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Sources say central bank has decided to cap home loans for foreigners buying property
Navin Friday, 4 January 2013 6:14 PM - UAE
In case the commentators have missed out on this small irrelevant bit, it is the banks who will suffer the most by limiting mortgages to 50% and are naturally the ones complaining the most! i guess it has something to do with them having to lend money to make money and there is only as much you can give to people as personal loans which they do not need!Navin Friday, 4 January 2013 7:20 PM - UAE
The only way this 50% cap would make sense to me is when they qualify it applicable to secondary market and not developer sales to prop up the primary market / off plan sales which remain comatose!
The Consultant Friday, 4 January 2013 4:03 PM - UAE
@telcoguy, yes I am well aware of the property crash, with some areas losing up to 60% from peak. Whilst we have seen a recovery in some areas, most developments still seem to be at least 40 - 45% below peak and IMHO unlikely to see a massive drop in value from here, unless of course something fundamental changes such as dramatically reducing the LTV that most buyers can borrow (oops......).
It's also a bit simplistic to assume that any owner will automatically drop an underwater property. I'm not aware of any banks giving non-recourse mortgages here, but if any are then they frankly deserve to lose money. Assuming the bank has recourse then a buyer would have to consider whether the bank could find them in their home country, whether the bank could get a judgement enforced in that country and if so, if the borrower has any assets they could seize as a result. In short the bank has to do a proper risk assessment and base the LTV on that.
mama Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:12 PM - uae
when they know the property prices are gonna go down this year, they will make this law so the buyers will have to pay 50% cash in so when the prices went down, a buyer will not leave everything and go because he has paid his savings of 50% already so will have to stay and wait and pay the mortgage.... I think its a good move for the real estate market, it will control the prices as well as will not make another bubble,,, but definitely not good for real estate agents
Essam Thursday, 3 January 2013 2:30 PM - UAE
@ SA1, the fact is buying a property does not entitle you to anything other than your property. You are a welcomed expatriate who has a homeland, period! Wake up and smell the coffee and do your homework before crying wolf later. Just in case you feel your homeland is not worth returning to, then may be you actually should to make it a livable place just like the UAE.
As to the mortgage market, there is no doubt that it must be regulated.FormerExpat Thursday, 3 January 2013 10:09 PM - USA
@Essam....it's ignorance like yours that leads to erroneous short term decision making like this new mortgage cap. Rather than encouraging people to return to their homeland (which I thankfully did a couple of years ago), perhaps you should be focused on encouraging more people to invest in the UAE. If the government is truly concerned about speculative activity, perhaps the introduction of a functional credit monitoring and reporting bureau would have been better. This would serve to ensure people (expats and locals) don't assume too much debt and people aren't buying multiple apartments as investments unless they can truly afford to do so.
As for your comment on price depreciation, this has happened in every market around the world, and the credit losses for defaulters was borne by the banks. I am not aware of any other market where the government has interceded to dictate credit policies to the banks. Surely even the overpaid bankers in Dubai can figure out their credit policiStephen Thursday, 3 January 2013 4:31 PM - UAE
It's comment such as yours and that from Basma that colour these forums so badly. Most of us can't be bothered to answer but occasionally someone has to, if only in a vain hope that you may reread what you have written and reconsider.
I sincerely hope that more people read them and understand what idiocy and flat headed ignorance abounds. What possible purpose could there be in investing in anything in this country when attitudes such as yours are so commonplace.?
The Consultant Thursday, 3 January 2013 2:29 PM - UAE
I don't see the relevance of expatriates limited/uncertain residence in the UAE to this decision. When it's time to leave you can either sell the property or keep it as an investment and rent it out. You don't have to live here to be a landlord and you don't have to walk away from a property and a mortgage just because you have left the country. At the current market prices a LTV ratio of 70 or 80% should be enough to ensure the banks don't lose out if someone does end up defaulting.
As other posters have said, this will kill the market for genuine end-users whilst doing nothing to deter the speculators and flippers that drove the market up the last time. These people use cash, and even if it's borrowed money it's not by way of a mortgage.
Chetan palan Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:54 AM - UAE
It is good that Central bank is limiting expat mortgage to 50%.It makes prudent sense considering that expats in UAE doe not have permanent Resident Visa Or residency permit .This is a decision of UAE Government & we as an expat must respect it.Under this situation, obviously our(majority of Expats who are on JOB in UAE) stay in UAE is affected by many reasons which are beyond our control.
Obviously this is a major factor , considered by any financial institutions ,in disbursing Loans,because they do not want to be in business of owning foreclosed properties , when going gets tough & market comes down due to various reasons beyond their control.Also,if you look at various countries, residents get normally max 80 % of the value of property as loan.Infact UAE if restricting this to 70% for UAE national is quite prudent,though it may sound a bit conservative.
Good decision in long term, though may hurt market in short term, as it will reduce speculation.
Chetan Palan
Sandy Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:54 AM - UAE
Right now, an end-user / genuine investor need to put additional 10% of property value from own pocket (2% brokerage, 2% Transfer Fee, 2% Mortgage Registration Fee, 1% Bank Fee and 3% Misc things like valuation, paper work etc).
New ruling will make the total burden on buyer to almost 60-70%. If I can arrange this amount of money when buying, why to go to bank for arranging just 30% of money and go through so many admin hassles? Which country in the world has such cap on house loan, which is directly linked to country's economy - more people buying homes.
I did not see many flippers going through financing option (as it in anyway eats 10% on top of market price, not to include early closure penalty) so this move by central bank does not make sense
mra Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:51 AM - uae
what about properties being offered by developers with installment schemes over 3 years probably that should become more popular whereby yo can pay the 50% in 2 years or so and then be in a position to mortgage if the law persists.
Basma Wednesday, 2 January 2013 8:07 PM - UAE
Don't all expats know well in advance that they are here to earn a decent living not to become permanent settlers? The current laws are just fine and any law to upgrade the status of the expats will further exasperate the demographic imbalance which already poses a great risk to the identity of the country and its citizens. Is it engraved anywhere that if you are born here or work here you would AUTOMATICALLY be entitled to become a permanent settler? Be more objective and practical, plan your lives in accordance to the realities on Terra Firma and always always always have a contingency plan. Happy New Year!SA1 Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:54 AM - UAE
@Basma - All expats understand very well that they are only guest worker...so guess wat...i would say that UAE should pass a law banning expats from making investment in freehold properties. (after all there are only here to earn a decent living which rented properties can give and then go back home)
Can it do that? When you intend to ask all people from every where in the world to come and buy your real estate, don't expect that investors will not have demands.
