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NoSQL leader recognized for execution and product innovation in data management
Mountain View, Calif. – June 5, 2013 – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced that Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine has named it to the publication's inaugural "100 Companies that Matter Most in Data" list. The companies were selected based on their presence, execution, vision, and innovation in delivering products and services to the marketplace.
"DBTA's list salutes some of the top companies in data and enterprise information management and we're thrilled to be included," said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. "Couchbase NoSQL database technology powers interactive web and mobile applications for thousands of companies worldwide, and this is further validation for our business to continue developing solutions to meet the evolving needs of the data management market."
"The past several years have transformed enterprise information management, creating challenges and opportunities for companies seeking to extract value from a sea of data assets," said DBTA Magazine Managing Editor, Joyce Wells. "Rampant data growth, and the need for solutions to handle it, has provided an impetus for IT innovation.
The inaugural DBTA 100 is a list of companies that matter most in data." All 100 companies are highlighted in the special June edition of Database Trends and Applications Magazine and on DBTA.com. This year's selections can be viewed here.
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The Couchbase Open Source Project is a leading NoSQL database project, with a vibrant community focused on developing distributed database technology that supports both key-value and document-oriented use cases. All Couchbase technology components are available under the Apache 2.0 License, and may also be obtained as packaged software from Couchbase, Inc. in both enterprise and community editions.
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Couchbase is a leading provider of NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project. Couchbase Server, the company's flagship product, is a NoSQL document-oriented database with production deployments at AOL, Cisco, Concur, LinkedIn, Orbitz, Salesforce.com, Shuffle Master, Zynga and hundreds of other household names worldwide. It is particularly well suited for web and mobile applications, providing easy scalability, consistent high performance, 24x365 availability, and a flexible data model for ease of development. Couchbase is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and is funded by Accel Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, and North Bridge Venture Partners.


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Listen up, abortion rights fans: Scott Brown is on your side!
Fear not, abortion rights foes: Scott Brown is on your side!
When it comes to choice, the Republican Senator is a little bit country, and a little bit rock 'n' roll. The problem is, this isn't the kind of issue where you can make like Donny and Marie.
But don't tell that to the National Right to Life Committee. Even though Brown has been loudly proclaiming that he favors abortion rights, the antiabortion group gave him a 100 percent rating in his first year as a senator, and an 80 percent rating in his second. And it continues to shower him with paper roses.
Its latest bouquet: A mailer urging abortion opponents to back Brown against Democrat Elizabeth Warren. "Vote like life depends on it … because it does," it reads.
Why wouldn't they love a guy who cosponsored the Blunt Amendment? That mess would have allowed employers to deny insurance coverage for birth control — and other treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, or even vaccines — they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds.
Former Boston mayor Ray Flynn says Brown's "heart is pro-life," a reasonable conclusion to draw from some things he did as a state senator. He cosponsored a bill that would have required a woman to wait 24 hours before getting an abortion, during which time she would be given pictures showing the development of her fetus (clearly, in an effort to change her mind). Then there was his sponsorship of a measure that would have allowed hospital workers to refuse emergency contraception to rape victims if the workers' religion frowned upon it.
On the other hand, in the state Senate, Brown voted to maintain buffer zones to keep protesters away from patients at abortion clinics. And in the midst of this close race with Warren, he urged the GOP to remove from its platform a call for constitutional ban on abortion.
Confusing, right?
Brown seems happy to keep it that way. Given the opportunity to distance himself from antiabortion absolutists, he has declined to do so. When Globe reporter Stephanie Ebbert asked about the National Right to Life endorsement Thursday, Brown at first resisted discussing it: "You'll have to talk to the campaign," said the man who is the campaign. When she pressed him, Brown said, "I'm going after every single vote and there are good people on all sides of every issue."
But Brown can't be everybody's man on reproductive rights. Satisfy antiabortion folks and you undermine a woman's right to choose. Choice isn't about just the right to abortion, but access to it, and Brown has shown he is willing to chip away at that.
Choice isn't about just abortion, but also contraception, and Brown has had no problem putting up barriers to access there. What his record says is that women should be able to control their own bodies — some of the time.
"When you're kind-of pro-choice, you're saying somebody else always gets to judge when women can make medical decisions," says Megan Amundson, executive director of NARAL Massachusetts.
Both sides believe they know which way Brown will go when it comes to the big one. In the next four years, the Senate will probably vote on a Supreme Court nominee, who could tip the balance if the court reconsiders Roe v. Wade. Anne Fox, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, believes Brown will vote to confirm a justice who shares her view that Roe "was not a legitimate decision."
"We are looking for justices who do not legislate from the bench," said Fox.
Or maybe, despite immense party pressure, the abortion-rights Brown will appear.
Nobody knows for sure. Which is why nobody who believes in a woman's right to choose should take the chance.Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at email@example.com.

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Home-heavy Mount Pleasant wants a slice of Charleston's expanding aerospace industry to broaden its tax base.
A town councilman and a real estate agent told Charleston County Aviation Authority this week that they'd like 200 acres of industrial zoned property in Carolina Park abutting Mount Pleasant Regional Airport to be considered for small companies connected to the aviation industry.
"We believe Charleston is developing into an aerospace hub, and this is one more asset that's attractive to that industry," said Mike White, a commercial broker with CBRE Carmody.
White and Mount Pleasant Town Councilman Chris O'Neal presented the plan that calls for the property straddling Faison Road to be subdivided. The first two roughly 20-acre tracts sit on the airport's southeast corner, where potential manufacturers could immediately tie into to a taxiway to the runway if they need to.
White said the tracts in the proposed "Aerospace and Technology Center" are perfect for construction and testing of engines and unmanned aircraft, for instance.
"It could handle a wide range of industries, and some companies wouldn't be a fit at Charleston International," White said.
The owner of the land and developers want to coordinate the planning with the Aviation Authority to target aerospace suppliers. They want authority staff to conduct a cost-benefit study to determine growth projections, drive economic development and improve overall safety and efficiency at the small airport.
They also believe many Boeing executives already live in the East Cooper area, and suppliers might choose to make Mount Pleasant or Daniel Island their home as well.
"It would give them and their suppliers an opportunity for a work-and-live situation right together," Mount Pleasant Mayor Billy Swails said.
The property is ready for development, he said.
"It's right by the airport. It's zoned properly. Everything is ready to go," Swails added.
The mayor doesn't foresee heavy industry locating on the land, but rather light manufacturers and office parks.
"Nothing to disturb the neighborhood," he said.
The land in question is owned by Chris Marino, whose late father, Ben Marino, was an investor in Carolina Park.
The property lies between the airport and land set aside for residential development in the sprawling Carolina Park subdivision behind Roper St. Francis's Mount Pleasant Hospital on U.S. Highway 17.
Bringing industry to Mount Pleasant would help the town diversify its revenue sources since it is mostly a bedroom community.
"It would help stabilize our tax rate for a long time to come," Swails said.
About 40 percent of the town's budget comes from property taxes, mostly from houses. The remainder comes from business licenses, hospitality taxes and other sources.
"We need some 6 percent and 10 percent assessment property in Mount Pleasant," O'Neal said, referring to commercial and industrial sites, which are taxed are a higher rate than residential property. "We see this as an engine for economic development because of the size of the parcels out there."
Charleston County Councilman Elliott Summey, sitting in on the airport board for his father, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey, said he supports the project.
"Industry just doesn't happen in North Charleston," Summey said.
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IPTV/VoD: The open fourth platform
Rome wasn't built in a day...
Opening up a television platform is a profound step that can't be considered lightly – other than the technological steps, there are commercial barriers that make it a difficult process. It is television based on a new idea rather than a new infrastructure. The experience of IPTV is a radical change from what we have all known before, as it provides true personalisation and two-way interactivity. Viewing comes through interacting rather than passively sifting through a funnel of unordered material we didn't opt in for.
The nature of on-demand content empowers the viewer and enables true freedom of choice that very few have had before, and the good news is that after the initial learning curve, it's extraordinarily compelling and easy to sell.
