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Short Story: I finished in 3:00:07, eight seconds slow of my goal. I have never felt stronger during a run...unfortunately, my G-I tract didn't have a good day and I had to stop twice for potty breaks (using the porta-potty toilet paper then combined with sweat and produced Patten-like chafing in not-so-fun areas) and spend the better part of a minute in the last half mile dry heaving and puking. I LITERALLY was going to achieve my Sub-3 goal until mile 26, when I finally succumbed to a 15 second dry heaving convulsion that cost me precious time.
And now the long story...
As I mentioned, I've NEVER felt like I've been in better shape for a marathon. The "Sub-3" goal has been in the forefront of my mind since May, when I ran the Journeys Marathon in 3:02:21. Grandma's turned out to be way too hot, so I was hoping for a good run here at Fox Cities. The training this summer had me in great shape. I felt lean, light, and fast. The hill work I've been doing even had me noticing new muscles I didn't have before. I really felt good.
I slept like a rock last night, going to bed in my normal sleeping position (supine, no pillow, feet in a flexed position and held there by the sheets, our cat Grace near my left arm) and awoke to my alarm at 5:32 in the exact same position. Very rarely do I sleep that soundly. As I made my way to the bathroom, Ellie (who has been made aware countless times how good I thought this run was going to go) asked how I slept. I responded with a happy "Great!" and made my way into the shower.
The ride to the event was uneventful (outside of me feeling the need for a bathroom stop...number 3 of the morning...uh oh) and left me with about 30 minutes to loosen up and mentally prepare. I visualized myself in the finishing chute with "2:58:xx" on the clock. A couple yoga stretches and some stride work and I was chomping at the bit.
FINALLY, at 8 AM I was off. Despite knowing I had to keep things calm, I couldn't help it. As I said, I felt fast and the first mile showed it, clocking in at 6:35. I intentionally slowed the pace down a bit and still ran Mile 2 in 6:49. I felt amazing! Not having a heart rate monitor, I continued to run by feel, and clocked miles 3-6 from 6:33 (downhill) to 6:43, all under my goal 6:50 pace. In the middle of Mile 6 I started to feel something "brewing" downstairs. It continued to strengthen, so during the 7th mile I stopped off at a porta-john. Mile 7 was 7:05 because of the stop, but I felt great afterward and didn't allow for much worry to creep into my mind. I was running fast and free and didn't want to think about any G-I issues. Mile 8 went by at 6:34...perhaps a bit fast, but still I felt fine and my breathing was easy. It was a beautiful day with a wonderful breeze and the crowd, the course, everything was going great! Miles 9 to 13 continued to feel great, and I ran a 6:24 mile 11 (BIG downhill) and was under 6:40 for all of those miles. Still, my breathing was easy, relaxed, and my intermittent "body checks" for form, tightness, over-exertion all came back clear. I simply felt fantastic!
Not long into mile 13 (crossed half way in 1:27:42) my rear end started to feel "heavy" again. This was discouraging. My legs, my mind, my heart, were all having a great run. It was a bit of work to keep the pace under control, yet I was again feeling heavy in the last foot of my G-I tract. Again, to be safe, I stopped during mile 15 for the potty. 7:26 mile. And that one didn't feel so good after leaving the porta-potty. I was feeling even more chafe, too. Not so great. Mile 16 was a 7:03 mile (again, I'm aiming for 6:50 miles) and I was starting to feel some weakness.
I had taken a gel in the first 45 minutes, and another every 45 minutes after that, along with an SCap every hour. Still, I was starting to feel like the Gels were simply going straight through my body, and not really adding much sugar to the bloodstream. Despite this creep of negative thoughts, my legs still felt strong and my breathing rhythm was right where I wanted it to be. I still felt great...for now.
I went through mile 20 feeling just okay. The time read 2:15 and change, so I still had a lot of confidence in my ability to run a 10K in under 45 minutes. Even at this point, despite some SERIOUS issues "down low," my legs felt strong and my breathing was right on. I continued to plug away at a "safe" pace, at least to me, passing miles 20-23 in 6:42, 6:54, 6:49. Things are looking good! ...
Then, I started to run out of energy. Mile 23 was tough, and I knew I had a fight on my hands to avoid a serious bonk. Still, I only needed to run about 7:40 miles to meet my goal, and I knew I was up to it. Scratch that, I THOUGHT I was up to it.
At Mile 25, the crowd really gets heavy. the end of the marathon is kind of a "loop" where you pass within half a block of the finish with less than a mile to go, so the crowd is all over the place cheering. I love that. About half way through this segment (half a mile to go), though, you're at the end of the peninsula where the event finishes, and it gets a bit empty. Good thing for me, too, as that's where I started dry heaving.
The wheels are coming off...
With less than .5 miles to go, I was doubled over, dry heaving. There was an event photographer right there, too, and I told him "Can't wait to see that one!" I continued on in a shuffle...half bent over, eyes glazed over, still knowing I just had to hold...it...together...for a couple minutes...
I thought I had it. I turned the final corner and could see the finishing chute. Unfortunately, as I continued along in the final couple hundred feet, running on fumes, my stomach finally revolted completely. Literally 200 yards from the finish--amongst the finishing crowd--I was reduced to dry heaving and mild vomiting. I tried to simply push through it, running forward as the dry heaves started. At one point, in a small moment of self-dignity, I tried to wipe off my face with my jersey after an episode dry heaving, only to vomit a bit into my shirt. That. Was. Awesome.
That's not sweat that has dampened my shirt...and the guy in the background staring at me also witnessed the vomit...hence the strange look.
150 yards to go, and time is running out. I can vividly remember trying to push through it...but I finally had to put my hands on my knees, in the middle of the finishing chute, and barf. Man did that suck. It was mostly just dry heaving, as there wasn't much fluid that came out, but it was not something I could do while continuing to run--I had to stop, hands on my knees, and let 'er rip. I told a pair of guys leaning over the railing how much it sucked, not that they couldn't tell on their own. I'm pretty sure I included the F bomb at one point too.
