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Thousands listen to Mitt Romney speak at West Chester campaign event
Ann Romney, Paul Ryan and more to join Romney
WEST CHESTER, Ohio - Just days before voters head to the polls, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke at a campaign event in West Chester in an effort to sway any undecided voters in the battleground state of Ohio.
Initial estimates indicate around 30,000 people made their way to The Square at Union Centre to hear Romney motivate them to vote for him on Election Day.
Joining Romney on the campaign trail were his wife, Ann Romney, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and and a considerable number of notable campaign backers. The Romney campaign invited a lengthy list of well-known supporters including to share the stage with the presidential hopeful. Some of the guests in attendance included:
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- Governor Bobby Jindal
- Governor Tom Ridge
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- Senator Marco Rubio
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- Senator Norm Coleman
- Chairman Reince Priebus
- Mayor Rudy Giuliani
- Senator John and Cindy McCain
- Senator Kelly Ayotte
- Congressman Jason Chaffetz
- Congressman Artur Davis
- Governor Rick Perry
- Governor Sam Brownback
- Olympian Derek Parra
- Olympian Scott Hamilton
- Jack Nicklaus
- Tagg and Jen Romney
- Matt and Laurie Romney
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|Defense Part One
|This article is the first in a two-part series discussing team defense, the proliferation of certain schemes, and the intricacies of playing successful team D.
"I was asked to do a speech at the national clinic; I'll never forget it," Bill Tierney recalls. "There must have been 2,000 people in there. It was a huge room. That's when I gave away the defense."
Tierney was coming off his fourth national championship, an undefeated campaign. It was Princeton's second-straight title, a streak they would turn into a three-peat in May of 1998. The tremendous success the Tigers were enjoying was due in large part to Tierney's forward thinking coaching, most notably in how his teams played defense.
"At the time everyone was trying to figure out what we were doing, and what I basically did, I did this speech that told everybody exactly what we were doing," Tierney said. "They realized it wasn't that intricate, it just looks real intricate."
Tierney explained to the standing-room crowd his vaunted "Princeton Defense," as it had become known. Though he said it was built on simple principles, the defense had been giving opponents fits, as it still does.
Quick slides and double teams forced offenses to be sharp and decisive, yet despite the aggressive play, the Tigers rarely were exposed. Instead of reacting to an offense's attack, Tierney's defense would corral and control the flow of the ball. Middies were pushed down allies and into bad angles. An attackman who sat too long with the ball would often get more heat than he bargained for. Anyone actually able to dodge his man would find open space quickly disappear as a slide came crashing in, often times the packages changing before the offense had time to counter.
"It's a style of defense where you can cover up for some individual flaws through sliding," Tierney said. "It's a very comforting, very supportive defense."
It was a formula almost everyone wanted to at least get a glimpse of, if not implement on their own teams.
"There were days I wished I'd never given that speech, and there are other days where I am thankful that I did because you still have to coach, you still have to implement it on your own," the former Ivy coach said. "It's kind of funny being at [the University of] Denver now and people are talking about 'playing the Princeton Defense.'
"It's kind of nice to know that people think that it is something very special."
"I always believed in a double-teaming, high-pressure defense," Tierney explained as a principle idea behind his scheme. "Not high pressure on individual coverage, in fact I'm totally anti that, but high pressure with a team style."
That belief has been fundamental to how Tierney has coached and developed his defenses going back to his time as the head coach of Levittown Memorial High School on Long Island, N.Y., and his stint at the helm of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Tierney taught his defenders to double the ball whenever they saw their offensive opponent's back, forcing that attackman or middie into making a quick decision under a lot of pressure, a very inauspicious spot for an offense to be.
"It was kind of a double teaming around the perimeter, with the guy in the middle kind of being the safety valve in case anybody else screwed up," Tierney said. "That's kind of how we did it…but it wasn't quite as sound as the one that Freddy started in my mind and we kind of developed after that."
The 'Freddy' Tierney refers to is the late Fred Smith, a man involved in Hopkins lacrosse for forty years as a player and coach. After finishing his playing career in 1950, Smith served as either a head coach, assistant, or scout on every Hopkins' staff, until his untimely death in 1987 from cancer.
In 1987, Tierney joined Don Zimmerman's staff at Hopkins as an assistant. Though in title he may have held rank over Smith, Tierney quickly realized it was smarter to let Smith run the show the way he always had. The young coach would instead take this time to learn.
"I learned more lacrosse from Fred Smith than," Tierney paused, then started again, "he's forgotten more than I could ever know. He was just such a phenomenal guy, and he kind of took me under his wing and taught me the Hopkins-style defense."
That Hopkins defense was formidable. The defensemen were skilled individually, yet played as a cohesive unit. They stuck to the rules of their defense and didn't put themselves in bad spots.
"Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals, that's the Hopkins system," Coach Zimmerman explained. "Playing smart; making good decisions; not taking chances, especially on the defensive end; always giving your goaltender a chance to make a save against a low percentage shot, everybody being on the same page.
"[Freddy] was a teacher of fundamentals and really just kept things simple," Zimmerman said. "He wasn't a really big check guy. He didn't believe in throwing a lot of checks. He would just put the opponent in a position where he was going to have trouble."
Yet Smith also wasn't afraid to break from conventional thinking if he thought it gave his team a better advantage, current Hopkins head coach and former defenseman under Tierney and Smith's tutelage, Dave Pietramala said
Both he and Zimmerman recall the last game Smith coached as one of the best examples of his 'think outside the box' cunning. In 1987, Hopkins played a Maryland team loaded with athletic playmakers on offense, particularly in the midfield.
"They ran this 'splits offense,' they used to call it," Pietramala explained. "They would have two middies come down from out top and curl around screens that were set by attackmen, and they'd have a guy in the top middle with the ball, and he'd pick one guy to throw the ball to. They throw it there, and they dodge from there, and it just caught us in strange match-ups. Simply put, we had never seen anything like it, and we struggled with it."
Maryland would exploit those match ups, winning the regular season game convincingly.
So when the two teams met again in the semifinals, this time Maryland carrying the #1 seed in the tournament, Smith and his staff developed a new defensive technique.
"What we did in the Final Four, we just switched," Pietramala said. "We didn't care about match ups, we didn't care about fighting through the screen which we had struggled with before, and we wound up winning the game, and in my opinion a big part of that victory was because of the game plan that Coach Smith put in."
