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HUNTLEY ^^irfe VOLUME IC — NUMira SI IHUItSDAY. OOTQBBR 8«, 1975 1 — H Na Aaaver 4«»>1«M ^'* **.i^701 afi. -Kftt: 0-i Z wtV- - 203 S. MAin !!UNrLY 60142 ILL '"%.. :.*.^i.^... i« rsam tv PWficov Hopraunr sokm im» ISO rra Cory Halloween To coapdlwito KiClUffean aelifi* Uaa ot (be innwwMMty a&d Meaoaa ol oupcwit over Ihe aiialy eCoiiil- dnen duriag uHafioween tihe foUow- ing aaggestions have been made. (1) NEVER kft aassB diUikatt «o ttUkot^tn^Hot daoa. Th^r aboold ba aoeotDfaniad by older dnUreD or adolts. (2) SattttkJMt «rtciMr4R»t found* W OOflDDBO ID iMlr OWB Wh^M yjitc>odli> wd to pftofic Ifacy KKOW. (3) lypMlrt^hBuaaiwiamtettw obndreB uMlocywnfpcd or aaalad treate oaly. Soma ouqr aMi to ihw moMy la plaoe of traatt. No loaae or BauuvMiul oandy, popoofs, inut or other aoodks. (4) VrfB GhfldPen to waMcaH «bcy getfaaoM to taate dieii'TVBats" 30 tbat parents can first iOBpeot ¦NBi. Mpoit MOT mMMi ar eav^ KMB vBHi «> fare—, aaw eeK ¦bA XHBcatbar nlwra yovflol tt. (5) Ask hooMhoUees to keep ax- terior or poRb nifils on ttiaft avie- aioc ifllMgr «Mi to participate. Ad- i4m <liiMt«Q ta eril oeAy at boatea «(lbli|Ms OB aad to abay oat «< dartDesed arOak. («) Warn actfaat tbe ii««ii« o< vMoB-reatiiotad Kanaweea aMks er Mbar head^ovana^ by yoaafMcfa. Uae oakriM Haelaa aMfeaop iiiBtead. (7) AdvMa cMnrao to acar caa- taawB iMeh are Ugbt in oolor. ahort to pravMUt trivial* and noo- Cbituntes «an be oower- •d wMi nOeDtive te^e or "itow" amy paiat so tliey i4ck up tbe of aoto headlights and other <t) CMbren ^xwtd carry n«ah- BUbla after dark. If a pnm|*to is emted it abouM be lit wtth a bat- tav^l^itod davioe. not a caofie. (9 CUUMn sboadd be told: (1) cfTosf only at uunuera, nover bctMatu oaia aad newer dkafoHlly aooas aa inte(«e<3bion (2) watch for and ab«y aa tMlBe Bi^rfs (3) kook In all (SractlanB boBore croailwt the atreci (4) Mflk. never ran aeroaa Ihe street (5) use stdenmUs, not the atreat, for waBdny ^ nttai areas where no sldawitfkis, cUldren sboold agrik agaiaet on«oaiiag tralfie. (6) wait on the ODit>, not <»i the street, natf! street is dear to cross. (10) Want moitoiiats to eaercise extreme caution on HaUoweaa be- cawe of the estra "apook" traftie. (U) Soccest Btifbbors night or- •laae tdoek parties in plaoe of trlek-oHreatiBc. "nkk or Treat Ni^ is FMday. Oct 31. 5:30-7:00 pjn. 2nd Antntal Childrens Halloween Party ^•^¦e MMk^ ^^^^HMk ^^t^^^t ^^ad^^M^ 4<k^ vW( voc nmvv w^cn ^cvovv xbk Haloiaeea Party. Oot your ooato- maa readtrt Fofioivlnr ia the final scbeMe of erveoti: Ftiday. ootober M S:30 pun. — 7:00 pjn. IVict or Treatfag Jayoeaa BeaB»ad Ho>as« • U 9«iSt 7K» p.ai. Sfaaip Parade at the Vtti^ Sqisart to the Are ataUon. Agea tar Pmde Prescfaool thru Sth iftade Yesl AduMa too! Juat make auie yoa doitt nnas panade tbte at 7:00 pjn. or yoo tatiy miss oot in winnjnc a priM. A new mti^Kiim aot will offiknv the judging ct oomAumes. Also re- fieatanents wHi be served as soon as each gnoup is finished being jod- ged. The Jr. High and High School Danoe will be held from 9:00 p.m. to 18:00 p.m. Dancing with "Pre A BrimstoBes." Parents. pHease nttke arrange- aients to bave your «hShl picked up •t that time! See you aft October 31st. HEA News JC Haunted House Ilie Hunttey Area laycees will have a Hanatai House between 6:30 pLOi. and 7:00 pm. at the oraner ol 3n] and Chuith Stracta; 58 ard St. Admis$ii(» is free. The Jaycees in¬ vite oU Hunttey idds to come. DON'T FORGET IHE UON*S PANCAKE BREAKFAST THIS SUNDAY NOV 2ND Meet The Queens The Huntley Lion's dub wiH host the "Qneen's Bat" on Novemher 8 at the Lion bediming at 9:00 p.m. Durirtg tho dtaince the seFectlon of tlie Queen will be announced and the judges along with Lomrie Old- iiMn, ohairaian, vM present a short psxjgnam and the Queen will re¬ ceive the gifts donated' by Hunt¬ ley nterahanlis. Her court wiU also receive special gifts. "RciDets are •till available from any Lion's Club meaiber. Door prizes will ind'dde a porUiUe T.V., coffee maker, jewel¬ ry, flower arraneement etxx Piotured are: Katfay Meyer. Lori MoCuen. Sandy KoUey. Sue WeU- sien and Becky Harms. School Menu Meao W«ek of Nav. 3 - 7 Monday — Hamtwrgars on ban, cheese sticks. plckHes, nrastard, cat¬ sups potatoe chips, chilled mixed ftnust, milk. Tuesday — Chai wtth crackers, peanut hiAter and jeSly sandwich, applesauce, mtlk. Wednesday — Ravioli with meat and tomato saoee, buttered green beans, buttered bread, cbooofaite cake, milk. ¦niursday aod Friday — Schod dosmissed at noon. Meeting Notiee Parents and boys between the a«es of 10 and ::3 are invited to an irifontation meeting of the new Pee Wee Tackle FootbaU program of the Huntley Area Jaycees. Tbe meriting wOl be held at 7:30 pjn. iMonday. Nevenfaar Srd is the Grade School Gynmasium. The pur¬ pose «€ the meettng is to expUn to parents the rules ahd retnlabonB of the league and the equipmcaA to be used. Ann interested parentB are invited to attend. The league is aasociated with tbe Fox Valley Boya (Football Lear gue which will stwly the i Oommnssioiier Lou Moore of the Federal Mediation and Concilliaftion Senice trdered as a ground rule that bofij the SScSwol Board and the teachers could have anyone present ithat they desired and the parties were to meet together. The Board natused to follow oomniassioner Moore's gixyxmd rules and did not meet with the teachers although the parties were present in separate rooms fro.Ti 7:30 pjn. - 1:30 a.m. The only dialogue that took place was when the Commissioner con¬ vinced the Board to aUow the teach¬ ers to ask some questions of the Superintendedt. Steve Leavitt, duef spokesman flor the Teachers said, "A major question we wanted to ask was, why is our school district budgeted re\'enue in state aid and local taxes almost the same as last yeans." Ste\'o stated, "The Superin¬ tendent responded by saying that they received a corrected state aid figure but they (fid not put it in the budget, the SuperintMident said that the new figm-e was an ina-easc of $17,000.00. Steve said, "Tlte Superin¬ tendent's explanation of the local tiar figure is the most incredulous .'itory I nave ever heard, the Super- tendenrt adnritted that he made n mistake, that through a mlscatojfl.i- tion in the tax levy, the district will ¦not collect :-5% of the taxes avail¬ able to them, a sum thart amounts to $83,902.00. fiven with this mis¬ take, the budget shows $15,000.00 lass than the actual amount levied." Steve went on, "Tbe Superintendent also agreed thait there is another $15,000.00 he has not put into the budget because he thinks he may have to pay the county for ool- leotlng taxes. A Will Count.y Circuit cdluTt declared it unconstitutional for the county to do this." Steve e.\p!ained, "The $17,000.00 additional from state aid, the $15,- 000.00 more drue from the local taxes, and the $15,000.00 set aside for the ooumty even though no one has asked for it, are amounts that are not -n the budget. Additionally, the Superintendent admits that the ditsriot had a surplus last year ot $57,000.00 which is also not listed in tbe revenue section of the buudget. Tliese figures come out to $104,000.00, we have also found what looks like pad(fing in the budget in certain areas, for exam¬ ple, the Superintendent budgeated $20,000 last year under fixed chais¬ es for insurance and thds year $30,- 000. When we asked him about the adddtiooal $10,000. he sadd be didnt know why." "It is reaily apparent that there is more than suftWent revenue aivailable to pay the teachens what they are astking," said Steve. "We agreed that the difference in our positi*^ is only $21,00O-$25,00a(0O apart, and this is in a bjdget of over $1,000,000.00." Steve further e«i4atoed, "The Sur perintendent agr^ that tbe Board's total pr(^)osal ovar imaremenls was about an average of 3% for some teachers did not represent any raise over their increment. TTiis is ait the same timt that the Chicago area Consumer Price Index rose 7.8% from Septenjber 1974 to Saptember 1975." Steve said, "The Board, the Su- perinteodect, Comniusiioner Moore, and the teachers aU know there is adequate revenue to pay the teach¬ ers what we are asking. These same pec^ know that we deserve more money. The Board wili not meet with us again until Noveniber 3, 1975. We arc atten^itlng to suppoK our families en laat years aaiaiies, this cannot last much longer. The Board's apparent disrespect for the teaohers is causing a great deal of trauma. Wo have beeri directed by the teachers that in toe event we do not settle on November 3 ,1975, a strike \ote is to be taken m November 4, 1975. Board Of Education LETTER At the me^aOon meeting of Oc¬ tober 22 the- board negotiators ob- pected to the direct participation, of a represeritaUve of the QMnois Education Assocwtion. The objec¬ tion was ba<=ed on the 1973 Board- Association ReoognWcMi Agreement which reads in part "Thds recogni¬ tion may bo denned invalid if any outside orgamdzBtion affiliated with the association interferes in board .