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Annual Report 1977-78
The major activity of the Computing Service in the year ending July 1978 has been the slow and rather fitful implementation of the User Service on the ICL 2980. Delays have nearly all been due to the inability of the equipment provided by ICL to work to the contractual specifications at the times provided.
After delivery in July 1977, a date which was delayed due to industrial action, ICL attempted a formal trial on the computer in October but withdrew from the trial after 75% had been completed. A second attempt in January 1978 was successful and the computer was made available to users regularly, but in a limited way shortly afterwards. The equipment had also to pass a performance measuring test, the so called "Edinburgh Benchmark", by the end of February, a date which, because of the delays in delivery, was changed to March 13th.
At this date the Company had only succeeded in demonstrating part of the Benchmark and so were in breach of contract. The settlement of this breach is still not complete although terms of settlement have now been agreed and an agreement is being drawn up. The settlement takes the form of extra equipment, a somewhat discounted price and a further contractual agreement by the Company to provide extra software facilities on short term scales and in round terms the value of the settlement is about one million pounds. It is hoped that a regular and acceptable service to users will become available during the course of Michaelmas Term.
Building Work
Building work on the Computer Centre was completed during the year with the exception of final modifications to the air conditioning plant. Whilst potentially serious this deficiency has not caused interruption to running and the plant should be complete in the summer.
Computing Laboratory/Service
In view of the enlargement of the Computer Centre and the increase in the range of facilities which the Service offers, the Committee expressed to the General Board the opinion that a greater degree of independence for the Service, in particular for Mr Scott, was called for. Following discussion with Professor Fox, Director of the Computing Laboratory, the General Board agreed and as of March 1st 1978, the Computing Service became a department in its own right and Mr Scott has been restyled Director of the Computing Service, a title in line with practice in other Universities. The Computing Service will continue to benefit from the advice given to prospective users of the Service by academic members of the Computing Laboratory.
User Liaison
As the ICL 2980 slowly provides a service to local users, so the time at which Oxford will offer a service to the seven other universities in the South East Region is also approaching. The first two universities, Kent and Southampton, will be able to do this towards the end of 1978
This, together with the Oxford usage of machines in London, Manchester and Cambridge has shown the need for increased co-operation between computing sites. The Computing Service has accordingly established a section whose responsibility is to sort out the problems of the users who try to use computers remotely. The staff visit other sites, deal with programming and operational problems and recommend ways in which such usage may be made more convenient. They are also responsible for documenting these changes.
The loss of one Senior member of the Service staff has had an increasing effect over the whole Service. At the time the vacancy occurred it was decided that in view of the very tight operational budget two more junior staff should be recruited instead of filling the senior post. This was the right decision at the time but it has become clear that it is still necessary to fill the senior post. It is hoped that it will be possible to fill this appointment in the course of the coming year.
The suspension and subsequent resignation of the Administrator has also had serious repercussions on the strain under which all the Service staff are working. The help afforded by the University Chest during the interregnum in particular the ? of Mr. B.T. Clinkard to act as temporary Administrator has been much appreciated and a permanent appointment is expected before the Michaelmas Term starts. The activities of the previous Administrator are being investigated by the police.
Hardware Development
The Hardware Section of the Computing Service designed and built a Visual Display Unit for attachment to the University computers, choosing this development in particular as it would lead on to the ability to build similar terminals which would work on non-standard alphabets; this is now going ahead and terminals working in Cyrillic and Greek can be provided. The manufacturing and marketing rights of the design of the basic VDU have been licensed to an industrial company; so far royalties have amounted to just over £11,000.
Computing in the Arts
This year has been one of consolidation. Whilst the stream of research workers coming forward has not diminished, many of them now start by asking for facilities which are already available. As a consequence the lecture course "Computer Applications in the Humanities" was extensively revised and a book based on its content will shortly be published by Mrs Hockey. A joint grant for two years from the SSRC and the Computer Board has been made to fund the provision of a new package for concordance work which will replace the older package COCOA. An appointment has been made to this post and work has started on the design and implementation of the package. It is expected that the package will become an international standard for text analysis on computers.
? new texts were added to the English Archive which now includes a version of the first folio of Shakespeare's works, the complete poetical works of S.T. Coleridge, as well as an excerpt from "Goldfinger".
Additionally the University has purchased the works of four major authors from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, the entire corpus of Old English and eleven ? novels from the University of Manitoba. Further texts will be made available by local effort thanks to the Manpower Services Commission which has approved a work experience programme for three young people to work as data preparation operators for research workers in the Humanities.
This will temporarily ease the problem of making texts available to computers. Attention is now being turned to output facilities. Publishing on microfiche and computer typesetting are among the facilities being considered, and a joint project to output Japanese characters on the graph plotter is also in hand.
Computer Teaching Centre
Activity at the Computing Teaching Centre has continued and during the year more than 1,500 course attendances were recorded. Courses fall into one of three classes:
Two main themes of development are included in the third class, microprocessors and computer assisted learning. The Teaching Centre now offers two lecture courses on microprocessors, one on the hardware and applications including displays and demonstrations, the other on programming microprocessors and this includes the use of the processors themselves. An extensive collection of reference material is available and the staff of the Teaching Centre are available for system design.
Computer assisted learning is the technique in common usage at the Teaching Centre. Again a considerable quantity of reference literature is available and films have been made on a number of subjects including Statistics, Spectral Techniques, Programming in various languages, Computer Operating Systems, Numerical Methods and Microprocessors.
The staff of the Teaching Centre has remained unchanged in the year with a single operator and no technician. It is hoped that funds will be available from the Computing Service for the employment of demonstrators during the coming year.
At the same time one of the consequences of an SRC grant to the Department of Atmospheric Physics has been that the large lecture room, which is used extensively by the Teaching Centre, will not be available in the coming year. Building plans show an equivalent space being made available to the Teaching Centre by the summer of 1979 and in the meantime this opportunity is being taken to lay out the teaching facilities in a more rational manner.