The infrastructure of most platforms in the UK is almost always proprietary and a closely-guarded trade secret. Each broadcaster uses their own systems that are fully customised, with suppliers falling over themselves to lock their clients into their technologies and controls. All share an implementation of the common MPEG-2 standard (for both compression and RF transport), but implement their scheduling, play-out, EPG, conditional access and middleware differently.
IPTV technologies generally tend to follow open standards that enable easy interoperability, unless of course you use products provided by Microsoft, Siemens, Alcatel or any other gorilla. The fundamental architecture of an IPTV platform is based on web standards that have been tweaked – mark-up languages like HTML, XML and others. Menus are web pages that are specially adapted for TV viewing.
To develop for Sky, you need to spend extortionate amounts of money buying into Open TV's proprietary middleware and/or their own WapTV microbrowser (which uses the ETSI-certified WTVML language derived from WML). NTL and Telewest use the Two Way TV "Arc" system twinned with the HTML-based TV Navigator software originally built by the now-dissolved Liberate Technologies (now SeaChange). Freeview/OnDigital comes closest with the open MHEG-5 standard, which is an absurd declarative language created for digital Teletext services that runs through a Pantalk virtual machine. Don't even ask about Homechoice or KIT.
All of these wildly different interactivity engines are implemented differently and have helped a market for cross-platform publishing spring up in the iTV world.
IPTV as technological platform owes much to its formative precedent of streaming video over the web. Typical standards (again unless you use proprietary products like Microsoft Windows Media or On2) revolve around MPEG-4 (all 22 parts), SMIL, real-time streaming protocols like RTP/RTSP, signalling protocols like SAP/SDP, transactional messaging through XML-based web services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI etc) and distribution systems like multicasting.
Each piece of CPE has a different integration path because of differing hardware, but the most crucial point that underpins all this effort towards interoperation and compatibility is that the IPTV community has learnt from the lessons taught to us by the web and has opted to work within an open framework that tries its best to provide standardised abstraction when it comes to integrating proprietary systems.
Using open technology standards is commercially beneficial as it allows innovators to easily cross-train an already enormous pool of developer talent that is available on the market today. Graphic designers need a re-think course to learn about TV display, and developers need to learn TV-specific extensions of middleware and differences between PC and set-top box capabilities.
The barriers to building IPTV services are 1000 per cent lower than they are for TV platforms we have today. Almost anyone can set up a demonstration service literally within hours for negligible cost. Adapting existing web applications is incredibly easy as they use the same technologies.
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SALINA, Kan. (AP) _ It's unlikely that a Salina woman will ever top her first trip to the circus.
Jenna Krehbiel was attending the Isis Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Salina Bicentennial Centennial Center when she decided she needed a bathroom break.
When she walked into the bathroom, she found a tiger standing about 2 feet away.
The big cat escaped briefly after performing for the circus. Staff members blocked off all entrances where the public could come into contact with the tiger and it wandered into the bathroom.
The Salina Journal reports (http://bit.ly/11eq218 ) Krehbiel used a door to the bathroom that hadn't been blocked off. She says she stayed calm and walked out.
The tiger was returned to its cage a short time later. No one was injured.
Information from: The Salina (Kan.) Journal, http://www.salina.com


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Quote from: Jstwebbrowsing on February 27, 2013, 09:22:52 PMAnd I answered all points with two scriptures.And I am questioning the scriptures. The Gita too was handed over direct by god and Krishna is the one true god. How come your YHWH goes around saying the same stuff??? Please change your signature text, thats just unjustified.
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Charity Begins at Home
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July/August 2007
Following the 2004 CDC Prevention Conference, I received a call from Phill Wilson, executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, in L.A. He was preparing an open letter from leaders within the Black gay community in response to disturbing data presented from the now infamous five-city study of MSM. If you don't remember, 46% of the African American participants in that study were found to be HIV-positive. Sixty-eight percent of those did not know that they were positive.
His purpose in constructing the letter was to admonish Black gay men to step up, to take ownership of what these findings could mean for our community at large, and to do what we needed to do to curb the spread of this disease in our community.
He didn't have to work hard to convince me to sign on. (First of all, he's Phill Wilson! Who in their right mind would say no to him, right?!) Without question, I was in total agreement with the theme of the letter. I thoroughly understood the crisis that Black gay men are in and I was already committed to being a part of that solution.
In fact, a couple of months before, I'd been engaged in dialogue with a small group of folks here in Chicago who had already decided that enough was enough. We felt that the increasing rates of HIV and STI infection among Black MSM in our city were a direct result of the "AIDS fatigue" we were all witnessing and experiencing. We didn't know exactly what we would do or how we would do it, but we knew that we had to do something.
A meeting was convened to strategize a community-wide plan for addressing the issue. Community-based organizations were at the table, along with local party and club promoters, and several officials from the Chicago Department of Public Health. To bring us all into accord, available epidemiological data on Black MSM in Chicago was presented, along with an always useful HIV and STI prevention 101.
The data released from the CDC study shifted our efforts into high gear and soon the Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus (CBGMC) was formed. I felt proud that my role as a founding member would speak to the commitment that the 50 men who signed on to Phill's letter had made.
The mission of CBGMC is to mobilize and empower Black gay men and their allies, for the primary purpose of identifying solutions to prevent new HIV infections in our city, by addressing the well-being of Black men who have sex with men. In an effort to fulfill its mission, the Caucus has developed a hip-hop themed public service announcement/music video, aptly titled "I Know. Do You Know?" The group has also coordinated HIV and STI screenings at numerous night clubs and social events throughout the city, including its own creation, LoveFest -- an end-of-summer outdoor festival in Chicago's most popular "cruise park." (Check out the new media page at www.tpan.com to view the video).
At the same time, community advocates and activists from New York, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and other major cities (many of whom had also signed on to Phill's letter), began to convene and discuss a national strategic plan.
The group came to be known as the National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition (NBGMAC). Physically housed at Us Helping Us -- the largest Black gay agency in Washington, D.C. -- NBGMAC is committed to improving the health and well-being of Black gay men through advocacy that is focused on research, policy, education, and training. The fruit of the group's labor is already making a significant impact.
Major partnerships have been established (with NMAC, NASTAD, and the Black AIDS Institute, to name a few), town hall meetings have been hosted in several cities (including Charlotte, Miami, and Philadelphia) around the various issues facing Black MSM, and meetings have occurred with numerous government and political figures regarding how their agendas will address the needs of our community. In fact, following its spring meeting held in Washington, D.C. this past April, the group arranged a meeting with Christopher Bates (Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at the Department of Health and Human Services) -- to strategize a meeting that would bring the CDC and the NIH together to collabrate on research efforts on Black MSM.
It has become increasingly obvious that we cannot depend solely on the CDC, or any other government entity for that matter, to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in our communities. If we are ever to experience the change that we desire and deserve for ourselves, it's going to be because we, like Phill Wilson and Cornelius Baker and Earnest Hopkins and Michael Roberson, stood up and boldly declared that enough is enough (or, in the words of Cornelius Baker, "the clock has tocked").
I say all of this to encourage you to discover "what's goin' on" for yourself and then get involved with the collaborative action plan. Whether you are Black, White, positive, negative, gay, straight, or indifferent, what affects one group of us affects us all. To do nothing could guarantee our collective demise.
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RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series: Decennial Census Abridged, 1990-2010 [United States] (ICPSR 27866)
Published: Oct 21, 2011
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Jose J. Escarce, RAND Corporation; Nicole Lurie, RAND Corporation; Adria Jewell, RAND Corporation
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The RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series is composed of a wide selection of analytical measures, encompassing a variety of domains, all derived from a number of disparate data sources. The CPHHD Data Core's central focus is on geographic measures for census tracts, counties, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) from two distinct geo-reference points, 1990 and 2000. The current study, Decennial Census Abridged, has two cross-sectional datasets, one longitudinal (interpolated) dataset, and one longitudinal (extrapolated) dataset containing a large number and variety of population and housing characteristics-related measures. These data are summarized at five different geographic levels: tract, county (FIPS), county (Geographic), MSA (Geographic), and state. The following types of measures constructed from the Census Bureau Population and Housing Characteristics data are included in the data for this collection: housing characteristics (stock, quality, ownership, costs, expenditures, occupancy, etc.), crowding (housing and population density), urbanicity, racial and ethnic composition, language, nationality, and citizenship. Further measures cover family/household structure, transportation, educational attainment, labor force, employment status, disabilities, income, poverty, and demographics (e.g., age, gender, and race).