After that final episode, things came together for me and I literally sprinted to the line. I can remember, in full stride, seeing the clock tick over from 2:59:59 to 3:00:00...
I already knew...Not Quite.
|overall place:
|24 out of 1030
|division place:
|11 out of 75
|gender place:
|21 out of 614
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|10 mi:
|1:27:37 (I didn't get passed in the second half of the run, and actually moved up 5 spots. Not bad!)
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|last 10k:
|44:58 (Looking at the race results, there are several 45-49 minute final 10k's among the people that finished in front of me. There was definitely a trend of fading as it got warmer.)
Walking it off in Riverside Park. I wasn't real happy. Ellie's following me to make sure I don't end up jumping in the lake.


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Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design.
He is the author of Visualizing Data (O'Reilly, 2007) and the co-author, with Casey Reas, of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press, 2007) and Getting Started with Processing (O'Reilly, 2010), which describe the project they co-founded in 2001. Ben's work was part of the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003 and 2006. Other pieces have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. His information graphics have also illustrated articles for the New York Times,New York Magazine, and the journal Nature. Ben was selected as one of Fast Company's 50 Most Influential Designers in America (2011) and as one of Slate's Top Right (2011). He has lectured on data, design, and programming on five continents.
In 2011, Ben won the National Design Award for Interaction Design. At a White House luncheon for the honorees, he had the opportunity to meet Michelle Obama, whom he found to be very gracious but quite imposing in heels.
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In Touch Weekly broke the story last month by publishing the handwritten list of Lindsay's sexual conquests. Most of the guys – including Justin Timberlake, Zac Efron and Max George – stayed quiet, while James Franco called it "lies."
At the time, her rep told Gossip Cop it was "inaccurate."
Now, LiLo says it is real!
During a game of "plead the fifth" on "Watch What Happens Live," Andy Cohen asked Lindsay about the list. She had already used up her one chance to keep quiet and was required to answer, admitting it was her "fifth step in AA at Betty Ford."
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She continued, "Someone, when I was moving during the OWN show, must have taken a photo of it, so that's a really personal thing. It's really unfortunate. And I talk about it in the last episode of the show, so, to be continued..."
Lohan also addresses the list in a new preview for her docu-series finale, calling it "humiliating" and "mean." Watch the tearful teaser below.
The "Lindsay" series finale airs Sunday at 9 PM on OWN.


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I wish I could say I enjoyed this game (I didn't), but a victory is a victory nonetheless. I'm so sick and tired of this team 16 games into a shortened season where the deck was so one-sided in terms of being stacked against this group that it almost feels pointless to complain.
But I'm going to go right ahead and do it anyway.
This team is a terrible group of players collectively. As individuals, if they were in AAU, they'd be spectacular and dominant. The only problem with AAU ball is that it's not real basketball by most NBA teams estimation. It's just simply glorified streetball with slightly more organization. Do the Kings know that? Not really. They are too young. That isn't an excuse though. That's not all of the explanation.
Part of it is the Kings, starting with the pounding dribble maestro Tyreke Evans, dribbles and then makes the most obvious of moves towards the basket. Whether it's one of the patented ridiculously retarded spin moves by Tyreke (I really hate that), or the pump fake and drive into the lane by DeMarcus Cousins. This team simply displays it's ignorance in the most arrogant of ways. Sometimes, it's simply youth. But really, they can get away with it against some teams like the Spurs who are not chock full of athletes and if the Spurs have a night off like they experienced.
Let's be honest here. San Antonio was terrible tonight. Absolutely resoundly terrible. San Antonio should have lost by at least 15 points. They were that bad tonight. Hey, those nights happen and Sacramento certainly had a small part of that. The physical nightmare in matchup's will always pose a team like the San Antonio Spurs problems given that the Spurs focus so heavily on skills, attitude and precision.
This team is literally impossible for me to enjoy given the lackadaiscal attitude, the poor ball movement, and the amount of youthful petulance exhibited all over the place (and it's not just Cousins). This team needs to act in a professional manner, and, frankly, starting with Evans and Cousins,
those two simply doesn't seem interested in playing the part.
I was going to write what I liked about this game (there are things), but fuck this team. This team can go fuck themselves until they learn how to make an extra pass, give extra effort on every possession, and play as if there is a gameplan (there certainly is but it's not like they care).
Is it going to be pretty every night? Hell no. I'm not expecting that. Is it going to be perfect and run with absolute precision? Absolutely not. There comes a point where you either A) enjoy watching the team you've chosen to follow or B) you don't enjoy that team. And I'm well beyond the point where I hate this team. That came probably from the time Westphal got fired (and nothing has happened since that tells me that Westphal should have been fired because Evans and Cousins were under performing; Neither Evans or Cousins need Westphal's help for that), and truthfully it has absolutely nothing to do with Westphal. I absolutely 100% mean that I feel sorry for Keith Smart that he inherited two entitled spoiled brats who don't understand what it means to run a NBA play. Or who don't seem interested in running plays on a consistent basis.
The Kings need Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins to act like mature adults. Neither are ready, and tonight's victory against the Spurs provides the stark reality of how immature both Evans and Cousins really are. A stark reality where Evans nearly picked up a Triple-Double (you know if he actually passed beyond the 1st half), Cousins picked up another double-double with 13 rebounds that reminds of why he went 5th in the 2010 draft in the 1st place. Neither guy won the game for the Kings, neither guy really did much to seal the victory (Cousins rebounding excepted), and both Evans and Cousins were not the real reason the Kings won. It says a lot about the Kings, and the 2 "franchise" players, that when they win it's more about what the other team does not do than what the Kings are doing.
