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Republic of Ireland
Population: 4,588,252 (est.)
Language(s): English, Irish
Capital: Dublin
Interesting Facts:
- The Euro (€) is the official currency of the Republic of Ireland.
- Religious freedom is constitutionally provided for in Ireland. Christianity is the predominant religion, with the Roman Catholic Church as the largest church.
- Around 86.8% of the population identify themselves as Roman Catholic, 4.8% as Protestant or another Christian religion and 2% as non-Christian. According to the 2006 census, the non-religious group has now become the second largest group after Roman Catholic.
- According to a Georgetown University study, the country has one of the highest rates of regular Mass attendance in the Western World.
- Whilst Ireland today ranks amongst the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita, the country was once one of the poorest in Western Europe.
- The Irish consume in average 131.1 liters of beer per year – the 2nd highest per-capita consumption after the Czech Republic.
- Famous Irish breweries include Guinness, Smithwicks (Kilkenny), and Harp Lager.
- The ancestral language of Irish people is Irish Gaelic. Nowadays 1.6 million people claim a self-reported competence in Irish, but only 380,000 fluent speakers remain.
- Many Irish family names start with "Mac" or "O'…", which means respectively "son of …" and "grandson of …" in Gaelic.
- Ireland is a snake-free island. Due to its isolation from the European mainland, Ireland lacks several species common elsewhere in Europe, such as moles, weasels, polecats or roe deer.
- Ireland was the last country in Europe to permit divorce. It was narrowly approved by a 1995 referendum when only 50.28% voted in favour.
- Ireland has long been in religious feuds with its northern neighbours Northern Ireland, this has lead to many wars and 'troubles'.
Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a sovereign state in Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. It is a unitary parliamentary republic with an elected president serving as head of state. The head of government—called the Taoiseach—is nominated by the lower house of parliament (Dáil Éireann). The capital is Dublin in the east of the island. The state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint George's Channel to the south east, and the Irish Sea to the east.
The modern Irish state gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1922 following a war of independence resulting in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, with Northern Ireland exercising an option to remain in the United Kingdom. Initially a dominion within the British Empire called the Irish Free State, a new constitution and the name of "Ireland" were adopted in 1937. In 1949 the remaining duties of the British monarch were removed and Ireland was declared a republic, with the description Republic of Ireland. The state had no formal relations with Northern Ireland for most of the twentieth century, but since 1999 they have co-operated on a number of policy areas under the North-South Ministerial Council created under the Good Friday Agreement.
Whilst Ireland today ranks amongst the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita, the country was once one of the poorest in Western Europe. Economic protectionism was dismantled in the late 1950s and Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Economic liberalism from the late 1980s onwards resulted in rapid economic expansion, particularly from 1995 to 2007, which became known as the Celtic Tiger period. An unprecedented financial crisis beginning in 2008 ended this era of rapid economic growth.
In 2011, Ireland was ranked the seventh most developed nation in the world by the United Nations' Human Development Index, Ireland is also highly ranked for press, economic and political freedom. Ireland is a member of the European Union and is a founding member of the Council of Europe and the OECD. It pursues a policy of neutrality through non-alignment and consequently is not a member of NATO, although it does participate in Partnership for Peace.
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I'm taking a break from blogging about food in China to give a quick shout out to my mom for bringing me a lovely little gift for Christmas. Before hopping on a plane to visit me in DC, she stopped at my favorite bakery in Birmingham and picked up a box of a dozen muffins! (Well, it ended up being 11 because she ate one along the way. I cannot fault her for that.)
Let's talk about Magic Muffins for a moment. This bakery has been around since I was a child.
In addition to muffins, they also make other pastries and delicious cakes. Growing up, the coveted birthday cake was the Barbie cake, with a real Barbie doll in the middle and the cake was her dress (I don't know if they still make it. That might be outdated.) Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that the cakes are among the best I've ever eaten (not just because they looked like Barbies.)
Magic Muffins has an assortment of muffins, each as good as the next (I got these from the website. I highlighted my favorites. I don't think this is an exhaustive list):
Wild Blueberry, Banana Nut, Carrot Pecan, German Apple, Chocolate Chip, Zucchini Carrot, Pumpkin Spice, Oatbran, Blueberry Oatbran, Cherry Jubilee, Peach Streusel, Morning Glory, Chocolate Chip (all of these are low fat!); and Orange Pineapple, Poppy, Chocolate, Strawberry (these last four are fat free!).
I don't know how they make all their muffins low fat yet so delicious (it's truly magical.) I just can't get enough of them, so it's quite a treat to have them hand delivered. Thanks mom!

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Marcy Jo's
New Hours! We are open Thursday 7am-2pm, Friday 7am-2 pm & 5pm-8pm and Saturday 7am-2pm
Hours Barn Concert Weekend ONLY: Friday 7AM-8PM --- Saturday 7AM-6PM
On the corner of Highways 99 and 431, in the small community of Pottsville (between Chapel Hill and Columbia, TN) sits a refurbished old mercantile store built in the 1890's. Once a major gathering place for the farmers and families of the area, it's now a charming restaurant and bakery, thriving with new life, great fellowship and food. Opened in January of '07 by Joey and her sister-in-law Marcy (Rory's younger sister), the eatery has quickly become one of the most popular restaurants and music venues in middle Tennessee.
Whether it's the breads and bakery items that are homemade every morning or the gourmet country cooking that came from family recipes, you're sure to love your visit. You never know, Joey and Rory might even pull out their guitar and sing you a song while you're there. If you're in the area stop in and visit.
- -Joey co-owns and helps run this little cafe near their farm in Tennesee
- -Marcy Jo's is featured in J+R's Overstock.com commercials
- -Joey still works there when she's not on the road, baking bread and helping out whenever she can.


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Say Goodbye To Saturn, Pontiac GM will file its restructuring plan on Tuesday, and is expected to cut its brands down to four — Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick. [NYT]
Just great….I guess this means that parts for the 08 Saturn VUE will be cheap now that GM is dropping the Saturn line.
@Sndtrkman: Isn't the Vue just a re-badged Equinox or other Chevy/GM vehicle?
@failurate: that is why GM has too many lines
@failurate: Not really, I think it was originally designed to be the Saturn's first attempt at an SUV. Granted, the earlier models were crap but I did like how they streamlined the VUE's to make them more unique in a way. I got mine last year and so far it is a huge step up from when I used to drive a 92 Jeep Cherokee.
@failurate: Yep, the Equinox was based on the VUE's platform.
The second gen VUE is now pretty much an Opel Antara/Daewoo Winstorm
@Sndtrkman: Actually, the spare parts will be fewer (due to no more models being put on the road), thus more expensive. Replacing a part on the short lived Chevy Aveo (a low priced car) is much more expensive than you'd expect for just such a reason.
I worked in a Saturn shop late last year (Got laid off in the first round of auto shop lay offs in NJ) and this was the rumour floating around. It's sad to see certain cars go (The SKY. My oh my I will miss that car. And no the Solstice isn't a good replacement!).
But this isn't a surprise. If you look at the car model lines that they have had recently, namely the Astra, you can see that Saturn was becoming more about "Hey lets take crap from Europe, make it there and sell it for FAR too much here!" Sure the Astra was going to get made in Mexico starting in 09, but it was too little too late.
