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Sometimes it seems like everyone in the world besides myself is in the ongoing StarCraft 2 multiplayer beta. That's OK, though, because I pretty well suck at playing against humans in real-time strategy games, so up until now I've only been paying scant attention to Blizzard's upcoming blockbuster.
However, a few new tidbits have dropped recently and my head has officially been turned. First, the game finally (after 7 years of development, folks) has a release date: July 27. Second, Blizzard has revealed much more of the single-player campaign, and while the multiplayer has seemed very similar to the original, the campaign appears to be a massive upgrade in terms of available units and types of scenario. Finally, they started showing off challenge mode, which is a series of training missions designed to prepare the player for going up against other people. Roll all this up into one game (and hell, why not throw in a little Facebook while you're at it?) and I'm sooooo there.


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Technology revolution in Vermont
For years now Vermonters have lamented the fact that high-speed Internet service in many parts of the state is so limited, or even nonexistent. Businesses and residents feel left out of the 21st century technology revolution as they're forced to contend with slow-speed dial-up or pay for the high cost of satellite, which still isn't as fast as broadband. It's a trade off that many of us have accepted as part of rural living. We love being surrounded by beautiful mountain views and rolling green hills, and living in small-town communities where everyone knows each other and pitches in to help their friends and neighbors. Big-city folks fed up with the frenzied pace and cinderblock environment of their everyday life flock to Vermont for a taste of what we get to enjoy all year round.
The downside of all that wonderful quaintness, of course, is that it often takes longer for technological advancements to make their way here. And unfortunately that has held us back in many ways, not the least of which is the economic vitality of the communities we love and the exodus of too many of our young people who are so necessary for our future prosperity.
"The world is radically changing economically and I have been concerned for a long time that parts of Vermont (miss out on the benefits of Internet access)," U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said this week. "Some parts get virtually no service at all."
That's about to change thanks to a multi-million dollar project that will make Vermont the envy of the rest of the country — even hightech metropolis areas like New York City.
Some towns in southeastern Vermont will receive the fastest consumer connection to the Internet anywhere in the United States, according to Sanders. Saxtons River, Grafton, Springfield and 11 neighboring towns are getting upgraded to state-of-the-art broadband Internet access at speeds 100 times faster than average and faster than anywhere else in the country except for a Kansas City, Mo., pilot project by Google.
The Springfield project is being built by Springfield-based Vermont Telephone Co. (VTel), which received federal funds to build the fiberoptic network that will provide affordable broadband access throughout its 14-town service area. John Caceres, of VTel marketing, said the project is part of a $116 million Rural Utility Service grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The construction process is expected to be finished by the end of November.
According to Sanders' office, about 1,500 homes and business in the Springfield area already have the new fiber-optic connection, a number VTel expects will double by the end of December. During the remainder of this year and throughout 2014, homes will continue to be linked to that network. The other towns that will benefit from the upgrade are Chester, North Springfield, Bridgewater, Cuttingsville, Wallingford, Hartland, Killington, Pawlet, Danby, Mount Holly and Middletown Springs.
As Sanders said, high-quality Internet access is crucial to Vermont's financial health. He noted that the region once was a national hub for the tool-and-die industry but lost thousands of good-paying jobs as manufacturers shut down. Lack of Internet service has kept Vermont from regaining that economic vitality as the state ranked 35th in the country in terms of Internet access, according to a study conducted a few years ago.
However, Sanders said the state will become No. 1 within a few years, as the new high-speed service will become nearly universal. The senator said Internet access today is what roads were more than 100 years ago. He called the Internet a "21st century road network" and said isolated businesses can expand and reach a wider consumer base.
The improved service also will encourage out-of-state businesses to move to the area and bring with them good-paying jobs, he added. "Vermont may be on the verge of reaping enormous dividends from this historic investment in our future," Sanders said of the new fiber optic service. "The ultra-fast Internet offers the chance to dramatically change how we think about education, health care and business."
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The 15-acre Arroyo Park features two pools (one for laps and one with a fountain and water slide), playing fields, playgrounds and unique sculptures. Most of Davis is adjacent to some part of the Davis Greenbelt, a continuous stretch of parks and bike paths. The Evergreen Greenbelt at Shasta Drive is home to the Tree Davis Memorial-Commemorative Grove.
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Known as a college town above all else, Davis is an ideal community for families, professionals, and retirees. Popular features include the U.C. Davis Arboretum and the Mondavi Center, which hosts many word-class performers. The year-round farmers market is also wildly popular. Held Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings, the market was named among America's Favorite Farmers Market by the American Farmland Trust. It also ranked among USA Today's 10 Best Places to Visit a Farmers Market. A seasonal market is held at Sutter Davis Hospital.
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How do we achieve our beloved thirties, some of us are beginning to see signs of age, especially in our skin. The fine lines, wrinkles and crows' feet begin to materialize. If we had a child and now we have not really to care for our bodies, we notice a certain thickness around the average, not to mention some already sags here and there .
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I'm so damn funny it's a wonder I can be around myself all day without my head exploding.
At any rate, here's my original post featuring a source I've dubbed "Deep Pill" exposing what life is like in the real world of a Walgreens central-fill POWER pharmacy. Tonight we'll let "Deep Pill 2" give us the scoop on conditions at a POWER retail store. I am tired of body and weak of brain this night, so I'm pretty much just gonna run Deep Pill's story unedited. I'm sure you'll agree that story speaks for itself. And that we're all, pharmacists and customers alike, very fucked if Walgreen's gets its way:
I worked for the WAG in AZ for just about 10 years. I have seen many changes... but not as destructive as POWER. Your article about POWER was spot-on. I wanted to share with you some of the problems I experienced with POWER during my tenure at the WAG.
WAG, for those of you not in the know, is Walgreen's stock symbol.
I was the pharmacist at the store-level. Not sure if you were aware of this... but anyone who wanted to remain a staff pharmacist at the store-level when POWER was rolled out, had to re-apply for the job. I kid you not. After working for a solid 8 years, I had to re-apply for my job. For those pharmacists who wanted to transfer to the CPO, they did not have to re-apply-- they were automatically accepted. Then WAG spent a TON of money to hire an independent hiring company to make the determination whether or not we could remain a staff pharmacist at the store level. This whole process was absolutely stressful on all of us. Pharmacy managers who wanted to stay at store level were exempt from re-applying.
I made the cut. Great, right? Not so much. I had to deal with understaffing, angry customers who were misrouted by our "colleagues" at the call center, managing two lanes in the drive-thru, customers at the counter, and customers at the consultation window. I forgot to mention flu shots. Now POWER looks great on paper. All this "free time" to provide MTM services (which all our friends at APhA are probably orgasming to...). This simply wasn't the case. (emphasis mine) Because of the lack of staffing, we had zero time to perform MTM services. Our District Supervisors told us time and time again to call upon the store manager if we needed extra help in the pharmacy. Well, a lot of the store managers were not willing to come back to help us out. They had their own crap to do. I don't blame them... but I digress.