I'm at the point where I'd rather see this team lose by 40 so I could tune them out than have to pay attention to a close game and watch glorified AAU basketball. Until Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins learn that going 1 on 1 does not really work at the NBA level on a consistent basis (especially with the way Evans/Cousins insists on doing so), this crap will continue.
That's all I got. Debbie Downer out.


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Rural District Nurtures Dual-Enrollment Effort
Halifax County, Va., targets teachers and students to make college-level courses a hot ticket
Brittney Crews took so many dual-credit courses at rural Halifax County High in South Boston, Va., that she received an associate degree weeks before her 2011 high school graduation ceremony.
"It helps you go ahead and start your life instead of having to stay so long in school," said Ms. Crews, 19, who now attends Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke, Va.
Ms. Crews' situation isn't unique for Halifax County High. Nearly one-fifth of its 407 seniors earned associate degrees by the time they graduated last school year, and 91 percent finished high school with a college transcript. The approximately 1,700-student school has become a leader in dual-enrollment participation in the state for its emphasis on dual-enrollment courses.
Halifax County High has accomplished that despite its rural location, and it did so through a number of efforts, such as encouraging high school teachers to become college instructors, creating satellite sites for dual-enrollment courses, and raising its number of student participants by offering college-level classes in career and technical education areas.
The Halifax County district, which enrolls about 5,900 students, expanded its dual-enrollment portfolio under the leadership of its former superintendent, Paul Stapleton, who wanted to see more of his students go to college.
"It was like most things in education," he said. "If there's a need and you're in a rural area, you try to solve a problem. You know no one is going to come to your rescue."
Students in dual enrollment earn both high school and college credit for taking the same course. More than 70 percent of public high schools offered dual-credit courses about 10 years ago, according to the most recent available figures from the National Center for Education Statistics. But rural schools often face difficulties in offering such courses because of their distance from colleges and the high cost of transportation.
Program's Roots
Halifax County High's focus on dual enrollment can be traced back to Mr. Stapleton, who led the district from 2004 until this past June. He had been Virginia's state superintendent from 1998 to 2000.
Mr. Stapleton became an advocate for dual-enrollment courses much earlier in his career. He pushed the concept as long ago as 1987, when he was still the superintendent of the Charlotte County, Va., school system, a rural district that borders Halifax County. He saw dual-enrollment courses as a way to give rural students more opportunities and to level the playing field with more affluent areas.
The community didn't have a college-going climate, he said. Some students' parents didn't have a college education or didn't see the importance of one for their children, and some students were intimidated by the prospect of going to a major university.
"We were trying to give them some quality classes and make sure they were comfortable, and that they could see and their parents could see they were capable of doing college-level work," Mr. Stapleton said.
Halifax County had a few dual-enrollment courses in 2004 when Mr. Stapleton took over as its school superintendent, and he looked for ways to build on those.
For instance, transportation can be a huge cost for rural areas, and the nearest community college was at least a 35-minute drive from the community. Mr. Stapleton put the district's money into helping high school teachers become certified as college instructors so students could take dual-enrollment courses on the high school campus.
For certification, high school teachers must have a master's degree in the disciplines they are teaching or a master's degree in any subject plus 18 credit hours in that discipline. Halifax launched an effort in 2004 to pay the cost for teachers to earn those credentials; it has assisted more than 35 teachers since then. In all, 48 of Halifax County High's 147 teachers now are adjunct college faculty members.
The district has since virtually eliminated that assistance for teachers because of budget cuts. It now covers only the classes required for teachers to maintain their certification to teach dual-enrollment courses.
An Educator's Experience
Sandy Wilborn is among the teachers who became a college adjunct through credits paid for by the district. Prior to deciding to become a teacher, she had earned her bachelor's degree in math and worked in a bank. When she decided to teach, she got a provisional license and a job at Halifax County Middle School as a prealgebra and algebra teacher. She realized she wanted to teach dual-enrollment courses to high school students.
"I wanted to be with students who really wanted to learn, and these students are given an opportunity to do so much more," she said.
With the cost of her graduate classes covered by the district, she earned her master's degree in 2008 and now teaches dual enrollment precalculus.
On-Site Instruction
Although many rural schools lean on virtual classes for dual-enrollment courses, none has been offered at Halifax County High within the past two years. The school has had all the dual-enrollment courses students wanted or needed on campus.
Halifax County High students collectively earned 13,270 college credits through dual-credit courses in the 2011-12 school year. Sixty-three percent of its students participated in dual-enrollment courses.
The school has been able to reach more students by expanding its career and technical education offerings; 85 percent of those courses are dual-enrollment.
Melanie Stanley, the assistant principal for curriculum and instruction at Halifax County High, said those elective dual-enrollment classes are critical for students who otherwise might not think about college. The courses serve as an introduction to postsecondary education and show students they can do well and work toward a trade, she said.
"A lot of the kids who do not do well in academic core classes tend to have more success at tech-prep," she said. "The kids who would not have thought about going to college are now venturing out and being successful."
Unlike the core academic dual-enrollment courses, the elective dual-enrollment classes do not require a placement test or minimum state test score. Students don't have to pay extra to take the dual-enrollment classes for either kind.
The district charges Southside Virginia Community College and Danville Community College teachers' salaries, and both colleges charge the school for students' tuition. Those dollar figures end up being a wash, Ms. Stanley said.
Dual-enrollment courses are offered at the high school and three other sites within a five-minute drive. The school buses about 1,000 students to those sites during the regular school day; those classes end up being about 30 minutes shorter than the ones at the high school to compensate for the travel time.
The biggest off-campus site for dual-enrollment courses is the district's STEM center, for science, technology, engineering, and math, which is housed in a renovated shoe factory. Students also take dual-enrollment courses in a barn, which is the district's preveterinary center, and at the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, where they learn about graphic design and high-performance manufacturing. All the sites are either in the town of Halifax or in nearby South Boston.
