Do you think San Clemente's City Council just talks the talk?Think again. They also push the pedals!
During last Saturday's bicycle tour of vibrant downtown Long Beach, our decision-makers were able to get that essential, tires-on-the-ground experience by flowing along the living streets and neighborhoods of one of California's largest coastal cities.
Pedaling in the sun were Mayor Jim Evert, Mayor Pro Tem Tim Brown, Council member Lori Donchak, GPAC appointees Pete Van Nuys and Richard Boyer, plus City Planner Cliff Jones, City Engineer Tom Frank, and me, PEDal Founder Brenda Miller. We all pedaled, pondered, and probed the possibilities of a bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly Spanish Village by the Sea.
Led by Charlie Gandy, President of Livable Communities and representing the City of Long Beach, we departed Long Beach City Hall via cycle tracks. Cycle tracks are on-street bikeways that are separated from motor traffic by physical barriers.
Long beach installed cycle tracks on two one-way roads in the heart of downtown, 3rd St. and Broadway, while also preserving on-street parallel parking. Intersections with cycle tracks are regulated by different motor and bicycle signal lights, including turning motions, with straight-through traffic for pedestrians, bikes, and cars getting green light priority. The result is a balanced, harmonious integration of all movements, including pedestrians.
Next we toured the two-story Bikestation Long Beach, the first of its kind in the country. Built as a public-private partnership with the City, Bikestation provides secure, 24-hour/7-day bicycle parking, repair services, bicycle rentals, and showers on-site for bicycle commuters. British Airways stores bicycles at Bikestation for use by its employees staying in town or overnight.
Arriving in the Belmont Shore commercial district, everyone rode the green sharrowed lane on 2nd Street, a 4-lane road that has 35,000 – 40,000 average daily car trips. A "sharrow" is a roadway marking that designates the lane as being shared by both cars and bicycles.
Responding to requests from the local business association concerned about cyclists endangering pedestrians on sidewalks, Long Beach implemented the green lane in April, 2011. Once cyclists were given a safe alternative to the sidewalks, the real changes began, according to Gandy.
The City advertised a safety poster campaign and encouraged police to issue written warnings to cyclists for the first several months.
Then in summer, 2011, officers began issuing $170 tickets for sidewalk riders.
The three E's, Engineering, Education, and law Enforcement have definitely reached all cyclists, particularly the inconsiderate few who were making things bad for everyone.
Consequently, sidewalks are safer and the number of cyclists has tripled, with almost all of them in the green lane.
Inexpensive to implement, the green sharrowed lane combines runway paint topped with white sharrows centered in the right-hand lane in both directions. The paint is not slippery when wet.Long Beach won an award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers, which recognized the City's innovative techniques for integrating bicycles with motorized transportation modes.
But how does it feel to ride in the green lane? This was my second bicycle tour of the neighborhood and there were no aggressive behaviors by competitive motorists. Faster-moving vehicles on 2nd St. use the left lane and do so with noticable courtesy. No one guns their engine to get by you. No one slams on their brakes after cutting in front of you. Everyone gets along.
From Belmont Shore, San Clemente's pedal-pushers rode to dine at Lola's Mexican Cuisine, the site of the first parklet in Southern California. Located on East 4th Street, the restaurant sits in one of four city-designated 'Bike Friendly Business Districts' in Long Beach that encourage bicycle mode share through traffic calming, abundant, convenient bicycle parking, and outdoor dining.
The parklet at Lola's is simply a temporary deck positioned in the roadway adjacent the curb and level with the existing sidewalk. When it rains, water easily flows underneath toward the gutter. Lola's parklet has added 20 restaurant seats barricaded with large, brightly colored planters, all on a steel frame that can be moved, if desired. "They're the most valuable seats we have," Lola's owner told us.
With urban open space a scarce commodity, Long Beach uses parklets as a tool of "economic gardening," according to Charlie Gandy. By creating spaces where people want to be, parklets encourage entrepreneurship and promote revitalization as catalysts for economic development. Most importantly, they stimulate local spending that drives the community economy.
Bob Foster, Mayor of Long Beach and also a cyclist, advocates that bicycle transportation makes it easier for people to patronize local businesses and interact with each other. "I see parts of the City on my bike that I would never even notice if I was just driving . . . it's a great way for me personally to get closer to the City," he says on the City's bicycle transportation website.
Long Beach successfully uses non-motorized infrastructure as a tool of economic development. The City aggressivelypursues public and private grant opportunities, amassing $20 million for bike-ped and active transportation projects over the last several years. As a result, its businesses thrive: in the last 20 months, 20 businesses have arrived or expanded in its downtown commercial districts, according to Gandy. In any economy, that's a statistic no community can afford to ignore.
Even though Long Beach is almost 8 times the population of San Clemente, bicycling its metropolitan environment feels like riding in a village. Long Beach has figured out how to create places people want to be and how they want to get there by having a balanced, multi-modal transportation network for all. Motor traffic is calmed, locals bask in sidewalk cafes, pedestrians stroll, bicyclists pedal, businesses thrive and everyone has a smile on her face. That's why the San Clemente City Council, GPAC, and staff pushed the pedals Saturday.
Councilmember Lori Donchak said it all with this observation: "Long Beach was a real eye-opener about how cycling can be a valued transportation choice in a community. Whether on foot, on bicycle, or in a car, people moving around the city were respectful of each other, and it worked. An added bonus: abundant public art especially appreciated by those on two wheels. It was good to see the Complete Street concept in action," she said.
What would San Clemente founding father Ole Hanson say? Can we become the Spanish Multi-modal Village by the Sea?


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Q: Read last integer file C++ I have a question. Why my program don't read the last integer if I don't put a space at the end of file? If I have a text file with a only number, without end space, the program don't read anything.
This is my program :
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(){
    fstream f1,f2;
    int k;
    int q;

    cout << "Inserisci numero lettere da leggere : ";
    cin >> q;

    f1.open("in.txt", ios::in);
    f2.open("out.txt", ios::out);

    if(f1.fail()){
        cout << "Impossibile aprire il file";
        exit(1);
    }

    f1 >> k;

    while( !f1.eof() && q > 0){
        q--;
        cout << k << '\n';
        f2 << k;
        f1 >> k;
    }

    f1.close();
    f2.close();

    return 0;
}

A: Your program read all the numbers, but you have !f1.eof() check after a read operation. And when there is an end of file after the last number, you never output it.
Replace
f1 >> k;

while( !f1.eof() && q > 0){
    q--;
    cout << k << '\n';
    f2 << k;
    f1 >> k;
}

with
while( f1 >> k && q > 0){
    q--;
    cout << k << '\n';
    f2 << k;
}

And read some articles about input/output via streams.

