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Bad paint on black 2ss
My car arrived on the 16 of june # 1504 I went and drove it and sighned all the paperwork. I left it there so they could install the gfx the next day. The car was still dirty from shipping when I test drove it so I couldnt tell any thing was wrong. Well the dealer called me and said there was defects in the paint and If was there car they wouldnt want it. It looks like little indentions in the paint and it is rusting already in those spots and is on most sections of the car. The GM rep is going to inspect it some times this week and tell me my options. I really want the low number car but I do not want a car that has been repainted. If they can reorder me one and put me at the top of the list where I will receive it in about a month I think I will wait. Any Ideas on what my options are and what I should do?
The low VIN would be nice to keep, but I'm not sure it would be worth it to me. Inside, I would always know it had been painted on. If it was one small part of the car, like the front bumper, maybe. Just my 2cents. Good luck.
it's so sad this is a reocurring theme. GM had a prime opportunity to get this right and they failed again. You can't say it's because it's a new car. I've owned 5 Toyotas and none of them had ANY issues, zero!!!! Make them get you a new car ASAP!!!! And bitch the whole time.
mine (#1691) has the same little spots... its looks like a bunch of drops of acid (20 or 30) sat on the paint (hood, roof and trunk) for a while. I tried buffing on them for a long while but they will not come out.
I bet this happened while the car was sitting in QC in Pontiac, MI.
I would keep the Low Vin# car and have the body shop repaint it and throw in some painted rally stripes...
That sux...... mine is coming this week, and i'm not accepting it if there is the first thing wrong with it. I hate seeing this over and over.
15 times back to the shop
one way or another about a satanic vehicle. Gone now-traded it for the Camaro!!!:happyanim:
Bad paint
GM or any manufacturer will not authorize a "outside shop" to do repairs. I have been in the biz for 30 years. Got out bcause of BS like this and insurance companies.
Good luck !!! They do have to fix it right.
Yikes!!! I also ordered black on black. So def. keep us up to date if you don't mind. As far as getting a new car or repainting. I would have to say it depends on how bad and soon you "have" to have the car. Good luck with your decisions.
My dealer has repaired my car (Black 2SS) and I keep finding items. Look for my thread "Shes Damaged and review. I suggest you re-order and wait. Contrary to popular belief, they do have ways of expediting a replacement.
It will never be the same as a factory paint job, and you are paying way too much for this car.
Just mt 2 cents
There is no way it's rusting unless someone scraped up the metal. It's galvanized.
We would need pictures.
sounds like raill dust to me you can't get tha stuff out of the paint
I would keep the low vin and just have them paint it and through in some incentives. Someone else down the road will end up with your low Vin repainted like nothing was wrong.
My dealer has repaired my car (Black 2SS) and I keep finding items. Look for my thread "Shes Damaged and review. I suggest you re-order and wait. Contrary to popular belief, they do have ways of expediting a replacement.
It will never be the same as a factory paint job, and you are paying way too much for this car.
Just my 2 cents
acid rain sucks.......
Keep the car and have it repainted. I can always replace the paint, but never the low vin number. Besides, if you get it repainted, it will be in your hands alot faster then waiting for another order. Alos think that your order will be a vin in the range of #15000 +. Stick with the low vin.
Not worth the low VIN, get the new car.
Man, some of you guys think it is the end of the world with the paint. It's just paint! Have them have it repainted and enjoy it. Hell, I'd have them do a custom color and graphics for your hassle.
If you were to have had this car 10 years, you'd probably have it painted anyway, no reduction in value and like others have mentioned already, this car has a low VIN that can't be replaced.
To be perfectly honest, I'd be all over this like pepperoni on pizza getting a custom paint job on their dime ;)
Back in '06 I bought a new Savana van. The day it was delivered to the dealer someone bounced a rock off the hood. So not only chipped it they also dented it. When I picked it up they told me they fixed it up right away. If they didn't tell me I would never have known. If it's done right it's just as good as factory.
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My local GM Dealer is also having a hard time with the Black paints on their Camaro.
They see scratches, bumps etc...
One customer bought a Black SS a week ago and it is not leaving the shop for another week or so...
I would keep the low vin it that is important to you. If you get involved in a frnder bender accident what are you going to do? Get a whole new car? You get it repaired and repainted, I don't see the difference. I would not hold my breath on getting any custom paint job or anything additional. Good luck!
Here is a good one... not a Camaro but...
I bought a brand new 2007 black Corvette in March 2007. Took delivery on a rainy night b/c was too excited to wait till the next day and have them detail it. I took it home, put it in the garage and washed it myself only to find the ENTIRE car covered in overspray. Not a little bit, a ton of it. All body panels, windows, lights, everywhere. I called the dealer the next day. No one could figure out how it got there. They looked at it and offered me a paint protector... WHAT? I said no thanks, I want what is on there off, not more crap piled on top of it. When you rubbed your hand on it, it felt like sand paper. They offered me to take it to a professional of my choice to have it removed so i took it to a shop I heard was "preofessional" and expressed my concerns about scratches, swirls and burnt corners from the buffer. They said they would clay bar it then buff and wax it. I got the "We just clayed and buffed a new Z06 in black so you have nothing to worry about"... blah blah blah.
I am still fighting with the swirls and they didn't scratch it too bad and they only burnt off a little bit of paint. All in all it looks really good when cleaned up, I spent 8 hours on it this weekend but it is not as it should be IMO. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have returned it and got a new one. It is not a low VIN.
