Our friend, journalist Eve Kushner , has decided to take the deplorable state of publishing into her own hands. She’s organizing “ Chaat and Chats ” a forum for authors (and artists) to meet directly with the reading (and viewing) public while noshing on “chaat”, Indian snacks. It’ll take place 11am to 4pm on Saturday, December 5 at Taste of the Himalayas in Berkeley.
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Chaat and Chats
It will come as no surprise that many technical printer problems seem beyond logic. But did you know that there are a lot of great tips and help available on the internet? Simply Googling a problem or going to the manufacturer’s web page can solve so many printing problems.
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We’ve been observing considerable price declines for many flat-screen televisions, with an intriguing exception: smaller LCD sets. In the last couple of weeks we’ve reported a six percent drop in the PriceSCAN 40-49 Inch Plasma Index and a four and a half percent decline in the PriceSCAN 40-Inch 720p Index
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For Holiday Flat Screen Prices, Maybe Less Will Be More
The last stop on the Chin Music autumn book fair tour-de-force is New Orleans! We’re bringing our titles to this year’s New Orleans Bookfair , the self-proclaimed “annual book fair of muckraking.” The 500-600 blocks of Frenchman Street will be overrun with a good cross section of the local literature-loving public this Saturday, November 7th from 10am to 6pm. This really isn’t your typical fair; according to Susan Larson from the New Orleans Times-Picayune , NOLA Bookfair is a hotbed for indie publishers with its track record of a humorous, carefree atmosphere mixed with a sincere dedication to providing opportunities for small publishing houses to display their wares.
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CMP at the 2009 New Orleans Book Fair
The Stranger’s Paul Constant might be right that last weekend’s Seattle Bookfest was a ” disaster for many of the participants .” But that certainly wasn’t the case for us. In fact, it was our best event financially this year (and we had a presence at Portland’s Wordstock , Chicago’s Assoc
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Seattle Bookfest: The Gamble Paid Off
Chin Music is coming to UH Manoa’s English Department this Thursday for a tag-team double feature! Joining their Colloquium and Reading Series , we’re holding a reading and discussion of both Oh! with Todd and Linda Shimoda and our newest title, Big In Japan , with M. Thomas Gammarino. That’s right, you can experience two knockout Chin Music Press titles for the mere price of one! Well… this event is free, but you know what we mean
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‘Oh!’ x ‘Big In Japan’ at the University of Hawaii this Thursday
In the wake of the conclusion of the government’s “Cash for Clunker’s” auto purchase subsidy program, it appears GPS prices are starting to buckle. We’ve seen a 7.5% decline in the value of our Automotive GPS – Voice Recognition Index (see our press release )
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With "Cash For Clunker’s" End, Lower GPS Prices
Blu-ray player prices are accelerating the pace of their decline as we approach the holiday shopping season, and there seems to be no end in sight. The PriceSCAN Blu-ray index fell some six percent in the first week of October, by the end of which the total fourth quarter decline came to 12.8% (see our press release )
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A Blu-ray Of Light At End Of Price Decline Tunnel?
Leading designer & manufacturer of custom presentation and promotional packaging adds high-speed Xeikon digital press to offer dynamic dimensional packaging with full variable-data capabilities Buffalo, NY and Itasca, IL, October 16, 2009 – The Colad Group, LLC (www.colad.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of presentation and promotional packaging located in Buffalo, NY, purchased a Xeikon 6000 digital color press (www.xeikon.com). The Xeikon 6000 is capable of running 20 inch wide substrate rolls with virtually no limitations in length with substrate weights as light as 27 lb. text and as heavy as 16 pt
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Colad Adds Xeikon Digital Press
The week following that of the astronomical start of autumn apparently inspired LCD prices to take action in tribute to the new season and, well, fall. As noted in our recent press release , last week saw a two percent decline in PriceSCAN’s 46 inch LCD TV-1080p Index , equal to the slide over the prior three weeks of September and just 1% shy of the drop for all of August
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Mid-Sized LCDs Take Autumnal Equinox As Cue For Price Drop
Are you one of those who has never bought a single item online and is hesitant to even try? If so, then I understand where you’re coming from because I’ve once been there too. I’m no mind reader but, based on how I felt before making my first online purchase, one of the reasons may be: “It’s not secure enough.
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Go Ahead – Purchase Online
Are you one of those who has never bought a single item online and is hesitant to even try? If so, then I understand where you’re coming from because I’ve once been there too. I’m no mind reader but, based on how I felt before making my first online purchase, one of the reasons may be:
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Go Ahead – Purchase Online
Brown has done an outstanding job of capturing the elegance and brilliance of EPSS in a format that makes it easy to understand and reapply.Her methods have helped my company create a foundation on which to engage aparadigm shift from training to just-in-time performance support. Product Description Designing and Developing Electronic Support Systems describes the EPSS concept, and provides a systematic process for creating these systems.
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Review of Designing and Developing Electronic Performance Support Systems (Paperback)
A computer comes up with a number of accessories like printer, drives, scanner, and so on. All these accessories in turn have a number of supplies and parts. In this article, you get to know about inkjet supplies and how you can make the best deal on them.
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How to Get the Best Deal on Your Inkjet Supplies
Blu-ray prices are plunging, and the market may be anticipating new 3D players and the obsolescence of the current technology. Blu-ray manufacturers, notably Sony and Panasonic, demonstrated competing 3D technologies last week at the IFA Berlin electronics show, just after the PriceSCAN.com Blu-ray Index took a pronounced dive, as noted in our recent press release
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Getting Them 3-D, Blu-ray Blues
After weeks of price deterioration in the flat screen television market, we’re finally seeing signs of strength in at least one category of these items: very large plasmas. Last week we saw an eleven percent jump in our PriceSCAN Plasma TV 60+ Inch Index , as noted in our latest press release .
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Sudden Price Spike Demonstrates That, For Plasma Televisions, Size Matters
Acer’s new Aspire One D250 laptop, launched few months back, is a low cost, ultra portable laptop which has quickly become a popular travel companion for folks on the go. The new Acer Aspire One D250 laptop is thinner and lighter than its predecessor Acer Aspire One D150.
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Acer Aspire One D250 Laptop – Review
Thinking this to be the appropriate ( hey, its an industrial rr) place, thought I would post a few pictures of my latest creation. This is the Haitian Sugar train that ran from Port au Prince Haiti to Leogane Haiti in the 1920’s. I do a lot of medical work in Haiti and my friends and interpreters there “humor me” with helping on the field research of this very charming RR (narrow guage 30″ prototype that really used Porters)
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The Haitian Sugar Train
Australians throw away more than 18 million printer cartridges every year! This means over 5,000 tonnes of discarded rubbish ends up as unhealthy landfill. How can we stop this
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Does recycling really help the environment?
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