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5 Reasons to Know… Raygine DiAquoi, Doctoral studentBy Lory Hough
She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended public schools until the sixth grade when her parents, wanting her to have every opportunity, sent her to the Hewitt School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side. Her experience there highlighted the inequities she knew existed in public education. "I was being groomed to be a leader through the styles, tastes, and predispositions that my teachers and mentors were actively cultivating in me," she says. "This contrasted greatly with the experiences of my family members who were being groomed for a life of disadvantage. They were not being asked to think critically, to be creative, or to lead projects. I now know that their schools, like my school, were simply reproducing and maintaining the status quo." This Big Sister to a local second-grader is now at the Ed School to figure out why this happens — and what she can do about it.
1. With a handful of other doctoral students, she started the Graduate Student Research Collaborative, the student arm of the school's Achievement Gap Initiative. Their main goal: find a direct link between culture and academic achievement.
2. Ultimately she says she's interested in better understanding schools that are successfully educating minority students. She also wants to paint a different image of African American families than the prevailing one that implies they are not interested in education.
3. Since coming to the Ed School in 2007 following teaching stints at schools in Harlem and at the academic achievement program she attended before starting private school, she has been active in the annual Alumni of Color Conference. "It's a space where I feel nourished and reminded of why I'm here."
4. This past summer, she worked in Haiti on a Save the Children project designed to help a community track their own school success using surveys and interviews. She created a task force of teachers, students, community leaders, and parents that are doing the tracking and then will share the findings with the rest of the community.
5. She can walk on stilts and ride a unicycle. She learned both skills while a counselor at a performing arts camp. "I unicycle now to relieve stress. It's hard, it's counterintuitive, but that's part of the fun."
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The annual fund drive for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad is now underway.
Organizers showed-off some of the tools they use by cutting the Voice of The Cavalier's Mac McDonald out of a car.
The fundraising event kicked off Wednesday morning with a tribute to the organizations volunteers.
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By Heather Mac Donald
THE City Council is about to obliterate welfare reform and return us to the days when one in seven New Yorkers lived off the labors of the other six.
Under a bill steaming through the council, welfare recipients would no longer need to work or look for work in exchange for benefits. Instead, anyone expressing a preference for "education and training" as an alternative to workfare would be able to attend classes and avoid work.
It's impossible to overstate the regressiveness of this bill. For decades, welfare advocates touted "education and training" as the best route off of welfare. The rolls only skyrocketed. The radical insight of 1990s welfare reform was that the best way to move welfare recipients into work was . . . to send them to work.
Both the 1996 federal welfare reform and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's workfare program recognized that the most crucial skill that welfare recipients need is the discipline to show up to a workplace every day on time -and the only way to acquire that skill is by working.
The insight proved revolutionary: Nationally, the welfare rolls dropped over 50 percent in five years; New York's rolls dropped 60 percent from 1993 to 2001. Black child poverty is at its lowest point in history.
Why, then, would the City Council want to move back to the old, failed status quo? The answer lies in a combination of self-interest and ideology.
No-expectations welfare may not have done much for the women and children it purported to support, but it kept a vast network of social service workers in lifetime employment, who in turn provided votes to councilmembers.
Nonprofit "job trainers" lived off of city contracts that paid regardless of whether they found anyone a job. CUNY got tens of thousands of welfare students who spent countless years in a no-standards holding tank without graduating, but whose presence supported droves of counselors, tutors, group-learning facilitators and sundry bureaucrats.
Ideology? Here's Professor Lorraine Cohen of LaGuardia Community College at a recent City Council hearing: Referring melodramatically to workfare participants as "the disappeared" (i.e. as victims of right-wing death squads), she testified that welfare reform belongs to the "continuous history of America . . . of punishing those who are poor."
Oh really? If America has so punished the poor, why have the world's poor sacrificed all to get here since the 1600s? If conditions are so punishing here, why aren't poor Americans migrating to Africa, China or Latin America? If American society is so inimical to self-betterment, how is it that the U.S.-earned wages of immigrants support whole villages - no, whole economies - south of the border?
The philosophical premise behind the reform-rollback bill is that ordinary citizens are incapable of helping themselves outside the framework of government programs: The bill states that most of those welfare recipients "allowed" to earn a college degree move off welfare.
Yet no welfare-reform law contains a ban on attending college. Welfare recipients have always been "allowed" to seek any kind of education they choose, beyond what the city already offers them. What the laws don't contain is a specific provision letting welfare recipients substitute college attendance for required work activity.
But in council-think, the absence of a government-designed and -subsidized program for welfare college attendance is equivalent to prohibiting college attendance: It is simply inconceivable that someone could seek education on his own initiative - let alone work his way through college.
Contrary to reform opponents' claims, the city already provides job training to welfare recipients. On average, they spend 40 percent of their required participation hours in education and training; more than 2,500 welfare recipients are engaged in education activities alone.
THE biggest problem with this bill is its inequity.
Hundreds of thousands of poor New Yorkers have put or are putting themselves through school by working one or more jobs. This bill tells those hard-working New Yorkers that their taxes should support another category of able-bodied New Yorkers: those who would prefer not to work but to collect welfare, Medicaid, food stamps and housing allowances while going to school.
And not even full-time school: The bill assumes one hour of study time for every hour of class time, so a recipient would need only 10 hours a week of class time to meet federal work requirements.
New York already provides free full-time education and job training: We call it high school. No other item on the city's budget comes close to sucking up such immense quantities of taxpayer dollars. After high school, New York provides a massively subsidized college education.
Amazingly, the council cites the fact that the "vast majority" of welfare recipients have dropped out of high school as justification for offering them more obligation-free education at taxpayer expense.
