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dried parsley
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We fine grind the pork. Then mix together "all" the ingredients in a large tub by hand. You can use dry red wine, too. Also, you can put 1 lb of unstuffed sausage into the quart freezer bags to use in other recipies later.
An excellent moderately hot sausage! In our family, we make sweet sausage (Salsiccia dolce), which is quite similar -- instead of red pepper flakes, we add dried basil (though it has to be VERY fresh dry basil), and sometimes marjoram, and somewhat more fennel. But then the cuisine I grew up with, from the area fronting the Gulf of Salerno, tends to be sweeter rather than hotter. (The tomato sauce, which could be christened Salsa Cotta, far from todays fad for "fresh", that is, only slightly cooked, tomato, has to cook for hours, so that the sugars in the tomato (sometimes also with added sugar) caramelize slowly, giving the sauce a deep dark-red color, and even tinting the olive oil red. This sauce is very simple: tomato paste is mixed with sugar, garlic is lightly sauteed (but not so much it browns) and the paste and sugar are slowly browned in the garlic and olive oil. To this is added water, basil, marjoram or very fresh oregano, perhaps some finely chopped rosemary, and occasionally some red wine. Then it is cooked slowly for a very long time, hours usually, just at a good simmer. (If one is frying meatballs or sausage, after pouring off the excess fat, the pan is deglazed with water, wine or sauce and this is added to flavor the sauce). The complexity and richness of the flavors in this cooked tomato sauce cannot be rivaled by the raw or near-raw tomato sauces, in my opinion. Buon appettito!
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I've just recently started making my own sausage & was looking for another recipe to try. I am going to stick with the same instructions as my last recipe, but use these ingredients with all fresh herbs instead next time. With the other recipe which is from Emeril I think, you cube the meat & add all remaining ingredients, put in a ziplock bag for 24 hours and THEN grind. I also don't put mine in casings, just make a bunch of patties & freeze them on a cookie sheet then transfer to freezer bags. Thanks for the great recipe!!
H MY!! Talk about home made! This is it Thank you ! This is a fantastic down home recipe.
I used an organic ground pork rather then grinding my own and cut the recipe down to only 1 pound of it. Was fresh out of hog casings so I flattened it into nickel-sized pieces to top pizza. Would be great mixed with ground beef for meatballs or an Italian-style hamburger. Really wonderful, authentic flavor and no "mystery" grissly bits :)
I needed a small amount of Italian sausage for another recipe and thought I would try this since it had so few ingredients and I had some ground pork. I had to scale this way down for 1/2 lb of meat and I only had crushed fennel so I reduced the amount to about 1/3. Unfortunately, I absolutely forgot the wine. Regardless, this worked great with my lean ground pork and I will use it again with a larger amount to freeze in bulk. I didn't use casing, just crumbled and browned it.
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After meeting the relatives of the victim, she approached the Aarey Colony police and sought to know the details of the case. She also requested the cops to accompany her to Sion Hospital where the woman is undergoing treatment and re-record her statement.
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Around 1.30 pm on April 26, four men barged into the house of the 20-year-old woman's in Aarey Colony and offered to pay her for sex. When her husband intervened, the goons allegedly assaulted him and tied him up. The monsters then took turns to rape the woman.
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I just came across this post and apologies if I misread a reply, but the first an easiest way to reduce weather helm is to ease the main traveller. This will have a huge impact on your sail trim. A main sheet can be released but you may find the rudder unresponsive when on certain points. Traveller first, mainsheet and genny next.
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GEORGE FRIEDMAN POINTS EXCITEDLY AT THE MAP. "These are the only roads out of Albania into Kosovo," he says. "You don't support four or five divisions that way."
It's the middle of April, the crisis in Kosovo is three weeks old, and Friedman can't believe that some politicians and reporters are talking so naively about mounting a ground war against Yugoslav forces. "There's no way in hell we're gonna cross this frontier and attack. Now, there is a line of attack here, but we have to invade Montenegro first. Also, we can't build up in Albania because there's no way to get troops from here [Greece] to here [Albania]—the Greeks have denied us the use of Thessalonike. So all this talk about a ground war is very crazy nonsense."
Friedman has been spouting such opinions since March 24, the day NATO began bombing Yugoslavia and the day his Austin-based company, Stratfor—which specializes in corporate intelligence gathering and analysis—put the Kosovo Crisis Center on its Web site. That first day, the site had some 20,000 visitors. Since then, Stratfor has posted numerous reports, including one on the forbidding logistics of a ground war, another on the hostility between the two main Kosovar rebel groups, and another on NATO's "preposterous" claim that an old CIA map led to the May 7 bombing of the Chinese embassy. By then Stratfor was predicting that the war was winding down, a process accelerated by the embassy bombing: "Germany and Italy are tired of U.S. leadership in this crisis, and of U.S. mistakes." Not the kind of things the talking heads at CNN or CBS have the time or the inclination to talk about.
