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This unusual antique chatelaine is made of a gunmetal color oxidized metal and is complete with 5 chains and 4 attached tools. This piece is from the collection of Genevieve Cummins and is the actual chatelaine that was photographed on page 262 (plate 257) of the book she wrote with Nerylla Taunton, Chatelaines, Utility to Glorious Extravagance. She says it could have been used as a mourning chatelaine but this gunmetal finish was popular for all sorts of metal items in the 19th century. The waist plaques and tools have applied, raised floral scrollwork. In the center is an unusual pencil holder that has a metal rod holding the place of the pencil. The other tools include a disk style pin cushion, a scissors sheath with steel scissors and an aide memoir with ivory colored pages.
The steel scissors (3 3/8" long) have intact points and cut paper well. The entire chatelaine is in excellent condition with no loss, dents or other damage. The chains are strong and intact and have spring clips to hold the tools. The hinged clip is sturdy and strong and the chatelaine measures 13 1/4" from top to bottom. The pieces are matching and all original. I've shown it next to its picture in the chatelaine book at the bottom. The book shows it with a golden color cast but my pictures are the accurate color. The postage shown includes Registered shipping for non US addresses and insured shipping within the US.


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We have picked Outlook Express because it is a very commonly used
email client and the set-up is virtually identical for Microsoft Outlook.
Most other email clients use similar settings.
setting up your email account make sure you have your username and
password which we sent you with your account confirmation. If you want
to send email using your own ISP's outgoing mail server (SMTP) then
you will also need your Internet Service Provider's (ISP) outgoing
server (SMTP) address.
Express POP3 Email Account set-up
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email account. If you wish to set your NEW email account as the default email
address for Outlook Express highlight the new account you have
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Mon May 08, 2017 3:27 pm
Re: REKT: Art Thread
The N is there too The paint is just kind of worn.
Have a question? Send me a PM! || People talking in IRC over the past two hours:
Very nice, Talv. May I ask where you model and make your textures? (Softwares)
Your first point convinced me already. The second was overkill ;PTalvieno wrote: First, WIP. Second, those aren't fixed weapons; they have a good deal of freedom in where they aim. I'll get a screenshot later of some swivel-y goodness to illustrate.
Thanks, this is not in my league, with >1k$ per year and Win only
You can always get a student copy.CSE wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:33 pmThanks, this is not in my league, with >1k$ per year and Win only
Looks fantastic!
Well, it is >1k which means between 1k and 2kBlack--Snow wrote: You can always get a student copy.
Also <1k per year? >1k is a pretty large range. :V
Who said you had to be a student to get a student copy?
That is horrendous. You are saying that both x and 1k are bigger than 2k, while both 2k and x are bigger than 1k. Don't do that.Black--Snow wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:43 pmSo 2k<x>1k.
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) Troy Huff had 21 points and 11 rebounds as North Dakota defeated Idaho State 69-52 Saturday.
Aaron Anderson added 16 points and five assists for the Fighting Sioux (9-12, 6-6 Big Sky), who committed just five turnovers and shot 47 percent from the floor. Jamal Webb had 12 points and seven assists.
Andre Hatchett led Idaho State (4-17, 3-9) with 16 points, and Chris Hansen had 10. The Bengals have lost five straight.
North Dakota closed the first half on a 10-2 run to take a 33-22 lead, and increased that cushion to 15 points when Webb hit a 3-pointer with 16:23 remaining to make it 42-27.
The Bengals got within eight points with 7:48 left before North Dakota closed the game on an 18-9 run.


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Poll: Most say they'd evacuate again
Half of Houston-area residents fled Hurricane Rita as it approached, and almost two-thirds would evacuate next time a major storm threatened, according to a Houston Chronicle/KHOU-TV Channel 11 poll.
If a Category 4 hurricane had a bead on Houston, 62 percent would leave — a slightly higher percentage than actually did flee ahead of Rita, according to the poll.
When evacuations were ordered or recommended beginning Sept. 21, Rita was forecast to come ashore near Galveston as a Category 4. The resulting exodus caused unprecedented traffic jams.
"You would have thought that people who had spent more than 10 hours on the road, would say, 'This is crazy, I won't do it again,' " said Bob Stein of Rice University, who conducted the poll along with Richard Murray of the University of Houston. "When the hurricane doesn't hit and doesn't do a lot of damage, people reconsider evacuating. But people don't have any regrets."
The poll is consistent with official estimates that about 2.5 million people left the area, Stein said.
About 70 percent of those who left were afraid of the storm — fearing for their safety from wind and flooding — as Rita seemed poised for a near-direct hit. Only one in five listed evacuation orders as the primary motivation for taking flight, according to the poll of residents in Harris and seven adjacent counties.
The eye of the storm instead struck Sept. 24 near the Texas-Louisiana border, bringing misery to that area but largely sparing metropolitan Houston.
People who lived in low-lying coastal areas in which voluntary or mandatory evacuations were called for were more likely to leave, which Stein said is consistent with research into prior evacuations.
Sixty-two percent of people living in Rita evacuation areas left, compared with 42 percent not living in those areas.
But Stein said his analysis of poll responses showed that people who left non-evacuation zones feared the hurricane's effects slightly more than those who left more vulnerable areas.
"If you were in an evacuation zone you accept that risk and don't assess it as very high," he said. People who live in Galveston, for example, may accept higher risks in exchange for enjoying the island city's seaside amenities.
Forecast sparks flight
Officials requested residents in storm surge areas to leave their homes on Wednesday, Sept. 21. About a third who evacuated heeded the warning then and hit the road.
That evening's forecast, the most ominous of the week, brought a larger response: More than half who evacuated left Thursday.
Almost half of the evacuees said they stayed in caravans of more than one car, a factor that likely contributed to the traffic congestion. Thirty percent who said they left with three companions or fewer — a group that could have fit into most cars — left in multiple vehicles, according to the poll.
"People in the most vulnerable areas clearly anticipated their cars, like their homes, would be at risk," Stein said. "It's suggestive of people taking their cars, not because they had a lot of people to protect, but because they were taking their second-most valuable possession."
Half of the evacuees headed for small towns in Texas. Dallas and Austin were the next-most popular destinations.
Nearly one in 10 evacuees, perhaps frustrated by slow-moving traffic or fearful they would run out of gas, returned home.
Just over half completed their trips — to another destination or back home — in less than 10 hours. But 21 percent spent 20 hours or more on the road.
Though the hardship was great, Maria Torres, 41, one of the poll respondents, believes she made the right decision when she evacuated Houston.
"We already saw what happened in Louisiana and New Orleans and it showed that it was going to be worse than that when it was in the news," she said, referring to Hurricane Katrina's devastation of Louisiana and the possibility of similar havoc from Rita.