-md association matters of business unless agreed to by the board ex¬ cept counsel in case of dismissal of a member of the Assodiation. This applies to organizablons af¬ filiated with the board or outside parties hired by "the board to nego¬ tiate." (Editor's Note: This quote was publisdictl in the Humtley Farm- side as part of an aillide Oct. 18, 1973.) Based on the existing agneement, since )ihe entire board wias not avwl- aible to consider EEA iowdvement, the board negotiators were bound to reject IL'A r^wesentation. The mediator meolianed that he would me(>t with anyone, anytime. but told the bo«td negotiatore that if it was important for other rea¬ sons that they qualify who they ntet with, he would respect and honor their position. No new offers were made by eith¬ er side during the six hour sessian. Despite the fact that the HEA had rejected the last board proposal, no new offers were foalhoondng from the HEA. The majority of time was spent discussh^ fund ava^abdli- ty and differing cost figures. At the end of the meeting, the meitator told the Board negotiators that he was not available danng the week cf Ootober 27, and that all federal medkators would be at a National ConveoWon in New Or¬ leans during the week of Novem¬ ber 3. Based on this. Ihe next med^ ation session was set for We(toe»- nesday, Nov. 12. A negotiaUon meet¬ ing was tentatively set l)etwe€n the two negotiating teaaaS for Monday, Nov. 3. it should also be noted that aU District 158 teachers at preset* are under contract and being paid un¬ der the 1974-75 salary agreemeoL Schoo* Code states. "Any teacher who has been emqp>loyed in any dis¬ trict as a fuU time teacher for a probationary pertod of 2 oonseou- tive school tenns shall enter qpon contractual continued servioe," 34 Distiiot 158 are covered by this statement, tfae others have sipied kidi'^^ual oontraolis. To dat'^ the Board of Bduoadon still bas iiome ilexibility in tfae last offer it gave to the HEA, however it will not meet the requests of the HEA. The issue is not that the IXstrict 158 cannot gather enough money, education piiorities oan be rearranged ao as to geoei«te enough nwoey. The Board of Bdwsatilon feels that tbey are paving a fak and just offer and are not wffiing to rearrange education priorities. mTT: XND ANNUAL PARTY PRnUT. OCnnOt 31 The HHA negotiating team held a press conference last Monday, Ootober 26th. In a prepared i^eleaise read by Mr. Steve Leavitt, painted eLse\vhere in this paper. It w^ an¬ nounced that if settlement is not reached by next Monday, Nov. 3 a strike vote will be taken on Toes- day, Nov. 4!th. Mr. Leavitt stated that theiie was money available to meet the teachers demands as is ex¬ plained in the H£.A. news release. He added that the inorease is need¬ ed to meet the rising cost in living. .Mr Leavitt said that grievances will be filed fgadnst the high sohool prin¬ cipal William Moytan for mdscon- duct in the negotiating procedures. He questioned the board's wilJiag- ness to n«'gottate. Mr. Russell CrcJl. the I£.A. a«Msor to the HEA stated that it wias his opinion tbat the school board did nOt appeaf to un¬ derstand the mediation process. Mr. Leavitt said that he had made a 4 point iM^>posal to the board in re- glard to further negotiations. The four points are as follows: That the staff be allowed to at¬ tend. 2. That the full board be pre¬ sent. 3. That the ixiblic be invited to attend. 4. That tfae meettng be held in a district room with n^crophones SO everyone could hear. He added under questioning ihat the invitation would be for the puh- Uc to observe, not participate, in negotiations. He said that be didn't feel that any of the teachers want¬ ed to strike and added tbat the Boani didn't seem to reoBze th^ they were dealing with human be¬ ings. Mr. Oroil stated that to hia knowledge, Huntley was the only town where the salary schedule is negotiated The entire press oon- Eerence was videotaped by Mr. Gene Lindsay and is availat^e for view¬ ing. October, 29. 1976 Mr. Leavitt: Re: Our current impasse. 1. The Board bas directed its negotiatinfi team bo barg^n. The entire Board will not, nor does it wish to l)ecome involved in bargain- nig, particuliariy in public. 2. Aooonding to our contract. you are wtoome to have anyone in the KE.^ to be on your bargatning group; Iwiwever, the contract also excludes any outsider. We feel that the contract should be honored. We agreed to mediate in a sincere effort to reach c scfctiement, even though wre were not required to do so. However, we do not fee tbat this effort on our part should t>e taken as a wiUingness to aUow the HEA to tell us how to do it 3. Should yoa stiU wish to meet on November 3, we will be willing to dkouss mediatJoTi ground rules so that we oan possibdy reach agree¬ ment to discuss medaftion ground rules so that we can possiUy reach a^eemeiit with the mediator. To add in reachinig setlemcnt, we have agreed to medUtion; however, if mediation flails, the Board will not ooBBider any further impasse ppooedufe beyoud mediatiou. 4. As mediation is not spelled out In o«r exsisting contract, we win negotiate ground niies fiiist Please advise us as to your wish¬ es regarding the Novemb* ^vmeet; log. We need to meet if we exi>eet to mediaite oo November 12. gjnoerely. Charfes W Rulh N<«otiatioa Chairman Board of Edticntion OM«otI58 ^1
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What Are The Five Most Important Country Records Ever?
At World Cafe, we recently asked Stephen Bowen of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville, Tenn., to name the five most important country records of all time. The store was founded by country pioneer Ernest Tubb, who had a hit with the early honky-tonk song "Walking the Floor Over You." More than 65 years later, the shop is still known as a hub for country-music fans.
Bowen polled the store's online community to help choose these tracks.
Listen to the Spotify playlist.

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Rome, New York Rental Company Faces Fine for Failing to Inform Residents about the Presence of Lead-based Paint and its Dangers
Release Date: 03/16/2012
Contact Information: Elias Rodriguez, (212) 637-3664, email@example.com
- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a complaint against CRM Rental Management, Inc. of Rome, N.Y. for not informing residents of its buildings about potential lead-based paint in their apartments. It is estimated that three-quarters of U.S. residential dwellings built before 1978 contain some lead-based paint. Infants and young children are especially vulnerable to lead-based paint exposure, which can cause IQ deficiencies, reading and learning disabilities, impaired hearing, reduced attention spans, hyperactivity and behavioral problems. CRM Rental Management faces over $140,000 in potential fines for 43 instances in which the company failed to properly inform residents of four buildings in New Hartford and Rome, New York about the potential presence of lead-based paint.
"Lead paint is a serious threat to children's health and disclosure can arm families with information they need to protect their kids," said Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator. "Rental agents, property managers and building owners are required to follow EPA lead paint disclosure requirements and make sure people are aware of potential lead hazards in homes."
Lead poisoning remains one of the most prevalent threats to children's well-being but it is also one of the most preventable. Under federal law, families have the right to know whether there are any potential lead-paint hazards in a prospective home, and must be informed about the harm lead can inflict on small children. Pregnant women and children younger than age six are among the most vulnerable to adverse health risks from lead-based paint.
EPA regulations require real estate management companies and property owners that sell or rent housing built before 1978 to provide renters or buyers with a form that contains a warning about the dangers of lead-based paint and discloses information about its presence. People renting or buying an apartment or home must verify that they received the required warning and disclosure information, including the EPA pamphlet, Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home. Prospective purchasers have a 10-day opportunity to assess the property for risks for the presence of lead-based paint.
