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State Rep. DebraLee Hovey, R-112, who last week on her Facebook page called on shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords to "stay out of my towns," issued an apology Monday.
"The remarks I made regarding Congresswoman Gifford's visit were insensitive and if I offended anyone I truly apologize," Hovey said in a statement issued by her office, referring to Giffords' visit on Friday to Newtown.
Giffords, a former congresswoman from Arizona, was critically injured when a gunman opened fire two years ago at one of her constituent meet-and-greets in Tuscon, killing six people and wounding 12 others.
She and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, visited Newtown where they met privately with several government officials before talking with some of the families of the 20 children and six teachers killed in a shooting spree by lone gunman, Adam Lanza, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School last month.
The couple has been lobbying for stricter gun laws and improved access to mental health treatment in reaction to the Tuscon attack and now the Newtown massacre, which is the worst elementary school slaying in the country.
Hovey represents the towns of Newtown and Monroe.
The state representative further commented on Friday that the visit by Giffords was political as the officials in attendance were U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, both Democrats. Also at the meeting however, was Newtown's First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra, who is a Republican.
"It was political. The Lt. Gov. was there, Blumenthal was there and ALL political types know it is courteous to let sitting Reps know when another political is in their district so ... there was pure political motives," she wrote on Facebook.
Both meetings were closed to the press.
Hovey's office said the state representative was in Florida to attend a board meeting of Women in Government, a national group, and her comments were intended to shield the families of the victims.
"My comments were meant to be protective of the privacy of the families and our community as we work to move on, and were in no way intended as an insult to Congresswoman Giffords personally. Our community has struggled greatly through this tragedy, and we are all very sensitive to the potential for this event to be exploited for political purposes. This is what I wish to avoid," Hovey said in her statement.
Hovey's remarks set off a slew of reaction on social media, both critical of her and in her defense.
State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, D-New Haven, said it would probably have been better if Hovey had contacted sponsors of the meeting before she reacted on Facebook.
"Caution is always better in the end," Holder-Winfield said.
He said while he represents New Haven and parts of Hamden, he doesn't feel he "owns those areas" in the sense of telling people to stay out of them. He had no opinion if the visit by Giffords and her husband was political.
"I don't think it matters. ... If it makes people feel better, so what?" Holder-Winfield said of their visit to the families of the victims.
Giffords, who suffered a brain injury from being shot and is partially blind with a paralyzed right arm, was in New York to meet with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been a national voice for tougher gun laws, before coming to Connecticut .
State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, agreed with Holder-Winfield, on being cautious in one's remarks.
"It is never helpful to ascribe motives to people when they do something," Looney said of describing Giffords' meeting in Newtown as political.
Hovey said she, like many others, was "still working through my grief and trying to come to terms with what happened, how we as a community and a state move forward and how we can prevent horrific events like this from occurring in the future," she said. "My deepest condolences continue to go out to the families, the community of Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown and Connecticut."
Hovey's spokeman, Jamison Bazinet, said she was not issuing any other statements and did not answer an email requesting comment on proposed gun control legislation that is bring contemplated in Connecticut, from making public a list of gun permit holders to disallowing felons from buying ammunition to stricter definitions of assault weapons and limits on high capacity magazines.
State Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, said Hovey's apology was "genuine and heartfelt. She cares deeply about her constituents and she is desperately trying to ensure they are not exploited during the aftermath of this tragedy."
Lemar however said the most important thing is that everyone address gun violence in Connecticut, whether that looks to prevent another Newtown massacre or the 17 deaths in New Haven in 2012.
"Every gun death in this state is a preventable tragedy and we should all be more concerned about each and every life that is lost across our state due to outdated and insufficient gun laws. A comprehensive reform of our gun laws is needed, and I hope we can all come together to enact strict laws to prevent as many senseless deaths as possible," said Lemar.


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If one is very experienced then his skill level is only high in the situations their experience placed them in.
If they only have training to focus on then their skill level is low because they have never put their training to the real test.
