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Rootstock Napa Valley Conference Debuts November 13
June 26, 2014
ROOTSTOCK, a revolutionary conference designed for top quality grapegrowers, vineyard and winery owners, and winemakers worldwide, debuts November 13 at the Napa Expo Fairgrounds. Presented by the Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVG), this inaugural one-day summit combines Napa's past stellar events – the Wine + Grape EXPO and Viticulture Fair – into one powerful annual showcase connecting vineyard practices to wine quality.
Timed just as the 2014 harvest finishes and the industry begins to look towards the future, ROOTSTOCK provides access to high-level, provocative seminars and industry experts, wine trials and tastings, and an exclusive exhibition featuring over 120 of the industry's highest quality viticulture and enology companies. A "Concept Bar" will showcase curated, progressive ideas, methods, and equipment designed to further quality and advance industry practices.
"After 24 years of alternating our previous events, we realized that the continued maturation of the global wine industry requires an innovative gathering that reflects growth and the pursuit of quality," said Michael Silacci, Winemaker at Opus One, NVG board member, and ROOTSTOCK founder. "ROOTSTOCK will do exactly that."
The event kicks off with an opening night reception on November 12, followed by a full day of speakers and a floor of exhibitors tailored towards the quality producer. Tickets are $275 general admission, $175 for NVG members and $25 for floor passes.
As a companion to ROOTSTOCK, the NVG will host the signature Leadership and Professional Development session in Spanish the day prior at the event site. This educational opportunity is offered through the NVG's acclaimed Farmworker Foundation.
For more information about ROOTSTOCK, visit www.napagrowers.org.
About Napa Valley Grapegrowers
The Napa Valley Grapegrowers is a non-profit trade organization that has played a vital role in strengthening Napa Valley's reputation as a world-class viticultural region for over 39 years. Its mission is to preserve and promote Napa Valley's world-class vineyards. NVG represents over 690 Napa County grapegrowers and associated businesses. For more information, visit www.napagrowers.org. Follow Napa Valley Grapegrowers on Facebook and Twitter.
CONTACT: Sonya DeLuca
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I am thinking so many (sad) thoughts about this videogame, but I think it would be best to simply copy and paste the conversation I had with Scanner Ben:
Scanner James: Have you watched this yet?
Scanner Ben: Yes.
Scanner James: I like how the video warns that it "may contain content inappropriate for children."
Scanner James: But it DEFINITELY contains content inappropriate for everyone.
Scanner Ben: I was pretty jealous of those hot digital people in their hot tubs.
Scanner Ben: I've also never played a video game. Or seen The Bachelor.
Scanner Ben: Which is maybe why it looked like fun?
Scanner James: If only there was like, a videogame you could live inside so you could flirt and date but really feel like it was real, you know?
Scanner Ben: Um, you can already do that on World of Warcraft insta-chat, James!
Scanner Ben: (And there are dragons.)
Scanner James: Oh, of course! Duh.
Scanner James: I will say that I first thought the host was Chris Hanson, which amused me.
Scanner James: That would bring a whole new flavor to The Bachelor.
Scanner Ben: It would also bring a whole new flavor to NBC if it turned out Chris Hanson was a robot!
Scanner James: Yes, I imagine that would be quite the reveal.
Scanner Ben: It rubs the suntan lotion on the lady…
Scanner James: Have we had the carbon monoxide levels in this office checked recently?
Scanner Ben: If I go ao;eigjae;roighaoweigha
Scanner Ben: would you understand that that meant my head had fallen onto the keyboard?
Scanner James: Yes. I would recognize it from when I did the same thing after seeing this videogame.

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Bush meets Abbas, says fence '\'is a problem'\'
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Friday said that Israel must halt construction of the so-called West Bank "separation fence" and all settlement activity for there to be peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after talks with U.S. President George W. Bush in the White House.
Speaking at a joint press conference in the Rose Garden, Abbas said that the Palestinians "do not merely seek a state, but one that is built on solid foundations."
"I think the wall is a problem," Bush said in response to a reporter's question after both leaders delivered their statements. The U.S. President said it was difficult to create confidence between Israel and the Palestinians with a wall "snaking" its way through the West Bank. Bush said that he had expressed this to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and that Sharon had agreed to discuss the issue with him.
"I'm gaining confidence in the Palestinian Prime Minister and the great cabinet," Bush added.
Abbas, making his first visit to Washington in his new post, said in his remarks that the meeting with Bush was "fruitful," and thanked the U.S. President for $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority. (Albawaba.com)
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Top Headlines
- US inclined to accept Palestinian view regarding fence as Abbas arrives in Washington
- Ahead of White House meeting: Abbas says Israel undermines Bush vision
- Bush, Sharon meeting ends without agreement on West Bank fence construction
- Abbas to meet Bush in Washington later this month; PA says working to extend truce
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According to TMZ, a sex tape starring [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Tupac Shakur[/lastfm] has surfaced and they've seen the tape and verified its existence. They also claim that the individual that is in possession of the tape has definite plans to release it.
The tape is approximately 5 minutes long, filmed in a living room, and involves several groupies.
From TMZ:
Tupac — whose head is shaved — pulls one of the women toward him, and she begins performing oral sex. As she does her thing, an unreleased song of Tupac's is playing in the background, as Tupac is singing along and dancing, wiggling his hips.
And it gets even better. As the woman services Tupac, who is holding a cocktail in one hand and a blunt in another, Money B from Digital Underground walks over to him. Tupac puts his cocktail arm around Money B, continues singing and dancing … and the woman never stops.
Infamous Taiwanese news animators, NMA, have composed their own version of the tape.Vodpod videos no longer available.
It's amazing that its taken this long for the tape to show up, but even more amazing (well, maybe not considering the money hungry ways of many) that someone is trying to use this to make a profit. What do you think? Should the sale of a tape of this kind be boycotted or are you someone who would actually want to see it? Let us know in the comments below.
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The Chur branch of the Raiffeisen-Bank is setting a trend: the bank's gleaming white customer consultation area made using HI-MACS with its ingenious planting design offers a bright and friendly contrast to the raw appearance of the railway station forecourt.
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"Using HI-MACS for this project gave us the opportunity to respond to the special geometry of the space and incorporate the bank's technical requirements and the green wall in the wall cladding and furniture, whilst still creating homogeneous surfaces and a unified sense of space", say the architects from Giubbini Architekten.
In the customer consulting area, which is located up a level, curved sculptural units made from HI-MACS have been installed in the open space. The shape of these "consultation islands" means that customer interviews can be held with total discretion. Two electric sliding doors provide access. From the outside, the islands appear to have a slightly jointed pattern, giving them visual identity. Inside, all elements are fitted with high performance sound absorbers, reducing noise levels so that conversations cannot be overheard. Concealed lighting is incorporated in the wall panels above, bouncing the light indirectly from the white ceiling down into the interior of the islands.
The typical qualities of the mineral-based material HI-MACS, which is easy to work with and can be made to be robust and resistant to external influences, made it possible for the architects at Giubbini to come up with this innovative design. Stripped down in terms of colour and furnishings, the design links the different areas of the bank, creating a visual continuum. This has smoothed the way to creating an "open bank", dispensing with the barriers between customers and staff that are used in conventional bank design.
