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Increased performance, enhanced active safety for 2008.
When the Porsche Cayenne was launched four years ago enthusiasts cried blasphemy. Porsche should not build sport-utilities, they said, Porsche should build sports cars. But buyers won the vote. Cayenne had what they needed in a five-passenger SUV: more cargo space than a sedan, off-highway capability, and impressive towing capacity. They found the Cayenne technologically advanced and remarkably fast, as Porsches are supposed to be. So, they wondered, why all the hand wringing?
Cayenne's balance of style, performance, and sport-utility virtues were compelling, and it quickly became a success story for the small manufacturer of legendary sports cars. When Porsche launched Cayenne as a 2003 model, executives said they hoped to sell 20,000 of the SUVs a year. Clearly, these projections were conservative. Last year, Porsche sold more than 50,000 Cayennes. More than 150,000 have been sold in the past four years. Now, redesigned for 2008, sales of the new version have taken off, and overall Porsche sales in the U.S. hit record levels the summer of 2007. The Cayenne has been a boon for Porsche's financial planning. Its ongoing success smoothes over wildly fluctuating sports car sales, which tend to follow the consumer confidence index. Cayenne's success is helping Porsche do what enthusiasts want: develop and build great sports cars. Enough hand-wringing already.
For 2008, the Porsche Cayenne has been significantly improved, and Porsche is calling it a second-generation version. We can report the driving dynamics of the 2008 Cayenne models are substantially improved over the high bar set by the previous models. This was accomplished by using the latest technology and high-quality engineering and manufacturing. Porsche Stability Management has been enhanced, Dynamic Chassis Control is available, and there's a new Sport mode available for all models and powertrains.
Each of Cayenne's three available engines is bigger and substantially more powerful for 2008. Benefiting from direct fuel injection, each engine is more fuel-efficient, as well, though on the window stickers it's a wash due to more stringent EPA test procedures instituted for all 2008 vehicles.
Grabbing headlines is the 2008 Porsche Cayenne Turbo, boasting 500 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque from its new twin-turbocharged 4.8-liter V8 and capable of propelling this SUV from 0-60 mph in just 5.1 seconds. It's faster and more dynamic than the previous Cayenne Turbo.
But the bigger gain, in our view, is with the entry model, which comes with a new 3.6-liter V6 that produces 290 horsepower and 283 pound-feet of torque, capable of propelling it from 0 to 60 mph in less than 8 seconds (and in 7.5 seconds when equipped with the standard six-speed manual transmission).
The popular Cayenne S gets more power, as well, serving up 385 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque from its new 4.8-liter V8.
More important than the new engines (though less useful for bragging rights) are advances in active safety: An available system called Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control nearly eliminates body roll, or lean, in turns, improving handling, comfort, and active safety, while providing enhanced off-pavement traction. A Cayenne going flat-out through a fast corner with this system looks like it's on rails. A Cayenne without this system struggles to keep up, heeled over and moving around in the turn. Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control includes active anti-roll bars, which are designed to compensate off pavement, as well. All Cayennes come with Porsche Stability Management, Trailer Stability Control, off-road ABS, and other technologies that make drivers look like heroes.
Braking has been improved for 2008. Massive new brakes were developed by Porsche to reduce fade, the tendency of brakes to lose effectiveness in repeated hard use. This is important when descending long mountain grades.
We found the 2008 Porsche Cayenne enjoyable to dri.
The 2008 Porsche Cayenne lineup features three models: Cayenne ($43,400), Cayenne S ($57,900), and Cayenne Turbo ($93,700). All models come standard with full-time all-wheel drive with a high and low range. All come with a six-speed Tiptronic S automatic transmission, though the V6 is also available with a six-speed manual.
Cayenne comes with a 3.6-liter V6 (that produces 290 horsepower, 273 pound-feet of torque). Leather seating with 12-way power adjustment comes standard, along with titanium interior trim; manually controlled climate control with charcoal and micro-particle cabin filtration; heated retractable exterior mirrors; multi-function trip computer; 12-speaker stereo with CD; air conditioned glove compartment; cruise control; insulated laminated privacy glass; Homelink; immobilizer anti-theft alarm; and an electronically latching power tailgate. Optional for 2008 is natural Chestnut Brown leather upholstery in a two-tone combination with black nappa leather.
Cayenne S gets a 4.8-liter V8 (that delivers 385 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque). Cayenne S adds automatic climate control with dual front-passenger settings and a 350-watt, 14-speaker Bose stereo.
Cayenne Turbo features a twin-turbocharged version of the V8 (rated at 500 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque). The Turbo comes standard with an adjustable air suspension with Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM). The Turbo model also upgrades with heated front and rear seats, a power steering wheel adjustment, and park-assist radar warning front and rear. It's equipped with Porsche Communications Management (PCM), a GPS navigation system with integrated telephone and audio controls, and headlights that turn with the steering wheel.
Options include a push-button Sport mode; PASM ($2,990); wood trim packages ($1,385); front and rear park assist ($990); trailer hitch and ball ($630); and 21-inch wheels. Seat upgrades and a full Smooth Leather package that covers everything from grab handles to the center console in hide ($3,040) are available. Porsche Entry and Drive ($995) allows a driver to unlock and start the Cayenne by pulling the door handle and touching the shift lever, while leaving the keys in his pocket or her purse. XM Satellite Radio is available. Features on upper models are available as options on Cayenne and Cayenne S. Porsche's factory customization program allows buyers to order a Cayenne however they want it, limited only by imagination.
