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CropLife America Inspires Debate on the Shifting Culture of Modern Agriculture
CropLife America Inspires Debate on the Shifting Culture of Modern Agriculture
Fifth Annual National Policy Conference Facilitates Deliberation on Direction of Agricultural Industry
WASHINGTON, DC – CropLife America (CLA), the national trade association representing the developers, manufacturers and distributors of crop protection products, hosted its fifth annual National Policy Conference (NPC) on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
CLA used this year's NPC, titled "The Devolution of AgriCULTURE," to instigate a thoughtful and balanced discussion among farmers and ranchers, media and industry representatives on the future of agriculture and its ability to adapt to meet consumer, environmental and regulatory demands. Nearly 300 individuals attended this year's NPC, which featured leading figures from agriculture, media, industry and sustainability, each bringing unique perspectives and inspiring an impartial yet passionate debate on key industry issues.
"The National Policy Conference continues to serve as a forum where individuals from many different backgrounds can openly express their views related to agricultural policy and the agricultural industry at-large," noted Jay Vroom, CLA's president and CEO. "With this year's theme, we were excited to explore the changing agricultural landscape through the viewpoints of farmers, members of the media, business leaders and sustainability advocates. The issues discussed during the National Policy Conference are relevant not only to policymakers and influencers in Washington, but to everyone impacted by the ongoing evolution of the agriculture industry."
Vern Hawkins, chairman of CLA's board of directors and president and North America regional director for Syngenta Crop Protection, addressed the crowd during the event. "The 2014 National Policy Conference invites many voices in agriculture to come together and discuss opportunities to bridge the gaps between consumers, farmers and the food industry," said Hawkins. "It is inspiring to be part of the ongoing conversation among representatives from agriculture, media, industry and sustainability."
Education was a key theme articulated by several of the panelists. "When you're more involved in food production, you shop differently. One of the most important things the ag community can do moving forward is to better educate the consuming public on some of the key issues facing the industry," said Jesse Hirsch, senior staff writer, Modern Farmer. Jenny Hopkinson, food and agricultural reporter, POLITICO Pro, echoed this notion and called upon the media to help close the gap. "For a long time consumers were calling for affordable food, so this was created. Now consumers have that but want to know what's in it. There's a lot at stake and as journalists we have to tell both sides of the story."
Seth Goldman, president and TeaEO of Honest Tea, summed up the event as one that can help move the industry forward. "A lot of times conferences like this feature people patting themselves on the back and congratulating themselves," he said. "This gathering is different in that it invites open dialogue and transparency that's hard to find. This sort of transparency can really be a catalyst for change." The conference is one of many CLA initiatives underway to continue to offer transparency on issues facing the agricultural industry.
Moderated by Ali Velshi, host, "Real Money with Ali Velshi," Al Jazeera America, panelists included Seth Goldman, president and TeaEO, Honest Tea; Megan Brown, West Coast blogger and 6th-generation cattle rancher; Delores "Dee Dee" Darden, Virginia farmer; Jesse Hirsch, senior staff writer, Modern Farmer; Beth Hoffman, blogger, Forbes and professor, University of San Francisco; Jenny Hopkinson, food and agriculture reporter, POLITICO Pro; Michele Simon, president, Eat Drink Politics; Moira Mcdonald, senior program officer, Environment Focus Area, Walton Family Foundation; Sean McMahon, North America agriculture program director, The Nature Conservancy; and Rod Snyder, president, Field to Market, The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture.


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- Democratic institutions (since 1949)
- Best social indicators in the region: education and health
- Services and cutting-edge industries (pharmaceuticals, microprocessors) attractive to FDI
- Diversified trade, thanks to multiple trade agreements
- Tourism resources: hotels, national parks
- Unsustainable public accounts
- Exposed to natural disasters
- Inadequate transport infrastructure
- Dependent on the United States, both economically (FDI, exports) and financially (banks)
- Lack of skilled workforce; unreported work
- High income inequalities
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Growth supported by domestic demand but still below its potential
Growth in 2019 will be driven mainly by vibrant private consumption (64.2% of GDP in 2017), which will benefit from reduced political uncertainty following the presidential election in February 2018 and the vote on the first phase of the public accounts reform in December 2018. However, renewed opposition to the fiscal reform could undermine consumer confidence. Alternatively, failure to go ahead with further reforms would cause the colón to depreciate sharply, pushing up inflationary pressures. However, action by the central bank should make it possible to contain inflation within the target range (2%-4%), with the adoption of a tighter monetary policy (the key interest rate was hiked in October 2018 from 5% to 5.25%). Success will depend on the de-dollarisation of the economy (27% of bank loans in US dollars, 17% of GDP in mid-2018). Public consumption is expected to continue to be constrained by the size of the deficit. The fragile public finances will also be a drag on investor confidence. In addition, the government's heavy dependence on domestic financing is expected to prolong the crowding-out effect on private investment, as the bond market is still largely dominated by government bonds (USD 21.7 billion in October 2017). In addition, the financial system remains very fragile, lacking a comprehensive legal framework and a liquid secondary market for government bonds. Tourism and construction are set to attract new investment, mainly in private residential and non-residential projects, while other services, particularly telecommunications, will also grow briskly. Finally, the agricultural sector should get a lift from the recovery in banana production, which was hard hit by weather conditions in 2018, as well as in other agricultural products in response to rising external demand from the likes of China, Chile, and Peru.
Public finances in an alarming state that could affect the external accounts
The public accounts feature a very large structural deficit. Revenues are insufficient to finance the sharply increasing expenditures, with an ever-growing share going towards servicing the country's exploding public debt. The social security system is especially fragile. Without reform, revenues will be lower than total expenditure from 2023 onwards, making it necessary to tap into reserves that will run out by 2030. After many previous attempts foundered due to the lack of political agreement, a much contested initial tax reform was approved in December 2018. The new law introduced a 13% VAT to replace the sales tax of the same amount, along with a lower rate for basic necessities. A reform of capital taxation, eliminating exemptions, and caps on wage increases for civil servants were also introduced. Under the new fiscal rule, increases in current expenditure will be linked to changes in the debt-to-GDP ratio, and no project will be approved without financing. However, broader reforms remain necessary to ensure the sustainability of public debt on a long-term basis.
The external accounts are in better shape. Exports are expected to perform strongly on increased external demand for capital goods (particularly medical devices) and agricultural goods (pineapples, bananas). However, this increase will not offset the growth in imports (trade deficit equal to 8.5% of GDP in 2017) driven by demand for capital goods and commodities (notably hydrocarbons). The balance of services, which shows a surplus thanks to tourism revenues (surplus of 9% of GDP in 2017), will not be enough to balance the current account, which will remain in deficit owing to the repatriation of corporate dividends. The country's external financing remains secured by FDI. Nevertheless, the weak public accounts constitute a risk that is exerting downward pressure on the colón (the currency's value fell by 9% between August and November 2018), prompting the central bank to draw on its foreign exchange reserves (4.9 months of imports in the first half of 2018) to provide support.
A fragmented political landscape amid the need for reform
Carlos Alvaro Quesada, representing the Partido de Acción Ciudadana (PAC), won the presidential elections of February 2018, beating out evangelical candidate Fabricio Alvaro of the Partido de Restauración Nacional (PRN). Given how fragmented the Parliament is (seven parties sharing the 57 seats and the PAC holding just ten), he will have to compromise to carry out any legislative projects. In this context, the fight against crime and money laundering rings linked to drug trafficking, as well as the reform of public finances, will remain priorities for the government.
The business environment will continue to be affected by infrastructure deficiencies (transport and telecommunications in particular) and relatively high energy costs (electricity).
In terms of international relations, the priority will continue to be OECD membership, as well as the establishment of free trade agreements with China and South Korea.
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"The big lie"? The "big lie" is a lie that has "a certain force of credibility" precisely because it is so big:
[T]he broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.Those aren't Feingold's words. Those are the words of Adolf Hitler, which Feingold evoked when he used the historically resonant expression "the big lie." In accusing his opponents of employing "the big lie," Feingold is likening them to Hitler.
Let me remind you that the Wisconsin protesters have been equating Scott Walker with Hitler since last winter. From last March, here's a protester explaining why Scott Walker is like Hitler. Here's another explanation, from a woman with a sign portraying Scott Walker as Hitler. Here's a photo I took last February. I vividly remember this woman:
I asked her if she thought Scott Walker was like Hitler...
