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Collecting Advice for Newbies
I think the best advise I can give, from the experience I've gained, and being the one that started the thread you're referring too :oops:, is to not download everything you see, even if it is free. AND, make sure you have a system set up to organize it very early on so that you don't have to go through hundreds of kits trying to figure out what to do with them...
A very very noob advice: Don´t be affraid to explore your desigining program - it won´t burn your computer, or delete all your files :p But they have features that you can´t even imagine! Open a paper, a photo, and try all the resources.
Also, for photoshop users: I learn 1 or 2 weeks ago that Control + T is the shortcut for free transform tool. It made my scrap really faster.
Great ideas ladies! Keyboard shortcuts are a great tip.
* In Photoshop & Elements, save in layered TIFF format rather than PSD! This saves an enormous amount of space. I wish I'd known this when I started - at some point I want to go back and re-save all my PSDs as TIFFs but it's way down on the priority list. Here's a post that shows the settings to use when you save the TIFF file: https://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/2012/02/layered-files-psd-vs-tiff/.
* Along these lines, no matter what program you use, when you download a template, go through the folder and delete all the identical copies in different formats, only keeping the one type that works for you. Those folders of PNG files are for people who don't have PS or PSE, so you can toss them. Often designers will offer both TIFF and PSD, I always delete the PSD (although you might want to do a quick check of the file sizes - if the designer has not properly compressed the TIFF it could actually be larger than the PSD). Many templates also now come in Page format, which can be deleted unless the program you use works best with that format.
* We've touched on this in other threads, but download a free renaming program and use it whenever you open files and find they aren't labeled in such a way that you'll be able to find the designer, kit name, and TOU for each and every item, even if they get separated from their original folder. When I started I never thought I'd be posting to online galleries and needing this info for credits lists, or making things to give away and needing to see what the terms of use are for different items. For Mac I use something called NameChanger, the PC program has been mentioned here in a past thread on organizing.
* Make a folder containing a copy of the letter "A" from each of your alphas. Then you can quickly just go through that folder when you're looking for an alpha to use. I keep a separate one with a "1" from each number set, since many of my alphas don't have numbers included. Here's an article on this technique: http://www.nettiodesigns.com/2012/03/22/from-a-to-z-organizing-alphas-with-natalie/
* In terms of actual designing (can you tell I spend an inordinate amount of time downloading and organizing my supplies! but that's a big part of the fun for me, too) if you're not sure how to begin, what to scrap, or how to lay out your page, I think it can be helpful to start with something really structured. Like a list - make a page about your 7 favorite tv shows or 5 facts someone might not know about you, or do one of those "currently" or "right now" pages (you can easily find prompts for these by googling). Here are some "ten things" templates, including a couple that are free at the end of the list: http://logyourmemory.com/2011/03/28/10-things-templates/
* Actions and scripts are your friends! Learn about what they are and how to use them early on (if you use PS or PSE). Make your own actions for things you do frequently - it really helps to take the grind out of digital scrapbooking when things are automated. The scripts I use most I got free from SpeedScraps - go explore what she's got, I bet you'll find something super useful. A great place for tons of tutorials and actions is the Coffeeshop Blog. It will probably be pretty overwhelming if you're truly new to Photoshop/Elements, but once you're comfortable enough that you find yourself saying, "I wish there were an action to do..." remember the Coffeeshop - there's a good chance she's made one! Those are free as well. All of my favorite paid actions I bought from Studio Wendy. She makes really, really useful actions, particularly if you get to the point of wanting to print up your layouts in a photobook.
* Learn how to make and use brushes! Seriously, brushes are the best thing ever. I think there's a tutorial here at PixelScrapper. Another video tutorial: http://justjaimee.com/freebies/creatively-using-brushes-for-digital-scrapbooking-video-tutorial-free-brush-sample/ and a very basic beginner tutorial (including how to load brush files) at Pernickety Prints, along with some free brushes to download: http://blog.persnicketyprints.com/2012/07/how-to-use-brush-in-photoshop.html
* Oh my goodness, the most important photo tip ever - you can make your pics look a million times better just by using blending modes like "screen" and "overlay." Here's a tutorial: http://www.karenfunk.com/2012/11/digital-scrapbook-day-blog-hop.html
* Read Peppermint's Mind-Blowing Shadowing Tutorial over at One Little Bird. If you're anything like I was as a newbie, most of it will mean nothing to you, so get the gist, bookmark it, and come back to it later!
* Learn how to use layer masks. Here's the tutorial that finally made it all make sense to me: http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/2009/09/coffeeshop-editing-101-layer-masks.html
omg Violet, loved your post! Thanks for sharing!
I agree, that had some GREAT tips!!
@Violet: You Go Girlfriend!!! Who's the smartest one in the room right now? These are all excellent beginner & intermediate tips you shared and articulated very well!!!
* Make a folder containing a copy of the letter "A" from each of your alphas. Then you can quickly just go through that folder when you're looking for an alpha to use. I keep a separate one with a "1" from each number set, since many of my alphas don't have numbers included. Here's an article on this technique: http://www.nettiodesigns.com/2012/03/22/from-a-to-z-organizing-alphas-with-natalie
Another tip to organize your Alphas. if you use PSE Organizer that comes with PSE select all items from your Alpha and look in the menu for the option 'Stack'. What this does is that it stacks all your letter and numbers into 1 stack. You than tag a keyword to it and you're done. if you need the alpha you just click on it and it unstacks again. When your done, click stack again and it's nice and tidy.
I can highly recommend using PSE Organizer as it's one of the only programs that reads .png's
Thanks for all these great tips!
When I just got started I came back again and again to the Daily Digi blog. Don't try to read it all at once, bookmark and come back, eh well... daily
Wow, I never would have thought of making an Alphas "preview" folder - that's a great idea! No more sifting through folder after folder to decide which one would look best with your layout! AWESOME
Naming files correctly is so important for giving credit and finding the file again!
Thank you for all the great tips!
Great tips! Thank you very much! I am one of the newbies who can't help to download everything nice she sees ....and there are so many amazing creations! I will put a "STOP-Sign" on my screen to remind me of the "good habits" I should have...lol
Wow... that's genius Christine! Thanks for sharing it!
Another tip to organize your Alphas. if you use PSE Organizer that comes with PSE select all items from your Alpha and look in the menu for the option 'Stack'. What this does is that it stacks all your letter and numbers into 1 stack. You than tag a keyword to it and you're done. if you need the alpha you just click on it and it unstacks again. When your done, click stack again and it's nice and tidy.
great tips! @Violet, thanks a lot for taking the time to write all these useful tips down! really helpful, everyone!
Great stuffs, I'm going to try "screen" and "overlay." ... my photos is not very good with lighting
Thanks for all the great tips! I may not be a newbie, but I've learned a lot from reading your posts.
This is a great tip Shawna, I'm glad I found it.
Great tips. Thank you!!!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the great tips!
Thanks for all the wonderful tips, much appreciated.
