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Guernsey is second on grid for fast cars... despite 35mph speed limit
GUERNSEY motorists were ranked second in the UK for owning the fastest cars – despite the island's 35mph maximum speed limit.
GUERNSEY motorists were ranked second in the UK for owning the fastest cars – despite the island's 35mph maximum speed limit.
Islanders came runner-up to drivers in the City of London, who topped the survey of almost 6,000 car owners. The results, released by weloveanycar.com, were based on the average top speed of the cars owned by motorists from each region.
Jersey drivers finished just behind Guernsey in third place.
Guernsey's high ranking was of little surprise to Forest Road Garage owner Dale Crowsley, who said that islanders took pride in their motors.
'I'm not surprised in the slightest, even though we have a speed limit of 35mph. Why do people have fast cars? Because they can.'
Comments for: "Guernsey is second on grid for fast cars... despite 35mph speed limit"
Sarnia expat
Why do people have fast cars? Because the imbeciles who own them generally have little in the upstairs, or come to that, the downstairs department, and have to prove their worth through materialistic rubbish!!
I am a little surprised SE that you who normally writes good posts would come out with such an inaccurate insulting load of rubish.
The wicker man
Agreed bcb , what a load of ball cocks. Usually, those that have abit upstairs can afford them. Give me a two litre escort any day of the week.
I own a fast/nice car because A) i wanted one and B) because i have worked hard for my money and as a reward to myself bought the car.
i have nothing to prove at all (especially to people like you) as i just plain and simply enjoy cars!!
i would say that your comment is insulting, however i detect that you may possibly be a little bitter/resentful of these people.
mo one
I actually think SE got it spot on. Having money does not mean you are intelligent, it just means you are overpaid for what you actually do.
Come on guys with a 35mph speed limit you have to be compensating for something eh.
Well in that case i shall tar you with the same brush as SE which is a plonker!
i have worked extremely hard to get where i am and consider myself to be reasonably intelligent too, which essentially makes your comment completely untrue (in my case anyway)
just because we have a 35mph speed limit why should i drive a perodua or some other pile of mass produced rubbish? I earnt the money not you so i shall do with it as i see fit!!
mo one
Touched a nerve there I think.
A little yes if I'm honest as I feel that your comment is unjust! However I try to take this with a pinch of salt as I don't really want to get into slanging matches against people on an Internet forum. I do actually ( kind of) see your point as guernsey is definitely not suited for cars like mine. However it's my hobby, other people have theirs, so each to their own (apart from people who ride horses as they are a royal pain in the proverbial!)
mo one
This is what I don't understand. You are in favour of having any vehicle you like, but cant stand someone having a horse.
Why is one persons hobby more ok than anothers ?
At some point in time we have all come across someone who is not safe on the road, be they young, old in a car, bike, horse etc.
The bottom line to me driving is not fun, as you stated earlier. Fun should be kept for offroad or track days (not easy here)
Driving on the roads is chore with large resposibilities, we should never take it lightly.
Ah its not actually the horses i dislike, its the people that ride them!!
I agree 100% you cannot categorically blame any one vehicle user for being worse than another on our roads!!
I would say that driving can be a chore sometimes but i enjoy it most of the time.
so basically what i am saying is that i mostly agree with you (apart from the intelligence comments)
The real 'imbecile' is the person who feels the need to abuse those that don't fit into his idea of a perfect world.
That will be you Sarnia expat.
Sounds like jealousy to me. Stereotypical rubbish, I'm surprised you didn't mention mid-life crisis's.
Based on your username you're an expat? So why bother posting when you don't even live on the island?
Sarnia expat
Is that Kev? As in Kev Run?!!! Ho ho. Is his feelings hurt a little then? Awwwww.
Sorry, spend your hard earned cash on whatever your little hearts desire and I shall do the same.
Jealousy? Nope - don't need to prove anything thanks.
Enjoy your wee hobbies boys (and girls of course)
Don't worry, you haven't hurt my feelings at all, I just recognise that those who find it necessary to abuse others in order to make a point are normally of limited intelligence themselves.
As for the 'Kev run' - yes, about 25 years ago and I've wised up since then, maybe you should try to do the same?
Any ranks for slowest or even cheapest cars?
Sark Watcher
I am guessing that Sark would come top of all lists of the slowest and least prestigious forms of personal transport, by any measure.
What a disgustingly arrogant final remark from Mr Crowsley - "why do people have fast cars? - because they can". This sums up the 'keep-up-with-joneses' Guernsey attitude and the importance put on money, status and materials possessions. Things will change as the economy continues to decline with the finance industry shrinking. Try selling your flash cars then Mr Crowsley!
Terry Langlois
not necessarily arrogant - you don't really know how he said it.
the reporter may have asked the question and he simply responded along the lines of "why not?". it is a bit of a silly question, really.
as for selling cars - you do realise that it is possible to sell cars off the island, do you?
Fast cars are of course pointless in Guernsey but Mr Crowsley's answer 'because they can' is spot on - just an honest appraisal of the situation, i.e. a relatively affluent society and no restrictions on vehicle size/performance.
People seem to like their motorized status symbols regardless of where they live. I'll never understand why this is the case either, but there you go.
Agreed , seems a poncey comment. TO be expected.
But what they dont tell you is these cars arent driven on the roads they are an investment and tax loss for investment company's :) What a joke. Same goes for Yachts as well registered in Guernsey. Its a racket. I wonder how many Lamborghini's and Ferrari's are registered in Guernsey and never seen a road over here. Get a clue folks .
I don't understand what point you are trying to make here, buying any article -car, yacht, aircraft, jewellery, gold bars etc as in investment is a legitimate enterprise and benefits any community that supplies said items (sale of item, servicing etc in the case of vehicles).
If someone decides to hide their Ferrari or whatever in an old barn, that is their choice... it doesn't directly affect you does it?
Your post seems to be aimed at those who choose to buy what they want with THEIR money, for whatever reason they deem reasonable.
I think you have a slightly envious streak showing ;-)
Point was Guernsey is Second on the Grid ?
I pointed out some facts for the figures of expensive vehicles :) Sorry was it meant to be a secret ?
Not envious at all. But I guess by that comment it annoyed you.
Mission Accomplished. ;)
I don't think you have actually accomplished anything with your post. What facts and figures did you point out... I can't see any. There is no secret that some folks choose to spend their own money on investments.
Overall, your post can be likened to a popular daytime TV show - Pointless ;-)
PS I really am not annoyed... just amused.
Charlie G
Yes i know,all entitled to spend our money how we wish,...but in all sensible honesty,this is so typical island mentality," mines bigger faster and better than yours" ! Just look at the pathetic "fashion" parade in the schools car parks.
Come on ,what an hilarious joke this is....no control now over traffic population ,and ridiculous over powered over sized vehicles,with more than enough of the owners clueless on how to drive them,especialy the 4x4 brigade! Heaven knows how they cope on the continent.....beggers belief.
"Step right this way me old cocker,got a lovely break the sound barrier, V12 superchaged motor just made for you,never been over 30mph, ideal for Island roads, engine needs a bit of a de- coke,clutch burnt to a cinder,only one elderly frail owner!....bargain". Oh deary me....quel folie !
Lighten up Ian....If someone has always dreamt of owning a flash car and they can afford it, then why not? … you're a long time dead.
Sorry but it just irritates me Mark - it's exactly the kind of attitude that has driven me away for the island. I'll try and chill out :-)
Well done, you've moved somewhere without sports cars - Sark?
It's called keeping up with the Jones's which is a Guernsey pass time. Just glad I am not like that. It does seem worse on this island for that than other places I have lived in.
As the article is about fast cars, why is Mr Crowsley pictured standing next to what is actually a pretty slow motor in the world of performance cars?!
I'd be interested where they got there information from. I can't see the States supplying the information. Is it based on individual cars or averages per capita? As we all know there are more cars than people as Ford and others use Guernsey as a staging post to avoid VAT. More information please GP. Lets also remember that a new ' low powered' Fiesta is capable of 120mph!
It's from 6000 user's of the website WeLoveAnyCar.com. Very small and biased collection of participants. Barely a news story.
The only reason for it is to spark more anti-motorist/cyclist posts.
R. Williams
What a lot of miserable responses. Perhaps the cars give their owners great pleasure without having to be driven fast and image is of no importance to the owner.