They will have demands of all kind, permanent residency, naturalization for long term residency, opening up society to be more accommodating for their lifestyles, building up more / different religious places, laws safe-guarding investment and their own identities and so on.
And if you are not still aware...look around ... most of the above has already happened, and more change will happen to this place the more freehold investment is sought from external people.
mama Wednesday, 2 January 2013 7:45 PM - iran
very good news for the real estate market .... who ever out there looking to purchase any real estate, wait another 6 months, will end up buying it for half price. cheers
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NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and NBC News chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski have both stated unequivocally that an October 25 NBC Nightly News report does not prove that 380 tons of high explosives were taken from the Al Qaqaa military installation in Iraq before U.S. troops arrived during the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Still, conservatives have continued to claim the opposite. Nationally syndicated columnist and CNN host Robert D. Novak, Washington Times columnist and chief political correspondent Donald Lambro, and radio host Michael Reagan joined the ranks of conservative media figures [1] who have distorted the NBC News report in an effort to discredit the New York Times's October 25 article titled "Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq [2]."
On the October 25 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News, chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reported: "April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne [Division] as they [took] over the weapons installation south of Baghdad. But they never found the 380 tons." The Bush-Cheney '04 campaign and numerous conservatives cited NBC's segment in an effort to refute Senator John Kerry's criticism of the Bush administration over the missing explosives, as Media Matters for America has noted [1].
But as MMFA has also documented [3], Miklaszewski appeared on MSNBC the day after his initial report to clarify that "those troops [from the 101st Airborne Division] were actually on their way to Baghdad, that they were not actively involved in the search for any weapons, including the high explosives HMX [4] and RDX [5]."
And, according to an October 27 New York Times article [6], Colonel Joseph Anderson, the commander of those troops from the 101st Airborne Division, confirmed that his troops did not search the facility.
On the October 27 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News, Brokaw explicitly disavowed the Bush-Cheney campaign's use of the NBC report [7] to claim that Kerry's criticism of the Bush administration over the missing explosives was "proven false." Brokaw stated, "For its part, the Bush campaign immediately pointed to our report as conclusive proof that the weapons had been removed before the Americans arrived. That is possible, but that is not what we reported."
Nonetheless, conservatives continue to claim that that is what NBC reported:
Washington Times chief political correspondent Donald Lambro, in his October 28 nationally sydicated column [8]:
John Kerry swallowed the story whole, saying it was another example of the administration's incompetence in Iraq. But the unconfirmed story fell apart Monday night after NBC News reported that these explosives were already missing, according to one of their reporters who was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne Division, who searched the site on April 10, 2003.
CNN co-host and columnist Robert D. Novak, in his October 28 syndicated column [9]:
On the same day, the Kerry campaign threw out previous plans and made the candidate's centerpiece a New York Times report of 380 tons of explosives found missing from Iraq. Although NBC embedded reporters said the explosives were gone when U.S. troops arrived in March 2003, Kerry insisted for two days that this was another example of Bush's inadequacy in waging the war on terror. Whether such a complex issue appeals to security moms is another matter.
Radio host Michael Reagan, in a clip from his nationally syndicated radio show [10] played on the October 27 edition of CNN's Paula Zahn Now:
REAGAN: I think everybody now knows that the story again is another bogus story. And I think that people get that. I can't believe people are buying into that anymore, because it's been discounted about those weapons, where they were, what time they were there, and they were discounted why? Not by me at talk radio or talk radio or FOX News. Discounted by embedded reporters from NBC.
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One might assume that people would be happy that the latest version of the Hadley Centre and CRU combined temperature index is now being updated on a monthly basis. The improvements over the previous version in terms of coverage and error estimates is substantial. One might think that these advances – albeit incremental – would at least get mentioned in a story that used the new data set. Of course, one would not be taking into account the monumental capacity for some journalists and the outlets they work for to make up stories whenever it suits them. But all of the kerfuffle over the Mail story and the endless discussions over short and long term temperature trends hides what people are actually arguing about – what is likely to happen in the future, rather than what has happened in the past.
The fundamental point I will try and make here is that, given a noisy temperature record, many different statements can be true at the same time, but very few of them are informative about future trends. Thus vehemence of arguments about the past trends is in large part an unacknowledged proxy argument about the future.
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- The linear trend in HadCRUT4 from August 1997 to August 2012 (181 months) is 0.03ºC/decade (blue) (In GISTEMP it is 0.08ºC/decade, not shown).
- The trend from August 1975 to July 1997 is 0.16ºC/dec (green), and the trend to August 2012 is 0.17ºC/dec (red).
- The ten years to August 2012 were warmer than the previous 10 years by 0.15ºC, which were warmer than the 10 years before that by 0.17ºC, which were warmer than the 10 years before that by 0.17ºC, and which were warmer than the 10 years before that by 0.17ºC (purple).
- The continuation of the linear trend from August 1975 to July 1997 (green dashed), would have predicted a temperature anomaly in August 2012 of 0.524ºC. The actual temperature anomaly in August 2012 was 0.525ºC.
The first point might suggest to someone that the tendency of planet to warm as a function of increases in greenhouse gases has been interrupted. The second point might suggest that warming since 1997 has actually accelerated, the third point suggests that trends are quite stable, and the last point is actually quite astonishing, though fortuitous. Since all of these things (and many others) are equally true (in that their derivation from the underlying dataset is simply a mechanical application of standard routines), it is clear that our expectation for the future shouldn't be simply based on an extrapolation of any one or two of them – the situation is too complex for that.
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Discussion in 'Great Skate Debate' started by sk9tingfan, Apr 1, 2011.
Not unexpected. I approve
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PJ just tweeted that Adam is remaining at the Cricket Club.
I didn't know there were problems between Brian and Adam... I mean I know he didn't have the best of seasons this year. Tough for Brian, with his two best students leaving him one after another.
Weird day to announce that. My first thought was "April Fools?"