I am done with black... for good.
As for the OP and my change, return it. Will a low VIN really mean anything? Youre 1500 cars in, not 3.
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Battles continue for Iraq war veteran Rory Dunn, mother Cynthia Lefever
November 8, 2011
By Warren Kagarise
The challenges resonate almost a decade after crude bombs detonated along a roadside in Iraq.
The struggle for survival started in the frantic moments after a bomb explosion near Fallujah left Army Spc. Rory Dunn, a Liberty High School graduate, sightless and near death. Then came a much longer campaign to navigate a medical system unequipped to handle veterans from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The day Dunn turned 22 in March 2004, roadside bombs tore through a Humvee. Shrapnel pierced the unarmored vehicle and left Dunn's best friend and another soldier dead. The explosion shattered Dunn's forehead and left the 6-foot, 3-inch former basketball player blind and deaf for a time.
The "battle after the battle" — as Dunn's mother, Cynthia Lefever, came to call the long healing process — opened days after the explosion at a military medical center in Landstuhl, Germany.
Lefever, leaned close to the bed and shouted, "Rory Dunn, this is your mother! You will not die! Don't you dare die!"
Dunn did not die. Instead, after surgeries and rehabilitation, the soldier beat the "imminent death" predictions from doctors.
"I've never had anything in my life that if I wanted to achieve it — if it was realistic — that I haven't been able to make happen," he said. "I'm not worried."
Lefever is a tireless advocate in the push to ensure Dunn receives proper medical care and benefits, even if such care means confronting a plodding and unresponsive bureaucracy head-on. Her campaign attracted a national spotlight to post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and the catastrophic wounds left as legacies from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"When you're dealing with someone with a traumatic brain injury, especially as so many of the service members that are coming back with PTSD, all of this complexity and red tape, it's really frustrating for them," she said. "Some of them are like, forget it and they just walk away from it."
In the decades before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks plunged the United States into Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs treated graying veterans from World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Medical advances meant service members injured in 21st-century conflicts could survive catastrophic wounds, but prospects for long-term care lagged.
"The veterans from this war, this generation, are different from any other generation," Lefever said. "These are young men and women, although catastrophically wounded, they still want to have a normal — whatever normal is — normal jobs, normal activities. We have amputees that want to climb mountains. We have blind people who want to hunt and fish."
'You just kind of go numb'
In Iraq, Dunn carried a laminated card along on each patrol against a shadowy enemy. The card, folded into a pocket in his fatigues, contained instructions to complete a medevac call.
"There's no identified enemy," he said. "There's no force that we go meet on a battlefield."
Dunn, 29, said the card made the difference between life and death amid the March 2004 attack. Medics managed to transport the injured soldiers to a field hospital in Baghdad.
Halfway across the globe, Lefever prepared to email a birthday message to Dunn as the phone rang.
"I always thought that I would fall to the floor and not be able to get up and be hysterical," she said. "You just kind of go numb and you watch yourself make the phone calls and get the information. You just go into this emergency mode, where you can't panic and can't fall apart."
The bond between mother and son, almost severed on a roadside in Iraq, strengthened in the months after the attack.
"What I heard after he got hurt, from his buddies and his commanding officers was, 'Rory was the stand-up guy who volunteered for everything. Rory was the guy who knew every job. Rory was the one that we knew would watch our backs,'" Lefever said.
The rush to discharge Dunn from the Army started not long after the attack, but the still-fragile soldier needed care from the gifted surgeons at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Lefever stood guard at Dunn's bedsides, initially in Landstuhl and later at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C.
"I literally one day took the pen out of his hand when the colonel was there saying, 'You can't return to duty so we're going to discharge you. You get to go home,'" Lefever said. "I'm like, 'No! He's not signing anything today.'"
Dunn earned a Purple Heart for injuries sustained in the attack, and officials kept offering the medal in hasty ceremony at the bedside.
"They kept trying to give Rory his Purple Heart in the hospital. I was like, 'No, we're not going to do it here.' It was just not appropriate," Lefever said. "He was blind. He was deaf. He couldn't walk. Rory basically said, 'I will not accept my Purple Heart until I can stand on my own two feet, my ass isn't hanging out the backdoor of my nightgown and I have a forehead.'"
'I have some questions'
Instead, Dunn received the Purple Heart in a 2005 ceremony at Liberty High School led by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a champion for veterans' issues.
Months earlier, Murray called Lefever's hotel room not long after Dunn reached Walter Reed, and "she talked to me for a good hour, mom-to-mom, and as my senator. She spent that time and got all the details," Lefever said. "The next day, staff members were at Rory's bedside."
Though disappointed in many political leaders for a failure to support veterans programs, Dunn respects Murray, a Washington Democrat.
"Whenever I've asked for help or my mom has asked for help, she's been there," he said.
Despite the assist from Murray, Lefever persisted and continued to ask questions to keep Dunn on active duty for as long as possible.
"I never ever jumped up and down, cried, threatened," she said. "I just said, 'I have some questions.'"
Sometimes, the crusade led to clashes between mother and son. Dunn, after months spent in military hospitals, longed to return home to Renton. Still, Lefever continued the crusade for the Army to keep Dunn at Walter Reed.
"There were days when he was like, 'Get out of here. Go home. I'm going to buy you a ticket to go home. You're bugging me,'" she said. "In the end, we ended up pretty good friends."
