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|Alias (also also known as) is an alternative name for an item or property. The usual or most important name is the label. Aliases help people to find an item even if they don't search with the label. For example, the item Q2 has the label "Earth" and aliases such as "Tellus" and "Blue Planet".
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|Badges are optional markers that can be attached to a sitelink. For instance a sitelink can be marked to link to a "featured article" and/or to a "proofread" page.
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|Claim is a piece of data about the entity on whose page the claim appears. A claim consists of a property (such as location (P276)) and either a value (e.g., Germany (Q183)) or one of the special cases "no value" and "unknown value". A claim can have qualifiers, such as temporal qualifiers saying that the claim is valid within a specific time frame. Compared to triples in the RDF data model, a claim uses a property to express the predicate of a triplet and a value to express the object of a triplet. Claims form part of statements on item pages, where they can be augmented with references and ranks; they can also occur on non-item data pages.
|Constraint is a rule how a particular property should be used. For instance most identifiers should have only one value, so there is a single value constraint on them.
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|Datatype (data value type or value type) is the kind of data values that may be assigned to a property, and specifies how the data values are stored in each claim. Each property is assigned a pre-defined datatype. Not all values can be linked, as long as there are certain datatypes missing. The development of new datatypes is still in progress. See also Special:ListDatatypes for currently available datatypes.
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|Description is a language-specific descriptive phrase for an item, property or query. It provides context for the label (for example, there are many items about places with the label "Cambridge"). The description therefore does not need to be unique, neither within a language or Wikidata in general, but it must be unique together with the label. Uniqueness for a combination of a label and a description is a hard constraint. If your contribution does not meet this requirement you cannot save the change.
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|Entity is the content of a Wikidata page, that either may be an item (in the main namespace), a property (in the property namespace). Every entity is uniquely identified by an entity ID, which is a prefixed number, for example starting with the prefix
Q for an item and
P for a property. An entity is also identified by a unique combination of label and description in each language. An entity may have alternate aliases in multiple languages. Each entity has also a dereferenceable URI that follows the pattern
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/ID where ID is its entity ID.
|External identifier Some properties have values that are strings used in the databases of external organisations. They uniquely identify an item. For example, an ISBN for a book or the unique part of the URL of a movie or an actor in the Internet Movie Database.
|Item refers to a real-world object, concept, or event that is given an identifier (an equivalent of a name) in Wikidata together with information about it. Each item has a corresponding Wikipage in the Wikidata main namespace. Items are identified by a prefixed id (like Q5), or by a sitelink to an external page, or by a unique combination of multilingual label and description. Items may also have aliases to ease lookup. The main data part of an item is the list of statements about the item. An item can be viewed as the subject-part of a triplet in linked data.
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|Label (also name) is the main name given to identify an entity (i.e. an item or a property). E.g.: the item with the item identifier Q7378 has the English label "elephant". Every entity has exactly one label in a given human language. Labels do not need to be unique. Descriptions and aliases are used to distinguish between entities with the same label. Wikidata pages do not have labels, but titles.
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|Language attributes are the language-specific labels, aliases and descriptions that are assigned to items, properties and queries. These are human-readable text to improve understanding of the scope of the item; for example the specific type of real world entity. If they are missing some of them can be replaced by strings from alternate languages, following the language fallback chains.
|Language fallbacks (also language chains) are methods to systematically replace missing language attributes with strings from alternate languages. The exact replacement rules can be chosen depending on the type of page, whether the user is logged in, or the user preferred languages.
|Mainspace is one of the namespaces in a wiki. Other than other namespaces, it does not have a prefix. In Wikidata, the mainspace contains the pages with the items.
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|MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikidata, Wikipedia and other wikis. The MediaWiki installation of Wikidata makes use of the Wikibase extension.
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|Meta pages These are all pages that are not entities, i.e. do not belong to the data namespaces. Wikidata meta pages contain unstructured content represented by conventional MediaWiki code, and perhaps also future Wikidata client side inclusion code. Examples are talk pages, category pages, project pages (in the Wikidata namespace) and help pages (in the help namespace). Meta pages also comprise content and data automatically generated by the MediaWiki software (for example, the edit history of a page, or special pages).
|Namespaces are a kind of category for pages in a wiki. Per namespace you may have different rules about the pages and their content. In Wikidata, the most important namespace (or 'main namespace') is for the Wikidata items. The URL of such a page ends on a
Q with a number, for example Q7378 for "Elephant". The pages in other namespaces start with the namespace name, the 'prefix', for example Help:Contents.
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|Page An internal or external webpage with a unique title, for example an article in Wikipedia main namespace or an item in Wikidata main namespace. In Wikidata, the term "page" may refer to an item or a property page in the data namespaces, a meta page in other namespaces or an external linked page on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia site or an other external site, that is referenced using a sitelink. Pages in the main namespace of Wikidata are about items, and one page can only hold one item.
|Project is a term often used in the Wikimedia movement. In most cases, people mean a Wikimedia Wiki. So in Wikidata, the term usually refers to Wikidata itself.
|Property (also attribute) is the descriptor for a data value, or some other relation or composite or possibly missing value, but not the data value or values themselves. Each statement at an item page links to a property, and assigns the property one or several values, or some other relation or composite or possibly missing value. The property is stored on a page in the Property namespace, and includes a declaration of the datatype for the property values. Compared to linked data, the property represents a triplet's predicate.
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|Qualifier is a part of the claim that says something about the specific claim, often in a descriptive way. A qualifier might be a term according to a specific vocabulary but can also be a variant descriptive phrase (whether those terms or phrases are free text or part of some vocabulary would probably be up to the Wikidata community).
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|Query is a search across items in Wikidata. By now queries can be executed in the SPARQL query language. It is planned to extent Wikidata by queries as entities defined on their own pages.
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|Rank is a quality factor used for simple selection/filtering in cases where there are many statements for a given property. In such cases, you may want to indicate which statement is more important or relevant than other statements. By default, a statement has the rank "normal", but you can change this to either "preferred" or "deprecated".
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|Reference (or source) describes the origin of a statement in Wikidata. A reference is often an item in its own right; for example, a book. Wikidata does not aim to answer the question of whether a statement is correct, but merely whether the statement appears in a reference.
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|Site is a reference to an external website in general, but in sitelinks it refers to specific registered wikis, for example a Wikipedia language version. Those sites are referenced by global site identifiers or for short siteid, technically corresponding to the wiki's DBname. For example the Latin Wikipedia's siteid is
lawiki. Each external page can have only one link registered in Wikidata and one item can only have one link to each external site.
|Sitelink (Interlanguage link) is an identification of a linked page on another site. It consists of a site identifier and a title, and are stored in individual items in Wikidata. They are used both for identifying an item from an external site, and as a central storage of interwiki (interlanguage) links.
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|Snak is a technical term of Wikibase software which data users are most likely to encounter when accessing Wikidata through the MediaWiki API. It refers to the combination of a property and either a value or one of the special cases "no value" and "unknown value". Snaks can be found in claims (then they are called main snaks) or in qualifiers as part of statements (then they are called qualifier snaks). E.g., in the statement "Emma Watson was a cast member of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the role of Hermione Granger" there is a main snak "was a cast member of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and a qualifier snak "in the role of Hermione Granger".
|Statement is a piece of data about an item, recorded on the item's page. A statement consists of a claim (a property-value pair such as "Location: Germany", together with optional qualifiers), augmented by optional references (giving the source for the claim) and an optional rank (used to distinguish between several claims containing the same property). Wikidata makes no assumptions about the correctness of statements, but merely collects and reports them with a reference to a source.
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|String (also character string) is a general term for a sequence of freely chosen characters interpreted as text (e.g. "Hello") — as opposed to a value interpreted as a numerical value (3.14), a link to an item (e.g.
[[Q1234]]) or a more complex datatype (the set {1,3,5,7} ). Wikidata will in addition to a string datatype support language specific texts; "monolingual-text" and "multilingual-text" as the value of a property.
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|Title is the name of a page. The title is unique per wiki. In Wikidata a title is either an item identifier such as Q42 or it starts with a namespace prefix such as
Help:. Titles of pages in other Wikimedia wikis are required to connected these pages to Wikidata items via sitelinks.
|Values (also datavalues) are the information pieces embedded in each claim. Depending on their datatype, they can be a single value (like a number) or a value consisting of several parts (like a geographical position with longitude and latitude). The special cases "unknown value" or "no value" can also be selected.
► Help:Statements
|Wikibase is the software behind Wikidata. It consists of a set of extensions to the MediaWiki software. Thanks to these extentions, Wikidata can manage data in items and properties, and query and display this data.
► Help:Wikibase
|Wikidata is a Wikimedia project that runs an instance of MediaWiki with the Wikibase extensions. It enables Wikidata editors to enter data and browse pages.
► Wikidata:Introduction
|Wikimedia is the name of a movement which consists of people and organizations. Wikidata is run by the Wikimedia Foundation together with other wikis such as Wikipedia. The Wikibase software is mainly developed by Wikimedia Germany which is one of the national Wikimedia affiliations.
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|Wiki is a concept for a website. Wikipedia and Wikidata are wikis. A wiki in general is a website that can be edited by the visitors.
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Christine Maggiore, Outspoken AIDS Denialist, Is Dead at 52
Christine Maggiore, an HIV-positive woman and an AIDS denialist, died late last month in her California home at the age of 52. Maggiore, who refused to take HIV medications and was outspoken in her belief that HIV did not cause AIDS, was diagnosed with HIV in 1992. Her official cause of death has not yet been made official, though she had reportedly been treated for pneumonia in the past several months.
Initially an HIV/AIDS activist, within a few years of her HIV diagnosis Maggiore became a critic of evidence-based science regarding HIV. Although she had no formal training in science or medicine, she insisted that HIV did not cause AIDS, and thought that other viral illnesses, pregnancy or even flu shots could trigger an HIV-positive test result. She also posited that HIV medications themselves may cause a person to develop AIDS. None of these theories has ever been scientifically proven, but Maggiore persisted in her beliefs; she even compiled them in a book entitled What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? She also founded a nonprofit organization and a Web site, Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, which is dedicated to supporting HIV-positive people who question established scientific evidence regarding HIV and who strive to avoid the use of HIV therapy.
Maggiore practiced what she preached. She took no HIV medications during her two pregnancies and breast-fed her children after they were born, decisions that run sharply against well-established medical recommendations for developed countries. Maggiore's son, Charlie, was born in 1997 and tested negative for HIV. Maggiore's daughter, Eliza Jane, was born in late 2001; Maggiore refused to have her tested for HIV. Tragically, Eliza Jane died in 2005 at the age of 3 of what the Los Angeles County coroner's office stated was AIDS-related pneumonia. Maggiore and her husband, Robin Scovill (who is HIV negative), were investigated for possible child neglect, but no charges were brought against them.
You can read a more complete story of Maggiore's life in this Los Angeles Times article. There's also an editorial in the same newspaper that provides a little perspective on the story, as well as a poignant article in the online publication Science-Based Medicine. For more background on the AIDS denialism movement, browse through the wealth of articles you can find on TheBody.com.
What's your take on Maggiore's life and death? Do you think her passing will have any effect on the AIDS denialist movement, or is she just another name to add to the ever-growing list of HIV-positive denialists who died? Please share your thoughts below.
Other Articles of Interest:
AIDS Denialist's Mystery Death
Denialism and the Death of Christine Maggiore
Will Stupid People and Their Pseudoscience Cost More Lives This Year?
Respectful Insolence: HIV/AIDS Denialists Digging Themselves in Deeper