At least on the air. Since day one of the bombing, more and more journalists and government officials have found themselves pointing their browsers to stratfor.com, which has earned a reputation as a vital source of information on Kosovo. They're also signing up for the company's e-mail intelligence updates, subscriptions to which have almost doubled in the past four months, to 29,300. "I use their stuff all the time," says Ken Allard, the military analyst for MSNBC. "It's timely, accurate, and honest. And they have a huge influence." The Washington Post and the New York Times have cited Stratfor as a source; the St. Petersburg Times calls Stratfor's "perhaps the most comprehensive coverage of the war." Steve Glain of the Wall Street Journal says he uses Stratfor's commentary as a "benchmark to measure the spin coming out of Washington, Brussels, and London." Indeed, Stratfor's biggest contribution to the war effort has been its attitude—refusing to take the word of NATO as the truth and diving deep into issues the mainstream media have overlooked. As a result, Stratfor has angered people of various agendas, from Serbs to Albanians. "We're getting roughly equal amounts of hate mail and kudos from all sides," says senior analyst Matthew Baker. "Our role is this," says David Marshall, Stratfor's president, "We're the bullshit detectors."
Stratfor's secret: no secrets. All of its information is "open-source," that is, available to the public, if hard to find. Stratfor scours the electronic world, looking for intelligence from standard wire services, Internet newsgroups, obscure agencies like the Iranian News Agency, e-mails from Yugoslavia, and unclassified Department of Defense studies. "No classified material, ever, ever," insists Friedman, who is Stratfor's chairman. "We don't want it." They also don't want Beltway gossip or "expert" information. "We have a unique methodology," says Baker. "Zero-based analysis: starting stupid. It's a lot of work, but it's a lot more accurate."
Until Stratfor became ground zero for Kosovo analysis, the company was sought out more for its customized intelligence services—monitoring certain parts of the world, setting up security systems, and answering questions, such as, "What is this company, really?" Its clients include banks, international oil companies, and even governments. In short, Friedman and his staff are lawful spies—more adept with mouse and browser than cloak and dagger. "Espionage is the illegal gathering of information," says the bearded fifty-year-old former college professor. "What we do is intelligence gathering. The problem today, though, is sorting information. One of the CIA's prime missions used to be sending an agent to Minsk to bring back the local newspapers. Today I can go to Minsk in thirty seconds and get the local papers. The problem today is not collection but analysis."
Friedman has a lot of experience with that. A political science professor who was born in Hungary and raised in the South Bronx, Friedman was the head of the Center for Geopolitical Studies at Louisiana State University, a think tank in Baton Rouge. In 1995 he founded Strategic Forecasting, which eventually became Stratfor. He soon realized that a growing intelligence company couldn't thrive in Baton Rouge, so Stratfor, which included his wife, Meredith, and about fifteen former LSU students and employees, began looking for a new home. Eliminating Washington, D.C. ("So we couldn't go to lunch with people," says Friedman), they ran some variables through a computer: high-tech environment, large university library, nice place to live. "Out popped Austin," Friedman says. "I'd never been there before." After a weekend visit, the extended family moved in 1997.
Analysis is Stratfor's forte, but forecasting pays the bills. "Our job," says Baker, "is to find the overlooked leading indicators of what's going to be headline news next week and next month." Though the company has made some boners, such as predicting the failure of the euro (Friedman still thinks it will eventually crash and burn), its crystal ball has been clear enough to keep adding clients. Notable bull's-eyes include foreseeing the 1997 East and Southeast Asian economic crisis in July 1996 and the 1998 Indonesian civil unrest in October 1997.
Then, in its 1999 forecast (published online January 4), Stratfor predicted that Serbia would challenge the U.S. in Kosovo. In mid-March the company began creating the Kosovo Crisis Center as the first in a series of ready-to-go crisis centers—much like newspapers prepare for celebrity deaths by stockpiling obituary information. Before


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I have owned the lighter for nearly a year now and it does a great job lighting cigarettes and cigars. The only thing is you don't want to point the lighter at your face while lighting, like a regular lighter, the heat it puts out is overwhelming. I have also used it to light hookah coals, which it can do. In conclusion the look and feel of the lighter is very nice and I get complements on it regularly. I have no idea how someone managed to break the lighter while filling-I have filled it many times and never had any problems. Sorry "Good until break" just follow the instructions that come with the lighter :-)
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Why Does the White House Produce Propaganda, When the AP Does It For Free?