Haha same here. But this makes sense, and I'm glad Adam is staying at the Cricket Club, because I know how close he and Christina are and that would be sad if he left entirely. It is interesting though how many students have left Brian recently, not only Yuna and Adam but also Min-Jung, Yea-Ji, Rylie...it appears that Christina is the only noteworthy pupil of Brian's left, unless i'm missing someone? Maybe that will be good news for Christina though as she can now be his top priority.
I also expected this to be an April Fool's thread
I hope this will be a good step for Adam. While it was an improvement to get him out of Morozov's eville clutches, Adam's programs this year really did not suit him. Here's hoping this change works for the lil angel boy and he has a good season next year.
I thought this was another April Fools joke as well.
Is Brian going to be ok with Adam staying at the Cricket Club? When Yuna wanted to stay there, Brian said he wanted her to leave.
I just have a feeling that Brian is quite a difficult man. Just a hunch.
I mean, we've all seen the way he acts in the Kiss N Cry...
Also, I don't think he'd have an issue with Adam staying at the Cricket Club if the coaching change was solely Adam's decision and those two ended their relationship on good terms. With Yuna, things had gotten sour, and obviously wherever Yuna is, there's going to be a lot of press coverage, media, drama, etc. It's quite a different situation, IMO.
Yes, because that is a truly reliable indicator of how a coach interacts with their skaters during the other 23.9 hours of the day
Can Brian coach Canadian skaters now? Nam Nguyen, move to Toronto!
Wow, not looking good for Brian Orser. I am not sure if any top skaters would consider switching to him if they are busy wondering why he lost so many star pupils.
I don't know if it is fair to assume something happened. People always think things ended so horribly. Maybe Adam is just upset with his results and isn't going to hang around another season to see if the same thing happens. Life in figure skating is very short, you can't spend an extra year just hoping for the best. You have to make a change so you can at least say you tried and have no regrets. That being said, maybe something did happen but let's not start rumors.
Can we all say triple axel? At least to my inexperienced eye, everything else was gorgeous. However, maybe he's got it, and it's all just in his head.
I'm not sure about staying at the same rink, that would spook me, but maybe he just doesn't know where else to go, and liked this coach who he had used a little before.
I predict good things for Adam, actually they are already good, so I predict the best of things.
I don't know if Brian is difficult or not (actually, I've had the opposite impression from what I've seen of him off-ice), but this change isn't surprising considering how chilly he seemed to be with Adam in the K & C this season. I think, with having lost Kim, there's added pressure on Brian to produce another star pupil to show that his success with Kim wasn't just a fluke, and obviously Adam just wasn't giving him that this season (not that I blame Adam).
I do hope that this coaching change helps to turn Adam into a more interesting skater - I remember being quite excited over him a while ago, but lately it seems like he's stagnated and I find him very generic to watch.
I blame David Wilson more than Brian for Adam's totally cliche music choices this year though.
I thought his music choices this season was made by Adam himself. isn't it not?
What kind of rep does Ghisland Briand have? Technician? Artist?
I've heard technician. From the press release:
Briand was the coach by the boards when Rippon won Four Continents in Korea last year.
from USFSF article
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He chose his LP music, but IIRC the SP one was suggested by David Wilson
Since Adam is remaining at the same rink as Brian, that might be a little awkward. Is Brian still going to give Adam input or advice from time to time since they're still both at the Cricket Club, or is it more like Adam has shut that door completely?
I do wonder how this bodes for Brian's coaching career. His two most prominent and successful students leaving. If Adam feels more of a connection with Ghislain though, he made the right choice. Hopefully, he can make the world team again next year.
Forget Nam, I would like to see Kevin Reynolds move to Brian ... but I doubt that will happen
It sounds like the parting was amicable. I don't suspect we will be seeing Adam sitting at rinkside shedding a single tear.
Skaters and coaches part ways for numerous reasons, and it sounds like in the two scenarios they were for two very different reasons. It's not like Orser has a longstanding record of driving students away because he is consistently impossible to work with. He's coached an Olympic medalist and world champion, and international medalists, so he already has a very good record of accomplishment. I think his career will be fine.
Adam has been landing gorgeous triple axels very consistently lately.
Looking at Adam's coaching changes, if I were going to make any assumptions here , it would actually be about Adam, not Brian.
I do think Adam's 3A got better when he first switched to Orser. And he really blossomed in the rest of his skating the first seaosn - but something this season was just...off.
But it does sounds like this is an amicable parting, no single tears. Although, Adam would probably do 2 tears anyway so it could be known as the Rippon Tear.
To be as objective as possible, I have to assume skaters keep re-evaluating as they improve (or not) to see what they need to do to get to the next level. You could hypothesize Adam came to Canada to be in a stable enviro, to improve technically and to have the focus of a reputable coach. Goals achieved. Now what's next?
Adam may be deciding that while his needs are generally being met (hence he's not leaving Canada or the club) he needs just something a little different from a coach. If I had to take a wild guess, I'm thinking a more chill, nurturing coach might do the trick. Perhaps because Brian is competitively tense and it shows in him both as a competitor and coach that maybe Adam is looking for a different vibe or chemistry that can optimize his competitive performances.
I think of some skaters who talk about needing a coach to keep them loose going into an event. Chan needs to play cards and other silly games with Krall, Browning always said his coach's job at an event was to tell jokes and distract him from competing. Maybe Brian can train him well but he's not the right guy to take to a competition. Just a guess.
Can't blame Adam for wanting to make a change. He was supposed to contend for gold here, and not only did he finish fifth, new seniors like Dornbush leapfrogged him on their way to the podium. He's too talented for that. Love his skating and he is just so adorable! It's not an indictment on Brian per se... just different methods work for different skaters.
Anyway - goooo Adam!
I'd make the same assumptipn if I were going to make one. Adam has the artistic element but he needs that 3A. He didn't have it as a junior and he still doesn't have it. Maybe a technical coach is just what he needs at the moment. I hope so.
Having seen the way Orser treated Kim when Kim departed, and the way he treated Adam at K&C this season, I am not surprised to hear this at all. It seemed to me it was just a matter of time.
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Earth system modeling as we know it and how it benefits climate change research is about to transform with the newly launched Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project sponsored by the Earth System Modeling program within the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research. ACME is an unprecedented collaboration among eight national laboratories, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, four academic institutions, and one private-sector company to develop and apply the most complete, leading-edge climate and earth system models to the most challenging and demanding climate-change issues.
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By Rob Kelly
Benik Afobe admits he has been looking to Robin van Persie for inspiration as he continues his comeback from a long-term groin injury.