@SinDex23: That's pretty much what they did with Oldsmobile 10 years ago.
@SinDex23: Thank you for mentioning those cars. I couldn't actually think of a single Saturn model. "Hmm, so there's the one that's a Chevy Malibu and then there's the little one just like the Pontiac only with edges and then the one that's the Opal in Europe and doesn't do as well there as the Euro Focus…"
It's too bad people are losing jobs over this.
@KyleOrton: You mean the (at least) 2 that are rebadged Opels – Opel Vectra = Saturn Aura (which is pretty close to, if not the same as the Malibu) and Opel Astra = Saturn Astra.
@KyleOrton: It's funny that you mention the new Malibu, because the new Malibu is nothing more than a rebranded Aura. There's also the Outlook which got rebranded into the Acadia, Enclave and the Traverse. Saturn was often used as a test bed for other GM models. Quite a shame though.
The ironic part is that the Aura sold better than the Malibu, at least in Northern NJ from what I've seen. I see more Auras around here than comparable year Malibus.
@SinDex23: Was going to say the new Malibu thats selling so well is simply a rebadged Aura minus the better tran/engine configuration and chevified (which is to say making a good import looking car look like garbage, though not nearly as bad as the previous model.)
The only reason the Aura sold poor was GM was already killing Saturn with no advertising whatsoever come 2007 when it was released. Same with the Astra, no one even knows it exists because you will never see a commercial for it.
From 94 on Saturn was dying. GM went out of its way to bring them back in from being a experiment once Saturn was their only brand in the black in 93, and raped them for all it was worth.
@Jim Topoleski: I think the real pisser was that the Aura won the 2007 Domestic car of the year and then in 2008 the Malibu won. So technically the Aura won two years in a row. Yet they never pushed it as hard as they should have.
The Astra was just a mess to begin with. If it had been priced lower than a Civic, it would have sold. But the fact that they made it in Belgium and shipped it to the US really killed the price point.
@SinDex23: Here is the thing though, during the employee pricing with 0% and $1K off deal that one week the Astra was priced competitively to the Golf and the Golf is priced competitively to the higher trim Civics. If I had needed a replacement for a hatchback at that moment I would have gotten one, but I would have needed to travel more than 30 miles to the nearest Saturn dealership with any Astras on the lot. There really never were many Astras around due to how much more GM made selling them in Europe than here. A used Astra might be in my future now, maybe they will depreciate rapidly now.
It is a shame because the current smallish Astra (not the larger upcoming European model) built in the US, Canada, or Mexico and sold as a Chevy would be a hit. Right now the only small 5 door that GM has is the Aveo, and that feels just like an American consumer expects a small cheap 5 door to feel, which is not good. Consumers are going to turn away from the SUVs and are going to have much more European sensibilities when making new car purchases. They will pick the value in a small sedan, 5-door, or wagon over the cheapness that GM has on offer. That does not bode well for GM.
@SinDex23: i agree. the sky (to me) looks a lot better than the solstice – it's pretty much just a rebranded opel gt, but that's what makes it so kick ass. the solstice just looks too…bubbly? i dunno. there's something not right about that grill.
i wish they'd maintain some of the product lines, but reserve them for specific purposes. like, when you want to roll out a high-performance beast coupe, break out the pontiac name. but if the choice is between selling these reskinned holdens & killing the brand, i'd have to say kill the brand.
@mac-phisto: Agreed. On both the Awesomeness of the Sky and the whole using the brands as specialty items. But even then you know GM would cock it up some how. Do the letters GTO mean anything to us?
@SinDex23: You know the solstice is a Pontiac, right? So it's gone to. The only car left from that line will be the Opel, and that's Europe only.
@B: Does anyone else bump their head/jam their neck exiting a new Malibu? Their door design, with the lip that makes the roof seem higher on inside and makes the window look sleeker on the outside, got me twice during a weekend rental.
@B: I realized that after I wrote my comment. I'd say good riddance, but they are such fun little cars to drive. I just never liked the front grill of the Solstice. Put the hard top on the Sky and now we are talking.
I had more fun test driving a customer's Sky Redline. Thankfully we had to put 100 miles on it to check to see if it's injectors were fried along with a few other intermittent issues. Man those things take off like a rocket.
Oh man, I liked Pontiac. Sure the last 30 or 40 years they were just rebadged Chevys, but for the most part they looked better
@pockygt: Their "performance" cars for the last 10 or 15 years have been seriously underrated. The G6 GTP was actually pretty quick, as were their other GXP / GTP cars with turbos / s/c's. Hopefully the G8 will move over to Chevy as an Impala or something.
@nataku83: i both love and hate my gtp…
@nataku83: where's the "excitement", though? the last time i was excited about a pontiac was when they unveiled the widetrack grand prix GTP coupe. even though the new GTO was sporting 400 horses under the hood, it was wrapped in an awful skin.
@mac-phisto: Yes, it's a type of car called a "sleeper" which used to be very appreciated. The outward appearance, while attractive, does not bely the performance potential of the vehicle. Look up one of the best sleepers of all time, the Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3 ([en.wikipedia.org]).
I guess American automotive design has decayed to a point where there are very few individuals left who can appreciate the subtlety of this particular type of car. By the way, this car did very well in Australia with the exact same body style and a similar front fascia.
@nataku83: I think the problem is that subtlety has never been Pontiac's strong suit. Anyone who appreciated it had long ago been turned off by the acres of plastic cladding Pontiac slathered on all their designs, and gone elsewhere.
@nataku83: see, i love sleepers (that's why i mentioned the widetrack grand prix). but that design…ugh. i just found nothing appealing about it. & the fact that the GTO was a holden – there's something very unamerican about that. the australians can keep it.
the key to a good sleeper (imo) is it has to look just mean enough & it has to have a unique design so that when the guy in the sports car gets smoked by it, he'll know enough next time he sees the car not to rev his engine. great sleeper out there today? jeep grand cherokee srt8. different enough, but not too different. stylized lines, but not overly sporty. & it pains me to say this, b/c i hate jeeps.
that's where the new GTO failed (imo). it doesn't look mean (hood scoops =/= mean). it doesn't look different. the first time i saw one, i thought it was a dodge intrepid. that's pissing all over what the GTO is all about.
@mac-phisto: I wouldn't dig too hard on the Australians. There are two countries in the world where cheap cars that are fast in a straight line are prized, and those two are the U.S. and Australia. Cross pollination between the American and Australian auto markets is a good thing, IMHO, because there's a strong "muscle car" culture in both places.
@mac-phisto: I thought the GTOs were pretty nice looking before they put the hood scoops on them – nice 2-dr sport coupe. IMO, the SRT8 Jeep went overboard with the very ricer looking front valance, skirts and ridiculous big chrome wheels. There isn't a whole lot of subtlety there. Despite my defense of the GTO, though, I actually do hate them. I haven't ever seen one on the road that wasn't running some kind of horrible flowmaster exhaust – I guess the owners try to compensate for look with the sound!
@pockygt: Pontiac can burn in hell for what they did or, more accurately, didn't do with the revived GTO. A better engine and leather thrown into a Cavalier-looking rent-a-car wannabe doesn't make it a GTO. A pox on them.