12:42 PM, Aug 4, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
USA Today published an AP fact-check yesterday that got a number of very basic things wrong. First, the AP debunks Sen. Jim DeMint's statement that "People are starting to figure out that the president is on record, Congressman (Charles) Rangel's on record, for wanting a single-payer government health care system in America."
Quoth the AP: "Obama has said he does not support a single payer [system]." But Obama's also said (in 2003) that he favors a single-payer system:
Shouldn't the AP note Obama's flip-flop?
Next, the AP reports that it's "not yet clear" what the health-care bill's abortion guidelines are and that "Obama recently told CBS that the nation should continue a tradition of ''not financing abortions as part of government-funded health care.'" Ramesh Ponnuru explains here why that statement and "nearly everything" in the AP's fact-check on abortion and Obamacare is "false or misleading."
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It's good to see the AP ever-so-reluctantly acknowledge that "some" people "might" lose their coverage, but might it not be helpful to cite some facts and studies that show how many people will lose their coverage? One study estimates that 83 million people will lose their current plans.
Fourth, the AP writes: "the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said the House bill lacks mechanisms to bring health care costs under control. In response, the White House and Democratic lawmakers are talking about creating a powerful new board to root out waste in government health programs. It's unclear how that would work."
The AP fails to report that the CBO estimates that this "powerful new board" will be able to save--at most--0.2% of Obamacare's total cost.
All of this makes you wonder: Why has White House flack Linda Douglass gone to the trouble of producing a propaganda video defending Obama against "deceiving" (translation: true) stories about his varying positions on health care? Couldn't the White House have saved taxpayers a few bucks by just using its blog to link the AP's report?


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Located along one of the foremost shopping districts in Singapore, the Grand Park Orchard Hotel captures the attention of human and vehicular traffic.
After the hotel changed its branding, it needed to clearly communicate its mission to visitors and passers-by and cater to the diverse needs of increasingly sophisticated and discerning clients.
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Types of crime
In criminology, blue-collar crime is any crime committed by an individual from a lower social class as opposed to white-collar crime which is associated with crime committed by someone of a higher-level social class.
Crime and unemployment[edit]
The International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ILO) defines the unemployed as persons above a specified age who, during the reference period, were without work, were currently available for work, and were seeking work. The process of industrialisation encouraged working-class incorporation into society with greater social mobility being achieved during the twentieth century. But the routine of policing tends to focus on the public places where the economically marginal live out more of their lives, so regulation falls on those who are not integrated into the mainstream institutions of economic and political life. A perennial source of conflict has therefore involved working-class youth but, as long-term structural unemployment emerged, an underclass was created. Ralf Dahrendorf argues that the majority class did not need the unemployed to maintain and even increase its standard of living, and so the condition of the underclass became hopeless. Box (1987) sums up the research into crime and unemployment at pp96–7:
- The relationship between overall unemployment and crime is inconsistent. On balance the weight of existing research supports there being a weak but none-the-less significant causal relationship. However, properly targeted research on young males, particularly those from disadvantaged ethnic groups, which considers both the meaning and duration of unemployment, has yet to be done. The significance of unemployment will vary depending on its duration, social assessments of blame, previous experience of steady employment, perception of future prospects, comparison with other groups, etc. Hence, there is likely to be a causal relationship between relative deprivation and crime, particularly where unemployment is perceived as unjust and hopeless by comparison with the lot of other groups. Thornberry and Christenson (1984) analysed data from a longitudinal cohort study of delinquency in Philadelphia and found (at p405):
- Unemployment exerts a rather immediate effect on criminal involvement, while criminal involvement exerts a more long-range effect on unemployment. What this and other empirical research demonstrates is that crime-rates, especially for property offences, were higher during periods of unemployment than of employment. This suggests that holding constant other variables, the same youths commit more crimes while unemployed. This is not surprising since unemployment provides an incentive to commit offences and erodes the social controls which would otherwise encourage conformity. But crime also rose during the so-called period of affluence, prompting the Right Realism of James Q. Wilson and his associates in the United States who argued that the criminal justice system was failing, and the Left Realism attributed to Jock Young, which argued for situational changes to reduce the availability of criminal opportunities in the environment. More generally, the growth of anomie (see Durkheim and, more recently, the Strain Theory proposed by Merton), predicted a strong correlation between unemployment and property crime. But Cantor and Land (1985) found a negative association for unemployment and property crime in the United States. They argued that unemployment decreases the opportunity for property crime since it reflects a general slowdown in
Conservatism alleges the failure of state agencies charged with the task of socialisation to instil self-discipline and moral values resulting in permissiveness, a lack of conformity, and liberalisation. The "evidence" that there are new affluent criminals allows populist politicians to deny any link between inner-city deprivation and crime. The left avoids the issue of morality and crime which denies earlier work in Marxist criminology linking crime and the culture of egoism stimulated by economic advance under capitalism as a more amorally materialistic culture emerges. As Durkheim asserted, moral education cannot be effective in an economically unjust society. Thus, additional research is required, using a more complex model of crime and control to include variables such as opportunities or incentives relative to a country's standard of living, potential punishment, chance of being caught, law enforcement efforts and expenditures on theft and property crime relative to other crimes, size of the country's criminal population, education levels, and other socio-economic factors. A further factor currently being researched is the role of the media in the social construction of "hot spots" or dangerous places within a city. Crime is a substantial element in media news reporting. Media research is now determining whether the coverage of crime is spatially representative of where crime occurs, or disproportionately presents crime as occurring in certain areas of a city, thereby skewing public perceptions and the political response (see Paulsen: 2002).
