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I have been working on my son's yard for over a year now. Just recently, I started work on the front yard. Until this time, I have only worked on the back and side yards.
You might wonder why I did the back and side yards first, which cannot be seen from the front of the house. My reasoning is as follows: if I worked on the front first and someone stopped by and said, "Oh, the yard looks nice," I would then have to explain that the back and sides are not yet done. But if I did the back and side yards first, and then did the front, and then someone stopped by, I could invite them to come see the back and side yards too. Then, the whole yard would be done, not just the part that is visible from the road (front).
A friend of mine said that there is a saying, "don't wave the flag while you are raising it." First you raise it then you can wave it.
When I teach Karate, I follow the same approach. In our system, the last kata a student will usually learn are Chinto and Kusanku. Of the two, to me Chinto is more advanced (but this is subjective). To me, these are front yard kata.
By the time I teach Chinto and Kusanku to a student, I want the student to have finished work on the back and side yards. By the time a student can perform Chinto and Kusanku, the yard should be complete. These are the finishing touches. If someone asked to see the rest of the kata that the student knows, they should be pretty good. He should not have to apologize for them being incomplete or poor.
Chinto and Kusanku are advanced kata. By the time a student learns them, he should already be advanced. He should be able to perform these kata in an advanced way.
As you can guess, I do not believe in teaching a student all the kata in our system by the time he is shodan or even nidan. It is better to do a few kata well than many kata poorly. Knowing many kata means nothing in and of itself. In fact, knowing too many kata can be a burden.
By the time a student learns the most advanced kata in a system, he should be able to do all the kata well. Advanced kata do not make students advanced. An advanced student can perform a basic kata in an advanced way.
Charles C. Goodin
Backyard First
I have been working on my son's yard for over a year now. Just recently, I started work on the front yard. Until this time, I have only worked on the back and side yards.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tsunami Warning In Hawaii (A Review)
We knew about the 8.8 earthquake in Chile on Friday evening. Of course, we were concerned about the destruction and loss of life in Chile, but our thoughts quickly turned to the possibility of a Pacific tsunami. In 1960, a 9.5 earthquake in the same area produced a tsunami that killed 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii (on the Big Island).
Luckily, a tsunami takes time to travel from Chile to Hawaii. At first we were under a tsunami watch which soon became a tsunami warning, meaning a tsunami was likely. In fact, they knew the more or less exact time when it would first arrive in Hawaii -- 11:19 a.m. This later change to 11:05 a.m., but the main thing was that we had a long time to prepare.
In Hawaii, we are always ready for hurricanes. Preparing for a tsunami was pretty similar for those of us who live inland (away from the shore). My house is on pretty high ground, about a mile form the Aloha Stadium. Getting ready for the tsunami, in my case, meant stockpiling water. My family already had everything else required for hurricanes (and then some). In fact, I had just redone my hurricane kits and bought two large, heavy plastic, storage cases for all the supplies.
I filled eight, 7 gallon water carriers, and a 55 gallon water barrel, in addition to numerous other smaller water containers. This sounds like a lot, but there were concerns that a tsunami could damage our water system. I believe that there was talk about turning the water off on some islands. After watching recovery efforts in Haiti, I decided that having clean drinking water was really important. I also purchased water purification systems (filters and pills) so that we could purify, if necessary, the 200 gallons of water in our four, 55 gallon rain barrels. Plus, we could boil water and use bleach.
Here on Oahu, there was no disruption of any of our utilities.
Also, we were really lucky that the tsunami warning was on a Saturday, when most people were at home, and our weather was really nice (sunny, with little wind). It actually was a beautiful day.
Evacuating people from the shore area (inundation zones) seemed to be the focus of the emergency effort. Sirens sounded at 6 a.m. to alert people. I can't remember when the sirens were sounded, except for tests. It was a little chilling, except for the fact that we already had been watching the news since the previous night. Sirens were also sounded periodically as the arrival time neared.
Actually, at 3 a.m, my wife and I went to our office to get copies of certain files (in case the office building was closed due to a tsunami). On the way home, we stopped for gas and there were already lines. An hour later, my wife and I went to top off another car, and the lines were longer. People were also going to stores to buy emergency supplies (mostly water and food).
Government workers closed roads and restricted access to the shore areas. This did not affect my family, since we just stayed home.
As you probably know, the tsunami did arrive but was smaller than predicted. Some people will say that the civil defense and tsunami workers overreacted, but I would disagree. It is far better to be safe than sorry. Given the previous loss of life here, I think that the steps taken were prudent. They were also a good test of the system and good practice for all of us.
One interesting thing was watching the shore at Hilo via a webcam at the BJ Penn website. This was shown on the local and national stations. Way to go BJ!
Living on islands, we have to be prepared for disasters. We can't just drive to another state. Hopefully, our experience yesterday will make people realize the need to be even more prepared. Whether for hurricanes, tsunami, earthquakes, or pandemics, we need to have good emergency kits. If they say that you should have 3 days worth of supplies, I would prefer to have 2 weeks worth (for each person in the family).
This might be because my father was in the military. Growing up on military bases, we always took emergency preparedness seriously. Military people don't complain in such situations -- they get to work and focus on the situation. Emergency preparedness becomes the mission and you concentrate on the mission until it is completed. You don't complain and you don't waste time. I also was a Boy Scout, and we essentially had the same attitude as military people. The motto is "Be prepared." That is a good motto for everyone.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Chile and the region. I also want to thank the emergency and government workers who worked hard to keep us safe here in Hawaii. I think they did not sleep for two days. If a similar event happened again, I hope that they will work just as hard. The fact that the tsunami was smaller than expected should not make any difference. We should be just a prepared and just as cautious the next and every time. The first time we let our guard down will probably the time the disaster is real.
As Karate students, we prepare for an unexpected attack. We should also be prepared for disasters.
So now I have a lot of stored water. It cost nothing and I will use it to water plants over the next few weeks -- until the next time.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, February 28, 2010
Olympic Gold
It seems the older we get, the more my wife and I enjoy watching the Olympics. The athletes are so talented, skilled and dedicated. They train so hard and give up so much to represent their respective countries. In many events, they risk injury and even death.
It makes me think that we should give Gold Medals to the men and women in the various branches of the military serving our country who put their lives on the line each and every day. How talented, skilled and dedicated they are! How much they sacrifice for each and every of us!
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Fast Food Karate
I was speaking to a friend about Karate and he mentioned that in some places, martial arts schools are like fast food restaurants. I got the impression that they were "fly by night" operations.
Hearing this made me really sad. Here in Hawaii, I know many martial arts instructors. While there are some commercial schools, I would not call them fast food restaurant-like.
Most of the martial arts instructors I know are truly sincere, hard working, student oriented, and committed to a lifetime of martial arts training and teaching. They are the real deal. Most make little or nothing from teaching. Some actually spend their own money so that their students will have a place to learn.
We are really lucky here in Hawaii. You can find excellent instructors of just about any martial art, not only the Japanese/Okinawan arts but the Chinese, Filipino, and others too.
I am truly grateful to martial arts instructors everywhere who positively represent their arts.
In Karate, we are not serving fast food.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Look First, Then What?
In my last post, Look First, I wrote about how you have to look before you move.
In many schools, students are taught to move in the following order: eyes, feet, hands. I remember learning this when I first started Shorin-Ryu.
