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Shop tech wrecked my M3 on joyride!!!
Hello All, This is my first thread on bimmerfest, but I'm sorry to say it's for sad reason. See story below, I'd love to get some opinions.
Part 1:
Ok Guys, this could be a long thread as the journey just begins...sorry for being so long.
I took my '03 M3 in to a local BMW dealership for an oil change and modest warranty service a few days ago and they completed the work, called me back and said to come and pick it up. The car had been worked on, taken for a 2 mile test drive, and signed off by the first technician. I missed the call, so I called my SA around 4:00 and was told my car had just been in an accident. Obviously shocked, I went down to the dealership with a work colleague.
Once my SA greeted me with the un-calming, "are you the M3 guy?", I was met by the Shop Foreman who told me that they have a "random testing procedure" that my car had been "randomly selected for a pre-determined route" for customer satisfaction purposes.
I enquired who was driving and how old they were, but wasn't shocked when I was told a 21 year old had been driving.
After seven miles of driving, apparently a car pulled out in front of him and he couldn't avoid it, causing him to lose control and spin out, 180'ing the car into the curb at close to 50 mph (estimated by the police who measured skid marks, etc). It was in a 30 mph zone, BTW. He was about 3 miles from the dealership at that point, so we can assume a 10 mile "loop"
Now the dealership is saying they will fix the car to it's original specs, but they haven't even put it on an alignment rack to measure the sub-frame/unibody. Their parts cost, without labor, paint, or the Schnitzer nose and HID fogs comes to over $6000.
The GM came out and said he was absolutely adamant that there will be no deduction against the resale value of the car as it will be back to factory specs, but you need to know it was in mint condition, never even dinged, and had a clean carfax when I brought it in.
I told them to not perform any work until I could evaluate my options (this was on Wednesday, crash on Tuesday), but by Friday I received a letter from their attorney stating I had to let them do the work or remove the car from the lot within 5 days, unless I be charged a daily "storage fee".
I hired an attorney, but what would you guys do? I really don't want the car back with a crash on it as I wouldn't have bought it that way in the first place. Plus, I know the value will be affected, not to mention and boogymen that might come out due to hit down the road, when the car's out of warranty. It hit rear driver side rim first, completely buckled the suspension and wheel, then bounced to the front blowing the side bags and taking the front wheel/suspension out, then blew the front bumper cover off.
That's it for now, bummed out, but appreciate any thoughts.
PS Looking for Stuka who had similar experience at savage BMW.
That sounds like a complete bull **** story if you ask me. There is NO reason why any car should be taken for a joy ride by a 21 year old. I recommend to you that you get the young man fired and make the dealership either A) buy you a new or nearly new M3 that is comparable to yours or B) have them buy the car from you how much it was worth prior to the accident and sue them for pain and suffering for the difference from a new M3.
Document everything that was said to you by their GM, Tech, and staff people. I'm interested to see if you were lied to about this supposed "random test drive". Sounds like a load of bologna to me. If they were joyriding your car for no reason after all work was finished then you could sue them. You need to expressly authorize all work before it is done.
Sorry to hear about your car. While I understand your frustration don't be too quick to make judgment. Does the dealership have a policy printed anywhere that states that they may road test your vehicle? This was our policy when I was working at a dealership.
Most techs these days ARE in their 20's. Possibly it was a joyride, however I think you should not judge the dealership so quickly. It will probably get messy now that lawyers are involved, as they are only in it for the $$$$. I hope it all works out for you.
The problem is that you likely will not have a clean CarFax. CarFax lists accidents as well as air bag deployment. Hey, fender benders happen and most people can live with buying a car that was in a fender bender. But, show that same person a car that was in an accident where the airbags deployed and I'd venture to say most people would rather keep on looking OR be willing to buy the car at reducted price. Of all people the GM should know that high end cars with paint work are worth less. The paint work alone may only effect your value a few thousand. But, if your car has unibody damage this will GREATLY effect the value of your car since this is something that has to be disclosed at wholesale auto auctions. A late model high end unibody damage car will probably be worth about $5000 less than a straight car with no paint work. It's one thing if you were driving and you got into an accident, things happen and you have to deal with it. It seems that someone pulled out in front of your car, but, the tech was speeding so it's kind of his fault too, so why should you suffer the depreciation?
Before someone jumps my Shiat about this link being my post I will clarify that the following link is to Stuka's post about a similar situation. In no way is this my post, link or scenario.
Good luck with your situation. FYI, I received my M3 back from the shop and coincidentally happened to check the OBC and it showed the car was getting 5 miles per gallon. You've got to drive it pretty hard...or let it idle for some time....to get that kind of mileage...
Stuka's crahsed M3
I would check with the State Consumer Protection Board, there is a resident Consumer Lawyer there that monitors dealership unscrupulous practices. The Consumer Protection Agency in your State maybe a good start aso. Once you get a hold of one, they liketo be secretive about this meeting, they like to gather enuf materials for a possible case for you. While you have their ears, they may provide legal options, for you to decide your course of action.
No matter what you do, dont sign any paperwork without legal review. The dealership has alot or legal armaments, so be ready. But one thing is clear, you have damages to claim thats going for you. Even with the fix of the car, resell value had suffered. Good luck!
Unfortunately - accident in customer's cars is a somewhat common thing at most dealerships. As much as I'm sure you would prefer not to hear it - I'm predicting that the dealership will dig in deep and insist on repair to original spec. With an attorney you may reach an agreement on diminished residual value - but don't count on it. Also consider that you will be paying an attorney at a hefty fee to work on this - balance that with what you realistically expect to gain.