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BMW 3 Series 330e 2020 long-term review
Can a plug-in hybrid 3 Series be as easy to live with as the 320d? We had five months to find out
by Mark Tisshaw
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Why we're ran it: Plug-in 330e will overtake 320d as the biggest-selling 3 Series. We found out if it could match the diesel's all-round appeal
Month 5 - Month 4 - Month 3 - Month 2 - Month 1 - Prices and specs
Life with a BMW 330e: Month 5
Did this plug-in hybrid offer the best of both petrol and electric worlds or is it a tax-motivated real-world compromise? - 26 August 2020
Of all the first drives, road tests and long-term test reviews on our website this year, these reports on the 330e stand alone as the most read.
Not the new Land Rover Defender, the latest Porsche 911 Turbo or the all-new Volkswagen Golf, but a variant of the 3 Series that's been on sale for a couple of years already. Remarkable, isn't it? I'm humble enough to admit it's unlikely to be for any Hemingway-aping qualities of the author, but rather an example of just how much interest there is in the wider car-searching internet world in all things electrified, and company car tax-friendly motors such as this 330e.
The 330e's arrival couldn't have been better timed. The company car tax bands were completely rewritten in April in favour of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. As a result, the 330e's CO2 rating of 32g/km and electric-only range of 35 miles attract a benefit-in-kind (BIK) rate of just 10%, a saving of £958 per year for a 40% taxpayer over the previous tax year. Meanwhile, the old company car stalwart, the 320d, attracts a 27% BIK rate. Not much of a decision to make, then, for the company car buyers who hoover up the majority of 3 Series sales. (About 35,000 3 Series are sold a year in the UK, around six in 10 to fleet buyers, and almost all 330es go to fleets.) And nothing we've found in living with one for the past few months should deter a company car driver from making this their 3 of choice.
At this point, it's worth clarifying that for a private buyer, the higher initial cost of the 330e over petrol and diesel 3 Series makes it a questionable purchase over the likes of the 320i and 320d. Intriguingly, though, BMW says the more potent petrol versions like the M340i do particularly well with private 3 Series buyers, which is always nice to hear.
But for those company car drivers, we found the disadvantages over the 320d are tiny and far outweighed by the gains. Fitting the 330e's 12kWh battery behind the rear seats does rob some boot space and shrinks the fuel tank from 59 to 40 litres. This means you'll fill up more frequently when the combined range (just under 30 electric miles in the real world and then about 350-400 miles from the petrol tank) is used. And the extra weight of the hybrid system takes a touch off the 3 Series' outstanding dynamic prowess, but it remains class leading in this regard.
In compelling 320d guise, Munich's seventh-generation 3 Series successfully reclaims compact executive class honours
Those gains, then – of which the chief one is the multifaceted hybrid drivetrain. You could, of course, just get the 330e purely for tax reasons and leave the charging cable in the cellophane wrap in the boot, but that's not cool. Besides, there's real pleasure to be had from the quiet, refined brilliance of driving around solely on electric power.
And we did a lot of that. Of the 6203 miles we travelled in the 330e, 2892 were solely on electric power. That's higher than I thought I'd do and I can recall many journeys when just five more miles of range would have returned me to the charger without having turned the engine on.
Before you know what happened in March, I was commuting to the office for 28 miles each way most days, and I could charge at either end. Cold weather could push the range closer to 20 than 30 miles, but commutes were mostly engine free. On resumption of driving after the car was furloughed on the driveway for a couple of months, most of my miles became solely electric while working from home. In fact, I've put petrol in it only three times since March, and one of those was a splash and dash.
When the charge runs out, the switch to petrol power is seamless. You can cruise along as happily as in any other 3 Series, and you'll get about 42mpg on a long, electric-free run like this. Combined economy over its time with us between the two power sources has been an indicated 76mpg.
Numbers-wise, a full charge of the battery cost me £1.30. So ignoring the fact that I was charging at work for free at the start of the year, let's say I paid for all those charges and got an average of 25 miles from a full charge. That means those 2892 electric miles cost me just £150.38. The petrol cost me £474.74. Let's say you did the same miles in a 320d and got 50mpg: those same miles would cost you £704.99. So you're not just saving on tax, but on running costs, too, if – and it's a big if – you have the ability to charge at home and work, and not all your journeys run into triple-digit mileages pounding up and down the country every day.
As mentioned, the extra weight over a non-hybrid 3 Series takes a percentage point or two off the handling, and more off the secondary ride, particularly at the rear over speed bumps, although the large, 19in alloys and low-profile run-flat tyres of our fully loaded M Sport test car also contribute to that. This is a case of less is more when speccing your 330e and it's also worth knowing that, unlike the 330i and 330d, the 330e in this range-topping M Sport trim will only come on run-flats from the factory and you have to have SE Pro to get non-run-flat 17s. Yet dynamically, as our recent 4.5- star road test confirmed, it beats all plug-in hybrid saloon rivals and most other executive saloons besides.
I'd consider myself a good target market for a plug-in hybrid: I drive for work, do frequent small trips to make full use of the electric power, can charge at home and work, and do weekly-or-so longer trips to dip into the fuel tank. And in the 330e, we've found the best of the lot.
I drove the 330e only a few times, but we always seemed to encounter conditions where it could show it strengths: lovely steering, perfect handling balance and excellent body control when you press on. I'd not been so familiar with recent smaller BMWs when it arrived, so it was great to discover the marque's reputation for special driving machines was well and truly intact.
Steve Cropley
Love it:
Refinement This is one quiet, calm and relaxing car to drive, yet still with a serious dynamic edge, too.
Performance Select the XtraBoost driving mode for the full 289bhp and fairly devastating real-world pace.
Infotainment Retaining physical buttons and controllers over a touchscreen is welcome: the 3 Series has no peers.
Loathe it:
Small boot Battery robs about 25% of usable space over a non-hybrid 3. The 330e Touring sounds tempting…
Secondary ride Rear can crash its way over speed bumps, the battery's weight and low-profile tyres exacerbating it.
Final mileage: 6995
A bump in the road - 12th August 2020
A local road closure has meant a diversion over a route covered with speed bumps, the severity of which the 330e does not enjoy. Its big wheels and run-flat tyres, combined with the weight of the hybrid system, particularly the battery over the rear axle, bring a harshness to the ride that makes you wince by the time the bumps are in double figures.
plug placement conundrum - 15 July 2020
Knowing the location of your car's charging port is important: park wrong and your charging cable won't reach. Car makers have put ports in the front or back bumpers, front wings or where the old fuel pump used to go. I like backing into spaces, but the 330e's nearside front wing port precludes that for some chargers I've found. Frustrating.
Keeping cool can be complex - 8 July 2020
I've noticed during the recent hot weather that BMW buries the air-con on/off button within a menu on the infotainment screen. There's an 'AC menu' button on the centre console but, once you're there, there are about five other menus you could be taken to, depending on which was last open. It's distracting and never easy to remember the right one.
Our ultimate parked machine is finally, once again, the ultimate driving machine - 17 June 2020
Your eyes do not deceive you: the 330e's odometer has at last started going upwards once more after two months of the car being furloughed in the driveway. Easing lockdown restrictions by allowing us to drive places for exercise has opened up a life of greater excitement for our dog in particular. She had run out of lamp posts to sniff around the block and can now be transported by BMW to sniff other lamp posts a bit further away.
The 330e started first time (not sure why I was surprised; why wouldn't it?) and, after some checks, all seemed safe, drivable and exactly as I'd left it, right down to the amount of battery left in the hybrid system, which impressively had not dropped at all in that time.
Driving again was a quite remarkable experience. You're suddenly so much more aware of everything. All the senses are stirred in a way they'd come nowhere close to in two months of nothing more than walking pace. It was almost spiritual, as strange as that sounds, in rediscovering just how joyful and liberating the simple act of driving can be. Every steering input, touch of the pedals, even flick of the indicator brought a refreshing return to normality. Funny the things you miss. What's that saying? You don't know what you've got till it's gone?
In the 330e, it was like making first impressions all over again. In the default mode of electric-only driving when there's charge in the battery, I'd forgotten just how much torque there is. I'd forgotten how big and squidgy the steering wheel is and how good the steering feels. I don't remember sitting as low (too many SUVs ingrained in the subconscious, probably) but loved the fact that my bum was close to the ground.
I also loved how empty the roads were. The lockdown, along with an enforced period of home working, has put many driving-related things into perspective: chiefly, just what is the point of the rush hour, that twice-daily nuisance that blights our roads? Driving traffic-free on roads out of town that are normally so congested was about as much fun as I've had in 30mph suburbia, simply because I was able to make unobstructed progress.
After a few local trips, we ventured further afield, dog in tow, to a quiet part of the south coast. (Don't worry, Daily Mail: not all of us sit on Bournemouth beach.) I thought a greyhound and a saloon wouldn't be the best match, but stuff the rear footwells with cushions, lay a mat over the top and there's plenty of space. She seemed happy enough.
The longer drive showed even more of the 330e's all-round appeal: when the battery runs out, the petrol engine takes over. The range of the car is a real boon and, as detailed previously, if you do enough short journeys and can charge it often, you can get close to four figures out of a tank, as I have. You can also do stints of two hours or more behind the wheel and not be in the slightest bit of discomfort, even not having done a long drive for so long.
Driving, then. Quite fun, isn't it? Oh, how we've missed you. And speaking of things to miss, if you'll excuse the indulgence, a former resident of these pages in 2014-2015 has remained on my driveway ever since, after I took on the ownership: a Mini Cooper. Even now, it still feels like a baby BMW in its usability yet with those fun, famed Mini dynamics. But now it's time to say goodbye to it once and for all because, by the time you read this, it will have been replaced by a Ford Fiesta to park next to the 330e each night. Just as the Mini has given many years of happy motoring, the 330e feels like the car to do just the same.
Driving Yep, that's it: just driving. And to have the pleasure of doing so in a 3 Series makes it all the better.
small boot I've grumbled about this before, but I'd forgotten just what a weird shape (long and thin) and how limiting the 330e's boot is.
Live with a BMW 330e: Month 3
Our colourful car is the exception - 20 May 2020
Funny what you notice when you've got more time on your hands to look at cars rather than drive them. The latest news from 330e lockdown land concerns colour. Stick with me… Some 60% of new cars sold in this country last year were grey, white or black. How dreary. Our 330e, with its Sunset Orange hue, wasn't one of them. Just when and why did Brits get so unadventurous with car colours? But then I started noticing other 3 Series, and monochrome seems an exception rather than a rule. Blue, red and, yes, orange like mine: brightly coloured 3 Series seem to be more common than the dull ones. Or maybe they just blended in with all the others on the road. Just me?
Even when it's not going anywhere, our plug-in hybrid has a fascinating story to tell - 6 May 2020
The keenest-eyed readers will have noticed that the mileage reading hasn't nudged at all since the last update, because not even a short drive to Tesco is in order for your correspondent when living opposite a very well-stocked small shop, its excellent range of products including this very magazine…
Yet the 330e's current dormancy has allowed for plenty of number crunching and reflections on what we've learned about this most fascinating of 3 Series now the 5000-mile milestone on the odometer has come up. Chiefly, the 330e's continued kindness to your wallet and why it can make a lot of financial sense in running costs as well as in saving tax for company car buyers.
As we said right at the very start of these reports, plug-in hybrids should not be seen as the right choice for everyone. Those who do big miles will still want a diesel and private buyers who do fewer miles a petrol, but fleet buyers who don't travel the length and breadth of the country and can charge either at home or work – or ideally both – will see a big benefit not only in tax bills but in fuel costs, too.
So that latter way has proven for us. Of those 5103 miles, the first 792 were done before BMW handed us the keys. But of the 4311 miles in our ownership, 2254 have been done solely on electric power, so just over half in total. That's because I can charge at home and work, and my commute of about 28 miles each way is almost exactly in line with the 330e's real-world battery range.
I'm doing (or rather was doing) longer journeys that rely mainly on petrol power on average about once every five to seven days, which has meant infrequent trips to the fuel station. Even with the smaller petrol tank (40 litres in the 330e, compared with 60 litres in non-plug-in hybrid 3 Series), I'm getting about 400 miles from that tank on pure petrol power.
So you're looking at about 800 miles between fills with my combined petrol and electric usage (the record being as high as 1100 miles when I didn't venture too far off the commute one fortnight), compared with the 627 miles between fills we got from the previous-generation 320d that was in our ownership from 2016 to 2017.
That 320d averaged just under 50mpg in its time with us, which compares with the combined 76.5mpg being shown on the 330e's trip computer in its time with us so far. Many company car drivers would be happy with the two-thirds cost saving in tax of a 330e over a 320d but, again with the caveat of being able to charge for as long as you can as frequently as you can, we're finding that there is even greater overall efficiency to be had, as well as fewer visits to the fuel station needed, saving more time and money.
And if all that charging sounds a chore, surprisingly it isn't: it simply becomes a habit and takes no more than 30 seconds at the beginning or end of a journey. Admittedly, dragging big awkward cables off the ground on a cold wet morning isn't the most premium thing in the world, but get into the pre-conditioned cabin (toasty warm in the winter, nice cool air-con in the summer) and pull away in silence while enjoying that instant torque under your right foot and you'll not even be bothered by that after a short while, either.
The 3 Series' looks It's not the greatest 3 Series yet seen, but it's got plenty on BMW's other recent range additions.
Static presence I miss driving it. I'd give plenty even for a traffic jam on the approach to the M3 motorway right now…
iDrive gets our vote - 22 April 2020
There wasn't tons of praise lavished on the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupé in our recent road test, but one positive was its infotainment system. Which is familiar, of course, from the 330e. One bit in particular struck a chord: the approval of the rotary controller and shortcut buttons that make "the system that much easier to operate while on the move". The more miles I do in the 330e (not too many right now, admittedly), the more that praise rings true. It's so much faster, more intuitive and safer to use the controller than any touchscreen. The tide is turning somewhat against touchscreens and how much of a distraction they can be by taking your eyes off the road. BMW already has the answer.
Our 3 Series is proving both environmentally and driver friendly - 8 April 2020
While SUVs may seem to be taking over the world, when you look at the sales charts and the traffic on our roads, the BMW 3 Series is still showing just how important and relevant saloon cars are.
As I'm discovering after recent extended stints in many an SUV, driving a saloon makes you feel so much more involved in the drive. There's something about sitting low with your bum on the floor and having your legs near-horizontal that allows you to become really immersed in the experience. Things just come easily and with an air of familiarity. And no saloon does it better than the 3 Series, whether it's this plug-in hybrid 330e or any other version.
BMW now offers far more SUVs than it does saloons, but the relevance and significance of the 3 Series is as strong as ever. "A typical 3 Series year in the UK is 35,000 units, and volumes have stayed stable even as the X3 and X4 have risen," says BMW UK's James Thompson, the product manager for all models with a 3 or 4 in their name. "The 3 Series is as important as ever, and buyers have stayed with it."
For many buyers, it's not just the quality of the car that attracts. The dominance of SUVs is felt mainly in the private retail sector (which makes up 43% of new car sales in the UK) but, in the fleet market (55% of sales), it's saloons and other 'low' cars that continue to appeal, due to their lower CO2 rating.
"The corporate world is still dominated by saloons and estates, not SUVs," says Thompson. "The CO2 is lower and most fleets won't put you on the list if you're over 130g/km."
The 3 Series sales are split 40% to retail, 60% to the corporate sector. While CO2 rules are changing so much of the car world as we know it, they're also ensuring that such a well-loved bodystyle as the saloon can continue to survive and thrive.
Boot takes a hit - 1 April 2020
Having both an electric-only range and a fuel tank of substance means that something has to give in terms of packaging. It's easy enough in an SUV, with extra room in the floor, but not so in a saloon like the 3 Series. So it's boot space that suffers, fitting only a couple of weekend bags for two humans and a dog and all the wires for charging the battery.
Our plug-in hybrid saloon is great to drive but tricky to operate - 25 March 2020
So what is it actually like to drive? You'll forgive me for only getting to answer this question now, in the third meaty report on the 330e. So rarely has a car needed so much scene-setting and prep, first to find out if it can actually be used as its maker intended, and second to learn how to use it yourself. Clearly this is nothing like the simple-to-use familiarity of having a 320d…
Charging points installed, hybrid tech learned and company car tax bill calculated, and it's onto living with the car. And for the most part, it won't surprise you to learn that the 330e is proving much like any other 3 Series.
It steers with an accuracy some bona fide sports cars can only dream of, and it is one of those cars that has the ability to make the most mundane and routine of journeys an enjoyable experience – and that's simply down to everything the driver interacts with being engineered with the pleasure of driving in mind. That was true the last time we had a 3 Series at Autocar, a previous-generation 320d xDrive M Sport version back in 2016. That car also became a firm favourite for the way it could make every drive so pleasurable. An evolutionary approach has been adopted, then – and why wouldn't BMW, when it has such a formula licked?
The one major dynamic difference you do notice is the extra weight. The 330e weighs in excess of 200kg more than an equivalent current-generation 320i, due to that electric motor plus the lithium ion battery pack under the rear seats. As such, the 330e doesn't quite have the fleetfootedness of a 320d in its ability to change direction, yet it still feels more agile than an Audi A4.
The ride also suffers a bit on occasion, with a tendency for the impact of potholes to crash through the cabin, yet I'm not sure how much of that is down to the 19in M Sport alloys of our car. That was true also of the 2016 320d we had on similar-sized wheels, and the two cars also share the optional adaptive M Sport dampers. I'd be keen to try a 330e on smaller wheels and with the standard dampers for comparison, and find out whether the weight or the chassis set-up is to blame.
So the hybrid system doesn't do anything major to mess with the dynamics of the excellent G20-generation 3 Series, which is, remember, an Autocar five-star road test car in its 320d guise. The changes are, predictably enough, found when you press your right foot to the floor.
This is where it gets a bit complicated. There are so many different ways of driving the 330e and so many modes to put it in, depending on how long your journey is and how you want to drive. These are as extreme as using electric-only mode and having the power reduced to try to preserve as much battery range as possible, or as extreme as Xtraboost mode, which liberates the full 111bhp of the electric motor and the 181bhp of the 2.0-litre petrol.
The point is this: everything needs a button pressed, and there's no easy way to let the car choose. The normal mode, Hybrid, runs the battery down in the first instance to keep driving on electric power as much as possible, unless you want to save the battery for later or you have a route plumbed into the navigation system, in which case it'll save the battery for you. So while very clever, even at its most 'normal', it's not that simple.
Public chargers Used one for the first time at a Hampshire garden centre that had a dozen free. Got eight miles of range in 20 minutes, gratis.
public chargers Went to use one at a hotel that had been good enough to install them but not good enough to stop an old BMW X6 and an Audi A4 parking in the spaces.
an immediate impression from behind the wheel - 28 March 2020
By rights I ought to be concentrating on this 330e's excellent, efficient powertrain, but when I drove the car, I couldn't put aside my obsession with its phenomenal steering: supremely accurate, perfectly weighted and geared, with a wheel of ideal diameter and rim size. Who, I kept wondering, can be enjoying a better steering system? My answer: nobody, even at treble the money
Petrol power can still impress - 4 March 2020
My commutes are mostly electrically powered only, but longer trips bring the 2.0-litre petrol engine into play. At motorway speeds, it feels like any other 3 Series. It's quiet and refined, and with a mid-range boosted by the electric motor's torque. Oddly, the faster you go, the more economical the petrol engine becomes – up to a point. You'll see 50mpg at 70mph running on petrol power alone.
Electric-only commuting is now possible in both directions – conditions permitting - 26 February 2020
The company car tax benefits of plug-in hybrids like the BMW 330e are such that instances of them being returned with the charging cables in the boot still in the Cellophane wrapper still occur, admits BMW.
But that is becoming a rarer occurrence, and in my entry for understatement of the year, you need to be charging your plug-in hybrid to get the most out of it. You could just drive it and never charge it, but then you'd be struggling to get 35mpg from a 2.0-litre petrol 3 Series with a load of extra weight you're making no use of, plus a much smaller fuel tank that means you'll be stopping to fill up with fuel more often anyway.
With an electric-only range that sits between about 20 and 25 miles with the cold weather at this time of year (the official range is 35 miles), the 330e needs to be charged quite frequently and driven on electric power for as long as you can to really get the most out of it to save money on fuel as well as in tax.
My commute is between 25 and 30 miles in each direction, depending how bad the traffic is on any given route, so I can tackle it almost entirely on electric power and feel a bit of a poster child for the effective use of a plug-in hybrid, given that the longer journeys I undertake at the weekend mean I'm also making use of the petrol engine. I'm able to be said poster child because we have the luxury of charging at work and, as I have a driveway, I can charge the car at home, too. For someone like me, plug-in hybrids are a very sensible and pragmatic solution.
Getting a charging point installed at home was much more straightforward than I thought it would be and was explained to me by the BP Chargemaster fitter in electricity terminology that even my limited DIY ability allowed me to understand. I'd had my fuse box upgraded last summer, leaving a spare connection for a charging point to be hooked up to and given its own switch on the consumer unit.
The BP Chargemaster Homecharge unit I went for typically costs £449, assuming there are no special requests or circumstances that deviate from what should be quite a straightforward installation.
That figure is after a £500 grant from the government's Office for Low Emissions Vehicles' Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme. Put simply, anyone getting an electric or plug-in hybrid car can get that grant, and up to two per household are allowed should there be two qualifying cars per household. The BP Chargemaster unit is a 7kW charger (which I went for), but it can fit a 3.6kW if your property's power isn't sufficient.
You can choose where the Homecharge unit is fitted – I went for down the side of the house – so long as an earthing rod can be fitted in the vicinity (and your car's charging cable can reach, which in the case of the 4.5m-long cable offered in the 330e and the charging point being located on the front wing, requires reversing as close to the house as I can get).
All in, installation took about two hours, and the 330e can now have its 12kWh battery fully recharged on my drive in about two and a half hours, at a cost of about £1.30 on my current electricity tariff. On that point, you can get tariffs now that give you cheaper power overnight specifically with charging your electric or plug-in hybrid car in mind.
BP Chargemaster offers an app that lets you track how much you're spending. BMW also has one that allows you to precondition the car ahead of your chosen departure time so long as it's connected to the charger – ideal for making the cabin toasty warm and the glass frost-free on the cold winter mornings we've had so far.
That's now two chunky reports on the 330e and I've hardly said anything about actually living life with the car itself. That's not posturing: it simply goes to show just how much there is to get used to with the car, and how much preparation is needed in advance to make sure it's a sensible choice for you in the first place, and then know what you need to do to get the most from it as soon as it arrives. Seeds now sown.
BMW connected app Great for checking battery and fuel tank range – and turning on the climate control to defrost the car.
Engine cutting in Driving on electric power is so quiet and soothing that it's a shame to be interrupted by the petrol engine.
Maximising range the right way - 12 February 2020
Early journeys show how similar the 330e is to other 3 Series, yet also such a new experience. Be aware of your journey length and battery range to truly maximise efficiency. Never charge it and drive it like any other 3, and you'll only get about 40mpg. Charge it often and you'll cover many miles on electric power alone and average nearly 70mpg.
Welcoming the 330e to the fleet - 5th February 2020
The BMW 330e comes with a lot of interesting numbers. There are the impressive performance figures (288bhp, 0-62mph in 5.9sec). Plus there are the official economy and CO2 figures (176.6mpg, 36g/km). Those then feed into the 330e's real trump card – and its imminent crowning as the best-selling 3 Series in the range: its impending benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax rate of just 10%.
Put another way, come April it will cost a company car driver in tax around one third that of the currently best-selling 3 Series, the 320d, which, says BMW UK, the 330e will quickly usurp in sales. And all that for a car that's significantly more powerful and which can travel on electric power alone for around 35 miles.
While talk of tax bands and BIK rates is not typical Autocar fare, from April it's about to become increasingly significant as the government launches new company car tax rules unashamedly designed to increase the sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids.
Car makers also need to sell ever-increasing numbers of these models to lower their fleet CO2 averages and avoid fines for being over the industry-wide 95g/km fleet average target. Electric cars and sub-50g/ km plug-in hybrids bring a double-whammy benefit of lowering fleet CO2 figures and qualifying for 'super credits' that in effect count as two sales in one, in turn allowing BMW to continue making higher-polluting cars such as the M3 without penalty.
Last year some 60% of new cars sold in the UK were to fleets, compared with 48% in 2010, with private car sales dropping from 47% market share to 37% in the same period. Those numbers were mirrored across the 3 Series range, according to BMW UK's 3 Series product manager James Thompson, further highlighting the 330e's importance to the German brand. Some 35,000 3 Series will find homes this year, around 10,000 of which will be 330es, and 95% of those 10,000 will go to company car buyers.
If your 330e arrives before the new tax year, you'll pay either 8% or 12% BIK, depending on with which emissions standard the Treasury wants to correlate the CO2 figure. (You expected the motoring taxation policy to be clearly laid out by now?) Anyway, from 6 April it will be 10% for the plug-in BMW and 0% for pure EVs. Order one now and it won't be with you before July anyway, so that 10% figure is the most relevant.
This whole topic is one we'll look at in our news analysis pages in detail in the coming weeks before the tax changes kick in, but take away this for now: company car buyers will be able to save serious money by switching to EVs and plug-in hybrids. And perhaps the best of the plug-in hybrid breed right now is this 330e. It aims to be the 3 Series without compromise, keeping the sporting appeal for which the saloon has always been known but with some attractive cost and economy benefits.
The 330e uses a 181bhp 2.0-litre petrol engine familiar from elsewhere in the 3 Series range. Mounted within its eight-speed automatic gearbox is a 67bhp electric motor (its output increases to 111bhp with an 'Xtraboost' function in Sport mode) that powers a 12kWh lithium ion battery. That battery lives under the rear seats, with the fuel tank moving to the boot. The 40-litre fuel tank is 20 litres smaller than that of the non-hybrid 3 Series but results in the 330e's one key compromise: a 105-litre cut in boot capacity.
The 330e is rear-wheel drive for now; xDrive four-wheel drive comes later this year, when a Touring version will also be introduced. Being rear-wheel drive with a fully integrated electric drive unit means the BMW system is claimed to be seamless in its operation in shifting between electric and petrol power, or a combination of both, as the electric motor sits on the flywheel and isn't powering an entirely different axle, as is the case with some hybrid systems.
While driving this plug-in BMW is a straightforward process – it can be left in a simple Hybrid setting to leave the car to best decide from which source it should draw power – there are several other driving modes and many more functions to explore, all of which we'll look at in the months ahead.
While the powertrain may not be as familiar, the specification of our 330e is. M Sport remains a popular trim level for the 3 Series, and it is offered on the 330e alongside entry-level SE and Sport. On top of the M Sport trim, which brings with it the usual array of visual and dynamic sporting upgrades, we have an optional M Sport Plus package that brings bigger 19in alloys, beefier brakes, variable sport steering and, intriguingly, adaptive dampers. This is the first time adaptive dampers have been included in a package – despite typically receiving rave reviews in the media, uptake from buyers had been less than 10%.
It's rare for long-term reports like this to offer conclusions so early on, but it's worth pointing out now that the 330e will not be suitable for all 3 Series buyers, specifically private buyers who won't enjoy the tax benefits of company car buyers.
For them, offsetting the 330e's list price against the potential money saved in fuel will be negligible, unless nearly all journeys are within the 35-mile electric-only range, at which point you may as well just buy a Tesla Model 3 for very similar money – or a BMW M340i, as Thompson says many private buyers are doing.
Not only is this our first long-term test of a hybrid 3 Series but it is also our first extended taste of a 3 Series in this G20 generation, which has already earned a five-star road test rating in 320d form. Finding out how much of that magic remains in this 330e will make for a fascinating few months to come.
The 330e has been a favourite of mine since I drove a skinny-tyred Sporttrim version of the last generation. The G20 is quicker and does 20 urban miles on its battery without trying too hard. But, as with so many more modestly powered cars, smaller wheels and less grip makes for more driver appeal.
Matt Saunders
BMW 330e M Sport specification
Prices: List price new £39,860 List price now £41,450 Price as tested £49,300 Dealer value now £34,925 Private value now £31,044 Trade value now £30,125 (part exchange)
Options:M Sport Plus pack £2200, Technology pack £1900, Premium pack £1700, Visibility pack £1500, Comfort pack £990, aluminium mesh effect interior trim £650, Vernasca leather seats £500
Fuel consumption and range: Claimed economy 201.8mpg Fuel tank 40 litres Test average 75.9mpg Test best 84mpg (combined, after battery is drained) Test worst 41.0mpg Real-world range 365 miles petrol, plus 25 miles battery
Tech highlights: 0-62mph 5.9sec Top speed 143mph Engine 4 cyls in line, 1998cc, turbocharged, petrol, plus AC synchronous electric motor Max power 289bhp at 5000-6500rpm Max torque 310lb ft at 1350-4000rpm Transmission 8-spd automatic Boot capacity 375 litres Wheels 8.0Jx19in (f), 9.0Jx19in (r) Tyres 225/40 R19 (f), 255/35 R19 (r), Bridgestone Turanza T005 Kerb weight 1740kg
Service and running costs: Contract hire rate £389 CO2 32g/km Service costs None Other costs None Fuel costs £474.74 petrol, £150,30 electricity Running costs inc fuel £625.12 Cost per mile 10 pence Depreciation £9735 Cost per mile inc dep'n £1.67 Faults None
tonyjin 9 April 2020
320i vs 330e
Kinda torn between 320i vs 330e. I know the answer is right there but I just couldn't pull the plug.
martindore 26 March 2020
PHEV using petrol engine
I have always understood that you shouldn't use maximum power before the car engine is at working temperature. I had an Alfa Romeo that had a warning light that didn't go out until the engine was at working temperature and that maximum power could be used.
Yet this 330e, and presumably most other hybrids, start up the engine when the driver is demanding high power. You are then running a cold engine at near maximum power. Any comments?
xxxx 9 April 2020
+1, I've said it myself before, and it's probably worse in a diesel PHEV. Also, do they have elecrtic heaters instead of the normal coolant water from the engine providing heat, anyone know?
foxloaded 8 March 2020
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"I love cars a lot. Care are of different make" -
This is one of the best Haihu poems I've ever read. Well done indeed!