With koshi (whole body torque), the sequence might be: eyes, feet, koshi, hands; or possibly eyes, koshi, feet, hands.
Personally, I do not use either pattern. Typically I use: eyes, koshi/hands, feet.
I know that this may seem odd to some readers -- feet last? But it is true. Actually, my koshi moves my hands and feet... but my feet usually move last.
Freedom of movement and timing are characteristics of our system.
But I do still look first.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Saturday, February 13, 2010
Look First
Last night at class I mentioned that the first thing that usually moves at the beginning of a kata is your eyes (and head) -- first you must look in the direction you will move.
In Fukyugata Ichi, for example, you look to the left. Of course, as you look you are also beginning to move your hands and body. You do not just move your head in isolation.
I should note that this does not apply in kata where you are moving forward in the first motion. In Gojushiho, for example, you move forward. Since you are already looking forward, there is no need for a special movement. However, you would still "look" to make sure where you are going.
The idea is that you look before you are committed to moving.
I remember in high school. We were goofing around on the bleachers at the football field. Once of my friends executed some Karate movement (which I can't remember) and stepped off the bleacher with one foot. His foot and leg scrapped down the rough edge of the wood. Lucky he did not fall off, but it was pretty painful to be sure.
He should have looked first.
I always remember that incident. Before you move in any direction, you have to look first to make sure that it is safe. You might step into a hole (or off the side of the bleachers). What if a truck is coming at you? You can't just block -- you have to be able change direction!
So it is important to be aware as you move in any kata. You can't just dance around daydreaming. Of course it is usually safe and clear in the dojo. The floor is flat and there are few, if any, obstructions. But outside there are unexpected obstacles and people trying to hit you. It could be dark and hard to see. You have to "look" hard. You have to be aware.
It is like the expression, "look before you leap." Look before you move in kata.
One other thing. We always say look with your nose. This means that you have to turn your head when you look, not just look with your eyes. In Fukyugata Ichi, for example, if your keep your head facing forward and just look to the left with your eyes, you will have a big blind spot on your left side. But if your turn your nose to the left, you will be able to see completely without any blind spots. Turning your nose is another way of saying turn your whole head -- do not look side-eyed.
I also like to say that this "turning the head" and "looking" are like changing lanes when you drive. You quickly look first -- it is not an exaggerated movement. Just a quick look to make sure it is safe, and bam! -- you move.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Friday, February 12, 2010
Lucky To Live Hawaii
I worked in the yard today. It was about 80 degrees and no vog.
In Hawaii, the following all make perfect sense and mean the same thing:
yeah, no?
no, yeah?
no, no?
Sugar coated, chocolate filled malasadas. Yum!
Lucky we live Hawaii.
Charles C. Goodin
Armed MMA?
I was thinking... how would MMA be different if the competitors each had a 6 inch knife? What difference would that make? A taller competitor would have a longer reach, but also more body to protect.
Now how would MMA be different if the competitors each had a 6 foot sword? A taller and stronger competitor would have the advantage.
Now how about crossbows?
What about body armor?
You could go on and on. The rules and weapons shape the results.
When I was benching with my son, Cael, he mentioned that it is easier to bench if you have shorter arms. This makes sense.
In Karate, we do not have to think about rules or advantages/disadvantages. There are no rules and we have to prepare for an unexpected attack. We do not get to pick the attacker or even the time of the attack (except to the extent we can avoid it). We do not have a choice of whether the attacker is armed or not.
We do not get three rounds or five rounds. Maybe we have three seconds or five seconds, if that.
We do not even get to face our attacker -- he might attack from behind with no warning.
To tell the truth, that is the advantage of Karate. We train for this unfair uncertainty.
Charles C. Goodin
My Karate Philosophy
I am serious when I write this post.
I do not have a Karate philosophy, except to train. I train, and that is it.
When I train, I do not think about philosophic matters, gods or angels. I do not think about Zen or sutras, or saying at all. I just train.
If I think about such things, I will not be concentrating completely on training. During training, I have no room for stray thoughts, whether they be of religion or any other subject. Imagine something that is so fast and requires so much attention, that if you blink, you will miss it. If you dream, you will fail. Even if you focus 99%, that missing 1% will be your downfall.
During training, I train. I train -- no extra thoughts, no verbalization.
When I train, I am not training to get to heaven or become enlightened -- not that these are not noble goals. It is just that they are not my goals during training. During training, I train. Afterward, there is time for pursuing goals.
When I train, I concentrate on training.
I have no philosophy of Karate and do not pursue Karate as a religion. Karate is Karate and religion is religion.
I do have certain codes of conduct for Karate, such as using Karate techniques in defense only. These guide how I would use or not use Karate, but are not a religion or philosophy.
My training is simple: learn how to move optimally and learn how to apply the movements. During training, I train. When the mind and body are concentrated completely on training... then that is a special thing indeed! No gaps.
Charles C. Goodin
Next Rank -- Follow-up
I want to thank the readers who sent words of encouragement about my last post, Next Rank. It seems to have struck a chord.
As I have written before, rank without skill is meaningless and with skill, rank is not necessary.
We should try our best at everything we do -- Karate included. I am trying to be a good grandfather to my granddaughter, who will be four months old tomorrow. There is no rank for that, or for most important things.
Charles C. Goodin
Next Rank
I've often written about rank related issues. After one of my posts, I was contacted by a reader who related that after any promotion, he immediately had to begin working on the next rank.
I have also seen this. Even before receiving a certificate, I have seen students who are already working or angling for the next "dan". In some organizations, rank is not simply based on dedicated training and skill. Hosting seminars, having a large enrollment, working for the organization, and many other factors are also taken into consideration (formally or informally).
We should all work hard to become skilled in Karate. We should all work hard to be in good physical condition. We should all work hard to refine our movements, to optimize our body mechanics, and to understand the applications of all techniques.
If we are promoted, we should thank our Sensei and seniors, and continue to work hard.
When I have been promoted, I have not thought about the next rank -- I have thought about trying to earn the rank I had just received and not doing anything to make my Sensei look bad for having promoted me. I don't like to talk about a promotion for a few years... just in case. And even then, it is generally not something to talk about.
When you are promoted, don't look forward, just keep your head down and your nose to the grindstone.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, February 03, 2010


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Discover! Simulations
1. Get Set to Explore
- chemical change: A change in matter in which one or more new kinds of matter form.
- physical change: A change in the size, shape, or state of matter.
Building Background
- Show students a picture of the Statue of Liberty and ask the class to tell what they know about it. Elicit information about its location, its significance, and any other facts students know. If any students have visited the statue, let them describe it. If students know any physical facts about the Statue of Liberty, write them on the board, labeling them as such. Such facts might relate to size, shape, color, age, and composition.
- Explain that in the simulation, students will be learning about how the Statue of Liberty has changed over time. They will be looking at physical changes and chemical changes. Review the meaning of these terms with the class.
- Show students an example of a horizontal timeline, and let volunteers talk about what a timeline shows and how it gives this information. Inform students that they will use a timeline in the simulation.
- Present the Discover! question to the class. If students don't know the color of the statue, encourage them to speculate on the color and how it might have changed over the years. You can make the analogy to a new penny and talk about how the penny might change. Bring in examples to show students, if possible. Write students' ideas on the board, and keep them posted while students do the simulation.
2. Guide the Exploration
- Let students launch the Discover! Simulation. After they read the introductory text, return to the information on the board. Have students correct their ideas about color changes.
