Plant trees by bike Saturday December 2nd and Saturday December 16th with Friends of Trees! We are also looking for volunteers that have bike trailers and would like to help haul trees and tools by bike. Gloves, tools, and refreshments provided!
We are looking for tree planters, bike team members, and truck drivers! Check out Events Calendar for more details.
The City of Eugene seeks residents who are interested in serving on the Active Transportation Committee (ATC), formerly Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. Recruitment is underway to fill vacancies for two year terms beginning January 2017. Applicants must reside within Eugene's Urban Growth Boundary and willing to attend monthly meetings and read background materials provided by city staff. Additional meetings may be scheduled as needed.
The purpose of the ATC is: (1) to advise the City of Eugene staff and community organizations and partners on implementation of Eugene's Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Plan; (2) to represent community and constituent interests in transportation planning decisions; and, (3) to provide feedback to staff on projects relating to walking and bicycling.
ATC members play a vital role in implementing walking and biking projects in the Transportation System Plan which will shape the future of the pedestrian and bicycling system for the next 20 years and make Eugene an even greater place for people who walk and bicycle.
Applications are available online via the City of Eugene website at http://www.eugene-or.gov/490/Committees, by e-mail at lee.shoemaker@ci.eugene.or.us, or by picking up an application at City of Eugene Engineering, 99 E. Broadway, Suite 400, Eugene.
The deadline for submitting applications is November 25, 2016.
For more information, contact Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Lee Shoemaker at 682-5471 or lee.shoemaker@ci.eugene.or.us.
If you are pumped on biking and want to bring your bike out to a planting event – we would love that! Bicycling crews transport all of the trees, tools and people to each planting site during neighborhood planting events. Folks with bike trailers and racks are encouraged, though anyone with a bike is welcome to plant with us!
Friends of Trees provides trained planting guidance as well as a thoughtful planting route that won't take you up steep hills, along busy highways, nor terribly long distances with your heavy loads of trees and tools. After every planting, we invite you to warm up at our potluck lunch with tasty soups and other homemade treats.
Last year we had a bike team at every planting and this year we plan on having two! I am here to invite you all, to bask in the awesomeness of pedal-powered tree-planting with Friends of Trees! With our first bike event taking place one month from now in November, I wanted to make sure you all got our schedule of events sooner than later.
Trailers, bungees, panniers, oh my! Bike planters always are an awesome scene, come planting morning.
If you have friends who may want to join you by bike this season – please invite them and send them the sign-up link! We are hoping to have more planting teams this season than ever before. The more bikes and trailers that show up, the better!
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about biking at our events, or volunteering with Friends of Trees in general. You may reach us at Eugenetrees@FriendsofTrees.org or 541-632-3683.
If you like digging out blackberries, you're in luck!
WeBikeEugene was contacted by the Walama Restoration Project, asking that we invite our readers to a volunteer work party from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 20) to help with an ongoing effort to rehabilitate and revegetate the Whilamut Natural Area along the North Bank Path (just north of Knickerbocker Bridge).
Members of Walama Restoration Project and volunteers will meet at the site in East Alton Baker Park to hand-pull small weeds and dig out himalayan blackberries.
WRP is working to reclaim native prairie habitat along the Willamette River to boost local biodiversity, improve forage for native pollinator species and help preserve the Willamette Valley's biological legacy.
If you can't make this one, WRP plans more work parties throughout the year.


It bugs me sort of unreasonably that these are published in October. Because the year is not over! I have been reading these since the beginning and what's been odd is seeing the changing themes as different editors take over, More cancer one year and more global warming the next. Some issues are full of bloggish style posts and some are a lot more epic longform stuff that goes on seemingly forever. This year's seemed to be a pretty good mix of stuff and even though it took me a long time to get through this, I liked nearly every article in it which is often not the case.
I know there are a lot more of these and I am already concerned about when I am done with them. Epic space stories along the lines of Becky Chalmers (maybe not quite so evolved) where there is a lot of space stuff but also full realized female characters that aren't all someone's love interest. Lots going on in all of them and the second book was better than the first.
Got this from a friend whose Wikipedia page I helped with, so not something I would have maybe chosen on my own. Brown is clearly a real talent with a great style and every panel had things you love to look at But this story? About who owned the rights to Tetris? I both loved it for how nerdy it was but also it wasn't MY nerdiness so sometimes it felt like a slog. And the truly amazing parts of it (all that flying around and communicating when that sort of communication was HARD, and the guy who murdered his family) were sort of downplayed. Brown pulls it off but I'm not sure if this is one of those graphic novels you want to show to people to show off the form An odd story and I learned some things.
Unlike the book I read before this one, this book is basically perfect. Chanani was born in India and came pretty quickly to the US and so this is a story about a girl who is wondering about where she's from and wondering about her family. There is a magic shawl and it gives her some and not all of the answers. Chanani is a skillful artist and storyteller and I enjoyed even the difficult parts of this story and want to make sure it's on everyone's to-read lists.
I'm sorry I missed this when it first came out but I guess my library didn't carry it and I don't have a lot of other graphic novel options here. This is a complicated story about the South, Texas specifically, and what it takes to deal with all the racism, institutional and otherwise, that just permeates the culture there. The title comes from an altercation on campus where the police basically open fire on black protestors while white onlookers, some of whom are friendly with the protestors, don't really react. It winds up being okay in the story because there is a crucial aspect to their disinvolvement that solves some larger issues but it still made me feel weird as a sort of moral. In any case, well drawn and written, this is a great companion graphic novel to John Lewis's March series.
This book started out feeling a little woo because of the author's description of his Native American friend and a few other things but I was won over. I enjoyed learning about the things you can learn from birds if you can take the time to sit and watch and listen over time.
This novel is a standalone and not part of the Dublin Murder books but I wasn't sure that was the case until I was a bit of a ways into it. I liked this novel and it had a great "sense of place" with all the things going on around the sort of shared family homestead. At the same time, the main character gets a head injury not too far into the book and so getting most of the action described in this way can be a little confusing or stilted. Liked it but it didn't pack quite the same punch as some of her others. I think the whodunit reveals at the end may have seemed a little foreshadowed.
I had a very random walk to get to this book. I was doing Wikipedia work, noticed the author fo the book I was currently reading wasn't in Wikipedia but she HAD won an award. Made a page for her, saw which other award winners wasn't in there and found this author and book. This book is so simple and yet really complicated. Sammworth is an accomplished artist who works in paints and also printmaking. This short book is supposedly a bird catalog in the near future, so that you can have a cool bird in your home with the assumption that all the REAL cool birds are... gone. Thought provoking and also lovely to look at. So glad I found it.
This is a collection of Mosher stories finished a few months before his death. And with that context, there's a certain extra poignancy in the wrapping up of some of the tales from Kingdom County that Mosher readers have come to expect. A few deaths, a few beginnings. Super readable but at the end of it, when you're wanting more, like many of Mosher's work, you know that there won't be any more.
One of the reviews I read for this book called it "sexually charged" and that was not my feeling at all. There is a lot of boy-girl relating and one of the guys is a bit of a boorish lothario but... eh? I grew up spending time in Harvard Square as a kid and then a 20-something so my opinions on this book may be sort of off from the mainstream people who are readers of Aciman. I liked the lead character but sort of hated his friend, the loudmouth guy at Cafe Algiers who was always harassing women. Of course that is not the perspective of this very male book so I felt like I was reading it from a very other perspective. Well-written, nostalgic, odd.
A suggestion from Twitter! This was suggested as a good book if I wanted to read more about people trying to communicate with AIs or maybe... "Other intelligence". This after maybe reading too much about sentient spiders in the other book. This one was much better. It had two storylines (that interwove) but both were good! And there is a lot going on. Good female characters. A lot of space life stuff. Not too much "eternal war." I'll read the next one!