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I am very new to this and was just looking for some advice, my daughter is 9, I am unhappy with the school system. The school says that she has ADHD, and at every conference since kindergarden they have told me she needs to be medicated. I have told them that I don't belive in medicating children, and they just stare at me. She is spending most of her day in the special education room, also seeing the school consilor once a week, but at home I never see any kind of ADHD behavior. Than the teaches tell me how smart she is, and can't understand why I don't help her by putting her in medication. Now I have talked to her doctor and we both agree that she is fine and doesn't need medication. I just think that the school is understimulating her and I know that she is bored, and not to mention the fight to get her to go to school. She hates the special classes because as she put it "I'm helping teach more than I get to learn". I also know that there is some bulling going on, she is a little thick around the middle, as she used to come home crying. I don't know, all I really want is whats best for her.
I understand how you feel! I am pulling my son from public school next school year. I can't this year since I am employed by the school district and have a contract. I am in a similar situation. He has had trouble focusing since kindergarten. I did make the mistake of medicating him. We have tried just about every type of medication and the teachers still complain about his attention. I have finally decided that it is the school system that can not meet his needs and not the fault of medication. I will be taking him off medication at the end of the school year and taking over his education. Theres no one that can help my child succeed like I can. My son also is very smart and I think maybe he is inattentive because he is bored in school.
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i understand
My son was so bored in school he started just being like he had add, he got his work done early and did everything the teacher said and it was all right. but he would sit for quite awhile while everyone else worked and he talked and played and colored. the teacher and the counseler at school said add and he is immature. Come to find out he is very gifted he is 7 years old and is doing the work of a 6th grader. He reads chapter books and spells on a 6th grade level. The public school doesnt care. Get her out of the special ed room that is there answer for everything, when a child becomes a problem to them. I pulled my children out of public school I have 5 of them and I'm so thankful I did. Think about a private christian school till the end of the year if you have to but get her out of there. Home schooling is the best thing you get to spend time with your children and go ahead to the next level.
I believe that being bored or unchallenged can be a huge percent of "ADD" problems. I'd wait though to pull her out until the end of the school year/start of the next. An abrupt pull can be hard on both the child and the parents. You need some time to consider how homeschooling would fit in your lifestyle, what cirriculum you might want to get, etc.
Bullying was a real concern for my mother (who endured a lot of it) and is one of the reasons she felt she should homeschool me. That said, you're never going to totally escape children's teasing, so it's a good idea to help her come up with a plan of what to do when the bullying happens.
I'd also talk to her about what she's feeling and thinking about school. Explain to her what it is to be homeschooled. Also arrange for there to be some kind of social interaction - a gym class, music lessons with other children, ballet classes - in her day.
Bullying was a real concern for my mother (who endured a lot of it) and is one of the reasons she felt she should homeschool me. That said, you're never going to totally escape children's teasing, so it's a good idea to help her come up with a plan of what to do when the bullying happens.
I'd also talk to her about what she's feeling and thinking about school. Explain to her what it is to be homeschooled. Also arrange for there to be some kind of social interaction - a gym class, music lessons with other children, ballet classes - in her day.
Hi I am new to this forum, but I cannot resist this topic. I have 3 children 2 I homeschooled K-3 grade and then placed in a private school run by our church, and my youngest attended the private school until this year and I am currently homeschooling her (7th grade). I worked at the private school when my youngest started school in the first grade and I taught k5-1st grade there. I was so shocked at the student we recieved from public school most every boy was labeled ADHD. Most all were on medication and not one child was working on their grade level in any thing most were at least 2 years behind, and most barely could read. needless to say we had to have a remedial phonic/reading class for these student. one child in this class was in the 8th grade and could only read short vowel words well the rest was like a forigen language to him. Public school was never an option for our family, I believe that no matter where you send your kids to school you had better be very involved because christian schools are made up of the kids who are made fun of and also the ones that cause trouble in public school. I was blessed with the private school we had because they screened applicants and the if accepted the new student was on probation and could be dismissed at any time. I am really anti public school because of what I saw coming into our private school.
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My reasons for homeschooling were abit differnt, My son is incredibly bright he tested in the 98 percent straight across, we had trouble getting him enrichment , he felt as if he was being treated as a baby as far as academics lol I am a hair stylist a few evenings a week and it was actually beleive this or not "teachers" ( I have several as clients) who strongly urged i find alternative schooling for him , i was very hesitant at first on home schooling the reason i was concerned was academically i wasn't up to par, I never worried about the social aspect ( I suppose becasue I live in the beach community of California we beg for quiet time) the diversity is a great plus lol, so I choose homeschooling for the academic depth and hands down its far superior to any school public or private, its geared to the child, with one on one attenion, I volunteered for years at the schools i know the system very well, Home schooling is tops in education, the parent needs only bring a passion for learning themselves to the table..Namaste sheri
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You mean like St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom?Stephen Hughes wrote:The people who debated what words meant in the New Testament were Christians. Those expressions of opinion are recorded in the church fathers.
