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The Daily Plant : Friday, August 9, 2002
In the past year, we have seen a number of tributes to the men and women of the Fire Department – both those that gave their lives on September 11 and those that are still protecting the lives of New Yorkers everyday. Whether they are saving the lives of fellow citizens, or as a recent pet shop fire proved – their pets, firefighters serve with dedication and courage. Frank Frontera – namesake of a Queens park – did just that. On August 2, Parks honored his memory – and that of all firefighters – while celebrating the restoration of Frontera Park.
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe joined Council Member Melinda Katz to cut the ribbon for the $750,000 reconstruction. Funded by former Council Member Karen Koslowitz, the project involved improving facilities while also integrating a new theme into the design. In 1958, City Council named this park for Maspeth community leader Frank Frontera (1858-1952), an Italian immigrant who settled in Maspeth with his wife and infant son in 1883. An active member of the community, he served in its Volunteer Fire Department until the age of 91. As the owner of a barbershop, he instilled a strong work ethic in his children, and his son Alexander later founded the Maspeth Federal Savings and Loan Association.
In honor of Mr. Frontera's service with the Volunteer Fire Department, Parks designer Gabriella Keller renovated the playground with a firefighter theme. At the opening, children cooled off in the new "fireman's hose" spray shower and played on an antique fire engine pulled by concrete horses. Old-fashioned storefronts of a barbershop and a bank now decorate the play area, which features new swings, slides, safety surfacing and other climbing equipment. New benches and plantings obviously appealed to weary parents in the crowd, eager to find a place to sit in the shade while the kids enjoyed the playground.
In addition to these improvements, City Council has allocated $250,000 for another project that will enable Parks to renovate the basketball and handball court walls. Work should begin this summer. Commissioner Benepe told the assembled guests, "The parks that thrive, rather than simply survive, are those that have strong communities behind them." Judging by their enthusiastic response, it seems certain that Frontera Park will continue to thrive throughout the next phase of restoration.
Written by Jennifer Keeney
Commissioner Adrian Benepe took a moment during the festivities in Frontera Park on August 2 to urge New Yorkers to care for trees in their neighborhood and on their property while New York City is in a Stage I Drought Emergency. "Only 1.05 inches of rain fell in July, making it the driest July in almost a century," said Commissioner Benepe. "The drought affects people and pets, and also trees." On New York City streets, there are 500,000 street trees that are thirsty, especially the 15 percent that are young trees. Commissioner Christopher O. Ward of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection concurred that it is permissible to water trees on the street, private property, in parks, and other public areas.
To care for trees, especially young ones that require special attention, first loosen the soil around a tree's base to allow for water to be absorbed at a maximum. Ideally, about 15 gallons of water should be poured slowly onto the soil once a week. Under drought restrictions, watering can be done before 11 a.m. and after 7 p.m. It is important to be sure that no water overflows so that none is wasted. Finally, mulch should be added to soil around trees. This helps to keep soil temperature moderated, retains moisture, and provides essential nutrients to the soil.
Parks is calling on our thousands of volunteers to keep an eye out for New York City's 500,000 street trees. If you would like to help your local trees by joining the Stewardship Program, you should call (212) 360-TREE. Parks will provide you with a tree "Gator," a plastic skirt, which is wrapped around a tree's base and filled with 15-20 gallons that empties slowly.
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The Garment District is widely known as the ultimate destination for designers, stylists, wholesale buyers, students and, of course, shoppers from all over the world. Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Liz Claiborne and Andrew Marc represent some of the top-notch fashion labels that have office space and production facilities in the district.
Not only does the neighborhood attract those who work in the fashion industry—it's also a popular destination for shoppers and tourists. As the Garment District's name suggests, the neighborhood is an excellent place to shop for clothes and the materials to make them. Here are just a few of the most renowned places to shop in the Garment District: M&J Trimming, Louis Vuitton, Urban Outfitters, Mood Designer Fabrics and Lord & Taylor.
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The Garment District began influencing what people wear and how they obtain their clothing back in the 1800s. Middle-class Americans used to make their own clothing, and only rich people hired tailors to sew for them. During the Civil War, these tailors began collaborating to sew clothing in bulk for the soldiers. At the same time, skilled immigrants began moving to New York City, creating a labor force that could work in clothing factories.
By 1910, approximately 70 percent of women's clothing came from the Garment District. By 1931, the area boasted the most garment manufacturers of anywhere in the world. Today, the Garment District is known as the fashion capital of the world and offers a huge variety of niche resources such as dress dying services, full production cutting and wholesale fabric manufacturers—all within one square mile. The Garment District is a unique place to do business because it offers opportunities for fashion moguls, young entrepreneurs and recent immigrants alike.

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Ten years ago this month, courtesy of my gracious editors, I chronicled one of sport's grandest events: the Ryder Cup.