That's asking too much of people who have played by the rules - who attended their high school classes, did their homework and graduated on time. Why should they forfeit more of their salaries so that people who ignored the rules can take a second bite of the apple?
Do people deserve a second chance? Of course. But that second chance should come under different conditions from the first, to avoid encouraging yet more irresponsible behavior.
Giuliani's greatest contribution to welfare reform was philosophical, articulating a new version of New York's traditionally one-sided social contract: If you ask taxpayers to support you, and you're able-bodied, he said, you must give something back to the city.
The rhetoric surrounding the council's welfare-reform repeal could not be more different: At the recent hearing, both council members and advocates called the expectation that welfare recipients should work "slavery." The council's actions could soon teach a new generation of New Yorkers to think of themselves as victims who owe only resentment to those who support them.
From www.city-journal.org, the Web site of City Journal. Heather Mac Donald is a CJ contributing editor and author of the forthcoming "Are Cops Racist?"
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My New Year's resolution is to start commenting on selected blogs and contributing to relevant online forums. Why? To build our niche visibility, promote the SCORE brand and increase traffic on SCORE Chicago's website and blogs.
Commenting gets you involved in conversations, expands contacts in your niche and brings traffic back to your blogs and sites. In Case Study: Power of a Blog Comment, learn how Jesse Heap of Pink Cake Box left a comment on the Small Business Search Marketing blog, which lead to Pink Cake being featured on a magazine cover. Similarly, blogger Marko Saric posted a comment on ZenHabits, a blog with over 79,000 RSS subscribers. This one comment brought him 230+ unique visitors in less than 6 days.
Here's what I've learned from a web search on commenting do's and don'ts:
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Comment on blogs relevant to your niche. When you focus on your niche, readers are more likely to visit your blog or site. (And highly relevant back links have a greater SEO value.) Concentrate on maybe 5 or 10 blogs in your area. See this great ReadWriteWeb post on how to determine the top blogs in any niche.
For maximum impact, choose blogs with good page rank in Google and large numbers of RSS subscribers. (Check the page rank of any blog here.) Popular blogs, with high numbers of RSS subscribers, show up in the blog aggregator Alltop.com. And the free Google Reader lists the number of subscribers to any blog feeds (Subscribe to the blog feed in Google Reader, click the blog name and then click "show details," upper right, to see the feed count.)
Make the comment relevant and substantive. Read the post thoroughly and contribute something meaningful. This might be your own experience, an answer to a question raised, even a further question the post suggests. If you're tempted to write "great post," try instead to mention one idea you strongly agree with or something new you learned.
Be careful with negative comments. Saric recommends that you only comment positively: "Only write a comment if you like the post and if you have something relevant and interesting to say." On the other hand, LeadsExplorer says you can make negative comments: "A comment is just another opinion that can have the opposite opinion from the blog post or the general opinion of the readers of the blog." Sarah Perez agrees that negative comments are part of intelligent conversation: "Blogger and reader don't always have to agree with each other, but being able to at least constructively debate the issue brings something to the table that straightforward reporting does not."
Comment quickly on popular blogs. Saric says, "The earlier you are, more exposure you are going to get." Set up Google Alerts for your main keywords on your target blogs. (The blog-specific format is "URL keyword", i.e. "http://www.scorechicago.org commenting". Set type to blog, and how often to "as-it-happens.") If you're on Twitter or a voting site like Stumbleupon, maybe also reTweet or Stumble the post after you comment, to get maximum visibility from social media activity.
Check back and follow up on later comments, to participate in the conversation. If there's a box to check to be notified of further comments, check it. Network, learn, interact.
Use a consistent media profile. As Saric suggests, "Brand your comment by using same name, same avatar, same URL and same signature." Use your full name in the comment field to increase trust and promote branding. For those who don't know, most blog templates hyperlink your name to the URL you provide, so you don't have to add your web address to the post.
In essence, do think long-term. Do make comments to build relationships, not to generate short term bursts of traffic.
Commenting Don'ts
Don't cut and paste generic comments. They add nothing and you ruin your reputation for possible short term gain.
Don't be rude. This networking world is small and you don't want to burn bridges.
Forum Comments. Online or internet forums are online discussion sites. Some allow you to set up an online profile and others permit you to include a link to your website in your signature. It's an excellent way to get your name out on the internet and present your knowledge and expertise. Popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook and Myspace, as well as many niche sites, have such forums as a site feature. Be sure to read the forum's rules and regs.
Big Boards has a list of forums on numerous topics, in both directory and search format. Of course, post in forums related to your blog or site. Choose a couple forums and become known in them rather than spreading yourself too thin. Sometimes you have to be a member for a certain number of days before you start posting.
Since we're talking comments, please comment on this post. Tell me something you agree or disagree with. Tell me if commenting has worked for you, and how. Or give me your opinion: Is it OK in a comment to add a link to your own posts if it's really on target?
-Peg Corwin, SCORE Chicago
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Smart Blog Commenting A video with 4 reasons to comment and 3 steps to smart comments. 10 minutes long, but worth it.
Rethinking Blog Comments. DoshDosh.com "Think long-term, think relationships and think about getting repeat benefits." This blogger is my hero. He writes thoughtful and thorough posts on topics I want to learn about.
How to Comment on Blogs: An Introduction. MintBlogger.com "Let's try to understand and find out the correct way of commenting, that not only give us quality back links but also helps in building our e-brand."
How One Blog Comment can Bring You 230+ Unique Visitors. HowToMakeMyBlog.com. Marko Saric got 230+ visitors from one comment, and has good recommendations for commenting.
14 Reasons Why Commenting is More Effective Than Blogging. LeadsExlorer.com Reason number 2 "A blog needs to build an audience over time or the blog needs to get subscribers on the RSS feed, which takes time too. A comment on a blog steals the readers of the blog post."