... and she said "Yes." So I said, "Are you saying that you think fascism could come to America," and she said, "It's what's happening."Russ Feingold is a very intelligent and informed man. His allusion to Hitler is subtle, not — I think — accidental. He's sounding the deep chord. His speech continues:
"How can they even say it with a straight face? This movement is so grass-roots, so red-and-white Wisconsin, that it is absolutely ridiculous to say that."Can you look at this picture of a truck parked on the Capitol Square during yesterday's rally and maintain a straight face?
It says: "Kentucky/West Virginia/Indiana." (And here's a golden oldie from last March: "Chicago is up in the house... Everyone left is from Chicago.")
Feingold continues:
Now, we've got a great football team. They may not be #1, except for a couple little problems there, but they're darned close, but when it comes to grass-roots activism that is all Badger, we are #1.All right. Quite aside from the truth of the assertion that the recall movement is totally in-state and grass-roots, how can he say "Now, we've got a great football team. They may not be #1"? We've got a great football team that is most certainly #1, but it's not in Madison, Wisconsin. It's in Green Bay. You can even hear an audience member yell out "Two!" in a prompt that Feingold could have heard. But it's a Madison, Wisconsin crowd, and Feingold is Madison-focused. He used the expression "red-and-white Wisconsin" as if the colors of the University of Wisconsin—Madison were the state colors. Red-and-white Wisconsin? What about green-gold-and-white Wisconsin? Feingold is unwittingly displaying that he is out of touch with the rest of the state — which voted him out of the U.S. Senate in 2010, despite his vast popularity in Madison.
And this is the state that voted in Scott Walker. The people of Madison never supported him, but they weren't in synch with the majority of the state in 2010. Now, it's a year later, and the people of Madison want to force another election, using the recall mechanism from the Wisconsin constitution, which doesn't limit the reasons why we might recall a governor. Russ Feingold addressed the question of when recalls are justified:
Our law says you can be recalled if you simply attack the people of the State of Wisconsin, and that is what this is all about.The state constitution says no such thing. "Attack the people"? It is for us, the people of Wisconsin, to decide when and why we want to use the recall device. There's no attack-the-people standard, whatever that's supposed to mean. Feingold attempts to infuse meaning into his made-up standard:
Now, I'm going to be the first to say I don't believe you should do recalls just any old time. I don't think that's a good idea. I think it could be damaging.I agree!
For example, I don't think it would be a valid basis to recall Walker because he ruined our chances to have a railroad system. I mean that was totally dumb. It was $800 million from the federal government that he just threw away.He just threw it away. Isn't it shocking to think of federal money like that? The federal government is deeply in debt. There is no money to throw away. Once the federal government offers money for some specific purpose it may seem to acquire reality, and if you are completely fixated on what you want for yourself, you may think, I'd better snap that up now or I'm going to lose it, but that's a delusion. There is no money. And if we'd taken the money for the railroad line (to connect Madison to Milwaukee), we would have been on the hook — as a state — for endless additional expenses over the years.
But according to Feingold, the railroad "was our future." It's not right to recall Scott Walker over that, however, Feingold says, because "he said he was going to do that." (That is true. It's why I voted for Walker.) What Walker didn't say, and what is therefore the reason to recall him, Feingold says, "was that he was going to go at the basic collective bargaining rights and voting rights of every citizen in this state. That's a big deal. That goes to the foundation of who we are."
Now, Walker didn't go after "the basic collective bargaining rights... of every citizen in this state." He only went after some of the collective bargaining rights of some public employees. And he didn't go after the "voting rights of every citizen in this state" — only the "rights" of citizens who haven't yet acquired a state-issued photo ID.
But Feingold is stirring up the crowd. And the fact is, he's a great speaker. He ends: "Where do I sign?" and signs a recall petition.
Our recall procedure requires an election with an opposition candidate, and what's the point of going through the collection of all these signatures unless the governor can be ousted? Who will oppose Scott Walker? The only candidate with a real chance, it seems, is Russ Feingold, but Russ says he's not running. That's what he's saying now, before the signatures are collected. I happen to believe that if there is a recall election, Feingold will run. But that is a subject for another post.


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Nature Climate Change's most recent issue included a paper by Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows entitled, "A new paradigm for climate change" [subs. req'd]. Kevin works at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Mechanical Civil and Aerospace Engineering and Alice works at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, School of Mechanical Civil and Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester. The discussion and arguments in the paper aren't exactly novel if you've paid attention to the policy side of the climate change topic but bears examination as much as other works on the climate-policy interface, in which I am very interested.
I think the paper has some serious flaws in its assumptions, which detracts from the policy prescriptions offered. Prime among the flaws is this:
We urgently need to acknowledge that the development needs of many countries leave the rich western nations with little choice but to immediately and severely curb their greenhouse gas emissions
The latter part of this statement simply will not happen, barring additional severe economic distress. The first part represents progress from the scientific community: developing nations want and deserve higher living standards, of which energy is a primary input. But developed nations cannot and will not "immediately and severely curb their greenhouse gas emissions". There is a choice that these nations make every day: their own economies will grow and they will do so with the cheapest energy possible.
The U.S. recently achieved something through price signals that scientists and environmentalists have failed to achieve via policy for a generation: a significant reduction in overall CO2 emissions: 7.7% since 2006, the largest reduction of all countries or regions. This is after Congress failed to get a climate-energy bill passed in 2010. Why did the decrease occur? Because old coal-fired plants (the most polluting type) grew much more uneconomical to operate in the past few years compared to natural gas-fired plants. There is a problem moving forward and that is there is nothing substantially cheaper than natural gas on the scale necessary to further reduce U.S. emissions. Effectively, there is a new baseline from which the U.S. will operate for the next generation. But natural gas, as most readers are familiar, still pollutes far more than renewable energy sources. So U.S. emissions will continue to be quite high and more CO2 will accumulate in the atmosphere.
Despite the early flawed assumption, the papers' authors quite correctly state the following:
[…]any contextual interpretation of the science demonstrates that the threshold of 2°C [increase in average global temperatures] is no longer viable, at least within orthodox political and economic constraints. Against this backdrop, unsubstantiated hope leaves such constraints unquestioned, while at the same time legitimizing a focus on increasingly improbable low-carbon futures and underplaying high-emission scenarios.
I have written many times on the false hope that low- and moderate-emission pathways represent (given the unfortunate reality that our actual emissions are on a substantially different orientation) and lamented that even climate scientists misdirected their energies by rarely analyzing high-emission scenarios, thereby depriving policymakers with the required scope of potential futures from which we choose.
The authors do present this somewhat accurate portrayal:
At the same time as climate change analyses are being subverted to reconcile them with the orthodoxy of economic growth, neoclassical economics has evidently failed to keep even its own house in order. This failure is not peripheral. It is prolonged, deep-rooted and disregards national boundaries, raising profound issues about the structures, values and framing of contemporary society.
Rather than demonizing neoclassical economics, the authors should look for opportunities within such a framework that would actually result in emissions reductions. But the authors' do identify issues that really do lie at the heart of climate policy: the values of contemporary society. If those values were more robustly analyzed and respected for what they were as a foundation to climate policy, we would have made meaningful progress on the issue.
The lack of such effort is evident in one of the authors' concluding paragraphs:
It is in this rapidly evolving context that the science underpinning climate change is being conducted and its findings communicated. This is an opportunity that should and must be grasped. Liberate the science from the economics, finance and astrology, stand by the conclusions however uncomfortable. But this is still not enough. In an increasingly interconnected world where the whole — the system — is often far removed from the sum of its parts, we need to be less afraid of making academic judgements. Not unsubstantiated opinions and prejudice, but applying a mix of academic rigour, courage and humility to bring new and interdisciplinary insights into the emerging era. Leave the market economists to fight among themselves over the right price of carbon — let them relive their groundhog day if they wish. The world is moving on and we need to have the audacity to think differently and conceive of alternative futures.
This thrown gauntlet is full of high-minded rhetoric but short on grasping the realities of the world. I don't know of any climate scientist who is afraid of making academic judgements. But it is folly to accuse skeptics of unsubstantiated opinions and prejudice when advocates for climate activism also display their own set of opinions and prejudice – those opinion and prejudices arise through psychological lenses which themselves are rooted in biological constructs. Insulting one another has done and will continue to not to anything to solve this problem. Nobody has the "truth" market cornered. The "new" paradigm championed by the authors bears remarkable resemblance to other recommendations from legions of climate activists before them. What has such a stance accomplished? Emissions continue to grow, concentrations continue to accumulate, temperatures continue to rise, etc.
