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|04 Apr 2011
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If you want to enlarge C with Disk Management,
1. Save everything from D to an external drive.
2. Then right click on D and delete the volume to get unallocated space.
3. Right click on C and extend it to at least 50GB
4. Right click on the remaining unallocated space and define a new D partition
5. Move the saved data back to D
That is the easiest way to do it. Else you will need another program like Partition Wizard. But even then I would first backup the data on D for safety reasons.
Regardless what you do, backup your data from D first. Last time I used PW, I lost 3 whole partitions - it was, of course, my fault. But it is easy to make a mistake. Fortunatey I had an image of everything.
I still think it would be easier for you to use Disk Management as described above.
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|04 Apr 2011
I don't have an external handy ... so that option isn't very realistic.
I see that with this PW program I can only merge if I pay...
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|04 Apr 2011
Did you use the bootable CD version?
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|04 Apr 2011
If you have no external disk, you can do another trick. Before I can give you the procedure, tell me how much data you have on D. It would be extremely dangerous to work on a partition without saving the data first - unless you do not care about your data.
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OK, here is what I suggest. Problem that we have to work around a restriction of Disk Management which can only extend a partition if the freespace is directly to the right of the partition. Now do this - it looks like a lot but each step takes only a couple of minutes.
1. Open Disk Management - Type disk management into Start/search and it will show up.
2. Since you have already shrunk 50GB from D, use this unallocated space to define a new partition E. Right click un the unallocated space and create partition. The wizard will tell you the steps.
3. Move your data from D to E
4. Right click on D and delete volume
5. Right click on C and extend volume - add about 40GBs. The wizard will guide you.
6. Now you have remaining unallocated space. Right click on that and create partition - we will recreate D using all the unallocated space.
7. move your data back from E to D.
8. Delete volume E - by now you should be a pro (LOL)
9. Right click on D and extend with the free space gaines from the deleted E.
10. You are all set - print this instruction out, then you can follow it easily. And buy an external disk. Without it, you have only half a computer.
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|04 Apr 2011
Currently moving everything over to E.
What's the reason I can't just delete the E drive and use that unallocated space to merge with C? I noticed I couldn't do that... why will I be able to do that with D?
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Disk Management will let you expand a partition into unallocated space only if that unallocated space is immediately to the right of the partition to be enlarged.
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The Queen and her family just enjoyed a beach vacation in the Dominican Republic.
If this doesn't scream postcard from paradise, I don't know what does. Beyoncé and Jay Z recently enjoyed a beach getaway to the Dominican Republic (before Bey continues her Mrs. Carter World Tour in Europe), and the "Drunk in Love" singer shared all the photos with her very jealous fans.
Bey, in a green bikini top and pink trousers, looked relaxed and gorgeous as she strolled hand in hand with Jay Z on the beach. She shared several scenery pics and just one that included, we think, the top of little Blue Ivy's head and her sweet little curls. Launch the gallery above to see all the photos.


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Dhaka, Bangladesh
Green Tax Demanded to Prevent Environment Pollution
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) General Secretary Dr. Abdul Matin urged that, the big crisis on environment due to pollution. Dhaka has been ranked as the second worst city in the world in terms of air pollution. To remove this crisis, imposing green tax on pollutant industries is a demand of time now.
Youth Coalition for Climate Justice's President S M Shaikat said, to establish environmental justice, this green tax is a must step now. We demand immediate imposing of this tax on pollutants by this upcoming budget.
Nirapad Development Foundation Chairman Ibnul Syed Rana said, to tackle environmental pollution, a 30% of additional tax termed as green tax should be imposed on pollutants.
Campaign for Development Foundation's Executive Director Mosiur Rahman Rubel said, the Department of Environment often fines pollutants, but this tax will reduce pollution trends automatically.
Green Mind Society President Amair Hasan said, imposing green tax on industries would establish a milestone in conservation of environment.
Unnayan Dhara Trust Member Secretary Aminur Rasul said, green tax is the best solution to this environment crisis. The government must concentrate on imposing this tax soon.
Lawyer Sultan Mahmood Banna urged that, to save the environment from commercial aggression, pollutant industries must pay at least 30% tax as green tax.
Students Federation of Bangladesh's city vice-president Raihan Tahrat Leon said, in one hand, the industry owners are making profit and in the other hand they are also polluting the environment. Therefore to ensure environmental equity, green tax is the answer.
The program was moderated by NDF Chairman Ibnul Syed Rana and Presided by BAPA general secretary Dr. Abdul Matin while cultural activist Syed Mazarul Islam, SERAC-Bangladesh program officer Manjuda Akter, RSDS's executive director Jakaria Hossain, Orunodoyer Torun Dol president Shahidul Islam Babu spoke at the occasion. Others including Kairos Society's Golam Kibrea, blogger Moksedul Islam, Journalist Mohi U Khan Mamun, UP Trust's Ali Hazai, Manik of NDF, Faruk Hossain of Green Mind Society, SEL Charitable Foundation's Razaul Islam and Mohammad Hossain of Orunodoyer Torun Dol attend the event.