Some people like cars, some paintings, some spend a lot on clothes or shoes and many other things that takes the owners fancy.
We're all different.
The more important item that needs correction is that neither Guernsey or Jersey are part of the U.K. and hopefully we never shall be despite the screws being tightened by the U.K. government.
Spot on R. Williams.
Sadly the green eyed monster is alive and well in Gy. As you say, the most important aspect of this 'slow news day' story is the reference to our island being referred to as part of the UK.
Island Wide Voting
Have to agree about 'the green eyed monster'.It can be found in many TIG threads ... often by the same posters
Guernsey - home of the cow, and Mad Car Disease...
george l
How very silly indeed , for the size of island, the narrowness of roads why does anyone want to drive such cars or those horrific 4x4 ? Answer because they are selfish, self important "wannabe's " who think they are some big shot and in reality the are small fish is very small pond but think they have something to prove. I doubt these idiots would survive any further afield that St Martins . Time the States made it tough on drivers and made the roads safer for the rest of us. ( sadly I do not see this happening as they are useless and it wont win votes)
Pathetic narrowed minded views...Should we ban all cars and motorbikes that exceed the speed limit????
Maybe we should all drive the same cars and wear the same clothes. Get over it, if you want it and can afford it, have it, that's life!
No, we shouldn't ban them, but what we should do is make a nice little revenue earner out of anyone silly or vain enough to buy an oversized, overpowered vehicle by bringing back some form of road tax for large, overpowered non commercial vehicles. I'd bring in a Torteval Tractor tax tomorrow and I'd treble it for any yummy mummy who uses such a vehicle to clog up country lanes on the school run!
"some form of road tax"? Like a tax on fuel you mean?
Yes, that as well!
Pointless, would not stop the use of these so called oversized, overpowered vehicles as the owners will and can pay whatever to continue using them.
Could deter a few, or rather encourage some to choose a smaller vehicle more suited to island roads (I'm not trying to save the planet here). Also, what's pointless about earning extra revenue from big car addicts? We do it with smokers.
I'm all for bringing back the cycle tax, why not have a level playing field and extra revenue?, we all know cycles hold up the traffic and in doing so make those vehicles create more pollution,
also why not tax horses too?, after all they make loads of mess on the roads that is never cleared up, this being a dangerous trip hazard when walking in the lanes at night as well.
Where do you stop and which option is more correct than the other?
What we should do, if anything, is provide tax RELIEF for those who rely on bicycles for most of their journeys rather than motorised transport.
Cyclists have a negligible effect on the degredation of our roads, they reduce traffic jams and pollution levels and should be encouraged by the State(s) in every way possible.
Taxing cyclists would be the most retrograde and regressive step and it is a most ludicrous suggestion.
Cyclists do slow down traffic on occasions, I've noticed this when I drive which is not often, but they do not cause traffic jams. Only four wheeled vehicles do that.
"Cyclists do not cause traffic jams" lol I have heard it all now, but I must agree they don't do it all on their own the buses help a lot too.
Personally I own my 3 litre gas guzzler for the purpose of taking it away 2 or 3 times a year on holiday in Europe and the UK, for the amount of miles I do and the reduced price I got it for it's cheaper than a smaller car and so, so, so much more fun!
If that makes me a bad person the so be it, I couldn't give a monkey's toss to be honest.
P.S. whilst typing this post another coal fired power station has been built in China
Perfect and to the point.
Charlie G
And whilst the new coal fired station was being built in China,hoards more idiot thinking attitudes of guzzeler mentality took to the roads in vehicles they can't even drive properly, pretending to be something they certainly are not,,especialy here.Agreed everyone to their own freedoms,but thank heavens for those of us that were born with the grown up mentality of common sense,and that do give a toss about our Enviroment....oh and i'm not Mr perfect by the way .
My little 1.4 litre van takes me nicely round Europe and Scandinavia ,and uses far less fuel....still, the couldn't give a toss brigade have money to burn....or massive loans to fuel their never ending needs!...sad.
Idiot thinking?
Ok I'll get rid of my air conditioned 3 litre estate car and replace it with a Postman Pat minivan that is about as unsafe a vehicle as you could possibly wish for, and crawl around Europe with my family in discomfort just to please the planks who deem me to be environmentally unfriendly.
Who's the idiot here?
If you bought your Postman Pat minivan for here, why couldn't you hire something bigger and more comfortable when wanting to go abroad on a longer trip?
Have you seen how much it costs to hire a big car for a fortnight? By the time you include the extra insurance, child seats, extra driver etc it's well over £1,000 so there's your reason. My car is 7 years old and cost me less than £4,000 and I only do about 3,000 miles a year so it will more than pay for itself compared to hiring.
Plus, of course, I have no wish to look like a dipstick in a Postman Pat van :-)
Phil…. You under-estimate the allure of a Postman Pat van. Do wonders for your street cred! ;-)
Nobody buys the extra insurance from Hire car firms do they? A complete rip off if you annualise (is there such a word?) the charge.
Maybe there is an opportunity here for a car club.
Totally agree, Phil.
I've done some research into buying a '4x4 gas guzzler' myself. Most, I repeat most 4x4's on the market are only milimetres in difference to that of a standard saloon. They're just taller! People seem to get a real bee in their bonnet about this, but estate cars are actually bigger.
These new 4x4's are no different in width and length to the average car, but most run on extremely fuel efficient diesel now, with eco designed engines.
I will admit, I used to curse the Chelsea tractors myself, but having actually researched a fair few of them, I don't hate them anymore. The small car I drive now is far less economic!
Everything you say 'might' be true but it doesn't alter the fact that the general massing of these larger 4x4 vehicles make them more intimidating for other road users. That might even be part of their appeal for some people but to me, confirms that when people in Guernsey decide to buy them, they are not taking into account the rest of the community, or the local environment, or their appropriateness for the local roads. In short, they are thinking only about what they 'want' and what suits them. As Phil says... he 'couldn't give a monkey's toss'. Says a lot really!
So people are intimidated by these vehicles because they are taller? How exactly does that affect two cars of similar length/width passing in a small lane? Lanes are small in Guernsey, most cars will struggle to pass each other, but people will manage, as they have been for many years now.
I won't quote facts and figures, but as I say I HAVE actually bothered to do some comparisons before I rant about their size and again I HAVE compared fuel efficiency on most 4x4's on the market. They compare favourably with that of your average family saloon/hatchback car.
Do your research. Your points about size and the environment are (for the majority of these vehicles, not all (sorry range rover!))unfounded.
I will happily admit though, that there are definately a lot of people who's driving skills dictate they should stay well away from any kind of car, not just a 4x4! There are some seriously hideous drivers on Guernsey roads.
mo one
KG this research that shows fuel economy is similar. I hope you are not basing it on what the manufacturers are saying their vehicles do.
If you are I suggest you get some real figures.
And as for being mere mm bigger I assume you are talking about the silly little 4x4s. I don't think you could compare the BMW 4x4 and a Fiesta for instance. The Fiesta will be much much cheaper to run all round.
As you say, lanes are small in Guernsey. We have a small van and a small car and neither struggle to pass another similar sized vehicle even in the lanes. Obviously, I am not suggesting that large vehicles intimidate each other but they do intimidate smaller vehicles as they bowl along the faster roads that are not much wider (if at all) than a UK country lane. Les Blicqs for example where you have to have nerves of steel to keep all 4 wheels on the road when you see one of those things bearing down on you at speed. They also intimidate cyclists and pedestrians by their size.
Your definition of 'environment' is too narrow. These larger vehicles might have improved levels of emissions and mpg and therefore be 'less bad' than previously (are they really as good as all the new small vehicles that are coming onto the market?) but 'environment' for me, also includes our visual and physical environment. It is not suprising that so many visitors to Guernsey comment on the large private vehicles that increasingly dominate our roads as one of the negative developments of Guernsey in recent years.
Are you suggesting people in these monstrous vehicles are the only ones 'bowling along' intimidating other road users?
It's relative, rosie. You get bad, selfish, inconsiderate drivers in 4x4's.....you also get them in smart cars and mini's!
I currently drive an Astra (too big, too fast? do let me know...)and I am forever stunned by the speed at which some idiots come haring around tight corners without so much as a thank you to me for taking avoiding action. And guess what, they aren't all driving 4x4's. Cyclists can also be just as idiotic and selfish, weaving in and out of traffic expecting the right of way. (Again, not all of them, just some)
The majority visitor opinions I have seen is regarding the amount of vehicles as opposed to the size. But that is a different argument.