Safety features on all models include Porsche Stability Management electronic stability control, traction control, antilock brakes with off-road capability, and Trailer Stability Control. Six airbags come standard: dual-stage front and side-impact airbags for front passengers, and curtain-style head protection airbags on both sides of the cabin. All five seating positions have three-point belts with pretensioners to instantly tighten them and limit stretching on impact. The front belts also have automatic force limiters, reducing potential for belt-related injuries. New for 2008 is a rollover sensor designed to trigger seat belt tensioners and curtain airbags.
For 2008, Porsche Cayenne was redesigned to present a more aggressive appearance. Its designers wanted to lower the car's visual center of gravity.
So for 2008, the headlights were moved farther apart and feature new bi-xenon designs. The air intake was re-shaped, the roof section is three inches longer and a rear spoiler adorns the trailing edge of the roof. The 2008 models benefit from new wheel designs;17-, 18-, 19-, 20-, and 21-inch wheels are available. Aerodynamics are improved for 2008: The 2008 Cayenne slips through the air with a 0.35 coefficient of drag, compared with 0.39 for the first-generation (2003-07) models. New taillights, a redesigned rear bumper cover, a new exhaust system, and a new diffuser setup highlight changes to rear for 2008. The outside mirrors mimic the shape of the tail lights.
Cayenne is easily identifiable as a Porsche with headlights and grillework that resemble that of the 911 and Boxster. The more powerful models have functional design cues indicating higher levels of performance. The Cayenne Turbo is distinguished by larger grilles that increase the amount of air flowing through the engine bay.
The Cayenne is not small, measuring nearly 189 inches in length, with a wheelbase of 112.4 inches. That's about the same length as the current BMW X5 (191.1 inches) and Mercedes M-Class (188.5 inches). Cayenne is 75.9 inches wide, about the same as the X5 (76.1 inches) or a half-inch wider than M-Class (75.2 inches).
In size, Cayenne most closely matches Volkswagen's Touareg, which is no surprise given the two vehicles were developed jointly by Porsche and VW. Engines and other Cayenne components are built by Porsche in Zuffenhausen, Germany, and mated to the Cayenne at an assembly plant in Leipzig. Cayenne, Touareg, and the Audi Q7 share basic structures, though the Audi is stretched for more passenger space. Engine and suspension tuning, styling and all the finish work were the separate responsibility of each manufacturer.
The Cayenne offers near optimal front/rear weight distribution of 52/48 percent, for outstanding handling balance in all circumstances (the weight in most unladen SUVs is more heavily biased toward the front). At least as important, in Porsche's view, is the Cayenne's optimal aerodynamic balance. Aerodynamic downforce on the rear wheels increases with speed, delivering the high-speed stability that has become a Porsche trademark.
Anyone who has spent time in one of Porsche's sports cars will get a familiar feeling in the Cayenne driver's seat. The cabin cues are pure Porsche: the ignition switch to the left of the steering column, a tradition dating back to vintage Le Mans starts requiring drivers to run to their cars; the shape and feel of the gear selector; the thick, grippy, steering wheel with the three-spoke hub; the contour of the seats.
Cayenne's instrument cluster is tucked under a single, prominent arch, with two big gauges on either side of a central multifunction display, tachometer on the left, speedometer on the right. This display presents information on audio and trip functions, mechanical operations and ambient conditions. Cruise control and the switch for the wipers are located on stalks on either side of the steering column. The bulk of the switches, including audio and climate controls, are racked in the center of the dash above the center console. These are replaced with a CRT monitor on Cayennes equipped with Porsche Communications Management. A dozen vents throughout the cabin distribute warm or cool air evenly. Big, wide outside mirrors offer good rearward visibility. The steering wheel tilts and telescopes to help ensure a proper driving position.
The Cayenne is not as richly appointed as a similarly priced Range Rover, but it's not supposed to be. The emphasis here is sporting flair rather than traditional luxury. (We like both vehicles for different reasons.) We liked the contrasting stitching on the Porsche seats. The standard leather upholstery is high grade, while the standard metal trim has a brushed finish. The front seats stand out for their balance of support, comfort and adjustment range.
The navigation display screen is one of the largest we've encountered. Called Porsche Communications Management, the navigation system comes with a 6.5-inch display and calculates routes and makes adjustments very quickly. It uses DVDs rather than CDs, allowing for maps for the entire United States on a single disk, rather than several that must be changed from region to region. An optional electronic logbook automatically records the mileage, journey length, date and time, starting point and destination address for every trip made. In addition, buyers can opt for a module that will help you find your way back to your starting point, even if the roads or trails aren't on the system's map. Voice recognition and off-road navigation are available options.
Cayenne transports five adults in reasonable comfort. The rear seat is well contoured, with excellent headroom and decent legroom, even when the front seats are well back in their travel range. Seating for five is something we're not used to seeing in a Porsche, so don't expect the interior volume of a Lincoln Navigator and don't look for a third-row seat because it isn't available.
The rear seatback folds forward in a 60/40 split, and includes a pass-though slot with a ski sack, allowing Cayenne to haul longer, narrow items inside without flattening or messing up the rear seat. A cargo net keeps grocery bags and other items from sliding around during travel and a retractable shade-type cover opens and closes over the cargo hold.