Many of the same people who rail against unsubstantiated opinions and prejudice also vehemently dismiss new articulated paradigms. I see nothing in this paper, or many others like it, that advocate for the rapid growth of developing economies based on 21st century technologies and innovations, even though such an effort is clearly needed while developed nations work at finding ways to decarbonize their own economies. Quite simply, this is the least expensive path forward – it leverages opportunity within the economic framework in which we operate. It strikes me as senseless to continue the same fight that has not achieved meaningful decarbonization in the last two generations.


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My Life, Games and CompositionsProduct Code: B0005SI
Publisher: Siles Press
Author: Pal Benko & Jeremy Silman
Year of Publication: 2005
Pages: 667
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Book DescriptionGrandmaster Pal Benko is a chess legend: A challenger for the World Championship, an innovator of many modern opening systems, a problem composer par excellence, and a father figure to his close friend Bobby Fischer, Benko has played and defeated most of the top players of the last fifty years. This biography is a celebration of a great man's creative legacy. Its amazing collection of 138 deeply annotated games which have been carefully prepared to be entertaining, enlightening, and instructive is brought to life by Benko's memoirs of his early years in war-torn Hungary, a world of poverty, chaos, pain, and ultimately, personal triumph. His insights into famous grandmasters transform legends into real people with substance and personality, and his reminiscences of famous tournaments take us on a journey through chess history unlike anything that's been published before.
Interviews with note players offer insights into Benko's nature. A massive survey of Benko's openings (by John Watson) shows us the scope of Benko's theoretical contributions to the game. Photos abound, and 300 of Benko's chess compositions allow lovers of the game to become intimately acquainted with a strikingly beautiful aspect of chess that most have overlooked. This highly entertaining and instructive book gives competitors who wish to improve their playing strength a dynamic, fun way to deepen their knowledge and understanding.
About the Author: Pal Benko is a Grandmaster, A former World Championship Candidate, a winner of innumerable international competitions, the author of hundreds of articles and several chess books (including WINNING WITH CHESS PSYCHOLOGY and CHESS ENDGAME LESSONS). The most dominating open tournament player in American history, Benko's name is entwined in virtually every modern area of chess mythology and chess theory.
Jeremy Silman is an International Master and a world-class teacher, writer, and player who has won the American Open, the National Open, and the U.S. Open. Considered by many tobe the game's preeminent instructive writer, he is the author of over thirty-six highly popular books, including HOW TO REASSESS (universally accepted as a modern classic), THE AMATEUR'S MIND, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF CHESS STRATEGY, and THE REASSESS YOUR CHESS WORKBOOK. John Watson is an International Master whose groundbreaking four-volume study of the English Opening in the 1980s, followed by other opening treatises have firmly established his reputation as one of the world's great theoretical writers. His books SECRETS OF MODERN CHESS STRATEGY (winner of the 1999 British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award) and CHESS STRATEGY IN ACTION (2003) futher catapulted his status to that of chess philosopher, with many experts now considering him to be one of the most profound thinker's in the game's history.
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We stopped by the incredibly busy Lincoln Electric display during the 2011 SEMA tradeshow. With sparks flying, we managed to get the attention of Greg Coleman, Sr. Marketing Specialist for Lincoln Electric.
Coleman was excited to tell us about the expanded line of Viking welding helmets. The 1840 series with 1.8″ view window and 2 sensors were still available for the hobbyists along with the 2450 series with 2.4″ viewing window and four sensors for the enthusiasts that desire a larger window. Coleman explained that welders were still asking for a larger viewing window, "we responded with the 3350 series helmet that offers a massive 3.5″ viewing window."
the same machine can be used to weld at home, in the shop or out on the job site
Coleman also showed us the latest in portable MIG welding machines from the company. Added to the already successful line that includes the 140 MIG and 180 MIG machines, which both run off 120 volt household current, Lincoln Electric unveiled the Power MIG 180 Dual MIG welder that can operate with 120 or 230 volt current.
"With single phase 60 Hz dual 120- and 208/230-volt input power capability, the same machine can be used to weld at home, in the shop or out on the job site," said Coleman.
Handling both MIG and flux-cored gas-shielded or self-shielded processes, the Power MIG 180 Dual is designed for sheet metal welding, as well as light-frame autobody work, farm and small shop applications.
The 68 lb. machine features dual input power capability, allowing users to select 120-volt input power for home and generator-driven environments or 208/230-volt input power for shop applications on thicker materials.
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According to Coleman, the Power MIG 180 Dual welder will add even more versatility to enthusiasts, and we would agree with that statement.


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New runways at Heathrow (inline, offset or displaced), a second strip at Gatwick or a whole new hub built on a greenfield site to the east of the nation's capital. Whatever option the British government selects as the most promising answer to London's chronic airport congestion, it isn't likely to involve helicopters.
At a January conference in central London, more than 400 delegates were briefed on the four shortlisted proposals for easing the logjam, submitted last summer to a government-appointed Airports Commission. Both Heathrow and Gatwick operate at over 90 percent capacity and, for the former, 98 percent is not unusual. Passengers know that even a small incident there can have a huge knock-on effect on airline schedules, and can last for several days.
Given the prominence afforded to minimizing noise pollution, coupled with the conviction of each contender that, if only they can get the gig, capacity aplenty will be on tap from Day One, a proposal for using helicopters to link other airports was always going to be a long-shot. And so it proved: conference delegates now had bigger fish to fry.
Plans that failed to make the cut included one to construct a high-speed rail-link encircling the capital and linking spare capacity at other, together with less ambitious ideas to utilize the hard shoulders of motorways to improve road access. The very last paragraph of the document seeking comments on the proposals, had referred to the long-defunct helicopter (S61N) service between Heathrow and Gatwick. Despite a last-minute attempt by the British Helicopter Association to add its weight to this idea, it too received short shrift in the short list.
Has an opportunity now been missed? Restoring that link and establishing ones with other airports, each connecting to Battersea Heliport and perhaps even to an aircraft carrier hulk sited near London's financial center (see below), make sense only as long as these "official" options (and their associated surface transport infrastructure) do not exist. By 2025-2030, any ambition for helicopters to fly scheduled services in the London area may well have gone forever. And there are no big 'H's visible on the various plans.
At the conference, a glimmer of hope was offered by Jaguar-LandRover CEO Ralf Speth, whose sales-force plow a weekly furrow between their Midlands headquarters and Heathrow, "because only LHR serves the range of destinations that we need." Even he admits to spending too much time on the M40 freeway. Surely a potential customer for a corporate helicopter?
One event that could yet improve the rotary-wing business case involves the imminent retirement of HMS Illustrious, the last of the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers. The Ministry of Defence is asking for suggestions as to how the vessel may be employed in the UK.
Bids for the vessel's future use must include plans for part or all of the ship to be developed for "heritage purposes." Unless this writer has misread that phrase (you try getting the MoD to comment), surely that makes a heliport the logical answer? Such a facility could take up half the flight deck, one of the lifts and a proportion of the hangar, which could also be used for independent maintenance services. Add some soundproofing and the rest of the ship could be used for other purposes. Moor it at Greenwich, near to London's financial heartland, and you have a purpose-built heliport where it matters most. Market forces will do the rest.
An industry day to examine various "illustrious options" is yet to be confirmed. The government's preferred runway option, meanwhile, will not be announced until the summer of 2015, after a general election to be held in May. After initially promising that no new runways will be built at Heathrow, Prime Minister David Cameron is widely expected to make a U-turn.
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I purchased my Saturn Vue in late 2003; and it was in the shop before the first payment was even made with engine block issues. Between 2004-2009; the car was at the dealership over 20 times for problems; not basic service, but problems.
The main problem started in 2006, when the transmission started acting up; the car wouldn't accelerate quite right, it had trouble going up hills (I was terrified it would roll backwards every time I came across a hill) and didn't quite work right when trying to shift on the freeway. Every time this would happen, I would take it to my closest Saturn dealership, Saturn of the Valley.
They were no help. They had techs drive out with me, who HEARD the problems; yet, could never find any problems. Because my warranty came with the rental car option, they were always in a hurry to get me out of there, never being able to find anything, of course.