Blog Comments Still Matter ReadWriteWeb picks up the discussion on negative blog comments.
Blog Commenting Community Strategist blog. "It's not all about you & your blog! There is a much bigger world out there & you are but one voice, so you need to join the collective."
Revising My Comment Policy: Keywords Gone. Caroline Middlebrook no longer allows people to put their keywords in the name field to boost their back link. She also deletes signatures with business names or keywords because the URL is already filled in.
The Art of Blog Commenting. Fast Blog Finder. This author says it's ok to add relevant links in a comment.
Your Best Customers Participate in Online Forums; So Should You – A Case Study. WebInkNow.com Two examples, one where a company participated in relevant forums and another where they did not.
Increase Traffic and Backlinks from Forum Commenting and Signature. GoArticles. "The more relevant forums you contribute to, the greater your chances of a flood of free traffic. And not only that, at the same time you are constantly building back links to your site, each one of which can bring you traffic at any time."
How to Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet. One item is how to find popular blogs using Delicious.
My Related posts:
Hey You There, Reading This. Here's How It Works Sharing your opinion on a blog, becoming part of the conversation.
Promoting Politely: What's Naughty and Nice Business Etiquette on Social Networks. Get your message out one-on-one, and low-key.
Technical Note: Do-Follow and No-Follow Blogs
Some blogs have "nofollow" linking policies for commentors. Wikipedia says "nofollow is a misnomer in this case since it actually tells a search engine 'Don't score this link' rather than 'Don't follow this link."" Commenters intent on max back links worry about these things, but I say, comment on good blogs to build long term relationships. For those who care, Google has a dofollow blog search. See also this video on Traffic From Blog Commenting, which specifically addresses do-follow blogs.
PS. Turns out blog commenting is a profession. Get good at this and you can earn money.
I use the same method to increase my website page rank. but is there any idea how to write at the name form to get the best result? may i use name, keyword, or both of them?
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Thanks for your post, I got a lot of useful information on commenting from it and from your soueces as well. I wasn't commenting before but started now and it seems to be really good way to get traffic and especially learn something new.
Chaunna, thanks for giving a thumbs up to these marketing tips.
Christine, I agree there are some best practices here that I think many are unaware of. Much easier than running your own blog or setting up websites.
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Commenting is one of the most highly effective way in getting website traffic. It is fun, you get to learn new things and you get to know more people also.
commenting on relative blogs is the best way to target a niche audience and really learn from people who care about the same topics you do. I thank you for the great information and hope to learn even more my next time back.
Peg: Wow. Thanks for the very comprehensive post with so much good information and great links. I get this as an email feed and will save this in my online, best practices file. Much appreciated.
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An 84-year-old woman with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) had to wait almost five hours for an ambulance to arrive from a neighbouring county.
Jane Mayes, who is registered blind, called the emergency services at 3am suffering from "agonising pain" in her leg.
She had to wait more than an hour for a crew to arrive from the East of England Ambulance Service – only to be told by paramedics that her condition was not "life threatening" and her case was being transferred to another service.
Her painful ordeal continued as she was made to wait a further three hours for a team to attend from the Thames Ambulance Service – based more than 70 miles away in Canvey Island, Essex.
The crew even rang to say they were on the M25 and had never been to Addenbrooke's before they finally arrived at her home in Meadow Way, Mepal, shortly after 7am.
Mrs Moyes said: "It was agony and quite frightening. I had gone to see the doctor at The Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely the night before who told me that I might have DVT and if the pains got worse then I should ring an ambulance immediately.
"Well, we followed his instructions only to be treated in this shambolic way.
"Having to wait from 3am for so long isn't pleasant and to have an ambulance arrive from Essex can't be productive for the service.
"The staff at Addenbrooke's were fantastic but it was 9am by the time we got there – six hours after our first call."
Doctors told Mrs Mayes that she had chronic sciatica and said it was less serious than DVT.
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He said: "It was barmy, the whole thing, they even rang to say they had not been to the hospital before and were somewhere along the M25.
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The incident happened on December 2.
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service apologised for the delay but confirmed Mrs Mayes' call had been classed as "not life-threatening".
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As for the parrot, it's an umbrella cockatoo, a friend of mine had one - and they do the headbanging thing all the time, it's crazy. All they need is some motivation, in my friends case he would start yelling and go a little crazy, then the parrot followed.
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This was hilarious. The description reads:11-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte is so breathtakingly dumb, it's literally impossible to keep a straight face when he talks -- just ask two Philly news anchors who completely fell apart after a 5-minute interview.
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A Coded Threat Within Afghanistan Attack Numbers
A decrease in attacks may not be a good sign for 2014, experts say.
New information out of Afghanistan shows a slight decrease in the number of attacks on allied forces there, though there are troubling details hidden in the numbers, experts say.
[Read: The Curse of Commanding the Afghan War]
Attacks on coalition troops dropped in October and fell 10 percent in the last three months compared to the same time last year, according to monthly data from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. This is a positive sign for Afghan watchers, following a slight uptick in attacks in September, as well as in the beginning of this year's fighting season in April, May, and June.
The rate of attacks shows a decline from 2010, when engagements spiked 77 percent following a surge in U.S. troops deployed the year before. It has leveled off much more since 2011.
However, ISAF countries such as the U.S., Australia and France have withdrawn large numbers of their troops this year, which might also account for the drop in overall skirmishes. Now that the U.S. planned withdrawal in 2014 is well established, the Taliban may be waiting for American troops to depart before making a final push.
"The Taliban still sees this as very much a waiting game," says Omar Lamrani, a military analyst with the private intelligence company Stratfor. "They understand in 2014 their chances of victory are much higher than they are now."