The complaint against CRM Rental Management alleges that the company failed to provide residents with lead-based paint warning and disclosure statements, making them aware of records or reports that would alert them to potential lead-based paint hazards, and secure required signatures verifying that the required information was received.
In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Centers for Disease Control, EPA operates the National Lead Information Center, including a toll-free hotline that can be reached at 1-800-424-LEAD (5323).
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Spiced Lentils with Egg, Fluffy Vanilla Marshmallows, Homemade Peanut Butter Cups & Raw Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes
Halloween might have been yesterday, but I'm guessing that many of you still have a party or two in your weekend plans. This means another chance to gross out your friends with a tray of "blood"-rimmed Manhattan cocktails, bowls of frog egg pudding, and even a crunchy marshmallow spider or two! When you're ready to take off the costume, come home to a warm bowl of spiced lentils topped with a baked egg and a leftover peanut butter cup of your very own.
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Sentey Golden Steel Power 850W Power Supply Review
Sentey isn't a brand that immediately springs to mind, but perhaps things are about to change? The company's main manufacturing plant is based in Shenzen, China, with headquarters in Florida, USA, and an operations center in Walnut, California, along with new distribution centers in Latin America. Sentey was created with the goal of providing high end computing products that meet the need of the computer enthusiast.
Many of you may never have heard of Sentey, but its products are now available on a popular North American Internet-based computer parts supplier. Its website product portfolio includes what are now a range of very dated graphics cards, computer enclosures, a small range of 80mm and 120mm fans, and a range of power supplies. This time around, OCC is going to take a look at one of its power supply offerings. The Sentey Golden Steel Power 850W power supply is a modular unit with 80 Plus Gold rating for efficiency, flat modular cables, and a very respectable seven year warranty. Let's have a closer look and see how well it performs.
Closer Look:
The gloss packaging of the Sentey Golden Power 850W power supply uses black, white and gold as its theme. The top of the box shows the Sentey "Building Dreams" logo, a photograph of the power supply, a stickered model number and wattage, 80 Plus Gold and 7 year warranty logos, and various features. The underside of the box contains the feature list in three different languages, connector types, and quantities and conformance marks. This box, because of the stickered model number on the top and connector table for four different models, is obviously used for the entire power supply series.
The front face has a convenient carry handle, while the opposite face repeats much of the information already provided.
One side panel again repeats the information already given and on the opposite face is the specification table for the four power supplies in the series.
Lift the lid and there's a layer of white foam to protect the top of the power supply. The power supply user manual sits on top of the plastic bag-enclosed power supply, with the modular cable bag, captive cables and power cord stored neatly at its side.
The power supply along with the full box contents, which includes a modular cable bag, user manual, power cord, and thumb screws for mounting.
The Sentey Golden Power 850W power supply has foam protection where it's needed and includes a basic, but perfectly adequate set of accessories. Let's move on and have a closer look.


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Kate Hudson has minimised workload since second son's birth
The Almost Famous star is mother to nine-year-old Ryder, by her ex-husband Chris Robinson, and 19-month-old Bingham, her son with rocker fiance Matt Bellamy.
Hudson has cut down on her workload in recent years, but has been shooting a recurring role on hit U.S. series Glee, and the actress admits she prefers taking jobs which involve a short filming period.
She tells UsMagazine.com, "If someone says it's a three-month shoot, I get a little shy because of Ryder in third grade and Bing being 19 months. It's so much to juggle, so I've been doing films that are a little less time (consuming).
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Tests recorded in the Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics indicate that, as early as 950 B.C., Egyptians were making functional and comfortable prosthetic toes to aid in walking. The earliest were made out of wood and leather. Later examples (about 600 B.C.) were made of a mixture of glue, linen and plaster. Prior to these discoveries the oldest prosthetic device was thought to have been an artificial leg made by the Romans about 300 B.C.
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I think your 950 BC prosthetic toe and 300 BC prosthetic leg would have been preceded by a prosthetic phallus by many thousands of years. The earliest dated phallic symbol is 28,000 years so people had the basic idea.
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Lee Oliver Broussard, a 54-year-old Beaumont resident, has recently absconded and is hiding to avoid arrest. Broussard is a registered sex offender and currently has a parole violation warrant for a sexual assault that occurred in 1983.
Broussard is a black male, about 6 feet tal and weighs about 163 pounds. Police consider him dangerous and are asking for assistance in locating him.
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OAKLAND -- Jesse Chavez struck out seven and came up an inning short of his first career complete game as the A's held on to beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 on Monday night for their season-high fifth straight win.
Chavez (3-1) gave up five hits and walked two. He allowed only solo home runs to Dayan Viciedo and Jose Abreu.
Josh Donaldson hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the fifth, and Josh Reddick hit a tying triple in the second off John Danks (3-3) during Oakland's win. Jed Lowrie added a two-run double in the seventh that proved pivotal after the White Sox scored three runs in the ninth.
Left-hander Sean Doolittle recorded the final three outs for his second save.
Chicago, which has lost four of five, made things interesting till the end.
After Abreu's homer, Fernando Abad walked Adam Dunn. Then struggling reliever Jim Johnson gave up a double to Viciedo and an RBI single to Alexei Ramirez.
Johnson, who the A's signed from Baltimore in the offseason to be their closure, left to a familiar sound in Oakland: a shower of boos from the home crowd. Paul Konerko hit a sacrifice fly that sliced Oakland's lead to 5-4. Then Doolittle got Alejandro De Aza to fly out before striking out Tyler Flowers.
The AL-West leading A's, coming off a home sweep of Washington, added another layer of frustration for a Chicago team beginning a nine-game road trip that also stops in Houston and Kansas City.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura already was agitated after a 5-1 home loss to Arizona on Sunday, calling it "uninspired" effort. And his night wasn't any better after the White Sox spent about eight hours on a plane because of storms in Chicago that delayed their flight to the West Coast.
They still looked sharp at the start, getting a solo home run from Viciedo in the second. It was his third homer of the season.
Reddick came back in the bottom of the inning with a two-out triple that scored Nick Punto. It was the third triple of the season for Reddick, who entered the game in a 4-for-32 slump. He added a bunt single and a walk before striking out with the bases load in the eighth.
The White Sox wasted an opportunity to retake the lead when they advanced runners to second and third on Chavez's wild pitch in the fifth. Conor Gillaspie hit a hard line drive with two outs -- but right into center fielder Craig Gentry's glove.
Then came Donaldson's drive in the fifth, lining a 2-0 fastball into the seats in left for his eighth home run. Lowrie added a two-run double off reliever Daniel Webb in the seventh to stretch Oakland's lead to 5-1.
Chavez came oh-so close to his first complete game. He had never completed more than seven innings, which he has done three times this year.
Chavez has allowed one earned run or fewer in six of his eight starts this season. The A's are a 7-1 when he pitches.
NOTES: Athletics CF Coco Crisp took swings in batting practice before sitting out for the fifth straight game with a strained neck. He said he's day to day. ... White Sox LHP Chris Sale, out since April 17 because of a strained muscle near his left elbow, is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment in Triple-A Charlotte on Thursday. ... LHP Drew Pomeranz (2-1, 1.45 ERA) makes his second start for the A's opposite Chicago's Scott Carroll on Tuesday.


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The veterinary drug diclofenac, which has been held responsible for the devastating decline of Asian vulture populations, has been approved for use in the EU.
Deadly drug
Between 1991 and 2007, the population of the white-rumped vulture in India suffered an unprecedented drop of 99.9 percent, with corresponding reductions of 96.8 percent in both the Indian vulture and the slender-billed vulture. Initially, scientists were baffled as to the possible reasons behind this decline, with conflicting explanations varying from the use of pesticides, to an increasingly westernised middle-class consuming more beef and therefore removing one of the vulture's primary food sources, to the destruction of vulture nesting sites.
Eventually, it emerged that the true cause of vulture deaths across the Indian subcontinent was diclofenac, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug regularly prescribed by veterinarians to treat cattle. The vultures were ingesting the drug as they fed on dead livestock, causing severe kidney damage in the birds which led to death within just a few days.
Indian ban on diclofenac
As a result of the discovery of the cause of the decline, veterinarians were subsequently banned from prescribing diclofenac across the region. However, despite these events and the fact that safe alternative drugs are now readily available, the European Union has recently sanctioned the use of diclofenac throughout all member countries. According to conservation groups, this could place European vulture species at risk of meeting a fate similar to that of their Asian counterparts, and could also threaten other wildlife.
"It is shocking that a drug that has already wiped out wildlife on a massive scale in Asia is now put on the market in crucial countries for vulture conservation such as Spain and Italy, especially as the total ban on diclofenac in India has produced the first signs of recovery in Indian vultures," said José Tavares, the Director of the Vulture Conservation Foundation.