@Violet--I know this post is a year old, but I can't thank you enough for the advice!! After reading this I searched for a Renaming program for PC. I'd been renaming folders, but never everything inside so when doing credits I'd have to look back for full info. Anyway I found Bulk Rename, it's free and totally amazing! It shows a preview of what the new filename will look like before renaming and allows reverting back. Now I rename everything with designer & kit name. Ok, then there was Speedscraps, for actions. The free ones, supply tracker and delete non-visible are unbelievable. They have to be done on a psd, but I just save it as a tiff when I'm done. Studio Wendy has some great actions, I even purchased a few. You are my new best friend!
Thanks ladies. One day I will learn to use the old version of Photoshop (CS2). I have only used it to delete backgrounds from images so far.
WOW! So much information! Thank you all.
I have been scrapping for years and am just now finding my own groove. So all newbies, don't get overwhelmed or frustrated that each page you work on is not a work of art. Just be happy that you are getting those memories down somewhere! The artistic part will come with time.
I have to second the "don't download everything" - I think one of the best things that ever happened to me was a computer and EHD crash that wiped out all my scrapping supplies. I had to start over. I am much more discerning now.
A couple other tips -
unzip and file things as soon as you download. If you don't you will end up with lots of files you can't remember why you downloaded and they will be scattered all over the place.
BACK THINGS UP!!!!!! I have a couple of hidden galleries in smug mug where I upload any kits that I truly love and don't want to lose. I upload everything up there so that if I am on the road I can access it as long as I have internet access and my PSE. Be sure to back up pages and pictures as soon as you download/create them. I lost a set of pictures of the last trip I took with my dad 3 months before he died. I had gotten busy and not backed them up, so they are permanently lost. I felt like I lost him all over again. So be sure to back things up!!!!
Now I have to find one of those free renaming programs so I can fix a lot of things and making things better orgainzed!
I was re-reading this topic and realised that no one posted something that, although I haven´t made, I saw too many people saying that they have done it when they were beginners: Never delete the terms of use (TOU) that comes with a kit. You will need it later to see how you can actually use the stuff you have.
Also, it´s good to reinforce: If you´re going to pull things out of the folders where they originally came in, be sure that all the files have, in the beginning of the name, the designer name or initials and kit name or abbreviation. Because when you enter challenges or post the layout on the internet for any other reasons, you are required to give credits to all the designers you used stuff. Even when the designer states on TOU that credits are not required, they are appreciated.
Thank you for starting this thread, Marisa. I scanned the forum for something like this and didn't see it and started a new thread. Sorry. I know you probably try to keep things tidy. I will mark this as I'm off to work now and looks like lots of great advice and comments for a newbie like me. Really loving this site
Thanks for the thread with all these great tips. I would have never thought of some of these. Much appreciated.
This is a great thread, thank you.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to digi... seriously. Like, I'm a v!rg!n with photoshop.
I just downloaded the free PS offered by Adobe on their website, but have no idea how to use it.
There are so many tutorials for beginners, I get lost.
What is YOUR favourite site for beginner tutorials?
I'm talking... how to open a paper with it, how to add elements... I know nothing


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Keeping the Lights On While Transforming Electric Utilities
Electric utilities operate now much as they did a century ago—but the environment in which they operate is changing dramatically. Now more than ever before, utilities whose regulators reward them in the traditional way for selling more electricity risk losing revenue as customers use their electricity more efficiently.
Climate change and energy security concerns, coupled with advances in disruptive technologies, may make conventional power-generating assets uncompetitive to build or even to run. Potential competitors armed with new technologies, new business models, and greater cultural agility are emerging in many sectors.
A New Electricity Paradigm
Responding to these disruptive forces requires a shift to a fundamentally new paradigm of electricity generation and use—business-as-usual incrementalism is simply insufficient.
The new paradigm will be based on a highly integrated network of advanced technologies including energy efficiency, demand response (which affects the timing rather than the efficiency of usage), renewables such as solar and wind, energy storage, and distributed generation.
Together, these technologies have the potential to make the electric system more secure, cleaner, and ultimately more cost-effective.
For this paradigm shift to succeed, though, it must meet both technical and economic requirements, delivering electricity reliably and cost-effectively throughout the transition.
Unlike fuel, which can be easily stored, electricity must be generated at the instant it is needed and used at the instant it is generated. Electric utilities therefore provide highly reliable electric service by exactly matching electric supply with demand at every second of every day. If this exact matching fails, the grid rapidly destabilizes, its components disconnect to prevent serious damage to the equipment, and the lights go out.
Historically, utilities have met this exacting requirement by first measuring what they assumed was an uncontrollable demand, then tightly controlling their power plants' output to match the demand. This approach is based on two underlying assumptions:
Putting Old Assumptions to Rest
These assumptions lead to a common concern that an electric system based on energy efficiency and renewables cannot provide reliable power. That's because utility operators cannot control when the wind blows and the sun shines, so these "variable renewable" resources cannot provide "baseload."*
That assertion is invalid—though the shift to efficiency and renewables will require operators to run their existing power plants and wires differently.
In reality, neither electricity demand nor generation is steady over time. Demand changes at every moment as individual devices turn on and off. Individual customers' demands, therefore, are highly variable. The more customers, of more kinds, in more places, are aggregated, the smoother and more predictable the total demand on the utility becomes—but it will still vary substantially with time of day and over the year.
Similarly, no individual generator—from a huge, faraway coal plant to a small, rooftop solar array—has a completely steady output. All generators are intermittent—they sometimes fail without warning. They vary only in the size, duration, frequency, cause, and predictability of their outages. Even normally reliable big thermal plants have both planned and forced outages.
For example, North American Electric Reliability Council data for all U.S. generators during 2003–2007 show that coal-fired capacity was shut down an average of 12.3 percent of the time (4.2 percent without warning); nuclear, 10.6 percent (2.5 percent without warning); and gas-fired, 11.8 percent (2.8 percent without warning). Despite extraordinary efforts to keep nuclear plants running constantly, the average unit worldwide unexpectedly failed to produce 6.4 percent of its energy output through 2008 and 5.3 percent in 2008, not counting planned refueling or maintenance shutdowns.
All this is to say that the concept of "baseload" generation is largely meaningless.*
For more than a century, utilities have known that any kind of power plant can and does fail, so they've routinely used controls and grids to combine intermittent generators to match fluctuating total demand.
People do not live on a desert island with one generator connected to one load; rather, the grid serves millions of individual loads by combining electricity from many power plants, of which at any given moment some are operating and others aren't—either because they can't or because they're not needed.
This is nothing new—utilities have been doing it since about 1882. All that's new is that utilities, customers, and other market actors now have a much larger menu of technologies for producing, using, controlling, and communicating about electricity.
Smaller, Variable Resources Can Meet Demand
There is no technical or perhaps even economic reason why a set of smaller, more variable resources cannot reliably meet demand.
Since wind and photovoltaics produce electricity when the wind blows and the sun shines, whether or not that's when the utility wants the electricity, the operator must simply control other resources (on the supply side or the demand side) to offset any differences so that total supply and demand continue to match up.