No matter you knowledge of, or affinity for, golf, this is three days of must-see TV. The burdens of playing for team and homeland, rare in this ancient game, can turn major champions into weekend hackers and obscure names into national heroes.
So as the United States and Europe prepare to tee off Friday morning at Medinah Country Club in the 39th Ryder Cup matches, some memories from 2002 at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield, England.
* The centerpiece of our coverage was U.S. captain Curtis Strange, a Hampton Roads native and then a Williamsburg resident. On the day Strange was appointed captain in 1999, reigning U.S. Open champion Payne Stewart and five others were killed in a plane crash.
Seventeen days before the biennial matches were scheduled to begin, the 9-11 terrorists struck. Less than a week later, the 2001 Ryder Cup was postponed until 2002.
"Everything will remain the same," Strange said then. "The teams, the site, the captains. This will always be the 2001 Ryder Cup team. Our hats, our gear will still say '2001.' And we will never forget why we're playing in 2002."
* Strange gave me unrivaled access during his captaincy. I flew with him via private jet from Atlanta to Newport News after he chose Paul Azinger and Scott Verplank to complete the 12-man U.S. squad. We sat in the study of his Kingsmill home as he revealed pairings on a chalkboard. He escorted me into the U.S.'s team room at The Belfry, complete with ping-pong and billiard tables, a Harley poster and a photograph of Stewart.
* Scotland's Sam Torrance, an eight-time Ryder Cup competitor, captained the European side. He and Strange are friends, and back in the day, they had hoisted a pint or two.
But Torrance was on the wagon for the Ryder Cup.
"I lost three stone, which would be 40-odd pounds," he told me via cell from Ireland. "I lost that in a year-and-a-half, totally in preparation for the Ryder Cup, because when you're the captain you want to look good. I didn't want to be this fat slob walking about, sweating everywhere."
* Given the Strange-Torrance friendship, and the lingering somberness from 9-11, this Ryder Cup had a distinctly different vibe than 1999's Battle of Brookline.
" I think we all understand that the Ryder Cup might have been going a little too far, over the edge," Tiger Woods said. "It's not a blood bath. We are out there competing and having fun. What happened in '99, I think the fans went over the top, the players went over the top, and the media went over the top ... and we all learned from that.
"It's not going to be the same. It's not going to be over the top. We all understand it's not life and death. It's terrible to say, but 9-11 reminded us all of that, and it's sad to say that it takes something like that to remind us that it is just a sport."
Reminder aside, Strange and Torrance wanted their players on edge.
"Emotion is why everybody likes to watch this event so much," said Strange, a two-time U.S. Open champion and now ESPN analyst. "We play as robots every day of our lives out here. We think we play better, and we do, when we hold our emotions inside. In the Ryder Cup, it's OK to let your emotions run freely. I think it can be detrimental to you, but it's still the way you play the game in the Ryder Cup. Because of that, the fans like it, the TV audience likes it, everyone in this room enjoys it because of that."
At Thursday's opening ceremony, a Nottinghamshire Police bagpiper played Amazing Grace, and the Bishop of Warwick prayed for those touched by 9-11.
* The 2002 Ryder Cup was the first for American Mark Calcavecchia since 1991 at Kiawah Island, where in singles he was 4-up on Colin Montgomerie with four holes to play. Calcavecchia finished triple-bogey, bogey, triple-bogey, bogey to gift-wrap a halve for Europe.
After his collapse, rather than watch other matches on the course, Calcavecchia vanished to the beach, where he sat in the sand and hyperventilated.
"I just took it too personal," Calcavecchia said. "I just felt like the weight of everything was on me."
His match didn't cost the U.S., which prevailed 14 1/2-13 1/2 when Europe's Bernhard Langer missed a 6-foot putt on the final hole of his match with Hale Irwin.
* At The Belfry, Europe led 4 1/2-3 1/2 after the first day thanks in part to Thomas Bjorn and Darren Clarke, who bested Woods and Azinger 1-up in a four-ball match.
The Americans shot 9-under 63, only to be outdone by the Europeans' 10 birdies. The key hole was the 15th, where, with Azinger inside of 5 feet for birdie, Bjorn made a 15-footer for birdie.
"Ripped our heart out," Azinger said.
* With Woods teaming with Davis Love III, the U.S.'s 2012 captain, for two Saturday victories, the Americans forged an 8-all tie entering the 12 singles matches.
"They've got one Tiger," Torrance said. "I've got 12 lions."
But all the U.S. needed to retain the Ryder Cup was a split of the singles. Europe had won the singles in only two of the previous 21 competitions.
Plus, the U.S.'s nine Cup veterans were a combined 13-4-5 in singles, with Azinger, David Duval, Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson undefeated.
"I'm confident," Strange said. "Obviously."
* Europe routed the U.S. in singles 7 1/2-4 1/2 to reclaim the Cup and set the continent on its ear. After braving the week's early wind and rain, spectators popped champagne.