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Optimal Bank Reorganization Policies and the Pricing of Federal Deposit Insurance
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Optimal dynamic regulatory policies for closing ailing banks and for deposit insurance premia are derived as functions of the rate of flow of bank deposits, and interest rate on deposits, the economy's risk‐free interest rate, and the regulators' bank audit/administration costs. Under competitive conditions, the threshold assets‐to‐deposits ratio below which a bank should be optimally closed is shown to be greater than or equal to one. Optimal deposit insurance premia and probabilities of bank closure are shown to be nondecreasing in the bank's risk on investment and nonincreasing in the bank's current assets‐to‐deposits ratio.


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The top prospect in the Rivals150 Brandon Knight came up one game short in Ft. Lauderdale (Fla.) Pine Crest High School's quest for a state championship. Now the 6-foot-3, 185-pound point guard can focus on choosing a college.
"There is nothing really going on with my recruiting," Knight told Rivals.com. "I'm just working on narrowing it down and will make a decision soon."
Miami is no longer in the running for Knight, who will chose between Connecticut, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida and Syracuse. Knight has visited all but of these schools except for Syracuse.
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"I probably won't take any more visits," he said. "There is a chance I'll take an unofficial to Syracuse."
A recent rumor has Knight wanting to stay in state and play for Florida while his parents would like for him to play for Kentucky. This simply isn't the case according to Knight.
"My parents and me are definitely on the same page," he said. "I don't know how that rumor got started. There is no definite leader for me right now, but I'm starting to get a feel for the different schools. There are different things that I like about all the schools."
Knight, who averaged 33 points, nine rebounds and five assists per game, will balance on the court and off the court concerns when he does make a final decision.
"As far as basketball goes, I want to have a good relationship with the coach," he said. "I want to play where I can succeed, win and get better. I also want to be comfortable with my situation at the school. I want to be comfortable with my peers and my surroundings."
Brandon Knight scouting report:
Knight might not be a freak athlete like the top point guards before him, but he possesses a complete game of an elite nature. His physical strength and tight ball handling get him wherever he needs to be on the court. And his shooting skill and court vision allow him to consistently finish plays. On the other side of the ball he is an elite defender who more than adequately rebounds his position. Top off all of this with high level competitiveness, and you have the top prospect in the country.


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Dew Days
It's here! The 2013 Dew Days celebration will be in full swing this weekend. Be sure to catch the Flavors of Farmington Thursday night, the Bed Races and Car Cruise Friday night, and the Grand Parade on Saturday. Check us out online at farmingtondewdays.com for a full list of activities of what's going on this weekend.
And be sure to get your Dew Days button, too!
See you downtown Farmington this weekend!
Farmington Lions Club
Lion President Jerry Henricks presented the two Lions scholarships at the Awards Night at Farmington High School. This year's winners were Emily Nelson and Shayla Newbrough. We had many fine applications this year to choose from.
The Athlete of the Year Awards were also presented. The male athlete of the year was Darren Beenken and the female athlete of the year was Maria Kiminski. Their Lions trophies will be presented to them at our next board meeting on June 18 at Gossips.
We will have a change of officers effective July 1, 2013. The new Lions President will be Lion Jeff Thelen, the Vice president will be Lion John Rotert, Secretary will be Lion Kathy Plumley, and Treasurer will be Lion Clyde Hansen.
Farmington Yellow Ribbon Network
The Farmington Yellow Ribbon Network is looking for volunteers to help military families and veterans. Volunteer opportunities include helping with lawn work or house hold chores to making a meal.
Contact Farmington email@example.com or 651-460-2248 if you would like to be added to the volunteer list.
The next meeting for the Steering Committee is Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30PM at Farmington City Hall. Visitors are welcome. Come and see all the great things we are doing to honor, support and recognize our military connected residents!
Farmington Food Shelf
A big "Thank You" to the Farmington area community! The Farmington Food Shelf and 360 Communities appreciates your support for our recent spring food drives.
Summer brings added requests to the food shelf to provide for families with children home from school for the summer. We are still looking for volunteers to help with Saturday morning food pick up at a local grocery store north of Farmington. 2 adults are needed to pick up produce and bread and deliver and store at the Farmington Food Shelf on one Saturday a month, from 8-10 a.m.
Please contact Kris Akin at 651 402 2574 for more information. Thank you Farmington friends!
Farmington American Legion Auxiliary Unit 189
If you're out and about as part of Dew Days, please wander on past the Farmington VFW on Friday and stop to buy a hot dog from the Farmington American Legion Auxiliary's booth. We're hoping to make this a good fundraiser so we can continue our work serving veterans and our community.
Unit 189 Past President Michelle Leonard was elected Second Vice?President of the Third District, Department of Minnesota, at the May 18 district convention.
Keep up on ALA activities around Third District by joining the new Facebook page, American Legion Auxiliary Third District - Department of Minnesota.
For God and Country.
Farmington Rotary
The Rotary Club of Farmington was thrilled to present four scholarships to recently graduated Farmington High School students.
Vouchleang Chea, Rachael Peroutky and Katherine Schwoch all received the club's Service Above Self scholarships for the work they do to live out Rotary International's motto. Laura Madtson received the club's STRIVE?Scholarship. She was one of more than 20 FHS?students who participated in the STRIVE?program, which helps students who are at risk of not graduating put a renewed value on education and take responsibility for their work.
The scholarships are an important part of what the local Rotary club does, and they wouldn't be possible without Ramble Jam, Rotary's annual country music festival. This year's edition of Ramble Jam will take place Sept. 20 and 21 at the Dakota County Fairgrounds and will include national acts such as Rodney Atkens and Jerrod Niemann as well as local favorites like Rocket Club, Lost Highway and Hitchville.
Tickets and more information are available at ramblejamcountry.com. You can also find us on Facebook at facebook.com/ramblejam or on Twitter at twitter.com/ramblejam.


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"Patagonia is a challenging lover" said the English novelist, Bruce Chatwin. "It haunts you, it bewitches you, it wraps you with its arms and it does not let you go." A few minutes watching the vast landscapes perfect empty points in this clip and you too will likely fall under Patagonia's spell.
Official trailer for the upcoming documentary Tierra de Patagones. A six month trip by the Gauchos del Mar brothers in search of new friends, waves and stories in the region of Patagonia.
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Next stop - Chicago. Please, please, please let there be some true singers in this round.
The threads will reopen after the west coast airing of the show.
Next stop - Chicago. Please, please, please let there be some true singers in this round.
The threads will reopen after the west coast airing of the show.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker, (attributed)
The promos showed some stuttering guy. I hope he's not like Tim Poe.
Dang, I hate warbling on humans! AS IF we couldn't tell that Mariah was this girl's idol! ObamaGirl moves on.
Again I can't watch live. I wish I could. Names?
Rock Red will not win in a million years.
Former Anorexic was really good with "Let It Be."
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Country is now taking over tonight.
Except for the excellent Black guy with "Knock on Wood"!
(I have no "Edit" available for my last post.)
Nobody, male or female, should attempt a Karen Carpenter song. This attempt at "SuperStar" was AWFUL, no matter that NM thought otherwise. Mariah "loved it." NO WAY should this kid have been put through, and One-Legged Better Singer wasn't (plus, the "My Mama never heard me sing" bit was done already on AGT).