This is just like the conventional utility approach of managing one uncontrollable resource (historically, demand) with a set of controllable ones, but with two differences: demand can now often be controlled in ways that customers don't notice or don't mind (such as turning off an electric water heater for a few minutes), and modern forecasting techniques often make renewable energy production from variable resources (windpower and photovoltaics) more predictable than demand.
The more diversified variable renewables are by location (so they experience different weather at the same time) and by type (so weather patterns that are bad for one are good for another), the steadier their total output becomes and the less capacity needed to produce that output.
Also, windpower and photovoltaics, the fastest-growing renewables, are the only two renewable generators whose variability is at issue. Half the world's electricity now made by renewables (other than big hydroelectric dams) is of other kinds—geothermal, small hydro, solar-thermal-electric with many hours of heat storage, biomass, and waste combustion, etc.—whose steady output utilities can "dispatch" just like thermal power plants.
Put simply, utilities must transition from operating a small portfolio of large power plants to more creatively operating a larger portfolio of small resources, while also incorporating additional flexibility from new advanced technologies.
A few ways in which utilities can successfully incorporate variable renewables include:
Some utilities already have extensive and successful experience with these approaches. For example, Denmark is already 20 percent windpowered, heading for 50 percent to 60 percent, and five German states are 30 percent to 40 percent windpowered (over 100 percent at some times).
In January, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released findings from its two-and-a half year study confirming that by 2024 the eastern U.S. could be over 30 percent windpowered with a "firming and integration" cost—the added cost of coordinating windpower with other resources to ensure reliable and cost-effective service—equivalent to just one-tenth of windpower's competitive average price today.
RMI's Reinventing Fire™ effort is figuring out how energy efficiency and renewables can be combined to take advantage of all the newest intelligent controls, smart grids, and new technologies—while keeping the lights on reliably and cost-effectively.
Then utilities can provide better service at lower cost; they and their customers can both make more money at less risk; grid vulnerabilities and power-plant emissions will decline; and innovation and entrepreneurship can flourish.
Not only is this possible, but it is critical to our energy, security, and environmental future.
however, the utility operator's "baseload" resource is whichever resource costs the least to run (no matter what it cost to build), so that resource will be run whenever it is available and needed. These economic definitions say nothing about size, technology, or even whether the resource produces or saves electricity. Traditionally, big thermal (or hydro) power plants have been the default choice under both definitions of "baseload," but nowadays, new competitors—efficiency, many renewables, cogeneration—typically cost less to buy and to run, so big thermal plants now provide a minority and shrinking share of the world's new electricity production.
Lena Hansen is a Principal at Rocky Mountain Institute and Amory B. Lovins is the Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist.
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'Caught in the Middle' addresses conflict skills
The Los Altos Mediation Program in association with the Los Altos Community Foundation has scheduled "Caught in the Middle," a workshop designed to help people handle disputes, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave.
Martin Eichner, Project Sentinel conflict manager trainer, will share tips on how to lower the heat during disagreements, understand needs and assist others in saying what they need to say without escalating the situation.
The program will offer techniques on handling difficult situations in the middle of disputes. The workshop may help reframe conflicts at work, in volunteer organizations, with friends and within families.
Speaking Volumes series features author Cohn
The Los Altos Library Endowment has scheduled David "Pablo" Cohn to discuss "One Very Long Day – A Summer Working at the South Pole" at its annual Speaking Volumes series, 7:30 p.m. today in the Program Room of the Los Altos main library, 13 S. San Antonio Road.
Cohn is a senior research scientist with Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the high-tech company, and former technical lead for Google Labs.
Among his recent adventures was a three-month stay in Antarctica performing tech support for science projects at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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For more information, visit www.lalendow.org.
Neutra House hosts film screenings
The third annual Los Altos Neutra House FILM + Conversation Series features films and talks related to modern architecture.
The films are scheduled 7-9 p.m. May 9 and June 13 at Neutra House, 181 Hillview Ave., Los Altos.
• May 9: "The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat." The Michael Dorsey film tells the story of a house Neutra designed in 1958.
• June 13: "Coast Modern: Modern Architecture from Vancouver to LA." The film presents homes designed by three generations of modernist architects in the context of their times.
Admission is $20 per film.
LA women's program receives county award
The Santa Clara County Psychological Association has scheduled its 2013 Awards Fete 6-8 p.m. Friday in the Rec Room at the Los Altos Masonic Hall, 146 Main St.
W.O.M.E.N.-SV, a nonprofit program of the Los Altos Community Foundation committed to raising awareness of domestic violence and connecting victims with resources, will receive an award for its dedication to improving the well-being of the community.
The event will include cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
Admission is free, but registration is requested by Friday.
For more information and to RSVP, visit sccpa.org.
For more information on W.O.M.E.N-SV, visit losaltoscf.org/womensv
'Young at Art' reception slated May 3
A "Young at Art" reception is scheduled 6-8 p.m. May 3 at Nature Gallery, 296 State St., Los Altos.
The reception, occurring during the monthly First Friday event, celebrates young artists and their teachers.
Winning works from six area high schools will be on display in the gallery showroom.
For more information, call 327-8700.
Library sponsors talk on beekeeping
The Los Altos Library has scheduled the presentation "Beekeeping with Wayne Pitts" 6:30 p.m. May 6 in the Program Room of the main library, 13 S. San Antonio Road.
Pitts, expert beekeeper and owner of Uvas Gold Apiary, will discuss raising honeybees. The interactive class will feature live bees (enclosed in a hive), beekeeping equipment and honey samples.
For more information, call the library at 948-7683.
SAy Hi helps local seniors
The SAy Hi Support Group offers assistance to seniors living in San Antonio Hills, the unincorporated area near Los Altos.
Volunteers provide free rides (within a 20-minute drive, with 24 hours' notice) to destinations including El Camino and Kaiser hospitals; beauty salons and barber shops; Rancho, Loyola Corners, downtown Los Altos and other local shopping destinations; and religious services.
SAy Hi meets 4 p.m. the third Monday of every month at First Republic Bank, 400 S. San Antonio Road, in Los Altos.
For more information, call 752-4242.


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New Civic Si sedan joins winning lineup.
The compact class remains one of the most competitive in the new car market, in number of entries as well as price. Honda in 2006 re-staked its claim to the head of the class with the introduction of a completely reworked and updated Civic. And not just in the mainstream, family-car niche, but in the sporty subcompact arena, too, with the return of a hopped-up coupe, the Si, the latest reincarnation of the late, lamented CRX.
For 2007, everything pretty much remains the same, with one notable exception. Civic buyers with families may now have their cake and eat it, too. Honda has expanded the four-door sedan line to include an Si version, in almost every measure save the number of doors the equal of the Si coupe. It has the same 197-horsepower engine, the same six-speed manual transmission, and the same four-wheel disc brake setup. Honda's engineers tweaked its suspension to compensate for the sedan's longer wheelbase. Front-seat passengers get the Si coupe's sport seats. And both Si editions come standard with an electronic stability program for added control in emergency maneuvers.