Only two Americans, Cup rookies Verplank and David Toms, won. Azinger halved his match with an outrageous hole-out from a bunker that had both teams high-fiving, but it only delayed the inevitable.
Strange was blistered for sending his aces out late, Torrance hailed for front-loading his lineup to gain momentum. But lost in that second-guessing was this:
Europe's decisive points came from Philip Price and Paul McGinley at the bottom of the order. Price, ranked 119th in the world, dusted Mickelson 3 and 2; McGinley, ranked 71st, halved with Furyk.
"Sam and I started this three years ago," Strange said during the closing ceremonies. "We were committed to an event that we could walk away from, shake hands, drink a beer and say, 'well done.' I think we both have won in that category."
Strange then kissed Torrance on the cheek.
"They were immensely gracious in defeat," Torrance said. "Hopefully we can be just as gracious in victory."
Toms had endured a back injury to compete in his first Ryder Cup.
"Memories that will last a lifetime," he said. "I can't explain it to anybody."
Ten years later, I couldn't agree more.
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I was looking for something quirky and pop for my HSC artwork when I happened to see my favourite scene from Wayne's World again. They were driving along, head-banging to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and basically acting like nerds. They are the sort of characters you would see out and about in Sydney and you're struck by the contradictions between nerdiness and the wildness of heavy metal. It reinforces the idea that you can't judge by appearances. They could be lovely guys or serial killers. I used a combination of Warhol-like, flat colours, then overlaid it with liquid paint I'd mixed. The final process was to add some accents with gestural brushstrokes (keeping in mind that less is more).


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Scrabble and my return to hearing
After a decade of deafness, a nightly game with my patient husband helped give me my words back.
I'VE NEVER BEEN A JUNKIE, but I feel like one when I play Scrabble. My husband, Ethan, and I are recent addicts. Every night after dinner the ancient box comes out, held together by rubber bands, filled with the board, wooden tiles, and scores from bygone games. Our new 8-pound American Heritage Dictionary is rapidly showing wear.
This Scrabble addiction is serious play. Two years ago, after a decade of deafness, I had a cochlear implant. It's one of the few miracles in my life. I was very lucky — as soon as the implant was turned on, I could hear.
The worst parts of being deaf were losing words and not being able to hear either my own voice or other peoples'. And a third of my speaking vocabulary disappeared. I could read and understand words the way I always had, but not retain them in my brain's dictionary. Even with the magic implant, I had to struggle to recall words. They came back gradually, and I was ecstatic at their return, but I wanted faster progress. That's when we started to play Scrabble every night, hoping it would help me re-create and enlarge my inner dictionary.
For us, Scrabble is not just therapy or just a game. It's a sweet way to repair a relationship decimated by the loss of hearing. My husband was probably a candidate for sainthood as he lived with me and my deafness, but it was impossible, even for him, not to feel annoyed at times and, even worse, disconnected from me, having lost the serious conversations we'd had in the past.
At first Ethan was very generous with our games. I played with eight letters rather than seven. I could trade in tiles without losing a turn. If I said, "Don't you dare use that open triple word square," he graciously moved somewhere else. He let me use abbreviations (hundreds of them) — even the two-letter ones for the chemical elements. As my hearing and vocabulary returned, the game became more competitive. Just like in the old days, Ethan felt entitled to play all seven tiles at once (for a 50-point bonus). I knew I was getting stronger when I didn't throw a tile at him.
Our competition is also intimate. We take turns asking, "Is this a legal word?" or "May I borrow an 'E' from you if you have one?" and complaining, "Damn it, I was going to put something great in that place you just stole!" I've been pushing lately to claim extra points for obscene words — my husband grew up with parents who cursed like sailors, so he went to the opposite extreme and never swore, but I could help him enjoy some "dirty words." Although we still sometimes come to each other's aid now, our delight in winning overcomes graciousness at other times. Very occasionally I'm generous to Ethan, but not nearly as often as he is to me.
This is a story of my return to the world of hearing. My fingers and my eyes helped give me back my words. The indentations on Scrabble tiles remind me of Braille, even while I both see and hear them touch the board. But it's also the story of how the strength of a long healthy marriage helped make that return possible — via an old game in a torn box, but with board and tiles intact. Like us.
We've been married for more than 50 years, and Scrabble — and the ways we use (and misuse) it — is a good test of how we're doing. We've both discovered that an ancient Scrabble game can also repair. Its give-and-take enriches the many other things we share together.
We do, of course, have other pleasures, but that's another story.
Joan Bolker is a clinical psychologist and writer who lives in Newton Highlands. Send comments to email@example.com.
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Arabic is written backwards…it's somehow complicated but after all one gets used to it!- Here Lani is writing some Eid ul-Adha letters for her friends. A little weird for a sheep to celebrate this day!?!?! … But I guess it makes sense, think of it…if none of them is sacrificed, the day is a happy day for them too!
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If President Obama had to appear before a Congressional Committee about some transgression he might have been involved in, he would come alone and say what he had to say.