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BANDY CREEK — Wild hogs can be harvested during deer season with the appropriate weapon legal for that season and during an extended season that lasts from the end of the deer season until the end of February with a weapon approved by that state for harvesting big game.
A permit is required to hunt hogs during this season and may be purchased at one of the visitor centers or online at http://www.nps.gov/biso/planyourvisit/hog-hunting.htm or http://www.nps.gov/obed/planyourvisit/permits.htm. A valid hunting license is required to purchase the hog permit. The permit also allows hunters to hunt at the Obed Wild and Scenic River. There is no limit on the number of hogs that can be harvested, and they are not required to be checked in. Hunters may be called after hunting season to check on success if they agree to a phone survey when a license is purchased.
The wild hog is an exotic invasive species that is significantly impacting the native resources at the Big South Fork NRRA. Little is known about the Big South Fork wild hog population, but the damage pigs are causing is threatening park resources including federally listed species such as the White Fringeless Orchid, Cumberland Sandwort, and Cumberland Rosemary. Wild pigs do a great deal of damage to farmlands and residential areas. They destroy wildlife habitat as well as crops on private lands. Wild hogs can also contribute to the spread of disease, including pseudorabies and swine brucellosis. It is illegal to release hogs in the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, and dogs cannot be used to hunt hogs in the parks.
To better understand the wild pig population at Big South Fork, the park has partnered with the University of Tennessee to conduct a wild pig research project. Wild hogs were captured and radio-tagged with GPS transmitters over the last two summers. The transmitters provide multiple pig locations daily, and the study will continue through 2018. The data from this project will help to determine movement patterns of wild hogs including their responses to removal/hunting efforts and will also provide baseline data for the development of a wild hog management strategy for the Big South Fork. Data thus far shows that the current collared hogs are staying in home ranges that are approximately 2-5 miles long and they tend to stay together. Movement patterns change when the hard mast starts falling.
Collared wild hogs were trapped and chemically immobilized during the research animal handling procedure. Disease testing has been done on a small sample of wild pigs from the central part of Big South Fork, with preliminary results indicating brucellosis and pseudorabies are not present. However, this is from only a small sample size, and hunters are encouraged to always use personal protective equipment, such as latex or rubber gloves and eye protection when field dressing wild animals. Hunters are encouraged to not harvest wild hogs with transmitter collars or eat wild hogs with transmitter collars.
Collared hogs were injected with drugs during capture to promote safe handling. Anyone that does acquire a transmitter collar is encouraged to contact Jason Fisher, Wildlife Biologist at the Big South Fork NRRA, or contact the information found on the collar so that the transmitter can be placed on another wild hog to continue the research.
Hunters are encouraged to send in pictures of wild pigs harvested in the park. Tag photos with #HuntBSF or #HuntOBED to share your hunting experiences on social media.
For further information, contact the Bandy Creek Visitor Center at (423) 286-7275 or the Obed Wild and Scenic River Visitor Center at (423) 346-6294.