One of the biggest problems I had to deal with was the amount of errors that I caught from our wonderful "colleagues" at the call center (CPO). These errors were careless and made my job a lot harder. Let me give you an example. I was counseling a patient on her Prometh w/ Codeine. The sig: Take one or two TABLETS every 6 hours as needed for cough. Now I know this may not sound like a huge deal... but I have a huge problem letting a prescription leave my pharmacy that has a blatant error. In order to fix this, I had to delete the prescription, find the hard copy, re-scan it so that our wonderful CPO can retype it. Mind you, this patient is in the drive-thru wanting to get home because she's feeling lousy. So the whole verification process at the CPO starts all over again...
The District Supervisors encouraged us to fill out an error form online so they can take proper corrective measures with the people at the CPO. (Drugmonkey to malpractice lawyers; those error forms are no doubt stored somewhere, and subpoenable I bet) I have no idea if that was done or not. I'd still get error after error. Let me say this: I totally understand that technicians make mistakes while performing data entry. What makes me frustrated is when pharmacists at the CPO are under pressure to "make their numbers" and when quantity takes precedence over quality. This isn't totally the pharmacists' fault. I'm sure the corporate 'tards stress the importance of quantity quantity quantity. These verification pharmacists at the CPO did not have to worry about the drive-thru, phones, customers, etc. Their ONLY job is to verify prescriptions without any distractions. One error (which I caught) was Augmentin 500mg Take 4 tablets an hour prior to dental appointment. Of course the prescription image said Amoxicillin. And of course, we at the store-level looked like retards when the patient came in to pick up their medication. We had to take the blame from the patients for the errors that were made at CPO. What makes this so ironic is that the pharmacists at the store-level actually prevented harm to the patient. We were not allowed to talk bad or against the people at the CPO.
Arizona is a mandatory counseling state. I have seen pharmacists who do not counsel. Combine that with the errors at the CPO can lead to a disaster.
I'd be willing to bet a Benjamin that it already has.
And that we're all fucked.
Thank you APhA.
Thank you Boards of Pharmacy.
But the biggest thanks of all..... goes to the Pharmacy America Trusts.
At least they're still a decent place to buy cigarettes.
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OTTAWA - NDP Leader Tom Mulcair made one last appeal Monday to Conservative MPs to vote against their government's controversial overhaul of election rules.
Mulcair said Bill C-23, dubbed the Fair Elections Act, remains a travesty, even though the Harper government has backed off some of the most contentious provisions.
Indeed, he asserted the bill is aimed at ensuring the Conservatives can cheat during elections without getting caught.
With a final vote in the House of Commons scheduled for late Tuesday, he urged 20 Tory MPs, who he said have shown an interest in promoting and protecting democracy in the past, to show the courage of their convictions.
"Our message to the Conservatives who talk a lot about the importance of our democratic institutions is it's time to walk the talk," Mulcair said.
"It's time to show that you actually do care because this bill still contains several things that are profoundly anti-democratic."
MPs were to spend several hours late Monday voting on amendments proposed by the Tory-dominated committee that studied the bill. They include 45 amendments initiated by the government after the original bill was panned by electoral experts in Canada and abroad.
Only a handful of opposition amendments — all minor housekeeping measures — were accepted by the committee. More than 200 substantive opposition amendments were summarily rejected.
Among the rejected amendments was one that would have given the commissioner of elections the power to compel witness testimony during investigations of suspected electoral wrongdoing. Commissioner Yves Cote has long sought such power, the absence of which has stymied some of his investigations.
After a three-year investigation, Cote announced last month that there was no evidence of a nation-wide conspiracy to prevent non-Conservative voters from casting ballots through automated calls that misdirected voters to the wrong polling stations in 2011. Cote's report said the investigation was hampered by political staffers who refused to co-operate.
The Conservatives' refusal to grant Cote the power to compel witness testimony proves C-23 is aimed at ensuring the ruling party can continue using illegal tactics to suppress non-Tory votes, Mulcair charged.
"You see, what they're holding on to is the ability to continue to stonewall, to obfuscate, to use every trick in the book to hide their voter frauds," he said.
He accused the Tories of having "cheated in every election that they won," starting with the in-and-out scheme in 2006 which allowed the party to exceed its spending limit by more than $1 million. The Conservative party and its fundraising arm were convicted in that case.
In the Commons later, Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre countered that Cote's robocall investigation found NDP accusations of systematic vote suppression in 2011 to be false. And he maintained the elections commissioner has the same powers as police to conduct an investigation.
After initially calling the bill "terrific" just the way it was, Poilievre last month proposed 45 amendments. Among other things, he backed off on a provision to entirely eliminate the practice of vouching for electors who don't have the proper identification — a measure experts had said could disenfranchise tens of thousands of Canadians.
The amendment would allow those who have ID but none that proves where they live to have their residency vouched for by another elector.
Poilievre yanked entirely a provision that would have exempted money spent on fundraising among previous donors from a party's campaign spending limit. Experts had complained this measure would create a huge loophole that would allow rich, well established parties like the Conservatives to spend untold millions more during campaigns.
Poilievre also relented on a provision that would have effectively muzzled chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand, allowing him to speak publicly only about the mechanics of how, where and when to vote. That was amended to ensure Mayrand can continue to speak freely but to limit Elections Canada's advertising strictly to the nuts and bolts of voting.
A provision requiring automated calling services to retain their records for one year was changed to three years.
However, Poilievre did not relent on other contentious provisions or omissions, such as the proposed elimination of voter information cards as proof of address.
He rejected suggestions that robocall companies be required to supply phone numbers of voters called and the scripts used. And he rejected a long-standing demand of chief electoral officers past and present for the power to audit parties' books to ensure they're complying with political financing rules.
While the amendments have improved the bill, NDP democratic reform critic Craig Scott said it remains "a travesty."
After the Commons vote Tuesday, the bill will be sent to the Conservative-dominated Senate for its approval.
Mulcair, who has been championing abolition of the upper house, held out little hope that the unelected chamber will propose further changes to the bill.
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Windows is a good product in general, although I disagree with the direction that MS is taking with the UI for desktops in Windows 8. Their interface is nice for touch-enabled devices, but not so nice for the classic keyboard/mouse combination. Performance and stability, however, are fine. I've only managed to crash my Windows 7 desktop a couple times since Windows 7 was released, and some of those times were my own fault.
I use Linux for the freedom and selection that it gives me as a user and as a software developer, not because Windows is an unacceptable choice. If I ever get to the point where all of my games work in either Linux or Wine, I'll probably delete the Windows partition on my main machine, and just keep a VM around for compatibility's sake.


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Solid color performance, poor contrast ratio
The local dimming feature is excellent
I expect it to have better picture quality than the 84-incher.
Will yield an exceptional picture quality.
Design is attractive and the menu system is easy to use
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Pakistan's Musharraf again misses hearing, citing chest pains
After twice defying summonses to appear before a special court formed to hear treason charges against him, former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf apparently suffered heart problems Thursday while en route to the court, forcing the case to be adjourned until Monday.
Musharraf, who's 70, wasn't known previously to have had health problems, and many people greeted the report of his illness with skepticism. Some noted that his motorcade didn't go to Islamabad's modern state hospital, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, about four miles from where he was when he complained of chest pains. Instead, he was taken to the military-controlled Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in the neighboring city of Rawalpindi, a journey that would have taken three times longer to complete.
Political aides to Musharraf said he was bedridden in the intensive care unit and that army physicians had diagnosed him with an irregular heartbeat. They said an angiogram had been ordered to check for any damage to his heart.