"There is no reason for exhausting themselves completely before 2014," he says.
[Afghan President: U.S. Violating Detainee Pact]
It is important not to overemphasize the effect of the surge, says Lamrani. It undoubtedly had a considerable effect on disrupting the Taliban, but the militant group is known for its ability to rebuild quite quickly, he says.
Coalition troops have practically ceded "large swaths" of Taliban strongholds, he says, such as parts of the notoriously violent Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan where insurgent forces can regroup.
The ISAF numbers show fighting has increased 13 percent in the north and 21 percent in the west – regions that have made up less than 10 percent of the overall fighting in the last year.
The White House and Pentagon have not yet decided on the total number of troops they plan to leave behind, Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters on Tuesday, though some estimates place that around 10,000. Coalition commander Marine Gen. John Allen has proposed a force of between 6,000 and 15,000.
[Related: As U.S. Draws Down, Military Hits 'Reset' Button]
The U.S. has wrestled with how to portray this strategy, not wanting to announce tactics while also reassuring Americans that the bulk of the fighting is coming to a close.
In remarks at the Willard Hotel earlier this month, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stated Afghan forces will take "full responsibility for security at the end of 2014," while also issuing this declaration to the Taliban and other militant groups, such as al Qaeda:
"We are not going anywhere; our commitment to Afghanistan is long-term; you cannot wait us out."
There are pockets of excellence among Afghan forces, Lamrani says, such as with their special operations units, and some within the regular army. However, removing allied troops and money will be a severe shock to the country.
"You look at helicopters being replaced by donkeys," he says. "It sounds funny, but it's the reality over there."
[Panetta to Congress: 'We Are Not Going to Hollow Out the Force']
A lack of education, infrastructure, and governmental accountability paint a bleak picture for a modernizing country where fewer than a third of the population can read and write, according to the most recent CIA data. The U.S. Special Investigator for Afghanistan Reconstruction believes these are among the reasons why local forces will not be able to maintain security.
A remaining allied force of 10,000 troops or fewer, combined with 21st-century warfighting tactics, could arguably still maintain security.
"With these plans the U.S. has, they do have a lot of bandwidth to respond to transnational threats," Lamrani says, referring to foreign fighters who may be able to enter the country. "The mission is much less about defeating the Taliban as it is having the capability to respond to transnational threats from Afghanistan."


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This is mainly about soaring with full r/c than follow-drones which would presumably have a more predictable flight path, so not exactly the same situation but I'd still imagine speedrider pilots having problems with this because they are often well below the 400ft AGL height limit.
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Although we're not allowed to fly directly above pistes I can imagine these drones being very popular off-piste (i.e backcountry) where we often paraglide. A collision with an untethered drone *probably* wouldn't be too dangerous assuming the rotor blades are surrounded with a shroud but if it were tethered to the skier/boarder then the likelihood of it becoming tangled is quite high and could easily cause major problems for the paraglider pilot.
Luckily Chamonix is a very traditional resort so I'd expect these drones to be banned anywhere near the piste and (hopefully) off-piste as well, however it would be almost impossible to police off-piste!
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During the install I re-formatted my root (/) partition for the new version and selected my existing
Finally I just had to re-install a few apps, my settings stored in ~/ were automatically recognised of course. Total time, <1hr.
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It's nothing to do with the dating site's security, more to do with the tech savy of their users.
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How to prevent a PHP script being executed when it is being read in as an $_post element?
Simple, don't:
(in fact don't eval at all, if you need eval you're usually doing something wrong)
Having RTFA, I interpreted it slightly differently. I think the supplied PHP code is uploaded to another, previously compromised server and it is used to send out phishing emails.
The unwary user then enters their login details on the compromised server (or if they are using an email client that displays HTML forms(!), within the email) the data is then sent to the compromised server which forwards it on to the script kiddie. The user is then redirected to the real login page along with their POST data so when they arrive there they are automatically logged in, none the wiser...
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I just sent this to a couple of friends who don't understand what hacking is. Previously I've tried to explain to them that hacking is making something do stuff it wasn't originally designed to do and they've assumed that's just a euphemism for cracking security.
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Hell I *am* a technical person and I would dearly love for a database that made it as easy to create a simple database as it is to create a spreadsheet.
Are you sure you are "a technical person"?
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and there are no countervailing examples in TV fiction
How about Walter White (Breaking Bad) or Gregory House MD (House MD)? I'd say they are intellectual heroes (or anti-heros in the case of WW).
Interestingly House also has some of the social issues that are represented in TBBT but he's never belittled by the plot/script, far from it.


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Research Reports Fall 2003
|Below are the results of the four studies conducted in the Fall 2003 semester by students enrolled in PSY 220: Research Design and Statistics. Click on the links below to view Powerpoint presentations of their results or to read their final papers.
Extroversion and the Tendency to Smoke and Drink
Josh Bowyer, Ashley Papoy, & Dena Oak
PSY 220: Fall 2003
Health Implications of Emotional Inhibition
Jennifer Elpers, Mark Fairweather, & Jenn Risch
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Jenn's paper
The Emotional and Physiological Effects of Action and Romance Scenes on Men and Women
Michele Neal, Alex McGowan, & Kayla Meagher
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Alex's paper
Does Positive Affect Increase Recall Performance?
Chris Dawson, Brandon Knight, & Ashley Bridges
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By Julia Green
The Margaretville Central School Booster Club held its fifth Annual Indoor Soccer Tournament on Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 at MCS. Forty teams in four different age groups competed in the tournament, which raised funds for the booster club.
