 1:00PM
Break out the eyeliner and get ready to pout like a little girl! The Cure are coming to the Wolstein Center in June.
Joe Tone
February 28, 2008 at 11:21AM
Ever since Jerry Garcia joined that great gig in the sky, dirty hippies with too much time on their hands have been looking for a band to replace the Grateful Dead. For a while, Phish were the tokers' group of choice to follow around the country.
Joe Tone
February 28, 2008 at 10:48AM
Tim "Ripper" Owens – the former Judas Priest replacement singer, current Beyond Fear frontman, and recently dismissed Iced Earth vocalist – just landed a new gig with guitar icon Yngwie J. Malmsteen.
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Familiar face to lead Norwin boys soccer team this season
It has been more than 10 years since Scott Schuchert was an all-WPIAL player for Norwin, but he never distanced himself from the school or its soccer program.
Now he's going to be almost as close to the action as he was in his playing days as he prepares to lead the Knights as the team's new coach, replacing Kevin Chitester who resigned for personal reasons earlier this year. He is also the second Schuchert on the school's coaching directory as his brother Todd is the varsity wrestling coach.
"It was pretty easy because the athletic director (Randy Rovesti) and the other coaches made it real easy to stay organized and accommodate other sports. It made for an easy transition," Schuchert said. "Plus, I've been involved with the wrestling program, and being affiliated with Norwin for a while I had the wherewithal coming in and I knew what to expect."
Schuchert takes over one of the most successful programs in Westmoreland County, a perennial Section 1 championship contender and WPIAL Class AAA playoff performer that did well under Chitester's reign. Last season, though, the Knights finished a half-game behind Kiski Area for the section title and lost a disappointing 2-1 decision at Pine-Richland in the opening round of the playoffs.
It was the school's earliest postseason exit since losing in the first round to Baldwin in 2007. It is a loss that rankles the returning Knights and is motivation as they head into their season opener 8 p.m. Friday against Seneca Valley at the Intersection Kickoff Tournament at Chartiers Valley.
It's also a loss they can quickly avenge as the Knights host Pine-Richland in their home opener Sept. 4.
"That was a big game and lot of those guys are my buddies, and I heard it from them all last season," Norwin senior midfielder Nate Andreyko said. "Me and all my teammates are looking forward to that game, and it's going to be a good game, but we have to keep working hard every practice."
That kind of impetus will go a long way toward driving Norwin's goal of winning its first outright section title since 2009. So, too, will a solid returning cast, including Andreyko, senior forward Matt Henry and senior defender Jaison Victor.
About the only question mark for Norwin may be in goal. Senior Gene Grzebyk is back with the team, but he's being treated with kid gloves after he suffered a concussion in the postseason loss to Pine-Richland. Grzebyk is working out with the Knights, but there is no timetable for his return, which leaves their defensive posture a bit uncertain.
"It's been a struggle getting him healthy even after a year and an ongoing day-by-day monitoring thing with him," Schuchert said. "He was supposed to be one of the best goaltenders in the WPIAL, so that is going to be a hurdle."
Still, even with a new coach, uncertainty in the net and the addition of Franklin Regional to the section after the biennial WPIAL realignment, Norwin retains its typical expectations.
"Obviously, our goal is to win our first game of the season and we'll talk after that," Schuchert said. "Down the road the goal is to win our section, to dominate our section, and be the top dog of the section. And it starts with that first game."
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Slightly improved customer service than last year!: Celebrity Summit Cruise Review by docoliver
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Slightly improved customer service than last year!
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: San Juan
The good: Angus Burgers in the Pool Area most afternoons. The Spa was awesome and the massages outstanding. The personal trainers are always awesome and provide good Yoga, Pilates, Spinning and Boot Camp Classes. The wine selection is good and the prices not bad. The Cellar Masters area is nice, the Bistro on 5 has good selection of healthy food and crepes (did that around 5 times during the cruise). The customer service was much friendlier and more attentive to your likes and dislikes than the previous year. You can find good food in the ship but you have to pay for it. If you are up to the cover charge in Quisine and Normandie, you will have a nice dinning experience. The Maitre D in Normandie "Mario" did all in his charge to make us feel More great. He prepared Steak Diane and Crepes Suzette (out of the menu). We ate in Normandie 3 times and in Quisine 2 times. The service, well not 100% there but probably the best the ship has to offer. I really enjoyed myself thanks to Mario the wonderful Maitre D who pulled his tricks to make one happy.
