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Skip to comments.Saab heads for scrapyard as long rescue quest fails
Posted on 12/19/2011 10:49:22 AM PST by Lockbar
Car maker Saab ran out of time Monday when its Dutch owner filed for bankruptcy, calling time on a nine-month battle to rescue the struggling Swedish marque.....
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I never did understand why the yuppies have a love for this car.
Libs all over the western world must be in mourning right now.
Right up there with the Peugeot, Yugo, MG and all other British Leyland brands, and Renault.
A true lib would not have purchased Saab for its military ties.
After all the jokes about Saab, and ya, I've told a few myself, what happens to the workers? Like the guy who built Saabs for 17 years? He sure as hell can't come to the USA looking for work in the automotive field! Where does he go? What does he do? Maybe he can come to Cleveland to the new casino and get in line behind 17K applicants trying to land one of 400 jobs?
Another Saub story for the libs.
I loved my saab. Had a 1984 900 for fourteen years. It was durable, simply-made and reliable. No fancy electronics, just a good go-car. Basic transportation and good in snow.
Have been considering getting a reconditioned one as a second car.
I am a gun toting Red Neck and a SAAB Nut.
The last real Saab was the 96 built from 1960 to 1980 I have owned over 20 of them 93's 96's and 97's. My buddies called me "Sven Svenska" just like the mythical SAAB racing driver. I love the smell of TWO STROKE IN THE MORNING IT SMELLS LIKE VICTORY. The were a well built car made to last. Richard Grossman is rolloing over in his grave
A real Saab story...................
Funny - lmao...
I've owned many of them over the past 30 yrs. Always have to have a convertible five speed for the short NH summers....when I was young, they were year rounders for me - good on gas, great in snow.
I'm from SoCal, and beg to differ with you on that. Saab has been a preferred lib brand for as long as I can remember.
My kind of people don't drive those things. They drive American made trucks.
California libs? QED.
Mrs. RQSR, and myself are hardly what anyone could call "Libs". We've been driving SAABS for many years. Currently have three, and have had as many as four at one time.
Love those cars. They have taken us through many a foul Winter through the mud, and flood of this rural area we live. They are great off road vehicles some might be surprised to find out.
Will probably buy Ford next time we need to replace a car now. Sad to see SAAB cars go, but it was inevitable when GM cheapened them up. Trashed them IMO. Even if they could get the financing to keep producing them they would have that GM instilled crappy car reputation to overcome.
I learned the fine art of three-pedal driving with that four on the tree shifter.
A damn shame Saab went the up-market yupmobile route like so many other good European makes.
Almost all companies today are going to smaller displacement turbocharged engines.
Saab did that over 30 years ago, when almost no other car company did.
Saab was also advancing front wheel drive, long before it became widespread.
Several features of Saab interiors are smart and useful.
GM has killed Oldsmobile, Saturn, Pontiac and Saab.
During that time, Toyota has started Lexus, Scion and soon to be a full brand, Prius.
The problem wasn't inherently Saab, rather GM's failure as a multi-brand auto company.
At GM the major strategy is badging. Badging fails, and GM needs government help.
GM couldn't continue with Saab, when the all important Volt needed funding.
My wife will tell you her Saab was among her favorite alltime cars.
Ping to WayneS
Er, that would be me. Had three of them and loved 'em: solid, spacious, fun to drive and with the 5-door hatchback you could carry about anything.
A friend in my 1969 Iowa City days owned a two stroke Saab that had over 200,000 miles on the clock. Yeah, there was a whisp of smoke that followed the car but he still owned it last time I was in town for a football game about five years ago.
Er, that would be me. Had three of them and loved 'em: solid, spacious, fun to drive and with the 5-door hatchback you could carry about anything.
We currently have three SAABs, and an '89 Ford Lariat 1/2 ton pick em up truck. Prior to that we had SAABs, and a custom built '67 Ford one ton crew cab long bed. We had that old truck for twenty years.
Would probably still have that old truck, but then I got old, and it hadn't any power anything on it. All manual including the steering.
Nissan? Toyota?
I knew a Flight Instructor when I was an airport bum kid that would give me rides home in his with the 3 speed on the column, man what a machine for the senses! The later Saab's were so ahead of their time, many pilot types I know loved the aviation influence.
Damn shame GM tried to turn Saab into a Buick or Olds, rather than turn Buick or Olds into a Saab. Without getting into it, I saw GM take it over, and I could see that they didn't know what to do with it....
"I never did understand why the yuppies have a love for this car."
When they first were imported back in the '60s they were incredibly high quality, well designed cars that reflected the aircraft engineering skills of the parent company. The yuppies later seized onto the Saabs based on that old reputation, but it was already pretty much gone. LOVED the old one we got in 1967 when I was a kid. It was very different from the later 'luxury' sedans.
My 2000 convertible turns 245 horsepower. In the Rockies, accelerates up long climbs; passing all but the hemi powered pick up trucks. But I'll take the size and 28 mpg as a compromise. Plus I only paid 9K for it, four years ago.