Whoever this young girl is singing "Thank You" is so totally bad, it's sad the producers put her through this humiliation.
Season 7's Johnny Kiefer (sp) up now. STILL NOT GOOD. Really wrecking "Try a Little Tenderness" (See Hicks, Taylor, for an AI top rendition). Randy says he has "an amazing voice". W.T. H?! These "Yes" votes are BOGUS, people. BO-GUS.
ETA: Still 0, Johnny K.
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WGWG count?
Hey, it's a terrific WGWG! But it's a G-IRL! As Randy said, "Quirky, but interesting." Smooth voice on this busker!
Will there be a top 24 this year? What was there last year? I don't remember and am just assuming.
No; going from Top 40 to Top 20 to Top 10: FOX Announces 'American Idol' Season 12 Schedule
It's official: I WANT LAZAROS TO WIN IT ALL!!
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We spent a lot of time at the beginning of the season scouting out the area we were hunting. We patterned the movement of some whitetails in the area, and on the morning of Nov. 11th we set up an ambush on the way into one of their daytime bedding areas. I got two antlerless whitetails that morning - both within about ten seconds of each other (we can get a good amount of antlerless tags for certain areas - but you have to fill two before you can get an either sex muley tag).
I went and purchased my either sex tag on the afternoon of the 14th. The morning of the 15th, we were out in the field well before the sun made its way over the horizon.
The country we hunt is pretty rough - at least for Saskatchewan. The lake edge is riven by deep, wide coulees and clogged with thick brush - it's an odd mix of vegetation - some juniper bushes, poplar or aspen trees, and some less friendly greenery - small cacti and various thorny growths.
Jacob found out firsthand, early in the season, that the latter do not, in fact, make for comfortable seating. I'm still grateful he didn't ask me to perform cactus spine removal . . .
His wife must be a good woman.
The coulees themselves are studies in contrasts - one side of the coulee is often dry and mostly barren, while the other side will be relatively green with lots of brush and trees. The coulees drop down from the surrounding fields 300-400 feet - sometimes gradually, sometimes in plateau-steps, and sometimes in 75-100 foot near-vertical walls.
It was at the top of one of these vertical drops that Jacob (my hunting partner) and I set up to glass the area. The rising sun slid light into the brush and trees immediately below our position.
At about 8:15 AM, Jacob, who was set up about 50 feet away, motioned to me - putting his hand to his ear in an "antler" sign. Sometimes when I've gone without benefit of my morning coffee as I did that morning, I'm a little thick, so I looked back and gave him the palms up "what are going on about" sign. After a little bout of frantic but subdued back-and-forth gesturing, I realized that he was trying to tell me about a big muley buck headed into the area (he didn't have his either sex muley tag at that point).
The buck was walking rather unconcernedly into the area. I waited until it was nearly broadside, and . . . completely botched my first shot. I don't know how - the whole thing felt right - maybe it had something to do with shooting at an extreme downhill angle. The buck started to move a little quicker - at first, a lively trot, then the typical muley "bounce." I did some quick mental recalculations, led him a little, and put the next shot through his spine at about 130 yards. He dropped in his tracks.
I don't recall too many moments when I've been quite that excited.
We made our way down to the buck, and realized that he was quite a grand old fellow. I'm guessing his live body weight was about 250 lbs. I know for a fact that the ribcage and quarters, without skin, head, and innards, weighed 180 lbs. My guess is that he was somewhere around the 7 or 8 year old mark - he had almost nothing left for back teeth (about 1/8 of an inch). It was, to say the least, quite the jaunt to get him out of the coulee.
Jacob, after coming up empty most of the season, finally got 2 antlerless muleys on Nov. 30th. He was also able to get his either sex muley tag, and downed another old bruiser, in the middle of a snowstorm, on Dec 6th - the very last day of the season.
For those interested in numbers . . . After drying for a while, my buck scored somewhere around 152 4/8 B&C after deductions - Jacob's hasn't dried yet, but it seems like it will score about 154 B&C after deductions. I was shooting standard Federal Power-Shok rounds in a Remington 700 in .25-06, topped with a Elite Bushnell 3200 4-12X40. It performed beautifully on all four of the deer I shot this season - most of the energy from the shot was expended inside the animal.


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Discussion in 'Ballroom Dance' started by Griffico, Oct 4, 2012.
October 27th at the Davis Center in Burlington, VT.
Anyone thinking of going?
Isn't UConn the same weekend?
Yes, though not on the same day. It is possible to attend both
I am judging both. G&G on Saturday. UConn on Sunday.
Larinda, you should contact Amanda, I know that she is also doing both comps. Maybe you can drive together or something like that.
thanks Daphna... I figured SOMEONE else had to be as crazy as me to do both, and we could carpool. But I wasn't able to get a list of judges to be able find out who.
Larinda, if you need Amanda's info
PM me
Larinda (and Amanda), we appreciate so much what you're doing! Hopefully you guys will get the chance to take a few moments to kick back and enjoy Burlington, even for a few moments.
It is with great sadness I must report that this comp has been canceled
This is too bad. But it is really hard to get a comp up and running... and I applaud your efforts so far. I hope you try again next year!
UConn videos are up on Youtube.
Thanks Larinda! I can't take much credit for what the students/organizational committee did, but I shall definitely pass along the word if you haven't told them yourself already
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Long before the word "Americana" defined a radio format, guitarist Dave Alvin was leading a musical cattle drive whose path is still being followed by performers caught up in the current alt-country groundswell. The Blasters, which Alvin formed in 1980 with his brother, vocalist Phil Alvin, delivered rousing romps that whipped rock-and-roll, rhythm-and-blues and country-and-Western sounds into a seamless, soul-stirring whole. The result was a slice of sonic heaven for members of the pompadours-and-mohawks crowd, as well as for music lovers in general who craved something with teeth, a sense of history and a rollicking spirit.
Eleven years after the original Blasters called it quits, Dave Alvin has become a standard-bearer for a genre that didn't even exist when his group was at its peak. But if there's irony in this situation, Alvin, whose four post-Blasters discs could serve as a primer for up-and-coming twangsters, doesn't see it. "I play folk music, man," he claims. His oak-timbred voice splits into a laugh as he adds, "I say that lightly, but I actually think it's true. That's what I play. It's just that I have a broad definition of folk music. To me, American folk music encapsulates everything from blues and mountain songs to electric blues and rockabilly. Chuck Berry, he comes out of the same tradition, and so do Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters and, in some respects, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard."
On his latest disc, a house-rocking live compilation titled Interstate City that he cut with his road band, the Guilty Men (guitarist/lap-steel ace Greg Leisz, pianist Rick Solem, bassist Gregory Boaz and drummer Bobby Lloyd Hicks), Alvin cranks out fourteen songs that fully capture the spirit of such precursors. Perhaps the best illustration of this phenomenon is a nine-minute medley that threads together Berry's "Promised Land," Woody Guthrie's "Do Re Mi" and Alvin's own "Jubilee Train" to produce a proletarian testimonial to the musical ties that bind. "I don't want to sound egotistical or hyper-important," he allows, "but the idea of that was to show that I consider myself a part of that tradition. And to show that Woody and Chuck weren't that far apart."