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University of Otago receives Grand Challenges Explorations funding
Tuesday 8 November 2011 11:57am
The University of Otago announced today that it will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges. Associate Professor Russell Poulter of the Department of Biochemistry will pursue an innovative global health research project, titled "Activation of latent HIV by cyclic analogues of Tat".
Grand Challenges Explorations funds scientists and researchers worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mould in how we solve persistent global health and development challenges. Associate Professor Poulter's project is one of 110 Grand Challenges Explorations grants announced today.
"We believe in the power of innovation—that a single bold idea can pioneer solutions to our greatest health and development challenges," said Chris Wilson, Director of Global Health Discovery for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Grand Challenges Explorations seeks to identify and fund these new ideas wherever they come from, allowing scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs to pursue the kinds of creative ideas and novel approaches that could help to accelerate the end of polio, cure HIV infection or improve sanitation."
Projects that are receiving funding show promise in tackling priority global health issues where solutions do not yet exist. This includes finding effective methods to eliminate or control infectious diseases such as polio and HIV as well as discovering new sanitation technologies.
To learn more about Grand Challenges Explorations, visit www.grandchallenges.org.
A team led by Associate Professor Poulter will use the US$100,000 of funding to pursue a new approach towards a cure for HIV; one which involves attempting to kick-start 'sleeping' HIV infected-cells into activity so they then can be destroyed en masse by anti-retroviral drugs.
Currently, the existence of the reservoir of latently HIV-infected cells requires that patients take expensive and often unpleasant anti-retrovirals for the rest of their lives to attack these cells as they become active. Any interruption of this treatment can allow the virus to make a rapid comeback.
In an effort to move away from this current focus on suppressing HIV towards one of curing it, Associate Professor Poulter and departmental colleagues including Dr Margaret Butler and Dr Sigurd Wilbanks aim to synthesise a more stable version of a crucial HIV protein known as Tat. Associate Professor Poulter says that in latently-infected cells the virus only becomes active after Tat levels reach a certain concentration.
"Tat is prone to being rapidly degraded by normal cellular mechanisms. This inherent instability is partly why people with HIV have this 'fifth column' of infected yet inactive cells lurking in their bodies. We will synthesise sturdier versions of Tat that can resist degradation and test their ability to wake up latently infected cells. Our hope is that this will lead to a therapy wherein Tat is administered to patients to drain their latent HIV reservoirs while anti-retroviral treatment finishes off the now actively infected cells," he says.
This is the second Grand Challenges Explorations grant that Associate Professor Poulter has received for HIV-related research. Earlier this year, he received funding for a project involving developing a way to target and slice viral DNA in latently infected cells while leaving the cell's own DNA intact.
About Grand Challenges Explorations
Grand Challenges Explorations is a US$100 million initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Launched in 2008, Grand Challenge Explorations grants have already been awarded to nearly 500 researchers from over 40 countries. The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline and from any organization. The initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short, two-page online applications and no preliminary data required. Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded two times a year. Successful projects have an opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to US$1 million.
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← Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the houseLook
Posted on August 10, 2014	by lipstick socialist
Watch…The Mill (Channel 4) a series created by left wing writer John Fay and set at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire charting the rise of radical politics. Not the usual its grim up north programme but a series that has real, complex working class characters and one of the most interesting aspects of north west history as its subject. Set in the 1830s it charts the rise of the demands of the majority (but male) population for the vote and better working conditions. Last week we saw how difficult it was to organise the factory slaves, that is what they were, to go to the Chartist demonstration at Kersal Moor in Salford in 1838. They would lose a day's pay and have to walk many miles from Styal to Salford. Many of them did: 200,000 people turned up to demand not just the vote but a change in the political system. It is a powerful series because at the heart of it are strong characters: Esther Price, the factory girl who wants more than just being a slave in the factory or to a man. Daniel, a clever man, chief engineer in the mill, who organises the trade union and challenges the boss over his right to rule the lives of the factory workers inside and outside work. It is not a dour series but is funny, irreverent and yet challenges every stereotype about working class people. Highly recommended.
Read the Salford Star…about to come out in print but you will have to move to Salford to get a copy. I recently interviewed founders Stephen Kingston and Steve Speed see
Go on a march…on 17 August in memory of the Peterloo Massacre a group of people are marching from Middleton, starting at Barrowfields at 8.45am. Middleton was the home of poet and activist at Peterloo Sam Bamford. It will end at Peter's Square in Manchester where 18 people were killed by the local yeomanry in 1819 at a meeting which called for the vote. There is also a feeder march from Bolton for details see
Read this interesting article about the women at Peterloo see
More on Gaza…. lots of activities to join in from the daily picket of Kedem, the Israeli Cosmetics Product Shop in King Street which continues daily 12 to 6. Manchester Palestine Action Meeting on Wednesday 13th August,7-9pm, a meeting for people currently involved in actions to learn more about Gaza and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaigns. Friends Meeting House, Mount Street Manchester. Further info see
He is one of our best known singer/songwriters and here he is with a song for Gaza; Leon Rosselson see
Sign the petition….. Please sign Louise Raw's petition to get UK parliament recalled on Gaza.
as she says I KNOW, it's a shame to interupt those poor MPs hols, but…see
Remember…working class poet Joe Smythe who would have been 80 this year. Filmmaker John Crumpton has on his blog reminded us of a man who should be better known as a poet. Joe worked as a railway guard and wrote about life on the railways as well as much more. He published six poetry books through Commonword, which was a worker's writers co-op, that encouraged working class people to meet and share their poetry and give them the opportunity to get it published. Read more about Joe at
Support Stafford Hospital…faced with the closure of its A&E, maternity and intensive care supporters are camping out with over 30 tents and 100 people to build support to stop the closure of an important local hospital. For more info see For those of us involved with the Greater Manchester KONP we watch knowing it is going to be our hospitals next so why not join us
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I love The Mill
Dear Lipstick Socialist, Please excuse my naivety. I fully support the right of people to demonstrate outside Israeli government premises/ other large public spaces, but why are you supporting the PSC campaign against Kedem Cosmetics? This is a British business run by a Jewish British/Israeli person selling Israeli products from the Dead Sea ( not the occupied West Bank). There are lots of Jewish owned shops selling Israeli products. Why not blockade them and drive them out of business as well? I know for sure they are very reactionary and even send money to prop up the Israeli government. There is one in particular that sells Israeli -made religious prayer books run by someone with dual British/ Israeli nationality. No one could possibly feel this was anti – semitic……….. As a member of the British Jewish community, with a Left wing pedigree , who would like to see a change in Israeli government policy, I cannot see how this action will influence them in any way. It is a easy and nasty target and with death threats to Jewish staff working there and damage to the property, I cannot see how this can help to persuade the Manchester Jewish community here, to support the campaign against the Israeli government and to work towards a democratic Middle East. With one million Tibetans killed by China ( Is this true?), I am wondering if a similar campaign towards Chinese products might be more effective in influencing China more than the Kedem Cosmetics "blockade" might affect Israeli actions. I know a local Pharmacy, ( it might be owned by this very nice Muslim man, I met once, I am not sure but …..), that sells herbal medicine from China. I and a few hundred other people I know, could be available to mount a similar campaign. What do you think?? Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:38:38 +0000 To: stevenlparker101@hotmail.com
lipstick socialist says:
Dear Steven thanks for your interesting comments. I suggest you get along to the next PSC meeting, not sure where you live, and discuss this with the comrades. If you are not happy about the Kedan protest there are regular demos and marches throughout the northwest that you could take part in. Or contribute to the Gaza fund. My philsophy is; doing something is the only option! Soldarity!