The Bad: Well,the Cosmopolitan (Main) Restaurant is a shame. Bad presentation, most dishes taste like the food was taken out of a $5 all you can eat buffet. The best dish I had was a special Indian dinner that they specially prepared for us during good Friday (special request), tasted like a meal in an original Indian restaurant. I guess that if they have chefs from India on board perhaps they should allow them to do what they know best and they would have acceptable meals. But my guess is that they are having chefs in charge of the Polenta who have no clue what that would taste like in Milano. If you want to eat something acceptable you have to pay and go to Quisine and Normandie, that is a shame for Celebrity (not surprising as the mother company is RCCL).
The ugly: The bathroom toilette clogged 3 times out of nowhere; they fixed it within one hour. A cabin attendant entered 3 times without knocking (our standard attendants were a charm and respectful) this was probably someone new. There was an eternal bad smell on the cabin bathroom (like sea weed). The public bathrooms were always dirty. As usual, some people with bad attitude (as you may find everywhere in life) only that Seabourn tends to fire people like that, I guess!!!
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LCB specialists uncork wisdom of wine at shops
Megan Painter pours an ounce of pinot noir into a small plastic cup and explains that a red wine from Burgundy, France, will always be pinot noir.
As Painter works the tasting bar at the wine and spirits store on Northern Pike in Monroeville, some customers address her by name, asking what she's tasting this week and how much it costs.
Painter's job as one of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's 68 wine specialists is part educator and part investigator.
Wearing green aprons emblazoned with "wine specialist," these experts, stationed at 64 stores statewide, answer questions, offer recommendations, host weekly wine tastings and compile email newsletters detailing new products and drink recipes.
They often have to decipher what a shopper is seeking with fragments of information about a brand they liked or something they want to give as a gift.
"It's like a fun game to hit the bull's-eye, because everyone has a different target," Painter says.
At a recent tasting, Painter chose two Burgundy wines, one red and one white, to illustrate that French wines are named for their region of origin, not what's in the bottle.
"(Customers) learn, and they're more apt to try it," says Painter, 33, who's worked for the LCB since 2001 in stores and in the agency's Harrisburg headquarters as a wine buyer.
The retail wine specialist program, which began in July 2012, aims to assist and teach customers about wine, says Dale Horst, the LCB's director of retail operations. Wine specialists will soon be placed in eight more stores, including the Ben Franklin South store in White Township, Indiana County.
"(Tastings) give customers the opportunity to try flavor profiles and wines from different areas they may not normally buy and different quality levels and price points," Horst says.
Wine specialists are civil-service positions with salaries ranging from mid-$30,000s to mid-$50,000s. They undergo at least three LCB training courses and can opt to take courses by the Society of Wine Educators to become a Certified Specialist of Wine and Certified Specialist of Spirits. Experts also can elect to take the French Wine Society's course to earn a French Wine Scholar credential, Horst says.
Some of the wine specialists have developed a following; Painter estimates her email newsletters go out to more than 1,500 people.
Dawn Harkett, 55, of Plum says she attends the tastings every Friday and comes back to the Northern Pike store because of Painter.
"She knows her stuff. She knows what to recommend," Harkett says. "It's as close to a privatized (system) as you're gonna get."
Jerry Metallo, the wine specialist at the Cranberry Mall state store, has his regulars, too. One customer brings his own wine glass to tastings on Mondays and Wednesdays, Metallo says.
Wine specialists can choose four bottles of wine, up to $40 per bottle each, to offer at tastings, Metallo says. His email blast goes out to some 700 customers who have signed up.
"It's a great way to keep up with customers who are really involved with what we do," says Metallo, 43, of Aspinwall. As a struggling actor, Metallo worked in a wine store in Manhattan before moving back to the Pittsburgh area, where he worked for a winery and later ran a wine bar in Wexford.
When he's not assisting customers, Metallo says he's deciding what premium wines to order and writing display signs with wine ratings and tasting notes.
"You order what you can sell, what your customer base will go for," Metallo says.
Shoppers at his store are diverse. He says he recently had a young Croatian couple come in looking for Croatian wines and, luckily, he had just been to a training and tasting organized by the LCB where he selected some Croatian wines for his store.