The final straw came when, in 2008, the transmission suddenly decided not to work on the corner of one of the busiest intersections in Los Angeles. I got the car to Saturn of the Valley, and they, ONCE AGAIN, couldn't find anything wrong with it. When I told the manager of the dealership that I didn't feel safe in that car, and could they please keep it a bit longer so keep looking, and I would just use the rental car another day, he responded with: "If I let you have the car for another day, you'll just want another one."
Thank goodness, Saturn of Santa Monica opened. When the Hazard Light broke shortly after being sent away from Saturn of the Valley, I took it to Santa Monica and I am so glad I did. **, the AMAZING manager there took ONE look at my service history, even though I brought the car in for something else, and knew exactly what was wrong with my car. I literally started crying with relief when he told me that the transmission had actually been recalled and that he would replace it for me ASAP.
That transmission worked for about a year and a half. I don't blame Santa Monica for this, and am very sad that they closed (the service I received at Galpin-otherwise known as Saturn of the Valley-is much more indicative of how I've been treated by this company; Santa Monica was an anomaly).
This time, the transmission died on a busy street-no warning, no lights, NOTHING. It just wouldn't drive anymore. Given my service history, and the class action settlement, and the warranty extension, I THOUGHT they might attempt to help me. They did nothing except the following: I called on the day it happened to find out my recourse and spoke with **-who was no help. He reviewed my service history, and told me the car needed to be evaluated at a Saturn dealership. I understand this, but when I asked who would pay to get the car there, I was told I would have to do this.
When I disputed this, he immediately said that he can't help me and would be elevating my issue to a "district specialist" but that they weren't in on the weekend. He wouldn't give me their names, wouldn't give me their phone numbers, and wouldn't give me the names to the district managers of the Saturn dealership I would be taking my car to…nothing.
On Monday, **, a district specialist, called. She, like **, literally, did nothing. She said that she would not (her words) authorize a courtesy tow to the Saturn dealership so they could "evaluate" my car nor would she even indicate that they might pay for the repair on a faulty, new, transmission. When I asked to speak to someone above her she said, and I quote "There is nobody above me." When I asked who she reports to, I was told that their department reports to nobody. When I asked to speak to her supervisor she said, "My supervisor will tell you the same thing."
When I asked, once again, for the name of the department she reports to, I was told "I am empowered to make these decisions; there is nobody above us." Given my service history, I am appalled at the way Saturn, and GM, are treating their customers. According to the Kelly Blue Book, my 2003 Vue, with 93000 miles, because of the transmission, even though the body looks great, and I took very good care of the car, has "No Value."
I've only had the car for 7 years and it now has "No Value." I will never, ever consider another Saturn, nor, ever use any of the Galpin dealerships that Saturn of the Valley is affiliated with again and am shocked at how Saturn has no respect for their customers, allowing them to remain, in may case, car-less and stranded.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK -- I purchased my Saturn Vue from a dealer in Amarillo, Texas approximately two and a half years ago. I have had probably a dozen cars in my life, but this was my first [and perhaps] last brand new car. At the outset, I would say that I chose Saturn, for the most part because of the reliability others had expressed in their vehicles and their award-winning customer service reputation they had established over the years, OR SO I THOUGHT.
I have had multiple problems from the start; from annoying non-essential things like a key buzzer that would go off indiscriminately to the radio controls on the steering wheel which broke 5,000 miles in; to essential things like strut mounts which have had to be replaced twice [you'd think we take the thing off road 4- wheeling]. As well as the car falling out of gear when it's still in gear. (Did I mention the fact that our '07 Vue has only 37,000 miles on it).
This Monday, I went to the dealer (in Poughkeepsie, NY) yet again to find out why the ignition key sometimes needs to be turned with a plumber's wrench to move and the manual transmission reminds me of the good ol' days when I had to drive an old diesel truck! The repair manager told me I needed a new ignition [ $342 + tax] and the "cables" that apparently make the car (manual trans) shift were not covered under the power train warranty [$380 + tax] and "front sway bar" links [$260 + tax], also not covered under warranty. I'm sorry, I thought drive train would include whatever makes car go from reverse to 1st gear would be part of the deal. Apparently NOT!
Our miles put on this vehicle are as follows: the first 10,000 miles were around town in the city of Amarillo, Texas. We then drove 1,500 miles across the country as we moved to the Hudson Valley region of upstate New York. I'll give you that the Catskill mountains are not as urban as Amarillo, but with the stress that the shock mounts and other things have taken, you would think we go through downtown Kabul every day!
I remember with fondness the day we said this little cheer with the sales team at the dealership. Looking forward to driving my new Vue, not having to worry about things breaking down all the time. (Yeah right). For the most part I love my Saturn. I just wish there was an express lane to the service and parts department, because I am there so frequently and the dealership is 60 miles from my house. (Not your fault, I'm the one that moved to the mountains). I've been to the dealership more often with my (NEW) car, then I ever was with my old Toyota that I drove until it had 150,000 miles on it, then the muffler fell off. The only repair other than normal maintenance and oil changes.
I told my husband that it was pointless to complain, since the 3 yr/36,000 mile warranty has expired (by all of 1000 miles). Yet, I write this in earnest that someone will acknowledge my plea and not pound on the delete button or this note hits the recycle bin faster than parts seem to go bad on my car. All kidding aside, I am rather disappointed in your vehicle and should someone ask, I will not hesitate to give my informed unbiased opinion and share my experience with your product.
LANGLEY -- We have a 2002 Saturn Vue with 77,000 km on it. In December last year we started having electrical troubles with it. While driving all electrical assisted functions shut down - we had no power steering or power brakes. We drove it to the shop and left it. We were told it was the battery and paid $150 for a top line battery. We drove it home and it was fine. The very next time I drove it, we again lost all the electrical systems. Back to the shop. It took a week to diagnose. We were told it was the BCM module which never breaks down. The bill was $1400.
The fix lasted 2 months. Upon starting the vehicle, we received a "reduced power" warning light. The car would only go 5 km/hr. Turning it off and restarting would usually clear the problem. This happened 3 or 4 times. We made an appointment for service the second day this happened. When we took it back in February, I received a phone call an hour after dropping the vehicle off. 'We don't know what's wrong with it. What do you want us to do?' I said unless they wanted it as a trade in they should find and fix the problem. No they weren't interested in it if it wasn't running.
An hour later they said it was the ECM - the part would take 4 days to come in from back east - $1300. The day they were to replace it, I got another phone call. 'terribly sorry', but when they replaced the ECM they discovered the Throttle Body Module was fried (apparently couldn't diagnose that with the bad ECM) that'll be $2200 more. (We were told THESE parts also never break down.) Total bill with taxes etc. $4,200 which they graciously dropped 20%.
That repair lasted 28 days, one tank of gas, less than 1,000 km. Suddenly the vehicle was refusing to start. We called the dealership and the service person told us over the phone that he thought it sounded like the passlock system. The security system was not recognizing the key and not letting any fuel through to the engine. Bring it in.
When I took it in, they told me this part never breaks down (so how could he recognize and diagnose it on the phone?) About 2 hours later I was told that it was indeed the passlock system and for only $500 my problems would be solved. I refused and went and picked up the vehicle. The work order recommendation said 'intermittent problem - recommend starting with replacement of the passlock system and retesting.
As we pondered what to do with our lemon, a friend said to see if we could order the part as he had a friend that might be able to fix it. My wife called the dealer and was told it needed a passlock system AND a water pump which would be another $800. When I called back and asked about the water pump, the service manager couldn't explain why it didn't appear on our work order, why we'd never had a puddle on our driveway, or had to replace fluids. He insisted that he was there when the VUE came in and he remembered there was water spraying all over in the service bay.
At this point, I called Saturn Canada. The operator I talked to, listened to me vent for an hour and promised to get back to me in 2 days. Four days later she called back. She had talked to the dealership, and Saturn Canada was confident that everything was being handled properly. I had to realize that my vehicle was getting older and I should expect a few repair costs. The dealer was sure that if I just got the passlock system done everything would be fine.
But they realized I was unhappy with the vehicle; so if I wanted to trade it in AFTER paying for the repairs, they would give me a very good deal. She couldn't explain the water pump situation but was sure it was an honest recommendation.
So we called Springmans back and made an appointment to take the vehicle back in. We were told it would take 10 days to get the passlock system part from the US (as this part never breaks down and is rare in Canada.) Would we like to make an appointment in 3 days? When I asked what the point of making an appointment a week before the part came in would be I just got silence until I said to call me when the part came in.