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Il ne manque pas d'air ce **Samuel Fosso**, photographe renommé camerounais, découvert ce matin à la fondation Zinsou. Sa série Tati est tout de même assez humoristique, lui toujours en autoportrait, critique de son milieu et de son africanisme.

Puisqu'il n'était pas là de son vivant, qui donc a pu l'imiter dans sa représentation de "le chef"- celui qui a vendu l'Afrique aux Colons...???
*Regardez donc tous ces cadeaux wrécupérés en échange de mes fwères!!*

Promis c'était hors mission.

**Photo chef africain.**

![Le chef africain](/le-chef-africain.jpg)

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What does the Moon mean to an Atheopagan?
Well, to this one, at least, the Moon is the bringer of "magic light". Low light conditions tend to damp down the activity of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, enhancing the role of the limbic system in consciousness. In moonlight, we are more likely to feel attentive, emotional and alive in the Present moment rather than trailing off into our thoughts. The same is true of candlelight or firelight–though the flickering of flame is a different quality than the serene calmness of moonlight.
There's a reason why gathering under the full Moon is associated with witches and Pagans. A landscape bathed in moonlight is otherworldly, beautiful, and mysterious. It's a wonderful condition under which to do personal or group ritual.
Gazing up to the Moon's scarred face is a reminder that we are on a planet, in the midst of an astronomical system. That bright light is a big ball of rock, orbiting around us and 200,000 miles away! We can tell the direction the Sun is, just by observing the illumination of its face. And, if so inclined, we can even contemplate the fact that we went there, forty-odd years ago. We left our world for another, for a brief moment. If you believe it is human destiny to move beyond Earth, that's a thrilling thought.
I recommend getting out under the moonlight. Get a group together and go for a silent moonlit hike, or just sit in a yard or a park, and feel the cool tranquility of the Moon.


EcoGnosis Shake, Rattle and … Power Up?
Shake, Rattle and … Power Up?
A new MEMS device generates energy from small vibrations.
A new energy harvesting device converts low-frequency vibrations into electricity. The device, the size of a U.S. quarter, is shown mounted on a stand.
"If the ambient vibration is always at a single frequency and does not vary, [current designs] work fine," says Daniel Inman, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan. "But as soon as the frequency varies or shifts a little, the power decreases drastically. This design allows the bandwidth to be larger, meaning the problem is, in principle, solved." Inman adds that going forward, the MIT group will have to aim lower in the frequencies they pick up, since few vibrations in nature occur at the relatively high frequency ranges captured by the device.
Hajati says the team plans to do just that, optimizing the design to respond to lower frequencies and generate more power.


Jerusalem Falls to British, "Great Rejoicing in the Christian World"
Reporting two days later about General Edmund Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem on December 9, 1917, the New York Herald announced in a headline: "Jerusalem Rescued by British after 673 Years of Moslem Rule." Subtitles then elaborate: "Great Rejoicing in the Christian World" and "Jews Everywhere in Particular See the Restoration of Palestine as Part of Allies' Programme."
First page - click for enlargement.
The math checks out: 1917-673=1244, the year when the Ayyubids, with Khwarezmian aid, seized the city for the last time from the Crusaders.
The newspaper's second page boasts stories under headlines that read "Distinguished Jews Here [i.e., New York] Express Joy Over Capture of Jerusalem by British," "Rescue of Jerusalem Causes Joy," and "Holy City Ravaged in Many Wars by Pagan and Turk: Has Been Under the Yoke of Mohammedan Rule for 670 Years."
Second page - click for enlargement.
(1) The lead headline captures a mentality once dominant but now rare in the West, when there was a self-conscious "Christian world" and it rejoiced in a religious/military victory over Muslims.
(2) Conversely, the "Muslim world" would still today rejoice in precisely this manner, recalling medieval rivalries, raising religious sentiments, and taking satisfaction at the humiliation of an age-old enemy.
(3) If the West can travel so far in less than a century, why not Muslims as well?
Mar. 24, 2014 update: A 14-minute film, General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem, is available to view, courtesy of the UK Imperial War Museum.


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They're all a part of the same club now.
These are the same guys that Kay Kay fired after filming 85% of Solo: A Star Wars Story. They turned around and made an animated film that got audience and critical acclaim. And one the most successful non-Disney animated movies of all time; particularly for the gene. Now they've won Oscars. More proof that any Disney SW success is in spite of TPTB rather than because of them.
They also directed the worst scene in Solo, i.e. the "Han speaks wookie" scene.