- Box, Steven (1987). Recession, Crime and Punishment. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-43853-1
- Cantor, D. & Land, K. C. (1985). "Unemployment and crime rates in the post-World War II U.S.: A theoretical and empirical analysis". American Sociological Review, 50, 317-32.
- Clarke, Ronald R. (ed.) (1997). Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies. Second Edition. New York: Harrow and Heston. ISBN 0-911577-39-4
- Clarke, R. (1995), "Situational crime prevention" in Building a Safer Society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention, Michael Tonry & David Farrington, (eds.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-80824-6
- Cornish, D.B. & Clarke, R.V. (2003), "Opportunities, precipitators and criminal decisions: A reply to Wortley's critique of situational crime prevention", in Theory for Practice in Situational Crime Prevention (Crime Prevention Studies, vol. 16), Martha J. Smith and Derek Cornish (eds.) vol. 16, Monsey, New York: Criminal Justice Press. ISBN 1-881798-44-5
- Dahrendorf, Ralph. (1959). Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0561-5
- Dyer, Joel. (2000). The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime. Boulder: Westview. ISBN 0-8133-3507-8
- Foucault, Michel (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage.
- Freeman, R. B. (1983). "Crime and unemployment." in Crime and Public Policy. ( J. Q. Wilson ed.), San Francisco: ICS Press. 89-106.
- Kicenski, Karyl K. The Corporate Prison: The Production of Crime and the Sale of Discipline. [1]
- Merton, R. (1938). "Social structure and anomie". American Sociological Review 3, 672-82.
- Paulsen, Derek J. (2002). "Wrong Side of the Tracks: Exploring the Role of Newspaper Coverage of Homicide in Socially Constructing Dangerous Places". Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 9(3) 113-127. [2]
- Thornberry, T. P. & Christenson, R. L. (1984). "Unemployment and criminal involvement: An investigation of reciprocal causal structures", American Sociological Review, 49, 398-411.
- Wilson, James Q. Thinking About Crime, Vintage (revised ed.). ISBN 0-394-72917-X
- Young, Jock & Lea, J. (1986). "A Realistic Approach to Law and Order" in The Political Economy of Crime. B MacLean (ed). Toronto: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-684283-6
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Genetel is Anite's existing distributor of Nemo network testing products in France and French speaking North Africa. It employs 13 people based in Paris, France. Its solutions and services focus on quality management and mobile network performance and will enable Anite to strengthen its position in the French network testing market as LTE 4G networks roll out across Europe. This acquisition will also offer a platform from which to further develop the French speaking markets in North Africa. Genetel has an experienced technical support team and offers training and consultancy services which will add to Anite's existing network testing portfolio.
Consideration for the transaction will be around €1.5m, net of acquired cash balances. It will be funded from Anite's existing cash resources. As Genetel is an existing distributor of Anite's product, the transaction will not have a material incremental impact on Anite Group revenues or profit before tax.
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Beware of Time-Share guys
While staying at Blue Bay, we were approached by yellow shirt guy and tried to sell us the idea of if we want to come back again, we can get a special discount! wow, that was a nice sale pitch, and we went for it! We were ushered into a condo-like bungalow located just before the pathway to the beach, and I was suspecting time share... I was already warning my friends about it, until a new guy sat with us in a round table and started asking stuff about us. We started to feel uncomfortable, that I have to use my sharp tongue just to get to the bottom of the whole thing...and yes he was selling time share. We got up and just said "not interested". So if you see one of these "Yellow shirt wearing guys" just stay away if you don't want to waste your vacation time with these sharks.