By letting the Blue Jays' stud defenseman stand toe-to-toe with Maryland's formidable midfield, therefore pushing short sticks down onto attackmen, Smith defied convention.
"It was really ingenious because it took our strength and matched their strength," Zimmerman added. "It got to the point where our defense was shutting down the Maryland middies, and then they had to go behind the goal, and their attackmen, who were obviously great players but weren't used to initiating as much, were now being played by short sticks, and our short sticks did a nice job there, and that plan worked."
Hopkins went on to win the 1987 championship two days later, but they would suffer a monumental loss just 10 days after hoisting the trophy, with the passing of Coach Smith.
"Freddy was an institution when it came to Hopkins lacrosse," Zimmerman warmly remembered.
Despite the loss of Smith, much of his defensive ethos would live on in Tierney, eventually influencing the next generation of young coaches.
"I think at the time Coach Tierney had a lot of those same traits that Coach Smith had," Pietramala said. "He was willing to think outside the box, willing to do things a little bit differently, willing to try things that maybe weren't the typical Hopkins way. I think you saw that when he went to Princeton…Coach Tierney showed that he was an innovator, which was in my opinion very much like Coach Smith."
When Tierney arrived in Princeton in 1988, he inherited a team unfamiliar with success. Yet that blank slate was a blessing in disguise. With no pressure of tradition or expectation, Tierney could finally run the show the way he wanted to.
"When you go 2-13 in your first year, kids buy into anything," Tierney joked. "It was new, it was things that people would have to figure out…It was something that I believed in. And you know what, I was finally a head coach at a Division I program that had fallen on hard times, so why not."
He began molding his new defense around the aggressiveness he employed at RIT and Levittown, and the successful schemes of Hopkins.
"I decided to combine those two things: the soundness of the Hopkins defense, which they called the 'Seven Defense' where everybody including the goalie is involved in the defense," Tierney said, "and include that with the mentality I always had of a high pressure, early-sliding defense, and hence the 'Princeton-style' defense evolved."
Tierney knew that while his players may not have been the best athletes in the country, they were Princeton students.
"At a school like Princeton you're going to get some pretty bright kids," Tierney said. "You could explain [the defense] to those guys, and they would really get it and really understand it."
The new defense would be aggressive, pushing offensive players around the field and promptly sliding to turn up the pressure. Yet it would not be haphazard. Every slide was backed up by series of recovery slides. As quickly as a man might seem open, he would be swallowed by the defense's intricately moving parts.
It didn't take long for Tierney's teams to master his schemes and worry opponents. In his third season as head coach, Princeton made the NCAA tournament, defeating Hopkins before getting ousted by Yale. Just two years after that, Princeton would win its first of eventually six national championships while under Tierney's stewardship. The 'Princeton-style defense' grew from an outside the box concept of a young coach, to a system envied by almost every program, spawned from the mind of a defensive guru.
"Lots of grand plans in life become grand plans after they work," Tierney laughed. "That's kind of what happened there."
"Getting back to Bill Tierney, I think his slide and recover defense has really made a tremendous impact on the college game," Zimmerman said. "It used to be if you slid you would stay on the double and force a team to escape a double and find the open man, but with the new sticks and the quality of athletes, it was easier and easier to pick that type of defense apart, so the slide and recover, the show and recover, the fake slide, those things, I think you have to give Billy credit for that."
Blame it on his speech at the convention in '97, or more obviously on the incredible success enjoyed by Tierney at Princeton, but what was his own unique style has permeated practice fields and coaches' offices across the lacrosse world. Though each mutation might look its own, at heart they are principally similar.
"I'd like to say I was able to reinvent the wheel," Pietramala said, a guru in his own right after the years of success built around solid defensive units at Hopkins, "But I think quite honestly, a lot of us have taken what [Coach Tierney and the late Coach Smith] have done and kind of added our own piece to it, and I think that's what we've tried to do here."
Tierney even saw Princeton's status as the pre-eminent defense begin to fade slightly as other teams began to master and tweak the schemes they may have borrowed from him.
"I've often said that there are teams like Navy at times, Cornell at times, Hopkins at times that play Princeton defense better than we did at Princeton," Tierney said. "In one way, it's frustrating because they beat you. In another way…I do feel good about the fact that this thing is being spread because I think it's the right way to go."
The spread of the Princeton defense has also hastened the evolution of offense and increased the emphasis on X's and O's. Preparation became more and more important. Games at times became battles of wits as much as battles of skills.
"Playing this kind of defense is not for lazy coaches because there are so many things that can come up that you've got to be able to institute at a moment's notice," Tierney said.
"Offenses have evolved and here we go with the chess match," Pietramala said. "If they're evolving, we have to evolve and change and account for the way they're attacking us, and then the offense is going to have to do different things…it's who's got the chalk last."
Some people credit Tierney's defense as being the beginning of the end of the free-flowing, wide open lacrosse of the late '80's, ushering in the modern era of specialization, match ups, and a tendency to slow the tempo. Tierney doesn't seem to let that bother him.
"I laugh because my naysayers say I've ruined the game of lacrosse, and my supporters say I've kind of recreated the game," Tierney said, adding a slight laugh. "My take on it is lacrosse is a great sport, and if you're paid to coach it, you should coach it."
Now Tierney is at the helm of a new program, another chance to build a team and a defense to his specifications. Perhaps the next wave will be the 'Denver-style defense,' and will again alter how team defense is played. Or perhaps he will just build on what has worked so well for so long. That's seems to be what a lot of other coaches have done.
"You see zones come and go; you see the man-to-man defense come and go; you see the sliders come and go," Tierney said, "but in general, most people are doing some sort of version of the Princeton-sliding defense."


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Patient took own life on day release from hospital
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THE family of a patient at Langley Green Hospital who died while on day release from the mental health centre believe more could have been done to save her life.
The inquest into the death of Julie O'Hare concluded at Woking Coroner's Court on Monday.
Miss O'Hare was admitted to the mental health unit, in Martyrs Avenue, three times in January and February 2012 and took her own life on March 11, having returned to her Redhill home while on day release.
The inquest heard Miss O'Hare received years of support after being diagnosed with a personality disorder and body dismorphia – an anxiety disorder – and had made attempts on her own life before.
However, on these occasions Miss O'Hare would either be saved or call for help.
Her father, Seamus O'Hare, said his daughter had looked her "best in years" before her first admission in January, yet when he visited her at the unit on March 5 she was unrecognisable.