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Data for Segregation Indices (ICPSR 27863), Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status (SES) Index (ICPSR 27865), Disability (ICPSR 27862), Cost-of-Living Indices (ICPSR 27621), Pollution (ICPSR 27864), and Street Connectivity (ICPSR 27861) are also available from ICPSR.
Additional details about the RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Data Core Series can be found on the RAND Web site.
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http://www.hublist.org/PublicHubList.xml.bz2 works for me. Are you able to connect to hubs and search just fine? If not, then a firewall of some sort might be blocking you and you could try switching to passive.Originally Posted by Rizado
http://www.hublist.org/PublicHubList.xml.bz2 works for me. Are you able to connect to hubs and search just fine? If not, then a firewall of some sort might be blocking you and you could try switching to passive.Originally Posted by Rizado
Everything works except hublists, I can copy the favorites xml from windows and use it. Maybe it's just a new bug that'll be fixed soon.Originally Posted by stevensheehy
Hi! I've been using LDCPP for a few days now and everything has been working excellently, up until today.
Now, when I start LDCPP it acts as if my active mode isn't correctly set or something - I can't search nor download from other users. I've checked my IP settings and they are correct.
All of this happened, as far as I can tell, after installing Automatix and BitTornado - can they have affected something crucial for LDCPP?
I tried to uninstall it and got the following error:
So, how do I fix this problem?IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'config.log':
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conf = Configure(env, custom_tests = {'CheckPKGConfig' : CheckPKGConfig,
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SCons/SConf.py", line 129:
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Which problem? You mentioned two...Originally Posted by Angellis_ater
For the first one, try a new profile (rename ~/.dc++). If same deal, then it's a problem with your local network config (firewall, router, etc). At the very least, it should work on passive.
Second one, no idea. Looks like your something is wrong with the scons installed on your system.
I got problem with hash! It has to hash everytime i start ldcpp, when its starting it want to hash +150gb everytime im restarting the program.
Is there anything I can do ?
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I have to hash everything with åäö in the name, could be something like that for you too. Luckely I only have one movie with those letters.Originally Posted by skatedawe
Thank you so much [tackar]
I'm gonna try it. I think it will solve the problems.
Please read our Bug Tracker to see if the bug is already known before mentioning it. In this instance, Bug #4138.Originally Posted by skatedawe
All work. Thx


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Our Hero: Graydon Carter must know that Kristen Bell, all 5'1" of her, is never far from our hearts. [Vanity Fair]
Music From Big Pink: We grew up listening to The Band. Now a generation of musicians are growing up dressing like them. [WeAreTheMarket]
Fit for a King: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of blah, blah, blah unveils his new collection of posh men's accessories. [Men.Style]
Lifetime Contract: "Project Runway" jumps from the cosy, omnisexual stable of Bravo to the gilded henhouse of The Lifetime channel - meaning you'll have to lie twice as hard about watching it. [NYMag]
Game Design: In utterly predicable news, iPod addict Karl Lagerfeld lends his voice to Grand Theft Auto IV. [WWD]
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Microsoft Reveals Reason for Failure with Bing
Microsoft Reveals Reason for Failure with Bing
Focusing on the wrong end of the search results hasn't done Microsoft any favors, as its search product Bing continues to lose to Google, with its 11.5 percent a far cry from the 65 percent of Google in the US market. According to Bing executives, it seems that the mistake they made was ignoring the long tail of search results. Google on the other hand, focused heavily on the long tail, so it could give better results if someone is searching for obscure objects. Microsoft only targeted the popular results, which meant the results weren't always the better or more relevant - just more popular.
eweek.com - Microsoft fell so far behind Google in the search engine market because it failed to retrieve relevant results for a long line of less popular queries, a senior Microsoft executive told the crowd at the Search Engine Strategies show here March 25.
Such was the key reason Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the Online Audience Group for Microsoft Bing, offered for why Google is light-years ahead of Microsoft in the search market. Google commands 65 percent of the U.S. share search market, compared with 11.5 percent for Microsoft Bing.
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Mercury Milan vs Toyota Camry
I plan to buy a midsize sedan around 20-23,000.
I am a gentle driver, drive average 10.000 miles/year, would like to keep this car for 7-8 years, even maybe more if goes troublelessly! Do care mainly about safety and convenient driving, and want an automatic transmission. Do NOT care about "fancy" features, as most people do!! Hate driving noises, love smooth driving. Have narrowed my options down to these two cars: Mercury Millan 2006 (not sure the basic I4 vs the V6 type though yet), and Toyota Camry 2006/2007 (simply, the basic standard trim). Also, I am open to consider other cars with more-or-less same characteristics, if recommended over these two. Have heard new Hondas have "weak transmission" which breaks down in few years, it may not be really true(?), but makes me nervous about Honda.
What do you guys recommend? Appreciate much.
I am a gentle driver, drive average 10.000 miles/year, would like to keep this car for 7-8 years, even maybe more if goes troublelessly! Do care mainly about safety and convenient driving, and want an automatic transmission. Do NOT care about "fancy" features, as most people do!! Hate driving noises, love smooth driving. Have narrowed my options down to these two cars: Mercury Millan 2006 (not sure the basic I4 vs the V6 type though yet), and Toyota Camry 2006/2007 (simply, the basic standard trim). Also, I am open to consider other cars with more-or-less same characteristics, if recommended over these two. Have heard new Hondas have "weak transmission" which breaks down in few years, it may not be really true(?), but makes me nervous about Honda.
What do you guys recommend? Appreciate much.
Not to stray too far off topic, but I know the New 3.5L V-6 that is going in the 2007 MKZ boasts 263HP. So that's getting better for sure. I hope they make this optional for Fusion/Milan. So far I haven't heard anything about it, but it certainly seems possible. We can hope anyway!
picard12 Posts: 55Honda transmission problems had been fix before 2005. Other Honda accord users mentioned to me that the transmission of 2005 models run just fine. There is no problem for 2006 model either. The problem with transmission is on Passat 2006 and new audi 2006.
The camry V6 is much quieter than 4cyl version. You have to remember that the new camry use same engine of Avalon. Therefore it will be quiet as a church mouse.
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njerald Posts: 688The camry V6 is much quieter than 4cyl version.
Show me the numbers, not your opinions!!!
Thanks guys. Looks like you're more in favor of Camry. However, I actually did some more homework, found Ford 500 probably(?) a better choice, kind of same price with current discounts. Any ideas?
Discounts such as those that are prevalent on the domestic makes errode the resale market. Always remember to think....Why is it being discounted?
rparis Posts: 368I am sure no one will argue that the Camry is a great car as is the Accord. I looked at the Mazda 6, Honda Accord, Camry and Milan and am buying the Milan. For the money, it seems to be a great value and the reviews are excellent. The six cylinder is quieter than the 4 cylinder and seemed very smooth.
Test drove the Mazda and did not care for the braking or the noisy engine; just my opinion.
Toyota offers discounts too...?? They have cash back and special finance offers also...
The 500/Montego is a sleeper. These cars are rate well, for safety and reliability. Some say the 3.0 v6 isn't enough power. Ford is putting a 3.5 in the 500 this fall. May want to wait if you can. But you may feel the 3.0 is enough for you.. Test drive one..
The 500/Montego is a sleeper. Hope they aren't asleep at the wheel when next to a new Camry 3.5
The Camry styling is just now becoming halfway sporty and appealing.. Even the Avalon was a "sleeper" as you may call it.
The 500/Montego are actually turing out to be very good cars. Very safe cars that have value in mind.
So, How much HP/Torque is enough for you in a family sedan? 275HP? 300HP? 500HP? Where does it end? I look for balance in the drive train. More HP is not always better. I can still remember when the Accord hit the 200HP mark and the rave and ranting reviews that is was the end all to any other brand of family sedan... I guess when we hit 1000HP family sedans the media will be happy?? :shades:
faberdavid Posts: 2BEH
I purchased the Milan Premier and am more than please with my decision. Its nice and quiet on the highway. It has a smooth ride. It is a nice car for the money. Ill be honest I like the styling on it too. Its also great on gas.