*Shocked*..... you have TWO cars!!?
mo one
No need to suggest I do anything. The info I have garnered is from varying sources.... manufacturers, what car? magazine, car buyer, friends who actually own one...
please also note that I said 'most 4x4's' not all. Range Rover and BMW I think are the worst offenders and wouldn't be looking to buy one myself.
Interesting line...'silly little 4x4's' are you saying they should be bigger now?
5 adults.... 2 cars. Is that really so shocking? I should also say 6 bikes and 5 Ormer cards.
I agree that bad driving is bad driving and is not dependent on the vehicle being driven, but when the bad or inconsiderate driver is behind the wheel of something large on roads that are small, the intimidation is much worse. And the larger vehicles don't even have to be driven badly to make other road users feel as tho' they are being squeezed out.
Yes Steve! How lovely this island would be with no motorised private transport allowed! Anyone can buy what they legally want within their means.
So lets get rid of all those silly 4^4 owners who rule the roost so they think!!
The right to pollute is cheap in Guernsey. Do the States or rather Environment really want to protect quality of life on the island? Their strategy seems to be do nothing or very little and let fast cars and chelsea tractors rule the streets.
People should use a bit of common sense when buying a car, after all, the roads in Guernsey aren't very big and the speed limit is 35 mph. So nobody needs a supercar or one of the many oversized 4x4 vehicles that clog up the pavements on the island. As for those people who try to justify owning such vehicles by saying they go off island once or twice a year well why don't they buy a more island friendly vehicle at a much cheaper price and hire the status symbol of their choice when they arrive at their destination. I'm sure it would work out much cheaper and lengthen the life of Guernsey's pavements.
JJ Lehto
Nice idea, but how many companies hire Range Rovers (or similar) in St Malo? And how does a family get all of their luggage on to the boat and then into the hire car? Most cars I see at the port waiting to get on Condor are full to the brim, and plenty have roof racks too.
Maybe your suggesting we shouldn't take so much stuff with us on holiday? That it's horribly materialistic to take enough clothes to last for 2 weeks on France?
It's a democracy, if someone wants a fast car to crawl around the island they have right to. It's their money and they have right to spend it how they want.
Get a grip people. look at the calendar - its August. What do you expect but another 'silly season' non-story? Newsflash, some people have MX-5's. Big deal, we all can if we've got £5k to spend. Lets not turn this into yet another tedious car hatefest.
I find this info hard to believe, when compared to Jersey our cars seem small fry, even cars parked all day in the multi storey car parks are high performance cars, I wonder how they collate this info.
JJ Lehto
Why do most of the posters on here think that the sole purpose of buying a nice car is to "keep up with the Jones'"? I presume this is because they have no love of the motor vehicle, but there are plenty of people who actually like to drive a nice car because they like cars!
As Pete says above, we live in a free world. Some people like to spend their money on cars, some like to spend their time posting continuously on TIG!
Totally agree JJL, I am myself in the process of buying a small sports car (not that fast or flashy, just different) purely as an indulgence because I am of an age now where I can afford to buy something I have been hankering after for many years.
In my case, it has nothing to do with 'image' as a lot of posters on here seem to think is the reason for buying such vehicles, its because I want to spend my savings on something different and that is essentially my choice.
It won't adversely affect the environment as I can only drive one car at a time, the mpg no worse than my 'modern' everyday car, so basically, my money, my choice !
So what's the problem? is it the size of the cars or the size of the engines? most sports cars are smaller than your average estate car
just because it says Ferrari on the front doesn't make any difference, it can still be driven at 35MPH.
And if someone can afford one and wants one what its matter, its their hard earned money.... as I said earlier have what you want in life as you're a long time dead.
in fact that little Mazda in the picture would be the perfect car for Guernsey roads.
Richy McRicherton
Many seem to not have noticed that one can in fact take one's many V12's off the island and drive them elsewhere to speeds in excess of the speed we all stick to of 35mph...
Forget this rubbish story on cars, the real headline, as someone pointed out above, is "GUERNSEY motorists were ranked second in the UK" Since when was Gsy in the UK, how can the GEP write this. Did the person doing the ranking think Gsy was in the UK. If you keeping saying something long enough, the populace will believe it. We should be shouting louder about Guernsey. Come on Dave Jones you are always ramping on about Guernsey what is our states doing about promoting us properly to the outside world.
R. Williams
I raised the issue of our islands being described as in the U.K. To be fair to the GP, whilst they could have noted the error, they were only quoting the article which was in the Daily Telegraph.
The same Telegraph owned by the barmy Barclay brethren. The same plutocrats who would have Sark amalgamated into the European Community so it would be against your human rights not to be able to charge ones Hummer across La Coupee to partake of a lobster supper at La Sablonnerie...
Crossed my mind too, ironic isn't it.
Why do you people car what others spend their money on? Just points to envy. And if they buy them locally and don't use them you're even better off. Where do you think the money goes, a lot of it gets injected back into the Guernsey economy.
On a related note, it would be nice if some people could actually drive closer to the speed limit! Crawling around on the islands main roads uncomfortably at less than 20mph is insane and if you can't drive on these roads between 30 and 35mph then you shouldn't be on them. Take a bus
Car Driver
Follow the link to the survey and you will note that Guernsey and Jersey are no 2 and 3 on the survey of Fastest Car Drivers in the UK.
However if you look to the top right of
that page it lists out the names of the car drivers who drive the fastest cars...possibly not from Guernsey eh?
Unless cars and motorised vehicles are going to be completely banned from Guernsey the anti-car debate will just run and run.
Who cares if we've got the fastest cars? Unless you take it off island (and many people do) we don't nip around in them very fast. I've had a £1,000 car that does 125mph and I've had a £25,000 car that does 125mph - this is all just subjective clap trap.
Well said
brown cow
why do most cars in Guernsey have wing mirrows smashed or missing .
They dont, stop being silly.
Woohoo!! We beat Jersey!
Why have fast cars on Guernsey? For a start, the cars are engineered to go fast. Same applies to a motorbikes. You don't get a 1200 or R1 to poodle around at 35mph. It will choke the bike. Granted, go abroad if you feel the need. Very psychological thing going on for the need for a fast car in Guernsey. Quality car....yes, fast car here.......as the saying goes I'm afraid. Would also be nice to know that the driver/rider has some advanced driving skills.
Why do you believe you have to have advanced driving skills to be able to drive a Ferrari in Guernsey... or the UK/Europe? Advanced driving skills could be equally as important to the driver of a low powered vehicle.
You seem to be trying to imply that owners of high performance vehicles are somehow trying to make up for inadequacies in their persona or physiological make up... I suggest that it may be you who is inadequate as you seem to be unable to appreciate that someone who buys one of these vehicles doesn't have to justify it to you or anyone else for that matter.
Because they look awesome.
Doesn't Guernsey have the greatest number of cars per head of any country in the world? If so then, statistically speaking, perhaps we also have the greatest number of slow cars too.
1000cc+ bikes are fine to poodle around at 35mph. The Police, GMTS and the motorcycle escorts all use bikes above 1000cc.
Fast cars and bikes can easily cruise at 35mph, if they couldn't they'd be useless on the road anywhere not just Guernsey.
1000+ cc bikes look absolutely ridiculous on our roads. Fair enough if you ride abroad often but, as someone who rode a 600cc machine in his youth, even this was far too powerful for island roads. For the last 15 years I have been riding 125cc scooters instead. You really do not need anything bigger in Guernsey.
You need loads of poop under the bonnet to overtake the long lines of cyclists. Ha Ha.
In case you have missed what a lot of people on this thread have said, it is not about what you need, it is about what you want.
Its their money,and if other people think they are silly, then so be it, IT IS THEIR MONEY... now do you get it?
Yes, I get it, but in this instance I was more taking issue with the notion that 1000cc+ bikes are "fine to poodle around 35mph" with, when in fact 35 is the absolute maximum legal limit and, in my experience as a bike and scooter rider of nearly 40 years' standing, machines of around 100cc/125cc are much better suited to our speed limits and poodling around with on our small roads, not to mention whipping in and out of slow moving traffic in a way that you simply can't with a big bike.
Isn't owning a high-performance sports car in Guernsey a bit like keeping a tiger in a playpen?
