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  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    You needed to participate in both days of the 2 day event to qualify. But it was nice to actually win for once!

    -mike
  • storytellerstoryteller Member Posts: 476
    But you actually won the first time you ran the SVX, right? That's super!

    Steve
  • lark6lark6 Member Posts: 2,565
    Glad to see you did so well, paisan. What other cars were in your class? I'm beginning to think that you could win in a clapped-out BRAT with two passengers strapped to the lawn chairs.

    Ed
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    Won the class on sunday :) I'm pretty happy with it, except for the possible Cat problem :(

    -mike
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    The competition was a WRX with modifications (and some of them may have been illegal at that)

    I'll let you know how I did overall once the results are posted. I ran in the low 53.xxx and mid 52.xxx range all day. Zephyr pulled down a 51.xxx in a WRX with coilovers, EBC, R-compounds. Most of the RSs and WRXs were running in the 53.xxx-55.XXX range. So I'm right in there with em.

    -mike
  • ladywclassladywclass Member Posts: 1,713
    bypass if you're strictly for the cars .. lol

    Just to elaborate - those accomplishments were not done in a vacuum ... I was raising 3 girls at the time (now a grandmother of 4 little boys - 2 in TX and 2 in Hawaii)
    Education in Texas - ACCOUNTABILITY TESTING
    However it seems that's the way it's going all over ... I see it happening here in Indiana to the extent that our large school corporation has hired consultants from Texas to help cope with the accountability testing here. Most of the accountability comes down to one annual test (or a test every 3 years or so). Never mind where the kids were when you started with them ... or how many moved in and out of your school during the school year.
    I can't decide if it's going further down that road in light of the fact that historically people are more 'conservative' in the early years of a century ... or if the 'threats to homeland' will push it even further that way ...

    What are your thoughts?
    Brenda
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Nice driving, I'd have guessed it would be 1-2 seconds behind given its weight and size.

    Lots of educators (*), here, by the way, not just the two of you. I used to offer PowerPoint and Netscape training. :-)

    -juice

    * allow me to use the term loosely
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Besides my own business, I've been teaching part-time for 7 or 8 years at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), in Baltimore.

    Bob
  • cptpltcptplt Member Posts: 1,075
    aren't they all sealed nowadays??? I must confess I have't checked a battery in over 20 years!
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Not really, there are snap-on plastic covers and labels that say they are "maintenance-free", but the truth is our batteries turn distilled water into acid and may need more distilled water added on occasion.

    Unfortunately when they go it's usually cold turkey, and I mean that "cold" literally, as freezing temps put lots of stress on batteries.

    Mine was fine until a road trip to freezing CT killed it in a snap. One of the reservoirs was completely empty due to my neglect.

    It might be a good idea to check it in the fall, before the cold season.

    -juice
  • twrxtwrx Member Posts: 647
    Being a teacher here in Indiana also I find ISTEP to be an insult to teachers. Accountability should be our state legislators taking that test. This thing is so stressful that my sister was afraid her son would not pass it when he was a sophmore. (He was a National Merit level student and got a 1300+ SAT but nevermind that! Yes he got in the 90%+ range on the test)Anyway it robs creativity. We science teachers are asked to teach more math and English (the subjects covered by the test) in our classes. When do we get to teach science?

    My area is Earth Science and my real love is Paleontology. Here in the southern end of the state we have a treasure trove of invertebrate fossils. This brings out th4e Subaru in me! The WRX and the Forester before it have been great for fossil digging. There is always a set of geology tools in the back!

    TWRX
  • ladywclassladywclass Member Posts: 1,713
    The comments I hear from teachers here echo the ones from TX a few years back. TX has been on this state accountability testing road a bit longer. One of the things that is incredibly insulting - for anyone who knows anything about test construction - the main score that is scrutinized in TX is actually a "z" score which is a measure used on norm-referenced testing, although the state test is a criterion-referenced test. Talk about mixing apples and oranges! Also in TX, the students are tested in the spring. Do you think they really don't look that closely at the teacher when the kids take a test in April?
    The last year I was in TX I taught general ed fourth grade (test are given grades 3-10). My teaching partner and I were the only teachers in the grade level of 10 classes who had more than 3 years experience. As a result we had all the students who were either very borderline or had failed the third grade test. In this school and district the passing rate was 98-99% on all tests. Do you think there was no pressure for us to get these kids to pass the test in the Spring?!!
    OK .. through ranting til someone else starts ... :D
    Brenda
  • ladywclassladywclass Member Posts: 1,713
    By the way .... my father worked at NASA for 25 years. I grew up with mostly the Gemini and Apollo astronauts' children. I fail to see how another achievement as large as the moon launches could happen with the current views on education. When I taught gifted education I had to train students to take the test so that they could 'dumb down' the way they thought to keep from missing items. (I am not kidding!)
    Brenda
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    We went to a kid's party where they hired a Paleontologist to show off dinosaur bones, I think I had more fun than some of the kids!