The 19-year-old striker scored on his return to action after six months out during the reserves' 5-0 victory at Norwich on Tuesday night.
It has been a long road back for Afobe but he says Arsenal's captain - who struggled with injury before going on to become one of the world's best strikers - has helped spur him on.
"I speak to Robin van Persie quite a lot and he always comes into the gym and asks me about my rehab," Afobe told Arsenal Player.
"He was injured quite a lot when he was younger at Arsenal, so he just tells me to keep motivated, to carry on doing what I am doing in my gym sessions and rehab and to prove a point.
"He is a fantastic striker and a fantastic person as well. He always has time for the younger lads and he has helped me quite a lot - I always listen to what he says to me."
Afobe sustained his groin injury in the Emirates Cup match against New York Red Bulls in July, and admits that it is "fantastic" be playing once again.
"It was very disappointing to get injured - to be back after such a long time is what I have been dreaming about for the past six months," he said.
"I played in the Emirates Cup, but when others players [got their first-team chance this season] I was delighted for them, having grown up and come through the youth ranks with them.
"It has been quite hard, but I had a good medical team behind me. Craig Gant, the fitness coach, has helped me a lot and kept me motivated. I am really happy to be back training with the team every day.
"Now I just want to get back to the same level as before, if not better, and see where that takes me. I am not too sure about a loan or if I am going to get a first-team chance but I will take it one step at a time."
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Olivier Giroud is satisfied with his progress as he nears half a season as a Gunner - but believes he can still do much more.
The French striker has scored seven goals this season, including four during a purple patch in November, and has steadily won supporters' affections with some excellent leading of the line.
He believes that his breakthrough strikes against Coventry and West Ham a couple of months ago set his season off and running.
Giroud told the official matchday programme: "At the beginning of the season I felt good, but Euro 2012 meant that the preparations had been a bit different for some of us. It meant that I wasn't completely ready for the start of the Premier League and had to work in a different way.
"Things improved when I scored my first goal, although I had no doubts that if I worked hard in training I could always score. I felt the support of the fans, my team-mates and the staff here, and that was really important to me.
"Getting off the mark against Coventry was a relief, and scoring at West Ham was another.
"That was really the beginning of my season - my 'good debut' if you like - and it launched things for me. After that I succeeded in playing well, scoring and making assists, and if I look at my ratio of minutes to goals it's pretty good.
"It's been an interesting few months but now I want to do more. I'm an Arsenal player and, rightly, expectations are high."
A hectic Christmas schedule, which begins in earnest soon, is part of any foreign player's integration into the English game. Giroud reveals, though, that he's already well acquainted with how this country celebrates the festive season.
"It's not actually my first time - I was here over Christmas two years ago, for a holiday, and enjoyed it very much despite the cold weather!" he said.
"The atmosphere was great, and you could see how important this time of year is to English people. My wife and I bought a tree and plenty of decorations the other day, so we'll be ready! Central London looks amazing with its lights and decorations at the moment, and it's lovely to see.
"Of course we have a game on Boxing Day so there won't be a holiday this year, but my family will come over to stay and we'll celebrate together. Family is important to me, so I'll be glad to see them."
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The EPA did investigate Hyundai for misleading mileage claims as well as Kia, and changes in fuel economy estimates are coming as a result of the investigation. Both Kia and Hyundai will be lowering the fuel economy estimates on the majority of their 2012 to 2013 models after EPA testing discovered discrepancies between its data and the company's data.
Hyundai and Kia admitted to overstating the estimated fuel economy on window stickers of about 900,000 vehicles sold since late 2010. The two automakers will reportedly spend millions of dollars to compensate owners for faulty claims of economy.
Hyundai will also have to retract its widely used claim that it leads the industry with four vehicle models able to get 40 mpg on the highway. That statement will be retracted because estimated highway economy on the 2013 Accent, Veloster, and Elantra are being reduced to below 40 mpg.
Some of the biggest losers include the Hyundai Accent and the all-new, redesigned 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. The Accent saw its 30/40/33 (city/highway/combined) rating drop to 28/37/31. The Santa Fe Sport (2WD) saw a huge drop in its highway rating, going from 21/31/25 (city/highway/combined) to 20/27/23.
Many of the mileage adjustments take Hyundai models from being class leaders to either middle-of-the-pack or lower.
On the Kia side of things, the Soul took the biggest hit as it saw its highway numbers drop by 6 mpg (35 mpg highway to 29 mpg highway).
Overstating fuel efficiency is a significant blunder by the two car companies because gas prices are up, and many people are shopping based on fuel economy claims by the manufacturer. The EPA notes that window sticker values have previously been reduced on only two vehicles sense 2000, so that makes Hyundai's folly even more egregious.
"Given the importance of fuel efficiency to all of us, we're extremely sorry about these errors," said Hyundai Motor America President and CEO John Krafcik. "We're going to make this right."
Krafcik blamed the inaccurate fuel efficiency claims on "procedural errors" in the fuel-economy testing methodology the company used. Hyundai-Kia's combined fleetwide fuel economy average declined from 27 MPG to 26 mpg for the 2012 model year working out to about a 3% reduction.
Krafcik added, "We've identified the source of the discrepancies between our prior testing method and the EPA's recommended approach."
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Reds are in such a great situation now. By July they'll have several options and a lot more visibility:
If Hamilton looks like he is the real deal, the Reds can shop Ryan Ludwick while negotiating with Shin-Soo Choo. Or they can let Choo walk (after making a qualifying offer of course to pick up the draft picks).
If Hamilton looks like he will not be ready for primetime in 2014 or after, the Reds can attempt to engage Choo in long-term talks. If he walks, collect the picks. If he signs, you could shop Hamilton or Ludwick.
Hell maybe Cozart sucks, Hamilton looks great and the Reds can re-sign Choo and move Hamilton back to SS- who knows?
Either way, great job Walt and great job Reds. Can't wait for ST!
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Go BLUE!!!
I mean, are we really complaining about the one weak bat in our lineup that still provides offensive pop and great defense?
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Center fielders
Rick Ankiel (33)
Michael Bourn (30) - declined qualifying offer
Josh Hamilton (32) - declined qualifying offer
Nyjer Morgan (32)
Scott Podsednik (37)
Grady Sizemore (30)
Andres Torres (35)
Might Walt+company sit back and see if the market allows for a late inning glove who hits lefties to come into the Reds' budget? It is kind of a shame, seeing as how Stubbs is exactly that guy.