It's been a season of growing pains for Andes coach Jeff Rhone and his Mountaineers basketball team. Leading the youngest team in the Delaware League, it has sometimes been hard for Rhone to track his team's progress. That's why last week's, 46-36, victory over Roxbury during the final week of the season was a beacon of better things to come for Rhone's novice team.
By John Bernhardt
With their backs to the wall, the Margaretville girls' basketball season was on the line. The Lady Blue Devils needed a three-game sweep during the final week of the season to qualify for the Section IV Playoffs. After winning back-to-back Delaware League contests over Stamford and Windham, a late Blue Devil rally came up short, ending their season on the short side of a 47-43 decision against Roscoe on Saturday night.
By John Bernhardt
It's on to the second season for the Roxbury Rockets. With wins over Jefferson and Andes last week, the highflying Roxbury boys' basketball team clinched the Delaware League's Mountain Division title.
By Matthew J. Perry
The Andes Central School Board of Education met Thursday to reckon with problems expected with spring sports and to receive updates on a variety of events planned for students in the spring and ongoing negotiation with the school's teachers.
By John Bernhardt
A two-year transformation is complete. A convincing Roxbury home-court win over South Kortright last week Tuesday cleared the logjam atop the Delaware League's Mountain Division. In winning, Roxbury was transformed from "hunter" to "hunted" in the evolving 2008 Delaware League race.
It's a family affair this year on the Andes girls' basketball team. Three Tait sisters, senior Cheyenne, sophomore Karli, and freshman Gina play on the Andes squad. Even more important is the inclusive attitude and unselfish play the entire Lady Mountaineer team has shown in the early season. Andes continued their selfless play this week as four girls reached double-figures in a 66-45 win over Windham.
A furious Andes fourth quarter rally fell short last week in Windham. Trailing by 12 points in the early minutes of the final frame, the Mountaineers stormed back, shrinking the gap to just two with under a minute to play before dropping a 39-34 decision.
The game took a defensive posture with both teams unleashing stingy defenses from the start. Andes hit only three field goals in a low-scoring first half. Only a rock-solid defensive effort kept the Mountaineers in the game as they trailed 17-10 at the intermission.
With SK scrambling to foul, Roxbury extended the floor and kept the ball moving ahead of the desperate Rams. Morgan distributed to Hubbard, and Hubbard volleyed the ball back. As three defenders closed down on Morgan, the sophomore spotted Camillone all alone up court and directed a pass to the senior for the final field goal of the game. Frantically maneuvering for a three-point attempt, SK was cited for traveling with 6.3 seconds left. Ryan Skipper hit one of two foul shots to seal the Rams' fate, and Roxbury secured the 40-36 win.
By John Bernhardt
The undefeated South Kortright Rams scored 13 unanswered points and their hometown fans were frenzied. Trailing 34-27, with less than four minutes to play, the game was unraveling for Roxbury. In only the fifth game of the season, the preseason promise of a Mountain Division championship run seemed to be slipping through the Rockets' fingers.
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Lew hopeful on reaching a budget breakthrough
WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says he is optimistic that President Barack Obama will be able to reach an agreement with Republicans in Congress to break a budget impasse that has triggered across-the-board government spending cuts.
Jeb Bush: Political reporters are 'crack addicts'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Sunday likened political reporters to "crack addicts" and "heroin addicts" during a tour of morning talk shows that drew repeated questions about the still-distant 2016 presidential election.
Barbed humor on the menu at annual Gridiron dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama had a ready excuse for anyone who didn't think he was funny enough at Saturday night's Gridiron dinner: "My joke writers have been placed on furlough."
Beam me up, Yoda: Obama won't do 'Jedi mind meld'
WASHINGTON (AP) — He's not a dictator and won't entertain the idea of a "Jedi mind meld" with opponents. There's no "secret formula or special sauce" he can slip foes to make them see things his way.
Obama, congressional leaders meet at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are meeting at the White House, with billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts ready to start kicking in.
Poll: Calif. support of gay marriage at 61 percent
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A record 61 percent of Californians now approve of allowing same-sex couples to marry, according to a poll released Thursday.
McCain and Graham press Obama on border
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham pressed President Obama on the importance of border security at a rare White House meeting and came away praising the president's commitment to overhauling immigration laws.
Big push to support gay marriage at high court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent Republicans, retired military leaders and U.S. businesses are among the factions ready to ask the Supreme Court to support marriage equality in two cases up for argument next month.
Senate confirms Hagel for defense secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Senate voted to confirm Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary, handing him the top Pentagon job just days before billions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the military.
Senate to vote on moving ahead on Hagel nod
WASHINGTON (AP) – A deeply divided Senate is moving toward a vote on President Barack Obama's contentious choice of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department.
Facing Friday deadline, Obama says Congress can avoid budget cuts if lawmakers compromise
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling the nation's governors that "at some point we've got to do some governing," rather than "careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."
All condemn pending budget cuts, spread blame
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who's to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week's end, with the administration detailing the potential fallout in each state.


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BINGHAMTON/ROXBURY — Beverly J. Stone died Feb. 16, 2013, and her husband, Carl H. Stone died Feb. 18, 2013, residents of Binghamton for 53 years.
Beverly Jane Bales was born on Dec.12, 1930, in West Colesville. Carl Hubert Stone was born Oct. 31, 1924, in Bainbridge, and lived in the Harpursville area most of his early life. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.
He married Beverly on May 15, 1949. Daughter Joanne Marie was born Feb. 15, 1950.
A grandson, Bradley Cook, preceded their passing in 1993.
They bought their first home on Colesville Road, Binghamton, in October 1956, and lived there for 53 years. For many years Carl served as deacon at Harpursville Baptist Church and Grace Baptist Church in Binghamton. Beverly taught Sunday School and loved singing in the choir. They often provided transportation to children and elders needing rides to church services.