Some of Musharraf's many detractors said the hospital trip may have been a ruse to save the former military strongman from trial on charges that could carry the death sentence. Once admitted to the military hospital, Musharraf was in friendly territory for the first time since he was detained in April shortly after returning from nearly five years in exile. In the military-controlled "cantonment" area of Rawalpindi, the military police have the final word on active-duty and retired soldiers.
Musharraf is being tried for imposing a state of emergency in November 2007, during which he suspended the constitution so that he could sack rebellious judges who'd sought to block a decree he'd issued that would have granted him amnesty for crimes committed during his rule as part of a transition to democracy. The government elected not to charge him in other cases, including the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chief of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the country's largest opposition political party, was among the many who were skeptical about Musharraf's sudden ailment.
"I can't believe this coward ever wore the uniform of our brave and courageous armed forces," he tweeted.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif instructed the defense minister, Khawaja Asif, to find out the facts of Musharraf's health.
Musharraf had failed to appear in court on Dec. 24 and on Wednesday after crude, unarmed explosive devices were found along the road he would have had to travel to reach the national library building, where the court is to meet. The discovery of the devices also was greeted with skepticism, with many noting that they'd been planted amid unprecedented security that includes some 200 armed policemen. All local roads that lead to the farmhouse where Musharraf has been detained are regularly combed for security threats.
The devices, which Islamabad police bomb-disposal specialists described as homemade, didn't appear to be the work of the Pakistani Taliban, who are known for their sophistication in explosives, particularly roadside bombs.
The military remains the ultimate arbiter of political power in Pakistan, which last year saw a democratically elected administration complete a scheduled five-year term in office for the first time, and an unprecedented transfer of power after May elections overseen by a neutral caretaker administration.
The court was expected to receive a report on Musharraf's health Monday.


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2013 and Earlier - Toyota Prius Prices Paid and Buying Experiences
Thank you. It is dark gray exterior (or as they call it, "Winter Gray Metallic") and dark gray interior.0
2012 or 2013?0
finally sign contract for 2012 Prius two today, price at 22,400+ttl, Blizzard pearl. I know if i shop around or wait one more month, maybe i could get it for couple of hundreds less, but time is not on my side.
We aslo purchase Toyota's Security System package for $576. Hope we will enjoy the car ride for next few years.
Thanks everyone for help.0
It is a 2012.
I unknownly put the salseman's last name and email address in my previous post and the post was removed. Sorry, first time posting and I was excited to share the price and experience. Here is the Prius III I bought last week:
2012 Prius III with floor and cargo mats. Msrp $26,585.
Color: dark gray (winter gray metallic) exterior and dark gray inside. I.e. no extra cost like special color blizzard pearl.
Got it for $23,909 + tax and license at Capitol Toyota.
Salesman Alexander is fast, no nonsense, treat me with respect and took care of me well.0
tl92647 Posts: 3Hi, looks like you got your Prius already, enjoy! I got it from Toyota of Orange, salesman name was Pete in the internet dept. Older guy, very nice and pleasant and no BS whatsoever. I paid $22,295 for blizzard, any other color you can take off another $400, and I think OTD price was ~ 24,361. Again, stay away from Toyota of Torrance, it was a real nightmare dealing with those guys!0
thong24k Posts: 23Does anyone buy a Prius in NJ? Any suggestion dealers? and how much do you pay for your Prius?0
Thanks for the info. I went to the local dealer and got my Prius II blizzar pearl for $22,400. Seem it's $101 more than what you paid. But the maintainance would be much more convenient for us since the dealer it only 10 mins away.0
vadai Posts: 14I am planning to either buy a Prius 3 or 4 shortly. What are you planning to buy?0
Kirstie_H Posts: 11,077A reporter is looking for people who have shopped or bought either a Prius V or a Ford C-Max hybrid as an "alternative family car." If you'd like to share your experience, please send and e-mail to [email protected] by December 10, 2012.
Need help navigating? [email protected] - or send a private message by clicking on my name.
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milamoya Posts: 1Hope to purchase a 2013 Prius Three in next 30 or so days. Not interested in any extras except automatic start (which I understand is installed by dealer). Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated. I do not need dealer financing, and I live in Ohio between Akron & Cleveland. Thank you.0
nady Posts: 1I just pulled the trigger on a 2012 silver prius 3 from Toyota of Orange, CA on Nov 30th. Robert
was no nonsense and very easy to work with via email. Responsive and open with answers. Total price minus tax title and license, $23,709. He undercut everybody by at least $750 with no bs. Highly recommended! In and out in an hour.
Thank you for all the posts on this site! I saved a bunch when I bought an Odyssey 5 years ago using the same techniques and pricepoints found on this blog! Was a little surprised that they still worked.0
I'm new to this forum so forgive me if this is an old (or ridiculous) question.
I've seen great prices on here for locations in California. I've been quoted $24,500 (costco price) for a Prius 2 here in Albuquerque. Is it worth it to travel somewhere for a lower price? Is there a state or dealership that consistently has lower pricing? How are you guys getting these deals?!
thanks for your help!0
stever Posts: 52,462Bit of a follow-up request, thanks for relying!
A reporter is looking for people who have shopped or own a Prius V If you'd like to share your experience, please send and e-mail to [email protected] by December 10, 2012.0
The owner's manual says not to drive at extremely high speeds or at a constant speed for extended periods within the first 600 miles. So I would be careful on how far you have to drive the new car back.
Instead of going out of state, you can try car buying services from Edmunds, U.S. News and World Report or credit unions also. I tried about 2 and I got different prices, even from the same dealer. And a few dealers contacted me later to offer even lower prices than the ones they gave thru these car buying services! If you are in the market on the last day of the month, you will get sweeter deals.
Best luck!0
Thanks for the replies. I can't get our local dealership below $24,333 which they insist is what they paid for it.
Happy Driving!0
This is a common problem to watch out for. Try not to be too hard on yourself. I think the reason it happens so easily is because Edmunds includes the destination charge in its prices, but dealerships often quote without the destination charge so the price sounds very attractive. Of course, overpaying can be avoided easily by always asking for the price with the destination charge or total charge, without tax, license, and fees. Sounds obvious, doesn't it, but it's a common error that dealerships count on.0
kms3697 Posts: 1What year was your prius? that was 22,295?0
Hi, looking to buy Toyota Prius c II, in WA state area. I am getting $19,865 +tax+doc fee +lic fees. Is this a good offer or not? Any replies are greatly appreciated .0
2012 Prius c II0
slsu Posts: 1Hi Everyone - I received the latest price quote for a 2012 Prius III in Blizzard Pearl with the following options - clear paint protection (which includes door cups, door edge guards, rear bumper protector), carpet mats, and Toyoguard Plus. Total MSRP = $28,321.00. I've gotten the price down to $23,411.00 w/o TTL. This is in the Southeast (NC), and I'm less than thrilled that their doc fees alone are $499! I'm wondering if I should bother bringing it down more to $23K given that it's year-end and that I'm paying w/o financing.0
ewrhkg Posts: 4Hi Slsu,
You might want to look for a prius w/o the clear paint protection as it's almost pure 100% dealer markup. The docs fee sounded high as well. I see most dealers charge $299 (DCH Toyota for example) for their docs fees or computer fees. That you can probably negotiate. Remember you have the upper hand and the dealer is looking to offload the vehicle.0
$499 is a stupid Doc Fee - the most I've ever paid was $199. That is pure profit/gouging. Think of it this way....they could take the price straight to invoice and they still make nearly $1,000 between Holdback and a fat doc fee like that. I think getting them down almost 5 Grand is good, and the clear paint film is actually beneficial, so much so that I spent over $500 (not through the dealer) having the whole front of our black 2012 Prius done. I don't want it sandblasted by 50k miles.....0
laurasf Posts: 10Hi,
I am looking at a 2011 prius 5 45,000 miles, without the collision avoidance system. They want $20,000 plus tax and license. It seems clean and had a good carfax report. Is that a good price?