Honda also continues offering a natural gas-powered sedan, the GX, which the company introduced during the 2006 model year. Availability is limited to residents of New York and California and fleets there and elsewhere.
The Civic Hybrid sedan uses a 1.3-liter four-cylinder coupled with a permanent magnet electric motor and a continuously variable transmission. This reduces emissions dramatically, while improving fuel economy.
The 2007 Honda Civic is available in coupe and sedan versions. The DX, LX, and EX models share a 140-hp, 1.8-liter four-cylinder with a standard five-speed manual transmission and an optional five-speed automatic. The base coupe with a 140-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and five-speed manual transmission starts at $14,810 MSRP. Other cars in the class may undercut the Civic on pricing, but the Civic includes important safety features, including side-impact airbags that others leave on the option list.
The Honda Civic DX coupe ($14,810) and DX sedan ($15,010) are the base models. Standard equipment is confined to power windows, tilt-and-telescope steering wheel, height-adjustable driver's seat and fold-down rear seatback. The coupe gets a rear decklid spoiler. Buyers wanting a radio must supply their own or order from the dealer, but a rear window-integrated radio antenna is standard. Brakes are disc in front, drum in rear. P195/65R15 tires wrap around steel wheels with full-cover hubcaps.
The LX coupe ($16,760) and sedan ($16,960) includes air conditioning; power mirrors; keyless remote and central locking; cruise control with steering wheel-mounted controls; a center console with sliding armrest; overhead map lights; a 160-watt, AM/FM/CD stereo with MP3 and WMA playback, an auxiliary input jack and speed-sensitive auto-volume control; front passenger seatback-mounted magazine pocket; and floor mats. The coupe has a rear seat walk-in feature that remembers the front passenger seat's setting. Tires grow to P205/55R16 on full-capped steel wheels.
The EX coupe ($18,710) and sedan ($18,710) add power moonroof; variable windshield wipers; a second 12-volt power outlet; a 60/40 split folding rear seatback; a seven-speaker, 350-watt, XM-ready, premium stereo with auxiliary input jack and steering wheel-mounted controls; and outside temperature indicator. The keyless remote adds a trunk release button. Brakes shift to discs at all four corners, and steel wheels give way to alloy. There are few options available, and Honda positions its options packages and automatic transmissions as separate models, so for example, there are the Civic coupe EX with voice-recognition Navigation, XM Satellite Radio and automatic transmission ($21,260) and the similarly equipped sedan version ($21,260).
The Si coupe ($21,090) and the new-for-2007 sedan ($21,290) come with all the gear found on the LX coupe and sedan plus leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, amber-tinted headlight trim rings and a body-colored rear wing spoiler. Standard tires are all-season, P215/45R17 on alloy wheels. New for 2007 and standard on both coupe and sedan is electronic vehicle stability assist system with traction control. Both also are available with high-performance, P215/45ZR17 tires and the navigation system with XM Satellite Radio ($23,040 and $23,240, respectively).
The Hybrid sedan ($22,600) adds to the LX's features automatic climate control, a roof-mounted radio antenna, a rear decklid spoiler and hybrid-pertinent digital data displays. The Hybrid is available with the navigation system and XM Satellite Radio ($24,350).
The GX ($24,590) is essentially an LX sedan with the alternatively fueled engine.
Dealers offer a wide range of Honda-approved accessories (installation is extra in all instances). Among these are 16-inch alloy wheels ($876), 17-inch alloy wheels ($976), chrome exhaust finisher ($125), fog lights ($325), a full nose mask ($155), a trunk tray ($105), leather steering wheel cover ($79) and a full menu of aero-style, exterior body add-ons for the sedan (e.g., side spoiler: $589; rear wing spoiler: $499).
Rising to the challenge (read: profit potential) of the performance aftermarket, Honda Factory Performance packages are offered for the two Si models and for the LX and EX coupes and sedans. The Si HFP packages include lowered springs, more tautly tuned shocks, a sports muffler, 18-inch alloy wheels, a full lower-body aero kit and the HFP emblem (coupe: $3754; sedan: est. $3800). The LX and EX HFP package for the coupe ($3118) and sedan ($3197) substitutes 17-inch alloy wheels, drops the muffler and adds a rear spoiler. (Prices do not include installation, which is set by dealers, or tires, which are priced locally.).
Honda changed nothing on the outside of the Civics for 2007. The sedans and coupes don't share any body panels. Trim elements and markings distinguish each iteration. Reinforced mounting points and gussets provide a platform to the sport compact aftermarket to make suspension and certain other modifications without diminishing body integrity.
From the front, a horizontal bar dominates the sedan grille; the Si sedan gets a monochrome version of the coupe's grille, with the iconic 'Si' badge at the far right end. Slender headlamp assemblies angle upwards as they curve around the fenders. A single, broad air intake fills the lower portion of the fascia.
The coupe grille sports the Honda logo suspended in a two-tone frame. As with the Si sedan, an understated badge tucked away in the far right reaches of the grille identifies the sporty Si version. The coupe headlights are more sharply outlined. The lower air intake opens between two, geometric recesses that feed cooling air to the front disc brakes and house the optional fog lamps. The front ends, but especially the coupes', push the leading corners down and outward, emphasizing the wide track (the distance side to side between the tires).
Save for a lower body character line, drawn slightly higher on the coupe than on the sedan, the sides of the new Civic are more slab than sensuous. Understated fender blisters, more pronounced on the coupe, break up the otherwise featureless expanse. What excitement there is in the side view is in the sleekness of what Honda calls a monoform design. A central expression of this is the windshield, the leading edge of which reaches into the hood all the way to the middle of the front wheel wells, pushing the design concept of cab forward to a new extreme. On the coupe, the windshield is raked at a radical 21.9 degrees, the sedan's at a barely more upright 23.9 degrees. The sail (the body panel aft of the rear side window) is unique to each model as well. The coupe's forms an acute angle emphasizing the two-door body style, while the sedan's curves down over the rear door's trailing edge, pulling the eye through the higher roofline. The coupe's be-spoilered, rounded rear profile suggests swiftness. The sedan's somewhat abbreviated trunk lid and chopped off tail end adds perceived mass to the tightly proportioned, smallish sedan. The Si coupe wears an i-VTEC label just forward of the rear wheel well, the Si sedan the same on the lower rear side door.
Likewise, the rear view of each body style differs markedly. The coupe's sloping trunk lid settles into a deep cut in the rear bumper, with the license plate sheltered in an equally deep recess. The sedan's trunk lid drops in an almost vertical, unrelieved sheer from a relatively high crest across the top. A blue, CNG diamond identifies the GX model.
The Civic LX sedan remains the most comfortable Civic we've driven. The DX edges more toward spartan inside, while the EX heads toward lush. Fit and finish meet Honda standards. Plastic trim elements look high grade, although the multi-piece dash invites concern about high-mileage squeaks and buzzes.