When customers come back to say a wine Metallo recommended made their date night or party, it makes it all worthwhile, he says.
"On a small scale, I feel like I'm doing some good," Metallo says. "I'm not curing cancer ... but I like coming to work every day."
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A Putnam County outdoor advertising company would receive up to $233,000 a year in profit on ads it sells on Westchester County parkland along the South and North County trailways, according to income projections.
Under the deal struck with Friends of the Park, Bikepath Country would receive 70 percent of the proceeds, after expenses, for the ads it sells on directional signs and mile markers. The signs will feature corporate logos and information every half-mile along the 36-mile former railroad right-of-way.
Tax Watch calculated Bikepath Country's profits after speaking with Joe Stoudt, executive director of Friends of Parks, which has the private outdoor-advertising company under contract. Stoudt estimates Westchester would receive between $80,000 and $100,000 a year for trail maintenance, based on its 30 percent share of the ad proceeds, after BikePath Country's expenses.
That would leave BikePath Country with profits ranging between $186,000 and $233,000 a year. The company would also be paid for its expenses to manufacture, install, and maintain the signs.
The corporate advertisement could comprise just 10 percent of a sign, significantly smaller than the example provided by Bikepath Country, shown in the picture above.
"They are reputable, they are local, and it's going to be a significant amount of money for the county," Stoudt said. "It's a good public-private partnership."
Bikepath President Ivan Bellotto did not return a phone message left at his office on Friday.
Legislators in Westchester and Putnam counties are wary of the partnership, and the prospect of having ads festooned on signs throughout Westchester parks and woodlands in Putnam County. Their comments followed Friday's Tax Watch column about the plans underway by Westchester and Putnam counties to turn over their sign programs for the North and South County Trailways in Westchester, and the Putnam Trailway in Putnam, to the private company.
Westchester County legislators on Tuesday will learn about the county Parks Department's advertising plan in one of Westchester's most popular parks.
County Legislator Catherine Borgia, D-Ossining, said she'll hear from parks officials at the Government Operations Committee on Tuesday at 10 a.m., at the Michaelian Office Building, 148 Martine Ave, White Plains, NY 10601.
Borgia told Tax Watch that she'd been unaware of plans hatched by the county Department of Parks and Recreation to put up new signs along the 14 mile-long South County Trailway and 22-mile North County Trailway.
"I wish we didn't have to learn about this from the newspaper," said Borgia.
Two of Westchester's best-known hikers – Jane and Walt Daniels of Yorktown – said they were disturbed to learn of the advertising program on the trailways, which stretch 47 miles from the Bronx border in Yonkers to Brewster in Putnam County.
The Daniels are co-authors of the book, Walkable Westchester, first published in 2009, with a second edition expected this fall.
"The signs will be an intrusion on the natural environment, and they just don't belong there," said Walt Daniels.
His wife, Jane, said she goes on the Trailway to get away from the commercial world.
"When I go in to the woods, I don't want to see ads," she said.
In Westchester, Friends of the Parks Executive Director Stoudt said his nonprofit organization has a contract with the Department of Parks and Recreation to replace all signage on the North and South County trailways. The Friends, in turn, have a contract with Bikepath Country, giving the private company the exclusive right to do the signage, Stoudt said.
In Putnam, there's a 50-50 split, under a contract getting drawn up in Putnam County. Bikepath plans to charge Putnam trailway advertisers $200 to $400 a month for ads on informational signs and mile markers – installed every half-mile. The company has political connections in Republican circles. Its vice president, Rich O'Keefe, served on the Carmel Town Board, where his sister, Suzi, an aide to state Sen. Greg Ball, now serves.
County legislators Sam Oliverio, D-Putnam Valley, and Dini LoBue, R-Mahopac, told Tax Watch they oppose the advertising program on Putnam's 11-mile section of the former right-of-way of the New York Central Railroad's Putnam division. It's unclear whether the ad program will have to pass muster with the nine-member board.
"They came to us almost two years ago, and we turned it down," said LoBue. "Everybody felt it wasn't needed. They were creating a need that didn't exist so a for-profit company could succeed."
Southeast Town Board member Lynne Eckhardt noted the irony in the fact that the town of Southeast bans new billboards, with its current billboards to be phased out by 2017. The county, meanwhile, wants to put up outdoor advertising along the off-road Putnam route, which begins at Drewville Road and Route 6 in Southeast, near Brewster village.
