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We are a small handbags fashion designer based in Montreal, Canada. We specialize in designing handbags and other fashion accessories such as scarves, wallets, sometimes sandals, beach bags, etc. Lately we are also getting into clothing (but this is not yet on our existing web site). Our designer is of Vietnamese origin and makes "Asian-inspired" designs. Our stuff usually has an "Asian touch", like brocades, or shapes, or some warm colors. The Concubine registered trade mark is also our trade name and evokes stylishness of Chinese imperial concubines, as well as their delicate, classy and tasteful manners. Warm reds, delicate brocades, silk accents and subtle oriental clues is what we are looking for.
We do not wish to get a "chinatown" look, with everything red and yellow, nor do we go to market with low-cost and volume made accessories. Our products are all entirely hand made by artisans in Viet nam and this is decidedly different than mass market, low cost and standardized goods. Although our image needs to have an oriental flair, we do not want to go very traditional. We are looking for the young and modern side, while using some elements of timeless elegance.
Our target audience is young professional women that are in the fashionista kind of groove. By young, I don't mean teenagers, but more women that are after twenty and that want to purchase stylish (and not childish) designs. Our products are a little more design than mass-market, but not so high end that they are not affordable. We are not targeting the very high end thousand-dollar type of accessory, but wish to address the upper-middle segment.
I would like to obtain 3 page designs.
- One for the "home" page.
- One for a "catalog listing" page, where you select a category and see the products
- One for a "product detail" page, where we give pictures of the product, information, price, add to cart, etc.
Please use my existing logo, which you can extract from one of the attached PDFs. It's simply our name in a particular typeface/kerning...
The theme that I am looking for is a tasteful, young woman design with asian inspiration. Please make it look modern, with touches that exemplify the timeless elegance of imperial china and a qipao dress, or a vietnamese Ao Dai dress, or something of that nature. Please AVOID the low-budget "chinatown" red and gold look, as I don't feel that this sends the proper fashion message that we wish to have. As I mentioned, our look is asian-inspired, but our products are targeted to American/Canadian women, so it's important that they understand that this is made for them, and not reserved for asian women. As an example, think of some clothing that is sold in the US: American women might buy clothing that have asian touches like a "mao" collar or a nice patch of brocade as an accent, but they would probably not buy a real chinese qipao dress because they feel that this may be "too chinese" for them, or it would not fit in with their other clothing. This is the same idea with our products.
For your pages, please keep in mind that we are selling our products, and not your amazing design (even though I'm sure it will be amazing!). So put graphical accents, but keep the user's eye squarely on our products.
* Home page: This is the page that a user visits right after he selects a language (our site is bilingual, so the first thing you do is select a language). This page has a title picture, a navigation menu to reach other parts of the site, an area where you can go to the "main" areas of interest (such as current collections), and sometimes an area where we put news or a special event, such as an upcoming trade show or fashion sale. Please have a look at our current web site to get an idea about our current contents.
* Catalog listing page: The requirements here are fairly similar to most online stores. We want to list categories, product thumbnails, price, etc.
* Product detail page: Again, this is similar to most online stores. This is the page where you land on when you have clicked on a particular product thumbnail from the catalog listing page. I am expecting to have more descriptive text for products than is available on our current web site, so please plan for some place in there somewhere. On most product pages, we have an "add to cart" button, a list of styles/colors available, some text, a price and one or many pictures. We also want a way for the person to zoom on a larger image.
I think that sites like ShanghaiTang and BenzerWorld have beautiful and classy products, but I am not wanting to copy their site looks. You can look at catalogues like http://www.shanghaitang.com/pdf/AW1…-Final.pdf, for example.


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- Please do not PM/Email the moderators with question on software issues etc. For the benefit of others with the same/similar questions, posting them in the forum is the best way to get the most point of views. The moderators will also add their opinions to any thread they see but understand we are not here 24/7 and may miss a question or two from time to time.
- If you are a manufacturer/retailer, please note that while we obviously would love to have insight into design and industry, Wetpixel forums are not here for the promotion of your products. It's a very fine line and we appreciate any input you can give as a fellow videographer in the know.

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Diagnostic Errors Lead to Injury, Death for 160,000 Annually
Surprising and disturbing findings in a new study from Johns Hopkins University reveal how often doctors are mis-diagnosing patients and at what cost. Laura Landro and lead author of the study David Newman-Toker join Lunch Break to discuss. Photo: Getty.
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... I ... now ... what doctors misdiagnosed seen he stands there some ... surprising and somewhat disturbing finds a new study from Johns Hopkins Joinus with the latest ... Dr David Newman took the lead author of the study of John Hopkins and ... 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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
VeganMoFo: Nigerian Baked Beans
Friends, today I feature a recipe from Nigeria, and friends, I have a new family favorite. Nigerian Baked Beans! Who would have ever guessed it? One of the things I am loving about this ATWI30D project is discovering all these amazing recipes in books I've had for years - and so many new flavors and combinations of flavors that I wouldn't have expected.