Seats are comfortable, not plush. The fabric upholstery feels durable and its robust nap assists the modest side and seat bottom bolsters in restraining occupants during spirited motoring. The Si models get sport front seats with more aggressive bolsters both bottom and side for improved support. Seat bottoms provide better than average thigh support. The manual height adjustment on the driver's seat pivots on front hinges, forcing drivers to choose between seat height and legroom.
The view out the front, with the expansive windshield, low cowl and sloping hood, is unparalleled in the class. A commensurately low beltline would enhance side vision, but there's little about which to complain. Tiny front quarter windows on the sedan, necessary to allow the front door windows to roll all the way down, push the side view mirrors a bit too far rearward for quick and easy glances at neighboring lanes.
Controls are for the most part where they should be, but not necessarily as they should be. There's little symmetry in organization or shape of features and interfaces. It's not an unpleasant look, but one that requires some acclimation. Despite the seeming logic behind the relocation of the digital speedometer, we still haven't adjusted to that weird pod draped over the top of the dash.
Splayed across the top of the seemingly unending dash in front of the driver is a hooded opening with a digital speedometer between LCD coolant temperature and fuel level gauges. Down below, in the more common place for the instrument panel, a large, round, analog tachometer dominates the half circle formed by the top half of the steering wheel. To each side of this lower IP are large, irregular vent registers. Centered in the dash above the climate control panel is either an LCD window combining the navigation display and audio settings and, in the Hybrid, a selection of graphic depictions of the hybrid system's functions and status or a stereo control head with the pertinent accoutrements. To the right of this squished pod-like arrangement, the dash curves away from the front seat passenger and houses two, more horizontally oriented vent registers, again neither of which matches the other. A wide, but not especially deep glove box resides below a cabin-wide, clam shell-like notch dividing the upper and lower halves of the dash.
There is no center stack to speak of tying together the dash and the drive tunnel. Below the climate control panel is a shallow storage bin with a power point and an audio input jack on the left side. Forward of the metallic-trimmed block of plastic serving as a base for the hand brake and shift levers is a good-sized, rectangular storage bin. Another, shallow cubby is tucked in between the shift lever housing and a pair of seat bottom-level cup holders under a sliding cover. Aft of this on all but the DX is an abbreviated, padded armrest covering another storage bin, inside of which on the EX, Si and Hybrid is a second power point. Each door has a hard plastic map pocket. A magazine pouch is on the rear of the front passenger seatback; on the Hybrid, there's one on the driver seatback, too. Architecturally busy interior door panels could be friendlier to fingers in terms of grips and pulls, but armrests provide good support at the right level.
The Civics are easily competitive with other cars in their classes when it comes to interior room. Almost oversize rear doors provide easy rear seat access. The bench seats in the rear are flat and do little to keep passengers in place twists and turns.
Cargo space trails the class leaders by a couple cubic feet; the Hybrid gives up 1.6 c.
Driving Impression
Ride quality in the Honda Civic is solid but not overly firm, with less road noise and wind whistle than is common for the class. The exceptionally stiff chassis gives the Civic a solid and planted feel. Thoroughly modern front and rear suspension designs deliver impressive stability and certain steering response. The long wheelbase smoothes the ride.
Brake feel is solid.
The automatic transmission is just that, a select-it-and-leave-it gearbox, and it does the job admirably. Thankfully, Honda has not fallen prey to the Sport-Shift fad. We do wish, though, that Honda would insert a tab below the D setting in the gate, as we routinely passed that one right by when shifting out of Park or Reverse and ended up in the D3 notch.
The five-speed manual gearbox is less pleasant than the five-speed automatic. The shifter's a bit rubbery, and hitting the desired gear requires careful aim.
The 2.0-liter four-cylinder models have 140 horsepower, 128 pound-feet of torque. In the two Si models, these numbers jump to 197 and 139, respectively. The Hybrid makes 113 horsepower and 123 pound-feet of torque, the GX 113 horsepower and 109 pound-feet.
Fuel economy, as estimated by the U.S. EPA, is 30/38 mpg City/Highway for the five-speed manual, 30/40 mpg for the five-speed automatic, and 23/32 mpg for the Si six-speed manual. The Hybrid earns a 49/51 mpg rating, the GX a gasoline-equivalent of 28/39. As curb weights vary by a few pounds plus or minus across the line, differences to throttle inputs are miniscule at best.
The Si Sedan is almost as much fun as the Si Coupe. Tempering the fun somewhat, although not to any significant degree, is the fact the sedan weighs about 80 pounds more than the coupe, which in itself reflects no small achievement in metallurgy, and rides on a wheelbase that's two inches longer. So, it's a tick or two slower in acceleration, although not enough for anybody without a stopwatch to notice. And steering response isn't quite as sharp, despite a thicker front stabilizer bar and different shock tuning than the coupe.
The more-powerful Si engine returns more front wheel-drive syndrome, where hard acceleration excites the steering wheel demanding more driver effort to keep the car going in the desired direction. And along about 6000 revolutions per minute, the engine delivers a power surge not unlike that of a turbocharger spooling up, only here it's where the i-VTEC's variable valve mechanicals shift emphasis from torque to horsepower.
The Hybrid uses a CVT automatic, which takes some getting used to, as the shiftless transmission leaves the tachometer needle roving seemingly aimlessly around the dial while the engine management system's electronic brain works to keep the engine speed at its most efficient given road speed and load.
The 60/40, front/rear weight bias means understeer (where the car wants to go straight when the driver wants it to turn) is the dominant directional dynamic; thankfully, the electronic stability system that's standard on the two Si models (it'd be nice to see this on the other Civics, too, at least as an option) suppresses this at elevated speeds where the consequences of over-zealousness can be more dire. Both Si editions also get larger front discs than the rest, which add confidence to the stopping power of the standard, four-wheel disc system.
The Honda Civic is the benchmark for compact cars. A complete line of them is available for 2007. A Civic LX sedan is a superb choice for someone who wants a practical compact that smooth, comfortable and quick. The EX models add all the conveniences. The GX offers the allure of natural gas. The Hybrid makes a good commuter car, with its fuel-saving electric motor. And the Si Coupe and Si Sedan keep driving enthusiasts happy.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from Detroit.
Model Lineup
Honda Civic DX Coupe ($14,810); Civic LX Coupe ($16,760); Civic EX Coupe ($18,710); Civic Si Coupe ($21,090); Civic DX Sedan ($15,010); Civic LX Sedan ($16,960); Civic EX Sedan ($18,710); Civic Si Sedan ($21,290); Civic Hybrid Sedan ($22,600); Civic GX Sedan ($24,590).