We did it! Thanks to the calls and emails of Mountainkeeper activists and others, Governor Cuomo signed the bill expanding the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit to the Catskills and Hudson Valley into law. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Governor Cuomo, and the bill sponsors Senator Amedore and Assemblywoman Gunther. Additional thanks to Ulster County Executive, Mike Hein; Laurent Rejto, Commissioner of the Hudson Valley Film Commission; Sullivan County Legislative Chairman, Luis Alvarez; City of Middletown Mayor, Joe DeStefano; and Assembly Speaker, Carl Heastie.
This law will encourage film companies to take advantage of our region's extraordinary natural beauty, historic architecture, and creative talent, bringing critical new dollars into our economy and creating jobs and supporting local businesses of all kinds. Please take a moment to call Governor Cuomo and thank him at 518-474-8390.
Mountainkeeper believes that a healthy economy is a diverse economy that embraces, rather than exploits, our natural resources; and this new law to increase film production here will do just that.
Mountainkeeper and our activist supporters have been strong and persistent advocates for this bill from the very start. Earlier this year, Mountainkeeper submitted a letter to the Governor requesting the Tax Credit expansion signed by over 30 entertainment professionals including Chevy Chase, Natalie Merchant, Debra Winger, Mary-Stuart Masterson, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bowermaster, and Aidan Quinn.
Many thanks, as always, for the support of Mountainkeeper activists who make all our work possible.