Like Guthrie and Berry, Alvin has created a staunchly populist catalogue that celebrates the forgotten man without beating around the bush or ducking a punch. Better still, Alvin's songs rock far harder than the ditties most of us associate with folkies.
"Just because you play acoustic guitar and sing songs you wrote doesn't automatically make you a folk singer," Alvin clarifies. "For example, I produced a record a few years ago for a guy named Sonny Burgess, who made records on Sun. I consider him to be a folk singer, though not many folk purists would. But he grew up in Arkansas singing 'Frog Went A-Courtin'' on his back porch, and the music that he plays comes out of that--from hearing blues and hillbilly music in its natural environment. To me, that makes his music more pure folk than someone out of, say, Greenwich Village."
To Alvin, whose production credits include discs by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys and the Derailers, a firsthand education is what separates entertainers with a genuine folk sensibility from some of the mere mimics presently on the scene. When pressed, however, Alvin admits that using such a yardstick is not a foolproof way to gauge authenticity. "It's fair and it's unfair. Iris DeMent, who I think is great and is an example of what I'm talking about, may have been born in Arkansas, but she grew up in Fullerton, California. And Merle Haggard was born in California, too, so screw anybody who says anything about that. It is an unfair chop in that regard. But on the other hand, it's fair in that most of these newer artists have not personalized their songs or found their own voice. With most of these newer artists, there's not a personalized part to it--of looking at your world in your own time."
The same cannot be said of Alvin. He was born in Downey, California, a community southeast of Los Angeles where he enjoyed a boyhood baptism in American music. "It was an area with a lot of different cultures," he remembers. "And the Oklahoma and Dust Bowl culture was still there, so there was a lot of country music and rhythm and blues. When we were growing up, my brother Phil and I were collecting old records and finding old blues guys and sneaking into bars to hear music. When I was a kid, oftentimes I'd go in a music store and there'd be some old guy playing 'Wildwood Flower' on a banjo or a guitar. These were all things that you had to go beneath the surface to find, but you didn't have to go far."
Displacement, alienation and the sometimes futile quest for a scrap of the American dream--the recurring themes of his music--were also in plentiful supply in Alvin's hometown. "Downey is in southeast L.A. County," he says, "and when I was real young, about a third of it was agricultural, with orange groves and avocado groves, and the little towns around it were a mixture of dairy farms and tract houses. But almost overnight, it became a blue-collar, middle-class suburb.
"It was frustrating," he goes on, "in that when they'd tear down an orange grove, you lost a place to play. Or they'd pave the banks of a river or just pave the whole thing. It was sad, but it wasn't until I got older and saw it happening in places where you thought it would never happen that it really bothered me."
So, too, did the preconceptions about Downey that dogged the Blasters when the act first ventured into the L.A. club scene. "In any large city, especially an urban mass like Los Angeles, there are social strata," Alvin notes. "Which is why it took us a while at first to get gigs in Hollywood. Nobody there thought that there was even life in places like Downey, or Bellflower, or East L.A. But in the meantime, we sharpened our teeth playing in biker and country bars out in what people in Hollywood considered the sticks. So instead of a band still figuring out what we sounded like, we already had our sound when we hit there. We were sort of a discovery. I won't say we became millionaires, but a lot of bands got into us, and so did their followings."
Success, however, came at a price. Alvin's playing and songwriting improved steadily from the appearance of The Blasters, a 1981 album that featured neo-classics like "Border Radio" and "Marie, Marie," to the release of latter-day offerings such as 1983's Non Fiction and 1985's Hard Line. But life on the road eventually lost its appeal. "The band started out with two missions," he discloses. "One was to see if we could make a living playing the music we wanted to play, and the other was to have fun. Well, we were earning a living, but it stopped being fun."
Today, Phil Alvin and bassist John Bazz continue to tour under the Blasters name, but Dave is happier on his own. He's just as pleased to be cited as an inspiration for the y'all-ternative movement, even though he can't quantify "how much of a direct influence the Blasters or myself had on Son Volt or Wilco. I'd say little to none, except maybe in the same way that a lot of people, myself included, rode a trail blazed by somebody before us who we never even heard of. I like a bunch of these bands, and I'm not putting any of them down, but many of them are more influenced by Neil Young and Gram Parsons than, say, Hank Williams or the Blasters."
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There are several reasons for this state of affairs, Alvin believes. "First off, there's no country music anymore. In the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, there was always this other universe called country music that existed outside of pop music, and it remained relatively pure. It was a well you could draw inspiration from, the same as blues and R&B. Now there's no such thing. Country music's all pop today." As a result, "the kind of people who buy Garth Brooks records have kids who are buying records by Metallica--so those kids don't experience Hank Williams or anything like that. When they grow out of Metallica and they hear Hank or George Jones, for some of them, it's an eye-opening experience: 'Here's some soul music.' In some ways, it's like a lot of music today, whether it's country or folk. It's gone back to being underground music that's not part of the mainstream, yet it's part of our culture, and it's always going to be there. But each generation has to go and find it for themselves--and an aspect of it that works for them.
"There's always been an audience for this music," he contends, "and I think one of the things that's helping it now is the Internet. There are alternative ways of getting the message out other than MTV. The people who like this stuff are finding more ways of contacting each other in ways that weren't there when the Blasters, Jason and the Scorchers and Los Lobos first came out. You know, the roots-rock scene is pretty closed, but on the other hand, it's an incredibly healthy scene that in the past few years has become healthier than I've seen it in a long time."
Given this sunny forecast, Alvin thinks that the time might be right to try to alter a few perceptions about his brand of folk music. "When Bob Dylan went electric back in Newport in the Sixties and people got all upset, he was trying to make a similar point," he says. "Maybe that point needs to be made again."
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Alexi Ogando could find himself pitching in the seventh inning for the Rangers instead of Koji Uehara. "It's a possibility," manager Ron Washington said. "We always intended on Ogando pitching in the sixth and seventh inning, and maybe the eighth. It depends on the workload of the other guys." Ogando, who was switched from the bullpen to the rotation this season, is being used as a reliever in the playoffs and pitched a scoreless sixth inning in the Rangers' 8-6 victory in Game 2 on Saturday. Uehara pitched the seventh, giving up a walk, a single and a three-run home run to Evan Longoria. He was then replaced by Darren Oliver.
Ogando pitched with a 5-3 lead and was going to come back for the seventh. But the Rangers scored two in the sixth and Washington decided to bring in Uehara. "Ogando was throwing the ball well," Washington said. "But once we got two more runs, I decided to get Uehara in the game and let him get a feel for what's going on. He had never pitched in a playoff game before. But if it was two runs, I would have sent Ogando out there to keep the momentum going." Uehara is the first pitcher to allow a home run in his postseason debut without recording an out. All other Rangers relievers have allowed one run in eight innings. The Rangers went into the playoffs planning on Uehara being the seventh-inning reliever, Mike Adams in the eighth and Neftali Feliz as the closer. Oliver and Michael Gonzalez, both left-handers, would be used in necessary situations. That leaves Ogando in middle relief and Scott Feldman as the long reliever. But Ogando was quite successful as a setup reliever last season before going 13-8 with a 3.51 ERA as a starter this season. "We could have sent Ogando back out there and the same thing happen to him," Washington said. "What happened to Uehara was a part of baseball. I can't sit here and say you won't see Uehara, and I can't sit here and say you won't see Oliver." Rays manager Joe Maddon admitted the Rangers have a deep bullpen. "With the Texas Rangers, you don't want to get in a bullpen war with them," Maddon said. "They pretty much stacked up their bullpen."