Nope, the latter is probably illegal and at least you can take the car out to play (abiding by relevant speed restrictions of course) now and then.
Colimachon, this has to count as one of your worst ideas!
My car doesnt try to eat me either!!
Well Guernsey ranks second for fast cars in UK! what does it tell? Well it says that in here there are so some many show off individuals. But this is small predicament comparing with those people that have huge range vehicles. Do they think that they are in Africa doing a Safari? These types of vehicles are very unsuitable for our roads, for our car parks, but above all are very dangerous in collisions with other cars. It is up to the States of deliberation looking into this and impose a determined type of cars suitable for our island or and dish out special taxes that could deter many people to possess such mechanical monsters!
I beleive the article in the GP was first published in a UK newspaper which relied on information from a website but no proof as to how the information was gathered or verified.
That aside, having a large vehicle such as a Range Rover doesn't mean that the owner needs to go on safari, they may just like that type of vehicle and may need it to tow a boat or horse box or whatever. Some may even argue that a vehicle with a higher ground clearance may actually be an advantage when driving on certain sections of road or public car park:-)
As for our Government limiting the type/size of vehicle that an individual can own... I personally think that is a step too far, I'd rather the individual makes their own decision on whether their vehicle is 'suitable' for the island or not.
I am not the owner of a large 'flashy' vehicle, but that is my choice, as is the choice by others to own what you or others may see as 'unsuitable'.
Lighten up mon vieux
They are not dangerous in a collision
if your the drive of one!!
I have experience of driving larger vehicles both here and throughout the UK. I have recently been over to the mainland and both there and here on many roads people (I have done this myself) forget, or ignore the fact there could be something larger and slower than themselves approaching around the next corner. The amount of times I have had to slam on brakes due to some one coming hurtling around a corner without consideration for what may or may not be approaching from the opposite direction. Personally I do feel many of the cars on the island are way over the top for an island with the speed limits and road conditions which prevail here. I witnessed an Aston Martin being driven from a drive in town recently it was on the road less than ten minutes. It could not have been out of second gear and was parked in a car park near the Grange. It took longer to get out of the drive and into a parking space than to walk the distance would have. Mind it was a nice day for driving hood down and breathing in all that lovely fumes from stationary traffic. Must make a man glad to be alive!
For a start - the 'statistics' are likely misleading...
The survey was conducted on a pool of 'almost 6000 car owners' presumably from all over the UK.
The likelihood is that only a few 'car owners' from Guernsey participated in the survey. The information was likely collected by some form of enthusiasts website: often frequented by car enthusiasts (you know; people with fast cars) so 'car owners' who aren't enthusiastic about such a survey and don't own fast cars will likely NOT have participated.
It's likely that less than 10 people from Guernsey participated in the survey, and lets say these 9 of these 10 people all happen to have Porches or Ferraris or similar exotica with a top speed of (lets say) 185mph. Then the 10th 'car owner' in the survey has a Ford Focus with a top speed of about 125mph.
That gives an average top speed of all cars from Guernsey (according to the survey) of 179mph.
Meanwhile in Wales; a couple of hundred (possibly even thousand) car owners participate in the survey. Some have Japanese imported Subaru Imprezas (limited to 112mph), some have Mercedes AMG saloons(limited to 155mph), some have Ford Focus's(?) and there's a handful of 200mph exotica in there too.
Over a larger spread of information the likelihood is that this magical 'average top speed' is lower.
If every single car (all 85,000 of them!)registered in Guernsey was recorded to give an 'average top speed' I doubt it would even come close to the result if every car in the UK was recorded for the same purpose.
Secondly: Give people a break...
If someone wants to spend their hard earned cash on a fast car, so be it. Not all fast cars need to be driven fast, many are a piece of artwork for collection - others used for the purposes of Motorsport, or taken off Island regularly on track days to break the speed limit in another countries' jurisdiction.
While there is clearly a problem with traffic on this Island - it seems to be more to do with the sheer volume of it (but that's another debate on affluence) or the in-ability of people (of all ages / genders / backgrounds / (dis-)abilities) to use their machine safely and correctly.
If you want to be told what you can / can't drive, then move to a communist country; or better yet live in Sark...
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Quite how a non story such as this has stirred up so much furore beats me, but that's Guernsey for you;-)
Your right but not sure why your surprised? you`ve just joined in :)
bcb... well spotted :-)
george l
GUERNSEY + THE IDIOTS WHO DRIVE 4x4 and High Performance cars.
What a joke. We live in an island with roads that are no more than one step up from those in Sark ( at least they have the right idea) and yet we breed and import idiots who think 4x4's are what is needed.
These unintelligent overpaid clowns should be made to walk and that way they may lose some weight ( inconsiderate overweight uneducated thickits)
You are obviously a numpty who doesn't have a clue what they're talking about.
My car is fast but is no larger than a ford focus saloon, the only issue in guernsey is fuel consumption which only affects me as I have to pay for the fuel.
I have worked hard for my money and will buy whatever the hell I like with it!
Believe it or not some people have hobbies which involve cars, they are called enthusiasts! Others have stamp books and others like crochet, do I feel that these people should be called stupid because they enjoy doing something in their spare time??
If it bothers you that much George.......move to sark! Or the Falklands as that is further away from me!
Idiot... that's all that I could think of when I read your 'post' sorry:-)
How ironic that you should call anyone else 'unintelligent' and 'uneducated'
Ranting little boy.
Let's be honest - if we're discussing the islands traffic issues this is a bit of a red herring.
A fast car is still a car. It makes no difference to traffic density whether its a Ferrari or a Smart car being driven around.
Besides, the really fast ones don't tend to be used on the daily "drop the kids off to school on the way to the office" run anyway.
The voice of reason as always:-)
Neil Forman
Good Posts!
I drive a ' performance ' car, it meets current emission laws and was a show car I purchased in England, after a lot of searching.
I like the car and it is the second one of the same type I have owned, I like this type.
It is the driver who turns it into a ' fast ' car not the car.
The other car in my family is a Fiat Siecento, I know which one I feel safer in. Small car with no protection or larger car with protection?
What is missing on our roads is consideration for other road users and courtesy. I rode a small motor cycle for a while a couple of years ago and just did not feel safe, cars stopping yards over yellow lines, overtaking whilst I'm riding at the speed limit, etc.
I can see the cyclists point of view here, there are some idiots on the road who have no consideration for other road users. You might be held up by a cyclist but so what, there's only a line of traffic to stop you a hundred yards down the road.
St Marcouf
In my experience, the smarter and more powerful the car, and probably the lower the registration number, the slower and worse the driving is both on and off the island.
I've been held up so often by such cars in St Malo and I've overtaken them so often on the motorway as their drivers dribble along in their stupefaction.
It's therefore not true that people have these cars in order to drive fast or make use of their performance off the island - the real reason lies behind new money and ostentation, something for which Guernsey and Jersey today are sadly synonymous.
I agree with this 100%.
I was in London last week and saw a massive black jeep on Oxford street with the number plate 5.
It fitted right in with the Lambo's and Ferraris, I doubt it spends much time in Guernsey though.
george l
reply to - Guernzee
this may come as a massive surprise to you
but there are flights that actually take people off island - sorry i dont mean out of St Sampsons to town ( eh) -i actually mean to the big wide world ...eh!!!!
anyway you keep earning all your large bags of cash ( for being a talentless individual ) and i can only guess how well the island will do from you in the future.
congrats Guernzee you are 0/10
I would bet that Guernzee has more to offer this island than you do. He/She can string a sentence together for a start.
How about you take one of those flights. One way.
I don't actually earn that much, it's called saving? As for the talentless comment that's a bit rich dont you think? Considering you don't know me!
Thank you KG you can obviously see that George is a troll and not a very good one either!
Oh Dear
My lifestyle may not be similar to Guernzee's but it's up to him/her what he/she does with his/her money.
There's no point in calling someone "talentless" when they clearly have a better grasp of the English language than yourself. Some could say that you're a talentless typist.
Oh Dear
Why is it that every one on Guernsey is always in a rush? I can understand it in the mornings as people don't want to be late for work. For the rest of the day there's no excuse to speed and drive like idiots.
The bus I was travelling on was nearly involved in a crash yesterday as some pillock came out of the filter when it wasn't his turn. It was a locally registered car with no "H" plates. The person knew he did wrong but didn't want to wait for bus to manouver around the tight bend (which is difficult to do in a bus that's nearly the same length as the island itself).