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When we took a taxi from our hotel we were given the name of a store we wanted to visit. The taxi took us to three different locations when we finally told him that we were not going to pay unless he took us where we wanted to go. We found out that the tourist shops pay 25-30% commission to them. The place we wanted to go did not, so you know you are going to get overcharged.
Unique Suggestions: If you get a map, you can take the gua-gua or public busses which are cheap. You will have to be a bit adventurous because very few people speak English. It was really cool though, we got to see and meet a lot of very nice Dominicans, great people.
Also we found if we had the address and name of the location written in Spanish we could just show the taxi driver and they were more cooperative.
Taxi or wawa, take the wawa!!!
Travel agent representative tell you to take the taxi to go to town (9$) rather than taking the local bus (wawa at 0.20$). What a nice way to make money on the side. Take the wawa, what a great experience
Unique Suggestions: Negociate
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Money exchange
I'm lucky I haven't been caught to it but I was told that it is risky to try to exchange money out of any stand because they count the money so fast and in a manner that let you think you get what you expect but in fact, they trick you in giving you less then agreed.
Few minutes later, they take off and never see them again.
Unique Suggestions: Exchange only small amount, very small amount.
Fun Alternatives: Go to bank downtown or at the hotel, at least you know how much they are robbing you!Related to:
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Buying Amber Stone
Because it is the most common place for finding amber in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata is also known as the Amber Coast. With that in mind, it easy for some dominican to sell fake amber stone.
Unique Suggestions: If you wanna buy a amber stone in the street or in a mercado, I suggest you to follow this little trick that can help you prove the authenticity of the piece:
1-Put the stone in a water recipient.
- if the stone float, the stone is natural
- if the stone go to the bottom, the stone is actually a plastic stone!!!
Everything associated with the Sosua public beach
Everything cost something, a chair, a space to sit. The price of any souvenir are 6-7 times higher than everywere else in the country.
It's a crowdy touristic beach.
Unique Suggestions: Don't buy anything!!!
Enjoy the waves...one of the bigger of the dominican republic.
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Dolphin experience
I haven't done this before, and still have to, but I thought that $125 for swimming with dolphins was a bit stiff for the Dominican Republic.
The price was the same whether you booked it at the resort, or at the 'experience' itself, and 'included' a bus ride from the hotel (3 mins.)
Where to buy gifts and stuff
There are some dominicans selling all kind of stuff on the beach (back of the pictures dressed with blu shirts), if you dont buy!!! they make you feel guilty, dont bother with it. The salesmen are in pretty good shape, they are not poor. There is a wonderfull market in sosua where you ll find everything you need. They have all those copies of levis, tommy, kelven klein, watches, jeans beautifull golf wear, arts, etc..... good shopping
They want to you to hire them...
They want to you to hire them to show you around. Not needed. Also barter barter barter. Go real low as they are making a mint. I always trade for things I brought like makeup perfume toys. Bring medicines to give to them like tylenol, pepto bismo,cough syrup
The tipical tourist trap is...
The tipical tourist trap is your travel rep telling you that their tours are the only ones you should take. It's very safe and fun to sign up for a tour through your hotel (which uses local tour guides) There guides are licenced and give the same tour or better for at least $10.00 us/person cheeper.
The thing i hated the most...
The thing i hated the most was the people all hastling and pulling to make you buy things of them. Just a simple no is not enough. They will come back and back. There is one place in Sosua with a lot of little shops, there it is not so bad, but still they are pulling and saying nasty things when you do not go into the shops. When you want to buy something start saying the half price of what the people are telling you what it will cost you. Do not give a lot more, or name a second item that you want for the same price (so you but 2 things for the price of 1)
To stay at the hotel and...
To stay at the hotel and partisepate in stupid games... There were entertainment everyday at the hotel, and the last day even I had to go up at the scene and make people laugh!!!!
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I cant believe they are about to be bankrupt? ive never driven one so i dont mind any comments about them but they look lovely cars! and with all the latest technology? from what i see they look MUCH more classier than a few makes of cars on the road to name a few! and it would be such a shame to see them "disappear" forever..
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Posted June 23, 2011 at 10:23PM
I owned an old SAAB 900 way back in the mid '90s. Tough as old boots and felt as though it was made from granite. Ignition switch on the centre console near the gear lever. Very reliable, but.......3 speed automatic and it drank fuel like it was going out of fashion.