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The Iraqi Election and the Heroism of Ordinary People - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive
The Iraqi Election and the Heroism of Ordinary People
by Amir Taheri | Dec 24, 2005 | Opinion |
For those who define heroism as exceptional deeds by individuals against heavy odds, a suggestion that it could also be found in the mere act of abiding by a nation at a dicey moment in its history might appear frivolous, to say the least.
And, yet, this is precisely the case with the Iraqi nation which has, once again, proved its heroism by turning out en masse to vote in its first free elections for a full-term parliament. For those in Western democracies who regard the act of voting as either a ritual, performed every four or five years, or a tedious undertaking best avoided with a day out fishing, last week"s election in Iraq might appear as no big deal. After all what is heroic in turning up to mark a ballot paper and then push it into a ballot box?
Nevertheless, what Iraq has achieved is a genuine act of heroism.
It is not only because millions of voters ignored death threats issued by terrorists and insurgents. That they had already done on two previous occasions in last January"s general election and last October"s constitutional referendum. What made this election more exceptional was the collective wisdom shown by the peoples of Iraq in all their diversity.
To start with the Shi"ite clergy, including Grand Ayatollah Ali-Muhammad Sistani, stayed on the sidelines, thus signaling support for a genuine people-based system of government. Next, the various political groups, although forming alliances largely based on ethnic and religious grounds, refrained from sectarian themes and slogans. This meant that although they ad come together because of common ethnic and/or religious affinities, they meant to put their unity in the service of a broader national unity. Extremists efforts to inject a dose of sectarianism into the campaign failed.
So powerful is the message of Iraq that many who opposed the war or are trying to sabotage the building of a new Iraqi political system have had to eat humble pie.
A New York Times editorial describes the Iraqi election as &#34a glorious success&#34 and &#34an overwhelming and heartening triumph.&#34 A website run by supporters of Abu-Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda man in Iraq, warns that what happened in last week"s election may leave the terrorists with &#34no excuse to pursue the Jihad.&#34 For all that Iraq is not yet out of the woods.
One good election does not a democracy make. In fact, democracy, like any living organism, needs to be tended on a daily basis and constantly defended against its many enemies.
Iraq"s new political leadership needs to tap into larger resources of tact and patience than required under normal circumstances. It now looks as if a majority of Iraqis have accepted the first crucial rule of the game: that power emanates from the will of the people as expressed through free and fair elections. This is a huge achievement, one that other nations took several generations to secure.
But this complex and beautiful game has other rules.
One is the acceptance of the results of the election by the losers. The more advanced a democracy the more sincere and gracious that acceptance. But in Iraq today even a grudging acceptance would do. What matters now is whether or not the Arab Sunnis and the secularist camp led by former Premier Iyad Allawi will be prepared to accept that they could not have won a majority if only because most Iraqis voted on the basis of ethnic and/or sectarian loyalties.
The fact that the Iraqi election took place under the rules of proportional representation should make that acceptance easier if only because all groups could be said to have lost, the only winner being the Iraqi nation.
It is clear that the Shi"ite alliance will not secure enough seats to form a government alone, and even if it did, it would still be wiser to seek a coalition with other parties.
Because no group has enough seats to form a government alone, the Iraqis face weeks, if not months, of horse-trading to form a new government. The configuration of forces is such that a variety of coalitions could be imagined.
It is in everyone"s interest to let the Iraqis do their own horse-trading, which means the US should trust the good sense of the Iraqi leaders and refuse to play kingmaker.
Some in Baghdad are already talking of a grand coalition in which all parties represented in the parliament will also have a presence in the Cabinet.
This might be an easy way to achieve consensus but would be harmful for the longer-term prospects of Iraqi democracy. It is important that the parliament should counter-balance the government rather than be its political hinterland. It is even more important to have a loyal opposition within the parliament- loyal in the sense of accepting and honouring the Constitution without being complacent in holding the government accountable.
Who will form the opposition is perhaps even more important than who will dominate the next Iraqi government. If the opposition is limited to Arab Sunnis only chances of defeating the insurgency and its terrorist allies would diminish.
That, in turn, would have a negative impact on Iraq"s overall political development as security matters would have to remain high on the agenda of the future government. If, on the other hand, the Shi"ite alliance is forced into playing opposition we would be in an odd situation because the community majority would feel itself excluded from power. Asking the Kurds to play opposition against an Arab Sunni-Shi"ite coalition wouldn"t do either if only because it would further encourage Kurdish secessionism. The only group capable of playing the role of loyal opposition without undermining the prospects of democracy in Iraq is the one led by Allawi which won votes throughout the country and across ethnic and sectarian divides.
The ideal configuration, therefore, would be a Shi"ite-Sunni-Kurdish grand coalition in government and with Allawi and a group of some 30 independents likely to win seats providing the loyal opposition. This ideal configuration, however, is not easy to achieve, and Iraq may well be heading for weeks if not months of political turmoil. What is important, however, is that the struggle for power in Iraq should take place within a democratic framework.
It is surprising that most Western democracies have greeted the Iraqi election either with a deafening silence or with a few platitudinous mutterings. The reticence of France, Belgium and Spain, still secretly hoping that Iraq will fail so that they are proved right in their anti-American campaign, may be understandable, though not justifiable. But a warmer welcome was expected from Germany, now free from Gerhard Schroeder"s opportunistic anti-Americanism, and, certainly from Britain, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Denmark, among others, who have played crucial roles in helping Iraq on its way to building a new political system.
In the meantime, let us hope to that Iraq"s political leaders will prove as heroic and as wise as their electorate, and that Iraq"s allies will stay the course.
Amir Taheri was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979. He has worked at or written for innumerable publications, published eleven books, and has been a columnist for Asharq Al-Awsat since 1987. Mr. Taheri has won several prizes for his journalism, and in 2012 was named International Journalist of the Year by the British Society of Editors and the Foreign Press Association in the annual British Media Awards.


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Q: Mongoose: How do I replace an array of subdocuments? I have set up a user schema with mongoose which contains a subdocument "contacts". The subdocument "contacts" is a collection of contacts objects which contain the actual contact (reference to another user object) and some data which is related to the "friendship".
In my front-end application I can now manage the contacts by adding or removing users to my contact list. The front-end saves these changes as HTTP PUT requests to the server.
The PUT request contains the whole user object which more or less replaces the user object on the database. Unfortunately it is not possible to replace subdocument collection. You only can  push new ones or remove them.
Here are the schemas:
var UserSchema = new Mongoose.Schema({

    username: {
        type: String,
        index: { unique: true, sparse: true },
        required: true, lowercase: true, trim: true
    },

    email: {
        type: String,
        index: { unique: true, sparse: true },
        required: true, lowercase: true, trim: true
    },

    contacts: [ContactSchema]

});

var ContactSchema = new Mongoose.Schema({

    user: {
        ref: "User",
        type: Mongoose.Schema.ObjectId
    },

    isContact: {
        type: Boolean,
        default: true
    }

});

Currently I try to replace the contacts by removing all and adding the one in the request:
app.put('/me', loadUser, function(req, res, next) {
    var user = req.user;

    req.user.contacts.forEach(function(contact) {
        req.body.contacts.forEach(function(contact) {
            contact.remove();
        });
    });

    req.body.contacts.forEach(function(contact) {
        req.user.contacts.push(contact);
    });

    user.save(function(err, user) {
        if (err) return next(err);
        res.send(200);
    });
});

Has somebody actually an better idea how I can update this subdocument collection to the state in the request?