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Honda Civic Si Sedan ($21,490).The Honda Civic is one of the most reliable and popular economy compact sedans/coupes in its class. For years it has set the quality and performance standard for the affordable, compact car market. The Civic comes in sedan or coupe. It has four trims: DX, LX, EX and Si. All but the Si trim come with a 140-horsepower, 1.8-liter inline four-cylinder with a standard five-speed manual transmission with an optional five-speed automatic. A performance-oriented coupe and new sedan, the Si, comes with a 197-horsepower, 2.0-liter inline-4 fitted with a six-speed manual. Safety features include antilock brakes, front and side-impact airbags as standard equipment. For 2007, the Honda Civic introduces a tuned sedan Si to its lineup.
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We all enjoy stories from what seem like the glory days of hot rodding and we recently received a book filled with some great stories told by the guys that were there. In many cases the accompanying photos could tell a story themselves and do a great job helping illustrate the tales. The best part is that the clubs represented are very diverse and tell the stories of hot rodders across the nation and not just on one coast. If you enjoy the following story (and I'm sure you will) you can order the book, Car Club Memories – Personal Stories from Three Dynamic Decades of Cruisin', Competition, and Cool Cars. Fred Thomas spent years collecting the stories and photos and has assembled some of the best into this book available online at barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, and authorhouse.com. Local bookstores can search by title, author, ISBN: 978-1-4343-6251-3 (sc), or LCCN 2007908240. The $15.95 book has 116 pages and165 vintage black and white photos to add to your reading enjoyment.
Jack and a group of friends formed the Dukes while still students at Oceanside-Carlsbad High School in Oceanside, CA. At the time they were playing baseball for a team sponsored by a menswear store. The owner was left with a quantity of white Fedora hats, which he couldn't sell. In an effort to get rid of them he offered them gratis to the players. The guys readily accepted the stylish hats.
When it came time to name the club, several choices were considered. Then one member suggested they be called the Dukes, as the Fedoras made them look like royalty. No further discussion was needed.
Good friends, girls, the strand! Life in Southern California during the 1940's was great for growing up. Drag racing and car clubs added another dimension to the scene. And, Jack had a part in it all.
Sadly the Dukes amicably disbanded in late 1943. Jack's next club affiliation didn't come until he returned from service. In 1946 he joined the Carlsbad Oilers.
Jack had learned to fly planes on the G.I. Bill. In 1951 he acquired a used twin Cessna, better known as a Bamboo Bomber. The fledgling NHRA was holding a competition at the Muroc dry lake near Victorville, California. He and a few buddies decided to fly up and left around 8 a.m. They landed at the end of the course by the timing booth, and parked nearby. His plane appears in car magazine photos from that event.
The wind picked up and visibility was poor at best. The races subsided due to poor conditions. As the sky cleared, the group got hungry. So they jumped in the Cessna and flew to the infamous Poncho Barnes diner located adjacent to Edwards Air Force Base. In addition to lunch they had the opportunity to meet Chuck Yeager who had recently become the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
Following the lunchtime adventure the group once again hopped in the Bamboo Bomber and returned to the Muroc event. Later, after watching out for cars racing down the lake, they took off and flew back to Oceanside, arriving in mid afternoon.
Competing at the Paradise Mesa drag strip near San Diego was eventful in the Fifties. Jack hopped up a 239ci Ford Flathead and ran it in a '40 Ford coupe. In one race his competitor drove a chopped and stripped down '34 Ford coupe. The '34 won and Jack contested the race. The strip officials sided with Jack. The '34 driver wanted another shot at him and agreed to "unstrip" his car to meet the class requirements.
Instead of that Jack and his partner Jim Nelson, who later became a co-founder of the Drag Master Company, installed the 239ci motor in Jim's stripped down '34 Ford coupe that had been running C gas with a more powerful engine. A $50 wager was placed on the outcome. This time the results were decisive. After an engine examination by the judges, the greenbacks went home with Jack and Jim!
On another occasion they raced the partnered coupe against Alex Xydias, founder of SO-CAL Speed Shop. Alex had a '34 coupe with an extremely low chopped top. The low-profile rod sported 259.5 cubic inches by official measure. The B gas class limit was 260ci. In the time trials both cars independently broke the existing B gas record. Jack had made the record breaking run for their team. When the time came to go up against Alex's car, Jack and Jim flipped a coin to see who would drive. Jim won the toss.
Down the strip both cars performed well, and stayed pretty even. But, at the finish line Jim's driving skills had given them a winner. Following the race Jack and Jim were asked to remove the engine heads so the displacement could be verified, satisfying any doubters. As it was Jack's engine, he was chosen to do the teardown. The inspection went without a hitch and their win was official.


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When a young Phil Brooks saw Rowdy Roddy Piper crack a coconut over the head of Superfly Jimmy Snuka, he knew he wanted to be a wrestler.
Many years later, through lean times when he drove miles and miles to wrestle in tiny halls for less than gas money, Brooks has morphed into CM Punk. He's a WWE superstar, entrenched in its ECW brand. And he's heading into his first Wrestlemania, competing against Jeff Hardy, Edge, King Booker, Mr. Kennedy, Finlay, Matt Hardy and Randy Orton in a Money in the Bank Ladder Match.
"I remember watching Piper, it was so mesmerizing to me," Punk says. "And now I'm in Wrestlemania. It's a dream come true for me. Seven other guys and a ladder ... anything can happen. I've done ladder matches before ... they can be brutal."
Punk is different than most ... a disciple of the straight edge culture.
"It's simple," Punk says. "No promiscuous sex. No drugs. No alcohol.
"By the time I was 15, I'd seen a lot of stupid stuff with alcohol and drugs. I just made a personal decision. When I was 14 and 15, I'd have a drink at a party, but I had an overwhelming feeling: 'This doesn't make me cool so why am I doing it?' "
A star in the superb Ring of Honor program, which airs frequently on The Fight Network, Punk is adapting to the larger scale WWE.
"I always say it's like the difference between the Rolling Stones playing big arenas or dome shows ... or playing in a local bar," he says. "At least three times a day, a fan recognizes me. I was at an autograph signing in New Jersey. A mom stopped and said: 'Thank you for being a role model.' "
AND 'ROIDS: WWE is agonizing over the SI.com report that several wrestlers have been linked to a steroid prescription investigation. Those linked to an Internet drug site include Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero, Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio), Randy Orton, Adam Copeland (Edge) and Shane Helms (Gregory Helms). The drug buys would have been a few years ago, before WWE put its wellness policy in place.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior co-captain Ryan Sheffler was honored as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Co-Player of the Week for his three goal performance in Saturday's 4-3 loss to Springfield College. It was the first such award for an MIT men's soccer player this season.
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It's the month of Halloween, and a couple of websites are running countdowns of great horror movies, providing essays in justification of their ideas. Well worth reading are those at Wonders in the Dark and Gestalt Mash. We'd all rank our favorite such films differently, of course, and it will be fun in the end to see which films get missed (I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to see if one of my own favorites, Blood Feast, gets included on either list! One must always use exclamation points when talking about Blood Feast!!! I love it as much for its poster as for the film itself!!!!) The rankings are interesting, though -- for instance, Wonders in the Dark lists the seminal, original Texas Chainsaw Massacre as #25, and I would be inclined to put it in the top ten; I'm impressed that the writers think there are 24 horror movies superior to and more important than the original TCM. (And I Walked with a Zombie is all the way back at 85?!? Insanity! I'd move it ahead by about eighty spots.)