Researchers haven't figured out yet whether there's an ideal model for the structure of dual-enrollment courses. They have found that strong programs mimic a college environment and support the enrolled students.
Studies also have shown dual enrollment encourages college readiness and college completion. Dual-enrollment participants are more likely than their nonparticipating peers to enroll in college, and they tend to have better college grade point averages, said Melinda Karp, a senior research associate at Teachers College, Columbia University. Halifax County parents, students, and teachers say they're seeing the benefits of the dual enrollment, too.
Michael Good is a senior at Halifax County High. He plans to be a surgeon, and he'll earn an associate degree by the time he graduates next spring. He compared the difficulty of his dual-enrollment courses to that of Advanced Placement classes, and he said he expects the dual-enrollment classes to prepare him for the kind of work his college professors will expect.
"I feel like it will give me at least a jump on my general studies classes," he said.
Ms. Wilborn said the atmosphere of her precalculus classes is more like that of college. Students receive a syllabus, and they don't need a hall pass to go to the restroom.
"I have the same expectations that a college would," she said.
Financial Savings
One of the big pluses of dual-enrollment courses is financial. Students can save thousands of dollars in college tuition by completing some of their coursework while in high school.
Ms. Crews, the 2011 Halifax County High graduate who now attends Jefferson College—a small private school that costs about $32,000 a year—said she saved two years of college tuition. What's more, she'll be able to earn her master's degree in occupational therapy in the same four-year span that another student would need to earn a bachelor's degree.
School leaders say dual enrollment is doing a good job of preparing rural students for and encouraging them to go to college.
"This is the one program that is most beneficial to rural students to advance them on beyond high school," Mr. Stapleton said. "It's a great program that really does work for students."
Vol. 32, Issue 11, Page 10Published in Print: November 7, 2012, as Rural District Nurtures Demand for Dual Enrollment
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Not only is Matt Damon not going to appear in "Bourne Legacy," neither is the film's title character.
Having read the same news as the rest of us about the film he's writing and directing, Tony Gilroy called Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Nowhere to set some things straight.
The upcoming "Bourne Legacy" "will not use the story," of Robert Ludlum's book, just the title, Gilroy told Wells.
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"It's a completely original screenplay... This is not a reboot or a recast or a prequel. No one's replacing Matt Damon. There will be a whole new hero, a whole new chapter...this is a stand-alone project.
"The easiest way to think of it is an expansion or a reveal," Gilroy says. "Jason Bourne will not be in this film, but he's very much alive. What happened in the first three films is the trigger for what happens. I'm building a legend and an environment and a wider conspiracy...the world we're making enhances and advances and invites Jason Bourne's return [down the road].
"Everything you saw in the first three films actually happened, and everyone who got into will be rewarded for paying attention. We're going to show you the bigger picture, the bigger canvas. When you see what we're going and see what we're doing it'll be pretty obvious....but Jason Bourne's activities in the first three films is the immediate trigger."
This all makes sense to us conceptually, but we have a hard time squaring the "Bourne" title with Jason Bourne nowhere in sight. It feels like a cheat. Gilroy's earned enough goodwill that we're game for anything he wants to show us, but still, this ain't cool.


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"You guys should have bought
"You guys should have bought an American Car."
I LOVE America, but when it comes to production it comes to lousy work, over paid laborers, lazy workers, all supported by unions who do nothing but protect jobs by creating more, it sickens me, I will not pay extra for that when I can get a better product at a more reasonable price from people who know how to work, and not rest on the unions' idea's of "work".
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DITTO! I have a 2006 Prius
DITTO! I have a 2006 Prius with 47000 miles, left light was replaced at no charge at 34000 miles by a dealer that I did not buy the car at in Pittsburgh, now the right light has been going out for the last 7 months. Of course everytime I take it to the Toyota dealership, it works. This headlamp issue began after owning the "new Prius" for 7 months. Finally today it was not working and i took it to the dealership. They want $492 to replace the bulb. I do have an extended warranty, but it does not cove "wear" items. I do not understand their explanation for the light going out and back on. They claim that the filament can refuse itself?????? I really like the car, but this headlamp issue is making me crazy. I am in Newnan, GA and the dealership is going to contact Toyota Monday morning to see if they will do anything about it. I do not have much confidence is a positive outcome. Add me to the list of unhappy Prius owners because of the headlamps.
I took my 2007 Prius (I have
I took my 2007 Prius (I have an extended 100,000 mile warranty) into the local dealership in Monroe, LA. My passenger side headlamp would go on and off randomely. It seems to be most prevalent after washing (by hand or machine) or during a rain event. The dealer said $375 just for the lamp and plus it is not a warranty item. Plus, they had never heard of thios happening. I'll keep flickingh mine until a recall. I was told I could go to the NTSB with my vin number and register a complaint. If enough register Toyota will have to recall.
Go to www.NHTSA.gov and go
Go to www.NHTSA.gov and go to "File a complaint about your vehicle or Child Seat". You will need your VIN number to file.
I have 3- 2006 Priuses and
I have 3- 2006 Priuses and ALL have the same headlight problem. Toyota refused to fix them. After seeing the overwhelming case histories above it is amazing that Toyota is not fixing the problem on thier nickel, OH! not a nickel- for me it is going to cost $2478.00
Not so sure the gas mileage is making up that cost.
Very disappointed!
My Passanger side headlight
My Passanger side headlight went out off and on and would "re-set" when turning the light on and off. Both went off two weeks ago at night and reset with one on off cycle. Lukily I saw that it was out when my wife headed for work one morning so we swapped cars and I took it to tyhe dealership. They replaced the passngaer side and assured me that they would replace the driver side if I observed it going out again. Tonight first the driver side then then both went out as she was driving. The first trip they replaced the right front Headlight ECU 81107-47150 Computer sub assembly. One of the papers from the dealership has $278 handwritten on it. The one I signed and returned said $335.
