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The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) Board of Directors has selected Dr. Jane Stavem to be the next Lake Washington School District Superintendent. From an impressive pool of applicants, Dr. Stavem emerged as the top choice to lead the district.
Application and enrollment information, and overview of the preschool programs offered in LWSD
Ready Start Preschool Program will be accepting applications for the 2019-20 school year soon.
Lake Washington School District's Ready Start Preschool Program will start accepting tuition-based applications for the 2019-20 school year soon. Exact date to be determined by the beginning of March 2019. The 2019-20 new tuition rates will be determined by April 2019. Click here to read more about the Ready Start Preschool Program, including registration details and lottery information. Please check back to our website in late February 2019.
Limited space is still available at some locations for the 2018-19 school year. Please contact the preschool registrar at 425-936-1226 for more information.
Lake Washington preschool focuses on providing children and families with a successful first-school experience. Families with a 4-year-old child living within the boundaries of Lake Washington School District are eligible to apply for the preschool program. In some circumstances, 3-year-olds are also eligible.
Lake Washington offers two preschool programs:
Head Start
Head Start is a federally funded comprehensive early childhood program offering services for the entire family and focuses on school readiness. Families whose income meets the federal poverty guidelines qualify for the Head Start component of the preschool program. The program is designed for children ages 3 and 4, with priority for enrollment given to 4-year-olds. Verification of income must be received before a family can be considered for placement in Head Start. A Family Support Specialist works with families to obtain all needed income documentation.
Head Start Preschool hours*
Morning classes: 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon classes: 12:30 – 4 p.m. (A.G. Bell site only)
*Times may vary slightly at individual schools.
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Ready Start
The Ready Start program offers a comprehensive early childhood learning experience. Classes include typically developing children from the community who attend Ready Start to receive a quality, general-education preschool experience in preparation for kindergarten, as well as students receiving special education. Our excellent preschool education is now offered through a fee-based program.
Ready Start Preschool hours*
Morning classes: 10 a.m.– 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon classes: 1:30 – 4 p.m.
*Times may vary at individual schools.
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Students Needing Additional Programming Support (SNAPS) is a special education program serving eligible preschool students ages 3-5 with a primary diagnosis of autism. The SNAPS program is designed to supplement the LWSD preschool program and better meet the needs of students with autism and their families. It is an intensive, early-intervention program that involves extensive evaluation, planning, and progress-monitoring to help better prepare children for kindergarten entry.
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SNAPS students attend both Ready Start Preschool and SNAPS.
10 a.m.–1:30 p.m. or 12:30 - 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, in addition to Ready Start
*Times may vary slightly at individual schools.
Learn more about the SNAPS Program
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For both preschool programs the school year begins in mid-September. Classes are located at elementary schools across the district. Students are assigned to the school nearest their home with available space. Average class size is 19 students. Preschoolers attend four days a week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Preschool children and families have access to a variety of services, which may include:
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- Literacy program
- Vision, hearing & developmental screenings
- Parent education opportunities
- Health and nutrition education for children and families
Classroom activities are based on the Creative Curriculum to prepare children for kindergarten.
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Paul Vine
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More information on Ready Start and Head Start preschool programs:
A.G. Bell Elementary School
Preschool/Head Start
11212 NE 112th Street
Kirkland, WA 98033
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Lots of chair threads and this might already be one, but curious what are some of your favorites? I know it's a broad category, but curious which ones come to mind first as your favorite and why.
I have many, but I think one of my favorites is the Cherner chair.
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7.10: Journey To The Centre Of The TARDISThe TARDIS has crashed, Clara is lost inside, and the Doctor has 30 minutes before his ship explodes!
7.11: The Crimson HorrorSomething ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire, as bodies are found with their skin a waxy, glowing red.
7.12: Nightmare In SilverHedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out - and ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection.
7.13: The Name Of The Doctor (rumoured title)Someone is kidnapping the Doctor's friends, leading him towards the one place in all of time and space that he should never go.
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With built-in YouTube, SlingMedia Player in the works, and now Ustream announcing an iPhone viewer, is Flash still going to dominate most-wanted lists, or is Apple actually halting Adobe's video advance? We don't know, but we do know we're really excited by the mobile video options we're already seeing:
Ustream has developed an application for the 3G iphone that allows you to watch Ustream anywhere w/everyone. Regardless of where you are at and what you are doing, you can choose to be in the moment with others in a shared live experience around a live event. If you are out-on-the-town and know that a guest speaker at a major conference is "going live" and want to watch live and be-in-the-crowd, then you can with this application. You will be able to watch the Inauguration LIVE on Ustream with chat.
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Dodge Forum's Holiday Gift Guide: SYLVANIA SilverStar Headlight Bulbs
Here's another cool product I saw at SEMA. While HID Headlights look awesome, dropping them into a project–or any car they didn't come with stock–is a huge undertaking.
Fortunately, for those wanting to get that bright white look, there's Sylvania's Silverstar zXe replacement bulbs. Sylvania uses a proprietary Xenon halogen gas which gives an HID look for a fraction of the cost, and the bulb's mirror tips mean that they'll look good even when they're off.
Oh, and looks aside, Sylvania bulbs will provide a significant visibility bump over stock units. And who doesn't want to see better at night? available at Sylvania


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Rihanna Goes Nearly Naked at Kadooment Parade [PHOTOS + VIDEO]
Well, damn. Rihanna was quite the reveler Monday (Aug. 5) at the Kadooment Parade during the final day of Barbados' annual Crop Over Festival. The Bajan beauty went on her Instagram page to show off a barely-there outfit she wore during the local parade and it's an eye-popper.