On the other hand, if an English king had to appear before Parliament about some transgression, he would come surrounded by aides who could hold his hand, wipe his brow and prompt him on what he had to say.
Thus did Rupert Murdoch, an Australian businessman, come before Parliament and say what he had to say about a scandal in his camp, not as Obama might, or as even an ordinary businessman in England might, but as a king might. And Parliament treated him like one. They fawned all over him. They were almost apologetic over the fact that they had to talk to him about this mess.
"Do you accept you are ultimately responsible for this whole fiasco?" he was asked.
"No," he thundered. He explained that people he hired and trusted and the people who they hired and trusted were responsible.
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The Members of Parliament were taken aback. Hear! Hear! one of them was heard to shout. Murdoch was on THEIR side.
It's easy to forget what this is all about. This is about reporters—private investigators is their official title—listening in on hundreds and thousands of phone calls and reading e-mails written by private citizens throughout England, from the lowliest of dustbin collectors to the staff in the Royal Palace, looking for juicy tidbits about anybody to put in the paper. After that, Scotland Yard, gathering all the evidence about these transgressions, nevertheless, obviously at the request of the government, kept them in plastic bags untouched for four years.
Murdoch may or may not have known his reporters were going to such lengths, but there is no doubt he encouraged them to do so in every way possible. He was determined to beat his competitors to the punch.
At one point, a man walked over to Murdoch to try to bash a cream pie into his face. Murdoch's young wife stood up and slapped the man in the face before he was able to do so. And then a policeman hauled him away.
After this "grilling" was over, commentary mostly consisted about the wonderful way the Old Lion had conducted himself and did you see how brave his wife was in the face of that shameful attack?
Before Murdoch's appearance, it was considered possible that Murdoch might be forced to resign as Chairman of News Corp. After it was over, Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief. Others further down the News Corp chain would pay the price. The shares of News Corp leaped up 5% in just one day.
How far down the food chain became apparent when, later in the day, I watched Rebekah Brooks, the editor of the now defunct News of the World, appear before Parliament.
"So what you're saying," an MP said to her, "is that although you were the editor and there were 17 private investigators employed doing more than 200 'investigations' of the sort we are now talking about, you only knew and dealt with one of them?"
"Yes, and that was on another matter entirely. We were trying to get some addresses for people."
Someday, the man who empties the dustbin will be carted off to jail.
Well, if nothing else, and there will likely be nothing else, although reporters will continue to get information in other ways, the business of tapping people's telephones, instant messages and other things will probably now come to an end. So that's a good thing.
The other ways, of course, are that you call somebody up who might know something, ask them about it, and if they tell it to you you can write it down and write about it later. And for the juicy bits, it's the same thing, and sometimes it's somebody calling in, but money changes hands.
There have been some people who have suggested that the New York Post, which is owned by Murdoch, has been doing the same thing their British counterparts are doing. As a newspaperman with 51 years standing, I tried to find out if by reading the paper I could see any evidence of this. I could not.
Here is a summary of some of the juicier stories that appeared in the front of the New York Post on Thursday, July 21 that might have benefited from phone hacking, together with my opinion if any of the stories were gotten from phone hacking.
The former bodyguard of Brittany Spears says that when he was in her employ she engaged in nose picking, chain smoking and excessive episodes of farting in public. The former bodyguard is suing Spears for sexual harassment. No phone hacking here.
A Brooklyn-based escort service, which usually has 25 escorts available at any time, 24/7, was shut down. Info came from the police. No phone hacking.
A man crashed his small plane into the roof of his mother's house in Oberhallau, Switzerland because, it seemed, he hated her. He called her from the cockpit saying, "Are you home, Mom? I'm just about to drop in," just before the crash. He was killed. She was in the basement and survived. Info does involve phone hacking, but was probably done by an English publication, then republished in the Post. I can't imagine a Swiss publication doing this.
Soon we will no longer have to endure a full, accurate x-ray scan of our bodies on a TV screen when we go through airport security. There's going to be just an outline of a generic body with the dangerous stuff, such as a bomb in your underpants, highlighted. Came in a TSA press release. No phone hacking.
The Army psychiatrist who is accused of 13 counts of premeditated murder in a Fort Hood rampage will be defended by three military lawyers. So we all pay for this with taxpayer money. Came from court papers over the AP wire. No phone hacking.
The rear door of an armored car swung open as it was driving down the Van Wyck Expressway and out fell a big bag of 10,000 quarters ($2,500), which broke open and spooshed the quarters all over the northbound three lanes. Traffic was stopped for a while. Came from a police report. No phone hacking.
Tagged onto this story is the recollection of the time when 48,000 potatoes spilled onto the Hutchinson River Parkway near Scarsdale last month after a crash. No phone hacking here either.
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which has collected $21 million for charity since it began in 1997 after her death, has been closed. "It was never intended to last forever," a member of the charity said. Story came from an English paper, probably Murdoch-owned. No phone hacking.