What Torres didn't expect was that it would take her family 21 hours to drive to Buffalo in Leon County, a trip that usually takes three hours.
She was running short on gas and food by time she arrived in Conroe. But her only choice was to continue because she was unable to find gas, hotel rooms or food there. She tried to find a shelter, but they were all full.
If she perceives a threat like Rita again, she'll leave again, Torres said, but earlier.
Made the right move
Margaret Nerbonne, 49, another poll respondent, didn't have as far to go as Torres, just 40 miles or so to a friend's home.
"We went up to some friends' house in Cypress because we kept hearing the mayor saying if you live in this ZIP code — and we lived in one of them — you should leave," she said.
Nerbonne didn't endure many of the hardships others suffered when they fled. But she would do it again if another storm packing the fury of Rita threatened Houston.
She said she was more concerned with the large trees near her home falling on top of her house or through her windows.
"It would be foolish to think we weren't going to get hit," Nerbonne said. "Looking back on it — you hate to second guess it too much — had it hit with the full force of the hurricane you probably would have had some of these big trees fall."
Three-fourths who evacuated planned to stay with family and friends. More than half who left said they spent more than $200 on gas and provisions.
Another 20 percent were turned off by the idea of getting in traffic.
Nearly 70 percent of people rated the local government's response in general as excellent or good.
Rita struck less than a month after Hurricane Katrina, and the fresh memory of that probably influenced the reaction, Stein said.
I have to believe the sensitivity and behavior was attributed to Katrina in some way," Stein said. "Had Katrina happened six months ago, I'm not sure you would have had the same effect. People would have forgotten and rationalized."
Chronicle reporter Armando Villafranca contributed to this report.


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This Liturgical Vestment, used in the Eucharistic Service is made up of superior Brocade Fabric with Cross designs with matching satin fabric linings. The Orphreys are made of fine quality braids with metallic Cross designs on both the sides of the Vestment and CHI RHO motif on the back of the chasuble . The Vestment set comes with a matching Stole. The stole measures 48″ and is adorned with cross at the center back of the neck, and with CHI RHO embroidery at the bottom of the stole on both sides along with beautiful fringes at both the ends. As shown in the picture.
VESTMENT: Width – 54″ from end to end &
STOLE: 48″from neck to bottom / 96 ″ from end to end
LINED: The inside of the chasuble is lined with matching Satin Fabric. This makes the chasuble a bit heavier and is recommended for Cold Climate areas or where the Eucharistic service is held in closed air-conditioned places.


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|Dolls of the World,
Princesses of the World India doll
by Mattel
I found this daybed looking thing at an antique warehouse at Stratford, Ontario in late October. It looked cool and to doll scale so I decided it was a dollie daybed and got it. Right away I pictured one of my exotic dolls sitting on this. I originally had the Diwali Barbie in mind. Two Sundays ago, however, when I had gone to the local toy show, I finally snagged the Princess of India doll that I'd been pining for these many years. Naturally she got the royal first dibs. And look, I think they belong together. I love it!
Happy Monday!


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New Contract!
Here's the tentative blurb:
As the webmistress for one of the Northeast's hottest dating sites, Hunk Du Jour, Jenny Talbot is no stranger to reading the applications of potential clients. But when the latest application that crosses her inbox belongs to the guy she broke up with a mere twenty-seven days ago, Ty Randall, she does a double take. Reading what Ty wants in bed doesn't only get her hot, it also makes her rethink ending their relationship. All she longed for was a little more spice—okay, a lot more spice—in the bedroom, but he let her go without an argument. Now she's determined to get him back once and for all. But will telling Ty exactly what she needs allow her to finally experience ultimate pleasure or will she drive away the man she loves for good?
I'm excited to dive into edits and see this one on the virtual shelves. Jenny and Ty aren't necessarily the "typical" couple you'd find in an erotic romance and I really hope their story is well-received.
I'm also thrilled to not be a one-trick pony, LOL. Ever since Full Disclosure's release, I've longed for another contract. Sometimes you can't help wondering if you'll ever release another book. Nothing is guaranteed in this business, that's for sure. But I'm very happy with where I am at the moment and intend to keep striving for more.
Now bring on the bubbly!
25 comments:
- Meandi's corner said...
- March 15, 2010 at 1:09 AM
- Jackie Ashenden said...
Fantastic news, Cari! Well done you!
- March 15, 2010 at 2:38 AM
- Christina Phillips said...
Congratulations, Cari! I'm so pleased for you!!
- March 15, 2010 at 2:54 AM
- Laurann Dohner said...
That's awesome!!! Congrats!!! VERY exciting!
- March 15, 2010 at 5:31 AM
- The Goddess Hathor said...
Congratulations! I, too, can't wait to read it :)
~ Hath
- March 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- Mandi said...
- March 15, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Smut Girl said...
congrats! <3
- March 15, 2010 at 8:42 AM
- Jennifer Shirk said...
Congrats, Cari!!
(Jennifer from eHarlequin) :)
- March 15, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Shelly said...
Congrats Cari!!!!
- March 15, 2010 at 9:26 AM
- J.A. Saare said...
Congrats!!! ;) I can't wait to read this one.
- March 15, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Samantha Hunter said...
Congrats again, Cari!
This one sounds great -- I am looking forward to it!
- March 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- Amy Ruttan said...
Congrats!! WOOT!
- March 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Congratulations on the new contract!
- March 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM
- Shelley Munro said...
Congratulations, Cari!
- March 15, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- tara leigh coons said...
Oh honey, I'm soooo proud! I knew that Ty and Jenny would go over well with your new editor.
This is only the beginning babes. I know you'll be putting out more and more books.
Oh and pssst.
LOVE the new template. ;)
- March 15, 2010 at 11:22 PM
- Fiction Vixen said...
Congrats, Cari!!
- March 16, 2010 at 1:05 AM
- Cheryl said...
that's awesome! bring it on Cari... I can't wait!
- March 16, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- WomanOfTheCity said...
Congratulations once again :D I can't wait to read Jenny and Ty's story. I know it is gonna be one SIZZLING read - you do romantica oh so well.
- March 16, 2010 at 6:21 PM
- Sarah Simas said...
Way to go, Cari!! You've got the chops to go all the way, lady! Believe it, because it's true! ((hugs!))
- March 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM
- Kaily Hart said...
Huge congrats! I'm sure this one will be even better than the first!
- March 17, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Kaye Manro said...
OMG! A big Congrats Cari!!
- March 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM
- April Vine said...
Mega congrats, Cari!!! I'm so looking forward to his one!!
- March 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- Helen Hardt said...
Coming out of my cave to give you a big congratulatory cyber hug!!
- March 18, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- Crystal Posey said...
congrats :)
- April 1, 2010 at 12:42 AM
Congratulations, Cari - I'll keep a look-out for it and I'll be buying a copy for sure :)
Karen W
- April 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM


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So you've probably heard from the manchester and london terrorist attacks...