RiRi's jeweled bikini left little to the imagination as her bra, panties and headpiece were bedazzled in diamond-like rubies. The only real piece of clothing she had on were white sneakers and feathered wings on her shoulders.
The 25-year-old singer spent the entire weekend celebrating Crop Over. On Friday, the first day, Rihanna was wearing a white bikini with silver panels and was doing the most -- she was twerking, boozing and getting turnt up until early Saturday morning.
Yes folks, RiRi gets it in.
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I read this tutorial: glprogramming.com/red/
about an year ago and then I realized it's considered "depricated" (correct me if I'm wrong).
So now I have lots of free time so I want to read an up-to-date OpenGL book (that must include a GLSL guide too, correct me if I'm wrong again).
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by roberta naas | January 18, 2013 | Watches & Jewelry
The Reine de Naples Charlestone bracelet is self-winding and features 139 diamonds totaling approximately 1.32 carats ($71,700).
Breguet blends old-world craftsmanship with modern innovations at their Swiss headquarters.
The Reine de Naples collection celebrates the bicentennial of the first wristwatch in the US.
Napoleon gazes on Breguet's unveiling of a suite of jewelry in honor of the Queen of Naples.
The Breguet showroom.
Breguet is a watch brand synonymous with technical excellence and innovation. Last fall, in honor of its commitment to the arts, the brand unveiled a new clock designed for New York's Carnegie Hall Morse Lobby and in January, it unveiled five additional clocks. One is a Reine de Naples replica, meaning its design inspiration comes directly from the early 19th century and is fashioned after the famous watch created for Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples.
Many know Breguet for its superb complicated timepieces or for the incredible historical watch inventions made by its founding father, Abraham-Louis Breguet, who is credited with creating the world's first tourbillion (a watch with an escapement that compensates for the errors in timekeeping due to the effects of gravity when the watch is in certain positions), which he patented in 1801. What many may not realize is that Breguet created the first known wristwatch.
In 1810, Napoleon's younger sister, Caroline Murat, wife of the King of Naples, wrote to Abraham-Louis Breguet requesting he create a watch for her wrist with a bracelet made of hair and thin threads of gold. Considered the forefather of many great watchmaking inventions, Breguet had an exceptional reputation amongst the European elite due to his tireless thirst for perfection in horology. "It is unclear if the wristwatch was Abraham-Louis Breguet's idea or the queen's," says Emmanuel Breguet, Breguet's descendant and today, the historian for the brand. "Hence, we say that we are cocreators of the first wristwatch."
The concept of actualizing a woman's wristwatch kept Breguet and 17 artisans busy for more than two years, until it was delivered in 1812. Although the first watch has since been lost, Breguet's archives have documented it well. According to Emmanuel Breguet, the watch was fashioned in an oval shape and required 34 operations during construction. It was built as a quarter repeater regulator watch (that chimed on the quarter hour) and came in at a pricey sum for the time: 4,800 French francs—200 francs under budget.
Recently, Breguet celebrated the 200th anniversary of that creation with a festive soirée held at Caroline Murat's former summer home in Reggia de Capodimonte, Naples (the elaborate Bourbon palace has been transformed into the world-class National Museum of Capodimonte). To honor the momentous anniversary, Breguet created a one-of-a-kind anniversary Reine de Naples watch and jewelry suite that are distinctively unique while nodding to the brand's regal past. "We are committed to respecting the Breguet legacy," says Marc A. Hayek, president and CEO of Breguet. "The new Reine de Naples creations stand as a statement from Breguet of our dedication to women and complications."
The coordinated suite of jewelry that complements the singular watch includes a ring, necklace, tiara, and earrings—all crafted in 950 platinum. Each piece is set with a center oval-cut blue sapphire surrounded by diamonds. The ring alone has nearly 10 carats of diamonds and a center sapphire weighing 9.50 carats. The entire jewelry suite retails for approximately $800,000—or $1 million if you incorporate the watch. Alternately, each piece can be purchased separately
Like the original, the new Queen of Naples watch is a repeater with two chimes in the striking mechanism. Its superb high-tech self-winding caliber utilizes several silicon parts. Instead of hair and gold threads, the new piece is crafted in 18k white gold and meticulously set with a bracelet of precious gems. Nearly 600 diamonds and blue sapphires in graduated colors bedeck the watch (which retails for $204,800). According to Hayek, the decision to use blue sapphires as well as diamonds is a nod to the past and the present—blue is a royal color and Breguet's signature shade.
For those not lucky enough to possess this rare timepiece, Breguet has been offering watches inspired by the 1812 original in its Reine de Naples collection for the past decade. Introduced in 2002, the collection is made expressly for women and features a superb egg-shaped case. The watch's mechanical movements feature an offset crown at 4:00, a ball-shaped decorative lug at 6:00, and fluted case sides.
Breguet's commitment to quality and innovation remains strong. "The spirit of watchmaking is about using modern technology to our greatest advantage in as many watches as possible," says Hayek. "You have to know how to take technology to tomorrow, not be content with what is there today."
Over the past decade, Breguet has registered 120 patents, many of which would not have been possible without the technological advancements of today. These include two patents in 2003 pertaining to alarms and three patents in 2005 for Breguet's new detent escapement. Breguet continues to pioneer and create according to the legacy of its founding father, but with a keen eye to the future. It is fairly certain that Breguet will utilize the chiming repeater of the unique new watch in additional Queen of Naples watches moving forward.