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David Duchovny and Tea Leoni rekindle on/off marriage on family vacation
Married actors DAVID DUCHOVNY and TEA LEONI appear to have rekindled their on/off romance on a family vacation.
The X-Files star, 53, initially separated from Leoni in 2008 after 11 years of marriage as Duchovny underwent therapy for sex addiction. They later reconciled, but split once again in 2011.
Neither actor filed for divorce, but the pair, which has two children, seemed to be moving on from the failed relationship last year (13) by putting its marital home in New York up for sale.
However, a new report in America's Star magazine suggests Duchovny and Leoni, 48, are giving their marriage another chance and they recently put their love on display during a getaway to the Big Apple's Fire Island retreat.
An eyewitness tells the publication, "They were smiling and cuddling up with one another. They walked hand-in-hand and shared a kiss.
"They seemed like the perfect family."
The stars are parents to 15-year-old daughter Madelaine and 12-year-old son Kyd.


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Can you believe that we're just slightly over a week after the whirlwind of the Toronto International Film Festival and, of course, Midnight Madness 2012. If you're anything like me, you've been getting way too much sleep (over 3 hours? Whaaaaa?), catching up on Homeland, and not watching three or more movies a day, which has given me time to reflect back on those crazy ten days and my favourite moments from TIFF.
Our fantastic Midnight Madness audience has been doing the same thing on Twitter and Facebook, and we wanted to share some of those with you! (additional photos by Ian Goring)
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Remember, if you've got any favourite moments and memories to add, tweet them to us using the #mmadnesstiff hashtag or post them up in the Midnight Madness Facebook group!
By the way, if you want to keep the Midnight Madness party going for a little longer, don't forget to check out Programmer Colin Geddes' exhibit at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche this year! If this piece doesn't satisfy your cravings for zombie kills, nothing will!


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Royals blank Astros to finish off sweep
Kansas City, MO – Alex Gordon singled in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Kansas City Royals completed a three- game series sweep of the Houston Astros with a 2-0 shutout on Sunday.
With Hector Ambriz (1-3) pitching for Houston in the eighth, Chris Getz hit an infield single, stole second base, and scored on Gordon's single. Houston center fielder Trevor Crowe's throw to the catcher went off course, allowing Gordon to reach third. Eric Hosmer then delivered an RBI single to center.
Aaron Crow (2-1) allowed just one hit in the top of the eighth to pick up the win and Greg Holland notched his 12th save with a scoreless ninth to help the Royals win their fifth straight game.
"It feels great," said Gordon. "You know we're going to go on streaks like that. It's a long baseball season. You've got to clear it out of your head and just move on and that's what we did. So we're feeling pretty good right now. Great pitching and defense today. It kept us around long enough to do some damage there in the 8th."
Kansas City starter Luis Mendoza threw seven shutout innings, allowing four hits and a walk, but the Royals recorded just two hits before finally scoring.
The Astros had five hits and lost their fourth straight.
Lucas Harrell also pitched seven shutout innings for Houston, giving up just two hits and three walks before being replaced by Ambriz after 99 pitches.
The Royals had an opportunity to strike early, loading the bases with two outs in the first but Derek Lough's grounder to Jose Altuve ended the frame.
Houston's best chance to score came in the third. Ronny Cedeno hit a leadoff double and advanced to third on a ground out by Jose Altuve. However, Jason Castro struck out and Carlos Corporan flew out.
Holland came to pitch in the ninth. He walked Carlos Pena, but got J.D. Martinez to ground into a double play. Holland then struck out Chris Carter to finish the game.
"We're trying to play good baseball," said Pena. "Every single time we go out there we want to make sure that we do the best we can to put the best of us on the field. Sometimes, it just doesn't work out that way. Sometimes you get beat. Today, I think, was one of those days where we got beat. I thought we played a pretty good ballgame."
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The Royals have outscored opponents 24-8 during their streak ... Salvador Perez went 3-for-4 for Kansas City ... The Astros were 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.