He said: "It was a shock to see her in hospital because she looked like a skeleton. I hardly knew her.
"At Christmas she looked the best she had in years. She was at a better weight, well dressed, looking pretty with her hair and nails done.
"Then just months later it was all change and a worry to me. I was anxious for her."
Mr O'Hare believes his daughter was crying out for help by going to the hospital.
He said: "As her dad I was questioning what could I do to make things better. Julie would have had to be desperate to agree to go to hospital.
"It was her cry for help to say she was very unwell."
The inquest heard the family had asked for more communication from the hospital on Miss O'Hare's care and the medication she was on but that she had not given permission for information to be shared.
Miss O'Hare final admission to the hospital was on February 28.
Her sister, Nicola Casse, said: "Over the years things were getting progressively worse for Julie. I spoke to Julie via text while she was in hospital and she seemed really distressed about an argument with my mum.
"Her texts were negative but I know they sorted things out."
On the day Miss O'Hare died, the alarm was raised after she did not return to the hospital at the agreed time.
A statement from Ian Whitburn, Miss O'Hare's mother's partner, was read out in court.
It said Miss O'Hare and her mother had resolved a disagreement.
The statement continued: "I have known Julie since she was nine years old.
"Julie had a history of mental health problems but I don't think she intended to take her own life. She would have expected someone to come to her aid like they had on the many occasions in the past."
The inquest heard on the day before her death the 33-year-old had to be taken to Crawley Urgent Treatment Centre for stitches after cutting her arm with a broken mirror.
The family dispute whether Miss O'Hare would have been of sound enough mind following this incident to then be allowed to return home, even though she had reassured hospital staff she would not hurt herself.
At the end of the three-day hearing, assistant deputy coroner Belinda Cheney gave a verdict that Miss O'Hare took her own life but that it was impossible to ascertain her intention.


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The Coupon "Rush"…
This Hip2Save.com Deal was hand-posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 at 1:28 pm.
As I walk up to the register, my hands start to tremble and my heart starts to beat. My eyes are moving around quickly… I am trying to catch at least a glimpse of each cashier. The cashiers that look the most promising get yet another glance from me. Oh who should I choose… decisions, decisions. As I walk closer to the cash registers, my breathing picks up speed and the sweating starts to ensue. Yes, I am getting near the point of what I like to call "Coupon Chaos".
I choose the cashier, the hardest decision of all, a guy in his early 20s who looks as though he just came from the beach. He smiles and I begin to nervously chat… I am not sure what exactly I'm saying, but things are definitely coming out of my mouth. With each item I put on the belt, my talking (if that's what you want to call it) picks up pace. Soon enough, I have to completely stop as I'm running out of breath! Oh, I am so close to the finish line.
The "surfer dude" (the young cashier who appears to have come from the beach) lets me know my total… my very high total I might add! As my hand shakes, I smile nervously and pull out my coupons. The mountain of coupons I'm pulling out don't all make it on the counter, so I bend down to pick up the ones that have taken the plunge to the ground. As I bend over, I am so thankful that I chose to wear a long shirt as I am wearing low-rise jeans and well, bending over and low-rise jeans don't really go together. ;)
As I hand him the coupons, one by one, yes, I am that anal… I notice the person behind me. A lady in her mid 30s with a in-a-hurry look on her face. She glances at my large pile of coupons and has a very confused look on her face. As the coupons keep getting scanned, I can feel the tension build up behind me. Finally, I hear her high heels tapping the ground with force… she wants me to know that I have inconvenienced her day in a big way. I ignore her knowing that I'm almost there… I am at the home stretch.
As the "surfer dude" scans my last coupon, I let out a large exhale. Phew… I feel like I've just run a marathon! The 'Surfer dude" states, "Wow! You saved $91.50 and your grand total is just $2.39." I smile slowly trying to contain my excitement and pull out my money. I am able to give him the exact change. He hands me the receipt as my smile grows. I stand there with pride as I look up and down that magnificently long piece of paper. Life is good!
As I leave the store, I know beyond any reasonable doubt that every part of getting to the moment of victory is so worth it in the end. And now I can head home with my head held high and brag to anyone who will listen.
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Collin that is hilarious. Thanks for the comedy break :-) It is sooooo true!
LOL ! That was great! I feel like that sometimes too when I hand over a fistful of coupons. I get the same looks from the people behind me. I feel bad for the cashier to have to scan all my coupons, but when I get the total, it is worth it.
I will listen! and will share in your victory! yeah! way to go, girl, and thanks for sharing how we can do it, too! {hi-five!} :)
Hi Collin! I have been following you and hip2save two years now and this is my favorite post! Thank you in all that you do to help everyone save…
This post is so so true…I have these same thoughts when I do errands….
"why I am nervous about paying my grocery"
"why is my heart beat racing….."
"I don't want to inconvenience another shopper behind me…"
"Why do I find myself apologizing to the lady tapping her heels while I pay my groceries?"
I know we somehow feel bad when we make other people wait because of the pile the coupons we hand our favorite cashiers…but after all these why'sssssssss I think it's nice to thank the person in line behind us. :-)
By the way, Collin, you look VERY pretty in this picture! Is it the pre-checkout anxiety that does the trick? :)
I felt like this today when I went to Walmart with my 30 Purex coupons. The cashier was a little confused when the total was negative. Only $1.91, but that really threw her. Then the CSM wanted to just make sure. . . a half an hour later, and every manager in the store it seemed, I was thoroughly embarrassed, but they were all super nice and once they read the policy that I brought, gave me my $1.91. I was giddy with excitement and almost ran to my car with my $60 in clearance clothes for my girls that was freeee!!!!! I think I almost peed my pants :)
By the way, they thanked me for teaching them something new! Who knew?????
is that an exaggeration or did you Really have 30 purex coupons?? so jealous to hear everyones purex stories cause my paper didnt even get me One!!! great job shoppin'!
Oh no. I really did have 30. At first one of the managers did comment on "being limited to a normal household limit" but when I pointed out that the were one use packs and I really do 2+ loads a day and that there were plenty left on the shelves that argument went away quickly. I ordered these from eBay, wanting the overage and knowing that I could get the purex to donate, I make up boxes for struggling families within our church and laundry detergent is always a great thing to have on hand to add to my boxes. I am excited to see that this past weeks coupon doesn't have any limitations on it either!
Please tell me how the clothes became free…was it from the overage of the Purex?