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Sam Chelanga wins 10K national championship
Liberty redshirt junior Sam Chelanga is a national champion -- again. He made history in Thursday night's final race at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., dominating victory in the men's 10K final to become the Flames' first-ever men's track & field national champion.
He also placed second in a tight 5K race on Saturday at the national meet.
Chelanga was crowned the Division 1 NCAA Men's Cross Country Champion in November.
- Read more about his 10K national championship at www.libertyflames.com. View the race highlights here.
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Mr. & Mrs. Joel Jacobs
Megan Weatherwax and Joel Jacobs were united in marriage Oct. 2, 2010, at the Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas, Nev. Parents of the couple are Charlie and Mary Weatherwax of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Kirk and Jodi Jacobs of Mullen. Attendants for the couple were Kelly Weatherwax, sister of the bride from Sioux Falls, Andy Wright of Lincoln, and Jesse Jacobs of Kearney, both brothers of the groom. A reception was held following the poolside ceremony. Following a honeymoon trip to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, the couple are at home in Omaha where Joel is a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors and Megan is a real estate appraiser for Real.Corp.


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I'm predicting the foundry cart coffee table will become the first cliche of all this industrial nostalgic design -- is it just me or would it really hurt to knock your shin on one of these?
I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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I'm predicting the foundry cart coffee table will become the first cliche of all this industrial nostalgic design -- is it just me or would it really hurt to knock your shin on one of these?
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- Chair said...
My mom and step-dad had one of those heavy carts as a coffee table. It looks fantastic but, yes, it hurts like crazy to run into one. :)
- December 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Laurel said...
I wonder how they keep the canvas clean. They must have to launder it or something.
- December 4, 2009 at 2:06 AM
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- ann at greenoak said...
love your site and plan to put a link to it on my blog....the interior shots especially and the fun ones, like the bug in the soap!!!
we do steampunk out here in corn country too....
hot here is metal containers, like wire baskets...and anything good looking thats big and wierd and metal... like hospital guerneys...
i sell little steampunk parts to artists on my etsy.. www.gypsymarket.etsy.com
- December 4, 2009 at 5:31 AM
- AMY said...
I'd let my chins take a beating for one of those tables!
- December 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM
- brian said...
Yeah, the cart thing is a tough one. I'm doing my place right now and trying to decide whether or not to use that one I have. It's sort of cool, but even before reading the cliche comment I'd been wondering about the vintage industrial "me-too" feel of it....
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Thought I'd start a dog thread. This is a shot of Baxter my 3 yr old Golden Retriever.
Last edited by kirk909; 04-14-2005 at 12:20 AM.
These pics were taken with a Kodak DX7590 on auto setting.
I'm interested to know if you compensated or did some post processing?? Only the exposure is good despite the masses of white snow that usually cause the picture to under expose.
Well done - good pics.
Geoff Chandler. UK/England/Surrey
NIKON D90 / D80. Nikon 16 - 85 VR, Tamron 28-200,
Sigma 70-300APO, Tokina 100 AT-X Pro D.
SB600 flash. Panasonic DMC-TZ25
Well, heck, I thought we had a dog thread going already. Okay, anyway here she is again, Sandy; 1/2 Laborador retriever, 1/4 Husky, 1/4 Shiba, and 100% angel:
"...and only the stump, or fishy part of him remained."
Green Gables: A Contemplative Companion to Fujino Township
Great job on the pictures!!
The only post processing was cropping and resizing.
The camera was set to "snow" mode however.
I know we had the other dog thread going but the title "Very First Pic Taken..." didn't apply. Now we stand a chance of catching up with the cat people!
This is Peggy, my 14-year old Toy Fox Terrier...
Ok, here's one of my hoonds.
D70, Sigma 70-300 APO macro at ISO200.
All the best, Paul.
Kodak DC3200, CX6230, P850 + 0.7 W/A lens, P20 flash.
Nikon N90s (35mm), D70 + Tamron 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5, Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Sigma 28-105mm f/4-5.6, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro, Tokina 80-200mm f/2.8, Pheonix 100mm f3.5 1-1 Macro, Sigma 170-500mm f/5-6.3 APO.
Nikon F6 coming soon.....
Not mine, but one of our department's K-9 dogs. His name is Akso. Bite worse than his bark. If you've never seen a K-9 at work, this is all play to him. Took this Monday during an explorer meeting with a 17 year old "suspect."
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Tentative Board decisions are provided for the information and convenience of constituents who want to follow the Board's deliberations. All of the conclusions reported are tentative and may be changed at future Board meetings. Decisions are included in an Exposure Draft for formal comment only after a formal written ballot. Decisions in an Exposure Draft may be (and often are) changed in redeliberations based on information provided to the Board in comment letters, at public roundtable discussions, and through other communication channels. Decisions become final only after a formal written ballot to issue an Accounting Standards Update.
February 19, 2014 FASB Board MeetingInsurance Contracts. The Board began redeliberations of the June 2013 Exposure Draft, Insurance Contracts (Topic 834).
The Board discussed whether the scope of the insurance contracts project should continue to include all entities that issue insurance contracts as proposed in the Exposure Draft. The Board decided to limit the scope to insurance entities as described in existing U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP).