@Yossarian: The only mistake Pontiac made with the GTO was calling it a GTO, and then putting the hood scoop on once they upgraded to the LS2. I'd hardly call a small block, 400 hp, RWD sport coupe with a 6-spd stick that handled pretty nicely a rent-a-car wannabe. I guess when you're recycling a classic name, people also expect you to recycle classic lines. If they had just called it the Pontiac Monaro, it probably would have been a big hit. Why doesn't anyone appreciate the concept of a sleeper anymore??
@nataku83: I've had 2 Pontiacs and one Saturn. Both cars died completely in under 6 years with routine maintenance and a driving style that makes grandmothers look like teens. I'm sorry for the loss of jobs this move will cause, but I will not miss these brands.
@Claytons: both = both pontiacs. the saturn was totalled.
@nataku83: My issue was the lack of classic lines which, to me, go hand in hand with the name. The "rent-a-car wannabe" perspective was also based on the appearance, not the performance.
Sleepers are fine. Monaros — Holden, Pontiac, or whatever — are fine. The car, apart from the name, was fine. It just wasn't a GTO, it was a generic wrapper.
Even a hint of the Coke-bottle curves from the late 60s GTOs and I would have camped at the dealership to get one. As it was, I didn't even want one. The new Camaro screams "classic Camaro." The GTO didn't get the same treatment and I shake my fist in Pontiac's general direction for that failure.
@Yossarian: I don't want a Pontiac to make my dick look bigger. I want one to punch me in the kidneys when lift my foot off the clutch. The GTO did this, splendidly, I was very sad to see it go.
@pockygt: My husband is going to be unhappy at this news too. He's driven nothing but Pontiacs and never wanted to change.
No more Firebirds? Oh well, the 2nd gens were the best anyway.
@IT-Chick: I think the fact that the new Camaro was put into production without a Firebird/TA sibling was foreshadowing of this.
@IT-Chick: Since my 1979 Trans Am got totalled several years ago, I've been crossing my fingers for a next gen T/A. The mock ups looked pretty good, I felt the new Camaro body lent itself more to a Firebird style anyway.
Oh well, no new Trans Am for me. I'm probably better off just getting a 1976 with a 455 HO. Certainly cheaper than any new Trans Am would be, plus I get better style.
I'm OK with letting Pontiac and Saturn go; it makes good business sense. Buick is selling like mad in China, supposedly, and Cadillac has remade its image in the last few years pretty solidly. I do not see why they STILL insist on keeping GMC, perpetually rehashing the Chevrolet truck models. Unless GMC becomes the truck/SUV leader of their brands instead, they're going to continue to hemorrhage money with that brand.
@hellinmyeyes: GMC is also the badge for their line of larger, commercial trucks. It wouldn't make sense to drop that line or rebadge them as chevrolets.
There is no reason they couldn't just relegate that badge to their commercial lines, and drop the Chevy rebadges.
@hellinmyeyes: As a consumer brand, GMC is a complete waste of money. All their cars are rebranded Chevy SUVs. I was surprised that they didn't get rid of GMC.
I had a 2003 Saturn L300 that got totaled last year (some guy t-boned me) and I'm starting to think that it was a blessing – especially since I was having issues with it and since GM Goodwrench places can't work on Saturns and Saturn dealerships can't work on other GM cars.
Kinda sad to see Pontiacs go though. My aunt's '95 Grand Am is still kickin!
Hmm… My dad just drove his new Outlook off the lot 4 days ago. Hmm…
I thought Saturn was a good business model. (Relatively) well made cars for a reasonable and no haggle price. I think the problem was that they continued to cut corners and keep prices too high, until you could get a Civic or Corolla for about the same price.
@ARP: The problem is that Saturn discontinued their best models and replaced them with crap. The SL1 and SL2 were great for the price – I have a ten year old SL2 that I still drive every day. But there is nothing on the Saturn lot I would consider now. The next car is probably going to be a Honda or a Toyota.
@TWinter: I had a an SL1 but it was long time to let that garbage go. Their cars now are amazing and it's sad that GM has made this decision.
@ARP: I think your last line pinpoints the problem. Same with the poster above who knows his Pontiac performance lines. Some of these cars were ok, pretty good or even good. But they weren't BETTER than their competition!
Every make needs a car that is heads above the rest. Even if people don't end up buying it, they come in and see the car that better fits their needs.
@KyleOrton: My 2008 Saturn Sky Redline is in every way better than the competition. It has more horsepower and torque than any of the other four 2 seater roadsters and it costs less than all of them save the Mazda MX5, which it is barely more expensive than considering the MX5 is a $27k car.
Which 4 cars am I talking about? The BMW Z4 (way more expensive.) The Honda s2000 (same ballpark in price, less performance). The Pontiac Solstice (same base specs, less attractive car), and the Mazda MX5 (nearly 100 horsepower less, nearly the same price).
@Heresy_Fnord: An S2000 would run circles around you all day long. Just because your car has more HP doesn't make it "in every way better than the competition". With this logic, your car is also better than the NSX ever was. LOL
@psionix: Keep in mind that most people never explore the upper rev range of their cars. If someone doesn't like keeping their foot down until at least 8,000 RPM then an S2000 isn't going to impress them.
Hondas are just like that. My Civic Si seemed pretty doggy and sedate when short-shifted, but above 5,000 RPM it became a completely different car.
@David Brodbeck: aaah, that's what i miss about my honda. :*( i used to take it up to 8000 revs A LOT. heel-&-toe into a sharp curve & rocket around – felt like the road was throwing me thru the turn. & that was with their 130-hp f22a i4.
i drive a toyota now. comparable in size & features, but it whines like a f*&$ing baby when you take it over 3500rpms. i could get my accord to 60mph in 2nd gear & it loved it – my toyota sounds like the engine's going to explode if i ride 2nd past 45mph.
@ARP: What GM should have done, if they gave a damn about shareholder value, is hand the whole enchilada to the original execs that created Saturn from scratch. They had the correct approach, before the other GM divisions ripped the division to shreds, out of jealously, probably.
@Trai_Dep: Good point, but I think their time to do that passed a few years back. Like I said, it's too bad because the business model was pretty solid, its when GM meddled with the execution that it started to go downhill.
@Heresy_Fnord: I agree that the Saturn Sky Redline is a nice car, but it came too little, too late to save the brand.
@ARP: Saturn was not a good business model. They had one of the highest overheads because the employees were paid so little on commission and bonus. They tried to make-up for that with the service dept and were ham strung by often not having anything but Saturns on their used car lots (Saturn dealerships were mostly satellite dealerships of larger GM dealerships).
Saturn is the only brand I'd ever consider from that company. No matter…when we run our Honda Element into the ground 5+ years from now, we'll just buy another Honda.
@MMD: same.
They really need to get rid of Buick and GMC Trucks, too. This is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Pontiac closing up shop? That's going to hit the superfluous foglight and molded plastic industry hard.
@rpm773: I thought they ditched pontiac years ago. Shows what I know…
@Closed captioning provided by Homerjay: Maybe you're thinking of Oldsmobile. (I don't know what that would have done to my grandfather, but he died before they killed off Olds.)
Supposedly Saab is going to be spun off and become an independent company as well.
I never understood having so many brands, often with overlapping cars that just have different fenders on them or something like that.