If you threaten to sue - count on the dealership to refer the matter to their attorneys (who get paid to do this over and over and over) who will stall and delay while your car gathers dust on some back lot while you continue to have to make payments on it and have to find a loaner. If you refuse (initially) to let them repair it - they will probably withdraw any loaner you may have (stating that you refuse to allow them to make reasonable repairs).
Note that they are experts at playing this game. You are possibly the 25th person this year whose car was damaged in one way or the other by service staff. They are used to it and threats will do little or nothing to concern them.
Wish it was a cheerier picture but this is how the game is played.
ETA: Don't expect ANY help from BMWNA.
Thats sucks man. I wish you the best of luck because I really don't have much advice to offer. Estoril made some pretty good points though.
Doesn't he have the right to choose who fixes his car? Why can't he just get it fixed by a reputable shop of his choice and then sue the dealership to recover depreciation?
While Estoril's cold-eyed appraisal of the situation bears thinking about, I wouldn't knuckle under so easily. Diminished value in the case of an M car that's been hit is a very real thing; in my own experience, I had a number of people tell me that they weren't interested in taking my 02 M3 in trade because it had paint work--and this was very minor paint work that was documented as having been done by BMWNA at the VPC before the car was delivered to its first owner (I got it used).
Speaking for myself personally, it would take a *substantial* price discount before I considered an M3 that had been hit as hard as your car has--there are too many clean, pampered ones out there to buy a car that has a "story."
Listen to your lawyer, who can advise you of your rights and options, but I think Stuka's original request in his circumstance (which, IIRC, was a new car at invoice--though this might not be an option on an E46 M3) was quite reasonable. Of course, his dealer didn't agree, and yours may not either.
And then give you an unusually generous discount on a new car for your troubles.
So what did your attorney say? I would ask him for an opinion. Maybe a letter to the dealer from him may help your sitution out.
If they are not going to do the right thing, every news station in town will be interested in a story like this. BMW crashed by a dealer joyride makes a good headline.
As far as attorney's go, if it's the same model as PI, then the OP will be fine.
I'll remain quiet for now, as we are right in the middle of it all. I'll check in on the thread and let you now when it's all resolved. Thanks for the thoughts and opinions.
Sorry to hear of your experience. I wish you would tell us which dealer did this. It would be very beneficial for us locals. No dealer should be able to treat a customer like this without serious repercussions.
First I'd sue him. Then, I'd take it to a company like Spectrum Collision at their expense - have it towed to Lake Forest, CA. They are one of few authorized BMW repair shops that actually hired BMW technicians to do the work - and the techs are compensated by BMW and the local shop for their expertise. They can accurately assess the damage in about 3 weeks, and then you'll have a stronger "leg to stand on" in court or with the company by a reputable shop.
If it was my car wrecked by these morans, I would get the best lawyer money can buy, that way the delaership would have my name on it. If the reputation for this dealer was important, they would take care of everything without giving you a reason to get a lawyer. Since most of the dealers and managers have incurable desire to screw everyone who comes in through the door, its not likely that they would do the "right" thing. Sue them !!!!!!!
I like this idea.
Good information on this thread and on Stukas.
I'm glad you got an attorney. Hope he/she is a very good tort attorney. Through your attorney, attempt to negotiate whatever settlement that you think is fair. In my mind, simply repairing the vehicle isn't adequate. The structural integrity of the vehicle has been permanently compromised. Trade-in value will be significantly lower (at least $5000, maybe double that).
Here are 3 reasonable options:
1. They repair your vehicle PLUS cut you a check for $5000 to compensate you for diminished value
2. They purchase the car at full retail value (not wholesale or trade-in value), plus a small cash payment for your trouble
3. They pay you trade-in value for your car on a trade for a new M3, with a big discount off MSRP (minimum $3000 discount)
Good luck with this, and keep us posted. Man, I would be pissed if it happened to me.
Please don't offer legal advice if you are not a lawyer. As in this case, you are more than likely to screw it up and if the OP didn't already have a lawyer (as would frequently be the case) and he listened to you, you would cost him big bucks. :thumbdwn:
Whether they have a policy printed anywhere or not is irrelevant in this situation. :rofl: Not only was the kid driving the car well AFTER it had been QCed and marked for release, he was also breaking the law when he wrecked it. No "printed policy" excuses lack of reasonable care, and this is a case of all out negligence/recklessness. The dealer is liable for the damage. Period.
I love the comment about the bald tires in Stuka's post. If a car has bald tires would a reasonable tech take it out and drive it hard? Savage admitted his boy acted recklessly!
As for attorneys, of course they are in it for the money. Why do you work for a living?
That said, you always have to weigh cost/benefit. In a case like this, you have some things in your favor. Yes insurance companies stall, but you also have several statutory remedies against them in most states. When situations like this happen, you should always seek legal advice. The first consultation should be free. If the azzhole tries to charge you, ignore him and just go somewhere else. This country is certainly not short of plaintiff's lawyers...or car dealers.
BTW, I am an attorney. CA.
I would start with Stuka's position to start. If the dealer isn't lying about the effect of the wreck, he should jump at it.
UPDATE on M3
As I cannot compel the dealer to purchase the car at a fair value for me to replace it (don't forget taxes, mods, time to find/freight one over, 3rd party inspections, etc), my only option is to have it fixed at the BEST possible shop I can find, have them pay for it, plus get me into a rental/loaner car. THIS they have done already. The car should be fixed within a week.
NOW, onto the diminished value: I have found the most experienced and knowledgable person in my area for this and he will prepare a report as soon as the work is complete. Based on the cost of the repair alone (approx $16K), his preliminary assessment is around $10K- $13K. The dealer has already suggested he will not entertain any conversation on DV, but that is what attorneys are for.