The world we live in right now, is too cruel to live in (from my point of view). But still this doesn't stop us doing what we like to do, so we have to keep our lives going even, if something horrible happend or is happening.
It's a matter of time till we all die, but still the idiots that think killing is the will from Allah or something else, is just stupid ( Allah = God, im muslim so it's Allah for me). The ISIS or Islamic State is not linked with me or anyone else that is muslim. It is linked with someone, if they have joined the Islamic State.
Also the whole "Allahu Akbar" yelling from the Islamic State members means: God is great.
Also if anyone thinks #prayformanchester or #prayforlondon or whatever, will help manchester or whatever state you put in it, you're wrong. It won't help anyone, it just draws attention to the person that wants to be noticed.
Disclaimer: This is not supposed to be a rant or anything mean towards the people that write that, it's just a wake up call so they can help then in reality.
Also please keep the racist jokes about me out of here. It's unwanted and does not make me happy.


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Robin's real estate honors - New Jersey Association of Realtors Circle of Excellence Award 2001-2013, 2016; 2017, New Jersey Association of Realtors Distinguished Sales Club Award, and Mercer County Top Producers Association 2001-2019 - are a salute to the innate energy, unending resourcefulness and focused attention she brings to the real estate profession.
Working with Princeton law firms for twelve years, her work as a paralegal specializing in real estate transactions provides her with a deep understanding of the intricacies of real estate law and enhances her capacity to remain current in all matters of the marketplace. Adding depth to Robin's legal background are the tactful negotiating and hands-on problem-solving talents she broadened while managing two commercial buildings.
A native of the Princeton area, Robin has resided in Princeton since 1983. Her three children attended Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton Day School and The Lawrenceville School before continuing on to Columbia University, NYU and Trinity College (Connecticut). While her children were in school, Robin took time away from the business world to become an aerobics instructor and to coach the Princeton Day School Junior Boys Tennis team as well as Stuart Country Day School's middle school and varsity tennis teams. At the same time, she gained a state ranking as a ladies' tennis singles player. Along with her husband, she continues to live in Princeton.
The years of the technical applications of real estate law coupled with her obviously limitless enthusiasm for working with people to achieve their goals have made her a stand-out real estate professional. Whether buying or selling, she invests a boundless interest in each one of her clients and surrounds her working relationships with personal dedication and professional integrity.
Professional Affiliations: Mercer County Board of Realtors Middlesex County MLS , Garden State MLS and Monmouth County MLS.


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2012-13 Asian Yachting Grand Prix Championship - Skipper & Yacht of the Year Awards
Pong & Jelik crowned AYGP
Skipper & Yacht of the Year
Ultimately it came down to Pong's Jelik and Nick Burns/Fred Kinmonth's Mills 40 EFG Bank Mandrake, fighting it out at the final showdown in Ko Samui. EFG Bank Mandrake had to convincingly win the hotly contested 40 foot IRC 1 class to have a chance of toppling Pong's heavily optimized Jelik, contesting the big boat IRC 0 class. However, it was not to be for Burns and Kinmonth, as Pong skippered his boat to an outstanding showing at the Samui Regatta, winning 8 out of 10 races, to wrap up the IRC 0 title and the AYGP Championship in fine style. (See AY Photo Gallery for all the action).
to win the AYGP
Skipper & Yacht of the Year Awards
The main aim of the pointscore system is to fairly grade competing Boat owners and Skippers ability to successfully run full-on racing campaigns through Asian waters over the 2012-13 Season. All classes are included and the pointscore is based on the overall results at each of the 12 selected events on the 2012 - 13 Asian Sailing Calendar.
The Pointscore
System has been tweaked a little and launched into the new
season with the following:
/ Race Line-up for the season
For sailors that want to race regionally, that makes it 12 *****events - 5 on the Eastern Asian seaboard (Hong Kong China, Vietnam, Philippines) and 5 in South East Asian waters (Singapore, Malaysia, Phuket SW Thailand, Indonesia) finishing up with the centrally located Top of the Gulf and Samui Regatta in the Gulf of Thailand.
Under the "Six best regattas to count" scoring system these two regattas will be common events for the two regions as competitors come together for the grand final showdown. We should not over play the different regions as boat owners are not restricted to regional events and are free to compete on both circuits and in as many events they choose to contest.
Check out Asian Yachting Grand Prix Championship on TV @ Go Yachting Episode 12
final events
We will continue on with our "Work in Progress" policy that has served us well for ten seasons and further tweaking is expected to take place as the season unfolds. We will still be presenting the Perpetual AYGP Cup filled with chilled champagne and the winner donning the Armani Koh Samui blue blazer at the gala Samui Regatta season ending prize presentation.
Over the years Peter Ahern has won 2, Neil Pryde (4), Frank Pong (1) and Ray Roberts (3) should be asked what it takes to succeed. Now that we are opening up the competition to multiple classes, the degree of difficulty has just increased to a new and exciting level.
Check out individual regatta Photo Galleries which can be accessed from the comprehensive AY Photo Library
See how the annual AYGP panned out over the years click on: 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09 2009-10, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13
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I would like to claim that I have become a sophisticated wine shopper in my old age but in actual fact, like so many of us, I am guilty of buying the nearest bottle that is on offer.
Supermarkets understand this, which is why the prices of various bottles of plonk tend to zigzag up and down like a guest making his way back home from a good dinner. Ninety per cent of the wine sold in Britain, either online or in a shop, is sold on some sort of offer, meaning that we have no idea what the bottles are actually worth.
A brief search on Mysupermarket, a website that shows you how the prices of supermarket items have changed over a year, shows that it is rarely worth buying the big-name wines at their ordinary price. Instead, as many sensible shoppers have learnt, you are better off buying whatever bottle is on offer, or waiting until your favourite is. It is bound to come around soon enough. Take, just for an example, Vina Maipo, apparently a "crisp sauvignon blanc with varietal aromas of gooseberries, minerals and delicate citrus fruits".
It is on offer at half price this week at Sainsbury's. Mysupermarket lists it as a "savvy buy" this week, as it is now just £4.99. But a quick look at its price over the past year shows that it is bobbing between £5 and £10 on an almost monthly basis. It doesn't take a genius to work out that buying it at £9.99 is a mug's game. Five pounds is its "real" price.
This is far from being merely a Sainsbury's phenomenon. Tesco's half-price offers this week include a Hardys Legacy Shiraz cabernet sauvignon. Again, its highest price is £9.99, and it is reduced to £4.99. Over the past four months it has been reduced below £9.99 six times – several times to just £4. The wine remained below a fiver for the entire period between Christmas and February. If I paid £10 for it and then found that out later, I'd feel like I'd been conned.