As long as the electrical systems hold, it will be with me.
Many conservatives drive a Saab. They were the safest cars on the road in the day. Built like Sherman tanks. The front engine was designed to collapse downward and out in the case of a front end crash. The sides were steel reinforced and it was one of the first front wheel drive cars. These babies could survive significant car crashes wherein the passengers and drivers walked away. And these cars were built to last. I live in the northeastern part of Washington State where snow and especially, ice are huge problems in the winter. In severe winter conditions, they are unbeatable. I have had Saabs since 1981 and still have a beautiful mint 1990, 900S three door hatchback in red. I am also a conservative.
"In the Rockies, accelerates up long climbs; passing all but the hemi powered pick up trucks."
I drove my Saab from Washington State to Tucson, Arizona in December one year. We hit a huge snowstorm in the Rockies of Idaho. There were semi trucks off the side of the road chaining up. The snow was fierce by the time we started climbing the first pass. My little Saab, with NO chains, got up those mountains without a problem. On the flip side of the pass, we were driving through snow banks two and three feet high, again without issue. I can't imagine driving any car other than a Saab. We will keep my current Saab (1990, 900S three door hatchback) running as long as we can.
(I've owned two SAABs, both pre-GM. I won't say who I voted for in 1972, but Nixon was trying to get me killed at the time, and I took it personally.)
If you are from SoCal- you don't know what REAL LIBS are.. up here in Northern CA where are fruits and nuts don't grow on trees we haev REAL LIBS. They can tax you and screw you out of your retirement with out even breaking a sweat! ;-)
As for Saab - I read an article last week in Aviation Week that they had just had a major win for the jet. Don't remember where or the details.
"Damn shame GM tried to turn Saab into a Buick or Olds, rather than turn Buick or Olds into a Saab. Without getting into it, I saw GM take it over, and I could see that they didn't know what to do with it...."
That pretty much sums up the management philosophy of GM, which had to shed Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer and Saab, instead of develop and sell innovative, vehicles the public wanted.
Given the choice of putting a 200 hp turbo-four into a Buick, or putting an old GM 160 hp six in the Saab, GM would blow it every time.
That low rpm torque, from Saab's turbo was my automobile awakening.
America is in decline, partly because of inept top management in our once great industries. GM is a prime example, along with banking/finance.
Everything you said was true TS..
But GM was a warning shot for SSI, Medicare and Medicade and before those 3 ,The City of Detroit.
All are violating the Accounting Equation and have Liabilities far greater than their Assets and have no way to fund them.
Next up for State Restructuring if they can't do it or Chapter 9 is Detroit...
I'm going to have to send my doctor a sympathy card. She's going to take this hard. It's all she's driven in the years that I've known her.
Gubermint Motors killed the deal. How do you like them Chicago apples, Saab?
Oh, I know about NorCal libs. I'm originally from there, and half my lib family lives there now. I won't argue about them being a more purified version of the breed, but their SoCal comrades are nearly just as bad. They're all nuts.
Oh, I know that not everyone who drives a Saab is a lib. It's just that the marque been a preferred brand of the left for a long time.
I guess this is going to turn into another car wars thread. I'm in the American made camp, myself, but I honestly don't care what anyone else drives.
My dad was a USMC aviator and he bought one of the first ones sold in Jacksonville, NC (Camp LeJeune). It was a pale blue '65 two stroke wagon. We had that car for years. Finally sold it when he was stationed in Honolulu where the SAAB dealer had closed just before we moved there and when the master cylinder went out and he had to order one from Colorado he decided to part with it. 6 months later the SAAB dealership reopened in HNL.
I've owned two, an '88 900 with three speed auto and a '99 900 with a five speed. (First GEN "GM SAAB"). I loved the ventilation system in the "Classic" '88 900 because you could set it so that hot air came out of the foot and side vents and cold outside air from the center console vents so you could be warm on your body but still have cold air in your face to keep you from getting drowsy on long closed up winter drives. I'd like to find a "Classic" 900 in good condition with a 5 speed manual.
The '99's from the early/mid 70's were great cars as well.
My neighbor called his car the "sorry Saab". 'nuff said!
"Gubermint Motors killed the deal. How do you like them Chicago apples, Saab?"
That is because GM is worried the Chinese would get their IP, thinking GM's IP is worth much.
That is old, old thinking on GM's part, because
1. The Chinese can and will steal it anyway, and
2. IP ain't what it used to to. Technology changes so fast, that you win by designing, building and SUCCESSFULLY marketing it, quick enough to get the $$ out of that timeglimpse while it is hot.
Take too long, and technology is worthless.
I suspect Saab's technology is obsolete right now. People, know how, plant equipment can be adapted to other brands.
GM is not the world leading, effectively managed company it once was, much like many other US firms.
It should not surprise anybody, and it won't be remedied by a few political slogans.
Companies, governments, institutions, and individuals in the US have rested on their laurels. Like "we are big, strong, successful because we are big, strong, successful forever"
Until we get stupid, prop up corrupt, ineffective, obsolete products, people, institutions, companies, etc.