The Board also discussed a range of possible approaches the project could take, including considering a comprehensive redeliberation of the project based on the proposed Update or considering targeted improvements to existing U.S. GAAP. The Board decided the project should focus on making targeted improvements to existing U.S. GAAP. For short-duration contracts, the Board decided to limit the targeted improvements to enhancing disclosures. For long-duration contracts, the Board concluded that decisions reached by the IASB in its 2013 IASB Exposure Draft, Insurance Contracts, should be considered when contemplating improvements to existing U.S. GAAP.
Next Steps
The Board directed the staff to perform an analysis of existing U.S. GAAP for long-duration contracts and an assessment of the areas that should be considered for targeted improvements.
Accounting for Financial Instruments—Impairment. The Board continued redeliberating the proposed Accounting Standards Update, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Subtopic 825-15), specifically discussing topics related to nonaccrual, purchased credit-impaired (PCI) financial assets, and troubled debt restructurings (TDRs).
Nonaccrual—The Board decided to exclude the proposed nonaccrual guidance from the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) Model. However, the Board decided to consider adding as pre-agenda research whether U.S. GAAP should include nonaccrual guidance.
PCI Assets—The Board decided not to expand the PCI approach, as proposed in the proposed Update, to other financial assets. The Board also decided to include in the CECL Model a requirement that the non-credit-related discount or premium resulting from acquiring a pool of PCI financial assets should be allocated to each individual financial asset.
TDRs—The Board decided that the TDR classification remains relevant under the CECL Model. In addition, the Board decided to revise the CECL Model to require that, in certain TDRs, an entity may be required to increase the cost basis of the restructured financial asset through a corresponding increase in the entity's allowance for expected credit losses.
The Board also discussed prepayment expectations in the context of determining the adjustment to a restructured financial asset's cost basis. The Board decided an entity may consider prepayment expectations and prospectively reflect an adjusted yield if prepayment speeds are different than expected. This decision is contingent on the Board's review of staff prepared examples illustrating this alternative.
FASB Endorsement of Private Company Council (PCC) Consensus. The Board endorsed the following decisions made by the PCC at its January 28, 2014 meeting.
PCC Issue No. 13-02, "Applying Variable Interest Entity Guidance to Common Control Leasing Arrangements"
A private company may elect not to apply VIE guidance to a lessor entity if all of the following criteria are met:
- The private company (the reporting entity) and the lessor entity are under common control.
- The private company has a leasing arrangement with the lessor entity.
- Substantially all of the activity between the private company and lessor entity relates to the leasing arrangement.
- Any obligation of the lessor that is being guaranteed or collateralized by the private company could (have the ability to), at inception of the obligation, be sufficiently collateralized by the asset(s) leased to the private company. The Board noted that this criterion will be edited to more clearly reflect the intent of the PCC's decisions.
- The amount and key terms of significant liabilities recognized by the lessor entity that expose the private company lessee to providing significant financial support to the lessor entity
- A qualitative description of significant arrangements not recognized by the lessor entity that expose the private company lessee to providing financial support to the lessor entity.
The Board also affirmed its decision to remove an example derived from FSP FIN 46(R)-5, "Implicit Variable Interests under FASB Interpretation No. 46," which is codified in paragraphs 810-10-55-87 through 55-89.
The Board directed the staff to draft a final Accounting Standards Update for vote by written ballot.
Consolidation—Principal versus Agent Analysis. The Board continued to redeliberate the November 2011 proposed FASB Accounting Standards Update, Consolidation (Topic 810): Principal versus Agent Analysis.
The Board discussed how to further integrate two of the principal versus agent factors into the existing consolidation guidance (Topic 810):
- The compensation to which the decision maker is entitled in accordance with its compensation agreement(s) ("fees paid to a decision maker")
- The decision maker's exposure to variability of returns from other interests that it holds in the entity ("economic interests").
For purposes of the discussion, it was assumed that all fees paid to the decision maker fail to meet the conditions included in paragraph 810-10-55-37 and, therefore, represent a variable interest in a variable interest entity (VIE). Furthermore, it was assumed that the decision maker has the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE.
The Board decided that fees paid to a decision maker that meet both conditions (1) and (2) below should be excluded from the primary beneficiary determination:
- The compensation of the decision maker is commensurate with the services provided.
- The compensation agreement includes only terms, conditions, or amounts that are customarily present in arrangements for similar services negotiated on an arm's-length basis.
Additionally, the Board decided that fees paid to a decision maker that meet both conditions (1) and (2) above should not be aggregated with other variable interests of the decision maker; such fees should continue to be excluded from the primary beneficiary determination.
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The Board also considered and decided not to change existing GAAP provisions that require the primary beneficiary to have the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE.


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Mrs. Bigelow is a little old lady who is featured in the short story "Robin and the Haunted House" in the Jim Henson's Bedtime Stories.
Mrs. Bigelow owns a run-down house that Robin and his friends pass every day after work. Convinced it is haunted and owned by a witch, Robin's friends dare him to go up and knock on the door. When the front door swings open, Robin begins to run away, but is surprised to see that a witch doesn't answer the door, but rather a little old lady.
Because Mrs. Bigelow is unable to care for her house on her own anymore, the frogs help out around the house, pulling weeds and mending the porch, until the house is no longer the spooky site it once was.