But I wouldn't let that stop getting Choo!
I have a love-hate relationship with Albert Pujols. Mostly hate.
We should've drafted Lincecum
Go BLUE!!!
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
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No. Not after trade like this. D'backs have few options at SS RT @dougdirt24: Think Didi goes to AAA to start 2013?
Again, I am not against this trade. Simply saying that Cozart isn't exactly an ideal option either. He is a #8 hitter who isn't likely to improve on either side of the ball.
I have no concerns with who we gave up. Prospects like Gregorius and Stubbs like players are scratch offs. Sure you may regret dealing them once in a while, but you'll win in the long run in making deals like this.
The Reds are a good team. This is a good team trade.
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The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is installing mosaic ceramic panels on cement planters at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, west of the UC Davis central campus.
Diane Ullman and Donna Billick, co-founders and co-directors of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program and their associate, professional mosaic ceramic artist Mark Rivera of Davis, began installing the work, titled "Life in the Hive," on Thursday, May 30.
The newest addition joins two other mosaic ceramic-paneled plants. One showcases honey bees and bee friendly gardening, and the other focuses on plants and alternative pollinators, such as butterflies, bumble bees, carpenter bees, blue orchard bees, and metallic green sweat bees.
Students in the Entomology 1 class, taught by Diane Ullman, associate dean in the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and professor of entomology, and self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick, created the panels on all three of the once-barren cement planters.
The latest addition, "Life in the Hive," is the work of the spring-quarter Entomology 1 class. The students will gather in the haven on Saturday, June 1, to complete the installation. They will then discuss their work at a special event from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 4 in the haven.
"Life in the Hive," lettered with "Honey Bee Haven" and "Häagen Dazs," depicts the life cycle of the worker bee, queen bee, and drone. It also features a waggle dance, the queen bee and her retinue, and a newly emerged queen bee stinging and killing a competing queen ready to emerge from a cell. The art also depicts nurse bees, undertakers and foragers.
Another panel shows a "before" and "after" person: "before" when he was deathly frightened of bees, and "after," when he developed an appreciation for them.
The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program, launched in 1997, helps students reach across disciplines to learn science through art, and art through science, Ullman said. Each course focuses on key areas of biology, physics or environmental science and expressive art media, including ceramics, graphics, textiles, photography, poetry and music.
The haven is a year-around food source for bees and other pollinators and is designed to (1) raise public awareness about the plight of bees, and (2) to show visitors what they can plant in their own gardens. Part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, it is located just a few yards from the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility.
The garden is open to the public from dawn to dusk for self-guided tours. For guided tours (nominal fee involved), the contact person is Christine Casey at firstname.lastname@example.com.
You'll not only see honey bees in a bee observation hive, but specimens of bumble bees, cuckoo bees, carpenter bees, long-horned bees, squash bees, plasterer bees, mining bees, leafcutter bees, wool carder bees and sweat bees.
The exhibit is in the Southard Floriculture Building on the May Fair grounds, located at 655 S. First St., Dixon.
Participating are the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility and the Bohart Museum of Entomology, both part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology; and the newly formed UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, headquartered at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
Beekeeper Brian Fishback of Wilton, owner of BD Ranch and Apiary and a volunteer at the Laidlaw facility for several years, is providing the bee observation hive, a glassed-in box that enables viewers to observe the activity that goes on inside a bee hive.
Fishback, a past president of the Sacramento Area Beekeepers' Association and member of the California State Beekeepers' Association, is an educator as well as a beekeeper. He speaks about bees at schools, organizations and festivals. His daughter, Emily, 2, accompanies him on many of his talks.
"Emily loves bees," said Fishback, who keeps 125 hives on his property in Wilton. She knows that a bee has six legs, four wings and five eyes, and that each bee has three body parts: the head, thorax and abdomen. She knows that a honey bee eats pollen and nectar, pollinates flowers and makes honey."
UC Davis graduate students, including squash bee expert Katharina Ullmann and area beekeepers (among them Jesse Loren of Winters and Lindsay Weaver of Sacramento) will be available during part of the fair (weekend) to share their experiences with fairgoers.
Children attending the Dixon May Fair on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 12 can make a "Honey Bee on a Stick," an arts and crafts project that doubles as a hand-held fan and puppet. Executive director Amina Harris of the Honey and Pollination Center, an area beekeeper and a former school teacher, will help the children create the take-home art. The free activity is from from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Southard Floriculture Building. Harris crafts the bee art using a yellow paper plate, duct tape, googly eyes, a stick, and pipe cleaners (for antennae).
The Dixon May Fair's floriculture building, staffed by superintendent Kathy Hicks of Dixon, includes stunning garden displays and a myriad of plants and cut flowers. It is open from 4 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Trouble, indeed.
The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha hales), a native of Asia, was first discovered in the United States in Allentown, Penn., in 2000.
Since then, it's been making a big stink. Literally. It's a major agricultural threat that feeds on vegetables and fruit, says UC Davis associate entomologist/chemical entomologist Jeffrey Aldrich. USDA has estimated $21 billion worth of crops are at risk. This includes apples, peaches, tomatoes, grapes, cotton, corn, green peppers, soybeans and other crops.
Aldrich also calls it a "pervasive residential nuisance." It may select your home as its wintering site, creating an infestation. That prompted The New York Times to declare "Move Over Bedbugs: Stink Bugs Have Landed."
Aldrich will discuss the insect's invasion and its semiochemistry at the UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar on Wednesday, May 1, from 12:05 to 1 p.m. in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives. Professor Frank Zalom and Ph.D candidate Kelly Hamby of the Zalom lab are the hosts.
Aldrich will describe the history of the discovery; its subsequent spread across the country; and also detail the discovery of the bug's chemical communication system and ongoing pheromone commercialization efforts. He then will present results of laboratory experiments using native egg parasitoids exposed to the stink bug eggs.
An expert on BMSB, Aldrich established that the insect in the U.S. is cross-attracted to the pheromone of a congeneric species; he facilitated commercialization of this cross-attractant lure; and he led the team that identified the pheromone of the BMSB. The research is potentially useful in systems to mass trap and/or attract-and-kill BMSB.