"Ironically the same towns that recently phased out billboards will now be subjected to advertising along their beloved and well-traveled rail trail," said Eckhardt. "This is simply a terrible idea. If we must underwrite maintenance costs there are better, more creative and more aesthetic ways to do so."
But Putnam Planning Commissioner Anthony Ruggiero says the signs will be a real asset to the county.
"It will be very positive," he said. "I know there was concern with sign pollution. But I think the signs are tastefully done."
Walt Daniels said the signs will be inappropriate, regardless of the way they look.
"Anything every half-mile will be intrusive," he said. "There's got to be somewhere left in our communities where you can go and not get pounded by this stuff."
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Because of its importance, 'early childhood education' is a much researched and widely discussed topic. Many are of the opinion that if the development of a child's fundamental skills and abilities are impaired from the start, it can grossly affect the child's learning potential in the future and the damage may even last a lifetime. As a result of this concern various organizations have sprouted all over the country advocating early childhood education. The more prominent of these organizations are listed below.
The NAYEC has almost 80,000 members with a national network of 300 affiliates. Dedicated to working in behalf of children through 8 years of age, NAEYC sets the standards for programs and teachers involved in early childhood education. With its large membership and clout they are able to influence the government's policy direction on matters pertaining to early childhood education such as funding for early childhood programs, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and the re-authorization of the Child Care & Development Block Grant.
NAEYC sets the standards and norms for early childhood education programs and issues the proper accreditation to programs meeting these standards.
Heralded as champions of children and families, the Parent as Teachers serves as a model for home visiting programs aimed at enhancing the school readiness of children by reaching out to them during their critical formative years. They develop curricula for early childhood development and train other professionals how to work with parents to promote the healthy development of the child and prepare them for school.
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If you are using Bootstrap grid check this, otherwise just google "CSS breakpoints".
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So Lubos, if i want to apply new styling according to the breakpoints i found in the link you provided, then i will have to edit the bootstrap.css file because other than that i will have to use a lot of !important in my own stylesheet which is not good.
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Hello themeforesters, i will like to know what techniques and media queries do you use for making responsive designs. I will like to know whether you target specific devices or you continually minimize your browser width and then handle that Finally is it good to use the !important keyword in your css files? Thank You.
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The life stages of a Parrot
Parrots go through some very bizarre stages of life. As a parrot owner you need to know what these are so they don't catch you by surprise.
Every species of parrot is unique but there are many similarities across species that will be discussed generally here. Keep in mind that not everything mentioned in this article will apply to your particular bird.
Baby Parrots
Parrots start their lives inside of eggs. Most eggs are laid in the hollow of a tree and are incubated by the parents until they hatch. In captivity, some breeders incubate eggs with artificial heat away from the parents.
The typical parrot hatchling breaks out of its shell completely naked and blind. The chick either depends on its parents to regurgitate food for it to eat, or for a human breeder to inject warm parrot formula into its mouth. This is usually done with a needleless syringe. The content of the formula varies from species to species but is designed to simulate the half digested food that the natural parents would feed the chick.
Imprinting in parrots
As a baby parrot begins to open its eyes, imprinting occurs. Imprinting is a psychological term used to describe the process by which a baby learns who its parents are. Birds typically accept the first moving animal or thing that they see as their parent. Once imprinting has occurred, a strong bond is formed. If the bird is being hand fed by a human, the bird will assume the human to be its parent.
Unlike dogs and other fully domestic animals, birds have a strong instinctual fear of humans. Imprinting is a sort of psychological loophole that can be used to bypass this natural fear. Traditionally, breeders who are raising parrots for the pet trade will imprint the birds to humans and not allow them to have contact with their real parents. This makes the birds more likely to be tame as they are introduced and sold to their new owners.
Some breeders believe that this sort of imprinting causes psychological damage to the animals which can manifest itself in the form of future behavior problems. These breeders prefer to let the natural parents raise the chicks but will see that the chicks have constant positive contact with humans so that they are properly tamed.
Wild caught birds or any birds that were raised by their parents with no human contact are difficult but not impossible to tame. Imprinting can't be used after a bird has already imprinted to its proper parents so a bird tamer has to use positive reinforcement to tame the bird. This usually takes a lot of time and consistent effort.