@chrisgeleven: The original idea was to provide a progression of price points. You would start out with a Chevy, or maybe a Pontiac if you wanted something sportier and some day when you were making more money you'd trade up to a Buick or an Oldsmobile, depending on your tastes. (Buick used to make cars with radical, extroverted styling, believe it or not.) Eventually, when you were well off, you'd trade up to a Cadillac.
Over the years, though, the brands kind of lost their distinctions as more and more badge engineering happened between the model lines. This really collapsed in the 1980s when you often had the same car with different trim being sold as a Chevy, Buick, Oldsmobile, and in at least one case even as a Cadillac.
@chrisgeleven: Thank the gods. As I said in my own comment, I love Saab. Maybe as an independent company they'll be able to work on some new models, which GM never let them do.
@Alex Duzik: I agree, before GM starved them and meddled with their designs/engineering, Saabs were solid cars. Maybe they'll get some of their mojo back as an independent company.
Bummer about Pontiac. They made all of the GM cars I liked. Well, they did until they discontinued the Bonneville. Oh well.
As for Saturn, wow, that should have died off a long time ago. It'd be nice to see GMC go away, too. Really, it's not even badge engineering; it's just a badge!
@balthisar: The 90's Saturn (stupid crappy economy cars) died off back in the 90's.
Saturn's cars now are fantastic.
So…does this mean that there will be good deals to be had on Pontiacs?
I was looking at the Vibe/Matrix as a nice fuel efficient car, but it's a little too pricey for what it is (dressed up econo-hatchback). Any predictions?
Buick? Really? Somehow, Buick turned enough of a profit to edge out Saturn and Pontiac? That's surprising.
@SabreDC: Honestly, I was surprised to learn that Buicks were still being made. Apparently, there are still a LOT of really old people out there.
Buick is actually a highly in-demand and well received product.. in China! Yes, that is where Buick's bread and butter is, and its an emerging market.
@ophmarketing: They should just merge Buick and Caddy and have one line of old-people cars.
Why are they keeping Buick? That brand hasn't been relevant in YEARS.
@psionix: Who ever would sponsor golf tournaments if they got rid of it, though?
@drjayphd: Cadillac.
@psionix: Buicks are actually highly revered in China. I'd have to presume that the GM bosses think that's a very important market in the upcoming years (of course, with Americans no longer on a spending spree, we'll see just how well that pans out. It's certainly interesting times we're in.)
@dangermike: They sell more Buicks in China then they do in the US.
Saturn had to go… too little business selling overpriced badge-engineered cars. Any schmuck with a clue can get a no-haggle new-car deal these days, you just have to ask for a firm quote and call more than one dealer. (And Saturn still made you dicker around with a price for your trade-in, if you were so inclined.) After they went 100% badge engineered, Saturn became "You pay MSRP minus incentives, every time." What a lousy deal.
I would have dropped Buick before Pontiac though…
@sirwired: Every time I got a quote from the local Saturn dealership, it was a no haggle price, but if you added incentives back in, the starting point was still at least a grand under MSRP. In the current lineup, yes, the Aura, and Outlook are heavily badge engineered, the Vue and Sky less so (very distinguished exteriors, and I believe the Vue is pretty distinguished from the Equinox / Torrent, even if they are on the same or similar platforms). The Astra is only badge engineered with a car that isn't available in the US, so that really doesn't count. I think the major failing with the Astra was trying to meet enthusiast demands for a European hatch – it just doesn't really work over here and you can't get the price down low enough.
Crap. All I've ever had were Pontiacs (I'm on my second Sunfire, only after the first was totaled) and I was looking forward to getting another Vibe in the next few years. Suppose I could get nice used on. And oddly enough, my wife's two most recent cars were Saturns.
@Gaambit: Well for the vibe you can always get a toyota matrix. The vibe uses all the same engine components its just the body thats diff.
The heartbreaking story of Saturn is the essence of why GM must fail.
When the car was introduced with a clean sheet design and no haggle pricing,customers did what had once been unthinkable : They began to consider a GM entry level car as a real alternative to Japanese rivals. Add into the buying experience a dealer network that consistently blew away the other GM makes (to say nothing of Ford and Chrysler) and it seems like the corporate overlords at GM were onto something big.
Alas,these stupid,greedy,arrogant assholes blew it.You had to look awfully hard to see the GM influence in the early days of Saturn. (There was no large GM logos stuck on the early cars),and of course,with success,the dark forces at GM just had to get their incompetent hands on the thing.
First,some drone in accounting decided that they needed a mid size car (bigger car = bigger profits) Disaster soon followed. GM just about couldn't give the last ones away.Then the Saturn ION redefined what a bad small car could be. Later, GM and the UAW signed a murder/suicide pact that let the UAW into the Saturn plant. Uh Oh,bad move.Then,the powers that be in the bowels of GM decided that they needed an SUV (even though previous Saturn buyers are the LAST people on earth that would drive the things) and suddenly nobody could quite tell you what a Saturn was anymore.
Naturally,GM being GM, things got worse.Now,Saturns are just rebadged Opels with all kinds of Euroquirks that make them unsuitable for here.Sales are almost non existent.
The point is,any "rescue" plan for GM MUST broom the current management. They have destroyed the whole company and now the same people that wrecked the ship are being asked how to right it.
@Snarkysnake: I really like my L-series – the only car it's similar to in the US is the Saab 9-5. It gets very good gas mileage for a mid-size wagon, and with it's tiny 4-pot in the 9-5 size body you can pretty much step into the engine compartment. Still, most people in the world don't share my taste…
@Snarkysnake: yeah, that's unfortunate. reminds me of the tucker story.
only thing…i remember studying the saturn concept in college as part of an engineering/labor-management principles course & i remember reading that they were trying to sell GM on an SUV back then (late 90's). had they been given the go-ahead, i think it could have succeeded during the SUV boom, but by the time they entered the marketplace, it was saturated with competition in the "mini-suv" niche (hyundai santa fe, ford escape, jeep liberty, to name a few).
think of how revolutionary a mid-sized suv would have been 5 years before…the only comparable i can think of at the time would be the jeep cherokee.
important to note that while the GM-saturn relationship wasn't very apparent until recently, the leash afforded to saturn was awfully short. they didn't have independence in management, which made realizing their dream impossible.
@Snarkysnake: Um the UAW contract existed from the getgo. The UAW originally had a huge stake in Saturn as did the workers who had full control to stop the line if they noticed a design flaw that was overlooked by managers.
What ended up happening is after Saturn was the only GM brand in 93 to make a profit, GM went in and renegotiated the contract into exactly like all their other ones, plus brought Saturn into the GM nest as opposed to it being its own thing.
Thats when things took a turn for the worst.
how did the ion redefine bad small cars? I have a 2004 ion quad coupe, and so far besides oil changes, I have only spent $200 on it. about 80,000 miles on it.
not my ideal choice of a car, but the dealer was hurting, and i got it for way cheap new.
@ryan_h: It didn't, and in truth even Car and Driver went back and changed its opinion of it after using it as a long term test for a number of years.
The center dash though is what people get peeved about. Interesting they gave a pass to the Toyota Echo but Saturn got badmouthed.
IF they close pontiac what will happen to that plant that pontiac and toyota run that create the matrix and pontiac vibe?
Hopefully they will rebadge the Vibe to a Chevy. It really is the best small car GM sells right now.