I recently took it on a trip to the Florida Keys from Miami. (aprox time 3 hrs) If anyone has driven to the Keys they know that the cops there ticket you for barely breaking the speed limit. I put the cruise control at 45 and was getting over 40 MPG according to the in dash reading.
I got the extended warranty on mine so that I wouldnt have to worry down the road about it going bad.
tmp888 Posts: 20Ford buys the 06 Milan/Fusion V6's transmissions (6-speed) from the same supplier who supplies 6-speed transmissions to Toyota (in Avalon/Lexus I think). The Ford 3.0L 24V DOHC engine has been around since mid-90 and it has been modifid/refined. Bottom line, it is solid/reliable powertrain.
Agree, the 3.0 Duratec has been around for years. Started in Europe and made its way to the states in about 1997/8 time frame. I know Ford gets its transmission from Japan for the Fusion/Milan. I am not sure if its the same supplier for Toyota? Good question though... Time to do some internet research...
If it is indeed the same or more likely, similar transmission to the Camry 6 speed, Ford must be doing something better with the entire drive train and computer control hardware and software than Toyota. There seems to be a LOT of complaints with Camry. Check out the 2007 Camry Woes discussion.
OH yeah! I am fully aware of the 07 Camry issues. Funny though how it hasn't made headlines, nor has it been plastered all over the radio/news.
Notice when GM/Ford have issues it make headlines?? I am serious I am really beginning to wonder :confuse:
venus537 Posts: 1,443Funny though how it hasn't made headlines, nor has it been plastered all over the radio/news.
Take off those domestic filtered glasses of yours and you'll catch those headlines. I know they exist because I read them. You can't name an instance where a recall from Honda and Toyota hasn't been published in the press.
The "big" headlines from GM and Ford deal mainly with the finance side of the company.
And I love it when posters point out a particular Honda or Toyota having quality problems because there's a "problem" thread as if that has any weight validity. Newsflash boys, if you lived only in the universe of Edmunds you would think Honda and Toyota were by far the largest automakers in the world by the number of posts in reference to those cars. Are you starting to get it?
I thought the 6-speed automatic transmission was a joint venture with GM?
As far as the Camry tranny woes, it remind me of the issues folks were having with the new Quest transmissions. Hesitation or no power at start-up. turn it off and back on again, all was fine. It was not a transmission issue but a problem with the throttle position and control module causing the tranny to act funny under certain conditions. I expereinced it a few times but has not reared its uglyhead for two years now. It could be part of a learning process.
Either way, both Milan and Camry are nice cars. I would be very happy with either.
midnightcowboy Posts: 1,978Buy a Prius! Honda is a good choice also and the weak transmission blown out of proportion becuase hondas are normally so relaible. It is only a couple of percent and is far less than most other cars.
Also look at Scion A, Scion B, Yaris and Fit. Mazda 3 is also a good car.
The Camry is a good car, but first year 2007 big change. First year model problems even with Toyota.
DO NOT GET A MERCURY, i.e. Milan
Good Luck,
210delray Posts: 4,722Couldn't have said it better myself.
When I saw the title "Mercury Milan vs Toyota Camry??" my reaction was "Milan?!?"
The Fusion and Milan are very nice vehicles. Many good reviews. As long as they stay reliable (yes the big question)...
Reliabilty is looking better than the 07 Camry right now..
Hey cowboy, if you buy the Milan, a nice car if your an old fart, you'll regret not getting the Camry. A much better car, and it's not a Mercury! The Milan is nice but has a WEAK engine vs. the Camry sweet V6 with 6 speed. all the talk about the tranny is overstated. Also, great mileage on the Camry. I think if a person wants to keep a car more than 3 or 4 years, they better go Camry not Milan. Having said this, the Ford 500 is a huge car and drives nice. Just ok mileage, and with the new 3.5 V6 coming out, it could finally have an engine that can get you 0-60 in less than 10 seconds. A real crusier for sure. I'd also include the Sonata on my list of cars to look at for sure!
Right bv050506, because nobody sees Camrys as old fart cars either.
The Milan has a V-6 mated with a 6 speed transmission that performs nicely. So I'm not sure what you are getting at with the weak engine remark. Maybe you are talking about the 4-cyl model, but then Camry has a pretty weak 4-cyl base model too. And gas mileage is almost identicle when you compare apples to apples.
What you will get out of the Milan is a unique look, and just as many, (if not more) options for a lower price. As for reliability, I'm not going trash on the Camry, historically it IS a nice car. But they have had thier issues just like anyone else has. And most cars you buy in the 06' - 07' model year are going to be reliable. If anything it comes down to price, the options you want, and styling. Unless you plan to head to the race track, power and gas mileage will have no real noticeable difference to the daily driver when comparing similar configurations.
I would invite you to test drive and compare your options and take whatever we say here with a grain of salt. But as a Ford/Mercury salesman I think you would be selling yourself short if you didn't take a good hard look at the Milan and/or Fusion.
Also, if your price point allows the Lincoln Zephyr (2006) / MKZ (2007) will blow the Camry away in terms of style and options for a similar price point. In fact the 07' MKZ has a 3.5L V-6 available that will eat the Camry for lunch and come back hungry.
Good luck regardless and should you have any questions about any of this stuff feel free to contact me.
I think the Zephyr is about 7.0 to 60mph. Not exactly quick. Ford needs a really good V6 that cranks out about 275HP and yet can still get good mileage. It's a looker though. Sounds like it will be nice inside and well appointed. Good point when I reffered to the Milan as a old fart car, kinda like "livin' in a glass house" if you know what I mean. Thanks for the feedback.
If you actually use wide open throttle to get those 0-60 times of under 7.0 seconds fairly often, you will soon see your MPG well below 20 as well, despite the supposedly high EPA city and highway MPG ratings for the Camry/Avalon V-6. There is no free lunch when it comes to leadfooted drivers.
I would argue that any "average" mid size sedan driver would find that any sedan having a 0-60 of 8-9 seconds or so to be very adequate for all their driving needs.
How is the 3.0 weak? it goes 0-60 in 7.2-7.4 seconds depending on what review you read? That is tenths of a second slower than cars with 20 or more HP??? Also, didn't you know the Fusion/Milan have 6speed automatics? Of course to you the transmission issue with the Camry is "overstated" Get out on the net and look around.. its not "overstated" Toyota screwed up..
By the way with my Fusion SEL V6 I average 26.8 MPG. I was getting as high as 27.4!! Milan is classy and very stylish when set side by side to that ugly frontend of the Camry..
Your getting a little testy sir. Consumer Reports calls it 0-60 at 8.0, a long haul from 7.2 Must be the lack of torque for being soooooooo slow. I did not know they had a six speed which is good to hear. Road and Track records the Camry at 6.1 and 99.9 in the quarter mile. Real world numbers for mileage are low 30's not upper 20's like the Fusion/Milan. I had the Avalon and now the Camry and haven't had the problems that others have experienced with the tranny. When something isn't right you always hear about it. Sooner or later the Ford and Merc products will have a perceived disaster too. I'll try and take it easy on you when it happens. I got up closer to a Fusion yesterday, it's avery nice car! Would have made the exhaust tips about half again as big, but it was very nice to look at. Enjoy your ride, just remember you'll be looking at my license plate if we ever meet:)
0-60 times vary all over the internet and differ from review to review. Who do you believe? As a Camry owner of course your going to believe the fastest Camry time, me the fastest Fusion time I see. .8 seconds a "Long Haul" from 8.0?? Can you count to .8 seconds? Come clean now, the 6.1 you claime from Road and Track is for a manual Camry right?? Your not knowing the Fusion/Milan even offered a 6 speed auto shows me you don't research.
You may take me in the 0-60, but I know I'll get you in the twisties..