When there are awesome coupons like that, go to a site where you can purchase the coupons. I have one listed on my site and I'm sure Colin has one too. Coupon Dede is the best! I receive my coupons from her about 2 days after I purchase them.
Fantastic deal on the free clothing and Purex! It's so much fun when you can get so much for free! lol
Yep all from overage!
thanks! i always hear about these coupon purchase sites but then i forget about them…this story is a great reminder.
It is great you share and pay it forward! Thank you for helping those in need.
I totally agree with you! Thanks for the story Collin!
Collin, I feel the exact same way every time I am about to use a ton of coupons somewhere, (usually ends up being at Target) and i always scan the cashiers as well
:) this made me smile i am so glad to know we all seem to go through this when checking out
Love this! I did notice the BIG container of coffee in your cart, Collin! Ha! Keeping stocked for Coffee with Collin!!! We love you!!!
the only time I have had issue is with the younger men at Target because they feel they have to dig through my coupons one by one and match each one to an item, when I already have them organized the way I want. One of them told me I COULDNT use a coupon that was more than the item. Rather than argue, I just put it back. I hand over my coupons 5 at a time so I can make sure they all go through, especially at Meijer with the printable store coupons and the mperks deals. for some reason the register beeps on certain q's and if the cashier doesn't press the button, it doesn't come up. So I really have to watch them. I have a couple of cashiers I likeand I tell them it's because they are careful with my coupons. I honestly haven't had any luck with the young men cashiers, maybe I am just not attractive enough!
AWESOME!!!! I want to have that feeling one day.
Thanks for the laugh Colin!
I use to feel that way too! I'd get everything I needed, get all the coupons out and then go to the checkout with my heart pounding and I would be shaking inside! I always wondered why I was having an anxiety attack because I had coupons! lol I was fine shopping without them, so I knew this was because of using coupons. Then I realized one day after I got behind someone who had just as many coupons as I had, that I was not the only one doing this at my store and the anxiety went away!
Around Christmas I was in a hurry and I wish I wouldn't have been, I was getting in a line that only had 1 person and then I realized why, the woman was price matching EVERYTHING! I had to leave that line for a faster one. lol Only because I was in a hurry, needed to get home before my family came in. I wish I had been able to wait, I would have loved to have seen that total! lol
Collin thanks so much for this post! My heart always starts to race when I am walking up to the register with a lot of coupons too! I sometimes feel as though I should apologize to the irritated person in line behind me, but choose to ignore them instead. Coupons are made to be used and saving all the money that you (yes you Collin) help me to save allows me to work part-time and be home with my kids more without having to feel the hurt financially. Thank you so much Collin. I have been following your site for about a year now and I just love it! By the way, the person who said how pretty you looked in your picture was totally right. You make me want to step it up a little!
Well really fun story I imagine the face of the lady tappin her shoes after she saw ur grand total….lol…almost the same thing happened to me at meijer after the lady behind me saw the total she said ""i should take u with me shopping" I just gave her a smile n left…..
I have been there before. I wonder if stores could have a coupon checkout. You know like the registers that are less then 15 items or cash only (do they have those anymore?), but one for coupons. That may sound stupid. Obviously shoppers with coupons could use any checkout lane, but maybe our trepidness wouldn't overwhelm us if we new that there was a coupon lane and that the associate working it would be knowledgeable and not upset about our coupons.
I LOVE this idea and have always said that if I owned a store, I would have a coupon lane staffed with coupon savy cashiers.
Oh girl…aint it the truth! Love the coupon shakes when it all works out.
Collin! I always feel in that way..but I always look for those kind persons, with a big smile on their faces!
Yesterday, I pay $2.70 ON Kroger! it was just wonderfull,…and my cashier?..a nice and kind guy!
Collin, thank you for being REAL!!!! It's like you read my mind! I also look for the guys when choosing cashiers, too! Ha!
It's funny that huge RUSH you get when doing this.
I sat down a few weeks ago and showed my neighbor how to stack coupons with the sales that was going on at our local store.
Her husband didn't believe that you could do this. Well I wrote out a complete scenario for them saying which coupons to use, and what to buy.
Well her husband had an hour to kill before picking up the kids, so he took the coupons and went to the store. Later that afternoon while I was outside he pulled in. He was beaming (to say the least) and said "I now understand the rush you are talking about!!!". He opened the trunk of the car, showed me his stash of 40 boxes of cereal that he got for less than $5.
He's the guy in charge of the food bank at his church and he was just SO happy that he could really make a difference doing something SO simple as cutting out a few pieces of paper. He kept a few boxes for himself, and donated the rest to his food bank.
Great story! I love when people get convinced by actually couponing themselves!
This is just like my experiences so many times and made me laugh out loud! I think my family gets sick of hearing my adrenaline fueled phone calls from the parking lot of my grocery stores but I just can't help sharing :) Thanks for your blog!
I was nervous as I headed out last night to my grocery store's $10 off $50 Thursday promotion. By the end of my order getting rung up and coupons being deducted I had rivlets of sweat rolling down my back. All went well though – I got $54 worth of groceries for $14 and will submit my receipt for a $10 beer rebate, so actually just $4 for all after all discounts! Couponing can be a little nerve wracking at times but oh so worth it!
I am soooo striving to accomplish a savings like that!!! You are such an inspiration to me. I had the coupon rush at CVS on Monday and all I had was 6 items!!!!
I feel the exact samw way as well! I have also began "scanning" the cashiers. After a HORRIBLE experience with one who wanted to literally pick apart every coupon I gave her and annouce loudly so everyone could here why they don't take certain competitors (which by the way I have used in the past….I should have had my Coupon Policy like you tell us to take but I had fogotten it in a rush. Lesson learned… Thanks for all you do!
I love this hilarious post! I sometimes will make 2 trips to a store like Target–buy a batch, go to my car to unload, then back into the store again. This lowers my anxiety of making sure I get everything and of holding up the line with too many coupons. I also find that sometimes my coupons get stuck together if I cut them from a stack and it's easier for me to track a smaller number of coupons at the register and later on my receipt rather than a larger amount. Collin, with the coupon rush plus the caffeine rush, you must be flying after your couponing trips! :-)
I love that! I feel almost that way,too! And I thank those male cashiers profousely for all their trouble with handling my coupons.
I am having a hard time understanding how it is even possible to pay $2.30 for 91.50 worth of groceries? What store are you going to and how do you get such great deals? Please share !