Cargo capacity is nearly 62 cubic feet with the rear seats folded down, and nearly 19 cubic feet with the rear seats in place. The tailgate is two-stage, so either the glass or entire gate can be opened upward, and the electronic latch lets you simply lower the gate to the latch while the electric mechanism pulls it shut. The dimensions of the tailgate opening and load floor allow Cayenne to haul small appliances such as a bar-size refrigerator or a large TV set. With apayload of 1600 pounds, the Cayenne can haul just about anything that'll fit inside without worrying too much about exceeding recommended weights. New for 2008 is a system designed to ease cargo loading and unloading that uses.
Driving Impression
The Porsche Cayenne is the rally car of big, heavy SUVs. It drives like a big sports car. Measured against other SUVs, it's hot. Measured against sports cars, it's quick and it's fast. Handling and stopping are impressive given its mass, but there's no denying that mass. And therefore, the Cayenne not an alternative to a Carrera. For true sports car performance, there is no substitute for the Porsche 911. But among SUVs, the Cayenne hauls. It is a Porsche.
The Porsche of SUVs is what those familiar with the brand probably expect from the Cayenne. If you pay close attention, you can feel most of the mechanical components working, each doing its own job, yet it all blends together in a smooth, synchronous whole. The Cayenne is fast, satisfying and, even in the things it does least efficiently, utterly competent. It stops with more energy and precision that any SUV we can name.
The deep rumble of the exhaust is a reminder you're driving a Porsche. Even at idle, the burble of low-restriction mufflers, the cams and the suck of intake air remind us of the late, great Porsche 928, a V8-powered GT that swallowed chunks of pavement at an alarming rate. This is not your typical SUV, though it can perform the duties of one.
Off-road capabilities are considerable. Though Porsche is best-known for Le Mans and other endurance sports car racing, Cayenne invokes images of the Paris-Dakar Porsche 959s, another area where Porsche triumphed.
We drove a 2008 Cayenne S hard on a gravel road, a 2.0-mile special stage at Continental Tire's Uvalde Proving Grounds west of San Antonio and were impressed with the predictable handling. Hurling the Cayenne deep into gravel corners well past grip limits was met by the system catching the car mid-corner, allowing us to accelerate hard out of the turn and shoot down another short straightaway before diving into the next turn. With so much technology helping us control the car we would have had to work at it to bite the ditch. In short, the Cayenne works phenomenally well on dirt and gravel roads and make its driver look like a hero.
We've also had the opportunity to drive a Cayenne through a muddy off-road course in Spain. This was not a boulder-laden wilderness trail like the Rubicon, but included axle-deep mud and long, steep, low-grip grades. Up, down and across, the Cayenne performed flawlessly. In most cases the onboard electronics did the heavy lifting, and the driver had to simply, lightly, modulate the throttle or brake in low range. When introduced, Cayenne's back country performance impressed even the jaded, and it supported Porsche's assertion that it has more off-road capability than the BMW X5 or Mercedes M-Class, which we've driven in similar conditions. Cayenne has a maximum ground clearance of 8.5 inches, or 10.6 inches with the optional air suspension. It can ford 19 inches of water, nearly 22 inches in the off-road mode with air suspension. The Advanced Off Road Package adds skid plates to protect the underbody and a locking rear differential. We drove a Turbo with these options on the desert sands of Dubai and were astounded by the vehicle's prowess in difficult conditions.
Cayenne's permanent all-wheel-drive system, with its variable-rate center differential managed by multiple clutch plates, is similar to that used on all-wheel-drive versions of the Porsche 911. Cayenne enhances this setup with a low-range set of gears along with a locking center differential for creeping over rugged terrain. Porsche's latest stability and traction-control electronics have been modified for 2008 for improved off-road capability. The all-wheel-drive system can vary the amount of engine power distributed to the front and rear wheels, sending more or less power in one direction depending on available traction and other conditions. The Cayenne has a default power split of 38 percent front, 62 percent rear. It's biased much more.
The Porsche Cayenne is the sportiest, best-performing SUV, a high-performance machine that will fit a family of five, haul a small washing machine, tow a large boat and get you through the woods when there's no road. It's a 5000-pound speed-sled that can handle rugged trails. Significant revisions make the 2008 Porsche Cayenne models more desirable than last year's models. Of the three versions, the Cayenne S is our favorite. Cayenne S delivers Porsche performance yet while dodging the higher price of the Turbo.
NewCarTestDrive.com editor Mitch McCullough test drove the 2008 Cayenne, Cayenne S, and Cayenne Turbo in Texas. With J.P. Vettraino reporting from Detroit and Greg Brown reporting from Dubai.
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Other terms are sometimes used when describing State Purchasing that can be somewhat confusing. For instance, people vary on their use of the words bidders, vendors, and suppliers. The term "bidders" refers to any company bidding on a certain item or product. But the distinction of the terms "suppliers" and "bidders" is only important during registration in Team Georgia Marketplace™.