Prop them up with like "Too Big to Fail" for autos and banking, for instance.
Institutions, like AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) went down with Arthur Andersen's complicity in the Enron scam.
Recently the NAR (National Association of Realtors) messed up four years of statistics, for reasons unknown unexplained. Probably because computer programmers have taken prescedence over old fashioned analysts.
The military allows a PFC to handle top secret information, who them turns it over to Wikileaks.
Medical cost is driven by the huge opportunity provided, since so many got insurance at work, and started abusing the system. My wife arranged a female surgery for cash total of $10,000 which would have been $30,000 to $40,000 if billed to insurance.
Government is the problem, not the solution.
Let GM and banks fail, to sort out the inefficient and stupid players, instead of forcing taxpayers to subsidize the stupidity.
Too Big to Fail rewards mediocrity, which is the level at which a lot in the US is operating.
ANYBODY is better than Obama, and I will vote for the GOP nominee. Period.
another swedish success?
I own a 1994 Toyota pickup that has 63,000 original miles on it. Nothing fancy...a motor, steering wheel, shifter, radio and air conditioner. It's my favorite little truck and it is still in fine condition.
However, it came from Toyota when they were at the top of their game.
Toyota has had some rough going. But most Taco/Tundra drivers seem to like their trucks. Same with Frontys/Titan.
You will be driving your '94 Toyota until odometer turns 200K. Most do, unless they trade in for fancy new truck.
Or you can replace the Bosch parts at $500 a pop.
That's okay - they have Subaru ready to step in to fill the void. Have you seen Subaru's touchy-feely commercials lately? Enough to make you lose your lunch!
Seems to me, the only car commercials that are aimed at middle America anymore, are those for full size trucks. The rest all seem to be pandering to the hip, young, urban, liberal set.
With the rear seat folded down, I once carried a full-sized Sears Kenmore washing machine in the back of my 1985 SPG... ...with the hatch closed.
I think that is the new middle America.
I carried a Kawasaki jet ski 550 in my SPG
I've known LOTS of Deadheads and tech-geeks who own(ed) Saabs, and even a marijuana grower or two, but not very many yuppies...
The original-edition 900 Turbo (1980 to 1993, and particularly the 16V from 1985 on) was a spectacularly good car. They handled like 4-seater Porsches and had gobs of acceleration. They were extremely easy to maintain and repair in your own garage and they were just weird-looking enough to keep 'posers' from becoming interested in them.
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Continental Warranty false statements about my warranty Malibu California
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So i decided to cancel my warranty because i was getting ready to sell my truck or trade it in. I call and cancel, they said i need 2 things to cancel. 1. a letter in writing saying i would like to cancel, which i sent over an e-mail, and 2. a current mileage statement, showing the most up to date mileage on my vehicle in order to issure a pro rated refund.
So i fax a mileage statement over from an oil change i had done later that day. I hear nothing from the company for about a week, so i decide to call and see whats going on. They tell me their is no refund issued, my contract doesn't state i can receive one. So i duke it out with scott the customer service supervisior and tell him i was asked to send the mileage statement, telling him his employees asked me to send it so they could issue me the refund.
Why would I be asked for a mileage statement, just to cancel a warranty??? so i asked him to listen to the tape of me when i purchased the warranty. he puts me on hold, comes back on in about 4 mintues says he listened to the tape and says their is nothing that was said when i purchased the plan being said about a pro rated refund. i asked scott how long the tape was, he said,"16 minutes". So then i ask scott how he listened to a 16 minute conversation in 4 minutes??? I told him he was obviously fast forwarding the conversation and could have easily missed the conversation that involves myself receiving a refund.
So here i am $400 later for a 6 month warranty, that has been cancelled, and i get nothing back. the total purcahse plan was $1,695 for a 5 year plan. thats around 350 a year, and i paid 400 in 6 months and i get nothing back.
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This complaint has a couple of holes in it.
AUTHOR: Lonnie - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, May 20, 2008POSTED: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Anyone reading this please keep 2 things in mind when reading this "complaint". This client and every single client we sell had thirty days to read his contract over and make sure he was satisfied before being obligated to it.
- The only plan we sell that is not cancelable after 30 days for a pro-rated refund is the Car Guard Plan this customer chose. It is our cheapest priced program and when we sell it we very clearly explain that after 30 days it can only be transferred to a new owner, not cancelled for a pro-rated refund like other plans we sell.
- We also have a recorded verification that clearly the stated had 30 days cancellation for an unconditional money back guarantee. After that transferring was the only option available.
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The number of law-enforcement officers killed by firearms in 2013 fell to levels not seen since the 19th century, according to a [new] report. The annual report from the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund also found that deaths in the line of duty generally fell by 8 percent and were the fewest since 1959. According to the report, 111 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers were killed in the line of duty nationwide this past year, compared to 121 in 2012. Forty-six officers were killed in traffic related accidents, and 33 were killed by firearms. The number of firearms deaths fell 33 percent in 2013 and was the lowest since 1887. The report credits an increased culture of safety among law-enforcement agencies, including increased use of bulletproof vests, that followed a spike in law-enforcement deaths in 2011. Since 2011, officer fatalities across all categories have decreased by 34 percent, and firearms deaths have dropped by 54 percent. Fourteen officers died from heart attacks that occurred while performing their duties.