Without this special theme for VeganMoFo, I doubt I ever would have given this recipe a second glance. But, boy, did we both love it! Yet another hit from World Vegetarian. This recipe does take a while... you gotta soak and cook the beans, then they bake for 2 hours (though I cheated and we had our first serving after about one hour and 15 minutes, and they were great!). But even if you do go the whole long-term route with this recipe, you won't be disappointed. Plus, they're just sitting there in the oven the whole time, so you can be catching up on reading blogs for mofo, or practicing your headstand, or whatever you're into.
These amazing baked beans have got tomatoes, onions, curry, peanut butter... so many lovely flavors that all add up to an unexpectedly harmonious result. I thought they might be crazy rich, but instead they were only perfectly rich... and I was quite sorry when the leftovers were gone the next day. I'll definitely plan on making these yummies again and again. Deeelish!
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Damn, that looks and sounds very nice. Better than the Nigerian bean recipe I featured at Vegventures, even though it was good too.ReplyDelete
These look super! And it reminds me that I need to make some baked beans.ReplyDelete
That sounds absolutely delectable, and I have that cookbook! I think I'll be making these.ReplyDelete
curry and peanut butter? sounds so different but I do love baked beans. I would love to try this.ReplyDelete
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World Vegetarian sounds like a great book, I am going to have to check it out. Those beans sound delicious, I never would have thought to put peanut butter in a baked bean recipe.ReplyDelete
It sounds like the beans are worth the wait! Peanut butter? That sounds really really good. I love trying new favor combinations that aren't too traditional!ReplyDelete
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In late spring or early summer of 1842, Isaac Hecker had a vision. Standing beside him, so it seemed, was "a beautiful angelic pure being" whose presence gave him "a most heavenly pure joy." Here was a life-changing experience that set the young man, just 22 at the time, in search of a way of life that would somehow correspond to it.
Although it isn't recorded that Hecker had other visions after that, in a larger sense the founder of the Paulist Fathers remained a visionary all his life.
His great goal was the conversion of Protestant America to Catholicism, something he was convinced could happen. After all, he said, in the United States "true religion will find a reception it has in vain looked for elsewhere."
If he ever is declared a saint (the process began in 2008 and he now has the title "Servant of God"), you could imagine him being named patron of the Americanist impulse in American Catholicism. On the level of ideas, no one before or since has done more than Isaac Hecker did to promote Catholic assimilation into the secular culture of the United States.
He was born Dec. 18, 1819, in New York, third son and youngest child of a German-American immigrant family. The Heckers were bakers, a trade Isaac also pursued. But from early on, though having few if any ties with a church, he exhibited an uncommon interest in religion.
In time, that led him to the vaguely religious movement of New England intellectuals called Transcendentalism and to the experimental communities at Brook Farm and Fruitland. Traveling in these heady circles, the young man at first was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the most prominent American thinker of the early 19th century. Eventually, though, he soured on Emersonian beliefs, complaining that the great man had "no conception of church."
Around this time he met and became friends with Orestes Brownson, a well-known writer and lecturer on religion and social questions and a religious-seeker like Hecker. Brownson, 16 years his senior, pointed him in the direction of Catholicism. As early as April 1843, Hecker wrote in his diary, "The Catholic Church alone seems to satisfy my wants." On Aug. 1, 1844, he was baptized by Bishop (later, Cardinal) John McCloskey of New York. Brownson took the same step soon after.
Feeling called to the priesthood, Hecker joined the Redemptorist order, and, following seminary studies in Belgium, he was ordained in October 1849 by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman of Westminster.
Back in the United States, Father Hecker labored as a Redemptorist missionary. As his vision of a Catholic America grew and took shape, he also started setting his ideas down on paper. The result was the book "Questions of the Soul." Published in 1855, it was widely discussed and won its author a national reputation.
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Arguing that Protestantism failed to meet the needs of seekers like himself, he wrote that the time was approaching when the Catholic Church would be seen as the only satisfactory answer. "Hecker called for nothing less than a Catholic America, for the sake not of the Church but of the nation and its people," according to biographer David O'Brien.
Moving quickly to take advantage of his book's success, Father Hecker two years later published "Aspirations of Nature," a volume spelling out his evangelizing vision for the United States and the logic of its conversion to Catholicism. To his sorrow, "Aspirations" received much less attention than its predecessor. Especially disappointing to the author was a review by Orestes Brownson in his own Quarterly Review.
Brownson dismissed the idea that America was congenial ground for Catholic missionary work. The number of "earnest seekers" was, he maintained, far less than Hecker supposed, and indeed there was "scarcely a trait in the American character ... that is not more or less hostile to Catholicity."
In the meantime, Hecker was growing increasingly dissatisfied with the Redemptorists, whom he found more interested in giving parish missions for German immigrants than in converting intellectuals like his old Brook Farm friends. In August 1857 he made an unauthorized trip to Rome to argue his case with the order's head. Instead, he was expelled from the order for his pains.
But by no means was the trip a dead loss. While in Rome he met Pope Pius IX and won the pope's support for his ambitious scheme of evangelization. Back in the United States the following year, he and four other ex-Redemptorists joined in establishing a new order — the Congregation of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, better known as the Paulist Fathers.