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By 1973 Ferrari was no longer able to compete with the Cosworth DFV engined 'kit-cars' from the UK. It's flat 12 engine 312 B proved a winner when first introduced in 1970 with four victories, but in 1973 the Scuderia won not one F1-race. In order to become competitive again Enzo Ferrari made some major personnel changes and pulled the Scuderia out of sports car racing. Mauro Forghieri was reinstated as chief-engineer and set out to completely re-design the flat 12 engine. Appointed as team-manager was Luca de Montezemelo, who has been associated with Ferrari in various functions for over thirty years now. Finally a new driver pairing was signed for 1974; Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni.
Many modifications were carried through in the 312 B3 for 1974. Lauda proved the speed of the modified B3, securing nine pole positions. Poor reliability meant that only two out of the nine poles materialised in victories. Regazzoni scored another victory and was runner up in the championship behind McLaren's Emerson Fittipaldi. Three victories was a major improvement over the 1973 season, but there was more to come from the 'new team'.
At the end of the season, work was started on a new car, main focus was to construct a very compact racer. The new transverse gearbox helped to keep the weight between the front and rear axle and gave the new car its name; 312 T (transversale). Centering the weight makes cornering easier. The gearbox was directly bolted on a 485 bhp version of the flat 12 engine. Although slightly heavier than the DFV engine, the 12 cylinder unit outpowered its British counterpart by at least 20 bhp.
All the improvements made and the talented driver pairing gave Ferrari the best chance in years to win a championship again. However it wasn't until the third Grand Prix that Lauda got his hands on the 312 T, but when he did he proved the pace was there with a pole position, closely followed by his team-mate in the other 312 T. A crash in the first lap ended the hopes for the 312 T's maiden victory. All was well in the next couple of Grands Prix, with Lauda winning four out of the next five races. Regazzoni won the all important Italian Grand Prix at Monza and Lauda grabbed the victory in the final Grand Prix of the year. Lauda secured Ferrari's first driver's title since Surtees' title of 1964 and the Scuderia took the constructor's title as well.
New airbox regulations forced Ferrari to launch a first evolution of the 312 T halfway through the 1976 season. Dubbed the T2, it featured new air intakes on either side of the cockpit. Lauda was on his way to prolongue his title in the T2, but a heavy crash on the Nürburgring left him badly burned. In a remarkable short time he returned to the cockpit of his Ferrari, but he could not prevent McLaren's James Hunt to take the title. Lauda and T2 proved to be the winning formula in 1977 winning both the driver's and constructor's championships.
Featured is one of the seven 312 T2s campaigned in the 1976 and 1977 Formula 1 seasons. It is seen here competing at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix and demonstrated at the Cavallino Classic. As a tribute to the 1977 World Champion, the current owner always wears a helmet in Niki Lauda's colours when he drives the car.
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I think this book was happy because the pigs built their houses. I liked the bears in the story. The little bear started to cry. The other bears covered their mouths so nobody could hear them. It was funny that it had a lot of fairy tale animals in it.
I would recommend this book to my Dad because the pigs build houses and my Dad likes to build.


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They're yours for the taking: Luxury lofts in downtown Los Angeles, with rooftop pools, swanky cabanas, and views of Porta Potti brothels on skid row.
Evelyn, Eduardo and Thomas live within two blocks of each other, caught in the middle of this head-on collision between economic growth and social disintegration. One is on the street, one in recovery, one in a grandly appointed loft overlooking the place he calls Dante's Inferno.
"I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance," says Thomas Reid, an RN who moved out of West Hollywood and into his skid-row-adjacent apartment six weeks ago and was immediately "blown away" by the depth of despair at his doorstep. His windows offer "front-row seats to Skid Row Theater," with a soundtrack of screams and sirens.
The renaissance he's talking about has brought an influx of people like Reid, thousands of them. In his building, they're paying up to $6,000 a month, which buys them neighbors who sleep on the pavement in rags.
"I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots — the bottom of the bottom — and I have to rationalize it," says Reid, whose conscience gets to him when he sips a glass of fine wine while watching someone on the street yell for help. "Am I pushing out the homeless?"
Evelyn, who lives two blocks away, is homeless, depending on your definition.
On San Julian Street one night, I notice her makeshift tent because she's given lots of attention to detail, making walls by stretching blankets between two carts. It's a far cry from Thomas Reid's urban contemporary furnishings, but Evelyn's got the lighting perfect and warm, just enough candlelight to let her read James Patterson's "Pop Goes the Weasel."
At night, before laying her head down and saying the rosary, she lays out cardboard, Styrofoam, sheets, blankets, and pillows with pillowcases.
"Even though I'm on the street, it makes me feel like I'm inside," she says of the place she calls her hookup.
When I ask the East Palo Alto native how long she's been here, she thinks about it a second.
"Ten years," she says.
Ten years in this one spot?
"I started out at the other end of the street," she says.
Evelyn, who says she's epileptic, is a different person when I see her later in the week. The sweet woman with the kind manner and cozy hookup is sprawled on her back, eyes rolling around in her head, zapped by the marijuana she confesses to or maybe the harder stuff she claims to be "backin' off of."
She's gone, not even clear-headed enough to weep as she did the other night, when she told me she's 48 and just not ready to move on. When she's 50, she says, she'll have it together. But not yet, 10 years and counting on San Julian Street.
You see some people out here who just caught a bad break or two, got priced out of the ridiculous real estate market and ended up in the land of soup lines and cardboard condos. But the majority are in a prison with higher walls, trapped by mental illness or devoured by drugs in a place where there isn't enough help for either.