Also, what if any are the advantages and disadvantages of this 5 vs a 2010 prius 4? If I could find a 2010 4 with a sunroof for 20,000 (plus tax and fees) is that an equivalent deal and a good price?
There are a few listed for around $22,000. Is that about the best I can expect?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me. I'm totally new to prius and confused by the models.0
gr2012 Posts: 4I have been getting quotes around the Bay Area and the best I got for a 2013 Prius 4 is
26888 and out of door (taxes + LIC) of 29600. Any suggestions on this price and also anyone with better pricing?
chicagocar1 Posts: 1I'm looking at at 2012 Prius 3 at Grossinger as well, what was the OTD price you paid? The last I bought a car (in 2003) I was completely unprepared for all the fees after negotiating the actual price of the car!
pragmatist1 Posts: 25I'm thinking of a new prius. Is the 2012 still around, or would I have to go for a 2013? Anyone with recent prices for a II in the Northeastern US? Specifically, NY, CT, MA, NJ, RI.0
I would bet there are new '12s around, best thing to do is just google "your city" and "toyota" and start emailing dealers, asking for their best price on what you want. Why not ask for pricing on '12 and '13 both?0
crazedcommuter Posts: 281I was in central NJ last weekend and 2 dealers had more 12's on the lot than 13's. Prices are not yet at "sale" level to bite yet on those prices unless you urgently need the car. I'm thinking that Toyota will tell the dealers to start dropping prices $2000 to $2500 on leftover 12's during Jan and Feb. Check Fitzmall's prices in Maryland to compare against your dealers.0
semenzato Posts: 41Hi everybody,
my wife and I just bought a 2013 Prius package 3 in Blizzard Pearl for $24,300 + TTL at the Hayward dealer (we live in Oakland, CA). We wrote a check for $26,860. Mats were included. Salesperson's first name is Lamaine.
I picked the dealer using CarWoo and it worked pretty well, I think. I sent email to various local and not-so-local dealers, and also went through the Costco auto purchase program, but all other offers were above $25,000, which I didn't want to pay based on the information from this forum. I didn't negotiate with the Hayward dealer, just took their offer. I suspect lower prices are possible, but likely not by a lot.
Good luck to you all and let me know if you have any questions!0
fabgomez43 Posts: 3Gonna go see this Prius tonight, want your opinion of how good a deal it is:
2010 Prius IV Certified Pre-Owned
16,700 miles
Leather, nav, and solar pkg
Black exterior
1 owner, dealer has service records
Asking $24,900.
Dealer has had vehicle on lot for a month. Apparently it was listed for $26,900 but last week reduced to $24,900. Used Prius usually move quick so I'm having a little pause as to why they haven't sold it. Maybe it's as simple as it was priced too high.
Assuming it checks out, What do you think I should target as a selling price? Is $24,900 already a great price?0


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Hello again from Lilac Lane! I am having a great giveaway right now, so come over and visit me. My daughter has been begging for this for about a year now! Just one jelly roll yields a completely reversible and totally washable car seat cover. This tutorial is adapable to all (I think!) car seat and booster seat covers.
And if your little princess is anything like mine, it's not her favorite place to be for the next four or five years. Why not make one that's just for your child's personality? Plus you can add extra cushion, like my chiropractor suggests. Your child will thank you!
- 1 jelly roll (I used Hunky Dory by Chez Moi)
- 1 twin sized quilt batting or several large batting scraps
- 5 or 6 feet of 1/4 inch elastic
- 8 inch piece of velcro
2.Turn the cover upside down and look at it. It was probably made in several sections, which you will be replicating in your new car seat cover! For example, my booster seat was made in six sections: 1. the seat back, 2. the seat bottom, 3. an apron around the seat front, 4 and 5. two side panels, and 6. a small, long piece around the seat back.
2. Estimate the number of strips you will need for the front of the car seat and then lay them out in a pleasing way. My booster seat needed twelve strips for the seat back, bottom, and side panels and three strips for the apron. Another two strips were used for the part around the seat back, but don't worry about that right now. I wanted to arrange my strips diagonally. If vertical or horizonal is desired, less strips are probably needed.
Sew all these strips together with a quarter inch seam and then press them flat.
3. Place the fabric under your old car seat cover at the angle you wish and roughly cut out each piece, about an inch larger than the piece on all sides. Just leave the apron piece its full length. You will trim it later.
4. Repeat steps two and three with the reverse side fabric. You can make a whole new look this way! If your seat is significantly larger than mine, you may want to use coordinating fabric for this step, as I only had three strips left over.
It's important to cut these out right sides together, so that when we assemble them, they will match up just right.
5. Now it's time to "quilt" our fronts and backs together. Depending on the loft of your batting, determine how many layers to use. I use low loft batting, and using scraps, here is how much I used:
- seat back: 3 layers
- seat bottom: 4 layers
- apron front: 1 layer
- side panels: 1 layer
Take two pieces (such as the two for the seat back) and carefully line them up with the batting sandwiched in the middle of them. I do this by feel, making sure that the edges are right together. Pin all around this and then quilt the layers.
6. You can see how I quilted this with my walking foot, straight down the rows. Of course, on the backside the rows went another direction. This made a nice diamond pattern on the backside. If this bothers you, use your darning foot and free motion quilt it. Or you could tie it with bits of embroidery floss all over. (If so, I would put the knots to the side you think you will use less.)
7.Repeat this with all five pieces. Don't worry about batting in the layer that goes around the quilt back. Likewise, your chair may have more or less pieces than mine. Use your judgement on the amount of batting and where to quilt, always keeping the comfort of the child in mind.
8. Now it's time to make the piece that goes around the outside of the seat back. This will also finish the upper edge of the car seat. I used two full length pieces to make this, but measure the upper back of your car seat. You may have to add more length or take some away. Also, if you use more width (such as three or four pieces wide) it may be possible to make a small casing around the upper edge in which you can run a piece of elastic to hold the top of the cover to the upper lip around the car seat. (I wish I had done this!)
Press the piece in half lengthwise and then press a quarter inch hem line down each side.
9. Carefully place this piece evenly around the top and pin in place, once again feeling both sides to make sure they exactly line up. I find it is easiest to begin the the middle and work down each side so that it's not "wonky." Top stitch closely to the edge all the way around. Check to make sure you caught the fabric on the back. Don't worry too much if you have a little pucker here and there. You will never notice on the finished product.
10. Now sew this seat back piece to the seat bottom. (There will be an unfinished seam on one side.) This is a good time to see how everything's fitting and make adjustments. It's starting to look like a car seat!