Fledgling Parrots
A fledgling is a parrot that is just getting ready to start flying or that has begun flying but is still dependent on its parents for food and protection.
Some people clip bird's wings before they learn to fly, others clip them after, and I prefer not to clip them at all. As you can imagine, there is a lot of debate about when wings should be clipped, how they should be clipped, and if they should ever even be clipped at all.
Many breeders claim that learning to fly is an important step in a parrot's psychological development. These people say that if you clip a parrot's wings before he learns to fly you will cause the bird to develop confidence issues and extreme phobias later on in life.
Though you may be able to debate this argument due to a lack of well documented evidence, there is no doubt that wing clipping before fledging does lead to a fear of flight. Most parrots that never learned to fly as fledglings will never learn to fly as adults even when their clipped feathers grow back in.
Weaning Parrots
Many parrots will begin to stop feeding their young after they are fully fledged. Once the bird can properly fly it is expected to find its own food. In captivity a breeder will start weaning a fledgling by slowly introducing new solid foods to the bird until it no longer needs to eat formula. This process should only be done by a trained breeder because there is a high risk of malnutrition or even starvation during this process.
Juvenile Parrots
Once a parrot has been fledged and fully weaned onto an adult diet, it can usually fend for itself in the wild. In captivity it is now safe to be sold at this age. A young parrot like this is usually very accepting of new people and new situations and is at a good age to be re-homed.
Depending on the species, juvenile parrots may have different colored feathers than adult parrots. Feather colors can only change by molting the old ones and then growing new ones. It may take a young parrot several molts before it gets its full adult colors.
Parrot Puberty
When we talk about parrot puberty we are talking about when the animal becomes sexually mature. The age that this transition takes place varies from species to species and can vary according to the animal's gender as well.
Most parrots go through a significant personality change as they become sexually mature, some of these changes are temporary and only occur during breeding season (which also varies from species to species). In the wild, parrots who want to breed will have to find and defend their nesting spots. In captivity they may become aggressive and territorial.
Parrots pair up with a mate during breeding season and if your bird doesn't have another parrot to fall in love with, he just might fall in love with you. Parrots that are never exposed to other parrots during childhood can become sexually imprinted to humans which means that they will think they are supposed to mate with people and can actually reject other parrots as potential mates.
If your bird falls in love you, he (or she) may become extremely aggressive toward other people and may do strange things with you. Love struck parrots regurgitate food and offer it for you to eat, they may also try making love with your hand or pressing their back up against you inviting you to mate.
Be careful not to sexually stimulate your parrot by touching your bird around the vent and lower back, encouraging your bird to regurgitate food for your, or letting your bird rub itself on you. If you stimulate your bird, the bird's attraction to you will solidify and things can get really strange really quick. Can you say awkward?
If a female is over stimulated she can lay eggs which can be a horrible health risk. The eggs won't be fertile but they still take a lot of energy to produce and your parrot can suffer and even die from malnutrition.
Sex is confusing for a captive bird and sexual frustration can cause your parrot to display a wide range of behavior problems from screaming to feather plucking. Be patient with your poor little bird. He's confused and you would be too if you were taken away from your kind at birth without ever truly understanding what type of animal you were.
Sexually related behavior problems can be fixed with careful training or by simply waiting them out. Parrots tend to calm down when breeding season ends. If you keep your bird active and well socialized with a large group of people, he or she can be mentally healthy and fairly friendly even through these difficult times.
Adulthood for Parrots
Adult parrots, those who have been sexually mature for several seasons, tend to calm down as they age. Many people report that their adult birds don't like to travel or try new things the way they used to when they were young. If they have been properly socialized they can become very docile and loving. Old and well tamed parrots can still be a bit unpredictable but tend make fairly good family pets or visitors to schools and hospices.
In captivity some species of parrot can live to be 80 or 90 years old. In the wild a bird will almost never reach this age, as soon as they become slow they will be picked off by a predator. In captivity that risk is usually not around so make sure you are prepared for a life long pet before you take a parrot into your home. Many birds will outlive their owners so make sure to have a second care taker inline for the day that your body returns to dust of this good earth.
Enjoy your time with your little feathered friend. You and your parrot will have your ups and downs, your frustrations and your laughs, your times of peace and your battle wounds. It's all a part of parrot keeping. If you hang on tight you'll eventually learn to love it all!