- Direct students to listen carefully to the directions. Suggest that they click the dates on the timeline in order, from earliest to latest. Encourage them to take notes related to the physical and chemical changes of the statue over time.
- When students have completed the simulation, go back to the list the class made on the board about color changes of the Statue of Liberty. Encourage them to add other things they learned about the statue and how it changed.
3. Review/Assess
- Let two volunteers read Step 3's Wrap-Up text to the class, with each student reading one paragraph. Pause after each paragraph, giving students time to ask questions and make observations. Show students examples of pennies of different colors, pointing out that the pennies and the Statue of Liberty are each made of copper.
- Pose the Extension question to the class: Take a class vote, letting individuals explain the reason they think the statue will or will not change color. Direct students to return to the simulation to try to figure out the answer. After a few minutes, let students share what they learned and vote again on the answer. Share this information with the class: The color of the Statue of Liberty probably will not change, because the green coating, which developed many decades ago, protects the statue's surface.
If time permits, present students with the following activities:
- Critical Thinking: Classify Return to the simulation and look over the changes that the Statue of Liberty underwent over the years. Classify each change as a physical change or a chemical change. Answer: Physical changes—1875: construction of statue; covering with copper coating; 1876: arm reattached to statue; 1885: statue dismantled for shipping; 1886: statue reassembled; 1916: windows cut in copper flame; 1984: iron ribs replaced with stainless steel ribs; copper flame covered with gold metal. Chemical changes—1886: color change caused by reaction of copper with oxygen; 1906: development of green coating caused by exposure to the environment; sometime after 1886: iron ribs rust.
- Inquiry Skill: Communicate Imagine you could visit the Statue of Liberty during each of the four seasons. What physical changes do you think you might notice? Write a storybook with pictures to communicate your ideas to young students. Answer: Storybooks should include simple sentences and large pictures of the changes. Changes might include sun shining on the statue in the summer, heating up the statue; snow freezing on the statue in the winter, cooling it off; and so forth.
4. Reaching All Learners
English Language Learners
Pair native English speakers with English Language Learners. Have students work together to make flashcards for the science vocabulary. The front of the flashcard should have the science word; the back of the flashcard should have a definition, a picture, and two or three examples. Aside from the two words listed as vocabulary terms, you might ask students to make flashcards for the following words: copper, environment, iron, layer, oxygen, react, restoration, smog, and stainless steel.


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The design of the JVC Everio GZ-MG30 digital camcorder is similar to a MiniDV camcorder's, which means that it is comfortable to hold and operate, and include a large, 2.5-inch flip-out LCD monitor for easy recording. Playback is easy, too, with multiple connections allowing convenient TV playback, dubbing to a VCR or DVD recorder, transfer to a PC or Apple Macintosh for DVD creation, editing, or posting on the internet, or even burned directly without a PC to a full length movie DVD disc using an optional DVD burner.
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The JVC Everio GZ-MG30 offers over 7 hours storage at 9 Mbps, which is close to the maximum bit rate for DVD movie quality recording, or 10.5vhours at 6 Mbps, comparable to DVD Cam recordings. The high quality MPEG-2 recordings are in the same format used in DVD so there will be no quality loss when burning them to DVD, and no time- and quality-wasting conversion.
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XPN Welcomes a Holiday Concert with The Gathering featuring Rhiannon Giddens at Sellersville tonight. The string band's enchanting harmonies weave a different set of carols to celebrate the yuletide. The Gathering, which is Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Laurelyn Dossett, Mike Compton, Joe Newberry, and Jason Sypher, started playing together in 2011 as a seasonal project of the North Carolina Symphony. Their reputation escalated and they were soon being commissioned for more performances, finding their own among the embrace of holiday tours. Tickets for tonight's all-ages performances can be found here; below, watch the band perform "Breaking Up Christmas."


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Police are questioning whether a change in News International's email retention policy was part of an effort to conceal widespread phone hacking by the News of the World, a scandal which is threatening Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of BSkyB.
The trawl for emails and the questioning of changes in News International's email retention policy has important implications for IT security and corporate governance professioals, and is likely to see organisations examining their own policies and reminding their staff on acceptable usage and best practice for email.
The last edition of the News of the World was published yesterday, amid a scandal over alleged phone hacking by journalists looking for stories. The paper had been published for 158 years.
Allegations have surfaced that managers at News International, the parent company of the newspaper, asked Indian outsourcer HCL to delete emails relating to phone hacking. Last week, Labour MP Tom Watson said in parliament that there had been an attempt to destroy company data at an HCL storage facility.
HCL said it could not have deleted the emails because it only managed News International's IT infrastructure, not its data. It said it was "fully co-operating with the Metropolitan Police at the request of News International".
In 2007, News International ordered a law firm to execute an internal investigation into the alleged hacking, including trawling through company emails. Two years later, former editor Colin Myler told a House of Commons select committee – after his predecessor Clive Goodman was sentenced for illegally accessing voicemails – that "over 2,500 emails were accessed" as part of the internal investigation "because we were exploring whether or not there was any other evidence" to suggest the hacking was widespread. He said no evidence was found.
Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones and a former head of News International, faces tough questions over assurances he made to MPs in 2007 that News International's internal investigation was rigorous.
Sources at News International have told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that those emails were a "ticking time bomb" of information.
William Lewis, a general manager at News International attempting to investigate the issue, is understood to have come to the conclusion that the emails demonstrated staff had been involved in hacking – as well showing that former editor Andy Coulson was aware of staff making payments to police officers to help with stories, it has been reported. The information was handed to the police last month, apparently leading to Coulson's arrest on Friday.


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Hold on to your seats! The cream of Finland amass to lay down one hell of a big band outing with the support of The Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music.
At the helm we have such luminaries as Heikki Sarmanto, Eino Virtanen, Kaj Backlund, Seppo Paakkunainen and Esa Pethman. Soloists include Juhani Aaltonen - saxophone; Olli Ahvenlahti - keyboards: Markku Johansson - trumpet & flugelhorn; Pentti Lahti - baritone sax; Pentti Lasanen - alto sax and Nono Soderberg - guitar.
Superb groovy seventies jazz of the highest order throughout culminating with the stone cold and break-heavy monster "Ufology". The text on the cover though plentiful is all in Finnish so I can't tell you any more so I'll let the music do the talking. Kindly enjoy...
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2) Something Keeps Us Busy
3) Balladi Savonlinnalle
4) Albright
5) From One To Twelve
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South Korea's KF-X could become a key alternative to the F-35
In all of the West, only one all-new fighter, the Lockheed Martin F-35, is in full-scale development. If it outlasts its predecessors, as new products usually do, it could find itself to be the last man standing. The F-35 will have Russian and Chinese competition, but only the U.S. fighter is likely to be engineered to standards that facilitate integration of Western weapons and sensors. For many countries, there will be no real alternative.
Or maybe there will be: a Western fighter from the East.
After at least a decade of studies, the design of South Korea's proposed KF-X fighter is becoming clearer. If it goes ahead, and if it is not heavily revised, it will be a two-engine fighter of the size of the Eurofighter Typhoon, perhaps following the Typhoon and other European fighters in mounting its horizontal stabilizers forward (see specifications table, page 48). It will be designed for Western, especially U.S., weapons and sensors, although later South Korean equipment will be fitted.