Evelyn lives on the street where Nathaniel, my violinist friend, talks to himself.
It's the street where I watched paramedics pick up a young woman with needle tracks and only a few breaths left in her.
The stories are so depressing that, after days on skid row, I began looking for some glimmer of hope. I made arrangements to speak to someone in the recovery program at the Midnight Mission.
I'm met there by a man in a suit, his tie removed. I ask if he can take me to the gentleman in recovery.
You're looking at him, he says.
Eduardo Castro is his name. He leads me to a quiet place and tells his story.
It begins in 1992, when Castro was living in Guatemala. He had been trained in the United States as a dental technician and had a happy home and family in Guatemala. One day, on a visit to a farm owned by his in-laws, a relative lost sight of his daughter Laura, who was 2 years, 8 months old.
She drowned in a pond and Castro was beyond grief. He couldn't talk about it, couldn't begin to deal with it. Four years later, working for a touring company, he was on an impoverished island in Guatemala when a family asked him for help. Their daughter was desperately ill, and the parents wondered if Castro, with his modest amount of medical training from dental school, could check her.
"The little girl died in my arms," he says. She was roughly the same age as his daughter.
A stricken Castro decided that in his daughter's name, he would set up a nonprofit clinic on the island where the other girl died. His mission brought him to Los Angeles, where he worked in a dental lab to raise money for his dream. But he was gripped by depression and turned to the bottle, which got the best of him.
"There's a state of addiction where you think you can handle it," Castro says.
But he couldn't.
He started coming downtown from his Hollywood apartment and ended up on the streets, buying marijuana and cocaine. For four years he was on the skids, too ashamed to ask his family for help or return to Guatemala empty-handed. He slept in shelters and cardboard boxes, dodging muggers but not demons.
"I bought drugs on that street," he says, pointing to San Julian.
The street where Evelyn lives.
Castro bottomed out just after Christmas last year, when he landed in jail for the second time, at the age of 55, and promised himself he was done. He had known addicts who checked into rehab at the Midnight Mission and walked down the street as if they were new, so that's where Castro went.
"I've been sober over 9 months," he says.
As part of his recovery, he took a job in public affairs at the Midnight. He gives tours and works with Spanish-language media.
Castro takes me upstairs at the mission, where roughly 250 men reside for up to a year and a half, trying to shake the ghost and beat the odds that say only 17% of them will succeed.
We walk into Castro's dorm, and the lights are low. The men are bedded down for the night, in this fight together, dreaming of grace and forgiveness. Up on the roof is the big Midnight Mission sign that Thomas Reid can see from his apartment.
"This is the original mosaic tile and marble," Reid says on a tour of the Pacific Electric Lofts at 6th and Main, once the hub of the Red Car line and a center of downtown culture.
The tour takes us to the rotunda library and rooftop pool. New condos are going in next door, and next to that is the Cecil Hotel, where the clients sometimes leave on their backs.
"The coroner's van was there the other day."
Friends thought Reid, 35, was out of his mind, trading a rent-controlled apartment in West Hollywood for the hazards and hassles of skid row. But he was captivated by downtown as a boy.
His folks would bring him up from Irvine to visit Chinatown or a museum, and the mysteries of the city dazzled and seduced him.
"This is an exciting time for downtown Los Angeles," he says, and he wanted to be a part of it.
The excitement includes never-ending action at Station 9, the firehouse that was the busiest in the nation in 2003 with almost 21,000 calls. Reid can see the firehouse from his sixth-floor apartment, and the sirens echo off the walls of his high-ceilinged pad, which has concrete floors.
"You wake up to screams and gunshots," he says. He can look out the window, onto Los Angeles Street beneath, and see territorial squabbles among prostitutes. He says he sat in the window while watching the video of the first part in this skid row series and "started to tear up," realizing that a woman had died after being picked up a short Frisbee toss away from his loft.
"It's a parade of misery and death all night," he says. "It's like 'Blade Runner.' "
None of this came entirely as a shock. Reid knew he was moving to a work in progress, and he was an emergency room nurse for five years, a job where you see a little of everything.
But he's a realist too. For now, when he leaves his apartment, he doesn't head east. Not on foot, anyway. East is too depressing, with all the encampments, and too dangerous.
We go outside to walk Amor, Reid's poodle, and cover only the block of Main Street he lives on. North to 6th, across to the west side of the street, down to 7th and back.
On our one lap we pass a woman lying on the sidewalk, two people asking for money, a mentally ill woman, a dive bar, the always-busy doorway of the Cecil, and what appears to be a gathering of drug dealers and customers.
I consider suggesting that Reid get a bigger dog.
"It's very disturbing," he says of the landscape outside his door, but he's not running back to West Hollywood. Not yet, anyway.
"Most people don't want to see this but how can you effect change if you don't do anything?" he asks.
Yuppie lofters like him aren't the problem, he insists after wrestling with his own doubts about their impact. They're part of the solution, so long as a revitalized downtown includes adequate housing and services, and safer streets for merchants and residents of all income levels.
"We shouldn't tolerate drugs and prostitution," he says, least of all the way we tolerate it now, with cavalier indifference.
Nor should we tolerate the reality that every night, by the thousands, some of the sickest and most helpless human beings among us sleep on our streets. Ragged, anonymous, conveniently invisible to most of us.


