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I sat here laughing because I love all things 'aviation' and the thought of a helicopter parent makes my head hurt.
Just take a stool, set it up under a room fan and stick your head into the vanes.....same principle?
Parents should be flight school/tanker parents.
Sit the kids down near a runway, do a little demonstration, then put them into a simulator.
Let them crash and burn a few times, then take them up for a little instruction (don't forget to teach them how and when to use a parachute......they may have to bail out?) let them solo and give them their wings.
Let the kids buzz about for a while then, if needed?
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Give them a little fuel to make it a little farther on their trip.
No need to hover, just be there to give them a little help.
About the parachute?
Some kids will need one - flying isn't a perfect science and giving the kid a chance to bail out is part of the 'life curriculum'. No need to shame them when they do have to bail out.
It's about giving them a choice.
My parents gave me my instruction, parachute and wings.
I have crash and burned, bailed out and flown higher than I ever thought I could.
It's not about black or white, It's about how blue the sky is and being able to go as high as I want.
And when I need to set it down..........


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Even in this age of e-readers, there's nothing quite like physically turning the pages of a good book!
This weekend is your chance to get a good deal on some great reads when the Friends of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library hold their annual community book sale.
More than 100,000 books, music and movies are said to be up for grabs. The events kick off Friday at the Kansas Expocentre Ag Hall with a special Friends Friday sale. Friends of the Library members can get first look at the deals from 6 to 9 pm. The general public can also attend for a $5 admission fee.
Friends of the Library memberships are $20 annually and will be sold at the door. Members get discounts at the library's gift shop year round.
Regular sale hours are 9 am to 5 pm Saturday and 10 am to 5 pm Sunday. There is no admission on those days.
Money raised from the sale will support programs and services of library. In 2012, Friends provided $135,000 to the library, about half of which went toward purchase of a new bookmobile.
Warren Taylor with the Friends of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library spoke about the sale recently on 13 News at 4.

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SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA -- I use Safari as my web browser. I chose Google to be my default preferred search engine. When I open Safari Google is supposed to open simultaneously. Yahoo comes up instead. This is a common problem. Search on Yahoo hijack to confirm.
I wrote Yahoo a letter: "Cancel my account. I did not request it and I refuse to comply with the terms of service. I resent your intrusive, arrogant and probably illegal Trojan horse tactic to subvert my default browser choice. My default browser choice is Google but when I open Safari, Yahoo has hijacked my choice in blatant disregard for my choice and my wishes. Your tactic is unethical, extremely arrogant, sophomoric, ugly, disgusting and irresponsible. I hope you succumb to competitive pressure, all your advertisers leave you, your stockholders and employees finally recognize how venal you are and Yahoo disappears into the garbage can of history.
I and thousands more like me will forever despise you and your desperate tactic which betrays precisely how weak you are. If there is anything I can do to speed you along on your path to self-destruction please let me know. In the meantime get off my computer and quit interfering with my default browser choice." Steamed.
After my 1st Yahoo Answers account was deleted earlier this year; I swore I would never use Yahoo Answers again. But I had come across a Question while searching for some info on Vitamins through Google; that lead to someone asking for help, because they were considering Suicide. So I had to help. This led to me helping, this woman out, and I decided I would try to give YA another chance. GIANT MISTAKE!
They Deleted my account after some people didn't (PERSONALLY) like what I had posted Questions & Comments on. Going through all that hard work; just to have it ruined by Yahoo yet again; did allow me to see the flaws in the service. So if you're wondering how Yahoo Answer (REALLY WORKS), then please read the info below. Here is how yahoo answers really works. It is divided into these main groups of people:
The Yahoo Answers Staff - These staff don't really exist in the way a person might think they do. They are "Suppose" to help, but all they ever do is DELETE content that they themselves personally don't like. They also DELETE content that other users report to them. They also BAN users for LIFE. The staff (Never) helps; they just send out Generic-Responses. When they delete something, they then send out a Generic-Response. NO YAHOO STAFF EVER READS ANYTHING! THEY COLLECT PAYCHECKS FOR JUST SENDING OUT PRE-WRITTEN RESPONSES!
The Yahoo Answers Site Rules - These rules are (Vague) at best. They can be twisted in whatever way they need to be to justify a DELETION. But since the Staff never sends you (Personally-Written-Emails); they never have to explain what rules you broke; if any were broken at all. So the Staff can basically do anything that they want to.
The Normal Users - These are just people that are trying to be helpful. These are also the people that suffer under the Lack of Customer Care and from the "CRY BABIES".
The Cry Babies - Are users that look for things to report. You will notice them because they end up Commenting on topics they are Against. So (Animal Hunters) will post Comments on (Vegan) issues. The Religious, against the Non-Religious. Males against Females; the list goes on.
These Cry Baby users are also the ones that report whatever things they themselves PERSONALLY DON'T like. So instead of just (NOT) commenting and letting other like-minded users discuss topics; they report those posts to Yahoo. Where Yahoo doesn't even look into these conflicts, or even bother reading the posts; they just Delete the content. "I have literally posted questions where I cited each rule into my question; to prove my question followed the rules. But Yahoo still deleted it without any explanation."
The Feedback/Help Forum - This part of Yahoo Answers was set up so people could post Questions, Comments, and Suggestions about the site. Instead it is monitored by (Pro-Yahoo-Loyalist); who Bash pretty much everyone that posts anything Negative about Yahoo. Problems are (ALWAYS) made to seem like they are the USERS fault, NOT the fault of Yahoo. No Help can be found here; unless you consider Rude-Remarks a form of help. What's more pathetic about this area; is that Yahoo doesn't delete any of those rude user comments. They will however Delete the Suggestions & Comments that point out the flaws in Yahoo Products & Services.
So basically you set up an account to help. You spend countless hours Contributing to the site; all of the time having your own Questions and Answers reported to Yahoo behind your back. Those Reports are then NOT read, but the Content is removed anyway. One day you are sent an email telling you that Something, Somewhere broke Some Rules, and that your account has been Suspended. When you ask the simple question "Why?"; you are then insulted by being sent a Generic-Response that offers NO EXPLANATION.
When you Plead your case, you are then sent another Generic-Response stating that NO account can be restored after it has been suspended. Even though Yahoo "Claims" you can plead your case to have your profile restored. Then as a (Final-Insult) Yahoo punishes not only you, but every single person that had a Question that you commented on; by deleting (ALL TRACES) of your activity.
So if you spent months making Questions and Comments that were helpful; ALL OF THAT IS FOR NOTHING! Yahoo then not only Deletes (ALL) of your Questions, but then (ALL) of the Questions you help Answer. If you posted comments on 1000 Questions; ALL 1000 will be a DELETED!
So Yahoo Answers is so flawed; that they punish 1000 Other Users; just because those users found (You) to be the most helpful. How messed up is that?! So in the end Yahoo Answers isn't Helpful. It is just a mix of Questions and Comments that the Yahoo Employees haven't yet gotten around to Deleting.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA -- I have used Yahoo for ages and bought products from their sponsors. For some reason THEY decided we didn't like the older version and changed it for us without giving us a choice. There are things you cannot do with this version you could do with the other version. A lot of my emails require a response. The very best way was to go between each question and respond. You can't do that anymore.