Shoppers aren't stupid. The net result of all this game of cat and mouse between the supermarkets and their customers is that no one trusts supermarket wine pricing. However, unlike, say, Heinz baked beans or Andrex toilet roll, wine pricing confuses many of us to the point at which we just grab the nearest bottle and trot off.
Not all wine experts like to talk openly about this. One, who did not wish to be named, described it as "a very complex problem". "The supermarkets don't expect to sell the wine at full price," he said, adding that it leaves the consumers confused.
Gavin Quinney, a winegrower in Bordeaux who makes house wines for Rick Stein and Gordon Ramsay, described the supermarket pricing tactics as "pseudo offers". He pointed out that the UK duty on a bottle of wine is a fixed £2, no matter what the wine is worth, and there is 20pc VAT. "We encourage consumers to trade up, because of the fixed £2, but if they don't know what the wine is worth it is a problem," he said. "The art of hoodwinking customers is the norm."
When the products are put on offer it is the supplier who normally takes the hit, not the supermarket. Mr Quinney said his only experience of this not happening was with Waitrose, which sometimes does a 25pc off all wines sale.
So how should we negotiate the wine-buying minefield, and, if we really want to buy a bottle of wine worth £10, how do we go about it? Clubs such as the Wine Society, which is mutually owned, might allow you to get a better deal, experts suggest. You must become a member to buy Wine Society wines, and you would need to do so in bulk.
The society offers several bottles for under a fiver, and many more at £5.50. If you are prepared to spend more, the society's Corbières, at £7.25 a bottle, won a gold medal in recent wine awards, as did its £6.95 Dolcetto.
Alternatively, experts suggest that you stick to the supermarket's own-brand wines, which are not subject to quite the same zigzag pricing. Last September's International Wine Challenge awards saw Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Chenin Blanc 2011 and Marks & Spencer's Le Froglet rosé 2011 win awards. Two Tesco Finest branded wines also did well – a Pouilly-Fumé and a Gigondas.
Unlike the up-and-down pricing of the wines mentioned above, the £12.99 Gigondas has been reduced only twice in the past year, and even then by only a few pence. Customers wanting to know that they are getting value for money should take note. Sometimes a good discount doesn't mean a great deal.
This week's offers...
• Co-operative Food is offering Robinson's fruit and barley squash at £1, down from £2.05
• The Co-o is also offering Pimm's No 1 at £11 a bottle, down from £13
• The Co-operative's margherita pizza, 465g, is now £2, down from £4
• Marks & Spencer is offering its British strawberries at half price – £2 for 400g – while you can also buy 300g of strawberries and 300g of cherries for £4 combined. The store is also offering extra thick single cream at half price, 56p for 300ml
• Lidl's half-price weekend offers include Braemoor piri piri chicken at £1.34 for 540g, 500g of cherry vine tomatoes for 74p and 100g of dark chocolate for 17p
• Lidl has fresh watermelon on offer at £2 each, down from £3.49, until Thursday
• Lidl has Robinson's no added sugar squash in either orange or apple and blackcurrant at 79p a litre, down from £1.39


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Leading fuel economy; advanced hybrid powertrain; more models provide cargo and passenger flexibility
The original Prius set the hybrid standard for the rest of the American car market. It proved that a practical mid-size hybrid vehicle could work and be family-friendly while achieving 50 mpg efficiency ratings.
The full hybrid drivetrain of the Prius means it can run on engine alone, battery alone or a combination of the two depending on the demands of the driver and the terrain. The drivetrain comprises a 1.8L 4-cylinder engine and a NiMh battery pack and motor. The engine charges the battery and the battery assists the motor when needed. The brakes capture kinetic energy and use it to recharge the battery as well.
The suspension is a very conventional MacPherson strut front/torsion beam rear setup. The car comes with a 6-speaker stereo, power accessories and automatic climate control -- essentially a very conventional mid-size sedan, but one that achieves 51 mpg in the city and 48 mpg on the highway.
Several Prius variations are available, intended to appeal to a wider group of potential buyers. A larger version of the Prius is called the Prius v. It's a little longer than the standard Prius, with most of that length going for rear-seat room and rear cargo space, essentially making this a "Prius Wagon." The Prius v gets the same powertrain -- a 1.8L 4-cylinder and battery pack -- and fuel economy will be slightly lower with this model. However, it still offers the same value-packed standard feature list and "green" credibility as its older brother.
The diminutive Prius c is the smallest variant, offering an impressive 53/46 mpg return in a super mini package. It is powered by a 1.5L 4-cylinder with an electric motor and battery pack. Finally, there's the Prius Plug-in. It uses a wall charger to maximize the range of its onboard battery and thus achieves very strong fuel economy numbers. The Plug-In utilizes the standard Prius body and a similar powertrain, but is intended to be plug-in charged before use. The stored energy in the battery pack can propel the Prius plug-in for 13 miles without starting the gasoline engine, and it charges in as little as 1.5 hours. Most commuters will be able to get to work on battery power alone, carrying the 1.8L high-efficiency engine for anywhere else they want to go.
Several trim levels exist for each Prius model, each carrying a number designation. Even base models (Prius I, for example) come nicely equipped, with amenities such as halogen headlights, automatic climate control, Bluetooth hands-free connectivity, 3.5-inch multi-function display, and more. Top-tier Prius Five models include things like LED headlights with integrated fog lights, 17-inch wheels, special SofTex leatherette seating, and an auto-dimming rearview mirror.
Special options include hard-drive-based navigation, a pre-collision safety system, panoramic power moonroof and Entune, which is essentially a suite of mobile applications and data services that connect you with your Prius.
All Prius models come standard with a host of safety features, such as advanced multi-stage airbags, stability and traction control, anti-lock brakes with brake assist, a tire pressure monitor, and more.
Following big changes in 2012, the Prius carries over into 2014. The Persona Series Special Edition has been dropped. Prices are expected to remain unchanged from 2013 levels for the new model year.
The Prius has set the standard for hybrid-powertrains in the U.S. since it was introduced. The current model is the most efficient, most reliable Prius yet has proven to be an amazing bargain.