A: You can use the _underscore library to filter (reject) the object you want to remove
Here an example how to remove something from an array without foreach.
var _und = require('underscore');

var array = [{_id:1, title:'object one'}, {_id:2, title:'object two'}, {_id:3, title: 'object three' }]
    the_target = 'object two';
    new_array = _und.reject(array, function(item){
       return item.title === target;
    })

The expected result should be:
=> [{_id:1, title:'object one'}, {_id:3, title:'object three'}]

If you know the id, even better.
All you have to do then is empty your subdocs by doing this:
var mytargetarray = [];
    mytargetarray.push(new_array);
    mytargetarray.save();

If you want to replace the whole subdoc array, why not just replacing them:
req.user.contacts = [];
req.user.contacts.push(req.body.contacts);

save and done.
Hope that helps a bit.
Just a hint, in mongodb you work with object arrays, you can simple replace every value:
// active data from database
user.name = 'test user';
// now just give the object a new value
user.name = 'new name';
// and save .. done
user.save();

A: there is a better way using findOneAndUpdate to do this.
First you create Mongoose Documents for all the objects in the array (which will be your subdocuments).
Then you use regular findOneAndUpdate and replace the subdocument array there.
So for example:
const subDocumentsArray = argumentArray?.map((object) => new subDocumentModel(object));
const document = await documentModel.findOneAndUpdate(
        { _id: id },
        { subDocumentsArray },
      );

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A simple, slightly tapered terra cotta pot has been transformed into a striking planter that could be the focal point of a hot and dry planting scheme. The clean lines of the black and white pebble stripes work particularly well with the strong shapes of sun-loving plants such as Agave, Echiveria or Sedum, lending a Mediterranean feel to your garden. Try decorating other planters and pots in a similar way, perhaps using a slightly different pattern to make an interesting collection to liven up your sunny terrace or patio.
Draw vertical chalk lines onto the pot, dividing it into 12 stripes each roughly 31⁄4in (8cm) wide at the top. On a tapered pot the stripes will be slightly narrower at the base.
Mix the gray cement according to manufacturer's instructions, making sure it is not too runny. Apply a layer 1⁄2in (1cm) thick within the chalk lines of one stripe and set in the black pebbles closely together. This will push the cement up between the pebbles and help to secure them. Leave room for a row of pebbles around the top rim. Cut off any excess cement with the knife. Leaving the next stripe clear, make two more black stripes.
Mix and apply the white cement in the same way between the black stripes and set in the white pebbles. Clean up the joint between each contrasting stripe and continue until one side of he pot is covered. Allow the cement to harden overnight and repeat the same process on the remaining six stripes. It is best to work on the pot in two separate halves so as not to dislodge any pebbles (the pot needs to rest on its side for ease of working).
Stand the pot up on its base and stick a row of black pebbles around the upper rim, spreading the back of each pebble with the cement. When the cement starts to harden slightly, trim off any excess with the knife. Allow to harden thoroughly before planting.
Tip: Don't allow the pebbles to extend beyond the base of the pots. Stop just short, or the bottom row of pebbles will be vulnerable to breaking off and the pot may not be very stable.
For more garden DIY projects, check out Pebble Mosaics by Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell.


Hi Friends! I'm thrilled, and a bit nervous, about kicking off my very first quilt along (QAL) with my pattern, "Elegant Oasis". I needed a pattern that would showcase those lovely Outback Wife fabrics by my friend Cathi @GertrudeMade. I opened my Electric Quilt 8 software and starting laying out quilt blocks. I discovered one that if made at a larger size, it would really allow me to make larger cuts of those huge florals and now loose their effect and beauty.
I'm kicking things off over on Instagram @Ladykquilts, and providing you with the pattern via posts and step pics there all for free. Sometimes we just want to make and not worry about anything. Ya know? I will be providing some helpful tips and tricks for piecing these blocks here on my blog.
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Boating Injuries in Alabama
April 9, 2018 by Siniard, Timberlake & League, P.C.
In Alabama, as in most states, the law that controls a claim for compensation for injuries will differ significantly depending on whether a person is injured on land or on water. Most claims for injury on land are based on the theory of common law negligence or the failure to exercise reasonable care. Although some claims for injuries on a waterway may be based on negligence, in many instances they are controlled by specific statutes that comprise admiralty law.
There are several key differences between a person's rights in a common law negligence case and an admiralty law case. For instance, under the common law, Alabama applies the doctrine of contributory negligence, meaning that if you contribute to the cause of an injury, no matter how slightly, you are barred from any recovery. Comparative negligence applies in Admiralty law cases so fault is apportioned between the parties. If one person is 10% at-fault, they can still recover 90% of the damages they suffered. It is also significantly more difficult to bring a wrongful death action under admiralty law versus common law. Another key difference between a motor vehicle collision under common law and a boat collision under admiralty law is that "guest statutes" such as the Alabama Guest Statute have been found not to apply. In addition, common law motor vehicle injury cases in Alabama are governed by a two year statute of limitations, while an Admiralty boat collision case would have a three year statute of limitations in which to file a lawsuit.
Although Alabama has adopted a Mandatory Automobile Liability Insurance Act, there is no requirement that an operator of a boat have liability insurance. A person with a boating license may operate a watercraft at 12 years old so long as they are supervised by a person over 21 years old. A 14 year old person with a license can operate a watercraft unsupervised.
Despite the many differences, there are similarities between motor vehicle collisions and boat collisions. For example, Alabama law requires that anyone involved in a motor vehicle collision must stop and remain at the scene as well as offer reasonable assistance to any injured party, such as calling an ambulance for an injured party. Code of Alabama §§ 32-10-1 through 32-10-2. This is also true for boat collisions. In a boat collision where a party is injured, the other boater involved in the collision has an affirmative duty to render aid "as may be necessary in order to save them from or minimize any danger caused by the collision." Code of Alabama § 33-5-25(a). Likewise, the penalties in Alabama for operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol or drugs are the same as operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs. See Code of Alabama §§ 32-5A-191 and 32-5A-191.3.
When determining whether claims for boating injuries will be controlled by Alabama common law or admiralty law, the courts look at two factors. If the incident was on a navigable waterway (i.e. a body of water that a boat can travel to from a connecting body of water) and whether the incident has a significant connection to a traditional maritime activity such as boating.
Alabama courts will likely apply admiralty law to incidents that occur on many of the rivers and lakes that are popular with boaters in North Alabama, such as the Tennessee River, Elk River, Lake Guntersville, Wilson Lake, Coosa River and Weiss Lake. In contrast, Lake Martin is created by two lockless dams and you cannot get to it by boat from a different body of water; therefore, it is not "navigable" and an argument could be made that admiralty law does not apply. Smith Lake is also not likely to be considered a navigable waterway. To learn more about what is considered a "navigable waterway", review the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Map of Navigable Waterways.
Most cases that involve injuries on navigable waterways are brought in federal court, because Federal District Courts have jurisdiction over admiralty and maritime cases. However, it is possible to bring an action in Alabama courts, but the Alabama court will be forced to apply admiralty law instead of Alabama common law.
Our attorneys have extensive experience with personal injury cases in Alabama, including watercraft and boating injuries. While boating is a great recreational activity, boat operation comes with serious responsibilities, and negligent or reckless operators should be held to their responsibilities if injuries do occur. If you or a loved one has been injured in a watercraft collision, feel free to contact us to discuss your rights.
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mondays through Friday.
Off Rt. 122 in downtown Moneta, located across from Mayberry Hills. We are Suite #210 located next to Hawk's Deli and Store.
We are locally owned and operated. Please stop by. We look forward to meeting you.