It has numerous bugs that frustrate you when you use it a great deal. You lose stuff and I've had to resort to going into Word and generating my responses and pasting them in the field on Yahoo Mail. Otherwise you get to the point you are ready to send and the whole page just disappears. Never ever had that problem before. Plus it gets stuck on the inbox and won't do anything. Plus more regular messages about can't send or can't load page (email). I have no clue why someone with successful, proven software would fix something that is not broken.
I DO BLAME THE NEW CEO for all these problems. Isn't this where the buck stops. If I was in charge, I would fire this individual but not allowing them to walk out the door until they fixed the problem by returning the system to a fully operational status. I have had to open an email account with another service. If I was an advertiser on Yahoo Mail, I would have jumped ship about time all these complaints started to arise.
I never cared to upgrade to Yahoo's 'new' mail, I liked the Classic version just fine. But, in all their limited wisdom, Yahoo changed a simple feature that I really liked in the old email. There was a place to click to Sign Out. Now I have to open a drop down box, move down to the bottom (only 4 entries), and click there. This is just plain dumb. Why should I have to go through 3 actions instead of 1 click to sign out? Upgrades should make things easier, not more difficult.
I know this is so trivial that you probably laugh, but since this was one more effort my Yahoo to keep changing its email layout that I am now using Hotmail that does have a Sign Out button I can click on the main screen. Bye-bye Yahoo Mail.
Your recent form of advertising is so completely depressing that I am closing down my Yahoo account. I have had an account with you for at least 10 years, having moved from Hotmail to Yahoo because you seemed to protect your customers more from spam and adverts. This seems to have radically changed in the past year.
The recent Open University advert is completely infuriating. It is utterly intrusive and exemplifies everything that is wrong with the internet today. Every time I try to send an email or read an email an advert completely takes over my entire screen to the extent that I can no longer do anything on Yahoo. I then have to close it down and start again. It is totally offensive and irritating and I now despise your company enough that I am quitting my 10 year account with you.
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA -- I have noticed more and more disgusting, annoying, and underhanded tactics being used by Yahoo recently. Offhand, I can cite the following:
Yahoo emails keep popping up with Yahoo Messenger notices about some unknown people wanting to contact me. It takes not just one click, but two clicks, in order to turn off the popup. Even then, that's only temporary. It keeps popping up again and again. I tried uninstalling Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo toolbar, and everything associated with Yahoo extras, as well as any other Messenger programs in my computer, but to no avail. Then I searched and learned that I need to go to my email and click on a smiley next to my username, then click on an item to turn off that messenger feature. How come Yahoo Messenger messages from strangers keep popping up even after I had uninstalled that Messenger program?
Recently, I can no longer 1-click to go to MyYahoo. Yahoo now pops up a full screen ad and I have to click on "Go to my page". Very annoying and shows Yahoo people are unconcerned about customer inconveniences and intent on forcing ads on its customers.
In general, Yahoo has been forcing ads and pop-ups on its customers/users with very annoying tactics, and designed so that it is difficult to disable their annoyances. What kind of ethics do the Yahoo executives abide by? Are they all subscribed to the principle of "Customers and users be damned"?
I signed up for a trial membership in 2005 for Yahoo ecards. Every year since I have automatically been charged for renewal. I am not able to take my credit card information off their site or cancel my membership. This year I decided I wasn't going to pay for another year - it's only $15 but the point is I don't want it and I don't want my credit card information stored on their website. It's my right to not have it stored there which is the main basis of my complaint.
Since I could not do this via online I had to call and then I had to wait at least 30 minutes for someone to answer and then they had trouble finding my account because it was under an alternative email address - even though the one I gave them is the one I need to sign in to the account.
I WILL NEVER AGAIN BUY AN AMERICAN GREETING PRODUCT AGAIN AND I WILL TELL EVERYONE NOT TO FALL FOR THEIR "TRIAL MEMBERSHIP" SCAM. A company should not be permitted to keep someone's credit card information on file - especially with all the problems lately with accounts being compromised.
CALIFORNIA -- I have had Yahoo as my e-mail address for years. Over the past year they have used an obnoxious popup and temporarily blocked my access to my e-mails in order to force me to change to their Basic. I finally did and it is so inadequate that you just have to experience it.
Half the time I am now unable to forward e-mail, use the reply function when responding to an e-mail. I have to send everything new when that happens without the reference point of the sender's previous e-mail, unable to add to my contact list, and insulted by their automatically looping Answer function that does nothing but bury any issues or suggestions by consumers in the Ethernet. Yahoo's attitude -- We are the "unwashed" masses.
I have had my Yahoo account for many years. That means every account or business link I have is associated with that address. I have had trouble with it being hacked when I travel to Tel Aviv, about once or twice a month. I have done all the security related tasks to try to stop it and I thought I had it under control.
Without warning or any questions to me, Yahoo blocked my account. Fine, block it. Help me stop the spamming. Let me change addresses with a mail forwarding function so that I can still use email. I have emailed them FOUR times on the help link provided on their website. I have called TWICE and been told that I have to go through the email link on the website. How many responses have I gotten? None, zilch, zero, nada, nil.
I was told when I called the second time that after a certain period of time all my saved emails will be deleted and lost forever. Saved emails that were saved because they were important to me, gone. Add that to the fact that all my bookmarks are associated with that sign in so those are gone as well.
Does anyone have any way to actually speak with someone who can help? This has to be the most frustrating, absurdly bad customer service I've had to deal with ever. Because it's an email company it's just ridiculous that they don't ever reply to your emails!
UNKNOWN -- Yahoo and many other browsers have recently began an assault of commercial ads that twitch, jerk and flash in your face. They have a watermelon that runs back and forth to get your attention. Also a roach that runs around flashing lights. It is extremely annoying when all I want to do is check my mail. I will never purchase or use any of these services just out of spite for irritating me.
I urge everyone to never click on these ads to send a message to these greedy people that the ads are not wanted. Yahoo isn't the only one. Many sites have done this - 5 that I can count, all at once they started. I ask Yahoo to stop or I will find another site to get my mail!


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Joining Watney in winners' circles around the world were Pro V1 loyalists Justin Bolli (Web.com Tour) and David Frost (Champions Tour) along with Pro Vx loyalist JooYeob Baek (Korean Tour). Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have now won 166 times across the worldwide professional tours in 2012, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 21 and more than all competitors combined.
Watney's previous win this year came at The Barclays, the FedEx Cup opener and his fifth official PGA Tour title. This year's CIMB Classic, which was co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour, will become an official PGA Tour event next season.
Four shots off the lead heading into the final round, Watney birdied 11 of the final 18 holes to close with a 10-under 61. His 22-under 262 total made for a two-shot victory over Pro V1 loyalist Bo Van Pelt, winner of last week's European Tour ISPS HANDA Perth International.
"I didn't pay much attention until I got to 13, I saw I was tied for the lead walking to the 13th green," Watney said. "I was just trying to keep my head down and keep making birdies, and it worked out for me."