    -juice
  • jfljfl Member Posts: 1,398
    Actually, batteries are filled with battery acid (duh!). The water sometimes evaporates, which is why it needs to be refilled.

    And I think the good ol' days of lifetime and 100% maintenance-free batteries are gone.

    Jim
  • subiedaddysubiedaddy Member Posts: 22
    around six years ago, things were a little different. site-based management was a risk that only a few schools decided to take. those brave schools were the poster creatures of the reform movement, masquerading as "mo' money mo' power."
    as soon as schools went with the reform during its optional phase, they got consultants, ie. change agents. once the change ball began to roll the death knell could be heard.

    in a short time the funding diminished or stopped, but the climate of change had been created. people who noticed what was going on were either put in "charge" or helped along the way to retirement. others were ostracized, classified, and ridiculed. ever go to a leadership workshop? all kinds of techniques were taught and practiced to put those folks in the margins, shut them up, or make them look like extremist anti-education fiends. of course, the opinion of all "stakeholders" was "always" considered. it was happening live as the herd tried to figure out what to do with the barrage of standards, visions, missions, rubrics, mandated tests etc. which were being rammed down their throats.

    we are still ONLY in a middle phase right now.

    the story continues but....

    i would much rather say enjoy your grandkids!

    ive been going to school the last 3+ years for different reasons, and am a semester (this one) away from starting my 1st (and probably only) masters in.......not education LOL english. your "vacuum" comment hits close to home as i have several carpet lice of my own :)

    regards
  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    I am amazed. I am president of the School Council at the school which my kids attend. After three years on the Council, I am still mystified at the jargon. I keep asking for translations.

    I had presumed that it was a representation of educators' desire to prevent comunication as happens with all industries which adopt specialized language (the function of specialized vocabularies is to act as a barrier to entry, not as shorthand - think of the IT Acronym Jungle).

    Now I suspect it is some sort of global conspiracy of education bureaucrats.

    Back to cars! Vaseline does a good job of protecting battery terminals. Does not evaporate! Is much chaper than fancy sprays etc.

    Cheers

    Graham
  • SylviaSylvia Member Posts: 1,636
    Hi everyone...late response here as we have been looking at various chat issues.

    On the NAT config - It doesn't have anything to do with a NAT configuration as thats what our tech guys are on. It might be a browser java incompatibility. We do have quite a few people who connect from behind corporate firewalls...

    Agreed - the HTML version is clunky!
  • ffsteveffsteve Member Posts: 243
    Lilblue, I have heard the same thing on my previous car, the noise is caused by air pockets in the cooling system. There shouldn't be any air pockets in the system. Check your coolant level.

    In my case, the noise portended a blown head gasket, resulting in loss of coolant, gurgling sounds (which I ignored), and then serious engine damage :( The noise came and went, and if the radio was on it would mostly be masked by the music, so it was a while before I thought to track it down - by which time it was too late!

    I hope that you have a more benign cause.

    Steve
  • hgutsteinhgutstein Member Posts: 65
    Hope you are feeling OK.. Your email is on out of office so if you are reading the boards, I have put my email up here

    Howard
  • originalbitmanoriginalbitman Member Posts: 920
    Just got back from our road trip - 4 weeks and 6,000 miles... CA to WI. Excellent trip other than the mosquitos were thick in WI. Averaged 28+ mpg and zero problems with the GT. Still love this car. Boring details to follow later. Gotta catch up on the posts.

    bit
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    6k miles? Sweet.

    See, someone besides me gets high 20s, Loosh. You just gotta let off the gas once in a while!