Aldrich's 40-year career on insect chemical ecology has taken him to Brazil, Australia, Japan and Italy. He served as a research entomologist for the U.S. Department of Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, from 1980 to 2011, including five years as a laboratory research leader (1999-2004).
His work has been published in such journals as Science, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Chemoecology, and Environmental Entomology. He also travels around the nation and world, presenting lectures at technical organizations, universities, government agencies, and to lay groups.
A member of the Entomological Society of America since 1972, Aldrich is a past president of both the International Society of Chemical Ecology and the Entomological Society of Washington, D.C., and was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Ecology in 2009.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Discovery, U.S. News and World Report, and Organic Gardener have interviewed him about his work. In addition, he's been interviewed by a number of radio and TV stations in the United States and Brazil.
The May 1 seminar should be a real eye-opener about a major agricultural pest that continues to invade the United States. If you miss the seminar, plans call for video-recording the seminar for later posting on UCTV Seminars website.
Decisions, decisions...
Where's the best spot for the new residents of my garden?
I acquired two ladybugs last Saturday during the 99th annual UC Davis Picnic Day. Background: as part of the campuswide celebration, the Department of Entomology annually hosts an all-out bugfest at the Bohart Museum of Entomology and at Briggs Hall. And keeping with the Briggs Hall tradition, the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program gifted picnickers with the treasured ladybugs.
Now ladybugs aren't really "bugs"; they're beetles. Neither are they all "ladies"; some have manly qualities. (Gender issues may confuse us, but not the lady and gentlemen beetles.)
A ladybug is a good beneficial insect. It can devour an estimated 5000 aphids in its lifetime (three to six weeks).
So, every year for the past several years, I've adopted two ladybugs, chauffered them home, and tucked them in our garden. "Please eat the aphids," I tell them.
And they do.
They're good at following instructions.
Last year they took up residence in a bed of red roses. This year, they're coming up in the world--a high rise. A tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) is "home sweet home."
Life doesn't get any better than this if you're a ladybug (and any worse if you're an aphid).
So says David Goulson, professor at the University of Stirling, U.K., who will speak on "The Ecology and Conservation of Bumble Bees" on Wednesday, April 24 at a UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar.
His seminar, set from 12:05 to 1 p.m. in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives, promises to be well attended. It is scheduled to be videotaped and broadcast at a later date on UCTV.
UC Davis pollination ecologist/assistant professor Neal Williams will host him.
"I will discuss the main causes of their declines, which probably vary between regions," said Goulson, who founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006.
"In Europe, the primary driver is thought to be habitat loss and other changes associated with intensive farming," Goulson said. "In the Americas, declines of some species are likely to be due to impacts of non-native diseases.
"I will then turn to possible links between poor bee health and pesticides, particularly a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. A controversy is currently raging on both sides of the Atlantic; I will give my view on the evidence for environmental impacts of these pesticides."
Goulson works mainly on the ecology and conservation of bumble bees. He has published more than 200 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of insects, with a particular focus on bumble bees. He is the author of Bumblebees: Their Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation, published in 2010 by Oxford University Press, and of A Sting in the Tale, a popular science book about bumble bees, published in 2013 by Jonathan Cape.
Goulson received his bachelor's degree in biology from Oxford University, followed by a doctorate on butterfly ecology at Oxford Brookes University. Subsequently, he lectured in biology for 11 years at the University of Southampton, before moving to Stirling in 2006, and then to Sussex in 2013.
Meanwhile, what's not to like about bumble bees? The dwindling population of many species...


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The UK newspaper, Guardian, posed several comments from American opponents of the British National Health Service and asked for their response.
Republican claim: Ted Kennedy, age 77 would not be treated for his brain tumor if he was in the UK because he is too old.
Reality: The Department of Health responded: "There is no ban on anyone of any age receiving any treatment. Whether to prescribe drugs or recommended surgery is rightly a clinical decision taken on a case by case basis."
Government health officials have decided that $22,750 is what six months' life is worth. If the treatment costs more, you are out of luck.
Reality: The National Institute of Health And Clinical Experience (NICE) responded: "This is a gross misrepresentation of how NICE applies health economics to try and address the central issue: how to allocate healthcare rationally within the context of limited health care resources… The current ceiling is $50,000 but exceptions are made"
My comment: Do Republicans deny that American health insurance companies often deny costly medical procedures?
Claim: No one over 59 years of age cannot receive heart repairs, stents, or bypass surgery because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed.
Reality: Totally untrue. Professor Peter Wiessberg of the British Heart Foundation says growing numbers of patients over 65 are having surgery, including valve repairs and heart bypass surgery. The average age at which people have a bypass operation has risen from 58 in 1991 to 66 in 2008.
Claim: The British NHS system 'does not allow" women under 30 to receive screening for cervical cancer.
Reality: Women are invited to attend for cervical cancer screening from age 20 upwards.
And so on and so on. Of course, in nations like the Netherlands which have health insurance for all people life expectancy is higher than in America.


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'Buffalo has 10 prospects wrapping up their CHL seasons. Paul Byron and Tyler Ennis are elite scorers, while Tyler Myers and T.J. Brennan exert their wills on defense. Myers in particular took a big step forward by adding muscle and grit to his smooth skating, lanky frame. Other prospects like Luke Adam, Jacob Lagace, and Drew Scheistel had very solid seasons, and with continued progression should ultimately become NHL players.'
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Wash. Post lets Palin mislead readers on climate change
On December 9, The Washington Post published an op-ed by Sarah Palin calling on President Obama to boycott the Copenhagen conference, which advanced several debunked claims about what recently stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia "reveal" about the scientific consensus on man-made climate change, including the claims that climate scientists "manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals." Palin also claimed that "we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes."
From Palin's December 9 Washington Post op-ed [1]:
"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.
The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals. What's more, the documents show that there was no real consensus even within the CRU crowd. Some scientists had strong doubts about the accuracy of estimates of temperatures from centuries ago, estimates used to back claims that more recent temperatures are rising at an alarming rate.
That's not to say I deny the reality of some changes in climate -- far from it. I saw the impact of changing weather patterns firsthand while serving as governor of our only Arctic state. I was one of the first governors to create a subcabinet to deal specifically with the issue and to recommend common-sense policies to respond to the coastal erosion, thawing permafrost and retreating sea ice that affect Alaska's communities and infrastructure.