First mooted within the government in 1999, and announced as a national objective in 2002, KF-X has been under study for 14 years, repeatedly failing to gain authorization for full-scale development, which it still awaits. Early in the program, the targeted in-service date was 2015; now, it cannot fly before 2021, and therefore cannot be operational until middle 2020s, if it survives powerful opposition (see page 49).
In the air force's planning, KF-X will be a medium fighter, at first serving alongside and then replacing the KF-16, the locally built version of the F-16. Fighters above the KF-S rated as "high" grade—mainly meaning a greater payload range—would be the Boeing F-15K and whichever aircraft is chosen for the current F-X Phase 3 competition (AW&ST April 15, p. 52). Below it will be the Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50.
The driving force for a fighter to fill this role has been the defense ministry's Agency for Defense Development (ADD). Program Director Lee Daeyearl answers to ADD chief H.Y. Paik. The ADD is handling the preliminary design and will oversee full-scale development and integration, if KF-X is approved, say government officials. So KAI, the country's combat aircraft specialist, would be only a supplier and, presumably, the detail designer of the airframe. It would not be surprising if the aerospace division of Korean Airlines made some parts. A foreign company would supply the engines. Electronics would come from several manufacturers.
At the top level, a foreign partner will be needed, probably the winner of F-X Phase 3, which means Boeing, Lockheed Martin or the Eurofighter partners. Most South Korean advocates of the program play down the intended role of outsiders. The KF-X will be led by South Koreans, they emphasize. Indonesia, which has contributed engineers and 20% of the funding since 2011 and proposes to order 50, is a junior partner, which is why the aircraft is sometimes called KF-X/IF-X. Attempts to enlist Turkey failed, partly because the South Koreans insisted on leadership; other partners are possible, but none have appeared so far.
Throughout its long gestation, KF-X has faced repeated objections: that it is unaffordable, or at least unjustifiable; that the country lacks the skills to develop it, or at least has too few engineers, especially if it pursues civil airplane and military helicopter programs at the same time; that the U.S., as a technology supplier, would seek to block KF-X sales; and, perhaps above all, that the South Korean fighter cannot offer much that is not already on the market at a lower price.
But backers, particularly ADD, present KF-X as the keystone in South Korea's future military aviation development. It would not just be a home-produced fighter; it would become the host aircraft of South Korean combat aircraft systems, such as sensors and weapons, promoting wider advances in the defense industry. South Korea would be in complete control of its configuration, not needing foreign permission to integrate its systems, as it has for the T-50 supersonic trainer and its combat variants.
In evolving the design and program, ADD has sought to address doubts about South Korea's technological capacity and the aircraft's technological adequacy. In 2009, the developers acknowledged that South Korea could not build a fully stealthy aircraft, equivalent to the F-35. They relaxed the radar cross-section to the level of such aircraft as the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Eurofighter Typhoon.
That radar cross-section is likely to be in the range of 0.1-1 sq. meters (1.07-10.07 sq. ft.), compared with 1-10 sq. meters for old F-4 Phantom and F-5 Tiger fighters in South Korean service, says a former air force officer who has been involved in planning for KF-X and other programs. KF-X's intended cross-section "is low enough," he says, pointing to an official but unpublished study showing gaps in the coverage of North Korean surveillance radars when dealing with such a target. Those gaps exist even without electronic countermeasures degrading the performance of the radars, the study shows.
While the designers relaxed the stealth specification, they notably did not much change the aircraft's external shape and configuration, the foundation of low radar cross-section. The KF-X kept classic stealth features such as parallel edges and surfaces, forward fuselage chines and curved engine inlet ducts. That has allowed ADD this year to propose reintroduction of high-grade stealth in later KF-X versions. Block 2 would have more stealth coatings, radar-absorbing structural materials, tighter control of gaps, "integrated" (presumably flush) aerials, and a weapons bay. It would be as stealthy as an F-117, ADD estimates. Further, unstated improvements would advance Block 3 to the level of the F-35.
These improvements would be added with new systems. So KF-X would, in the end, significantly outperform current fighters—just not immediately.
Since settling on moderate stealth, ADD has been studying two main variables in its design: the number of engines, and the location of horizontal stabilizers. It has settled the first issue—the aircraft will have two engines—but the second issue will depend on the origins of the experienced foreign partner. The KF-X will have conventional aft stabilizers, following concept Design C103, if a U.S. company helps develop it; and forward stabilizers, for Design C203, if a European partner is chosen.
Size appears to have been set by the choice of two engines, the preference of the air force. "We do not have a rubber engine," says an engineer familiar with the project, meaning that the designers must choose one off the shelf, not have one designed for their specification. So they see available afterburning thrust as 17,700 lb. (from the General Electric F404), 20,200 lb. (from Eurojet EJ200) or 22,000 lb. (from GE F414). The Snecma M88 is not mentioned as a candidate.
The thrust ratings straddle what is available to the Typhoon, and so it is not surprising that the airframes, for both C103 and C203, have been sized for an empty aircraft mass very close to that of the European fighter. Reflecting the great volume typical of stealth designs (partly because snaking inlet ducts demand a bulky fuselage), C103 and C203 each have more internal fuel than the Typhoon.
Also relying on airframe volume, the designers are contriving to work a weapons bay into the Block 2 version. In the Block 1 variant, four Raytheon AIM-120 air-to-air missiles are mounted in recesses under the fuselage, a favorite approach introduced by the Phantom's designers about 60 years ago (see cover photo). Those missiles must move inside the bay for the Block 2 KF-X; there is not enough space to have both a bay and external under-fuselage weapons. Provision for the weapon bay will be in the Block 1 aircraft, ADD says, which must mean that internal equipment will be packaged in some way to easily make space available.
Six more hard points for weapons and other stores are on the wing, the outer two available only for Raytheon AIM-9X short-range air-to-air missiles. ADD's drawings show the others with air-to-ground weapons: GBU-39, GBU-53, CBU-105, GBU-31, GBU-38 and GBU-24 guided bombs and AGM-65 missiles. External fuel tanks are an option for the inner pair of hard points, and models show cruise missiles mounted in those positions, too. There are no wingtip hard points, presumably to restrict radar reflections, but models show sensor pods on the lower corners of the fuselage.
A gun is mounted internally above the left inlet duct.
The prime sensor for KF-X will be a radar with an active, electronically scanned array. A foreign radar will be installed first, while a later version of the fighter will be outfitted with a set based on work that South Korean electronics company LIG Nex1 is undertaking. The designers are also specifying an electro-optical targeting system, an infrared search and track sensor, data link, GPS-INS navigation, "advanced threat warning and countermeasures" and internal electronic countermeasures.
The cockpit will incorporate a helmet-mounted display, a head-up display and multifunction head-down displays. In integrating electronics and weapons, the program intends to follow Western design standards, hence the advantage that KF-X, if built, will hold over Chinese and Russian rivals. Introducing new U.S., European or indeed South Korean equipment should be easier.
The wing of the C103 (tail-aft) version has full-span flaperons and leading-edge flaps for variable camber. The planform is a diamond shape, with 40 deg. leading-edge sweep and 10-deg. forward sweep for the trailing edge.