In the years that followed, Father Hecker was a busy man, traveling constantly to deliver lectures to largely non-Catholic audiences. On one such trip, he covered 4,500 miles and spoke to some 30,000 people — a considerable number in the days before radio, television and social media. "He is putting American machinery into the old ark and is getting ready to run her by steam," one writer remarked.
In 1865 he launched a magazine, The Catholic World, which was to continue publishing for more than a century. The following year he founded a publishing house, Paulist Press.
During the First Vatican Council (1869-70), Father Hecker wangled a place on its fringes as a representative of the non-attending bishop of Columbus, Ohio. At first he agreed with the faction that opposed issuing a formal definition of the doctrine of papal infallibility at that time, but after the council defined the dogma anyway he welcomed it and even saw it as a potential boost to evangelizing America.
Early in 1870, he sent his friend Brownson a remarkable letter from Rome that evoked a no less remarkable response. Seldom have the terms of the debate over the situation of the Church in America been set out more starkly than in Hecker's missive and Brownson's reply.
Hecker wrote with characteristic enthusiasm of the reception he'd received from Europeans who envied American-style separation of church and state. Here was affirmation of something he'd long believed: American democracy was "giving an extension to [the Church's] influence, adding a new title of gratitude for her services, and showing in a new light the absolute necessity of Religion for civil society & good government."
Brownson wasn't buying it. While supporting the American system as "the legal & only practicable form," he said, he judged it to be in fundamental conflict with Catholicism. "Catholics as well as others imbibe the spirit of the country ... freedom from all restraint, unbounded license. So far are we from converting the country, we cannot hold our own."
Soon after Vatican I, Hecker's health went into decline. He passed his last years in a semi-invalid state, increasingly isolated within the community he'd founded. Worn out by illness and disappointed hopes, he died on Dec. 21, 1888, after blessing the Paulists with whom he lived.
Inevitably, Isaac Hecker's name is linked to what now is known as "Americanism." The story, a tangled one, briefly is this.
In 1896, "Life of Isaac Thomas Hecker" by a Paulist named Walter Elliott was published in a French translation with a long introduction by a liberal French priest that made exaggerated claims for Hecker. Meanwhile Rome was becoming worried about trends in liberal Catholic thought in Europe that it associated with the Church in the United States and the founder of the Paulists.
In 1899, Pope Leo XIII published a document — nominally addressed to the leader of the American hierarchy, Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore — in which the Pope specifically condemned ideas that he summed up under the heading "Americanism."
Historians sympathetic to the Americanizing of American Catholicism typically shrug off the papal critique and call Americanism a "phantom heresy." But Pope Leo's document contains a remarkably prescient warning against attitudes common in American Catholicism today. Notable among these is the pick-and-choose approach to Church teaching often called "cafeteria Catholicism."
Still, it's only fair to ask how much any of this has to do with Isaac Hecker. Now, as in his lifetime, he is best understood as an ardent visionary and determined optimist who wanted Catholics to join the American mainstream in order to convert it. If that hasn't happened quite yet, it's hardly Hecker's fault.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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Talk:Tips for flying
So, I removed a tip to the tune of, "Report anyone suspicious or different to airline personnel immediately." Reporting people who are different seems a little spooky. Can anyone give a better way to say this? Without sounding too McCarthyist? --Evan 02:12, 4 Jun 2004 (EDT)
Avoid booking flight segments close together
I have some problems with this tip. It is predicated on the notion that you have to clear security between flights, which is nonsense on domestic flights at most airports, and ignores the fact that airports differ widely in their ease of getting around. Text revision follows. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 10:26, 24 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Could anyone re-state this more clearly? I'm not sure I understand the complex question well enough for simplyfing it myself.
In my experience, there may be choice on what route your flight will be changed to, but it is really rare case when traveller may decide to not fly at all, even for some compensantion. Another point I'd like to add is that, for example, Austrian Airlines offers 600EUR compensation IN ADDITION to alternative way to flight, not INSTEAD of it. I believe it would be smart to collect such experiences, as such compensation policies are internal to specific companies and are never published officially. --DenisYurkin 06:18, 17 Oct 2005 (EDT)
boarding time
Can someone clarify what 'Boarding time' means when printed on boarding ticket? Is it 'deadline for boarding' or 'boarding starts at'? --DenisYurkin 14:06, 18 Oct 2005 (EDT)
Great article
I haven't been over here in a while, and this has turned into a exemplar "Tips for..." article. The random bullet points layout of many of them is depressing, this is a breath of fresh air. Hypatia 23:27, 24 July 2006 (EDT)
Videos on exercises at your seat
> Most airlines will now periodically show video programs you can follow to get some exercise in your seat
I've never seen such videos on any of european carriers--was it meant primarily US carriers? Changed to SOME instead of MOST in a meanwhile. --DenisYurkin 04:26, 6 November 2006 (EST)
Extended Delay vs Cancelled Flight
We need a clarification in this article on what is considered an Extended/Long Delay (as used in Refund for delayed flight orOfficial Passenger Rights) vs Flight Cancellation. For example, when you have a 24-hour delay due to broken aircraft, which is promised to get repaired and then the flight by that aircraft will be provided (and any other flights by that time declared to be fully booked), is it a long delay or rather a cancelled flight? --DenisYurkin 04:47, 6 November 2006 (EST)
OK for dedicated PassengerRights page?