(St. John Chrysostom "On The Priesthood, books I and II.")Chrysostom:...What is the wrong that I have done you, since I have determined to embark from this point upon the sea of apology? Is it that I misled you and concealed my purpose? Yet I did it for the benefit of yourself who wast deceived, and of those to whom I surrendered you by means of this deceit. For if the evil of deception is absolute, and it is never right to make use of it, I am prepared to pay any penalty you please: or rather, as you will never endure to inflict punishment upon me, I shall subject myself to the same condemnation which is pronounced by judges on evil-doers when their accusers have convicted them. But if the thing is not always harmful, but becomes good or bad according to the intention of those who practise it, you must desist from complaining of deceit, and prove that it has been devised against you for a bad purpose; and as long as this proof is wanting it would only be fair for those who wish to conduct themselves prudently, not only to abstain from reproaches and accusation, but even to give a friendly reception to the deceiver. For a well-timed deception, undertaken with an upright intention, has such advantages, that many persons have often had to undergo punishment for abstaining from fraud. And if you investigate the history of generals who have enjoyed the highest reputation from the earliest ages, you will find that most of their triumphs were achieved by stratagem, and that such are more highly commended than those who conquer in open fight. For the latter conduct their campaigns with greater expenditure of money and men, so that they gain nothing by the victory, but suffer just as much distress as those who have been defeated, both in the sacrifice of troops and the exhaustion of funds....
Basil: But none of these cases apply to me: for I am not an enemy, nor one of those who are striving to injure you, but quite the contrary. For I entrusted all my interests to your judgment, and always followed it whenever you bid me.
Chrysostom: But, my admirable and excellent Sir, this is the very reason why I took the precaution of saying that it was a good thing to employ this kind of deceit, not only in war, and in dealing with enemies, but also in peace, and in dealing with our dearest friends. For as a proof that it is beneficial not only to the deceivers, but also to those who are deceived; if you go to any of the physicians and ask them how they relieve their patients from disease, they will tell you that they do not depend upon their professional skill alone, but sometimes conduct the sick to health by availing themselves of deceit...For great is the value of deceit, provided it be not introduced with a mischievous intention. In fact action of this kind ought not to be called deceit, but rather a kind of good management, cleverness and skill, capable of finding out ways where resources fail, and making up for the defects of the mind...That it is possible then to make use of deceit for a good purpose, or rather that in such a case it ought not to be called deceit, but a kind of good management worthy of all admiration, might be proved at greater length; but since what has already been said suffices for demonstration, it would be irksome and tedious to lengthen out my discourse upon the subject.
In this English translation, St. Chrysostom doesn't use the word "lie," but in the Greek text, I suspect he uses the word ψευδὴς.
(And if he did, he seems to have thought that the proper use of the word involved the idea of malicious intent!)
I'd be interested in what word the good saint used here, but he wrote centuries after Paul, whereas Andronicus (who seems to me to have said much the same thing) only wrote fifty or sixty years before Paul, so I'd still be interested in what words that pre-Christian Greek author used to express his thought.
Thank you.Stephen Hughes wrote:I've looked in BDAG, it says that ψευδής is used with both nouns capable of doing actions (eg. "lying witness") and those which are not capable of doing actions "eg. "false information"). The definition of ἀψευδής only refers to nouns capable of doing actions. That is to say that the definition comes from the active voice of the verb, which (verb) you should look at further to understand the adjective (and the negative adjective).
Does it give examples of how these words were used by Greek authors before and after Paul?
Jonathan offered two different translations of the phrase Paul used in Titus 1:2.
1.) God, who is truthful.
2.) God, who cannot deceive.
Which one do you think better captures the meaning of ψευδὴς?


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With two more wins this week, the Estherville Lincoln Central boys basketball team is off to its best start since the 2008-09 season when the Midgets started 5-0.
