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I have a couple of memories/experiences at the Niagara Falls airport. They had a National Guard squadron there that would host me when I was flying in the Navy. When visiting my family, and later when I was dating a Buffalo gal, I would fly there and they would let me park on their ramp. One time, over Christmas holiday, and a week before starting a carrier deployment, I went there with the knowledge that there was a strong snow forecast during the two day period I would be there. Got the OK from the National Guard unit that they would store the airplane in their hangar for the two days. When I landed, late on a Friday, they said they would tow it in on Sat. When I called on Sunday, it had not been towed and was told it had quite a bit of snow on it. Since I was leaving the next day it had to be cleaned up. I got a call at home from some junior watch officer who told me that they had a holiday schedule, and my airplane was not going to be dealt with, and that whomever I talked to wasn't there and my concerns didn't matter. Called back to my west coast squadron. We were leaving for a WestPac cruise aboard Kitty Hawk, and the airplane needed to be back within 48 hours to be prepared for carrier deployment. Anyway, calls were made and I got a call at home that the airplane would be ready for my desired departure time. The other time was more fun. Again, dating a girl from Buffalo, so I was home for the weekend. When I got to the base operations at Niagara Falls on Sunday morning to fly home, there were two other military planes preparing. One was an Air Force T-37, which is a tiny twin engine primary trainer, and the other was a T-2, a Navy basic jet trainer. The National Guard guy who handled our flight plans kind of challenged us to a takeoff competition. I was flying an A-4 Superfox, with the Pacific Fleet Adversaries, and it was really overpowered. Anyway, with family and girlfriend witnessing this, along with the folks from the other two airplanes we agreed. T-37 takes off, does about a 50 degree angle climb and off he goes. Navy T-2 does a little better, but still nothing impressive. I take off, get the gear up at about five feet and level off, hit 320 knots at the end of the runway, and pull to the pure vertical. At about 1000' I did a four point roll, where you roll 90 degrees and stop. Did it four times for the full 360 and I was into the overcast. Tower says, "nice takeoff," and I replied that if anyone complained, (aerobatics in civilian airspace are prohibited), I noticed a flock of birds and had to avoid them.

The comet was overrated. Like the Texas saying.....all hat, no cattle. The wild mouse was the real deal, and ski ball.....Who could forget ski ball? Those summer nights.......... That aside, I still liked Sherkston better.

The Wild Mouse misses you. For me, its house-boating on Smith Mountain Lake, VA.

If you bring your own, don't get caught. Quite serious fine.

I think it's a good idea. Now, instead of having to bribe people, falsely claim to being a row crew athlete or paying someone to take the SAT for you, all you have to do is get an address in a bad neighborhood to give your kid that extra advantage. Much less risk of persecution, and a lot cheaper.

One black. One white. One blonde

Really small. Watch the Houston comeback game though, and you'll see what a player he was.

And by the way, and you didn't hear it from me.... Marv Levy used to always "challenge Jim Ritcher to get bigger or end his career. There would be a weigh in at the start of camp/OTA's whatever. They would allow you to wear a baseball hat at the weigh in. Jim's wife used to sew weights into the baseball hat to get Jim a few extra pounds.

Jim Ritcher was simply not big enough to have the impact to make the HOF, but he certainly made the best of what physical stature he had.

Its a change in the deployment location for Lincoln. It was operating in the Med and will head east, probably to the Red Sea and east. Stennis was in the area recently. Stennis and Lincoln are changing homeports after their current deployments, Stennis from Bremerton Wa. to Norfolk for maintenance/nuclear refueling, and Lincoln from Norfolk to San Diego, so Lincoln would eventually transit the Indian Ocean anyway, but this is a change.

I'm not going to write specific answers, because printers have different solutions. Information is easily available by searching. I've got an Epson. http://www.inkpal.com/ink-news/how-to-reset-an-ink-cartridge-not-waste-printer-ink/

Inkjet printer replacement cartridges. Insanely overpriced to the point where some printer manufacturers lose money on the printer because they know they'll make a bunch on the replacement cartridges. If one gets "low" and low isn't really that low, the printer becomes dysfunctional until all are replaced. Not difficult at all to get around the issue, depending on the type of printer. Easy to find solution at a fraction of the cost.

Ya. Like the the overwhelming majority of people here who have lived here for generations and don't give a rip. Never bothered anybody before. Get that? Overwhelming majority.

I live in Charlottesville, and the entire process is ridiculous, and the entire issue deserves not one bit of attention. A group of lunatics drove here and tried to do something. Local people objected and one of them got killed. A guy is serving a life sentence for that. The statues are very nice, have been here for ages, and offend no normal person. My proposal was to rename them. Just name them monuments to guys on horses and be done with it. This entire episode is totally wasteful and ridiculous. Interesting, but almost everyone who was in office when this happened is gone. city manager, police chief and a bunch of others.

"Farms" aside, and I can't believe the solar yield in Western NY justifies the cost without some other influence, on a domestic basis it's simple cost vs benefit. I've been following this industry for years. The house I currently had built and live in has a garage that points true south, the roof is stressed for solar panels and the slope is very close to our latitude, which is what you want. The stressing only required additional joists bonded together, and I think it only cost me a few hundred bucks. The issue is that absent government incentives, which have diminished significantly, it still isn't worth it from a purely financial standpoint. I built a 30x40 barn last year, and even with minimal electrical requirements, it is still more efficient to purchase a very small gas generator rather than solar power the thing.