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Hoping to give property taxpayers more of a say in the property-tax appeals process, state Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, has introduced a bill he calls a "property taxpayer's bill of rights."
If passed, the proposed legislation would require property assessors to justify any property assessment increase greater than 5 percent, compared with the previous year's assessed value, during an appeals process.
"Every day I hear from constituents who are concerned that their property taxes continually go up without any connection to what's going on in the outside world," Franks said.
The proposed change, which was introduced Thursday, puts the burden of proof on the assessor to prove why an increased property value is warranted.
Currently, during a property value appeals process, when property owners try to have their assessments lowered, it is up to the homeowner to supply recent sales data of comparable homes showing that their house has been overassessed. The comparable properties have to be of similar size, story height, quality of construction and style.
Homeowners also can show they are being overassessed compared with nearby properties by providing the market values and assessments of comparable houses.
Franks' bill also would allow boards of review to grant continuances for any hearing upon a written request from the taxpayer.
"I introduced this legislation to give taxpayers a stronger voice in the assessment process because it is very clear that without their increased involvement, taxing bodies will just continue to take more," he said.
Franks proposal also requires assessors, county treasurers and board of review members to pursue 15 hours of continuing education each year. Curriculum for the continuing education courses would have to be approved by the state's Department of Revenue.
"By guaranteeing the right of taxpayers to basic standards of conduct on the part of taxing bodies, we can force taxing bodies to issue more responsible assessments," Franks said in a news release. "That is the ultimate goal here: relief for taxpayers from the long-standing trend of endlessly rising tax bills."
Robert Ross, the chief assessment officer for the county, pointed out that assessments are not the reason why tax bills go up. Tax bills go up when taxing districts ask for increased revenue during the levy process, he said.
Ross added that assessments in the county have been decreasing over the years.
Appraisers and assessors already have to pursue 60 hours of continuing education every four years to maintain their certified Illinois assessment officer designation, Ross said.
Ross said boards of review can ask township assessors why they assessed properties a certain way during appeals hearings.
"I understand ... Representative Franks wants to alleviate increased property taxes, but I don't think you can blame assessments," Ross said.
Franks proposes property assessment legislation
County officials say higher assessments aren't reason for rising bills
Hoping to give property taxpayers more of a say in the property-tax appeals process, state Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, has introduced a bill he calls a "property taxpayer's bill of rights."


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1f you have to replace 75% of the sheet metal, 100% of the running gear and interior, 90% of the glass and 100% of the trim, what do you really have?I guess that's why I kept the VIN and Cowl tag from the one I sent it away.
old topic, but I believe this is the same car up for sale again. Not sure what it is, but I always seem to remember the turds when they come back up for sale. Lately, there has been a bunch of them to!
Guys like Gary will happily pay $6500.00 for that pile simple because it is Hugger Orange!LOL! Paul
Looks like it came from here:http://archive.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=124161
That tells me the weather has improved in your area enough where we should be expecting to see pics of yours on the road, right??( hoping your getting close)


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Elizabeth and Mary
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens Jane Dunn Harper, 2003 ISBN 000653192X For nearly thirty years Queen Elizabeth of England and her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, were uncomfortable rivals. Mary had succeeded her father on the throne at the age of six days in 1542, while Elizabeth ascended at the age of 25 in 1558. Both were highly intelligent and ambitious women and there was not room for both. Elizabeth was beset by enemies everywhere ...


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Latest Chapter:Chap 3
Chap 2
Chap 1
Joshi Daisei ga ...Chapter: 9
Jidokhage ...Chapter: 51
Chapter 4 onwards broken.
Whole series is unavailable.
Not working from chapter 32 onwards. Shame because this is a great series.
When does chapter 14 come out I have seen some people have previews.
It's all broken from 96 onwards!
There are several chapters that do not display the manga. Please correct this issue.
As a Chemist this episode is painful.
Well shit everyone's got a damn hearing problem
Retardation at it's finest
Chapter 9.1 needs fixed
Why so many error picture, i cant read the .All cos to many error
@Sam Wang Fixed
What's up with chapters 108 onwards?? files corrupted?
Uh-oh ... shits about to go down!
I like how his monster had a personality
Some chapters not working and new 171 too. Can you fix it? (Sorry for bad english.) Anyway this anime, and manga too, is really amazing. I hope it will work soon so i can read it.
Can some one please reply to this question? What is the alternative name for this so called (super rich) manga, please reply back I need answers asf please.
In the novel the girl with bracelet name is Larges T. which is a joke in a way becuase Lunaria notes that Larges has the biggest breasts out of all the girls in the room.


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As a species, we waste an amazing amount of food. According to Natural Resources Defense Council, people chuck an incredible 40% of all food we produce. Dumpster divers have long sought to live off of the excess of our inefficient system, scrounging for edibles amongst the trash bin. Going one step further, some enterprising cooks and activists from Austria have created a reality TV show dedicated to cooking exclusively from the trash called "Waste Cooking".
Waste Cooking director David Gross (and yes, that is his real last name) executed his first dive back in January of 2012. He was "left speechless" by the amount of refuse he encountered and felt that the public needed to be aware of the the 105,000 tons of food that Austria throws out each year. Gross teamed up with a group of fellow divers and cooks to produce a reality TV show to highlight the possibilities lying at the in rubbish bins across the country.
Since 1995, Austria has had a law requiring the separation of food waste from landfill materials, making it one of the most efficient and widespread composting programs in the world. In the show, the Waste Cooking team first heads out at night by bicycle to find the bins of organic waste and gather a variety of produce, meats, and cheeses. After making their haul, the freegan fare is then turned into a series of compelling dishes by food blogger and chef Tobias Judmaier. The meals are afterwards set up in a public place where the group tries to entice passersby to try their creations. Some are intrigued, others turn up their noses, but all get a taste of what it like to see how many good groceries wind up being tossed.
The first episodes of Waste Cooking went online in March of last year, and began aired on the Viennese station Okto in December. You can check out their official website for pictures, clips, and recipes as well as a short film, Days in Trash.
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Remember That Jobless Recovery? China's Fault
As trade with China continues to be a potent political issue on Capitol Hill, academics have increasingly looked in detail at the downside of U.S. moves to liberalize trade.
Take the case of the U.S. recession of 2001, which followed the bursting of the tech bubble and was mild by most measures. It lasted eight months. GDP declined just a bit. Unemployment topped out at 5.5% during the downturn.
But it also ushered in a huge decline in manufacturing employment. About 1.5 million manufacturing jobs were lost in the first year of that downturn –and continued to fall for years afterward-- far more than the 900,000 manufacturing jobs lost in the first year of the so-called Great Recession of December 2007 through mid-2009.
What happened? In a word: China.