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George Clooney Arrested During Sudan Protest in DC
By Stephanie Rabiner, Esq. on March 16, 2012 12:32 PM
George Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. this morning. The actor turned activist was participating in a protest against the country's government.
Just before the arrest, the star told attendees that "we need immediate humanitarian aid into Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world." The Sudanese government has been accused of killing citizens and blocking supplies from starving regions.
As evidenced by video of the protest, officers gave Clooney and his fellow protestors a "third and final warning" to move:
If you're going to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience, you should channel George Clooney as shown in this video. The actor's main concern is his safety and that of others. He doesn't fight the arresting officers, but instead walks calmly and follows directions. He encourages others to settle down.
Sure, the situation is probably a bit different when George Clooney is arrested, but such behavior can still work to your benefit. First, you won't find yourself charged with resisting arrest if you act like Clooney. And second, arresting officers may attest to the fact that you and others at the protest went calmly. That says a lot to the judge and prosecutor handling the case.
And remember, George Clooney was arrested peacefully and was still able to make his point. Complying with arresting officers doesn't make your act of civil disobedience any less forceful. Your job is to ignore requests to disperse -- not incite a riot or physically fight police.
George Clooney arrested for Sudan protest in D.C. (Reuters)
Protest Arrests: When Free Speech Becomes Disorderly Conduct (FindLaw Blotter)
Daryl Hannah Arrested at White House Pipeline Protest (FindLaw's Celebrity Justice)