What's In Nick Watney's Bag?: Ball: Titleist Pro V1xDriver: Titleist 913D3 driver 10.5º (Diamana White 83) B•2 SureFit Tour settingFairway Metal: Titleist 910F 15º (Diamana Blue 93) A•1 SureFit Tour settingFairway Metal: Titleist 910F 19º Motore Speeder VC 8.2 A•1 SureFit Tour settingIrons: Titleist AP2 3-PW (Dynamic Gold)Wedge: Vokey Design SM4 54º, 60º (Dynamic Gold)Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport GSS prototype
In addition to Watney, six other Titleist Brand Ambassadors finished among the top 10 and ties, including Brendon de Jonge and Chris Kirk (T4), Jbe Kruger (8th), and Kevin Na, Scott Piercy and Gaganjeet Bhullar (T10). It was de Jonge's second consecutive top four finish.
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WEB.COM TOUR: The race for the "The 25" heated up this weekend at the Web.com Tour Championship in McKinney, Texas, as players made their final push toward securing a spot on the PGA Tour for the 2013 season.
One of the top movers in the field was the tournament winner and Pro V1 loyalist Justin Bolli. Bolli, who fired a final round 6-under 65 to finish with a 16-under 268 total to capture the Web.com Tour Championship, vaulted from No. 44 to ninth with the win and earned his 2013 PGA Tour card.
Another player making an impressive Sunday charge was Titleist Brand Ambassador Morgan Hoffmann. Hoffman started the tournament in 31st place on the money list but after firing a final round 7-under par 64 to finish in a tie for third, he jumped up the list to No. 19 and secured his spot on the PGA Tour.
When the tournament was complete, 22 of the the 25 players who earned a promotion to the 2013 PGA Tour were Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players. The top 60 on the regular season money list qualified for the season-ending event with the top 25 earning 2013 PGA Tour cards.
A total of 43 players in the field of 60 played Titleist golf balls, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 6. Titleist was also first in iron sets (20), sand, lob and approach wedges (65), and putters (23).
CHAMPIONS TOUR: With a birdie on the second hole of an all-Titleist Pro V1 playoff, David Frost topped fellow Pro V1 loyalist Bernard Langer to capture the AT&T Championship. Frost and Langer overcame six-stroke deficits in the final round after they shot matching 6-under par 66's on Sunday for an 8-under 208 total in regulation. It was the third-career Champions Tour title for Frost.
Titleist accounted for a tournament-leading 62 golf ball players in the field of 81, nearly seven times the nearest competitor with 9. Titleist was also the top choice in the iron sets (20), and sand, lob and approach wedges (73) categories.
KOREAN TOUR: Joo-Yeob Baek relied upon his Pro V1x golf ball to earn his first career Korean Tour title at the weather-shortened the Windsor Classic. Baek vaulted to the top of the leader board after consecutive 66's in first two rounds. He closed with a final round even par 71 en route to a 10-under 203 victory total, topping Titleist Brand Ambassador Ki-Sang Lee (Pro V1x) by one shot and TaeHee Lee (Pro V1x) by two.
Titleist was the most played golf ball at the Windsor Classic with 85 players in the field of 120, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 12. Seven of the eight players who finished among the top 5 and ties relied upon Titleist golf balls for their success.
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Augustana Grad Studies Icefish in Antarctica
Augustana alumni are scattered throughout the globe. Earlier this spring, the College could even count an Augustana Viking on the South Pole.
In April and May, alumnus Braeden McCluskey '09 spent time conducting research in Antarctica as a part of his Ph.D. program. He is studying at the University of Oregon in the biology and neuroscience department.
His blog, "Brady in Antarctica: a Boat, a Pole, and Some Fish" details some of his South Pole adventures, including a search for penguins and fishing trips.
He comments on his blog that he was "fishing for icefish (not to be confused with ice fishing)."
McCluskey is studying icefish, concentrating on their bone loss and its relation to ailments like osteoporosis in humans.
He arrived to Antarctica via boat after flying to Chile. His base, Palmer Station, is directly below the tip of South America.
While at college, McCluskey presented "Transcription of mRNA in the rat VTA during cocaine withdrawal" at the Augustana Symposium. He also made the "Who's Who" list of distinguished college students in America.
– Kristina Johnson '13


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Bart Walker is the final piece to women's basketball coach Jim Davis' puzzle. Walker was named assistant coach and completes a five-member staff after a brief two-year hiatus from coaching. His primary responsibilities will include scouting opponents, acting as the liaison between strength and conditioning and the team, as well coaching the wings.
"I am very pleased with this coaching staff. The chemistry is good and it's a very knowledgeable coaching staff," said head coach Jim Davis. "It's a very loyal coaching staff. Team chemistry is so important, but the coaching chemistry is just as important. We're all going to be pulling in the same direction; hopefully that's the right direction."
Walker noted on the chemistry as well.
"It's been a natural fit here. All of the coaches come from successful programs. We all have had success along the way and we all bring different prospectives. With Erin's energy and WNBA background, and Ally's relationship with Tech and the community, it's just been a perfect fit. We're all excited to dive in," said Walker.
Walker has 10 years of coaching behind him as he enters the 2012 season with the Golden Eagles. Over his coaching career, Walker has accumulated a record of 217-71. He has earned Coach of the Year honors four times, and made four Elite 8 appearances in the junior college National Tournament. After his brief hiatus, Walker is more than ready to be in the heat of competition.
"For two years I didn't go in a high school gym. I spent two years being a dad and coaching kids. Seeing the fundamentals, and the joy of the kids, for so long I missed that, being back at the roots of the game," said Walker. "The conversations I have now with the girls are a little different and I'm excited to see what we can do this year."
With all of Walker's accomplishments, Davis is excited to have his staff completed.
"Bart has 10 years of valuable experience at the collegiate level. He's going to be very important to our coaching staff," Davis said.
Walker was the head women's basketball coach at Northwest Florida State College before moving back to Tennessee. In his two seasons as head coach, the Raiders went 38-16, and made a state regional semi-final appearance.
A native of Knoxville, Walker spent the beginning of his career in Tennessee. Working his way from a volunteer assistant at Walters State Community College in Morristown to the head coaching ranks at his first position at Hiwassee College.
Prior to Northwest Florida State, Walker spent four years at the helm of the Chattanooga State Tigers. During his four years as head coach, Walker led the Tigers to three-straight state regional finals appearances, including a National Tournament Elite 8 appearance in 2006.
Walker started his career at Hiwassee College in Madisonville, Tenn. His teams earned two State Regional Championships and made two National Tournament Elite 8 appearances in 2003 and 2004. He tallied an 81-35 record during his four years with the Tigers.
Walker grew up playing the sport he now coaches, beginning at Powell area high school, where he's spent the past two years coaching high school girls basketball. After high school, Walker played at Walters State Community College and then finished his playing career at Lincoln Memorial University.
Walker and his wife Kristy, have two children, Molly, 12, and Branson, 8.


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Ford Fusion takes cues from Aston Martin
Published 7:01 am, Thursday, November 15, 2012
Driving through New Jersey in the days following Hurricane Sandy, I gaped at gas lines not seen in the U.S. since the 1970s.
