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The 2011 Frost & Sullivan Global Customer Service Leadership Award in the Welding Market for Repairs and Maintenance is presented to Castolin Eutectic. This marks the fourth year in a row that the company has been conferred a prestigious Frost & Sullivan Award. Previous accolades include Market Growth Leadership Award (2009) and Customer Service Leadership Award (2008 and 2010).
"Castolin Eutectic offers an extensive product portfolio that encompasses high-quality welding equipment, consumables, brazing alloys, powders and equipment for coating," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Manager Archana Chauhan. "These, together with the company's wide range of welding and coating techniques, have enabled it to tackle repair programmes of any scale on-site or off-the-field and establish itself as a one-stop-shop in the market for welding repairs and maintenance."
Continuous R&D has enabled Castolin Eutectic to design exceptional alloys that can withstand the most aggressive environments and offer high resistance to any type of wear. Their welding consumables are of a higher grade of steel, nickel or cobalt alloys. In addition, Castolin Eutectic has expertise in coating processes.
Such comprehensive know-how has enabled the company to provide adaptive products and coating technologies suited to the requirements of diverse industries such as cement, steel, mining and glass. Wear protection solutions for equipment in the waste and recycling industries signify the company's commitment to environmental sustainability, while an 'OilTec' team caters exclusively to weld repairs and wear protection in the oil and gas industry.
"Castolin Eutectic has a number of dedicated service teams that can be deployed for emergencies as well as regular repairs, and which save downtime in any production facility," states Chauhan. "The service units are fully equipped to deal with any kind of repair and are not constrained by equipment unavailability or process limitations."
The ability to customise products for various applications across a spectrum of end-user industries has underlined Castolin Eutectic's position as a reliable partner in repair or maintenance initiatives. The company recently launched a comprehensive database that contains images, solutions and technical details related to nearly 8000 repair and coating jobs.
"CastoLab Services are a unique service offered by Castolin Eutectic in which maintenance and repair needs are completely outsourced by its clients," comments Chauhan. "CastoLab Services facilities in various countries are equipped with top quality testing equipment and engineers that support rapid on-site repairs and maintenance, resulting in minimal downtime."
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VILLAGES Action Group members have called for unity between the areas around Bognor Regis being considered for housing.
Chairman Mike Turner said the group was opposed to a debate in which parish was set against parish in a bid to avoid being earmarked for thousands of new homes. Everyone needed to work together.
"We are opposed to the building of 2,060 houses at Barnham/Eastergate/Westergate.
"But that does not mean the action group is in favour of large housing allocations in any of the other location discussed by Arun District Council, including west of Westergate, Ford, Bognor Regis Eco-Quarter or West Bank in Littlehampton.
"We believe localism and neighbourhood planning is the way forward," he said.
"Housing provision should be based around what the parishes bring forward in neighbourhood plans, which have to go out to local referendum.
"This is what the National Planning Policy Framework provides for. The Villages Action Group is in favour of priority being given to affordable housing which meets the needs of local people, both for rent and shared equity housing."
Mr Turner said the action group did not believe the district could absorb the 580 homes a year Arun District Council had agreed could be built.
The target should instead be the 430 annual homes which the district needed. The recent flooding had shown the higher number would worsen flood risks for communities by concreting over good quality farmland with a high winter ground water table.
He said the higher number would also only add to the daily outcommuting which already occurs and went against the sustainability theme of the planning framework. Carefully planned smaller scale developments in appropriate locations should be more sustainable and still provide the funding needed to meet the district's urgent infrastructure needs.
Proposals for hundreds of homes have been made across the district in recent months.
"The message needs to be loud and clear that each application has to meet the test of whether the development is needed and sustainable, which is what the planning framework demands," said Mr Turner.
"Each case will depend on site specific circumstances. Potential impacts on flooding and drainage, access to sustainable transport such as a railway station, infrastructure capacity, highways issues and other considerations.
"But recent flooding has shown that the knowledge of local people, particularly expressed through sound neighbourhood plans, is fundamental to sustainable development. Localism really can work."
As reported, Arun's councillors made a U-turn and decided against a recommendation to allocate land around Barnham and Eastergate for 2,060 homes. They instead decided to consider previously rejected sites, including the Eco-Quarter on Chalcraft Lane, in North Bersted, as well as the recommended ones before they make their final decision.


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I've breastfed 2 daughters and we are undecided if we want more. I interested in removing my current implants and get a breast lift, but would like to have the option of breast feeding if we decide to have more children.
Would I Be Able to Breastfeed After Breast Implant Removal (Subpectoral) and Breast Lift?
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Breast lift and breast feeding
There is always a risk that with breast lifting procedures you may not be able to breast feed. Why not wait until after you are done having children?
Breast-feeding after Breast Lifting?
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Given that you are able to breast-feed successfully in the past, it is most likely that you will be able to breast-feed again after breast lifting surgery. Generally, breast lifting does not involve significant excision/manipulation of breast parenchymal tissue ( as opposed to breast reduction surgery). Exactly how much potential risk is involved will depend on exactly what type of breast lifting is necessary; obviously, this will be best determined after direct examination.
I would suggest that you consider postponing breast surgery ( removal of breast implants and breast lifting) until you have completed pregnancies/breast-feeding. Timing the operation in this manner, may help you prevent the need for additional surgery ( to "correct" changes that happen after pregnancy and breast-feeding).
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Ten Steps to Reforming Baby Boomer Retirement
No. 283
Thursday, March 23, 2006
by John C. Goodman, Devon Herrick, Matt Moore
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Step 1. Improving Traditional Pension Plans
- Step 2. Improving 401(k) Plans
- Step 3. Expanding IRAs
- Step 4. Removing Penalties on Work
- Step 5. Repeal the Social Security Benefits Tax
- Step 6. Using the Roth Method of Taxation
- Step 7. Making Health Insurance Portable
- Step 8. Tax Relief for Post-Retirement Health Insurance
- Step 9. Creating Health Savings Accounts for Seniors
- Step 10. Paying for Long-Term Care
- Conclusion
- Notes
- About the Authors
Step 10. Paying for Long-Term Care
The demand for long-term care is projected to grow rapidly as the Baby Boom generation begins to retire. The population over age 65 will grow by nearly two-thirds (64 percent) by 2020, and the number of seniors over age 85 will grow by 84 percent by 2025.52 About 9 million seniors needed long-term care in 2005, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This is expected to increase to 12 million seniors by 2020. As a group, seniors have about a 40 percent chance of entering a nursing home, and of those, about 10 percent will stay five years or more.53
Most nursing home stays are short and provide recuperative or rehabilitative care following an illness or hospital stay. For patients too sick to care for themselves at home but no longer in need of hospitalization, nursing homes are an important component in the continuum of care. However, the only nursing home care that Medicare will reimburse is medically necessary skilled nursing of a limited duration. Most long-term care provided in the United States assists disabled seniors with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, meals and so forth. These services, commonly referred to as custodial care, are not paid for by Medicare.