It looks more convenient to have all the Passenger Rights-related information in a separate page: Overbooking, Flight Cancellation, Long Delays. The main reason for separation is that passenger rights info is needed when you least expect it, unlike the rest of Tips for flying that are read once, in advance and is hardly used during your flights. I would also move there the PassengerRights section from Europe#By plane to have all the related information in one place. Anyone would object on such a separation? --DenisYurkin 06:59, 6 November 2006 (EST)
Delayed flight affected working day
I heard that according to some EU regulations, a delay in flight that overlapped working day for a passenger are subject to certain compensation. Does anyone know any official links to information like this? Any success stories known when a particular sum was compensated for a reason like this? --DenisYurkin 13:09, 7 November 2006 (EST)
luggage can be stolen by airport personnel
> In some airports, security of checked luggage is also an issue, as contents may be stolen by airport personnel while the baggage is in transit to and from your plane.
In early-90s Russia this was also the case, especially when many people bought PCs and VCRs in Moscow and they brought it themselves to their regions by air. Typical solution for that in Russia was to bribe personnel who normally handles luggage after it's checkied in.
Does it make sense to put a recommendation like this? BTW, Justfred, in what countries do you think it still happens? --DenisYurkin 06:09, 28 November 2006 (EST)
Direct/nonstop flights
Just a couple of things about direct/nonstop flights. First, they are not always more expensive than those with mere stopovers. In fact, when I recently checked the price of tickets for a certain airline, those where one had to change planes/make a stopover turn out to be more expensive. Second, direct flights in some cases may not use the same aircraft on all legs. For instance, when I was travelling back to Manila from LA in 1999, I had to stopover via Osaka and we were on a certain flight number for Northwest. From LA to Osaka, we used a 747-200 while from Osaka to Manila, a 747-400 was utilised, all carrying the same flight number. Other things that can change in each leg of a direct flight is the crew who will be accompanying passengers on succeeding legs. Depending on the airline and airport, passengers continuing on a direct flight will have to a) stay on the aircraft, b) wait in the transit area to be reboarded onto that same aircraft, c) choose either a or b or d) change planes.
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E-ticket vs. the paper ticket
Another suggestion I have is to try to put a section dedicated to e-tickets and comparing and contrasting them with paper tickets, giving their respective pros and cons.
What to carry on
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Hi everybody!
I was trying a Puppy derivative (Lxpup) but I had a problem about boot and I would like to know if there is a solution.
I put the ISO on a CD and I tried on a couple of pc, without any problem, but after that I tried on this hardware:
- Thin Client HP t5720 (cpu Sempron 2100+ / 1GB ram / flash disk 8M)
- external CD drive, having its own supply and connected with usb
After the initial boot and driver loading, it appears a message: unable to find the sfs.
The cd is ok because I tried on other pc, as I said at the beginning.
Then I tried with an older Puppy version (4.3.1) and with the latest Puppy release.
With the older one there are no problem but with the latest it's the same.
I never have had this problem in the past and then I'm going on with the test, using various derivatives and it seems the same behaviour.
Then, I think that maybe it could be something about kernel and/or driver.
Is it right? could I do anything to solve this problem?
Many thanks in advance for any suggestion.
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Try to copy vmlinuz, initrd.gz, isolinux.cfg, .sfs file from cd to hd. Open with geany isolinux.cfg on hd and change "pmedia=cd" with "pmedia=atahd". Boot the cd with option:
"boot:" puppy pmedia=atahd
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Hi watchdog, thanks for Your reply.
I see Your suggestion, it's a nice workaround and I will try it.
In order to be able to write on hd, I should start with puppy 4.3.1 and then to copy that files from the other one (say, Lxpup).
But, I also could go on with a manual frugal install:
- boot with 4.3.1
- copy the files of Lxpup to hd
- use the grub installer of the 4.3.1
Ok, yesterday I was lost, now I have two solutions (maybe)
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I had a problem with unetbootin/slacko, it may however not be relevant to this particular problem but it does seem somewhere along the same lines.
Using unetbootin and a slacko 5.4 ISO I created a bootable USB pen drive and all went well up to the point where the slacko system sfs failed to load and the boot sequence exited to a console command prompt.
Pressing F3 and trying out the advanced options didnt seem to change things. Finally I looked at the USB drive and noticed both isolinux.cfg and syslinux.cfg had pmedia=cd on the boot command line, I amended both to pmedia=usbflash and then the sfs file was found and the boot could proceed.
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Hi Peterm321, thanks for the description of Your experience and the related suggestion.
I apologize for this, but in my post I forgot to say that I also have tried to change the pmedia options, without success.
Your suggestion (and the similar from watchdog) has as assumption to be able to edit and/or copy some files.
They are both nice workaround but they are no applicables with the "cd-iso" alone.
My hope was about some "hidden" parameters or setup at boot stage...