When the C103 and C203 designs were discussed in February, there was a hint that the two-seat option had been rejected, along with such variants as a single-engine aircraft. But ADD's latest description of the aircraft does show a version with a second seat that replaces the forward fuselage fuel tank. Although the U.S. has decided that simulation obviates the need for a trainer version of the F-35, a second seat is becoming popular again in other fighters for a reason that was familiar decades ago but then fell out of fashion: two people can handle the work of a combat mission more easily than one.
Tap the icon in the digital edition of AW&ST to see a timeline of KF-X program, or go to AviationWeek.com/kfx
|KF-X C103 (aft tail)
|KF-X C203 (canard)
|Eurofighter Typhoon
|15.7 meters
|51.3 ft.
|15.8 meters
|51.9 ft.
|15.9 meters
|52.3 ft
|4.5 meters
|14.9 ft.
|4.2 meters
|13.8 ft.
|5.3 meters
|17.3 ft.
|Wing area
|42.7 sq. meters
|460 sq. ft.
|51.8 sq. meters
|558 sq. ft.
|51.2 sq. meters
|551 sq. ft.
|Aspect ratio
|Leading edge sweep
|40 deg.
|54 deg.
|52 deg.
|Dry thrust (x 2)
|> 12,000 lb.
|> 12,000 lb.
|13,500 lb.
|Afterburning thrust (x 2)
|> 18,000 lb.
|> 18,000 lb.
|20,000 lb.
|Empty weight
|10.9 tons
|24,000 lb.
|11.3 tons
|25,000 lb.
|11.2 tons
|24,600 lb.
|Internal fuel
|5.4 tons
|12,000 lb.
|5.9 tons
|13,000 lb.
|5.0 tons*
|11,020 lb.
|Maximum weight
|24.0 tons
|53,000 lb.
|24.9 tons
|55,000 lb.
|23.5 tons
|51,800 lb.
|Sources: Agency for Defense Development and Eurofighter, except * industry source.


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According to USDA's latest acreage report, U.S. farmers planted 97.4 million acres of corn, which is up over 2012. This is the highest acreage planted to corn since 1936 and is the fifth year in a row of increased corn acreage.
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Planted soybean acreage is estimated at a record high 77.7 million acres, up 1% over last year. There were 56.5 million acres of wheat planted, also 1% higher than 2012. Cotton acreage is estimated at 10.3 million acres, 17% below last year's planted acres.
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Bill Cosby, in his own words
When Bill Cosby arrived at UMass in the early 1970s, he was a blossoming comedic and television star, with his established show "I Spy'' and "The Electric Company'' about to sweep the country. He received his master's in education in 1972 and his doctorate in 1976. His 142-page thesis was titled "An Integration of the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning.'' Today, he lives in Western Massachusetts. And if you think he's done talking and teaching 40 years later, you don't know The Cos.
"After I finished a performance at The Cage, the dean approached me and said the dean of the School of Education would like to talk to you.''
"I just felt very, very comfortable at UMass. It felt old and comfortable, but not beaten, but not wealthy, old money.''
"We sat.And I listened to the dean of education, Dwight Allen. He's so bright, sometimes people don't understand what he's saying. He was telling me that he felt my work with 'I Spy' and whatever else I was doing, that the monologues, that they were in fact about education, so much so, that he liked the idea that I was doing these things on television, with the thought of TV not being a teacher, but an aid to help people think better about behavior. He asked, 'Would you like to put this down on paper?' And I said, 'Yeah.' ''
"I left Los Angeles and moved here, and we live here now. Working with [Associate Dean of Student and Alumni Affairs) Norma Jean Anderson, and many of the educators, I started working also with 'The Electric Company,' 'Sesame Street' people, and I applied that, along with Fat Albert, to writing and putting humor to basic behavior of these animated characters.''
"When I entered the University of Massachusetts, I just had a feeling that the School of Education was a step school, so to speak. They were doing things under Dwight Allen that were different. I remember two fellows who had done time in prison, who had gone on and earned I think two degrees. I knew they were working with lower-income city people. I know we also had a Japanese fellow, Bob Suzuki, who was the assistant dean of education. And Bob left to go on to become chancellor at California State Polytechnic Institute. We had Mario Fantini, who became dean. We had people of color, we had professional jazz musicians like Max Roach, and I also remember quite a few African-American professors. It had, for a place called Amherst, it had in its educational setting African-Americans, Asians, Native Americans.''
"No one said it to my face, but I had this feeling this was the step school, the not-respected school.''
"What I was doing was not to teach, it was to aid. I continued on through that for my master's and the doctorate. For me, this opportunity heightened what I was already doing, and I just felt very qualified.''
"If you talk to anyone about Dwight Allen, this man is so bright and so intelligent. He knew where I was going and what I wanted to do, in my monologues, he saw that. And then I just felt so very special and wonderful.''
"This universityhad given me the opportunity. Needless to say, on graduation day, my mother knocked over a security guard and sat on my lap. After I graduated, she would say, 'Now you have something to fall back on.' ''
"We didn't have huge football, huge basketball, that didn't really happen till we had [John] Calipari.''
"The big colleges are there because of endowments or sometimes research. I think that our Massachusetts state school still could be mixed with a high-profile school. You could take courses at the private schools and still get your degree from UMass.''
"In my thesis, we talked about Fat Albert consciously, how these characters can think and solve problems. It's out of the house. It's about life. It's saying things that other shows are not interested in saying. Because it's about education. It's about a kid who can't play baseball or a sport on the Sabbath, about a little girl who can't talk and why, and these fellows care so much. We're dealing with that, and I put it in writing. When you read the dissertation, it is clear if you want to go into television you can use it as a tool to have people talk about these things.''
"UMass looked to me, because of who I am, it looked hip. That's a key word. You're coming off of demonstrations, you're coming off of Martin being murdered. Students find themselves lined up and sitting at tables and writing about anti-whatever. In this time and period, we're still looking at people working at the abolishment of segregation and racism. However, you got kids and families coming from all sections. There was no racism. No bullying.''
"I am today who I am largely because of UMass, whether it's 'The Cosby Show,' or something else I'm doing. I feel comfortable because it rolls out of me, as this relationship afforded me the contacts of other educators on doctoral levels, who were giving of themselves.''
"What's wrong with TV, as far as I was concerned, TV was not what Bill Cosby was putting on it.''
"Executives come to me and say, we are tired of TV looking like that. We want something like 'The Cosby Show,' what Cosby did.''
"My favorite line of Fat Albert is, 'If you pay attention, you just might learn something.' ''
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Owners of a trio of breweries based in Minnetonka worry that a provision in the House's budget plan that drastically increases taxes on alcohol will harm its plans for expansion.
"This bill goes right after the guys that are growing, which is the dumbest thing in the world, in my opinion. … This bill tells me, 'Don't grow your business here,' and I don't know why you would do that to anyone," said Lucid Brewing co-owner Jon Messier.
Currently, every barrel of beer produced in Minnesota is taxed $4.60, but that would be raised to $27.75 if the alcohol tax increase makes it into the final budget, which Gov. Mark Dayton had not ruled out as of West Extra's press time. However, under the House's proposal, these taxes would affect only breweries that produce more than 50,000 barrels per year. Breweries under that limit would recoup all of the per-barrel excise taxes through state tax credits.
Lucid, Badger Hill and Bad Weather Brewing all operate out of the same facility in Minnetonka. The breweries partner through an alternating proprietorship, which allows for them to share overhead costs while remaining separate companies.