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'Brainwashing' Accusations by the Brainwashed on Supreme Court Steps
Folks, if you were worried that the upcoming generation might be a little wiser and smarter, then fear no longer. I have video proof illustrating stupidity cloaked in extreme self-belief is alive and well. The following illustrates a comical yet sad case of irony at its best… or worst, depending how you look at it.
In the parenthesized video link a young lady is proudly explaining to the older and less enlightened gentleman that the reason women bear children and men are masculine is because they were "brainwashed" to do and think so (http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/26/heated-debate-outside-supreme-court-video/). She is dialoguing with the older gentleman, as both have showed up on the Supreme Court steps to voice their opposing viewpoints on 'marriage equality.'
I have news for this young lady and anyone who might think like her.
Women bear children because they can. Yup. I'm not sure what they're teaching in anatomy class these days, but as far as I know, men still can't bear children and women still do. In fact, I had a lovely customer yesterday who had given birth to four children. I witnessed a snippet of her life as she spent about half an hour transferring car seats from the rental vehicle to her own. And you know the crazy thing? She told me she enjoyed being a mother. She called it one of the "hardest but rewarding" things in the world. And if enlightened geniuses think she lives such a life because she is uneducated and without options, then they're wrong. This young mother has a teaching degree, which she uses to home-school her two older children. And by the way, she stays at home while her husband cuts trees and drives a truck for a living. How's that for traditional roles you feminist Nazis?
Women bear children because they can and because they were made to, not because they were cajoled into it (although manipulation may be the case in extreme situations which are not the topic of this conversation). Spare me the chauvinist-label attacks all you who are considering it. I've seen and heard too many women who take great pride and joy in their children and upbringing to be convinced otherwise. If you don't want to have children, don't. I don't care. But don't think for one second other women should feel like you and ,they too, should break out of this bearing-children-and-raising-them oppressive mold society has created. Nature and common sense say the opposite. You think you're smart because some snooty Professor told you what to verbally regurgitate and you believed him at an age medical science has concluded the brain is only partially developed? Get real. There is no greater statistical correlation to stupidity than youth.
You can take that to the bank.
Secondly, men are taught to be masculine because we are made to be. Anatomically, we have higher levels of testosterone and body strength. Our brains are also different. When a male fetus develops in the womb, the two hemispheres of our brains separate. This means men are more capable of compartmentalizing.
In conclusion, men are generally physically stronger and operate using a different desktop program. Innate in that is masculinity. We are protectors and explorers by nature. Sure, we can be scumbags, but that is not a character flaw limited to men. In a previous relationship, it was the woman I was with who did all the cheating and scheming, not I. She played the role of scumbag.
Folks, when people think themselves smarter and above the natural laws by which we were made to live by, and consider those of us who function and believe according to the way we were designed to as 'brainwashed,' we are witnessing nothing short of pure, stupid irony.
It takes an impressive amount of brainwashing to convince anyone that women bear children only because the big, bad evil men of society have told them to so. Apparently, we've been holding back some grand secret that would pass the task of bearing children to someone- or something- else. (I wish I was in on this big secret)
Who's really being brainwashed?
Dark matter, rocket engines, and economics may be complicated matters. But other things are not. We make them complicated because we think ourselves smarter and more capable than the Creator who made us. We were made to run on gasoline and, all of a sudden, we got some hair up our behind where we insist we fill up with fruit punch.


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|Neil Winters
|Kristoff St. John as Neil Winters
|The Young and the Restless
|Portrayed by
|Kristoff St. John
|Current status
|Present, Contract
|First appearance
|February 14, 1991
|Created by
|William J. Bell
|Introduced by
|William J. Bell
|Full name
|Neil Ellis Winters
|July 16,1962
| CEO of Jabot Cosmetics
Owner of NEW Biz Inc.
| 345 Ashland Street, Apt. 321
Genoa City, Wisconsin
Neil Winters is a fictional character on The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Kristoff St. John.
Neil Winters is the legal father of Lily Winters, the adoptive father of Devon Hamilton and the biological father of Moses Winters.
In 1991, rising Jabot Cosmetics executive trainee Neil Winters became involved in a love quadrangle with Drucilla Barber, Olivia Barber and Nathan Hastings. Olivia and Nathan were engaged but Olivia's sister Dru wanted Nathan for herself. She had Neil attempt to woo Olivia away from Nathan. While doing so, he fell in love with her. Neil and Dru's attempt to break up the couple was unsuccessful. They ended up becoming romantically involved themselves and eventually married. Neil's half brother Malcolm Winters came to Genoa City in 1994. There was animosity between Malcolm and Neil, but Malcolm befriended Dru and soon fell in love with her. While she was over-medicated on cold medicine, they had sex and Dru became pregnant. She did not know whether the father was Neil or Malcolm. Dru and Malcolm decided to keep their affair a secret and to allow Neil to raise the baby whether he was the father or not.
Neil and Dru's daughter, Lily Winters, was born in 1995. Dru's career as a fashion model caused problems in her marriage to Neil. He wanted her to be a stay at home mom. These problems eventually led to a divorce. Dru and Lily left town and Neil for Paris.
Eve, Lily and DevonEdit
After Victoria Newman became pregnant with the baby of Cole Howard, her ex-husband, she and Neil bonded and decided to raise the child together. They planned to marry. Victoria went into an early labor and gave birth to a premature baby, Eve, who died shortly after birth. After this they decided to end their engagement. Subsequently, Neil had a relationship with Dru's sister Olivia, and came very close to having an affair with Malcolm's fiancée, Alex Perez.
Neil also battled alcoholism. His first major period of non-sobriety was brought about by the murder of his best friend Ryan McNeil and the apparent death of his brother Malcolm. Neil eventually managed to get his illness under control, but almost lost his family and his career.
In 2002 Drucilla and Lily, now age 14, returned to Genoa City. Dru hoped Neil could help reign in their rebellious daughter. They ended up reuniting romantically and remarried in 2003. They became entangled in business issues as he worked for Newman Enterprises and she worked for Newman's rival, Jabot Cosmetics. They also had to deal with their daughter's troubles as Lily became involved with internet predator and pedophile Kevin Fisher, who infected her with chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease.