Construido como una fragua en la década de 1970 el edificio original se convirtió en una espaciosa casa bien ventilada, con grandes ventanas que traen la belleza del jardín maduro. A minutos de la ciudad en autobús o en taxi, o un par de millas a pie a lo largo del río, la casa es la perfecta combinación de tranquilidad y el acceso a la ciudad de Guanajuato. Ideal para los que ya están familiarizados con Guanajuato o que tienen tiempo para relajarse y disfrutar de la ciudad y sus alrededores.
Situado a orillas del Río Guanajuato, donde haciendas tradicionalmente el procesamiento de plata fueron, la casa está en una gran cantidad inusualmente grande. De ahí nuestro hermoso jardín. La casa es muy acogedora y muy singular debido a sus dos enormes techos de bóveda. Cada uno de 25 pies de ancho! Por todas partes hay es el exterior que entra por las ventanas enormes. Habiendo dicho que la casa es muy privada de la carretera, siendo completamente amurallada. Tres millas fuera del centro de la ciudad, que cuesta 40 pesos ($ 3) para saltar a la ciudad o 5 pesos para tomar el autobús a Alhondiga.
Tenemos una familia fantástica que han estado cuidando de la casa todo el tiempo que hemos poseído. Carmen, nuestra criada, es una pequeña, sal de la tierra tipo de mujer que siempre está feliz y cantando. Ella es una alegría para tener alrededor y una excelente cocinera! Raquel, su hija, se encarga del jardín y caretakes la propiedad.
Las zonas de estar / comedor / cocina tienen un plan abierto sentir debido al techo de 30 pies, mientras que el de arriba y el dormitorio principal tienen un acogedor, ambiente más íntimo. Perfecto para leer o disfrutar de una película. Cada cama se completa con un edredón edredón de plumas y las camas de arriba tienen acolchados de espuma de memoria, tan cómodo como te gustaría que en tu propia casa! Nos encanta cocinar y entretener, así que debemos encontrar la mayoría de las cosas que hay en la cocina. Siéntase libre de utilizar cualquier cosa que todavía está en la despensa.
Nos encanta esta casa y esperamos que usted también!
El servicio de limpieza por nuestra camarera Carmen incluido una vez por semana. Usted puede organizar una limpieza adicional, lavar, cocinar con Carmen directamente si lo desea.
Thank you Roselia for your wonderful review. I'm so glad you and your family enjoyed your stay. And I totally agree about Rachel and Carmen. They have been with us for years and are truly a part of our family. I will let them know how impressed you were with them.
We would love to host you again. Estamos aqui para servirle. Gracias.
The interior of the house is lovely, comfortable, and well appointed. There are a number of spaces where a family or two couples could relax and enjoy their time within easy access of Guanajuato. Getting into the city is easy and safe by public bus for $5 pesos. There are a couple of decent restaurants in Marfil with the more "local" restaurants providing the best value.
The property manager was very helpful and kind. She greeted us with fresh flowers, local coffee, and chocolates. She has a number of good suggestions and is very knowledgeable about the area.
While appearing safe, the location of the house has a few drawbacks, at least at the time of year we stayed (three weeks bridging February to mid-March). It is located on a dusty road, beside a small, slow moving river. Both the road and river are littered with trash. Walking along the road is often unpleasant because of the dust created by passing cars. There is no other "green area" within walking distance of the house so each of several daily walks along the road with our dogs was a chore. Most local dogs are not friendly.
The other side of the property is bordered by a major road (on the other side of a tall stone wall) so most times of the day the street noise is quite muted and at night the property is quiet.
Depending on your disposition, the near constant presence of one or two caretakers/gardeners on the property may be seen as off-putting or not. This has nothing at all to do with the friendly and helpful nature of these long-term employees – more whether you are comfortable with the presence of others for six or so hours on most days, with somewhat unpredictable hours.
Given the positives of the house we would likely stay there again but would try to understand and negotiate in advance more limited hours that the caretakers would be on site.
Bright, comfortable, spacious inside and out.
We invited friends for dinner and it was an ideal entertaining space. Short walk to 2 excellent museums and a short taxi ride into Historical Centre. Dust from the road and smell from river in the evening took a bit away from the experience but overall we would recommend this house. Well equipped, well cared for by the delightful Carmen and comfortably furnished.
Couldn't be a better place to enjoy Guanajuanto.
Just wanted to tell you we've really enjoyed our first week in your beautiful house. We're so pleased with Marfil, the lovely lawn and gardens here at your house; we made the right choice. Love your house, the space, the boveda arched ceilings, the windows and all the light, everything. We've driven a few places, San Gabriel hacienda, the mummy museum and we've taken the bus into el centro twice. What an interesting town it is and very friendly. As we rode home on the bus one afternoon, we passed the Museo de Momias, and everyone on the bus was worried that we had missed our stop, and pointed it out to us, and wondered if this wasn't where we wanted to go.
We love Carmen. She's a gem. She cooked Chicken Mole one evening for us. As many times as I've had that dish in Tucson, Denver, and San Miguel and elsewhere, I've never tasted better Mole sauce. Better than any restaurant. Carmen and Raquel seem to get along pretty well with our critter, Fergus and it's just great we can leave him out in the yard while we're gone and not worry about him.
We enjoyed our stay tremendously.
We three elderly women spent the month of February in this beautiful house and had a great time. The staff (Julie, Carmen and Raquel) were very friendly, welcoming and always ready to help if we encountered a problem. Once a week, Carmen cooked us a delicious meal and showed us how to wash the vegetables and fruit from the market with "gotas para desinfectar". Raquel taught us the art to open and close the lock of the front gate with the antique key. Evenings and mornings were still cold in February, so the two gas heaters came in handy. It was wonderful to sit on the terrace looking at the magnificent garden. We ate our meals there under the two umbrellas and lounged on the double day-bed in the sun.
We enjoyed the local Marfil scene: buying bread in la Panaderia, fresh vegetables and roast chicken in the small stores that line the main street. We walked along Camino Antiguo by the river to the beautiful Ex-Haziendas, Casa Museo Gene Byron and San Gabriel de Barrera. Unfortunately the path can be dusty and the river tends to smell during the dry season.
It was easy to get to the center of Guanajuato by taxi, or by bus for only 5 pesos. We made excursions to St Miguel and Dolores Hidalgo taking a bus from the "Central des Autobuses" which is only a few minutes taxi drive away from the house.
We have some issues: It was not always possible to get a connection from the landline telephone. So we relied on our cellphone. We found that the doorbell was not working well and missed a visit from a friend because we could not hear the bell. Although Julie had sent us a plumber who fixed one of the taps in the main bathroom, half a day later it started dripping again. We could not prevent that the bathroom floor flooded while taking a shower.
Looking back at our stay, we found it a pleasant experience and would recommend the property to others. The photos in the ad give the correct information.
The people running this house are very nice and accommodating. The house is in a good location for access to Guanajuato, either driving, bus, or taxi. Note the taxi fare has gone up, now about $50 pesos. It has a nice outdoors space with comfortable furniture, both inside and out.
Prospective renters should note that although this house is advertised as three bedrooms, it really isn't. There is a large room upstairs with a low dividing wall that has three beds in it, no privacy like one would expect in a "bedroom," i.e., no door or walls. Also, the downstairs bedroom has no curtains on the large glass door that opens into the house, nor curtains for the large window overlooking the property. So, basically, no real privacy for any of the bedrooms.
The "beautiful gardens" could be that, except they are unkempt and largely overgrown. I find this is often the case here in Mexico when there is no real gardener tending the gardens.
Our real issue, besides the lack of privacy, was the situation with the keys. There is only one key for the front gate. The caretaker kindly gave us hers so we had two keys for three couples. Also, it is not possible to lock the gate from the inside so that it can be opened by the key from the outside. There is a latch that is not key operated. So, if one couple is home and latches the gate, the couple that is not home cannot open the gate. The bell was not able to be heard in the house. Also, there is one different key for every door. This was inconvenient but workable. Mostly, the problem was being locked out of the property until we were able to get the attention of the people in the house to come let us in.
Overall, we would not stay here again. The property was clean and beds comfortable. But the lack of privacy was a deal breaker. For one couple, it wouldn't be a problem though.
Thank you for your comments! We try to be as clear as possible about the open floor plan, so I´m sorry it was not clear before your arrival. We do take all our guest´s comments seriously, and will certainly address the obstacles you encountered with us. Thank you, again. I hope you enjoyed Guanajuato!
Situado a pocas millas de Guanajuato Centro, Marfil se encuentra a lo largo del Río Guanajuato en una zona de antiguas haciendas. Nuestro vecino, el Club Campestre Nepomuceno (club de campo) está construido en las ruinas de una de estas. El área fue devastada en la gran inundación de 1905 y fue comprado y restaurado por el arquitecto italiano Giorgio Beloli. Muchas de las casas de esta zona fueron construidos por él y muchos contienen ventanas creadas en nuestra casa cuando era una fragua. Por ahora, probablemente, usted ha leído mucho acerca de la gran ciudad de Guanajuato, la vitalidad y la cultura de la ciudad es lo que nos mantiene trayendo de vuelta. Si estás de visita en la ciudad por sólo un par de días y quieren ser parte del bullicio y el ruido, nuestra casa no es probablemente para usted, pero si vas a venir a disfrutar de la ciudad por un poco más de tiempo lo más probable apreciar la tranquilidad de Marfil como un lugar para regresar y descansar después de un día o de noche en la ciudad !.
Please note that a 2000 pesos refundable damage deposit is required upon arrival. For rentals longer than 2 months the rate can be reduced, depending on number of guests, and with guests paying their own utilities.