I am going back in the morning and let them have another try.
This has got to be tough because the problem is only apparant when the dealership is closed - so figuring out what is really wrong will be tough.
I am convinced that Toyota wants this fixed - we just have to make sure we help them figure out what is going on...
Same here. The price is
Same here. The price is going up I was quoted $466 for the bulb alone at the dealership in Tallahassee FL
My headlights keep going off
My headlights keep going off and I keep having to turn my lights off and then back on again to get them to work. I had to do this 7 times this morning on my way to work -- I drive 70 miles to work and the 7 times happened the first 30 miles. Last weekend, I was at the dealership and had asked them to look at this because I thought it was happening. They found nothing.
Yesterday, I did some internet searching and found out that this is a computer problem and not a headlight problem, but the computer can damage the headlights, causing you to replace them.
I now have another appointment with the dealership tomorrow to look at this. It will be interesting when I hear what they say the problem is -- if they do indeed determine there is a problem. If it is not resolved, I will be filing a complaint. Eventually, they will get the message after we have spent $$.
Yes, we are having the same
Yes, we are having the same problem. Add our name to the list. Today, after weeks of timing the flickering, buying the wrong bulb, not being able to get to the bulb, thinking it was a wiring problem, etc., we took our 2006 Prius to the dealership. The cost for us here in VA was $352.76 for the driver's side HID headlamp. The dealership suggested that I file a claim with Toyota customer service. I did.
But now, I'm concerned. Will the other go out? How long will this one last? They say it should last 10 years. But ours lasted 2.5 years and 45K miles.
From the history here, it is definitely a chronic problem with the model. I think Toyota should find the source of the problem and fix it on all affected models.
Would we have bought the package knowing this? NO. I let Toyota know that I have bought Toyotas since the early 80s and have always been satisfied until now.
My dealership actually told
My dealership actually told me that I had to replace BOTH lights if one goes out, for $990, as the lights come in pairs. My driver side headlight is out, the car has less than 30k mikes...In reading this blog, it is clear Toyota has an issue...I'll be contacting Toyota USA to file a complaint.


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You don't identify his behavior as negative because it is very much like yours.
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The final bell will soon ring for a Catholic elementary school in College Point, officials said.
St. Fidelis School, at 124-06 14th Avenue, will close its doors for good in June after more than a century of serving the community, according to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, which oversees Queens.
"St. Fidelis School will be fully operational until the last day of school, continuing to provide a quality education," said Monsignor Denis Heron, an administrator at the school. "We place our trust in God and ask His guidance as we move into the future. We ask your understanding and cooperation."
The nursery through eighth grade institution faced declining enrollment and increased operating costs, officials said in a statement.
Enrollment at St. Fidelis dropped to 144 students this year from 242 five years ago, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn said. Parish schools in Brooklyn and Queens, who serve kindergarten through eighth grades, are identified as "at-risk" of closing when enrollment falls below 225 students.
Diocese officials also said the parish, which opened in 1857, does not have "the financial resources to bridge the gap" between the $3,400 tuition per student and the actual $6,119 per-pupil costs.
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Ericsson has asked for a ban on Samsung imports to the USA, following last week's patent filing which claimed just about every Samsung device with a radio was infringing.
The legal case, filed in the ever-popular Eastern District of Texas, is based on patents which, according to Ericsson, Samsung licensed in 2001 and 2007, but now refuses to pay for. While that case gets into gear Ericsson has applied to the International Trade Commission for a ban on US imports of the Samsung Galaxy, Note, Nexus and assorted kit including Blu-Ray players and TVs.
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Asking the ITC to ban imports of patent-infringing products is standard practice these days, as such a ban can clarify the mind wonderfully when negotiating licences. The ITC rarely goes that far so in this instance the request is more optimistic punt than legal strategy, something to wave at Samsung in the hope of an early settlement. ®


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Obviously, the Danks-for-McCarthy trade has turned out to probably be the best deal Kenny Williams has ever made. This Hudson/Holmberg-for-Jackson trade doesn't have the potential to be the second-best given that Jackson is only under contract through 2011 and is a Boras client, so he probably won't come back to the Sox after next year anyway. …
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During the Fall and Spring semesters, the Computational Social Science (CSS) and the Computational Sciences and Informatics (CSI) Programs have merged their seminar/colloquium series where students, faculty and guest speakers present their latest research. These seminars are free and are open to the public. This series takes place on Fridays from 3-4:30 in Center for Social Complexity Suite which is located on the third floor of Research Hall.
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Keith Waters, Ph.D. Candidate
Schar School of Public Policy and Government
George Mason University
Endogenous Region Formation
|I apply spatial attributes to the Endogenous Firm Formation model by Axtell (2016) to grow regions. Migration occurs as workers switch between firms located in different regions. Overall, regional growth and decline depend on the performance of the firms located in them.
William B. Rouse, Ph.D.
Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair
School of Systems and Enterprises
Stevens Institute of Technology
Computational Social Science at Several Levels
Friday, December 8, 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
3rd Floor, Research Hall
ABSTRACT: Computational social science can enable understanding – and design – of a wide variety of phenomena at an enormous range of levels. This lecture will address processes, organizations, ecosystems, and society for phenomena associated with disease and medicine, health and well being, and technology adoption, particularly in automobiles. The process level is addressed in terms of scaling and optimization of medical innovations. The level of organizations is considered in the context of health provider corporations' responses to the Affordable Care Act. The ecosystem level is discussed in addressing population health – integrated delivery of health, education, and social services – in the highly fragmented US ecosystem. The society level is considered in terms of the expected disruptive impacts of driverless cars on automotive, insurance, and finance industries. Approaches to and challenges of modeling at these differing levels are discussed.