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Mental masturbation is fun, and there are good reasons for it. Its part of our thinking abstract, its helped us think deeply about things that won't, wouldn't, shouldn't and or don't matter, in case of the future chance they might. It's made us a very successful species.
Their claims are way too fallacious and assume way too much.
Claim One: Why does it require a god? Why not a dragon instead? Or a fairy? What is a god and what makes him fit for the job? And why exclude the possibility of an inequal distribution of matter and antimatter, or other possible events? Why exclude the likelihood that there are an infinite number of universes, making one part in ten billion too equal out to being an infinite number of universes just like ours?
Claim Two: Why look at the universe in a biocentric fashion? How do we know that the universe wasn't finetuned for atomic explosions? Afterall, most matter we see either has or will go through such explosions, in a star. We have life because our universe permitted it. But again, what would make God worthy of such a task? Why not a dragon or a fairy instead? Why throw God into the gaps?
And with an infinite number of universes, there are an infinite number of such universes that permit our type of life. However, its possible for other forms of life to exist in other universes with other laws and conditions. They also assume that this, in this universe, is the only possible type of life.
Both claims are erroneous and self-invented bs that have no data to support them. They are playing the odds game, or the game that it's too improbable for it all to have happened by "chance".. Well, It's a good thing we understand our science because they are typically science illiterates. It's the pleading for your ignorance.
If you want a good laugh on such arguments, go watch the video series "Why Do Creationists Get Laughed At?"
If you want some good insight into how our universe works, or is. I can provide a somewhat informative post here. Just let me know if you want me to do so :)
If claims one and two were refering to a closed system of opportunity, numbers like "one in a billion" sound impressive.
But, in a limitless system of opportunity (or even a system with unimaginablely high numbers of opportunities)... such statistics are piss in the ocean! In fact, in a limitless system, where all possible outcomes have opportunity to manifest, the odds of the universe and life manifesting are 100%.
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It is with a heavy heart that I post this. Many of you may have seen the posts on Facebook about the passing of Bryan Harvey, and it's true, as surreal as it may still seem.
I was contacted by his mother, Cathy Harvey, late in the afternoon yesterday (Friday) and she told me of his passing. The family is still grappling with the sudden loss of a son and father, so news of a service is yet to come.
I will send a mass mail to the membership to inform those that I have not reached by phone and that will most likely be how I communicate any information I am given.
Please join me in keeping our friend Bryan and his family in our thoughts, in our hearts and in our prayers. He will be dearly missed…
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Most industries measure customer loyalty by whether customers are highly likely to repurchase. Lexus has loyal customers, but Lexus car owners are not loyal because they made an initial purchase and drove their cars every day. They are loyal because, given the choice to repurchase the Lexus or another vehicle, they would choose a Lexus. The assumption is that loyal customers will repurchase a business's product or service.
How does that hold up in the fitness industry? Fitness facility members are not repurchasing when they pay their monthly dues. Because most monthly dues are paid by electronic funds transfer, the payment is simply a continuation of an initial purchase. That means that building loyalty in the fitness business is not just about increasing the number of months that the member pays his or her monthly dues.
Consider this: 100 percent of your members are going to stop paying their dues at some point. So the question then becomes whether your cancelled members would repurchase a membership to your club after experiencing your cancellation process or whether they would choose to never come back.
Members may be "raving fans" while they are active. They may love your staff, your services, the condition of your equipment and your facility's cleanliness. In fact, everything about their experience at your club might make them highly likely to refer a friend or colleague to you. But when the time comes for them to cancel, what will they think?
If you have low attrition, say around 25 percent, your customer churn in a four-year period will equal your current membership base. If that base is 4,000 members, then every year you release 1,000 potential returning customers or 1,000 angry detractors into your own pond — even if they were raving fans when they were active.
To successfully re-attract cancelled customers, you need to think in terms of high-value attrition and low-value attrition. Two gyms with identical attrition rates and identical customer satisfaction scores could give birth to very different attrition values. Let's assume these two gyms are in the same market competing for the same customers. Say Gym A has a cancellation process designed to maintain a raving fan even after that member leaves, and Gym B has a cancellation process designed to extract value from the member upon exit. Gym A may be "stocking their pond" for the future while Gym B may be selling its future to Gym A for the small profit former members provided on exit.
Complaints reveal areas of operations that are under our control and are reducing members' likelihood to continue their memberships. Most complaints can be categorized into a few areas: poor equipment condition and selection, lack of cleanliness, poor staff attitude, and poor or broken processes, policies and programs. When members experience these situations, their likelihood to continue their membership decreases.
It is important to note that poor staff attitude often is the fault of a broken process or policy. If the only response your frontline has for a member complaint is, "That's our policy," the member might report "poor attitude," when the real issue is the lack of a process for handling complaints well.
Strategies to address constant improvements to these areas will improve the member experience and increase the likelihood that members will continue their memberships. However, this doesn't ensure that members will have a high likelihood to repurchase should they need to cancel. To better empathize with members who wish to discontinue their memberships, review your own frustrating attempts to cancel cell phone service or some Internet services. These processes may have left you grumbling about the company and saying that you would never do business with them again.
If you had a cancellation process designed to delight exiting members and ensure that they would be highly likely to repurchase from you, what would it look like?
