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Bin consoles are great solutions for rooms with more than one child. These are essentially groups of stacked cubes with pullout baskets. The cubes can be self-standing or mounted on a wall — but it's always better to keep things low so small children can get to what they need without being tempted to climb. Toys in consoles can be segregated by type or by child. Some consoles come with simple transparent boxes that let the child see what's inside. Other units use wicker or wood baskets that can be labeled with words, a picture, or an icon (for example, twist-tying a small stuffed bunny to the front of a basket containing stuffed animals). Choose a stylish, well-made bin console and it will serve your child from the crib through college.
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San Francisco spent this week saying goodbye to its beloved foggy stadium, Candlestick Park. Amidst the farewells, the Guardian spotted a post from sports blog Deadspin, which reprinted one of our articles from 1968 titled, "Before We Build Another Stadium… The Candlestick Swindle."
When we saw the post, we started thumbing through our archives looking for the article. Though Deadspin said it was from 1972, we found it in Vol. 2, Issue no. 10, May 14, 1968, it's a down and dirty tale of intimidation, bypassing voters through dummy corporations, profiteering, and racism. Candlestick has a colorful history, to say the least.
The author, Burton H. Wolfe (Burton, not "Mr. Wolfe," he wrote via email), gave us permission to re-publish it in full here. Just for fun, we're also embedding the original issue as a PDF, which can be download and printed. Looking through the issue, it's heartening (and disheartening) how much, and how little, changes.
The Candlestick Swindle
It all began early in 1953. Mayor Elmer Robinson's administration—and local businessmen—decided to import big league baseball for San Francisco's economic and recreational benefit. A downtown stadium was adequate for San Francisco's AAA minor league club, the Seals, but not for major league fare.
Hence, Robinson asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a $5 million bond proposition to construct a new stadium. Among the supervisors in approval: George Christopher, soon to become mayor; Gene McAteer, headed for the state senate; Francis McCarty, a future judge; Harold Dobbs, restaurateur and budding Republican candidate for mayor, and John Jay Ferdon, future district attorney.
In July of that same year, 1953, a local multi-millionaire contractor named Charles Harney purchased 65 acres of land at Candlestick Point from the city of San Francisco for $2,100 an acre.
Next year, a band of publicists headed by Curley Grieve, S.F. Examiner sports editor, beat the drums and called the natives to pass this bond issue proposition:
To incur a bonded indebtedness in the sum of $5 million for the acquisition, construction and completion of buildings, lands and other works and properties to be used for baseball, football, other sports, dramatic productions and other lawful uses as a recreation center.
Major league baseball, they proclaimed, would bring untold wealth to the city for a mere $5 million, a price that would be returned many times. After voters approved this in November, 1954, the search began for a site. If there were any doubts the stadium would cost more than $5 million, they were dispelled in a personal meeting between Robinson's successor, Mayor Christopher, and the owner of the New York Giants, Horace Stoneham.
In April, 1957, Christopher and McCarty flew to New York to talk Stoneham into bringing the Giants to San Francisco. The Giants were losing money in New York, and scouting the country for a new home base.
To prove San Francisco's support for professional baseball, Christopher waved the $5 million stadium bond issue at Stoneham. According to testimony reported by the 1968 grand jury investigation, Stoneham replied contemptuously:
Any figure other than 10 or 11 million dollars shouldn't even be discussed because there would be no possibility or probability of a major club moving to that particular community.
Back in San Francisco, Christopher reported the need for more money to other city leaders and businessmen. Since the proposition suddenly to double the original bond issue might run into trouble with the voters, they decided to create a non-profit corporation called Stadium, Inc., as a legal arm of the city.
Bypassing the Voters
Operating through this dummy corporation, the Christopher administration could bypass the voters to raise more money.
Harney and two of his employees were selected as the first board of directors of Stadium, Inc. Christopher told Harney that he would be the contractor to build the new stadium, and his 41 acres of Candlestick land would be the heart of the 77-acre location.
In 1957, Harney sold back 41 acres of the parcel he had purchased from the city in 1953 at $2,100 an acre. The 1957 price the city paid to Harney for its own former land was $65,853 an acre. That's a crisp total of $2.7 million.
The city's Real Estate Department approved the deal even though other land adjacent to Harney's was bought at about the same time for just $6,540 an acre. Harney made a profit of $2.6 million on the four-year land ownership switch.
Not so, Christopher and Harney later contended. Harney had graded and filled the land, and so naturally he was paid for his improvements. One fact raised doubts about that explanation: a $7 million fee awarded to Harney to construct the new stadium included $2 million for stadium construction, $2 million for grading and filling and $2.7 million for real estate.
Had it not been for the creation of Stadium, Inc., the Christopher administration would have been required to hold open, competitive bidding for the contract, and voters would have seen the price tags.
By operating through Stadium, Inc., Christopher was able to evade the city charter and arrange the contract in a privately negotiated deal.
Through the same apparatus, his administration was able to float another $5.5 million bond issue without voter approval. The interest rate on these bonds was set at 5% whereas the interest on the original $5 million bond issue was only 2.4%, a difference that would eventually cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Evading an Investigation
In February, 1958, Harney and his employees were removed from the board of Stadium, Inc., after, as the grand jury report later pointed out, "Three influential men then were substituted to represent the city's interest—Alan K. Brown, W.P. Fuller Brawne and Frederic P. Whitman."
The maneuver came too late to prevent Henry E. North from instigating a Grand Jury investigation into the strange transactions.
North, like Christopher, was a Republican and a conservative member of the San Francisco business community. Until his retirement, at 70, he had been executive vice-president of one of the largest property owners in the city: the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He had a strong sense of civic duty, however, and the Candlestick Park deal smelled to him of garbage.
The report North issued, as the result of the Grand Jury investigation, was potential dynamite. It showed that, shortly before the city purchased Harney's land at $65,853 an acre, adjacent pieces of tideland were sold by the city for less that $4,000 an acre. It did not make sense that Harney's land, partly under water, should have brought $61,000 more from city coffers.
On Dec. 2, 1958, the San Francisco Chronicle carried partial coverage of the Grand Jury report. On page 5, the year Harney purchased the city land was stated as 1933 rather than 1953. Of course, the 20-year difference would provide a reason for the tremendous increase in value, because the initial purchase price would have been at depression levels.