Niloofar Jebelli, MAIS-CSS Student
George Mason University
Urban Development Through the Lens of Agent-Based Modeling
Friday, December 15, 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
3rd Floor, Research Hall
Abstract: Cities are ever changing and growing phenomenon with many underlying complexities. Through its life cycle, a city experiences various forms of dynamics. Models allow for a better understanding of such complexities and dynamics. The model presented in this talk simulates the dynamics of certain processes such as: an urban market, agent interactions in that market, urban growth, sprawl and shrinkage and gentrification. The purpose of this model is to understand the behavioral pattern of the agents and demonstrate the life cycle of a city based on individual agents' actions. This model is significant in its integration of various subsystems creating a larger system while observing developers' behavior. Specifically, the model explores some well-known issues, including the Smith's rent-gap theory, Burgess's concentric zones model of urban growth, and Alonso's bid rent theory. The main results from the model show that the agents move to and reside in properties within their income range, with similar neighbors. This is one of the first models that provides a new lens to explore urban development.
Leveling the Playing Field: Information Asymmetry in the Used Vehicle Buying Process
Monday, January 29, 4:30-5:45
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
In 1970, Economist and Nobel Prize winner (2001) George Akerlof published a study: "The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 84, No. 3. (Aug., 1970), pp. 488-500). In the study, Akerlof attempts to show where, in a market where as seller of a product has more data/information than the buyer of the product, about the product's quality, will potentially result in "an adverse selection of low-quality products." In no place is Akerlof's theory more represented than in the used vehicle market, where buyers and sellers don't always have the same information about a vehicle's quality, potentially resulting in low-quality cars being bought and sold. In 1986, CARFAX sought to begin to "level the playing field" between buyers and sellers of used vehicles by collecting, analyzing and making relevant data/information available in the marketplace to both buyers and sellers.
- What data does CARFAX collect?
- Why this data vs other data?
- How does the market drive the type of data collected?
- How does CARFAX analyze and make this data available to answer real world questions?
Is this car safe?
How much should I pay for it?
What's it worth?
What's the risk to insure it?
What's the risk to finance it?
Faisal Hasan is the General Manager, Data & Public Policy at CARFAX. In his over 17 years at CARFAX, Faisal has been responsible for helping to build CARFAX's Vehicle History Database through public and private data acquisition efforts across North America, including overcoming legislative and regulatory hurdles to data access. Faisal focuses on CARFAX's efforts to secure and analyze data to feed the CARFAX "Onetime to Lifetime" Game Plan and develop future CARFAX products. Faisal earned his B.A. in Government & Politics at George Mason University and his M.A. in Government at the Johns Hopkins University. Faisal has been a Fairfax County resident for over 35 years. He is married w/four kids, including a GMU Junior studying Biology and a 2017 GMU Kinesiology graduate.
Sri Melkote is Head of Business Analytics at CARFAX. Sri has been at CARFAX for 2 years and leads teams responsible for valuation modeling, pricing analytics, marketing research, media measurement and optimization. He has over 12 years of data science experience. Prior to joining CARFAX, Sri developed dynamic pricing systems, personalized recommendation engines and inventory planning systems for the travel industry. He holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from Purdue University and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is the author of several journal articles and a recipient of the 2011 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award.
Professor Robert Axtell
Computational Social Science Program, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, College of Science
Department of Economics, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Center for Social Complexity
George Mason University
Order without Optimality
Friday, February 2, 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
3rd Floor, Research Hall
ABSTRACT: Long ago Hunter Mill Road in Reston, Virginia, was surrounded by farmland and little travelled. Where it crosses Colvin Run creek a single-lane bridge was adequate for the traffic at the time. However, as the region grew in the post-WWII era the traffic on Hunter Mill Road increased until the single-lane bridge is today a bottleneck for rush-hour traffic, southbound toward the Dulles Toll Road in the morning and northbound in the evening. There are no stop signs on either side of the bridge but warning signs that the bridge is too narrow to handle two vehicles moving in opposite directions at the same time. During periods of low traffic—queue length 0 or 1—the usual first-come-first-served (FCFS) driver discipline is observed at the bridge, by which the first vehicle to approach from either side has the right-of-way. However, during periods of heavy traffic, such as the morning and evening 'rush hours', a different behavioral regime is observed: pairs of cars moving in the same direction cross the bridge together, in single file. This departure from the FCFS protocol clearly permits higher vehicular flowrates over the bridge in each direction. However, from the layout of the bridge and vehicular dynamic we demonstrate that the globally optimal behavior for the system during busy times would involve larger numbers of vehicles moving together across the bridge, i.e., groups of 3, 4, or even 5 produce shorter wait times overall, dominating the 2-car norm. We argue that this is an example of a sub- optimal spontaneous order, and go on to suggest that there is little reason to believe that (m)any spontaneous orders operate at anything like peak performance. Essentially, spontaneous orders in this context represent behavioral norms for multi-agent coordination problems that improve on so-called anarchic solutions identified with Nash equilibria of the underlying non-cooperative game. The welfare improvements associated with following the emergent social conventions represent a kind of satisficing solution of the type identified by Herbert Simon as a good description of human behavior in a wide variety of social situations, bounded by cognitive constraints, limited information, and incentive problems. We conclude by arguing that F.A. Hayek implicitly associated his conception of spontaneous order with high welfare, but that this view is untenable. Rather, the more general idea of emergence, which makes no welfare assertions, seems to subsume spontaneous order as a very special case, suggesting that Hayek's contribution to this area has been largely supplanted by more recent developments in the science of complex systems, as has been argued elsewhere.