Neil and Dru met juvenile delinquent Devon Hamilton in 2004. Though Neil was initially reluctant, they took Devon in and became his foster parents. Soon after Devon turned 18, they adopted him.
Lots of WomenEdit
In 2006, Neil and Dru's marriage became strained when he found out Malcolm was Lily's biological father. He separated from Dru and developed romantic feelings for Carmen Mesta. They fought their feelings but Dru became increasingly jealous of their relationship. She broke into Carmen's hotel room and cut up her clothes. Carmen had her arrested and pressed charges. Neil tried to get her to drop them. When she refused Neil completely stood behind Dru. It was revealed that Carmen had an affair at her previous job with married executive David Chow. She sued David's company for sexual harassment after she was fired by his wife. Carmen was eventually killed outside of Neil's new jazz club, Indigo. Devon was wrongfully arrested for her murder but was exonerated.
In April 2007, Dru and her best friend Sharon Newman fell off a cliff during a photo shoot. Sharon survived but Dru was presumed dead. Neil briefly turned to alcohol once again, but stopped when he saw the effect it was having on Lily.
Later that year, Neil began a romantic relationship with Karen Taylor. They moved in together. Devon was reunited with his aunt Tyra Hamilton and half sister Ana Hamilton. Tyra developed romantic feelings for Neil but kept them to herself. Olivia tried to push Tyra and Neil together because Tyra reminded her of her sister Dru. Neil stayed with Karen.
Tyra raised Ana because her birth mother, Yolanda Hamilton, could not. Yolanda reported Ana missing and she was taken away from Tyra. To prevent Ana from being taken away and given to strangers, Neil and Karen married and became her foster parents. Karen convinced Neil to take it a step further by adopting Ana. Tyra soon revealed her feelings to Neil, who eventually reciprocated. The two made love, unaware that their tryst was discovered by Devon. Devon confronted Neil and he was horrified when he saw how much he hurt his son. Neil soon admitted his infidelity to Karen who still wanted to proceed with Ana's adoption. However at the adoption hearing, Neil told the judge that Tyra had been and would always be the best parent for Ana. Tyra was awarded full and permanent custody of Ana and a devastated Karen left Neil.
Career MoveEdit
In April 2009 Neil resigned from Newman Enterprises, recognizing that he would never rise any higher in the family-owned business. The following day, he accepted a position as Chief Executive Officer of Chancellor Industries.
Recent DevelopmentsEdit
In January 2010, Neil and Ashley Abbott shared a kiss after they told each other how they felt about one another. However, Ashley became smitten with the new business mogul in town: Tucker McCall. Tucker hired Ashley. Later that year they went to Japan on a business trip and end up having sex. Afterwards, Ashley decided that she wanted to be commited to Neil. She went to see Neil at Indigo. Neil broke up with her because he wanted to focus on his family and new grandchildren from Lily.
Because of those same reasons, he sold Indigo to Jeffrey Bardwell who then gave it to Gloria Abbott Bardwell. Neil helped Lily and the twins move back home. Neil jetted over to see Tucker who told him that if he found out Cane was scamming him to get a buddy some scratch, he would fire Cane in a New York minute.
- Drucilla Winters (divorced)
- Drucilla Winters (dissolved)
- Karen Taylor (divorced)
- Sofia Dupre (divorced)
- Malcolm Winters (paternal half brother)
- Lily Winters (adopted daughter with Drucilla)
- Devon Hamilton (adopted son with Drucilla)
- Moses Winters (son with Sofia)
- Charlie Ashby (grandson via Lily)
- Mattie Ashby (granddaughter via Lily)


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Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler said Friday during a hearing in Sanford, that her husband works with an attorney who referred Zimmerman to his current defense attorney, Mark O'Mara.
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Larry's Pregnant
"What hole will it even come out of?" and other concerns.
Marty and Debbie need Larry's help after Dick accidentally makes Max and Abby middle-aged in his aging machine. Because, you know, that's a thing.
"What hole will it even come out of?" and other concerns.
To be continued...
With guests Joel Stein, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
They tackle them as a team, albeit somewhat accidentally.
...as each other.
A full-scale song-and-dance number.
Reggie and Dick's ode to the film.
With Carrot Top and Erik Estrada.
And Marty orders a whole lot of fast food.
Communication is important, right?
Larry's a rock star.
Debbie vs. her high school nemesis.
Larry and Jackie learn a tough lesson.
Or, Debbie and Marty's bedroom.
Bad parenting all around.
He might be aiming a little high.
It's an intersection. And a metaphor.
It all works out in the end, right?
He's making the effort.
Larry bails on Debbie.
A talking dog could do this.
Things got a little weird.
Prepping for Larry's new holiday.
It's gonna be an uphill battle.
Cover your ears.
Jackie tries to impress her boss.
Debbie and Jackie search for business ideas.
Larry Bird practices his craft.
Like, they're middle-aged now.
Let's do this, Catherine Zeta.
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Take Earth Back extended trailer.
Okay, this extended edition is a million times better than the one that aired during The Walking Dead. I… might possibly have teared up at the shot of the turian ships flying in formation with the Normandy, not gonna lie.
14 days aaaahhhh holy crap.
17 days for me … but there are advantages. Like, for example, 9th March is a Friday. No worries about work getting in the way. I can just go home and play it aaaaaaall weekend if I want to. AND I WILL WANT TO. :)
So excited for this game.
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My name is Kayleigh Jade and I was born in Leicester, England, UK. I have always had a love for herbal and fruit tea (even as a child) but my curiosity got the better of me in my teen years and I started to look into other teas. I eventually found some companies in the UK that offered different teas and eBay was an easy source for international (particularly Chinese) blends. I found myself liking specific teas more than others such as Pu Erh and jasmine green pearls (which are two of my favourites still to date) and my obsession kept growing and spreading.
Now I am in tea clubs and regularly order new products to try and though I have tried a good variety of different tea's I still consider myself to be a beginner student. My goal in life is to keep tasting and steeping and learning and hopefully by having this blog I will pass on what I learn and feel.