Backchat, I agree with what Martino is saying. We don't agree on everything but it would appear as though we have similar views on this topic. Bicycles can slow down the flow of traffic but they don't cause traffic jams. The sheer number of cars on this island do that themselves.
I'd also like to say that when all of you drivers over take cyclists don't do it on a corner. I've very nearly been hit several times due to this dangerous manouver.
Why is "This is Guernsey" trying to ram their Communist tendencies down all our throats? Why the sudden campaign against car drivers recently? Slow news month? Bored?
Didn't you 'agree 100%' with St Marcouf's railing against 'new money and ostentation'?
like a kid
absolutley no surprise. almost certainly the same relationship with property. the drippingly obvious wealth within guernsey is yet another elephant in the room. but everyone blames the unemployed or single parents for the island not affording decent public toilets! lester queripel blames our poverty on too much overseas aid!! the price of every other car down the grange at 8.30 a.m. would pay for your extra judge for a year lester, so no need to leave the darkies without running water either, surely? massive money here, whether local or non-local, commonly the monied are tax savvy, property savvy, high on the hog of world wide tax avoidance and its attendent cap doffers and runarounds. no problem with the cars - just tax the owners with courage and fairness. eat the rich, for goodness sake.
george L
I am sure I take more flights than you do - why don't you stick to your field in Torteval eh
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It was already going to be loud at Scotiabank Place on Monday, this will only drive up the volume.
Not only will the Ottawa Senators benefit from having Chris Neil, one of their most influential playoff performers, in their lineup for Monday's elimination contest with the New York Rangers, captain Daniel Alfredsson could feature as well.
"I'm hopeful; we're obviously going to wait until tomorrow. But the way the last two days felt, I'm encouraged," Alfredsson said after taking part in his team's optional practice in Ottawa – the second straight day he has skated as he recovers from concussion.
Rangers coach John Tortorella berated Neil after Saturday's fifth game – won 2-0 by Ottawa – saying the check he levelled on Brian Boyle, New York's top playoff goal scorer, was a "dangerous, dangerous, cheap hit" and likening it to the check that led to a 25-game suspension for Phoenix's Raffi Torres.
The NHL appears to have taken a different view – one that approximates Neil's that it was "a clean hit."
There was no penalty call on the play, in which Neil levelled Boyle as he cut toward the middle of the ice, and now it seems there will be no supplementary discipline.
Tortorella was considerably more circumspect at the Rangers' optional skate on Sunday, saying he had no reaction to the news Neil won't be punished.
The Rangers would argue Neil came in from the blind side and hit Boyle after the puck had left his stick, but it happened within a half-second and he kept his skates on the ice – marked differences with Torres's hit on Chicago's Marian Hossa last week.
The prickly Neil, who has never been suspended by the NHL, has driven the Rangers to distraction and Ottawa coach Paul MacLean singled out his competitiveness as one of the reasons for the Senators' success.
And Ottawa's surge has arrived at a moment where the Rangers' offence has dried up almost entirely.
Senators goalie Craig Anderson has stopped 66 consecutive shots and is carrying a shutout streak of 116 minutes 32 seconds into Monday's game – after potting four goals in Game 1, the Rangers have notched only five in the four games since.
Boyle will sit out with a concussion, but the swift-skating Carl Hagelin will return after having served a three-game ban for elbowing Alfredsson.
The Rangers have found themselves tied 2-2 in the playoffs on 22 other occasions in franchise history, and in 20 of them, the team that won Game 5 advanced.
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|September 1995
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The study was part of an initiative "Interventions to Improve Asthma Management and Prevention at School". The Broad Agency Announcement was released in June, 1994.
The study had several objectives. The first was to demonstrate that a comprehensive school-based asthma education program could be implemented, using existing resources, in a largely poor, inner city educational environment. The second objective was to provide broad information on asthma and its management to elementary school faculties in order to help reduce fear and anxiety due to lack of knowledge about asthma. The third was to provide curriculum-based information about asthma to the general student bodies of elementary schools. The fourth objective was to institute a cost effective screening program that would identify elementary school students with asthma. The fifth was to provide an education program designed to improve knowledge and prevention. The sixth was to develop an individual asthma action plan for students with asthma that would improve their management and prevention skills and to coordinate the individual asthma action plan with school personnel and activities in order to improve support for the students in following their management plans.
The program was evaluated through a randomized controlled design with the schools as the unit of randomization and the students the unit of analysis. The Birmingham public schools were divided into three cohorts of 18 schools each on the basis of geographic location. Schools were randomly assigned within cohorts so that nine schools were experimental and nine were control. The research protocol was implemented in the first cohort in the fall of 1995, in the second cohort in the fall of 1996, and in the third cohort in the fall of 1997. Students with asthma were followed for three school terms following collection of baseline data and implementation of the education program. Outcomes were assessed in terms of school absences and performance, health care utilization, quality of life and asthma morbidity during school.
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Charles Saatchi has admitted he never saw his ex-wife Nigella Lawson taking drugs. The art dealer was in court on Friday, November 29 for an embezzlement trial involving Lawson's former assistants Francesa and Elisabetta Grillo. The sisters are accused of using Saatchi's credit cards for personal use, spending $1 million on luxury items as well as first-class flights in four years, but the two alleged that the spending was authorized by Lawson to buy their silence concerning her drug abuse.
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Students in one of Winnipeg's fastest growing neighbourhoods will have the chance to learn in both official languages.
Officials at Louis Riel School Division have announced that the new school in Sage Creek will be a dual-track school for both English program and French immersion students. News of the construction of a new school in the southeast Winnipeg community was announced earlier this year.
"We remain dedicated to single-track French immersion schools as per our division's historical and policy commitment," said LRSD's superintendent Duane Brothers in a news release.
"At this time, and according to our projections, at the date of the Sage Creek School's scheduled opening in September 2016, we will not have enough students to justify a single-track school — English or French immersion. As well, the schools presently housing students from Sage Creek are at capacity and will soon be overcapacity."
Officials say the division has implemented dual-track schools in the past in light of similar demographic circumstances, and it will monitor registration and the needs of the students and their families in the community.
Brothers added the division intends to return to single-track programming in Sage Creek as enrolment numbers make this preference viable: "We will continue to request an additional new school in this community to return to the single-track system our division's legacy has been built upon."
This announcement comes on the heels of the news the division is working with community members in south St. Vital to find a workable long-term solution to tackle overflowing enrolment in French immersion schools in the area.
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PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of temozolomide and vinorelbine in treating patients who have recurrent brain metastases.
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|A Phase I/II Trial Of Temozolomide And Vinorelbine For Patients With Recurrent Brain Metastases
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Patients will be treated with vinorelbine on days 1 and 8 of each cycle; temozolomide will be administered on days 1 to 7 and 15 to 21 of each cycle. The dose level of temozolomide will be given at a dose of 150 mg/m2/day. A cycle will be defined as 28 days of treatment.
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- Determine the maximum tolerated dose of vinorelbine when administered in combination with temozolomide in patients with recurrent brain metastases (phase I accrual completed).
- Determine the safety and feasibility of this treatment regimen in these patients.
- Determine the efficacy of this treatment regimen, in terms of objective radiographic response and overall and progression-free survival, in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of vinorelbine.
Patients receive vinorelbine IV over 5-10 minutes on days 1 and 8 and oral temozolomide once daily on days 1-7 and 15-21. Courses repeat every 28 days for up to 1 year in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of vinorelbine until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. Once the MTD is determined, an additional 20-35 patients will be treated at that dose level.
Patients are followed every 3-4 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A minimum of 3 patients will be accrued for the phase I portion of this study and 20-35 patients will be accrued for the phase II portion of this study within 2 years.
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- Age > or = 18 years.
- Karnofsky performance score > or = 60.
- Histopathologic confirmation of the diagnosis of a solid tumor malignancy. The brain metastasis diagnosis per se does not have to be pathologically confirmed if the clinical and neuro radiographic picture is typical.
- MRI (or CT if the patient cannot undergo MRI) evidence of evaluable disease in the brain.
- Absolute neutrophil count > or = 1,500/mm³. Platelet count > or = 100,000/mm³.
- Hemoglobin > or = 10 g/dl.
- BUN and serum creatinine both < 1.5 times upper limit of normal.