In Washington, trips to the local VA hospital tested Dunn's patience further. The system seemed ill-prepared to handle Afghanistan and Iraq veterans.
"When we would go in for, say, a 10 o'clock appointment and it would usually be an hour wait and there was confusion and things got canceled," Lefever said. "Then, we would eventually have our appointment, and when we would come out, the same veterans that were waiting when we went in were still waiting. It was heartbreaking."
The lag between changes in veterans' benefits and the information reaching former service members also frustrates Dunn.
"I'm a veteran. I served in the Iraq-Afghanistan era," he said. "Why in the hell is there not a mailing list to say, hey, this is what's going on here?"
The next challenge for Dunn is the culinary arts program at Renton Technical College.
"Hopefully, one of these politicians can get this country back in check, and I'll get a small business loan and start a restaurant somewhere," he said.
The latest milestone is vindication for Lefever — and for the years spent fighting the "battle after the battle" on many fronts.
"Rory has come a long way," she said. "It's been seven years since he was hurt, but it's been steady progress."
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Zenani, the great-granddaughter of former president Nelson Mandela, was asleep on the back seat of the car when it crashed. Her mother is Zoleka, the daughter of Zindzi Mandela.
The vehicle veered out of control on the M1 North just before a double-decker highway that bypasses the city.
Mankazana was taking Zenani home after a World Cup concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto when the accident happened.
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Oldwadge asked Potsane whether he recorded the reasons that he suspected Mankazana was drunk in the regulation pocketbook which metro police officers were obliged to carry.
Potsane said he did not because he was not in charge of the investigation but was only helping the accident investigator. The pocketbook had since been misplaced.
Oldwadge asked whether Potsane had read Mankazana his rights at the time of the arrest.
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Oldwadge requested an adjournment so that the court could obtain a copy of the pocketbook, as it was potentially a critical aspect.
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In 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking', author Malcolm Gladwell has a section on improvisational theater. In acting, the goal may be a 30 minute performance in which the players agree they have to accept everything that happens to them. They have no net, no script, no plot. They practice to become better listeners, to follow what another has said and done, to keep a good pace without suppressing action. After performances, they critique one another and how the audience reacted.
It seems to me those would be interesting techniques in the workplace.
My goal is to advocate for workplace meetings and discussions that employ constructive debate focused on finding the ideas or solutions which are most likely to succeed. Take away the ownership and defense of ideas, the remarks that seem to be personal attacks, the predetermined outcome.
Neither improvisational theater nor constructive debate is totally random. Actors come to the stage with personal knowledge and experience. So it is for workplace discussions. People need to feel their opinions and ideas are valued, that they are contributing or getting information. They need to feel their time is well-spent, that there is progress. They need to feel they belong.
I find real value in group thinking, that often the best ideas surface when you have a team of people with various roles come together to define work, tackle projects or find solutions. There could be improvisational-type ground rules such as you follow up on the ideas of others; you focus on ideas, not personalities. Everyone plays a part, large or small. There can be debates, being responsive more than reactive. It is taking the ego out of the discussions and letting free thinking shine.
Gladwell writes about improvisation: You create the conditions for successful spontaneity, the framework for fluid, effortless, spur-of-the moment dialog. For meetings, I think the framework includes an agenda, a meeting leader who seeks ideas of all, who is not intent upon forcing his or her ideas upon the group, who controls the meeting to keep one or two people from domination, who keeps the meeting focused and moving toward resolution.
Gladwell writes about spontaneity---not thinking about something a long time, not having to write about it, but 'being in the moment'. I think we'd find some neat solutions and enjoy real buy-in to projects begun this way.
P.S. I plan to submit a civility in the workplace workshop for this fall's annual extension conference. This idea of constructive debate is my idea at present. What do you think would be a good focus for a civility workshop at annual conference? It doesn't matter if you will attend or not. I'm just looking for good ideas.
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Old Fashioned Carrot Cake
If someone told me a couple of years ago, that I'd be making a carrot cake at home and polishing it off with joy, I would have guffawed. First of all Carrots Cakes are so old fashioned. It reminds me of somebody's grandmother baking it and inviting her bridge friends over for tea. I don't really remember ever ordering it myself at the local bakery or even trying to make it at home. If I was offered Carrot Cake at a friend's place I would vehemently refuse a slice. A Cake with veggies in it was clearly not my idea of dessert.
But I rolled out of bed one day and suddenly I was on the other side of thirty (ok, that was some years ago) and everything changed. Nostalgia was suddenly cool in my books and traditional and quaint always scored marks over new age and funky. I was constantly looking for things that reminded me of the yesteryear's, things that will anchor me to my childhood and not let me get swept away with this crazy changing world. So again, why Carrot Cake? Because we must not let traditions die and Gajar Ka Halwa has been done to death :P
This recipe is as old fashioned as they come – eggs, butter, sugar and carrots. Just a sprinkle of sugar on top and it's good to go. The cake stayed moist for three days outside the fridge – so it's definitely a lovely addition to your tea time routine.
Carrot Cake
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Makes: 8" x 8" Cake / 9" Round
What you need:
1 cup Carrots, grated
80 gms Butter, unsalted, softened
1 cup Sugar
¼ cup refined vegetable oil
2 Eggs
¾ cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Salt
1 Tbsp Milk
2 tsps raisins, cut in half
1 Tbsp Walnuts, chopped
What to do:
Preheat the oven to 180°C. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar and cooking oil. I use an electric beater for 5-7 mins. When the mixture is soft, add in one egg. Beat till incorporated. Add in the other egg and beat again. You should have a nice fluffy lemon yellow mixture.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Gently fold into the egg and butter mixture. Now add the milk and mix.