Seniors in need of custodial care - whether in their home or in a nursing facility - must either pay for it out-of-pocket or purchase long-term care insurance. Although private insurance is available to cover the cost of long-term care, including home care, most seniors do not purchase coverage. Low-income seniors, and those who exhaust their savings, depend on Medicaid to cover their long-term care. Today, Medicaid pays for more than half of all long-term care.
In general, people must spend down their assets and meet certain income requirements before they qualify for Medicaid.54 This gives people incentives to arrange their financial affairs just to meet asset and income tests for Medicaid long-term care benefits. There is a large elder law industry that assists middle-income seniors in sheltering assets to qualify for Medicaid.
"Seniors should protect their assets with private long-term care insurance."
Protecting Assets Through Long-Term Care Insurance. A pilot project in four states - Indiana, New York, Connecticut and California - called the Partnerships for Long Term Care, gives people financial incentives to purchase private long-term care insurance. There are currently two versions of this program.55 A dollar-for-dollar asset shelter model is used in California, Connecticut and Indiana. Consumers purchase any amount of long-term care coverage they wish. In the event a policyholder requires nursing home care, he or she first relies on the long-term care insurance. When the insurance is exhausted, special eligibility rules allow the purchaser to receive Medicaid benefits while retaining assets equal to the value of the policy. For instance, a long-term care policy with $120,000 in benefits allows an individual to shelter $120,000 in assets and still qualify for Medicaid long-term care. Since most nursing home stays are a little less than one year, very few of those who have purchased policies have had to apply for Medicaid benefits.
New York Partnership policies are required to cover the cost of three years of nursing home care or six years of home care. This potentially means seniors must insure for more than $200,000 worth of services. In return, participants can shelter all their assets, not just an amount equal to the coverage received.56 (Indiana uses a hybrid of the two approaches.) However, New York Partnership policies are more expensive.
Such lengthy (and expensive) coverage may be unnecessary. The average length of stay for discharged nursing home residents is just under one year (272 days).57 A study by the actuarial firm Milliman USA of people with unlimited long-term care coverage found that less than 8 percent of claims were for periods lasting more than 48 months. More than three-fourths of claims (76.7 percent) were less than two years' duration.58 This suggests that a more limited amount of coverage would pay the cost of nursing home care for most seniors. As little as one year might suffice.
Recent federal legislation allows all states to establish Partnership programs. Now they need to act.59
Making Long-Term Care Premiums Tax-Deductible. Few seniors purchase long-term care insurance, and even fewer working-age adults - even though 40 percent of nursing home residents are under age 65. One reason is that long-term care insurance is not given the same tax treatment as other health insurance.60 The amount of long-term care premiums that are tax deductible is limited based on age. For instance, individuals under 40 years of age can only deduct $260 per year while those 41 to 50 years old can deduct $490, 51- to 60-year-olds can deduct $980, 61- to 70-year-olds can deduct $2,600, and seniors over 70 can deduct $3,250. 61 These limits are too low to cover the cost of insurance for older workers.
People can also use their HSAs or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) to pay a limited amount of long-term care premiums tax-free. Unfortunately, many people don't have access to either HSAs or FSAs. Theoretically, current law allows any American under age 65 to establish an HSA. But the law requires the HSA to be accompanied by a high-deductible health plan. Individuals (and their employers) should be allowed to set up HSAs regardless of their insurance coverage. Just as there are a variety of accounts available to save for retirement, there should be a variety of HSAs in which individuals can save for future medical expenses.


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Andrew Smeathers leaving Butler basketball program
Junior Andrew Smeathers has announced that he is leaving the Butler men's basketball program. Smeathers, who's been with the Bulldogs for two seasons, will complete his fall semester at Butler and then transfer to another school.
"We appreciate everything Andrew has done for the Butler Basketball program over the past two-plus years," said Butler head coach Brandon Miller. "We wish him all of the best as he moves forward."
Smeathers played in 43 games in two seasons with the Bulldogs, and he saw brief action in Butler's two exhibition games last week. He came off the bench with five points in six minutes in Butler's 101-64 victory over Nova Southeastern, and then he had three points in three minutes in the Bulldogs' 93-68 win over DePauw.
"This is definitely one of the hardest decisions of my life," said Smeathers. "I've loved Butler ever since I arrived here, everything from the basketball, my coaches, my teammates to the school and the individuals I've met. I leave here on good terms with my coaches and teammates.
"I've made life-long friends, so it's hard to say good-bye," added the Butler guard. "But in the end, it came down to a basketball decision. I've got two years of basketball left and I want to see the court as much as possible. As a basketball player, that's what you want to do."
Smeathers, who was a member of the 2011 Indiana All-Star Team after his senior season at Center Grove High School, played in 23 games and averaged 1.9 points during his first year with the Bulldogs. He had a career-high 17 points in a 10-minute stint against Oakland City in that initial season. The 6-6 guard had to deal with several injuries during his two seasons at Butler, including off-season hip surgery following his freshman year.
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Nigella Lawson doesn't believe in inheritances
In keeping with today British theme, celeb chef Nigella Lawson is causing a row across the pond because she is popping off about not wanting to leave her children any inheritance.
The Daily Mail says that while Lawson and her marketing maven hubby Charles Saatchi have an estimated wealth of about $220 million (about $30 mil of which is hers alone), her kids won't see a thin farthing.
The 48-year-old has two children — daughter Cosima, 13, and son Bruno, 11, — from her marriage to journalist John Diamond, while 64-year-old Saatchi as a 12-year-old daughter, Phoebe, from his first marriage.
But Lawson told My Weekly magazine that she wants her kids to learn one thing from her: "To know that I am working and that you have to work in order to earn money. I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money. I argue with my husband Charles, because he believes that you should be able to leave money to your children. I think we'll have to agree to disagree."
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The story on Saab pulling the plug on the diagnostic computer, and hence on repairs that need that access, ruffled a lot of feathers. The Church of St. Victor is so angry at the apostate article that it broke its self-imposed code of silence and mentions TTAC by name. Delusional as they are, they believe that their links send us traffic. Selfless as we are, we probably have done more to Saabsunited's fame than any other site. Ingrates as they are, they call our story
"the most stupid article I have ever seen! This website has no clue how things work and this is why we never refer to them… I'm making a one time side-step from that policy!"
In their rage, they overlooked a small detail …
The source of this story is no other than Martin Jaenicke. Herr Jaenicke happens to be the chief of Saab's dealer council in Germany, he speaks for all remaining 80 Saab dealers in Germany. Yesterday, Jaenicke gave an interview to Germany's Kfz-Betrieb. If you have an auto workshop in Germany, you have a subscription to Kfz-Betrieb. Mr Jaenicke told the magazine's news chief Jens Rehberg, that
"many customers sell their Saab now, because they worry about the parts supply. Saab workshops are faced with many imponderabilities that need to be clarified as soon as possible.Currently, workshops can only perform very limited repairs, because online access necessary for work on on-board computers has been switched off. At the successor company in Sweden, which is taking care of these processes, the necessary systems need yet to be installed."