11. This is also a good time to feel for those holes which ancor the cover to the seat and mark them.
15. Look at the bottom of the cover and examine your unfinished seams. Trim them to about a quarter inch. Choose strips to cover these seams. Mine required two full strips.
16. Press these strips so that the first crease measures to the center of the unfolded strip. And then fold the other side over on top of it. This will look like a piece of folded bias tape.
17. Topstitch these pieces over both sides of the unfinished seams. This requires just a little planning. First, make sure to do the seams that will leave raw edges toward the middle so that you can enclose those raw edges with later pieces of trim. Second, make sure to sew inside curves before the outside curves. This causes less puckering. And finally, leave a tail of the trim at both ends so that you have plenty to enclose. Oh! And don't forget to firmly hold the cover part so that it remains flat underneath your piece of trim. Make sure you topstitch both edges of your trim pieces.
18. I applied trim in four different places. They blend in so well, that they are hard to see!
19. Choose a few more strips (mine took two) to finish off the seams. Sew the strips together, end to end and then press in half.
20. Sew this on exactly like you would sew on the binding of a quilt. Sew the raw edges of the binding to the raw edges of the cover with the folded edge to the left of your foot. Then pull this edge to the other side of the cover and topstitch along the fold to finish the cover.
21. All that's left is anchoring! My cover was anchored to my seat by little clips, but they never seemed to stay in place. Halfway down the seat is a set of hooks, So I measured from the top of the seat to the hooks, which was 17 inches. Taking that measurement times 2, (34 inches), I cut 33 inches of 1/4 inch elastic. (It's stretchy!)
22. Now measure from the front edge to the middle of the back, in this case 13 inches. Cut two pieces from a strip, both about 15 inches so you have room to overlap them in the middle.
23. Press a quarter inch seam down each side of the strip and both ends and then press it in half. Topstitch along the ends and the open side.
24. Sew the elastic to the middle of the top of the cover at two places. Secure your stitches by going over them several times.
Then sew the two strap pieces to the bottom of the piece you sewed around the seat back. Pull these to the back and pin where they overlap. making them fairly tight, but still making sure your seat back is comfortably against the back of the chair. I then sewed an eight inch piece of velcro to each strap so that it is fully adjustable.
25. Take note of how the bottom of the old seat cover was secured to the chair.
26. Replicate this on your cover with elastic. Make sure to secure it well with lots of stitches and backstitches. I used two 11 inch pieces of elastic.
Time to hit the road! Take care and come visit me at Lilac Lane for a great giveaway.
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NEW ORLEANS, May 13 (UPI) -- The Gulf of Mexico drilling rig explosion that started a massive oil leak came about through a "calamitous series" of failures, a U.S. congressman said.
Officials from several companies with links to the Deepwater Horizon oil platform appeared before congressional committees this week. The platform exploded in flames April 20, killing 11 workers. Since then about 5,000 barrels of oil have been spewing the gulf daily.
U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said some 100,000 pages of documents were submitted by companies, including rig operator BP, platform owner Transocean and contractor Halliburton, and indicate how the tragedy started.
"This catastrophe appears to have been caused by a calamitous series of equipment and operational failures," Waxman said.
Another committee member, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said the blow-out preventer, meant to keep such a disaster from occurring, had a leak in a hydraulic system and a dead battery in a device designed as backup to shut down the oil flow, as well as other issues.
BP, in a release Thursday regarding efforts in the gulf to close off the spewing wellhead, said it was still working to get the blow-out preventer to operate. One possible solution involved injecting "material of varying densities and sizes" into the blow-out preventer to seal the wellhead and pumping other fluids into the well to further halt the oil flow.


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Ready to take the Tri-State area by storm enters Garden State Radio, central Jersey's newest and youngest cover band, playing pop-rock hits from the 80's, 90's and today. Fronted by American Idol's Kelly Caruso, this 5-piece formation is the hottest young outfit around with every member in their early twenties. Collectively, the musicians in Garden State Radio have been featured on American Idol, Fox's Fearless Music, MTV, the Vans Warped Tour, and have been seen touring the country with various major label artists over the past few years.


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Water Who am I? I am tasteless, I am Colourless , I am shapeless, I am Odourless , But without me, there's no life. Can you tell me who m I? Yes! I 'm Water
Introduction to Water :
Introduction to Water Water is the most common substance found on the Earth. About 3/4 th of the Earth is covered with water. Water can be found in ponds, rivers, lakes, oceans and seas.
Three Forms of Water :
Three Forms of Water When cooled When heated When Frozen When heated When water is heated, it into steam changes or water water vapour. This water vapour is a gas, which can be changed into by cooling. When kept in the 'freezer' of a refrigerator, water will change into solid ice. If you keep the ice in a warm place, it will change into water.
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Sources of Water:
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Craven County�s actions to support and protect the Cherry Point air station have been noticed at the Pentagon, leaders of the county�s lobbying efforts say.
Craven County�s actions to support and protect the Cherry Point air station have been noticed at the Pentagon, leaders of the county�s lobbying efforts say.
After two days of Washington meetings last week, Scott Dacey, Craven County Board of Commissioners chairman, and James Norment, a local attorney hired by the county to coordinate lobbying with federal military and civilian leaders, said their meetings with Washington lobbyists Cassidy and Associates and high level Defense Department officials were very productive.
�We have had a federal lobbying effort going on for some time and had been looking for the right time to go to the Pentagon to make sure they understand everything we�re doing from an encroachment standpoint and so forth to protect the base,� Dacey said.
Norment said, �Senior civilians in the Pentagon do notice what we have done for Cherry Point, regarding encroachment and in terms of infrastructure improvements and planning and positioning ourselves for future growth.�
Dacey said �The president includes a BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) in his 2015 budget, and we wanted to talk to high-ranking officers before that time so they could have some discussion somewhat off the record� despite his sense that �no one on the Hill has an appetite for a BRAC now or ever, and there will not be one in 2015.�
But, Norment said, �There is always an opportunity for realignment, for downsizing outside of a BRAC. And we were consistent in conveying the message that where there is opportunity, Cherry Point is happy to take on new missions, whether that is additional jets from jets being relocated or new jets from the assembly line, and the community fully supports that.�
�The same is true for the depot,� he said of Fleet Readiness Center East. �To the extent we can get more paid work, we�ll take what is available.�
Dacey said they touched base with members of North Carolina�s congressional delegation, including Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Kay Hagan, Rep. Walter Jones, Rep. George Holding and staff members from others in the delegation.
Norment said they met with senior civilians who are mostly engaged in readiness and �everyone pointed out that Cherry Point and its training ranges cannot be duplicated anywhere in the country and they think that maintaining them is very important.� The officials noticed and are very appreciative of what Craven County did regarding the wind turbines, which is really one of the biggest current problems they face in doing that.
The Pentagon meetings included those with John B. Johns, assistant secretary of defense for logistics and material readiness, Peter J. Potochney, a high level official with installations and environment, Frank DiGiovanni, training readiness and strategy director, and Roger Natsuhara, assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment.
In remarks to Congress last week, Johns �emphasized that he is not at all optimistic about his ability to plan over next two years because of budget issues. He said he�s trying very hard to figure out how to make the depot system work, but it�s not an all happy and rosy situation,� Norment said.