I wonder what will happen to the Saturn plant? I grew up one town over, and there used to be nothing but cow pastures in Spring Hill, TN, and it's been a boom-town for more than a decade. If they don't shift some manufacturing to the plant in Spring Hill that place will become a ghost town in a matter of seconds.
@Claytons: Actually they already retooled the plant, I think now it produces the Chevy Traverse.
@Kavatar: That's good to hear. Hopefully they can do the same for other Pontiac and Saturn plants.
@Claytons: There are no Saturn plants anymore (the Astra is built with the Opal versions and imported from Germany, the Vue is Mexican on the same line as a few Chevys, and the others American but same story as the Vue, built on lines with other cars.)
But GM is already saying they are axing a TON of plants and workers by March.
So how does this news affect service, upkeep, repair, and maintenance of pre-existing cars of the discontinued lines?
@Limecrete: GM by law has to honor the warrantees on them.
@Limecrete: My question exactly. My only issue with my Saturn is that I have to take it an hour away to get work done. I always get a free loaner from the dealership, but a lot of places in my town give me the "oh we can't work on Saturns" runaround.
I know I sound like an idiot, but what do I do?
@Maegan Anderman: As of I think Dec, all GM dealers with service departments had to cover Saturns now. So you can pretty much go to any GM service department to get work done, and if they say no, call GM on them for violating their service department contract.
I was hoping to replace my 96 Saturn SL2 with a new model when it finally wears out. Looks like its managed to outlast the company. My second choice would have been a Pontiac.
What I remember most about Saturn are the humongous door gaps they had to use to keep the plastic body panels from swelling shut in hot weather. It made for some truly cheap-looking cars.
@David Brodbeck: Cheap maybe, but they lasted.
Neither of my SL2s I got rid of looked used. They still looked as good as the day I got them used, and with my first one being my fathers, as good as the day he got it.
Say what you will about the plastic body panels, but you could kick the living crap out of them and not even see a spider mark. I only hope my Aura lasts as long.
'Tis a shame about Saturn… my 1998 SL1 managed to survive a good 10 years, six of which were spent getting driven into the ground by me. Over 100,000 miles in those six years, surprised just about everyone involved.
So the four brands they're cutting would appear to include Hummer and Saab in addition to Pontiac and Saturn. That makes me very sad, since I looooooove my Saab — it's one of the few things GM has managed not to screw up, although they haven't done much with the line, either. I hope Saab isn't going away. Really, GM, in a coupla years I'll buy a new one!
@Alex Duzik: I hope they sell the line rather than let it die. With a fresh perspective, dropping some of that GM crap-engineering, and adding some new designs, Saab might actually be an audi competitor again (remember that?).
@ARP: no one wants it. GMs been trying to sell Saab and Hummer for half a year now, not even the Swedes want it.
@Jim Topoleski: Oh the Swedes are willing to pay for it, just pennies to the dollar, that is why GM is not interested.
I love my '95 Saturn SC1. I don't know what I'll do when I have to replace it, but at the rate its going it should be good for another 100,000. It's the most reliable car I've ever had and the gas mileage is great!!! Hopefully, they will be bought by someone who will bring them back to their roots!
Who didn't see something like this coming?
They still have too many brands that suck. Who would keep Buick?
Toyota is getting dangerously close to that trap of over branding as well.
@Skankingmike: Here is the interesting twist.
1) Buick actually sells really well in China DESPITE doing worse than Saturn in the US yet more dealers selling their cars (Saturn averages 450 cars a dealer sold, Buick something like 120). Problem is GM went out of its way to include Buicks with Pontiacs a while back so unlike Saturn where they can just shut down the 400 dealers they have, they would have to give major incentives to the Pontiac/Buick dealers.
2) GM is already turning Buick into Saturn. The new LaCrosse for 2010? That was Saturns Aura replacement, and is basically a Opal Insight. They have also converted their Saturn/Opal partnership into a Buick/Opal one (kinda of going back into time here, since thats how it was 30 years ago)
3) Despite calls from just about EVERYONE they are keeping GMC…. which is the WORST offender of badge engineering on GMs lot. They claim commercial sales, the only problem being they have a Chevy commercial line as well that sells the SAME cars just with new names slightly different interior, and a big bowtie on the front.
@Jim Topoleski: I've heard GMC has an absurd level of brand loyalty. That's probably why they're keeping it.
@David Brodbeck: No its the same reason that they are keeping Buick. GMC dealers are usually Buick and Pontiac dealers.
The dealer chains these days except for a couple hundred dealers here or there go
Pontiac > Buick > GMC
Chevy > Caddie
Saab > Hummer
Thats part of why its so easy to kill the last three, for the most part they have no connection to the brands that where GMs name plus they have dealer contracts that are much looser than the core brand ones which basically penalize GM if they close the brand.
The only brand GM actually has that really had serious loyalty (ie if they couldnt get this they would not buy GM period) was Saturn. Even GMC buyers would buy Chevys if they couldn't buy a GMC based on internal surveys.
@Jim Topoleski: Ah so once more I will be able to buy a new Opel from a Buick dealership. Let's hope for GM's sake it won't go as badly as it did before.
@Skankingmike: I'm sure an economist can correct me, but I never understood how having such a diluted product line could work. It would seem that they need to have 1-2 models for each category (small SUV, Mid-sized sedan, etc.)
@ARP: Your forgetting when this model was made.
There WAS no dilution. There was no such things as SUV, minivans, and more important… foreign cars.
Gm never grew up. They took a model they turned themselves into in the 80's and kept going with it till it killed them. Worse the few times they tried to change the model (ie Saturn which was originally not badge engineered at all) They went in and killed it for more profit in the short term.
Well so long Saturn Sky, it was so much better looking than the Solstice. I guess that one will go too.
@valthun: The platform is gone. Only a Opel remains (which is basically a copy of the Sky) But GM killed the replacement 6 months ago.
Goddamnit. I drive Pontiacs and now they're going to kill them. The fact that they are keeping GMC is beyond ridiculous. They are rebranded Chevy's! The G6 and G8 are their best cars next the the Malibu. Well at least I can get a good used Pontiac still.
@Sollus: beg to differ. While the G8s are wonderful, the G6s is the worst of the three (Aura G6 Malibu)
Nothing against the 6, but its the oldest and doesnt have the better transmissions or engines.
GMCs are re-badged Chevys. Might as well get rid of that brand, too.
Saturn: how to toss millions of dollars of brand loyalty down the toilet.
"A Different Kind of Car Company." circa 1990. Apparently it was too different so GM killed it…
R.I.P. Saturn: the US company small car that could have been a contender against the imports…
They should have hacked this years ago. I even posted on Lutz's blog about it.
Kill Buick and Oldsmobile along with Chevy Trucks and all the SUVs branded other than GMC
Saturn- small cars, uptrim/performance under a "Saturn Performance Group" trim level
Chevy- midsized level cars only- uptrim or performance to a "Pontiac" trim level- no trucks or SUVs
GMC- trucks and SUVs only, and include Hummer under the umbrella. Premium SUVs or Trucks under a separate trim level name
Cadillac- premium large cars only, ultra performance/trim levels under a "LaSalle" trim level
Corvette- make it its own brand for Gm's sports cars
Sadly no one listened…
So no Pontiac El Camino than eh? lol
You know what GM? You can JUST GO BANKRUPT.