Vultures in Europe
Europe is home to an incredible ten species of vulture, eight of which are found in Spain. Of these, four are considered rare and threatened, and receive a certain level of protection under European law. Two such species are the cinereous vulture, an impressive bird with a wingspan of around three metres, and the Egyptian vulture, a species classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Spain is home to 97 percent of Europe's cinereous vulture population and 85 percent of the continent's Egyptian vulture population, as well as high proportions of other closely related species. Conservationists fear that the new ruling to allow the powerful anti-inflammatory drug to be distributed across the EU could put decades of vulture conservation efforts in Europe in jeopardy, particularly in vulture strongholds such as Spain.
Importance of vultures
While vultures may be viewed unfavourably by some, they play an extremely important role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of ecosystems through ecological recycling. These birds survive almost exclusively on carrion, and in countries such as Spain they consume the carcasses of livestock left in special sites known as 'muladres'. By cleaning and disposing of these dead animals, vultures make a contribution to the health of local human communities, as this helps limit the populations of stray dogs which are enticed by the carcasses, and therefore reduces the potential for the transmission of life-threatening diseases such as rabies.
Call for action
A coalition of conservation organisations, which includes the Vulture Conservation Foundation, the RSPB and BirdLife Europe, is calling for an immediate continent-wide ban on diclofenac in Europe.
In a technical document released recently on diclofenac in Europe, conservationists wrote, "The case here is clear – it is really a question of learning from what happened in India, and also upholding and being coherent with the leading role of many EU policies, notably on nature conservation."
It is hoped that enforcing a ban on diclofenac in Europe will encourage countries in Africa to follow suit in an effort to save the continent's dwindling vulture populations.
Read more on this story at Mongabay.com – Europe approves vet drug that killed off almost all of Asia's vultures and BirdLife International – Vulture killing drug now available on EU market.
View photos and videos of vultures on ARKive.
Find out more about vulture conservation at Tusk, VulPro, the Vulture Conservation Foundation and Save Our Species – Conserving South Asia's Threatened Vultures.
Kathryn Pintus, ARKive Content and Outreach Officer


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A handy audio recorder based on jack. Command line or GUI. Very low on
resources. Able to write 256 channels to local hard drive (tested on
iCore 7).
Meterbridge is a nice companion program (VU meters) unless you start
the program from console.
Requires: jack-audio-connection-kit
Optional runtime (not required for compile) meterbridge, lame
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Keywords: low resources,multitrack recording,console,gui
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Event: Stardust Awards 2009 held at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra, Mumbai.
Guest List: Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Kajol, Neha Dhupia, Kangana Ranaut, Amrita Rao, Adah Sharma, Vidya Balan, Neetu Chandra, Sonali Kulkarni, Koena Mitra, Celina Jaitley, Asin, Saif Ali Khan, Shriya Sharan, Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Monica Bedi, Adhyayan Suman, Vivek Oberoi, Genelia D'Souza, Salman Khan, Manjari Fadnis, Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Tusshar Kapoor, Dr. Madhu Chopra, Dr. Ashok Chopra, Dev Anand, Vinay Pathak, Boney Kapoor, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan, Manyata Dutt, Anjana Sukhani
Venue: MMRDA Grounds, Bandra, Mumbai.
Date: 15-Feb-2009
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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Out of Africa, Into Asia
This research network is investigating the adaptations and archaeological signature of anatomically modern humans that left Africa and arrived in India, from where their descendents moved on to East and South East Asia.
In terms of archaeological fieldwork, this has involved new excavations and sampling programmes on the Late Pleistocene of Southern India (especially Kurnool District) and central India (especially the Son Valley of Madhya Pradesh). Sampling has included some palaeoecological work, especially on phytoliths on which Dorian Fuller has acted as an adviser to the primary Indian laboratory.
In addition, this research has raised new hypotheses about the timing of dispersal out of Africa being earlier than often assumed. The project has undertaken to provide an explicit set of hypotheses for this dispersal including an interregional reconstruction of vegetation patterns from East Africa through Southeast Asia for key climate periods (Oxygen Isotope Stages 5, 4 and 3).
Dorian Fuller has played a key part in inferring vegetation patterns in India and adjacent regions from the available direct evidence (pollen cores and palaeoclimatic proxies) and indirect evidence (species disjunctions), with important implications for how hunter-gatherers would have been able to subsist, or not, in these vegetation zones.
This project is interlinked with the Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer subsistence in Sri Lanka project.
Related outputs
- Petraglia, Michael, C. Clarkson, N. Boivin, M. Haslam, R. Korisettar, G. Chaubey, P. Ditchfield, DQ. Fuller, H. James, S. Jones, T. Kivisild, J. Koshy, M. M. Lahr, M. Metspalu, R. Roberts, L. Arnold (2009a). Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 106 (30): 12261-12266.
- Petraglia M, Korisettar R, Kasturi Bai M, Boivin N, B J, Clarkson C, Cunningham K, Ditchfield P, Fuller DQ, Hampson J, Haslam M, Jones S, Koshy J, Miracle P, Oppenheimer C, Roberts R, White K. (2009b). Human occupation, adaptation and behavioral change in the Pleistocene and Holocene of South India: Recent investigations in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. Eurasian Prehistory 6:119-166.
- Clarkson, Chris, M. Petraglia, R. Korisettar, M. Haslam, N. Boivin, A. Crowther, P. Ditchfield, DQ. Fuller, P. Miracle, C. Harris, K. Connell, H. James, & J. Koshy (2009c). The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter. Antiquity 83: 326-348.
- Petraglia, M. D., M. Haslam, DQ. Fuller, N. Boivin & C. Clarkson (2010). Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim. Annals of Human Biology 37 (3): 288-311.
- Perera, N., N. Kourampos, I. A. Simpson, S. U. Deraniyagala, D. Bulbeck, J. Lamminga, J. Perera, DQ Fuller, K. Szabo, N. V. Oliviera (2011). People of the ancient rainforest: Late Pleistocene foragers at the Batadomba-lena rockshelter, Sri Lanka, Journal of Human Evolution 61, 254-269.
- A major Leverhulme research grant to M. Petraglia (Oxford), "The Toba super-eruption and its impact on human populations and ecosystems" (2006-2009)
- Australian Research Council grant (to C. Clarkson) "Assessing lithic evidence for the impact of the Toba Super-eruption (74,000 years ago) on long-term cultural, biological and ecological histories in the Indian subcontinent" (2008-2012)
- British Academy International Partnership Grant, 2010-2012, to M. Haslam (Oxford)


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Is it 2008 again? For ferrous scrap prices it almost looks like, as Yankee catcher Yogi Berra once said, déjà vu all over again. The steady climb over the past few months might make some believe that.
Ferrous scrap prices rocketed to as high as $500 per long ton. That may not match the $900-per-ton figure that prevailed for a brief period two-and-a-half years ago, before the market came crashing down at year's end. However, at that time it was factory bundles and other prime grades of industrial steel scrap that were racing ahead of the pack—in some instances by as much as $400 per ton. That's not the case now. If anything, the secondary grades are close on the heels of industrial steel scrap tags. No. 1 heavy melt was quoted at $440 per ton in key steelmaking cities like Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh in January, with prices paid for shredded scrap ranging from about $450 to $480 per ton in most regions. There wasn't much of a price differential between shredded and No. 1 busheling in January—no more than $10 or $20 per ton in most regions—which some veteran brokers and dealers saw as a little odd, given the better yield melt shops normally get when using busheling instead of shredded.
The price pattern through the latter part of 2010 was unlike the madness that characterized the market in 2008. For one thing, a harsh winter has discouraged peddlers and dealers from going out and scouring the countryside for old iron pipe and steel scrap. Major scrap processors that handle much of the so-called retail trade were reporting a slow flow into their yards.
Second, there are few big demolition jobs, and that's not just because of the season. There haven't been many for the past year or two, and such jobs are even slower now that the cold weather has arrived. And lastly, perhaps, is the federal government's "Cash for Clunkers" program; while it helped automakers unload some of their excess inventories of new vehicles, it also drained a lot of junk cars off the market.
At the same time, demand for new steel products has rebounded, both in the United States and overseas. Housing and appliance markets might still be weak, but the auto industry and their suppliers are more active than they had been in the past year.
Ferrous scrap demand from overseas also is strong. Prices as high as $550 per tonne were being paid in both Turkey and the Far East, bringing strong price pressures to bear on domestic steelmakers. Export yards on the East Coast were quoting $410 to $420 per ton for No. 1 heavy melt from local suppliers, but they also were wooing yards in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio with offers of $450 per ton. Part of that premium covered the higher freight costs to the coast, but it also served to draw material away from steel mills in those regions.
It's an expensive new world for ferrous scrap consumers. There's nothing new about that. What is surprising, though, is the tenacity that many foreign mills display in their efforts to get enough raw material.
The domestic steel industry's modest specifications for a catch-all grade like No. 1 heavy melt don't apply to the export trade. Some dealers joke that they only have two requirements to fulfill for foreign mills Does its stick to a magnet and does it sink in water?