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Just checked today 9-6-2015 and the server is down. I just noticed the other day I haven't gotten any emails from Avsim in a while. I decided to check this morning and noticed the server is down and emailed them to find out why? Hope to get an answer soon. I had recently planned on giving them a pretty good donation but if they are gone, so is the donation. Hope not, as I liked the service a lot.
You folks don't have a clue to the truth.
This is just really depressing. I'm sure that Tom is doing all that he can to get the site back up, but it kind of shows how small our community is. We depend on this one site for so many things, and yet the site can be offline for this long without being able to right itself.
Net Valuator has my own personal site valued at $1.10 per day (err, I don't advertise or make any money from my web site)... the company I work for web's site valued at $0.69 per day (again completely wrong)... one of our clients valued at $5.78 cents per day - odd I know their financials and it's about 200X higher. flightsim.com valued at $327 per day... x-plane.org $247 per day... needless to say Net Valuator speaks for itself on the accuracy front and it's amusing at best. Tom did flip the bill for his web site for many years and I can assure you Tom isn't rolling in the cash from AVSIM... if he was why has the site down for over a week? Why is he looking for volunteer IT people and moderators, and most obvious why has the site been down this long? I know what SLAs are and do, I've been on both sides of signing the agreement and creation of... our servers are covered at $1535/yr service agreement with guaranteed replacement parts installed within 24 hours (that's just middle tier agreement, we could pay 3X for 2 hour guarantee response/fix including parts/labor). So if Tom is rolling in the cash suggested by the mysterious TJ Streak, even a low tier service agreement would be affordable and he would already be back up and running and collecting his $400/day... but he's not because the site doesn't collect $400/day. And if the site isn't the #1 source, then why are you and so many other posting comments about it being down? But if you really are interested in the facts about AVSIM, email Tom and ask -- it'll be FAR FAR more reliable than some of the Jibber Jabber I've seen.
Net Valuator estimates that Avsim.net brings in about $400 per day. It values the site at $288, 000.
This means that Tom probably is netting well over $100, 000 per year off the site. It seems rather foolish to contribute to Tom's largess.
Like many sites of this nature, I find the moderation to be heavy handed and the banning of people to be promiscuous. Basically, you just have to express opinions Tom disagrees with, or post something critical about the site to be banned.
I am well aware that there are certain fanboys who think that Tom can do no wrong. I have found him to be unprofessional and not particularly well suited to the job.
Chuck, how do you know I haven't contributed? is it because I'm not one of the regular sycophants and I present an opposing view?
RobA, I have had to provide content to and for clients on many formats working with SLA's in excess of 99.9% uptime. I would be surprised if the corporates didn't expect it from Avsim and consequently Avsim expect it from the Host.
Your'e right though I don't know how much Tom is getting from the corporates but I doubt it's an insignificant figure otherwise why do it? and please don't say it's purely for the love of flight Sim.
Avsim has been a resource for me, and I have been grateful, where have I said otherwise? My gripe is that it bills itself as "the premier resource and community for flight simulation!" but is, as others have commented one of the slowest websites imaginable and that includes issues connecting from mobile devices, as well as downtime both now and in previous months.
I have no wish to kick a man when he's down and I was happy to leave it at my original comment but I do get a little sick of all the "how dare you say anything bad about Tom and Avsim" brigade.
I think I've probably said enough now...don't you
Looks good, but at what cost?
I wonder if the IT guys at AVSIM have heard of Azure. It would be just the ticket IMO.
Brian, I communicate with Tom via Email... a single hard drive failure doesn't bring down a RAID5 setup (that's the purpose of RAID5, hot swap and recovery from drive failures). If Tom wants to present it that way, that's his choice and I respect that. I've offered my technical assistance if he wants to use it, obviously it's a little deeper than a single hard drive failure. I don't know Tom's server infrastructure, do you? How do you even know an SLA is even in the equation? And exactly how much is Tom getting from those that advertise on his web site? Without knowing the detailed answers to these questions you can't possibly come up with anything valid about AVSIM. And finally, what is your motivation to continually harp on about AVSIM if it's not a resource for you?
I am disgusted by some of the comments made about AVSIM, talk about kicking someone when they are down. AVSIM was hacked in 2009 not last year. Put yourself in Tom's shoes, how do you think he feels about this situation?