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ELC was without the services of Justin Heinrichs on this night due to health issues.
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North Union hung with Estherville for most of the first half on Monday, but the Midgets quickly pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring the visitors 27-11 to build a 64-43 lead to start the fourth quarter.
ELC was without the services of starter Justin Heinrichs, who was out with some health issues, through the first 11 minutes of the game. North Union was able to take a 17-16 lead after one quarter and led 20-16 when Alex Krantz hit a 3-pointer from the corner to start the third quarter.
"Give them (North Union) credit," said ELC coach Corey Christopher. "They executed well in the opening of the game."
But ELC came storming back, coming up with an 8-0 with two 3-pointers by David Hughes and a basket by Alex Miller to take a 26-22 lead. Heinrichs then entered the game and immediately hit his first shot to give ELC a 29-22 advantage.
"Justin had some health problems tonight," said Christopher. "He went with the trainer and then came out and said he'd give it a try."
North Union rallied to tie the game with a basket by Kaleb Olson, another trey by Krantz and two free throws by Aric Runge that made the score 29-29. ELC outscored the visitors 8-3 to end the half and led 37-32.
Heinrichs hit his second 3-pointer on the first possessions of the second half followed by a basket by Hughes to push the lead to 10, 42-32. But Runge answered with a basket followed ay a 3-pointer by Jacob Braddock to get the lead back to five. North Union got as close as three, 44-41 off another basket by Runge. But ELC's offense never slowed and the Midgets led by 10, 53-43 when Runge went to the bench with his fourth foul with 2:39 left in the third quarter.
ELC finished the quarter with an 11-0 run, started by Heinrichs with contributions from Hughes, Carsten Bosch and Kyle DeVary and concluding with a trey by Heinrichs.
ELC then scored the first eight points of the final period-six by Hughes- to stretch the lead to 72-43.
Hughes finished with 22 points and 10 rebounds while Heinrichs scored 17, Bosch had 14 and Noah Diekmann had 10. Joe Heinrichs, Miller, DeVary and Bryce Mann each had four points.
ELC finished 26-of-40 from the free-throw line while North Union was 9-of-18.
Runge led the Warriors with 23 points while Krantz had 10. Braddock chipped in nine Trent Pedersen had six, Parker Oleson had three and Nathan Eaton, Olson, Colin Runksmeier and Corey Vaske each had two points.
North Union earns first win, 82-36
North Union got in the win column with an 82-36 victory over Clay Central-Everly on Tuesday.
Aric Runge scored 20 points and Jacob Braddock had 14 to lead the Warriors.
Trent Pedersen, Kaleb Olson and Colin Runsksmeier each tossed in eight points while Nathan Eaton had six, Dyson Umscheid had five, Braden Ortman had four and Parker Oleson, Corey Vaske and Eythan Blair each had three.
The Warriors shot 34-of-59 from the filed and were 12-of-21 from the free throw line.
Titans end 2013 part of season at 5-1
RUTHVEN – The Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire boys defeated Laurens-Marathon 77-46 on Thursday.
"This was a very well played game by the Titans both offensively and defensively," said GTRA coach Randy Hough.
Connor Sturgill led the Titans with 27 points and 10 rebounds while Andy Geelan also had a double-double of 22 points and 16 rebounds along with eight assists.
Noah Stukey chipped in eight points while Taylor Enderson had six, Jared Sikora had five, Joe Tonderum had four, Lane Reiman had three and Ryan Jacks had two.
GTRA (5-1 overall) begins 2014 on the road against Harris-Lake Park on Tuesday, Jan. 7
Warriors earn first win against CCE
ARMSTRONG – North Union finally got into the win column with an 82-36 victory over Clay Central-Everly on Tuesday.
Aric Runge poured in 20 points on 9-of-16 shooting. Jacob Braddock made 6-of-9 from the field as he finished with 14 points. Trent Pedersen, Colin Runksmeier and Kaleb Olson each had eight points while Nathan Eaton had six points, Dyson Umscheid had four, Braden Ortman had four and Parker Oleson, Corey Vaske and Eythan Blair each had three.
Braddock also had four assists and three steals. Runksmeier had four steals and Runge had three.
Titans heat up against Warriors, 77-40
GRAETTINGER – After scoring the first 26 points against North Union, Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire simply cruised to a 77-40 victory over the Warriors on Friday, Dec. 13.