LOVE IT!!! Oh Collin, you hit it straight on! LOL
I love this post ~ so true and so worth it in the end…thank you
This was great, thanks for sharing! By the way, this is a gorgeous picture :)
Collin do you ALWAYS look so good when you go grocery shopping? What a lovely picture of you :)
I am also having a hard time finguring how you got the price down so low.. The story was great and so true. I so rather well with the coupons however I have yet to do something like that.. What tricks am I missing? :)
I am suprised the lady did not chase you down in the parking lot for tips because that is amazing!!! I thought I was something for saving $10-$20 on our grocery bill!
I've definitely been there!!! In addition, I always WARN the person behind me that I have alot of Qs so if he/she is in a hurry, another register might be a good idea. If they choose to stay in line, they are always amazed when I'm done. Just kill 'em w/ kindness and there's not much they can do!
Nice story Collin! Thanks for all you do!
Question: How in the world do you get your out-of-pocket so low like that? Even using coupons and price matching to the best store deals, I never get a total to drop like that. The stores around me don't double coupons though — is that the reason or am I just doing things wrong?!
I couldn't stop laughing of this post! Thanks Collin for sharing! Awesome outcome, yeeeaaahhh what a rush!
I'm curious to know what all you got for 2.39!
Your writing was very well until the low-rise jean comment was made. Sometimes I feel like things are unprofessional when it comes to the videos and posts. Though I'm sure I'm the only one who feels this way. Still, I'm curious to know what all you got.
Collin- thank you so much for this sight. I am new and am trying to learn everything so I am WIP. work in progress.
Why is it better to get thingsin teh smaller size?
I have yet to figure out free toothpaste, deordarant or shampoo so when I see such a low price for a lot of things I know I am missing the boat. Please help. I LOVE your videos. They are really informative.
Thank you.
So true Collin, so true. I feel like I ran a marathon too! I also pick the young man when given the choice, even if it's the longest line :) Sometimes "high-heeled lady" compliments me tho and it was worth it all over again!
That is what I want to learn how to do!!!!
Hey Collin…I could definitely identify with the low rise jeans…Thanks for the great laugh! :) Sounds like my CVS run today…
1-10 pack of batteries
6 bottles of pantene
20 oz coke
a little sweat and happiness! :-)
I love your post. It has been wonderful. Now my mom, two sisters and sister-in-law have me teaching them how to coupon. They just started last week and are loving it. Thanks for all you do.
we dont have stores that do double coupons. Will i still get big savings. Also i have trouble at the stores with printable coupons they wont scan and alot of times the stores wont take them. Any advise!!!!!! Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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where the heck has the tread gone, with this weeks challenge gone???? (The one ending today!)
Hi folks, I have just got myself a new little baby, a Mamiya RB67 Pro SD with a new!! 127mm lens. I have a question for all you film folks.
Can you recomend a good flat bed scanner please? I have been looking at the epsons and quite like the option of the wet scan. My biggest neg for the near future
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It might be an idea to put your thoughts into the forum section rather than the comments as it seems not too many people look here
If I come up with any words of wisdom I'll return (but had better do some work since that's what they pay me to do here!)
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Welcome to the group, Paul (Coast). Your avatar suggests you have exactly the right, er, temperament to enjoy the group.
Just a reminder I give to new members: photos must be taken AFTER the challenge is announced. Hope you thoroughly enjoy participating.
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Hi I am new to this site but I think I will like it regards and happy shooting everyone.....
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Uploading my first entry in this competition!
Just joined you fellows over here, and will be uploading a skyline later on today for this week's competition. Hello to all!
Hi Ann. Yes I've hit the Join Group button. And when I go to settings it the button option is Leave Group, so I must be there somewhere.
Ooops, I've just found me. I joined in March last year but never entered anything. Hey ho.
Hiyah Chris did you hit the "join the group" button - I don't see your mug in the membership "roster" either.
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You're not going to forget how to find this again are you . . . ?
Might do.
Why are all the forum posts in the Groups the wrong way round, i.e. latest post at the top rather than the bottom. So confusing. I do so like consistency.
And me mugshot's not appeared on the members' bit yet. I dunno.
I know, I know, I'll get back to the Grumpy Group. (BTW, she's out of hospital).
Welcome aboard Chris!
You're not going to forget how to find this again are you . . . ?
I see we have some new members - welcome and join in the fun. Upload and let's see your work. It's all about love this week
Rule 6?
Does it make a difference if someone posts a comment prior to judging?
Would any of you,as the judge, be swayed by what another person had written? It's only their opinion,after all.
Or would you judge the shots purely on their strengths and weaknesses, disregarding what others think?
I have an opinion which I'll share with you later. In the meantime, what does everyone else think?
OK, sorry about commenting before judging is complete, but what's up with that? Who really wants to go back and bother commenting afterwards? I mean, really, what if we get 20 uploads. Does anyone think they will take the time to sit down and comment on all those after the judging is over??
Easier to make the comments as the images are uploaded. It shouldn't affect judging at all. Maybe someone could explain the reasoning behind this for me? I'm just new here.........mmmkay?
Also, might it not also be interesting to get some critiques, and maybe some modifications and make this a bit more interesting. Maybe more people would upload. IMO getting comments might also generate more interest in the group.
OK, off my soapbox for now.
I've posted the new theme, but it is showing up after the circles theme - hope you all find it.
No problem. You aren't the first and most certainly won't be the last!
There's always next week.
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The weekend starts here, and I'm hoping you'll have some time to upload something for this week's challenge.
Anything unusual/unconventional/humorous that goes/gets someone/something from A to B is what I'll be looking for, and of course it should look good in Black & White.
Hoping to get loads of entries this week.
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Firstly, I'd like to say thanks for picking my image, I am really grateful.
Secondly, I am really sorry that I did not set the follow on challenge.
I literally just found out I was ill & have been in hospital. If not for an annual check-up, I would have been in hospital still, and probably very ill indeed.
Of course, I could not get on the 'net, so this is a mega surprise to me.
I've been allowed out for the evening, but have to go back tomorrow for a quick check up before being (hopefully) allowed home for Xmas dinner before having to be re-admitted for another 2 weeks or so.
Treatment will be ongoing, but I expect to be taking photos (and uploading) again soon.
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Don't worry about getting lost or not being able to navigate the site.
I've been here three years and I still can't find half of it!
Just joined the group. Just got into the website. Tried to set something similar up myself in the past and it is hard work !!! This has a lot going on, but it seems to have got itself into a mess in terms of what's going on, how to find it and what to do to get involved...... How do i submit images for this group's challenges. Do i have to be an e2 member to do stuff ( like so many aspects of the site ) ?