Business has been good since Lucid became the first of the breweries to open in 2011. Last Monday, three new 60-barrel fermenting tanks were installed at the brewery, which doubled its collective capacity to 10,000 barrels per year.
Badger Hill owner Broc Krekelberg said that, although the tax increase wouldn't immediately affect his company, if it were included in the final budget, he would be forced to rethink his whole business plan.
"We were looking at investing in our own building, building a taproom, and we've been talking to some other local businesses for partnerships. It was all designed to scale our operation beyond 50,000 barrels, but now we're wondering if it would be more financially feasible to stay below that amount," Krekelberg said.
Messier said Minnesota's tax policy has him looking out of state. "If I look and see that my price is cheaper to the consumer just next door, that's where I'm going to send [my beer], because there I can be more competitive against imports and other top-end brands," he said.
Lucid recently signed with D-S Beverages, a distributor in Moorhead, Minn., in an effort to expand into North Dakota.
Craft-brewing boom
Right now, only Minnesota's two largest brewers — Schell's and Summit — are over the 50,000-barrel limit, but that could soon change.
Since 2011, 26 new breweries have opened in Minnesota; only 11 opened from 2000 to 2010. Nationally, the number of barrels produced by craft brewers increased 13 percent in 2011 and another 15 percent in 2012, according to the Brewers Association. Even with this growth, craft beer made up a mere 6.6 percent of the more than 200 million barrels of beer produced in the United States in 2012.
"Consumers are starting to change their buying habits. … If you look at craft beer growth across the U.S., it's a very consistent trend we've been seeing over the last 20 years. It's not a fad as much as it is people coming in and deciding to stay. They start to expect a high-quality product," said Krekelberg.
He credits the "Surly Bill," which allowed craft brewers to open taprooms at their breweries, as another huge reason for the industry's growth.
Costs to society
Proponents of the alcohol tax increase say that the extra money collected could help defray the enormous cost of alcohol abuse for the state of Minnesota. A study released by the state Department of Health in 2011 found that "the economic costs associated with alcohol use in Minnesota are an estimated $5.06 billion."
There hasn't been an increase in the excise alcohol tax in Minnesota in more than 25 years, and an April 24 poll done by KSTP-TV found that 51 percent of Minnesotans supported the alcohol tax increase.
Proponents also say that the tax increase only would amount to a price increase of 7 cents per pint, but that claim has come under fire from the brewing industry. Krekelberg, who holds an MBA in strategic finance, said that analysis failed to account for the compounding of the cost increase as the beer moves from producer to wholesaler to retailer.
He said that realistically it would increase the cost of a pint by 15 to 55 cents, depending on whether companies along the supply chain would choose to lower their margins.
The Minnesota Senate did not include the alcohol tax increase in its budget proposal, and Dayton has come out against it, although when this story went to press he was still considering it as part of his final budget proposal.
State Reps. Paul Rosenthal and Yvonne Selcer voted against the House budget proposal that contained the tax increase, while Rep. John Benson voted for it.


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New pilot program gives premium rate discount for planting Monsanto triple-stack hybrids
Corn producers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota will have the opportunity this year to participate in a pilot program from USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) aimed at lowering their crop insurance premiums.
Under the program, producers who plant at least 75% of their corn acres with hybrids that feature YieldGard Plus with Roundup Ready Corn 2 or YieldGard VT Triple technology can receive a premium rate discount on nonirrigated corn.
The Biotech Yield Endorsement, or BYE, is a new crop insurance feature that lowers premiums for producers of nonirrigated corn. The average cost of a total policy premium will be reduced by approximately 14% on revenue assurance policies. On average, this discount will amount to more than $2.00/acre on the grower-paid portion of the premium.
Monsanto co-submitted the BYE with Western Agricultural Insurance Company worked under section 523(D) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000. This section allows any company, state or agricultural consulting company to submit to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) Board of Directors an actuarially sound insurance program that helps manage or reduce risk to the producers. (The RMA operates and manages the FCIC.)
Tim Hennessy, new business development manager with Monsanto, says the company submitted thousands of data points and more than three years of side-by-side plot data. "It took us about two years to build a submission package that demonstrated to the FCIC that our triple-stack technologies deliver more consistent yields, effectively reducing risk," he says.
"We are anxious for anyone who thinks they can help the farmer reduce risk to submit proposals," says Shirley Pugh, director of public affairs for the RMA. "This is an innovative program that helps to manage risk and lower premiums, which reduces costs to producers and to taxpayers."
Expect other companies with competing technologies to follow suit. Todd Frazier, marketing director for Pioneer, says the company is working to submit data on hybrids with Herculex insect protection traits. "We are interested in working with the RMA to look at Herculex participating in the BYE program as we move into 2009," Frazier says. "As a company, we have chosen Herculex because it offers a broader spectrum control and better efficacy than other traits. That also reduces risk for the producer."
Ben Kaehler, traits licensing leader for Dow AgroSciences, adds, "We believe that Herculex provides at least the same level of yield protection and stability as YieldGard traits, and because of that Dow AgroSciences and Pioneer are working closely to combine our information that the RMA and FCIC needs so that we can participate in a BYE-type program for 2009."
Syngenta is holding conversations with the crop insurance industry about addressing the needs of growers. "Syngenta applauds RMA's acknowledgement that new yield-boosting technologies can reduce production risk," says Tom Gahm, head of business communications with Syngenta. "For this concept to really benefit growers, we believe it needs to include a broad cross section of technologies and best management practices that increase yields."
Final program details will be available through your local crop insurance agency. The latest program information will be posted at www.rma.usda.gov.
Although this is a pilot program, the four BYE pilot states represent more than half of the corn acres harvested for grain in the United States.
Pugh says that the pilot program is designed to ensure that the program will work as intended. "We're fielding a lot of calls from agencies, and they want to know when they can start selling the program," she says. "There's a lot of interest."


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We can all shut up now.
You. Me. Everybody.
That's what the Monrovia High School football team essentially said with its 38-8 win over Whittier Christian in Saturday's championship game of the Mid-Valley Division at Arcadia High.
This wasn't just a win, it was a statement. It was a "take that" to all the people who used terms such as "bridesmaids," "seconditis" and "chokers" to describe Monrovia.
For the last nine times Monrovia was in a CIF championship game, all those descriptions applied. The Wildcats were 0-9 with rings on the line.
The 2010 team wore the shroud of doubt from years of championship failure all season. It was theirs because after last year's failure against San Dimas in the Mid-Valley championship, skepticism over the Wildcats in high- stakes games was at an all-time high.
When the Wildcats lost a local passing league tournament championship game in July to Azusa the naysayers, myself included, remained doubters.
Not haters, mind you, but doubters. There's a difference.
Monrovia's nonleague schedule this season was its most difficult in years.
The Wildcats lost to Glendora to start the year. More doubt. When the Wildcats blew a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter and lost to San Dimas in overtime, the bandwagon was empty.
But coach Ryan Maddox and his staff slowly molded a team that was not messing around when the truly big games arrived.
More pressure was on this Monrovia team than on any of the great runner- up teams before them. And as is often the case when the pressure builds and the top blows, the explosion was massive.
First it was Gladstone, then Schurr, then San Dimas. No Monrovia championship would be complete without beating San Dimas first.
All that was left in their way was eliminating several years' worth of disappointment, silencing numerous skeptics and, of course, a 12-1 Whittier Christian team. The Wildcats left nothing to chance Saturday. They knew what they wanted and their defense took it. Literally.