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One person is dead following a bus crash near Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park.
The Florida Highway Patrol says a Disney's Magical Express bus rear-ended a car Friday afternoon. Witnesses said the car appeared to be slowing down or stopping, possibly from mechanical problems, right before the crash.
The patrol says a woman in her 60s who was in the car was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead.
No one on the bus died, and the patrol had no immediate word of other injuries.
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Ten stories to watch in 2013
By Tamara E. Holmes
The first of a two-part series about the stories to keep your eyes on during 2013. Look for part 2 next week.
1. How the 2012 Election Mandate Plays Out
President Barack Obama's re-election in 2012 ended concerns that there would be an end to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has already led to increased access to HIV testing and other HIV/AIDS-prevention services for millions of Americans. It also dispelled fears that gains made by the Obama administration and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy(NHAS) would be abandoned or reversed. Now that the president doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected, the administration can build on the foundation laid out in the previous four years.
What to watch for: The continued implementation of the ACA and the ability of the President to reduce the federal deficit are two factors that will affect Obama's legacy when it comes to HIV/AIDS.
2. Sequestration's Impact on HIV/AIDS Programs
We've been bombarded with news of the dreaded "fiscal cliff," but in reality, if a compromise isn't reached, the HIV/AIDS community will be devastated by sequestration — a word that refers to the massive cuts in federal spending that will automatically kick in on Jan. 2, 2013. If we fall off the fiscal cliff, it is estimated that $538 million would be cut (pdf) from four HIV/AIDS programs in the first year alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HIV-prevention programs would lose $64 million, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program would lose $196 million, AIDS research by the National Institutes of Health would lose $251 million and Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS, or HOPWA, would lose $27 million. The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) would also lose $77 million in 2013, estimates show.
What to watch for: While there's a consensus that some type of deal will eventually be reached, that doesn't mean the HIV/AIDS community is in the clear. A deal will most definitely include cuts to domestic programs. What remains to be seen is if HIV/AIDS programs will be among them.
3. We Learn If the HIV Workforce Has the Training It Needs to Support Treatment on Demand
While we have the tools to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, those tools can be effective only if HIV/AIDS professionals understand how to use them. Unfortunately, that's not always the case, since many lack basic knowledge about the latest treatments and recent biomedical advances, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis. To bring more awareness to the information gap and take the first step to solve it, the Black AIDS Institute has unveiled the first Workforce Survey for HIV/AIDS Professionals, which, over a six-month period, will gauge knowledge and attitudes about HIV/AIDS among professionals who serve the HIV/AIDS community.
What to watch for: The dissemination of the survey findings will play a critical role in ensuring that HIV/AIDS professionals are getting relevant information to the community. The findings can also serve as a starting point for training and education programs for HIV/AIDS professionals. "Quite possibly for the first time in the history of the epidemic, we will be able to provide information to health departments, policymakers and community organizations on the baseline knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of people who are working and volunteering in AIDS," said Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Phill Wilson.
4. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy Continues to Unfold
It's been two years since the U.S.'s first-ever NHAS was released in 2010, but the true measure of its success is its implementation. In July the Office of National AIDS Policy released an update (pdf) of 2011-2012 implementation efforts, looking at how much progress has been made in reducing new HIV infections, improving health outcomes for PLWHA, reducing HIV-related health disparities and achieving a more coordinated national response.
What to watch for: The dead-line for achieving most of the goals in the implementation plan is 2015, giving the U.S. two years to make good on plans to lower the annual number of new infections by 25 percent, reduce the HIV transmission rate by 30 percent and increase the proportion of newly diagnosed patients getting linked to care within three months by 20 percent. With more than $22 billion allotted to domestic HIV-specific programs — including $1 billion for ADAPs — in President Obama's proposed 2013 budget, the White House has shown that the NHAS remains a priority. However, with the threat of sequestration (see above) and "fiscal cliff" talks still under way, the actual amount that will be allotted to HIV programs remains unclear, and economic constraints are likely to be the biggest challenge to the NHAS' implementation in 2013.
5. The Affordable Care Act Expands as the Struggle Continues
This year saw two major threats to the ACA overcome: the legal challenge heard by the Supreme Court and the candidacy of Republican Mitt Romney, who vowed to repeal the law if he was elected president. Now the ACA's implementation can go forward, but new challenges remain. The ACA will expand coverage to 30 million uninsured Americans, with as many as 17 million through Medicaid. However, states can refuse federal support to expand Medicaid, and as of early December, nine states had opted out of Medicaid expansion. The other pressing detail that will affect the ACA's implementation is the establishment of essential health benefits, the minimum healthcare benefits an insurer can offer. The states get to decide on their own essential health benefits, meaning that there's no federal man-date to prevent states from setting insufficient standards to address the needs of PLWHA.
What to watch for: Though the election is over, political grandstanding continues to surround the ACA. States have begun submitting their essential health benefits to the federal government, though 19 states missed the initial dead-line. It remains to be seen whether states that are un-happy with the ACA provide less-than-robust essential health benefits, just as it remains to be seen whether Medicaid expansion continues to be ignored in certain parts of the country.
Tamara E. Holmes is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who writes frequently about health and wellness.


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How to prevent your perfume from going bad
I've never had a signature perfume. I always wanted to have a lot of fragrance choices, so since high school my bathroom has been cluttered with bottles. That all changed when I met Fabrice Penot, one of the co-founders of Le Labo, a few years ago -- now my fridge is cluttered instead.
This tip is an oldie but a goodie, but now that it's hot as blazes outside, you should think about protecting your fragrances, because extreme heat can make them go bad. When Penot told me to store all my perfumes in the refrigerator, I thought it was weird, but I did as told. (Because when attractive perfumers with French accents make recommendations, I tend to listen.) Bonus: it also feels cool and refreshing when you spritz it on your neck and pulse points. Le Labo Neroli 36, one of my favorite scents ever, sits next to Jour d'Hermes, which sits next to my new favorite summer fragrance, Jean Paul Gaultier's Summer 2014 Classique. (It's delicious -- get it here.)
Just a word of warning, though. Extreme cold can be just as bad as extreme heat, so if you have one of those refrigerators that freezes the veggies in the crisper, skip it. This is one of the reasons I keep them on the door, because the temperature isn't as low there.
Happy summer spritzing.
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Yes, the Kim Kardashian-Kanye West Romance Will be Televised
The fame cycle is complete: Following their much-watched Date of the Century, Kanye West has agreed to appear on the upcoming season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Radar Online reports.
Kanye has actually been on the show before (a subplot that involved fashion advice) but it's still impressive that Kim found the one man on the planet whose affection can be parlayed into a ratings boon and tabloid frenzy powerful enough to save her from the aftermath of her Quickie Divorce of the Century disaster. Say what you will about Kim, but that girl is a fighter.


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Throw your hands up in "The Romance Resonance" Episode 6 of Season 7
Howard's romantic gesture to Bernadette causes Penny (Kaley Cuoco, left) to step up her game with Leonard, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, Oct. 24 (8:00 – 8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Also pictured: Kunal Nayyar (right) Photo: Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ©2013 WBEI. All rights reserved.


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Team Takes Third Place
HAMDEN, Conn. – Several Bulldogs who did not compete at last weekend's Dartmouth Invitational had their first race of the season at Saturday's Quinnipiac Invitational. The Bulldogs placed third with 79 points. Head coach Mark Young '68, Yale's Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, said the meet was a good opportunity for them to get a race in before hosting the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet next week.
"It was a good opportunity for them to run," Young said. "I was encouraged by the performance of (freshman) Clare Kane."
Kane had an impressive collegiate debut, finishing as the Bulldogs' top runner in ninth place overall with a time of 19:12, edging out Stonehill's top runner by one second. Fellow freshman Wendy DeWolf also ran a solid first race, following in 25th place in 19:59. The pair of junior Kristin Johnson and sophomore Phoebe Gaston finished 36th (20:39) and 37th place (20:47), respectively. Senior Celia Stockwell rounded out the top five in 44th place (22:56).
Since the Bulldogs did not run the runners who competed last week, Young said he was interested in seeing how the rest of the team might have performed against Quinnipiac.
"How do I think we'll do against them when we do run our top kids, I'm curious to know," Young said.
The Bobcats' Rebecca White won the race in 18:13, leading the Bobcats to win their home meet in a perfect score of 15 with their top five runners taking the top five spots.
Next weekend, the Bulldogs will run the entire squad against their Ivy League rivals Harvard and Princeton at home on Sept. 24.
Report by Miriam Cho '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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As the title states, this is going to be a photo dump. Enjoy.
Jade Mystic Gold, 2 coats.
Claire's Sherbet Scented
Claire's Cotton Candy Scented
A England St. George
Crowstoes Muder By #'s prototype over a dark, vivid purple
China Glaze Ultamate Holiday
Lynnderella LavenDear over...I have no idea...
OPI Pike's Peak-A-Boo Purple
Claire's Off To See The Wizard
Have a great 4th of July weekend!