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This course is great for two reasons. One, it is applicable immediately. No unrealistic theory. No odd special skills. The skills are being yourself and caring for others. The exercises are small enough to actually be completed and challenging enough for me to develop. Secondly, the course is applicable for beginners or pros of networking. There is something for everyone, for professional and personal life.
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The new full length album by Space Metal architects Torrential Downpour.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Kevin Antreassian at Backroom Studios, Rockaway, NJ. Feb 2013 - March 2014. Additional engineering by Scot "Pippen" Moriarty. Produced by Torrential Downpour and Kevin Antreassian.
All songs written by Torrential Downpour except for "The Offering" composed by Theo Metz (Wires Under Tension, Slow Six) for Torrential Downpour. All lyrics by PrKr.
Torrential Downpour - Live 2015 - Clash Bar, NJ - Duration: 19 minutes.
Torrential Downpour performing live on April 10, 2015 @ Clash Bar in Clifton, NJ.
Torrential Downpour @ Backroom Studios 2014 -Multitrack Audio Recording - Duration: 8 minutes, 32 seconds.
Torrential Downpour - "Certitude" - Video by Shamane - Duration: 5 minutes, 22 seconds.
Music video for "Certitude" by Torrential Downpour. The closing track from their 2014 album "Truth Knowledge Vision". Video created by Shamane.
Torrential Downpour - "TKV" Vocal/Synth Play Through - Duration: 7 minutes, 59 seconds.
Torrential Downpour - "Bring the Stars Down" Guitar Play Through - Duration: 5 minutes, 8 seconds.
"Bring the Stars Down" by Torrential Downpour guitarist Jason Volpe. From their 2014 album "Truth Knowledge Vision" available now through Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play.
Torrential Downpour - "Bring the Stars Down" Drum Play Through - Duration: 4 minutes, 50 seconds.
"Bring the Stars Down" by Torrential Downpour drummer Pete Costa. From their 2014 album "Truth Knowledge Vision" available now through Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play.
Torrential Downpour - "Basilisk" - @ St. Vitus Brooklyn, NY 2014 - Duration: 4 minutes, 5 seconds.
Torrential Downpour - "Truth Knowledge Vision" - 2014 Album - Duration: 51 minutes.
Torrential Downpour - "Basilisk" - Duration: 3 minutes, 57 seconds.
Torrential Downpour - "Satan, Whatever..." - Duration: 4 minutes, 51 seconds.
Torrential Downpour - "Bring the Stars Down" - Euroblast 2013 - Germany - Duration: 4 minutes, 34 seconds.
Torrential Downpour performing "Bring the Stars Down" @ Euroblast 2013 in Cologne, Germany. October 12, 2013.
Torrential Downpour Live in New Brunswick, NJ - 2014 - Full Set - Duration: 43 minutes.
Secret Chiefs 3 - Live 2014 @ Saint Vitus, Brooklyn NY - Duration: 1 hour, 21 minutes.
Deftones - "Around the Fur" - Live 2013 - Springfield, MO - Duration: 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt Ending - Greg Balcony Jump - Irving Plaza NYC 2015 - Duration: 2 minutes, 4 seconds.
Car Bomb Drummer Elliot Hoffman - "Spirit of Poison" Live 2013 - Duration: 4 minutes, 51 seconds.
Animal Collective - FloriDada - Live New York 2016 @ Irving Plaza - Duration: 2 minutes, 54 seconds.
Converge - "Concubine" - Live Brooklyn, NY - 04/14/12 - Duration: 106 seconds.
CLERIC - Live 2013 - Full Set - St. Vitus - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 33 minutes.
TOOTHGRINDER - Multitrack Recording Live @ Backroom Studios 2014 - Duration: 11 minutes.
ORGAN DEALER - Full Set - Live at Saint Vitus - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 17 minutes.
A Balance Between - Live 2016 - Mexicali Live, Teaneck NJ - Duration: 6 minutes, 3 seconds.
A Balance Between performing on June 3, 2016 @Mexicali Live, Teaneck NJ. Pardon the audio when it gets loud, this camera can't handle cymbals apparently.
Binary Code - Live Jersey City 2016 - Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds.
Binary Code performing live on May 20, 2016 @ The Fun Box in Jersey City NJ.
Animal Collective "Loch Raven" - Live New Jersey 2016 @ Starland Ballroom - Duration: 9 minutes, 18 seconds.
Animal Collective performing "Loch Raven" on 5/14/16 @ Starland Ballroom in NJ. From their 2005 album "Feels". This was the last show of the tour.
Animal Collective performing "FloriDada" @ Irving Plaza, NYC. 2/24/16. From their 2016 album "Painting With".
Toothgrinder performing live at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ. 05/16/14. Multitrack studio recording by Kevin Antreassian of the Dillinger Escape Plan.
The ending of "43% Burnt" from The Dillinger Escape Plan at Irving Plaza, New York City 06/20/15. Greg Puciato jumping from the soundboard balcony.
A Balance Between - Live 2014 - Clifton, NJ - Duration: 26 minutes.
A Balance Between performing live on October 10, 2014 @ Clash Bar in Clifton, NJ.
Sleep Cascade - Live 2014 @ Backroom Studios - Rockaway, NJ - Duration: 27 minutes.
Sleep Cascade performing on Nov 15, 2014 @ Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ.
Secret Chiefs 3 performing live on October 22, 2014 @ Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, NY.
CLERIC - "The Boon" - Live 2013 - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 4 minutes.
Cleric performing "The Boon". November 1, 2013 @ Grand Victory, Brooklyn, NY. This was the first show of their 2013 US tour.
CLERIC - "Resumption" - Live 2013 - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 12 minutes.
Cleric performing "Resumption". November 1, 2013 @ Grand Victory, Brooklyn, NY. This was the first show of their 2013 US tour.
CLERIC - "Allotriophagy" - Live 2013 - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 8 minutes, 54 seconds.
Cleric performing "Allotriophagy". November 1, 2013 @ Grand Victory, Brooklyn, NY. This was the first show of their 2013 US tour. Only first 8 min of the song, unfortunately the battery died.
Cleric - Live 2012 - Full Set - New Brunswick, NJ - Duration: 35 minutes.
Complete set from Cleric - March 23, 2012 at The Loft - New Brunswick, NJ. Selections from their album "Regressions".
CLERIC "A Rush of Blood" Live 2013 Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 12 minutes.
Cleric performing "A Rush of Blood" on April 6, 2013 @ Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY. From their album "Regressions".
Cleric - A Rush of Blood - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 12 minutes.
Cleric performing "A Rush of Blood" from their album "Regressions". March 22, 2012 - St. Vitus - Brooklyn, NY. Song 1 of 3 in the set.
Cleric - Live Baltimore, MD - The Boon - Duration: 8 minutes, 26 seconds.
Cleric Live - Poisonberry Pie - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 12 minutes.
Cleric performing "Poisonberry Pie" from their album "Regressions". March 22, 2012 - St. Vitus - Brooklyn, NY. Song 3 of 3 in the set.
Cleric - Poisonberry Pie - Baltimore, MD - Duration: 10 minutes.
Dysrhythmia - "Test of Submission" Live 2012 - Baltimore, MD - Duration: 4 minutes, 3 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "Test of Submission" Live March 25, 2012 - @ Talking Head Club - Baltimore, MD. from their 2012 album "Test of Submission".
Dysrhythmia - Live 2012 - Baltimore, MD - Duration: 5 minutes, 5 seconds.
Dysrhythmia - "In Consequence" - Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 7 minutes, 28 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "In Consequence" - Live March 24, 2012 @ The Level Room, Philadelphia, PA.
From their 2012 album "Test of Submission".
Song 8 of 8 in the set.
Dysrhythmia - "Running Towards the End" - Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 5 minutes, 7 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "Running Towards the End" - Live March 24, 2012 @ The Level Room, Philadelphia, PA.
Dysrhythmia - "The Madness of Three" - Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 4 minutes, 55 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "The Madness of Three" - Live March 24, 2012 @ The Level Room, Philadelphia, PA.
Dysrhythmia - "Test of Submission" - Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 4 minutes, 54 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "Test of Submission" - Live March 24, 2012 @ The Level Room, Philadelphia, PA.
From their 2012 album "Test of Submission"
Dysrhythmia - "Like Chameleons" - Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 4 minutes, 18 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "Like Chameleons" Live March 24, 2012 @ The Level Room, Philadelphia, PA.
Song 4 of 8 in the set.
Dysrhythmia - "The Line Always Snaps" - Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 6 minutes, 26 seconds.
Dysrhythmia performing "The Line Always Snaps" - Live March 24, 2012 @ The Level Room, Philadelphia, PA.
Song 3 of 8 in the set.
Dysrhythmia - "In The Spirit Of Catastrophe" - Live 2012 Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 7 minutes, 16 seconds.
Song 2 of 8 in the set.
Dysrhythmia - "In Secrecy" Live 2012 - Philadelphia, PA - Duration: 5 minutes, 55 seconds.
Song 1 of 8 in set.
Dysrhythmia - "In Consequence" - Live at St. Vitus - Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 7 minutes, 36 seconds.
From their 2012 album - "Test of Submission"
Dysrhythmia - "Test of Submission" - Live at St. Vitus Brooklyn, NY - Duration: 4 minutes, 54 seconds.
Impossible Voyage - "Beneath The Well" Live 2013 - Kenilworth, NJ 3 of 4 - Duration: 5 minutes, 50 seconds.
Impossible Voyage - "I Am The Greetest" Live 2013 - Kenilworth, NJ 4 of 4 - Duration: 5 minutes, 22 seconds.
Impossible Voyage - Live 2013 - Kenilworth, NJ 2 of 4 - Duration: 3 minutes, 4 seconds.
Impossible Voyage - "Driftwood" Live 2013 - Kenilworth, NJ 1 of 4 - Duration: 4 minutes, 35 seconds.
Impossible Voyage performing "Driftwood" on Dec 28, 2013 @ 10th St. Live in Kenilworth, NJ. 1 of 4 videos from this set.
Impossible Voyage Live 03 - June 19, 2012 @ Clash Bar Clifton, NJ - Duration: 7 minutes, 48 seconds.
Impossible Voyage - "I Am the Greetest" Live - June 19, 2012 @ Clash Bar Clifton, NJ - Duration: 5 minutes, 40 seconds.
Impossible Voyage performing "I Am The Greetest" - June 19, 2012 @ Clash Bar Clifton, NJ.
BANGLADEAFY! - "Tubes" Live 2013 - Clifton, NJ - Duration: 2 minutes, 53 seconds.
BANGLADEAFY! Live 2013 NJ Dingbatz - Duration: 2 minutes, 16 seconds.
BANGLADEAFY! - "Fruit Flies" Live 2013 - Clifton, NJ - Duration: 3 minutes, 4 seconds.
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Bangladeafy performing "Trillionaire" live @ Dingbatz, June 21, 2013 - Clifton, NJ. Featuring drummer Atif Haq.
Car Bomb Drummer Elliot Hoffman - "The Sentinal" Live 2013 - Duration: 2 minutes, 40 seconds.
Elliot Hoffman of Car Bomb performing "The Sentinal" from their 2012 album " w^w^^w^w ". June 21, 2013 @ Dingbatz. Clifton, NJ. Video 1 of 2.
Car Bomb - M^6 - Live 2013 - Clifton, NJ - Duration: 2 minutes, 36 seconds.
Car Bomb performing M^6 live June 21 @ Dingbatz, Clifton, NJ.