Feras A. Batarseh
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science
College of Science
George Mason University
Why an open mind on open data can transform our collective intelligence
Monday, February 5, 4:30-5:45
Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Abstract: In 1822, the founding father James Madison said: "A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both". Recent technological waves have evidently served Madison's vision of government transparency. The latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Machine Learning can make federal data openness a low hanging fruit. Moreover, the big data and open government initiatives (signed in 2012 and 2013) are major enablers for transforming government into a new era of intelligent and data-driven policy making. However, to be able to use data in reforming the political discussion, public federal data needs to devise the promised openness.
Besides benefiting government, Open Data benefits many other domains and applications of data science, such as healthcare, finance, and academia. For example, Open Data could lead to a general openness in science (i.e. Open Science), clearer experimental research, and begin reshaping the human knowledge in general. These topics and other facets will be discussed in this talk.
Bio: Feras A. Batarseh is a Research Assistant Professor,Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, College of Science, George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. His research spans the areas of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Context-Aware Software Systems. Dr. Batarseh obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF) (2007, 2011), and a Graduate Certificate in Project Leadership from Cornell University (2016). His research work has been published at various prestigious journals and international conferences. Additionally, Dr. Batarseh published and edited several book chapters.
Dr. Batarseh has taught data science and software engineering courses at multiple universities including GMU, UCF as well as George Washington University (GWU). Prior to joining GMU, Dr. Batarseh was a Program Manager with the Data Mining and Advanced Analytics team at MicroStrategy, Inc., a global business intelligence corporation based in Tysons Corner, Virginia. During his tenure, he helped several clients make sense of their data and gain insights into improving their operations. For more information on his research, and contact details, please refer to these webpages: http://ferasbatarseh.com/
Matthew Oldham, CSS PhD Student
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
George Mason University
Friday, February 9 – 3:00 p.m.
Center for Social Complexity Suite
3rd Floor, Research Hall
ABSTRACT: Sports analytics (SA) has experienced a meteoritic rise in recent years, with the trend forecast to continue. Modor Intelligence reports that the market was valued at USD 83.56 million in 2015, and is forecast to grow to USD 447.23 million by 2020. at the market was valued at USD 83.56 million in 2015, and is forecast to grow to USD 447.23 million by 2020.
The growth of sports analytics has raised a rich variety of research topics pertaining to basketball, including: how at the macro level the distribution of scoring activity is a mixture of random walk processes and power-law behavior (Gabel & Redner, 2012), and, at the individual level, the question of whether players develop hot-hands and how the player and their teammates react to its possible existence. While the erroneous belief regarding hot-hands was first identified by Gilovich, Vallone & Tversky (1985) it has remained an active field of research (Bar-Eli, Avugos, & Raab, 2006).
Agent-based modeling (ABM) has great potential to assist and inform those engaged in sports analytics but to date it has not been utilized. The advantage of ABM is that it allows researchers to assess, in a silicon laboratory, the micro-level interactions that give rise to verifiable macro outcomes. This is achieved through heterogeneous agents adapting and making decisions based on their environment, including considering spatial, temporal factors and interactions with other agents.
To support the use of ABM in sports analytics, I will present a 3-dimensional model of a basketball game, where the fundamentals of play including player and court positions, a shot clock, and shooting performance are all included. Additionally, player behavior in deciding whether to shoot, pass or dribble is partially predicated on assessing the length of a player's shooting streak (designed to test the hot-hand effect), and the consideration they give to any streak, plus their franchise status, a feature identified in Burns (2004). The probabilistic nature of the model allows for insights into the dynamics of scoring actions following a random walk. The model captures extensive data which was used to calibrate and validate it against comparable statistics from the National Basketball Association (NBA).


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Baltimore's cutting-edge theater scene just became a bit less razor-sharp.
For the first time in more than 40 years, Spanish puppet troupes and headline-making performers who smear chocolate on their skin will have a hard time finding a stage where they can put on their shows.
Primarily for economic reasons, Baltimore's venerable Theatre Project has quietly stopped bringing in experimental artists with global and national reputations. Instead, the 150-seat showhouse at 45 W. Preston St. is hosting local theater and regional dance companies.
To make matters worse for fans of foreign fare, Baltimore Open Theatre, which had been planning on filling the void left by Theatre Project's change of mission, went belly-up last month before it could stage its first show.
Some fear that if Baltimore were to go for too long without performances of an international flavor, such as regular visits from Dutch avant-garde dance theaters and Singaporean performance artists, it would become a duller, less cosmopolitan city.
"When international and experimental theater is really good, it's transformational," says Philip Arnoult, who founded Theatre Project in 1971 and who was attempting to launch Baltimore Open Theatre this year. "It plops a big, round, shiny object called 'wonder' right down in the middle of your worldview."
Arnoult should know.
It was under his watch that the Theatre Project first became instrumental in making Baltimore a destination for some of America's and the world's most innovative small touring companies.
During its heady early years, Theatre Project brought to Baltimore fledgling groups that went on to garner national reputations: the Pilobolus dance company, the Bread and Puppet Theatre, and Urban Bush Women..
In 1986, Theatre Project played host to the prestigious Theatre of Nations Festival, and in the 1990s the venue helped develop and premiere new work by such performance artists as Karen Finley and Holly Hughes.
"For us, diversity never meant just a black thing and a white thing," says Anne Cantler Fulwiler, who stepped down July 1 after 14 seasons of heading the company. "It meant alternative theater in all of its glorious and messy incarnations."
While Theatre Project might have been nationally known, it never raked in the dough. The company has mounted performances for a small, passionate audience of about 9,000 customers each year.
" 'Profitable' was never a word that applied to us," Fulwiler says."We know we're doing well if we lose less money than we did previously. We always struggle, but we are a resilient organization."
The venue has been scraping along for years on an annual budget of about $200,000. During Fulwiler's tenure alone, Theatre Project mounted more than 400 performances involving more than 3,000 artists from the U.S. and 17 foreign countries.
The recession squeezed not just the Theatre Project, but the foreign companies that had been regular visitors.