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Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Joblessness in the U.S. has declined far less than firings since the recession ended in 2009, creating a record divergence that shows companies lack the confidence to hire.
At 8.6 percent in November, unemployment has fallen 1.5 points from a 26-year high of 10.1 percent in October 2009. By contrast, claims for jobless benefits, which track staff cuts, have decreased 40 percent since peaking at an average 652,500 in the four weeks ended March 27, 2009, to 393,300 in the period ended Dec. 3.
Scarce jobs represent a threat to household incomes that risks pushing the world's largest economy into a self- reinforcing cycle of meager gains in spending and employment. That is one reason President Barack Obama is pushing to extend a payroll tax cut that he says will spur purchases and push employers to look for more help.
"The pace of hiring is just so much below prior norms," said Julia Coronado, chief economist for North America at BNP Paribas in New York. "There's just a lack of demand in the economy. That explains the wedge between the jobless claims and the unemployment rate."
The number of people filing jobless claims per week on average every month dropped to less than 3 percent of the total number of unemployed Americans this year for the first time since records began in 1967, according to figures from the Labor Department.
Payrolls, Claims
Employers added 120,000 workers to payrolls in November after a 100,000 gain the previous month, Labor Department figures show. Initial jobless claims tend to fall as job growth -- measured by the monthly non-farm employment report -- accelerates.
Unless lawmakers act by Dec. 31, the Social Security payroll tax -- which was cut to 4.2 percent in 2011 -- will return to 6.2 percent. Republicans are split over whether the tax cut should be extended and, if so, how its $185 billion cost in forgone revenue should be covered. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said Dec. 7 that his chamber won't adjourn for the holidays until an agreement is reached.
Even with an extension of the payroll tax cut, the gap between unemployment applications and the jobless rate would narrow only slightly, according to Drew Matus, a senior U.S. economist at UBS Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut. Temporary tax reductions make it difficult for households to draw up budgets, and the government should also consider multiyear cuts for businesses to stimulate employment, he said. Employers pay a 6.2 percent payroll tax in the first $110,100 of a worker's wages.
'Cautious' Hiring
Employers "are being extraordinarily cautious and they're not doing a lot of hiring," said Matus. At the same time, he said "absent some sort of significant further downturn, they're unlikely to dramatically ramp up the firing process" because they have already made adjustments to headcounts.
Companies like Eaton Corp., the maker of products for industrial and construction markets, say they will limit hiring next year as they watch the financial crisis in Europe and talks to curb the U.S. budget deficit.
"Because of that uncertainty in the U.S., we are being cautious here," Richard Fearon, chief financial officer at the Cleveland-based manufacturer, said in a Dec. 7 conference call with analysts. "You will see us offering very conservative headcount plans, conservative capital spending in Europe. And I think you will see most companies taking that course of action."
Repairing Finances
Maintaining the lower payroll tax rate next year would help households repair finances sooner as the housing market struggles to recover. Net worth for households and non-profit groups decreased by $2.45 trillion to $57.4 trillion from July through September, according to a Federal Reserve report last week, as the European debt crisis depressed stocks and home values decreased.
The overall employment gap represents a divergence from 2002, when the U.S. was emerging from an eight-month economic slump.
"The amazing feature of the last recession was how well consumer spending held up," BNP Paribas's Coronado said. "We were in the midst of the housing boom. Well, consumer spending held up because we were taking out home-equity loans. Now we're deleveraging."
Failure to extend the tax cut would subtract 0.5 percent from gross domestic product in 2012, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s New York-based chief U.S. economist, Michael Feroli.
Spending Forecast
Not extending the cut would cause consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy, to stagnate in the first three months of 2012 after expanding at a 3 percent annual rate this quarter, Feroli said.
Some economists said that while employers want to add to their payrolls, they just can't find qualified help.
"What's going on here is a mismatch of the skills of the unemployed and at least some of the positions that are becoming available," said Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York. "This seems to be slowing the pace of filling those job openings."
Also contributing to the lack of hiring, according to UBS's Matus: extending unemployment benefits diminishes the incentive to look for work.
The Labor Department's November jobs report showed an increase in long-term unemployment. The number of people without work for 27 weeks or more rose as a percentage of all jobless, to 43 percent from 42.4 percent.
'Generous' Benefits
"If you increase or extend unemployment benefits, it tends to increase the unemployment rate," Matus said. "People are staying unemployed for longer than they typically would have in order to continue collecting more generous unemployment benefits."
Not all economists share that view.
"Spending of unemployment insurance benefits stimulates the economy and demand for goods and services and thereby generates jobs," said Heidi Shierholz, a labor-market economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a research group in Washington that supports policies that help lower- and middle-income workers. "If the extensions of unemployment benefits are allowed to expire, the economy will lose over half a million jobs. That clearly will increase the unemployment rate."