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Teenage alcohol and tobacco use is at a historic low, according to a recent survey by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The study, which surveyed teenagers from 1975 to 2012, revealed that young people are drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes less frequently than previous generations. The survey also showed that teens are less likely to experiment with unpredictable synthetic drugs ... but use cannabis more frequently. In the past year, high school students who reported smoking cigarettes in the previous 30 days declined from 10.6 percent to 9.6 percent — a statistically significant reduction. Teenage smoking peaked between 1996-1997 and the numbers have been steadily declining since, according to the survey. The use of synthetic marijuana (known as K-2 or Spice) and "bath salts" also sharply decreased among teens in the past year. Marijuana use, however, has been on the rise in recent years. The percentage of eighth grade students who have used marijuana in the previous 12 months rose from 11.4 to 12.7 and 10th grade students saw an increase from 28 to 29.8 percent. The survey seems to suggest that the increase is driven by students' perceived lack of risk in using marijuana. Most other individual illicit drugs did not see significant change. Alcohol use also saw a dramatic decline, particularly among younger teens. Alcohol use and binge drinking among the grades surveyed is at the lowest it has been since the 1990s.
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Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide. Turing was best known for developing the Bombe, a code-breaking machine that deciphered messages encoded by German machines. His work is considered by many to have saved thousands of lives and helped change the course of the war. "Dr. Turing deserves to be remembered and recognized for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science," British Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said. "A pardon from the Queen is a fitting tribute to an exceptional man." Turing's castration in 1952 -- after he was convicted of homosexual activity, which was illegal at the time -- is "a sentence we would now consider unjust and discriminatory and which has now been repealed," Grayling said. Two years after the castration, which Turing chose to avoid a custodial sentence, he ended his life at the age of 41 by eating an apple laced with cyanide. Supporters have long campaigned for Turing to receive greater recognition for his work and official acknowledgment that his punishment was wrong. An online petition in 2009 that drew tens of thousands of signatures succeeded in getting an apology from then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown for Turing's treatment by the justice system in the 1950s. Brown described the Turing sentence as "appalling." The German messages that Turing cracked at the British government's code-breaking headquarters in Bletchley Park provided the Allies with crucial information. Turing was considered a mathematical genius.
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Marcin Jakubowski, the owner of a small farm in northwestern Missouri, is an agrarian romantic for high-tech times. He holds a Ph.D. in fusion physics. In 2003, the year that he received his doctorate, Jakubowski started a Web site, Open Source Ecology, or O.S.E., with the aim of collecting the best techniques for creating sustainable communities. In 2009, Jakubowski posted on the O.S.E. blog a list of fifty machines that, in his view, could cheaply provide everything that a small community needed to sustain a comfortable existence. The list became the Global Village Construction Set. It includes mainstays of contemporary life (tractor, bakery oven, wind turbine) and also exotic, and relatively untested, equipment: an aluminum extractor, developed for lunar missions, that wrests the metal from clay; a bioplastic extruder, which converts plant-based plastic into such domestic necessities as window frames and adhesive tape. So far, Jakubowski has built sixteen of the machines - most of them prototypes - and he has also sold a few. The boldness of his dream resonates widely. In 2012, Time called the Global Village Construction Set one of the year's best inventions, and Jakubowski's TED talk has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. And, nearly every day, he receives e-mails from strangers who want to help him remake civilization, without the competition, bloodshed, or environmental depredation. To Jakubowski, the antidote to specialization and secrecy [is] obvious: self-sufficiency and a willingness to share information.
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Take another look at that food label. An ingredient or two may have vanished. As Americans pay closer attention to what they eat, food and beverage companies are learning that unfamiliar ingredients can invite criticism from online petitions and bloggers. The risk of damaging publicity has proven serious enough that some manufacturers have reformulated top-selling products to remove mysterious, unpronounceable components that could draw suspicion. Earlier this year, for example, PepsiCo Inc. said it would stop using brominated vegetable oil in Gatorade and find a another way to evenly distribute color in the sports drink. Last year, Starbucks said it would stop using a red dye made of crushed bugs based on comments it received "through a variety of means," including an online petition, and switch to a tomato-based extract. Kraft Foods plans to replace artificial dyes with colors derived from natural spices in select varieties of its macaroni and cheese, a nod to the feedback it's hearing from parents. Ali Dibadj, a Bernstein analyst who covers the packaged food and beverage industry, says the changes reflect a shift from "democratization to activism" by consumers. "It used to be that people would just decide not to buy the product. Now they're actually agitating for change," Dibadj said. "There's a bullhorn — which is the Internet — so you can get a lot of people involved very quickly." In the past, a customer complaint about an ingredient may have been addressed with a boilerplate letter from corporate headquarters. But now people can go online to share their concerns with thousands of like-minded individuals.