�We talked about furloughs,� he said, for which the Navy has asked to avoid, and the comptroller has so far balked, but is hoping the initial 21 days, cut now to 14, can be trimmed further or eliminated.
Norment said the meetings included a particularly informative session with Lt. Gen. Robert E. Schmidle Jr., deputy commandant for Navy aviation, which made them feel Cherry Point air station is considered an asset to grow with new construction dollars already in the pipeline for Joint Strike Fighter facilities.
Dacey said, �The meeting with Gen. Schmidle was exceptional in that it gave me as a county commissioner a great deal of confidence that the military is continuing to fulfill a commitment to that base. He shared long term plans for construction to bring that facility to the next stage of being able to support the Joint Strike Fighter. He showed us plans and paperwork that gives me great deal of confidence that the Defense Department is committed to the longevity of that base.�
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"'The Wrecking Crew' documentary by Denny Tedesco is a must see. It opens our eyes to one of the most unique group of musicians in contemporary music. They are the well from which the rest of us have drawn." Leland Sklar.
The Funk Brothers - they were Motown's men, playing the music that made Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, and many others so successful. In fact, many experts consider Motown bassist James Jamerson to have been the greatest session musician of all time. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section were The Swampers mentioned in Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama - providing the soulful and muscular backing for Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, The Staple Singers, and most every other act that mattered out of the American South in that era. The Nashville A-Team owned the country & western charts throughout the 1950s and '60s. The Section defined the singer/songwriter sound out of California in the '70s. MFSB were TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia), creators of the masterful tracks of The Stylistics, The O'Jays, Wilson Pickett, The Spinners, and Teddy Pendergrass.
The Wrecking Crew first became known as the team of musicians utilized by studio prodigy/pop producer Phil Spector. It featured a revolving team of talent that included Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Carol Kaye, Tommy Tedesco, Barney Kessel, Hal Blaine, Howard Roberts, Al Casey, and many others. Whether the Crew's largest legend is The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, or maybe being the musicians who created Spector's famous 'Wall of Sound,' it may safely be said that no other group of musicians ever played on more hit records. To say that they were the major pop/rock music making machine of the American '60s and '70s is an accurate statement.
Leland Sklar adds, "The 'Wrecking Crew' were the guys, just before my run started. I was in a band in 1966, and when we went into the studio it was those guys who played on our record. I sat there looking through the window in United A studio, and was in awe. There was Hal Baine, Jim Gordon, Bobby West, Tommy Tedesco, Mike Deasey, Dennis Budimir, Mike Melvoine, Larry Knechtel, Mike Rubini, and others. Within three years I was working with these guys on a daily basis. They were my mentors. A more fun and giving bunch of characters you could not have asked for."
I'm sure that most of you reading this are aware that Tommy Tedesco's son, Denny, has made a full length documentary called The Wrecking Crew. I've just viewed a private copy, and I can tell you - it is the best film you will ever see about one of the most exciting times in musical history. It stands proudly beside Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the award winning documentary that so wonderfully told the story of Detroit's Funk Brothers, as a musical bookend to that fabulous era of record making. Tedesco has compiled an incredibly loving, and touching tribute to these musicians, their time, and their place in musical history.
Even though I already knew most of the stories the film tells before I ever saw it, I will still be going back and re-watching this documentary for years to come - for the sheer joy that it brings. Tedesco has done a fine, fine job of pacing, mixing interview clips compiled over the years with still photos, and filmed scenes from behind the scenes as the music was made. It is the kind of film that will have you wondering where the last two hours went. As I said, I knew most of these tales previously, but what an enjoyable flight to take, to finally be able to watch the telling of these anecdotes in such an entertaining way. Everyone I have talked to that has seen the film agrees - it is a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking.
Sadly, the days of the session player have largely passed. To a large degree, it died off alongside the record business. In fact, this movie is suffering for a lack of commercial release itself. It's been lauded far and wide, screened for thousands, but due to the huge expense of licensing the amazing music contained within (some 130 song clips), it remains unreleased. It seems that the record companies are so pinched for profits that they can't see the wisdom of foregoing a license fee, in spite of the fact that the movie will surely stir up an avalanche of sales for back catalog when the film does (if it does) get publicly released. If nothing else they should forgive the licensing as a thank you to the musicians involved, letting the players now get the well deserved credit that avoided them in their primes.
Denny Tedesco and his team are now showing the film in private screenings being sponsored around the country in order to raise the funds necessary for the film to be shown to the public.
When I say that the film has garnered great and loving reviews, I kid not. Here's a sampling from some folks you may know:
"A wonderful, touching, and hilarious film about the unsung heroes of so many songs that you carry in your heart." Elvis Costello
"It was incredible! I felt like I was sitting right there with them at that table. It had everything that I wanted to see, and more that I didn't expect. Thank you for making this film!" Peter Frampton
"Denny Tedesco has given us an amazing look at a musical moment in history that everyone who loves rock and roll should see." Christopher Guest (director and star of Spinal Tap, and other great mockumentaries)
"The Wrecking Crew is in the league of the best music documentaries ever made!" Dan Forte, Vintage Guitar Magazine, Dec. 2009
"If I had known they were available, I would have used them on my records! The Wrecking Crew is the best documentary yet about the recording scene. I loved it." Steve Miller (Gangster of Love)
"They were the unsung heroes - if those guys were playing sessions today, they would be known, people would know about them. It would be something more than just session musicians." Cher
"I highly recommend this to everyone to see. It's terrific, hard hitting with the right punches, and filmed as only experienced, and fine filmmakers can do. I know your revealing film will be enjoyed and appreciated by the public for years to come." Carol KayeCarol Kaye? Isn't she on record as being vehemently against this film?
She is, indeed, and as Leland Sklar has remarked about the situation, "I just don't get it!"
I do not doubt that there is a possibility that the name The Wrecking Crew may have come after the fact. And, as the film was made by Tedesco's son, I'm not too shocked if Tommy gets a lot of screen time, but I will add that the elder Mr. Tedesco introduced a great many of us to the realities and the existence of studio/session musicians many years ago in his brilliant columns in Guitar Player Magazine for so many years. Without the Tedescos, we might still be wondering who made all this great music.
Before I actually watched the film, I experienced a degree of trepidation - had young Tedesco went off the reservation, and made something egregious that would in some way shame his proud father's past? I had certainly hoped not. I would be neither the writer I am, nor the musician I am were it not for Tommy Tedesco. His writing inspired me, making me believe that one could communicate honestly, and passionately, even without a degree in English. His guitar playing made me realize the value of not just knowing the notes, but how to make them beautiful. I had the pleasure of meeting Tommy at a well-known music store I helped manage in the late '80s. It was there that I learned the best lesson - that no matter who you were, no matter how far you had risen in your field, you could and should still be above all, a nice guy. Denny has done his father a great honor.
I'll close with a comment from studio guitar legend Mitch Holder that sums things up pretty well. Mitch, of course, nailed it on the first take.
Mitch Holder says, "Denny Tedesco has done a super human job in documenting the great group of studio musicians who carved out so many hits of the '60's. The fact that they all played together in the studio at the same time is almost a thing of the past now. Sure, it happens every now and then but not like it was done back then. The crossfire of ideas that developed recording that way are in evidence on all of those records. Denny's film takes you back to that golden era of recording for all of posterity."