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2013 Audi S6, Reviews, News, & Model Prices – Automobile Magazine
2013 Audi S6
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What's New for S6 in 2013
The return of the S6 is the big news for 2013. Although it has cut back on two cylinders (going from a V-10 to a V-8), it has two turbochargers and is actually quicker than before, reaching 60 mph in 4.8 seconds. At the other end of the A6 spectrum, we note the expanded availability of the 2.0T engine, which is now available in the Quattro, as well as the front-wheel drive. more
The 2013 Audi S6 stands apart from other fast sedans with its great combination of class and quality. It has been over two decades since the S6 was first introduced in 1994, and the car is still going strong, especially considering that the S6 has only been available in the United States over sporadic periods of time. The fourth generation of this performance-enhanced version of the A6 was released just last year, bringing a lot of big changes with it.
Here is a look at the 2013 Audi S6 and what it has to offer.
The 2013 Audi S6 has undergone a 0.4 inch reduction in height with the new adaptive suspension system. The sedan has 19-inch alloy wheels as standard, and 20-inch wheels as an option. When compared to the previous generation, the new Audi S6 looks almost the same. Most differences are subtle – the grille and bumper get some tweaks, but they are hard to point out.
The biggest differences are the change in the S6 badge design and the inclusion of quad exhaust pipes.
Apart from looks, the new 2013 Audi S6 is heavier than its predecessor by 130 pounds due to the added electronics and features. The extra weight is offset by a new body which comprises of 20 percent aluminum. The engine position has been shifted farther backward, which improves the car's corner response.
Interior Cargo
The 2013 Audi S6 has the same level of comfort and attention to detail that anyone would come to expect from the esteemed German carmaker. The dash up front is well laid out, with great material quality and a solid finish.
Audi's Multi Media Interface (MMI) controls navigation, communication, and entertainment features with a dash-mounted pop-up screen and buttons and knobs on the central console. This system offers increased functionality with the combination of touchpad, sharp graphics, and logically laid-out menus. Overall, the MMI system is quite intuitive.
The 2013 Audi S6 is also fitted with an in-car Wi-Fi system, which uses a 3G connection to access Google Earth for navigation and Google Search for points of interest. It may not seem so at the outset, but the Google Search option is handy for anyone looking for a new hotel or restaurant.
The 2013 Audi S6 is fitted with unique instruments, as well as diamond-stitched, one-piece sport seats up front with S6 embossments as standard. Optional comfort seats are also available, but in either case, there is ample support available while driving the S6 at high speeds and enough comfort for long trips.
The rear seats of the 2013 Audi S6 have not been compromised when it comes to space or the luxury quotient. In fact, the seats offer more legroom than most other competitors on the market. The 2013 Audi S6 has a top-notch Bose music system as standard, although a more powerful Bang Olufsen audio system is available as an option.
The 2013 Audi S6 offers a trunk space of 14.1 cubic feet, which is clearly one of the smallest sizes in the segment at present. However, the split rear seats fold down for more space and even get a pass-through to give the car some decent storage space. Nevertheless, storage is an obvious weak point in this car.
The 2013 Audi S6 is fitted with a full range of airbags, including front, side, side-curtain, and knee airbags. A rearview camera and traction and stability control is standard, as are the anti-lock brakes. Optional safety features include rear side airbags, 360-degree cameras, blind spot monitoring, a heads-up display, infrared night vision with pedestrian detection, Audi Pre Sense Plus, and adaptive headlights.
Driving Experience
The 2013 Audi S6 is fitted with a 4.0-liter, twin-turbocharged, V-8 engine that delivers 420 horsepower (hp) and 406 lb-ft of torque. The engine is combined with a dual-clutch, seven-speed automated manual transmission along with the Quattro all-wheel-drive system.
According to Audi, the S6 can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in just 4.8 seconds, which is one second faster than the previous-generation S6 – even with its larger V-10 engine! Along with great performance, the S6 offers good fuel economy with its cylinder deactivation system and variable valve timing. The EPA estimates of the 2013 Audi S6 are 17/27 mpg city/highway.
This is 25 percent better than the previous S6 as well.
The Quattro all-wheel-drive system of the 2013 Audi S6 has a sports differential that distributes power between the left and right rear wheels. The rear-wheel bias of the all-wheel drive gives the S6 the feeling of driving a rear-wheel-drive car.
The twin-turbo engine adds to the strong personality of the car, and the transmission, adapted air suspension, and brakes play a pivotal role in this regard. The 2013 Audi S6 is not just a namesake fast car – it is genuinely rapid and offers a thrilling ride.
Despite the strong and fast ride, the 2013 Audi S6 is surprisingly refined. The air suspension successfully keeps the ride smooth and comfortable, while the low-profile tires enhance the performance. The cylinder deactivation system works quietly, delivering better fuel economy whenever possible.
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A forum of free voices discussing today's Italian politics and its historical roots
Monday, September 19, 2011
Padania – inventing a nation. Frankenstein Jnr in northern Italy.
Even so, watching Umberto Bossi's crude antics aiming at manufacturing "Padania" is surprising and more reminiscent of Frankenstein (Junior)'s efforts to create life than the 19th century British enhancement of Boudicca or the German glorification of Herman/Arminius.
On Friday, Bossi performed the "traditional" late summer ritual of taking an "ampolla" (a flask to you and me) of water from the source of the Po. According to Bossi, this is a druidic rite (and the "Padanians" are Celts as we all know) honouring the great river god that gives life to "Padania". The origins of the ancient tradition are lost in the mists of time of the mid-1990s. When he was in better health, he would carry the bottle down the length of the river stopping on the to milk the crowds and with equal ceremony pour it into the lagoon in Venice… uniting "Padania" – geddit? This year he just managed the beginning and the end of the trip.
The whole charade is weird patchwork of very visible spin and PR mixed with the genuinely traditional Italian propensity for a walk and picnic on a pretty hillside in late summer – the scampagnata.