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Jay Shafer sweats the small stuff. Hopping into a waist-high metal bathtub smaller than a shower stall, Shafer swung a faucet over his head to demonstrate how one bathes in the combination tub/shower/sink. Gesturing at the composting toilet a foot away, he added: "This bathroom is the part of this house I'm proudest of. It was inspired by the Japanese model of being very compact and very efficient. The whole room is 11 square feet, smaller than a standard closet." Thinking small, targeting simplicity and paying meticulous attention to detail exemplify Shafer's craft: designing tiny houses. The Sonoma County resident is considered a father of the tiny house movement, a burgeoning trend to live more efficiently in less space. "Jay articulated and popularized a philosophy of live small, live debt free, and have more time and freedom to pursue your life's passions," said Ryan Mitchell, editor of TheTinyLife.com, a website dedicated to living in small-scale structures. "He backed it up with some really attractive designs." From a 119-square-foot house in Graton, Shafer, 49, writes books about small dwellings; whips up blueprints for Craftsman-style houses ranging from 98 to 288 square feet; plans weekend workshops for DIYers; and sketches out his latest brainstorm: an entire village with dozens of tiny dwellings, each less than 400 square feet, plus a larger common house and other shared amenities, to be erected in Sonoma County. In fact, the county is a hotbed of the small-house movement, with an annual exhibit at the Sonoma County Fair, several small-house companies and at least 100 tiny dwellings.
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It was a simple idea, an interracial couple ridiculed at a barber shop ... in the heart of Harlem. It resonated throughout the internet with millions of hits and comments like, "there may be hope for us yet" and "everyone should watch this!" Rachel is an actor playing a hairdresser who has her eye on a new customer. Gabriel [also an actor] has a girlfriend and when she shows up, it's a rude awakening for Rachel. "Wait, what? You're with a white girl?" If you saw this woman berating an interracial couple, what would you do? [Unsuspecting customer] Denise is so upset there is nothing holding her back. "She's ignorant. I'm letting you know, black girl to another black girl. You sound stupid. As much criticism we went through as a people you're going to do it to the next person. Who gives you that right?" But nothing prepared us for this last woman. Marcia, an HR executive and diversity trainer cannot believe what she's hearing. She tries to get to the bottom of Rachel's intolerance. "Where is your caring and loving heart. If she was laying in the street bleeding would you help her? Let's try to rise together. She wants Rachel to apologize. "Yes, you should, while it's still on your spirit so you can sleep better tonight. Come on. Go up to her. ... That's what works for us. HUGS, Helping Us Grow Spiritually." Why did [Marcia] get involved? "Sometimes you have to step up so that you don't fall back. It hurt me because that's not what I'm about." So many people stepped forward against hatred and bigotry, a sermon at the barber shop now ringing through the streets of harlem and beyond.
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It was January 14, 1999, and Mary Neal ... crested at the top of the first big drop in the river. She looked down into what she later described as a bottomless pit. Then she went over. The front end of her boat got pinned in the rocks, submerging her in the water. Pinned in the boat and out of air, Neal started to give up. "I really gave it all over to God, and I really said, 'Your will be done,'" she said. [She] was sucked out of the bottom of the boat by the current -- with her legs bending back over her knees. "I could feel the bones breaking. I could feel the ligaments and the tissue tearing. I felt my spirit peeling away from my body, sort of like peeling two pieces of tape," Neal recounted. As one of her friends grabbed her wrist to try to pull her out of the water, Neal realized she was outside her body watching the rescue effort. "I could see them pull my body to the shore. I could see them start CPR," she said. "I had no pulse, and I wasn't breathing. One fellow was yelling at me to come back. ...My body was purple and bloated. My pupils were fixed and dilated." She watched people work on her, but she felt none of it. "When I saw my body, I actually thought 'Well, I guess I am dead. I guess I really did die,'" Neal said. As she watched, she said she was met by "these people or these spirits" who started to guide her toward a brightly lit path toward what appeared to be a domed structure. "It was exploding, not just with light and brilliance and color but with love," she said. There, she spoke with the spirits. They told her it was not her time to die, that she still had a job to finish, Neal said. Then she was back in her body, breathing again. Those involved estimate that Neal had been without oxygen for 30 minutes.