I, as the consumer, have a duty to "mitigate my loss". IOW, I cannot sit around for six months in a rental waiting for the perfect offer to come along. The dealer did offer to buy my car (for less than I owe on it) OR to sell me an '04 M3 with approx 15K less miles on it. It was keyed on 2 body panels, had curb rash all around, a smoker had owned it and it was covered in ash, plus the nose had been curbed (PLUS they wanted MORE money on a sale...I wouldn't have traded them even!). Not to mention no SMG, PDC, or alum trim, or cool mods.
The process is moving slowly, but we're at least moving. I'll let you know more when I do.
Sue them to hell, they're treating you like garbage for their mistake.
That really sucks. You are right, you do have to mitigate, but what that really means is that you can not hold the dealer liable for losses due to your procrastination, including further deterioration of your wrecked car. It doesn't mean that you need to rush or accept something inferior. Both would be a mistake.
Take the advice of your lawyer friend. If it were me, I would sue.
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The wake source model of Parkinson and Jandali is extended to cover lifting separated flows past two dimensional13; bodies. As in the symmetrical drag case the flow separation13; points are the critical points of a conformal mapping from13; s complex plane in which sources In the wake create stagnation conditions at the critical points. Then the stagnation streamlines in the complex plane map to tangential separation streamlines in the physical plane, with separation occuring at the given base pressure. The latter is assumed constant and the flow inside the separation streamlines is ignored. The extension of the wake source model to the general lifting case involves the handling of two problems. First a mapping has to be found in which the separation points are the critical points of the transformation from the complex plane. This is achived here by finding the relevant mapping for a circular arc. With this sapping in hand any body that be mapped to a circle can not be handled. Second, in the lifting case13; circulation is present around the body. While this may be13; handled in a number of ways two models are considered in detail here, one incluiding circulation explicitly and one in which the circulation is generated by source alone
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The state's economy is struggling and budget cuts to higher education have become an annual affair, but that hasn't kept the University of California, Merced, from continuing its rapid growth.
The university's fall census showed the 2010-11 student body at 4,381, an increase of more than 28 percent from a year ago. This follows a record number of applications last November and a surge in campus visits by high school students from all over the state.
"Many studies have shown that the long-term solution to economic hardship, for individuals as well societies as a whole, lies in higher education," UC Merced Chancellor Steve Kang said. "The state's prolonged financial struggles have made this maxim especially relevant of late.
"Young people and their families are seeing the devastating effects of poverty and unemployment in a very personal way. If anything, they're more determined than ever to fight back by getting a quality education."
University officials said they are thrilled by the growing demand they've witnessed since the newest UC campus opened with 875 students in 2005. Today's campus is much more developed and refined, boasting many of the amenities of its nine sister campuses yet remaining the smallest and most intimate in the system.
"The campus always feels alive, with students being involved with activities to make an impact on the community, along with making friends," said Jordan Cervantes, a junior transfer student from Merced. "The ability to do research with professors at UC Merced is definitely a plus and is very beneficial when thinking about graduate school or just gaining experience in a particular field of study."
This year's student body includes 1,341 new freshmen, up nearly 19 percent over a year ago, along with 209 new transfer students and a total of 243 graduate students. Approximately 58 percent of incoming freshmen are first-generation college students. Roughly 59 percent of them are receiving financial aid in the form of federal Pell grants, available only to families in the lowest economic strata.
Census data for the current year shows that students are coming to UC Merced from all corners of the state. About 29 percent of incoming freshmen hail from the San Francisco Bay Area. Nearly 27 percent are from the San Joaquin Valley, and about 22 percent come from the greater Los Angeles area. The Sacramento/Lake Tahoe area contributes nearly 7 percent.
"This reflects well on the quality of education students believe they can receive at UC Merced, regardless of where they come from," Kang said.
The growth in enrollment is expected to continue in the coming years. Funding agreements with the UC Office of the President will allow the university to add an estimated 600 students per year through the 2012-13 academic year, when student enrollment is expected to top 5,000.
Kang said the challenge of starting a new school in the midst of economic turmoil has not been easy, but it has been rewarding.
"In a normal economic environment, a new campus might not have meant as much to the people we serve," he said. "In today's environment, the need is greater than ever. I think that's what we're seeing in these growing enrollment numbers."
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Updated at 3:28 p.m. ET
Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren said today she wants to get some rest and take a break from politics before deciding whether to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.
President Obama declined to appoint Warren, a Harvard law professor, to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency she helped create to be a watchdog over mortgages, credit cards and other financial tools.
Warren, a lightning rod for Republicans, would have faced a tough Senate confirmation fight.
"Massachusetts does beckon in the sense that it's my home and I need to go home," Warren told MSNBC.
"And when I go home, I'll do more thinking then. But I need to do that thinking not from Washington," she said about a race for the Democratic nomination to take on incumbent GOP Sen. Scott Brown.
Obama today introduced former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray as his choice to head the new consumer protection agency, which was created through the major Wall Street overhaul law known as Dodd-Frank. Warren, who has been working as a special assistant to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during the agency's launch, was at the White House for Cordray's introduction.
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Warren told MSNBC that she needs to take a "step back" and recharge after working long days to get the consumer bureau up and running. Her immediate priority now, she says, is to take her grandson to Legoland.
John Walsh, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, told The Boston Globe last week that he would "love it" if Warren were interested in the Senate race. "I would talk to her and encourage her in a heartbeat," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly has talked to Warren about running for the Senate.
There's already a host of Democrats running to challenge Brown next year. Brown has been a Democratic target since he scored an upset victory in 2009 to serve out the remainder of the late Edward Kennedy's term. Brown has nearly $10 million in his campaign account, far eclipsing the money raised by his Democratic rivals.