Undoubtedly, it was a typographical error. And no doubt it was by unintentional omission that other salient features of the Grand Jury report were omitted altogether and never printed by the Chronicle or any other major newspaper.
North charged that all bond issues negotiated by Stadium, Inc. were illegal evasions of the city charter. Bond payments had to be made from city funds, not the dummy nonprofit corporation, and so the whole deal amounted to legal subterfuge; a way to make taxpayers foot the bill without letting them vote on it.
The report, drafted by North and signed by 18 other citizens, estimated annual payments on the bonds of $990,000 for the first 15 years of the debt period. Against that, the city was to draw $225,000 a year in rent from the Giants and $225,000 a year from advertising and parking revenues, leaving a balance of $640,000 to be paid annually from taxes or city funds. It was estimated that the city could make up the balance by commanding the juicy television rights; instead, Christopher arranged for rights to go exclusively to the Giants.
Altogether, it was a marvelous deal for the Giants. In their last New York season, attendance at the Polo Grounds plummeted to 684,000. The club had gone broke and it was almost impossible to give away its stock. After the Giants first season in San Francisco in 1958, attendance tripled over its last year in New York, and their stock soared to $1,000 a share. In terms of revenue, the increase in gate receipts alone meant $3 million the first year.
While the Giants were reaping enormous profits at taxpayers expense, City Hall and the local newspapers were trying to make it appear that San Francisco, too, was earning money. The News-Call Bulletin, the now defunct Hearst paper, once stated that when all returns are in, the season just ended (1960) will have yielded the city about $530,000. The fact was that the sole revenue to the city was $50,000 received to maintain buildings and grounds.
The other Hearst paper, the Examiner, stated, on the other hand: City Hall officials said $375,000 of the revenue figure will be used to pay the annual cost of the city's $5 million bond issue. The Chronicle published this figure: Of the remaining $527,000, the first $375,000 must go toward payment of the city's $5 million stadium bond issue.
The fact was that all revenues from the ball park and its parking lot had to be used to pay off the $5.5 million worth of bonds issued by Stadium, Inc., with the exception of the $50,000 maintenance income. The other $5 million worth, issued by the city, had to be paid off through real and personal or property taxes collected by the city.
The result: a projected loss, not profit, of $640,000 the city must pay from taxes or other general city revenues (according to the Grand Jury report), and a loss this year of at least $360,000 (according to figures supplied to The Guardian by the city controller's office and Mike Barrett, the Bank of America executive who handles Stadium, Inc.'s trustee account.)
Some annual loss on Candlestick Park will continue until 1993, when the stadium will finally be free of debt and owned completely by the city—unless, it is torn down before then or reconstructed, which will add more debt.
There was another interesting development at Candlestick: Stevens California Enterprises, which got the food and beverage concession at the ball park, bought all its milk until two seasons ago from Christopher's milk company, Christopher Dairy Farms. The Borden Co. now has the lucrative contract.
Even though City Hall and the newspapers were misstating facts about the Candlestick story, San Francisco restaurateurs, hotel owners and shopkeepers at least began to realize that they were not making any money from the ball park, as promised by the ballyhooers. Only the Giants, Harney, and Christopher were making money. The Giants were attracting few additional tourists to San Francisco, and area fans who journeyed to isolated Candlestick Point, several miles away, did not stop to patronize downtown establishments. Some downtown business men were angry, and if North's crusade were given time and publicity, they might cause an uncomfortable controversy.
Christopher sent emissaries to North, but he would not be wooed or pressured from his stand. To the contrary, he made even more vigorous attacks on Christopher and the ball park deal. The lives of future generations had been mortgaged by this shoddy piece of business, he maintained. Christopher was diverting city funds from various departments: $1.4 million from street improvement bonds, $1.2 million from state gasoline taxes given to the city for road improvements, $1.5 million from sewer bonds for services to the Giants ball park.
A Hidden Payoff?
Already the cost was $15 million, and it might exceed $20 million when various exits, entrances, widened access streets and the like were built to handle the anticipated large crowds. Privately, North informed civic and business leaders that there was an underhanded payoff in the deal, and he intended to expose it.
Christopher reacted viscerally to North's charges. With newspapermen present, he asserted North was drunk, incoherent, and fixable. The description was published in the newspapers.
North went to Nate Cohn, one of the foremost criminal lawyers in California, and they filed a $2 million libel suit against Christopher. In a pre-trial hearing, Christopher's attorney filed a thick brief with 45 motions for dismissal of the suit, hoping to tie up the case inextricably. In just an hour and a half, Superior Court judge Preston Devine threw out all 45 motions, indicating clearly that Cohn and North had a good case.
Breaking Down North
Christopher's friends in the business community went to work on North. The publisher of one of the three daily newspapers, North told me, called on him and said, "Henry, why don't you play ball? You're giving the city a bad name, stirring things up like this."
At the Pacific Union Club across the street from the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill, where North was already in disfavor for bringing Jewish guests despite the no-Jews-allowed policy, fellow Republican business executives started a snub-North routine. One day, for example, an old business friend greeted North:
"Say, Henry, I see in the papers there's some fellow named Henry North filing a suit against the mayor and stirring things up. Must be another Henry North in this town, huh?"
"No, that's me," North told him.
"Is that so?" the old friend said. He turned his back on North and never spoke to him again.
I talked to North several times during the siege because I was publishing articles about Candlestick Park in my magazine, The Californian (now defunct). In those days he was full of fight, willing to take on City Hall and the entire business establishment even if it meant losing every friend he had. He promised to tell me the names of the men involved in the payoff, and he excoriated Christopher.
"You know what I call men like George Christopher? Black Republicans. Men who never did anything in their lives for the good of the common people. They've never realized that this country as a whole is no better off than the great masses of its people."
The Fateful Fifth
Then they went to work on his wife. Unlike Henry, she was not involved in politics and her life revolved around her friends and social affairs. Her friends snubbed her and she no longer received invitations. She cried, she pleaded, she begged Henry to call off the ball park investigation and the lawsuit, when that did not move him, she threatened him with divorce. Henry began hitting the bottle.
On June 2, 1960, shortly after I published a detailed article by Lewis Lindsay called "The Giants Ball Park: A $15 Million Swindle," the press broke the story that North had buried the hatchet with Christopher. In its first edition, the Chronicle correctly reported that North and Christopher had drunk a fifth and a half of Scotch together at Christopher's home, and praised each other for publication. "He's a great mayor," North said—and agreed that legal entanglements were finished. The Chronicle dropped mention of the Scotch in later editions that went to most of its readers.