And there's a new twist on the "Cash or Clunkers" program. Call it "Clunkers for China." Some West Coast auto wreckers are flattening vehicles and loading them into seaborne containers for export. One auto wrecker figures that a junkyard can get from six to eight crushed hulks in a 20-foot container. The Chinese have been building new megashredders in the past few years. Demolition work there has been feeding these monsters, but now it appears they have an appetite for old vehicles, which an emerging economy like China lacks.
Many domestic mills now find that not only are they competing against each other in their efforts to buy scrap each month, but also their foreign rivals. They have to figure out how to do that without agreeing to take scrap that is too thick and slows down the tap-to-tap time, and thus the economics of steel production. Or should they take in sealed units that might contain toxic materials like mercury or polychlorinated biphenyls that will contaminate a heat?
That could be the reason why we're likely to see more steel mills in the market for scrap companies in the not-too-distant future. Steel Dynamics Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., gobbled up OmniSource Corp., and Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., married its longtime partner David J. Joseph Co. Even Timken Co., which has a massive shredder next door to its Canton, Ohio, mill, has bought a couple of mid-sized Ohio scrapyards in the past year. Are there other targets?
The simple explanation is that this might be the only way that some electric furnace mills will be able to ensure their scrap supplies in the future. Their older brethren, the integrated steel mills, had no such worries about raw material supplies in the past, and even these days, because they either owned the iron mines or had long-term contracts with those they didn't own.
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Bold approach breathes new life into classical music
There's nothing so off-the-wall that somebody hasn't thought of it
By Nigel Hannaford
Mitzi's Sister is a small club in the Parkdale area of Toronto. Home cooking, a stage, it holds 150 people. Small as these things go. But, it was there just over three years ago, that Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra first took the stage.
Big moment in the history of music? Too early to say.
However, a few weeks ago, this space dealt with the sort of music that can pay its own way, with no top-ups from the Canada Council. I jested that if classical music was to rescue itself from its socio-economic isolation – its audience shrinks, as it ages – it would have to rebrand itself as something risque, to be enjoyed in seedy little rock-clubs where it's best to sit near an exit, with one's back to the wall. Only when it could make it without a grant, could it once more be considered an expression of contemporary culture.
But, irony is hard these days. There's nothing so off-the-wall that somebody else hasn't thought of it, or done it.
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Student Journal
Purpose of the Journal Entries
Every excellent lawyer is a self-reflective practitioner. A self-reflective practitioner is one who develops techniques for consciously learning from his or her experiences. A self-reflective practitioner plans each task to be performed prior to acting, and then reflects upon the execution of the task after the task is performed to consider what worked best, what did not work as well as expected, and what he or she would do differently the next time. As one tool to aid you in developing into a self-reflective practitioner, you will be keeping a journal of your experiences in the Criminal Justice Clinic. Writing about your work will encourage deeper and more detailed reflections.
The journal you keep in this course will serve a number of different functions:
- It will be a tool for you to record your assignments and to reflect upon what you have learned from the work in a concrete form;
- It will provide you with a systematic way to reflect on and analyze your experiences by pushing you to examine critically and in depth your performance, thoughts, and feelings;
- It will provide you and me with data for discussion of topics central to the course;
- It will relieve stress; and
- It will enhance your development into a reflective practitioner.
Your journal should not be primarily an account of your activities- the time sheets you will be preparing will adequately capture this type of information. Rather, you should record what you are thinking and feeling about your experiences with clients, the criminal justice system, the lawyers you work with in the Public Defender Office, opposing counsel, reading assignments for the seminars, concepts, and skills under study in the course. There are a few requirements for the content of your journal entries designed to help the entries assist your learning over the course of the semester.
The journals will be confidential between you and the supervising faculty member. Occasionally, the supervising faculty member may ask a student's permission to refer to a journal entry in one of the seminar classes or permission from several students to compile some entries for a class discussion on a shared topic. If reference is made to a journal entry, it will only be done after permission is sought and granted in advance and privately, and each student will always have the absolute authority to decline.
Number of Journal Entries Required and Due Dates
Over the course of the semester, you are required to submit at least thirteen (13) journal entries. You should complete at least one (1) journal entry per week for the first twelve (12) weeks of the class, and you will do a final wrap-up journal entry reflecting on the prior entries for the last week of classes. Each journal entry should be the equivalent of at least two double-spaced, typed written pages in length. Journal entries for each week are due on or before Sunday noon, and each entry will be returned to you with comments within one week of my receipt of the journal entry. You may send the journal entry to your faculty member via e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.com or leave a copy of it under the faculty member's office door at the law school.
The point of the journal entries is to think on paper. Therefore, do not worry too much about spelling, punctuation, or grammar. You should use language that feels natural and expresses your personal voice and style. Do not try to write as you think a lawyer might. Please Turn in Your Journals On or Before the Weekly Deadline, and Do Not Fall Behind In Turning In Your Journals.
Content of the Journal Entries and Format
Throughout the semester you will submit journal entries concerning your reflections on your work, interactions with others, experiences, and what you are learning. While most of your entries will be about whatever you choose to write about concerning your experiences, by the end of the thirteenth week of the semester you must have completed a separate entry on each of the following subjects. A suggested completion date for each topic is included:
- Critique a performance by a lawyer, either a defense lawyer, prosecutor, or judge, stating what you observed that was good, what needs improvement, and why. (End of third week.)
- Discuss what you are learning about how to learn from experience. How do you learn best? What facilitates your learning? What inhibits your learning? (End of fourth week.)
- What are your perceptions or feelings about the criminal justice system? (End of sixth week.)
- How does your work in the Criminal Justice Clinic fit into your future plans? What have you learned that will help you to make decisions about future employment? How do you see applying what you are learning to your future endeavors? Is your learning transferable to other settings? How might this best be accomplished? (End of the eighth week.)
- Identify an ethical quandary or decision that occurred during the semester, explain the issue, how it was resolved, and whether you think the resolution was proper and why. (End of the tenth week.)
- Critique a performance of yourself. Discuss your planning and execution of the task. What do you think was good, what do you think needs improvement, and what would you do differently? (End of twelfth week.)
The format of each entry has to include at least four (4) paragraphs of at least five (5) sentences each.
Paragraph 1: Identify the topic. This should include the "who, what, when, where, why, and how' part of the entry. If you are selecting one of the above topics for the entry, such as a critique of another's performance, identify who you are critiquing, what you are critiquing, when you observed the activity, where the activating took place, how the activity proceeded, and why a certain course of action was taken.
Paragraph 2: Discuss what you were thinking about the activity or topic at the time, and any thoughts you have about the activity upon further reflection.
Paragraph 3: Discuss what you were feeling about the activity and why. For example, if you are discussing an activity you engaged in, discuss how you felt. Remember not to confuse your thoughts with your feelings. For example, the sentence "I felt it was useful" describes your thoughts and not your feelings. Feelings include: fear, anxiety, nervousness, confidence, being relaxed, unhappy, happy, dissatisfied, etc.
Paragraph 4: This paragraph is the analytical discussion, and will often include how you plan to apply what you learned from the experience. If the subject of the entry is a critique, this paragraph would describe the strengths and weaknesses, why you think the aspects were strong or weak, and what you would do if confronted with a similar situation in the future. Be sure not to generalize, such as "Next time I would be better prepared." Instead, describe how you would prepare yourself better, such as what research you would do, practice you would engage in, etc.
Your final journal entry for the course should be a self-evaluation of your accumulated journal entries. To complete the self-evaluation, read through all your entries, then write an evaluation using the following topics as a guide: the quantity of entries (the minimum number is fourteen prior to this final entry), variety (you must have included at least six entries on the previously mentioned subjects), depth of discussion, interest (reflected in the tone and substance of the entries), and value to you the student.
If you have any questions about this requirement, please discuss them with the faculty member in class or privately.
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Trays on the Countertop: Keeping Things Organized and Close at Hand
Do you keep a tray near the stove to corral oils, spices, and cooking utensils? We went through our Kitchen Tour archives and found a lot of examples. If you prefer certain groupings of foods or pantry items, adding a tray underneath just makes it that much neater — and helps keep drips and spills from building up on your counter.
• 1 Courtney and Michael's Scandinavian Comfort
• 2 Alina's Exotic Cooking Lair
• 3 Tyler's Cozy Cottage Kitchen
• 4 Ryan's Stunning San Francisco Remodel
• 5 Alison's Beautiful Modern Kitchen
• 6 Laura's Cool Green City Kitchen
• 7 Arlene Goes Paleo in Brooklyn
• 8 Lupine and Dan's Joyful, Organized Kitchen
• 9 Gina and Brian's Colorful Beach Condo
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Okay I have to admit, it was the DwellStudio pillows that caught my eye in this first photo. I was then inspired to pull together some additional beautiful dining room inspiration to share.