- Total and direct bilirubin both < 1.5 times upper limit of normal.
- SGOT and SGPT both < or = 3 times upper limit of normal.
- Alkaline phosphatase < or = 2 times upper limit of normal.
- At least two weeks must have elapsed from brain biopsy, craniotomy, or other surgery.
- Life expectancy > or = 8 weeks.
- Patient or their legal guardian or legal next-of-kin must provide written informed consent prior to patient's registration on study.
- At least four weeks must have elapsed from previous external beam radiation therapy, or eight weeks from stereotactic radiosurgery.
- Patients treated with radiosurgery should have evidence of progression at a distant site in the brain, or confirmation of tumor progression by biopsy or PET scan.
- Previous treatment with temozolomide, dacarbazine or vinorelbine.
- Patients who have not recovered from all acute toxicities of prior therapies.
- Patients with evidence of leptomeningeal metastases or primary dural metastases.
- Patients who are poor medical risks because of nonmalignant systemic disease, as well as those with acute infection requiring treatment with intravenous antibiotics.
- Patients whose psychiatric condition would, in the judgment of the principal investigator, make it unlikely that they could adhere to the requirements of the protocol.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00026494
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|Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611-3013
|United States, New York
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Study Chair:
|Lauren E. Abrey, MD
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00026494 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 9, 2001
|Results First Received:
|December 15, 2015
|Last Updated:
|December 15, 2015
Keywords provided by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:
tumors metastatic to brain
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
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Whatever happens at the end of the day, the debate about a possible war with Iraq has brought to the surface fundamental issues on which no agreement exists, even among friends, but which will not go away and cannot be ignored. Indeed, if they are not resolved among those who cherish liberty, the price will be high.
Three issues stand out. First, the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of 2001 reminded us (in case we had forgotten) that there is a union of values called "the West." These enlightened values form the basis of the constitution of liberty and link the countries of North America, Europe, and some other parts of the world.
If a gap opens up between these countries insofar as the interpretation of Western values is concerned, this is bad news. Perhaps this has happened between the US and many Europeans; if so, the challenge now is to close that gap rather than exploit it, either for unilateral American interest or for enhancing European unity.
Second, defending our values requires instruments of power. Power may have become more diffuse in the contemporary world. Some even speak of "governance without government" because economic fortunes are in part determined without identifiable rulers. Yet traditional power has not gone away, and it is something more than the size of populations or their gross domestic products. Ultimately, power remains the ability to coerce.


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- Tabernaemontana divaricata
- crape jasmine crape jasmine n.
a tropical shrub ({Tabernaemontana divaricata}), native to
India, having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers
with crimped or wavy corollas; Northern India to Thailand.
Syn: crepe jasmine, crepe gardenia, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay, Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose, Tabernaemontana divaricata. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.


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Wicos 201 Bluetooth headset review
If your phone supports Voice dialing (as almost all newer Ericsson models do) you just have to push the oval "call" button, wait for 3-4 second and say the name of the person you want to call. The first test unit that was sent to me was defective, and it was distorting my voice so much that out of 20 attempts, I was able to make a successful voice call only once. The second unit that Wicos sent us was a lot better in terms of outgoing voice quality. However, even with the second unit, if I moved my head when I was 7-8 feet away from the phone loud fizzy noises would appear.
Unfortunately, the sound quality of the headset was very poor also.
Very often the sound coming from the earpiece was inapprehensible and very distorted. The earpiece reproduced mostly low tones, cutting away all high frequencies.
If you want to hear how Wicos sounds like, listen to this recordings (QuickTime plug-in is required).


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25 and 30 June
Grown Ups
Dennis Dugan
Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph
Grown Ups
Adam Sandler tried to expand his always limited range with 2009's serio-comic Funny People. Writer/director Judd Apatow let him and the rest of the fanbase down with his wildly uneven excuse for self-indulgence. Now the artist formerly known as The Stud Boy is back in familiar farce waters, with longtime directing buddy Dennis Dugan behind the camera, and a wealth of comic buddies (David Spade, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Rob Schneider) in front. The basic premise has five guys getting together upon the death of their former basketball coach to spend the Fourth of July reminiscing and acting idiotic. Sandler always excels at stunted juvenilia, and from all indications, this movie is loaded with same.
Knight and Day
James Mangold
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Maggie Grace, Paul Dano, Marc Blucas, Viola Davis, Olivier Martinez
Knight and Day
Tom Cruise has spent so much time demanding to be taken "seriously" that when he wants to break out and lift things up a bit, he can come off as forced and unfunny. Unless he's covered in pounds of latex smarm, it's hard to see him as lighthearted. In this case, our hero is a covert agent who accidentally gets his blind date (Cameron Diaz? You mean she can't find a man on her own?) mixed up in his comic caper shenanigans. There is potential here, especially with James Mangold guiding the action. But there's still the patina of implausibility with Cruise. Give him a somber future shock scenario and he's golden. Move into more mainstream storylines and he just doesn't fit.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
David Slade
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard, Billy Burke, Dakota Fanning
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Do you really need to know that this latest incarnation of the Stephanie Meyer mega-money movie merchandizing behemoth is about to hit theaters, a mere eight months after New Moon mopped up the competition? Don't you already have every element of this unnecessary neckbiter B.S. memorized and ripe for regurgitation? Don't you realize that a decade from now people will be laughing at your love for this Anne Rice-lite lameness the same way they snicker at fans of O-Town? As the angst between human, diamond skinned vampire, and hunky werewolf builds, the final film in the series is already in production. Guess it's only a matter of time before all this Team twaddle dries up and dissipates. Hurray!
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Smart switch for smaller SANs
Maxxan MXV250 brings mirroring, replication, and more to mid-range market
Most SAN administrators are interested in adding more capabilities -- including replication, mirroring, virtualization, FCoIP (Fibre Channel over IP), iSCSI, NAS, and so forth -- to their networks. You can add each of these to a SAN via software or a specialized appliance, or you can get them all in one shot with an intelligent FC switch.
I reviewed the Maxxan MXV320 a couple of years ago and came away impressed. That product, now named the MXV500, is an enterprise-class intelligent switch offering a wide variety of SAN applications, as well as up to 256 switch ports in one chassis or 512 ports in two chassis. It also stands just under three feet high, weighs more than 140 pounds, has redundant everything, requires two 220-volt circuits, and sports a starting price of $100,000.
The MXV250 is the MXV500's little brother, coming in at about 5U high and 87 pounds with support for 64 ports; it runs on two standard 110-volt circuits. Though it's smaller, it's no slouch, lacking only the MXV500's redundant backplane architecture -- the MXV250's system control cards, power supplies, and fans are all redundant.
Also like its big brother, the MXV250 boosts functionality with IPStor, FalconStor's application suite, which Maxxan has ported to its embedded application cards. The IPStor suite includes local and remote synchronous or asynchronous replication, mirroring, virtualization, snapshots, active-active fail-over, NAS, iSCSI, FCoIP, and TimeMark, which provides for scheduled incremental snapshots of a specified volume.
Optional LUN (logical unit number) features round out the MXV250. LUN Masking provides additional security and access control by specifying exactly which hosts can see or access specific storage targets, while LUN remapping allows a specific storage system to be presented as a different LUN number from what the disk subsystem is initially configured with. These are features that not everyone will want, but they do add considerable flexibility.
Dueling Management Apps
Initial configuration of the MXV250 is simple, requiring only a standard serial terminal. Once the network information is set up, the rest of the configuration involves the two management applications, SANCruiser and IPStor, and is done via browser.
SANCruiser is the basic SAN management application that maps the entire SAN and shows each connected device and its associated information. It is used for basic configuration of the FC fabric and for naming, troubleshooting, LUN masking, and so forth.
IPStor is used to configure all of the higher-level functions, such as replication and virtualization. It's easy to use, with wizards that take you through the process of setting up replicas, snapshots, virtualization, and most of the other high-level functions. Even people who aren't full-time storage administrators should be able to get what they want out of the system without days of research or training.
The two-application management style is a bit annoying, as admins may need to look through both applications before they find the feature they need to configure. It becomes less problematic over time as you learn the system, though, and other than having to look through both apps, there are no huge downsides to having the two separate applications.