Cohn was outraged. "We had this suit won," he told me. "North assured me he was going through with this no matter what happened. But they got to him through his wife, the poor old bastard. You see how they do things in this city? It's so goddamned rotten you can't believe it."
When I called on North again, I found a complete transformation in his appearance. The look of a peppery fighter with ruddy cheeks had given way to a physical wreck; a baggy-eyed, tired, meek looking man weighed down by defeat.
The saddest part of the story was that his wife divorced him anyway. Not long afterward, North died of a heart attack. Harney died in December, 1962.
With North out of the way, with the daily newspapers blacking out the most important parts of the Candlestick Park story, with The Californian reaching only a few thousand citizens, it looked as though the scandal would never be investigated. In an effort to stir up something, I personally appeared before the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors and urged their help. One committee member, Al Zirpoli, had said before that he would favor an investigation.
No committee member challenged any facts I presented. When I finished, John Jay Ferdon, Committee Chairman, said only that he would not favor an investigation. He did not say why. (Six years later, when he had become District Attorney, he told me I was right about Candlestick.) Zirpoli, later to become a federal judge and the judge to hear draft resistance cases, said, "I agree with what Mr. Ferdon says." He suggested, "If there is wrongdoing, your best course of action is a taxpayers' suit."
I went looking for wealthy liberals to finance a taxpayers suit, but none were in season. Cohn would have taken the suit if I could have found somebody to pay him for his time. All that he could do now was take me to business friends and introduce me.
The typical reaction came from Sam Cohen, owner of a plush restaurant on Maiden Lane said:
"Sorry, Burton, I can't get involved. Do you know what Christopher can do to me with his power at City Hall? A Health Department inspector can find something wrong with this restaurant any time he wants. A door is too narrow, my stove does not meet regulations, anything to run me out of business. That's how they do it. You can't fight them."
Since nobody in the city would fight, I asked Sen. Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Antitrust and Monopoly Sub-Committee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, to investigate. He replied: "As interesting as a study of how the San Francisco ball park deal took place would be, I do not conclude that it is a matter that should be gone into on the federal level. I think that it is entirely a local or state matter, and that the Subcommittee would perhaps be criticized if it moved into this area."
Now Another Ballpark
Here we are eight years later, with a Candlestick Park that enrages so many people that a new mayor, Joe Alioto, wants to scrap it for a new stadium. His announced philosophy is that great public projects should not be waylaid just because all of the people aren't getting enough spaghetti and zucchini. And no doubt many San Franciscans believe that a ball park is a great public project, greater than a school, housing complex or a modern transportation system. That attitude could be the most tragic part of this story.

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - If you want to protect your skin, you might want to add a few foods to your menu.
You might be surprised what you can do to fight cancer with what you do and what you eat.
Ask just about any plastic surgeon about how much of their business is due to people's beach time and sun time and they'll tell you it's a good amount.
"A lot of our business comes from photoaging or sun damage over the years," said Dr. Jon Mendelsohn.
It's one of the reasons that Dr. Jon Mendelsohn, a facial plastic surgeon, suggests you take steps to protect yourself.
"Wear your sunscreen, wear your hat, and sunglasses, stay hydrated," said Dr. Jon Mendelsohn.
Even with all that, the sun's powerful rays can raise skin cancer risk.
There's a couple things to know about sunlight on a cloudy day: You can still have it pass through to your skin, so there's no substitute for sunblock or sunscreen but there are a few things you might be able to do to sort of protect your skin from the inside out.
It's all because a recent summary report in eating well found a few foods in your diet might work to place a natural sunscreen in your body.
For example, a British study found people who ate a quarter cup of tomatoes in sauce for 12 weeks were less susceptible to sunburn.
Tomatoes have carotenoids in the red color, researchers speculate these may be skin friendly compounds.
Vitamin C, found in citrus fruits, berries and bell peppers may also help you eat to fight skin cancer.
About three servings of a food with Vitamin C appears to boost activity needed for skin protection, according to an eating well report.
Finally, several studies have found caffeine may help boost your skin against damage.
A study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found four cups a day might help fight melanoma.
Coffee has polyphenols, which is another natural compound which may hold hidden health benefits.
Now you have to eat these as a regular part of your diet, not just in the sunny season.


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Kerry says window for Mideast peace is 2 years
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday underlined the difficulty he'll face in trying to chart a path toward Mideast peace, urging patience on the details of any two-state plan while stressing that Israel and the Palestinians might only have two years left for a deal.
He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he was committed to breaking a logjam that includes nearly no Israeli-Palestinian talks in the past 4 1/2 years and no solution in sight after more than six decades of conflict. But Kerry, who visited Jerusalem and the West Bank last week, said he sensed a "seriousness of purpose" in his meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He said the objective now is translating that seriousness into quick action.
The former Massachusetts senator has put new attention on restarting the peace process after his predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, did not.
"I can guarantee you that I am committed to this because I believe the window for a two-state solution is shutting," Kerry told lawmakers. "I think we have some period of time -- a year to year-and-a-half to two years, or it's over."
"Everybody I talk to in the region and all of the supporters globally who care ... want us to move forward on a peace effort," he added. "They're all worried about the timing here. So there's an urgency to this, in my mind, and I intend on behalf of the president's instructions to honor that urgency and see what we can do to move forward."
Kerry didn't spell out why he believes so little time is left for an agreement that would establish an independent Palestine alongside a Jewish state recognized by its neighbors.
But these factors are likely to only make peace more difficult in the coming years, including the growing numbers and political strength of Israel's settlers.
On his trip to the region last week, Kerry sought to gauge whether Israeli and Palestinian leaders were ready to make the compromises needed for any serious peace process to be restarted. There has been little movement in recent years on questions such as final borders, security arrangements and the status of east Jerusalem, which both sides claim for their capitals.
Conscious of the failures of Democratic and Republican administrations past, Kerry has tried to avoid setting any benchmarks for progress or deadlines for steps such as the resumption of direct talks. He told lawmakers he would not lay out a "schedule or define the process, because we're in the process of working that out with the critical parties."
"We have to find an equation here where we can dispel these decades of distrust," Kerry said. "We're trying to undo years of failure. And I think one can. But it has got to go carefully, step by step."