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Q: Firebase Nested Index Query Rules Last night I was trying to index a nested object in firebase's database. Below is my object data and rules. Currently on orderedBy locID it is returning index not defined. Would appreciate any help thanks!
My Data:

My Rules:
{
  "rules": {
    "locations": {
      "$uid": {
        ".indexOn": ["locID"]
      }
    },
    ".read": true,
    ".write": true
  }
}

The code that triggers the error:
locData = db.child("Locations").order_by_child("locID").equal_to(someID).get()

The above is returning index not defined, using the pyrebase wrapper.

A: You're skipping a level in your query.
Firebase will query the immediate children of the location on which you execute the query. So in your case, it will query items 10S and 12S and try to order/filter on locID. Neither of these nodes has a child locID, since that property is one level deeper in the tree.
Pyrebase likely talks against the Firebase REST API, which will fail when there is no index for the field you're trying to order/filter on.
It's a bit hard to be certain for your use-case, but in general the solution to this problem is to keep a reverse index. In this case that could be a list that keeps track of the 10S/12S thing for each locID.
locByLocID: {
  5689: "10S",
  8223: "12S"
}


Where did the age go on the network profile?
Ever since the profile redo, the age was shown in the network profile, but not in the per-site profiles. So if someone wanted to see the age, they had to go to the network profile. However.. It's vanished! The field is still there in the profile editing, however. It doesn't appear as if this was implemented: Isn't it time to remove the age from network profile?
That was an oversight - we removed Age from Profiles ages ago, but still had the code in. When looking at removing the code completely, I saw that SE.com still uses it, and we removed it there as well now.
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Rental EV's - (lesson learned)
Discussion in 'Hangar Talk' started by kyleb, Jan 21, 2023.
kyleb Final Approach
Drake the Outlaw
We were in South Florida the last couple of days and rented a car from Hertz. Turned out, they gave us a Polestar EV. When we left the rental center, they verified the charge level of the car and instructed us that the car should be returned with at least the same charge level as when we picked it up.
First problem.... The charge level was 40%, meaning that if we'd needed to go more than about 80 miles with our newly rented car, we'd have needed to spend a substantial amount of time at a charging station. That's just a screw job from the get-go.
Second problem... Where we were, there were no rapid chargers that worked on the Polestar. The only chargers we could find charged at about 10% an hour, so we'd have needed to charge for 4+ hours if we wanted to make a 200 mile drive.
Third problem....There really weren't any convenient charging options. Given our usage, we needed to charge the car for an hour plus to return it at >40% charge. Sorry, given the sketchy charging locations we found (none at the office we were visiting and none at the hotel where we stayed), we just returned it at 28% charge and I guess we'll pay whatever the charging fee is.
Certainly we hadn't considered all of this before taking the EV, but it was serious disappointment that the car didn't have a good charge when we picked it up and that there were zero decent charging options.
There were multiple Tesla superchargers around, but those don't work for the Polestar.
In the future I'll think long and hard before renting an EV away from home...
PS... I didn't like the Polestar anyway. The car had a high beltline, so the windows and dash were way up high, with windows that weren't very tall at all. I always felt like a little kid trying to peek out of granny's buick or something like that. And the controls were not intuitive - particularly things like finding and adjusting the HVAC. I'm sure we'd have picked up on it in a couple of days of active use, but on a rental, I really need to understand how to operate the vehicle before I leave the lot, and that just wasn't in the cards.
kyleb, Jan 21, 2023
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Cluemeister Line Up and Wait PoA Supporter
Cluemeister
"In the future I'll think long and hard before renting a non Tesla EV away from home..."
Cluemeister, Jan 21, 2023
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Cluemeister said: ↑
Are there guarantees that rental Teslas are handed out at 100% charge and chargers are convent where you'll be staying?
Caveat Emptor...
Lindberg likes this.
Range anxiety is common when you first drive an EV. It gets easier with time.
Teslas are currently rented at major metros, so Tesla superchargers are not hard to find. And regular destination chargers (which work on Tesla) usually get about 30-40 miles an hour.
So get back up on that horse (Tesla) and rent again!
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Jim K En-Route PoA Supporter
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That's disappointing. Sounds like the main problem was Hertz not charging their car. I guarantee they charged the last renter for a full charge. We rented a Tesla in South Dakota (not from Hertz) and it was a great experience. It was fully charged when we got it and there was no trouble finding superchargers. Definitely something to keep in mind that I wouldn't have thought about. I would've assumed they would have it charged.
The polestar is supposed to be one of the fastest charging cars available, IF you can find a DC fast charger that can output enough power to take advantage of it, and that's pretty rare in the real world.
I have the same gripe about beltlines on pretty much all new cars. It wouldn't be that bad, except they always put the armrest too low. In the old days I'd rest my arm on the window sill instead, but that's not so comfortable when it's up by your ear.
Jim K, Jan 21, 2023
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Range anxiety wasn't one of the challenges. Charging convenience, or lack thereof, was the issue. Still, I thought starting at 40% put the renter behind the 8 ball from the get go. If our plan had been to drive to Key West (Tesla or not), we'd have been up the creek. Thankfully, we only drove about 20 miles on our trip, so it wasn't an issue for us.
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kyleb said: ↑
That's definitely unacceptable. Every EV I've rented (Admittedly all Teslas) were >85% when I picked them up. The one time I got one that was lower, I went back to the counter and traded so they could recharge it on-site for somebody else.
jrcox19, Jan 21, 2023
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Lindberg Final Approach
My best friend has owned only Teslas for several years. He owns two now, and has experience driving them cross country. For trips, he rents a gas car. YMMV.
Lindberg, Jan 21, 2023
Second problem... Where we were, there were no rapid chargers that worked on the Polestar. The only ones we could find charged at about 10% an hour, so we'd have needed to charge for 4+ hours if we wanted to make a 200 mile drive.
I'd plaster this all over social media.
Lindberg said: ↑
I could, but social media isn't really my thing. I did figure my experience might help out a fellow pilot or two, which is why I posted here.