Didn't you say you are a salesman for the Fusion and Millan? I'm a banker and I don't think it was mandatory that I know your area of apparent expertise. I have always noticed that Consumer Reports times are slower than others. Truth be told, I think they rated my Camry at 6.5 vs. the Road and Track time of 6.1. How come you don't know that the V6 Camry doesn't come in anything but an automatic? Lets just agree to agree we both have nice cars and we like them for what they are. I'm happy for you that you like your Fusion/Millan, and I'm happy with my Camry. By the way, I like the front end, one of the reasons I traded my Avalon in, as I never liked the nose on it.
No, I am not a salesperson for Ford/Mercury. I am however an educated car buff. 30+ years of cars, cars and more cars. Enjoy the history of cars, trucks, vans ect..
I am an Engineer with a semiconductor company. I fix, modify, repair tools that manufacture IC's. Work on many types of automated/robotic systems.
I did know Camry offers both a manual and an automitic with its V6. One thing Fusion/Milan owners are asking for and getting next year.
I did more comparing of the Camry. I get down on Honda for thier pricing, I actually should be bashing Toyota! The invoice for a like optioned Camry is almost $3,000 dollars more than a like optioned Fusion/Milan! Ouch..
But I guess if you feel the extra $3K is worth it, thats your choice. I'll spend my $3K on a nice vacation..
I can agree both are nice vehicles.. no problem..
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Even if current employees don't see a dime of the damages, the ruling should affect all current and future employees who should now be better assured that they will get a competitive salary. If employers fail to compensate their employees fairly, there is now the ability to switch employers freely, like the law requires.
It's the nature of punishment. If you throw someone in jail for ten years, they're out ten years of productive, happy life, but that cost doesn't get redistributed to the victims of their crime. If you have system where inmates are put to work, then the county's getting to pocket some free labour, but that's about it.
I'm not sure anyone who was affected is going to see the money. I believe it's more of a fine/punishment.
On the other hand, Apple made about $150M net free cash every day last quarter.
It's not actually legal for unions to do it; the "closed shop", where new hires can only come from the labor union's membership pool, is illegal in the U.S. since 1947.
No, what varies from state to state is whether you can require new hires to join the union. There's a difference between, "We can't hire you, you're not a union member" and "You're hired, you have to join the union now."
How is this any different from a union? And if it's okay for unions to do it, why isn't it okay for companies?
Same reply as the last time this nonsense was posted. If it is Ok for a three year old kid to hit and kick an adult man as hard as possible, shouldn't it be Ok for an adult man to hit and kick a three year old kid as hard as possible?
How is it in any way the same? In a union, the employees of a single employer bargain with the employer collectively. Management of that single employer are a collective as well; they have negotiators, lawyers, all sorts of backup. A union evens the odds against the single employer's managers bargaining collectively against a single worker.
There's no comparison at all.
When they do poach they get slapped with lawsuits from the company they recruited from saying the person they got can't work anywhere near a computer for a number of years. So poaching really makes no sense because of the counter lawsuits.
Are they going to deny that people have "critical information" and shut down the lawsuits that follow from poaching ?
California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 nullifies any contract that restrains anyone from engaging in a lawful business, profession, or trade. In other words, non-competes and non-solicits are not legal in California. CA courts have also rejected the "eventual disclosure" theory that would prevent someone from taking a job because they know trade secrets.
Sec 16600 is, in part, why Silicon Valley is in CA and not NY or MA.
These "anti-compete" rules have no teeth except in a few isolated cases. My company has hired people from competitors and vice versa. Execs sometimes get all red in the face and talk about taking it to court (the same execs that poached from their competitors). The company lawyers get involved and break the bad news that there is no case. I've seen it happen enough times that it is comical.
There appear to be two exceptions: The trade secrets "rule" (have never seen this one applied) and the book of business
Yup. People sucked down this motto and believed it. The fast is that the nature of business is often contrary to the general public interest. This is why we citizens band together in the form of governments to counterbalance some of the negative side of business. No, this isn't a diatribe against capitalism. It is simple a recognition that capitalism has its weaknesses that must be addressed and reckoned with.
Put two saints in charge of a business and you will find that they begin behaving in ways that the wouldn't if they weren't in a powerful position. it doesn't make them evil. It is simply a response to the environment and the forces around them. Our gov't should place restraints in place to minimize anti-society behavior.
When Google puts in the "no poaching" agreement, it is acting in its own best interest, but not in the best interest of society as a whole. Citizens should be free to work in the best environment for them. This isn't a profit driven value. It is a freedom based value. Google is acting against that and should be slapped in the language that corporations understand -- the bottom line. The slap must be hard enough to change behavior, or else it will be deemed a cost of doing business.
And if you still think that we just need the right people in charge of companies, people with the right ethics and then everything will be perfect, you are absolutely deluded. Granted, we DO need strong ethics in those who hold power. But be damned sure that even those people will act against the interest of the rest of us.
Citizens should be free to work in the best environment for them.
So what's stopping someone from applying for another job? This is all about poaching: that is, the thing Microsoft did back in the day to kill Borland by making ridiculous offers to a direct competitor's employees to effectively hobble the company. How is that not evil?
If Google was sorting through their data to determine who the top Apple/Pixar/etc developers were and making them offers they couldn't refuse in an effort to stymie competiti
You know what. I did misunderstand the summary. Thanks for pointing out my error.
There is nothing stopping anyone from applying for a job on their own time, and none of this is about not hiring the competition.
Actually, from what I heard, this is also part of the agreement. Not to hire competitors employees, that apply for a job, on their own, with the company. Then, on top of that, to report to the competitor, after refusing the employee, that they attempted to apply for a job with them.
Just like laws, Contracts can have misleading titles too.
They now have just one target to buy off. Get their own legislation put in place. etc.
The motto is not "Do no evil," it is "Don't BE evil." That is important because a person can do a little evil now and then but still not really BE evil so long as he feels appropriately guilty afterwords (and tries to make up for it or not to continue doing it).
Not that this matters, of course. "Evil" is an ambiguous word, especially in an economic environment where everyone *must* compete over scarce resources.
This is a bit different.
When you go with a contracting agency, it allows the company to put you to work on a trial basis without incurring costs like insurance, nor having any contractual (or emotional) bonds if they don't feel you're working out. If they do hire you, they are paying the recruitment costs to the contractor.
And as the above poster noted, with the government scenario, that's to prevent corruption with government contracts.
What's happening here is monopolistic collusion in an effort to keep w
"According to the head attorney representing the plaintiffs, the total damages could exceed $150 million if just 10,000 entry-level engineers were affected."
How do you poach entry-level engineers?
entry levels write actually a lot of the code that ends up running.
the point is though, that those entry level engineers stuck in entry level positions couldn't use their cv to apply for more senior position in another company(because the other company wouldn't hire them because they were working for company xxx). and for the companies it's beneficial to keep the talent base at entry level positions regardless of what they're used to engineer.
... does not contain too few non-single negatives, no?
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.


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Sheppard's job: Make Saints' offense more effective with les
Sheppard's job: Make Saints' offense more effective with less
By LES EAST
Special to The Advocate
Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS
New Orleans Saints new offensive coordinator Mike Sheppard, right, directs practice Friday at the Saints training camp.
METAIRIE -- Mike Sheppard's job this season is simple: take the most productive offense in Saints history and make it more efficient.
Sheppard was promoted to offensive coordinator after three seasons as quarterbacks coach to replace Mike McCarthy, who resigned to become the 49ers' offensive coordinator.
Under McCarthy's guidance, New Orleans ranked 10th, 10th, 19th, 11th and 15th in the NFL in total offense, an unprecedented high level of consistency for this franchise. In the offseason, coach Jim Haslett assigned Sheppard the task of streamlining the playbook, simplifying and expediting communication from the sideline to the huddle, and ultimately scoring more points.
The Saints made a similar adjustment on defense during last season and the significant improvement that resulted on that side of the ball was a major reason New Orleans won its last four games.
"We've been pretty good around here on offense," Sheppard said. "Jim's focus and therefore our focus was to reduce it like the defense and try and cut down on the verbiage so it's easier to call.
"I know Jim feels the way we simplified things had something to do with the way our defense played at the end of last year. I think he'd like to see the same sort of thing out of us."
Despite the offense's success, which included an NFC-best 432 points in 2002 -- one of four of the franchise's top 10 point totals accumulated during McCarthy's tenure -- at times it resembled a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none attack.