Speaking about Syria, Kerry indicated no changes coming in the Obama administration's strategy of nonlethal assistance for rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
Kerry, who is meeting U.S. allies in Istanbul this weekend, noted that more countries are moving toward providing weapons but that the U.S. was among those which "have chosen a different path of providing different kinds of assistance."
Several U.S. allies in Europe, notably Britain and France, are pushing for the European Union to amend its arms embargo against Syria to allow weapons transfers to the rebels. The embargo will lapse unless it is renewed or modified by May 30.
Diplomats who favor the change say no decision on actually supplying weapons to the rebels has been made but they argue that just revising the embargo to allow for the possibility will pressure Assad to step aside.
On Venezuela, Kerry refused to endorse the chosen presidential successor of the late Hugo Chavez as the winner of Sunday's close election. Kerry was asked whether he recognized President-elect Nicolas Maduro, but the secretary of state wouldn't say yes or no. Kerry backed opposition candidate Henrique Capriles' call for a recount.
Having just returned Monday from a 10-day trip that ended with meetings in Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo, Kerry said the administration was determined not to repeat old mistakes when it comes to dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, whether that includes promising food aid or making confidence-building agreements that the North has regularly broken.
The goal of the U.S. and all its partners is denuclearization, he stressed. China, the country with the greatest influence on North Korea, is on board even if it remains wary of putting too much pressure on its neighbor out of fear it might collapse.
Kerry also told lawmakers that the administration is making progress in its effort to hold people accountable for the Sept. 11 assault on a U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.
Several suspects have been identified as culpable in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, he said, and the U.S. is working through the evidence and making its case.
More than seven months after the attack, no one has been brought to justice.


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So right now I am basically making two styles of bags... appliqued purses/totes & then fabric grocery bags, here are some pictures of each:
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A Sport/Utility For Less Than 20 Grand!
Remember when 20 grand was a lot of money? All right, it still is, but if you're 4x4 shopping, you know there's not much under that amount. Then comes the '98 Kia Sportage.
Surely we jest, you must be thinking. But we mean it-this is a sport/ute for near-nada. With air conditioning? Check. A CD player? Check. A theft-deterrent system, four-wheel drive, a roof rack, and power everything? Check, check, check, and check. That's a whole new kind of sticker shock, ain't it?
The Kia Sportage 4x4 may be one of the best-kept secrets around. Introduced in 1995, it has since been racking up oodles of best-buy awards as well as winning a Class 3 championship in the SCORE Desert Championship Series in 1997.
New for this year is an updated body style for both the interior and exterior; dual airbags; and upgrades to existing features, including the drivetrain and the engine. The Sportage comes in two trim levels: The Sportage and the Sportage EX. The Sportage carries a list price of $16,395, and the base price of the EX is $18,495. The optioned Sportage we road-tested had an MSRP of $18,529.


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Religiosity as indicator of education system performance
Posted by Dave Bath on 2012-04-29
Increase analytical thinking in individuals and religious belief drops – so at a group level, increasing popularity of the more credulous sects suggests our education system is failing. But don't expect that indicator of education system performance to be used by politicians.
Scientific American has an interesting article "Losing Your Religion: Analytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief" (2012-04-26) – which seems pretty obvious, but the experiments looked at how analytical training attacks the cancer of religious thinking at the level of the individual.
This is trickier than tracking it at the level of a society, but I think the results would hold at the group level, with lower sky-fairy fandom the result of a better education system.
While forcing people to actually think about statements of sky fairies, by presenting the questions in a difficult-to-read typeface, or even, just getting them to think about thinking in general, by showing them either Rodin's "The Thinker" versus a generic statue (in this case, a classical Greek discus thrower), made mild believers answer as mild unbelievers.
In the "Big Picture" then, an education system that makes people more analytical and reflective, surely part of what a humane education system should be doing (rather than a system designed to churn out good little economic production units), should make people less religious.
Despite higher retention rates at all levels, religiosity, either by looking at attendence at more charismatic churches, or by the increasing power of the "right wing" even in "thinking" churches like the Anglicans, or even by the decrease since about 1990 in the Australian Census of those saying "no religion", religiosity is increasing.
This strongly suggests that our educational systems, even though having increasing contact time with students, is producing a society less capable of analytical thought, and/or less exposed to thinking about thinking.
Who benefits from a population that is less analytical, less capable of asking awkward questions? Not just the religious sector, but the major political parties and commercial interests will be able to sway voters more easily, using the Dark Arts of propaganda and advertising rather than facts or reason to take advantage of the citizenry.
Why would the politicians, with the real constituents donors, and who like being able to make back-room deals to determine policy rather than rely on evidence and an informed citizenry, want the general voter to be able to think?
So don't expect the education systems to produce a smarter population any time soon, and expect susceptibility to dogma and propaganda, either political, economic or religious, to keep rising.
Still … the research points to a useful indicator of what our education systems are actually doing. Pity that indicator is heading in the wrong direction faster and faster.
See Also:
- Homepage of Ara Norenzayan, one of the paper's authors.
- Hompage of Will Gervais, the other author
- Supporting online material for Gervais, W. M. & Norenzayan, A. (2012). Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief. Science, 336, 493-496.
- Creating Consilience (chapter on evolution of religiosity by Norenzayan and Gervais in a more general text)
- "Is rationality the enemy of religion?</a?" ("Muse" blog at "Nature" 2012-04-26) takes a critical look at the experiments, and suggests caution to my comments above: "The problem is that it is nearly impossible to devise any investigation of 'religious belief' per se, because it takes so many forms and rarely consists of a coherent and consistent set of principles, even in a particular individual. It is like trying to study what makes people 'artistic' or 'nice'."
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MLB Network's 16th Greatest Game & How the Twins Brought Work to a Halt
Monday nights are extra busy in my house so I have managed to miss the first four games in the MLB Channel's 20 Greatest Games in the last 50 years series. But the stars aligned tonight and I caught the program on game #16 – the Twins/Tigers one game playoff to determine the 2009 AL Central champion. I was surprised that MLB.com chose such a recent game, but I remember that one very well and, indeed, what a game!
I "watched" that one, which is a completely different thing from watching a game. In 2009 I was still working in the Mortgage industry for a bank recently purchased from the FDIC. If you know anything about the Mortgage meltdown in Southern California, you can probably figure out which one I am talking about and if not, well, suffice to say I had more of a front row seat than I wanted for the whole thing.