You got rid of 1 out of 2 brands that I actually LIKED.
First you RUINED IT by desecrating the GTO name and giving it a rebranded HOLDEN, then you crap on it even more by giving it a REBRANDED AVEO which is ultimately a REBRANDED DAEWOO.
Now, after RUINING THE BRAND, you go off and KILL IT. It had a chance with the G8 and the Solstice, but you do what you always do and RUIN THINGS.
Remember Oldsmobile? They were finally getting things right with cars like the Aurora, but instead you decide to KILL IT and keep a crap brand like BUICK around.
I will NEVER buy a GM product again. You've killed nearly ALL of your good brands. The only one left worth considering is Cadillac, and knowing the way you do things, it'll probably be killed off too sooner or later.


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Editor's Note: The Perry County News is publishing a series of interviews conducted by eighth-graders in Joyce Stath's English class at Tell City Junior-Senior High School. The interviews are of people one or two generations older than students. Today's column is by Leo Simpson, who profiles the life of Louie Heitkemper.
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Guest Columnist
We were driving the back roads in central Perry County. My wife and I were on our way to a mowing job. We've been cutting grass for a living for 20 years now. It's hard, sweaty work but it keeps you in shape. We own the business and we're outdoors and in the sun, which means a lot to both of us.
By VINCE LUECKE
A small act of kindness I tried to keep secret didn't stay that way a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't upset and actually walked away feeling lucky for the blessings I've been given.
Sitting down for lunch at King Chef, I spied a nun a few tables away. I have a soft spot in my heart for nuns and decided that I was going to buy her lunch. So I went to the checkout counter, paid for my meal and hers and asked that the sister not be told who bought her lunch.
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More than 600 Google Chromebooks were handed out a few weeks ago at Tell City Junior-Senior High School and so far have been a good success and asset to the classroom. If the wireless Internet service at school is working well it certainly seems to make class simpler.
As the Perry County News has reported, board members approved the purchase of the books to ensure all students are on as equal footing as possible when it comes to technology-based learning.
By JOE DONELLY
U.S Senator
My top priorities have always been to strengthen Indiana's economy and to help create Hoosier jobs. We can all agree – Democrats and Republicans – that the recent government shutdown and the threat of failing to pay our nation's bills were a significant setback to this seemingly simple goal.
By RICHARD YOUNG
State Senator
Indiana's agriculture sector has long been the backbone of the Hoosier economy. In 2011 alone, the Indiana Business Research Center estimates Indiana ag contributed $37.9 billion in economic output and supported 190,000 jobs. To ensure agriculture remains a vital driver of economic activity, it's imperative lawmakers consider common sense options to improving and diversifying yields.
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We've got most of the property-tax numbers for 2013 now. Let's look at what happened to homeowner tax bills.
Why homeowners and not farmers, landlords or business owners? Because there are more homeowners than any other kind of property owner. Besides, I'm a homeowner and I want to know.
The Legislative Services Agency is posting its annual reports on the property tax by county for 2013.
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A strong wave of showers on the weekend brought soaking rains to dry farms in Iowa, southeast Nebraska, Missouri, northern Illinois and Wisconsin. Rainfall averaged around one inch, but was locally heavier, up to 2.5 inches in scattered strong thunderstorms. Historic summer drought had created soil moisture deficits of 5 inches or more. More heavy rain is still required to fully replenish dry soil profiles... subscribers continue to full story...


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"You're not going to have a rap-style song on every record," says Jason.
By now, country fans are aware that Jason Aldean's talents stretch beyond singing, entertaining and playing guitar. As evidenced by the vocals on his No. 1 song "Dirt Road Anthem," this Georgia native can lay down some serious rhymes, too.
Jason says preparing to rap lines such as I sit back and think about them good ol' days / The way we were raised and our Southern ways took a bit of work. "I'm a fast learner," Jason told the Orlando Sentinel. "I put the demo in and rode around with it in my truck for a couple of weeks. I told people, 'I'm from Georgia and we talk slow down there.' So it took a little practice, but it wasn't that bad."
Though the tune was a smash success and even led to a few collaborative performances with rapper Ludacris, don't expect Jason to try to repeat the formula. "You're not going to have a rap-style song on every record and that may even be a one-time deal," he says. "There won't always be a duet with Kelly Clarkson [such as the No. 1 hit "Don't You Wanna Stay"], but there will be some sort of thing like that to change it up, keep it interesting."
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CHAFFEE - The Kelly girls basketball team improved to 15-4 on the season with a 64-54 win against Chaffee on Tuesday.
The Lady Hawks trailed 29-26 at the half but were able to pull out the win with a big second half.
But it was Chaffee's Jennifer Vandeven, who scored 17 points, that garnered praise from Kelly head coach Rod McQuerter.
"Jennifer Vandeven is a very outstanding player," he said. "I hope to see her playing in college next year. She makes her teammates better. We feel very good in getting a win against a quality opponent like Chaffee with a great player like Vandeven."
Kelly was led by Dana Essner's 19 points. Kelly Essner added 12 points.
Kelly will host New Madrid County Central on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Looking-Glass, Chapter 7 Summary
The Lion and the Unicorn
- Soldiers come running through the wood in a huge crowd. After them come a bunch of horses. Alice finds her way out of the stampede and into a glade where the White King is sitting, writing in his notebook.
- The King tells Alice that he's kept his promise, sending all his horses and all his men. Presumably they are going to try to put Humpty Dumpty together again. (Remember that crash at the end of Chapter 6? We think that was probably Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall.)
- The King tells Alice to look for the Messengers, who went into town. Alice peers off into the distance and sees a man walking toward them, wriggling and skipping and generally making strange gestures. The King tells Alice that these gestures are Anglo-Saxon attitudes and that the messenger's name is Haigha.
- Alice begins playing a word game with Haigha's name, thinking of other things that start with H – living on a Hill, eating Ham-Sandwiches and Hay, and so on.
- The messenger arrives and the King is disturbed by his strange gestures. By a funny coincidence, Haigha has a bag of food with just what Alice imagined in her game – ham sandwiches and hay. The White King eats some of both and feels better.
- The King asks the messenger what is happening in the town. The messenger says that the Lion and the Unicorn are fighting for the crown again.
- Verse Alert: Alice recites the nursery rhyme about the Lion and the Unicorn.
- Alice asks the King if the one who wins the fight gets the crown. He says no.
- Alice and the White King hurry toward the town to see the Lion and Unicorn fighting. They find the other messenger, Hatta, watching the fight, drinking tea, and eating bread and butter. We learn that Hatta is the messenger the White Queen mentioned who went to jail before his trial and crime.
- The Lion and the Unicorn pause in their fight and everyone takes a ten-minute break for snacks. The refreshments are the same as the ones described in the nursery rhyme: white bread, brown bread, and plum cake.
- The White Queen goes running by too fast for anyone to catch her. (Remember, Queens can move any number of squares at a time in chess, so her rapid movement is related to a move in the game.)
- The Lion and Unicorn stop by to say hello to the king. The Unicorn sees Alice and is astonished, saying he didn't believe in children and thought they were imaginary monsters. Alice says that's what she thought about Unicorns. Alice and the Unicorn agree to believe in each other from now on.