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Walkability, density, and mixed-use have become key terms in the conversation about designing our cities to promote healthy lifestyles. In an interview with behavioral psychologist, Dr. James Sallis of the University of California San Diego in The Globe and Mail, Sallis discusses how his research reveals key design elements that encourage physical activity. In the 20th century, the automobile and new ideals in urban planning radically changed the way in which cities were structured. Residential and commercial areas were divided and highways were built to criss-cross between them. Suburban sprawl rescued city dwellers from dense urban environments that had gained a reputation for being polluted and dangerous. In recent decades, planners, policy makers and environmentalists have noted how these seemingly healthy expansions have had an adverse affect on our personal health and the health of our built environment. Today, the conversation is heavily structured around how welcoming density, diversity and physical activity can help ameliorate the negative affects that decades of mid-century planning have had on health. Sallis describes how much of a psychological feat it is to change the adverse habits that have developed over the years and how design, in particular, can help encourage the change.


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Talking to a lot of the more seasoned Magic players, you get the feeling that now is a boring time for the Standard format of Magic. They seem to feel that we are stuck in limbo. Coldsnap is in but Kamigawa isn't yet out. Most of the Nationals have finished and therefore there isn't any need to look at Standard. I, on the other hand, have never been one to stand still. I think this is a very exciting time. There are plenty of non-premier tournaments happening around the globe plus FNM, Arena League and, of course, don't forget MODO. That gives us Standard watchers plenty of reason to create and innovate. With that spirit in mind, I'm going to present you with a deck list that you can tinker with, have fun with and yet it is strong enough to beat people up with. I'll discuss its high points and its low points, possible improvements, good synergy and bad synergy. You can fiddle with it to your hearts content and match it to your current metagame.
Here's the deck…
|"Computer says 'No'..."Magic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
1 Yosei, the Morning Star
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
1 Debtor's Knell
3 Jötun Grunt
Card Drawing
3 Gifts Ungiven
3 Telling Time
General Control
3 Counterbalance
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Hinder
3 Rewind
|Control vs Aggro
4 Wrath of God
3 Cover of Winter
3 Condemn
4 Scrying Sheets
4 Boreal Shelf
4 Hallowed Fountain
2 Ghost Quarter
4 Snow-Covered Plains
6 Snow-Covered Island
3 Jester's Cap
3 Pithing Needle
3 Jester's Scepter
3 Evacuation
1 Jötun Grunt
2 Mouth of Ronom
So let's look at some of the deck's mechanisms and cards and explain their presence. Firstly the much talked about…
Counterbalance/Sensei's Divining Top/Telling Time
Balanced?! I think not!
Balanced?! I think not!
Fairly simple synergy. Play Top, play Counterbalance, use Top to fiddle with your library so that you get the most from Counterbalance. Once this pair get online they provide great controlling power to your side of the table, but let's consider some of the strategy you need to know. Firstly, and fairly obviously, this mechanism works best if you keep two relevant cards on top of your library constantly using Top to take the third card each turn. If you're facing white you'll need to keep a two-mana spell in there to stop Ronom Unicorn and Kami of Ancient Law. Both of these hurt if they hit the table. If you're facing any of the multi-coloured green decks you need to keep a three-mana spell on there to stop Mortify. The other card you want on top depends on the deck you're facing but usually a four-mana spell stops a whole host of problems such as Persecute, Gifts Ungiven, Wrath of God, Cranial Extraction, Glare of Subdual, Loxodon Hierarch… you get the picture.
Some of the card choices for the deck have been made to maximise the spread of mana costs in your deck. For example, there are only 3 Telling Time but 4 Hinder. This is to increase the number of three-mana spells in the deck.
Next issue, Pithing Needle. Okay, so an early Pithing Needle hoses your combo and there's not a whole lot you can do about it. However, you still have Telling Time to mess with. But that's obvious. It is the late game Pithing Needle you have to watch for. The obvious answer here is to stack Counterbalance's trigger, activate the Top swapping it for the top card of your library and countering the Pithing Needle. Good play? Be careful. Usually this is just your opponent setting you up for something else. With the Top firmly ensconced on top of your library and no manipulation, they are free to cast around your Counterbalance. If you do this trick, make you sure you have 2 tops in play or a counter/Telling Time or two in hand.[/p]
A quick word on Telling Time. There are better card drawing spells for control to be playing, but you've got to play to your synergies and Telling Time plus Counterbalance is good. If your metagame is more aggro orientated, or you think that they'll be packing lots of enchantment removal, you can play Compulsive Research instead. You can also add an extra Jötun Grunt, thus moving the focus of the deck away from Counterbalance.
Scrying Sheets
Not a lot to be said here. This card will be attacked with Pithing Needle, Ghost Quarter and… well there's a host of things that will be aimed at your sheets, (oo-er missus) but it shouldn't stop you playing four of. In a two colour deck with 8 dual colour lands, there's no reason a few colourless creators can't play ball, and the good news is you may even be able to get them back with…
Jötun Grunt
Super-sized Speed Bump
I love this card. It has such great synergy with so much of your deck. If only it were a snow dude. Still, let's explain why this guy's got game. Firstly, early game, this guy will buy you a turn. Against aggressive decks don't be afraid to play him even if he dies next turn. He'll eat one of there dude's, draw a counter spell, stop them attacking for a turn or simply make them scratch their head and go, 'What the hell is that!?' Any of these reactions are fine. Against the aggressive decks, a lot of the time all you need is a few turns to gain control. But you already knew that, since you've been playing this game for years! However, unlike the other infamous Standard format speed bump, Sakura-Tribe Elder, he's still really good late game. He'll put all your best spells back on the bottom of your library ready to be shuffled in by Gifts Ungiven, he'll remove unwanted creatures and spells from your opponent's graveyard (No Zombify for you, Japanimator! And no more snakes for Sosuke to Summon), and he'll attack for 4 which isn't too shabby.