We may not have a clue how things work at Saab, but we sure hope that the head of the dealer council does. In talking to some contacts, we pick up ruminations that the switched-off computer may have something to do with pressuring dealers into signing a new contract. Investigating …
If you believe certain accounts, heroic Saab employees selflessly bought their own toilet paper in a last ditch operation to defend crumbling Saab.
Jaenicke has a more sober perspective:
"The remaining contacts at Saab, when confronted by me with these and other matters, appear to be unable to cope at the moment."
Even more damning, Jaenicke likes the receivers – Swedish lawyers, not selfless Saab employees – better than the old hands at Saab:
"With the receivers and Saab Parts AB, we finally found contacts who at least think they are competent."
As for the bankruptcy, the dealer chief thinks it should have been declared much earlier:
"A year ago it was already evident that there is not enough money, even if the lines could be started again."
Meanwhile over at the faithful, all is peachy. Says the latest missive to the flock:
"There are also some other really big spare-parts news that I would LOVE to reveal to you right now, but I'm not allowed to so keep your shirt on, keep driving those great Saab's and don't worry, your life with a Saab will not be a problem! =)."
61 Comments on "Pulled Plug Story Infuriates Saab Faithfuls..."
dwightJanuary 25th, 2012 at 6:30 am
I had a 1988 saab 9000 turbo and never had a problem getting parts. lots of after market stuff. i gave the old beast to my nephew and he absolutely loves it.
as for saabsunited, they are a proud but very sensitive group. tread lightly when talking about saab during these uncertain times. ah, who cares, saab would have been gone long ago if it wasn't for GM pumping cash into the company.
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Pig_IronJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:31 am
There will be a work-around. There always is; but that's cold comfort if its your only set of wheels.
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highrpmJanuary 25th, 2012 at 6:43 am
Dear Saab Loyalists,
Your cars were never that good. Your company is dead. I don't care if your diagnostic systems are operational or not because I will never own a Saab. 99.9% of the folks in the world share my view.
We're not laughing with you…
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Sam PJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:35 am
I haven't driven a Saab in years, but that comment is worthless.
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moedamanJanuary 25th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
While the truth may hurt, it is never worthless.
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dickerinJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:27 am
I think you suffer from what they call 'low-T'. You can get medication for that.
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TomifobiaJanuary 25th, 2012 at 7:28 am
"keep driving those great Saab's…"
Yes, and you can keep driving your 9-3's and 9-7x's, too!
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TEXN3January 25th, 2012 at 10:38 am
good one!
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dejal1January 25th, 2012 at 7:46 am
I sometimes wonder if words get lost in translation.
I give the posters over there with their multi-lingual abilities a lot of credit. But sometimes their english looks like it came out of a online translator.
"Heroic Saab employees selflessly". Reads like bad Chinese Opera in the Mao years.
What is heroic about going to work? Even if you aren't getting paid, at least for a bit, you stick it out because of optimism. You don't want to quit, because there's always the chance that the moment you quit, the money will come in and you will be on the outside looking in.
Heros are people who risk life and limb to help others. Heros are people who donate kidneys, adopt kids. Heros are people who go into nuclear power plants that are melting down in order to stop the melt down.
Heros are not people installing window glass and windshield wipers. That doesn't make those people bad people, but it doesn't make them heros.
To state otherwise is stupid and devalues real heros.
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mpresleyJanuary 27th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
" 'Heroic Saab employees selflessly'. Reads like bad Chinese Opera in the Mao years."
Come on, dejal. The young comrade-ette in "Heroic Little Sisters of the Grasslands" lost her leg saving the baby lamb, and almost froze to death before being rescued by the PLA. Pretty heroic if you ask me. Have a heart!
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OmnifanJanuary 25th, 2012 at 7:54 am
If Saabinistas really wanted to keep SAAB afloat, they should have ALL gone out and bought a new SAAB. Nothing like expecting the whole world to keep SAAB afloat so they can enjoy their 1980's vintage ride.
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dejal1January 25th, 2012 at 8:17 am
It is never about buying cars:
It is about getting the US government to do something because GM is squandering the sure thing profits with Saab by not selling Saab parts needed to make cars. The profits are a slam dunk. They also are going to tell their US Senator + Congressman about it, because their reps. are too stupid to realize it.
Or, China is going to dump on GM because GM is evil. And if GM doesn't do what China wants, China is going to appropriate GMs property and kick them out of the country. Which isn't evil.
Or BMW is going to buy Saab and save it. BMW was going to sell engines to Saab anyways, so it is only a tiny step in purcashing a whole company. Because everyone knows Saab is just as iconic as Mini.
Or, the Swedish government is going down because of this!!!!!!!
Or, I'm paraphrasing , "there are so many billionaires in the world why don't they do something good with their money". Because it is always good to spend other peoples money instead of, you know, buying a car yourself.
Selling cars and making a profit? Only if you are a greedy capitalist.
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v65magnafan1January 25th, 2012 at 8:06 am
My '78 Saab 99 is one of my favorite cars out of the twenty-or-so I've owned over forty-five years.
One of my favorites–despite almost having to rent a room at the dealers for endless service and repairs.
SAAB was innovative–in the sixties and seventies. Period. Then, it became another quirky import with two selling points: it really was good in the snow–and it was a quirky import.
I had to drive twenty miles for service–often–and my complaint about engine hesitation was solved by my mechanic pulling a plastic assembly from between two hoses and throwing it in the garbage. So quaint and charming.
My friend bought a 900 sometime in the eighties. He kept it until it simply could not safely remain a registered auto. (Keep in mind that it spent its life in one of the saltiest winter environments on the planet–a place where fuel lines, and brake lines can suddenly disappear.)
He loved it. But with the money he spent to maintain it, he could have had an oceanfront beach house and a Honda instead.
He was a pretty frugal guy. I guess the SAAB was his one indulgence for which he could throw money away and not feel like a dirty capitalist.
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WindyJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:46 am
A 99EMS was the first New car I ever bought I had owned a 65 230SL from 1969 but at about 170,000 miles it ate a piston while I was crossing Nevada with the gas pedal to the floor (after about an hour of full throttle operation (yes I did Dumb things when I was young)
the 99EMS was one of the most trouble free cars I owned in the 20th century… but then I only had it for a bit over 3 years and almost 100,000 miles and I did change the oil every 3000 miles and dot every I in the owners manual service guide.