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"Feed the Woozle" and "Hoot Owl Hoot!" are the top-selling titles from Berkeley's Peaceable Kingdom, which is making a name for itself with games for toddlers and families that emphasize cooperation over competition. The small, family-owned business tries to promote the value and fun of everyone working together. Its line of games is staunchly nondigital, encouraging face-to-face interactions instead of "screen time." "Cooperative games are a microcosm of how children can play differently," said company president Donna Jaffe. Child-development experts say the community-focused games can play a valuable role, teaching shared decision-making and problem-solving. "They have a lot of merit for classroom and family use," said Berkeley's Stevanne Auerbach, who reviews playthings at www.drtoy.com. "Kids can cut out the one-upmanship and learn to develop strategies and friendly connections. Many parents want their children to have the experience of playing games without feeling as if they have to win or lose." "Their games are in my therapy bag all the time," said Sherry Artemenko, a Connecticut speech pathologist who reviews games at www.playonwords.com. "Kids learn to help each other and work as a team. There's a lot of learning involved: You talk to each other, take different actions. There are visual skills as well as math and language." With slightly more than $5 million in sales, Peaceable Kingdom is minute compared with giants like Hasbro and Mattel. It has eschewed mass-market retailers like Target and Toys R Us, instead sticking to smaller local toy stores and some chains like Barnes & Noble and Pottery Barn.
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Pope Francis on [November 26] issued a bold new document – in Vatican parlance an "apostolic exhortation" – called Evangelii Gaudium or "The Joy of the Gospel." In this document, he sets out an exciting new vision of how to be a church. It is to be a joyful community of believers completely unafraid of the modern world, completely unafraid of change and completely unafraid of challenges. The exhortation [expresses] an overriding concern for the poor in the world. Francis champions an idea that has lately been out of favor: the church's "preferential option" for the poor. "God's heart has a special place for the poor," the Pope says. But it is not enough simply to say that God loves the poor in a special way and leave it at that. We must be also vigilant in our care and advocacy for them. Everyone must do this, says the Pope. "None of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice." And in case anyone misses the point, after a critique of the "idolatry of money" and an "economy of exclusion," the Pope says: "The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favors human beings." This does not mean simply caring for the poor, it means addressing the structures that keep them poor: "The need to resolve the structural causes of poverty cannot be delayed."
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Chad Pregracke, an Illinois man who has dedicated his life to cleaning the Mississippi River and other U.S. waterways, is the 2013 CNN Hero of the Year. Pregracke organizes community cleanups across the country through his nonprofit, Living Lands & Waters. About 70,000 volunteers have pitched in, helping Pregracke collect more than 7 million pounds of trash in the past 15 years. "The garbage got into the water one piece at a time," Pregracke said earlier this year. "And that's the only way it's going to come out." "I'll just keep on cleaning up America's rivers and loving every minute of it," said Pregracke when he accepted the award. During the show, Pregracke pledged to spread some of his Hero of the Year money to the rest of the top 10 Heroes: "I've met so many great people today, the other Heroes, and I'm really moved by all their stories and all the things they do around the world. ... I'm going to give 10 grand to each of them, because they're awesome." Pregracke, 38, grew up in East Moline, Illinois, where the Mississippi River was in his backyard. As a teenager, he worked as a commercial shell diver and began to notice the heaps of debris in the fabled waterway, which supplies drinking water to 18 million people in more than 50 U.S. cities. "I saw thousands of barrels, thousands of tires, cars, trucks and tops of school buses. ... I got sick of seeing it and just wanted to do something about it," said Pregracke. For nine months out of the year, Pregracke lives on a barge with members of his 12-person crew. They go around the country with a fleet of boats, and they try to make cleanup fun for the volunteers who show up in each city.
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A group of Occupy Wall Street activists has bought almost $15m of Americans' personal debt over the last year as part of the Rolling Jubilee project to help people pay off their outstanding credit. Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills. By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000. "We thought that the ratio would be about 20 to 1," said Andrew Ross, a member of Strike Debt and professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. "In fact we've been able to buy debt a lot more cheaply than that." The Rolling Jubilee project was mostly conceived as a "public education project", Ross said. "Our purpose in doing this, aside from helping some people along the way – there's certainly many, many people who are very thankful that their debts are abolished – our primary purpose was to spread information about the workings of this secondary debt market." The group has ... acquired the $14.7m in three separate purchases, most recently purchasing the value of $13.5m on medical debt owed by 2,693 people across 45 states and Puerto Rico, Rolling Jubilee said in a press release. "No one should have to go into debt or bankruptcy because they get sick," said Laura Hanna, an organiser with the group. Hanna said 62% of all personal bankruptcies have medical debt as a contributing factor.
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Post 513 players Justin Shuleski and BJ Bochicchio both advanced during the American Legion Scouts All Star Game at Connell Park last week.
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District of Missouri Torts - Injury Cases
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Tyler v. Menard, Inc.
as 5:2016cv06109
Plaintiff: George Tyler
Defendant: Menard, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Personal Injury
Blair v. Target Corporation, et al
as 4:2016cv00922
Plaintiff: Terry A. Blair
Defendant: Target Corporation , Brandon Beatty
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal- Personal Injury
Clawson v. Art Logistics, Inc. et al
as 6:2016cv03336
Plaintiff: Brian M. Clawson
Defendant: Art Logistics, Inc. , Daniel J. Kimmel
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Tort/Motor Vehicle (P.I.)