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Are You There Shiva? It's Me, Sara.
There is nothing more terrifying to me than a pack of twelve year-old girls.
In spite of all my feminist training and getting to know my inner child, there is a visceral animal inside me that drives me to a fight or flight reaction.
A pack of teenage girls is my boogeyman, my monster in the closet.
In spite of this, I recently led a yoga class for a group of young girls at a community center. I've taught a wide variety of genders, ages and ethnicities down through the years. So why does this particular population make me feel like the junior high kid who sits alone at lunch? I'm an adult. Shouldn't I be over this shit by now?
It took me over an hour to pick out an outfit to teach in. I wanted to A) cover up my tattoos, and B) not look fat. The first was so that I wouldn't get an e-mail from an angry parent saying "My child got a Weezer tattoo because of you, yoga freak." The second was so I wouldn't hear a giggle from the front row when I had my rotund ass skyward in Down Dog.
I wanted them to like me.
I'm 34 years old, but I still feel like that fat girl in gym class, and it's rope climbing day.
They didn't call them "tweens" when I was growing up, but the name fits. They're in an in-between stage of development— half-formed and clumsy. While the boys are busy trying to hide their impromptu erections from the universe, girls get something often referred to as a "special friend." An odd name for something that causes physical pain and a sadness so overwhelming it leaves you in a sweatpants stupor for days. Sometimes my friends forget to return my phone calls, but none of them have ever made me bleed.
But that's what it was— a friend. This very special guest visited me for the first time during summer vacation. I was twelve. By this time I had read Are you There God? It's Me, Margaret. I had also spent hours rifling through my mother's blue box of pads under the bathroom sink. It was something I wanted desperately. I was bookish and lonely and badly in need of a friend.
For the first time the girls in my class were jealous of me. I would have preferred it was over my excellent verbal skills or my New Kids on the Block bedroom slippers, but it was the period that did it. I was the first girl in my class to get it, and my trips to the bathroom became heavily attended. The other girls would stand outside my closed stall and ask me what it looked like and if it hurt and if I knew how lucky I was. I felt like the great and powerful Wizard of OZ.
But there was so much happening inside my body that I didn't have answers for. My body changed daily; flat became round, smooth became rough, red, and pimply. I don't recall spending much time crying as a child, but suddenly I had a soap opera's worth of tears and dramatic monologues for all to hear. I was the Susan Lucci of Shelburne Junior High. Where's my Emmy, dammit?
With this reconstruction of me, by what I could only assume was a vengeful and cruel male god, came a self-doubt so crippling that I literally stopped— stopped running and biking and writing terrible plays and laughing and living.
The loss of self-esteem is a common disease among adolescent girls, as anyone who's read Reviving Ophelia knows. I wish someone had told me that then. From where I sat, it seemed that all the other girls were maturing into boyfriends and booty shorts with grace. They wielded hair curlers and razors and hot wax like they'd been doing it all their lives. These were the tools of womanhood and they left me with burnt patches in my hair and a rash of razor cuts on my legs that made it look like I'd been brawling with rosebushes.
And there was the fact that all of the girls I knew were accumulating French kisses and post-dinner phone calls from their "boyfriends." You could be as pretty and smart and accomplished as hell, but if you didn't have a boyfriend it was assumed there was something wrong with you. Having a boyfriend meant that you had been approved by nine out of ten doctors. You were healthy and safe— you were progressing along like a good little girl. I was unapproved. I was alone. I was failing at being a woman-in-training.
To state the obvious, my fear of adolescent girls is a fear of myself— the self that I dread seeing pictures of, the self I've tried to forget. When I look at them I can feel the old me, heavy with an armful of Bronte novels and the thirty extra pounds I packed on during junior high school. I thought I had buried that Sara, but it was a very shallow grave.
The day of the class I laid out the mats and turned on some Beyonce. I sat in lotus and waited for the girls to arrive. They entered the gym in huge packs— laughing and yawning and loud as a locomotive whistle.
I told them to spread out on their mats and let their limbs go limp. We went through a tense and release relaxation where I told them to breathe out anger, fear, stress, anything that that disturbed their peace had to go. There were giggles and eye rolls and exaggerated breaths by the girls in the front row. As I walked to the back row, I noticed a chubby girl with those same sad eyes I find in pictures of myself at that time. As I knelt down over her for an adjustment, the girls from the front row turned toward us and starting snickering. Suddenly, this poor child was craning her head and covering her belly.
"I can't do this," the sad girl said to me.
"This. Lay like this. It hurts."
I put my hands under her knees and bent them so that her lower back would be flush against the mat.
I walked away from her and that was it. After class, she made her way toward me and gave me her mat.
"Thank you, she said, for the knee-bending thing."
Sometimes, that's all it takes.
Bending this child's knees is not going to save her life or make her tween world any easier. I have no illusions about that. I do believe, though, that it's our job as yoga instructors to provide comfort whenever and however we can. One moment of ease is one less moment of suffering.
And as yoga instructors we often encourage our students to embrace the concept of the oneness of the universe. We are all— plants, dogs, trees, even Mitt Romney (still working on it)—one blessed body and soul. And sometimes we find that even the pieces of ourselves we thought we had buried so skillfully will rise to meet us along this path. We can, if we are brave and willing, love even the selves we worked so hard to erase.
Are you there, Shiva? It's me, Sara. Thank you for allowing me to teach. Thank you for allowing me to learn. Namaste.
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7 Responses to "Are You There Shiva? It's Me, Sara."
I'm a middle school counselor and packs of twelve year old girls alternately terrify and fascinate me. What you did for this girl was show her that she could do something that she didn't think she could do. And that is a gift.
thank you, this is a sweet and openly written grateful article. I need that right now.
ABSOLUTELY brilliant piece. thank you from a 48 year old former 'ugly 12 year old'.
I love love love your writing. Thank you for being so openly authentic. I completely relate to the awkward preteen, teenage years, and I still battle those demons today.