I was in a German sports car that sucked down gas by the keg, so I kept the pressure on the gas pedal light. How I wished for the super-efficient car I'd driven weeks before, in Michigan. Not a Toyota Prius or an all-electric Nissan Leaf, but a $28,000 Ford.
The new Ford Fusion Hybrid gets 47 miles per gallon, both in the city and on the highway.
With that kind of economy and its 13.5-gallon fuel tank, I could have whooshed between my homes in New York and Pennsylvania seven times without worrying about stopping at a gas station overseen by the National Guard.
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The hybrid is one of several powertrains offered in the brand-new Fusion. The low-end model starts at only $22,500, with a 2.5-liter four-cylinder that gets 34 mpg highway.
There are also two turbo-charged engines available, with 1.6 liters or 2.0 liters, that have more pep and still get up to 37 and 33 mpg.
A plug-in hybrid will also be available down the line. Perhaps Ford (F) is doing penance for all the over-sized SUVs foisted upon us in the 1990s and 2000s, because they're taking efficiency seriously.
Aston Martin
Ford's ambition is for the Fusion to become as wildly popular as the Taurus once was. After all, it's a mid-size sedan with a mid-size price and great gas mileage. (Ford still offers the Taurus, but it hasn't been a big seller for years.)
Completely revamped inside and out, the Fusion takes on the other middle-class stalwarts in the field, like the Toyota Corolla (which is as beige as a car that you'll likely to find), the redesigned Honda Accord and the Nissan Altima.
Too often mid-size cars are studies in bland design. The Fusion neatly avoids this foible by grafting on the front end of an Aston Martin.
No, really. Take a look at the flat-faced, oval grill laced with horizontal lines, and note the uncanny resemblance to models found on Aston Martins, a high-end brand that Ford once owned.
Would Mr. Skyfall himself be found driving it? Not terribly likely, as the novelty of the front end only goes so far. The Fusion looks sturdy, but it lacks overall harmony or any real sexiness. You really can't hope for supercar proportions from a one-size-fits-all sedan.
Lost Car
Park it next to the Accord and Altima, and you'll find that their shapes and dimensions are awfully alike. I don't envy the guy who buys any one of the models in silver paint, and then forgets where he parked it at the shopping mall during Christmas.
The similarities are due, in large part, to regulations, both in the U.S. and worldwide. Europe, for instance, has pedestrian impact regulations that require hoods to be a certain height and a crumple zone between the top of the engine and the hood. You can no longer get away with the kind of low hoods or rakish fins once found on cars of the 1950s and 1960s.
And buyers want rear seats that are comfortable and an ample trunk. It's no wonder that the result is a glut of mid- size cars that would look depressingly similar if you took away the different grills, the brightwork and the badges.
Options Offer
My Fusion Hybrid had options including navigation, adaptive cruise control and active parking assist, so it came to $34,770. I drove over three days around Michigan, starting at an early hour. It was very dark and quite chilly and the roads were empty.
Once the heater kicked on and the car warmed, so too did I to the hybrid system. I'm generally lukewarm on hybrids. Tricks with gas engines like direct fuel injection and turbo-charging have offset the gas mileage perks of a hybrid, which has to carry a load of heavy batteries. Hybrids are best around town.
The Fusion cruised capably on the highway, however, the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine spinning merrily in the background. The electric motors added more juice on demand, for a total of 188 horsepower, and I had no issues powering past other cars.
The continuous variable transmission is exceptionally well- mated to the powertrain, and all the systems work quietly and without vibration. The car drives really nicely, and isn't too loud, even on hills.
The top-of-the-line Fusion with the turbocharged 2.0-liter engine has 240 horsepower and 270 pound-feet of torque. That would have been nice, but I might have had to stop for gas -- something I never even had to consider over 400 miles of driving the hybrid.
I didn't, however, actually see 47 mpg. With my typically leaden foot, I averaged 36.9 mpg. No worries, I have only myself to blame.
The 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid at a Glance
Engine: 2.0-liter four-cylinder and a 35kW electric motor with a combined 188 horsepower.
Transmission: Continuous variable.
Speed: 0 to 60 mph in about nine seconds.
Gas mileage per gallon: 47 city, 47 highway.
Price as tested: $34,770.
Best feature: That gas mileage!
Worst feature: Ford's infotainment system is still clunky.
Target buyer: The driver who wants to avoid those gas lines.


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DIY: Interior dash trim and door panel removal instructions
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We recently provided you with photos and info on the optional interior trim kits for the Camaro, it'd be cruel for us to not also provide removal/installation instructions. Here are official GM instructions for the removal of the dashboard trim and door trim panel (courtesy of streetjudge79). The tools required are: Trim release tool, phillips [...]


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^Obviously now you're as bored with this non-topic as the rest of us.
^Obviously now you're as bored with this non-topic as the rest of us.
give me some ideas you have rareboy - you're a creative guy
the reporter is boring
the "coverage" of the president is boring
all true
the subject is scintillating
the idea that the president of the u.s. is not really responsible for sharing information or answering real questions
honestly doesn't that concept bother u
shouldn't there be a more adversarial approach ?
and yes she's not ............. high in the food chain but what evidence have you seen that the press corps is anything but a free lunch crowd
Aaaaaand we're back to Obama eating dog. The reason for the election result in pure crystalized form...
That we are capable only of being what we are, remains our unforgivable sin.
- Gene Wolfe
^ What. You thought that Springer would have something new or interesting to add?
I expect that FOX will be back to focussing on the birth certificate again soon.
As usual rareboy has no answers for direct questions
Progressive deflection - SOP
Much like the president
Just cheap shots at jack and the handful (count em on one hand with change) of non cultists
Life on animal farm
As I noted above, everyone is about as bored with the thread premise as the OP, so it looks like it will just degenerate into snide comments about Obama and the usual brisk repartee between the couple of FOX hounds on this forum and the rest of the gang of progressive 'terrorists', as I believe we are currently labelled by Chance.
But if Jack is going to favour us with his cheap shots about Obama eating dog for the next four years, I have no problem with sayin' 'Back atcha Jack'.
You complain bitterly that this president has often preferred digital media and direct interviews with reporters over formal, old-fashioned press conferences to get information out. Then, when he has a formal, old-fashioned press conference, you complain that it is a biased and ineffective communications tool.
I take it, then, that you agree with the president?
You are trying to make a point of softball journalism, and the example you cite is the journalistic equivalent of game six of the Mets vs. Astros 1986 National League Championship.