Cover of Winter
Good at freezing-out your opponent.
I was at English Nationals when a friend mine gave me a ring. He, by the way, is James McCafferty and this deck's original designer. He said, 'Find out how much Cover of Winter is.' I did. I was told 50p (90 cents). I relayed this information and the text I got back was, 'How many do they have? Buy them all!'
At firsts I was really dubious. James has given me a few bum steers in the past and I was dubious of all of the cumulative upkeep cards. But when I saw this card in action I realised why JC wanted them. Some decks struggle to answer this card. This is almost like Wrath #5, 6 and 7. If attacking is their win condition and they can't kill an enchantment they're hosed. Like Counterbalance/Top this card is not unstoppable. There are plenty of answers around it but first they have to find them and then they have to play them and all the while you're collecting cards and playing draw/go. It forces games to go long. And that's good for the control player.
The Rest
Everything else is pretty much as you see. Gifts Ungiven is card-drawing, deck-shuffling, Grunt-empowering, threat-getting goodness. Wrath of God does what it says on the tin. The threats threaten and the counters counter.
I'll warn you now. This deck is good at stalling and, like Solar Flare, will force a lot of games to go very long. Sometimes you'll only get to play one game. However, if a game goes that long, you're probably going to win. The sideboard has been chosen with two considerations in mind. Obviously to improve your deck versus other decks, but also to better utilise Counterbalance against various decks.
Match Ups
Solar Flare
Solar Flare has some similarities to Computer says 'No'. It stalls and disrupts the early game and then owns the opposition with its late game threats. This match-up comes down to whether they can Persecute you early and whether you can hold off Angel of Despair from destroying your Counterbalance. Also, look out for Mortify. If you can get a Top/Counterbalance online with a and casting cost spell on top you are in good shape.
-3 Cover of Winter +3 Jester's Scepter
Once again a deck that wants to take the game late. However, they attack your mana base and that can be a problem. The good news is that they don't have any enchantment removal other than either Boomerang or Repeal. The bad news is that Cover of Winter minus land won't stop a pumped up Magnivore.
-3 Cover of Winter +3 Jester's Cap
And the prize for silliest
looking dragon goes to...
This deck is similar to vore, except their threats are more numerous. But again there is good news. Their countering isn't as good as yours and most of the threats (Keiga and especially Meloku plus his illusions) don't hurt much with a Cover of Winter in play. Try to have a hard counter in hand as Demonfire (assuming a non-empty hand) just wins. Don't panic about the Tron. It really only fuels the fire against you. Use your Ghost Quarters sparingly. Focus on one Tron land if you can and never the first one they play as it's usually the one they are most confident about you killing (i.e. play a Mine with another in hand).
-3 Cover of Winter +3 Jester's Cap
Snakes (On a plane)
The only things you need to watch out for are the Chord of Calling fetched creatures such as Indrik Stomphowler or Nikko-Onna to disrupt your control. Their snakes need to get really big to get past Cover of Winter and a timely Wrath will put paid to that. Use Jötun Grunt and Hinder to put those pesky Sosuke's Summons back in the pack.
Sideboarding -1 Sensei's Divining Top -3 Rewind +3 Evacuation +1 Jötun Grunt
NB Evacuation got the call here over Final Judgment as the casting cost is more effective against Coat of Arms and Meloku the Clouded Mirror when Counterbalance is in play. Plus it effectively does the same job for you killing all their tokens.
One way of getting the
snakes off the plane.
The amount of control and card advantage you have should win this battle. Needle for their transmute stuff starting with Drift of Phantasms unless you have a casting cost card on top of your library and Counterbalance in play. Watch out for their aggro sideboard transformation. If you see a lot of sideboarding, be wary.
Sideboarding -4 Wrath -3 Cover of Winter -2 Rewind -1 Sensei's Divining Top + 3 Jester's Cap +3 Jester's Scepter +3 Pithing Needle +1 Jötun Grunt
Structure and Force
Apparently a terrible card...
...according to me.
Since starting this article a similar deck to this appeared at Japanese Nationals and online, called 'Top Control' by Frank Karsten. I'll let you decide on the merits of the two decks. The brief testing I've done against online opponents suggests that the match-up is about 50-50. They are able to be a bit more aggressive with the Court Hussars and Dark Confidants. However, the confidant will often do more damage to them than it does to you.
Sideboarding -2 Wrath -3 Cover of Winter -1 Sensei's Divining Top +3 Jester's Cap +3 Jester's Scepter
Further Suggestions
When building and tinkering with this deck there were plenty of cards that I really wanted to play and plenty that we tried but couldn't make work. There were also cards that I saw my opponents using and didn't have time to crow bar them in. However, I include them here for you to have fun with.