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TEHRAN, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Iran would have no problems with finding non-European customers to buy its crude oil, an executive said in reference to a European oil embargo.
European foreign ministers agreed last week to ban new oil contracts with Iran. Existing contracts are valid until July 1.
Ahmad Qalebani, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Co., said Tehran was ready to cut oil sales to Europe already, the Iranian Oil Ministry's Petroenergy Information Network reported.
Qalebani said Tehran exports only 18 percent of its crude oil to Europe, which he suggested meant it would be the European economy that suffers from the planned embargo. He added that Iran would have "no problem" with finding non-European consumers for its crude oil.
Iran had said it would close key oil shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz in response to Western pressure meant to convince Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions. Analysts suspect Iran is bluffing, however, given the importance that crude oil sales have on the Iranian economy.
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An Arnold, Md., teenager reported two women attacked her inside the store at the Westfield Annapolis mall around 12:40 a.m. Nov. 29, police said.
The 17-year-old told police one of the women approached her and accused her of having assaulted her. The teenager told police she had never seen either of the women, but one punched her in the head several times and pushed her to the ground and a second jumped on top of her and also threw punches.
Using tips from the public and video surveillance from the store, police identified the suspects as 18-year-old Antonia Ash and 31-year-old Ebonie Brooks, both of Clinton, Md.
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New law delays opening of Janesville's pools
All five pools in the city must be modified before they open. That includes the Palmer and Riverside wading pools, the main pool at Rockport, and the wading and diving pools at Rockport.
The work is expected to cost about $60,000.
The Palmer Wading Pool, which had been scheduled to open this Saturday, is expected to open Monday, June 15, said Bonnie Davis, recreation director.
The Rockport facilities�wading pool, diving well and main pool�had been scheduled to open Saturday, June 13, but their opening has been delayed until June 15, Davis said.
Riverside Wading Pool remains closed because of high water. It has 6 to 8 inches of rainwater in its vessel, and the water must be gone before repairs are made.
Pools across the nation must be modified to conform to the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, which was passed after the granddaughter of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III died when the powerful suction of a spa drain trapped the 7-year-old underwater.
Janesville's recreation and engineering departments have been working for several months to get the needed approvals, along with everyone else in the country, Davis said.
The city has had its plans ready since February, but it's a busy time because so many facilities are trying to get into compliance, she said.
Davis believes the changes should be made. She was recreation director in Bloomington, Ind., when a 12-year-old boy was sucked into a drain and could not be pulled out. Staff shut down the pump to free him, and he had to be resuscitated.
Wading pools and spas are the most dangerous because they typically contain just one drain, Davis said.
The law took affect in December 2008, but the state gave pool operators an additional year to conform, Davis said, adding that Wisconsin has some of the strictest requirements in the nation.
Some of the modifications will require new pumps and grates, for example.
"We are only one of a handful of municipalities who will have that completed," Davis said.
Tim Banwell, Rock County's environmental health director, said he is aware of only one motel owner in Janesville who has so far completed modifications.
"There's kind of a challenge in getting this done," Banwell said, noting that corrective products are not yet developed, and the cost is considerable. "Some pools will probably end up closing. The resources aren't there to do this overnight."
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A young woman collapsed and died at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto during the Vans Warped Tour show yesterday, the Toronto Star reports.
According to EMS officials, the woman was found by other concertgoers lying on the grass and not breathing. A 911 call was made around 12:40 pm and witnesses attempted to revive her through CPR. When paramedics arrived the woman did not have a pulse; she was immediately transported to Toronto Western hospital where, according to police, she was pronounced dead.
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Tony George's separation from the management of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is complete.
George, who was ousted as the CEO last June, has resigned from the board of directors that oversees the speedway and the family business, Hulman & Co. The move was announced Tuesday in a statement by George's mother, Mari Hulman George, who chairs the board.
The resignation also removes George from any remaining role in the family business, the statement said. It said the board vacancy would be addressed "at a later date."
The Hulman-George family has run the speedway, home of the Indianapolis 500, for six decades. "As members of his family, we are sorry to see Tony leave," Mari Hulman George said in the statement. "We are grateful for his service to our company as a board member and of course for formerly serving as CEO and president of our companies. I speak for our whole family in wishing him well.
"All of us had hoped that Tony would continue to serve on the board, and we made that clear to him. We are disappointed with his decision to step down despite our wishes."
Tony George remains involved in racing through his Indy Racing League team, Vision Racing. A spokeswoman for the team said he was in Europe on business and not available for comment Tuesday.
George, who was the speedway's president for 20 years and formed the IRL in 1994, was removed last year amid job cuts at the track and concerns among board members about his spending on upgrades at the speedway.
George spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 13 years to make track renovations and keep the IRL afloat. Construction for a road course, new press tower and new Pagoda cost about $100 million. Those facilities were built for a Formula One race that is no longer held in Indy.
George also added motorcycle races to the schedule.
Mari Hulman George said she was pleased with the direction of the company in the last six months.
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While Buffalo Bayou has been gussied up at the Wortham Center and lined with hike-and-bike trails and public art to the west, in its historic heart, the industrial East End, it has suffered from years of neglect. That, though, promises to change over the next few years under an ambitious plan of civic improvements put together by the East End Area Chamber of Commerce and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.
The Heritage Corridor plan for the eastern sector of Buffalo Bayou calls for building a series of improved parks, hike-and-bike trails and other civic and cultural amenities that would unify the neighborhood and help attract new businesses and homes. Several million dollars has been committed to the effort, with more to be raised if the long-term dreams are to come true.
The main bike-and-hike trail, Heritage Corridor Trail, will run four miles along Buffalo Bayou from Allen's Landing downtown to the Turning Basin; it's already been funded with $4.6 million in federal transportation grants and matching city money. Another route, called the Harrisburg Trail, will run east along a disused railroad right-of-way from Allen's Landing and connect north and south to Brays Bayou and Buffalo Bayou by another such trail known as the Sunset. The Harrisburg Trail has been funded with $2.4 million in federal money and $606,000 in matching city funds. The network of ten miles of trails, expected to be completed by the end of next year, will connect major employers, parks, community services, public housing, schools and churches along their routes. Since many of the residents of the largely Hispanic neighborhood lack automobiles, the trails are likely to be well used, says Ann Olson, director of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, which is coordinating the effort.
Roughly $400,000 will be spent to rebuild and stabilize Allen's Landing, the site of the founding of Houston at the east end of downtown. But more money will be needed if, as some propose, the landing is to be converted into a departure site for a water taxi service or a public market.
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The city has also committed some money to improve two parks along the bayou. One of these, Guadalupe Plaza Park, already an important center for Hispanic festivities, will receive $103,000 to bring it up to standard. Meanwhile, the theatrical group Talento Bilingue de Houston is turning the vacant Oscar's supermarket near the park into its first permanent theater after 17 years of working with inner-city youth. Funded with $992,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Program, the theater will have a 300-seat auditorium and complete backstage facilities. Historic Hidalgo Park, built in 1927 at the head of the Turning Basin, will receive $173,000 in city improvements.