Performance and Virtualization
While I was concerned primarily with testing the functionality of the system, I did test the MXV250's basic performance by connecting it to two servers and two storage subsystems. The servers were HP DL370s with QLogic QLA2342 2Gb HBAs, one running Windows 2003 Server and the other running Red Hat Linux 3.0.
I established a baseline for performance using IOmeter, first with the two systems connected directly to the two storage units, then connected to the MXV250. I then enabled virtualization and retested. There was more variation from run to run in each scenario than between the three test scenarios, indicating that using virtualization introduced no latency or throughput overhead. With only two systems, I was unable to verify the 320Gbps backplane bandwidth.
I quickly set up replication from one storage array to the other; scheduling asynchronous replication was straightforward, and synchronous replication took little effort. I also tested the snapshot and TimeMark functionality by creating snapshots and then changing files in the original volume. I located the appropriate snapshot and restored deleted or changed files with no problems.
Virtualization presents several different storage systems as one virtual disk or several pieces of one storage array as several different server volumes. Because of the number of decisions that must be made to achieve this -- file systems, naming of virtual storage, presentation form, and so forth -- virtualization is necessarily somewhat complex. The IPStor app, however, does an good job of making the task of setting up virtualization as simple as possible. Its wizards and clean design make the complex process as easy as anyone could expect.
The MXV250 can also be used to present existing FC storage as iSCSI storage, or to enable long-distance replication over the Internet using FCoIP. Both of these features are straightforward to set up and worked well in my tests.
Switching Smarts
The MXV250 is a telco-grade FC switch that can be used to provide a wide array of advanced functions, and it does a very good job. Admins interested in the advanced features who do not want to make the initial investment in an MXV250 or MXV500 should investigate Maxxan's SA100 and SA110 stand-alone appliances, which offer the same feature set without the switching functionality.
Thanks to the explosion of interest in intelligent storage management, Maxxan is no longer the only vendor offering such capabilities -- Brocade, Cisco, Maranti Networks, McData, Sun, and Troika Networks have all brought out products in this space in the last year or so. However, the MXV250 is a second-generation intelligent switch with solid interoperability, easy configuration, and a broad feature set. It should definitely be on the short list for SAN administrators who would like to move their storage applications to the fabric.
|InfoWorld Scorecard
Scalability (25.0%)
Setup (15.0%)
Manageability (25.0%)
Value (10.0%)
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Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.
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lol @ the picture for the article.
For this to work, the Flash applet has to be embedded using the method that get Microsoft in the hot water because of the Eolas case. That's probably why Microsoft is missing in action. If you embed your Flash using Javascript (so that it will play automatically in Internet Explorer instead of having to click once on them), the crawling will not work.
So M$ misses the mark again, eh. Man, patent laws and suits are gettin' rediculous nowadays.
There's this thing called Google.com. If you go their website (WWW) and enter "Microsoft Eolas" into the big white box it will display "hyperlinks" with all kinds of information for you.
This would have taken less time than typing out your post did.
Yes but even the text elements are of dubious search value. As anyone who's done Flash work knows, trying to infer information from the content you put in various text boxes would be very difficult. And IMO it would only get more complex the more scripting the SWF uses.
I guess the proof is in the pudding. We'll see when [Flash] results start showing up in our searches.
Dude, I did. Die plx.
No u.
No, u 1st!!1
Why do I remember reading this article about 8 years ago? I don't see the benefit in parsing the SWF file. Developers can easily export all the text in movie from Flash and embed it so the search engines will pick it up.
Great. I can't wait to find links in Google searches that, upon clicking, require me to work through some site designer's inane combination of animations and bizarre navigation tools in order to arrive at the content found by the search.
Flashblock FTW!
Now our best argument against client requests for overkill Flash-only sites is gone. All we'll have left are usability/accessability arguments, and clients never care about that.
I have a question. Why is this important?
It's another step in Google's searching ability...You didn't use to be able to search for Videos, Pictures, etc., but those are now standard through Google. Oh, and the ability to search legitimate flash sites (*cough*youporn*cough*) for content through Google.
I worked for hours on that image.
I hope to see a website downloader that can follow links in swf files. I tried to download homestarrunner.com once, and couldn't with an ordinary site sucker.
I noticed this yesterday, and thought it was weird. It was actually very odd, though, because the SWF file wasn't linear. There were conditionals built in, and you had to answer the right way to get the text that Google saw.
It was like those choose your own adventure books trying to find that snippet of info, only more annoying*.
* Or was I the only person who ever tried to work it backward to reach a specific ending?
I still love you Jacqui. I swear!
http://mediawombat.com already index flash content and even shows you the actionscript.
So now instead of 397,000 results (for "Microsoft Eolas" for instance) I get 397,002 results.
Of course, that's +1 for the swf metadata tagged (at the bottom of the results), and +1 for the blog that has a link to it (at the top of the results).
Flash is generally considered something to shun on a web site that requires organic page ranks to be useful on google. On the other side though, you can do some really cool things with flash that can add to usability. I suspect that menu systems can now legitimately be placed into flash without fear of the search engines getting caught up inside the SWF and unable to index the site.
What's more interesting is that google can perform clicks. This means that all of the sites out there with flash games now stand a chance of having their web service calls indexed by google, especially if they are implemented to look like any old asp/aspx/php ... page. Casual Games may have most of their content indexed in what would be akin to indexing all the quests in World of Warcraft on a spoiler site automatically.
I like the advancement but it will be interesting to see the unplanned effects of this.
Google is often one of the best backdoors for website penetration testing.
I think this is great shame. People who build Flash-only sites don't deserve to be indexed by search engines. Google should have taken a moral stand.
1)There are obviously clients who appreciate the unique, immersive site that is geared toward Flash (Nightclubs, restaurants, musicians, etc.)
2)There are obviously people who like these sites. If I make a site for a restaurant, and I get an email saying 'I got your contact info from John, I really loved the site you made for his restaurant.....' people must like them.
3)You for some reason don't like them and things you don't like should at worst be censored and at best be destroyed.
Do I have the basic gist of it?
MODERATION: Content removed as link spam.
I've been filtering out Flash for so many years that I just assume that Flash ony sites are Under Construction. That's what the Yellow Pages are for. Being in Flash is not the same as being on the internet.
Whenever people see my browser displaying a familiar site, they ask me how I got rid of the trash. Flash may look pretty, so it does well at reviews and demos, but web users can take it or leave it.
Gee, do you think the perpetual complaints about Flash, every single time this comes up, might have some basis in fact? Or do you think the rest of us 'simply don't get it'?
Flash sites remind me of bad architecture. The architect gets to foist his ego upon the world but then walks away and leaves the consequences to the community that has to put up with what's left behind. I can't tell you how many bad Flash sites I've walked away from if the main page takes more than five seconds to load its masterbatory glory. Do I complain to the site owner? Nope - that's not the reason I went there.
If it's a bad restaurant site (and why do they have this fascination with cumbersome web design?), that place is off my list. I suspect you mistake people who 'like these sites' with people who tolerate them for the sake of trying to get some information. They go there for food, not gratuitous browser theatrics.
I think you don't get it. Flash(swf) is a scriptable, vector display format. How is it possible to not like a file format? Did you swear of jpeg's the first time you saw goatse? Should I swear off mp3's/wav's/ogg's/etc because someone played me a song I didn't like in one of those formats?
When your personal crusade is victorious and you kill off flash, are you then going to start blocking the gifs that replace them? And then the DHTML tricks that replace those? Annoying designers will make annoying designs, the technology they use is a non-issue. I hate sites with advertisements hovering above the content, I consider them more annoying than any flash ad I've ever seen, should I boycott the technology used to make them?
I doubt I'm mistaking people who like them with people who tolerate them. Why would you approach a designer and offer a site as an example of what you want when your characterization of that site would be 'tolerable'. The reason flash sites are popular amongst restaurants and clubs, is because restaurants and clubs are trying to sell ambiance, uniqueness, personality and various other intangible qualities. I guess the owners feel that people who want the menu presented in a tabular, black and white format with the option of downloading as a .csv won't be interested in their restaurant. Presenting raw data is not their goal. Creating a mood is.
The reason flash sites are unpopular amongst restaurant patrons is, well, I'll let others do the talking:
If you'd like to prove everyone wrong then how about this - post the URLs to three flash-based restaurant sites that you think are good. Explain how they couldn't be done using standards-based technology. But here's the catch; you must also post the direct link to the page that shows the hours of operation for each one.