It died parked in front of my home on a 20mph limit street (near the top of a hill) when a drunk in a 64 Jeep Waggoneer rammed in to the back of the car parked behind me smashing it, my car, the car in from of my car, the car in front of it into a telephone pole which it knocked over. the drunk backed the remains of his jeep out of the mess and drove off leaving a trail of oil and water the cops traced to a house 2 blocks away where the driver was found collapsed just inside his front door with a broken back and other injuries, he had crawled about 20 feet bleeding badly and if not found would have died… strangely he was never charged as no witness could put him behind the wheel… So I drove it only 1 month after I made the last payment…. it was the last new car I bought until I retired and bought A MINI Cooper S in2004 which I expect to drive for the next 6 years at a minimum.
for its time the ((EMS was a wonderful car Fun to drive and As I was into Skiing a very good car in the snow as well… I lived at the time it was smashed on an Island that was a 3 hour ferry ride to America and then a further hour drive to a dealer so I did all of my own Maintenance on it and was straightforward to work on as well…
It was sad to see this fine old firm spiral down starting in the 80s… I some times wonder what the next slow death march car maker will be.
Cheers Windy
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UbermenschJanuary 25th, 2012 at 8:07 am
At least buyers who own a 9-2 "Saabaru" or a 9-7 should be able to get most parts and service at Subaru or GM dealers respectively.
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dejal1January 25th, 2012 at 8:19 am
The 9-2 is closer to the pre Saab 99 models than the faithful will ever admit.
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Sam PJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:36 am
The 9-2x was one of the best modern Saabs, which is also a statement on how well Subaru slurped up much of Saab's customer base.
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rpol35January 25th, 2012 at 8:27 am
"The Church of St. Victor is so angry at the apostate article that it broke its self-imposed code of silence and mentions TTAC by name"
Can't comment on the accuracy of your article and don't care to
but your choice of attached graphics is reprehensible and inappropriate.
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IngvarJanuary 25th, 2012 at 8:39 am
Don't get him started on nazis and Volkswagen…
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I think it's funny.
And yes, I am some sort of.
[You seem to have forgotten to include at least a reference to a phrase like "I think" or "I find" or "I feel". ]
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DeadWeightJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:06 am
I think it's hilarious.
Bertel summoned his inner angry-but-definitively-witty Jesus.
Significantly, the lack of any semblance rationality on the part of some members on 'the other site' is objectively revealing itself now.
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Athos NobileJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:24 am
I think it's funny, but at the risk of having the site burned down, I'd enjoy some from other religious "backgrounds" too.
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UbermenschJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:36 am
rpol35- Don't expect everyone to show reverence to your particular bronze age fairy tale protagonists.
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rpol35January 25th, 2012 at 9:40 am
I don't expect reverence but I don't expect disrespect either.
This is "supposed" to be a website about cars but it appears to have deviated from that long ago.
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JCraigJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:08 am
+1 @ Uber. I thought it was pretty funny.
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January 25th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Be careful or they might go all crusadery on you.
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UbermenschJanuary 25th, 2012 at 11:12 am
We don't have to respect your beliefs, we only have to respect your right to hold those beliefs. Please don't sic your zombie Jesus on us.
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JellodyneJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:22 am
These other guys think it's funny, but I couldn't agree more. That's about the most Caucasian Jesus I've ever seen. Totally reprehensible. Don't these people even know what part of the world Jesus came from?
The caption is pretty funny, though.
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JCraigJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:44 am
Yeah seems the fact that he was middle eastern has been glossed over…
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rpol35January 25th, 2012 at 11:43 am
@ Uber:
"We don't have to respect your beliefs, we only have to respect your right to hold those beliefs."
We? Thanks for the clarification; I didn't know you were the elected representative to speak on the behalf of others.
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UbermenschJanuary 25th, 2012 at 11:51 am
@ rpol35:
I was using the royal "we." Also, I wasn't elected, I rule by divine right.
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January 25th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Yeah seems the fact that he was middle eastern has been glossed over…
Well, if you're going to complain about what kind of ethnicity Jesus had, de-Judaizing him by saying that he was generically "Middle Eastern", is no better than portraying him with blonde Cocker Spaniel tresses. Yes, Jesus was "middle eastern". So is your neighbor, Chaim Cohen.
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JCraigJanuary 25th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Ronnie – Really? I was not insulting or de-Judaizing him, just referring to the region in general. We can't argue about what he looked like but we can generally say people from that region didn't look like British hippies…
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DarkhorseJanuary 25th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
I guess we're lucky they didn.t use a picture of Mohammed. Then the site would literally get "blown up".
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Bobby PeruJanuary 25th, 2012 at 8:46 am
My name is Jens Rehberg, I am the author of the article TTAC was referring to and Saabsunited is complaining about. I'd like to add some points… sorry in advance for my moderate English…
It's a fact that the online-service (run by SAAB) which the workshops need for programming ECUs was offline in Germany for several days.
There is no reason to assume that this wasn't the case worldwide.
What I didn't know yesterday: most of the workshops have regained access to that system.
Meanwhile German dealers signed some kind of "delivery contract", which the bankruptcy administrators sent out to their "partners" as a substitute for the regular dealer contract. Because those dealer contracts had been invalidated on Dec 19 anyway.
Everything ok so far? Not at all.
The not-more-valid-dealer-contract regulated all sorts of trials and tribulations, among those technicalities of manufacturer's support as well as terms of parts delivery. What was supposed to be a reliable base of cooperation turned into a new "delivery contract" simply saying "We'll send you parts for cash". Details on technical support were left out completely.
SAAB customers showed up and rightly wanted to be informed about reliability of parts delivery and future maintainance of their cars.
An honest dealer would have to shrug his shoulders.
Maybe most of the workshops worldwide are able to program ECUs today. But maybe some bankruptcy administrator sells the server park tomorrow. Or forgets to pay the energy provider. No one knows how long it will take to shift the whole tech-support-process over to SAAB PARTS AB, who will be in charge for the issue in the future. SAAB-dealers have seen that before, when GM and SAAB had to separate their IT-infrastructure and corresponding processes in the back, like the car-order-system – it took months before they could work with them properly again.
Saab team's unability to answer crucial questions on future cooperation issues makes German dealers seriously question the reliabilty of future tech support.
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January 25th, 2012 at 9:17 am
If it indeed is the case that dealers were pressured into signing a delivery contract by withholding technical data, then the receivers (or whoever is doing the withholding) are walking on very thin ice. Blame in on them being new to the auto business.
The EU is taking a very dim view of carmakers who do not provide sufficient access to repair information. While the flow of information may be smoother with a dealer who has a contract, and more molasses-like with a repair shop that is not, no carmaker who has its act together will be foolish enough getting caught saying "sign here, or no repair data."
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dejal1January 25th, 2012 at 9:38 am
But at this moment in time is Saab a carmaker?
The EU can take as much of a dim view as they want, but what difference does it make? The EU is going to fine Saab? The US is going to fine Saab NA?
Maybe the EU and other countries like the US ought to mandate escrow accounts for these kinds of situations. You go belly up, the account kicks in to fund these kinds of things.