Add in the carrots, raisins and walnuts and fold again.
Grease your cake pan or easier still, line it with butter paper. Gently pour in the mixture into the pan and bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
Insert a toothpick in the center of the cake to check for doneness. If the toothpick comes out clean, remove the cake tin from the oven and let it rest on a wire rack.
When cool, dust with icing sugar (optional) or serve with some whipped cream and ice cream. I had some lovely custard in the fridge, so served it with that. And play some bridge and have some tea while you're at it!
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He's fondly called 'Mr Blockbuster' since he's the only director to have delivered two movies that have grossed over Rs 100 crore. And considering the hype around his next release, Bol Bachchan, the director with the Midas touch is all set to achieve a hat-trick. In a free-wheeling chat, Rohit Shetty tells Vajir Singh what makes his films click, why his upcoming offering is unique, and much, much more
Only a few weeks to go and there's so much at stake. How does it feel?
I just want the best returns on the money invested in this project. Of course, I want the film to do well because we have worked very hard. This is evident in the quality of the film. To date, our investors have never lost their money. So I am praying that everything goes as hoped.
You have two back-to-back Rs 100-crore movies in Golmaal 3 and Singham. Are you nervous about a hat-trick with Bol Bachchan?
(Smiles) Not nervous but excited. In fact, I have not been thinking about it since we are still giving the movie the final touches. I will get nervous only on the Thursday before the film's release. I just hope that this film goes much beyond the 100-crore mark.
Anything less might not be accepted by the trade.
This is pressure I can do without. Let's say the film earns Rs 90 crore. It would still be a hit but people will complain that it did not hit the desired Rs 100-crore mark. We have all worked very hard and I am hoping for the best.
This time you are competing with yourself.
(Laughs) In a way, yes.
Golmaal was more comedy, less action. Singham had more action and less comedy. How about Bol Bachchan?
It's a 50-50 mix of action and comedy. The action is more than it was in Singham but the humour is more than it was in Golmaal. So it's the right mix of action and comedy.
Golmaal 3 featured many actors and it was full of slapstick comedy. The dialogue in Bol Bachchan is funny as are the situations. The characters in Bol Bachchan are more real. Although there is a lot of grand action, the characters are very simple.
It is difficult to make a film with many characters but you always pull it off.
My stories are like that. The script calls for many characters else it gets a little stagnant. In all my films, the characters have problems and they are very earthy and the audience can relate to them. That's why I like stories that have many characters. Stories that have heroes, hero's friends… You know, the typical '70s and '80s era films.
How important is it for the audience to relate to the characters?
It is very important. If the audience can relate to the characters or their problems, it makes it easier to go with the flow of the film.
Your films also go down very well with kids. Do you keep the kiddie audience in mind while making films?
Yes. There is no vulgarity in my films. If kids want to watch my films, so will their parents and I don't want to make anyone feel awkward. Even when the film airs on satellite TV, I don't want people to switch channels because there are some awkward scenes. Also, kids love action. People often ask me why I blow up cars in my films. Well, kids love it! Some children even ask me what I will be blowing up this time!
In this film, it's not just cars but buses that will blow up.
(Laughs) Yes, I have upgraded myself! The kids will love it because that's what they do when they play games on their Playstations. I never dreamt that children would like Singham but they loved it despite the action. But I control the violence in my films. Did you notice that there was no bloodshed in Singham despite the hardcore action scenes? We edited and shot it that way. We have to keep the kids and the female audience in mind.
So you're revealing your success mantra? Woo kids and the film will be a hit?
Actually, I didn't realise it when I was making Golmaal but children gradually became my audience. Not just kids, I would say the 'family audience', especially women. It's not just the youth but the family audience that helps a film touch Rs 100 crore.
This time, are you trying to impress the critics too?
No, not really. It is very difficult to make everyone happy. I make my films keeping my audience in mind.
It is often said that Indian critics love Hollywood masala films but that does not apply to Bollywood. Why is that?
I don't know. Every film cannot be a Taare Zameen Par or 3 Idiots. Every film is different and you can't watch Bol Bachchan expecting it to be like TZP. We are not catering to that audience.
They talk about why Indian cinema is not going to the Oscars and why we are not matching up to Hollywood yet they want us to make Indian cinema. They have to realise that if we have to reach the Oscars, we have to make Indian films. Like, in Iran, they make Iranian films and it's the same with Korea. Thanks to a handful of critics and other people, we are sailing in two boats in India. Half our films look like Hollywood films and those that are 'Indian' are trashed.
Filmmakers are skeptical about making Indian films. That's why the films that go from India don't look like Indian films. That's what I've been told. Like, if I buy an Iranian DVD, I want to watch an Iranian film. I don't want to watch something that looks like an English film. I don't know why but everybody wants us to make films like the West. We are capable of making our own films and creating our own identity.
They keep speaking about Kurosawa. But what about our directors, like Naseer Hussain and Ramesh Sippy? I'm sure they haven't even heard of director Brij Sadanah, who has made a brilliant film Victoria No. 203. What about Manmohan Desai, Ramesh Sippy and Prakash Mehra? We have so many great directors. Just because some people have read too many books and watched too much cinema, they think they are superior. I'm sure even my driver has watched a lot of films but that doesn't make him a critic. (Laughs)
Now that you're making a film with Shah Rukh Khan, people claim you are switching loyalties.