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text: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Joe Landman wrote: > Robert G. Brown wrote: > >> One can always run xmlsysd instead, which is a very lightweight >> on-demand information service. It costs you, basically, a socket, and >> you can poll the nodes to get their current runstate every five seconds, >> every thirty seconds, every minute, every five minutes. Pick a >> granularity that drops its impact on a running computation to a level >> you consider tolerable, while still providing you with node-level state >> information when you need it. >> >> Just a thought...;-) > > :) > > I really have to look at this already. If the poll could be rigged so that > everyone gets polled at the same time, and it is not too frequent (1/minute), > this could be quite helpful. Especially if it doesn't have to run a > process/fork a thread to get state info. Ganglia is nice, but it has some > overhead. And occasionally gmond wanders off into a different universe ... > > If you have the pointer handy to the tool (save me a google, and get you free > advertising :) ) ... But of course: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/wulfware.php Some people really like it. Others don't, I guess. I still use it myself quite a lot, because it kicks butt for doing a certain kind of almost-real-time monitoring for straight client/server LANs as well (real time but not instant). I still haven't built a proper GUI for it, but there is a simple web interface (you can set it up to rebuild a web page every minute, say, and then anybody can open their browser onto the table it creates), there is an xterm/tty/ncurses interface that "works" for at least modest cluster sizes (one has only 20-30 rows per xterm, so there is some paging required to see everything ditto web interface actually) and there is a "logger" interface that just dumps cluster info out to stdout in a simple table format so that you can pipe it into a file or files or perl script and do what you wish with it (like monitor a network for 24 hours across some sort of regularly occurring "problem" with a 5 second granularity to try to identify the correlates as the first step in solving the problem, which is what I'm doing with it today:-). As far as load is concerned: You can run xmlsysd as either an xinetd process or forking daemon (the former is more secure, perhaps, the latter makes it stand alone and keeps one from having to run xinetd:-). It costs you one fork to run the initial daemon in the latter case, and a fork per connection BUT the connections are persistent TCP connections and hang out indefinitely. When it initializes -- it is controlled entirely from the client side -- it open fp's into all the e.g. parts of /proc it needs. It then uses rewind, not close/open, to avoid the overhead of fopen/fclose, polling the contents of those files on (client side) demand. It is trivial to operate and play with. Drop it onto a client (which can be your personal laptop. Run it out of xinetd or just run an instance of it in forking daemon mode from a command line in userspace (it comes up on default port 7887). Then telnet to the host on port 7887 (user configurable, of course). When you connect, enter "init". Then enter "send". Wowsers! A packet full o' facts! xmlsysd is moderately controllable so that a lot of this output can be suppressed or selected. As it stands (watching everything) it is more than one packet (but only one TCP message, so the latency is mostly already paid). If one watches (say) only load average, or only /proc/stat, or only networking or memory or cpuinfo (at a time) the return will usually easily fit in a single packet. Also, while the libxml default is to pretty-print, 2K of the 6+K default return is whitespace, and if you enter "off whitespace" xmlsysd will remove the whitespace from the xml making the result less human readable but just as parseable. libxml is SUPPOSED to be able to compress as well, but I've never gotten that to work -- compression of the highly redundant information would probably reduce the message size to at most 1K at the cost of a bit more CPU on both ends, allowing one to trade off server load against network load. All this to defend the decision to use xml -- it makes it parsable with commonly available tools, is easy to read, enforces a hierarchical view of the data, is simple to debug and extend without breaking tools that already can read it, and without question makes the final message larger than it needs to be from a stricly information theoretic point of view. I think it is worth it -- xmlsysd's precursor was still ascii (and hence readable) but wasn't xml and every time the kernel changed one effectly broke the API to accommodate. Now if I need to add a field, no problem. XML tools generally ignore tages they don't recognize, so as long as I don't have major hierarchical flaws to fix that require alteration of e.g. tag nesting nothing breaks. Seriously, once you have xmlsysd set up to run on a cluster of REGULAR servers and clients, let alone cluster nodes, and just run "wulfstat" to take a quick peek at them to try to understand why the network is so slow just one time, you'll see why I keep it around even for my own use only. It is ALMOST like running top or vmstat on all the hosts at once and having the results from the top header and the 2-3 processes actually on the CPU, per host, in a single at-a-glance table. Server networked being wedged by client X? There it is. Memory leak causing problems? As long as it hasn't proceeded to where xmlsysd itself starts to hang, swap, memory and even running process info like run and virtual size are a key or two away. Can't remember what the CPU is in box Y? Type a key, there it is, and oh yeah, looks like the clock of host Z is way out of sync with everybody else, what's up with that. Right now (at this instant, in real time) it is telling me that a network backup is causing problems on my wife's EMR servers (which fortunately run under a top-level Linux/VMware setup with either lin or win virtual servers), which apparently have been slowing down around 9:30 every morning for a few weeks. HUGE incoming packet load on the failover server, matched with lessee, that host's transmit packet. Wonder why that is happening now, hmmm. Look, there it is finished. Network loads back to normal, EMR server load average on the way down from 2.68 peak (baaad, only has one CPU in its VM, must fix) to its normal healthy 0.4. Problem not quite solved, but now I have an idea of where to look, maybe I need to shift around a cron task so it doesn't interrupt work time. Wish I could do something about the perpetual load average of 2+ on the Windows 2003 server -- with 4 cores it has SOME headroom, but I'm guessing it is close to that nonlinear threshold. vmstat is a wonderful tool. vmstat in a table (with aggregate network rx/tx) is even more wonderful. And this is just the "basic" wulfstat display. Note well: on one of the hosts -- one that is basically a backup special purpose linux VM that has almost nobody using it, load15 is zero INCLUDING the averaged overhead imposed by a 5 second poll via xmlsysd. xmlsysd is truly a lightweight tool (used as directed). Enjoy. rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Yesterday, I wrote about the potential for increased federal scrutiny over the manner in which D-CDBG funds are being monitored by the LRA and used in Orleans Parish.
Recently, Mayor Ray Nagin revived plans to purchase the Chevron Building even though City Council had voted against pursuing such an agreement last summer. The Nagin administration has argued that because only funding sources independent of the city budget would be used - the revolver fund or D-CDBG money - Council has no legal oversight authority. Presumably, that logic would extent to every project the Mayor might pursue using non-budget recovery dollars.
I've now learned that City Councilmembers Jackie Clarkson, Arnie Fielkow, Stacy Head, and Shelley Midura have cosponsored an ordinance that would require the Mayor to disclose plans to use money from the capital project fund or D-CDBG funds and to obtain Council approval for those plans.
Read the ordinance here.
The ordinance only applies to "City Hall Project Worksheet 7746," which represents the proposed purchase of the Chevron Building.
It does not tackle the larger questions about the mayor's power to use D-CDBG and revolver fund money in a discretionary fashion and would not preclude the mayor from applying recovery dollars to other projects such as the proposed LSU/VA hospital or the proposed renovation of Municipal Auditorium with little disclosure or oversight.
The measure will be up for a vote at City Council on Thursday, January 21st.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
City Council ordinance seeks to limit Mayor's discretionary powers, but only this one time
Yesterday, I wrote about the potential for increased federal scrutiny over the manner in which D-CDBG funds are being monitored by the LRA and used in Orleans Parish.
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- mominem said...
What is needed is a significant adjustment of the relationship between the mayor and the Council.
- January 13, 2010 at 7:12 PM
- E said...