There's nothing to prove wrong. It's like you've totally ignored my post.
To reiterate, horrible sites are technology independent. I can produce examples of horrible sites using any technology you want. Actually, if you clicked the links in the blog posts you referenced you would notice that many of the sites being singled out are html sites. Also, many of the sites being commended are flash sites. For example, I can answer your challenge with a flash site pulled directly out of a blog post you referenced. http://barjules.com/contact.html
Also, about your catch, although many current sites fall victim to this, SWFAddress has leveled the playing field (that goes for AJAX based sites as well). It basically allows people developing stateless sites/pages to manually add entries to the browsers history list as well as act upon those entries (via listeners and event dispatchers)
Basically, all you've shown is that people hate retarded, useless intros (no argument there). I just don't think it makes sense to claim that a site owners desire to frustrate everyone on earth with stupid intros is dependent on the availability (or lack there of) of Flash. I mean one of the most annoying sites shown in the blog posts you listed relied on useless javascript menus/animations.


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deliberation on the part of the jury, occupying a day and two nights, and when they had returned into court and announced that they were unable to agree, he gave them further instructions by which he withdrew from their consideration any question of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff, and informed them that, inasmuch as it appeared that the plaintiff was struck on the crossing by the defendant's train, the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, unless they were able to find that the defendant did all that the law required, and all that reasonable prudence required to prevent the injury, and could not avoid it. The defendant duly excepted to the refusal of the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the defendant, and to that part of his instructions withdrawing from their consideration the question of the plaintiff's contributory negligence, and embodying the proposition that he was entitled to recover unless the evidence disproved negligence on the part of the defendant. It is not necessary, for present purposes, to consider whether the defense resting upon the ground of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff was not so persuasively and conclusively established that the jury should have been instructed to find for the defendant. The plaintiff was aware, from the presence of the freight train on the side track, that a train was expected on the main track, and that such train might be the express train coming from the north. He had been driving rapidly for an eighth of a mile, with his view of the track in that direction cut off by the interposed freight train. Driving rapidly, as he had been, and being totally deaf in the eal' towards the track, he could not but be aware that, although he had been listening for them, he might have failed to hear the signals from the express. Before he reached the crossing he knew that the van of the freight train was so near to it that he would be unable to see the main track to the north until his horse would be upon the track. Under these circumstances, common prudence required him, as he neared the tracks, to proceed cautiously, to look, to listen, and, as we think, to stop, in order that he could listen more perfectly, before attempting to cross. He did neither, but kept his attention so exclusively upon his horse that he did not see the signals of danger which were being made to him from men in full view, on his right hand and on his left, at each side of the crossing, and urged his horse to dash rapidly across. If these undisputed facts were not such as to leave no room for inferences, such that a jury could legitimately draw no other conclusion from them than that the plaintiff had failed to exercise reasonable care and prudence, they were certainly sufficient to justify such a finding, and in no possible view could they justify the court in deciding to the contrary as a question of law. The most culpable negligence on the part of a defendant will not authorize a recovery in behalf of a plaintiff whose own negligence has contributed to his injury. It is urged in support of the refusal to leave the question of the plaintiff's negligence to the jury, that such an issue was not raised upon the pleadings. This is the only conceivable ground upon which that refusal can be justified. No question that the issue was not within the pleadings was raised upon the trial. Much of the testi-
mony of the defendant was introduced for the purposes of maintaining that issue, and had no other bearing; and, as has been stated, the question was originally submitted to the jury by the trial judge. In his final instructions to the jury, in which he withdrew tbat question from tbeir consideration, no such reason for doing so was suggested by him. Nevertheless, in considering the motion for a new trial, the learned trial judge placed his denial of the motion, in part, upon the ground that the contributory negligence of the plaintiff was not in issue. To this conclusion we are unable to accede. The declaration contains three counts. The plea was not guilty. The first two counts of the declaration are concededly in case. The third sets forth, as the cause of action, special facts and circumstances, showing a case of negligent injury by the defendant to the plaintiff's person and property while he was crossing the defendant's railway. It avers that the defendant did not provide a reasonably safe passage over the highway crossing; that it carelessly and negligently suffered the same to be obstructed; that it did not manage and control its engines and cars with due and proper care; that it carelessly and negligently ran them at a high rate of speed; that it did not ring a bell upon the locomotive, or blow a steam whistle, until the locomotive had passed over the crossing, by reason whereof he and his horse and sleigh were struck and injured. If the third count was in trespass, inasmuch as, under a plea of not guilty, the defendant in such an action is not permitted to prove that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, and inasmuch as the statute of Vermont relating to pleadings requires that, in counts where case and trespass are joined, pleadings must conform to those in trespass, the conclusion of the learned trial judge was correct. But we are of the opinion that the third count, like the first and second, was in case. It sets forth a cause of action in which, although the injury was immediate, the fault of the defendant consisted in negligence; and, as the defendant was a corporation, which could only act through its agents and servants, case was the only appropriate form of remedy. 'Case is the appropriate and proper remedy for negligent injuries at common law. In Claflin v. Wilcox, 18 Vt. 610, the rule is stated to be that, when the fault of the defendant consists in negligence, it is mere nonfeasance; and, although the injury is immediate, the appropriate remedy is case. All the authorities upon common-law pleading state the rule to be that, while trespass is the proper remedy for' an immediate injury inflicted by the willful act of the defendant, yet case lies where the act is negligent; and, where injuries are occasioned by the carelessness or negligence of a servant of the defendant, the plaintiff must generally bring case. Chitty says:
"If the injury arise from a want of care or negligence of the servant, case is the remedy; but if it occurred as the necessary, probable, or natural consequence of the act ordered by the master, then the act is the master's, and he should 00 sued in trespass. if the act were forcible and immediate."
See 1 Chit. Pl., 131; Huggett v. Montgomery, 2 Bos. & P. N. R. 446; Morley v. Gaisford, 2 H. El. 443; McManusv. Crickett, 1 East, 106.
The rule is thus stated in Campbell v. Phelps, 17 Mass. 245:
"In general, the true distinction is, when the injury is done directly by the person sued, the action should be trespass; when it is consequential, as when done by a servant, and the master is sued on account of his liability for the acts of his servant, case is proper."
It is entirely well settled that, under the plea of not guilty in an action on case, the defendant may show that the immediate or proximate cause of the injury was the negligence of the plaintiff. Flower v. Adam, 2 Taunt. 315; Williams v. Holland, 10 Bing. 110; Vennall v. Garner, 1 Cromp. & l\f. 21; Bridge v. Grand Junction Ry. Co., 3 Mees. & W. 244; Sills v. Brown, 9 Car. & P. 601; Smith v. Dobson, 3 Man. & G. 59; Holden v. Coke Co., 3 C. B. 1. The adjudications of the supreme court, to the effect that the contributory negligence of a plaintiff is matter of defense, and the burden of proof is upon the defendant, do not touch the question of pleading which arises here. That question is controlled by the rules which obtain in the state in which the action is tried, and in some of the states, under the code system of pleadings which prevails, the defendant may be required to specifically allege the defense in cases in which the complaint does not allege that the plaintiff was free from negligence on his part. As in Vermont the rules of pleading which obtain are those of the common law, and under these rules a defendant, in an action upon a case, is permitted, under a general traverse, to show that the plaintiff's negligence contributed to the injury, we are unable to doubt that the defendant in the present case was entitled to avail himself of the defense, and that the instruction to the jury which is complained of by the of error was erroneous. The judgment is accordingly reversed.
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It is not error, in an action between persons who sue as partners, and a third party, to permit persons, whose business relations with the al· leged partners are intimate, to testify as to the apparent relations between them, although the partnership may have been constituted by indentures or other writings.
INSURANCE-WARRANTY IN ApPJ.JCATJON- BURDEN OF PROOF.
It is not necessary for the plaintiff in an action on an insurance policy to aver and prove the truth of representations, amounting to warranties, which are contained in the application only, and not in the policy itself; but it is incumbent upon the defendant, who relies upon the breach of such warranty, to allege it and assume the burden of proof.
A policy of credit insurance, issued to W. & C()., provided that it should cover only losses on sales of merchandise owned "by the indemnified." !Held, that such provision did not require that the business of the indemnified should have been conducted, throughout the term of the policy, under exactly the same firm name, if the firm had been in existence, composed ()f the same members as when the policy was issued.