But the corridor planners don't want to stop there; they'd like even more. They're calling for soccer fields, improved landscaping, a special-event facility and boat landing for North York Park. They want to adapt unused land on the north side of the bayou from the U.S. Highway 59 right-of-way for a park.
Other hopes along Buffalo Bayou include a nautical museum at the Port of Houston visitors center, a railroad museum to be constructed from an old incinerator site, a technology museum at the historic Willow Street Pump Station across from Allen's Landing downtown, and an energy museum at the Gable Street Power Plant, a 1929 brick building overlooking the bayou at the McKee Street park.
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Every cyclocross course sends you careening around a 6- to 8-minute winding circuit on mixed terrain as wide as a road or as narrow as singletrack, with surfaces ranging from paved roads and paths to every form of dirt and sand. The Coyote Point course goes straight uphill onto dirt, where the climb continues for more than a minute to a paved section with three sharp left turns. Then it's back into a singletrack trip through a eucalyptus forest on loose mulch and dirt that plummets, ultimately, down to a beach.
It's my twelfth start of the season. I've been at it since September and have netted a smattering of fourth-place finishes, a fifth and a few other top tens. But my goal for the season — making it onto the podium — has eluded me. Coyote Point is my second-to-last chance of the season to reach that goal. It's 37 degrees and clouds of breath hang in the air above the start grid as we wait. The whistle blows. I clip into my free pedal easily on my first downstroke and catapult forward in the holeshot.
Racing bikes always hurts. But cyclocross racing hurts a little bit extra because once that whistle blows, you're burying yourself until you cross the finish line. With enough time and a solid training plan, most people can develop high-level, race-specific fitness. But it takes serious skill to excel in cyclocross, too. You have to hone the ability to navigate the dozens of winding turns through constantly changing terrain and surfaces on a bike with 700 x 35 tires inflated to 30 psi without getting a flat, wrecking yourself, colliding with a competitor or having a mechanical. Do it well, you'll haul ass. Do it poorly, you'll have your ass handed to you every time.
At the crest of the hill, the wave of effort catches me and then I push it out of my head and keep going.
Up the hill, two of the best guys in my category who have been nailing wins all season pull past me and I dig deeper to try to stay with them without blowing myself up. I'm throwing my bike side to side, chugging along as hard as I can to will my six-foot-two, 190-pound body to fly, wondering why God made me so big and beautiful. The intensity of the start numbs whatever pain I might feel. At the crest of the hill, the wave of effort catches me and then I push it out of my head and keep going.
I can't catch the guys in front of me, but two riders stick with me and we open a gap on the group behind us that's 15 seconds and growing. We're all pushing to reach the two riders in front of us while we battle over every inch of the course. I hear a pedal hit the ground in a turn behind me and accelerate to capitalize on what I know is a handling error. Then I strike a pedal on a root in a single-track section and hear an acceleration behind me that I block.
On the final lap, a competitor passes and leads me out of the forest onto the beach where we dismount, hurdle two barriers and then run 50 yards through soft sand. A friend watching the race screams at me to run him down, so I try my best and inch past him, hitting the concrete on the other side first. I throw a leg over my bike and go as hard as I can through the rest of the circuit, just barely holding off the charge behind me. It's close heading into the last turn. I sprint so hard I make what has been called the "horse face", looking like I'm trying to swallow buckets of air and about to neigh.
Some days you're the hammer. Some days you're the nail. This day, my sprint sticks and I make third. Some would call that second loser. And I'd say, give it a shot. Where you finish counts, always. But what counts in equal measure is how you fought, the skill you hone, the lessons you learn to carry into every fight you face — and the ability to laugh at the dumb face you make while you're putting out so much effort that you look like a dying horse.


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For years, GM has been telling us that GMC was "Professional Grade". Is that supposed to mean it is better in one or more ways than their other offerings with Chevrolet? Or, was GM trying to suggest that GMC, rather than Chevrolet, was Professional Grade in that professionals, building contractors, supervisors, ranch foremen, etc drove GMC trucks and mere workers, carpenters, bricklayers, etc drove Chevrolets. Was GM trying to set up a class distinction?
...and that must mean that the Acadia is a professional grade family SUV. :P
Corvette, Camaro, Impala, Malibu, and Suburban were in use in 1975. What Toyota and Honda names are being used now that were used then? Corolla, and Civic. Cavalier was used for 24 model years.
Toyota has dumped Solara, Echo, Tercel, MR2, Corona, Cressida, and more I'm missing for sure.
With the exception of Corvette (mainly due to its highly-targeted market), I wonder if long-running names really mean much in today's market.
From what I've seen, buyers don't really seem to put much stock in a long running name these days, although in years passed it certainly was a great selling point.
The car market seems rife with so many makes and models now.
Would Toyota sell as many units of the Carolla if they changed the name?
Corvette, Camaro, Impala, Malibu, and Suburban were in use in 1975. What Toyota and Honda names are being used now that were used then? Corolla, and Civic. Cavalier was used for 24 model years.
Toyota has dumped Solara, Echo, Tercel, MR2, Corona, Cressida, and more I'm missing for sure.
Camaro, Impala, and Malibu were in use in 1975, then dropped, and eventually the names were re-used on new models. That's completely different from being in continuous use since 1975 like Civic, Corvette, and Suburban.
The Corvette and Suburban are successful models for GM. The names have positive equity and therefore were retained, like Civic, Accord, Corolla, and Camry, among many others.
Chevrolet has dumped the Vega, Chevelle, Chevette, Beretta, Corsica, Citation, Cavalier, Metro, Prizm, S-10, (S-10) Blazer, Cobalt, and Caprice. That's without touching the rest of GM.
With the exception of Corvette (mainly due to its highly-targeted market), I wonder if long-running names really mean much in today's market.
Establishing a new name is basically establishing a new brand. It's expensive, first from the various researching involved to avoid trademark or copyright issues, and then the marketing campaigns that have to be built around building the name up.
Cheaper to keep using the same name, provided it hasn't generated too much negative equity by being on a bad car. Then you have to spend marketing money trying to shed the negative reputation. Which is not cheap, and as Uplanderguy can attest, not that easy to get doubters to swallow either. :shades:
fintail Posts: 42,216Also Celebrity, Uplander, Astro, HHR, Monza, Monte Carlo...I'll give SSR a break as it was meant to be limited run (I hope).
The Cavalier one is kind of sad. Kept it around for 24 years, then killed it - because they had eroded 100% of any brand equity it contained.
The Cavalier one is kind of sad. Kept it around for 24 years, then killed it - because they had eroded 100% of any brand equity it contained.
You could say they were just too *cavalier* about it.... :P
Well, I guess you can't blame them for dropping a name when they don't build that type of vehicle at all anymore...like Uplander, Astro, HHR, and Monte Carlo from your list.
Even Toyota dropped Corona, then Cressida, which essentially became Avalon, and Tercel and Echo which were just basic bottom-line econo cars, not something like a sports model which just went away a la Supra.