Maddox and his staff had something dialed up for a Whittier Christian offense that was averaging 35 points per game.
Quarterback Nick Bueno was his usual all-around great self. Receiver and kick returner Jay Henderson was a human highlight reel.
The 2010 Wildcats now are legends. They got an entire school and every player who ever wore the green off the hook. That's the amazing power of a championship.
Soon, they'll hang the sweetest banner in the sweetest sport any school can hang. Monrovia, in its 10th try, finally is a CIF football champion, and there's no doubt about it.


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Julian Edelman's been everywhere on the field for the Patriots tonight—making tackles on coverage teams and now returning a punt 72 yards to paydirt. It made for 24 (and counting) unanswered points against the Chiefs, and you probably forgot that he's done this before.
Yeah, it's in Spanish. I'm in El Valle, Panama tonight, and that's what Monday Night Football looks and sounds like here.


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Work to begin on U.S. 77
U.S. 77 will be overlaid between K-256 east of Marion all the way to the north city limit of El Dorado starting today.
The highway will receive a .75 inch mill and 1.5 inch overlay. Flaggers and a pilot car will handle traffic control. There will be a 10-inch width restriction. The construction zone will be in effect during daylight hours. Delays up to 15 minutes may occur.
Plans for the project call for a completion date on July 8. APAC KS Inc Shears Division is the prime contractor. The project cost is $4,554,370.


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Instant Karma
On Friday night, Lehigh Valley set a franchise record by scoring 13 runs and tied a franchise record by pounding out 18 hits in a 13-3 win over the PawSox.
Anyone mind if I write about something else?
Boston's game at Fenway Park was considerably more exciting. A 2-out home run in the bottom of the 9th by Jason Bay off of Mariano Rivera forced extra innings, and a towering blast by Kevin Youkilis over the Green Monster in the 11th inning gave the Red Sox a 5-4 win.
It you believe in Karma — the notion that good deeds have an impact on future experiences — than I'm here to tell you that Youkilis deserved his extra inning heroics.
On Thursday night, I attended a fundraiser for "Raising A Reader," an organization that helps get children's books into the hands of low-income families. Youkilis and his wife Enza were there to help host the event in assocation with his charitable foundation "Hits for Kids."
On a night off for the Red Sox, Youkilis could have very easily said a few words and made a graceful exit, but he stayed for the entire program while signing countless autographs and posing for dozens of pictures (including one with yours truly).
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Ten years ago, the United States massed a traditional military force behind sand-berm walls separating Kuwait from Iraq.
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But on the moment – March 20th along that border, March 19th in the United States – that the American military was preparing regime change in Iraq, the evolution within the military in the decade since has also been significant.
"We started with the march-up to Baghdad, and that was very much a traditional fight," said retired Col. Michael Starry, who now concentrates on how the Army must adapt in the future.
Starry is with the Army Capabilities Integration Center, an in-house think tank that studies how the service adapts to the evolving landscape of modern warfare.
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In 2003, the Department of Defense budget totaled $437 billion. By 2009, it had climbed to $691 billion. This year's budget will be difficult to predict because of the lack of an approved budget and the effects of automatic cuts. But it should be around $580 billion.
Beyond the dollars being spent, though, has been a shift in philosophy. American troops arrived in Iraq as warriors. By 2011 when the last forces pulled out, they left as nation-builders, negotiators, cops, civil workers and social workers, as well.
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P85 Badge on Performance Models
I'm getting a performance version and I too would like the badge.
I'm ambivalent. 'Course I'm driving a Saturn right now. P85 or regular speed, both are faster! Even the regular mode beats the Fisker...
P85 Badge would be nice
I agree. Having paid $10-20K more, the car should have some visible but subtle distinction.
A true collector will know what makes it a Peformance, however, it will make it fun when someone in say an Audi S8 pulls up next to you, and has NO idea what they're tangling with ;-)
agreed...you need to distinguish. Its a branding thing. ridiculous speed for a eletric car. Why not take advantage of that marking opportunity,
Do you want some identification that it's a Performance model or a P85 model? The performance models already have the spoiler, front air dam, and seats with alacantra & piping with a secondary color. They will also tend to be the only ones with the grey 21" wheels.
A sign maker should be able to make you a P85 badge. Get the pics from Jurvetson's car and have one made. I'm thinking of that very approach myself. :)
I like stealth mode - I don't need anyone to know that I am driving the P-model (when I finally get it:-)
A geriatric VW Beetle beats a Fisker.
When I saw a pic of the P85 badge, I thought it was nice. Along the lines of the M, S and AMG badges of BMW, Audi and Benz. However....I also feel you too @Carefree. Why advertise?
Perhaps www.teslaccessories.com could provide it in the future if there will be enough people willing to buy it. It shouldn't cost much.
It was dropped because tesla didn't like the font. I think the spoiler is already an indicator and that with dark rims make it pretty obvious. I realize you don't need performance for the rims, but that combination stands out, no wouldn't mind a better logo than the old one though.
Anyone who really follows cars will know it is a performance model due to the spoiler and the grey 21 inch wheels. I would prefer to not have the badge. Why advertise further?
Agreed. Less badging is preferable. For the non-sigs it would be nice to have "performance" written in the place where "signature" or "founder" is written now. That's non-obtrusive.
actually not all performance will have spoilers and 21" grey wheels, you can opt out the spoiler and you can choose other wheels. although I have both!
I opted out of both the spoiler and the 21" wheels, but then again, I'm also indifferent to whether it has a performance badge. The performance is for me, not for those I skunk.
Ahh, you just want to sneak "under the radar". Did you get F117 training?
No, I just don't want all my lefty friends thinking I'm into conspicuous consumption. BTW, any recommendations for where to mount my gun rack on my S? ;)
P85 badge would be a nice touch.
I have a P85 Signature coming too. No cf spoiler and it has chrome 21's.
I'm thinking about swapping for 19's for pothole and curb purposes though if they come out with the turbine style 19's.
I think that there still is a P85 mark still on the car but it is subtle and on the side lights. Can anyone confirm?
They made the Signature mark more subtle too. It is embossed in the chrome instead of a chrome badge like they used to have. I kinda liked the Chrome badge though. More bright shiny stuff! :-)
I'm with "stealth" drivers on this.
I enjoy the fact they can't tell what they are dealing with, and then look at their faces on the great 17" monitor shot by the rear HD camera ;)
Can't see them for long, but it's satisfying ;)
If you can afford a P85 why bother with some Rednecks in an S8?
No; maybe with one back seat folded down? Or just under the parcel shelf? Whatever you decide, post pix!
+1 for stealth.
I've spent more than a few hours removing ID from my vehicles . . . dealer badges to 4x4 stickers, to "swoosh" insignias, off of everything from a SAAB to a GMC.
I think Tesla went with the more subtle marks for the P85 and Signatures in an effort to create a happy compromise between the Steath faction and Showy faction.
I don't know how they could have come up with a better solution.
It took me a day to find the Signature logo in the chrome band at the rear of the vehicle. I am pleased that it is subtle and hidden from plain view.
The P85 logo is shown with the vehicle information when the "T" button is pressed at the top of the center console. I had to laugh when I thought it meant "power 85" and the Delivery Specialist had to remind me that I bought a Performance model.