(Laughs) It's quite funny. I have heard this many times. The funny thing is I am planning something with Ajay (Devgn) after I am done filming with Shah Rukh Khan. I really don't know what's wrong if I am doing a film with SRK?
And you have also signed a film with Karan Johar.
(Laughs) No, Karan's film will come in after I am done with Ajay's film. So first there is SRK's film, then Ajay's film and then a film with Karan.
How did this happen? Your sensibilities are very different from Karan Johar's and the movies he makes.
I know, but he told me he wanted me to do a film for Dharma Productions. It's one of the oldest companies like Yash Raj Films. I respect Karan, both as a producer and a director, and the way he's kept his father's banner flying. We met and discussed issues and he wanted me to make a film just like the ones I have been making. So I said why not?
And how did the Shah Rukh Khan movie happen?
He called me and said he loved Golmaal 3. That's' how we started talking. He said the film made him happy after he watched it and we decided to work together. Initially, we wanted to remake Angoor but realised it was not big enough for us to work together. At the time, I had the script of Chennai Express with me and I told SRK that I didn't want to make Angoor with him.
I thought he would throw me out of his office but I told him I had a script called Chennai Express and I wanted him to do it. He said he wanted to work with me and I could do whatever I was comfortable with. He is producing the film now.
Back to Bol Bachchan… You started your career with Zameen, which had Abhishek Bachchan and Ajay Devgn in the lead.
(Cuts in) Yes. And with Bol Bachchan, I am getting the duo back taaki, ek jo daag hai main use bhi mita doon. Abhishek is like a friend and brother, and I wanted to do a film with him. I found the right character for him in this film.
And the right title.
Yes. When I started writing the film, it had no title. I knew I wanted to work with Abhishek. So when he agreed to do the film, I zeroed in on this title. The common man will relate to his character as it's very earthy. He has done a fabulous job. He is humble, sweet and lovable in the film.


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French new car registrations hit a 15-year low point in 2012 and business looks like it will be just as tough this year, data from the French automobile manufacturers' association CCFA showed on Wednesday, mirroring slumps seen elsewhere in the 17-nation eurozone.
In France, auto sales fell by 13.9 percent in 2012 to 1.899 million.
The drop was compounded by the end of government-funded buying schemes that had boosted sales between 2009 and early 2011.
The worst hit companies were Peugeot Citroen, where sales shrank by 17.5 percent, and Renault, down by 22 percent.
Foreign builders saw an overall drop of 6.7 percent, but deliveries by German luxury car companies Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz actually grew, while those by the South Korean group Hyundai-Kia literally took off.
"All the multi-range car companies shrank, while higher end carmakers held on."
A spokesman at CCFA said: "The drop in sales of light utility vehicles and trucks is very worrying as it signals a slowdown in the economy," the spokesman added.
A huge exception to the poor results was Hyundai-Kia which saw sales skyrocket 28.2 percent to take a 2.19 percent market share.
"We are waiting for a 2013 market to be at best like that of 2012. We'll look for the trend in the first quarter," the spokesman said.
Elsewhere across the eurozone, registrations of new cars in Italy fell by 19.87 percent last year to 1.4 million, plunged by 37.9 percent in Portugal and lost 14.94 percent in Belgium.
In Spain, automakers said they anticipated a "complicated" situation in 2013, after sales fell by 13.4 percent in 2012 to just under 700 000 vehicles.- AFP
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The Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York Scholarship funds one year of study in or near New York City.
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Reindeer Candy Cane Wraps
December 3, 2014 by Shaunte Wadley
Filed under Core Blog, Core Projects, Gifts & Party, Seasonal, Tombow Adhesive, Winter Projects
I wanted a cute little thank you to be able to hand out this holiday season. These reindeer candy cane wraps were easy to make and inexpensive- so was able to make a whole bunch of them for just a few dollars.
Here are the supplies I used to create these cute treats!
Candy Cane Reindeer Supply List:
- Core'dinations Spotted Jillian Dot Cardstock in French Roast, and Vanilla Cream
- Core'dinations Glitter Silk Cardstock in Red Flash and Green Sheen
- Googly Eyes
- Leaf Craft Punch
- Holly Leaf Craft Punch
- Tombow Xtreme Adhesive
- Candy Canes (two per reindeer)
Step 1: Trim Core'dinations Spotted Jillian Dot French Roast cardstock into 3″x3″ sections.
Using Tombow Xtreme Adhesive, wrap cardstock around two candy canes, and secure. I love using Tombow Xtreme Adhesive for projects like this- it really holds up, and doesn't pop open even though it wraps around the candy canes.
Step 2: Using a leaf craft punch or template cut "ears" from French Roast and Vanilla Cream Jillian Dot cardstock.
Layer cut leaf shapes. Adhere "ears" to reindeer.
Step 3: Cut holly leaf, berries and red nose from Glitter Silk cardstock. Adhere to reindeer. Adhere googly eyes.
Repeat for additional reindeer.