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DeadWeightJanuary 25th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Bobby Peru:
Thanks for your mature and objective response.
I genuinely feel sorry for Saab owners at this point, and not because Saabs are in any way, shape or form 'bad' vehicles (many models are great, and I actually had considered buying a new Saab 9-5 recently, until the financial gremlins popped up), but because of the uncertainty in terms of future service and warranty work (and replacement parts, etc.).
I wish all Saab owners the best wishes in terms of obtaining a decent outcome in resolving many of the current uncertainties you are now unfortunately facing.
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Athos NobileJanuary 25th, 2012 at 8:58 am
Has anyone actually gone into GM's system to check if the cars are still supported until a given year?
I guess an Opel or even a Saab dealer could perform a diagnostic with the tools they still have.
Updating, reprogramming, new keys… is another matter.
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dejal1January 25th, 2012 at 9:18 am
I just don't understand the whole key thing. That was a poor GM decision and no one elses. Saab is/was stuck with it. If Saab does make it back, I would hope they rethink this.
I do understand keys tied to cars with chips and all that, but damn, I would have bought something off the shelf that someone else was also using.
This whole transponder, push button start stuff , while cool, is silly.
People shouldn't gloss over reprogramming. There are recalls on cars now, where the car gets fixed by a reprogram. I hope owners in emission states don't have issues where a reprogram could take care of an emissions test failure.
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ZackmanJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Seeing that photo above, I thought for sure this was a Jack Baruth story. Disappointing…I think.
The inner-Bertel has surfaced!
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Hildy JohnsonJanuary 25th, 2012 at 9:27 am
This post does not address the main point raised in the one it criticizes. BS shows once more that he grew up to be not a journalist but a spin doctor.
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TEXN3January 25th, 2012 at 10:44 am
Well, yeah…he was in marketing (for VW) for many years.
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January 25th, 2012 at 10:06 am
I always ignore any and all SAAB articles. It's done, finished. Was like for 20 years. I remember how I thought that getting a SAAB 9000 would be cool in 1992. 20 years! Nobody but the enthusiasts care about it anymore.
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PartsUnknownJanuary 25th, 2012 at 11:13 am
"I always ignore any and all SAAB articles"
Except this one, apparently.
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WheatridgerJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Kudos for covering some of the practical aspects of SAAB ownership in the post-failure era. That's more useful than rejoicing at the death of a once-innovative company, as some readers here can't resist doing.
But overall, BS's coverage of SAAB's demise reminds me of an old saying about journalists– They're the ones who hide in the hills until the battle is over. Then they come down onto the battlefield and shoot the wounded…
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JellodyneJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:26 am
I think the real worry here is that SAAB was making cars which can only be repaired using their online service. Nevermind 'what if they go out of business', it's troubling even if SAAB were guaranteed to survive forever. Does the aftermarket have hacking tools to circumvent this? How common is this in other brands? Isn't this a 'right to repair' issue?
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DC BruceJanuary 25th, 2012 at 10:42 am
Until 2008 it's been quite some time since an independent car company (rather than just a subsidiary like Oldsmobile) shut its doors. Off hand, the only one I can think of in the U.S. at least is Checker Motors, which, IIRC, packed it in sometime in the 1980s. Even then, Checkers were using GM powerplants and drivetrains. With today's cars being heavily electronic, and with the software being protected IP, the consequences for an owner of an orphan car are far more severe than they were in the past, when simpler cars could always be fixed with a workaround of some point. (The recent post on 50s American cars still running in Cuba as daily drivers illustrates the point beautifully.)
Future buyers are — and should be — really frightened of buying any car from a manufacturer that is in danger of going belly-up. No doubt Saab suffered from this problem itself, once it tried to stay alive after having been cast off by GM.
So, much as it pains me to admit it, perhaps the government folks who bailed out Chrysler Corp. and GM were right: putting those companies into a conventional bankruptcy process of uncertain outcome could have been fatal to what little brand equity they had as buyers shunned their products for fear of buying orphans.
Just a thought . . .
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PartsUnknownJanuary 25th, 2012 at 11:27 am
I spoke to both my local dealer (Shaw Saab) and my local Saab indy about this article (out of a genuine concern about their ability to service my '04 9-5) and their response was a collective shrug of the shoulders. Whatever plug has been pulled, it has not affected the ability of service shops (here in MA at least) to diagnose and service Saabs using Tech II, WIS, etc.
Not sure if someone ran over Bertel's cockapoo with a Viggen, but there's clearly a negative, kick-a-dead-horse spin to these Saab articles. Between this pointless post, Ronnie Schreiber's self-important drivel, and Derek's unreadable smarminess, it feels like TTAC is in a death spiral of its own. Ed can't come back fast enough.
Or maybe Jack and Murilee can ditch this popsicle stand and start their own site…
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WheatridgerJanuary 25th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Double dittos, Parts, you've said a lot here. You just didn't mention Karesh, my favorite because he dares to write objectively, fairly and factually.
And Bruce, you've raised a great point that's been unreported. What's the precedent for this event? When did the last independent car company with significant market presence hit the brick wall of outright failure? Olds and Saturn were wound down in a planned manner by a surviving parent company. Every other modern carmaker's failure was a takepver, or too small to be noticed, IIRC..
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PartsUnknownJanuary 25th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Agree on Karesh. I enjoy his reviews, and I have two cars in his True Delta database.
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January 25th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
You forgot to mention my shameless shilling. Speaking of which, the two writers you like, Jack and Murilee, helped me get Cars In Depth off the ground. The editor you like, Ed, encouraged me to write more for this site. The founder of this site, Rob't Farago, started my career as a writer-for-pay. It's interesting that you like their writing but don't like their taste in other writers.
The other day Bertel ran my post about the Edsel Ford Speedster. Some folks had nice things to say about it. Tellingly, none of my most severe critics had anything to say, positive or negative, about that post. Maybe their grandmas taught them that if they can't say something critical, not to say anything at all.
As for any supposed death spiral, TTAC has more readers now than ever before.
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PartsUnknownJanuary 25th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Ronnie, you come off as defensive and needy. Not a good look at all.
As I stated in another post, I generally do not read your articles. Whereas I find Jack's and Murilee's writing entertaining and informative, I simply find your style to be boring. That's all.
My grandma taught me to speak my mind. Too bad – I wasn't aware that criticism is not welcome here at TTAC, Comrade Schreiber.
As for the death spiral, I was refering to a decline in the quality of writing and general discourse. TTAC may have more readers than ever, that's great. McDonald's sells more hamburgers than anyone else.
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FromaBuick6January 25th, 2012 at 6:30 pm
@ PartsUnknown: There's a difference between offering constructive criticism and whining about the style/opinions of half this site's contributors.
If you don't like it, do us all a favor and leave.
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January 25th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Constructive criticism is always welcome. When I see you offer some, I'll thank you for it.