I teach yoga and also teach choreography for middle school theatre productions. I enjoyed this article. Beautifully written. It is such a tough age, simultaneously toddler and middle-ager all in the length of one breath. These girls are a force, one week the bully the next week the bullied. Giving them an experience in their bodies, a small accomplishment makes all the difference. I have seen such transformation in helping this age of girls and boys to move their bodies. A blessing…
"I do believe, though, that it's our job as yoga instructors to provide comfort whenever and however we can." And indeed, anybody who was once the owner of a pair of those sad eyes. I've never done yoga or even tried it. But your article truly spoke to me. I wasn't overweight, but I was the freckled, bookish nerd that nobody would take the time to know. I was the one who heard the snickers. Nobody noticed or helped. Twelve year old girls, especially those of today, spook me too, with one exception, the one with those eyes that just want somebody to see, to understand, to care.
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I am creating generic co-op ads for my company that our dealers can use for advertising our products. I am trying to find a resource that gives the standard size for newspaper ads and magazine ads. We are wanting to offer 3 sizes as options. I wanted to go with the most popular sizes for these ads. Any help would be appreciated.
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Thanks, their sizes are across the board. I have not run into one publications with the same size as the last. Each has a different spec for bleed etc. I am just curious to know how other companies such as Yamaha four wheelers, John Deer, etc run their co-op ads for dealers? It would be a full time job for someone to sit there and cater each ad for each dealer. There has to be some type of standard out there? Or I would hope?
duck lovers right, no standard size and heres the best part, you need to decide what page you intend to put your ad in, for instance how many times have you picked a magazine or newspaper up and you never even made it to the centre page and thrown it away? exactly it will cost more to have your ad earlier in the magazine or newspaper.
This is were targeted audience intelligence comes in, how much of the magazine or newspaper does your target actually read, do they read certain pages, or just the back sports category, or maybe just the single one page,(page3,the sun, for all the pervs out there), once you work this out, you can then dominate by having a full layout or alittle 10x10, you decide, balls in your court.
All of our industry trade magazines that we advertise in usually have breaks of 1/4 page, 1/2 page and full page sizes. And they are all 8.5x11 pages (or close).
I don't know what to tell you other than allow for bleed off and large safeties to cover a good number of sizes.
Newspapers are a mystery to me. Column width and linear column inches <shudder>
As others have said, pick your pubs very carefully - then get the specs for each and adjust for each. A lot have designers of their own that can work with something close to the size they require, but that's taking your chances. From what I can tell, there's no standard for any of it. Heck, you could set up your own mag right now with any crazy size requirements you wanted.
Sorry, that's not very helpful. Keep it somewhat flexible, and give yourself plenty of safe space (most car ads I've seen are just a shot of the car, maybe still maybe driving, with plenty of breathing room, probably for this very reason).
I'll be watching this in case anyone has better insights.The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
From my years spent working at a newspaper... In the U.S., there aren't really "standard" sizes for newspaper ads. You might find standardization between newspapers owned by a parent company, but that's about it.
As PrintDriver said, U.S. newspaper ad sizes are specified in columns (horizontal) and column inches (vertical). Horizontal measurements at most U.S. newspapers are measured in picas and points, while the vertical measurements are measured in inches. Most newspapers have a basic grid, but there might be several variations of that grid that are used.
If you want to run a 3-column by 4-inch ad, for example, you first have to know the width of their columns and the gutters between the columns. If their column widths measure, say, 12p8 with 11pt gutters, a little math is required: (12p8 x 3) + (0p11 x 2) = 39p10. So the ad size will be 39p10 x 4 column inches. Most newspaper rate cards translate those measurements into inches for the public, so you'll see some really wonky sizes, like 6.8983" x 5 1/2", but as has been said, there's really no industry standard for ad sizes. Some newspaper don't even bother with points and specify horizontal measurements in picas and decimals.
This lack of standardization actually makes it easier in some ways. Most newspapers will just take the PDF and enlarge or shrink it to fit their column widths. The cost of the ad, by the way, usually depends on where it runs in the newspaper and the total number of column inches taken up by the ad.
Nobody using agates?
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Here in NZ, every publication is different so I always request specific mm measurements and specifications.
Columns vary from publication to publication so you can't just design a generic 2 column ad, a 3 column ad, quarter page, half page... for the client to use. They need to be altered every so slightly to fit every publication they decide to advertise in.
Agate? I thought that was a rock...It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" Winnie the Pooh
Thank you all. Great insight to prints ads.
I now have to try to convince my supervisor that there is no standard for advertisements. My world may get a little more busy now as we are starting to develop co-op advertising, ha ha.
Do you all have any recommendations for how to accomplish this? We are creating basic ads that our dealers can download to use for their marketing purposes. They will be PDF's with a fillable form that they can put their dealer information in. I am sure I can figure something out, but wondered if anyone has found a solution to expedite this process?
I don't know why there it would be hard to convince them? Go to a newsagents and ask them for left over newspapers from the day before, perhaps any old magazines they are trying to rid of or something.
Then cut some adverts into a scrapbook of sorts and show them there literally isn't any standard size.
Hardly difficult to physically show someone that 20 newspapers/magazines run multiple sized adverts.
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Very true.
If you do a google search for "rate cards" you'll find dozens of them online from various magazines and newspapers. Rate cards usually list the ad prices, sizes and other specs for the ads that various publications will accept. Most every newspaper or magazine has a rate card.
We usually do a bulk media buy. We buy space in several papers, over a period of months. That way we're locked in to one ad size per paper for the length of the flight. It works pretty well for us. Maybe instead of the dealers downloading and placing the ads themselves, you could do it at the corporate level. I'm sure you'd save a ton of money that way. It's worth checking out.This post is brought to you by the letter E and the number 9. Those are the buttons I push to get a Twix out of the candy machine.
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I have a 2011 Grand C Max titanium X with the sony dab unit installed.
While driving on Saturday the radio totally stopped as if my daughter
had switched it off and the small display screen on the console above
the radio went totally black. The On/off button failed to bring it back
to life. I also noticed shortly after that my voice control paddle on
the right of the steering wheel was no longer requesting an input when
pulled and then I noticed that the rear parking sensors were also not
working when trying to park.
Obviously this all sounded like a fuse had gone so checking the handbook
it says fuse 79 (voice control/radio/navigation/dvd/cd/door lockbutton)
was the correct one. Checked this and it was fine but replaced it
anyway just in case. Then tried the fuse 67 (information and
entertainment display) and 69 ( Instrument cluster) but these were both
fine too. I then proceeded to check all fuses to the car ie engine
compartment, boot compartment and passenger footwell panel and couldn't
find anything blown.
Any clues out there?