Thankful Layout with May Arts Ribbon
November 14, 2014 by Christine Meyer
Filed under Core Blog, Core Projects, Design Teams, Fall Projects, May Arts Ribbon, Preferred Partners, Scrapbooking, Seasonal, Simple Stories
We are celebrating this week with May Arts Ribbon! Stop by all week long for amazing inspiration and, of course, prizes! CLICK HERE to enter to win this awesome Chalk Core prize pack! And don't forget to head over to the May Arts blog for more projects and chances to win! Winners will be announced Monday, November 17th, 2014.
Thankful Layout
I can't believe that it is already mid-November and fall is rapidly disappearing! Before it's gone I wanted to get in another fall layout and Core'dinations combined with May Arts is the perfect pair to do it with!
Thankful Layout Supplies:
- 12 X 12 Jillian Dot Spotted (Scarlett)
- 12 X 12 Cardstock Darks
- 12 X 12 Cardstock Neutrals
- Dark Assorted Sandable Tags
- Sand-it Gadget & Dust Buddy
- May Arts Burlap Ribbon Antique Gold
- 1/4 Inch Adhesive Scalloped Border Ivory
Step 1: Cut two strips from the Scarlett Spotted paper that are 3″ X 12″ and sand those.
Step 2: Attach those to the top and bottom of the white base.
Step 3: Tear a 1 inch strip of paper from the Neutrals Pad and add that as a border. Top with May Arts Scallop Border Ribbon.
Step 4: Use an electronic die cut machine to cut out leaves and attach those to Core Tags topped with a May Arts Burlap Ribbon bow.
Step 5: Center the picture and add it to the layout with the tags around it.
Step 6: Embellish with stickers and brads.
It's going to be a great week of inspiration with May Arts & Core'dinations – make sure to visit often!
Torn Cardstock Halloween Witch Hat
October 31, 2014 by Core'dinator
Filed under Core Blog, Core Projects, Fall Projects, May Arts Ribbon, Seasonal, Xyron
I looooove Halloween! And when I got my hands on this Darice witch hat, I knew it screamed the need for some Core'dinations Cardstock.
Torn Cardstock Witch Hat Supplies:
- Black Magic Cardstock
- Jillian Spotted Cardstock
- Vintage Cardstock
- Sand it Gadget and Dust Buddy
- Darice paper mache hat
- misc black paint
- paintbrush
- Xyron Adhesive
- MayArts Ribbon
Step 1: Paint the top and bottom of the hat black just in case any of the base of the hat sneaks through. Basic black craft paint works just fine.
Step 2: Tear different strips of Core'dinations ColorCore cardstock. Paper tearing never gets old! Core is great for this because the color core looks great. For tips on tearing our cardstock, view our videos here. Tear the strips, sand them with Sand it Gadget and white off with Dust Buddy. Using the Dust Buddy is important because it helps the adhesive stick.
Step 3: Adhere torn strips, rotating colors and patterns on the top of the hat and finish off with some May Arts Ribbon.
Step 4: Place on a pumpkin or other decoration.
Give Thanks Harvest Wreath
October 16, 2014 by Christine Meyer
Filed under Core Blog, Core Projects, Design Teams, Fall Projects, Mixed Media, Seasonal
It has been a long time since I made a wreath but I have seen so many awesome paper ones lately that I knew I wanted to make one this fall. I pulled out my Core'dinations supplies and got to work making a Harvest Wreath with some non-traditional colors.
Give Thanks Wreath Supplies:
- Core Basics Smooth Kraft Cardstock
- Sand It Gadget & Dust Buddy
- Jillian Dot Assorted Pack
- Foam Wreath
- Twine
- Coordinating Buttons
Step 1: Choose 4 colors of cardstock and cut 7 strips that measure 1 1/4″ X 12″ in each color.
Step 2: Sand the cardstock bringing out the core color.
Step 3: Add adhesive to the back side of the strips and then begin to loop them around the wreath (I used a 10 inch wreath). Overlap slightly so that the wreath form doesn't show. Notch the end of each strip as you go.
Step 4: Die Cut a banner and leaves and add them to the wreath.
Step 6: Add flowers, twine, buttons, or other small embellishments to bring in some additional textures.
Don't you just love all the decorating possibilities you have when you play with paper!?!
End of Summer Birthday Bash!
August 21, 2014 by Core'dinator
Filed under Core Blog, Core Projects, Gifts & Party, Seasonal, Summer Projects
For my son's 9th Birthday he was having a pool party at our house. I know our pool is still open for business even though school has started! Everything was themed 'Splish Splash' so I pulled out some fabulous Core'dinations Cardstock and got to work with my Silhouette cutting all kinds of little bits to decorate with!
Let's start off with this cute little frame from the David Tutera Wedding Collection. Perfect for any occasion …. including a 9 year old boys birthday party:
One of my favorite things were these fun water bottle tags. With (15) 9 year olds running around all afternoon I knew I needed to try and keep their drinks straight so I cut these super fun shapes and made these name tags for each of them.