Warren's exchange with Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., during a congressional hearing in which he called her a "liar" has gone viral on YouTube.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee says Democrats have a "lackluster field" challenging Brown and has mocked Warren's potential candidacy as being driven by "party bosses in Washington -- and not Bay State voters."
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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After the Vanguard Award is handed, Britney Spears and GaGa look like to share a kiss on the lips before the former nervously backs out.
Britney Spears was one and the only special honoree at the 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards. The winner of 2011 Best Pop Video was saluted and cited as an inspiring figure by Lady GaGa who returned to the stage as Jo Calderone.
"Britney taught me how to be fearless, .. She's a pop legend and the industry wouldn't be the same without her," Jo said. He drew more cheering when saying, "I used to hang posters of her on my wall and touch myself when I was laying in bed."
He added, "Throughout the years, Britney has given us some of the most iconic music videos of our time." Right afterwards, a number of people came out dancing in the Southern Belle's trademark outfits like the "Hit Me One More Time" schoolgirl uniform and the "Oops..I Did It Again" red PVC suit.
When the dance tribute was over, Britney came to the stage to accept Vanguard Award from Jo. She was kissed on the cheek by Jo and seemed nervous when GaGa's male version eyed her lips. At first, she played along but then dodged it, and went to the mic to deliver her speech while Jo was eying her up and down.


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Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, radio host, TV personality, teacher and animateur, Sam's debut album 'Ground Of Its Own' is comprised of songs learned first hand from the Gypsy Traveller community and won the FRoots album of the year in 2012. The recording is a new musical manifesto, reflecting Sam's unique artistic journey. Winner of the 2011 Arts Foundation Award, he is fast becoming accepted as a new pioneer, defining the sound, sight and texture of folksong today. Likewise, his band performs unconventional and contemporary interpretations challenging all preconceptions of 'traditional folk'.
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Closing in on gametime. Hope my radio is working in the pressbox at Yankee Stadium. Wish I was home on the couch with the laptop and a sandwich. Or in T.O.
I know some of you think Josh doesn't exist, but he does, and he's here at the Stadium, right next to me in the pressbox. See picture (PS, that's Pete Abraham in the second row; he's the blogfather who started all this LoHud blog stuff, but now he's at the Boston Globe).
You might want to click on my name in the bio on the right side of the page. Sort of my nod to Josh. Also, I think I came up with a new verb. See below.
Tonight's probable lineup, per Andrew Gross:
Vinny Prospal-Brandon Dubinsky-Marian Gaborik
Christopher Higgins-Chris Drury-Ryan Callahan
Sean Avery-Artem Anisimov-Ales Kotalik
Donald Brashear-Brian Boyle-Enver Lisin
Wade Redden-Matt Gilroy
Michael Del Zotto-Michal Rozsival
Marc Staal-Dan Girardi
Also, Lundqvist is in goal. It would appear Voros will be Prucha'd.
Here's your blank canvas for the game. Please keep me posted. Rangers in 60 will be over before I get out of here. Heck, the Olympics might be over by the time I get out of here.


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Today marks, what I like to think of as, the real beginning of the 2013 season, with a full list of games scheduled. Up until now, we've had a few matches sprinkled in day-to-day, but now we're in full-force.
I'll be at Albertus Magnus covering the match live as the Falcons host Suffern. I'll tweet updates from the match and will link my story here later in the night. As for the rest of the matches on the slate, they are below. My predictions are in bold, and I have tabbed John Jay-East Fishkill at Haldane as my "match of the night" for Monday.
A rematch of Saturday's championship final at the Hen Hud Breast Cancer Awareness tournament, which the Patriots swept, 25-20, 25-18, this promises to be an exceptional match. Both teams have a fresh memory of their opponents, and both are hungry for a big win.
Monday, September 9
Pearl River at East Ramapo, 4 p.m.
Suffern at Albertus Magnus, 4 p.m. — Live coverage
Nanuet at Clarkstown North, 4 p.m.
New Rochelle at Roosevelt, 4:15 p.m.
Eastchester at Riverside, 4:15 p.m.
Tappan Zee at North Rockland, 4:15 p.m.
Hastings at Yonkers Montessori, 4:15 p.m.
Lincoln at Mount Vernon, 4:15 p.m.
Tuckahoe at Gorton, 4:15 p.m.
Nyack at Clarkstown South, 4:15 p.m.
Palisade Prep at Dobbs Ferry, 4:15 p.m.
Mamaroneck at Woodlands, 4:15 p.m.
Hen Hud at Yorktown, 4:15 p.m.
Port Chester at Blind Brook, 4:30 p.m.
Briarcliff at Pleasantville, 4:30 p.m.
Mahopac at Arlington, 4:30 p.m.
Yonkers at Keio, 5 p.m.
Rye Neck at North Salem, 5:45 p.m.
John Jay-East Fishkill at Haldane, 6 p.m. — Match of the night
Zacchio's prediction record this season: 4-1


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Here is a keen lamp you may want for your home, one that comes with a dimmer switch. But mind you, the dimmer control is not similar to the common ones wherein you simply adjust it by moving them or rolling them in a particular direction.
Rather, the Light=Weight Lamp would rely heavily on gravity to give you the proper illumination as you would want. The lamp actually looks pretty close to a weighing scale although without the numbers or needles to point actual weights.
The upper part is used for holding various objects with various weights, something which apparently accounts for the amount of lighting you would want. Hence, with some grams or pounds, you can easily manage the proper mood and ambiance from this lamp designed by Junji Kawabe.


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China's outdoor market spawns intense competition
Like many things in China, the outdoor industry has been evolving at an accelerated pace.