Anyway, my department was full of Angels fans and a department both pumped for the game and divided on who to root for…divided over who would best serve the Angels by beating the Yankees in the playoffs, that is. The Twins never beat the Yankees in the post season but they were just so scrappy that it was hard for some of us, myself included, not to root for them. The rest were sure the Tigers had the best chance. The problem was that my department always worked really late, especially at that time, and this was a Midwest game so there was no way any of us were getting home to see any part of it.
So, I was sneaking peaks at the game on my Blackberry as I worked, per my habit in those days, and a couple of my colleagues were checking in from time to time to get the score, per their usual game day habit. The other baseball fans all had company Blackberries, you see, while I only had my personal Blackberry, and company Blackberries had all sports sites blocked. Everything was calm through the 3rd inning with the Tigers comfortably in the lead, but then the Twins started to catch up. Suddenly people are working less and less and checking in more and more and then my boss came striding out of his office and up to my cubicle…no worries, this was standard procedure as well. He just wanted to know the score and get a quick play by play on the last inning.
As you probably remember, it was a heck of a game. The Twins tied it up then, in the 9th, the Tigers pulled into the lead and the Twins tied it up again. By the time the game went into the 10th inning, all pretense of working was gone and everyone had switched to rooting for the Twins. We moved into one of the larger cubicles by playing off of the Minnesota pride of one of the generally non-baseball fan team members and were alternately biting our nails and yelling and cheering as the score seesawed from 4-4 to 5-5. Around the 11th inning, we became refresh monkeys – the 15 second auto refresh rate on the Gameday site was no longer sufficient. When the Twins pulled it off, it was a good thing we were the only team left in our wing because it sounded more like a sports bar than the headquarters of a mortgage bank…and then we went back to work. We repeated this routine for the east coast playoff games until the Yankees took the Angels out of the mix and it was a blast. (I don't regret rooting for the Twins either, even as things turned out. I don't think the Tigers could have stopped the 2009 Yankees either. That team was tight and seriously on a mission.)
I do not miss my old job. I worked with good people and had a great run of it but I don't have the stomach to deal with the volatility of the Dread Pirate Mortgage Banking Industry anymore – Goodnight Blithescribe. Good work. Sleep well. We'll most likely lay everyone off in the morning. I really love my newer job and I work with great people here too…they're just more basketball and soccer fans. But sometimes I really do miss the baseball season camaraderie of a department full of Angels fans. However, the job change is part of the reason I started lurking on MLBlogs and eventually blogging myself. It's funny how well things work out sometimes.


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Colorado Symphony Orchestra welcomes Rox to field
DENVER -- The Rockies dashing onto the field for the start of any game should be a big production, and it was on Friday afternoon for Opening Day at Coors Field.
During the winter, Colorado Symphony Orchestra composer Charles Denler wrote a new arrangement, "Take the Field," which will be the Rockies' song as they emerge from the dugout for the first pitch of each game this season. On Friday, the brass and percussion sections of the orchestra took their spots behind home plate and played the song live -- complete with an inspirational montage on the video board.
The horns and strings were part of a golden occasion, literally. Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado and left fielder Carlos Gonzalez were presented with their 2013 National League Rawlings Gold Glove Awards. Arenado was the first rookie third baseman in NL history to win the award, and Gonzalez took home the third of his career. Third-base coach and infield instructor Stu Cole and catching coach and defensive coordinator Rene Lachemann were part of the presentation.
The day started with honor guards of each branch of the military presenting the nation's colors. Also, 150 uniformed personnel from the military, Denver Police and Fire Departments unfurled an oversized American flag across the outfield.


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When I write a program in Visual Basic 6.0 that just so happens to call a Microsoft Access database file (with msadodc.ocx), it won't read it on another computer that doesn't have VB6 installed. The program loads, and the database is read, but it shows absolutely no information and you can't write to the database at all.
Specifically, on my computer when I look at either the project in progress, or the compiled version of the program, it loads, shows data perfectly, everything. But as soon as Joe Blow on another computer who's testing it out for me runs it, the problem loads, acts like there are no database problems, but then shows absolutely no information from the database. As if it's a clean .mdb file, (which it absolutely is not.)
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NBN Co commenced or completed construction on 758,000 premises by the end of 2012 for the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced in August last year that NBN Co was targeting the milestone by the end of 2012.
Construction commenced or was completed on 784,592 premises by the end of last year.
"The National Broadband Network is an ambitious project which requires the efforts of many people working co-operatively towards a common goal. To have achieved our year-end target is both pleasing for all involved and a clear indication that the NBN project is ramping up to full volume rollout," Mike Quigley, NBN Co's CEO, said in a statement.
NBN Co classifies construction commencing on premises once it has issued instructions to its contractors for a fibre service access module, which covers around 2000 to 3000 premises.
However, Malcolm Turnbull, shadow minister for communications and broadband, has strongly contested the measurement of construction commenced for the NBN and has called it a "nonsense figure".
"Now, what the NBN does, and this is I think a deliberate effort to mislead people ... is they use a metric that is used nowhere else in the industry that I've ever heard of, and this is premises in areas where construction has commenced or has been completed..." he told the ABC's PM program in November last year.
"Now there are two metrics that are really relevant. The most relevant one is obviously premises where you have an active service, where you actually are connected and you've got a customer that's paying you good money for that service.
"The second one is what they describe as premises passed, which is when the fibre is going past a premise."
Four companies are responsible for rolling out the NBN across Australia – Silcar in NSW, Queensland and the ACT; Transfield in Victoria; Syntheo in the NT, SA and WA; and Visionstream in Tasmania.
Contractor work includes designs, physical visits to the sites of pit and pipe infrastructure and rolling out the passive network.
Meeting the next target could prove harder for NBN Co, with the goal of passing 286,000 premises by the end of June this year.
A premise is deemed as 'passed' when customers are able to connect to the NBN.
At a hearing to the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network in October last year, Quigley said he was confident of meeting the June target. However, he said it is up to the companies rolling out the network to meet that target.
"It is largely in their hands now, and it is the private sector who is doing it. And that is routine, by the way. Very few telcos these days, anywhere in the world, have their own workforces that do this type of work. They do not build the networks themselves," he said.