If you want to make a case for journalistic failure, then give us an example of journalistic failure. You are not very persuasive when your evidence demonstrates the fallacy of your (obviously foregone) conclusion.
it's interesting that many speak of "we" but when addressed as a group, they get skittish
which is it?
do tell
as for progressive terrorism this is a term not started by I - and it's rampant well as rampant is it can be when delivered by a small yet loud segment of the population - sorta like a small dog yipping (not barking as it cannot be labeled as such) and making a nuisance
this thread is about the lack of accounting that the press provides - their access to the president is so limited - he saw them what 1x in 8 months? tragic
then when they do and there's so much to question - really there is - in the real world not in the progressive fantasy land that exists in smallish places
instead it's "how are you" - kiss kiss
"i've never seen u lose" - blush blush
it's funny
not bill burr stand up funny - check him out he's fucking hilarious
but funny sad
here's bill burr btw
just in your brain
the brain that starts sentences with "you republicans" and gets worse from there
i think the president should have some accountability - and that press conferences should not be vanity plays
call me crazy
and game 6 of the mets/astros was fucking amazing - down 3-0, comeback win in what i believe was the longest playoff game ever ???
lenny dykstra ??
jesse orosco
bad example rexx - opposite of your point i think
as for persuasive - u have to have an open mind to be persuaded my friend
have yet to see evidence of that
but willing to wait
We like you but the thread was silly and people came in and poked you for it.
Because we love you so much
So help me out here.
So what you are saying is that the President held a news conference.
And that this is the one single time over the last 18 months that any journalist has had access to the president?
And there was only one reporter allowed to ask a question?
And at this press conference only one question was allowed by the White House?
And so she was the only journalist who asked a question?
And is this why you and O'Reilly are so fixated on her and her question?
Obama has never been questioned?
Are you serious? Arizona tried to pass a law trying to find out whether Obama is cicrumcised.
What YOU guys don't get is that there have been so outlandish dishonest things coming from the GOP and Romney, that there will be a lasting distrust for the party, probably for years.
Obama's mother has been questioned, his lineage, his nationality, his citizenship, his college education... all these things he has had to prove over and over again, and frankly, the nation is weary of the next "GOP thing" invented to GIT the President.
Now saying that Romney was questioned more than Obama is as out there as you can go. Romney never explained what is income was, why he hid money offshore, what his tax plan was, where his official residence was, what corporations he owned and which ones he retroactively retired from.
Let me tell ya Chance, If Obama said he retroactively resigned from Rev Wright's church, would YOU have gone for that?
Once again, the double standard is completely blind, and in being SO blind it makes one wonder what motivates it to the extent that it exists.
Why are we even dignifying this half-baked sadness with two pages of responses?
That we are capable only of being what we are, remains our unforgivable sin.
- Gene Wolfe
that you don't delve into
it's outside of your purview
it's called the role of the press corps
In america, the job of the press is to challenge not to get to provide pleasure
this woman who i'm sure is wonderful - is an EXAMPLE of the madness of king george
it's a SYMBOL
of something run amok
and "half baked sadness" is not a term anyone gets so next post maybe provide something that fills me or better yet us in
You were doing so well with the rhyme scheme.
But once again...so what you and O'reilly are saying is that this one journalist was the only journalist who has been permitted to ask a question of the President for over 18 months. Wow. And she blew it by trying to blow him? Wow. Did she win a coin toss or something? Because otherwise I'm not sure why the MSM and FOX allowed her to be the only jouranlist allowed to ask the only question at the press conference.
And If I understand correctly...you are saying that all the folks at FOX also aren't journalists because their questions can't be heard while their tongues are firmly planted up the asses of the Republicans they are interviewing? Is that correct?
it's hard to respond to you ....... as you never respond to a direct question ...... why is that?
then you misrepresent
so it goes so it goes
and it's 8 mos. not 18
and this has nothing to do with Fox - EVERYTHING u post has to do with Fox
a minor obsession it appears and minor is being kind
not sure what fox person you're talking about - i'm sure you're not talking about any of them - i'm sure you don't watch fox
i'm sure that your criticism of fox is all in your head - what you've heard, etc.
so try again
Nope this is me watching FOX.
Of course I check in. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to comment on just how bizarre their perspective is and why conservatives like Frum are saying that it is destroying the Republican party's chances for election.
And usually. like in this thread, where FOX is the generator of the right wing hive mind group think narrative, it is more than relevant to discuss them in the thread.
They have been egregious in misrepresenting the facts and creating a kind of bubble for old white male paranoiacs.O'Reilly had this on to tonite
So no. No Obsession...just relevance to the topic you posted.
and u mean the same David Frum who on one hand u quoted (for goodness) but felt it necessary in the next breath to reference his dead mother and how unproud she was of his bush years ? that one? that was lovely btw
and obsession yes - u offer Fox INTO many threads where it doesn't exist
in fact, i will start responding to each of them so buyer beware
as for group think with 85% of the groupthink being progressive terror based i'd say the hive mind etc. is clearly BIG and real on your side of the conversation - MUCH
there's 5 or so non believers - so there is no "group" so you're ........ groping
w/o facts or reason on your side
back to our favorite "journalist"
i'm thinking a one hour weekly primetime special on msnbc that she co-hosts with al sharpton and they can riff on who loves the president more
it would make for sterling tv ............ for some
Give us all a break please.
You believe.
You all believe that there is not a single thing that Obama can do that suits you. You believe passionately in the pocketbook Republican cause...to the point where you have offered some of the most ridiculous support for the ridiculous men and women who spent half of this year trying to strangle one another to get the nod as nominee and then spent the rest of it having to defend and support the ridiculous man that no one really wanted as the candidate.
You all belong to a group of about 3 posters on this forum who scoop up every little tidbit from FOX or Breitbarf or Rush and run directly to your computer to post another ridiculous non-story or outright made-up story that demonstrates that your visceral loathing of the president is somehow justified. At the moment, there is nothing of substance...so even a single reporter being a bit of a groupie at the press conference becomes conflated with the right wingers' paranoia about how the entire media world is somehow not doing a responsible job of trying to demolish the president that you all hate so much.
Flailing? Really? Have you been watching the Republican supporters and the right wing media trying to come to grips with the ignominious defeat they have suffered over the last week and a half? Right down to stories like this one? Most are in total denial about the reasons for the loss and are lashing out at one another and their political opposites or anyone that they can think of to blame for rejection of their candidates.
So yeah. You definitely belong to a group.
But relax. There are still four years to go. Don't use up all your wrath at once. And don't swing back around to using me for target practice for your insults and invective. I've had my turn.
At first, I thought the point of this thread was to imply the president was having an affair with an unknown pool reported (à la Petraeus), because she tried to brag in front of her fellow reporters that she had known him for years.
Then, you said that the point of this thread was that the press was "cheerleading" and not doing its job. I pointed out that your example of "cheerleading" was anything but, and you now tell me that cheer leading by the press "has nothing to do" with this thread or your posts!
I am back to trying to read between the lines of what insidious message you are trying to send.
Since you will not tell us the meaning behind this (apparently nonsensical) thread, I will conclude that your complaint is that you do not like it when the president has press conferences, and you do not like it when he does not have them.
It would seem one or the other hasn't gotten the message to stop being an embarrassment.
The GOP now has to figure out how to close Pandora's Box. It's a lot of hate they riled up, and the rank and file have become rather addicted to it.


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BALTIMORE, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study by Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (Epub ahead of print) finds that long-term lower extremity functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling, as part of a rehabilitation regimen, is associated with substantial improvements in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). Improvements include neurological and functional gains, as well as enhanced physical health demonstrated by decreased fat, increased muscle mass and improved lipid profile. Prior to this study's publication today in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, the benefits of activity-based restorative therapy (ABRT) programs, such as FES cycling, were largely anecdotal despite publicity in conjunction with the recovery of actor and activist Christopher Reeve .