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As we all know earthquake is a catastrophic natural disaster. Most earthquake-related deaths
are caused by the collapse of structures and the construction practices play a tremendous role
in the death toll of an earthquake. In southern Italy in 1909 more than 100,000 people perished
in an earthquake that struck the region. Almost half of the people living in the region of
Messina were killed due to the easily collapsible structures that dominated the villages of the
region. Though there are some ways to prevent this from happening, it can never be considered
as risk avoidance.
A larger earthquake that struck San Francisco three years earlier had killed fewer people (about
700) because building construction practices were different type (predominantly wood).
Survival rates in the San Francisco earthquake was about 98%, that in the Messina earthquake
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to fraud prevention.
Although probably the most important that we should know, direct shaking effects are not the
only hazard associated with earthquakes, other effects such as landslides, liquefaction, and
tsunamis have also played important part in destruction produced by earthquakes.
According to the Crown researchers, some earthquakes are not natural. Human beings can
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near the fault that slipped. In circumstance, it does not take much to trigger an earthquake. Oil
and gas wells, rock quarries, even the added pressure of a reservoir lake behind a new dam can
cause the ground to rumble. But we do not know what pressure levels are safe, nor is it clear
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expected from the removed water pressure.
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A Taste of Vietnam
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|Bustling Ho Chi Minh City, picturesque colonial Hoi An, world-heritage Halong Bay & the northern capital of Hanoi; optional extension to Bangkok
|Small Group TourTravel with a small, intimate group of 15-24 likeminded travelers escorted by an English speaking guide and/or tour manager for some or all of your journey. More of these packages
24 travelers max, dedicated tour escorts & guides throughout
|Scheduled Dates: 3 open departures, February – April 2019
|Price Includes
|Los Angeles (LAX), New York Kennedy (JFK), San Francisco (SFO) (flight schedule)
|History & Culture, Bucket List
|What to Expect
|This moderately-paced, locally hosted tour includes a reasonable amount of walking or hiking and requires an average level of physical fitness.
Prepare for your trip Already booked? Find everything you need to know before you go, including information about passport & visa requirements, flights, luggage, and more.
If you've put off a trip to Vietnam because of time or price, then our new Taste of Vietnam tour package is for you. See for yourself why Vietnam has emerged as Asia's hottest new destination for Western travelers. Our 10-day escorted tour takes you to Vietnam's two most important cities—Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi, as well as picturesque Hoi An and Halong Bay. Explore on your own or on exciting optional tours to the Cu Chi Tunnels, My Son and more! You'll enjoy superior accommodations, bountiful daily breakfasts, included sightseeing tours in each city, discounted optional tours, and as always, the very best in Friendly Planet service. Of course, all of this is yours at prices that are downright amazing!
Dates, Prices & Options
Departure Dates & Prices
Departures & Prices, with flights
per person, double occupancy*
|Depart / Return
|Package Price
|Early Bird
Good Thru
Departs: Tue, Nov 27, 2018
Returns: Thu, Dec 6, 2018
|Nov 27 – Dec 6
Departs: Tue, Dec 11, 2018
Returns: Thu, Dec 20, 2018
|Dec 11 – Dec 20
|Depart / Return
|Package Price
|Early Bird
Good Thru
Departs: Tue, Jan 15, 2019
Returns: Thu, Jan 24, 2019
|Jan 15 – Jan 24
Departs: Tue, Feb 26, 2019
Returns: Thu, Mar 7, 2019
Book by Thu, Jan 24, 2019 (midnight ET) to get the current early bird discount!
|Feb 26 – Mar 7
|Jan 24
Departs: Tue, Mar 12, 2019
Returns: Thu, Mar 21, 2019
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|Mar 12 – Mar 21
|Jan 24
Departs: Tue, Mar 26, 2019
Returns: Thu, Apr 4, 2019
|Mar 26 – Apr 4
Departs: Tue, Apr 9, 2019
Returns: Thu, Apr 18, 2019
Book by Thu, Jan 24, 2019 (midnight ET) to get the current early bird discount!
|Apr 9 – Apr 18
|Jan 24
If you want a few extra days to explore on your own, we may be able to arrange for you to stay later than the scheduled dates, including extra hotel nights and separate airport transfers, for an additional charge. Ask us about prices and availability when you reserve. More information Want to extend your trip?
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|A Taste of Vietnam
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|Optional Excursions
|Discount Optional Excursions Package1
1. Includes Mekong Delta, Cu Chi Tunnels, My Son, and Cyclo and Water Puppets. Optional Excursions Package must be pre-booked to receive discounted price and requires a minimum of 3 passengers to operate.
|Separately Paid Fees
|Vietnam Visa Fee1 (paid separately)
1. All visitors to Vietnam must obtain their own visa before departure. Comprehensive visa instructions will be included in your confirmation packet. Note the above fee is an approximate cost, as it varies depending on the type of service you request. The listed amount is based on a single-entry visa obtained from the Visa HQ website.
|Bangkok Optional Extension1
|Bangkok Extension
|Rooming Selection
|Double Occupancy
|Single Room Supplement
1. The Bangkok extension requires that your flights be confirmed separately by the airlines. Please note that it typically takes 3 to 5 business days to confirm your extension flights with the airline, and that we will notify you immediately upon confirmation of the flights. This extension also requires a minimum of 2 passengers to operate. Final pricing is based on flight availability at the time of booking.
|Transfers for Passengers Booking Land Only
|Optional Airport Transfers
|Arrival Transfer: Ho Chi Minh City airport to hotel1
|Departure Transfer: Hanoi hotel to airport2
1. Price is based on a minimum of 2 passengers.
2. Price is based on a minimum of 2 passengers.
So that we can offer you the best deals, our packages are, like most hotels and cruises, priced based on double occupancy rooms or cabins. We charge solo travelers an extra fee to cover the extra costs of single occupancy rooms or cabins. (Consider: if you booked a $200/night hotel room solo, you would pay the $200 yourself; but if a couple booked the same room, each one would pay only $100.) But you only pay extra for the rooms or cabins, nothing else, including meals, sightseeing, tips, etc.
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|Departure Airports
|Los Angeles (LAX)1
|New York Kennedy (JFK)
|San Francisco (SFO)
|Land Only (no flights)2
1. For flights from LAX, upgrades may be available to Premium Economy starting from $1,000 and to Business Class starting from $4,000. For actual prices and availability from this or other cities, please make your request during the reservation process so that our air team can check the availability and provide you with the exact rate for your chosen travel date. Rates and space are subject to availability with the airline, an increased deposit may be required to confirm a seating upgrade.
2. If selecting Land Only, arrival and departure transfers are not included. You may select private airport transfers for an additional fee, or make your own arrangements to join the tour in Ho Chi Minh City on Day 3 and to depart from Hanoi on or after Day 10 or for the extension from Bangkok on Day 13.
This package offers round-trip flights from the cities listed above, subject to availability. Please review the flight schedule, especially if you're booking connecting flights.
Want to fly from another city? Unfortunately, we don't offer flights from other cities, but you can book your own.
How to Make a Reservation
To make a reservation, simply select an available departure date and reserve online using our secure booking system. Or call one of our travel specialists at 800-555-5765. But first, check out our Things to Know section.
We only require a per-person deposit payment, which you can pay with your credit card or PayPal account. This deposit will be applied towards the cost of your package, and is generally non-refundable. The balance is due 75 days prior to departure (or within 72 hours, if you're booking less than 75 days prior to departure), and can be paid by credit card, PayPal, check or money order.
Day 1: Depart USA
- Check-in for your overnight flight to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam via Taipei, Taiwan
Day 2: En route
- Cross the International Dateline and lose a day. (You will recover this day on the return leg of your trip.)
Day 3: Arrive Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
Accommodations: 2 nights Grand Hotel Saigon or similar. Included meals: Dinner.
- Upon arrival in Ho Chi Minh City, transfer to your hotel for check-in
- This afternoon, explore Ho Chi Minh City on an included city tour
- Begin at Reunification Hall, formerly the Presidential Palace
- Visit the ornate French colonial Saigon Post Office
- See Thien Hau Pagoda before continuing on to the FITO Museum
- Get to know your fellow travelers over a welcome dinner
Full Day Itinerary: Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City and transfer to your hotel, located in the heart of the city and within easy access to shopping, touring and dining.
This afternoon, explore dynamic Ho Chi Minh City (still called Saigon by many locals) on an included comprehensive city tour. Begin at the historic Reunification Hall, which formerly served as the Presidential Palace. It was towards this modern building that North Vietnamese resistance fighters' tanks (the Viet Cong) rolled on the morning of April 30, 1975 as Saigon fell. From 1885 to 1954, Vietnam was the French colony of Indochina, and you'll see remnants of the French influence throughout the city. You'll visit the ornate French colonial Saigon Post Office, built by the famous architect Gustave Eiffel, where locals still come to post letters and make international calls from the beautifully trimmed phone booths inside.