However, yesterday evening I made a manual frugal install, starting the pc with a 4.3.1 (and, let me say, till now it has the best hw compatibility I have ever seen, I use it as a swiss knife!
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So, from a certain point of view now the pc is running but I must say I keep both suggestion in evidence if in future I will have to check again some Puppy derivatives
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Hi inoxidabile
The strange thing was that I tried passing pmedia=usbflash via the boot: command line but it didnt work until I amended the .cfg files. It was as if the code that searches for the SFS file only considered its .cfg file and not the commands passed at run time. Being a bootable read/write usb device, these files can be amended quite quickly.
ISOs can be remastered then burnt to a CD/DVD but that is rather more work than editing .cfg files on a usb drive unfortunately.
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Hi Peterm321,
I had the same thought... I believed that it's enough to change the setup on boot with pmedia options and someone on the web says this.
But in Your experience and also in mine it isn't true and in my opinion this is very strange and maybe it would be worthy considering by someone more skilled than me
I agree with You, it's very uncomfortable to edit iso also because it could become a "solution" only for that hw and in an othre case it should be changed again
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Two things I care strongly about are the navigation and stereo systems. The navigation system works great but the map is not as detailed as my Magellan portable device. But it is certainly much better than in the Avalon. The Lacrosse's nav works independently or in conjunction with OnStar and with the eNav feature you can download directions from MapQuest and Google maps directly to your car. Still, XM traffic is great and is well worth the extra $3.99 monthly fee.
The sound system is very good but the bass sounds a little muffled (much better now), certainly not as clear as the JBL in the Avalon. I don't have an iPod (yet?--still don't) so I have not yet used that feature but recording my CDs directly to the hard drive make a CD changer look primitive by comparison.
On the road the car gives me pleasure as I drive each mile. The ride is firmer than the Avalon but not as taut as in the Genesis. I believe GM got it just right, plush but not floatty, firm but not hard. The handling is crisp, the car soaks out road bumps, and the adaptive suspension really does work. The adaptive suspension can best be explained as walking barefoot on gravel. You feel every pebble under your foot so you adjust your walking accordingly. I am averaging about 18.10 MPG overall, down from 19 mpg one year ago, because I do a lot of stop and go driving as well as I left the engine running idle on a couple of occasions for well over two hours. True story, the engine is so quiet that sometimes I forget to shut it off.
Final verdict: The CXS is an alluring, upscale and great car! I like the looks of the 19" wheels but I hate the ride on rough roads. (Update: After break-in the ride has become very quiet and handling is superb especially in Sport Mode)
tjc78, I hope this helps.0
popsavalon Posts: 231Sounds like a good vehicle. The only major differences I see are the mileage figures (bad), interior room (especially the rear seats), and rear visibility.
I looked at one, but just could not give up the Avalon's 30 MPG on the road and the extra room, no matter how bland some folks think the styling is.0
Thanks, Bwia. I am going to test drive one soon.
2017 Buick Enclave / 2017 Hyundai Elantra0
Yes, in fact it will likely be a 2013 as they aren't announcing until the fall of 2012.
This I knew and should have better stated it É sorry.
Sandman6472 Coral Springs, FLPosts: 4,701Saw a new Avalon last night and it is a stunning car...a little large for what we're looking for but it looked beautiful in the white color. At first, I thought it was a jaguar from the rear until my kid was able to read the name of the car from the chrome strip on the trunk. Very nice looking ride! Hopefully, this style will trickle down to the new Corolla...something similar to what Hyundai has done with the Sonata, Elantra & the Accent...that I'd be very interested in for the wife!
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Nice, but words aren't what I'm looking to see:)
It's nice, but that looks a lot like a Nissan badge on front?
- http://cars4fast.net/2013-toyota-avalon/2013-toyota-avalon-1-2/#comment-3653
That is a Nissan badge, because that picture was used for a Maxima concept a good while ago.
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loucapri Posts: 2141) soft material inside
2) optional seat memory
3) HID option
4) better leather quality
5) 2nd row glass roof
Most important = better looking
Avalon always being viewed as BORING and Yes, I have to agree after owning 2 Avalon Limited. The inside is good, very comfortable (for me) but I still found hard plastic on the dash side.
I just hope the new one (if Toyota plans to keep this line) will have the same back seat space as the current model. One reason we buy the Avalon is the near flat floor on the 2nd row, makes it easy to get in and out. Someone can actually use the middle seat0
ushy66 Posts: 366Hey Guys-
Check out the Toyota web site (http://www.toyota.com/upcoming-vehicles/avalon/)! A really COOL/futuristic design with all the tech bells and whistles. AND, it reportedly will be coming out in a HYBRID version soon after the non-hybrid version. They will sell like hotcakes! Reportedly, will be available at dealers Fall of 2012.
This article gives pics of the new Avalon, and says deliveries start this summer.
Looks good to me!0
jeffm5 Posts: 123I have a 2005 Limited that's been a great car. I'm ready to update, but I'm very disappointed in the looks of the 2013 Avy. That lower grill ruins what looks like an otherwise good looking car. I know many others may like that look, but it reminds me of a wide mouth bass. I'll be hanging onto my '05 awhile longer while I shop around. Maybe the look will grow on me.