My name is kittylovestea because it combined my two favourite things in the world. Those being cats and tea (of course!). My cats are also interested in some of my teas especially dessert or sweet teas. I have arrived home before to find a few tea packets on the floor with suspicious looking holes which any cat owner know are made from biting. I now have to be careful with the storing of my tea but it's nice to know my angels have the same interests as me. =^_^=
I love to write reviews and have been lucky to have been offered free samples in exchange for them. If you have would like for me to review your tea then please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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1) Please tell us a little about yourself first.
I'm 22 years old, I'm currently living in Santa Fe, NM and I've been doing art in one form or another all my life. I started doing digital art in 2003 when I was living in Vancouver, Canada and that's when I first joined deviantART. I also write and illustrate childrens books and I do conceptual illustration for film.
2) How did you start out with art? Which was the first (digital) medium you used and why this one?
I started working traditionally in pencil and ink and ventured into acrylics a little bit when I was in high school. In 2003 I began working in Photoshop and I loved it right away. Soon after that, I started using a pen tablet which went hand in hand with Photoshop and has become one of my favorite tools.
3) What prompted you to venture beyond this medium?
I never felt that traditional media was suited for me and I craved something more expansive. The digital world has personally offered a lot more freedom for me to use my imagination and execute the exact ideas that I have in my head at the time. It also allows me to apply traditional techniques to my digital pieces which often makes for a richer finished product.
4) What does Mixed Media mean to you?
I feel that it's a wonderful way to incorporate many different ideas, textures, and feelings into one piece. For me it's so limitless and I'm able to express and incorporate a lot more than I could ever do with just one medium.
5) Which media did you use for your deviation Snow White? Why did you choose these specifically and which part of the deviation is what?
I utilized digital painting, photography, and pencil on watercolor paper. I wanted to use pencil over watercolor paper for the initial design because it had a nice organic feel to it and sort of an old storybook mood that I wanted to achieve. I took it into Photoshop so I could digitally paint the hair and eyes, and I incorporated photography for the hands and apple/rose because I wanted those to look somewhat realistic compared to the rest of the piece.
6) Do you have any tips regarding the use of several media in ones art is there something one should keep in mind when combining the art forms?
I would suggest to rarely, if ever, use Photoshop filters. Add your own personal textures and feelings to the image because the filters in the program make it look synthetic and a bit cheapened. (The Gaussian Blur filter is the only one I find useful.) I also suggest creating a folder on your computer exclusively for stock pictures and one for textures. Take a camera wherever you go and take pictures of everything! It's a wonderful thing to have a lot of your own stock and textures at your disposal whenever you need them. And most importantly, take your time. Just because it's digital doesn't mean it's any easier than traditional and if you treat it the same way you'll have a richer product in the end.
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer these questions.
Note: In respect to the upcoming DIGITAL Mixed Media gallery I wanted to point out that OdessaSawyers work indeed belongs in this gallery because she uses different digital media to create them the fact that her bases are often traditionally painted is not the criteria for putting it into DIGITAL Mixed Media.
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"Is it unfair to ask Dunham to represent all of womanhood onscreen? Of course it is. But here's the thing: no one did. We merely asked that she take a step back and question the underlying reason for why Girls looks the way it does."
What the Girls spat on Twitter tells us about feminism by Bim Adewunmi at The Guardian (October 8th, 2012)
Read the whole thing. Great read for fans of Dunham & Moran or those who are completely fed up with the so-called "faces" of (white, liberal, boring) feminism.(via garconniere)
Thank you. It's the fact that she and others on her side so vehemently fought against the idea that a white washed New York is an unrealistic portrayal of the city. It's the fact that she can't seem to understand why saying that her show is called "Girls" and not "Homegirls" is offensive. That's why "Girls" is infuriating. Well, there are other things that are aggravating as well.
Tagged: #white woman's feminism #white privilege #lack of women of color #white whine
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There's been some controversy about GM's plans for the Volt. We've heard good, even great, project ideas come out of General Motors in the past, only to watch the projects dissolve back into the ojalafilms.com drawing board. More research needed, insufficient demand, big-oil power plays all being blamed. But GM seems unshakingly devoted to the Volt. And I can see why. The car, which will run for 40 miles with no gasoline, and 600 miles at 60 miles per gallon on a full tank of gas, will provide a new kind of vehicle that will undoubtedly be broadly accepted.
So this gorgeous car, with better gas mileage than anything on the road, plug-in capabilities, and a wireless device charger standard could very easily be available for purchase, for under $30,000 in 2010.
Bob Lutz, vice president of GM said, "Competitors who write this off as a PR exercise are going to be brutally surprised." I see this vehicle with a far greater potential to enter site cost of cialis change vehicle emissions than any other car on the road now, or within the next 10 years. I'm very glad to see a commitment to 2010, even if it is a weak commitment.
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written by rob, March 08, 2007
Most of the current crop of small cars in the UK will match those sort of cialis and diarrhea figures.
It's strange that American companies can make good cars for the rest of the world, but crappy cars for the home market?
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written by Ian, March 08, 2007
Also 60 MPG as said above is not that great... small Diesel's get this... and Insights get this... and priuses can get this all today...
If the Chevy Volt were on the show room floor today it would be a good car choice.... but the tech it is talking about having by 2010 will be behind the curve by the time they hit the road...
Also the article above says... "will provide a new kind of vehicle that will undoubtedly be broadly accepted." ... not a chance ... first nothing about it is very new... all of the tech used on it has been done already... and Americans will only broadly accept the the Hummer that gets 2 MPG .... While some people drive fuel efficient cars... the vast majority of Americans seem to cialis gel enjoy wasting fuel and energy at every chance they get , as if it were a status symbol for them to be able to waste the most ...
yes I am cynical ... And I wish Chevy to prove me wrong... But I doubt they will ... and by the time they make the usefull link cheap generic cialis Volt Honda and Toyota will still be ahead of them.
written by Hank, March 08, 2007
There are NO plugin cars in show rooms today, and the prius cannot go 40 miles without using gas (unless, I guess, you want to travel at 5 mph.) The Volt's electric motor will take it over 100 mph. The Prius' electric motor might break fifteen.