You'll also see the Thien Hau Pagoda before continuing on to the FITO Museum, Vietnam's first traditional medicine museum. Here you'll find an amazing collection of 3,000 items used throughout the development of traditional Vietnamese medicine. Among these, you'll see implements used to prepare indigenous herbs, objects common in traditional pharmacies, as well as ancient books and documents on traditional Vietnamese medicine.
Later this evening, join your fellow travelers during a welcome dinner.
Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Full day at leisure in Ho Chi Minh City or optional excursions
Optional Excursion: A Day in Ben Tre with lunch, $85 (IF purchased locally). Depart your hotel this morning heading south to the Ben Tre Province, where you will cruise along the Ham Luong River and enjoy the landscapes of the delta on a motorboat. Explore the area with a visit to a coconut pressing workshop and learn about the various uses of coconuts, including the multi-uses of its fibers. Stroll through a fragrant fruits orchard and learn more about "Mekong Culture." Continue exploring the river as you cruise through its small canals and stop to enjoy lunch. Afterwards, relax by the river or hop on a kayak to further explore the canals. You'll also get the chance to take a leisurely bicycle trip around the village. Return to Saigon for an afternoon at leisure.
Optional Excursion: Saigon Nightlife by Vespa, $120 (purchased locally). Tonight offers a chance to experience the vibrant nightlife of Saigon from the back of a vintage Vespa scooter. The city comes alive at sundown and people congregate on sidewalks, parks and all over the city. The first stop on your culinary exploration will be to sample some light evening snacks and refreshments at a roof top bar. Continue through the city streets, seeking out bustling stalls serving authentic Vietnamese dishes. Conclude the evening at a hidden cafe where you can enjoy a musical performance over a drink and ice cream, and see the new generation of Vietnamese unwind and flaunt their unique style.
Day 5: Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang & Hoi An.
Accommodations: 2 nights Hoi An Historic Hotel or similar. Included meals: Breakfast & dinner.
- Enjoy the morning at leisure or take an optional excursion to the Cu Chi Tunnels
- This afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight to Da Nang
- Upon arrival, board your touring coach and visit Marble Mountain
- Continue to Hoi An and check into your hotel, balance of the day at leisure
- Join your fellow travelers for dinner at a local restaurant
Full Day Itinerary: After breakfast enjoy the morning at leisure, or take advantage of an optional morning excursion to the famous Cu Chi Tunnels. This afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight to Da Nang on the coast of the South China Sea. Upon arrival, board your touring coach and visit Marble Mountain en route to Hoi An. The colorful market town of Hoi An is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a major Southeast Asian trading port from the 15th to the 19th centuries, with ships arriving from all over the world to obtain silk and other fabrics, sugar, tea and ceramics. Hoi An's traditional Vietnamese architecture has been preserved, and there are many historic temples and pagodas in the area.
Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure to explore on your own. You might want to take advantage of Hoi An's world-famous tailors during your stay here. Anything you might want to wear can be made for you in Hoi An, all at bargain prices and with expert workmanship. This evening, join your fellow travelers for a special dinner at a unique local restaurant. STREETS International is much more than your typical restaurant, it is an innovative vocational training program for underprivileged children to learn hospitality management, entrepreneurship skills and the culinary arts. Tonight, you'll support the program and enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by the students.
Optional Excursion: Cu Chi Tunnels, $55 (IF purchased locally). The Cu Chi Tunnels were built by the Viet Minh in the 1940s. This incredible network of tunnels once stretched for 210 miles and contained extensive Viet Cong infrastructure including tactical quarters, storage rooms, kitchens, a school and even an underground hospital. Most entrances were so well disguised that only a small portion of the system was ever discovered during the war, despite the fact that some 125 miles ran under a U.S. military base. You can enter the tunnels if you wish, or view them from outside. (Minimum 3 passengers to operate.)
Day 6: Hoi An
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Full day at leisure in Hoi An or optional excursions
Optional Excursion: Hoi An walking tour, $35 (purchased locally). Embark on a morning or afternoon optional walking tour through the streets of Hoi An, once a major Asian trading port in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Hoi An's architecture and relaxed lifestyle have changed little over the years. Explore the ancient town center and visit the sites of former merchants' homes, a 400 year-old Japanese Covered Bridge, and a Chinese Communal Hall. Before you return to your hotel enjoy browsing and shopping in one of the most colorful local marketplaces in all of Asia.
Optional Excursion: My Son & Phuoc Kieu Village, $55 (IF purchased locally). Enjoy an optional half day trip to visit the capital and religious center of the former Champa Kingdom, My Son, situated in a lush green valley 40km southwest of Hoi An. En route, enjoy a short stop at Phuoc Kieu Village, a 500 year old village specialized in bronze crafting. Walk around the village's streets and visit a workshop (if available) and a temple where locals worship their ancestors. Continue on to the cultural highlight of Central Vietnam, the temple complex at My Son. Granted UNESCO World Heritage status in 1999 the tower-temples were the seat of the Champa Kingdom for the majority of its existence between the 4th and 13th centuries. The sanctuary is situated in an impressive location surrounded by hills. Wander through the impressive ruins then visit a small museum at the entrance to My Son before heading back to Hoi An. (Minimum 3 passengers to operate.)
Day 7: Hoi An & Halong Bay
Accommodations: 1 night Novotel Halong Bay or similar. Included meals: Breakfast & Lunch.
- Transfer to airport for your flight followed by touring coach transfer to Halong Bay
- En route to the airport visit China Beach
- After a short flight, board your touring coach and transfer to lunch
- Continue through the Red River Delta to your hotel in Halong Bay for check-in
- The balance of the day is at leisure
Full Day Itinerary: After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight followed by touring coach transfer to Halong Bay. En route visit China Beach then continue to the airport. After a short flight, board your touring coach and transfer to lunch at a local restaurant.
Afterwards, travel through the rich farmlands of the Red River Delta to your hotel in Halong Bay for check-in. The balance of the day is at leisure.
Day 8: Halong Bay & Hanoi
Accommodations: 2 nights Silk Path Hotel or similar, Hanoi. Included meals: Breakfast & lunch.
- Set sail on a 5-hour cruise on the emerald green waters of Halong Bay
- This afternoon, return to Halong Harbor then transfer to Hanoi
- En route, visit the Yen Duc Village for a glimpse of local life and traditions
- Enjoy a water puppet show by the Yen Duc Village artists
- Upon arrival in Hanoi, you will be escorted to your hotel for check-in
Full Day Itinerary: This morning, transfer to the pier to set sail on your private junk for a 5-hour cruise on the emerald green waters of Halong Bay. Enjoy a fresh seafood lunch as you cruise amongst the spectacular limestone islands. This afternoon, return to Halong Harbor then transfer to Hanoi.
En route to Hanoi, stop by the tranquil Yen Duc Village where you will learn about the local life and traditions of the village, and admire the charming fields surrounding the area. Later, enjoy a water puppet show by the local artists. After your visit, continue to Hanoi.
Upon arrival, you will be escorted to your hotel for check-in.
Day 9: Hanoi
Included meals: Breakfast & dinner.
- Enjoy a half day morning tour of Hanoi
- See Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and the One Pillar Pagoda
- Continue on to the Temple of Literature, Vietnam's first university
- Conclude your tour with a visit to Hoa Lo Prison
- Afternoon at leisure or optional excursion
- Enjoy a final evening with your fellow travelers over a farewell dinner
Full Day Itinerary: This morning's half-day tour of Hanoi begins with a view of Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum as well as exploring his private residence from 1954 until 1969. The wooden ethnic minority style house, which was built on stilts, is surrounded by peaceful gardens. In the same complex you will see the One Pillar Pagoda, founded by King Ly Thai To in 1049. This structure has become an important symbol for the people of Hanoi. Continue on to the Temple of Literature, Vietnam's first university. Constructed in 1070, the gardens and well-preserved architecture offer a glimpse into Vietnam's past. Conclude your tour with a visit to Hoa Lo Prison, also known as the "Hanoi Hilton." This notorious prison got its nickname during the Vietnam War—which the locals call the American War, one of many endured in recent times. Long before Americans were imprisoned here, many Vietnamese who fought against the French were held here.
This evening, join your fellow travelers for a farewell dinner.
Optional Excursion: Old Quarter Cyclo Tour & Water Puppets Show, $50 (IF purchased locally). Your afternoon optional excursion offers you the chance to explore Hanoi on an hour long tour by cyclo, a chauffeur-pedaled three-wheeled carriage, through the city's Old Quarter known as the 36 Streets. This bustling area of narrow streets and lanes is home to literally thousands of small businesses and shopkeepers. There's no doubt that these are entrepreneurial people and you'll see the evidence as you wind your way slowly through the quarter. There are tiny restaurants, with single burner kitchens set out on the sidewalk, kiosks for shoes, hats, suitcases, clothing and food, and many women carrying herbs and vegetables in flat baskets suspended from each end of a bamboo pole which is carried perfectly balanced on one shoulder. You'll find plenty of photo opportunities all around you, so have your camera ready. After your tour, continue to the theater where you'll enjoy an ancient form of Vietnamese entertainment known as Mua Roi Nuoc, or Water Puppets, a wonderful performance art form well loved by locals and tourists alike. Puppeteers control their puppets using long bamboo rods and string mechanisms hidden beneath the water's surface to depict scenes from rural life and national history. (Minimum 3 passengers to operate.)