The previous week was taken up with another attempt to graft "Padania" onto another real Italian tradition – the bicycle race. We had the first (and probably last) Giro della Padania with real cyclists albeit most were past their prime. It was won by Ivan Basso, former Giro d'Italia winner from Varese like Bossi. Once again, "Padania" was being symbolically united by the race except that it was greeted partly with boredom and partly with protests.
The "Padanian" identity is constructed on a supposedly Celtic heritage; the area was after all called Cisalpine Gaul by the Romans, Gaul on this side of the Alps for us Romans, and was largely inhabited by Celtic Gauls. But like Transalpine Gaul on the other side, it was then invaded by Germanic tribes – Franks and Lombards to name just two that gave their names to the places they occupied. Since then, there has been a lot of coming and going in the Po valley which is neither ethnically nor linguistically very pure… it's true that the League's leader in the European Parliament has the nickname Obelix because he looks like Depardieu fatted up for the part and that another leader the rubicund Roberto Calderoli could pass for a plump and florid Irishman (but also Englishman or German for that matter).
While the French make a world famous cartoon strip of their Celtic-Gaulish heritage or call their cigarettes Celtiques or Gauloises, Bossi has made a political party and his own very successful career.
In a country where local identity is stronger than almost anywhere else in the world and where many of those identities are based on former political unity or present linguistic or gastronomic unity, "Padania" does not feature as one of them. Most define themselves first as "Piedmontese", "Sicilian" or "Tuscan", "Sienese", "Venetian" or "Neapolitan"; no one seriously thinks of themselves as "Padanian".
The League's other symbols also show the magpie tendency of filching anything that glitters and some things that don't. Their green is a shade somewhere between Ireland and Qaddafi's Libyan flag – maybe geographically appropriate given the position of northern Italy but not what they are trying to suggest. Their symbol, supposedly "the alpine sun"
looks more like a call for legalising weed – not part of their programme either. When the leaders stand together in solemn moments, their right hands cover their hearts, a quintessential American gesture, not a Lombard (or Piedmontese or Venetian) one. In insults too, they have followed the American example with Bossi frequently raising his middle finger
(most recently towards the Italian national anthem) rather than using the much more athletic Italian and French gesture of putting the left hand on the crook of the right elbow and sharply raising the forearm.
As for music, the Northern League has appropriated one Italian symbol though. From its first performance in 1842, the Hebrew slaves' chorus in Nabucco was taken as a call to freedom – initially from Austrian domination and then more generally for the whole of Italy. For a time in the 1940s, there was the suggestion that it should become the anthem of the new Italian republic. Now the Northern League use it sing of liberation from Italy much to the annoyance of supporters of Italian unity and Verdi fans..
For the last month, Bossi has again been using the language of secession. In the mid and late '90s the party programme moved between wanting a completely independent state (their telephonists at the Chamber of Deputies answered the phone with "Lega Nord, Padania Libera") and the division of Italy into a three republic confederation. The difference is that Bossi and some of his colleagues are now ministers of the Republic of Italy and have sworn to defend its interests.
Over the summer, they combined unity and secession in a single gesture; the four ministries run by leghisti were transferred to Monza just outside Milan. Never mind that they still have not been staffed and opened and never mind that the other regions of the north were left out. It was Bossi's devolution equivalent of the secessionists' military exploit some years ago when a few of them "invaded" Venice with a tractor dressed up in sheet metal to look like a tank: an empty sham, thankfully.
The secessionist rhetoric is actually a superficial inconsistency. The real construction of Padania is a non-starter. Instead, Bossi and his supporters are defending themselves against internal attack – a possible takeover by his rival, the Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni. The physically and politically ailing Bossi wants to consolidate his position within the party. Outside the party but within the centre-right, he wants to distance himself from Berlusconi and the People of Freedom, ready for elections not later than 2013 but very probably sooner. During the Po water ceremony, he pointedly made no commitment to supporting the government for another 18 months.
So despite all the noise, we're more likely to see an indepenent Scotland or Catalonia than "Padania" but that won't stop Bossi's rant.
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- italpolblog said...
There have been a number of thoughtful comments. This one from Andrea Vannucci:
It makes us all so sad to see Plato quoted to comment on... Bossi! But, this is nonetheless a consequence of our lurid contemporary politics. Quite sure, James and we all would very much prefer to quote the masters of thinking to analyze much more relevant and noble facts (oh, we wish so much there were more important issues to consider...)
Yet, the "Padania" file is more interesting and possibly deeper than the relevance of its characters suggests.
Call it localism, or separatism, or "revamped" nationalism, it stands out how almost anywhere a widespread tendency to fragmentation has been spreading over the last 10~15 years, challenging (or, at least, questioning) the national unity of several countries at any latitude and longitude.
In sharp contrast with a fast-proceeding economic and cultural globalization, localism has grown everywhere. Thousands of politicians (or wannabe ones) were prompt to blow on the fire of local identity (even when there weren't any). Most were well aware that where there's a community that states itself as a nation, soon come the institutions to represent it; and offices; and power; and money. Some maybe weren't even aware, but like any evoluted animals they smelled where their food was and ran for it.
A common goal makes up for a synergetic effort. A massive (no matter if unstated) alliance has put itself to work, 24-365, to give us highest possible amount of political institutions to pay for. The growth of public expenditure ha much to owe to localism, especially in Europe.