But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs.
CLAIM: Scientists "manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures"
REALITY: "Decline" refers to unreliable tree-ring data, not actual temperatures. A November 26 article [2] in The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported that Penn State scientist Michael Mann "said his trick, or 'trick of the trade,' for the Nature chart was to combine data from tree-ring measurements, which record world temperatures from 1,000 years ago until 1960, with actual temperature readings for 1961 through 1998" because "scientists have discovered that, for temperatures since 1960, tree rings have not been a reliable indicator." In a November 20 post, RealClimate.org [3]'s staff [4], which is comprised of several working climate scientists, including Mann, similarly stated [5]:
As for the 'decline', it is well known that Keith Briffa's maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the "divergence problem"-see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper [6]) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while 'hiding' is probably a poor choice of words (since it is 'hidden' in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand why this happens.
CLAIM: Scientists "tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals"
REALITY: Mann's email cited specific paper that Climate Research editors and publisher conceded should not have been published. Although Palin does not cite specific emails to support her claim, critics have frequently pointed to a March 11, 2003, email [7] in which Mann wrote that a paper by astrophysicists Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas "couldn't have cleared a 'legitimate' peer review process anywhere. That leaves only one possibility -- that the peer-review process at Climate Research has been hijacked by a few skeptics on the editorial board." Mann further stated, "I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board..." Contrary to Palin's suggestion that Mann targeted the journal because it published work of his "critics," The Washington Post itself previously reported [8] that the email suggested a boycott of Climate Research "because it had agreed to publish a paper they viewed as flawed." Indeed, The New York Times reported [9] on August 5, 2003, that the Soon-Baliunas paper "has been heavily criticized by many scientists, including several of the journal editors. The editors said last week that whether or not the conclusions were correct, the analysis was deeply flawed." The Times further noted that the "publisher of the journal, Dr. Otto Kinne, and an editor who recently became editor in chief, Dr. Hans von Storch, both said that in retrospect the paper should not have been published as written" and that von Storch resigned, "saying he disagreed with the peer-review policies":
Advocates for cuts in emissions and scientists who hold the prevailing view on warming said the hearing backfired. It proved more convincingly, they said, that the skeptical scientists were a fringe element that had to rely increasingly on industry money and peripheral scientific journals to promote their work.
The hearing featured Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a co-author of a study, with Dr. Sallie Baliunas, also an astrophysicist at the center, that said the 20th-century warming trend was unremarkable compared with other climate shifts over the last 1,000 years.
But the Soon-Baliunas paper, published in the journal Climate Research this year, has been heavily criticized by many scientists, including several of the journal editors. The editors said last week that whether or not the conclusions were correct, the analysis was deeply flawed.
The publisher of the journal, Dr. Otto Kinne, and an editor who recently became editor in chief, Dr. Hans von Storch, both said that in retrospect the paper should not have been published as written. Dr. Kinne defended the journal and its process of peer review, but distanced himself from the paper.
"I have not stood behind the paper by Soon and Baliunas," he wrote in an e-mail message. "Indeed: the reviewers failed to detect methodological flaws."
Dr. von Storch, who was not involved in overseeing the paper, resigned last week, saying he disagreed with the peer-review policies.
The Senate hearing also focused new scrutiny on Dr. Soon and Dr. Baliunas's and ties to advocacy groups. The scientists also receive income as senior scientists for the George C. Marshall Institute, a Washington group that has long fought limits on gas emissions. The study in Climate Research was in part underwritten by $53,000 from the American Petroleum Institute, the voice of the oil industry.
Mann: "I support the publication of 'skeptical' papers that meet the basic standards of scientific quality and merit." In response to the controversy surrounding the emails, Mann said [10] that his email "[w]as in response to a very specific incident regarding a paper by Soon and Baliunas published in the journal 'Climate Research.' " Mann further stated: "I support the publication of 'skeptical' papers that meet the basic standards of scientific quality and merit. I myself have published scientific work that has been considered by some as representing a skeptical point of view on matters relating to climate change."
CLAIM: "[W]e can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes"
REALITY: IPCC found greater than 90 percent chance that most of temperature increase over 50 years is due to human-caused greenhouse gas concentrations. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder noted [11] Palin's "conflation here of 'weather' and climate; it's ridiculous to try and change the weather, of course -- weather is so variable and unpredictable. What the Copenhagen negotiators want to change is humanity's contribution to global climate change." As Joseph Romm stated [12] on ClimateProgress.org in reponse to Palin's assertion, "In fact, we can say with assurance that man's activities cause the very climate change she points to -- thawing permafrost and retreating sea ice. That is precisely what the IPCC's [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] 2007 review of the scientific literature concluded, that there is a better than 90% chance humans are the cause of most of the recent warming." Indeed, the IPCC's 2007 "Synthesis Report [13]" concluded [14] that "[w]arming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level" and that [15] "[m]ost of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [defined in the report as a ">90%" chance] due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human-caused] GHG [greenhouse gas] concentrations." Indeed, the Post itself reported [16] that the panel, "made up of hundreds of scientists from 113 countries, said that based on new research over the last six years, it is 90 percent certain that human-generated greenhouse gases account for most of the global rise in temperatures over the past half-century." The IPCC report also specifically rebuts the suggestion that natural causes are primarily responsible for global warming in the last 50 years:
The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely [less than 5 percent chance] that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing and very likely that it is not due to known natural causes alone. During this period, the sum of solar and volcanic forcings would likely [greater than 66 percent chance] have produced cooling, not warming.
IPCC: "Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC." The IPCC, which is a scientific body established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, has established [17] that "[w]arming of the climate system is unequivocal." The IPCC "reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide," and its reports are the product [18] of contributions from "[t]housands of scientists from all over the world."