- Spotted Jillian Dot - Tulip, Apple Green, Tranquil Blue
- Tim Holtz & Ranger Distress Collection – Broken China, Mustard Seed
- David Tutera Wedding – Frame
- Spotted Tillie Dot – Navy
- Graphic 45 Signature Series Cardstock – Gala Gold, Bon Voyage
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Multi-Media Summer Canvas
August 9, 2014 by Core'dinator
Filed under Core Blog


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Week 21
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is about 10 1/2 inches long, head to toe. Passes time by sucking his or her thumb and even opening and closing his or her eyes. And you know, elbowing you in the vital organs. Is like, kicking for serious now, and the movements cannot only be felt from the outside, they can […]
Week 20
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is as big as (depending on which measurements from which pregnancy book you use and of course, Your Produce May Vary) a butternut squash, or as long as a banana, or possibly a carrot. I am getting the sense these comparisons are not really an exact science. Will be measured head-to-toe from this […]
Week 19
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is about 5 1/2 to six inches long and weighs around 7 ounces. Although your baby will weigh more than 15 times its current weight by the time it is born, the rapid-fire growth portion of pregnancy is over. Thus, I have nothing else interesting to say up here. Baby is fully assembled; […]
Emotional Signs of Labor (Part 1)
Erica Lyon, rockstar childbirth educator and author of "The Big Book of Birth" helps you understand that in addition to physical signs of labor there are some behaviors that women tend to manifest when they are going onto labor. Learn to identify them.
Week 18
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is about the size of a baked potato — five-and-a-half inches long. Has actual cute little ears and working ear bones and can hear sounds through the amniotic fluid — similar to how things sound to you underwater. Is moving, moving, moving. The baby is still small enough that you may not feel […]
Childbirth: How Long Will I Be in Labor? (the 24 hr Reference)
Erica Lyon, rockstar childbirth educator and author of "The Big Book of Birth" helps you understand how long you will be in labor during *your typical first birth*.


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THE eight-year-old Gingindlovu girl who was raped and assaulted is looking forward to starting at her new school after she was fitted with a prosthetic eye yesterday.
"Thank you," said the girl as she got off a chair and dashed to hug Peter Furber, a Durban University of Technology lecturer.
Three months ago, the girl was attacked, allegedly by a 15-year-old boy, as they were walking from school.
She was dragged into a cane field behind her house where she was raped and had her left eye gouged out, and was left for dead.
After the attack she was fitted with a "stock eye", which did not fit correctly, prompting reactions from people around her. It brought back bad memories.
"She has been brave after the rape ordeal. She still smiles like nothing ever happened," said her guardian, who cannot be named to protect the girl's identity. "The only thing that makes her sad is when people make comments about her not having an eye or asking what happened to her. But now she cannot stop smiling, looking at herself in the mirror."
The fitting of the eye, worth R15 000, took four days to complete.
"She says she wants to be a nurse when she grows up because she wants to help others. She was registered at a new school after the incident, but other children made it unpleasant for her because she was teased for not having an eye.
"She wanted to go to school immediately after the artificial eye was fitted, but she will go on Monday," said the guardian.
It was not easy for the girl when the procedure began earlier this week because she did not understand what it entailed.
"Ever since the incident, it has been very hard for her to trust people she hardly knew. She cried during the fittings, but I had to make her understand that this was for her own benefit and she would love the end product," said the guardian.
The girl had been fitted with the stock eye at a hospital in Empangeni.
"But it did not fit the eye socket properly, so it was easy for people to see that it was not her real eye and questions made her upset, forcing her to recall the incident," the guardian said.
Furber, who was heading the procedure at the university, received a call a month ago from an optometrist, who asked if he could help make a prosthesis for the girl.
"I agreed. It's a bitter-sweet reward for me because an incident like this was so unnecessary. Fortunately, rehabilitation is available," he said.
Furber explained that he had to gain the child's trust.
"At first it brought back bad memories of the ordeal as a male figure touching her eye," the guardian said.
Furber said an impression of the empty socket was taken. He said this was necessary to create an exact replica.
"Once the eye impression was taken, the final model was made," he said.
Ensuring that the iris colour of the artificial eye matches that of the patient's right eye was of utmost importance.
"The eye was built in wax which was then transferred to acrylic. After that the white part of the eye and the veins were painted and a final layer of acrylic was put for the eye to be ready. This process takes three to four days to complete," Furber said.
The eye was made at the university's dental clinic as the same material is used to make dentures.
There is 85 percent movement with the prosthetic eye and the girl has been taught how to put it in and take it out, and to clean it once a day.
She will need to consult Furber annually for the prosthetic eye to be polished and every two years to change the eye as she grows.
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Bucky As Captain America Statue
August 14, 2009 by BaseGuardian
Filed under Toy News
Greetings heroes/citizen. This is a short + lazy post as I'm rarely update my site lately.Here is a 12″ statue of Bucky as Modern Captain America Statuefrom Sideshow Collectibles, deym this is tempting. Too bad I don't collect statues. Anyway for collectors, this statue does not come very cheap, it's price is $264.99 but for fans of Bucky as Captain America I think this is a must. Enjoy the pics!
Product Type:Polystone Statue
Product Size:12″ H (304.8mm)
Product Weight:5.00 lbs (2.27 kg)
Est. Shipping Weight:5.00 lbs (2.27 kg)
Ps/ toldja this is a short +lazy post
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In the current Apple frenzy, what's better than a post about an old Apple product: the Airport Express. Small and versatile, this device can be used for several different applications but it's most popular to send music over wi-fi (to your good ole' amplifier located on the other side of your apartment for example). It's also a pretty cheap thing.