And I'm not sure what caused them to add Scion, which doesn't seem to be anybody's idea of a great marketing concept.
I don't know where to check, but I'd say that even in its final model year the Cavalier probably still sold in the Top Ten. Not sure how 'eroded' sales became.
You are correct; the Biscayne came out in '58.
Why would GM have spent many millions on commercials over the years telling us that GMC is "Professional Grade".
Never believe the commercials. I found out first hand.
GM was number one at one time and then their future became "tenuous" decades before the doors closed.
I might add to all who still say about Impala, Malibu, and Camaro names were dropped and came back....not every change of a model name is due to negative equity in the old. It's all about marketing (sadly).
I don't believe the names Impala, Malibu, and Camaro would have returned if they had the big negative equity so many seem to say. But as is so exhaustively usual here, only GM name changes are a negative....Toyota's aren't even mentioned, until I do it.
Not sure how 'eroded' sales became.
Perhaps not sales but surely profits in a company so diseased it basically failed years before the final curtain.
Like most discontinued models, GM's business model was.... :lemon:
Chevrolet has dumped the Vega, Chevelle, Chevette, Beretta, Corsica, Citation, Cavalier, Metro, Prizm, S-10, (S-10) Blazer, Cobalt, and Caprice. That's without touching the rest of GM.
Come on pal, they've been making Caprices for a couple years now...my city's police force uses them. They're at least as available to you, me, and everybody else as those Captivas, and the SS's you told me were available last fall ;.
I appreciate your posting this. You can see how much reaction it got from the regulars here.
Used Cars to Avoid - Chevrolet
Camaro - '11
Cobalt -'06, '08
Cruze - '11
Equinox - '05, '08
Impala - '02; '04 - '08
Malibu (4-Cyl.) - '05
Malibu (V-6) - 02; - '07 - '08; '11
Let me know if anyone wants to see the Pickup/SUV categories.
Buyer beware.
Careful, your turbo is likely to make that list, too.
Drove a non-turbo EX yesterday, it exceeded my expectations. Check the Chronic Car Buyers for details as it is off topic here.
iluvmysephia1 Manson, WAPosts: 7,084and even settle into the look a bit. Then I look at my '08 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS (the benchmark for compact/midsize sedans, come on!) and get a sense of complete automotive well-being! :P
2011 Kia Soul Sport 5-speed
You're mentioning this like it's 'hot off the press', but isn't this issue a year old by now? Wouldn't the 2013 issue be out now, that includes 2012 model cars?
Again, I doubt an '11 Malibu V6 is less reliable than the '08-10. Why would it be?
Geez, guess I shoulda bought an '07 or '09 Cobalt--LMAO. Still waiting for that damn cheap OEM Cobalt battery to die yet...but the dumb thing just keeps turning right over, even sitting outside all the time in single-digit temps. You literally cannot tell it is running at idle...all for under $10K new. It may be the smartest new-car purchase I've ever made (I'd much-rather spend extra $$ on an old hobby car over a new daily driver though).
Don't jinx your battery...
You know how GM supposedly cheaps out on even the smallest parts.
I will say this...it used to be that you could tell when a battery was going by the way the car cranked. Seems like the last couple or so batteries I've replaced just crapped out without warning.
Back to believing I did the right thing buying the Cobalt new....I've bought four new Chevrolets since April '02, and paid cash for all of them. I've loved having no car payments. That's been the right thing for me. The affordability has been a good thing.
My battery just quit, but it was 7 years old so can't complain. Always happens in the cold when you're far from home. LOL
I got a jump and then replaced it.
I financed my '91 Escort but paid it off early and since then I've saved up and paid cash each time.
I don't believe the names Impala, Malibu, and Camaro would have returned if they had the big negative equity so many seem to say.
I think that's a fair statement. Why start out with a hindrance?
Certainly, the marketing types (which I assume did marketing tests) understand the value of name equity, which is why we haven't, nor will we ever again, see a Chevrolet Vega, at least, in our lifetime.
Chrysler demonstrated there was a niche market for cars like the Challenger to return, to compete with the Mustang. Seems to me it was natural for Camaro to return to the same market segment, too. Lots of Boomers that have $$$ now that couldn't afford a muscle car back when the originals were out.
If Chrysler had been in better shape over the last decade, maybe we would have see Road Runners and GTX's, too.
imidazol97 Crossroads of America I70 & I75 Posts: 21,386>My battery just quit, but it was 7 years old
Which car was it in? Seven years is good for your environment somewhere in the DC area--hot, hot in summer and cold in winter. Our battery in the leSabre made it 5-7 years, but it's under the rear seat in a moderate environment compared to the engine compartment.
2015 Cruze 2LT, 2014 Malibu 2LT, 2008 Cobalt 2LT
Just saw the March CR at the drugstore. They tested three Fusions. The Hybrid scored high...87. The SE scored 82, a point behind the Malibu LS. The Titanium scored 76. They had a sidebar about rough construction quality on their early examples (even I won't complain too much about that; I think it's been that way since the mists of prehistory when a new model comes out). Exactly like the Malibu, they didn't say they were "NOT RECOMMENDED" (ahem--oh, how the semantics make a world of difference), they didn't have a "Recommended" mark next to them because of undetermined reliability since they are new products.
I wonder if a certain unnamed regular here will go over to the Ford forum and post in capital letters, "CR SAYS NEW FUSION NOT RECOMMENDED".
I don't know where to check, but I'd say that even in its final model year the Cavalier probably still sold in the Top Ten. Not sure how 'eroded' sales became.
No doubt, low-information or no-information consumers chose the 2005 Cavalier over the world class and benchmark Civic.
Here is what Edmunds said about each:
Despite various revisions, there's no hiding the fact that the 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier was engineered more than a decade ago, leaving it hopelessly outclassed by nearly every other car on the market.
Pros: Low price, torquey four-cylinder engine, optional satellite radio and OnStar.
Cons: Ancient design inside and out, cheap interior materials, poor build quality, low resale value, poor side-impact and front-offset crash test results, ABS no longer standard.
Still the head of its class, the 2005 Honda Civic is the most refined, solidly built economy car on the market.
Pros: Fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly engines, roomy interior, reputation for durability and quality, impressive crash test scores.
Cons: Top-of-the-line models are pricey, antilock brakes not available on DX or LX.
If you wish to let Edmunds make your entire decision for you, as opposed to your pocketbook, I'm very happy for you.
Again--phenomenally arrogant to tell someone why they should or shouldn't have bought a certain vehicle. I doubt the Cavalier was out of the top ten the entire 24 years it was built. My much-younger B-I-L drove our '97 at 105K miles. He was man enough to say, "I expected it to be a POS but it wasn't at all". Of course, he needed to borrow a car because whatever ancient import he was driving at the time was down.
But I doubt I'll do any convincing. You're the guy more than one person here tried to show that even the creators of the Mustang said they were influenced by the Monza, but they didn't know as much as you. :lemon:
BTW, I'm surprised certain models of the Civic could not be had with ABS at any price. While I remember being disappointed that GM took it off the standard equipment list that late (both my base Cavaliers had it as standard equipment), GM was an industry leader in providing ABS standard, for years, on even its cheapest cars.
If you wish to let Edmunds make your entire decision for you, as opposed to your pocketbook, I'm very happy for you.