I hope that this fine film makes its way onto your screens - it is truly one of the best music documentaries I have ever seen, and it deserves its audience.
Here is a link to the movie's website. Contribute if you are able, or see if there is a possibility of holding a screening of the film in your neck of the woods: http://wreckingcrew.tv/
Great thanks to Leland Sklar, Denny Tedesco, and those who made my viewing possible.


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Looking for information relating to Ann Jane Garner - born abt 1864 in Lancashire.
Ann married Daniel Donoghue (also listed as O'Donohue) in 1887 in Sacred Heart RC Church, St Helens.In 1895 she remarried - Patrick Smith in Preston, Lancashire.I'm unable to find the actual birth entry for Ann Garner - she's buried in St Helen's Cemetery. Also interred in same grave - Daniel O Donoghue (b: 1889 d: 1911) a son from her first marriage.
Ann and Patrick had 2 children that i am aware of:
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John James (b: 1901, m: 14 Aug 1929 Winifred Coughlin in Melbourne, Vic, Australia, d: 15 Dec 1965 in Melbourne, Vic, Aus). Came to Aus in 1921.John James Smith (known as Jack) is my husband's grand father.
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Looking for information relating to descendents and/or ancestors of Joseph Hughes (born abt 1854) who married Annie Smith (born abt 1859).
Joseph and Annie had nine children:
Frank - b: 1880
Nellie - b: 1881
Joseph - b: 25 March 1883 (Sheffield) d: 6 Dec 1967
Harry - b: 1886
Albert - b: 1888 (Liverpool) resided: 1901 West Derby Union Cottage Home, Fazakerley
Charles - b: 1890 (Lancashire) resided: 1901 West Derby Union Cottage Homes, Fazakerley m: 1909 Frances Jones (Liverpool) d: (Preston)
Sally - b: 1892
Katey - b: 1894 d: 1895 (Nottingham)
Tommy - b: 1895
Joseph followed the following occupations: Adverstising Manager; Acting Manager; Advance Agent; Poster Writer and always attached to a theatre in various cities - Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Liverpool.
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Artist Ewa Tarsia Brings Living Growing Plant Life to the WAG
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is going green this summer thanks to Winnipeg artist Ewa Tarsia. Green … Grass … Dot … will open in mid-July and continue throughout the summer.In conjunction with this exhibition, the Gallery Shop is presenting Dot … Dot … Dot … , a show and sale of Ewa Tarsia's works from July 19 to August 21. There will be a public opening reception from 6 to 9pm, Thursday, July 26.
Designed and executed in collaboration with 5468796 Architecture Inc., the exhibition takes various forms and locations, all reflecting our relationship with the natural world. The ramp in front of the WAG building will be a burst of green balls of foliage while other vibrant plant life will be suspended in the rooftop pool. Recycled material becomes an arboreal extravaganza throughout the Gallery.
"The WAG was drawn to Ewa's proposed exhibition due to its innovative and unexpected uses of the building's spaces and exterior façade," says Chief Curator Helen Delacretaz. "Her juxtaposition of the natural environment against our beautiful Tyndall stone façade makes for interesting comparisons of colour and texture, none the least being the contrast of the living, growing components against the tableau of limestone."
"I live for nature and art," says Tarsia. "All living things radiate beauty, and I only expose it to view. This exhibition started in my garden, where I freed grass to thrive in new places and to shift into new shapes. I let it grow on raindrops, and soon little spheres dotted my garden in unfamiliar spots. The lowliest of plants in most perfect of shapes.
This project encapsulates my commitment to environmentally responsible living and art. The installations invite reflection on our relationship with the natural world, the world which gave us our first breath but which we now smother with poisonous fumes. The exhibition transforms an urban space into a multi-media, multi-dimensional canvas and fills it with vibrant, extravagant, living and imagined plants, trees, and grasses. Grasses of life. It is meant to be provocative, it is meant to be ecological, it is meant to breathe and exude the air of art."
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If two men began a boisterous tug-of-war over the wine list at a posh restaurant, more than a few heads would turn. Yet two six-year-old kids quarreling over a pack of crayons at a diner would hardly seem unusual. It is normal for kindergartners to act out and for grown-ups to show restraint. But social pressure alone cannot explain why adults are so much better at thinking before they act and recognizing how others view them.
According to a new study, the development of social awareness and the introspection it requires may be linked to the development of the default network, a group of regions in the brain that are active when our mind is wandering instead of focused. The research, presented in November at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, suggests this network is not fully coordinated until around the age of 13.
Neuroscientist Stuart Washington of Georgetown University Medical Center asked 42 participants aged six to 27 to stay inside a functional MRI scanner and play a simple game, searching groups of arrows for one pointing in a different direction from the rest. But the researchers were not interested in brain activity during the active task—they wanted to observe the brain during periods of rest between tasks. In the past decade scientists have a discovered that a particular network of brain regions consistently stirs to life whenever people are at wakeful rest inside fMRI machines, not focusing on anything in particular. Studies have tied this default network to daydreaming [see "Living in a Dream World"], introspection, moral reasoning, thinking of the future and the ability to see the world through others' eyes.
When Washington compared the activity of the default network in people of different ages, he found a clear pattern. The older the participant, the more synchronized the interaction of the default network's five primary nodes, which are spread throughout the brain. Children aged six to nine showed hardly any synchronized communication in the default network. But by 13 years of age, the participants began to demonstrate neural coordination typical of an adult.
"Our results imply that children are less able than teens and adults to comprehend the consequences of their actions, think about future events or realistically gauge how other people view their actions," Washington explains. "Since these behavioral attributes are not fully formed in children, they are more likely to make rash decisions that do not account for consequences or other people's perceptions." So the next time you are stuck in earshot of squabbling youngsters, try to pardon their lack of consideration. They probably have not yet been able to imagine themselves as others see them.


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Barry boasts City success
Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry will be aiming to extend Liverpool's six-year trophy drought by helping his side overturn their 1-0 first leg deficit in tonight's Carling Cup semi-final second leg clash at Anfield.
The 30-year-old England international returns to a club he almost joined back in 2008, after being identified by former Reds boss Rafa Benitez as his chosen replacement for the departing Xabi Alonso.
However, Liverpool fans reacted angrily to those transfer plans, and after a bout of terrace abuse, Barry's Merseyside move was eventually scuppered. A year later he made his switch to the Etihad Stadium, and has never looked back since.
"I remember when the transfer saga was going on, I was watching a Liverpool friendly [against Lazio at Anfield] and the home fans were singing, 'You can stick your Gareth Barry up your ----'," he recalled in the Daily Telegraph. "I was at home, but I could just hear it vaguely. That might have got into my head a little bit.
"Liverpool were still interested when I decided to join City [in 2009]. I thought about it really hard, but the things the club were talking about, I felt City were on the up, whereas Liverpool were maybe finding it a bit tougher than City.
"It wasn't an easy decision. I was signing [for City] on promises being made really and, in football, promises get made all the time.
"They can backfire and people can end up saying they made the wrong decision. But sitting here now, I think it has been a very good decision."