SAME-SEX SOUVENIRS READY FOR GAY WEDDERS is the headline on this story that shows pictures of gay couples on coffee mugs, wine stoppers and rubber duckies. Gathered up by a Post reporter. Good work. No phone hacking.
Here's an item that almost PROVES the Post does no phone hacking. The apartment of the guitarist of the Brooklyn-based band Broken Glow was raided by the FBI last Tuesday, who said they were investigating possible phone hacking. Guitarist Garrett Deming said he felt "shock and awe" at their being there but that it was also true their wireless router was not password protected so it could be someone in an adjacent apartment. What can I say. Probably phoned in by Deming looking for a mention of Broken Glow.
Paris Hilton of Southampton, interviewed on "ABC News" by reporter Dan Harris, walked off the set when asked, "do you ever worry your moment has past?" Probably phoned in to the Post by a viewer. No phone hacking here.
A high-speed bicyclist has been terrorizing women on the streets of Astoria, Queens by zipping by them and as he goes either giving them a grope or a little pat on the butt before rushing off. There have been more than 25 reports of this. Probably came from a reporter checking out the day's happenings at the NYPD's Special Victims Unit. No phone hacking.
Former NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, after attending a party to watch the fireworks at Devon at the home of Ben Krupinski on Gardiner's Bay to watch the fireworks at Devon, hit a tree while trying to back her SUV out of his driveway. Hmmmm. But I don't think it's phone hacking.
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CANYON, Texas—The National Science Foundation has awarded West Texas A&M University a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant totaling $371,700 for the purchase of a state-of-the-art, 400 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer as a unique educational and research tool for the Texas Panhandle.
Using technology similar to that used in medical MRIs, the NMR system will allow WTAMU and Amarillo College to enhance research programs and teaching in physics, agriculture, chemistry, biology, environmental science and engineering. Although many research universities have facilities like this, it is unusual for undergraduate and community college students to have the opportunity to use them.
The NMR spectrometer will allow WTAMU to continue research into new sources of water and water availability, use local materials to produce biofuel and biochemicals and the analysis of meat products and environmental metabolomics.
"This is a potential game changer," Dr. Don Topliff, dean of the College of Agriculture, Science and Engineering at WTAMU, said. "It gives us the capability to do research that previously was beyond our ability. This equipment can be transformative for both WT and AC."
The grant will be administered under the direction of WTAMU faculty members Dr. Catherine Clewett, assistant professor of physics, Dr. Nick Flynn, head of the Department of Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, Dr. Gary Barbee, assistant professor of environmental science, and Dr. Erick Butler, assistant professor of environmental engineering, and Mark Shadix, instructor of physical sciences at Amarillo College.
"What makes this grant so impressive is the fact that it involved the work of faculty in three different departments at WTAMU as well as Amarillo College," Flynn said.
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gusgorilla Posts: 1There would be a slight reduction of friction between the tires and road surface. Slight being the key word, so slight that you would never notice it in a fuel mileage calculation. However the reduced surface area of your tires may Greatly impact your traction. Reduced traction will go unnoticed until you really need it. Situations like emergency braking, an evasive move in traffic, poor weather, will all bring it to your attention. Sure the ABS will still activate correctly but it will have just that much less area to work with. IMHO it's not worth the trade. As for the tires fitting the rim, any good tire shop would be able to tell you, I really don't know. As for the spare, it's the same age as the original tires, I'd leave it as is, as a spare. Good luck to you and I hope you can find a good deal on some tires.0
scinlaeca Posts: 1I just recently purchased an 02 Explorer XLT - V8 - 4.6L
I have an 11 mile commute to work, little to no traffic. In the last few days, my 11 mile drive uses a quarter tank of gas! I have checked the standard stuff, ie; fuel filter, pump, fuel injectors, air filter etc. and there is no leak. What could be causing the absolute crappy gas milege??
Any advice is greatly appreciated. :confuse:0
hackd Posts: 65I wanted to see what others have recently been getting with the latest models. I currently get about 13-14 City and 21-22 Highway going about 65-70 MPH. Kind of dissapointed with city figures but when reviewing others mileage forums it could be worse. Mileage computer has definitely cured my lead foot as with certain techniques like coasting and keeping RPM's low I can get up to 15+ in City driving.0
dtownmil Posts: 2398 Explorer Sport, 4.0L SOHC, 120,000 miles, 13 MPG in town, 16-17 highway. I think that stinks. I like everything else about this vehicle, except that the rear springs sag a bit. It even tows my 19' boat well. Cruddy mileage. I changed to synthetic oil recently, so I hope that helps a bit. I think it had 10W-30, now I put in 5W-30 syn.0
dman446 Posts: 3I drove the truck from 84,000 - 106K miles.