Miren, the Moaning Well
I saw Top Control players using this land on their Court Hussars. It occasionally kept them alive just long enough to win. Using this on Jötun Grunt also seems like a plan.
Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
I small splash for green to makes chumps or to slowly overrun your opponents. Sounds good.
Vexing Sphinx
This replaces the other threats in the deck. It smoothes out your draws a bit and makes you slightly more aggro. It also makes your gifts a bit less useful. It's worth a try.
Court Hussar
This guy's are great. In a deck not-so focused on Counterbalance it would be ideal. If you take the deck away from the balance then seriously think about Court Hussar.
Well I hope all this has given you food for thought and I hope you experience the same fun I've had playing this deck. It will infuriate your FNM opponents and rattle your friends. Trust me, they will learn to love or loathe Counterbalance.


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Oh My God ! I still remember in 1960 my father had two luxury cars ; Bell Air and Impala from GMC. All of business transportation, such as trucks was Chevrolet and Ford. . He was an entrepeneur. No I am 54 years Old, Man, In Indonesia , there was almost 90 % cars made in Japan and Korea.
I just want view from financial and marketing aspects of two giant automakers General Motor and Toyota Motor.
- General Motor's equity hit on minus US$ 37,094 Million in 2007
- GM has gross margin 12 %, lower almost a half part of Toyota Motor ( 23,8 % ), that make GM suffered loss.
- GM has good performance in managing Assets, it's proved by Operating Assets Turn Over 1.21 x , while Toyota Motor o.81 x
- In 2007 total revenue of Toyota Motor increased almost 29 %, while GM dropped 12 %. Some Market shares of GM took over by Toyota.
- Toyota Motor had better gross margin 23.8 % - it's mean more produtive, proved by cost of sales was lower than General Motor
My conclusion is GM could retain it's operations ( 2006 and 2007 ) by using funds from the rest of gross nargin and cash-in flow from depreciatition, but it failed to improve its revenue and cost of sales. Toyota Motor seemed more aggresive to take over GM's Market Shares. The factors were possibly of technology ( hybrid-electric vehicle ), fashionable model, competitive price those made Toyota Motor Leading.As for additional info: In Indonesia GM Assembler already halted.
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Let them fail. Let them fail. Let them fail. Let them fail!
I thought given the interest some people have found in my previous comments about the US Auto industry I would share a little more detail in respect of what the manufacturer and the local suppliers in the US were actually doing to prevent overseas suppliers from delivering cost efficient (and high quality) services to one of the big three manufacturers – and therefore to US customers.
Previously the manufacturer used to let the local suppliers have the responsibility for building the molding tools for plastic parts and then making the parts themselves.
This sourcing strategy let the local suppliers mark up costs tremendously, such that they frequently blew the manufacturers production costs way out. Often this was done on the molding tools through engineering changes significantly in excess of the original molding tool prices. This left the manufacturer with little if any real control of these costs.
As previously described, a few years ago the manufacturer decided it could save considerable amounts of money by sourcing the molding tools directly from clued-up overseas suppliers, and then to simply deliver the molding tools to the local manufacturer to make the plastic parts.
This re-sourcing strategy upset the local suppliers, but they initially had little alternative but to acquiesce. Cunningly, as the molding tools were shipped to the local suppliers they started claiming set-offs on the mold tooling. One local supplier worked out it would be easier to claim the tooling was "junk" without justification, and that it needed to rework the molding tools to make them run correctly.
The manufacturer went along with this because it was ultimately reliant on the local supplier to provide parts to build cars, and the manufacturer preferred not to jeopardise that relationship.
Thus the local suppliers claimed money from the manufacturer to allegedly fix a problem that did not exist. As a result of the overseas sourcing strategy, the manufacturer was set with its budgets and it only had so much to spend money.
So what middle management at the manufacturer did (especially those in the purchasing department) was to corroborate with these local suppliers, stone-wall the overseas supplier.
When these concocted "junk molding tool" claims occurred, the manufacturer simply passed more money to the local supplier while concocting reasons not to pay the overseas supplier.
Thus the manufacturer abandoned cost efficiency by wrongly (and arguably unlawfully) throwing money at the local suppliers without justification while burning the relationship with the overseas supplier (killing the goose that laid the golden egg so to speak).
Yet now the same people want hand-outs to continue doing this sort of thing. Who would rightly invest anything in this sort of business, if one could properly describe this as business.
I remember when newspapers once read that Bear Sterns was too big to fail......Good bye big GM and Chrysler, at least Ford seems to know which way is up. The economist sponsored a book about the unsustainability of Detroit in 2007 called Zoom. It's not a shock that the end is near.
I totally agree with letting go of the past and letting the new, more efficient businesses evolve in their place. However everyone here seems to be missing the fact that all three US automakers are significantly debt ridden, hence should one of them default on its debts a financial tsunami will follow, similar to the one that followed the collapse of Lehmann Brothers. Therefore I don't believe that any one of these companies will be allowed to fail since the current regulators already got burned by the decision of letting Lehmann go.