Our industry needs to broaden its thinking about our customers like other industries do. We need to make it a high priority to increase former customers' likelihood to repurchase. In other words, we might define customers as those who currently pay us and those who are on temporary hiatus.
Blair McHaney is CEO of Confluence Fitness Partners Inc., which does business as Gold's Gym of the Wenatchee Valley in Wenatchee, WA. He also is president of the Gold's Gym Franchisee Association.


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The ag chem industry is changing almost daily with layoffs, spin-offs, ventures with enemies, and merger plays where human drugs take priority over agriculture. What's next and what does it mean for you?
After almost 60 years since 2,4-D ushered in the herbicide era that helped reinvent production agriculture in America, some chemical makers are facing judgment day. It's driven by technology, price/value competition, a brutal farm economy, overcapacity, distribution inefficiency and demanding stockholders.
Such consolidation isn't new. Just take a quick scan into the past: Stauffer and ICI into Zeneca; PPG, Chevron and Sumitomo into Valent; Union Carbide, Mobil and now Hoechst/AgrEvo into Rhone-Poulenc to become Aventis; Velsicol, Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy become Novartis; Shell and Pioneer into DuPont; Dekalb and Holdens into Monsanto; Mycogen into Dow AgroSciences; Shell International into Cyanamid into American Home Products; and on and on. The latest speculation at press time is that DuPont or Monsanto will merge with Novartis.
Cost cutting. "Large chemical companies are inefficient and must figure out how to lower the delivered cost of goods to the grower," says Fulton Breen, president and CEO of XSAg.com, an Internet-based "exchange floor" for specific ag inputs. "This is a natural response for industries in the mature phase of their life cycle and shareholders are demanding it. Companies must consolidate sales, marketing and R&D because this industry can't support 2,200-plus sales reps, $1.5 billion in marketing programs and $1.5 billion in distribution channel markups.
"For the industry in general and growers in particular, it's a good thing and the right thing to happen," Breen responds. "Free and efficient markets have long made America great; it's just that change is uncomfortable for many people."
John Rabby, vice president and general manager of Cyanamid's U.S. crop protection group, says that this is a sign of the times. "The market has been devalued by hundreds of millions of dollars, but the needed corrections being taken will result in a much stronger industry," he states.
Price of technology. Jim Wilbur, stock analyst covering the ag industry for Salomon Smith Barney, sees one unique aspect of a maturing market. "A difference here is you don't often have a major new technology [Roundup Ready] compound an already competitive market by forcing long-term price reductions on the rest of the industry in order for them to compete," Wilbur says. "So to survive, you see companies like Cyanamid and DuPont take deep product discounts, which are great for the farmer's bottom line, but has inevitably led to cost cutting, layoffs and more mergers in an effort to retain profits and stock prices in this competitive environment."
Rhone-Poulenc (R-P), in the midst of merging with Hoechst/AgrEvo to form Aventis by the end of the year, finds itself, like many farmers, at a crossroads. "In this brutal farm economy full of overproduced commodities, farmers are looking at every aspect of their operations to cut costs, evaluate systems and reduce risks," says R-P's Dave Downing, herbicide and fungicide team leader. "So are we, just on a much larger scale. But we're both trying to establish or find our critical mass to compete."
Applying focus. Breen, an ag chem company marketing veteran prior to his current e-commerce foray, says that industry survival, for chemical companies and farmers, comes down to leveraging your core competency. "In general, companies have to look at what they're great at relative to their competitors and make a bet on developing that attribute to its extreme.
"Monsanto made a very big bet on biotech 15 years ago, and it is now beginning to pay off," Breen continues. "DuPont, with Pioneer, has made a bet on the output side of biotech grain traits that will probably pay off down the road. At XSAg.com, our bet is that a neutral trading floor for buyers and sellers of ag inputs will make American agribusiness more efficient. Will that guarantee our success? Who knows?"
Price/service relationship. As the Internet begins to play an increasing role in how farmers buy chemicals, seed and other goods, companies are spending time online to judge its impact on their businesses. "E-commerce will definitely have an impact on pricing, distribution structure and the service sector, but it's too early to judge value," Wilbur adds.
Breen, obviously a believer in the Internet, feels that farmers will pay for exactly the amount of service they desire, whether it's tied to a product purchase or not.
"The farmer understands the value of services based on his local experiences. With the advent of the Internet, he'll now know the market value of his inputs as well. The amount he has been paying above that is the 'relationship premium,'" Breen says. "But, in tough times, farmers can ill afford to pay a hefty premium to suppliers. In a neutral trading exchange, they can now quickly gather price information on inputs and negotiate fair market values for services from their suppliers."
Downing believes more access to information "will make the farmer a more critical buyer in the future to reduce his costs, but we still see him keeping his local dealer and/or custom applicator in the loop to provide the services and perhaps bundled products he desires."
Who will handle products? Cyanamid, the champion behind the AgriCenter concept that is now synonymous with all ag chem retailers, is now looking to streamline the channel. "Given tougher economic times, we realize that we must get product to the market in a more timely and efficient manner," Rabby says. "This means that we'll be focusing more on key distributors and less on invoicing relationships with retailers. That doesn't mean we'll drop relationships, but they will change in the future to be more business focused."