In November 2008, they moved to Charlotte, N.C., and lived next door to their daughter and son-in-law, Joanne and Robert Cook. Grandson, Christopher Cook and his family live in Davidson, N.C. Carl and Beverly loved watching their three great granddaughters learn to walk, talk and grow.
They joined Northside Baptist Church and Homemakers Sunday School class in Charlotte. They loved to entertain, camp, hike, bicycle, cross country ski, roller skate, chop and split wood for enjoying camp fires.
First and foremost in their lives was their relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by their
unconditional love and devotion to each other for the past 63 years. They will be greatly missed by all those who knew them and experienced their genuine caring.
Memorial services will be held at the Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church, Roxbury, at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013, with the Rev. Richard Dykstra, officiating. Committal services will follow in the Roxbury Cemetery.
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Update 11:30 p.m.
Only four of 45 precincts are reporting with Laurie Davies leading, (7,360), 29.4 percent, followed by Jerry Slusiewicz, (6,189), 24.7 percent, Jerry McCloskey, (6,102), 24.3 percent, Brad Barber, (2,859), 11.4 percent, and Tony English, (2,560), 10.2 percent.
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With four of 45 precinct returns tallied in Laguna Niguel, Laurie Davies maintains the lead in the three-seat City Council race with 29.4 percent, Jerry Slusiewicz at 24.7 percent, Jerry McCloskey 24.3, Brad Barber 11.4 percent and Tony English, 10.2 percent.
In the three-seat City Council race in Laguna Niguel, Laurie Davies, Jerry Slusiewicz and Jerry McCloskey lead in the early tally for mail-in voters Tuesday night.
Davies has 29.4 percent of the vote, Slusiewicz, and McCloskey 24.4 percent, Brad Barber 11.4 percent, and Tony English 10.2 percent. However, the election is far too early to call because none of the precinct returns have been counted as of 9:25 p.m.
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Six of 30 the precincts returns have been counted: J. Scott Schoeffel (3,192) or 29 percent, Carlos N. Olvera, (2,938) and Norm Denton, (2,932), both at 26.7 percent, and Ed Stevenson, (1,935) at 17.6 percent.
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With one of 30 precinct returns tallied, J. Scott Schoeffel is leading at 29 percent, followed by Norm Denton, 26.9, Carlos N. Olvera, 26.7, and Ed Stevenson, 17.4 percent.
J. Scott Schoeffel leads the early returns by 28 percent, followed by Carlos N. Olvera. 26.9 percent, Norm Denton, 26.8 percent and Ed Stevenson 17.6 percent. None of the Dana Point precincts have been counted as of 9:25 p.m.


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These days, you can check your bank account statements, buy car insurance, and even apply for a college online. You would think cartoonists would get with the program and begin drawing cartoons purely with computer, right? Well, not just yet. Many cartoonists still choose to draw or sketch their cartoons by hand, then scan them onto computers for finishing touches.
The scanner has become almost as essential to the cartoonist as a pad of paper. The good news is that scanners are very affordable these days. You can easily find a quality printer/scanner combination for under $100.
Regardless of how much of the process you choose to do by hand and how much of it you choose to do in Photoshop, a scanner is what connects the two mediums together. It is very important to become acquainted with the scanning procedure, so that your work does not lose quality between transfers of physical to digital. It's also important to understand that having to scan the same drawing more than one time is a waste of time, thus it's important to get it right during the first scan.
This tutorial will guide you to scanning your drawings onto your computer while retaining their quality.
Scanning Resolution
The resolution of an image is simply the amount of pixels that are displayed to represent that image. DPI, or dots per inch, is a common measurement of resolution. If a drawing is physically 1″ by 1″, it will be displayed on the screen as 10px by 10px at 10dpi.
Above, you see two squares which are actually both 1″ by 1″ physically. In other words, if I were to print both of these squares, they'd both come out the same size (1″ by 1″). On-screen, however, they're different in size because one is set at 72dpi, and the other at 36dpi. Therefore, on a digital display, one will be twice as large as the other, even though they'd be printed as equal sizes.
Scanning Quality
The more pixels are used to display a set physical unit (inch), the higher quality the image will be when printed. Thus, the higher dpi setting an image has, the better its quality. Also, the higher dpi setting an image has, the larger it will appear on your screen.
Which dpi scan setting to use
For common computer graphics or documents, the standard setting is at 72dpi. However, 72dpi doesn't quite cut it for graphics that are bound for printing. The recommended setting for images that will be printed is 300dpi.
Personally, I scan in my cartoons at 600dpi. Some artists even use 1200dpi, which puts up a pretty huge image on your screen. If you plan to scan in at 1200dpi, you better have a powerful computer that won't slow down when working on such a large image.
A lot of people wonder how artists can get such smooth lines in their cartoons. Well, while experience and hand control certainly play their part, the dpi plays a major role as well. If you scan your cartoon in at 600dpi and then downsize it for your website, all the small imperfections in the line will become nearly invisible. Therefore, you'll have what appears to be a very smooth line.
Apart from making your cartoons look better, a higher dpi setting eliminates any need to scan the same cartoon for a second time in the future. By saving the high-resolution version of each cartoon, you will always be able to open it and resize it for whatever you need (printing, website, icons, etc.), thus you'll never need to scan it again. Just like in sculpting, where you can take away but not add material, you can always scale down a high-resolution drawing, but you can't make a low-resolution drawing any larger without losing quality.
Another reason to always save a high-resolution copy of your cartoons is that it's a lot easier to make changes to them, as opposed to trying to fiddle with tiny details in a 500-pixel-wide cartoon.