Or at the very least some recalibration of who is responsible for how federal recovery dollars are spent.
- January 13, 2010 at 7:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
The proposed ordinance is an admirable start but it doesn't go far enough.
Nagin's VA land giveaway is just as secretive and just as questionable as the Chevron deal. Why is the council so blind to the similarities?
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Brooklyn, N.Y. - Senior forward Tyler Balzer (Huntington, N.Y.) notched the golden goal in double overtime to give Farmingdale State a 1-0 victory over Brooklyn College (0-1) on Wednesday night in a game played at Kingsborough Community College. The Rams improved to 1-1 overall with the win.
Balzer found the back of the net in the 103rd minute, after penetrating the Bulldogs defense, which allowed the forward to get past the diving keeper.
The first half set the tone for the rest of the game, which featured a physical match throughout, as each team was whistled for seven fouls apiece. In total, there were 28 fouls committed, to go along with eight yellow cards.
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Set to be bothering the ankles of CES explorers this year are two new 'bots from the WowWee stables: the slick, beetle-like Rovio and the frankly disturbing Mr Personality (shown after the cut). The Rovio, capable of being controlled from any internet-enabled device thanks to its WiFi b/g hookup, has a built-in movable VGA webcam complete with sound, and can stream live footage across the network to wherever you are in the world.
Rovio also has NorthStar navigation and positioning onboard, so that it can intelligently avoid obstacles – maybe it won't be bothering too many ankles after all. LED lights let you see in the dark, and there's a speaker in case you remotely find someone to talk to. Rovio has a recharge base to sit in when his battery is feeling weak.
Meanwhile, Mr Personality uses animated faces synchronised with jokes, daily horoscopes and 'crystal ball' predictions to thoroughly freak out anybody nearby. It uses a more standard remote control rather than the Rovio's web-based one, but also has obstacle detection and can warn you when it's – thankfully – running out of juice. 64MB of built-in memory can be augmented with SD memory cards, onto which new content and personalities can be loaded, or you can record voice memos (such as "get away from me, you gurning plastic freak!") using the onboard microphone.
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Whether the cook on your holiday gift list is interested in reading about family and food in Soviet Russia or the preparation of classic French dishes such as jambon au foin ("ham in hay"), baking pies or making authentic pasta carbonara, this fall has been an excellent season for food and wine books.
Los Angeles cooks and authors are heavily represented: Valerie Gordon's "Sweet: Inspired Ingredients, Unforgettable Desserts," Kevin West's "Saving the Season: A Cook's Guide to Home Canning, Pickling, and Preserving," the long-awaited "The A.O.C. Cookbook" by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne, and "Bountiful: Recipes Inspired by Our Garden" by Todd Porter and Diane Cu.
Here are highlights of the cookbook season.
"The World Atlas of Wine, Seventh Edition" by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson (Mitchell Beazley, $55)
British wine writer Hugh Johnson's "The World Atlas of Wine" has long been every wine lover's bible. Johnson is an erudite and engaging writer, pouring decades of wine knowledge into succinct paragraphs that place each country and region in context. And the brilliantly detailed maps have been essential to understanding why certain vineyards and appellations produce the wines that they do. For the last few editions Johnson has been joined by another stellar wine writer, Jancis Robinson. The two have just signed off on the seventh edition of "The World Atlas of Wine." It's also available in an e-book format for the iPad. Of course, the world of wine today is very different from when the book was first published in 1971. There are now about 215 maps, including those for coastal Croatia, Swartland in South Africa, northern Virginia — and Ningxia in China. (SIV)
"The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste" by Jon Bonné (10-Speed Press, $35)
Jon Bonné's new book is a wonderful, engaging read with a cast of characters who think outside the box, care about sustainability and have a strong curiosity and work ethic. This is a new generation of California winemakers who aren't hedge fund directors or dot-com entrepreneurs. If they want to buy a piece of land to plant a vineyard, it takes years to save up. Some are children of winemakers, others grew up in wine country and always wanted to do something with wine and still others are hard-core dreamers with an itch to make wine. Their wines can be classic or wildly experimental, definitely hands-on and most often made in small quantities. They tend to be lower in alcohol, more subtle in style than the wines that have garnered top scores in recent years. More important, they tend to be food-friendly too. (SIV)
"Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing" by Anya von Bremzen (Random House, $26)
Hunger, to paraphrase the old line, makes the best sauce. Judging from Anya von Bremzen's splendid new "Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking," it also makes for a pretty good memoir. The essence of "Mastering" — named after Julia Child's first book with what seems a very Soviet-style mix of cynicism and irony — is Von Bremzen's personal history of growing up in the Soviet Union. While most food memoirs are recollections of meals past, "Mastering" is more about meals missed — in both senses of the phrase. There are constant shortages and hunger. But there is also the intensity of unexpected, almost miraculous feasts that the well-fed may never experience (even if in retrospect they don't measure up as such). (RP)
"Daniel: My French Cuisine" by Daniel Boulud, Sylvie Bigar, Thomas Schauer and Bill Buford (Grand Central Life and Style, $60)
Is there anyone who has done more for French cooking in the United States than Daniel Boulud? If you have any doubts, you need only pick up his new cookbook, "Daniel: My French Cuisine." This is one seriously gorgeous book, and it has the air about it of a magnum opus. While previously he has mostly aimed at home cooks, "Daniel" is a full-fledged chef book, a kind of document of where his cooking stands at this stylistically advanced stage of his career. In addition to the main body of the book, there is also a fascinating series of essays by New Yorker writer Bill Buford ("Heat") detailing the making of several classic French dishes, and almost as if Boulud couldn't publish a cookbook without including at least something you could make at home, there's a short section of the sorts of dishes he says he cooks for friends on Sundays. (RP)
"Manresa: An Edible Reflection" by David Kinch and Christine Muhlke (10-Speed Press, $50)
David Kinch's cooking at Manresa restaurant in Los Gatos looks like it comes from another world, yet it is definitively Californian, rooted in nature, whether it's the soil of Love Apple Farm or the Pacific Ocean. Leafing through the pages of his new cookbook, that becomes utterly clear. Eric Wolfinger's photos of Kinch's plates, utterly abstract yet perfect, alternate with his equally gorgeous shots of land and sea (the cover is the exterior of an abalone shell shot so close it looks like Japanese raku pottery). It's some trick, plating food so that it looks absolutely perfect but almost accidental, but it's one Kinch has mastered. It's the artifice of cooking carried to an extreme that the hand of the cook almost disappears. Call it exquisitely natural. (RP)
"Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way" by Oretta Zanini De Vita and Maureen B. Fant (W.W. Norton, $35)