Having the actual car color and options pictured on the graphic of the vehicle on the screens is a nice touch.
I saw Jurvetson's car at the annual meeting. To me it didn't match the rest of the car. I really didn't like it. I was thrilled when I learned that it wasn't going to be on production cars. Now that we've had our car for 2 1/2 months, I'm still glad it isn't on the car.
Yea glad they took the old one off. Still wouldn't mind a subtle one though. i think the audio rs is nice. You don't notice it unless you are looking,
If there is sufficient demand for it, I could produce a set of performance badges for the Model S. I already produce a badge for supporting plug-in vehicles, www.EVbadges.com. Chrome coated OEM quality badges with 3D shaping and 3M adhesive that are easy to put on.
Design, tooling, adhesive, packaging, etc. cost roughly $4-$5k, so I would need to know that at least a couple hundred people were interested in it.
I totally understand the people that prefer stealth, and will provide good instructions on taking off dealer badges, etc. off your non-Tesla cars.
You could even offer double-size ones for the more extroverted owners!
@DouglasR - one of my friends did the gun rack for his Volt -- I'm sure he could hook you up with a design for the Model S :)
And by using PVCs for the rack, you can offset the harm that the Model S causes to our oil industry. Who needs a P85 badge anyway. :)
The real deal would be pop-up 007-style machine guns. Maybe the pano could be modified ...
I did see the picture of the "P85" badge and thought it was cool at first, but I agree with many of the others... Seeing my tail lights fade away in the distance will let people know I'm in my P85. "What the F was that???" they'll be saying :)
Still though, for the most part, only folks familiar with the Model S would know what the badge meant anyway.
Capt. Zap, sorry no chrome 21's, only silver paint
Any news with P85 badge?
All badging is available on request at the service center..no charge for badging.
I was hoping for the Signature badge that I saw in images before the first production cars were produced. I was a bit surprised to not get one on the car. They seemed to vaporize without any word. I thought it was a nice looking badge.
I can't help but think that a P85 badge would be inappropriate on a Signature since the badge didn't exist back then. The spouse wants P85 badge but I'm hesitant since it wasn't original.
Got my P85 badge put on the car yesterday.
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- Kate said...
Mandi your new floors look fabulous!!! And don't worry about sweeping - I got one of those little robot vacuums (second hand) and the kids know to turn it on every morning when we leave for school. Then I return to a vacuumed house (it sucks up the dust bunnies but doesn't seem to lift the beach sand - beggars can't be choosers!). Congrats on the new job! Cheers, Kate xx
- March 12, 2017 at 9:23 PM
- Melanie Holsti said...
My house is younger than yours, but the carpet is ever so much worse. Like, the previous owners must have kept livestock in here worse. but we can't afford to replace it yet, so I'll just live vicariously through you. Love the new floors!
- March 13, 2017 at 6:17 AM
Your floors look great! And I too have learned that sometimes, just sometimes it's WAAAAYYYY better to just fork over the cash to the pros and get the job done.
Great to see a post from you - you always make me laugh.
- March 13, 2017 at 10:02 AM
- Bobbie said...
Love, love, love it when there is a new post from you. You always make us laugh. Thanks for taking the time to let us into your life for a brief bit. Congratulations on the piano gig. That's amazing. How inspiring to go quickly from student to paid player! Oh, I hate sweeping too so I dyson stick vac all my wood floors - the floors don't seem to mind :)
- March 13, 2017 at 1:16 PM
- Gigi said...
It's definitely worth it to have someone else do a job like this and they are gorgeous.
I second the Roomba - we have hardwood and tile - that little thing zips around here like nobody's business and I never have to think about dust mopping or dust bunnies again.
- March 13, 2017 at 3:26 PM
- Julie Makepeace said...
I have missed your blog! I have four kids too, all boys, and I completely understand about them taking a toll on things. Including me! The last one is finishing up college and now and I can finally think about some renovations around here.
I love your new floors and completely agree with you about having things done for you. We just had our hardwoods sanded and stained. Had we done them ourselves, we would have needed a good divorce attorney.
- March 13, 2017 at 5:33 PM
- james and bess said...
I love that you're getting paid to do something you love!! I want that, too - I just need to find someone to pay me to watch Netflix and read.. lol. The floors look great! Quick question: how do hardwood floors do in Utah? I've heard that they can crack from the lack of humidity? As for laundry, I've found that if you're really bad at it, someone else will take it over. (My husband is a saint, by the way.) ;)
- March 14, 2017 at 8:59 AM
- Juli G said...
My house was born in 1942. 8 years ago I got a new furnace. Word is, it was original to the house.
We are also getting rid of the carpet this year... going with dark bamboo of variegated widths like we have in the rest of the house.
Sadly, we will be doing the work ourselves. I will be VERY cranky. I might need a Snickers... :)
- March 14, 2017 at 6:47 PM
- Kate said...
I need to be paid to watch Netflix too! I would be so good at it. I'd be a total workaholic.
- March 15, 2017 at 5:15 AM
- Sugar3 said...
Welcome back! The floors look great (quarter of the cost or not)! I was silently envious until I read the part about it being like moving...and then I decided my beige carpets can make it another year. I mean, my crawler just started walking so he has more damage to do before I put any real effort into making things spiffy, right? And congrats on the job!
- March 15, 2017 at 8:54 AM
- Janice said...
Oh, I've missed your blog! And the floor looks fantastic!
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- Ashley said...
These floors are lovely. What brand of floors are these? I am looking at putting laminate in my house, but I do not know which brand to go with.
- March 16, 2017 at 2:42 PM
- Libby said...
Oh I know so well about having someone else to do the hard work! I, um, we, just had our kitchen completely redone. Cabinets, floor, popcorn ceiling, wall, opening doorway, black mold, all gone/done! We did some of the work, like demo. It's really was fun having my visiting teacher knock a wall out. I cleaned out the black mold- ripped out drywall & insulation. Basically we stripped the kitchen clean and had other people put it back together waaaayyy better than we could ever do. And a lot sooner.
Hubs did the vinyl planking. Which brings me to your floors, they look beautiful! Unfortunately they will show every light coloured piece of dirt. So we found out with our dark kitchen floor. Still looks good though.
The next job could be a garage or redo the bathroom before the tub ends up in the basement (what movie about renovating a house had a bathtub fall through the floor?).
Yeah, I know, how do working moms get all the stuff done that needs to be done, never mind the stuff we want to do?
- March 16, 2017 at 7:14 PM
- Ruth said...
Oh, so fun read your update! Congrats on the job! I dropped my freelancing job last year and started a genuine-work-in-an-45office job part time. This means I now get paid to work while my kids are in school instead of from 10 pm - 2 am or aaaaallll day on Saturday. Which has been good for me. But I hear you on not being able to get anything done anymore. Once I took a sick day because I honestly didn't feel good at 8 am, but at 10 am the motivation to use an unexpected day off to clean cured me and when my kids got home they were like, "Gee, Mom, you should get sick more often!"
- March 24, 2017 at 7:38 AM
- Jess said...
Mandi the floor is awesome! Go you! Looks fab and I'm sure it'll make your life easier with cleaning. Great to hear from you and congrats on the job you superstar!
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You haven't posted in months and I hope all is well. Miss reading about you and yours. How is life? Did you do another Cousin Carnival? Your pond? Your flower beds? Your Christmas tree? Yes, that is a ways back but it's been so long.
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