I totally agree with letting go of the past and letting the new, more efficient businesses evolve in their place. However everyone here seems to be missing the fact that all three US automakers are significantly debt ridden, hence should one of them default on its debts a financial tsunami will follow, similar to the one that followed the collapse of Lehmann Brothers. Therefore I don't believe that any one of these companies will be allowed to fail since the current regulators already got burned by the decision of letting Lehmann go.
Oh, ok, thebin, let's follow your advice and give "the poor" cheap gas and badly engineered US gus-guzzling SUVs. That will really improve their mobility. Just make sure you find a couple of new Saudi Arabia-sized oil deposits.Or maybe we can build them atomic-flying-cars, like The Jetsons.Wake up. There is not enough oil left for a Western style mobility for the world. Get ready for bicycles, buses and (oh my god!) walking. It does not cost "trillions". Even if it did, there simply will be no other economic choice.
Yes, $7 a gallon gas and ludicrous emissions standards are what we need. That of course will stop the world's poorest people from having any mobility whatsoever- economic or otherwise. Great idea. Oh let me guess...you are assuming that all of the cities without elaborate public transit systems will just get them really soon? Just need to find a few hundred trillion bucks for that then.....
Yes, TheOldMan, let the US drop CAFE fuel (laughable) standards.That way, the big 3 can also destroy the planet on their way to bankruptcy. Great foresight.Anyway, the sooner the Big 3 collapse, the better. And the sooner US gas prices are increased to the European levels (about $7 a gallon) the better for the future. A lot less cars are needed with gas at $7.
Through personal experience with the supply industry to one of the big three US manufacturers I found that the US auto industry is riddled with inefficiency by virtue of a staunchly embedded "unofficial protectionism".
Some Australian companies, head-hunted a few years ago by a big three manufacturer looking for alternative suppliers for long term commitment, have first hand experience with this.
This global sourcing plan was done as part of a planned effort to ultimately improve the bottom line and demonstrate to the US auto industry how to be high quality and cost efficient suppliers.
However as the Australian supply companies proceeded to demonstrate their prowess, some of the middle management of the manufacturer and their usual local suppliers stone-walled and stymied the antipodean upstart for fear of becoming redundant. It appeared to be a deliberate tactic from both insiders from the manufacturer and their traditional networks, a kind of turf war.
From this experience I have learnt that the US auto industry, in particular the big three, have an enormous task before them to change the culture of the overall industry in a very short time frame. Frankly though, I fail to see this happening in time.
While some executives from the big three may have expressed platitudes about implementing long term global sourcing plans to change the culture (and improve the bottom line) of US based auto manufacturing, the resistance from both within the manufacturers and the supply chain will probably mean their is little real chance of any valuable change occurring in the near future.
As such the US Federal Government's plans to keep Detroit alive will have to address the long term structural problems like the ones I have described above. I can't see how the US Auto industry can continue if the culture of inefficient unofficial protectionism continues.
To right the US auto manufacturing industry the following must be accomplished quickly.(1) Universal health care in the US to make the large employers with an aging workforce competitive with non-US rivals.(2) Massive reduction ( />50%) of dealerships. (3) Significant Reduction (elimination) of Brands (Buick, Olds, Chevy, Opel, Saturn, Dodge, Plymouth...) - Unions, per se, are not the problem. The cost disadvantage of US labor is a result of 60 years of the US political system not coming to terms with health insurance. - The biggest problem of the US auto industry is its piss poor management and organization. Benchmark the number of dealerships of GM to Toyota. The dealership model of GM, Ford and Chrysler was needed 50 years ago. In the internet economy such overhead and bloated inventory is an absurd cost to carry. Taxpayer assistance to the shareholders and debt holders of Ford, GM and Chrysler is acceptable as a last resort, but the return to the taxpayer needs to be high. In the end it is beyond credulity for a $20 mil/year exec to come with his hand out for a bailing out of his poor plan.
tp1024... thanks for the insightful response. Fine, avoid competition; but do so through creativity, enterprise, and fair play. Don't beg for bailouts or resort to blackmail using unemployment threats. Precisely as per your point, these bailouts are stopgap measures that will create worse problems in the future. America needs to stay true to the capitalist model and "not care too much about the present beyond existential needs."
> First xenophobia, now socialism... what is happening to America? Where is the spirit of competition?Nothing is happening to America, this is just what has happened to it long ago. As for the spirit of competition, read Micheal E. Porter - Competitive Strategy. You will find that it consists of nothing but strategies to AVOID competition at all cost (and thus be the winner regardless). Unless you have a strong enough government to force companies into competition where they could equally well establish oligopolies or monopolies, you won't find any competition in business, no matter where you look.America has a lot left to learn about dealing with irrational deviations from rational behavior and the consequences that the tools used to address irrationalities have on these irrationalities. (For example: There is no use in reducing crime momentarily if the only way you know to do this creates even more of in the future. So you should try to identify and employ ways that will tend to lessen it in the future and don't care too much about the present beyond existential needs.)