    -juice
  • originalbitmanoriginalbitman Member Posts: 920
    And that was with air on more than half the time. Best was 30.3MPG. Did 85 through most of Nevada.

    bit
  • originalbitmanoriginalbitman Member Posts: 920
    Never saw so many Soobs as in Missoula.... must be one out of every 5 cars or more... "there's, a Soob, there's another, and another..." Got sick of saying it. Even saw a Brat or two and some other nice vintage Soobs there. Unreal.

    bit
  • barresa62barresa62 Member Posts: 1,379
    A lot of Soobs, old and new. The other night, the pizza delivery person showed up in about an 82'Brat. They were all of 21 years of age (maybe). :-)

    Stephen
  • hondafriekhondafriek Member Posts: 2,984
    In Canada we get the shaft, legacy lineup is as follows, regular L model, then where you guys get the L/SE ours is still 2.5GT sedan but no wagon in this model, this would be the same as US L/SE.

    Content of this model is roughly the same as MY2002 GT.

    Then comes the 2.5GTPP in wagon and sedan, PP. presumeably means Premium Package, so if we in Canada want the moonroofs in the wagon we have buy the PP model and get leather whether you want it or not.

    I still cannot understand some of the marketing decisions that manufacturers make.The premium package adds about $3500 to base 2.5 GT.

    Cheers Pat. (off to the lake for one last week)
  • ladywclassladywclass Member Posts: 1,713
    I taught for many years in a small rural district in Texas. I found I had more input as a teacher on district/campus improvement committees there than anyone will ever find in large districts. I had the honor of working with an administrator who fully believed in site-based management. He made sure we actually achieved community/parent input and we made the best decisions for kids of any group I've ever seen. Unfortunately (in some cases, at least) there are teachers in classrooms who do NOT base their actions on "what's best for kids" and will not carry out any program but their own. Get rid of them, you say? Not easy even in a state with no teacher union. There ARE teacher shortages ya know!
    How did you guys get me on this soapbox? It's one I haven't stood on for at least 3 years!
    Brenda
  • subiedaddysubiedaddy Member Posts: 22
    Brenda - site based management is wonderful as long as the site is competent and it truly is autonomous. my point was that the reform movement used the success of certain sbm schools to lure other schools into the reform. the mantra of the reform was "you are empowered, take risks," but the reality was and is different. some schools still have the reform banners, torn and soiled, hanging on a wall or a fence, but now those schools have precious few choices to make as the district decides just about everything for them.
    some might say that the reform movement failed miserably. its failure is relative to the point of view. and btw, those few brave original sbm schools...they're either charter or goose stepping like everybody else now.

    jorge
  • ladywclassladywclass Member Posts: 1,713
    probably wasn't clear, jorge ... I agree with you
    Brenda
  • storytellerstoryteller Member Posts: 476
    Is it just me? Now and then a page will load right away, but then the next one acts as if the hamster must be on life support with a ventilator and feeding tube down its tiny mouth.

    Brenda and Jorge: I wish the public schools were filled with teachers like you guys.

    I'm outta here until the hamster revives.

    Steve
  • bluesubiebluesubie Member Posts: 3,497
    I don't get it either. One that puzzles me is the lack of heated seats and mirrors on U.S. Imprezas.

    Does FHI make these decisions based on feedback from SoA and SoC?

    -Dennis
  • lucien2lucien2 Member Posts: 2,984
    Off to France on a lil' business junket for the next 4 days. So you all have a good time at the chat, and I'll check in next week.

    Cheers,
    Lucien

    p.s. who let the hamsters out?
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Uhhh..yeah...I think the hamster had a hairball or something. I'm seeing double postings everywhere. It's been reported.

    Have a safe trip, lucien!
  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    Hey gang- My Forester got tagged in the rear the other day while sitting at a red light at the bottom of a hill. A college girl driving a LeBaron and talking to her 3 friends wasn't paying attention and didn't brake in time on the rain slicked road. Is there a worse feeling than to hear skidding sounds and look in your rear view mirror and see a car getting closer and closer? Anyway, I'd been moving some stuff in an U-Haul trailer a couple of days earlier and hadn't bothered to take to ball hitch off so the ball ended up being embedded in the Lebaron's front end (in fact, it was an effort to get the two vehicles separated). The end result was that the hitch absorbed 95% of the impact and consequently the rear bumper was only slightly scratched. I still need to get it looked at to make sure that the frame is okay but I was impressed with the job the ball hitch did in absorbing the impact. With out it, I've no doubt that, at a minimum, the rear bumper would have been deformed by the impact.