Thay say the turkey won't anticipate thanksgiving. Never believe a political class can seriously work to reduce its power, numbers, cost, appearance.
My reply:
Mi chiedo, quanto puoi definire la sceneggiata di Bossi "localismo"; lui vorebbe aggregare delle vere e forti identità (veneziana, torinese ecc.) e creare questo assurdo animale che sarebbe "la Padania" - ne locale, ne certamente globale.
And Andrea's response:
Perfino l'etichetta del localismo è esagerata, per il Bossi-pensiero: a ben vedere, è solo una rozza collezione di mal di pancia inconsulti, tenuti insieme da un'illusione identitaria vuota di qualsiasi senso.
Ma, come ci siamo detti più volte, "è la democrazia, bello!": Bossi esiste perché c'è chi continua a votarlo, anno dopo anno.
- Monday, 19 September, 2011
- italpolblog said...
And I liked this one from Judy:
Hi, guess who I bumped into in Venice!!
On Sunday I followed the Legas to see what they were up to and asked if Bossi would be speaking. Yes. The speaker before him (no program and did not hear his name) referred to Meridionale as "Mafiosi". Taking a look at the various police forces assembled to maintain order, I asked a young Carabinieri where he was from-- Puglia. I asked if his colleagues were Meridionale, "not all". So, they stand quietly by being insulted.
Also, having never been in the midst of this crowd, I had never paid much attention to their symbol, which of course, I thought were marijuana leaves.
Then Bossi starts. The main enemy of the day was "il diabolo", which is what he called journalists. "who have not been content only to trash him, but now his family." (Have not paid attention, but he appointed his son to some position, which I hope is not the same teeny-bopper looking fellow whom he annointed with Po water.)
Well, I reached my limit before he finished and wandered off. But some Venetians were eager to show they wanted no part of Bossi and the Legas (aside from the Saturday demonstrators that tried to block the Legas from entering). They hung Italian flags from their windows, which was their civilized way of thumbing their noses at the Legas.
Crowd estimate at the time when I checked with the police was about 10,000 for the Legas, but don't know what the final real count was. There were a lot. So there I was, midday in Venice with the Munsters. I trust that you were in better company.
- Wednesday, 21 September, 2011


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So why do shipping companies routinely round up package weights to the nearest pound? How come cellphone companies round up calls to the nearest minute?
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He said shipping companies could easily determine the weight of a package down to the microgram, or one-millionth of a gram. "That's lighter than a human hair," Chesbrough noted.
By the same token, he said, cellphone companies could determine usage not just to the second but to the microsecond, or one-millionth of a second.
That would make no sense from a business standpoint, of course. But it demonstrates that giving consumers precise measurements of the things they pay for isn't a factor of some as-yet-undiscovered technology.
The technology exists, and it's not particularly fancy. All that's lacking is a willingness on the part of certain multibillion-dollar corporations to use it.
Jim McCluskey, a FedEx spokesman, told me the company prides itself on using state-of-the-art technology. "We have a very robust
technological enterprise," he said.
The reason FedEx rounds up package weights to the nearest pound, he said, is that this is what works best for FedEx.
"There has to be a uniform manner in which weights are determined," McCluskey said. "For us, this is an effective way to determine weights."
But wouldn't it be just as uniform to round down to the nearest pound?
"That's a good question," McCluskey replied. "Our standard has always been to round up."
In round-up world, the laws of physics apparently don't apply. For instance, DHL defines a package's "actual weight" as being "the weight of a package using a standard scale rounded to the next full pound."
The company illustrates this principle by stating on its website that "a 12 1/2 -pound carton will have an 'actual weight' of 13 pounds."
Back in the real world, a 12 1/2 -pound carton weighs 12 1/2 pounds, which is what any reasonable person might expect to be billed for, rather than 12 1/2 pounds of carton and one-half pound of nothing.
As if that wasn't strange enough, most shippers, including the U.S. Postal Service, also use something called dim weight, which is short for "dimensional weight." This is a calculation not of a package's relationship with gravity but its density, or how much space it occupies.
This is determined by multiplying a package's dimension -- length x width x height -- and then dividing by 194 if the total is 5,184 cubic inches or larger. Got that?
Shippers will determine both the "actual weight," which isn't really actual, and the "dimensional weight," which isn't really a weight, and then come up with a "chargeable weight."
That amount, needless to say, is whichever number is greater.
Karen Cole, a spokeswoman for UPS, said these sorts of measurements were a standard industry practice.
"I'm sure it boils down to simplification," she said.
That's one way of looking at it. Another would be that shippers are padding their pockets with a bogus system that charges customers for nothing.
Cellphone companies are also guilty of this by rounding up calls to the nearest minute -- in other words, charging customers for time they don't spend on the phone.
"It keeps things simple for customers," said Lauren Garner, an AT&T spokeswoman.
State lawmakers in Connecticut said this month that they were pondering legislation that would require wireless companies to charge to the second instead of the minute.
But that's a long shot, seeing as how cellphone companies fall under federal jurisdiction, and the Federal Communications Commission hasn't shown much interest in the matter.
Jaber, the medical-supplies dealer, said all he's looking
for is a fair price from the companies he does business with.
"Why should you have to pay for 52 pounds if the weight is 51.3 pounds?" he asked. "They weigh it. They can give you an exact weight."
No, they can give you an actual weight. Big difference.
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In the name of Almighty Allah, and all praise is due to Allah, and may peace and prayers be on the Messenger of Allah, and on his family, companions and allies. Muslim brothers everywhere, peace be upon you and may you know the mercy of Almighty Allah and his blessings.