Five days later we got a call that the part was in. My wife took the vehicle in and was met by the service manager. He asked what the problem was. She told him she had an appointment to replace the part they had brought in for us and he replied with 'but what's the problem?' When she described it to him; his response was 'Well I can tell you right now, it's not your passlock system. You've bought a cheap key somewhere, it's broken down and you have metal filings in your ignition.'
My wife told him we have never bought a key from anywhere but that dealership, so if we got a cheap key, it was from them. He told her she was a liar, that the ignition was the problem and we had gotten a cheap key somewhere else. Saturn keys are good quality and never break down. She left the key and walked out. (We did have one key that was worn. It was original with the car and was the one we had replaced about 1 1/2 years earlier with a key we bought at Springmans).
About three hours later, she phoned me. The dealership had called and said the vehicle was ready, she was going to pick it up. They said the first part they put in was faulty and they had to replace it a second time. They just wanted her to know that they had done that free of charge. I immediately told her there was something wrong here. They waited for the part to come from the US, they shouldn't have had a second part to replace it with. Sure enough, they replace the ignition housing, not the passlock system.
Now my wife was faced with a tough decision. The car is working. They hadn't replaced the part they were supposed to replace, but the car is working. Does she make them replace the other part, too? Does she complain about them replacing the ignition housing? But the car is working. So she took it. $492. No mention was made of the faulty water pump.
The wonderful trade in we were offered was a $500 cash back bonus advertised in the front window of the dealership. We really don't think we want to sign up for another 5 year term of Saturn ownership, especially after reading all the posts on sites like this one. We decide to keep the Saturn and only use it for emergencies. We have now put another 400 km on the vehicle. It's outside in the driveway and won't start. It seems that the battery is not charging...
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -- I have a 2003 Saturn Vue that I purchased used in June 2005 with 37,000 miles on it. I have always maintained the appropriate oil changes and check ups that come with owning a vehicle. I had to replace the same part (something to do with the passenger front tire). That was around $55 each time along with the fee for putting it on. During the summer of 2006 it started making some weird sounds.
I took it in to the dealership (Saturn of Grand Rapids 28th St.) which stated that they could not find anything wrong with it. I ended up paying for the visit and walking out with no answers. My fiance's friend had a neighbor that was a mechanic at the Saturn dealership. He wanted us to bring it in because it most likely was the transmission. They were finding that at around 75,000 the transmissions were going out in them and at which that was the same time the warranty just happened to expire.
So, my fiance got fed up with the noises and took it back to the same dealership (the closest one to us within an hours drive) which in turn checked it all out again. I received a phone call from my fiance that it was for sure the transmission. They could get it fixed for about $5,500. The manufacturer's warranty expired at 75,000 miles of course which we had already learned beforehand. The mileage was just over it. I wanted to fall over. We didn't have that kind of money on hand. I drove and met him there.
One of the saleswoman had been talking to him about some options. I introduced myself and began talking about what to do now. She instantly started talking about other vehicles they had on the lot and walked us over to a car on display in the store. I told her I had a lot on my mind now because I owed a little over $14,000 on the Vue still. She walked away for a few minutes then returned. She stated that she and her boss had discussed some things and they could get me in the car for around $450 a month and that they could only give me around $4,000 for the Vue. I said absolutely not. I would be stuck with $10,000 added on top of the cost for the car.
But of course, she started talking about how the original problem would be taken away and we would have a new running car, and not have to worry about trying to take care of the bill. I was so angry that she said that. HELLO!!!!! I would have a bill STILL! A much higher one and owe a whole lot more in the long run. I walked out. A few days later I had a voice mail from the woman wanting to know if I had thought about and/or made a decision about the car. The one she insisted on showing us. I nearly blew a gasket at the nerve of her.
In the beginning of November my fiance was leaving my in law's house luckily with myself following behind him when the vehicle stopped and wouldn't move. We towed it back to my in laws (less than a block away). It has sat at their house ever since and it is now April. We have been down to one vehicle the whole time trying to get the kids to the babysitter and both of us to our jobs and trying to raise our children and maintain a home.
We have absolutely no way of coming up with that kind of money to fix that piece of junk. I always let people know about what happened and that I would never recommend or buy a Saturn ever again. Please if anyone has had a success with getting help with their junk of a Saturn transmission please...let me know.
OCEANSIDE, NEW YORK -- In January 2006 I purchased a Saturn Vue FWD V-6 after extensive research to buy a car with good gas mileage. I was promised 20 city and 28 highway because it had a proven Honda engine as a result of a joint venture with Honda Motor Co. I immediately began testing the mileage and found it only got about 13 mpg. As part of the 30 day exchange policy offered by Saturn I requested a different car. I was denied because they claimed it took 3-7 thousand miles for a car engine to break in.
I brought the car in at 3000 miles because the mileage had not increased much above the 13 mpg. They tested it and miraculously it got 32 mpg but they had a hand written receipt from the gas station where they filled my car up. I drove the car another 4000 miles but the mileage remained extremely low. I brought it back and this time the dealer got 26 mpg again with a written receipt. I had dozens of calculations with pump generated receipts which calculated an overall 15.5 mpg for city and highway combined.
I brought the car back one more time and this time they calculated 20 mpg with a gas pump receipt with all highway mileage which was still 8 mpg below the promised 28 mpg. Their calculations continued to go down from a high of 32 now down to 20.
I looked the service manager in the face and asked him to teach me how to drive the car so I can get that mileage. He said since they couldn't duplicate my low mileage they couldn't do anything for me, but asked me to have my children drive the car while I was away on vacation to see if it was my driving habits creating the poor gas mileage.
We did this and my daughter got 15.64 mpg all highways and my son got 11.74 mpg with local driving around our town. The end result is I'm SOL according to the dealer. I got an area manager involved and she too told me I'm SOL because they were unable to duplicate my low mileage even though I had dozens of receipts proving the low mileage.
I currently own three GM products in my family but based on my treatment they will be our last. I am telling my kids no more American cars. Detroit is losing another generation of car buyers because they treat their loyal customers like dogs. TOYOTA HERE WE COME.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- My husband and I purchased this Saturn Vue 2002 from his mother almost 2 years ago. She had the maintenance done through the dealer and is methodical about up keep on her vehicles. A new battery was installed and the 50000 mile check was done. We figured we were buying a very reliable car, boy were we wrong. We have had all the maintenance done since through our mechanic.
First problem we had was the fuel pumps had to be replaced 1800 dollars now the throttle body needs replacing. My mechanic said he couldn't get the parts from Saturn till mid March I found this hard to believe so he towed it up to Saturn for me to see what they could do. They said the same thing and that it needs a new battery, positive terminal bolt throttle body J5490, engine wiring harness and to recall the PCM about 2200.
I start reading on line how many people have had similar issues with their Vue's, it's a lot. I spoke to someone at a GM dealership and asked why would a part be back ordered on a 2002. My understanding is that reserves of parts are kept for cars for 10years.
He said that was standard if the parts are depleted that it could be a problem. So I called corporate and ** passed me off to ** in financial assistance. She basically told me that that was normal wear and tear on a perfectly maintained car with 68000 miles on it. My husband then spoke to ** at sales, since we don't have a car what would we get if we traded it.
My husband said that he didn't want another Saturn. She came back with a 2500 offer and said that since 2003 the problems with the Vue's have been worked out. Funny ** in the repairs department said that there are no problems and we are lucky that another customer has been waiting 6 months for a part. I have owned several used cars with 2 or even 3X's the mileage and never had these kinds of issues or service.
Now I open up the Yahoo page and guess what, I see part of GM's bailout package is to sell or close under performing brands and there doesn't seem to be a company interested in buying Saturn. Help what do we do, we can't find a salvaged part; we need another car do they even intent to find a new manufacturer for the part? Where do we go from here? I would love your input.
ROGERS, ARKANSAS -- I own the 2003 V-6 AWD Vue and it has its own set of problems. Uneven tire wear, mainly the right rear, bearing failure and moisture getting in the rear differential, causing the clutch drum and inner bearings to go out. I didn't find out about the differential until the warranty was out, even though I had taken it to them with the wear problem and noise in the rear in 2006. Due to being talked down to at the dealer, I started taking it elsewhere. The dealer told me the noise was caused by the tires being worn and so did everyone else I took it to. The noise and vibration DID go away with new tires and always returned when worn.