One of today's articles that I saw said that the rear seats no longer recline and still don't fold down. But, the trunk is larger.0
stormin800 Posts: 39It is great to finally see pictures of the 2013 Avalon, but is the front of the car UGLY !! The rest of it looks good, but I will bet that rear seat headroom is less. I have owned 3 avalons (03,06 and just bought a 2011 at a considerable discount). After seeing the pictures, I am so glad I bought the 2011. It is better than my 2006 which I loved, but it was starting to cost (tires,water pump,brakes and no where near as tight as the new 2011. I love the 2011 !! The dashboard glare can be annoying ,but unless the real thing looks better than the pictures, I will hold on to my supposed fuddy duddy looking 2011.0
fin atlantaPosts: 594While the "new" 2013 Avalon is perhaps new in appearance, it may be similar to the current model in many ways. But if this car is really all new...and it looks good to me except maybe the grille is a little bold.... then it might be best to wait for a second year edition to get the minor flaws worked out. The current generation got better as time passed, except for the headlight issue. There are dozens of posts in this forum and others warning about first editions of any new model.
Now, if this is a "gotta have" in your garage, I agree, you write the check, you get the car. For me, I wait a while, see how much is new, how much is retained from the current model. The larger trunk is a great, backseat big enough, .....very tempting.......0
ushy66 Posts: 366While I do like some elements of the front grill design, I agree it's a bit over the top---looks too much like the grill of the Hyundai Hybrid Sonata. I had hoped the design team in Ann Arbor would have come up with a better front end design closer to the front of the Tesla Model S Sedan ( http://www.teslamotors.com/models/gallery) which has a much better look with more graceful lines/appearance. However, since many of you all seem to not like the front end/grill appearance, keep up the chatter so Toyota will perhaps listen and modify the design to one that is more acceptable to more folks, as the final design may not yet be etched in stone. The new Avalon will probably not begin production for 1-3 months.
obyone Posts: 8,054This big mouth bass approach surely will turn off a lot of owners thinking of upgrading.
Still the best looking Toyota
I truly hope the 2013 Avalon does NOT have that hideous front design. The upper part looks like a hump whale with a Camry grill slapped on; the lower grille is ....well just plain UGLY.0
Well if it looks as nice in person as it does in pictures, I'll keep my 2013 Dark Blue LTD one on order, and be real happy when I get it.
- Quieter?
- Low Noise Glass / Wipers?
- Much Classier inside and out - IMO
- Although it's only a bit smaller - not liking that (Yet)
- ??? $?
- Fuel economy
- Quieter and smother ride
Rear seems to have more control, over the heat / air, that could be nice.
Trunk doesn't look like it will be easy to get big things in and out of?
Some of the above could sway me one way or the other.
If I didn't have 3 business meeting here Saturday, I was all set to drive to NY, and check it out in person. Now I'll have to wait like everyone else until it hit's the dealers showroom floor.
Now it's just a waiting game to see reviews from the industry to see what they have to say, that's if the reviews come in before we get to check it out in person. And reviews on cars are pretty much like reviews on just about everything else - nice guidelines for things to look out for, but by no means the final reason to buy or not buy anything.
I will say, after checking out all the colors, the Cypress Pearl looks kind of nice, rich, interesting?0
Ok, so what would you like changed and what do you hope the 2013 Avalon has or keeps from previous models?
- Rear Window Shade
- Smooth and quiet run (BUT is even BETTER)
- Reasonable pricing
Has or are options:
- Rear Window Shade (it looks like it does have one)
- Rear Window Passenger Shades
- Redesigned Grill (maybe 20% smaller)
- GPS that can be used while driving (maybe a button on passengers side, for them)
- GPS that can be up-dated by owners via email / internet
- GPS you can up-load routes to (love this feature on my Garmin)
- A bit better fit & finish. Mines nice, but not great, and the paint seems to scratch to easy.
- Door Handle Scratch Guards. (Clear Poly is fine with me)
- Left-hand side coin tray (great for tools and self service car washes)
Has or is changed from what we see so far:
- Smaller Grill (20% smaller would be nice)
- Larger Trunk Opening
- A Fancy "A" Logo for all the marking on the car (Instead of the "T" symbol).
Entune? If you have to be stopped to use it?
Entune? If you have to have a "Smart Phone" to get the most out of it?
Entune? If it's a pay for service, how much for what?
I travel a fair amount, and IF the traffic part of Entunes works and is accurate, I'll like it.0
-Excellent current ride, quietness, reliability and fuel efficiency
-Large interior space
-More leg room for driver (more aft travel of driver's seat; there is plenty of space behind it)
-More extension/further reach of telescopic steering wheel0
Looks good but as others have mentioned that grill is out of character. Perhaps Toyota is smitten by the Audi and Chrysler 300 huge grill fettish but I'm not impressed.
Still don't like the dash and console. It looks dated and staid even before it hits the showroom but I can live with it. Infotainment/telematics is now common in the cheapest of autos so I'm hoping that Toyota will give us something that is intuitive and easy to use. Basically voice activation for all basic functions.