Economists Justin Pierce of the Federal Reserve Board and Peter Schott of Yale University's School of Management argue in a recent paper that import competition from China had a devastating impact on U.S. manufacturing jobs. Especially interesting is that the competition wasn't spurred by tariff cuts. Instead, it was congressional passage of "permanent normal trade relations," or PNTR, the wonkish term used by the U.S. to note that China was entitled on a regular basis to the lowest tariff rates the U.S. grants to its other trading partners. China won PNTR in 2000 when it cut a deal with the U.S. to join the World Trade Organization.
"PNTR is notable for having had little effect on the tariffs actually applied to Chinese imports," the two write. "Rather the principal impact of PNTR was to eliminate uncertainty." Before that, China had to go through a yearly battle to get such trading status—one whose outcome was always somewhat in doubt given the enmity toward China of many in Congress.
The two economists compared industries that would have had the highest protection from tariffs if China failed to get PNTR versus those where tariffs didn't matter much. They found that the combination of a reduction in uncertainty over tariff increases and the ability of China to quickly turn itself into the world's factory floor led to a vast increase in Chinese imports, whose effect was to overwhelm lower-end U.S. manufacturing jobs.
"Manufacturing employment would have been higher by over 4 million employees in 2007 without the effect of PNTR" for China, the economists calculate.
The Pierce-Schott paper is one of a number of academic studies in recent years to detail the costs to the U.S. of liberalized trade. Last year, three prominent economists, David Autor, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Dorn of the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies in Madrid and Gordon Hanson of the University of California at San Diego concluded that localities whose businesses were especially exposed to competition by Chinese imports were beleaguered by higher unemployment and lower wages. They also estimated "conservatively" that competition from China accounted for one-quarter of the overall decline in U.S. manufacturing employment between 2000 and 2007
The authors of the two papers generally don't consider themselves opponents of liberalized trade. But the more detailed scrutiny of the downsides of trade is a big change from a decade ago when technological advances, much more than import competition, was blamed for manufacturing and wage declines. (Remember the derision heaped on Ross Perot and his "giant sucking sound" of the jobs that would head to Mexico as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement? A lot of the jobs wound up in China instead.)
In the restrained language of academia, Messrs. Autor, Dorn and Hanson wrote, "the consequences of China trade for U.S. employment, household income, and government benefit programs may contribute to public ambivalence toward globalization and specific anxiety about increasing trade with China."
What should be done?
In e-mailed responses, Mr. Schott didn't back trade restrictions. He noted that his study also showed that PNTR coincided with a large increase in labor productivity "because, even though manufacturing employment fell, manufacturing value-added kept rising," he said. Rising productivity is generally a boon to the U.S. economy and, without it, U.S. wages wouldn't climb. (Falling prices for imports also benefit Americans as consumers and probably pump up employment in retailers, advertisers and other firms that sell goods to Americans. )
Additionally, he said, if China hadn't won PNTR it's possible that many of those manufacturing jobs lost would have wound up in other low-wage countries. "I think the rationalization of U.S. manufacturing would have continued as a result of continued liberalizations and reductions in the cost of managing global supply chains, albeit more slowly," according to Mr. Schott.
Ultimately, education is the answer, Mr. Schott said. "The U.S. should ensure that it has an educational system that is designed to build a highly skilled work force and is capable of helping workers retrain mid-career as the economy evolves," he concluded.
Trouble is, academics always point to education as the solution. That isn't much solace for unemployed workers, especially given the failures that plague many retraining programs.
Bob Davis


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She's already won us over with her clothing and lingerie, so it's only natural that Stella McCartney would turn her design smarts to her first collection of optical eyewear, available today. The glasses come in five styles and strike the designer's signature feminine-meets-masculine aesthetic for an entirely modern look. Even better, they're made primarily from renewable sources, which isn't a surprise considering that McCartney's renowned for her eco-friendly approach to fashion. With glasses this chic, you'll want a prescription right away, so whether your sensibilities are classic or retro-inspired, click here to shop her frames.


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CHICAGO, May 20 (UPI) -- The sheepskin may be on the wall, but today's college graduates could have a long way to go before achieving independence from mom and dad.
A recent survey by Kelton for eHealthinsurance last month found nearly half of college students and recent grads are afraid they won't be able to pay off their student loans and nearly two-thirds are afraid they won't even be able to find a job, let alone a job in their chosen field.
The survey, which queried 255 people April 13-23 online, found college students think they need an average annual salary of $81,600 to be financially independent while parents put the figure at $54,000. However, the survey found, the average salary for newly minted grads is $21,900.
With student debt now eclipsing credit-card debt as consumers' biggest liability, junior may be bunking with mom and dad a lot longer than initially planned.
Last year, students graduated with an average $24,000 in loan debt and the burden will get worse if Congress doesn't act to keep interest rates from doubling July 1.
Moody's Investors Service recently noted college tuition is "at a tipping point" and college administrators increasingly are realizing they need to find ways to make education more affordable.
"Schools are very good at adding new things, new programs," Sherideen S. Stoll, vice president for finance and administration at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, recently told The New York Times. "We are not so good at looking at things we have been doing for 20 or 30 years and saying, 'Should we be offering those academic programs?'"
Why are college costs so high? The Times blames increased campus amenities, upscale food service, frequent sabbaticals for professors, the need to stay on top of technology and healthcare -- education being labor-intensive means a large number of employees. Also to blame: top-heavy administrations and enormous compensation packages for top administrators.
The Chronicle of Higher Education listed former banker Gordon Gee, Ohio State University's chief executive, as the highest paid public university administrator in 2011 at $1.32 million plus benefits, followed by Francisco Cigarroa of the University of Texas system at $750,000 and William Powers Jr. at the University of Texas-Austin at $746,738. Rounding out the top five were Mary Sue Coleman at the University of Michigan system at $728,504 and Michael Young at the University of Utah at $723,595.
"Students and their parents who are struggling, not just with coming up with the money, but paying off the debt, I think there is a disconnect between what they are being asked to do and what they are seeing the leader of the university doing," Dale Butland of the non-profit research group Innovation Ohio told the Times.
That debt won't get paid off without jobs and the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas advised students and new grads to treat internships with care.
"The problem is that many interns simply show up every day, put in their hours and never give any thought about how to get the most out of their short time with the employer and taking the extra steps necessary to turn this temporary position into a full-time one," company Chief Executive Officer John A. Challenger said.
"We are at a point in this recovery where job gains are finally gaining momentum but, overall, employers remain cautious when it comes to hiring. They want to ensure that they are bringing in the most talented candidates who mesh well with the company and its workers."
The National Association of Colleges and Employers 2012 Internship & Co-Op survey indicates the number of internships this year is up 8.5 percent from last year and more than half of interns (58.6 percent) turned those tryouts into full-time jobs.
"As an intern, it is critical to treat each day like a job interview. You want to set yourself apart from your fellow interns," Challenger said. "As the slowing economy potentially leads to fewer full-time positions, it is critical that interns exceed expectations. Those who merely meet expectations probably will not get the full-time job offer."


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