Bayazid et al v. Walgreen Co. et al
as 4:2016cv00890
Plaintiff: Omar Bayazid, Fatima Mohammadi
Defendant: Walgreen Co. , Scott Binder , Romulo J Jaramillo
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal
Brown v. Henry
as 4:2016cv00879
Plaintiff: Thomas F Brown
Defendant: Sharon Henry
Interested_party: United States
Cause Of Action: - Tort Negligence
Defoe v. Everest National Insurance Company
as 4:2016cv00872
Plaintiff: Houston Defoe
Defendant: Everest National Insurance Company
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal- Personal Injury
Yoder v. Williams et al
as 2:2016cv04229
Plaintiff: Judy A Yoder
Defendant: Justin Williams , William Hall , Sherman Express, LLC
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal- Tort/Motor Vehicle (
Burk v. American Family Mutual Insuranc Company
as 6:2016cv03318
Defendant: American Family Mutual Insuranc Company
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Personal Injury
Grobstick et al v. Branco Enterprises, Inc. et al
as 3:2016cv05086
Plaintiff: Julie Grobstick , William Grobstick
Defendant: Branco Enterprises, Inc. , Cold Harbor, LLC d/b/a NEI Industrial Services , Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal- Personal Injury
Charger v. Regester et al
as 2:2016cv04212
Plaintiff: Kenneth Charger
Defendant: Stephen Regester, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
Cause Of Action: Personal Injury
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"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
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Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said."
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It's been a while since I made fresh pasta so I had an appetite for pappardelle. The weather was hot and I substituted the creamy sauce for fresh tomatoes. The dish turned out too watery, but I enjoyed the tasty pasta and the lightness overall.
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Nice location and a nice condo. Clean and cozy. We were hoping to rent bikes, but it rained most of the week. We were able to walk to the Medici Cafe for coffee most mornings, despite the rain.....lovely walk through a neighborhood of great homes, and saw wild parrots along the way. The convenience store next door had a decent selection of wine to satisfy our oenophile habit. My only wish, would be for fluffier pillows.
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In a stunning, last-minute change of heart, the New York state Senate passed hotel occupancy tax bills for six Westchester communities, including several towns and villages, after years of unsuccessfully trying to petition the state for the tax.
The Westchester municipalities that already had the hotel tax in place, including New Rochelle, which secured the tax back in 2009, were reauthorized by the state. The authorization has a sunset clause requiring communities to reapply for the tax every
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Historically, the hotel occupancy tax bills, which impose a 3 percent charge on hotel occupants within a municipality's borders on top of a 3 percent Westchester County hotel tax that is already in place, passed in the Democratic-led state Assembly but were repeatedly shot down by the Republican-controlled Senate because of a reluctance to institute a new tax.
But during this legislative session, under the new leadership of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Huntington Republican, the Senate changed its longstanding policy and passed a number of new taxes, including a hotel occupancy tax for Westchester communities and three upstate counties.
State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Scarsdale Democrat, said the hotel tax approvals for county governments opened the door for the possibility of a hotel tax in the local Westchester municipalities.
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Skip to comments.News Conference By President Obama (Thinks Austrian is a language!!!)
Posted on 04/05/2009 2:16:20 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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You mean to tell me that all over the world people have "their own particular issues and their own particular politics."? Astounding insight.
I think I was maybe 8 when I came to this realization. Glad Uhbama has a glimmer of understanding now. ;-)
The bad thing about that is that the awestruck female reporter just nodded and smiled as he said that sentence, though. You could tell by looking at her that she would have just loved to have had her way with him.
It's absolutely repulsive how this guy is treated by the press and it's even worse in the European press with the exception of a few British columnists.
Yeah - it was a softball question and he still (IMHO) screwed it up and gave America a black eye - or wait maybe that was his idea ... Can't believe you read all 150+ posts on this ;-)
how did this guy become President Obama
The only foreign language he knows is Obonics.
Ya Betcha! ...that is as long as they can twist it that he was quoting Sarah Palin or something like that!
Others have said in the past that MAYBE what he is doing there is killing time till his people send him info so he can answer. It is a tragedy that during potentially the worst crisis in 70 years, a puppet is in charge.
A worsening financial crisis, runs on banks and a seemingly cranky McCain sharing the same party as an unpopular President (which I think was MOSTLY due to high gas prices). That, and massive fraud which allowed him plenty of sway, a meek press and the color of his skin which scared most naysayers lest they were hurt by his shady playing of the race card. In other words, "a perfect storm," I'm shocked it was as close as it was. When one looks at how the economy crashed in Sept/Oct- all over the world, after high gas prices and food prices earlier in the year, and the popping of Greenspan's last bubble (which was mistakenly ? created to save the day after his last bubble popped) it was a shame we didn't have a better candidate.
Hey Obama ! In austrian "your a dumbass" means your "still a dumbass" in english !
I am soooo sick of this punks polidiots posers and his handlers trying to pass off this sock monkey as a precedent !
Doom on his anti americanism !
Thank you for the reply, I greatly appreciate it...