- Alice helps out by handing around the next food described in the nursery rhyme, the plum cake. At first she has trouble cutting it, but then they explain to her that it is a Looking-Glass cake; it gets handed around first and cut afterwards.
- The drums begin in the distance. (As we're sure you remember, the last line of the nursery rhyme is about the Lion and Unicorn getting drummed out of town.)
- Alice is frightened by the drums and jumps to her feet, leaping over a brook in the process –
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German black metallers ENDSTILLE have parted ways with their record label Twilight-Vertrieb and are currently seeking a label to release their new CD, "Endstilles Reich", worldwide. "The recordings are finished and the album will contain 10 tracks with a running time about 50 minutes," the band writes in a press release. The new CD was recorded at JAKs-Hell studio, like all previous ENDSTILLE albums.ENDSTILLE's fourth full-length album, "Navigator", was released in August 2005 via Twilight-Vertrieb. The follow-up to 2004's "Dominanz" contained 10 tracks with a running time of 43 minutes.
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For many parents of children with disabilities, seeing their child participate in team sports like baseball may be a distant and forgotten dream. For others, providing the opportunity to kids with disabilities to experience the joy and camaraderie of baseball is just another day in the park.
Pam Baldwin, of Oregon, knows all too well what baseball and being a part of team has meant for her son Zach.
The Ottawa County Commissioners would forgive the balance of an outstanding loan to the county agricultural society - the organization that conducts the annual county fair - if the fair's board of directors implements stronger fiscal management and oversight practices.
But the commissioners say in a June 14 letter to the agricultural society that they are limited by state law in how they can let the fairgrounds be used as loan collateral, which the fair board had requested at an earlier meeting with the commissioners.
Residents of Genoa now have to register their swimming pools with the village and provide adequate fencing around them.
The updated zoning codes regarding pools – covering in-ground as well as large inflatable pools - went into effect last week, according to Village Administrator Kevin Gladden.
The $11.2 million Wales Road overpass project, after years of delays, is finally underway.
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The Spectacular Now Chapter 59 Summary
- The restaurant is a dump, but everyone there knows Sutter's dad.
- His girlfriend is mad at him for being late, until he introduces Sutter to her.
- She's thrilled to meet him – and already pretty drunk.
- They order dinner and a few pitchers of beer, and no one minds Sutter and Aimee drinking some, too.
- His dad starts telling funny stories about Sutter when he was little, and his girlfriend, Mrs. Gates, gets all sentimental.
- Sutter's so happy to be reminiscing with his dad.
- Mr. Keely puts a Jimmy Buffett song on the jukebox and gets them all dancing.
- Pretty soon, he's teaching Aimee how to swing dance, and Mrs. Gates is trying to do the same with Sutter.
- Sutter decides not to ask him about his mom tonight – he wants everything to stay positive.
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The weather managed to behave itself. The golf club provided a lovely setting for the whole reception and I managed to utilise the rhododendron bushes as a back drop for the formals. After the formals I snuck a quick five minutes with the bride and groom for some more relaxed shots. After the first dance my photo fun booth came out to play which was a real crowd pleaser. A great wedding for a fantastic couple.


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Getting into racing
How do you get into slalom racing? I live in Sussex and love drag racing the kites at my local beach but fancy giving slalom a go.
Can anyone recommend any clubs to join?
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You need to do the BSA this year, easy even for an old git like me.
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2015 Sessions: Speed/Slalom 20, B&J/Wave 10, SUP/WindSUP 07
2014 Sessions: Speed/Slalom 19, B&J/Wave 10, SUP/WindSUP 12
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Here is another view of it, newbs included. The Master blaster is what will interest you, as you start in a line on the beach, sail out to a bouy, round it however you can, then back to the beach, first to touch the flag pole wins. They will have several rounds for you to have a go at. Also demo kit there to try for free.
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2015 Sessions: Speed/Slalom 20, B&J/Wave 10, SUP/WindSUP 07
2014 Sessions: Speed/Slalom 19, B&J/Wave 10, SUP/WindSUP 12
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the Hayling tideline seems to have improved no end
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I was there on Sunday, mooching around the beach, nursing a dodgy ankle and getting a few pictures. It looked quite relaxed, so I'd say the whole event did seem pretty newbie friendly. There was certainly a good old selection of kit, from some high-end slalom to a rather more vintage affair with centreboard.My Flickr Windsurf collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bsideth...7622592103903/
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The Search for Serendipity
Believe it or not, some Web readers are starting to miss editors.
A funny thing happened on the way to the information revolution: While digital media have given us access to endless information from diverse sources, many of us focus our news habits on narrow topics and familiar points of view. We end up discovering fewer new ideas or opinions. In short, we have more information but less understanding.
The challenge for modern information consumers becomes: How do you discover what you don't know you want to know?
Old-time print journalists bemoan the absence of serendipity—the accidental discovery of stories that readers didn't know they were interested in reading. In the words of a recent blog post at the Nieman Journalism's Lab site, "While there is more news on the web, our perspectives on the news are narrower because we only browse the sites we already agree with, or know we already like, or care about." With newspapers, by contrast, readers discover "things we didn't care about, or didn't agree with, in the physical act of turning the page."
Newspaper and magazine editors design their publications to help readers stumble onto topics they may not think are of interest. The front page of most newspapers is intended to guide readers to both important and interesting stories. This experience has not been easy to replicate online. Most-read or most-emailed article lists can help, but people tend to go to sites or blogs on specific topics from congenial points of view.
It's not just nostalgic journalists who wonder about the impact of this shift in how we consume information. A telling exchange last week suggests even the digerati are searching for serendipity. At the offices of the Guardian newspaper in London, an online technologist asked media analyst Clay Shirky whether the serendipity of newspapers could ever be replicated online. Mr. Shirky encouraged experimentation, and within a few hours the "Random Guardian" feature was launched on the paper's Web site.
This was creative, but random news is not the same thing as inspired editors presenting new topics or writers to their readers. Or as blogger Jeff Jarvis put it last week, "Serendipity is not randomness. It is unexpected relevance." He says that "when we read a paper and find a good story that we couldn't have predicted we'd have liked, we think that is serendipity. But there's some reason we like it, that we find it relevant to us."
Don't underestimate the unexpected. Accidental discovery is a major factor in many areas of innovation. The artificial sweeteners saccharine, aspartame and cyclamate were each invented unintentionally as scientists were working in other areas, from anti-ulcer drugs to coal-tar derivatives. Accidental discovery likewise led to corn flakes, microwave ovens and Post-It Notes.
When it comes to information, the speed and ease of digital media can lure us into thinking that if the news is important, it will somehow find us. Often it does, through personalized news sites and feeds. Many of us rely on links to news articles by the people we follow on Twitter or Facebook to find out something new or to make sure we haven't missed something. This experience can resemble the serendipity of older media, but there is also the risk of living in an echo chamber where we read what we want to read and share views with those we know already agree with us.
"The aggregation of news sources has gone from being a server-side to a client-side operation," Mr. Shirky says, "which is to say, the decision about what to bring together into a bundle is made by the consumer and not by the producer."