Sony Dab Radio Totally Dead Along With Other Faults
Started by nufsedok, May 08 2014 11:04 PM
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 11:04 PM
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Posted 09 May 2014 - 12:22 PM
If you pull the Radio out it should have it's own fuse in the back of it as well, give that a check.
Posted 12 May 2014 - 03:45 PM
if the rear fuse on the radio hasnt resolved it, then check the wiring looms in the GEM Board int he passenger footwell and make sure that all the harnesses are securely in place.
Posted 03 June 2014 - 10:19 AM
Hi all
I have the same fault at the moment and have to wait for June 16th for ford to look at it.I have ckecked looms and fuses but still same fault.Has any body solved the problem yet.
Posted 03 June 2014 - 09:14 PM
Hi Newbie
I had to send a serious compaint to Fords Customer Relationship Centre about the entire episode I have had with fords trying to fix this problem. (Fords had my vehicle for 4 days amd said they had spent over 9 hours looking at it but then wanted to charge me £350 for a further 3 hours worth of investigations with no guarantee that they would find the fault).
In the end I did recieve a nice email back from Ford Customer Relationship Centre asking me to book it back into my local Ford dealership would would repair the fault free of charge. They have now had my car for 2 days and today I didn't get a call to let me know they had solved the problem or even to give me an update on how they were getting on with it. Needless to say they will be getting another email from me to complain about their total lack of customer service.
I will let you know if they ever manage to diagnose the problem and what they found it to be.
keep in touch
Posted 04 June 2014 - 12:44 PM
Maybe they will have sorted it by time mine goes in. I wondered if they had changed the sony unit as I think it could be that.When I reverse and press the radio on button I get my rear sensor guide on the display but no sound.If you do not press radio on you get nothing.
Look forward to you getting sorted.
Best regards
Posted 04 June 2014 - 02:51 PM
Got to love these guys, some are cowboys! definately get that email out there. I would also be looking for a refund or a part refund at least for the diagnostics.
Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:00 PM
hi jeebowhite
I refused to pay the £350 and demanded they returned my vehicle unfixed as they had had it for 4 days and I needed my car for the weekend. They couldn't even diagnose the fault and said that the pc had turned up 31 faults which all would need exploring?
It was after this that I emailed their head office customer relationship centre who arranged with the dealership to book it in for a free of charge repair. Bet that went down well with them!
I sent another email to their customer services last night to say that I wouldn't be contacting the dealership for an update any more and that I would let the customer services chase them up on my behalf and get back to me with an update. Customer services rang me at 3pm today to say they had chatted with the dealership and they were very sorry that no-one had rung me back yesterday and were even more sorry to say that the needed to keep the car again tonight to repair it tomorrow. Customer services also told me that she had asked the dealership to give me a call to confirm that everything ws going to be fixed tomorrow and to appologize for everything.
Guess what? They didn't bother to ring me
Another email going off to customer services tonight to keep them updated with their dealerships incredibly poor service. Just jope that the car is fixed tomorrow and that I will never have to set foot on their forecourt again.
Will post an update tomorrow night to keep you all informed of the progress
hopefully Graham this will help you out with getting your diagnosed too.
Posted 05 June 2014 - 11:18 AM
Cant say I blame you for doing what you did, but its a disappointment that you still get ignored.
Fingers crossed they actually sort themselves out this time.
Posted 05 June 2014 - 08:35 PM
joy at last
picked up car today and all fixed (no charge either.)
Even got a big phonecall appology from Dagenham motors about not keeping me informed of thier progress over the past few days.
The report says they replaced the FCDIM (Front control/display interface module) which has cured the radio, bluetooth, voice control and rear parking sensors.
Strange thing is that I have still have all of my pre-programmed tel numbers and bluetooth connected phones come up when I start up so I guess all of these items and stored elsewhere on some other memory in the dash or radio system.
At least it works though and that is the main thing so I guess this is a happy ending
Posted 05 June 2014 - 10:06 PM
Good Result Darren,
its not the unit they replaced directly, its just the interface module between what you see and what goes on in the backend so thats why everything appears the same.
Good result none the less!
Posted 06 June 2014 - 05:35 PM
Good result in the end.My car is booked in under warranty and I will inform them before they start work as to your results and bad service.I have in the past had some doggy dealings with servicing at a ford franchise.It went in for service and came out with sensors left unplugged and air pipes off,this led engine fault light being on by time I was home.Not impressed. Thanks for all the info .
Posted 06 June 2014 - 05:44 PM
I forgot to ask if you know we're this module is so I could check connections.
Posted 06 June 2014 - 10:16 PM
Hi graham
the FCID screen is the small one above the radio under the rear view mirror which shows the time/temp etc. Not excatly sure where the module is that they say they replaced. (if they replaced it at all - they may have just found a loose wiring harness somewhere else) The wiring loom for all of this may be in the passenger or drivers footwell for all iKnow. Sorry but can't be any more use for this one.
Posted 30 June 2014 - 12:17 PM
They looked at the car on June 16th and said the sony radio is faulty,we are ordering another.Just rang and waiting for them to ring back,Still all sorts off and has been sine before whit bank hol.Next car will be something else????..
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Both political conventions are in the books and after the events of Tampa last week and Charlotte this week, we'll start to know how the American public is going to respond to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. As we stand right now, this has a chance to be a historic election, and not for reasons usually discussed in the mainstream media.
Since the election of 1960, when John F. Kennedy edged out Richard Nixon thanks to the public reaction to the first-ever series of televised presidential debates, the American presidency has consistently, and without fail, gone to the major party candidate most adept at talking on the tube. In the cases of presidents we've had who've been lacking in TV skills (Carter, Bush Senior & Junior), all beat opponents who were even more charismatically-challenged. Jimmy Carter won in 1976 over Gerald Ford. Bush The First beat Michael Dukakis, perhaps the iciest figure to be nominated by either party post-1960. Bush the Younger beat the obnoxious and stiff Al Gore, then followed it up with a win over John Kerry, who's patrician prosecutorial style made it clear why he can only be elected in a one-party state (Massachusetts).
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The other reason it may not hold in 2012 is there are a lot of factors working against the Obama campaign. Only one president has been re-elected with a sub-50 percent approval rating and a struggling economy and that was Bush Junior on 2004. That took a monumentally incompetent campaign by Kerry, lingering fears over terrorism, the little bit of TV edge noted above and the incumbent still only escaped by 2.5 percentage points. Whatever one thinks of Mitt Romney, his campaign has not been incompetent and the prospect of foreign affairs taking attention off the economy seems slight.
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