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Weimaraner Puppies For Sale
Weimaraner Dog Breeders
Find Weimaraner Puppies For Sale on Pets4You.com. This breed originated in Germany where it was used for hunting and is known as the "gray ghost." The Weimaraner is able to hunt game big and small. This dog measures an average of 26 inches at the shoulder. It has a short coat which comes in shades of gray and has some pigmentation. This dog makes a great pet that enjoys family and taking walks. Contact the dog breeders below for Weimaraner Puppies For Sale.
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From Royal Hunting Dog to Beloved Family Companion
The Weimaraner is a relatively new breed, dating back to the early 19th century. With bloodhound almost certainly in its ancestry, it's no surprise that the royals in Germany's 19th-century courts favored the breed to accompany them on their hunts for Germany's abundant game. The Weimaraner is the result of breeders' careful efforts to produce a dog that had good scenting ability, speed, intelligence, and courage. Today, Weimaraners, also called "Weims" or "Gray Ghosts" for their distinctive silvergray fur and matching ethereal eyes, are devoted family dogs and companions with an aristocratic bearing and delicate elegance.
The Weimaraner was developed in Germany's court of Weimar. Noblemen wanted a dog whose courage and intelligence would facilitate success in hunting, including the skills to excel in big-game pursuits. These accomplishments would require speed, stamina, and a bloodhound's "nose" or keenly-developed smelling instincts. How the Weimaraner was developed is not documented, but it is believed that the English Pointer, Bloodhound, Blue Great Dane, silver-gray Huehnerhund or "chicken dog," and the German Short Haired pointer are all included in its evolution.
Noble owners strictly controlled the dogs' breeding during the 19th century, but by the time Germany's game began to dwindle, Weimaraner fanciers had already started the German Weimaraner Club, with great devotion to the preservation of the dog's characteristics. Acquisition of a Weimaraner was quite difficult because of the club's attempts to keep the breeding lines pure. It was necessary to be a member of the club before purchasing a Weimaraner, which limited the existence of the breed. Few outside of the club even knew Weimaraners existed.
That changed when U.S. citizen Howard Knight became a member of the club and subsequently imported two Weimaraners to the United States. These two dogs were sterile by design, but in 1938, he was sent two females and a male. In 1942, the Weimaraner Club of America was established, along with a standard for the breed. At the end of 1942, the American Kennel Club recognized the breed and it was shown at Westminster in 1943.
In the 1940s, imports began in earnest. By the second half of the 1950s, however, the popularity and status of the Weimaraner breed led to some problems. Because the Weimaraner was such a status symbol, Weimaraner puppies became very expensive to obtain. As a result, unscrupulous breeders began to cash in, with disastrous results. Puppies were born that were not up to standards either in personality or physicality, and soon, the once esteemed "Gray Ghost" breed saw puppies offered "free to good homes." Nonetheless, breed quality survived simply because ardent devotees maintained the breed's original, impeccable standards. Because of that, the 1960s saw a resurgence of the noble, loyal, courageous, and elegant Weimaraners that were always the best of the breed. Today, the "Weimy" remains a popular breed among those willing to truly "parent" this demanding, courageous, loving and exceedingly loyal dog.
Athletic, willowy and refined, the Weimaraner is moderately large and lean. All Weimaraners are some shade of silver-gray or gray, with eyes of gray, blue-grey, or amber. Wide-set and earnest, your Weimaraner's eyes are truly the "windows to the soul," expressive and usually fixed on you, the equally devoted owner. Ears are long, fall forward, and hang down alongside the head. Feet are compact and webbed.
The Weimaraner's coat is sleek and smooth, in the majority of cases. In rare instances, it can be longhaired. Occasionally, a Weim will have a small white marking on its chest. In adulthood, Weimaraners stand 22 to 27 inches at the shoulder and weigh between 50 and 70 pounds.
Cheerful, loving, and affectionate, this dog is very good with small children. Be advised, though, that a Weimaraner will need lots of exercise and plenty of attention – and a firm, experienced handler, including formalized training in puppyhood if an owner is truly conscientious. Once trained, this pet is so eager to please to get your approval that it will literally jump at the chance to do so. However, be aware that the Weimaraner is highly sensitive and does not need harsh discipline at all – in fact, you could psychologically damage this vulnerable puppy if you do so. Instead, provide firm, but calm and gentle guidance at all times, and your pet will respond with lifelong obedience and devotion.
The Weimaraner retains its strong hunting instinct, so you shouldn't adopt a Weim if you've got small pets like hamsters, rabbits, or guinea pigs in the house. Even the most well-behaved Weimaraner will not necessarily be able to overcome these inherent traits. Above all, don't leave your pet alone for long periods of time. As a result of its devotion to you, it can experience extreme distress and separation anxiety if it feels abandoned. In fact, the Weimaraner has been called the "shadow" dog for good reason. Once bonded, your pet will truly want to follow you everywhere.
Weimaraners can be destructive and restless if they are left alone a lot, not because they're bad dogs, but because they are simply expressing their loneliness and dismay. But if you've gently and clearly established firm boundaries and make sure you don't leave this lovely and loving dog alone for extended periods of time, the dog's behavior should be exemplary.
With a high level of intelligence and devotion, Weimaraners have proven to be good watchdogs, guard dogs, service dogs, and search-and-rescue dogs.
Relatively hardy, the Weimaraner has a life expectancy of about 10 to 14 years. The breed is prone to mast cell tumors, a particular type of malignant skin growth, which has an excellent prognosis for grades 1 or 2 which can be completely removed. Bloat is also a problem for this breed, which can be fatal very quickly if not diagnosed and taken care of immediately. Hip dysplasia can also occur for this relatively large breed.
The smooth, sleek fur is very easy to take care of. Simply brush with a firm bristle brush regularly to control its moderate shedding. Dry shampoo occasionally, or bathe infrequently, only if necessary.
AKC Meet the Breeds®: Get to know the Weimaraner.
http://www.akc.org/breeds/weimaraner/index.cfm
Retrieved June 16, 2013.
Brief History of the Weimaraner Breed.
http://weimaranerclubofamerica.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=139&lang=en
Canine Mast Cell Tumors.
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/deptsOncology/owners/mastcell.aspx
RetrievedJune 16, 2013.
Weimaraner.
http://dogtime.com/dog-breeds/weimaraner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimaraner
Weimaraner Shorthaired and Longhaired. (Weimaraner Vorstehhund) (Grey Ghost) (Gray Ghost) (Weim) (Weimer Pointer).
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/weimaraner.htm
Weimaraner Characteristics.
http://www.iowaweimrescue.org/weimaraner-characteristics/
Group Classification: The Weimaraner breed of dog belongs to the sporting group, and is placed in position 39 of the AKC breed listing. The family consists of gundog, pointer, and versatile hunting dog.
Recognized By: CKC, FCI, AKC, UKC, ANKC, NKC, NZKC, APRI, ACR
Shedding: Moderate Shed
Body Size: Large
Litter Size: 7 puppies
Life Expectancy: 9-15 years
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It is important to choose the breed of dog that fits your personality and lifestyle. It is also important to understand the breed's guidelines when choosing a dog or bringing one home, such as not picking out a Terrier that is known as a barking or yapping breed when living in an apartment or close quarters. These are considered
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Google Reader is dead. Long live Windows Phone RSS apps
If you're slightly confused by the title, fear not as that's describing the rather odd situation RSS fans have found themselves in. Google has announced that its popular (actually, industry leading) Reader service will be closing soon. It comes as no surprise that many Windows Phone consumers have wondered what will happen to Google Reader (and general RSS) apps that are already available on the store.
It's emerging that developers are working on ways to keep services live and to provide updates to such apps to better serve consumers. This is a win-win situation, folks.
From July 1st, Google Reader will be no more, but the developer of Nextgen Reader has stated in a blog article that they've been pleasantly surprised by the sheer volume of emails and messages the team has received from consumers. They're pleased to announce that Nextgen Reader for both Windows and Windows Phone will continue to work and the team is already looking into alternatives:
Self-hosted on Windows Azure
Newsblur support
Normandy - Feedly support
The team expects to have more information on a potential move later this month. But they're not alone. The developer of NewsSpot has also revealed plans to keep the RSS fire alight with alternatives. The team is looking forward to companies launching new services that pick up from where Google left off. They too will announce more in the near future. There's light at the end of the tunnel at least.
It's long been suspected that Google will cut loose RSS from its product line, especially with Feedburner laying dormant and slowly, but surely falling apart. Will the closure of Google Reader be the end of RSS as we know it? Not at all. There's the likes of Twitter that helps keep one informed of what's currently going on, so RSS has undoubtedly lost some use, but there's always room for good ol' fashioned website feed browsing.
Source: Next Matters, FourSpotProject; thanks, aaa6112, for the heads up!