The last time on the tire replacement, they found a broken axle and when they replaced it, the noise and vibration were worse than ever. The dealer told me it was the differential and it would cost $1200 to fix. I showed them the old axle and they said it it literally came apart, not broken. Apparently the loose axle kept the pressure off the rear with new tires so the need for repair of the differential was overlooked. But, I just found out there has been a service bulletin out on this since 2004, so they should have known.
In all, I have had 5 sets of tires, a bearing assembly (think I need another now), replaced faulty hood latch, driver door latch doesn't open from inside properly, cracked (for no reason) driver outside mirror, cap blew off roof rack so it whistles, and the rear differential clutch drum and bearings needing replaced. I am going through the corporate office to see if they will pay to fix the differential but they were supposed to call me yesterday and didn't. Looks like lawyer time.
Advice to all: don't buy any Saturn Vues. They all have issues and the service department will play games with you until you are out of warranty. They have knowledge of the issues and should fix them free, no matter what. It's the right thing to do.
LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA -- I have a 2005 Vue. Several months ago I noticed that it was leaking (a few drops) of oil. I took it to Saturn of Ontario and they added dye to the oil and told me drive it another 500 miles because they couldn't tell where the leak was coming from. I work far from home and was not able to get it back into the shop until December. I took it to Firestone (love them) and they said it was leaking from the head gasket and that I should take it to the dealer. I immediately took it to Saturn of Loma Linda and told them what Firestone told me...this was Friday morning at 9:30 am.
Friday evening, ** from Saturn called to say they hadn't gotten to it, but hopefully could on Saturday...or Monday. On Saturday morning ** called to say it was in fact the head gasket and they would have to order it and it should be in Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday, ** called to say that when they took the engine apart they discovered that the bearings were also bad and that they would have to order those, but they were going to overnight them. On Wednesday, I called Saturn at 2:30 pm to find out about my car. The parts had not come in…apparently they didn't think I needed to know this.
On Thursday ** called to say that the bearings had come in, but they were damaged and they had to be re-order. He offered a 10% discount. On Friday ** called again to say that the bearings had arrived undamaged, but only the lower bearings had arrived, not the uppers. They will have to be re-ordered. He offered me a loaner car for the weekend. Saturn has had my car, for a one-day repair job, for 8 days. I opened a case with Saturn Corporate because I didn't feel that a car with 52,000 miles on it should need these types of repairs, but they disagreed and offered me $100 in retail store coupons; I declined. This is my second and last Saturn.
MILAN -- I own a 2007 Saturn Vue 3.5L with 22,300 miles. I had a dead battery at 6 pm on a Friday. I called the closest dealership on Saturday and was told they had no batteries for this vehicle, instructed to bring it in on Monday morning and they would 'order' one for me. When I told them I had to go to work on Monday, they told me there was nothing they could do about it.
I wound up spending most of Saturday trying to find anyone with a replacement battery. It appears GM/Saturn uses a 'special' battery for this vehicle and the model is too 'new' for most replacement suppliers to begin stocking, and because it is special, no one wants to stock a slow moving item. Nice product quality and service Saturn, this will be my last American vehicle.
MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT -- Apparently despite Saturn realizing that there are significant problems with the CVT transmission they put in the 2003 VUE, they refuse to accept responsibility or help consumers. My vehicle is now effectively totaled because of this transmission that will cost more than $5000 to repair. That's more than the car is worth. So now I am stuck with a vehicle that is completely undriveable after having only owned it for two years, and a $3500 car loan still on it.
On top of that, when I ask the Saturn dealerships what I should do, their advice is to "figure out some way to dispose of the vehicle." They will give me nothing to trade it in, not even a few dollars for spare parts. I had absolutely no warning that this was a problem with these cars or that it was something I should have had checked out. There is no way to repair the transmission without flat out replacing it, and Saturn makes that such a complicated experience that only their dealerships can do it, so there's no way to get a more reasonable price.
I'm flabbergasted, furious, and never, ever buying a Saturn product again. Please save yourselves the excruciating aggravation and don't purchase a Saturn product either. Detroit wonders why they're having problems with giant revenue losses, right here is their answer.


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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Why Do I Pursue Genealogy?
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Think about the question: "Why do I pursue genealogy and family history research?"
2) Tell us about it on your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a comment on Facebook.
I do genealogy because I can't not do it; after five short years, it has become a part of who I am.
It is intellectually stimulating and emotionally satisfying. You get to be a cross between a detective and a scholarly researcher. Sometimes you are pursuing the thinnest of clues (detective), and other times you are amassing, comparing and cross-checking, and filtering out many different pieces of information from sources of widely varying thoroughness and reliability (researcher). Depending on your mood on any given day, you can assume one role or the other, or both.
And, as many puzzles as you solve, there is no end of them. There will always be another ancestor to find, another distant cousin or uncle who has mysteriously disappeared, another strange fact that doesn't fit in but has to fit in. You are always learning something new in genealogy.
Got some OCD tendencies? Filling in those little boxes can be very satisfying. Have some unfulfilled artistic leanings? Artful storytelling or visually beautiful presentation of photographs, family trees, or old documents can be a major part of your family research. Love history? You will never feel so connected to history as you do when you learn that one of your ancestors was actually present at some historical event. Have a philosophical bent? Family research allows you to see life in both macrocosm and microcosm: it provides perspective while filling in little details. Your own life doesn't seem so difficult after you compare it to the hardships and heartbreaks your ancestors had to endure.
Genealogy can be a solitary pursuit if you wish, but it is one of those passionately pursued pastimes that is a natural social activity: connecting with family, connecting with other researchers, connecting with an audience or classroom, and, if the results of your research are preserved, connecting with future generations. Collaboration actually produces better results.
Genealogical research can be adapted to your circumstances and mood. Like to travel? There are road trips for research, strolls through cemeteries, attendance at conferences and conventions, and visits to interview family members. Like to get "goodies" in the mail? There is nothing like getting a big, fat envelope from the archives. Prefer to be a Super Surfer of the Internet and a master operator of your genealogy program from the comfort of your home office? There are genea-gizmos and whizbang gadgets for genealogists galore. Don't have much to spend on genealogy? There is an entire world of free genealogy programs, free online databases, and RAOGK.
And that's just skimming the surface.
Thanks, Randy. This is one of my favorite subjects.
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You got that ALL right! 1000000% (is there such a number??? yea, for genie buffs there is!)ReplyDelete
Well said! YA YA YA
YEP! I think you just about covered it! :-DReplyDelete
Greta, good response, I would like to have said that, but didn't. To excite others, I always use the word detective, and that interests them. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Great post, well said! I'm with you on the "I can't NOT do it" part!! It is the cross between detective and researcher that makes genealogy such an appealing hobby to so many!ReplyDelete
Carol, Lisa, Barbara, Jenna - Thank you all for stopping by and commenting! It is so much fun to talk to other genealogy/family history people, because they all "get it"! And Barbara, it's exactly the "detective" word that I'm trying to use to lure my daughters into family research.ReplyDelete
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iPhone PC Tethering App Hits iTunes, Disappears
If you splurged and picked up the 3G iPhone, you may as well get all the use out of the handset as is humanly possibly, right? Nulldriver, Inc. introduced a new application for the new iTunes app store designed to help you squeeze yet more functionality out of the new Apple phone.
For $9.99, the program lets users tether their iPhone to their PC, sharing either the phone's 3G or EDGE connection with the computer via NetShare.
Being that AT&T generally charges $30 a month for such applications, everyone was left wondering how the app managed to slip into the iTunes store with Apple's approval. Naturally, the program got pulled shortly after the word of its existence got out. Mac Rumors reached out to Nulldriver, asking if they had been given any reason why the app might be pulled. They seemed a bit baffled, saying,
We're not quite sure why Apple took down the application yet, we've received no communication from Apple thus far. NetShare did not violate any of the Developer or AppStore agreements. We're hoping we'll get some feedback from Apple tomorrow.


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Nancy Foley poems that detail San Diego life
From a 2007 San Diego Community College Writer's Workshop to the 2019 San Diego Poetry Annual
Nancy Foley 3 p.m., Aug. 22
777 G Street, East Village
"Life's too short to drink crappy beers," says Todd. He's sipping on his Allagash Black, a dangerous-looking high-octane brew from Maine. But most of the 27 microbrewskis on tap behind the bar we're sitting at are from San Diego County.
I mention this to Todd. "But of course," he says, putting his tulip-shaped glass down and taking a forkful of jalapeño mac and cheese ($7). "Do you realize that San Diego has more breweries than any county in the United States? We have 33!"