Why in the world would we need another pasta cookbook? Surely everything that possibly could be said has been covered to death by now. Well, pick up "Sauces and Shapes" and find out just how wrong you are. It's the companion piece to 2009's "Encyclopedia of Pasta" by the same authors. One of the most delightfully nerdy books around, "Encyclopedia" was more than 350 pages of everything you could possibly want to know about pasta history, geography, literature and, yes, cooking — without a single recipe. This new book fills that gap, thoroughly, admirably and entertainingly. (RP)
"In the Charcuterie: The Fatted Calf's Guide to Making Sausage, Salumi, Pates, Roasts, Confits, and Other Meaty Goods" by Taylor Boetticher and Toponia Miller (10-Speed Press, $40)
One of the best-known of the new charcutiers is the Bay Area's Fatted Calf, so it's probably only reasonable that when founders Taylor Boetticher and Toponia Miller wrote a cookbook that they should call it "In the Charcuterie," despite the fact that that title sells the book short. "In the Charcuterie" is much more than a guide to hams and salumi. In reality, it's nothing less than a thorough overview of our growing infatuation with good meat. There are guides to choosing cuts, to parsing the differences among the heritage breeds and to DIY butchery large and small. And, of course, there's lots of good information on how to cook meat. But where the book really shines — and at least partially justifies the title — are on the kinds of quick-cooked charcuterie items that are easily approachable by any reasonably ambitious home cook: pâtés, terrines, confits and meat pickles. (RP)
"One Good Dish: The Pleasures of a Simple Meal" by David Tanis (Artisan, $25.95)
Amid this season's flurry of massive cookbooks from important chefs comes this modest entry from a former Chez Panisse chef. What he means by one good dish is "tasty, simple and real," i.e., something a home cook could make without devoting the entire weekend to one recipe. Browsing through sections named "Eating With a Spoon (Pleasure in a Bowl)," "A Dab of This and That (Superior Homemade Condiments)" and "Strike While the Iron Is Hot (Scorched, Seared, and Griddled)," I kept slipping torn pieces of paper next to recipes I want to try. At the end of an hour, my book was bristling with strips of paper. (SIV)
"Bountiful: Recipes Inspired by Our Garden" by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $35)
You know that the photos will be gorgeous. You know the recipes will make you drool. After all, it's the handiwork of professional food photographers Todd Porter and Diane Cu, also known as the creative voices behind the popular food blog White On Rice Couple. But the real reason to put this handsome cookbook on your holiday gift list (to give and receive) is that it's the inspirational story of an Orange County couple whose simple dream is to enjoy a garden-to-plate life. (RL)
"The A.O.C. Cookbook" by Suzanne Goin (Knopf, $35)
Among a certain crowd, Suzanne Goin's first cookbook, "Sunday Suppers at Lucques," is close to kitchen sacrament, this generation's answer to "The Silver Palate Cookbook" in the 1980s. How many dinner parties have you been to where almost the entire menu was cooked from those pages? It's taken eight years — a couple of lifetimes in cookbook terms — but Goin has finally followed it up. If you've eaten at a Goin restaurant, you pretty much know what to expect from "A.O.C." It's farmers market-driven in all the right ways: great ingredients treated with nuance and without cant. The stunning photography has a natural kitchen glow. It couldn't be more specifically L.A. if it came with a lifetime parking pass for the Santa Monica farmers market. This is a book about how we cook right here and right now. (RP)
"Saving the Season: A Cook's Guide to Home Canning, Pickling, and Preserving" by Kevin West (Knopf, $35)
Canning — putting up jams and jellies, pickles and preserves, just like your grandma did — is one of cooking's hot new things. But it's not as simple as just boiling fruit and sugar. Thank goodness for Kevin West's new book. It's as pleasurable (and useful) for the somewhat experienced canner as it is for the novice. West has a good cook's curiosity, always wondering why things work the way they do and constantly on the lookout for new ideas. His recipes range from the simple to the fairly exotic. And happily, West is a small-batch kind of guy — he rarely calls for more than 3 pounds of any fruit or vegetable, so if an experiment goes awry, the damage isn't too severe. Not that that's so much of a concern. West's instructions are clear and precise, and his explanations of what is going on are thorough. (RP)
"Sweet: Inspired Ingredients, Unforgettable Desserts" by Valerie Gordon (Artisan, $35)
Valerie Gordon's Valerie Confections has become a Los Angeles institution. As at her bakery, her cookbook calls for the best possible ingredients and exacting standards. "Sweet" chronicles her menu of iconic cakes, pies, cookies, chocolates, jams and more. And the spectrum of flavors hits all the right notes: chocolatey, buttery, creamy, fruity, nutty and spicy. Gordon always seems to add the right "extra," such as grated aged Gouda in the crust for her apple crostata or matcha in her white chocolate macadamia cookies, and the effect is elemental and elegant. (BH)
"Classico e Moderno: Essential Italian Cooking" by Michael White and Andrew Friedman (Ballantine Books, $50)
For cooks who can't get enough Italian cuisine and already own every Marcella Hazan, Giuliano Bugialli and Mario Batali book, this is the one. From a Wisconsin-born modern master (and New York success story), it's "Classico e Moderno: Essential Italian Cooking" by Michael White and Andrew Friedman. White, who is chef-owner of Marea and Osteria Morini and more in New York City, has put together a collection of soulful classics and impressive modern takes on Italian cuisine. A book for both the home cook and someone who aspires to turn out restaurant-level dishes that wow. (SIV)


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Questions roil debate on academic boycott of Israel
An academic boycott of Israeli educational institutions has sparked legislation in at least five states and in Congress that would punish colleges and universities if they support the organization that called for it.
State lawmakers in Kansas, Florida, New York, Maryland and Illinois, as well as two Illinois members of the U.S. House of Representatives, have proposed bills that would withdraw taxpayer dollars from schools that fund any group that supports the boycott.
The various bills are in reaction to the boycott begun in December by the American Studies Association, a professional group for scholars of U.S. history and culture. It grew out of a Palestinian-led international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign designed to pressure Israel to relinquish control of occupied Palestinian territories, dismantle its security wall and respect Palestinian rights, including the right of refugees to return.
But the move quickly led to cries of anti-Semitism – "simply the latest chapter in the long and dark history," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Washington this month – and triggered a debate over academic freedom and free speech.
The association's resolution declared that, while it opposes anti-Semitism and all other forms of discrimination, it targeted Israeli institutions of higher education and their official representatives because "they are a party to Israeli state policies that violate human rights and negatively impact the working conditions of Palestinian scholars and students."
The boycott is largely symbolic because it doesn't affect academic exchanges by individuals. The Association for Asian American Studies passed a similar resolution.
But the American Studies Association's version triggered a bigger reaction. More than 100 university leaders wrote statements declaring their opposition. But even as many in the academic community oppose the boycott, they also recoil at the political response.