When it comes to price I am hoping that the top of the line should list for around $38K with navigation and the base model at $34K.0
Here is an excerpt "And speaking of faces: is that a gigantic chrome egg-crate- textured, horizontal water-melon hanging out of the front of the "all new, emotional" Toyota Avalon? Yet another "all new" Toyota face, another brand striving for consistent visual identity?
"Faces" on cars do matter, folks! And not that many car companies understand that."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/boblutz/2012/04/11/how-designers-put-a-face-on-cars/- 2/
This is the part of the new design I can't warm up to, it's overdone. I might stay with my 2011 Avalon.0
The Detroit Free Press reports that the Japanese automaker told dealers at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Las Vegas, NV recently that the next generation Avalon will get better fuel economy than the Fiat 500. Or, so this thing says:
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/02/08/next-toyota-avalon-to-best-fiat-500s-fuel-eco- nomy/
The big lower grill on the new design is getting a lot of criticism. I hope it looks better in person. It makes me think of Audis, which isn't bad.0
I don't mind a couple of dings on my front bumper, but now there is none. Also, if in NJ, where do you put the front license plate, unless they did away with it. Make the grill a little smaller, move it up to take the place of where the Toyota insignia is, and center it (replacing the smaller grill opening) between the head lights where the narrow smaller opening now is. Then you have an overall winner, and a car with a bumper returned (slightly ahead of the grill so if touched by another car, in parking, the bumper is touched first, not the grill) and a place to hang a plate. Just my humble thoughts. Other then that, this sounds like the best Avalon to date. If they do this, I'm a buyer. I hope they see the light and make the change. That seems to be the major complaint from all I've been reading, hopefully they read it too. As it is, I won't buy it, it's not practical. They didn't think it through. When they got rid of the old real chrome steel bumpers, to plastic that was one thing, but to get rid of a bumper in the front is nuts. Good luck to all.0


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There has been recent discussion of having certain Western Maryland counties secede and become a separate state. In addition, the governor of Texas is running ads touting his state as a better place in which to live and do business.
This brings to mind a recent trend that I have noticed. At least some of the people that I know are "voting with their feet."
As a retired school teacher, many of my friends and acquaintances are retired school teachers. In recent years, some of these retired school teachers have moved to Delaware. They did not choose to retire to Delaware to be nearer family members, and certainly not to move to a better climate. They made this decision due to the significantly lower tax rate.
Delaware has no sales tax, and the state's income tax and property tax rates are about two-thirds Maryland's rate. Delaware also has far fewer annoyance fees such as the "flush tax" and newly-implemented "rain tax." And as recently as this past summer, the Maryland gasoline tax was raised significantly, making it 15 percent higher than in Delaware.
These retired teachers are receiving their retirement pensions from the Maryland State Teachers Retirement System, and the system is funded, at least in part, by Maryland general funds. This means that Maryland taxpayer dollars are going to these new citizens of Delaware, presumably to be spent in Delaware. This also means that these new citizens of Delaware will be using their Maryland retirement money to pay their state taxes in Delaware.
Delaware's total budget for 2012 was about $3.5 billion, and Maryland's was about 10 times as large, at $35 billion. But Delaware is approximately one-fifth the size of Maryland, both in population and in land area. This means that Delaware's per-capita budget was about half that of Maryland's. This flies against the normal economic expectation that an increase in size usually means less per-capita expenditures.
Does Maryland really have to spend twice as much per citizen as Delaware? Does Maryland supply twice as much in services?
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Eagles gearing up to stop Packers workhorse Eddie Lacy now that Aaron Rodgers is out
PHILADELPHIA – With Aaron Rodgers injured, the Philadelphia Eagles expect the Green Bay Packers to play old-school football.
The Packers (5-3) have relied heavily on passing for more than two decades behind the arms of Brett Favre and Rodgers. Now they're likely to put the ball in Eddie Lacy's hands as much as possible.
Seneca Wallace, released by two teams this year, will be the quarterback against the Eagles (4-5) on Sunday because Rodgers fractured his collarbone in a loss to Chicago. Wallace, who is 6-15 in 21 starts during an 11-year career, is hardly the same threat.
"They're going to bring it. We expect to have that mindset where we need to man up against the run and win our battles," Eagles rookie defensive tackle Bennie Logan said. "It's a focus for our defense. They've got some physical running backs and we have to get after the ball, hit them hard and wear them down. The whole defense has to get in there against the run."
Lacy, a rookie out of Alabama, has solidified Green Bay's run game, a feature that's been missing from the offense for years. Lacy has 596 yards rushing, four touchdowns and is averaging 4.4 yards a carry.
Since returning from a concussion that forced him to miss almost two full games, Lacy has averaged 24 carries and 109 yards over the last five games. He had 150 yards in Monday night's loss to Chicago.
The 5-foot-11, 231-pound back should be even more of a workhorse with Rodgers sidelined. James Starks, averaging 6.0 yards a carry, teams with Lacy to give the Packers a tough 1-2 punch.
They'll need it without their 2011 NFL MVP.