I was very sorry when I had to get rid of it.
The trouble is, I think, that they are trying to sell in the same market as BMW, Mercedes etc., and they really can't compete when they only bring out a new model every ten years or so. The Swedish government won't help and their owner, Spyker, is having great trouble raising funds.
It will be sad if they do go to the wall.
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Posted June 23, 2011 at 11:46PM
I had a 96 (V4 not the older 3 cylinder 2 stroke) followed by a 99. Both excellent cars. Then SAABs gradually became diluted - latterly glorified GM - without the unique characteristics that made them what they were. Sadly very little room for "different" anymore. Amazing how many safety features were pioneered by SAAB and are now universal.
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Posted June 24, 2011 at 12:18AM
I'm still driving my 9000 CSE and I would be loathe to part with it. It just passed 100,000 a few days ago and so now I'm told it is run in. Not had a thing go wrong with it for years and years. I'll certainly miss them if the do go under.
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Posted June 24, 2011 at 10:09PM
I've driven loads of scanias if that counts? I know a lot of people who swear by them (scanias) but personally they arent to my taste. But I drove one today that had just passed 100,000 on the clock. That was a 10 plate...
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Posted June 24, 2011 at 11:20PM
Not had one myself but my daughter has had three soft top 9-3s. She got a very good trade in price for her previous one earlier this year, and having recently learned of their financial state of affairs, I can well understand the high discount she also received on the new one. TC.
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Posted June 25, 2011 at 11:23AM
I had a three cylinder two stroke Saab in 1968.
An absolutely brilliant car as long as you remembered to add oil as well as petrol when refuelling;-)
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A 99 in 1973 Triumph Dolomite engine with SAAB modified cylinder head. kept the beast 12 years/180,000 miles, in the early days it ate brake pads and silencers - but later that was sorted.- and except for a starter motor no other major repairs though. I I purchased and fitted the headlamp washer set- so had to go to a SAAB dealer for it. Whilst I was waiting I spied a stores man sitting ripping off the UniPart spark plug lead pack labels and stapling over the SAAB equivalent. I learned that as its bits'n'pieces were UniPart or Delco, once I was able to I/D the part I went the BMC/Vauxhall out lets for them. From then on I shopped very carefully.
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Posted June 25, 2011 at 3:55PM
Had a 900 Turbo,insanely fast but I regularly scared myself as torque steer was evil.The guy I sold it to,found out that the torque steer was uncontrollable on a wet road as he came to rest in someones front garden(4 days after I sold it)I don't particularly like any recent model of SAAB,though recall they did have good success many years ago as a rally car.
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Posted June 25, 2011 at 4:06PM
My daughter had a 9-3 convertable and liked it, however she swapped it for an Audi last year after the original scare. I think she was right to do so, as the residual price will be severely affected if they go belly up.
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Posted June 27, 2011 at 5:18PM
I had a 900 EMS. blisteringly fast.I wish I still had it but a Skoda(old one)did for it in the 80's OUCH!
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New 'Space Clock' to Assist in Satellite Navigation
For centuries, timepieces have been used to aid navigation. However, the latest hydrogen maser atomic clock is a world away from any used ever before. The new "Ëœspace clock' will be launched onboard the Giove-B satellite when it launches from the Baikonaur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
"Such a clock has never been flown," Pierre Waller, an engineer at the European Space Agency (Esa), told BBC News.
The clock will serve as the beating heart of Giove-B, the second test spacecraft for Europe's Galileo global satellite-navigation system. It will be accurate to one billionth of a second per day, or one second in three million years, making it the most precise time piece to ever orbit the earth.
For perspective, a typical wristwatch is accurate to about one second per day.
The scientists who constructed the navigation system said the high level of precision is necessary because even the tiniest of errors can cause significant errors in satellite navigation handsets.
A one second inaccuracy, for example, would throw off a location approximately 186,000 miles.
If the technology proves successful, it will be incorporated into all 30 of Galileo's operational satellites, and would allow users to identify their location to within one meter, a significant improvement over current GPS technology that pinpoints location to within several meters.
"Everything has been verified on the ground – on paper – but now we want to verify and validate all of these assumptions on board," said Mr. Waller.
"For me, this is really the challenge of Giove-B."
Clocks are the core of all satellite navigation systems, and are used to generate a time code that the satellites continuously transmit.
"When you pick up that signal on the ground you can look at the time code [which] tells you when the satellite sent it out," Dr Peter Whibberley, of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK, explained during a BBC News interview.