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Couples coping with stress
Coping with the daily pressures of work, family and marriage can strain even the strongest couples and experts offer vital pointers in healthy, constructive communication between spouses.
Along with the recommendations of what to do to deal with each other and any stress that befalls us, such as setting goals, negotiating, being flexible, planning time together and laughing, is a list of what NOT to do that grabbed our attention.
To further reduce stress and strengthen your marriage, couples must try to avoid the following styles of communicating:
*Constant interrupting. By interrupting a person or answering before that person is done talking, you are showing that person that you are not interested enough to spend the time they need to speak to you.
*Always and never. Very few things in life are really that inflexible. These words cause people to become tense, angry and defensive.
*Use guilt. When spouses remind each other of their shortcomings or of previous mistakes, they continue a cycle of hurt and hard feelings.
*Use ultimatums. Demanding a certain action or behavior from a spouse doesn't move a couple together, instead it creates a barrier. Ultimatums can foster feelings of hurt, resentment and encourage stress.
*Ask "Why." Asking "Why did you or why didn't you?" puts people on the defensive. When people hear these words they often stop listening because they assume that the other people question their judgment.
*Practice clairvoyance. Telling a person how they feel is sometimes easier than listening carefully to them. Unfortunately, most of us are not psychic, and this can create resentment between both parties.
*Bring up the past. The past can be filled with many great memories, but if a person only talks of past problems and mistakes, the good times are forgotten.
By avoiding these communication styles, spouses will find it easier to work together to find effective ways to deal with stress and other problems in their personal and professional lives.


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Margo Moehring was smitten the minute she saw the black, white and brown dog in the city shelter.
"I was in love," Moehring said. "This was the dog. There was something about this dog. I think we made a match."
She and her boyfriend had looked at several other dogs at the shelter run by the city of Jacksonville's Animal Care & Protective Services, but this Catahoula Cur, which she has named Astro after the dog on "The Jetsons," was the one they chose.
"It's just like being in love. I'm nuts," she said. "He is like a new member of the family."
Moehring, managing director of policy and planning at the Northeast Florida Regional Council, said it broke her heart to see so many dogs and cats living in the shelter, waiting for the right person to come along and pick them. She had debated for years on whether to bring a pet into her life and was both excited and saddened when she visited the shelter.
"I had a moment. I teared up. I could only take one home. You want to take all of them home," Moehring said.
Scott Trebatoski, ACPS division chief, would like to see more happy pet owners as his agency partners with the Jacksonville Humane Society and First Coast No More Homeless Pets to push adoptions and foster care for the growing population of cats and dogs at the shelter.
The number of new arrivals — about 100 dogs and cats a day — has renewed fears that more animals might have to be euthanized, delaying the shelter's ultimate goal of becoming a no-kill shelter. To save their lives, these pets need owners or foster parents.
At the city-owned shelter, adoptions have increased 89.5 percent, rising from 2,185 in 2007 to 4,141 in 2012.
For the same five-year period, the number of animals that were euthanized is down 73.6 percent, from 19,189 in 2007 dropping to 5,069 in 2012.
About 31 percent of the animals that entered the shelter last year were euthanized, making it difficult for the city to maintain its goal of saving 90 percent of the animals to be considered a no-kill shelter.
"Over the past few years, we have made great strides in reducing euthanasia in Jacksonville. We still, however, face serious overcrowding issues," Trebatoski said.
"Our goal is to never have to euthanize an adoptable pet, but we need broad community support to reach that goal," he said, adding that about 100 dogs per day enter the shelter, forcing them to put dogs in offices and every reasonable space.
The population of the shelter is cyclical, and more dogs and cats are surrendered to the shelter in late spring and early summer, increasing the chance they'll be euthanized, he said.
He urges people who have to get rid of pets to try to find neighbors or friends to adopt them.
"This is the worst time of year to bring it to the shelter when the chance of survival is down," he said.
Lindsay Layendecker, who teaches English at the Florida Virtual School, donates hours helping at the shelter and is serving as a foster mom for four kittens and a dog.
During her time fostering animals, Layendecker tries to find them good homes so they don't have to return to the shelter.
"I love to foster so much," she said, adding that as soon as she places one foster pet, she's always ready for another.
Layendecker is a member of Friends of Jacksonville Animals, which works directly with the city shelter to assist with the costs of medical care, promote adoptions and reduce euthanasia.
Another key component of the city's animal control efforts is Feral Freedom, a program that picks up feral cats, sometimes known as community cats, sterilizes and vaccinates them, and returns them to the place they were picked up. They are tagged by cuts on their ears.
The program was developed by Rick DuCharme, founder and director of First Coast No More Homeless Pets; he convinced the city not to euthanize healthy, feral cats.
"When he first came to me, I was skeptical," Trebatoski said. "But based on the evidence, it is working."
"We are seeing a 40 percent drop in those cats coming into the shelter," he said.
DuCharme said his organization takes all the cats that come into the shelter, spays or neuters them and places them back where they were first trapped.
Trebatoski said that program has resulted in a big savings for the city, which previously had a policy of euthanizing all feral cats.
DuCharme said there are no good figures on the number of feral cats roaming in the Jacksonville area. Estimates range from 70,000 to 200,000.
"There is a decrease in cats and kittens every year in the shelter and less cat problems," he said.
In 2012, DuCharme's organization performed sterilization procedures on 17,644 cats and 7,430 dogs. It was involved in 2,505 adoptions, said Cameron Moore, program director for First Coast No More Homeless Pets.
The Jacksonville Humane Society, which receives most of its animals for adoption from the city shelter, is looking for 2,013 people to adopt dogs and cats with the hope of winning the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100,000 Challenge, said Denise Deisler, JHS executive director.
It's one of 50 shelters nationwide competing to beat last summer's adoption record. The local humane society had about 1,000 adoptions last summer.
"For us, it is going to be a challenge. Last year in June, July and August, we had phenomenal numbers," Deisler said, noting the winner receives $100,000.
"It is our goal to increase adoptions across the community," she said.
St. Johns County Animal Control and Pet Center have a deal on cats. If you want a kitten or cat, Pet Center is offering a $30 adopt-one-get-one-free deal now. The cost of adopting a dog is $60.
In the past year, St. Johns County received 4,502 animals and had 1,603 adoptions. They euthanized 2,800 animals, including 2,000 cats.
Neither St. Johns County nor Clay County has a TNR program — Trap, Neuter and Release — for feral cats, officials said.
There is a similar situation in Clay County, where 686 feral cats were euthanized in 2012. Through April of this year, Clay County has euthanized 187 feral cats. In 2012, there were 740 dog adoptions and 240 cat adoptions.
In Nassau County, exact figures are not available on its animal control website. In a report for fiscal year 2011-'12, Joseph Novello reported that it reduced the euthanasia rate by 13 percent and live release rate by 13 percent, in addition to creating a feral cat program, which reduced the number of animals being euthanized. o