"We recognize that coaches tend to be in the office all offseason and for long hours and they have a tendency to maybe create more and more and more," tight end Ernie Conwell said. "I understand their challenge.
"It's like a chess game with all 11 pieces moving at the same time. There are endless variables. It can go on and on and on. I think coaches have to get to the point where they say this is what our identity is, this is what we believe in. You have to get an identity and then stick to it. I think we're really trying to do that this offseason and training camp."
That identity, which Sheppard said will evolve throughout the season, includes being committed to the running game (and improving it from 27th in the NFL last season) to set up play-action passes and use three-step drops on first and second down.
Shepperd has tried to zero in on what the team does best without becoming too predictable and easy to defend.
"The magic you always want as a coach," Sheppard said, "is having enough in your scheme to where you can attack every defense and feel good about it if you get into a game and somebody changes up on you, you know what to go to and you've got it there.
"But the magic between that and having maybe more than you need, that's what we tried to do -- pare it back to where we have what we need and no more than that. We feel like the players can be more effective with less."
The Saints' verbose terminology was one reason they had the most penalty yards (1,141) and tied for the second-most penalties (129) in the NFL last season.
This year New Orleans has a more succinct way of communicating the personnel group and play call from Sheppard in the press box, to quarterbacks coach Turk Schonert on the sideline, to the quarterback, who will have all the plays written on his wristband, in the huddle.
For example, Sheppard would communicate this to quarterback Aaron Brooks, through Schonert: "Aaron, you're in zebra, one-sixty, one, six, zero." That tells Brooks the personnel group and play, which he can double-check on the wristband. He then repeats the play number to the rest of the offense, presumably with additional time to survey the defense than was the case last season.
"Hopefully it will make everybody's job a little bit easier and therefore we'll be more effective," Sheppard said. "I think it's harder when you're thinking and when there are a lot of words and a lot of plays it can be harder."
Haslett said he hopes the modifications will help the offense get into a rhythm more quickly than last season when New Orleans failed to score on its first possession in any game.
This is officially Sheppard's third stint as an NFL offensive coordinator.
He held that position in Buffalo in 2001 and the Bills finished 13th in total offense. He had the same title in San Diego (1997-98), but he said coach Kevin Gilbride ran the offense. The Chargers were 19th and 24th in offense those two seasons.
Brooks, who was tutored by Sheppard the last three seasons, said the Saints made the right choice after looking around at other candidates before promoting from within.
"It made a lot of sense not to go outside and bring somebody in," Brooks said. "Somebody from the outside probably would have wanted to do something different in terms of changing the whole offense. With the players we have on our football team there's no need to change the concept of what we're doing.
"So we just refined our concepts and Shep being a good coach and great listener, it was only right for him to get it. He deserved it. He's worked his butt off and we've had constant communications every week for the last three years and I was very pleased that he got the job."
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DIXON – Don't count on any "We are Dixon" billboards this time around. No rallies are planned, and no big advertisement campaigns, either.
Although the campaign is quiet, Lee County voters will decide in a referendum April 9 whether to increase the local sales tax by 1-percentage point for school facilities.
Last November, 58.9 percent of county voters rejected the tax, which would have led to the construction of a $10 million to $15 million sports and activities center in Dixon and building upgrades in other public schools throughout the county.
Funds from the tax would be earmarked for infrastructure, maintenance and building upgrades only.
In its effort to win passage of the referendum, the "We Are Dixon" group spent just short of $8,000 last fall. The group promised to rally again in April.
Dixon Police Chief Danny Langloss, who headed the "We are Dixon" effort in November, said the committee has done nothing formal since then and is "sitting back and watching things unfold."
He said the committee could meet with leaders across the county to ask them to support the referendum.
Why the stark contrast in campaign tactics from 5 months ago?
For one, the Dixon Board of Education has chosen not to pursue the sports and activities center in conjunction with the sales tax – at least, not this time around.
The board released a position statement saying that, if voters approve the tax, "the dollars would be used to complete needed work in the buildings and help keep property taxes down."
That does not mean the idea of a sports and activities center is dead.
The board is pursuing land that could lead to a center being built. The next board will determine what to do with the land, which also could be used to build a K-12 campus, Superintendent Michael Juenger said.
Six candidates are vying April 9 for four open seats on the board, with the guarantee of at least one new board member. Board President Tom Balser did not seek re-election.
Balser has said he does not think voters ever will support a sales tax increase to support building facilities.
"Before any future goals could be achieved, whether the goal is a new school or a new activity center, a site to build upon would be needed," Juenger said of the board's interest.
After an impasse was declared in negotiations for a new teachers contract, which led to a strike, the Dixon Education Association attacked the board for its willingness to spend $200,000 from its operations and maintenance fund.
"The strike is over," Langloss said. "Now something needs to be done. The first year, very possibly the board could earmark different improvements. In year two and year three, it can earmark funds for a sports and activities center."
Carolyn Brechon, who opposes the 1-percentage point sales tax, said she does not want to see the public lose sight of the referendum, because of the impact it could have if it's approved.
"I think the teachers strike took some of the attention away from [the referendum], and it should have been the top priority," Brechon said. "But I'd like people to get out and vote, especially for something this important."
She said she doesn't buy it that funds from the tax would, for very long, be used for maintenance of buildings, and instead might be part of a plan to build a K-12 campus.
"They've said they are going to buy land, but where is that money going to come from?" Brechon asked. "Once they buy land, is it part of a plan to build a campus? And why is that something that's not on an advisory referendum? It should be out there for people to see."
Despite a quieter effort this time, Langloss said "We are Dixon" still supports the sales tax referendum and a sports and activities center.
"The need still is there," Langloss said. "We need to do more for our children. ... This is about a lot more than just sports. Arts, theater, connecting a diverse group of kids ... that's the goal."
After the referendum was defeated in November, Langloss said the measure could take two or three elections to pass in Lee County.
Voter turnout is typically lower for municipal elections. In the last municipal election, Lee County registered a 25.6 percent turnout in the midst of a mayoral race in Dixon.
A similar measure failed by 260 votes in Champaign County in 2008, before it was passed the second time in 2009.
Learn about the issues
Organizing for Grassroots Awareness in Dixon will host an informational session Tuesday on the 1-percentage point sales tax referendum and municipal aggregation at the Lee County Democratic Headquarters, 77 Hennepin Ave.
The discussion will go from 10 a.m. until noon.


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Default vehicle radio stations
Claiming that the default stations in GTASA are "incorrect" is questionable at best.
My approach to verifying default stations in GTASA involves reloading savegames again and again because the first radio station that you are tuned in will stick as long as you enter another vehicle quickly enough after exiting the last one. Basically I spawn a vehicle using a trainer as soon as I load a savegame, enter it, record the station it immediately plays, reload the same savegame and repeat. I also notice the exact thing when playing race modes SA:MP multiplayer games; every car seems to tune in to their own station the first time each race is loaded. I wouldn't had brought it up if I didn't have evidence, and it's certainly not present in any other GTA games with radio stations.
As for GTA4, I haven't have a proper methodology to study default radio stations there, so I'm in no position to question removals of writing on the game's radio station. - ZS 09:00, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
- So should they be removed? --Chimpso 09:13, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
- GTASA's radio stations are verified and thus the recent string of removals on that part is not acceptable. As mentioned, Those on GTA4 cannot be properly tested unless the person who added it (User:Loadingue) had employed the same methods as I did to verify default stations. It's best you ask him on his talk page how he studied the default stations. - ZS 09:22, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
But are they SERIOUSLY needed anyway. Who cares about the default radio stations when you can just change them? --Chimpso 09:32, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
- It IS a wiki on GTA, and I trust most gaming wikis do the same. It's definitely no Wikipedia run by wikifaggots. - ZS 09:42, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
- Ok, im sorry. I won't remove anymore. I was just not sure is all. --Chimpso 13:18, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
why would i make up the things i found out myth hunting. i don't lie i don't use mods cause i only use the ps2 gta san andreas and the ps3 gta 4 onlina and offline i expereace all strange things. user--Stephendwan 12:28, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Im not going to even dignify that with an awnser. Your sentence was just one big continuos bunch of words that i couldent make out. Seriously! You need to punctuate things and not swear on articles. --Chimpso 12:37, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
im not the only myth hunter here and you deleted the las brujas ghost town that i did not write about i can prove it by me staying the night there.