I really wish I had learned more about my relatives and their native language when my Mother was alive (we probably all feel that way though about some things when we lose a loved one)
I was only 24 when she passed away, and I had 3 young children, and she lived out-of-state, so time seemed to really slip away. Too many questions unasked...). I know her father came to the US before WWI and my Mom was born in 1939. I kind of got the feeling that with the outbreak of WWII her parents rarely spoke German except when with friends... I can definitely understand why they would make that choice.
You'd figure little Hitler would know something about German, eh?
Maybe he should have asked the Queen to explain The Sound of Music to him since she loves showtunes so much.
Ahh, He's a goof-butt, but he's our little goof-butt.
Very neat! Thank you so much. I'm pretty sure what she said was "Guten Abend". With an accent and sliding the words together almost, I can see how that could sound like "Gutten Noggin" to me!
I LOVE Brahm's Lullaby. I actually sang a few songs in German during my High School voice lessons... Let me tell you — that's not so easy for someone who speaks English! LOL
My favorite German song to sing is Mozart's Wiegenlied ("Schlafe mein Prinzchen").
Thanks again for all the information you've shared with me. Through this conversation I've remembered a lot of things about my Mom, and that's always really nice... :)
Love your post! Especially the "polidiots"! I'm going to have to remember that one... :)
Add "Presstitutes" to that wordsmithing file as well friend.....:o)
Why, thanks. I hope it sticks. Every time I see Obama on TV(which isn't often, since I avoid it like the plague), I immediately think "President Clueless". It suits him perfectly.
" I don't know what the term is in Austrian,"
If Bush had ever said anything this stupid, it would have led the news.
Hmmmm...does May 23, 2006 ...George W. Bush... Greek and Grecian...jog any memory cord??
It's all the headlines addressed for days in the time period.
Hypocrisy, double standards, biased, selective revisionist memories, enablers/apologists...we should all be used to these reporting manipulations by now.
Oh wait ... then there's the nuclear disarm tact - while ignoring that every ME nation wants all of a sudden to get nuclear power, NK, Iran, proceed without effective sanction, we should just dump ours. NK went 8 years fooling x42 - uhbama will be even less a challenge. ARRRRRRRGH! :-(
As far as Obama's ignorance, he is appearing more like an incompetent communist. I can't say those behind the throne are but maybe, just maybe they are victims of their own role in destroying the educational system.
Yep, that's one of my favorites as well! :)
The other one I picked up the other day for Obama:
"The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers"! ROFL
Thanks! I will definitely try that tonight. :)
Keeper indeed !
The fresh prince of Bill Ayers is just funny and sad all at the same time !
thanks !
Glad to help! :)
wow! I want some of those! (they wont do any good in Tokyo, but just for some friends back in native Kentucky)... ;-)
Don't they speak Australian in Austria?
That would be great! I'm so glad you like it. Thank you!
[Be sure to tell your friends, too! LOL I'm going to be re-designing some of my election products over the next few days to remove the McCain/Palin '08 wording as well...]
Yes, no Austrian, Siwss, Belgian, or Luxembourg languages. Whate else?
He does not seem incompetent to his supporters, for they, like Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Christopher Buckley, are as uninformed as he!
I wonder what language they speak in those seven extra states Obama always talks about.
I am so damn sick and tired of hearing the as* kissers talk about how smart he is. He seems anything but smart to me. He and Biden make a good pair. There is a difference between well trained and being intelligent.
When happens this tyrannys Kristalnacht? They have already come for the executives, and people did nothing. They have already come for the unborn, and people (even Notre Dame) did nothing. They are coming for the talk radio hosts and their listeners. How soon till they come for you?
Heil Obama.
FK that! He will push too far and then they will feel the wrath of angry Americans.
How 'bout Yiddish?
Oh, I'd forgotten that moronic quote from The Bama, one of the quotes that started it all: started giving us both an idea of how stupid he was generally, how much he sounded like an adolescent , while also providing hints of what was to come in whole area of putting down America culturally. Kind of a 3 in 1 quote!
"I agree that immigrants should learn English, but instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English they'll learn English you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language." [...] "You know, it's embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is 'merci beaucoup!'"
Mr. Obama, April 2009:
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing -- and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics."
Trick question. Politics of lingual destruction. :)
Wow. There's something in the news EVERY DAY to make you cringe about this administration and B.Obozo. It's rekindled my interest in the news again, along with SNL!
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An agreement would create the world's fourth-largest oil company and strengthen Chevron's position among industry powerhouses formed by similar mergers: Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch/Shell Group and BP Amoco Plc.
If approved by both boards, the merger of San Francisco-based Chevron and Texaco, of White Plains, N.Y., was expected to be announced Monday morning before financial markets opened, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing executives close to the talks.
Officials at Chevron and Texaco could not be contacted for comment Sunday. Representatives did not return calls.
Among U.S. oil companies, Chevron is the third-largest and Texaco is the fourth-largest.
By combining forces, Chevron and Texaco could create as much as $1 billion in operational savings and would become more competitive in developing new oil and gas fields, the Times reported.
A deal would require the companies to sell possibly thousands of gas stations in order to resolve regulatory issues, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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