I have held for some time that managements get the unions they deserve and unions get the managements they deserve.It seems true among the now-not-so-big 3
Repeat after me: drop the CAFE regulations. It's that simple. Let automakers build what they think consumers will buy. The #1 selling vehicle in the USA is the Ford F-150 pickup but Ford has to make small cars that they cannot sell for a profit, all because of CAFE. Just drop it.
The Western world no longer needs trade unions with perhaps the sole exception of the rag trade. Everything unions once stood for is covered by employer and government benefit programs, and employment regulations. If the the worker thinks his pay check is too low, then leave.So the common-sense starting point with Detroit is for the government to disband the unions for a period of 5 years. Of course that won't happen due to governing by lobby, and the UAW is an excellent lobbyist because it has $billions in the pension fund.Detroit has resisted change for 10 years and stuck with the piston engine and the oil based economy. The West is now open to oil-price blackmail from the middle east and Russia. So we need change, probably to cheap all electric cars.Detroit is the wrong place for massive change, so a good government has to let them die slowly while people move and find new jobs. The retail public will no longer pay five times what it cost to make the product.
Unions destroyed the American steel industry. Teacher's union is destroying education. The UAW & their needy members will destroy the big 3
Those who are innocent but are destined to really suffer in this mess are hardly mentioned: the foreign subsidiaries of GM and Ford. Both Opel and Ford of Europe make good products that are quite comparable with those of other Europeans or Japanese. I am not going to argue about individual models but, in general, I think this is correct. What is more, some of the best "American" products of GM and Ford were in fact developed in Europe.
Both the management and the UAW are probably equally to blame; this is a crisis that, in one form or another, has been clearly on the horizon for many years. Please don't read the writing on the wall but give way to venality, venality, venality....
Nevertheless, when (not if, because even Saint Obama will not be able to work a long-term miracle) one of these two companies does go belly up, it will take a long time to find a buyer for the European subsidiaries that have been being milked for many years to subsidise Detroit. And, in the meanwhile, the Europeans will suffer even more than they deserve.
The car companies are facing a very uphill battle with little gas in the tank. The government will be wasting it's money if it does not expediate major changes to the playing field.
Unions have already gotten very competive in 2007 and will give more.
Legislators must find a way that won't cost billions to close a line as Olsmobile did.
The legacy costs that domestics are bearing are the true difference.The retirement costs will be directly on the taxpayer if they are bankrupt.
The right wing of America is going to have to get on board with either less employment based health insurance/retirement income (socialism) like the foreign competiors have or tariffs to level the playing field.
It is in fact the extra cost that employers bear and must add into products that hurt our manufacturing competiveness. Our healthcare system is NOT efficent and the most expensive.
We will not have demand if we continue to outsource manufacturing.
It's an interesting and possibly unfortunate aspect of human nature that from the smallest example we know personally we extrapolate to the whole. Case in point: I have personally known precisely one auto worker. His work habits reminded me of the days of the Raj in India wherein a worker, wanting to exchange employments, asked his employer for a letter of reference. He left, proudly carrying said letter, the contents of which read: 'So-and-so has served me to his complete satisfaction these past five years. If you intend to give him a berth, make it a wide one.'My acquaintance took great pride in the fact that he did basically nothing for his entire eight-hour shift, throughout his entire career. He 'worked' in the stockroom of Ford but often spent his time sleeping or reading, leaving any actual work that might come up to a more junior helper. Thus he laboured and thus he retired.Would I ever buy a Ford, regardless of all other considerations? 'fraid not. One bad apple...
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THURSDAY'S Roll Call, Sept. 12
:high5: Once more, with feeling, folks...............:)
Good morning, Doris, and those to follow.
Louise, I think of you on a daily basis and hope all will be okay for you. Great news about your dh.
Woke up this a.m. To find that our entire park of over 1100 homes is without water. Just as I was about to jump in the shower.
Have a good day, folks.
Thanks for the start off, Doris.
Julie, bummer on that water problem. Hope it is an easy fix.
Too damned hot and humid around here but that cold front is supposed to move in sometime soon. Been promising it since yesterday.:annoyed:
Julie sure hope your waters back on now.
Good morning all...Thanks for the start, Doris, and Sharon, thanks for the memories...
I hope most have good thoughts of the polka...my best was my 18th birthday. I was this transplanted Okie to the SoCal and all my family was musical. Any family gathering wound up with everyone playing some instrument and those who weren't playing were singing along with the bunch. I had a few friends over and the party was dying, so I thought "what the hey..." I got my dad out of the back, put on a my polka record and started dancing...none of my new friends had ever seen the polka, let alone tried to dance to it...before you knew it, we had everyone up and dancing. May not have been the best birthday part in SoCal that night, but everyone, especially me, had a good time.
Gotta think about making new memories. Hope everyone has a great day today.
Good morning and Thanx for the start, Doris.
Mary, DH has had several melanomas removed. He sees a dermatologist every 6 months to keep them in check.
Awaiting the arrival of our new desktop. Apparently not only does it get installed, but we get to ask dumb questions for an hour or so. Wish us luck.