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Anti-gentrification movements signify deeper issues for cities
Protesters clashed with police this June outside a Texas piñata store that was demolished and replaced by a cat cafe.
The demonstrators, who scuffled with supporters of the cafe, were part of a group called Defend Our Hoodz, which is working to protect the historically working-class, largely Latino and African American neighborhood of East Austin from developers looking to "reshape it in their image." Defend Our Hoodz, which declined to speak to Crain's, says such reshaping has forced out longtime residents, and have directed much of their ire at the businesses they feel are responsible—including the Blue Cat Cafe.
Defend Our Hoodz isn't the only group in the nation protesting gentrification, a word that varies in meaning among researchers, but is often used by critics to describe the process in which privileged people move into and change the neighborhoods inhabited by the poor or less privileged. On the West Coast, for example, protesters in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood have targeted Weird Wave Coffee, calling it a "gentrifying hipster coffee shop." On the East Coast, demonstrators are coordinating a Sept. 9 march through Brooklyn to protest gentrification, racism and police violence. And in the Midwest, a group of youth leaders in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood is trying to pass an ordinance designed to keep gentrification at bay along a popular local bike path.
Experts, meanwhile, say these groups are facing forces much larger than gentrification—forces that have been making cities less affordable for a wider demographic. If left unabated, they say, these phenomena could mean a change in the types of people and businesses able to survive in urban areas. And it means a potential switch in the mindset of elected officials, urban planners and economists, who have long been dedicated to fighting blight in cities—not necessarily to ensuring their affordability.
Costs on the rise
Cities are generally becoming more expensive places for people to live and do business, and the poor aren't the only ones feeling the pinch. A report from Trulia, an online residential real estate website, found that home values in eight of the 10 most expensive metro areas rose 12.5 percent between 2010 and 2014. And according to a report from the New York University Furman Center and Capital One, seven out of the 11 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. became less affordable to the median metro-area renter between 2006 and 2014.
Austin is among the cities seeing a significant uptick in housing costs, said Dean Almy, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the former chair of the City of Austin's Design Commission. Because Texas has no income tax, Almy said, the state leans heavily on property taxes to fund public services, which means popular places like Austin have become pretty expensive.
As of last month, Austin had three of the top five most expensive zip codes in Texas, with average rents of $2,475, $2,393 and $2,102, according to the internet listing service RENTCafé. The zip code of 78702, where the cat cafe is located, had the twelfth highest rent of any zip code in Texas, at $1,711—making it the fourth most expensive place to rent in Austin.
"It was not like that 10 to 15 years ago," Almy said.
Among the forces driving up costs: Young people of means.
Between 2000 and 2010, more college-educated individuals moved to urban centers than to the suburbs in a majority of the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, according to a study conducted by professors at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley. And that trend to urban centers was particularly strong among people aged 25 to 34, the study said.
"We find that urban revival in the 50 largest cities is accounted for almost entirely by the rising share of college educated individuals in urban areas," the authors note.
Researcher Jed Kolko, who serves as chief economist at the jobs website Indeed, argues that the group is even narrower than that. In a blog post on the topic, Kolko wrote that individual-level U.S. Census data shows that the movement is heavily skewed "toward rich, young, educated whites without school-age kids."
Experts disagree on why these particular people prefer the city; some chalk it up to their aversion to buying homes, others to their distaste for driving, or to their preference for service amenities like theaters and bars, or a desire to be closer to their jobs. Many say it's a combination of these factors.
Beyond gentrification
Harvard University Sociology Professor Robert Sampson says the forces affecting cities today go beyond simply gentrification, which he says has been traditionally used to describe the process in which severely poor, inner city areas "experience a reversal, reinvestment, and the in-migration of a relatively well-off middle- and upper middle-class population."
"You can't gentrify an area that's already middle class," Sampson said in an interview.
"What we are seeing now is a newer phenomenon, in a sense, because people who aren't necessarily poor are unable to afford housing—or they're spending a higher proportion of their income on housing than has traditionally been seen as reasonable," he continued.
For this, Sampson blames a different dynamic.
"First and foremost, this is a housing crisis, and it's tied to income inequality," he said.
Although the housing market and economy have recovered since the housing-bubble collapse, a report from Apartment List found that new construction is still lagging behind. Whereas the number of households grew by 11.2 million between 2005 and 2015, the report showed, only about 9.9 million new housing units were constructed.
New housing has kept pace with job growth in only 10 of the country's 50 largest metros, according to the report. San Francisco is among the most under-supplied metros in the country, having added three jobs for every new housing unit permitted from 2005 to 2010 and 6.8 jobs for every new unit permitted from 2010 to 2015. San Jose, Boston, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Denver, Dallas, New York, Austin and Seattle also made the top 10.
The report also found a strong correlation between the number of jobs per permit and rent growth between 2005 and 2015.
Nationwide, many are finding it increasingly difficult to live in the same metropolitan communities they serve. An analysis from the National Housing Conference and the Center for Housing Policy showed that neither a teacher nor a social worker making the median national salary in their respective professions could afford the fair market rent for a two-bedroom home in the Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, or Washington, D.C., metro areas. The analysis defines affordable housing as that which does not exceed 30 percent of a household's income, which squares with federal guidelines.
Consequences for small businesses
Rising rents are hurting not just renters, but existing independent businesses, too. The nonprofit community-development group Institute for Local Self-Reliance last year found that retail rents in cities such as Oakland, Nashville, Milwaukee and Portland, Maine, had increased by double-digit percentages in one year. As a result, local businesses are being forced out and replaced by national chains that are better able to negotiate more-affordable rents.
Erik Madsen, assistant professor at New York University's Department of Economics, said that the effect on nearby shopping districts starts out positively, as the spending power of consumers and the demand for local services at higher prices increases.
"Of course, individual businesses may be hurt if their products don't cater to the new clientele, so there are typically winners and losers," Madsen said in an email.
In the long-run, though, the effects are not so positive, as landlords raise commercial rents to soak up the profits of local businesses, and the real estate shortages prevent businesses from negotiating down their rent.
"A side-effect of these rent increases is that only the most profitable businesses survive, which tends to push gentrified shopping areas toward homogenous expensive restaurants and retail outlets," Madsen said.
Madsen said that the pricing out and replacement of preexisting local businesses with more homogenous expensive restaurants and retail outlets was a chain of events protested long ago by Jane Jacobs' in her 1961 book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."
"It's eerie to read some of the things she was pointing out back then, and see the exact same things happening today," Madsen said.
So how does the story end for areas that get too expensive?
"Ultimately, in some cases, the neighborhood burns itself out because rents become so expensive, there's a homogeneity in the types of stores being offered, it gets boring, and people move elsewhere," Madsen said.
It's not just high rents and homogeneity that Defend Our Hoodz fears, but erasure of the neighborhood's historic diversity. The group describes East Austin as "the front line for gentrification, where trendy cat cafes, bars, and high-end restaurants all work to erase the working-class Mexican-American community that stood here, neglected."
What now?
Planning scholar Jacob Wegmann, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the confluence of forces driving up costs in cities has put urban planners in a predicament.
"Thirty or 40 years ago, planners working in big cities in the U.S. thought that part of their job was figuring out how to arrest their economic decline," Wegmann said in an interview. "All of the sudden, planners in places like Austin are trying to figure out how to make them more inclusive and equitable."
In line with the laws of supply and demand, many experts say the solution to the affordability issue is more housing. But making more housing available is easier said than done, especially in California, said Judith Innes, a city and regional planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Innes said the state's Proposition 13 plays a role in this. Under the 1978 law, homeowners' property values aren't reassessed at market value until their properties are sold. After that, property-tax increases are limited to no more than 2 percent per year.
Some real estate leaders are pushing for measures such as tax breaks to make selling more palatable. But until then, "you don't want to move if you don't have to because it's so expensive," Innes said.
Those hoping to construct the supply face another uphill battle, Innes said, because homeowners generally don't want to see it lower their property values—a feeling not unique to Californians.
The ways in which cities can try to keep housing affordable depends on the city, experts say. San Francisco's zoning laws, for example, are nearly air-tight.
"The politics of changing the land use regulations to allow more housing to be built in San Francisco are almost impossible," planning professor Wegmann said.
In Texas, meanwhile, "spot zoning"—the practice of zoning a single tract of land in a particular way—is illegal, making preservation efforts tougher in rapidly changing neighborhoods like East Austin.
In Austin, however, city planners have some other tools to use.
The University of Texas School of Architecture, for example, formed an initiative to try to tuck some affordable housing into alleys. And East Austinites are now allowed to build and rent out accessory dwellings on their properties to help defray the increased costs of living.
Architecture professor Almy said that increasing "missing middle" housing—or small-footprint, multi-unit housing that's said to be more affordable than other housing options—is also a big topic of discussion for the City of Austin's Planning and Zoning Department.
Should costs continue to rise, Wegmann suspects, cities could become what they were before Americans with money and cultural cachet moved out to the suburbs en masse after World War II.
"Throughout most of human history, and throughout most of the world, people who had a choice in the matter chose to live closer to the center of the city," Wegmann said. "It's kind of like we're reverting back to that now."
Sampson echoed that idea. "I think many U.S. cities are moving toward a European model, where the most desirable areas are at the center, and [the] impoverished are in the suburbs," he said.
Almy, Innes, Madsen, Sampson and Wegmann said they didn't know for sure how the situation would ultimately play out. Almy, however, doesn't think that targeting coffee shops will do much to keep gentrification in check.
"Those businesses aren't the canaries in the coal mine," Almy said. "I think they're coming in because they already see that the economics have changed."