Barry was a key figure as City ended their 35-year wait for a major trophy by winning the FA Cup last season, and as attention now turns to tonight's encounter, he is confident of helping the club to further success this campaign.
"Four years on, people say to me that I've made the right decision joining City," he added. "Obviously Liverpool is a fantastic club with a great following but I won the FA Cup last year and I've played in the Champions League this season.
"We were very disappointed with our performance at home but we're good enough to go to Anfield and turn it round.
"With us being a goal behind and playing away from home, we can go there and play good football and maybe the pressure will be on them a little bit more.
"It will definitely help the confidence inside the club if we win a cup midway through the season. We're desperate to win the League Cup."News Now - Sport News


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A View From Studio 3: Madson takes grueling road back
He remembers the intensity and the emotional exhaustion of losing a five-game National League Division Series to the Cardinals. His legs felt like Jello. His tongue was hanging out. Ryan Madson had just thrown the final pitch of the season for the Phillies. It was October 7, 2011.
Madson hasn't appeared in the Majors since that day.
He remembers the intensity and the emotional exhaustion of losing a five-game National League Division Series to the Cardinals. His legs felt like Jello. His tongue was hanging out. Ryan Madson had just thrown the final pitch of the season for the Phillies. It was October 7, 2011.
Madson hasn't appeared in the Majors since that day.
The rigors of a long, grueling and dramatic campaign had taken their toll. He was exhausted. But other than experiencing "dead arm" from fatigue, the right-hander was healthy. While the 2011 season ended in bitter disappointment, the Phillies closer was a few weeks away, it seemed, from cashing in on the free-agent market as a premier closer.
Then, things went terribly wrong.
"I've learned what the bottom is, and I'm not scared of it." Madson told me this week. "It was the bottom of not only my career, but my life."
Two years after Madson -- and much of the baseball world -- thought his agent, Scott Boras, had a multiyear contract in place to remain in Philadelphia, the deal fell apart. For Madson, it was shocking and confusing.
"Out of the blue [the deal] blew up," Madson said. "I wanted answers, but I was getting two different stories. I never got to the bottom of exactly what happened."
Madson doesn't hold any grudges. "It wasn't meant to be," he said.
The nightmare was just beginning. Madson wound up with a one-year contract to pitch for the Reds. But before he threw a regular-season pitch for Cincinnati, his elbow blew out. It happened during a Spring Training bullpen session, when his ulnar collateral ligament was torn completely off the bone.
Tommy John surgery followed. So did the realization that no player is guaranteed a smooth and successful recovery. Madson's elbow had miles on it, a decade's worth of Major League miles. He needed time to get back. Yet hard work and patience was not enough.
"I had so much hands-on treatment," Madson said. "It wasn't anybody's fault or lack of trying."
After the 2012 season, the Los Angeles Angels gave Madson a contract. But he never played in a single game for the Halos. His disappointment was sky high. In August, the Angels cut him loose.
Many pitchers are back to dominating big leagues hitters 18 months after surgery, but Madson was still looking for answers and healing. The famous Dr. James Andrews got involved in the recovery. The MRI was clean. More time, patience and a platelet rich plasma injection were prescribed.
Next stop: Arizona. Madson set off for a training facility where he aggressively rehabbed for four months. In the process, he's added strength and 20 pounds to a once-lanky 6-foot-6 frame. In addition to improving his physical state, he started to believe that he would once again pitch in the big leagues.
"I remember sitting down, there was nobody around," Madson said. "I just sat there and made the decision: Whatever anyone wants me to do, I'll do it. I'm not going to skimp it. That way, I can tell my kids I did everything I could to continue."
While setting an example for his children, Madson was also testing his inner strength. He called it a "spiritual moment."
Madson's next big moment will likely take place in late January or early February when he throws off of a mound and truly tests his elbow at full strength. Right now, he's limited to 10-minute throwing sessions at a distance of 90 feet. He does this four days a week. Major League teams have watched these sessions and have shown interest in his services. The next few months will be telling.
There are a couple of goals on the docket. One is to join an established big league bullpen in which the roles are clearly defined. The other is to avoid a repeat performance of the Angels situation in which a team expected a contribution and got nothing in return.
In a worst-case scenario, Madson won't make it back to competing at the highest level -- a possibility he has considered. He even joked that he's "had a lot of time to think about it." If that reality comes to pass, his plan is clearly defined. In fact, Madson has a jump-start on a possible second career.
The former World Series champion teaches kids in his hometown of Temecula, Calif. He teaches them how to pitch. And how to deal with life's ups and downs.
He's a perfect teacher, for an imperfect situation.
Matt Yallof is the co-host of The Rundown on MLB Network from 2-4 p.m. ET. Follow him on twitter @mattyallofmlb.


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I am having a csv file naming
List.csv in following format:
Location,IP Address,Host Name,Domain,Domain Name, User Name,Manufacturer,Model,System Type, Serial Number, Operating System,RAM (GB),Processor Type,Processor Frequency
H1,xx.xx.xx.xx,PC1,domain.com,DOMAIN,User1,LENOVO,4089AZ8,X86-based PC,L90RA96,Microsoft Windows 7 Professional ,2,Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5800,3.20GHz
H3,xx.xx.xx.xx,PC2,domain.com,DOMAIN,User2,LENOVO,4089AZ8,X86-based PC,L906W3P,Microsoft Windows 7 Professional ,2,Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5800,3.20GHz
H2,xx.xx.xx.xx,PC3,domain.com,DOMAIN,User3,LENOVO,4089A76,X86-based PC,L929410,Microsoft Windows 7 Professional ,2,Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5400,2.70GHz
H2,xx.xx.xx.xx,PC4,domain.com,DOMAIN,User4,Hewlett-Packard,Z800,x64-based PC,SGH007QT16,Microsoft Windows 7 Professional ,12,Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W5590,3.33GHz
If you look at the
MODEL column, it is bearing some values which do not interpret the name of the model. I have created another file,
model-list.csv, which contains these values and their corresponding model names. It looks something like :
Manufacturer,Value,Model Name
Lenovo, 4089AZ8, ThinkCentre
Lenovo, 4089A76, ThinkCentre
HP, Z800, HP Z800 Workstation
I want the values in the
List.csv file to be replaced by the corresponding model name present in
model-list.csv. As there are 2900+ items in the
List.csv and about 150 items in
model-list.csv file, I was planning to achieve this using a bash script, which is as follows:
rm -f "$outfile" "$stagingfile"
while read line
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ModelName=`echo "$line"|awk -F',' '{print $3}'`
cat "$file1"|grep ",$ModelNo," > "$stagingfile"
if [ -s "$stagingfile" ]
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NewLine=`echo "$line1"|sed "s/,${ModelNo},/,${ModelName},/g"`
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When above script is executed, the
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SEOUL — North Korea said today it will scrap the armistice signed in 1953 that ended a three-year conflict with rival South Korea if the South and the United States continue with two-month long annual military drills.
The threat was attributed by the KCNA news agency to the Korean People's Army Supreme Command spokesman and raises the level of bellicose rhetoric from the North, which faces additional international sanctions after its nuclear test last month.
It has already warned of "destruction" of the South if it goes ahead with the military exercises with the United States.
The two Koreas are still technically still at war after the 1950-53 civil war ended in a truce rather than a treaty. (Reuters)