Brian, you remind me of the employees who complained when they had to carry their own luggage on board the 747 they flying on for free. Screwed it up for everyone who came after them.
Rob and Mark you seem apparently quite happy to contribute to a service that is slow at best and frequently unavailable, and yet haven't bothered reading what the cause of the problem is. A hard drive failure on a raid array. Not hackers, that was last years problem. As others have posted Avsim host support for commercial companies and I doubt they do it for the love of Flight Sim. I've not yet found a legitimate website that doesn't take a stance against piracy so that's not a valid argument. If I pay for a hosting service then I expect it to be running efficiently and with an SLA that ensures minimum downtime... wouldn't you?
Someone asked if we were contributing financially to AVSIM. Answer is no, because AVSIM provide service to commercial companies thus get funds from there. Also because its not an open community. AVSIM can ban whoever they want.
I agree wholeheartedly Rob. GREAT point. Amazing these comments. I for one will be giving support if they get things up and running.
Just curious, how many of you complaining about AVSIM have actually contributed to AVSIM at a financial level? I've donated because it's a good resource and it's not "free" to keep AVSIM going. Tom used to pay out of his own pocket to keep AVSIM going for many many years. Obviously Tom is having more serious issues and who knows, maybe it was another hacker: news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Who-Ravaged-AVSIM-Website-I... ... either way, give Tom/AVSIM some slack especially if you've never provided any financial contribution. AVSIM is a target for hackers and thieves, even more so since they opened the AVSIM store ... and it's one of the few web sites that actually makes a stance again piracy/theft.
Hopefully PMDG & all the other devs will seriously consider hosting their own forum space real soon. This shouldn't be happening in this day & age of technology.
It really is a problem. I need help figuring out a PMDG 737NGX question and it's very frustrating not being able to reach the support forum.
I emailed avsim, seems they had a hardware failure based upon the response i had from the email. I emailed one of the admins from the library. I tried this morning 3.10.2014 at 8:00 am est and still down
Its been down almost a full week now, they must be losing some serious cash and visitors.
Rob, It's all very well extolling the virtues of Avsim when it's working... but it aint! and as others have mentioned they host the support for other expensive products that people need help with. It may well be abound with helpful individuals but if we can't access them then it's about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Trey, why don't you try flightsim.com and tell me if you can get better support there? Does flightsim.com host as many addon dev's for support? AVSIM is abound with knowledgeable and helpful individuals, oh and it's free.
I love it but it's the most frustrating website ever!
Most unreliable website I've ever been to. Thanks Tom!
Two days down is really bad for the Support Forums.
Wish they would get the forums back up. Sucks that they host support forums for PMDG and others yet spend more time down than up lately.
Library still works though! http://library.avsim.net
yep its affirm they're not operating right now bummer I need Radar Contact support
Yeah, it's down in the U.S.
Down In Ireland
that status quo song was written for Avsim, down down..
Itis Down unfortuantely often. since they got hit last year, still it's a good site, thought it may seem unreliable.
Avsim still down. The library is up but not the forums
I've never know a website to be as slow or down as often as AVSIM
AvSim unavailable to me in the UK since 23:00GMT last night. Another hardware failure perhaps?
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Lynam, one of ITV's biggest stars, is tied to an exclusive contract and the network does not want him to appear on rival channels, a spokeswoman said.
"Unfortunately for Des, he does have to come and ask our permission," she said, adding it was not an unusual decision.
Lynam, who is to retire from sports TV next year, was asked to be guest host for one episode of the BBC programme.
The ITV spokeswoman said: "In the same way that the BBC doesn't let people from EastEnders go on the Frank Skinner show, it's the same with any exclusive stars. The BBC do it all the time.
"On this occasion, it was decided that he wasn't going to do it."
Have I Got News For You has been using guest presenters for more than a year since former host Angus Deayton was sacked amid allegations about his private life.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "We did approach [Lynam] and he wanted to do it but then he wasn't able to."
Lynam told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I was very keen to do it but was told I couldn't."
Lynam, who worked for the BBC for 30 years - fronting shows like Match of the Day - will leave ITV after the Euro 2004 football championships.
The 60-year-old presenter joined the network in 1999 when it won the rights to screen Premiership football highlights.