IPCC chair: "[T]horoughness and the duration of the process" eliminates "any possibility of omissions or distortions." In a statement on the reported theft of the CRU emails, IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri stated that "the I.P.C.C. as a body follows impartial, open and objective assessment of every aspect of climate change carried out with complete transparency" and that "[t]he entire report writing process of the I.P.C.C. is subjected to extensive and repeated review by experts as well as governments." From Pachauri's statement [19]:
It is unfortunate that an illegal act of accessing private email communications between scientists who have been involved as authors in I.P.C.C. assessments in the past has led to several questions and concerns. It is important for me to clarify that the I.P.C.C. as a body follows impartial, open and objective assessment of every aspect of climate change carried out with complete transparency. IPCC relies entirely on peer reviewed literature in carrying out its assessment and follows a process that renders it unlikely that any peer reviewed piece of literature, however contrary to the views of any individual author, would be left out. The entire report writing process of the I.P.C.C. is subjected to extensive and repeated review by experts as well as governments. Consequently, there is at every stage full opportunity for experts in the field to draw attention to any piece of literature and its basic findings that would ensure inclusion of a wide range of views. There is, therefore, no possibility of exclusion of any contrarian views, if they have been published in established journals or other publications which are peer reviewed.
In summary, no individual or small group of scientists is in a position to exclude a peer-reviewed paper from an I.P.C.C. assessment. Likewise, individuals and small groups have no ability to emphasize a result that is not consistent with a range of studies, investigations, and approaches. Every layer in the process (including large author teams, extensive review, independent monitoring of review compliance, and plenary approval by governments) plays a major role in keeping I.P.C.C. assessments comprehensive, unbiased, open to the identification of new literature, and policy relevant but not policy prescriptive.
The unfortunate incident that has taken place through illegal hacking of the private communications of individual scientists only highlights the importance of I.P.C.C. procedures and practices and the thoroughness by which the Panel carries out its assessment. This thoroughness and the duration of the process followed in every assessment ensure the elimination of any possibility of omissions or distortions, intentional or accidental.
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2004-2007 Cadillac CTS-V Performance Mods Discussion, Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy in Cadillac CTS-V Series Forum - 2004 - 2007; Ok so i meant to update this, i talked to one of the guys at corse (I had to call ...
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
Ok so i meant to update this, i talked to one of the guys at corse (I had to call them back they didnt call me back like promised) and they basically said no to a group buy, which is IMHO crazy, they seem to have bad customer service, maybe thunder racing can figure something out, but im done dealing with them
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
Heck, I say since BB has a group buy already set up that they offered, everyone should jump in there!
Just my .019999999 cents
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Just got back from vacation, count me in on the exhaust.
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I'm buying an exhaust, but which one should I buy? Corsa or Billy Boat? Thoughts?
I'm not Mr. Fast and Furious. I've heard the Corsa system will be very LOUD!
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
If you want it now, the answer is easy - B&B. If you want to wait a *insert redicously long time here* and not affect factory warranty - Corsa.
Both are quality systems, similar price, etc. Really can't go wrong with either one.
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
I personally rock the BB on my cts, i think it looks nicer then the same system on the corsa......itll come down to you, after the way they treated me, i wont purchase from the corsa...
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Corsa is looking to be a little more expensive than the $899 offered I believe. Which is still a lot compared to similar Borla systems for the Z06. Any idea why our mark-up is so high? Must be due to the fact they know we are all snobs.
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
I have been emailing Jim Jr at Corsa about a system since I first bought my car. I even went to their facility to see the very early prototype system that they were about to install on their V. He has kept me updated on the progress of the system. Their first several attempts had the wrong tuning and had some resonance issues at varying speeds. In his recent (yesterday and today) emails, he has shed some light on what is happening with this system.
From yesterday...
"It looks like our CTS-V system will be ready around September 15th.
I should be ready to take orders in the next week or so
The car sounds AWESOME!!! We will just have one sound level with our 4 Pro-Series tips. The system does have an H-pipe behind the center muffler."
From today...
"This new system requires 13 new stampings for the guts inside the muffler it is just taking longer to get the tooling made to stamp these parts. Believe me; I would love to have had this system done now and shipping!!!!
As you know, we have been working very hard to get the car quiet inside with no interior drone; which we have done. The tuning of this car is very sensitive. If the total length of the system is off, it effects the tuning and you will have some drone inside the car We did not want to deliver a system that did not meet our and your expectations!!!
If they build a 3 system, I would be concerned about too much heat around the rear diff., this could really cook this thing. Even the Cadillac engineers warned us about this.
At WOT, the car sounds AWESOME!!! Around town, it has a nice deep note; nothing crazy it is still a Cadillac and not a Corvette. I saw a comment from some one that said the car is very loud .Not sure how any one would know what our production system is going to sound like, no one has one yet
The pricing has not been finalized yet I will see what I can do to get the price nailed down for everyone. Not sure if we have all of the cost in from the vendors to get the price set.
The group purchase stuff .we have never been a big fan of. If we do it, we take this business away from our dealers who are supporting us and selling our products. I dont think that would go over to well with them if we are selling direct and competing with them for the same customer, I dont think they would be to happy with us.
We are doing the best we can right now I hope people know that. Im sorry this has not happened as fast as everyone would have liked, but when the final system hits the street, I will be worth the wait!!!
Customers can buy direct from Corsa .We just sell at our retail price.
I think the guys are looking for big discount in a GP, and our dealers would not like to see us doing that taking customers away from them.
I told the guy that called that I would pick up the shipping charges but if they want more than that .a dealer should really handle this, like Thunder Racing."
I have already told Jim to put me on the order list long ago. I wanted to share this info with the forum so that people know the other side of the story.
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
Billy Boat is offering an exhaust system for $895 (limited time). The Corsa system lists at $1195 and Mallett's custom version is another $100-$200 on top of that. Price wise, the Billy Boat system seems the logical choice... Why Corsa? Is it worth 50% - 67% more?
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Not saying I would personally wait for the Corsa, but if 1 voids your warranty and the other doesn't it could be worth more, if 1 has more better performance over the other it could be worth more, if 1 sounds better than the other it could be worth more, so the answer to your question is YES, it could be worth the extra cost. Not sure how you came up with 60% more though. $900 compared to $1200 is 33% I think.
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buyOriginally Posted by GNSCOTT
And we're both right! My lower number should have been 33% , but my upper number was based upon the Mallett version of the Corsa system for $1495 which is 67% more.
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
Aftermarket bigger wheels and tires to me are more of a potential warranty issue due to the stresses they place on wheel bearings, control arms, half-shafts, etc. Especially if they are not the factory offset.
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Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buyOriginally Posted by StealthV
Re: Trying to organize corsa exhaust group buy
Give me 3" or give me death. Need that volumetric flow rate for the supercharger....
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I'm thinking the 3" inch exhaust will offset the difference in the 10" wide wheels I have on the back Just a theory.
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