I mentioned in my last post that I was using my little last.fm reader script to feed an Airport Express and somebody asked me how. First, I have to say that there isn't much to do, thanks to the nice raop client created by Aaron Patterson. So like many other Ruby hacks, it starts with a:
gem install raop-client
Playing an MP3 file to your Airport is now just a small script and a command away:
require 'raop'
raop = Net::RAOP::Client.new("192.168.1.63")
# Closer to 0 is louder
raop.play $stdin
What looks like an IP address above (192.168.1.63) really is an IP address. It's the one of your Airport Express on your local network, I'm sure you now how to find it (hint: your router probably knows). Save this script in a file (aex.rb for example). It takes a stream of raw wav as input, so we'll need to summon the power of LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) to produce the stream:
lame --decode "Joe Dassin - Les Champs-Élysées.mp3" - | ruby aex.rb
Mind the dash after the file name, it's important. If you're not a Linux happy user ™, you'll need to get LAME. If you're a Windows user, good luck with the pipe. Divide & Conquer with Cygwin would probably work though.
Note that making open source software that uses MP3 files isn't an easy task. The Fraunhofer Society owns a patent on the MP3 format and has enforced it in several occasions (generating a good deal of revenue). Everything that encodes, decodes or reads MP3s have to pay and yes, that includes your iPod. I don't think it ever went directly against open source developers but then it never said it wouldn't either. A very reasonable move would be to authorize GPL licensed software to use their patent. I'm sure they use open source software as well, so they should really stop leaching.
Anyway you're now happily playing songs to your Airport Express but you're still missing the last.fm part. As I said, raop client accepts any wav stream so it's just a matter of piping the last.fm stream (obtained in my last installment) through LAME and redirecting that to raop client.
To glue this with the last.fm script I've shown you last time, just do:
lastfm = LastFM.login("mriou", "****")
aex = AirportListener.new("192.168.1.65")
If you want to see the whole script plus a few additional niceties, it's available on Rubyforge. You can checkout the whole thing and then run bin/lastfm.rb.
svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/dubya/trunk dubya
Happy listening!


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Information from news search engine Moreover is now available at both AltaVista and NBCi, giving users of these services easier access to quality news content from across the web.
At AltaVista, try a search for "us budget," and you'll see examples of news links appearing just above the regular numbered results. Two headlines are shown, and if you select the "News on..." link above the headlines, you'll get a full-list of relevant news stories for that topic. Selecting the "News" tab above the search box on the results page works the same way.
The integration of headlines directly into the main results should help users locate news content with little effort. For example, many people may currently be searching for Napster. Some people want to know what's happening in the legal actions against the music site, while others simply wish to reach it. A search for "napster" at AltaVista now easily satisfies both at once, since Napster-related headlines and a link to the Napster site both appear.
Of course, the results for that particular search could have been better. The same story was repeated twice, and the Napster link in the regular web results was to the company's press page. In contrast, Google aces this particular test. It provided three relevant news headlines about Napster above its regular results, which themselves began with a link directly to the Napster home page.
AltaVista's use of Moreover still gives it an news search advantage, however. Moreover's collection of news content is much broader than the more limited news wires that Google hits. For example, selecting the "News on napster" link above the headlines at AltaVista reveals many links to news content from providers such as CNN, USA Today, The Boston Globe as well as Billboard, MTV and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
News headlines may not always appear at AltaVista when you expect them. For example, searches for "kuwait bombing" and "foot and mouth" suggested no headlines, despite these both currently being prominent news stories. No doubt this will improve as AltaVista fine-tunes the system -- it isn't even being formally announced until next Monday. However, news junkies may still prefer to go directly to the AltaVista news search site (see link below), which allows you to specifically search against Moreover's collection of stories. From there, searches for the two topics mentioned brought up plenty of stories.
NBCi has also recently begun using Moreover's news information. After performing a search, you'll see a new "Latest News" link just under the search box, on the results page. Select the link, and you'll be shown news stories related to your original search. By default, stories are listed with the newest first. However, the "Source" link above the headlines lets you resort by alphabetically by source -- all stories from ABC Online would come first, then the BBC, and so on. The "Relevance" link puts the stories in order of what NBCi believes are most relevant to your search.
As with AltaVista, NBCi also has a standalone news search area. Within it is the "Today's Headlines" area, and a "Headline News Search" box at the top of the page lets you search against the Moreover collection of stories.
As a reminder, iWon is another major search site to use Moreover's information. After searching, you'll find some headlines related to your search at the bottom of the results page, in the "News Articles" section. Selecting the small "More" link to the right of the News Articles section brings up additional stories. You can also begin a news search from the iWon news area.
AltaVista News
Blending Vertical Results & Other AltaVista Improvements
The Search Engine Report, March 5, 2001
More details about "blending" shopping information at AltaVista, in the way news information is now being blended into the main results.
NBCi Today's Headlines Area
iWon News
Breaking The News Barrier
The Search Engine Report, Aug. 2, 2000
More about how Moreover works, plus information about Yahoo's Full Coverage news areas.
If you like Moreover, then Net2One is also worth a look. Like Moreover, it provides news feeds and keyword searching of news content from across the web. Editions for France, Sweden and the UK are also available via links at the bottom of the page. I expect to do a closer review of the service in the near future.
Another dedicated news search service worth trying and also on my list for a closer review, in the near future.
If you are after technology news, this new service aims to deliver top articles each day in different areas. Stories are reviewed and classified by human editors.
News Search Engines
Links to even more dedicated news search engines.


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Top 10 Greatest Robots In Movies
Everyone loved robots, and they have been the source of umpteen movies, books, and comics. In homage to the robots of film, we have picked the 10 greatest. This list is restricted entirely to robots in movies – there are no robots here from television. I have also excluded robots that are part of a large group, such as the droid army from Attack of the Clones.