The rest of you can burn in hell.
Hah, hah -- No -- I kid, I kid.
It's me again, Ayman al-Zawahiri. You might recognize me as the co-star of the hit TV series Death to America, which airs monthly on al-Jazeera. I also had a big part on Extreme Makeover: New York and DC Edition a few years back, and -- well -- between you and me, I even tried my hand at doing a couple of music videos. Yeah, I edited a bunch of scenes together that really highlight the relationship between Meredith and Dr. McDreamy and set it to some of my favorite Goo Goo Dolls songs. They're on al-Qaeda's MySpace site now. Feel free to take a look -- I'm very proud.
But hey, enough about me, right? It's the holiday season for most of the non-Muslim world, or as we in al-Qaeda like to call it -- the Muslim world. So just to show you that we're not all streets-running-red-with-the-blood-of-the-infidels, we wanted to personally offer you all a special holiday message.
Why would we do something like this you ask?
Well look, it's been a pretty good year for us overall. Thanks to your dimwitted Imperious Leader, we've been able to swarm all over Iraq like teen pregnancy on a Birmingham trailer park. We now have more recruits to our cause than we know what to do with -- so many in fact that we're thinking about starting a new chapter of al-Qaeda. We're still trying to come up with a name for it, but so far al-Qaeda 2: The New Class seems to be pretty popular around the camel. We figure we might even be able to get Screech to do a commercial for us, seeing as how that guy will do anything for money these days.
Then of course we'd have to kill him because he's a Jew, praise be to Allah.
Getting back to what I was saying, it really doesn't matter to us that you good folks finally came to your senses and realized that the drunken idiot you sent to the White House twice is completely out of control. It's certainly a step in the right direction for you, but hey -- what's done is done over here. You can't put the genie back in the bottle -- ya know?
Get it?
Sorry -- just a little Persian humor for you. Hussein the Hilarious, circa 1438. You should always respect the classics.
Anyway, lately we understand that the whole Iraq thing has taken a backseat to something truly Earth-shattering that's happened in America. Something which has dominated your headlines and held the attention of your entire nation, paralyzing every man, woman and child with anticipation and an unquenchable desire to have one question answered -- quite simply the most important question America has ever faced:
What will Donald Trump do with Miss USA, Tara Conner?
Look, forgive me if I laugh a little about this, but is this the freedom you people are supposedly "protecting" abroad -- the one your sons and daughters are dying for in Iraq?
The right to continue to worry about stupid, trivial shit like this?
That's what this is all about?
I live in a cave for Allah's sake, and even I could've told you what an asshole like Trump was gonna do. He was gonna do whatever he had to do to make sure that the 20-year-old beauty queen from Kentucky never told anybody that he'd been boning her for the past six months. Still, come on. Rehab? Isn't that place getting a little crowded over there? How'd you manage to slip her in between Mark Foley and Ted Haggard?
No, seriously -- how'd you manage to slip her in between Mark Foley and Ted Haggard?
Holy shit, that Lindsay Lohan girl is never sober, never wears underwear and never lacks for a place to put down a rail of cocaine the size of the USS Abraham Lincoln -- and yet you people put her on the front cover of Vogue. This kid does what any kid would do if you swept her up from a debutante ball outside Lexington and dropped her simple ass on top of Chamillionaire in the TRL studios in New York and you decide that she needs rehab?
Wow, are you people hypocrites. And you wonder why we keep our women under sheets and hit them with rocks until they're dead when they misbehave, Allah be praised.
I've got a much better idea for you. Why not just have Trump build Skynet and send the Terminator back through time to kill this girl. Wait, that was Sarah Connor? Shit. What do you want from me? I live in a cave. Satellite reception's awful and our movie package only includes Starz! and Encore. You try making pop culture jokes when the most recent movie you've seen is Grumpier Old Men, or as we like to call it -- Two Old Jews Now Put Asunder by Almighty Allah, His Name Be Praised.
In the coming New Year -- 2007 on your calendar, 1373 on ours, again -- we in al-Qaeda expect to continue our campaign of terror against you for your continued insult and humiliation of our Muslim faith, the one true God, Allah, and his prophet Muhammed. I just figured I'd go ahead and be up-front about that. But that being said, we concede that there is one line in the Koran about being tolerant of "People of the Book," and as far as we can tell -- that means you Christians. So, with it being your Christmas season and all, we wanted to at least pay a little lip-service to the conciliatory spirit by wishing you all a healthy and safe holiday -- seeing as how, if we get our way, it will probably be your last.
And for our Jewish friends, Happy Hanu -- Channuk -- Chahn -- oh fuck it, just drive yourselves into the sea already.
I've gotta run now. I'm trying to figure out how to put my dick in a box as a gift for Osama.
Yes you infidels, we have YouTube, Allah be praised.
Zawahiri out.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
5 comments:
- Fungi said...
how about al-Qaeda 2: Electric Boogaloo or al-Qaeda 2: Annihilation?
- VOTAR said...
He beat me to it.
Shit ain't right.
- Fungi said...
sorry votar. you're too slow, and my karate is far superior.
- Chez said...
Oh holy shit that made me laugh.
Love you to death Greg.
- VOTAR said...
"Screw you guys...I'm goin home."
Yeah seriously, I'm off to Tampa for a few days.
Sure wish it was Vegas, but the best I can do is maybe shove coins up my mom's dog's ass and spin him around to see what comes out.
Happy Holidays, one and all.
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