Smart consumers consider a variety of input in making their buying decisions, whether for cars or refrigerators. Input would include from those such as Edmunds, CR, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road and Track, Automobile and other publications whose job is to test and evaluate and give opinions on cars and other motor vehicles.
Of course, after reading what those who make their living testing cars say, then visits to car dealer showrooms, inspection of car, test drives (plural) on a variety of roads of 2, 3, 4, 5, etc cars in the market segment one is considering is prudent.
Now, given this regimen, if price or low price alone is not a criterion, what percent of consumers who did "due diligence" before purchase actually chose a Cavalier over a Civic?
stever Posts: 52,683You missed a few. I've read that most people check around 18 sources when car shopping and the new kids hit more like 24 sites.
That said, crowd wisdom can break down. And it probably breaks down more frequently than new cars do. :shades:
I think in that class, pricing was very important to a lot of people; hence, the Cavalier's sales success over two decades. Frankly, I thought my '02 coupe, especially, was a handsome-looking car with the 15 inch aluminum wheels and a very subtle decklid spoiler, and the coupe's low beltline and teardrop-shaped side windows. I liked the styling better than the more fussy Sunfire. It was a very reliable car over the 112K miles I drove it, too. Like my Cobalt, it didn't spend a single night in a garage.
People who live in my city, and who live in my old hometown, both worked at the plant my Cavaliers were built in. I like that, and there's no bad in any of that.


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From: "Chris Phillips" <>
Subject: Re: Gwladus, Joan, Tangwystl
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:44:51 -0000
I wrote:
> Ordinarily, this [the land transers] would be quite a strong clue, but the
> problem in this case is that the lands in question had been a matter of
> dispute between Llewelyn
> and the Mortimers at least a decade before Gladys' marriage to Ralph de
> Mortimer.
Ken Finton replied:
> How do you figure that Joan's lands could have been given to the Mortimers
> even if Gwladys was not Joan's daughter? Also, saying that these
> were under dispute ten years before Gwladys' marriage to Mortimer is
> incorrect. [See below.]
If I understand correctly, at this time there would have been no legal bar
to alienating lands given in marriage and entailed on their issue (provided
that there had been issue).
I didn't mean to imply that there had been a continuous dispute over the
lands, but that there had been a dispute, long (more than a decade) before
the marriage.
Chris Phillips
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We 'Heart' Koigu Baby Blanket
Happy and colourful, this wonderfully simple baby blanket perfectly matches the joy of welcoming a new arrival into the world. Knit with Koigu KPPPM (100% merino), the We 'Heart' Koigu Baby Blanket is an easy garter stitch project - the first stitch of every row is slipped purlwise with the yarn in front to allow for easy picking up of stitches along each side to create a log cabin style border.
Pattern available in both English and French!
Requires 2 skeins of three colours and 1 skein of five colours.
We used Koigu KPPPM in the following colourways:
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1 skein #P926 – (Colour E)
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Editor's stories fair and balanced
Editor Pat Ratliff is a man of integrity and dedication. Thank you for all the wonderful articles, pictures, and great layouts.
Your stories were always balanced and fair when it came to politics; and insightful and educational when it was normal life.
I wish you the best in your new adventure and I am sure many will miss you, including me.
Happy trails and safe travels to you and Diane.
Former editor Pat Ratliff has left the Beacon to take a position as managing editor at a group of community newspapers in North Dakota. We, too, will miss him, and send warm thoughts his way.
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Agile Project Management in IT Projects
Greater benefits with less risk.
Realize websites with sprints: Agile projects
When implementing web projects, classical project management is frequently confronted by its limits. Not only due to the short innovation cycles and the dynamics of the Internet is a long-term and detailed planning of IT projects difficult. Users' demands are also constantly changing in the Internet age.
To be able to realize websites that satisfy the needs of customers and users, agile project management follows new paths. Infopark has been successfully applying the various techniques of agile website development for years to produce customized websites.
Why conventional project management runs up against a wall
Frequently a detailled planning is created for web projects, including all the steps and functions to be implemented. This approach is, however, rarely successful. Almost every fifth project (18 percent) fails, almost half of the projects exceed their budgets excessively and miss their deadlines completely, according to the results of the Chaos Study conducted by the Standish Group on the success rates of IT projects.
The reason? The so-called "waterfall method", in which all the steps and results are prescribed, is seldom suitable for software projects. This is due to the fact that, on the one hand, many of the requirements are unforeseeable and, on the other hand, the real effort of the individual steps can hardly be predicted. Furthermore, the knowledge gained in the course of the project is not integrated in the subsequent implementation process often enough. As a result of the strong division of labor, the persons involved in the projects concentrate too much on their own tasks, losing track of the forest for the trees. There is too little communication amongst the parties.
Adaptive planning – in small steps to successful websites
The agile website development is based on the principle ideas of the Agile Manifesto that were formulated in the beginning of 2001. According to these principles, the fulfilment of the customer's needs has the greatest priority. It is not the means of implementation that matters, but rather the targeted final status and the benefits associated with that.
In contrast to classical website development in which the various phases such as needs analysis, draft, test and programming are completed sequentially, in agile projects the planning is adaptive; based on prototypes created as early as possible, the new website is continuously planned, tested, adapted and further developed.
Prerequisite to this is that at the beginning of the project a needs analysis is performed jointly with the customer and the fundamental project objectives defined. The individual goals are described in so-called stories following the pattern of "As xxx, I can xxx, so as to xxx". The implementation of these stories is realized according to their priority in short, overseeable steps, the so-called sprints.
Advantages of agile project management for the realization of websites
- The objectives are defined clearly and realistically on the basis of understandable performance characteristics.
- The priorities are determined by the necessity, the benefit and the risks of the individual functions. Necessary functions with greater benefit and low risk are implemented first.
- The implementation of the website project is completed in closed working packages with overseeable planning horizons.
- The phased approach in sprints allows for regular checks of targets and fast feedback about the web project's requirements.
- Thanks to small, interdisciplinary teams, developers, designers and customers work closely together, and flexible adaptation of the requirements is possible.
Sprints & feedback-loops: Constant optimization of the characteristics
Together with our customers, we at Infopark prioritize the stories. First of all those requirements are implemented that provide the greatest benefit with the least possible effort. The sprint backlog developed on the basis of these criteria contains the stories that are implemented in the current sprint.
The end of every sprint forms a new, executable version of the website. Together with the customer, the subsequent acceptance test serves to determine if the defined requirements have been satisfied and which functions are to be implemented in the next sprint. Thanks to these feedback loops we are in a position to continuously improve the product attributes. Beyond that this provides an early indication of whether the originally formulated targets need to be modified or abandoned because the expected benefits are too low


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I read MetsBlog and Matt Cerrone reporting that the Mets Clubhouse store still sells Paul LoDuca, Tom Glavine, (I wouldn't wipe my arse with that one) Endy Chavez and Kaz Matsui (what no Mark Bradley?) T-shirts. Even better is the WAGNER 13 t-shirts with the securtiy doo-hickey on it. Jesus H. Christ you the fuck is going to lift a WAGNER shirt?
But try to find a MURPHY 28 or a Pelfrey 34? No can do.  Great bunch you have in that marketing department Jeffey.