The American Association of University Professors, which disagrees with the boycott, said in a statement that the proposed bills would undermine "constitutionally protected academic speech and debate in order to promote a particular viewpoint." Academic freedom, it said, includes protection of people who support unpopular positions.
The bills would prohibit a college or university from paying membership dues or reimbursing travel or lodging for faculty members who attend meetings of groups that promote a boycott. The professors' association said that universities should make those types of decisions on the basis of professional standards, not the dictates of politicians.
"Whatever one's views regarding the various proposed boycotts of Israeli scholars and universities (my own opposition to such boycotts over the years is a matter of record)," Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, a leading First Amendment scholar, said in a statement, "it is essential that these opinions be expressed through the exercise of First Amendment rights in a public forum, not through enactment of laws infringing free speech."
He added that "the curbs on free speech contained in the anti-boycott legislation appear to violate the U.S. Constitution, as it has been interpreted for decades, and would degrade the academic freedom long cherished not only at Columbia but across all of American higher education."
State Sen. Ira Silverstein, the sponsor of the Illinois legislation, said he saw the issue as "plainly anti-Semitic."
"I'm all for free speech," he said in an interview, "but I just thought what they did was wrong."
Silverstein said he had no opinion about the constitutionality of his bill.
Illinois Reps. Peter Roskam, a Republican, and Dan Lipinski, a Democrat, contend in their anti-boycott legislation that "discriminatory boycotts violate the principle of academic freedom guaranteed by the United States."
Lipinski, who earned a doctorate in political science from Duke University and has taught U.S. government at the University of Notre Dame, said he supported the legislation as a way to discourage the boycott.
"I am hopeful there won't be a need to pass this bill because universities will see the folly of imposing such a boycott," he said in a statement.
Opponents fighting the bills as attacks on free speech say they have a chilling effect.
"The fact these bills have even been introduced in so many states sends a signal to academics that if you express a viewpoint in support of Palestinian rights, you're going to be silenced," said Radhika Sainath, a staff attorney at Palestine Solidarity Legal Support and cooperating counsel at the Center for Constitutional Rights.


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Just got word today that show management for IFPE and ConExpo-Con/AGG have changed the dates of the next installment of the events to March 4-8, 2014 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Course, I couldn't tell you the original dates they were slated to be, so it doesn't matter much to me, though it normally is later in March. For companies that start planning their exhibits right as the last show ends, however, this could be critical news. Hope everyone can change plans accordingly!
The change came from the Convention Center, who requested show management change the dates, so they obliged, says Megan Tanel, AEM vice president exhibitions and events.


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A renewed tax break for blenders of ethanol should be included in tax-cut legislation being negotiated in Congress and the White House, a high-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives said on Thursday.
"Let's bring ethanol to the table," said Representative James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House.
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House Democrats are insisting that the terms of President Barack Obama's tax-cut plan, which he negotiated with Republicans, should be reopened. Besides ethanol, House Democrats are particularly upset with the Obama plan's tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
Senator Saxby Chambliss, the senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, told Reuters that extending the current 45 cents a gallon credit was the most likely outcome at the moment.
He said there was "back and forth" on the matter and that at one point, senators favored a two-year extension at 36 cents.
An industry source, who asked not to be identified, said a one-year extension at 45 cents was widely mentioned on Wednesday, but there was no final agreement.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said the overall details of the tax-cut legislation would be unveiled on Thursday, with a possible vote on the bill on Saturday.
Earlier, a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association said there was no word on how long the extension would run or if the credit would be reduced.
Leaders of the House and Senate tax-writing committees have suggested a one-year extension, with the credit set at 36 cents. Nineteen of the 100 senators are on record in wanting to eliminate the credit.
"Meeting last night, lawmakers were reported to be ironing out the details -- the length of the extension and the value of the credit," said RFA in a statement. "As for timing, the RFA is hearing that final language could emerge today."


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RemixYourGear.com necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 83 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
We are a brand new sound company that focuses on providing the best options for live sound. An example of what we do is providing night clubs with extra speakers, wireless mics, equipment, etc. for live performances. We also do sound for bands and concerts.
Our company name is RYG SOUND... We already have a logo, color scheme, and everything you need to create an innovative stationary design.
People in the music industry... specifically South Beach (Miami Beach, Florida). We currently do sound for a high end club on South Beach where we have many celebrities who attend on a regular basis. Design needs to be professional and look high end. At the same time, I would like the design to be different then your average business card or stationary design. Specifically for the business card, there are many people on South Beach walking around giving out business cards so please use your creative minds and try different ways of designing the card. Try using different orientations or maybe even have the business card have a different shape or even a cut out of some sort.
- Need to use RYG LOGO and RYG SYMBOL (Gear with speaker in it)
- Color Scheme: BLACK, RED, WHITE (same as logo)
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- Creative Business Cards (Front and Back Design)
- 4X6 Design so I could make flyers (Front and Back Design)
- Letter Head (For contracts and invoices)
- Envelope (to send contract/invoice in mail) (Front and Back Design)


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One of the top tourist attractions in Dublin is Trinity College, the oldest and most famous educational institute in Ireland. One of the beautiful buildings houses the impressive library. The world famous 'Book of Kells' is one of the books on display here.
The university was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. The main reason was to educate the Irish. The Queen thought that the population needed to be 'civilized'. A stroll through Trinity College Library takes you into the world of such famous authors as Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker and Samuel Beckett.
The most impressive room in the Trinity Library is the Old Library, also referred to as the Long Room. Here you will find a 65-metre-long corridor with huge bookcases packed with over 200,000 books. The entire library holds more than 4.5 million books. Since 1801, the library receives a copy of every book that is published in Great Britain and Ireland, so the collection continues to grow daily. There are also lectures, poetry readings, art exhibits and workshops. Admission to the Trinity College Library is free.
The most famous book in the library is the 'Book of Kells', a manuscript of 4 ornately illustrated books encrusted with gems, written by Celtic monks in the 9th century. The book contains the 4 gospels. Originally it was one book, made on an island off the Scottish coast. After an attack on the island, residents fled to Ireland with the book. In 1953, the 'Book of Kells' was bound in 4 parts, 2 of which are displayed at the library. The exhibit provides more information on the illustrations, conservation efforts and the history of the book. Unfortunately, you are not allowed to photograph the book.
Located on the Liffey River, the university boasts numerous other impressive buildings besides the library. The entrance to the main building (Regent House) is a long garden decorated with statues of poet Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) and philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797), who both studied here. The 30-metre-high bell tower, the Campanile, stands on Front Square. The bells only tolled on 2 occasions: meals and exams. Behind the tower stands a building with red brick that used to house students in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Trinity College also has a modern wing that accommodates the Douglas Hyde Gallery of Modern Art. Here you can watch an interesting 45-minute video on the history of Dublin. The university also has rugby and cricket fields that are both open to the public.