In FES, small electrical pulses are applied to paralyzed muscles to stimulate movement. In the case of FES cycling, FES pulses prompt the legs of an individual with SCI to "cycle" on an adapted stationary recumbent bicycle. The repetitive activity offers cardiovascular exercise similar to that which an able-bodied individual achieves through walking, but this new research shows that the results go far beyond basic health benefits.
"Exercise has not been commonly advocated for individuals with paralysis because of the assumption that it is of little benefit and it is challenging to exercise limbs that an individual cannot voluntarily move," said John W. McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., senior study author and director of the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. "However, we found that FES cycling is a practical form of exercise that provides substantial benefits, including improved physical integrity, enhanced neurological and functional performance, increased muscle size and strength, reduced muscle spasticity and improved quality of life."
Participants in the study included 45 individuals diagnosed with chronic SCI, defined as paralysis continuing more than 16 months following injury. Twenty-five patients with chronic SCI were assigned to the FES cycling group at the Washington University Spinal Cord Injury Program, where Dr. McDonald was section head until 2004. These patients were matched by age, gender, injury level/severity and duration of injury to 20 control patients who received no active physical therapy.
On average, patients did FES cycling for 29.5 months, with an average distance of 10,466 complete cycles of the two pedals per week, the equivalent of taking 20,931 steps. In the retrospective analysis conducted by Kennedy Krieger researchers, improved motor function was observed in 80 percent of the FES group, compared to only 45 percent of control subjects. Clinically important gains in neurological function were also observed in the FES group; response in pinprick sensation was observed in 56 percent of the FES group compared with 25 percent of the control group, while 14 of the 25 FES subjects showed response in light touch scores compared to six of the 20 controls.
Results also showed that FES cycling enhanced muscle strength without increasing spasticity, a common side effect of paralysis that varies from mild muscle stiffness to severe, uncontrollable leg movements. The FES group was found to be on fewer anti-spasticity medications with lower doses than the control group, suggesting that the lower level of spasticity observed in the FES group was not due medication differences between the participants.
FES cycling was also associated with improvements in quality of life and correlated with overall improved health. FES and control groups showed no significant difference in total thigh volume; however, total thigh fat, measured by MRI, was 44.2 percent less in the FES group than in the controls.
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The results of this study support the hypothesis that activity-based rehabilitative strategies can play an important role in promoting physical integrity and functional recovery, even when implemented years after an injury, and provide rationale for a large prospective randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of ABRT using FES in persons with chronic SCI.
This study was funded by the Deans Fund at Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Auxiliary Foundation, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, the Nextsteps Foundation, the Sam Schmidt Foundation, Gateway to a Cure Foundation, the Eric Westacott Foundation and, in part, by the Intramural Research Program at the NIH Clinical Center.
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Internationally recognized for improving the lives of children and adolescents with disorders and injuries of the brain and spinal cord, the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD serves more than 19,000 individuals each year through inpatient and outpatient clinics, home and community services and school-based programs. Kennedy Krieger provides a wide range of services for children with developmental concerns mild to severe, and is home to a team of investigators who are contributing to the understanding of how disorders develop while pioneering new interventions and earlier diagnosis. For more information on the Kennedy Krieger Institute, visit www.kennedykrieger.org.
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Serves the international community of professionals dedicated to improving the lives of people with injuries/disorders of the spinal cord. JSCM is the peer-reviewed official journal of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, a US-based multidisciplinary organization serving scientists, physicians, psychologists, nurses, therapists and social workers in the field of spinal cord injury care and research. The editor is Donald Bodner , MD, of the School of Medicine, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio. JSCM is published 6 times a year by Maney Publishing.
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|View Poll Results: Who is the ultimate shinobi?
|The 1st
|The 2nd
|The 4th
|Other...[Please State Who]
|Voters: 401. You may not vote on this poll
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|2004-08-21, 12:49
|Link #201
The mac
I agree that Sarutobi was probably the strongest in his prime. Iruka said this explicitly, and Orochimaru of course called him the 'god of the shinobi.' I do think however, had Yondaime had time to enter his prime, he would've surpassed the 3rd. I mean, by his early twenties he had created arguably the ultimate jutsu in Naruto (Shiki Fuujin) and the Rasengan. Not to mention he had an incredible chakra capacity (summoned Gamabunta), and great sealing ability. (Jiraiya remarked how precise the Kyuubi's seal was, wheras he could tell immediately the roughness of Orochimaru's seal). Unfortunatley, since his life was cut short, we won't ever know his true strength unless Kishimoto delves into his past.
|2004-08-21, 14:35
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Bubbly and super fun
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Doesn't look like Kansas
Now did Yondaime would have become stronger (and I mean significantly stronger) than the Sannin and possibly than the God of the Shinobi himself at his best?
Maybe, how can I know? How can you know?
But we talk about what they are or were, not what they could have been.
|2004-08-21, 19:13
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The mac
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|2004-08-21, 20:18
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Junior Member
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As for the 4th and 3rd, we can really ever know for sure, since the 4th died at such a younge age.. so think what you like.
Oro's immortality thingy is to prevent weakness from old age, but also, it will alow him to live theorticly forever, in which case he could train and invent new techniqques until he is more or less untouchable.
And my point still stand on naruto, even though its yet to be challanged
|2004-08-21, 20:55
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Bubbly and super fun
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You said that Anko seemed to think that Oro wouldn't be a problem if the 4th was alive which is simply completely wrong.
The 3rd was saying that no-one could stand up against Oro in Konoha including most likely himself anymore and Anko just said 'if the 4th was still alive', ie there would be someone able to stand up against Oro.
You implied that this sentence made look the 4th stronger than Oro whereas it merely shows that the 4th could fight equally against him.
And they're totally like athlete and just like human in general, they didn't level down at ~25 because they have the experience of veterans, but they aren't in their prime anymore.
And it didn't take 50 years for the 3rd to establish his legend, like the strength of the Sannin was legendary whereas Tsunade quits being a Ninja since what? 25~30 years old?
|2004-08-21, 21:21
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The mac
Kakashi could abosolutely increase his ability through experience and learning more jutsu. Yes, he is at peak physical condition right now, but being slightly slower and weaker at 35 but having much better jutsu or chakra capacity (which increases with experience, but doesn't seem to level off until way up in age, the sannin for instance at 50 still have a ridiculous amount) could make him more than twice as strong as he was 10 years ago.
|2004-08-21, 21:32
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Senior Member
Yup, we know this for sure because we saw this fight. I mean we know how Gai fights, and we know how Itachi fights.............oh wait.......we don't. Granted I don't think Gai would win, but who knows maybe he can, I mean I'm sure he's just as fast as Itachi. Don't make it sound so one sided
|2004-08-21, 22:03
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And not that the 4th was so strong than nobody could attack the Leaf, heck the war ended just 10 years ago.
Why the most powerful shinobi of Konoha are over their fifty?