There are few better examples of this than Sanfo, widely recognized as the pioneer of outdoor specialty retail in China. Owner Zhang Heng, a horseback riding and outdoor enthusiast, did not open the first store until 1998 after a three-month, low-budget tour of western China convinced him there was a market. Today he has 28 stores and expects to be operating 100 within three years. But Sanfo is far from alone. From VF Corp. and Columbia Sportswear to Nike and adidas, western brands have shifted massive resources to China in the last five years in a bid to capture market share.
Rapid change has led to a sometimes incongruous blend of old and new that western brand executives find strange. On the one hand, they wistfully compare the emerging outdoor scene to the early 1970s in North America. On the other hand, they note the country is already flooded with outdoor brands from every corner of the globe, including a growing number of legitimate domestic brands.
The primary dynamics driving the growth – rapidly rising incomes and conspicuous consumption – are different from what drove the U.S. industry in the last century, U.S. executives note. Scrape beneath the surface, they say, and you will be hard pressed to find core outdoor enthusiasts behind the thousands of shops. Ties with the conservation and environmental movements are even more rare.
Still, an enormous appetite for outdoor recreation exists. A survey of nearly 6,000 people in 10 major Chinese cities found 19% of respondents chose hiking as an activity they engaged in after work, according to the Chinese Outdoor Retailers Association. That put hiking third on a list of activities just below watching television and shopping and ahead of playing with children, ball games and cinema.
The pros of China's emerging outdoor retail market include high growth rate, low barriers to entry and opportunity to shape a massive market, reports CORA. The cons include an abundance of brands, intellectual property risks and China's VAT tax, which can put some brands out of reach of China's growing middle class.
The coming generation
China's potential comes not just from its sheer size but from its youth and rapid rate of development. Approximately 500 million Chinese will be 30 or younger in 2015 and this group will enjoy unprecedented education, income and leisure time. Today, 80 percent of China's wealthy are under 45 compared with 30% in the U.S. and 19% in Japan, according to the consulting firm Enovate, which has helped New Balance, Under Armour and other U.S. brands establish themselves in China. Enovate argues China is already saturated with imports and Chinese youth are already highly skeptical of advertising. Nearly six in eight Chinese youth say they try to independently verify a brand's green claims, in large part by surfing the Internet. A survey of 400 college students conducted by the firm late last year found them yearning for a more balanced and less materialistic life than their parents, who often worked 60 to 80 hours a week toiling in factories so their children could attend better schools or live in a better house.
"They are coming out of a culture where, until recently, six to seven days of work was not unusual," , said Greg Foweraker, managing director for Innate Gear of Vancouver, B.C. "The whole concept of the luxury of time to engage in outdoor recreation is only bearing fruit in current generation."
Foweraker, who helped develop global brand compliance for MEC in 1999 and 2000, has traveled to China more than 70 times since 1992 on sourcing, compliance and – more recently – brand-building missions. In that time, Chinese consumers have become much more discerning.
"Increasingly there is a level of unapologetic self confidence we are seeing with Chinese consumers," he said. "The middle class is not to be under estimated."
An abundance of brands
Some observers say China is already saturated with more brands than it can support. In addition to most of the major North American, European and Asian brands, there is growing competition from domestic brands.
An increasing number have been launched in the last two years by companies that started out manufacturing outdoor product for western brands, said Jack Lin of Himalaya Trading Co., which has represented Black Diamond Equipment, Innate Gear, Mountainsmith, Outdoor Research and Vasque in China.
"At this moment, the market is over supplied," he said in an e-mail from China.
The competition is about to get more fierce. Adidas has big plans to grow its outdoor business in China, where it already derives nearly 10 percent of its revenue. Company management has said they plan to open 35 outdoor stores in China this year toward their goal of establishing Adidas as the nation's leading outdoor brand by 2015. The company will staff those stores with employees who "have to know, live and breathe the outdoors," an executive told the online magazine mysportslink.com.
There are also a growing number of authentic domestic outdoor brands including Beijing Toread Outdoor Sports Products Co. Ltd., Ozark Gear, Black Yak, Kailas, Snowwolf and OnePolar. Domestic brands present formidable competition because they don't pay import duties that can add 20% to landed cost, said Lin.
Beijing Toread Gets $32M in IPO
In just 11 years, Toread has developed into a vertically integrated manufacturer and retailer of outdoor apparel and gear and a growing direct business. The company was licensed as an official manufacturer for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and has been recognized by the Chinese government as a "well known trademark," which gives provides owners of trademarks, which were widely known in the marketplace but not registered, with a measure of protection against later registrations of the same mark by others. The company built a new R&D facility in 2008 and had 400 retail outlets that year. It is in more department stores than any other outdoor brand, been averaging 50 percent growth per year for ten years and raised approximately $32 million in an IPO last fall, according to the company's website and other sources.
Like western brands, Toread has closely associated itself with conservation. Its causes include protecting Tibet's antelope and it has donated cash and product to earthquake relief efforts. The company's product line spans tents, sleeping bags, backpacks and other gear. It entered the apparel business in 2002.
Toread opened its first stand-alone store in Beijing in 2003, when it also began partnering with W.L. Gore on fabrics and exhibiting at the Outdoor Show in Friedrichschafen. It sponsors expeditions, advertises on television and employs some of China's top outdoor athletes.
Such rapid development has allowed the Outdoor Asia show and the ispo China winter show to thrive. Ispo China grew to 300,000 square feet of exhibition space in seven years. Last February, 214 exhibitors showed 300 brands at the show, up 76 percent from 2009. Attendance grew 21 percent to 16,300, according to show owner Messe Munchen GmbH. First time exhibitors included Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, Salewa, Regatta and Ecco. The show is now held in conjunction with Asia Pacific Snow Conference, which features ski lifts and grooming equipment vendors targeting China's blossoming ski resort industry. The day before the show 200 retailers attended the Chinese Outdoor Retailing Conference, which has been sponsored in recent years by Gore-Tex.