As for GM's current offerings, check out Saturn's line-up, and the 2008 Vue that will likely be the first plug-in car on the market.
I'm tired of canadian pharmacy online people badmouthing GM cause it's the cool thing to do. Toyota makes big nasty trucks too...they're all in the game to make money, but GM is doing going things, and I refuse to we like it cheap viagra from uk diss them for it.
written by mn, March 08, 2007
I know I shouldnt say this in this forum but I dont care what kind of technology it uses as long as it works. Sure I would prefer it to have a higher range figure so tht I could actually make it to my mums house but at the end of the day this will be a zero emmissions vehicle (assuming green energy supply) which the GM volt will not - it will still rely fossil fuel. and 60mpg in fuel model is not that good at all! VW do a lupo diesel that can touch 85mpg if my memory serves me correctly :-$
Im all for companys developing this technology and getting it to the market - the only way to make it mainstream and cheaper after all - but ... is right they will be a little behind the times.
Time will tell.
written by Hank, March 08, 2007
The Volt solves these problems...no all-electric vehicle currently can. We'll wait on it, and be ready when it comes, but it won't be here in 2010. The Volt solves a huge number of problems.
written by Daniel Lunsford, March 08, 2007
For those of you with families, I'd highly recommend waiting for the introduction of the plug-in hybrid like "mn" addressed. The benefits are far too many to number, just google-search it and be surprised.
written by Jinks, March 08, 2007
The volt offers the versatility of efficiency in city driving and 400 mi+ highway trips if need be. Plus it looks awesome!
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written by Ian, March 09, 2007
But we differ in a few areas...
#1> I think I have better chances in a Vegas Casino than of GM having the Volt on the market by 2010... They will have a Hybrid but not what the Volt promises.
#2> I do NOT think Americans will not buy the Volt... a few tree huggers yes... same market that today buys Priuses and Insights .... but the masses will want the 4 or 5 ton SUV... and sure they will complain about their MPG ... but they want a 4 or 5 ton SUV.
#3> I don't see New Tech in the Volt... I see Tech form the cialis 100 mg generic EV1 and from other hybrids and such wraped together in a new package... new application is not new tech.
#4> by 2010 ... the features the Volt offers will be available by many other cars... and nothing exceptional... if it was on where to get viagra market now.. it woudl be a truely exceptional car... but it isn't and I don't think it will be...
#5> GM is in it to make money some choices they had made will make them money... some they have made will preminately cost them customers... what they did with the EV1 was criminal in my mind ... at the very least they could have said sure no warenty no liability and each car is $100,000 ... but instead they refused to sell them and www.karlbarth.nl crushesd them instead... They have clearly shown thier values... and Concept cars don't make up for it.
written by Ryan, March 09, 2007
I believe that this car will do very well amongst the American public if it comes out in similar form as the concept. Americans don't love wasting gas, they love larger, more muscular looking cars. The Civiv hyb and the Prius were both marketed towards the green crowd, not the general American public. However the general American public can easily be swayed by a car that looks like this.
And concerning fuel wasting, let me just give you the viagra cialis canadian pharmacy example of my friend who contemplated which civic to www.revistadeteatro.com purchase. Purchase a low end, no frills civic for $16000, spend $1175 on gas per year. Or purchase a Hybrid civic for $24000 and spend $895 on gas per year. I'll let you guess which she chose based on finances, $280 wouldn't make up for the difference no matter how hard I argued for it. Current hybrids just aren't going to change the world other than in the respects that it gets technology rolling in the right direction. How much easier would it have been to talk her into a car where she only spends $300 a year on gas? (my guess is alot easier)
As far as the technology being outdated by 2010, I honestly hope this is the case. I also hope that the rumors are true concerning the ease of i use it purchasing levitra swapping the power generator with newer tech (come on hydrogen) as it comes out. If that is true, and they designed this car to be able to upgrade the engine to cleaner or better engines, then it will only become outdated whenever they decide to stop supporting parts for the volt.
As for GM as a corporation, sure they have had their down moments, but those have been rewarded in the forms of rediculous losses. Even for the most pessamistic, one has to agree that for a corporation, the only thing that matters is the bottom line. GM has learned its lesson and seems to be attempting to turn around to cialis for sale the modern day. If not, it will keep learning its lesson till it sells to a company who has learned the lesson already.
written by Ian, March 11, 2007
If it were about cost... they would walk all distance under 5 miles from home... they would bicycle all distances under 15 miles ... they would take buses not road trips... leather interior would never have sold... Air conditioning would never have sold ... no car over $10,000 would ever sell... no cars would be convertibles ... no one would have more than a $50 car stereo.... No one would spend the viagra mexico extra money for GPS units... the list goes on and on....
People have priorities and are very happy to pay top dollar for those things that give them what they want... If people care about the environment then they will either drive less , or drive a more fuel efficient car... people are more than happy to pay over $100,000 for cars that get horrible gas mileage, have ridiculously high insurance rates ,etc... because the car does something that they want it to do and they have $100,000 they can spend... it is about priorities and what matters to a person... I care about the environment so I want to reduce the damage I do as much as I can... so I will get the best MPG and lowest emissions I can afford when I buy a car , and I will ride my Electric Assisted Bicycle in nicer weather as much as I can... Actions speak more about your character and visitkansascityks.com who you are than your words... If someone owns a Hummer or other large SUV , there is a 99% chance that they do not actually care about the environment no matter what they say...
As for GM forgiveness... all the car companies that signed on for the blocking of the Zero Emissions Car ( including Honda and Toyota ) as far as I am concerned start with one strike against them for the rest of my life... they made a choice and they can face the results of it... some did worse things than others... and some have done more good since then than others... but I don't forgive until they earn it... doing no further harm is not doing good... they worked hard to fight environmental progress... they will have to work harder for environmental progress to africa-info.org repair the buying generic levitra damage to their image... GM and other car companies have shown the public for years prototype cars with amazing features... and the imagination is nice to see... but almost none of them ever make it to the public...
written by T Lennon, August 06, 2007
But every dam american car I have bought, and they were all brand new, with all maintainance done when required, has had major problems by the time I have reached 70 to 80 thousand miles. Honda is the only car I will buy now because you really get what you pay for instead of repairs and headaches. There is nothing worse than a major $2000 repair after the warrenty expires and a large car payment to go with it!! Think about it we as americans want to stand by our companies but you leave us no choice were tired of buying expensive junk that does not last the duration of http://jaygalbraith.com/viagra-soft a standard car loan.