Law professor Cass Sunstein, currently a White House official, calls the risk "cyberbalkanization." In "Going to Extremes," published last year, he observed that it's now tempting for people to get only the news they want and to "avoid general-interest newspapers and magazines and to make choices that reflect their own predispositions," undermining what he calls the "architecture of serendipity." Liberal comedian Bill Maher makes a similar point, saying, "I have the theory that news is now driven not by editors who know anything," but by people "surfing the Internet."
The good news is that readers can still find serendipity, if they look for it. There are new magazines dedicated to smart aggregation of news, such as The Week, whose circulation continues to grow.
Perhaps some day there will even be a serendipity machine that takes advantage of digital technology to find a new solution to this old problem. It could have a smart algorithm that will deliver news personalized for each of us, alerting us to news we would not find on our own and that we'd be glad to discover. Meanwhile, we're on our own, searching for our own best way to serendipity.


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Tired of waiting for the check when dining out? Dash just raised $1.2 million to make that a thing of the past.
Now two years old with a total of $1.9 million in funding, Dash's app enables you to pay your bar or restaurant tab via your smartphone — without having to flag down a server or hand over a credit card.
Alongside the fresh capital, the New York City-based Dash is launching a redesigned app for iOS 7, including a new payments flow and iBeacon integration. Rounding out the news, Dash cofounder Jeff McGregor tells VentureBeat that his company is eyeing new markets, starting with Chicago.
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Weather Journal: High Humidity and Temps, On Repeat
Is there an echo in here? For the second straight day, Greater New York has been locked in a pattern of high humidity, temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s and scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Wednesday will deliver more of the same.
Late in the afternoon on Tuesday, storms spread into the upper Hudson River Valley. The temperature gradient pre- and post-storm shows what a little instability can do. Poughkeepsie saw temperatures around 90 degrees shortly before a band of thunderstorms came across the region around 5 p.m. In their wake, temperatures dropped into the mid 70s. Unfortunately, that kind of relief is isolated to areas of instability. Though clouds build over Central Park, no rain fell and the mercury held strong around 90 degrees over that same time period.
Wednesday's highs continue to hang around 90 degrees for most of the region. High humidity in the morning and increasing clouds in the late afternoon along with isolated thunderstorms also make repeat appearances as they have for the first half of the week. There's still not quite enough instability for those storms to become widespread yet, though. Greater New York will have to wait at least one more day for a break in the current weather pattern.
Obama Talks Climate Change
On Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama devoted a speech at Georgetown University entirely to climate change. The occasion was the launch of his new climate action plan, which has wide-ranging implications for a number of sectors and regions across the country. There are a few pieces of the plan that are specific to Greater New York.
The Department of Housing is also devoting $23 million to a pilot program that enables universities, affordable housing providers and others to test new ways of delivering cheaper residential energy, particularly for multifamily units. The President is also looking to expand the Better Building Challenge, which has the goal of industrial and commercial buildings becoming at least 20 % more energy efficient by 2020. Commercial buildings account for more than 20% of New York's emissions so it stands to reason that the expanded challenge and incentives will have a local value.
It's not hard to see the fingerprints of Sandy throughout the plan as well. Another $100 million will be available in competitive grants from the Department of the Interior to protect ecosystems near urban areas that could also act as storm buffers. Areas around Jamaica Bay and throughout Long Island Sound look to be prime candidates for these types of grants. Another $250 million will also be made available to increase general coastal resiliency.
The report also includes Sandy-specific money. The easiest tie between Sandy and climate change is not the storm track itself (though that's an area of continuing research), but sea level rise, which clearly contributed to Sandy's destructiveness are rising seas. With that in mind, rebuilding efforts will be required to take sea level rise estimates into consideration. In an effort to make systems already in place more resilient, the Army Corps of Engineers has also been tasked with identifying vulnerabilities for Sandy-affected coastal communities. One vulnerability already made clear by Sandy is Greater New York's extensive mass transit systems. The Department of Transportation is funding $5.7 billion in projects throughout Greater New York to make those systems more resilient to extreme weather.
There are certainly other aspects of Obama's speech and the plan that will resonate with Greater New Yorkers as well. Both speech as well as the full plan are available to view online.
Weather Journal's Greater New York forecast roundup for Wednesday:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
- Actual High: 90; High feels like: 95
- Actual Low: 73; Low feels like: 75
- Weather: Hot and muggy (yet again)
- Brooklyn: 88/70
- Queens: 91/73
- Bronx: 92/70
- Staten Island: 92/72
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 89/68
- Trenton, N.J.: 90/71
- Islip, Long Island: 85/68
- New Haven, Conn.: 89/67
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Her dogs woke her up early Sunday morning, growling at a stranger in her room.
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The dogs likely scared away a man who could be walking these streets at night, breaking into homes like the one Tiffany lives in with her dad.
Homes residents here think are secure.
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She says now she'll have to look over her shoulder in a neighborhood she thought was safe.
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After contractually agreeing to pen his fiction debut, The Shroud of the Thwacker, actor/comic/ writer Chris Elliott felt momentary elation followed by lingering panic. "I remember thinking, 'I can't fucking write a novel,'" he says.
Fortunately for Elliott, who signs copies of his tome on Wednesday, October 19, at the Tattered Cover, he was proven wrong. "I had a great time," he recalls. "I wanted each day to come so I could jump back into that world again."
And what a world it is. Shroud takes place in 1882, when a fiend known as Jack the Jolly Thwacker is slaying prostitutes and then arranging their entrails into the shape of bouffant hairdos or birthday cakes. Charged with investigating these nefarious offenses are police chief Caleb Spencer, plucky reporter Liz Smith, Mayor Teddy Roosevelt and the author himself, who time-travels into even more danger than he experienced starring in the mega-flop film Cabin Boy.
The bizarro plot sends up The Alienist, a 1994 Caleb Carr novel that turned Roosevelt into a crimebuster, as well as Patricia Cornwell's 2002 offering Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed. Yet Shroud focuses more on yuks than facts. The book is thick with jokes because, Elliott reveals, "In my mind, if you're going to write a funny book, you have to attempt to make everything funny."
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WELCOME TO Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.
Fuquay-Varina is a thriving town with an emerging business community, located only a short drive from Raleigh; #1 Fastest Growing City in the U.S. (Forbes, March 2013).
Fuquay-Varina is located next to the metro area of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, also known as the Triangle Region. One of our community's greatest assets is its location to other regions such as the Research Triangle Park and one of the country's largest military installations, US Army Base Fort Bragg. Fuquay-Varina is located in Wake County, the largest county in the Research Triangle Region, and is home to Raleigh, North Carolina's state capital.
Very few communities the size of Fuquay-Varina can boast of such an impressive base of existing industry. The corporate headquarters of Fidelity Bank, Bob Barker Company, Patriot State Bank, Southbend, Apex Instruments and InServe Corporation are located in our community as well as major manufacturing facilities for John Deere Turf Care and TE Connectivity.
Click HERE to visit the Fuquay-Varina's Economic Development Commission, Inc. (FVEDC) website for additional information on Fuquay-Varina's economic development priorities and initiatives. This FVEDC site will also provide you with business financial & non-financial and workforce development resources.
If you would like to find out how you or your business can become part of our booming business community, please contact Jim Seymour, Economic Development Director at (919) 753-1031 or (919) 567-3907 or firstname.lastname@example.com.