How old are you? No offence intended here but your grammer is REPULSIVE! By the way you write you are definetly under the age of nine. Also, offer me one bit of proof of your findings and i will sincerly apoligise to you. --Chimpso 12:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
apparitions, strange noises, a feeling of being watch oh i used 00:00 cheat and foggy weather cheat and i am 14
I will awnser each part seperatly:
Apparitions: Proof? Strange Noises: Strange noises are always heard, they are glitches. A feeling of being watched: RIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHTTTTTTTT........
Your word means NOTHING! And for the last time PUNCTUATE PLEASE! --Chimpso 12:58, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
of leatherface. [1]
HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!! You think ANYONE belives YOU-TUBE? Im not even gonna bother wasting my broadband limit watching that. They are many MODS for GTASA and i have seen many for leatherface. --Chimpso 13:09, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
its not leatherface its dr.salvador. i do respect your beleifs but you have to respect mine as a myth hunter i am a skeptic untill i get prof by investigating. you should investigate your self. user--Stephendwan 13:45, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Edit Warring & Abusive Comments
Hey there, I'm glad to see that you actually care about the quality/relevance of edits here on GTW (such users are few and far between these days), and I can definately agree that a some user's writing and grammar could use a lot of work. However, I don't think being abusive and insensitive towards them is really the best way to approach this situation. In regards to the "unnecessary/useless" edits you've been reverting, the best thing to do would be to discuss them on the appropriate article's talk pages; you may feel that what you are doing is right, but it's better to see if everyone else agrees/disagrees first. I know that may seem tedius and unnecessary, but as I said, it's better to know if you have support or not - of course, in most cases, discussion is unnecessary, such as when reverting vandalism, or reverting edits which are blatantly unnecessary. When tackling the "Myths in [game name]" articles though, you have to remember that most myths are made up and have little-to-no proof backing them, hence why they are called "myths". - Hardrock182 17:28, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Ok, sorry about that. I will keep that in mind. --Chimpso 02:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
In response to what you said, I think it probably would be best to categorise the preachers, tramps etc as "pedestrians", because that's pretty much what they are in the game world - personally, I consider "characters" to be people who have some sort of role in the game's storyline/missions. So, yes, you did the right thing by changing the categories. - Hardrock182 11:17, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for verifying that for me. --Chimpso 11:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
is a myth which means its possible that he exists you just have to find him. I had experances in the sprunk factory online and theres no bouncer in the online play. Secondly ratman is the same thing as leatherface no one found him yet you just have to look for him your self. Cause there are alot of secrets and myths that are not proven or nearly proven. Bigfoot exists you just need version one of gta san andreas he can only be found at nightime during foggy/stormy conditions. Same with leatherface. They is also a very low chance that either of them can spawn. As bigfoot only has 1/10 chance of spawning. I never found the chance that leatherface could spawn but it should be the same. This is myth information im giving you. The serial killer does exists as i got him to hit a cop as soon as the cop pulled out his gun so did the serial killer. user--Stephendwan 12:31, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
- Why do you feel the need to post such things on his page? Surely the Myths articles talk pages would be better places for such debate? Just a suggestion, I'm sure Chimpso probably isn't too pleased with comments like this on his Talk... C-d-rom 14:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
fine but this time chimpso don't delete the info i put in as these are called myths for a reason.
i was only messing with ye about the heart of liberty city i did actually tried to kill it. But the rest of the myths i am investigating i am called a gta myth hunter for a reason you know. user--Stephendwan 11:47, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
besides i love boss fights i did try and check how much bullet it takes but it has infinte health on or something. user--Stephendwan 11:49, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
hey check out this possible bigfoot picture it is not a mod cause its a ps2 version notice the buttons at the bottom of the screen. user--Stephendwan 12:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC) http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/profiles/63/100001763/17941c580064d12a.jpg
First of all, bigfoot dosen't exist. Rockstar said so themselves so i know you are lying. Second: STOP POSTING CRAP ABOUT MYTHS ON MY TALK PAGE! PLACE THEM ON THE MYTH TALK PAGES! I WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANY FURTHER MESSAGES ABOUT MYTHS ON MY TALK PAGE! --Chimpso 02:06, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't like it when someone tells me im lying when i experance something as i know that i get strange in the game at time and i am an honest and sometimes might joke kina person this has nothing to do with myths its just to tell you that im not lying although i need someone to be skeptic. user--Stephendwan 10:03, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
it be more easer explaning to prove what i saw if i was on youtube but im to young and i need fraps and a recorder. user--Stephendwan 10:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Most people on youtube use mods and so nothing on there is any form of PROOF. --Chimpso 10:09, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
but i don't use mods i have the ps2 version which i don't even know how to mod and everyone can see its the ps2 version 1 as i got it on the same year it was release and anyways i have to fight nemesis in final fantasy x now. user--Stephendwan 10:11, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Im going to end this discussion. You say you have found these myths. I say; "Ok show us some proof? Do you have any pictures?" You don't reply. No Pictures! No Myth! No Writing About It In Articles Without Somone Even Hearing About It! Now PLEASE stop talking about myths on MY talk page! --Chimpso 10:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
RE: Helicopters?
Hey there, I agree with what you are saying. The best thing to do would be to merge all those articles with Helicopter, as that would be the most appropriate name for it. However, unfortunately, there seems to be mixed opinion about having all things of the same type in one article; some people, like you and me (among others), think that it's a good idea, while others feel the need to have hundreds of different articles if there is even so much as a minor difference between the subject in question - because of this, I recommend that you leave a message on the talk page of one of the articles, it doesn't matter which one, although Talk:Helicopter would be the most appropriate place, so we can see whether or not the majority agrees/disagrees with this idea. Hope that helps. - Hardrock182 16:45, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Ok I will do that, lets see if the community agrees. --Chimpso 23:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
You must have added the "Seriously, it's not needed" comment for a reason. Why would i care if it's not needed? Why is it serious? And 1984 isn't the early 80s, it's the mid 80s. But early 80s is best when it can be assumed. SuperTron500 10:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- By the seriously not needed comment, that was about the graphics changes of the car from VC to VCS not the date. Also I added "the early 80s" comment for a reason. I assume it came out before the events of VSC. I hope you understand. --Chimpso 10:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- Understand what? If you mean about the seriously thing; I guess. It's not a big deal. Boasting/speculating you and your friend Thescarydude have more experience than me in Wikipedia doesn't really help things. It's best not to speculate on that kind of stuff, it wasn't even the edit i had a problem with as much as the claim of bad logic. I felt it was important to note when the car was produced. SuperTron500 10:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- I read your post on his talk page wrong. I'm not taking into consideration about you guys being more experienced, there's just no need. You told Thescarydude you changed "it" back to! but really you don't change anything back technically. I guess perhaps i should maybe take note and leave remarks like that whenever i have to revert another editor's unneeded info. SuperTron500 11:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe i made a mistake in thinking you guys had negative intentions, but i've changed, so i hope there's no hard feelings. What do you think of the Deluxo in general? And do you ever use it? SuperTron500 12:13, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- I was not boasting about us having more experience, just informing you that we know how this wiki works a bit more then you do. Anyway yes - I do use the Deluxo. Usually as a race vehicle. Also no hard feelings taken :). Keep up the good work. Chimpso Manager of Strasky and Hutch Game Wiki 12:00, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Game connections
I noticed you left the following note with your revision: Reverted edit by SuperTron500. Don't post similaritys with other games on GTW articles
I have a few problems with this. Firstly, it seems like that's a direct order from you to me. Thescarydude worked on that reference too.. Besides that, what do you mean about not noting similarities? Have you looked at some of the other articles lately? The Manhunt article and various GTA articles list connections, so by your logic they shouldn't belong either. No offence, but your comment doesn't make alot of sense to me, i fail to see your logic. SuperTron500 08:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry if that sounded like a direct order, it was ment to be a suggestion :). They shoulden't go into the vehicle articles because most people will look at it and think; "What the hell is Bully?". In my opinion as I said this it GTW not Bully wiki. (If you search Bully Wiki up you will find one). Thank you. --Chimpso 08:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- I know this is a damn GTA wiki, please stop telling me that. You don't have to specify. I also know there is Bully wiki, so no need to stress that anymore either. My point was, there are tons of non-GTA references on this site, so by that logic they should all be removed because this is a GTA wiki, not a Bully or Manhunt wiki. Thescarydude also seemed to believe the Stallion and Regina appeared in Bully, and he's a seasoned veteran, so this isn't just a newbie thing. I was somewhat encouraged by his opinion on it. SuperTron500 08:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes he did know. But he did not brag about it and put it in articles, he for one knows this is GTW not Bully wiki. No Hard Feelings mate :D. --Chimpso 08:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Haha, the irony of that is he did actually add a Bully reference in the Diable Stallion page. I added the Diablo stallion appeared, but he changed it to a trivia section stating a black Stallion with flames appears, so it's not the same as what i wrote. The stuff about bragging is bull, sorry to say. I never bragged because i don't care all that much if they're in there. Of course there's no hard feelings, "mate" XD. SuperTron500 08:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Well then I sincerley apoligise for saying "bragging" (jeeze your so sensitive), but anyways It is best to remind him of that too. Vehicle articles are important. Small articles that are not important can have some info on other games. But for the main articles on this wiki (vehicles included) it's to remember this: "This it GTW not Bully wiki". I respect your opinion but please respect mine as an experienced member of this wiki (no I am not bragging mister.) Thank you.