Ralph Steffens, chief operating officer at NBN Co, told the hearing a steep ramp-up was required in brownfield sites in order to meet the June target.
"There will be a steep ramp which will then level out and we will have then a sustainable run rate. It is a challenging program – it is a challenging ramp we have ahead of us – but we are confident that all the work is now handed over to the construction partners," he said.
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Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET: A 7-year-old boy was fatally shot by his father outside a gun shop in western Pennsylvania, according to a Pennsylvania State Police report.
Joseph Loughrey, the father, had gone in to Twig's Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township some time before 11 a.m. to try to sell a 9 mm Taurus handgun and a scope rifle, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Store managers weren't interested.
Loughrey, 44, and his son, Craig Loughrey, returned to the truck, where Loughrey secured his son in a booster seat on the passenger side. He then placed the long gun in the bed of the truck.
As he got into the truck, he reached to place the handgun into a glove box storage unit, police told the Tribune-Review. That's when it fired.
Authorities were called at 10:53 a.m. local time and found the boy lying next to the truck after a failed attempt at resuscitation. They stayed on scene until after 1 p.m., dispatchers said.
"All evidence at this point would suggest that this incident is accidental," the Pennsylvania State Police report stated.
According to the Tribune-Review, Loughrey didn't realize that a round remained in the gun's chamber.
"This happens all too often where people think the gun was empty," State Police Lt. Eric Hermick.
Twig's Reloading Den is an outdoor supply store about 70 miles from Pittsburgh.
Imy Howard, owner of Howard & Son Meat Packing store next door, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that her son heard a shot this morning. She said that Twig's Reloading Den hosted target shooting in the back parking lot last week but not this week.
A Twig's employee told the Post-Gazette that the incident was "just an unfortunate accident."
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I grew up in central Florida, where there was a family-owned Italian pizzeria on practically every corner. The pizza was always great, and for dessert there was always cannoli. Now that I reside in Augusta, Georgia, there's not a cannoli to be found.
To combat my cannoli cravings I came up with a quick and easy version. The filling has always been simple – just a combination of ricotta cheese, confectioners' sugar and mini chocolate chips. It was the cannoli shells that were time consuming to prepare. Replacing the cannoli shells with sugar ice cream cones makes it so that I can serve my family cannoli (or "Cone-Oli") anytime I want.
Combine ricotta, sugar and morsels in a bowl. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Scoop ricotta mixture into the ice cream cones and dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve immediately.
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There's a lot to be gained by planning your meals. You eat better, healthier food, do more cooking for yourself and put more thought into what you eat, try new recipes, and save at the grocery store at the same time. However, it can be a little daunting; sifting through recipes and making lists. That's why there are apps that help. This week, we're looking at five of the best.
Earlier in the week we asked you which meal planning apps you thought were the best to help you save money, eat better, and keep making awesome food. You nominated way more than we can highlight here, but these are your top five, in no particular order:
Cook Smarts
Cook Smarts isn't so much a meal planning app as it is an entire meal planning service. In addition to helping you plan out your weekly meals, the service aims to help its users learn to cook, explore new recipes, get familiar with and comfortable in the kitchen, and eat more healthy, homemade food. The site's blog and newsletter are free, but to make use of their meal planning tools, you'll have to sign up for an account. You can get three sample plans for free, but the service will really cost you $6/mo (if you pay by the year, it goes up to $8/mo if you want to pay monthly.) The meal plans themselves are incredibly robust though—you tell the service how you want to eat—vegetarian, high protein, low-carb, paleo, or just a plain balanced diet, and you'll get four new and interesting recipes every week along with ingredients, a downloadable and printable grocery list, and even step-by-step instructions and cooking videos to help you make everything.
Those of you who nominated and praised Cook Smarts explained that for the money you spend, it makes meal planning about as hands-off as you can get, and the results are worth it. Sure, the service isn't anything you couldn't do on your own with the right amount of time, but the reason you're paying for it is so you don't have to—and Cook Smarts delivers on the quality of recipes, interesting foods, and tutorials. The service also has a robust and active community around it of home cooks and food lovers eager to explore new foods, try new things, and eat well. You can read more in the nomination thread here
Pepperplate is a mobile app and meal planning tool that excels at organising your recipe collection, planning your meals based on those recipes, building out shopping lists, and helping you cook the recipes you want to try. It's available for free on the web, on iOS, Android, Windows Phone/Windows RT, Nook, and Kindle devices. Once you're signed up, you can import recipes from the web by pasting in the URL for them, or you can enter them manually from your favorite cookbooks or that stash of index cards you have. Once you have a good collection of recipes, you can build menus for your regular meals, for special events, or any night of the week. From there, Pepperplate will generate a shopping list based on your meal plan that you can take with you and cross off at the grocery store. You can share your recipes, meal plans, or shopping lists with others if you need to. When you're ready to cook, Pepperplate will walk you through the recipes, complete with cooking timers to help you stay on top of simmering or baking food.
The nomination thread for Pepperplate was full of praise for the fact that the app is free, cross-platform, and easy to use. Many of you highlighted Pepperplate's bookmarklet that makes adding recipes to your account super-easy (and does a great job of scrubbing recipes from various websites.) Pepperplate isn't perfect though—it may be free, but some of you noted that it hasn't seen updates in a while, and the developers may have abandoned it. That's not a problem as long as the app is good
, but it is something to remember if you want support or you're looking for new features. Read more in the nomination thread here.
Ziplist started off as a simple grocery shopping list organiser, but it's evolved over the years to be a richly featured shopping tool, recipe organizer, and meal planner. The focus of the app is clearly on grocery lists and organising your weekly shopping, but don't count out its meal planning features. It's free, cross platform (available for iOS/Android/web), and even sports a clipping bookmarklet to save all of your favorite recipes (if it's not already in their database.) When you're ready to build your meal plan, you get a weekly overview that lets you add specific recipes and dishes to each day, and then generate a grocery list based on those recipes. Then you can sync your meal plan with your calendar outside of the app so you get notifications on what to make, and can share your weekly menu with others. Ziplist can also notify you to sales, coupons, and other discounts available in the stores you shop, so you can save money and eat well at the same time.