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ZoomZoomJanuary 25th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Thanks TTAC.
I'm surely going to hell now because I laughed at that caption.
Since my immortal soul is now worthless, I guess it's okay to just speed and run all the red lights on my way home from work tonight. Oh Hell, I suppose I might as well just not use my seat belt, and maybe text and talk on the phone while I drive…
At least I laughed one last time!
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Steve65January 25th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
As my friend B****** used to say:
"Well, I'm going to Hell for that one. Wait! I'm Jewish. There is no Hell. Score!"
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jeff_vaderJanuary 25th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Just things a little bit back on track, the adminstrators of Saab Great Britain have now revealed the state of the company that was responsible for the marketing, distribution and organisation of Saab Cars in the UK.
Assets: about £350,000 (already used up by the administrators.)
Liabilites: £46,000,000.
Is it me or is that no way to run a company?
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wstarvingteacherJanuary 25th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Sounds like the P & L statement for the federal government.
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crbf1January 25th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
The wife's (smack!!) car is a 2006 9-3 Convertible. Broke a front spring between Christmas and New Years. Ask me how much fun it is to 1] get a replacement; and 2] get Saab / GM to cover its replacement because it's covered by a 10-year / 120K-mile warranty (2003-2006 common issue). Of course, the 9-3 is a GM car; let's just see what else uses that chassis…….Opel Vectra!!
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EchoChamberJDMJanuary 25th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
If you want the real story of what is currently going on, check out http://www.SAABSDIVIDED.com and see in real time how they are abandoning their dealers and customers. No closure, no information, no BK, just saying "thats is we're done, game over, SAAB USA is closing."
Without the propaganda like you will find on the SAABSUNITED.com site which only posts positive news and doesn't tell the complete story.
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Johannesburg - Lt-Col Renate Barnard has resigned from the police following a protracted battle for promotion, labour union Solidarity said on Wednesday.
She will leave the service at the end of June.
Barnard and the union are currently awaiting the Constitutional Court's judgment on a police bid to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) decision in November last year.
The SCA overturned a Labour Appeal Court ruling that the police were correct in not promoting Barnard because she is white.
The application was heard on March 20. Acting Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke reserved judgment.
"Her resignation from the police has no impact upon the case at all," Solidarity deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said.
It was understood Barnard would work in the private sector.
She twice applied unsuccessfully for promotion to superintendent within the police's National Evaluation Services, which deals with the public's complaints about the police's service.
Despite recommendations by an interview panel and her divisional commissioner, the national police commissioner did not appoint her to the position. He said it would negatively affect racial representivity at the level of superintendent.
"She experienced more and more in the past couple of months a clash of value systems between herself and the police," said Hermann.
"She quite strongly believes what she is fighting for is right in a constitutional South Africa, but the continuous efforts by the police to oppose her actions in court is of course very disappointing to her."
Hermann hoped her resignation would cause the police to reflect.
"I hope this is a mirror for the police because if someone passionate like Renate resigns from the police, it's a message that something is wrong in the police.
"On behalf of the public of South Africa, I can say it must be very disappointed in the fact that she resigned because the public lost a very loyal and passionate police officer.
"I think she's done a lot to inspire South Africans to fight for what she believes is right. This is a nine-year fight and this led to her resigning from the police, which is very unfortunate."
The matter was first heard in the Labour Court, which ruled in favour of Barnard. The police appealed the ruling in the Labour Appeal Court, which ruled in its favour.
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The Tampa Bay region appeared little affected Tuesday by the recall of hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots intended for young children, ages 6 months to nearly 3 years.
Hillsborough County had just received last week 200 pre-filled syringes from the batch now being recalled. Health officials said they are safe, just not strong enough. Fewer than 10 of the shots had been administered, said Ryan Pedigo, director for public health preparedness at the Hillsborough County Health Department.
"I think we nipped it in the bud before it got too far," he said.
Pinellas County did not receive any of the recalled vaccines, said Maggie Hall, a spokeswoman for the county health department.
Public health officials are able to track the vaccines through their lot numbers. Florida received about 40,000 of the recalled doses, Pedigo said. Nationally, the recall included about 800,000 shots.
Hillsborough health department officials plan to contact the children's families, but receiving the vaccine isn't thought to be a problem. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention don't think the children even need to be vaccinated again. Children in that age group are supposed to get two doses, spaced about a month apart.
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A new study in the May 24 issue of Science reveals how cockroaches outsmart the sugary traps designed to catch and kill them.
The rapid evolution of this clever feeding behavior—whereby cockroaches walk right by insecticide-filled traps, even though they are coated in delicious sugar—demonstrates the ability of the cockroach sensory system to change in response to its environment. This is important for survival.
Scientists understand that sensory systems help insects navigate their environment. But how insect sensory systems adapt to rapid environmental changes—like the presence of poison in a once-safe food—remains unknown.
Ayako Wada-Katsumata at North Carolina State University and colleagues were interested in understanding this process in the German cockroach, which people have been tempting with sugar-coated traps since the mid-1980s. It only took the German cockroach a few years to develop a dislike for these traps, however. Such savvy insects are called glucose-averse (GA) cockroaches.
Like other insects, cockroaches use tiny hair-like sensors on their mouths to "taste" food. These sensors are full of gustatory receptor neurons, or GRNs, some of which are turned on in the presence of sugar. This signals cockroaches to feed. Other GRNS are turned on when food is bitter. This signals cockroaches to stop feeding altogether.
Wada-Katsumata and colleagues used special tests of neuron activation to study the responses of gustatory receptor neurons in control and GA German cockroaches. They exposed both groups of cockroaches to six different "tastes."
Control cockroaches behaved as expected; their sugary GRN was stimulated by sugary tastes and their bitter GRN was stimulated by bitter ones.
In GA cockroaches, however, the researchers observed something unusual: Exposure to sugar actually repressed the sugary neuron's response. Furthermore, it stimulated the bitter neuron, telling the cockroach to stop eating, which it did.
This suggests that sugar is processed as a deterrent, or a bad thing, in GA German cockroaches, aiding these insects in avoiding manmade traps.


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Ubuntu 13.04 was the base operating system during this range of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce Linux OpenGL benchmarking.
When running Unigine Valley 1.0 at 1920 x 1080, the GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" was the fastest graphics card with a frame-rate of 47 FPS. The Radeon HD 7950 "Southern Islands" had an average frame-rate of 38 FPS. For the AMD Catalyst driver, portions of Valley were also rendered incorrectly.
The GeForce GT 220 and Radeon HD 6570 graphics cards could both only deliver a four FPS average for this very demanding tech demo. Aside from the GTX 680 and HD 7950, the only other graphics card that made it above 30 FPS at the HD resolution was the Radeon HD 6950 (31.5 FPS) while the Radeon HD 6870 came up short at 26 FPS.


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YUM! I make my own version of the double doozies with my buttercream and cho. chip cookies. My kids love them, but they never get much buttercream in the center since I do want them to fall asleep eventually.