In the past, these artists frequently received contributions to their travel budgets from their respective governments. But the turmoil in overseas markets has resulted in a sharp drop in funds available for cultural ambassadorships. In addition, visas and work permits became much more difficult to obtain after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"At the beginning of last season, we morphed somewhat from being a venue for international works to being a hometown incubator," Fulwiler says.
"In part, that's what we can afford to be in this economy. But providing a home for local groups has always been part of our mission. That space has always been about nurturing living artists and presenting new work."
Next season will feature such companies as Iron Crow Theatre, which produces work focusing on gay and lesbian themes; In-Flight Theater, devoted to aerial work using trapezes and other apparatus; and The Generous Company, which develops nontraditional works. All three troupes are based in Baltimore.
Theatre Project's future also will include a new producing director,Chris Pfingsten, who most recently was Fulwiler's second in command.
Fulwiler emphasizes that the company's new focus had nothing to do with her decision to accept employment doing public outreach for the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
"I'm taking a job that in some ways could be seen as less prestigious than what I've been doing at Theatre Project for the past 11 years," she acknowledges. "But it's going to pay me more money and take up less of my time. I do love Theatre Project, and I'm going to continue to be a part of it. I've promised to help with the transition, and I've joined the board of directors."
As Theatre Project was switching its identity, those who enjoy trenchant shows about, say, human-rights abuses in Russia had high hopes for the fledgling Baltimore Open Theatre.
From the moment that organizers announced in December that a brand-new company planned to launch in the fall of 2012, the troupe struck many as a kind of reincarnation of Theatre Project, circa 1975.
For one thing, the new company planned to put on free performances, as Theatre Project had done in the old days. Arnoult and co-founder J. Buck Jabaily announced an inaugural season that planned to showcase companies from South America and Eastern Europe. And in the best Theatre Project tradition, they declared their intention of presenting works that departed from the conventional narrative structure with which most playgoers are familiar.
But, a few weeks ago, the website for Baltimore Open Theatre abruptly disappeared. Instead, visitors were directed to a new website, for an organization called Baltimore Performance Kitchen. Though Jabaily is running the Kitchen, Arnoult is not.
"We needed to refocus our vision, and when we did, Philip decided to leave the company," Jabaily says.
"Our scope was too large in the beginning. We initially were going for a budget of $500,000, and you have to be able to walk before you can run. When you're dealing with international companies, there are additional costs. You have to fly them out here, put them up, build new sets."
The Performance Kitchen still plans on mounting free performances and will have a decidedly contemporary sensibility. The company will focus on experimental works by solo artists that actively involve audience members in the performance process.. But, like the new Theatre Project, those artists will be intimately familiar with central Maryland.
"There are people in our community," Jabaily says, "who need our support."
Arnoult declined to comment, except to acknowledge that he's disappointed that Baltimore Open Theatre never got off the ground.
As the founder of the Center for International Theater Development in Towson, he prefers instead to focus on the opportunities that still exist to create collaborations between artists from different cultures.
For instance, Arnoult has been working with Single Carrot Theatre, which just wrapped up a nine-day workshop with a Bulgarian company called 36 Monkeys. The Carrots hope to bring one of the co-directors of the Monkeys, Vasilena Radeva, to Baltimore for the 2013-14 season, to direct one of the North Avenue theater's productions.
"I still live in Baltimore, so international stuff will continue to happen here," Arnoult says. "But it will certainly be much harder to find."
Global fare
Catch it while you can: They may be few and far between, but audiences will still have a chance next season to see a few productions in Baltimore by foreign troupes:
•Kulunka Teatro This Spanish troupe will perform "Andre and Dorine" at Theatre Project on Aug. 24 and 25. Two performers use a cello, typewriter, movement and masks — but no words — to tell a story about an elderly couple whose relationship is threatened by neglect andAlzheimer's disease.
•Double Edge Theatre This Massachusetts-based company, led by Baltimore native Stacy Klein, will use puppets, music and aerial choreography to take audience members through the imaginative world of artist Marc Chagall. "The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century)" will incorporate performers from Russia and Argentina and will run Dec. 5-16 at Theatre Project.
•Yury Urnov and Copycat Theater The Acme Corporation will present a new show being developed by Russian director Urnov and Baltimore's highly visual, avant-garde Copycats. The show, as yet untitled, will run Feb. 7-18.
•Ida Daniel and Lola B. Pierson Pierson, a member of the Acme Corporation, is involved in a continent-spanning collaboration with Daniel, a Bulgarian director. The new work that emerges will be performed locally April 11-21.
Here are some highlights of Baltimore Theatre Project's 2012-2013 season, which will include music, theater and dance performances by more than a dozen local troupes. Tickets to most shows cost $20 or less; for details, go to theatreproject.org or call 410-539-3091.
• "Pulse" by Daydreams and Nightmares Aerial Theatre. Eight performers using trapezes, ladders, cloth and other aerial apparatus explore what happens when eight strangers collide on a city street. Sept. 7-16.
• High Zero Festival, the East Coast's premier festival of improvised, experimental music, returns to Baltimore Sept. 20-23.
• Iron Crow Theatre, which focuses on works about the gay, lesbian and transgendered community, will present three shows at Theatre Project next season: "Bad Panda," by Megan Gogerty from Oct. 12-27; "Slipping" by Daniel Talbott from March 29-April 13; and "Act a Lady" by Jordan Harrison from May 24-June 8.
• In-Flight Theater: Mara Niemanis' innovative aerial choreography will be featured twice next season. "For That Which Returns" represents a collaboration between Niemanis' Baltimore company and Washington's Arachne Aerial Arts and will run Nov. 1-11. In addition, Niemanis will perform a solo show, "Naomi's Flight," from Feb. 21-March 3.
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• The Generous Company: From Jan. 3-20, a slate of developing works called "Gumbo" will offer audiences a mixture of theater, music, visual art and food.


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