Maybe because they're the God of the Shinobi and the Legendary Sannin. They're not strong because they're old, they're strong because they were so strong that they remain the strongest even in their oldness.
How many strong old ninjas did you see except them? None.
And yeah Sarutobi was way much stronger when he was younger.
Experience can beat the strength of youth but there are limits to that, just re-read the last fight of the 3rd who lacked of chakra and thought that it was difficult to hold Enma in Kongou form.
The chakra is produced from stamina, which you lose with your physical condition.
He was called like that simply because he was the best ever.
Bringing the Sannin is meaningless? You said that the 4th was too young to have built his legend, I say that around the same age the Sannin were already legendary, it's exactly the same.
There isn't a time scale saying :
-Fantastic ninja : 5 years.
-Hero : 10 years.
-Legendary : 20 years.
-God of the Shinobi : 35 years.
It's a matter of strength and actions, not time.
|2004-08-21, 22:39
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The mac
The point of that message was that shinobi are very much unlike athletes. Athletes are tied almost solely to their physical condition, which starts to noticably decline at 35 or a bit before. Shinobi, however, are not solely bound to their physical condition. Even at the age of 50, they still retain knowledge of all of their jutsu, most of their chakra and even sharper intellect and can compete on the level or greater than shinobi much younger than them. This is not the case with an athlete.
Assume, for a minute, that Orochimaru is in his same 50 year old body. Do you think the Orochimaru of 25 could defeat the Orochimaru of 50, who has now Edo Tensei, much more experience, sharper wit, and whatever more jutsu he has picked up and/or created over 25 years? Hardly. Why? Because physical ability alone plays a much lesser role in shinobi strength than an athlete.
As for the Sarutobi/Orochimaru fight, yes, Sarutobi at 67 had lost much of his ability. But that is well beyond the age range of what we are discussing. In fact, Orochimaru admitted that he would probably lose to a Sarutobi who was merely 10 years younger. It appears that even at the age of 50ish shinobi still retain much if not most of their ability.
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|2004-08-21, 23:19
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
Age: 35
Rather than athletes, I would compare ninja to martial artists. (Surprised no one else mentioned this so far.)
While physical conditioning is a huge factor, experience comes into play here and so yes, some of the best MA's alive are indeed waaay older than 25.
For the record, though, I agree with Hunter - part of the mystique of the Sannin is that they are this strong despite their age AND (in Jiraiya and Tsunade's cases) not being active for so many years. One can only wonder how strong they were in their mid-30's, still full-time shinobi and a dedicated team.
Yondaime's age - that's a tough one.
My first thoughts were that he would be of similar age to Mitarashi Anko, since she was trained by Oro who is in the same age bracket as Jiraiya.
But, Anko is 24 years old - younger than Kakashi.
So, looking at it a different way,
Kakashi = 26.
Jiraiya = 50.
Yondaime - (if alive, would be) somewhere in between. (26+50)/2 = 38 y.o.
|2004-08-21, 23:32
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The mac
|2004-08-21, 23:42
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Destroyer of Dreams
No one can really say anything about the way Oro fights because we haven't really seen him fight at full strength. During the Sarutobi Vs. Oro fight he had the previous Hokages do his bidding for him, and against Jiraiya he was missing his arms.
He briefly fought Sarutobi in Melee combat thats about all if memory serves. If anyone mentions his fight against Sasuke I will slap them through a wall. If you think he was going all out you would have to be as biased as Lost World.
Edit - Sarutobi was the Third Hokage and Yondaime was the Fourth Hokage, Osmoses.
|2004-08-22, 02:52
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Head of the Akatsuki
I voted for the fourth.
I would like to know exactly why everyone is convinced that Itachi is SO powerful. I would like to point out that Gai can defeat Itachi. Itachi's strength lies in his Sharingan, so an opponent skilled in Taijutsu deprives him of his "seeing" advantage. Also, Itachi's best techniques require his opponent to make eye contact. An opponent who doesn't need to see, such as Zabuza in the mist, or one who can read movement without looking at the face, such as Gai, who watches footwork, eliminates the possibility of Itachi's most powerful techniques having effect. His abilities, while devastating, have too many easy counters to make him an effective fighter. He is far too specialized a fighter to be considered, in my opinion, the strongest, or even one of the strongest.
Next, I will attempt to explain why I believe the fourth is the strongest. As seen in the Orochimaru/Sandaime battle, the soul-sealing technique requires the soul of the opponent to be forcibly removed from the opponent. This requires a certain degree of restraining the opponent while their soul is removed, and also requires the spiritual and physical energies to actually overwhelm the opponent. This said, the fourth had to have had, to some degree, power surpassing that of the Kyuubi, a power which allowed him to forcefully rip the spirit of the Kyuubi from its body and transplant it elsewhere. This suggests that the use of his mental and physical resources, applied against a lesser opponent than the great demon fox, would be simply devastating. His power was so great that the current hokage, Sarutobi, granted him the title of hokage upon his death, an acknowledgement of both his sacrifice for Konoha and of his great power and achievement.
|2004-08-22, 03:22
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Gai is quite a match for Itachi. As a pure-taijutsu fighter, part of Gai's expertise lies in being able to follow movement by watching the body, not the face. And unlike genjutsu and other forms of attack, the sharingan eyes cannot see through a taijutsu attack. With both of his major advantages gone, Itachi might still present a challenge, but for a master of speed and power like Gai, that challenge is equivalent to fighting Kakashi. As seen in the fight between Kakashi and Itachi, Itachi's only true advantage lies in his superior use of the Sharingan.
Keep in mind that Gai has 50 wins to Kakashi's 49, though it's quite possible that that's the win count for the rock-paper-scissors games they play...
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Sharingan is an advantage against taijutsu, as it allows you to read and predict your opponent's movement and defend accordingly. When Lee was fighting Sasuke, Sasuke's body was too slow to react, and thus couldn't deal with it. This is not a flaw inherent to the Sharingan, just a lack of skill by Sasuke. Keep in mind Kakashi, who cannot even use the Sharingan to its full extent, can keep up with Gai's speed, seeing as how they are rivals of about equal skill. If Kakashi can deal with Gai, then Itachi, who is far more skilled and has absolutely mastered the Sharingan, should also be able to. We have also seen little of Itachi's non-Sharingan skills, but during their fight, Kakashi understood that Itachi wasn't going all out, yet he was still untouched while Kakashi's defeat was imminent. Itachi used his Sharingan the first time to show off to Kakashi and the second time to escape an otherwise inescapable jutsu. We'll have to see him fight more before we can judge his skills, but he was able to wipe out the entire Uchiha clan and still have the energy to use the Mangekyou Sharingan, so it's obviously not the only weapon he has.
I don't know how the fourth would be able to hold Kyuubi while he pulled its soul out. Kyuubi's power is shown to be far greater than anything else introduced in the series so far, so I don't think the fourth got up close and personal to Kyuubi when he sealed it. Even if he did, more than likely with the help of Gamabunta to restrain Kyuubi, and not his strength alone. To be able to seal Kyuubi does show a lot of strength, but I don't think he had to grab Kyuubi by it's shoulders while he was sealing it the way Sarutobi did with the others. Also, he became Hokage before Kyuubi attacked.