Those of you who nominated ZipList praised its department-sorted shopping lists, built-in store circulars and coupons, and the fact that unlike many apps that generate grocery lists based on recipes, it gives you the option to cross items off that you already have before it adds the item to the list. Plus, it doesn't just add everything blindly, so if you have two recipes that require salt, your shopping list isn't cluttered with entries for salt. You can read more about it its nomination thread here
Plan to Eat
Plan to Eat is a menu planning and grocery list organizer that is as elegant as it is simple to use. It's great for organising your recipes, makes meal-planning a drag-and-drop affair from your recipe list onto a calendar, and will automatically generate your shopping list week by week. We've mentioned it before, and while it's web-only (there are mobile apps on the way, according to the folks behind it) it's still easy to use, powerful, and it gets the job done. Once you have a meal plan all set, just tell Plan to Eat to build your meal plan, and they'll send it to you when its done, no hassle. Plan to Eat also plays nice with special diets, which is great if you have to cook for people with different tastes, or you're trying something new with your own diet. The only downside is its price—a subscription will set you back $5/mo, or $40/yr. If you're willing to pay the price for that level of ease-of-use, it's a worthwhile investment so you can spend your time doing other things. There's a free trial available if you want to give it a whirl before you decide to spend your money.
Those of you who nominated Plan to Eat highlighted its drag-and-drop menu planner, its exceptional customer service for those people who may need it, and its ease of use. It's probably one of the easiest menu planning tools in the lineup, and even though it's not free, many of you noted that you're busy people with busy lives, and it helps to have Plan to Eat take care of the grocery list and recipe search for you. You can read tonnes more in its lengthy nominations thread here
Paprika is a recipe manager for iOS, OS X, Android, Kindle, and Nook devices. There's no web interface, so you'll have to use the apps, but it is great at keeping your recipes nearly organised and collected. Importing recipes from the web is easy enough, you just need the URL of the recipe you want to add. Paprika's focus is on recipe management, but it also includes smart grocery lists and a menu planner that lets you add recipes to your plan, rate them once you've prepared them, and generate a grocery list for the week based on the things you want to make. Paprika will also help you when you're in the kitchen, walking you through each recipe step by step, complete with cooking timers and notifications when it's time to move on to the next step. If you like a little bit of form with your function, it's worth a look—the only downside, beyond the fact there's no Windows or web support, is the price. The OS X app is $20, and each of the mobile apps (including separate apps for iPhone and iPad; it's not universal) are $5. You'll have to buy a copy for every device you want to use Paprika on.
Paprika's nominations thread was full of stories about its ease of use, especially compared to other apps, and its tablet-friendliness, especially on the iPad, Kindle, and Nook. Its smart grocery list feature will combine ingredients needed for multiple recipes, so you don't have a grocery list that has "2 egg" in one place and "1 egg" in another—you'll just have "3 eggs," so you'll know whether to pick up a dozen or a half-dozen, or whatever you actually need. You can read more in its nominations thread here.
Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to a vote and determine the community favourite:
No honorable mentions this week, as the votes fell off pretty quickly from these five, but there are plenty of other options in the call for contenders thread if you're looking for alternatives. Want to make the case for your personal favourite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Don't just complain about the top five, let us know what your preferred alternative is—and make your case for it—in the discussions below.
The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at email@example.com!
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...an important read for adults who think they have packed away racism as an inevitable part of life.Youth Services Book Review
Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of adults—sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging. By weaving the importance of music in adolescence with the forbidden friendship between Edna, who is white, and Bonna Willis, who is Black, Lynda Barry captures the earnest, awkward, yet always honest adolescent voice as perfectly in prose as she does in comics.
Praise for The Good Times Are Killing Me
Absorbing and deceptively simple, Lynda Barry's 1988 illustrated novella is back in a new edition, and it feels like the right time. Difficult conversations about racial divides are still happening, so this story of a young girl's friendship with a black neighbour is affecting and relevant...With sparse punctuation and breathless, run-on sentences, the story is presented with a naïve voice in a powerful way. The illustrations are stark and appropriate. It's quite a package.Toronto Star
A piercingly honest illustrated novel.Salon
The story of two young people—Edna (white) and Bonna (African-American)—coming to terms with the inequalities of race and class... Written in the 1980s and set in the 1970s, the book remains as relevant as ever in the present.Rookie
Barry conveys the anguish and confusion of youth discovering that society is riddled with prejudice, and her light touch is balanced by respect for her characters and their problems.Publishers Weekly
This book is magic. Lynda Barry makes you laugh and breaks your heart all at once.Gene Luen Yang
The beautiful reissue of Lynda Barry's underrated autobiographical novel The Good Times Are Killing Me, about race and falling in love with records, gets 50 pages of new art, much of it Barry's folk-art-ish paintings of music pioneers.Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
A quick but heartfelt novel about race, class, and poverty in 1970s America, with each vignette connected by the protagonist's love of and connection to music.Arianna Rebollini, Buzzfeed's Best Books of 2017


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If you want to install the server only (ultravnc server 1.0.8.x), no drivers
you require
ultravnc.ini (created at first run of winvnc.exe if not exist, set password)
winvnc.exe (ultravnc server)
schook.dll (required only for vista/7/2008)
cad.exe (light saslibrary for service system Ctrl-Alt+Del required only for vista/7/2008)
vnchooks.dll (poll forground window, less cpu usage)
zip32.dll (optional for FileTransfer folders old version uvnc <1.0.8.x)
unzip32.dll (optional for FileTransfer old version uvnc <1.0.8.x)
unzip32.dll + zip32.dll are removed separate file, integrated in code if i'm not wrong.
You need a network shared drive that you stored all the files on and then wrote a batch file that creates the folder, copies the files, opens the ports on the firewall and then installs the service.
@echo off
IF EXIST "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\winvnc.exe" GOTO END
cd "%programfiles%"
mkdir UltraVNC
copy "\\networkdrive\UltraVNC\ultravnc.ini" "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\ultravnc.ini"
copy "\\networkdrive\UltraVNC\unzip32.dll" "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\unzip32.dll"
copy "\\networkdrive\UltraVNC\winvnc.exe" "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\winvnc.exe"
copy "\\networkdrive\UltraVNC\zip32.dll" "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\zip32.dll"
copy "\\networkdrive\UltraVNC\cad.exe" "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\cad.exe"
copy "\\networkdrive\UltraVNC\SCHook.dll" "%programfiles%\UltraVNC\SCHook.dll"
netsh firewall set portopening protocol=TCP port=5800 name=vnc5800 mode=ENABLE profile=All
netsh firewall set portopening protocol=TCP port=5900 name=vnc5900 mode=ENABLE profile=All
cd "%programfiles%\ultravnc"
start "" "winvnc.exe" -install
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Justin Bieber Hits the Studio With Cody Simpson + Posts Picture With Selena Gomezby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Justin Bieber is diving headfirst back into the music after his racist video scandal last week.