stock 4.0L 203 hp V6 16/21 MPG
After adding:
Flowmoaster Catback system
removed radiator fan and converted to 16" Hayden electric fan
cold air intake
new plugs/wires
TPS Sensor adustment
ended up getting 19-20/25-26 according to the self installed information display i installed from a 4 door model.0
hey coach, If you never tried using a 100% synthetic oil, that will help your mileage. I use Amsoil now which I believe is a better oil than Mobil1 and it's close to .50 cents cheaper per quart depending how much you would buy. Synthetic oils are produced here in the U.S.A. and not imported from the mid east. If you have replaced tires, Did you get a heavy tire ? Any one who would buy Goodyear Wranglers Silent Armuors will get less MPG. The set I got for my mothers 2003 explorer, very seldom will you get 16MPG with good gas. It use to be with bad gas the least you got was 16MPG with the Michelin cross terrains. Maybe you need to get different gas as now ethenol is everywhere at the pumps mixed in the gas of 10% mix. Some people now say that ethenol has alot of less MPG we all are getting. Who knows. Now I'm confused. :confuse: :sick:0
nfntruth...... You made a smart choice using 5W-30 synthetic oil. If everybody would use it, these people that hate us would not be getting our money. If your explorer uses oil, and you believe and see that it still is, wait after 1500 to 2000 miles and change the oil and filter again with 100% synthetic oil. If it does not use oil, I would change it all again after the first 3000 miles on your first synthetic use. You will see the gunk & slime the other oils creates when you drain it. I had a 1986 T-Bird and it used oil. After I changed the oil and filter after 1500 miles. At 26500 miles, I could'nt believe what that oil looked like. I drove it for 12 more years changing the oil one time every year, and I put 170,000 more miles on it. it was a 3.8 V6 with 25,000 on it before I switched to synthetic oil. Hope all this helps you or anyone else.0
etobicokian Posts: 32006 Explorer V8 AWD. Just upgraded from a 1996 Explorer V8. City mileage is a little worse but hiway is amazing. Averaging 15-16 mpg city but get this...24.5 at 70 mph, 25.5 at 65 mph and 28 mpg at 55 mph. To make it a little easier for the no believers this is on a flat stretch of hiway over a 50 mile stretch using the on board computer. Now I just have to verify with manual calculation. WOW!!!0
kam327 Posts: 115Anybody know how Ford has increased the mileage of the Explorer from 2006 to now? I just bought a used '06 V8 that is EPA rated at 19 hwy (according to the 2008 method) but the '10 model is rated at 21 hwy. I just wondered if I can make any of the changes Ford must have in later model years to achieve those higher numbers.0
explorerx4 Central CTPosts: 13,642Up to about 13,500 miles. Just finished a 1600 mile round trip and averaged 24 mpg with AWD XLT.
Starting elevation was about 150 feet up to about 2350(I-80 in PA) and about 700 feet at the end before turning around.2017 Ford Fusion SE 2017 Ford F-150 Limited0


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SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australian shares closed with slim losses Thursday, after the release of a disappointing jobs report.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index (XJO) pulled back from early gains to end the session down 0.1%, or 3.1 points, at 4214.80, handing back previous-session gains.
"We've run fairly hard - the market is coming up against resistance having had a pretty strong rally in the last couple of weeks," Prasad Patkar, who helps manages around $1 billion at Platypus Asset Management in Sydney.
Markets across Asia traded higher after a positive finish for U.S. stocks overnight, where improving housing sentiment and a surprisingly strong profit result from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted financials.
European stocks mostly rose amid hopes Greece may soon reach a deal to restructure debt after talks resumed with private sector creditors. Also lending support was an International Monetary Fund proposal to expand its lending capacity by $500 billion.
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Germany is considering going back to the trusty old typewriter to counter alleged spying by the U.S. government.
In an interview with the TV service Morgenmagazin, a politician in charge of a parliamentary inquiry into U.S. spying in Germany said that the government is seriously considering a low-tech solution to the ongoing espionage problem, according to the Guardian.
Asked "Are you considering typewriters?" by the interviewer, Christian Democrat politician Patrick Sensburg said: "As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either." "Really?" the surprised interviewer checked. "Yes, no joke," Sensburg responded.
Last week, Germany asked the CIA's station chief to leave the country after German investigators uncovered alleged spying operations, at a time when many Germans are still angry over the exposure last year of widespread U.S. surveillance programs whose targets included Chancellor Angela Merkel.
After former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden released the first of his revelations about the U.S. government's surveillance activities, Russia said that it would also revert to the typewriter.
Russia's Federal Guard Service, which protects Russian officials, put in an order for 20 Triumph Adler typewriters last year, according to the Russian newspaper Izvestiya.
But as clever (and depressingly regressive) as the tactic seems, the typewriter wouldn't necessarily make Germany's communications spy-proof.
Technology has made spying from thousands of miles away a much easier and more cost-effective proposition. But before computers, spying was done the old-fashioned way -- and there's no reason why it can't be done that way again, according to Vince Houghton, an expert on intelligence history at the International Spy Museum in Washington.