"For sure," says this wax-mustached younger guy behind the counter. "That's how I got interested in all this." Turns out he's the owner of the joint. Arsalun Tafazoli. All of 27 years old. "I was at the beerfest in Munich, and I noticed that three of the ten beers voted top in the world [on ratebeer.com, which claims to be the world's biggest beer contest] came from San Diego craft breweries. Alesmith, Port, and Stone. Yet you never hear about them here."
"Classic," I mumble. "Prophets in their own town. Never appreciated."
"Darned right," says Mark. He's the airline pilot to my left, sipping a Stone Levitation, the "best beer I've had all night."
"When I came back to San Diego," says Arsalun, "I wanted to create a craft-beer place that was less fanatical, less single-minded, where you could also eat. Basic food like burgers, but made better."
Rule Number 1 here: no Bud Lights, and please, no ketchup, so the cook's flavorings can come through. A burger joint with no ketchup? That's gotta be asking for trouble. The right to splot ketchup's in the Constitution, isn't it? "It's okay for you to bring your own, if you have to," Arsalun says.
This place has been around for a while: My friend Naomi reviewed it a couple of years ago. Mostly, I remember that her
posse's favorite dish was the steak tartare (read: raw) appetizer and that they couldn't hear themselves think for the blast of music. But the fact is, each time I've passed by, I've yearned to come in and try their burgers and beers, just 'cause it looks so damned cozy through the big plate-glass windows. Tonight, I couldn't hold off. And looks like I came in at the right time. Got the last seat left at the counter.
And I guess they did something about the music. It's there, but not the blare. Mark the airline pilot is reading the New York Times, sipping his Stone Levitation and snacking on a long plate of olives and almonds ("marinated olives, oven-roasted almonds, citrus zest, and herbs/cherry peppers, $5," says the menu).
"How is it?" I ask.
"You should really try this beer. I'm from Chicago, and that's a beer city. But this is outstanding."
Trouble is, tonight I can't drink. Have to work, dammit. So I order a Coke. At least it's Mexican Coke, made the old-fashioned way, with cane sugar. And, yes, it has that sweeter, cleaner flavor.
Food? Hmm… Checking the menu. It's so danged interesting. 'Specially the "smalls." They look the size my wallet would approve of. The "pink salted deviled eggs" with "artichoke mousse and paprika dust" are $6; the steak tartare — which I've had a thing for ever since Carla forced some down my gullet one night in TJ in 1999 — comes with capers, onion, and a roasted pepper "rémoulade" (mayo-mustard-anchovy mix, I think), for $8. And I'm kinda desperate for the chorizo corn dog with mustard-seed aioli and smoked-chipotle aioli ($9). In the "mains," I should probably go for the Neighborhood Burger, the flagship item, which looks delicious with a half-pound slab of ground beef, caramelized onions, "blue Gruyère" cheese (whatever that is), and "pepper greens" (whatever they are). It's $10. But then they have things like poached black mussels ($9), "apple wallie" salad ($9), beer-marinated beef ribs ($14), and even a PB&J stack with three jellies ($8).
About this time Kristen brings out a long plate of steak tacos with different sauces ($10) for Mark. "Not bad," he says, munching into the first. "Not out of this world, but good, tender."
I decide it's got to be a burger. That means we're down to the Neighborhood ($10), the 777 (with spinach and béarnaise sauce) ($11), the spicy Cajun ($10), the vegetarian beet burger ($10), and the mushroom marsala ($11). I choose the mushroom marsala, because it sounds like it'll be a little sweet. And medium-rare.
"I always grind my beef the moment before I cook a burger at home," says Mark. "There's a night-and-day difference in flavor."
"We grind our meat here too," says Arsalun. "Fresh, every day."
Mine arrives quickly, with plenty of pink in the middle of the whopping patty and a layer of sliced mushrooms, all in a roll that has a great crispy outside. The meat is beautifully fresh-tasting. Yet, for 11 buckeroos, it's a bit plain. I'm wishing I'd gone for the Neighborhood, after all, with those caramelized onions.
Still, we're happy campers here tonight. The conversation's good. Todd and Mark exchange high-falutin' insights on the brewskis they're trying. Kristen's plying them with samples in little tall glasses. Arsalun's popping in and out of the conversation.
"Bet your parents are proud of you, running your own business at age 27," I say.
"Are you kidding?" he says. "I was at UCSD, headed for law, when I decided to go for this. My mom said, 'If you do, I'll never speak to you again.' And she didn't, for a year and a half."
"Wow," says Mark. "See? A prophet in his own town."■
The Place: The Neighborhood, 777 G St, San Diego CA 92101, 619-446-0002
Type of Food: Offbeat pub grub centering on half-pound burgers. Local microbrewery beers, and international wines.
Prices: The Neighborhood Burger 10, The 777 Burger 11, Stone Smoked Porter Braised Beef Ribs 14, The Grilled Cheese 9, Pink Salted Deviled Eggs 6, Steak Tartar 8, Sweet Potato Fries 7, Pale Ale Battered Onion Rings 5, Chorizo Corn Dogs 9, The Neighbors Chicken Nuggets 9
Hours: Open Daily 12-5 for lunch, and 5-10:30 Sunday to Thursdays well as 5-12 Friday and Saturday nights for dinner. The bar is open till 2am all week.
Bus: 30
Nearest Bus Stop: Broadway and 8th Ave
Well, the restaurant information is at least correct here - the digital version (which I presume is a scanned copy of the hard version) lists some sort of pizza place. I was reading this in the digital version and all of the sudden the ending became very esoteric.
I think Stone in particular gets plenty of love. My piece of crap local CVS sells three varieties of Stone beer. And ketchup. I like the Neighborhood a lot. But if you're going to have Velveeta mac n cheese (ok, dressed up with jalapenos), you really have no call to get all high and mighty about ketchup!


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Authorities are searching for a man involved in a Wednesday morning drive-by shooting in Lancaster.
The Lancaster Police Department has issued warrants for Travis Phillip Miller, 27, of Lancaster, for the shooting which happened about 10:11 a.m. on Hazel Street near the Dunlap Street intersection.
Authorities are searching for a suspect involved in a Wednesday morning drive-by shooting.
The Lancaster Police Department is investigating the incident, which happened
about 10:11 a.m. on Hazel Street near the Dunlap Street intersection.
Officers and emergency workers responded to a home in the 800 block of Dunlap Street and found the victim, who had been shot, according to a LPD press release.
The victim is a 33-year-old Lancaster man, said Lancaster Police Department Capt. Paul Smith.
Reece Murphy
John Davis of Grand Junction, Colo., said God told him to run for president of the United States last year — so that's exactly what he's doing.
Davis, who owns a home-building company in Grand Junction and is running as a conservative Republican, stopped at Bojangle's in Lancaster this morning as part of his "Votercade Across America," a quest to get his name and message out to the country by visiting every county in the nation.
Jesef Williams
KERSHAW – Residents who visit Stevens Park in Kershaw will soon be able to take advantage of two new walking trails.
Volunteers with the Kershaw Community Park Council began cutting the trails on Saturday. Group member Beverly Timmons had discussed those plans at last week's Town Council meeting.
She said the walking trails will enhance the park.
Christopher Sardelli
After months of planning and discussion with county employees and officials, Lancaster County Council adopted its first-ever strategic plan last week.
Deputy County Administrator Jeff Naftal presented the updated strategic plan to council at its Feb. 22 meeting, which Council unanimously approved.
Reece Murphy
All it took was one step through the doors of the University of South Carolina at Lancaster's Starr Hall Student Center Feb. 24 to kick the ol' saliva glands into high gear.
Inside, a kaleidoscope of smells filled the air, drifting up from tables adorned with all manner of down-home cooking: shrimp and grits, chicken creole, broccoli casserole, collard greens, cornbread and peach cobbler.
Reece Murphy
Springs Memorial Hospital has issued flu season visitation restrictions.
The hospital implemented the temporary restrictions in response to a surge in influenza cases, according to a press release sent out Feb. 24.
As part of the restrictions:
u Hand sanitization is required at all times by staff and visitors.
u Children under the age of 18 and anyone with flu-like illness are asked not to visit.
u Masks are available to any patients or visitors presenting flu-like symptoms.