He and Cody Simpson hit the studio together a couple of nights ago, working on what will undoubtedly be a highly-anticipated track. While in the studio, the two also apparently traded some relationship advice. Simpson tweeted about the stripped down session, writing:
chill studio session last night with @justinbieber. wrote a beautiful guitar track. able to relate when it comes to love & women. good sht!
— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) June 11, 2014
It sure looks like the Biebs is "able to relate when it comes to love and women," seeing as how Simpson is seemingly back with his ex, Gigi Hadid — a notion that Bieber is definitely familiar with.
The Biebs has been on-and-off with Selena Gomez for years, but the two seemed to cool things down post-Coachella. But if his recent Instagram photo is any sign, it looks like the couple may be on yet again.
Bieber is no stranger to posting telling pictures of Gomez on the photo-sharing app, but his latest (posted last night) may be one of the most personal. Filtered in black and white, the shot shows Gomez staring straight at the camera as she cradles Bieber's head in her hands, his "Patience" tattoo clearly visible on his neck. Though Bieber soon deleted the intimate photo — reportedly captioned "Our love is Unconditional" — the image was screen capped before it was taken down. Check out the photo here.
While the status of Jelena's relationship still may be a little hazy, one thing is for sure: we can't wait to hear the results of Justin Bieber and Cody Simpson's studio time together.
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text: Expect price drops on these electronics and tech gadgets. By Cameron Huddleston, Former Online Editor January 21, 2011 Consumers, prepare your pocketbooks. You'll have to pay more for food, utilities, gasoline, phone service, cable TV and more this year, according to our inflation forecast. However, the good news is that the prices on many other things (computers, TVs, high-tech hardware, new cars and shoes) will hold steady or drop. The folks at dealnews.com, one of our favorite Web sites for finding deals, have pinpointed 12 items that will cost less this year. Sponsored Content For its analysis, dealnews.com used prices on popular items from 2009 to 2010 to formulate its 2011 price predictions. The prices reflect the lowest price the dealnews.com team found on those items, not average prices. Here are their predictions: iPhone 3GS: $49 ($97 in 2010). This price drop is already here for an 8GB 3GS phone, according to dealnews.com, but don't expect to see these models on sale much longer. Advertisement Blu-ray Player: $39 ($50 in 2010). This price drop isn't as big the $26 drop from 2009 to 2010. However, you might even get one for free if you buy a new TV this year because dealnews.com expects to see these players bundled as extras with TVs. 42-inch HDTV: $299 ($370 in 2010). The prices on HDTVs just continue to drop. After falling more than $100 from 2009 to 2010, the price on 42-inch models should drop another $70 this year. 55-inch HDTV: $599 ($699 in 2010). The prices on 55-inch HDTVs are now where 46-inch HDTV prices were in 2008, according to dealnews.com, and should fall to 2009 46-inch prices this year. Kindle eBook Reader: $99 ($130 in 2010). The Kindle earned a spot on Kiplinger's Best of Everything 2010 list because it has managed to stay a step ahead of its competitors -- and continues to drop in price. Advertisement Wii System Bundles: $99 ($150 in 2010). Prices should drop throughout the year (as new models come out) until they hit a low of $99. 15-inch to 16-inch dual-core laptop: $199 ($218 in 2010). These laptops will be cheaper than new 10-inch netbooks and cost just slightly more than 7-inch Android tablets. 17-inch Dual-Core Laptop: $399 ($450 in 2010). After holding steady from 2009 to 2010, the price on this basic desktop replacement should fall about $50 this year. Full-Size Digital SLR Camera: $299 ($319 in 2010). These high-powered cameras will cost what point-and-shoot cameras cost a few years ago, according to dealnews.com. Advertisement 16GB SD Card: $12 ($17 in 2010). These cards used to store pictures taken by digital cameras already are cheap and will get even cheaper because you'll need bigger cards for new SLR cameras. Portable GPS: $40 ($45 in 2010). This is as low as prices will go on these devices, according to dealnews.com, because manafacturers are adding features to new models -- and driving up the price -- to compete with in-car models and smart phones. External 2TB USB Drives: $50 ($90 in 2010). Prices on these data-storage devices continue to fall (down from $140 in 2009). See the chart on dealnews.com for more information about the items used for 2009 and 2010 prices. Follow me on Twitter


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A lovestruck Canadian has headed back to the Emerald Isle to seek out the fiery redhead that stole his heart while vacationing last year.
Sandy Crocker, a dentist from Kelowna, British Columbia, is in Ireland for the next four weeks looking for the freckled girl he briefly met in a café in County Clare, the BBC reports.
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Though Crocker's trip has only just started, he said it's been a great experience so far and he has gotten a few leads. The response to his trip, he said, has been mostly positive—he has been invited out to dinner, to house parties and has even met a cast member of HBO's Game of Thrones.
"Right now I've done the most I can and it truly, in the end, will come down to fate," Crocker said in an e-mail. "I am prepared that she or I may not be right for each other, but I have gone to great lengths to find that answer."
The 28 year old says that while he has met plenty of attractive Canadians back home he has yet to meet someone that compares to the Irish beauty. Though their encounter was brief—less than five minutes—he describes the woman as being in her mid-to-late 20s with freckles and auburn hair. They met on July 9, 2011 at the An Teach Bia café, the town's local paper Clare People reports.
Crocker has also been interviewed by ABC and Huffington Post, he told the BBC that Irish bookies are even placing bets about whether or not he'll meet the one that got away.
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"She was one of those people who seemed the most genuine caring person you'd ever meet," he told the BBC. "I stood up and asked for directions and asked for the time – if I had just paid her a compliment, told her she was amazing, I could have put this to rest."
While many find Crocker's story touching, there are plenty of skeptics voicing their concern on online forums.
"Forget her, Sandy, forget her," one such doubter wrote on TripAdvisor. "There are plenty more colleens in the sea, and in fact Canada has a fair whack of them too."
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