While not all the brands flooding into China will survive, their presence is destined to increase consumer awareness of outdoor recreation and that will be good for everyone, executives agree.
"This year many new brands exhibited at ispo China with the thought of making visitors even more aware of the outdoor segment and healthy lifestyles in China," Beijing Toread President Sheng Faqiang said in March. "This is very helpful for the development of the entire outdoor industry."


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Peter Sidwell lives and works in the beautiful Lake District, a popular location in the UK for short breaks and family holidays with over 12 million visitors each year. He enjoys re writing the rule book for local produce, reinventing British recipes that are centred around a fantastic ingredient. Peter's enthusiasm and passion for simply good food is demonstrated in his TV work, restaurant, cookery school, recipes apps, books and magazine features. You may have seen Peter on TV as one of the judges on ITV's hit series Britain's Best Bakery and was also the chef presenter of this own successful cookery show Lakes on a Plate on Channel 4 in partnership with Lakeland. His passion for baking has been a continual influence on his food, having learnt to make his first loaf of bread at school aged 14. Peter is right in the mix of British food as he continues to push the boundaries of cooking and baking. He is constantly coming up with fantastic flavour combinations that have not been seen before, all built on a foundation of great baking and cooking techniques.
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|From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 11 09:12:44 EDT 2004
> On one hand, Chapter 1 (Section 2) of Inside PLT MzScheme says: > [...] > > On the other hand README.win32 from the gc source says: > [...] > > Which seems to contradict the manual. What should I do? Believe "Inside PLT MzScheme" if you use MzScheme and the Boehm GC as compiled by the usualy makefiles and projects. If you change the build process to #define GC_WIN32_THREAD, believe README.win32. > Also, will I have to keep all my scheme objects in some kind of global > array, registered with scheme_register_static/extension_global? Something like that, for objects that need to live across calls to the worker thread. If you just need to protect values that flow out of the worker thread to other threads (for inspection by the other threads), then you might use scheme_dont_gc_ptr() and scheme_gc_ptr_ok() --- which essentially implement the array for you. Matthew
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Can a person drawing social security disability purchase us savings bonds through the government?
Can you draw social security disability if you are already on social security?
No. Someone cannot receive both Social Security retirement anddisability benefits at the same time. Social Security DisabilityInsurance provides monthly benefits to individual…s who are underfull retirement age (age 65 and/ or older) and who can no longerwork because of a severe disability. The impairment must beexpected to last for more than 12 months.
Can you draw social security disability for illiteracy?
no, to be considered disabled you must not be able to work any jobs in the national economy. If you are illiterate, you can still do manual labor and are therefore not conside…red disabled
Can you run a business and draw social security disability?
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The Viking Age as a Comic Eric Knipper
Concept art for Mediafarm, the Virtual History project, 2013. A Visualisation of Roskilde 1040 AD.
The protagonist Saxn么t, Concept Art for Berserker
Content 1. Introduction 2. The Viking Age as a Comic 3. The creation of a Comicpage Frankish tripod sword mounting
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Introduction This Ebook gives an insight to the thoughts and workflow, which are the foundation of Berserker, my current comic project. It´s meant to be a peek behind the Curtain, so that the critic or other reader can get an impression of, how the world looks like from the artist´s desktop, and which considerations there were during the concept, manuscript and designphase of the project. Of course from my point of view, but also to mediate knowledge about the workflow of comic artists in generel. I don´t know where this project gets me, but I´m searching for new paths, while I´m honouring our ancestors at the same time. The Illustrations contain a few finished pages from the Berserker project, as well as design- and research drawings. Have fun with this presentation.
Detail from the Oseberg ship
Eric Knipper Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com www.thesyndikate.dk Copyright © 2014 - Eric Knipper - All rights reserved.
The Viking Age as a Comic An essay and a treaty between the artist and the art. Here are my poetological Thoughts during the work on my Comicproject Berserker. It´s written as an essay, so I will appear as a guide on these pages, which describes my pact with the muse of art. The new project is building upon experiences with the work on my comic Germania and the cooperation with the danish National Museum. The Iron Aga as comic I created Germania in 2010-2011 for the National Museum. During my career, I mostly draw humor comics, here I will emphasize Nørrebronx and Jørg, both of which are appealing to young readers, and they are underground style comix for real. But I´ve always dreamed of making action/ adventure/scifi stuff, because there is an opportunity to tell a long, epic narration, and with the help of the National Museum I could establish the Germania project, which mediates our knowledge of the Iron Age. Germania is telling the story of the Cimbrer warrior Hariuha and his adventurous life as a Roman mercenary and warlord in Iron Age Denmark, in the 3rd century AD, when northern Europe was dominated by the south. I´ve always been interested in history and archaeology, and as an educated cultural mediator I´m enthusiastic with joining the ever ongoing battle against ignorancy. It´s been a pleasure to be part of a competent community and to be a part of the museum´s dayly life. Therefore I decided to deal with the Viking Age after finishing Germania, because I was fascinated by searching the archives to get knowledge of the life during the Viking Age, through the sparse informations, we have. The Viking Age was the peak of the cultural development of the Iron Age, which has been heading for the Middle Age, and the Germanic tribes became kingdoms. I´m constanly surprised, and I have to assess different interpretations of the same sources to find necessary solutions to stuff, which is important for the images or the story. But the main factor is the modern media market: There are not enough comics, movies etc. depicting the Iron Age and the Viking Age, for instance compared to the Tudors or the Western genre, which is historical at it´s core. 4
The protagonist Saxnôt, first draft.