Reece Murphy
An automobile accident Tuesday morning near Spring Hill Baptist Church in the Tradesville community killed a Heath Springs man and seriously injured his wife. Lancaster County Coronor Mike Morris identified the man as James "Jamie" Morgan Phillips, 41, of the 5100 block of Stoneboro Road, Heath Springs. The driver of the vehicle, Phillips' wife, Heidi Marie Phillips, 37, was taken to Springs Memorial Hospital. A hospital spokesman said Tuesday afternoon Heidi Phillips was in stable condition.
Publix plans back on track
Plans for a new Indian Land supermarket are back on track after Lancaster County Council moved forward Tuesday with an ordinance it tabled only a week before.
Progress on a proposed Publix grocery store halted briefly at the end of January after council tabled an ordinance to rezone several acres of land where it would be built. The store is planned to become the first tenant at the former site of Roy Hardin Park, at 8357 Collins Rd in Indian Land.
National Board Certification for teachers is said to be no easy task.
Among the words and phrases used to describe the arduous year – to three-year long process of earning the highest credentials in the teaching profession are sacrifice, long nights, tied-up weekends, hard work, challenging and rewarding.
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The latest round of consolidation in the scrapbook industry is continuing this week with the announcement that Advantus has acquired "substantially all of the assets" of punch and office supply manufacturer McGill, Inc.
According to the announcement, McGill products will start shipping from Advantus's headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida before the end of the month.
"We look forward to manufacturing and distributing the McGill products and building on the good name of McGill, Inc., with its reputation for quality products," said Kevin Carpenter, President of Advantus.
"We at McGill are excited about the acquisition by Advantus Corp. This will be great for all of our customers and allow the McGill product lines to grow in the office products and craft markets," said Wayne Schwartzman, President of McGill, Inc. Continue Reading →


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T-Mobile Garminfone Official
Well, this isn't a surprise. The Garminfone (previously known as the A50) has been officially announced by T-Mobile. Yes, you read that right, Garminfone (say it again, slowly this time). As expected, the primary focus of this phone is navigation, and it will come with a charging dash or windshield mount. You will also find a 3 megapixel autofocus cam, microSD expansion up to 32GB, WiFi, and full HSPA alongside Garmin's own UI over … [read full article]


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The first sub-Saharan African to hold the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has led an extraordinary life of service to the global community. Wednesday, September 5 at 7:00pm at the Sixth and I Synagogue he will share some of his experiences and knowledge that he has memorialized in his new book, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace in conversation with David Ignatius. Immediately following Mr. Annan will sign books for a limited period of time. A single ticket for the event is $36 and includes one book. Two guests may attend for $45 and receive one book. This signing is being presented in collaboration with Politics & Prose. There will be no walk-up box office sales.
Thursday September 20 at 7:30pm international recording artist, actor and activist Wyclef will also appear in conversation at Sixth and I promoting his memoir Purpose: An Immigrant's Story. His Washington stop on the book tour is one of the very few in which he will also perform a set of his latest music before signing books. Tickets are $35 and include 1 copy of the book. Doors for this event open at 6:30pm.


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The ancient Greek city of Selinunte
Mark Wilson June 7th, 2013
MARSALA, SICILY, ITALY–During the afternoon the field party of the International Bryozoology Association drove south out of the Sicilian mountains back to the southern coast to visit the ruins of an entire Greek city founded in the 7th Century BCE and captured by the Carthaginians after a siege in 409 BCE. It is rare to have so much of an ancient city still in place. It was like being in Greece itself. Above is a partially reconstructed temple on the acropolis (a high worship center) opposite the city center across a valley.
Next to the reconstructed temple are two other temples still in ruins. They are a wondrous tangle of columns and blocks.
Steve Hageman is standing by one of the largest toppled columns. We thought it looked a lot like a very, very large disarticulated crinoid column. (You may have to be a paleontologist to appreciate that viewpoint!)
I hiked over to the remains of the agora, or administrative center. It is surrounded by a wall augmented by later inhabitants but still mostly original. It has a spectacular (and strategic) view of the sea.
From the agora you can look back to the northeast and have the view of the acropolis temples that the inhabitants must have cherished. I very much like the style of some reconstruction amidst the dramatic and evocative ruins.


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Obama early vote edge tenuous
President Barack Obama is leading in an unprecedented early voting push by both campaigns that has already seen an estimated 22 million people cast ballots.
But some independent observers said that the president's lead may not be wide enough to make up the difference between Obama and Mitt Romney in some key battleground states on Election Day.
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( Also on POLITICO: GOP ahead of 2008 early vote pace)
While Obama is ahead in early raw voting numbers in Florida and North Carolina, voting expert Michael McDonald, a professor at George Mason University, says Romney has effectively closed the gap enough that strong Republican turnout on Election Day could cost Obama those states.
"It's going to be difficult for Obama to pull enough ahead to win North Carolina to offset what Romney may do on Election Day," says McDonald, director of the United States Elections Project. "They're seeing the same numbers I am seeing."
( Also on POLITICO: Swing-state map)
For months, both campaigns have lavished millions of dollars, and dispatched thousands of volunteers to corral potential supporters to vote early — either by mail or in person. The result is that an unparalleled number of Americans will have cast their ballots before Election Day — perhaps as much as 40 percent of the electorate — rendering traditional get-out-the-vote efforts almost archaic.
But whether the intense efforts give the edge to Obama or Romney — wiser after Obama's 2008 success with early voting — remains to be seen. "We are on track for a record-breaking turnout in early voting, but we don't know what that means yet," said McDonald, director of the United States Elections Project. (There is no indication that Hurricane Sandy impacted early voting turnout in the states at issue.)
( Also on POLITICO: Latest polls from across the U.S.)
Compared with 2008, Obama is being challenged in a field he had virtually to himself four years ago. The Pew Research Center reported Thursday that "Unlike the last campaign, the race also is close among voters who say they have already voted."
In its poll, conducted this week, Pew reported that neither Obama nor Romney "has a clear advantage among early voters. This is in sharp contrast to early voting at this point four years ago, which favored Obama by a wide margin."
So crucial is early voting to the campaigns' strategies, that the candidates themselves are beating the drums publicly. Last week, Obama made a show of voting early in his home state of Illinois. And in an interview this week with April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks, the president swung back to the topic twice, signaling why early voting is critical for Democrats.
Early voting, Obama said, enables the campaign to help people who might run into a problem at the polls. "We can solve those problems. We have lawyers across the country, and if someone prevents someone from voting, we can try and fix it," the president said.
"But if you show up hours before the polls close and suddenly you're not on the list or you don't have the right ID, it might be hard for us to get you the help you need."
Romney, too, reminded supporters Monday in Ohio of its importance. "We're doing well right now, so early voting makes a difference," he said. "It helps us. It's, you know, a little extra boost when we need it, so thank you for doing it."


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Updated 03-18-2019 at 10:17 PM by Raymond Franze
Dear MIAA fans,
I just wanted to take a few minutes to thank all of you. I believe you all to be the best fans in Division II, both in terms of activity on these forums and D2Football.com, as well as in general knowledge of the Division and the game. Hands down.
Unfortunately, as much as I love doing so, my personal and professional life are demanding more of my time. That's a great thing regarding the former, and on most days it's a good thing for the latter,
Jim Collins is stepping down as head coach of the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals after an 11-year stint at the helm.
Collins will be making the jump to the Division I level and joining the staff at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to serve as the Director of Recruiting.
Collins departure comes less than a month after the Saginaw Valley State Athletic Department was sanctioned for major violations in 15 sports — including football — and more than 100 student-athletes
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The 2018 season will go down as the most successful season of all-time for Ferris State football, but despite a heroic comeback effort from the Bulldogs on Saturday, the 2018 season will not include a National Championship trophy.
Valdosta State claimed the NCAA Division II National Championship on Saturday (Dec. 15) with a thrilling 49-47 victory at McKinney ISD Stadium in McKinney, Texas. The win completed a perfect 14-0 season for the Blazers.
In a game that featured
Updated 12-17-2018 at 07:36 PM by Jake Riepma
On the verge of completing the winningest season in Division II football history, Ferris State faces arguably its toughest test yet.
on Saturday (Dec. 15) at the McKinney ISD Stadium, in McKinney, Texas, the 15-0 Ferris State Bulldogs will take on the 14-0 Valdosta State Blazers in the 2018 NCAA Division II National Championship Game.
When the dust settles on Saturday, one team will have earned the right to declare themselves the undefeated, undisputed DII National
Updated 12-13-2018 at 06:00 PM by Jake Riepma