"If you measure its time of arrival against the clock in your receiver, you know how long that signal took to get to you."
From this, the distance from receiver to satellite is calculated.
"If you have three satellites in view, you can triangulate yourself on the surface of the Earth," explained Dr Whibberley, adding that a fourth satellite would allow a precise fix.
"This whole process relies on satellites sending out very precisely timed signals."
Atomic clocks are currently the most accurate timepieces. The accuracy of the time signal correlates with the accuracy of the fix.
Like conventional chronometers, atomic clocks implement a physical constant to measure the passing of time. With atomic clocks, time is measured by atoms switching between different energy states, instead of the regular "Ëœtick-tock' of a mechanical pendulum.
These atoms release energy at very precise frequencies when switching between high and low energy states. Measuring these changes and using them as a counter input produces highly accurate measures of time.
Giove-B's primary onboard clock uses hydrogen as an atomic source, which emits microwave radiation that is used as an input to "calibrate" a quartz crystal, similar to those found in a regular wristwatch.
"A clock is a generator of a periodic signal," explained Mr. Waller. "Our periodic signal here is generated by quartz and we are using the [hydrogen] atoms to lock this quartz."
Although the atomic clock time signal is accurate to within one nanosecond per day, the signal must be nevertheless be adjusted before it is relayed since the satellite is orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 14,430 miles (23,222km).
"On board Galileo – as with GPS – we have to take into account two different relativistic effects," Mr. Waller said.
The algorithms have to factor in certain aspects of Einstein's General and Special Theories of Relativity. For example, the "relativistic Doppler effect", outlined in the Special Theory, demonstrates that time is perceived differently by observers in different states of motion.
"A clock moving perpendicular to your line of sight will have a different tick rate to one at your location," explained Mr. Waller.
The Galileo system must further account for what are known as "gravitational frequency shifts", also outlined in the General Theory.
"The tick rate of your clock is not the same on Earth and at 23,000km," said Mr. Waller.
This portion of Einstein's theory was confirmed on the only other vehicle, the Gravity Probe A, to carry an onboard hydrogen maser clock. The experimental craft was launched in 1976 and achieved an altitude of 6,200 miles (10,000km) before it crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The vehicle's onboard hydrogen maser clock confirmed that gravity does indeed slow the flow of time.
Mr. Waller explained that if Galileo did not make these relativistic tweaks, positioning errors of up to "13km over one day" would result.
"It is one of the few examples of where General Relativity comes into our lives," he added.
Giove-B's onboard technology is slightly different to that which flew on Gravity Probe A in that it uses a passive hydrogen maser clock. The earlier probe had used an active maser instead.
"The stability of the active maser is roughly one order of magnitude better," explained Mr. Waller. "But as a result the active maser is roughly five to 10 times heavier and bulkier."
Active maser technology was not an option onboard Giove-B due to weight and space considerations. Furthermore, the vehicle must pack two additional atomic clocks in its chassis to serve as back-up chronometers. These clocks use rubidium and are accurate to 10 nanoseconds per day. One will run permanently as a "hot" backup for the hydrogen maser, instantly taking over should it fail, while the other rubidium clock will serve as a "cold" spare.
In total, the Galileo satellites will then carry four clocks, two hydrogen masers and two with rubidium. This should guarantee the constellation, which should be up and running by the end of 2013, would offer uninterrupted and with unprecedented accuracy.
It should also improve critical precision time services, such as time-stamping of financial transactions and co-ordination of e-mail systems.
As impressive as Giove-B's systems are, scientists at NPL are already working on next-generation optical clocks, which measure time using light frequency.
"The basic principle is the same as the current generation of clocks," Dr Whibberley explained
But with light, an even more stable clock can be built.
"They could potentially be one hundred times more accurate."
"They could be placed on satellites to give much more precise time keeping, and that promises even greater performance in positioning," he said
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Uncle Matty's Tree Service will be preparing for an increase in tree removal service requests this summer as a dangerous species of beetle is in the process of moving toward New Jersey.
According to The Record, this dangerous beetle will be arriving as early as this summer. The beetle, which has killed more than 50 million trees in the United States, is known as the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) beetle. It is originally from Asia, but it has most likely migrated to the United States through trade, in shipping crates and other packing materials.
The EAB is destructive to northern white ash trees, which are trees that are prominent in northeast New Jersey. The larvae of the EAB are the cause of the most damage to the white ash trees, because they will feed on the inner bark of the tree, which disrupts its ability to transport water and nutrients. The adult EAB feed on ash foliage.