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- In the country, know every lane, bypath, and short cut for a distance of at least two miles in every direction around the local scout headquarters; or in a city, have a general knowledge of the district within a three-mile radius of the local scout headquarters, so as to be able to guide people at any time, by day or by night.
- Know the population of the five principal neighboring towns, their general direction from his scout headquarters, and be able to give strangers correct directions how to reach them.
- If in the country, know in a two mile radius, the approximate number of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs owned on the five neighboring farms; or, in a town, know, in a half-mile radius, the location of livery stables, garages and blacksmith shops.
- Know the location of the nearest meat markets, bakeries, groceries, and drug stores.
- Know the location of the the nearest police station, hospital, doctor, fire alarm, fire hydrant, telegraph and telephone offices, and railroad stations.
- Know something of the history of his place; and know the location of its principal public buildings, such as the town or city hall, post-office, schools and churches.
- Submit a map not necessarily drawn by himself upon which he personally has indicated as much as possible of the above information.


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East Kentucky Power Cooperative opened their doors for Duke Energy which serves communities in the area, to use the Crittenden Service Center as a staging area for some of its crews when the March 3 tornadoes ripped through Grant County. Duke Energy raised $5,000 to give EKPC for the charity of thier choice and they chose the American Red Cross for thier efforts in helping the tornado victims. "We wanted to use the money to help the local community," said Chris Barnes, who supervises EKPC's Crittenden Service Center.
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Famous British singer Joss Stone performed a concert in the largely-Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria after sneaking across the border.
This is a war film unlike any other that you will see, written and directed by a woman, focusing on a squad of the Kurdish autonomous women's protection units (YPJ). The systematic female enslavement and mass rape by ISIS are its subject matter.
In the US, the young new socialist Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a splash by setting out concrete plans for a "Green New Deal" to transition away from fossil fuels to a 100% renewable, zero-emissions economy within 10 years.
In Sudan, a multifaceted civil opposition is posing a serious threat to the continued existence of Bashir's dictatorial regime after weeks of protests, writes Mohammed Elnaiem.
Thousands marched through Berlin on January 13 to pay their respects 100 years after the brutal murders of revolutionary socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Morning Star Online said.
Marchers came from across Germany and many countries. They laid red flowers at the tombs of Luxemburg, Liebknecht and other revolutionaries in the Friedrichsfelde Socialist Cemetery in east Berlin.
US president Donald Trump announced by tweet on December 19 his intention to withdraw US troops from Syria. This followed a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had often stated his intention to invade north-eastern Syria.
November 11 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, but not before tens of millions died in the four-year-long unprecedented industrial carnage. Amid all the media coverage, almost entirely missing is the actual story of how such bloodshed and misery was ended: by a mass popular rebellion in Germany that brought down the monarchy and established a republic.
Kenya's War of Independence: Mau Mau & its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990
By Shiraz Durrani
African Books Collective, 2018
The rise of the far right around the world, with fascist candidate Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil close to joining the growing ranks of authoritarian far right leaders, many on the left are wondering how to respond.
The parallels with the rise of fascism in Europe in the early 20th century are clear.
In July, Canadian Marxist academic and activist John Riddell gave a speech, abridged below, at a York University seminar entitled "Historical perspectives on united fronts against fascism and the far right".
Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia
Three part series presented by Lucy Worsley
Available on SBS On Demand until October 10
This three-part series examines the history of Russia's most famous royal family, the Romanovs. This is a useful introduction to a topic for those wanting to know more about the conditions that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The Romanovs rose to power in 1613 after the collapse of the previous Rurik dynasty that ruled Russia for 700 years. The tsars were absolute monarchs with enormous power.


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Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the previous week.
+ Consecutive victories over Minnesota, Washington and Pittsburgh have fueled the Montreal Canadiens' 5-1-1 surge. Tomas Plekanec won 14 of 19 faceoffs he took against the Penguins' Sidney Crosby on Saturday and 16 of 21 overall; Crosby was credited with one offensive-zone faceoff win of the 10 he took. Winger Max Pacioretty, a Connecticut native, scored three times against the Wild and twice against the Penguins, boosting his candidacy for the U.S. Olympic team.
+ The defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks haven't gone two games without earning a standings point this season, reflecting their resilience and depth. Patrick Kane has cracked the top 10 in the scoring race with a 10-game scoring streak through Sunday's games. He had five goals and 14 points in that span.
+ A 6-0-1 streak through Sunday's games put the Philadelphia Flyers back into the thick of things in the East after a 1-7 start. They swept a three-game homestand and they've continued to get good goaltending from Steve Mason. They seem to be responding well to new Coach Craig Berube, who replaced Peter Laviolette after the team opened the season with three straight losses.
- Warmups have become hazardous to goaltenders. On consecutive nights last week, Viktor Fasth of the Ducks and Josh Harding of the Minnesota Wild were injured during warmups and couldn't make their scheduled starts. Fasth has a lower-body muscle inflammation and will miss three to four weeks; Harding also sustained a lower-body injury. An MRI exam showed no structural damage but his status was day to day.
- Three coaches were fired in the first quarter of the season. Who's next? Claude Noel reportedly is on the hot seat in Winnipeg, and although rumors have put Columbus' Todd Richards' name in the next-fired pool it's likely he will get more time.
- Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, last season's Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL's top goalie, is unlikely to be a repeat winner. Through Sunday's games he was 7-10-2 with a 2.95 goals-against average and .904 save percentage. Some of that reflects the Blue Jackets' struggles, not just his.


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ST. MARY'S, MD-The York College men's swim team had a good first day at the 2008 Capital Athletic Conference championships at St. Mary's College in St. Mary's City, MD on Friday evening. The Spartans stand second through day one as they have accumulated 160 points. Mary Washington sits in first with 268.5 points while Marymount is third with 130 points in the seven-team field.
The Spartans picked up a pair of wins as senior Steven Fulcher (Columbia, Md./Calvert Hall) factored in both wins. Fulcher was victorious in the 50 free as he touched the wall in a time of 21.32 to earn the first-team All-CAC honor. Fulcher's time set a new school record for YCP.
Fulcher was then a part of the winning 400 medley relay team as he combined with Steve Tobin (Estell Manor, N.J./Holy Spirit), Clark Arnold (York, Pa./Northeastern), and Matthew Jennings (Fairfax, Va./Robinson) to post a school record time of 3:34.26.
The 200 free relay squad of Jennings, Arnold, Benjamin Hilt (Mt. Joy, Pa./Hempfield), and Fulcher placed second as they combined for a time of 1:26.60.
Other top finishers for the Spartans include Stephen Doemland (Etters, Pa./Red Land) (fifth in the 500 free with a time of 4:57.66) Andrew Demarest (Galloway, N.J./Abesegami) (fifth in the 200 IM with a time of 2:01.57), Jennings (eighth in the 200 IM with a time of 2:05.07), and Hilt (eighth in the 50 free with a time of 22.36).
The action resumes on Saturday morning with the Saturday trials at 10:00 am followed by the Saturday finals beginning at 6:00 pm.