I can provide informations by myself, but I always have to create an overview of my studies. It´s the vision to create something, that makes a difference, and to design something, that´s more than just an action comic in a historical dress, and to deliver something, that´s different, but that still can serve as a hideaway from modern dayly life for the reader. Practice what you preach Where Germania at some point has been an experiment, where I tested my ideas, then the Vision for Berserker is to grab the gold and to use the new techniques on a big scale. I have teached Comics and Drawing, and I did take my own lessons serious, as I invested much in the initialconceptmanuscript- and design phase - teachers tend to be pedantic -but now I have a strong, wellplanned project, and from what I´ve heard it´s the right direction: Going berserk creating a powerfull showcase of the european Viging Age, and the path is the goal for the artist, to create and research, which for me is an intellectual Adventure into a strange world. The narrative of Berserker features the world of the Vikings around 800 embedded in our knowledge of king Godfred, and this demands epic proportions, an insight into Viking society from slave to king. This early and particularly heathen Part of the Viking Age isn´t commonly known, but at least as thrilling as the late Viking Age, where kings like Gorm the Old, Harald Bluetooth and Sven Forkbeard. And Godfred opposed Charlemagne and the frankish empire. Today this would be like a conflict between Denmark anf Russia!
Odinkar, Saxnôts Bruder
Between Scylla and Charybdis Under the flag "Graphic Novel" there´s been made good and bad stuff, it´s a battle metaphor for at least a generation of artists. The Epic rules the novel, which is accepted as fine art. That´s the reason why Will Eisner laid the initial foundation of graphic novels, which is based on the epic aspect, where there mostly were dramatic comic narrations. I can use the term Graphic Novel to hold unto the artistic freedom of expression, and for comics as a worthy artform too, and that was Eisners goal as well. His own late comic stories like Journey to a far off thunder are straight narrated, but are not child litterature. His use of literary techniques like the inner monolog are carried by his sublime layout. And the layout is the nerve center of the comic medium, text and picture merges to forge the message of the comic, the story and the mood into a unity.
The graphic novel craves for an active narrator for the comic to strenghten the epic aspect, whereas the main emphasis in socalled traditional comics lies on the dramatic and the dialog, not the narrator. The epic breath of Tolstojs War and Peace is based in comprehensive descriptions, and I shape this into Berserker by using splash pages and pictures filling an entire spread, where the dramatic action almost stops in favor of gourgeous scenarios, were the reader is dragged into. Comics today may be serieous and deep, the Comic medium can be developed and the artist has been set free. This freedom seems to appear as a curse, because the secureness of tradion is vanished, while the graphic novel term is establishing new genre conventions. As a tough comic reader, you´r not in doubt, if you are reading a graphic novel (Thick book, black/white drawings, depressive suburban teen on a monday morning in January) or a japanese, french etc. comic. Culture is always on the move, change is the only thing for sure, and of course there will appear an uprising against graphic novel as a genre and term, but the past can´t be reversed. I try to prevent beeing shrill modernistic, but I´m not just making an action product. You can be assured by old, sour Adorno, that the modern culture industry is making copies out of copies, quoting Adorno "an aura of decay", as Adorno is using the term coined by Walter Benjamin, "Aura of art", which has been lost in the clumsy mass culture of our modern world. But no matter how artistic and different a comic is, Adorno would never acknowledge comics as art, that demands the same sort of acknowledgement as Twelve-tone music and modern poetry. As an example, he condemned all movies. The avantgarde is delivering a kind of art, that in its extreme desire for shocking the audience has been incorporated into the culture industry, that now has canned shit or other good things to offer to the consumer, but Adorno has still the high ground with his term culture industry: The media consumer always gets the same story over and over again in uncounted Tarzan- og Robin Hood remakes. I´m extreme in another way: I´m looking for pathos as an expression of the exalted, a romantic but modern national epos, which "only" has the purpose of entertainment and enlightenment, and not to get the reader killed in a war, but to encourage him to live his life. The 6
Monk with Irish tonsure. The Roman-Catholic haircut for monks is a tonsure in the middle of the head, whilst the irish monk is shaved on the forehead.
Radulf, Saxnôts father
Detail from a waggon, Oseberg
TheVølve (Sibyl) with buckle shaped fibulas from Gothland.
exalted position is tragic, because people are going to die for ideas, religion and gold, but the tragic is beauty, because there is a will for sacrifices, which is the greatest expression for the good, as self-sacrifice. Not to forget the humor, which can be triggered by contempt of death, the semiotic victory of Man against Death. The artist must construct his own faith, his own meaning of life and time, as Nietsche has declared the death of god. A comic can´t be put into a formula anymore, for example that it´s a genre for children, so there is no authority which decides what a comic can and may do. But the moral, the values that are the foundation of our knowledge horizon, are modern and permeated by christianity, if we like it or not. And we will never see the world as a Viking. That´s good, because the past is a mirror, in which we can compare the foolishness of today with an era, where life still was easy. We believe, because we don´t know so much of the ancient times. So the past becomes a Refuge for the tormented modern soul, which is longing for a time, when the gods have told Man, how to live his life. New nordic style With my drawing of the ancient times of Denmark and Europe I aspire a new nordic style - which is a powerful heir of the vikings ribbon- and animal ornaments. The architect and critic Adolf Loos has said, that ornament is crime. I´m a criminal in this regard, who not wants to live in this modern hell designed by architects, but as a child of my time I´m enthusiastic with the design element of the comic medium. As a comic contains text and pictures, it´s lucky that the epic tale of my new project Berserker is similar to one of the innumerable ornaments, which I´ve drawn already - Filaments of the narration are entangled and are moving ahead, just tu turn around in time and space. The pattern isn´t straight, some threads of destiny are longer than others. Representation of the past The Berserker projekt has emerged out of the same basic priciples as my comic Germania, which came from my cooperation with the national museum. I have to stick to the sources and pursue new artistic ways. Experimentation, not for the sake
The daughter of the king of the danes, sigurd ring, finds the way across the sea and is called the Vølve of Viken.* *sybyl near Oslo
the king has sent his younger brother Godfred as commander of the attack. Radulf´s saxons want to revenge the down-plunging of their holy column , the Irminsul.