Great Info! I've been meaning to try one of these.
I'm bumping this cause there's been alot of questions about these lately!!
i use about 3/4 of a choco chip recipe and take it out when a toothpick comes out clean from the dough and doesnt sink when you touch the middle. any other ideas on how to tell if its done?
Abou the piszza pan, just cover in parchemnt or really spray your regualr pans
I worked at The Great American Cookie Co. for 4 years and this is what we did for our giant cookies: take a cardboard circle, square, heart, whatever shape you want- place a larger piece of parchment paper on top. spread/roll your cookie dough on top of the parchment, using the cardboard underneath as the guide to your shape. Your dough should be at least 1/4 inch thick. Lift up the paper to the light and you'll be able to see if the dough is evenlly spread or to thin in spots. place the parchment on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 20min. keep checking depending on thickness you might need more or less time. Let cool completely; flip baked cookie upside down on cutting board, peel off paper. Take the cardboard you used for shape, place on top of cookie to cut around edge. While holding onto cardboard, cookie and cutting board, flip back over, remove cutting board and you have your cookie on a board ready to decorate! HTH
Great technique! I've printed it out for reference.
BTW, has anybody ever tried baking the dough Big, then cutting the warm dough with cookie cutters? I always wondered if that would work. I do realize there is waste there (not really waste as our families would eat the scraps).
I just use the disposable foil pans for the giant cookie cakes. This way you can bake and deliver all in the same pan.. If you are doing a very large cookie, or a double decker cookie, you will need to use 2 foil pans.
Anyone have any packaging or delivery ideas?
Pizza boxes are perfect! Or a box that is 2 1/2" tall, they make them, you just have to look.
I buy white pizza boxes at the restaurant supply store, then put my labels on them. It's perfecto!
Great ideas! Thanks for the info!
I've done mine in springform pans and they turn out great
Melvira.......I do these weekly here, I use my round pans rectangle heart shaped whatever. All cake pans 2" I use the self made pan release and coat with that then bake. I make mine thick I hate those skinny pans. It takes about 20-30 min it rises kinda high and looks undone soft but brown and they set up later nice and gooy soft. People love them. As for the mixture of pan release mix 1 cup shortening 1 cup oil and 1 cup flour in mixer till it's blended good about 5 min
I use the funfetti cake mix on side of box cookie directions it makes a GREAT sugar cookie.
I make PB also My best seller is the Carmel choco chip nestle makes those chips. Have fun. Oh after about 10 min flip it on a board then back on it's bottom to another board.
I am very new to this but I have made a big cookie in a springfoam pan it was about 2to 3 inches high so it looked like a cross between a cake and a cookie. It tooke a long time to cook and the inside was kind of soft. I heated some of the slices and added a scoop of ice cream. I got the recipe from the Nestles web site they make theirs in a pie pan. Just an option for you.
Angelcakes, please correct me if I am wrong....
The icing the cookie company uses is from HC Brill. I have tried getting this icing for a long time, but in order to get it straight from the company, you have to order at least 5000lbs a week. They do have other distributors like US Foods, but again there is a minimum and dealers, reps, etc. My DH works for a grocery store, and that is the kind they use also. WONDERFUL STUFF. I have yet to master a REALLY GREAT BC or Chocolate BC recipe. So everytime I make a cake I change to a different one to see which gets best results and document it. (I'm in trial and error mode )
I use my round Pampered Chef stone. Then I take a cake circle and place it on top and cut around it to make the perfect size. I do this with my sugar cookies and they work out great!
Aren't those stones cool? I have broke 3 in the oven already lol!
OH and BTW...
I too am about an hour away from any mall so when I do go, about 3 times a year, I HAVE to get one. Reeses Double Doozie!!!


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I bought this iPod, my first, for audio books and to try to load training videos to review during slow times. I figured I would end up with some music too. I have had the iPod out of the box for a week and have spent nearly $200 on music and have a shopping list longer then my song list! I also loaded many old tapes, LP's and a few CD's. I am enjoying music that I grew up with that is not on the radio, I am 51. I also bought a car adapter to fit my vehicle which I think will be a great accssory. If you are older or can't find what you want on the radio, spend some time on iTunes and you will be hooked. Some reviews are critical of the iPods sound quality? For a portable player it sounds pretty good to me and through my vehicle's system is as good as CD's.


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RCBS Precision Mic Question
I recently bought two Precision Mic's in a lot at an estate sale and have tried calling RCBS but with no luck. The only time I get an answer is when they are closed, The number is always busy during business hours.... Now that is off my chest my question is.
Are the following parts correct for # 88304 .223 Rem Precision Mic
Body is marked .223
Land nut is marked .22
Head Space Nut Assembly is marked #1
Thank you for your help.
RCBS (is part of ATKs Civil Ammunition Systems Group) like many companies that manufacture ammunition are super busy working extra shifts, etcetra...
Your best bet is to email them email@example.com and they should get back to you with an answer in 24 to 48 business hours, be sure to give them your full name and address with your question or problem to solve and the best way to get a hold of you if needed. Until the ObamaNation settles down, long delays and long hold times are going to be a problem.
Otherwise, call RCBS (1-800-533-5000) "As Early As Possible" Monday thru Thursday (closed on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays) at least to the public. Also, remember their hours are Pacific Standard Time being in California.
Getting replacement parts and such has been slow and time consuming by phone, but emails go smoothly, and you might get a package to your door in 2 or 3 days without even getting a call back!! Now that is what I call "Service"
The firearms indrudstry is the only one booming right now. I have not always gotten threw to RCBS either. for what they do they really are a small company. I would do as Esoterix says and email them. If they get it they will get you going in the right direction and if the parts are not correct they will send you the needed parts.
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HTC Desire 300 review
HTC's Desire range aims for the lower end of the market and the Desire 300 is at the bottom of its UK list, with specs scaled back just about as far as it dares. It has a less-than-HD screen, an unremarkable processor and low-end camera, but the price mean it's a bargain?
There's none of the metallic casing elements of HTC's higher-end
One series here, but the Desire 300 is made of sturdy rubberised plastic and it feels very solidly put together with virtually no flex on the back panel. There's no 4G capability, which understandable at this price, but you do get reasonably nippy downloads with full 3G.
The 4.3-inch screen is a goodly size if you're not overly sold on the recent trend for palm-stetching phablets. However, it offers a sub-HD resolution of 800x480 pixels (217ppi) which isn't particularly impressive. Not that it's terrible -- you can view movies and zoom in on pics with a good degree of clarity and colours look fine if not especially vibrant -- but it lacks the eye-popping pizzazz of the better screens and is put to shame by the 326ppi display of the considerably cheaper Moto G.