    -Frank P.
  • miksmimiksmi Member Posts: 1,246
    Frank, sorry to hear about the accident; glad no one was hurt.

    ..Mike

    ..Mike

  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    My first car, a 1985 Mazda RX-7 GSE, met its end due to being rear-ended by a Chrysler LeBaron. The LeBaron wasn't so hard to separate, but it pushed me 2' under the rear bumper of a fullsize van. Took a big tow truck with chains around the rear axle, firefighters with 4' crowbars on the hood, and the van in low trying to accelerate forward to separate them.

    -Colin
  • rblelandrbleland Member Posts: 312
    Sounds like LeBarons mate for life??
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    I've left my rear hitch on my Explorer for that very reason. To date it has deflected two rear-enders, without suffering any rear end bumper damage.

    Bob
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Sorry, can't feel bad for those in Canada, since you almost always get cool stuff we don't!

    Someone fed the hamster, but it was dead slow this AM for me, too.

    Bid-ness in France? Are you hiring any taste-testers? :-)

    Glad you're OK, Frank, hopefully the other driver will learn her lesson. Hmm, maybe I should leave mine in place! Last year a Saturn did $1200 worth of damage, though her car was much worse, not even driveable.

    -juice
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    I have my rear end bumper protector in my hitch on the Trooper for that reason too.

    -mike
  • strider98strider98 Member Posts: 89
    Canadians can get Cuban cigars and all kinds of stuff like that.

    Maybe I need to get a hitch on my Rex just for protection?!?

    Au revoir, Loosh!
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
    RX-7?! I learned to drive on a red 1986 Mazda RX-7. Loved that car. Beat a Porsche in a street race, then made the mistake of bragging about it to my parents. I never did that again...bragging to my parents, that is :-)

    A close family friend had an identical car, but it met its demise when a van backed into and on top of the front bumper...and didn't stop until it reached the Mazda's windshield. Sleek profile, indeed.

    I can't wait for Mazda to bring the rotary engine back in the RX-8.

    -Ty
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Cubans, eh?

    RX7: sports car, or skate board ramp, you make the call.

    I wish the RX8 weren't so funky looking. The concept of a 4 seat sports car is cool, but I'd run, not walk, to a G35 coupe, which is stunning in comparison.

    -juice
  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    I hate the RX-8's looks too. And as long as I've worked with rotaries and two-stroke piston engines I cannot believe that Mazda will reach the RX-8's stated horsepower goals while still meeting emissions. This is the company that touted 155HP from the 2001 Miata when it first gained variable valve timing-- a boost from 140HP without. A few months later, they realized it wasn't really making that and scaled back to 142HP, a meager gain for fancy technology.

    Meanwhile a peripheral-ported but otherwise still "1.3L" 2 rotor is supposed to make 280HP. I'm not from Missouri, but...

    -Colin
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Not only that, Colin, but also they boosted the compression ratio and therefore started recommending premium fuel. For 2 lousy horses?

    Seems like the variable valve timing did next to nothing for that engine.

    I'd like to see Subaru bring AVCS here, but give us more than 2 measly horses.

    -juice
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Don't forget - chat tonight!

    I'll be there after a one week absence and a server outage the week before, so it seems like forever since the last one.

    -juice
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    Have not made one in some months. Last night was a great trip back!

    Steve
  • bluesubiebluesubie Member Posts: 3,497
    I was at a different chat last night. With paisan, hypov and about 2 dozen or so other Scooby folks at Ruby Tuesday's. :-)

    -Dennis
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Save those for a different night! :-)

    Our chat was excellent - I could hardly keep up. We ended up talking about cookies and popcorn, of all things.

    Those MF Cookies (*) are great!

    -juice

    * Michael's Favorite
  • lilbluewgn02lilbluewgn02 Member Posts: 1,089
    But I rented the Monsters Inc. DVD for 99 cents...we all watched it and on the bonus disc is a short called Mikey's New Car...very funny...to quote Mike Wasowsky when asked why he bought a new car "three words...six wheel drive!".
    Other good stuff. Could have used your popcorn, juice.
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