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Itachi is extremely powerful.
However there are many many ways to fight the sharingan.
As gai pointed out, you can avoid the sharingan useres eyes.
You can fight like zabuza did by concealing yourself in mist.
The 2'nd hokage's jutsu of complete darkness would also work well.
In other words there are various ways to counter Itachi's powrful doujutu (eye genjutsu).
Kakashi's mistake was that he naively tried to take it on eye for eye.
We have seen that sannin are not to be fooled around with. Tsunade is friggen regenerating entire body parts, Jiraiya is using some crazy giant jutsus like that swamp of the underworld he summoned to drown oro's snakes.
Simply put.
We cannot place itachi versus the other sannin or hokages because we dont know how good itachi is without his sharingan.
Is his taijutsu better than Gai's ? Highly doubt it. Better than tsunade's ? Highly doubt it.
Itachi is my favourite character but at this point i do not think he is the strongest Ninja of all time.
From what we have seen Itachi is very honest and to the point. He never beats around the bush and he said it with his own mouth to Kisame in regards to jiraiya.
"We would both likely die even if we faced him together"
One on one, in their prime, i doubt itachi could beat any of the sannin. But the keyword here is "prime"
The sannin are much older now, and Itachi \himself is going to get even stronger in the next few years.
Orochimaru is scared of itachi because of the number of jutsu itachi knows. To oro jutsu number represents strength. He has made this clear several tiimes.
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The wolf of mibu has good points, but I still think that Itachi is going to be Legendary strong in his prime.... So my vote goes for Itachi ... but I might be wrong ..
Sad that Gaara wasn't on vote list because my top 4 for future ninjas's is:
Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara and Neji
Everyone showing great potential and because I believe Gaara is going to be Kazekage in the future..
|2004-08-22, 10:14
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Even if Gai found a way to avoid his Look. The fact remains he still has it. His speed and incredible jutu's could force Gai and Tsunade too for that matter in a situation where they cannot escape his Sharingan.
My point being, Itachi is the strongest character we've seen so far.
|2004-08-22, 11:53
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Just the same way that Itachi saying Jiraiya will hand kisame and him their asses, isnt neccessarily true.
Weve seen itachi kick sasukes ass.
Weve seen itachi run from jiraiya.
Ofcourse there are reasons for all of this, like itachi was low on chakra. But my point is you cannot say he is the strongest character when we have not even seen what he can truly do nor have we seen him face anyone stronger than a jounin.
Personally i believe Itachi is extremely strong obviously, but at his current age he is still not as powerful as the sannin were in their prime.
But thats just my opinion. All I can say is that when naruto hits his prime, he will be the god of all shinobi ^^. Not just because he is the main chracter but because by then his knowledge, spirit, and kyubi mastery will make him unstoppable.
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File Locations
The Windows Registry is stored in multiple files.
Windows NT 4
In Windows NT 4 (and later) the Registry is stored in the Windows NT Registry File (REGF) format.
Basically the following Registry hives are stored in the corresponding files:
- HKEY_USERS: \Documents and Setting\User Profile\NTUSER.DAT
- HKEY_USERS/DEFAULT: \Windows\system32\config\default
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SAM: \Windows\system32\config\SAM
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SECURITY: \Windows\system32\config\SECURITY
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE: \Windows\system32\config\software
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM: \Windows\system32\config\system
Windows 98/ME
- \Windows\user.dat
- \Windows\system.dat
- \Windows\profiles\user profile\user.dat
Special cases
The Windows Registry has several special case scenarios, mainly concerning key and value name, that most tools fail to account for:
- special characters key and value names
- duplicate key and value names
- the names when stored in extended ASCII (ANSI string) use a codepage that is dependent on the system settings
special characters key and value names
Both key and values names are case insensitive. The \ character is used as the key separator. Note that the \ character can be used in value names. The / character is used in both key and value names. Some examples of which are:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\NetBT\Parameters\ Value: Size/Small/Medium/Large
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Terminal Server\VIDEO\disc\ Value: \Device\Video0
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\xmlprov\Parameters\SchemaGroups\User\http://www.microsoft.com/provisioning/eaptlsuserpropertiesv1\ Value: SchemaFile
Open Source
- Forensic Registry EDitor (fred) - "Forensic Registry EDitor (fred) is a cross-platform M$ registry hive editor" by Gillen Dan
- libregfi - The regfi library is a read-only NT registry library which serves as the main engine behind the reglookup tool
- reglookup — "small command line utility for reading and querying Windows NT-based registries."
- regviewer — a tool for looking at the registry.
- RegRipper — "the fastest, easiest, and best tool for registry analysis in forensics examinations."
- Parse::Win32Registry Perl module.
- python-registry Python module.
- Registry Decoder offline analysis component, by Andrew Case
- RegDecoderLive live hive acquisition component, by Andrew Case
- libregf - Library and tools to access the Windows NT Registry File (REGF) format
- Yet Another Registry Utility (yaru) Free tool that can be run on Windows, Linux or Mac OS-X. If run in admin mode, allows viewing of registry hives on live system.
- Windows ShellBag Parser Free tool that can be run on Windows, Linux or Mac OS-X.
- cafae - Computer Account Forensic Artifact Extractor. Free tool that can be run on Windows, Linux or Mac OS-X to parse ntuser.dat hives.
- Abexo Free Regisry Cleaner
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- Registry Tool
- Using ShellBag Information to Reconstruct User Activities., Yuandong Zhu*, Pavel Gladyshev, Joshua James, DFRWS 2009
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- Registry Examination, by Paul Davies
- Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry in Memory, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, DFRWS 2008 [slides]
- Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Peter Davies, Computer Forensics: Coursework 2 (student paper)
- A Windows Registry Quick-Reference, Derrick Farmer, Burlington, VT.
- The Windows Registry as a forensic resource, Digital Investigation, Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 201--205.
- Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Lih Wern Wong , School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University
- The Windows NT Registry File Format, Timothy D. Morgan
See Also
- Windows Incident Response Articles on Registry
- Windows Registry Information
- Wikipedia Article on Windows Registry
- Push the Red Button — Articles on Registry
- Windows Forensics Mailing List
- kregedit - a KDE utility for viewing and editing registry files.
- ntreg a file system driver for linux, which understands the NT registry file format.
- Security Accounts Manager
- http://www.opensourceforensics.org/tools/unix.html - Open Source Forensic Tools on Brian Carrier's website.


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Tonight, join KLRU, KUT and the Annette Strauss Institute for a community conversation to explore the effects of changing demographics on civic participation in Central Texas.
KUT News Reporter Joy Diaz will host the event. Juan Castillo, senior reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, will share recent demographic trends in Austin from the 2010 census. Chantel Bottoms, senior research analyst at Community Action Network, will present voter turnout data for Travis County. Participants will then join small roundtable discussions to explore how to expand community engagement as the city
continues to grow and change.
This community event is organized in partnership with Austin Community College's Center for Public Policy and Political Studies.
When: 7-9 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10
Where: Austin Community College's Eastview campus, Multipurpose Hall (Room 8500), 3401 Webberville Road.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP here.