Android and processor
It's running the slightly long in the tooth Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, which is to be expected at this price, though it's difficult to recognise since it's running the latest Sense 5 version of HTC's own good-looking but rather busy interface. That means it also has Blinkfeed, the combined news and social networking aggregator that pulls together all your updates in a magazine-style interface.
The dual-core 1GHz processor is backed by 512MB Ram and it feels just a tad underpowered. There's a hint of lag when switching between apps and we couldn't get it to run heavier duty HD games like Real Racing 3. Our AnTuTu benchmark test gave it 7,837, which puts it well below midrange rivals like the Google Nexus 4, Motorola's Moto G or even ZTE's Grand S Flex.
The 5-megapixel camera is a pared back version of the snapper on other Desire handsets. There's no flash and no BSI low-light sensor, but there is autofocus and a few settings to play around with including face detection and smile capture. There's only 4GB of memory on board for storing your pics and vids though you can add a microSD card up to 64GB. There's also a bog standard VGA camera on the front for video calls.
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Rename the Word Automation Services service application databases in SharePoint Server 2013
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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2016-12-16
Summary: Learn how to rename the Word Automation Services service application databases in SharePoint Server 2013.
Renaming service application databases is typically done to remove the GUID from the database name after the databases have been created by the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, or to bring the databases into alignment with your organization's naming standards.
You can rename the Word Automation Services service application databases by using the SharePoint Central Administration website, Windows PowerShell, or SQL Server tools.
|The steps in this article apply to SharePoint Server 2013 only.
In this article:
Renaming the service application databases by using SQL Server Procedure title 1
Pointing the Word Automation service application to a renamed or moved database
On the database servers on which the operations are performed, you must be a member of the following:
Administrators group on the local server
db_owner fixed database role
In some environments, you must coordinate the rename procedures with the database administrator. Be sure to follow any applicable policies and guidelines for managing databases.
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To rename a service application database, you must use SQL Server. To move a service application database, you must use SQL Server and Windows Explorer. We recommend that you stop the services related to the service application before you rename or move the related database. In general, we expect that you will either rename or move a database. That is, you will typically not perform both actions.
The instructions in this article assume that you have installed SQL Server Management Studio on the database server. If this is not the case, you can download and install Management Studio at Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM - Management Studio Express.To stop the Word Automation service application
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.
For each service application that you plan to change the database for, you must stop the service or disable the service application by following the appropriate procedure for the service application that you are working with. For more information, see Start or stop a service (SharePoint 2013).
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the db_owner fixed database role.
In SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the source SQL Server instance, and then expand the Databases node.
Right-click the database that you want to rename, click Rename, and then type the new name. Repeat this step for each database that you want to rename.
You can point the Word Automation service application to a renamed or moved database by using Central Administration or Windows PowerShell.
This procedure has the following steps integrated into them, and do not require that they have already been performed:
Stopping a service application
Renaming a database in SQL Server Management Studio
Moving a database by using SQL Server Management Studio and Windows Explorer
|You do not need to stop the Word Automation service before pointing to a renamed or moved database. However, stopping the Word Automation service will not cause a problem if you choose to do this.
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.
Start SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
For Windows Server 2008 R2:
Click Start, click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products, and then click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
For Windows Server 2012:
On the Start screen, click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
If SharePoint 2013 Central Administration is not on the Start screen:
Right-click Computer, click All apps, and then click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
For more information about how to interact with Windows Server 2012, see Common Management Tasks and Navigation in Windows Server 2012.
In Central Administration, under System Settings, click Manage services on server.
In the Service list, next to the Word Automation service, click Stop.
In the Quick Launch, click Application Management.
On the Application Management page, click Manage service applications.
On the Manage Service applications page, click the empty area in the row next to the Word Automation Services name. The ribbon becomes active.
Note: You must click the empty area to activate the ribbon on the Manage Service applications page. If you click Word Automation Services, the settings page opens for this service application.
Click Properties on the ribbon.
The Edit Word Automation Service Application dialog box opens.
Change the database server or database name, and then click OK.
In the Quick Launch, click System Settings.
On the System Settings page, under Servers, click Manage services on server.
In the Service list, next to the Word Automation service, click Start.
Verify that you have the following memberships:
securityadmin fixed server role on the SQL Server instance.
db_owner fixed database role on all databases that are to be updated.
Administrators group on the server on which you are running the Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
An administrator can use the Add-SPShellAdmin cmdlet to grant permissions to use SharePoint 2013 Products cmdlets.
Note: If you do not have permissions, contact your Setup administrator or SQL Server administrator to request permissions. For additional information about Windows PowerShell permissions, see Add-SPShellAdmin.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products.
Click SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command:
$app = Get-SPServiceApplication -Name "<ServiceApplicationName>" Set-SPWordConversionServiceApplication -Identity $app -DatabaseName "<DatabaseName>"
<ServiceApplicationName> is the name of the Word Automation service application.
<DbName> is the name of the renamed database.
For more information, see Set-SPUsageApplication.
|We recommend that you use Windows PowerShell when performing command-line administrative tasks. The Stsadm command-line tool has been deprecated, but is included to support compatibility with previous product versions.


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Make no mistake about it, Andre Iguodala is having a fine year. The veteran forward was selected to his first All-Star game and has been mentioned as a potential Defensive Player of the Year candidate. While his scoring is down at 12.6 PPG, Iguodala has continued to stuff the statsheet as he always has while being the leader of a first place team.
But as the shine of a 20-9 start begins to wear off, the 76ers fans are getting restless. Going into tonight's game against Boston, the Sixers are 2-8 in their last 10 and have seen their once sizeable lead over the Celtics shrink to just a game. That stretch has shown the Sixers go ice cold offensively in the final minutes of close games, primarily because they lack an offensive star who can create his own shot.
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Another issue is the lack of chemistry between Iguodala and Evan Turner – neither of whom is a traditional shooting guard. Turner's minutes have been down for the last month and the most popular theory is that those two cannot play together – prompting John Smallwood of the Philadelphia Daily News to suggest that one of them needs to go. As mentioned by Luke Adams, Smallwood thinks it will be Turner.
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How about a swap centered around Iguodala and the recently signed Marcus Thornton? Iguodala's defensive prowess would fit nicely around offensive studs Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins in Sacramento Meanwhile, Thornton's scoring and three point shooting would be a good fit in Philly. ESPN Trade Machine likes a straight up Iguodala-for-Thornton swap. Doug Collins and Rod Thorn both love Iguodala, so it is just speculation at this point, but it's clear that Philadelphia needs to do something, whether this year or very soon, if they want to compete with the upper echelon of the Eastern Conference.


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LOVEMAKING IN SPAIN: The best of the Aleazar is the Alcazar gardens. But I would not ignore the homelike charm of the vast court by which you enter from the street outside to the palace beyond. It is planted casually about with rather shabby, orange trees that children were playing under and was decorated with the week's wash of the low, simple dwellings which may be hired at a rental moderate even for Seville, where a handsome and commodious house in a good quarter rents for $60 a year.
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