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Can You Tell Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber Apart? The Internet Can't
This afternoon, supermodel Cindy Crawford shared a yearbook photo of herself from the '80s next to one of her daughter Kaia Gerber now. In a world where yearbook photos fall into the same category as passports and licenses—as in a stark, high-contrast universe in which everyone appears to have jaundice and a gormless expression that's fit for a mug shot—Crawford and Gerber's portraits both have that rare, otherworldly supermodel quality. Crawford's black-and-white photo shows her sporting a perfectly coiffed bouffant, while Gerber sports a pin-straight blowout and trendy gold chain. Despite the difference in time and place, the resemblance is so uncanny it had the Internet fooled. Katie Grand posted an image of Gerber and captioned it "Young Cindy." (Crawford herself had to chime in and correct Ms. Grand.) Even Instagram account Diet Prada, the arbiter of "who copied who" in fashion called out Grand's rib-tickling error, which she later corrected, posting a screenshot of the hilarious Instagram exchange.
Furthermore, the picture tells a bigger story about Cindy Crawford than meets the eye. Take a closer look at the post, and you'll discover just how accomplished Ms. Crawford was in high school. There's a half-visible list of clubs and extracurricular activities next to her image that's impressive to say the least. In an earlier Instagram video, Crawford points out that she was on the student council executive board, on the math team, and made National Honor Society, too. Crawford was also valedictorian of her high school and later received an academic scholarship to attend Northwestern University where she studied chemical engineering. Though she later dropped out to pursue modeling, the supermodel certainly hasn't lost any of her college smarts: She went on NPR almost 30 years later and managed to answer science trivia on the spot. Sounds like A-plus genetic makeup to us.
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With the tide (thankfully) starting to turn against coal fired power generation, renewable energy is finding favor, as is electricity generated via the combustion of natural gas.
So, is natural gas green?
Natural gas consists mainly of methane and is often found associated with oil fields, coal seams and other fossil fuel deposits; but also may exist on its own in huge underground reservoirs.
Like oil, natural gas is often obtained through targeted drilling, however at times it's a by-product of oil drilling. Not so long ago, gas associated with oil extraction was simply burned off (flaring), but now it's increasingly captured for use.
In drilling operations where natural gas is targeted, hydraulic fracturing may also be employed once a well is sunk to the required depth to boost the flow of gas. The fracture is formed by pumping special fluid into the base of the well. This process is also known as "fracking".
While natural gas will burn without refining; in order to make it suitable for residential, automotive and industrial use, it must be processed – and that in itself is an energy intensive task. However, the by-products of the process produces useful substances such as propane and butane.
Natural gas is often referred to as the "cleanest" of the fossil fuels, including so-called "clean coal". According to NaturalGas.org, the burning of natural gas emits almost 30 percent less carbon dioxide than oil, and just under 45 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.
However, this isn't the full story – burning gas may create lower emissions, but the entire production process can be emissions intensive. A major issue is fugitive emissions from gas that escapes during extraction. In a medium case scenario, life-cycle emissions per joule of energy derived from fracked gas could potentially be similar to those derived from coal.
While the combustion of natural gas also results in lower levels of nitrogen oxides (which contribute to acid rain), sulfur, carbon monoxide, and virtually no particulate matter; it's this lack of particulate matter compared to coal combustion that may mean a shift to gas could accelerate a rise in global average temperatures. Confused? I don't blame you. Read more about this aspect here.
CNG is becoming an increasingly popular alternate fuel for cars. NaturalGas.org says the EPA has found vehicles using compressed natural gas have reductions in carbon monoxide emissions of up to 97 percent, carbon dioxide emission reductions of 25 percent and nitrogen oxide emission reductions of up to 60 percent.
Natural gas certainly sounds like a panacea for all society's energy woes in some ways – but it is a fossil fuel and unlike solar power and like oil, it is a limited resource. As such, a massive switch to natural gas would see many of the problems associated with oil production still occur.
The fugitive emissions risk aside, extraction of natural gas can be an environmentally damaging process. The process of "fracking" involves toxic waste and can contaminate the ground water with the fluids and the gas itself. In some parts of the world, the amount of natural gas that has leaked into aquifers through nearby fracking activities is enough to burn – I've seen photos of people lighting their faucets.
Fracking operations can also draw heavily on groundwater and are believed to be connected with some earthquake incidents.
The hydraulic fluids themselves can be somewhat of a black box, with some in the industry refusing to reveal the components of the fluids involved. The documentary "Gasland" claims some fluids contain known carcinogens and heavy metals.
Gas produced from fracking operations is "wet" and needs to be separated from the water and fracking fluid when it comes to the surface and this wastewater can also be highly toxic.
In some countries, land owners may own the surface area of their properties, but not the resources that lay beneath. Some are forced to allow gas drilling operations on their property and there's little recourse if the company involved doesn't restore the land to what it was before. The same problems can occur on government or public land; as with all forms of mining.
As mentioned, another environmental issue is the methane itself. While methane does burn quite cleanly, it is a very potent greenhouse gas – around 60 times the Greenhouse Warming Potential (GWP) of carbon dioxide. Methane leaks from extraction and during transportation just add to an already greenhouse gas overburdened atmosphere.
While natural gas may be "greener" than all other fossil fuels (and that is certainly debatable as more information becomes available), it's certainly not green – it's the lesser of the fossil fuel sourced energy evils.
Natural gas provides an interim source of energy while we wean ourselves off coal and oil and perhaps as a baseload source of energy when needed; but there's a danger of natural gas being seen as a replacement for renewable energy for our future power needs.
Natural gas will not solve the climate change issue – it should be seen only as part of the solution and a stepping stone to even cleaner energy technology.


Please, download the installer package available for your Operating System.
If you don't have Java installed in your system please download it from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
In any case visit http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html for more informations.
Once you have Java installed you are ready to start the installation of LogicalDOC in your server, please open the section of this guide dedicated to your Operative System.


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Execute GeneXus 9.0. Copy the BlueSkyCharters KB to your local disk.
This KB contains defined objects and has a .NET Web prototype model setup to get connected to SQL Server 2000. Data has been loaded in the database.
The created transactions contain a default Web Form as well as BlueSkyCharters business rules. Take some minutes to study the existing objects.
Compile and execute the Developer Menu (Use Compile & Execute button).
We will see some examples of controls executed in the browser without performing a post to the server.
Enter to the 'Country' transaction and program a rule not to allow the country name to remain empty, and another rule to display a warning in case the Short Name is left empty. Try to enter a country in runtime leaving the name empty and then the Short Name empty. Try to use the IsEmpty() method (insted of the null() function) to query for the empty value of an attribute. Thus, you will see the advantage represented by the intellitips provided by the use of methods.
You will see that you do not need a roundtrip to the server to know the error. GeneXus is automatically generating the required jscripts for the validation in the browser.
Define a flight passengers transaction where luggage overweight will be controlled. Note that it will be parallel to Flights.
TIP: bear in mind that, by typing "." when you enter an attribute in the structure, the transaction name is placed as prefix of the attribute name. Also remember the scroll between names starting with the same letters, using the keyboard arrows. You can also try the Domains inline definition as well as the formulas inline definition.
Modify theme Error and Messsages classes to try this feature.
PassOverweigth: It has been established that each passenger is allowed a maximum luggage weight of 50 kilos and there will be an additional charge equivalent to 5 kilos per each kilo exceeding the weight limit.
Besides, luggage must controlled so that passengers do not carry luggage weighting more than allowed by the charter, and passengers must be warned in case they carry more than two luggage items.
Execute the transaction and verify that these controls must be made not only in the server but also in the client.