"We certainly spied on people before the age of computers and were able to pull stuff off typewriter ribbons," Houghton said in an interview. "As technology advanced, we've lost some of the capabilities of doing those kinds of missions…it takes human intelligence; you have to have an asset on the ground to pull the typewriter ribbons out of the trash."
Outrage over American spying in Germany has reportedly reached fever pitch. People in Germany's government are wary of even basic forms of communication like talking on the phone or sending e-mails. So they've gone back to some of the more enjoyable features of the pre-Internet age: coffees and walks in the park, according to the Guardian:
"Above all, people are trying to stay away from technology whenever they can", wrote Die Welt.
"Those concerned talk less on the phone, prefer to meet in person. More coffees are being drunk and lunches eaten together. Even the walk in the park is increasingly enjoying a revival."
That can't be such a bad thing, even if it is all very much temporary.
"It's incredibly difficult to go back to typewriters," Houghton noted. "There's a reason we moved to computers and communicating electronically. It's much much easier."


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Today Yahoo announced the contest winners for the best uses of its SearchMonkey platform. SearchMonkey is a cornerstone of the Y!OS (Yahoo! Open Strategy) that we previously reported on when it was announced in April. What's SearchMonkey mean to developers? As they note:
With SearchMonkey, developers have a hand in shaping the next generation of search by building customized search results and mash-ups that users can add to their Yahoo! Search experience. By leveraging structured data from sites like CitySearch, StumbleUpon, eBay, or Epicurious.com, developers can add navigational links, reviews, contact information, and even locations to provide enhanced search listings.
Developers can build two types of applications using SearchMonkey: Enhanced Results and Infobars. Enhanced Results replace the current standard results with a richer display. All the links in the Enhanced Results must point to the site to which the result refers. Infobars are appended below search results and can include metadata about the result, related links or content, or links for user actions (such as adding a movie to a Netflix queue).
The contest drew some very interesting entries (I was one of the judges) and the top prize of $10,000 was awarded to Marco Vitanza for his Blogspot Infobar. The idea of the Infobar is to have users see enhanced formats for certain types of search results, and Marco developed one that shows the recent relevant blog posts from Blogspot alongside the normal Yahoo search results as shown in the example below:
The other four winners, who each took home $2500, were represented by two more Infobars, an Enhanced Result, and a Data Service (the contest had a panel of judges, myself included). The winners are:
- Innovative Structured Data: StumbleUpon's Infobar that displays ratings, tags and links for the search link returned.
- Best Infobar - restaurant review site BooRah's Infobar that summarizes and presents user-submitted reviews.
- Best Enhanced Result - Greg Schechter's entry that adds photos, prices and release dates for Xbox game links.
- Best Data Service - David Hinckley's service that gives other developers access to the genealogy data of his GEDview site.
The contest is over, but the learning continues. To understand more about how SearchMonkey works, consult the tutorial: Creating An Enhanced Listing With Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey Application Development Platform.


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Presented in collaboration with the Institution for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. On view through Sunday, July 28, 2013.
Beijing-based artist Song Dong emerged from a strong Chinese avant-garde performing arts community and developed into a significant contemporary art figure in the progression of Chinese conceptual art.
In Broken Mirror, a video installation, Song destroys one reflective scene to reveal another, shattering the viewer's conception of reality and juxtaposing China's modern cityscape with its traditional landscape. Using a succession of images, the artist exposes a rapidly modernizing China and explores notions of transience and illusion in contemporary society.
Song graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in Beijing in 1989. He started his artistic career in the early '90s, and was also engaged in organizing contemporary art exhibitions and events. His work reveals the impermanence and transience of human endeavor, ranging from performance and video to photography, theater, and sculpture. As a pioneer of contemporary Chinese art, Song explores the intricate connection between life and art with the light of an Eastern wisdom and gains international prestige.
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General admission to the Burchfield Penney Art Center is free to Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff and Burchfield Penney members.


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CL&P tree trimming riles Stonington residents
Stonington - Town officials and Connecticut Light & Power representatives plan to inspect each of the trees on Moss Street in Pawcatuck Friday afternoon in an effort to agree which ones have to be removed and which ones have to be trimmed and to what extent.
Moss Street residents have criticized CL&P's plan to remove or trim the pear trees that line the scenic street as excessive.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Lantern Hill Road resident Bruce Wineberg criticized the trimming that crews hired by CL&P have done along that road over the past two weeks as excessive and unnecessary.
"Connecticut is about country roads with trees. That's why I moved here," he said. "I'm just trying to keep them from ruining it. We're talking about something that is irreplaceable."
CL&P spokesman Mitch Gross said Tuesday that the trimming and removal along Lantern Hill Road, Moss Street and other areas of town are part of the utility's statewide effort to decrease power outages in future storms.