Good Luck, Begete!! Maybe you will get more than an hour and a phone number as to what to do if it does not work right after the guy leaves.......:)
Sharon, thanks for that video, love the Polka, my Dad was in a dance band in Germany, played the piano, we I learned to dance on his feet, too, so to speak. It's good exercise, you can dance or just march in time to the music.
Thanks for posting it!
Linda, we aren't going to get some cooling until late Friday, but it looks from the weather picture that you and Susan should get something earlier, and Loretta also. Lainey too, unless the coast there does something to push it away. Waiting for FALL !!
Julie, I do hope the water has been turned back on for you and your neighbors there, gee whiz!!
Mary, when is your next dermatology appt. ??
Thanks for that memory Sharon. I enjoyed Frankie.
My in laws used to love to Polka, I couldn't quite get it.
Hey y'all...although our temps are in the mid-90's it feels much better without the humidity and I've been able to get some things done...not completely enervating anyway. Horrible what's happening on the front range...loved our time in Colorado Springs and, many times we thought of retiring there...BTW, Doris, C Springs has a laaaaaarge German population and many folks consider it the American Alps. Many festivals there all year 'round especially Crystal Springs that was having the bad floods a day or so ago.
Babette, this isn't my first one either and I do get checked every six months...I'm always hoping they'll just find and treat the keratosises...keratosi? hmm, wonder what the pural is (and of course spell check isn't helping). I go back the 27th for the removal of this one...funny, tho', since I got the diagnosis, it's been itching and smarting like crazy...funny thing the mind, huh?
Lainey, was thinking of your today as I read through a freebie I picked up for my Kindle today...Afternoon Tea Breakfast casseroles, muffins and scones. She has a recipe for fresh fig muffins; she just dices 'em, rolls the dice in flour to add to a muffin recipe...sounds good and maybe a thought for your figs next year. Which made me think, I guess you have to prune all of the major limbs as the fig grows fruit only on new growth. That would be a major undertaking on a large tree...do you get help on that?
Got my planters cleared for my new fall color, now to get them into 'em. Back to work...
Dyin from the heat.... big storms maybe tonight or just later before dark I hope with storms thru the niht and again in the AM. Usually that really means all around me but we'll see.
much cooler tomrrow and really cool on the week end- yaaaaa! For now it is murder out there. gonna make a big lime ade with a ton of ice and swill that down then make another to sip along on.
Great cancer support group meeting but some of the members are so very sick that it makes you want to cry listening to them. I went to the thrift store and went through all that was in the big "Good Will". I love taking my time as I can do when alone.
bbl want to check on those storms now.
Thank YOU Doris for our kick off.:up:
Just getting here, busy days as I help DD prepare and pack for their trip to the UK.
DS will be back on Monday and then he leaves on Thursday again for Paris. Whew!
Keeps me hopping trying to keep up with them.:eek:
Lainey, I hope to get to posting a pic of my fur baby soon. I have to be ready to face the challenge of that.:stars:
Oh Julie, hope you get that water on soon. Electricity and Water are the two things I really miss, when they are turned off.:dunno:
Waving to All and hope to bb tomorrow...:heart:
Water came back on about four hours later, thank goodness.
Lainey, how is your air conditioning working? I hope you are using it.
I, too, see the dermatologist twice a year. Several "things" removed on face and elsewhere.
I recall my daughter dancing on her daddy's feet, too. Lol
nope... no storms or even just rain here.
still miserable hot.
susan, no worries... i just kept at it till i could do it.
Ah the polka:love: This Irish. German, French Indian grew up in a Polish, Slavic, Hungarian neighborhood and just loved the music and , naturally, the food.:heart:
Lainey, I can't click on, You may post attachments, nothing happens. I guess I will need to go to a hosting site after all. Thank you for giving me step by step instructions.
I will try Cheryl next.
Dang! darn site just lost my post....
Susan, I was just asking what photos you have on your computer? When you do the attachments thingie, it should give you an option to browse your photos and you should then be able to transfer to the LCF site. At least that's the way I do it...no need to go to another portal. My problem is a bit different this furschluginer laptop won't recognize my phone as a source even tho' I downloaded the driver from the Android site...I hate 'puters to pieces...but we can't do without 'em nowadays.
Hope you had a good day.
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click on Post Reply...window opens
click on "paperclip" above writing window - separate window opens "manage attachments" You have two options, "Upload file from your computer" and "Upload from url"
click on Upload from your computer "choose file" - separate window opens showing all photos in your computer
Double click on selected photo and it transfers to your LCF list at bottom of the manage attachments window , if you single click, it will transfer the file but leaves your photo window still open
The manage attachments "choose file" should show the title of your photo
move to where you want the photo to appear in the "post reply" window and
click on the "upload file" and photo should be there
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Maybe this will help....
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Thank YOU Mary, I finally got it to work. Between You Two lovely ladies I can do it now. Thanks again Lainey.
Yeah! :jumpjoy: :up:
I' m so proud of you Susan.
Thanks Mary for helping us.
Now over to Friday's postings.
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