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Pontiac GTO Reliability and Maintenance Costs
So I'm closing in on buying a 2005 or 2006 Pontiac GTO, and I already know that it's a blast to drive. But then I happened to stumble onto a small forum on carsurvey.com where there seemed to be more negative than positive reviews on its reliability. Some folks were even invoking the lemon law. Some of these negative comments were against just the 2004, but not all of them.
I would appreciate comments/feedback, both good and bad, on your GTO ownership experience. What's your overall impression?
I would appreciate comments/feedback, both good and bad, on your GTO ownership experience. What's your overall impression?
silvergoat Posts: 12I have a 2005 Goat with over 18K miles, so far no problems at all.0
beachguy Posts: 10I have a 2006 GTO with 8000 miles and only one minor problem with the power seat control which was easily repaired. Other than that the car has been flawless. Fun to drive,comforable,reasonable gas mileage(18-19 mpg-mixed driving).0
zcool Posts: 1The manual really does quite a bit better on the MPG for those interested.
The overdrive is 0.57:1 on a 3.46 rear. With the manual the fuel actually shuts off when coasting. Frugal shifting will add to the mpg. 16/21 auto vs 17/25 manual. Worth the stick no matter how you feel about it.0
pixdad Posts: 6Have an '05. No problems, super car!0
water fills on weather stripping at bottom of drivers door and runs over plastic panel onto carpeting. This has been going on for over a year. Brought car back to dealer many times. Passenger side completely dry. This is a big problem since car is parked outside and not garaged. Weather stripping has been replaced, then glued and plastic water shield in door panel was replaced. It appears to me the front door drains directly onto the weather stripping instead of just off to the side. They said there is no way to adjust alignment of the door. Anybody have the same problem. Saw pictures of this problem on another website but the guy has not posted that it was fixed.0
gottabgto Posts: 95I have a 2005 automatic and I've had two substantial issues. First - the ABS constantly issues an alarm and disables the traction control. I've had it to the dealer who claims they can't find anything wrong.
Secondly, one day after a 30 mile trip, I shut off the engine and came back 20 minutes later to find a pool of coolant on the ground. Had it towed to the dealer. Again - no problem found.
I love the car, and would still buy it if I had it to do over, but these issues are bothersome, to say the least.0
You need to research the 06 GTO defective strut problems. I bought an 06 GTO on July 5. The Struts failed shortly after delivery. Car was stuck at the dealer for 31 days before they finally repaired it. The sordid tale of my experience with the dealer is too long to relate here. I am convinced GM knew the car was defective when I bought it. Noone with GM, or the dealer, has even tried to allay my concerns regarding the reliability of the vehicle, or assure me that GM will coninue to support the vehicle. My expectations, to be dealt with honestly and fairly, were apparently too high. I conducted my own research on the defective strut issue - I could not trust anything the dealer or GM told me. I researched the Alabama Lemon Law statutes and filed the documents necessary to protect my rights. I am currently making GM repurchase the vehicle - the GM internal paperwork for repurchase takes ~3 weeks. The car is currently collecting dust in my garage. The frustrating thing is, I still like the GTO, but forcing repurchase appears to be the only viable recourse to protect my interests. I too was intrigued by the GTO performance, room and comfort, but GM simply does not deliver adequate quality and support to realize the potential of the car. What happens when something else fails, say in several years after warrantee and lemon law protections expire? Will GM maintain any replacement parts inventory? Will any replacement parts have to come on a slow boat from Austrailia? I love vehicles. I am constantly evaluating and ranking vehicles to determine what I may buy next. The GTO was a bad selection. This experience has completely soured me on GM. I have removed all GM products from my vehicle database. I will never consider purchasing another GM vehicle. I will relay my experience to all friends and colleagues. I understand now why GM is failing. 0% financing and 100,000 mile warrantees mean nothing if the vehicles are defective and the service and support lacks basic integrity and competancy.0
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tripowergto Posts: 83My 04 has had perfect reliability. The 06 failing front strut issue has been readily known about for months and is a simple(albeit inconvient)issue to repair. It sounds more like you've had a difficult dealer to deal with then a true GM/GTO issue. Federal law mandates an auto maker MUST provide all parts for a given vehicle for at least 10 yrs.
The GTO is a FANTASTIC automobile. Too bad your unfortunate incident has soured your chances of ever enjoying it. GOOD LUCK!!0
As I said, I still like the GTO. It actually handles pretty good, now that it has FUNCTIONING FRONT STRUTS! The handling of the defective struts issue by the dealer, Pontiac, and GM is completely unacceptable. First they tried to convince me that the car was okay to drive, with essentially no functioning front shock absorbing systems. They said they knew nothing about any GTO strut problems. They told me on eight different occasions, over 4 weeks, that struts would be delivered - they just could not seem to get them shipped from the warehouse. Everyone I interfaced with was either dishonest, or grossly incompetent. Without the Internet I may never have learned the truth. To this day, Pontiac/GM has never even bothered to respond to my inquiries. I am a reasonable, fairly easy going guy. All they ever had to do was level with me, and what tell me what they were going to do to fix it. It just seems that GM does not want my business anymore. I don't understand, because I love cars and spend allot of money on them (you should see my garage). At this point, forcing repurchase is a matter of principle. I just wish they would hurry up and complete the repurchase so I can buy something else. I bought the GTO for my daily driver. I am now thinking about an Accord V6 6MT for that purpose. I'll wager Honda wants my business.0
i've got an 05 M6, 26000 miles so far. it has been reliable. stereo needed an early replacement, and there was too much negative-camber via the factory alignment - i noticed that at 15000 miles. GM paid for an alignment, but it took dealer a week to accomplish it!0
roadrunner70 Posts: 24106 purchased in march no issues at all, but small squeek in steering column. i don't intend to allow dealer to work on this. to no more junk, all i can say is spend some time on other message boards. everyone who owns an 06 toyoto 4 runner has huge vibration problems and toyota won't even addmit is there. the strut issue was bad, but at least it is know, admitted and corrected. that is more than you can say about many other cars with very serious problems. the truth is, is that each manufacturer as problem cars. the gto in my opinion, is not one of them. the bad struts and bushings were addressed. further, even if a radious bushing blows, the fix is very straightforward. i would rather have that kind of problem any day of the week. rr700
update to`water leak, it was finally fixed late last year , carpeting replaced, now I love this car!0
so far so good. one of the best cars i have ever owned, out of MANY. one flaw is no built=in sirius radio.
oh, the GAS CAP ratchet/seal failed and no service-engine code happened even though I drove for weeks with an unpressurized tank, and wasting a couple mpg. dealer gave me a new cap under warranty in 5 minutes on a saturday and i was on my way no appointment necessary.
also i love the fact that i got a letter from pontiac telling me to check the oil at every fuel stop if i drive like a maniac with massive rpms and engine-braking. meanwhile, it consumes zero oil - 15k extended-service mobil 1.0
Hey, I just received a letter from GM 2 days ago that said they are extending the warranty to 10yrs/120kmiles for the GAS CAP! Now the car is a keeper.0
I have just been reading here of some negative comments regarding the 2004-2006 GTO. I bought a 2006 in September of '06 and have nothing but rave reviews from my own experience. Yeah, I had to have the front struts replaced and there have been little things that I have asked the dealer to do, but that is mostly due to how picky I am about ANY car I own. I am sure if I bought the falsely praised Toyota I would be to the dealer as much demanding things be corrected. I have owned Pontiacs of one form or another since 1977 and have nothing but praise for the cars. They are typical American vehicles, yes. But I put 230k on a '77 Grand Prix I bought used and it was still hauling [non-permissible content removed] when I finally let it go in 2002! Hated to see it go but I had bought a '98 Grand Prix (a SWEET car) and the old fella was just sitting around. I preferred to see him go off on his own and think of him still serving someone well.
Back to my GTO. The quality is a quantum leap from previous GM's I have owned (and GM is about the only brand I have owned since '77, save the VW Rabbit diesel and the lone '88 Toyota Camry wagon. What a piece of crap!)
I have what must be the best Pontiac ealer in the world, Sewell Pontiac here in Dallas. I have NEVER had one issue with their service and I had a Trans Am that had issue from day one. But their service made the experience with my favorite but flawed little T/A enjoyable anyway. So, it all comes down to the quality of the dealership.
To answer whether GM will back up the GTO, YES! With the advent of the G8, which comes from Holden as well, the availibility of parts and service will continue...not to mention it is the law!
So for those who wanna bad mouth the orphan GTO, go ahead....I will drive off and leave you in a cloud of dust and love every minute of it!!!0
goat06ls2 Posts: 1I have an 06. It has almost 9,000 miles on it. No problems of any kind so far. The car is stock except for a Volant cold air kit.0