Insect-infested trees or dead or hazardous trees are two reasons why people may require a tree removal service or ab emergency tree removal service. Uncle Matty's Tree Service can provide people with that service. A tree expert from Uncle Matty's will assess the damage of the tree to determine if it should be removed. The trees that the EAB are nesting in are marked by jagged holes that will appear in the bark, because woodpeckers feed on the EAB. The tree trunk will also have D-shaped holes and vertically split bark. When the bark is removed, S-shaped feeding galleries for larvae will be exposed. Multiple occurrence
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He added that once factors such as shops and hotels were taken into consideration, the value skyrocketed.
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Comedian Michael V said that GMA 7 had to stop airing his sitcom "Pepito Manaloto" after two years because the members of its production team had already run out of funny ideas to feature on the show.
"Whenever we sat down to brainstorm for upcoming episodes nothing interesting came up anymore," the comedian told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. "So we decided to end it."
Created by KB Entertainment Unlimited Inc. for GMA 7, the show followed the simple and underprivileged life of the Manalotos that significantly changed when Pepito won P700 million in the national lottery. The sitcom aired its final episode on March 25, 2012.
Michael V, however, said his team received negative feedback on the show's cancellation.
He said many expressed their disappointment, including his network bosses.
"We felt that we owe it to its supporters to give what they wanted," he related. "We had to rack our brains to come up with a device so we could continue telling the story of the Manalotos."
"Pepito Manaloto: Ang Tunay na Kuwento" will premiere on the Kapuso channel tonight.
"It will pick up from the time Pepito realized he didn't like the program that a TV network made about him and his family," Michael V explained.
The comedian said the network came up with the idea to show exactly what goes in the Manaloto household by having a camera crew film their lives 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
According to Michael V, the first two episodes of "Ang Tunay na Kuwento" will be crucial to connect the first season to the next.
He said that while some interesting elements from the first season were retained, "the strength of the new show lies on its story-telling."
Unlike the old Pepito, who has gotten used to living a grand life, the new character is humble and conservative.
"Our stories now are based on people's real experiences," he added.
Michael V said that of all the characters he had played on TV, Pepito was closest to his heart.
He said: "His life experiences are similar to mine—his rags-to-riches journey, although I'm not as rich as he is. I can relate to him. I'm able to share my dreams with people through him."
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The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors and the Oxford-Lafayette Economic Development Foundation met during an executive session to discuss the county selling land to McGreggor Steel Fabrication Inc. to aid Caterpillar Inc. with their storage needs. McGregor will still have to go before both the Lafayette County Planning Commission and the county supervisors board for approval before the land is sold. (November 12, 2014, Page 1A)
Ready for the big chill?
Oxford and Lafayette County will be experiencing a drastic change in temperature over the next few days as temperatures drop due to a incoming cold front. Local emergency management coordinators advise citizens to be prepared. (November 11, 2014, Page 1)
OHS senior serves as mentor
Oxford High School senior Zach Wadley was recently honored as STAR Student of the Week at the school. His dedication to OHS athletics, his academics and the community is highlighted by the award. (November 11, 2014, Page 1)
Sign dedicated to fallen hero
Late first lieutenant and former Oxford and Batesville Police officer Donald "Donnie" Carwile was honored yesterday with a sign dedicated in his memory on College Hill Road. His two girls live on the road on which the sign is located and will get to pass by it everyday. (November 11, 2014, Page 1)
OSD hires attorneys to help with land sale
The Oxford School Board met Friday for a special meeting in which members agreed to retain Stennett Wilkinson and Peden Attorneys to help with the rezoning and selling of district land. (November 10, 2014, Page 3)
Disney raffle raises record amount
Oxford and Bramlett Elementary Schools raised over $80,000 with their Disney Raffle fundraiser. The funds will go back into the school to benefit teachers, children and the district. (November 10, 2014, Page 1A)
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Oxford residents Courtney Byrd and Andrea Hightower recently took home the Miss Mississippi USA and Miss Mississippi Teen USA crowns. They will go on to compete for a national title next year. (November 7, 2014, Page 1A)
County schools to get access road
The Lafayette County School District approved an agreement with county supervisors to work together to construct an access road on school property. The road will line up with an adjacent road that the county is building to offset traffic issues on Highway 334. (November 6, 2014, Page 1)
Gas station gets preliminary approval
The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors voted to approved a preliminary site plan for a Dees Oil gas station in front of the Cross Creek subdivision. The company will have to comply with all changes suggested as well as water and sewer needs before a final plan can be approved. (November 4, 2014, Page 2)