At a Board of Selectmen meeting two weeks ago, residents said the cutting would damage the character of the historic shaded street and decrease their property values.
CL&P's plan calls for cutting all branches within 8 feet on either side of the power lines from 10 feet below the lines to 15 feet above.
Because many of the 52 trees on Moss Street are right underneath the wires, a CL&P official has told residents that if the trees are trimmed and not taken down, they will not look like trees because of the extensive pruning that would be needed.
The Board of Selectmen asked CL&P to come back with a revised plan based on what it heard from residents. CL&P would like to do the work this year but needs approval from town Tree Warden Paul Rohacik.
Meanwhile, First Selectman Ed Haberek, who lives on Moss Street, said Tuesday that the town has numbered and inventoried each of the trees in advance of Friday's meeting in an effort to come up with a plan about how to manage each of them. He said about 20 of the trees have some type of problem but the rest do not.
Gross said that when trimming is needed, CL&P wants to work with towns, local tree wardens and residents to find a solution.
On Tuesday, Wineberg pointed to an 80-foot-long section of Lantern Hill Road next to his property where oak and hickory trees were cut down last Friday. A few of the tree stumps were more than 25 feet from the power lines.
He said some of the trees were as tall as 80 feet and as much as 150 years old. Wineberg, who is retired, said when tree crews showed up Friday, his neighbors were at work so he tried to do whatever he could to stop work, including talking to the CL&P arborist and police.
"But I couldn't stop them. I tried every way I knew," he said.
Wineberg said neighbors were told there would be some light pruning, but he said the work has been more like clear cutting. Trimming along many sections of the street appear to be according to the parameters set by CL&P.
Gross said property owners are always notified of the work. A revised state law now only requires CL&P to notify affected property owners of the work instead of getting their permission, even if the trees are on private property.
Gross said most utility customers understand the need for the trimming.
"The challenge is maintaining a balance. We understand our customers' concerns about trees, but we also understand they want reliable power," he said.
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Wigan Athletic entered dreamland with a breathtaking FA Cup final win as a 90th-minute Ben Watson header beat Manchester City, giving a club whose inaugural Football League season was only in 1978 their first major honour.
The triumph was given poignancy as Dave Whelan, the chairman, broke his leg in the 1960 showpiece when playing for Blackburn Rovers. Watson himself had only recently returned from his own leg break, suffered against Liverpool in mid-November.
City's defeat closed a difficult 24 hours for Roberto Mancini following reports in Spain that he will be replaced by Manuel Pellegrini, the Málaga coach, in the summer. Asked about his future at the club, Mancini said: "It's rubbish, this speculation. I know football and anything can happen. In one or two weeks you will know if it's true or not. If it's not true then a lot of stupid things have been written. If it's true then I'm stupid.
"It's not my problem if I will retain my job. I will work at 100% always. I am sure that we have done a good job for three years. My contract is for four years – not one. You've continued to speak about this for the last six months and for the last two weeks, it's been too much."
Mancini then criticised the club's hierarchy for not nipping the speculation in the bud. "I don't know why the club didn't stop this," he said. "It's rubbish, this speculation. But we will see in two weeks – maybe one week, when the season ends if it's true." Asked if he had sought assurances from City, the Italian said: "No. There is no reason for me to ask."
Speaking earlier in the day, Pellegrini admitted he will almost definitely leave Málaga in the close season. "I have already made it clear that it is not ideal to end the season in this way. We are in unusual circumstances. I don't think any of us really want to leave Málaga," he said of the club's financial predicament. "Everyone would prefer to stay but unfortunately, the circumstances we are in don't allow that. Being linked to other clubs doesn't annoy me or make me feel uncomfortable – it's something that usually happens every year."
Khaldoon al-Mubarak, the City chairman, had flown over from Abu Dhabi but his day ended in disappointment as Watson grabbed the late winner. He said: "Unbelievable. The boys were fantastic from the first minute to the 95th. It's been a long six months for myself and it's been a dream – coming on in an FA Cup final and scoring the winner."
Whelan, whose Rovers side lost 3-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the final in which he suffered his injury, said: "It's fantastic. I had a dream and didn't publish it. I said we would get Blackburn in the final after we beat Everton but Blackburn lost. Then I thought we would get Man City in the final and win 1-0. The dream has come true." Whelan hailed Callum McManaman, the 22-year-old who drew criticism for a tackle on Newcastle's Massadio Haïdara in March, following a man-of-the-match display. "I think he's a real diamond of English football," he said.
Wigan visit Arsenal on Tuesday evening as they try to avoid relegation, giving Roberto Martínez little time to saviour the triumph. "It's an incredible moment. At half-time we were all really down as we thought we had played really well in the first half," he said.
Vincent Kompany, the City captain, remained magnanimous. "There is no need to look for excuses," he said. "Wigan deserved to win it, congratulations to them. We have to come back, we'll have plenty of occasions to win it again."