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"Occu-Pa" Happy Valley
My campus gossips tell me a group of enthusiastic supporters of Penn State's recently dumped iconic coach, Joe Paterno, are looking to the popular nationwide "Occupy" protests to get their "Pro-Pa" message to the school and the nation. Calling it an "Occu-Pa" protest, the group plans to camp out on Paterno's front lawn with signs and chants. I've "over-Snerd" that while Paterno appreciates the gesture, the grumpy grandpa isn't too thrilled about having a group of vagabonds living on his front lawn for days or weeks. When hearing of the "Occu-Pa" plans, JoePa reportedly said, "They're gonna do what? Where? They bang on drums all day? Hey, I take a nap in the afternoon and I that's a lot of noise right outside your window. Also, you know, I just planted new sod this summer, and it just started to take. I don't want to see my lawn get trampled on by people sleeping in tents. And where do they plan on going to the bathroom? Geez, what a mess I created." It sounds like the protesters have overlooked how important sleep, lawns, and going to the bathroom are to an old man
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The surprise announcement last week that jowly judge on "America's Got Talent," Piers Morgan, was leaving the show to concentrate on his CNN chat show has created a stir as to who will replace him. Although the name of radio rascal, Howard Stern, has surfaced as a candidate, my spies tell me the man Morgan replaced on CNN, Larry King, is seriously throwing his suspenders in the ring for the job. According to King confidants, Larry is still upset that CNN forced him out, so he sees replacing Morgan as a nice piece of Hollywood irony
and sweet revenge. I've "over-Snerd" Larry declared to pals, "He took my job, so I'll take his, it's a dog-eat-dog business, and this old hound smells blood." When questioned about his judging skills, King countered, "If a basket case like Paula Abdul can do it, anyone can. I was friends with Brando and Sinatra
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When mega-rock stud Sting came to town for a sold-out solo show recently at the Rosemont Theater, the former "Police-man" didn't hit any of Our Town's trendy nightclubs, but instead, sauntered over to the newly-opened Rivers Casino in nearby Des Plaines. The gaggle of gamblers were aghast when Sting regularly laid down $1,000 bets on each hand of blackjack, casually plunked down a cool $50,000 on one spin of the roulette wheel (he bet the red and lost), and crapped out at the craps table. He later camped out for two hours playing the slots. When a pit boss told Sting Chicago was hoping to get a casino, but Governor Quinn was holding it up, he exclaimed, "That's bullocks! I must help!" The next day, the British bettor called Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and offered to let the city use his classic song "Roxanne" and spice it with gambling references as part of campaign for the Chicago casino, "I can change it to, 'Roulette, you don't have to bet on the pass line.' It will be fabulous!" No word if Rahm will be betting on Sting to get his casino
Not celebrating a birthday anymore: Two heavyweights, former heavyweight boxing champ, "Smokin"Joe Frazier, 67; and rotund rapper, Heavy D (Dwight Arrington Myers), 44; both breathless.
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November 5-6, 2010
Centre College, who entered the 2010 SCAC tournament as the seven seed, makes a "Cinderella-like" run through the championships - defeating Oglethorpe, 3-0, before shocking second-seeded Southwestern University, 3-2, to advance to the semifinal round for the first time since 1997. The following day, the Colonels fell behind third-seeded DePauw University, 2-0, but fought back to even the match at 2-2 before falling 15-12 in the decisive fifth set. Centre rebounded, however, and earned its highest finish since the '97 tournament with a 3-2 victory over fourth-seeded and host Trinity University in the third/fourth place match. The move from seventh seed entering the championships to third-place tournament finish represents the largest jump up the standings in SCAC tournament history.
November 4, 1995
For the first time in league history, two SCAC teams are selected to the 32-team field for the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championships. Southwestern University receives a bid after picking up its first SCAC title in any sport since joining the conference in 1994, defeating Trinity University, 3-2 in 1995 conference championship match and snapping the Tigers' 47-match conference winning streak. Trinity also receives a bid to the 1995 national tournament.
November 7, 1992
Playing on its home floor, Trinity University, after going 7-0 during the SCAC regular season, completes a five-match run in the tournament - including winning 15 of 16 games played - to win the school's first SCAC volleyball championship. The TU Tigers defeated Rhodes, 15-2, 15-11 and 15-4 in the championship match. Trinity also received at-large bid to the 1992 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championships - the first-ever bid for a SCAC team in the sport of volleyball.
November 17, 2001
For the first time in league history, a SCAC school plays host to a NCAA Volleyball National Quarterfinal match, but the home court is not enough as Trinity drops a hard-fought decision to Juniata by a 3-1 score (30-23, 27-30, 30-25, 30-20). The Tigers end their season with a 35-5 mark.
November 13, 1999
Third-ranked Trinity University advances to the 1999 NCAA Division III national quarterfinals with a 15-10, 15-6, 15-2 victory over Savannah College of Art & Design in the finals of the South Region played at Emory University. The Tigers defeated Austin College (3-0) a day earlier to earn the trip to the region finals. With the South Region title, Trinity, in its eighth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, becomes the first SCAC school to advance to the national volleyball quarterfinals.
November 12, 2009
Fifth-seeded Trinity University beats fourth-seeded Randolph-Macon (Va.) College, 3-1, in the opening round of the NCAA Division III South Region Volleyball Tournament at Southwestern University. The victory nets head coach Julie Jenkins her 700th career win, which ranks her among the top 10 active coaches in the nation for career victories.
November 8-10, 2007
For the second consecutive year, the SCAC sends four teams to the NCAA Division III Volleyball Tournament. SCAC champion and third-ranked Trinity is joined by 11th-ranked Austin College, 25th-ranked Colorado College and Southwestern University. Unlike the previous year, however, no SCAC is able to advance beyond the regional round.