Mine is also an '06 with the 6 litre LS2. I have about 13,500 on it and it is still just like new. It is totally stock unless you consider a K&N air filter making it non-stock. (I always have those on my cars.) I have found no reason to alter it in any way. It has every sort of performance feature on it that I would want, so no need of the alterations. Even the exhaust, which is what I have always altered for fuel economy and better performance, is stock on the Goat.
I am just simply impressed with this car and, if service to this point is any indication, I am gonna be keeping this one for the long haul, which had been the plan for the T/A but maintenance became the deciding factor on him. I kept the '77 Grand Prix for 20 plus years and I see no reason to let this one go either!0
whatsachevy Posts: 136I have an '05 M6 with 21K. There is not a day that goes by that this car isn't driven hard. It is just too tempting. It has seen some track time as well. My only mods have been bolt-ons (headers, cai and exhaust), and along with a tune, produced 387/383 at the rear wheels. I did have the strut rub problem, but this seemed to be fixed by 0* camber in the front (mine was set at -0.7 from the factory). Very slight, if any noticeable, effect on handling. I wore out the original set of BFG's at 16K (funny how the rears seem to wear a lot faster than the fronts on these vehicles). They were replaced with Eagle F1 DS G3's. Nice tires, but overpriced in my opinion. I also run Nitto DR's at the track. Other than that, I have had no issues with this car, although I'm pretty sure the stock clutch is about to go. I'm sure it has to do with how the car is driven. I plan on replacing it with an LS7 clutch. No noticeable oil consumption between 3,000 mile changes with Mobil 1 Synthetic. I also installed a catch can as the LS2's have been known to bleed a pretty fair amount of oil back into the intake through the PCV valve when driven hard. I usually empty a couple of tablespoons from the catch can every oil change. I'm also planning on doing the Pedders Street II. There is no doubt, I would definitely buy this car again. I like to refer to it as the family man's or poor man's (although those typically seem to go together) corvette.
Good luck on your car hunting. If you choose a GTO, chances are you will grin a lot more. I know I do.0
I have never driven my Goat very hard at all. In fact, the dealer has commented on how I don't. But I can tell from the feel of it that it can handle whatever.
Just as I felt about the Trans Am, I see this as the 4 seater 'Vette. And at 10k less and running essentially the identical power train, it makes a lot more sense.
What I don't understand are the comments I read about the car in the press. "Ill-fated", "ill-advised", "unsuccessful"? Okay, it didn't sell as well as Pontiac would have liked to see. But then it was also not advertised very much either. And it is more in the spirit of cars like the BMW 3 or 5 M series, not the original GTO. I think that is the reason it didn't sell as well as one would have hoped. It was not what people expected. It was a totally different concept. That is probably because it was based off the Monaro which was an Australian idea of a GTO (look up Holden/Monaro and if you are thorough enough, you will notice that the performance version even has the GTO badge on it just in front of the rear wheel opening, down low on the rocker). Of course, that is going to be a different interpretation. Once you separate yourself from the idea that it is not a GTO because it does not reflect the vintage versions, you can truly come to appreciate it.
I will offer this thought in observation of where it should really fit into the Pontiac line up though. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, I have owned two Grand Prixs, one a '77 and one a '98. When I first bought the Goat, I had just spent 6 years driving a Trans Am. For those who have not driven a T/A, it was a car that you drove by the seat of your pants. You WORE that car and it responded in that manner. The GTO did not feel that way. It struck me as more of a luxury car that was incredibly powerful and performance oriented. Then it dawned on me. Had Pontiac continued to develop the Grand Prix in the idea and spirit of the original one, THIS is what we would have today as a Grand Prix instead of the turd that exists. (How could they go from the slick little GP of the generation just prior to this ugly piece o '$%!+?)
I would just like to know if anyone else can understand/relate to my feeling on that.0
coreseller Posts: 40On my second '04 GTO. The first was totalled October 6, 2007. A 16 yr. old kid who had his license for 4 days pulled out in front of me. That car had 94k on it, the issues it had: door lock actuator ~30k miles, tie rods 90k miles and the rear gears were starting to whine pretty bad about a month or so before it's untimely demise. I liked the car so much I found another used '04 GTO with 29k miles and bought it 3 weeks ago. I'm VERY sold on these vehicles.....Mark.0
hawkeyefan1 Posts: 1I have a 2004 GTO with the water leak . Please , do you know how it can be fixed ! Thank You .0
I had a very small leak somewhere in the hoses. The dealer dealt with it in no time and I haven't had any more problems with it.
What is this i am reading about the gas cap? I have never had an issue nor have I received a letter from GM regarding an extended warranty. Someone fill me in.0
cappgoat maybe yours is a late 06 and they made those with more reliable gas caps? the ratchet mechanism seems to fail on the caps - it just sits there in the tank - no fuel spills but fuel evaporates. OBD does not seem to notice the pressure loss, but I won't tell EPA if you won't. I drove for months before realizing the cap was not working - the mpg cost was considerable since i wasn't driving it much like I do now.
in economy news, lately this winter I think my 05 M6 gets better mpg with 87 octane than 91 - at least as good.0
Was the extended warranty for the whole car or just the gas cap. If it for the whole car I hope my gas cap messes up, LOL! I bot an extended warranty for it but it only runs for 4 years. The way I put miles on the car (a year and a half and only 16k on it) I would be able to have this feela warrantied a long time.
It is interesting to hear about the 87 octane mpg boost. My concern with it is the overall health of the engine. In my daily use, which includes a reasonable amount of freeway driving, I get 17 mpg in town. I have been out on trips on the highway in it and got 22-23 mpg, which I figure is pretty good for this car. Granted, I don't drive it hard or too fast usually, so that helps I guess. But hell, if these prices go any higher I may be looking for some economy beater to use and let the Goat sit more.0
hey there cappygoat - heh heh - it's just the gas cap warranty that has been extended to 100k or whatever. I don't have any extended-warranty on mine. 49k miles so far (it's an 05).
I don' t fill it with 87 octane in summer but I've used 87 octane extensively in many vehicles for which premium-gas is "recommended", including many Z28s. And who knows, maybe I'm merely getting equal mpg with the 87 in the goat.
As far as I know, any gasoline-powered car sold in USA can run on 87 octane without any damage or risk of damage and without any warranty-voiding. This includes Ferraris, Benzes, you name it. Sure there *might* be a power-loss noticeable and maybe mpg-loss too, especially in summer - but never any engine damage as long as knock-sensor/ECM is operating properly. There are places in USA where only 87 octane is available. To sell a car that could be damaged by 87 octane fuel in USA would be a bad business move for any manufacturer which sells here, imho.0
I knew that ANY car sold here HAD to be able to use 87 but I would never feel good about putting it in my car. I have used nothing but premium since 1977. My '77 Grand Prix would ping something awful if I put anything less in him. And that was just the 301. I can only imagine what the Goat might do under a heavy acceleration situation. Not something I want to experience for sure! I am very anal about my cars and am doublely so with this one. Hell, I even clean the INSIDE of the wheels! This is the most expensive one yet and I intend for it to last. I stretched on this one....teacher's salaries don't allow for cars that are very expensive, but I wanted one that I felt would have the potential of lasting a long time. I had a 2000 T/A and loved him, but GM just didn't do those cars right and I finally had to let him go when he developed an expensive electrical issue 3 months after going out of the extended warranty (and 9 months after I paid him off!) I read up on the Goat and had been looking at them since they came out and felt that these had the potential of being a very long lasting car. That and the uniqueness of the car made the decision...along with the fact that I only buy Ponticas and the Goat was the only one that I would buy in '06.
Does anyone know if the rumored 2010 GTO is true? I heard that they were gonna take the new Camaro platform and make a GTO here in the States. That would be great! Let's hope it is true (unless they wanna build a new T/A!!)0
monarofan Posts: 30Re another Goat.
Holden have just released a concept version of a 2 door Commodore )aka G8. No talk of production but that is what they said last time.
I posted a video link on the future GTO dicsussion last week.
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jaromirj68 Posts: 1I just bought a 2006 GTO about 2 mths. ago. It's been back to the dealership once and is getting ready to go again. My problem is it keeps stalling and chugging like it has a fuel pump problem. However the first time it was towed back to dealership computer showed no failure and they said they could not find anything wrong. However it is still dying about five times a drive and it is too the point you can barely keep it running at all. I would appreciate any imformation concerning recalls or possible answers to my problem .0
sat on lot for 2 years and gunk from ancient/untreated gasoline clogged gas filter? i think the computer would notice a misfire/ignition problem, so again consistent with fuel flow issue. it sets the fuel pump to a particular value but it doesn't have a way to know how much fuel the pump actually pumped? if gunk made it past the fuel filter the injectors could require cleaning/replacement. warranty is your friend.
also, i may be way wrong - don't actually let me near a car if i have tools in my hand.0


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