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Larry in TN En-Route PoA Supporter
Larry in TN
Non-tesla EVs in North America use the J1772 standard for Level 1 and 2 charging and the CCS1 standard for DC fast charging.
Most areas should have CCS fast charging available but how is a renter supposed to know how to find them if they've never driven an EV before? That's the biggest challenge I see for EV rentals. I know Hertz sends a lot of links to orientation videos when someone rents a Tesla but that depends on the renter making the effort to learn about it. If a renter doesn't know anything about EVs, and doesn't make that effort, they are likely going to have a bad experience.
What town were you in in Florida?
The best way to find charging is the www.PlugShare.com site or app. You will need to know enough about EVs to know what type of connector you're looking for (CCS) and the difference between DC fast charging and Level 2 charging and when each is appropriate.
You can also use PlugShare to find hotels with destination chargers (Level 2) so that you can charge your rental each night while you sleep. That will eliminate the need for you to have to go to a charging station, unless you're driving more than the car's range in one day.
That said, the state of our CCS fast charging network is not great. Lots of hardware issues with the chargers which the various networks are trying to address. This makes it even harder for a renter as they don't understand why the charger isn't work, or isn't working well, and when to switch to another.
Tesla's Supercharger network has few of these problems and is a huge advantage for Tesla at this point. I'm sure the CCS networks will catch up eventually but they aren't there yet.
Here's a screenshot from PlugShare of South Florida showing only CCS fast charging stations.
Larry in TN, Jan 21, 2023
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Spring Ford Line Up and Wait
SpringFord
I read the other day that Hertz have just ordered a large number of EVs. 350k? Can't quite remember exactly. Possibly this is globally.
40% charge on delivery of a rental EV is unacceptable.
Spring Ford, Jan 21, 2023
Brad W Cleared for Takeoff PoA Supporter
NE Florida
BLW2
what were you using to find chargers? An onboard navigation screen perhaps?
and what part of South Florida?
As Larry in TN posted, there are lots of EVSE stations around. Not on every corner but still
Brad W, Jan 21, 2023
masloki Pattern Altitude
I don't think a Polestar/Mach-E/etc are good rental cars unless you are already a CCS EV driver, for these specific issues you've run into. Finding fast charging, maybe needing an EA or EVGo or ChargePoint account, managing consumptions rates, and all that are different skills vs picking the lowest quality/cheapest gas station without a card skimmer that is close enough to the rental office to not come off Full.
masloki, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:27 AM
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PaulS Touchdown! Greaser!
PaulS
Thanks for the write up. I figure you know better now, and I probably would have done the same as you without reading your write up. But my take away is that you should have said "screw you" to Hertz and told them you wanted a fully charged car. I know better now if I ever rent an EV, thanks.
PaulS, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:41 AM
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bnt83 Final Approach
Lincoln NE
Hertz is really good at screwing customers.
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bnt83, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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Back when I travelled for business scheduling was tight. Trade shows, customer visits, we packed a lot into each trip. Sitting around waiting for a car to charge is wasted time, and time is money.
EDIT: And the fact that they delivered the car with only 40% charge tells me Hertz doesn't have the infrastructure necessary to support the cars they're renting.
Bill, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM
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Dave Theisen En-Route PoA Supporter
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On the plus side, you did have to spend five minutes at the gas station by the airport trying to find the gas cap release.
Dave Theisen, Jan 25, 2023 at 9:58 AM
JOhnH Touchdown! Greaser!
Right Seater
HERTZ!!!
JOhnH, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:23 AM
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frfly172, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:06 AM
MauleSkinner Touchdown! Greaser!
MauleSkinner
Wait a minute…Hertz…electrical frequency…electric cars…
MauleSkinner, Jan 25, 2023 at 12:40 PM
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MauleSkinner said: ↑
No. "Hertz", like in it hertz like hell to do business with them.
JOhnH, Jan 25, 2023 at 12:50 PM
bluesky74656 Line Up and Wait
Brecksville, OH
Todd Kooser
I rented a Tesla from Hertz and loved it. I picked it up with about 80% charge. I drove it 100 miles over a few days, charged it once overnight at a destination charger at my hotel, returned it at 80% charge, and didn't pay a cent for gas.
They told me just to return it with greater than 10% charge, not what I started with. The person at the gate asked if I wanted to prepay for my charge and I just laughed.
bluesky74656, Jan 25, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Pinecone Pattern Altitude
Pinecone
I normally rent from Hertz, and haven't had any issues.
I used to rent from Alamo, but they charge you up front for the rental. Which causes problems when doing extended trips for work. You get charged, and the charge on your credit card bill weeks before you can get paid the money for the travel.
Pinecone, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:25 PM
GeorgeC Administrator Management Council Member
GeorgeC
Sounds like my experience...
https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/com...pressure-up-this-morning.139184/#post-3291295
Need to try Turo next time.
Last edited: Jan 25, 2023 at 7:35 PM
GeorgeC, Jan 25, 2023 at 7:21 PM


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While not much is known about the future impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and public health, the research highlights a number of aspects in which the LGBTQ community can be disproportionately affected by it. (Getty Images/iStock)
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You know that temporary bump in approval rating that everyone has been expecting President Obama to get for overseeing the death of America's arch nemesis? It's here! According to a Washington Post poll taken last night, 56 percent of Americans approve of Obama's presidency — a nine-point boost over his numbers in mid-April and the best poll results he's seen since 2009. It definitely won't last.
Meanwhile, we're getting pretty fed up with the debate in the media about whether President Bush deserves any credit for bin Laden's death/how much credit he deserves/whether it's more or less credit than Obama deserves, etc. It wasn't all Bush. It wasn't all Obama. In fact, it was mostly neither of them. Can't we just say they both deserve some credit and just be happy about this huge victory without devolving into the standard partisan bickering?
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