of the experiment, but to gain knowledge and experience. Knowledge as adventure and not as homework, and a tale about our ancestors, who have not always been nice. As I strive and seek in old books (Oelenschläger) then the reason is, that I got exiting experiences in museums, as a museum is a modern frame for the mediation of the past, and the past will get into the form of an aesthetic, synergetic experience, a rediscovery of the pain and the sublime in a hyperironic and self referring media reality. Reconstruction of history Where can we meet the dead? At the museum, in the shape of bog bodies and sculls. You can meet the proud ancient people, who fabricated things, that still have kept their exotic aura, while we are trying to grasp the meaning of symbols, shields, Fibulas and ships. I use parts of the museum mediation: Overview maps and dioramas as elements of the modern communication design, which are easy to embed into the comic media. The world is a theater, and can we claim, that we know our own time? Berserker and Germania are models of the past, which can gain new knowledge, as I am resampling all the stuff we know of the Pre-and Early History. It´s like drinking out of a bottomless barrel. Often I have to choose between two experts, and large areas are kept into the darkness, or there are centuries between sources and artefacts. By reconstructing the past it´s the goal to achieve, that houses, ships and landscapes are more than backdrops, but voices in the narration, to strenghten the epic aspect. The characters are not only dressed in exotic costumes, but they have to act according to the norms and values of the Viking Age. According to our knowledge today. I´m aiming at a psychological credebillity; even if Germania´s hero Hariuha is favouring slavery, he is still "our" guy. In Berserker, the psychological aspect plays an important role: Will violence and devastation mark the 10
Bed pillar from the Oseberg finding, Norway
Frankish women costume
soul of the warrior? And which actions will this lead to with the mindset of the Vikings? I will explore this as an artist and culture mediator. It´s not about good or bad. It´s about survival. Borg stavechurch, Norway
The creation of a Comic page Manuscript, Research and Layout sketch No matter what historical period my comic features, my research is very intense. This is also true for our own age, but research is much more important for historical comics like Germania. It´s about using as many informations as possible; it´s a bottomles barrel. Archaeological evidence can be interpreted in many different ways. The manuscript is the starting point for a comic, 12
Cover of the comic Germania, which is published by danish Faraos Cigerer in 2012. The workflow of Berserker is very similar. Comic artists and writers have their own workflow each, but most artists will follow the single steps from manuscript to inking and coloring, for some.
Weapon Votive gift from Nydam.
that contains text and images. Here is the text for page 47, but There are some ideas for the layout as well: Page 47, Frame 2-4 nested Frame 1, splash Frame 1: (100 warriors on the hill, comment) The Anglian warriors are silently waiting for the attack. Frame 2: (Nithijo) This is only a bunch of peasants, we´re not gone so far just to plunder one puny village. Attack with javelins! Frame 3: (Norwegians throw javelins) Frame 4: (Shields are cleaved)
The layout sketch is the first visualization of the final page.
The layout sketch is at left, which is important for planning and testing the visual idea. The drawing is very simple, but it´s enough to show the most important visual objects as much as getting a generel impression of the page and the flow of the story. I´m drawing every single image at double size of the final page. This helps me to forcus on each individual drawing, and I gain a generel impression of the page from the layout sketch. The research means, I can depicture each Iron Age warrior in my own style. I can draw simple objects like swords and shields freely from out of my mind, but I use photos for special artefacts like the Gundestrup kettel. Besides the narration, this page shows a battle technique from the Iron Age: Here on page 47, the shieldwall of the Angles is softened with javelins. It´s the goal to break as many shields as possible. Only a few warriors are killed, but without his shield, a warrior is vulnerable.
Pencil sketch of a single frame. 13
Inking and montage I do the inking on the lightdesk. All details are fixed, whereafter I scan the images and assemble all images for the montage at the computer , and I can fix small errors.
The final page At the end there is the digital colouring, and the dialogue will be inserted. Page 47 can now be printed or it can be published on the web.
This is only a bunch of peasants, we´re not travelled so far just to plunder one puny village.
Attack with javelins!!
the Anglian warriors are silently waiting for the attack.
(Next page) Nowadays I´m inking Berserker on my Ipad, because there I can do the inking digitally, so the black stroke can be corrected easily. I still do the colours on my Personal computer.
Vikingship of the Oseberg type, the orinal drawing is in theA2 format.
The helmet of king Godfred is drawn after a helmet from the Vendel Age from the late Iron Age. The Vendel Age is short before the Viking Age, but we found similar Viking Age helmets. There are only few helmets left from the Viking Age, and only the top elite of the warriors could afford them. Each of the Vendel helmet is unique, but we know from Beowulf, that the hero had the same helmet as his companions, and therefore Godfreds men got the same helmet as him, but in red. (Next page) 16
The king is always on the move, to control the warlords, but to get food, weapons, horses and ships for his entourage, too.
Sometimes the king is at a royal hall, sometimes he visits a warlord, who has to supply him and his entourage.
Godfreds wife, queen Aase, is sometimes travelling with the entourage. Her slave from the Lindisfarne monastery has become obedient.
Eric Knipper is living in Copenhagen and is working on his comics, of which the last has been produced in cooperation with the danish national museum: The historical comic Germania, which is taking place in the Iron Age, before the appearence of Denmark as a national state. The Viking Age as Comic presents his new project Berserker, which he has been working on since the last stroke of Germania has been set.
Published on Mar 6, 2014
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