October 5, 2005
Playing on the campus of University of Texas-San Antonio, Southwestern University defeats Trinity University, 3-0, snapping the Tigers' 61-match conference volleyball win streak. The match had been rescheduled from the first SCAC West Divisional (Sept. 22) due to Southwestern's inability to make it to Memphis because of the threat of bad weather. It was Trinity's first defeat in conference play since a 3-2 loss to Centre on November 5, 2000.
November 7, 1998
A day after Trinity University defeated a spirited DePauw University squad 3-2 in the championship match of the 1998 SCAC Volleyball Tournament at Rose-Hulman, the conference is awarded with three spots in the NCAA Tournament - an all-time league high at that time. Trinity and DePauw, along with Southwestern University, receive bids into the field of 48.
November 26, 1991
Trinity University sophomore women's volleyball player Amy Waddell, the SCAC Player-of-the-Year, is named second team AVCA Division III all-America, thus becoming the school's and the SCAC's first female selection for national honors in any sport. Waddell would go on to earn SCAC Player-of-the-Year honors in 1992 and 1993 and become the first (and to date only) player in league history to earn Player-of-the-Year honors three times in their career.
November 13, 1997
Just one week after losing to the Pirates in the finals of the 2007 SCAC Volleyball Tournament, Trinity University defeats Southwestern University 12-15, 15-6, 15-10, 17-15 to advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III Volleyball Championship. The match marks the first time that two SCAC schools have played each other in an NCAA volleyball postseason match. Trinity is eliminated the following day in the South Region semifinals by the host school Washington (Mo.) University.
October 26, 1991
In a battle of undefeated teams, Rhodes College defeats Trinity University 3-15, 15-13, 15-9, 11-15 and 15-10 to finish a perfect 5-0 in conference play and win the first SCAC women's volleyball championship. After one season of round-robin play, the SCAC puts in a post-season volleyball tournament for determining its league champion beginning in 1992.
November 3, 2007
After reinstating a postseason conference tournament for the first time since 1999, third-ranked Trinity University secured its 10th consecutive SCAC championship with a 3-2 victory over host Austin College in the title game. The Tigers battled back from an 0-2 deficit to earn the title - the only time that a team has fallen behind 0-2 and come back to win in the SCAC championship match.
December 7, 2002
A night after losing to Washington (Mo.) University in the national semifinals, Trinity University defeats Juniata (Pa.) College (3-0) in the consolation match of the 2002 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championships. It is the second-highest finish ever for a SCAC team in the national tournament - following Trinity's second-place finish in 1999.
November 9-11, 2006
When the 2006 NCAA tournament field is announced, the SCAC receives a league-record four bids to the 60-team field. In addition to SCAC champion Trinity, first-year member Austin College, Rhodes College and Southwestern University each receive at-large bids. The tournament appearance is the first-ever for the Rhodes' volleyball program. All four teams won their first tournament match with Trinity and Rhodes both advancing to its regional final. Trinity defeated Emory (Ga.) University 3-1 to win the program's fourth South Region championship, but Rhodes lost 3-0 to Washington (Mo.) Univerity in the Central Region final.
November 19, 2004
Trinity University senior setter Ashley Farrimond is named a First Team AVCA all-America selection, making her the first and only volleyball player in SCAC history to earn all-American honors four times in her career. At that time, she was just the fifth player in Division III history to earn the honor all four years.
November 9, 2008
Trinity University wins its 11th consecutive SCAC volleyball championship with a 3-0 victory over DePauw University on the campus of Rhodes College. Trinity, ranked No. 12 nationally and seeded No. 2 in the SCAC tournament, beat fourth-seeded DePauw by scores of 25-11, 25-19, and 25-21. The 11 consecutive conference volleyball titles ties for the fourth longest consecutive championship streak in CAC/SCAC history for any one sports program.
November 5, 2000
At the 2000 SCAC Volleyball Cross Divisional #2 at Southwestern University, Centre College falls behind 2-0 to nationally-ranked Trinity University, only to come back and earn a 3-2 victory (13-15, 8-15, 15-10, 15-11, 16-14), handing the Tigers their first SCAC regular season loss since Oct. 26, 1991 (against Rhodes) and snapping a string of 77 consecutive regular season conference wins. The 77 consecutive wins represented the longest conference regular-season winning streak of any team in any sport.
November 14, 2009
For the first time in league history, the SCAC sends two teams to the national quarterfinals in the same season. Trinity University advances to the round of eight with a 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-17) win over SCAC foe Southwestern University in the South regional final - the fourth straight year that the two league rivals have met in the NCAA tournament. With the win, the TU Tigers advance to their fifth quarterfinal under head coach Julie Jenkins and first since 2006. In the West regional, Colorado College caps a come-from-behind 3-2 win (25-19, 20-25, 21-25, 25-19, 15-9) win over La Verne to record the program's first-ever volleyball regional title and advance to its first NCAA quarterfinal. The CC Tigers trailed two sets to one and 7-3 in the fifth set, before they posted a 12-2 run to close out the set and eventually earn the win.
December 4-5, 1999
At the 1999 Volleyball Final Four at Juniata College, Trinity University defeats Muskingum College 3-0 (16-14, 15-11, 15-1) in the semifinals to advance to the following day's national title game. The Tiger's national championship dreams end on Saturday, however, as top-ranked, undefeated and defending national champion Central (Iowa) College beats Trinity in three straight, 15-8, 16-14, 15-7.
Trinity ends its season with a 38-3 mark and becomes just the second SCAC team in any sport to play for a national championship (Trinity women's tennis – 1997). Tiger head coach Julie Jenkins (pictured above left) is later honored as the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III Coach-of-the-Year.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – In a game that saw a lot of back-and-forth action, Colorado State enjoyed a one-point lead just twice in the second half. The Rams made a late run, but couldn't convert in the end, falling 65-64 at the Event Center Tuesday.