Scanning Color Setting
This is pretty simple. If it's a black and white cartoon (or if you plan to color it in Photoshop), scan it in as a "Black and White Drawing." This will give you pure black and white image, without any smudges or shadows. Yes, it will make your black lines have very rigid edges, but as mentioned previously, these imperfections won't be visible when you scale down the drawing.
Now you understand the scanning process and will be able to zip through it without any issues. It really is simple, but it's a crucial chain link in the cartooning process. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.


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Lions head coach Warren Gatland admitted he "agonised" over his decision not to include Shaun Edwards in his coaching team for next summer's tour of Australia.
Edwards was widely tipped to travel with the British & Irish Lions as their defence coach having fulfilled the role under Sir Ian McGeechan in South Africa in 2009 and given his close association with Gatland, with the pair having worked together for the past decade.
However, Gatland chose to recruit England coaches Graham Rowntree and Andy Farrell and Wales assistant Rob Howley for the three-test series with the Wallabies next summer.
But the Kiwi admitted it was far from a simple choice to snub his colleague and friend, who was his right-hand man at London Wasps and is now one of his key lieutenants with Wales.
"It was pretty agonising," said Gatland, who also held discussions with Leinster head coach Joe Schmidt. "There was a lot of speculation and people talking about Shaun. That was, for me, the most difficult decision to have to make.
"We wanted some continuity from 2009, with Rob and Graham, but then to bring in someone fresh that challenges me, someone that I haven't worked with and that's why."
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Joe Flacco's agent, Joe Linta, has a higher opinion of his client than ever after the Ravens' Super Bowl win, and said Tuesday [2] that he thinks Flacco should be the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL.
"When you do a contract of this magnitude, you look at what is the player's body of work presently," Linta said in an interview with CNBC. "And what are the expectations going forward over the next four, five or six years. Joe wins on both accounts."
Flacco didn't have an outstanding regular season, but he passed for 1,140 yards and 11 touchdowns with zero interceptions in four postseason games this year, ultimately leading the Ravens to a 34-31 over the 49ers in the Super Bowl. He also became the first quarterback to win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons. He is up for a new contract this offseason.
At 28, Flacco is younger than Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, who make $18 million and $20 million, respectively. Each has won one Super Bowl, now the same number as Flacco, and Linta said that that should justify an even bigger payday for Flacco.
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Cost comparisons are fallacious. Who cares if media costs are becoming similar? It proves nothing about cost of ownership. Supposed technological advantages of one over the other are also pretty meaningless. Tape has been implementing the same read/write head technology, PRML, and other technologies used in disk for many years. But it is a linear, rather than a rotational media, so there's the rub. Ultimately, lots of tape and lots of disk are equally painful to manage.
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27 Miles Malibu Launches a Laid-Back Luxe Collection of Fashions and Accessories Inspired by Malibu
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A busy entrepreneur and designer with over a decade of experience, Katharine Marinaro, co-founder and creative director for 27 Miles Malibu wanted to create a collection that combined versatile trend-driven basics juxtaposed with stylish pieces for evening that have a rock-n-roll vibe. Inspired by Malibu's laid-back luxe style, the line includes casual basics like scoop neck and bat sleeve Tencel tees, as well as curve-complementing lace leggings and silk moto jackets inspired by the 60's and 80's but interpreted with a modern edge and flair.
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"It's had its ups and downs," said Chevalier. "Skype has helped a lot, but there's nothing like seeing her in person and holding her and smelling her."
Melanie's classmates have been well aware of her situation and her father's deployment. Last year her second grade class wrote letters and send care packages to her father. In return, Chevalier sent back photos from Kuwait. Stony Lane Principal Edward Ferrario placed them on the wall outside the man office for all to see.
"Stony Lane has been great. The faculty has been great and very supportive," said Chevalier. "I think it's helped Melanie and my wife with the separation. I'm very thankful for them."
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I can speak from experience that no matter how good the sandwich is, you won't like it because your brain is expecting cake!
My mother in law did this very thing, except with pink 'icing' for Valentine's dinner one year. So cute, but just too weird to eat!


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2013 and earlier Cadillac CTS Lease Questions
Hi kushner. This car's lease payment will depend upon what sort of selling price you are able to negotiate on it. The dealer invoice price of a 2007 Cadillac CTS Bose Edition with the Luxury Package is $34,138. For now, let's assume that you are able to get this car for $500 over dealer invoice. $34,138 + $500 - the $1,700 lease cash that is available on this model right now - $1,000 conquest cash = a capitalized cost of around $31,938. Using this cap cost and an MSRP of $36,830, I estimate that the 24 month, 12,000 mile per year, zero down, pre-tax monthly payment for this car should be around $485. The 24 month, 10k payment would be around $455. The 36 month, 12k payment would be around $420. Lastly, the 36 month, 10k payment would be around $401.
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Hi gershon. That certainly is a low monthly payment. I suspect that it is lower than what you would have to pay to lease a similar brand new CTS right now, but it wouldn't hurt to see exactly how much less it is before pulling the trigger. I'd be happy to work up a sample payment on a 27 month lease of a brand new CTS if you provide me with its MSRP and approximate selling price.
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Congratulations on getting your new CTS, cts2007bose. I would be happy to give you my opinion of this deal, but it would much easier for me to do so if you were able to provide me with its full MSRP and selling price first. These numbers will show me how much of a discount you are being given and they will enable me to use GM's current lease program to estimate what your monthly payment should be. Let me know and I'll tell you what I think.