Day 10: Depart Hanoi/Arrive USA
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Today, transfer to the airport to check in for your return flight to the USA, via Taipei, Taiwan
- Passengers returning to Houston (IAH) will have a 6-hour layover in Taipei before continuing to IAH, a day-use room will be provided
- Passengers returning to Seattle (SEA) will have a 7.5-hour layover in Taipei before continuing to SEA, a day-use room will be provided
- Passengers returning to Chicago (ORD) on February 1st, or March 22nd will have an included overnight stay in Taipei, before continuing to ORD the next day
- If your schedule permits, take advantage of an optional extension to Bangkok, Thailand
Special Optional Excursions Package: $205
Save by pre-booking a discounted package of our most popular optional excursions:
- Ben Tre Excursion (Day 4)
- Cu Chi Tunnels Excursion (Day 5)
- My Son & Phuoc Kieu Village Excursion (Day 6)
- Old Quarter Cyclo Tour & Water Puppets Show (Day 9)
You can book these excursions individually in Vietnam. But you can save $30 if you purchase this special package ahead of time—with or before your final payment. These are not "seat in coach" excursions that pick up passengers at various hotels; all are operated for Friendly Planet groups only. Optional excursions require a minimum of 3 passengers to operate.
Bangkok Optional Extension
Why not take advantage of your already included international airfare and add three days in exotic Bangkok, bustling capital of Thailand? Your extension includes airfare from Hanoi to Bangkok, three nights at a deluxe hotel, half day city tour, full buffet breakfast daily, and all group transfers!
Day 10: Depart Hanoi/Arrive Bangkok, Thailand
Accommodations: 3 nights COMO Metropolitan or similar, Bangkok. Included meals: Breakfast.
- Transfer to the airport to board your short flight to Bangkok, bustling capital of Thailand
- Upon arrival, you'll be escorted to your deluxe, centrally located hotel
- The rest of the day is yours at leisure
Full Day Itinerary: Transfer to the airport to board your short flight to Bangkok, bustling capital of Thailand, situated on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. Upon arrival, you'll be escorted to your deluxe, centrally located hotel. The rest of the day is yours at leisure to take in your new surroundings and explore the city independently.
Your hotel boasts a prime location within walking distance to many attractions.
Day 11: Bangkok
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Half day Bangkok sightseeing tour
- Afternoon at leisure
Full Day Itinerary: After breakfast, enjoy a half day sightseeing the major landmarks of Bangkok. Begin the day with a visit to the Grand Palace, which for 150 years functioned as the home of the King and his court as well as the entire administrative seat of government. Within its grounds, you'll also visit the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) built to house a large Buddha image carved from a solid piece of green jadite (jasper). Continue to Wat Pho, Bangkok's oldest temple, which is home to the magnificent reclining Buddha as well as the first school of traditional medicine and Thai massage, and is also regarded as Thailand's first University.
Day 12: Bangkok
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Full day at leisure in Bangkok
Day 13: Depart Bangkok/Arrive USA
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Today, transfer to the airport for your return flight to the USA via Taipei, Taiwan
Things to Know
- Any tips before I depart? Yes! We've compiled a handy checklist of everything you need to know before you go, including information on how to pay your balance due, flights & transfers, packing & luggage, and more.
- I'm traveling solo. Can you help me find a roommate? Yes, you can connect with other travelers to share a room and avoid single occupancy rates.
- Can I make changes to my trip? Want to upgrade your seats? Stay a few extra days? Something else? Just ask!
- Can I bring my kids? Are there any age restrictions? To book this package, you must be 18 or older. Your traveling companions must be 8 or older at time of travel.
- Do I need a visa or any other documents? Travel visas are required for this package. Please review the requirements.
- Should I purchase travel protection? Yes! Protect your travel investment with our travel protection plan, available to U.S. residents.
- What's the fine print? Review the terms & conditions for this package.
- What should I know about Thailand? Check out our guide for travel tips, the best time to go, blog posts, videos, and more.
- What should I know about Vietnam? Check out our guide for travel tips, the best time to go, blog posts, videos, and more.


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pyramid: The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and their triangular sides, which directly face the points of the compass, slope upwards at approximately a 50° angle from the ground and meet at an apex. The prototype for the pyramid are the mastabas of the Old Kingdom (2680–2565 BC), which are rectangular in plan and have only two sloping sides. After these came the step-pyramid at Sakkara, built c.2620 BC, which soon evolved into the straight-sided true pyramid. This monumental structure was developed around the IV dynasty and continued to be the favored form for royal burial through the VI dynasty.
Each monarch built his own pyramid in which his mummified body might be preserved for eternity away from human view and sacrilege. As a result of the lack of sophisticated machinery, the construction of each pyramid took many years and required measureless amounts of building materials and labor. Entrance into a pyramid is through an opening in the northern wall. A small passage, traversing lesser chambers, leads to the sepulchral room deep beneath the surface. Stone blocks forming a gable divert the weight of the great masonry masses over these chambers. Though the pyramids were usually built of rough stone blocks laid up in horizontal courses, many were constructed of mud bricks with a stone casing.
The three pyramids of Giza near Cairo, all of the IV dynasty, are the largest and finest of their kind. The Great Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops (begun c.2680 BC) was designated one of the Seven Wonders of the World and is the largest pyramid ever built. A solid mass of limestone blocks covering 13 acres (5.3 hectares), it was originally 756 ft (230 m) along each side of its base and 482 ft (147 m) high. It has several passages, two large chambers in addition to one beneath the ground level, and two small air chambers for ventilation.
Although not true pyramids, pyramidical structures were also built by the Mesopotamians and by the Maya of Mexico and Central America. Mesopotamian ziggurat was square in plan and built up in receding terraces. Mayan pyramids, built in steep, receding blocks, also were topped by ritual chambers, and in some cases, possessed an interior crypt. Stepped funeral pyramids dating from the 4th cent. BC were discovered in the 1990s in the Altai region of Siberia. The Romans built small pyramidical tombs of which the most famous was the Pyramid of Cestius (62 BC–12 BC) in Rome. Built of concrete faced with marble, it has an interior tomb vault and is 116 ft (35 m) high. Many modern architects have admired pyramids for their pure geometry. In the reconstruction of the Louvre in Paris, architect I. M. Pei added a pyramidal entrance pavilion (1987–89).
See I. E. S. Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt (rev. ed. 1961); P. Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid (1971); K. Mendelssohn, The Riddle of the Pyramids (1974).


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Date published: 2013-08-12


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(InStyle.com) -- Objective: Find a fabulous but not outrageously priced gift for the label-loving fashionista on your holiday list. This seemingly daunting task is no problem, with InStyle.com's seven stylish picks.
Marc Jacobs Geo Ring Set
Slipping into something by one of her favorite designers has never been so easy (or affordable!) than with these geometric stackable plastic rings from Marc Jacobs ($11 for a set of 3, marcjacobs.com for stores).
Chanel Nail Polish Trio
Chanel nail polishes are practically collector's items, with their newest shades often selling out before they hit stores thanks to pre-order wait lists.
Fortunately this set ($66, chanel.com) includes three full-size bottles of iconic Chanel shades Rouge Noir, Gold Lamé and Coromandel, plus a reusable makeup bag.
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Diane von Furstenberg Kindle Holder
Make sure her techie accessories look as good as she does with a canvas Diane von Furstenberg Kindle holder ($85, dvf.com). Not only does it feature a cute poppy print on the outside, the inside is lined with hot pink and features convenient credit card holders.
Valentino Rosette Handbag
Valentino's iconic rose handbags are hard to resist, and this adorable mini version ($325, saksfifthavenue.com) is at the top of our own list. Remove the chain link strap to turn it into a party-ready clutch.
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Louis Vuitton Key Chain
While losing keys will never be fun, finding them can be more chic!
Deliver a lot of Louis Vuitton style in a little package with this resin LV monogram keychain ($310, select Louis Vuitton stores).
Tom Ford Black Orchid Trio
Legendary designer Tom Ford's inaugural namesake women's line doesn't hit stores until early next year, so tide her over with this Black Orchid Trio ($140, Bloomingdale's) from the former Gucci creative director's makeup collection.
The boxed set includes his first ever nail polish, along with a matching lipstick and a compact filled with Black Orchid pressed perfume.
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'American Dior'
Add to her fashion library with this gorgeous coffee table book ($70, horchow.com) that chronicles Christian Dior's dressing of America's most glamorous women, like Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.
Find even more perfect gift ideas at InStyle.com.
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