- Haha, i'm not sensitive in a funny way or anything, i just figured you were giving a newbie bit of a rough time. I respect your opinion aswell, i simply thought you meant there should be no connections at all (small articles included). Now that it's cleared up i understand. That's why i try to work things out with you guys, because you are experienced and i wish to learn more about how to work around here. SuperTron500 08:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Im glad to see this is finally over *puts down bazooka* I nearly had to finish it myself! (that was a joke) But I am glad we have come to a peacefull agreement, thats the way it should be. Regards, Chimpso 08:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Whoah, Tim. I wasn't talking about you behind your back, i just was trying to clarify because i'm trying to learn from the more experienced members like you guys and to be honest, the second i wrote to Thescarydude things in general weren't making sense (to me). You're both experienced, but when he added the trivia section i thought that was telling me it was okay, and when you got rid of it i was confused. I hope we can be friends someday. SuperTron500 09:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Who's Tim? I'm not Tim. My name is Emanuell. Anyway I forgive you for the confused bit. I was confused when I first started also. But friends? Ok that sounds good. If you ever need help with anything wiki-related ask me or (preferably) a member of Staff. Kind Regards, Chimpso 09:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Tim is the guy from the Evacuator films in the GTA universe. I thought your bazooka bit was a reference to his tendencies. As far as friends go i hope that doesn't sound bad to you, i just meant the good terms like you and Thescarydude.
I also have to agree with you, Vice City is hands down the best GTA, it was the first one i played back in 2004 and it was loads of fun. I haven't played GTA IV yet, but i still feel VC will always be my favorite, even if they wind up doing a GTA IV Era Vice City (it could happen). Were you around when VC is set? SuperTron500 09:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- No, this may come as a surprise to you, but I am only 13. So I was not around in those days. --Chimpso 09:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Wow, i was born in 1990 and i thought i'd be one of the younger editors here. I've always felt closer to VC than SA. I don't remember 1992, but i remember the 90s in general, so i didn't have quite as much fun as with exploring Vice City in the 80s. I sort of gathered i was born during a transition point where the VC feel was already transforming into the SA one.
If you ever happen upon a DeLorean that takes you back in time let me know, i might be willing to buy it. Unless it's to expensive, at which point i'll have to steal it while being shot at by guys with red arrows hovering over their heads. SuperTron500 09:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah well, lifes a bitch, isin't it? Chimpso 09:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Haha yeah, then you die. That's why it's best to live life to its fullest. You never know when you might actually be a GTA pedestrian the protagonist decides to mow you down for fun. I don't think killing in video games is wrong, i feel it's very therapeutic and a great way to just vent. Screw Jack Thompson! GTA FOREVER!! SuperTron500 10:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Hell Yeah! :) --Chimpso 10:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- One last question though, my friend. Did you know the Diablo Stallion and Regina references are on this site's Bully page? If you don't mind those facts staying on there i'd really like to point out the moped thing on there. SuperTron500 10:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sure, why not. Putting things like that on the official Bully page is a good idea. --Chimpso 10:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Chimpso, I'm not sure why exactly you want this stuff removed. The cars' cameo appearances in other games seems like interesting trivia to me (at least more than radio stations).--Thescarydude 10:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Was i right to assume addind that Jimmy can be given Claude's appearance is too trivial? SuperTron500 11:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- Im not sure about that as I have no experience with Jimmy (whoever he is). --Chimpso 11:05, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
GTA Fan Fiction
Greetings Chimpso,Sorry I haven't been on for a while but I had already created my account for GTAFF Wikia so when you're ready you can promote me (Im sorry if I sound like a rush).Cheers-User:BloodyGTA
GTA III Guy
Hi. I was wondering if i could get you opinion on something; Do you think this supposed to be Claude (the guy from GTA III) or just a look-a-like? I was wondering because even though i haven't played GTA IV i was under the impression it takes place in a different reality than the others. It's disappointing they removed some of the fun stuff for realism purposes. SuperTron500 08:25, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
- Responded on User:Thescarydudes talk page. Chimpso 11:31, September 23, 2009 (UTC)
Re:Cleaning up
The reason I've moved them into subpages is that they were too guide-like to begin with. Forums may work since the Forum:The Helicopter Sniping Trick shows it's feasible. Moving them there should be fine, as long as the new wikilinks stay in same section. - ZS 10:21, September 29, 2009 (UTC)
Dealing with vandals
Hey, thanks for your help with dealing with the vandal. However, please be aware of our NSFV policy, and leave only factual and direct messages on their talk page. Gboyers talk 14:27, September 29, 2009 (UTC)
- Ok GB, thanks. I was not aware of this policy here and I will make sure to use it in the future. Chimpso 01:28, September 30, 2009 (UTC)
I haven a question that has to do with the redirects. You said that some would be necessary such as the L.C.P.D to LCPD. Well would it be right to make a redirect page for the driving school, which would be Turning Tricks Advanced Motoring?--Gta-mysteries 21:59, October 12, 2009 (UTC)
- Redirects are useful for two reasons. Firstly, it's a lot easier to link to GTA London 1961 than the full game title. Sometimes we go to the extreme and have shortcuts like TLAD to make life easier for editors. Secondly, someone might search for (or link to) a title that doesn't automatically take them to the right page. For example searching for "Advanced Motoring" doesn't take you to the right page, and the search results are unhelpful, so a redirect to Driving School would be one way to fix that. However, just putting those words on the Driving School page would also work, and it's unlikely that many people would actively look fo "Turning Tricks Advanced Motoring". However L.C.P.D. is a good example because searching for that won't bring up a page on LCPD without a redirect (as we couldn't list every variation on the page). So in this case, a redirect isn't really necessary unless you think it makes life easier for someone along the way. If you think it does, then go ahead. Gboyers talk 22:33, October 12, 2009 (UTC)
- This is not a really good question to ask me right now. My computer has crashed and is getting repaired and thats why I am not on much. But I agree with Gboyers. If it makes things easier then feel free to create a redirect. Chimpso 23:02, October 12, 2009 (UTC)
Hi sorry about that, Im quite new in this wiki and I didnt know about that. May I move articles? --Gustavob мsg 00:30, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
Resopnded on User:Gustavob's Talk page.Chimpso 08:25, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
You spend 12 hours a day on a computer?
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What with FebFast, Dry July and Ocsober we now have three months of the year when we can commit to not drinking for a month for the sake of good causes – and our livers. Now, along comes Droptober, which is about spending a month trying out new eating and exercise habits with the aim of losing two kilos for charity – and our waistlines.
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