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Hi jgreenberg. There is probably a spread of around $3,500 or so between the full MSRP and dealer invoice price of the car that you described. Plus General Motors is providing $1,700 lease cash and $1,000 conquest cash on it. That gives you a total of just over $6,000 to play with. It appears as though you are being given all of the cash incentives plus a dealer discount of $2,400. If this is correct, it would put you at a little over $1,000 over dealer invoice. That price isn't bad, but you may be able to shave another couple hundred dollars off if you are in an area that has a decent level of competition and you shop around. Make sure to stop by the following discussion to see how much other community members have paid for similar cars lately: "Cadillac CTS: Prices Paid & Buying Experience".
Once you arrive at a selling price that you are comfortable with, have the dealer that gives it to you calculate your car's lease payment using GMAC's current base lease rate of 3.95%.
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Hi 6ftladycop. A buy out essentially is the price that you would have to pay to purchase your leased vehicle. Usually it is refers to the lend-of-term purchase price for your leased vehicle, or how much it would cost you to purchase your car at the end of your lease. You can look up the definition of any leasing terms that you are not familiar with in the following article: Leasing Glossary.
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Here's the information that you're looking for, bcj0915. GMAC's current base lease rate and residual value for a 36 month lease of a 2007 Cadillac CTS Bose Edition with 12,000 miles per year are 3.95% and 54%, respectively. The numbers for an otherwise identical 48 month lease are 3.95% and 45%. As you can see, GMAC publishes lease rates instead of money factors for the vehicles that it leases. You can convert its published lease rates into approximate money factor equivalents by dividing them by 2400.
When negotiating your lease on this car, make sure to take the $1,700 lease cash that GM is currently providing on it into account. It will help you to negotiate an attractive capitalized cost for your lease.
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qwazr Posts: 11Car man,
I am looking to lease a 2.8L CTS with Automatic...MSRP $31,870. Can you tell me the residual and money factor for a 36 month/10,000 mile lease?
Also, does the conquest cash ($1000) and lease cash ($1700) apply yo everyone? Are there any additional discounts for Cadillac loyalty? I am coming out of a DTS lease in August.
felbie1 Posts: 14Im looking at the CTS and there are very few with this Bose Edition. I did find a dealer with one. With my GM Supplier Discount, The 1700 Bose Lease Incentive, and 1000 dollar GM Loyalty Incentive, they are quoting me 379/mo(PreTax) for 39 months 10kmiles a year, nothing down. Is this a good deal? Can I do better than this? They are saying with my GM Supplier Discount they cant charge me any more or less than GM Supplier Discount. The TMV On the vehicle is less than the Supplier pricing, I know the residual on the 36/12k but what is it for 39/12k?
I'm starting to look for another car, have always liked the CTS, so I'm letting my fingers do the looking..
This is the numbers I have found.
07 CTS w/Bose edition and 18" wheel Performance package
white diamond exterior and Cashmere interior
MSRP is $37,025
Invoice $34,300
minus $ 3,000
So in theory I could get this car for $31,690. I see that GM has no lease specials for this car, so with the following # could you please give me lease quotes.
Say price of car is $34,300, minus 3K with zero out of pocket. For 24 and 36 month lease, with 15K/yr.
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I just put 50,000 miles on my 06 Accord in my new job. Exactly 12 months ago next week I took out a 60 month loan. I now need a bigger car for the road.
2 questions:
(1) The best road vehicle? Cadillac STS/DTS, Lincoln Town Car, Chrysler 300c, Lexus 460 or GS330h, or even Toyota Avalon.
(2) Whatever I get will have 150,000 miles in 3 years .. Should I lease or buy?
the kind of car for you is ALL objective.... You need to do some leg work and check them out yourself..
Now regarding leaseing, I would RUN from a lease if you plan on driving 150K miles in 3 yrs. As far as trade in goes when cars have over 100K there isn't much value there. The best thing to do it pay cash for a car if you can.
Car Man,
This is the numbers I have been quoted from emails.
MSRP is $53,470
Invoice $49,099
minus $ 3,000
Tags,fees,taxes $2100
I am assuming I can get the car for $46,473, including 3K cash allowance. My trade in would decrease my taxes to $1K and another ~$300 for fees and $750 for tags. Could you please give me a lease quote for 24 and 36 month lease, with 12K/yr.
Hi qwazr. GMAC's current base lease rate and residual value for a 36 month lease of a 2007 Cadillac CTS 3.8L with 10,000 miles per year are 3.95% and 56%, respectively. The $1,700 lease cash is available on all Bose Edition CTS models. The $1,000 conquest cash is available to all owners of non-GM vehicles. These two offers can be combined. I don't believe that GM is currently offering any loyalty cash on the '07 CTS.
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Hi felbie1. If you are able to get this car through General Motors' supplier purchase program, then you should be getting a good deal on it. I doubt that you will be able to do better than the supplier deal by negotiating on your own. GMAC's 39 month lease rate is the same as its 36 month rate, but its 39 month residual value is 1% lower.
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Hi flightnurse. General Motors is running a special lease program on the 2007 Cadillac CTS right now. Unfortunately, the $3,000 consumer cash that you mentioned is not compatible with GMAC's special lease program for this model. Having said this, GM is providing $1,700 lease cash on Bose Edition CTS models plus an additional $1,000 conquest incentive for current owners of non-GM vehicles. GMAC's current base lease rate for the '07 CTS is 3.95%. You can plug the above information, along with the prices that you were quoted into the formula that is outlined in the following article to work up a sample payment on this car: Calculate Your Own Lease Payment.
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Hi mb6. Why do you need a bigger car? If I was in your situation, I personally would rather drive the Accord into the ground than get something new. Unless you made a very large down payment on your loan, you are likely very upside down on a one year old Accord that already has 50,000 miles on it. It will be much less expensive for you to continue to drive you Accord for another couple of years than it would be to pay off any money that you are upside down on it and then put a ton of miles on a more expensive vehicle. I definitely would not lease if I drove 50,000 miles per year.
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