The Spartans' Rebecca Woodberry, who made her last 50 free throws, was called upon to seal the win for SJSU with just 4.2 seconds to go. She missed both attempts, and the Rams got the ball. Alicia Nichols passed the ball off to Elin Gustavsson who got the shot up, well beyond the three-point line, but it wouldn't fall.
The loss doesn't hurt the Rams, who fall to 22-6 overall, and 14-3 in league play. The Spartans improve to 11-17 overall and 5-12 in the Mountain West.
"We weren't tough enough around the rim," commented Head Coach Ryun Williams. "We played with a tremendous amount of softness around the basket. We needed those. The problem was the offense, not the defense. Tonight we just didn't play with the toughness we needed to on that end."
Playing in front of a large contingent of her friends and family, AJ Newton got off to a hot start, with the first six points for Colorado State. The Rams shot just 25.6 percent in the first frame, but found a little success from beyond the arc, with a .444 conversion rate, keeping them within arms' length of the Spartans at the halftime buzzer.
Elin Gustavsson got off to a rough start from the field, missing some key layups in the first half. She was stellar defensively, however, with a team-high 10 rebounds.
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"I'm proud that we put ourselves in a position to win the game," added Williams. "I'm really proud of that, but we shouldn't have been in that situation."
Head Coach Ryun Williams was nailed with a technical late in the game while trying to call a timeout.
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Throughout his career Oakland Athletics second baseman Eric Sogard has been overlooked because of his bifocals and slight frame. Coming into the season, Sogard looked like he would make the team as a 25th man, who would move back and forth between Sacramento and Oakland. However, Sogard was hitting like a man possessed during spring training which led him to become the starting second baseman. The 27 year old Sogard has had an up-and-down season, but he has recently showed that he is the type of scrappy bottom of the lineup hitter that every championship team needs. It looked as though Sogard would lose his starting job twice before the trading deadline. Not only were the A's looking at Phillies second baseman Chase Utley but they gave young prospect Grant Green the opportunity to replace Sogard. Once Green showed he was not able to handle second base defensively in the MLB, the A's traded for utility man Alberto Callaspo. What has been most impressive about Sogard over the last few months is his stellar defensive play. During Saturday night's game against the Cleveland Indians, Sogard made gold glove type of plays to help stop the Indians offensive onslaught. While Sogard will probably never win a gold glove, he has shown enough glove to help preserve some A's victories this year. The A's will basically be in playoff mode all the way up to October. Sogard will provide the bottom of the lineup spark that the A's didn't get in the playoffs last year. The A's can look no further than across the bay at the San Francisco Giants Marco Scutaro (Still can't believe we traded him to keep Bobby Crosby) to see what a scrappy middle infielder can do for a championship team. You can follow Jorge on twitter @jraycontreras or add him to your network on google Jorge is the co-founder of Football and Futbol , Bay Sports Report , Cascadia Sports and Sports Report Arizona
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Relative, weather-wise tranquility, at least.
How long they had been fighting, desperately, to save the world from its premature end, no one knew or kept track. They bunched their attacks in waves, magic followed by summons followed by rounds of hard combat, healings all-around, more magic.
He would wear down eventually, they knew, but they didn't know if they could last that long themselves.
Raising one hand, metal glinting off its synthetic surface, he silently but effetively called everyone's attention. There was a look in his eyes, battle lust in its purest form burning inside a born fighter and an engineered monster, but even behind that, the guilt was still there. Not all of them could wonder why, and only a few could even imagine.
But still, they understood. They would let him finish this one, because while they all had their reasons to fight, he truly had the only right. They each stepped down, away from the patch of meteorlogical calm.
Left alone, the two looked each other in the eye. The use for physical combat was over now, the only thing left was for them to see each other, themselves, and understand.
His own crimson eyes never wavered as he wondered if he knew, trying to gaze past the film of madness glazing over those violent aquamarine whirlpools, if he wasn't too far gone that he didn't know who he was, what he was, and if he knew, why was he still here? He let his mind open, his eyes closed, so he would stop seeing and only show.
They stood in a forest, deep within the trees, devoid of animal life. Matched height for height, side by side, he pointed, one half-gloved hand guiding his line of vision to a clearing just beyong their patch of trees, waited.
A woman was led on an impromptu trip by a man, so impromptu it was like they practically left in the middle of work. Her lab coat buttoned neatly up the front, stoppered test tubes spilled out of her pocket. Her neat bun of hair falling apart as he dumped his gun and she his jacket over a buch and plafully tackled her into the patterns of leaves, undisturbed all season in the middle of nowhere. She giggles, almost protesting as he helped her rid of that coat, mentioning something about losing all her samples. This near-protest was neatly silenced by firm lips over her mouth, sucking out her words and her breath and her doubts all in one shot.
The rest of their clothers shortly followed the fate of the lab coat, forming their ovwn little pile in emulation of the scattered foliage. Time seemed to pass in a moment, but a moment that lasted in an eternity of muffled sounds of pleasure.
They laid in each other's embrace, just enjoying being in the other's vicitnity, nestled comfortably between a warm, sculpted indentation of crunching leaves and clothing. She allowed herself to relax only for a momentmore, but then casually mentionned that she will be missed back at the lab.
It was almost as if the warmth of the atmosphere had withdrawn back inside of him and became sealed again within a cold, steel vault as it occured to him who might also miss her. Without a word, he picked his own clothes out of the damp, tangled heap, dressed himself, and left, brushing leaves from his pants and hair as he did.
The crazed stare of the madman was gone now, the film coating his gaze melting away to confusion. He looked down at his bare and bloodied body, hearing for the last time the pulling of the voices that bid him do their will.
His fingers ran over the length of the aptly named Death Penalty, stroking the one bullet left.
It had to count.
They stood silently, facing away from the eye of the storm, waiting. Nothing more could be said now, nothing more could be done.
A single shot rang out, cracking through the winds like shattered glass. One by one they turned to see, crossing back into the deathly still threshold.
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Givi Z126 replacement rubber bumber set for top plates and WingracksThis replacement set of 4 rubber bumpers fits most Givi Monolock and Monokey top plates. Learn More$4.00 $3.60