Breen thinks that distributors and dealers will continue with warehousing and delivery but expects dealers to not only expand their services to farmers, but also to basic manufacturers. "We'll see chemical companies paying dealers to do some tasks that sales reps used to handle, as well as create the warmth and goodwill."
New products? Considering the fact that farmers currently have a wide variety of effective herbicides now that control most any weed at economical prices, industry sources don't see much new chemistry being developed for Midwest row crops.
"It is so extremely difficult and expensive to develop new products that could beat current efficacy and value in the marketplace," Downing adds.
"Companies are becoming more efficient at R&D, and the research effort will shift from mass screening of molecules for new herbicidal active ingredients to the use of functional genomics to develop new compounds," Breen says.
Issues that cloud. While genetically modified (GM) crops met a wall of resistance in Europe, no one predicts that this attitude will reach our shores with any serious impact. But you can bet it is causing potential merger partners to think twice before leaping.
"The issue of GM crops is causing a huge quagmire right now," Wilbur says. "And when the real growth potential of most chemical company mergers is in pharmaceuticals, the ag divisions that deal in GM technology may cause negotiations to change."
Downing believes the industry and the American consumer will ultimately get past this issue but says, "It may take a few years and some good output traits to help consumers understand the good science behind the technology."
Cyanamid's Rabby also says that it is unfortunate that the current emotion behind the issue of GM crops isn't based on sound science. "Once consumers have the choice of foods that offer them health or nutritional benefits, they probably will look at this technology differently. We have to do a better job as an industry in understanding public acceptance issues in introducing this new technology," he says.
Despite the challenges and survival-of-the-fittest mode occurring in the ag chem business, and down on the farm, lessons gained from tough times can make for better input and service suppliers in the long run.


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We consider below some of the complexities that are likely to arise and merit greater reflection at this early stage. Regulations and Directives: A careful approach required EU legislation comes in a variety of forms, of which the most important are Regulations and Directives. Regulations take direct effect across the EU without further action being required by a Member State. Directives need to be implemented separately into the law of each Member State. Will the UK really want to adopt all Regulations on Brexit day, as Prime Minister May's announcement seemed to suggest? In some cases certainly - but not in all. It seems to us that there will need to be an initial exercise of pick and choose and a preliminary content review. Example: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force across the EU (including the UK) in 2018. If on Brexit the UK did not continue to adhere to the GDPR, it would be faced with an immediate gulf in data privacy law, as the current Data Protection Act will have been superseded by the GDPR before Brexit. Proceeding without a data protection law would be unpalatable, so the sensible course would be to simply extend the GDPR into UK law, initially through the Great Repeal Bill. That sounds straightforward enough, but there will complexities that need to be unravelled underneath the legislation. For example, the GDPR allows for the establishment of a European Data Protection Board (EDPB) tasked with a range of responsibilities to support consistent application of the GDPR across the EU. It is unclear what (if any) role the UK would have on the EDPB post-Brexit or the extent to which the UK would wish to follow its decisions. 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Those working on the Great Repeal Bill are likely to be struggling constantly to keep up with the negotiations and there could be practical sequencing issues as a result. Parliamentary Scrutiny Any Great Repeal Bill will have to pass through the UK Parliament in order to become an Act. In addition, there may be an issue for the devolved parliaments/assemblies. Under the Sewel convention, the UK Parliament would not normally legislate in areas of devolved competence without the consent of the devolved parliament. Any Great Repeal Bill would likely cut across devolved competencies which would, normally, trigger a legislative consent motion in the devolved institution. Whilst there is some debate about the formal status of the Sewel convention, it does raise the wider question about the legal and constitutional impact of any Great Repeal Bill on the law of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. 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That said, whatever approach is taken to the untangling of EU legislation from the UK, some uncertainty and inconsistency is highly probable. Prime Minister May's speech will undoubtedly be a helpful catalyst for flushing out areas where further reflection is needed. The question is to what extent these areas can be identified and adequately dealt with before the Bill becomes an Act. For the time being, it seems unlikely that we have seen the end of Brexit uncertainty.


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In 1995, in collaboration with Dr. Frank Morrison, the BSL installed two well-characterized electric and magnetic field measuring systems at two sites along the San Andreas Fault which are part of the Berkeley Digital Seismic Network. Since then, magnetotelluric (MT) data have been continuously recorded at 40 Hz and 1 Hz and archived at the NCEDC (Table 3.4). At least one set of orthogonal electric dipoles measures the vector horizontal electric field, E, and three orthogonal magnetic sensors measure the vector magnetic field, B. These reference sites, now referred to as electromagnetic (EM) observatories, are co-located with seismographic sites so that the field data share the same time base, data acquisition, telemetry and archiving system as the seismometer outputs.
The MT observatories are located at Parkfield (PKD1, PKD) 300 km south of the San Francisco Bay Area, and Hollister (SAO), halfway between San Francisco and Parkfield (Figure 3.2). In 1995, initial sites were established at PKD1 and SAO, separated by a distance of 150 km, and equipped with three induction coils and two 100 m electric dipoles. PKD1 was established as a temporary seismic site, and when a permanent site (PKD) was found, a third MT observatory was installed in 1999 with three induction coils, two 100 m electric dipoles, and two 200 m electric dipoles. PKD and PKD1 ran in parallel for one month in 1999, and then the MT observatory at PKD1 was closed.
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