"They made a concerted effort even before Aaron got hurt to run the ball, and they had been running the ball pretty effectively before Aaron got hurt," Eagles coach Chip Kelly said. "So I think it's a real concern of ours because they're two big backs, they're two physical backs."
Despite having the worst-ranked defense in the NFL, the Eagles are decent against the run. They've allowed just 103.8 yards on the ground over the last five games. Lacy and Starks will be the toughest test for Philadelphia's front seven since facing Kansas City's Jamaal Charles in Week 3.
"They're downhill, run-you-over, angry runners," defensive coordinator Billy Davis said. "And they're getting a lot of production out of them. We've got our hands full to stop their run game. When they commit to the run, like they have lately, they've got a solid offensive line, and they run behind their pads well with their running backs."
The Packers are ranked sixth in rushing with an average of 148.6 yards a game. They haven't been a top-10 rushing team since Ahman Green was the featured back in 2004.
NOTES: Eagles QB Michael Vick and LB Jake Knott are doubtful with hamstring injuries. CB Bradley Fletcher (chest) is questionable. Nick Foles will start for Vick, though Kelly still hasn't confirmed it. Foles tied an NFL record with seven touchdown passes last Sunday in a win at Oakland. Rookie Matt Barkley took reps as the backup.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org
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Here is a map that Andrew Grumet and I came up with in 2002, inspired by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway map which was designed in 1965-1967 by Tom Geismar when he was a partner at Chermayeff and Geismar in Cambridge at Putnam Circle, a few blocks from my house. Geismar's map for the Boston T was the first subway map in the US that used color for the different subway lines. That idea was borrowed from subway maps in European cities. The 1960's design overhaul of the Boston subway system included everything: the cars, the hanging straps, even the turnstiles. Working on this site map converted me into a wild fan of urban subway maps and their subculture!
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The 2018 edition of the Screentek International Junior Tour of the Mendips got going on wet and cold roads south of Bristol today.
The 3 stage, 2 day race started with a shorter version of last years Time Trial route based along the shores of Chew Valley Lake.
Early starters were treated to rain soaked roads with first man off & former BCDS member George Bazley (Bristol RC) posting the initial fastest time of 5:57 that stood until toppled by last years Winner Oscar Mingay from PH-Mas/ Paul Milnes cycles pipping Bazleys time by a single second.
Oscar remained in the lead until the final 20 riders and the drying roads may have helped play their part as Sam Culverwell from Jersey edged out a second to better Mingays time, But it was Leicester Road clubs Alex Hains Who raised the bar considerably to post the new benchmark time of 5:49. A time that looked like it may not be beaten that was until Zappis Ben Healy set a new time of 5:43 to take the leaders Jersey into stage 2.
Stage 2 took place on drier roads on the top of the Mendip Hills.
The bunch rolled out on the same route as used by the time trial passing the finish line to take on the days only climb the tough slopes of West Harptree hill.
Attacks came in thick and fast on the lower slopes as riders looked to attack off the front of the group, it was Lee Valley Youths Marco Passfield who took the sprint to take the KOM Cranepart.comeaders jersey into Sundays stage.
The race then passed 7 laps of a triangular circuit near Cheddar. The rolling nature of the roads allowed the attacks to come in thick and fast with Louis Priddle (Mid Devon CC) and Brecon Burnett (Welsh Cycling Team) forcing the pace with a number of attacks in a number of opening laps.
The attacks continued until a group of 5 continued to edge out a gap over 30 secs through the intermediate sprints. The bunch kept tabs on the leaders allowing them up to 50 secs advantage before pulling them back with 4 laps to go.
It was 4 laps to go that the attacks restarted with Matthew Ellis ( Soenes Boom) jumping clear, panic set in behind with others looking to jump clear and form a group as the race entered the closing laps. Matthew was joined up front by Thomas Gloag ( VC Londres) chasing hard to get across.
The penultimate sprint saw Matthew Ellis race to the line ahead of Louis Priddle and Sam Allen (Lee Valley Youth) in a chasing group of 3 containing George Mills-Keeling (Pro Vision) and Spokes RTs Ben Barlow 20 secs back but closing fast.
The make-up of the group was strained and reformed with a new make-up of Sam Allen, David Middleton (Sunset Cycles RT), Owain Roberts (Wales) Theo Modell (Wheelbase Cabtech JRT) and Coey Bale (Cycle team on Form) building a gap that grew quickly to close to 2 mins with little reaction from the bunch. Into the closing half lap of the 8 mile circuit the bunch began to chase but the gap was holding at 1min, it was unclear if the gap could hold on or if we would be treated to a bunch sprint.
Race Radio was frantic as the gaps continue to drop and vehicles were pulled out of the space to avoid hampering the chase, the leading riders rounded the final bend fully across the road initiating the sprint with the bunch now tantalisingly close to the catch. But it was Matthew Ellis who took the sprint ahead of Spokes Dylan Hughes and Toby Perry (Thanet RC). Louie Priddle took 4th after a long day on the attack just ahead of Alexander Dent (Spokes RT) and Corey Bale (Cycle Team On Form) taking the bunch sprint 17secs back from the winner.


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