Many considerations. First, you say it has no access or frontage. I assume you mean by road. That means that if anyone was to build on it, they would require an easement, which is a huge negative. What about zoning? Is it possible to develop? Of so, how many units/lot size requirements? You may plan to use it for your enjoyment, but such a consideration impacts value considerably. If used strictly for farming, what is the tree situation? How about grade/slope/drainage/soil condition issues? What local crops are grown successfully, and what is a reasonable price to expect? When those questions are answered, I would start at looking at local farmland sales, if there are any, and I'd look at what the owner paid and subtract a reasonable amount for the house, adjust for time of ownership, and come up with a starting offer. If you plan on doing some kind of agriculture on it yourself, spend the necessary time researching the amount of work that takes based on the specific crop, the equipment you'll need, if aggressive preventive spraying is needed and the tax consequences. Some localities will provide a significant tax break if the land is in agricultural use but may require an income producing crop to justify it. I own 30 acres in wine country here, so I have run a commercial vineyard for twelve years. It is extremely labor intensive from March through mid Sep. Much more than I thought when I constructed it, and doing things at specific times is not an option. The county requires proof of sales to justify my tax credit, and the credit is significant. If you are doing some agriculture on it, refi options are greatly limited since 2008. Anyway, lots to consider. Good luck.

From personal experience.... This ishihara test plates linked to in the original post can lead to misleading conclusions. My profession required a physical with a color blindness test every six months. Fail the physical and you lose your medical and thus, your license. Typically, you go to the same doctor every six months, because very few are certified to perform the exam. I had never had any trouble on anything in the physical until I moved here, and found a new certified MD. His nurse was a no sense of humor, no nothing kind of woman. She gives me the test using those plates, which I had done tens of times before, and I was really struggling. Barely got through it. thought maybe I was just tired or something. Six months later same thing. When she was done doing her thing, the MD shows up and finishes his portion. I told him about the difficulty with the ishihara plates, and that I suspected his plates had faded a bit. When I got out, I contacted a few others in the area in the same profession, and they claimed the same thing. So....I called the MD and told him about it, and that since my license/living was on the line, I'd go somewhere else, but I just wanted him to know. Found another qualified guy 50 miles away and no problem for the next 14 years. Point is, if you have trouble with one color blindness test, don't always conclude it's you.

Ya. Lots. Only in the cathedral a few times, but used to cut across Lle de la Cite frequently to get to the left bank and Latin Quarter/Sorbonne area.

Which led to a famous quote from a then Deputy Undersecretary of Defense. "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordian..." I never found them any different that anyone else, but witnessed one of the strangest behaviors ever. After 9-11, we stayed in hotels near the DeGaulle airport for a couple months because of security. The hotel would provide twice daily bus transport to downtown Paris, dropping us off at the Quartier de l'Opera, and pick us up three hours later. One day, as we were approaching the downtown area, I was sitting on the right side. There was a small car on our right who was trying to get into our lane, but our driver would not allow him in. This went on for about three traffic lights, with horns blowing and gestures made. Finally, while at a light, the elderly man driving the small vehicle jumps out of his car and bangs on the bus door. Our driver opens the door, gets out of his seat, and goes down the three stairs to confront the old man. He then head butts the man, leaving a bleeding wound to his forehead. The man's elderly companion, who I assume was his wife, is screaming. A couple of blocks later, but only about a block from the drop off point, the police stop the bus at a light and take the driver off. We all left and walked. Quite bizarre, but kind of funny.

It's on it's own island. It isn't peculiarly dense at all.

I used to go there quite frequently, including landing the day after Princess Diana was killed. There are a million other places to go that make it a most enjoyable place.

No love for The Herd?

I am both a resident of Charlottesville, a vineyard owner, and the father of one child who graduated fro "Blacksburg," and one who graduated from UVA. The people who did what they did in Charlottesville were not from here. They were imported lunatic white supremacists who came here to cause trouble. One has been convicted of murder and given a life sentence. He is from Ohio. A number of other "imports" are in jail, or will be soon enough.

Jim Ritcher wasn't a center.

Not trying to bump this, but her statements as chairperson of the Financial Services Committee are positively frightening, The link I provided is quite short, but in addition to being completely ignorant on the student loan issue, she further soils herself at at the 50 second mark/ When accusing these guys of not making loans to small businesses, the response is that "We have made 8 billion dollars in loans to small businesses...." She then tells them, seemingly completely ignorant of the response, that "her time is up." Got to admit, in the interest of full disclosure, I've got a thing for Maxine. I flew the Dulles to LA thing for two years straight. She was on all the time leaving Dulles on Friday and coming back on Monday. She was incredibly pretentious and rude, to the point where I used to make it a point to get to the cockpit door early to try to force eye contact or any kind of human respect interaction with her. She would always drop her head in an intentional effort to not acknowledge me or others. She would have her "staff member" drop all her reading crap on her 1st class seat, then go to his seat in the back.then, board very late,never talk to or even address anybody except to eat, and leave an absolute trash pile in her seat. Completely dismissive an rude. She is one of about five people of the hundreds of pols/celebs I carried that were completely rude. Rant complete.