The Titans seemed like they couldn't miss, hitting layups, jumper, 3-pointers and free throws. Noah Stukey and Lane Reiman each hit 3-pointers in the run. Pot player Connor Sturggil had at least eight points during that stretch.
Aric Runge finally broke the Warrior's draought with a layup with 2:15 left in the first quarter, but the visitors trailed 33-5 after one period.
"We played the bench liberally from there," said GTRA coach Randy Hough. "I was very happy with the balanced scoring."
GTRA led 52-21 at halftime and 66-35 after three quarters.
Andy Geelan led the Titans with 14 points including 8of-11 from the free throw line. He also had 10 rebounds and seven assists. Sturgill finished with 12 points and eight rebounds. Taylor Enderson, Reiman and Stukey each had 11 points while Mason mcGrauth had nine, Joe Tonderum and Nick Josephson each had four and Jared Sikora had one.
Colin Runksmeier led North Union with 14 points while Runge had 12. Trent Pedersen chipped in seven points, Ryan Larson had four, Dyson Umscheid had two and Kaleb Olson had one.
Top-rated HWC beats Spirit Lake 85-62
Class 2A No. 1 Western Christian jumped out to a 25-5 lead against Spirit Lake and cruised to an 85-62 victory over the Indians on Tuesday.
The Wolfpack led 48-28 at halftime and the two teams played even in the second half.
Alec Henricksen led Spirit Lake with 25 points with Bill Brown and Trevor Smith each scoring nine. Kyle Fopma led Western Christian with 25 points while Tayler Miedema had 17.
Spirit Lake edges Crestwood, 52-50
SPIRIT LAKE – The Spirit Lake boys improved to 3-1 on the season with a 52-50 win over Crestwood on Friday.
Alec Henricksen led the Indians with 19 points while Trevor Smith tossed in 12 and Bill Brown had 11.
Tristen Bohr and Spencer Bohr led Crestwood with 12 points apiece.
Spirit Lake (3-1 overall, 2-1 in the Lakes Conference) hosts Estherville Lincoln Central today at 4:30 p.m.


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From Teasing to Torment: School Climate Revisited, A Survey of U.S. Secondary School Students and Teachers affords us the opportunity to document the current state of safety, bias, and bullying in schools and assess potential disparities based not only on LGBTQ status, but also on race/ethnicity, sex, gender expression, and socioeconomic status. As school climate is determined not only by the existence or absence of victimization, we also explore students' experiences with school disciplinary actions and extracurricular activities, seeking to develop a more complete picture of the student experience. In addition, we again document students' access to resources that may improve school climate, such as student clubs that address LGBTQ student issues, inclusive curriculum, and anti-bullying/harassment policies. Moreover, in this report, secondary school teachers offer their perceptions on bias, bullying, and LGBTQ students' safety, and provide valuable information about the preparation they may have received to address these issues. We also document teachers' practices in regards to combating bias and supporting LGBTQ students specifically, including the potential barriers to doing so. Lastly, we offer recommendations for both further research and specific programmatic and policy strategies that may help schools reduce the risk of peer victimization, counter the damaging effects of bias, and provide safe and supportive learning environments for all LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ students alike.
- Eighty-three Thousand Youth: Selected Findings of Eight Population-Based Studies
- The 2009 National School Climate Survey: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools
- The 2011 National School Climate Survey: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools
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Publication date 2016-09-21
Publication Year 2016
Authors Christian Villenas , Emily A. Greytak , Joseph G. Kosciw , Noreen M. Giga
Copyright holder(s) GLSEN
Geographical Focus North America / United States
Keywords LGBT , school climate , GLSEN , bullying , students
Document type Report/Whitepaper , Survey
Language English
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Hi. It's getting about that time for me to buy a new car, my first car that will be all my own, and I'm thinking of a hybrid suv. However, I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota and as everyone knows, it gets COLD up here in the winter. We're talking -20's, sometimes windchills in the -40's. I live in an apartment with no garage so I'm parked in a lot. Even if I had a garage, I drive to an open air lot (less than 2 miles away) and get on the bus to go to work every day. My car is there, out in the cold, for sometimes 10-12 hours a day.
I've heard rumblings that the batteries on hybrids don't do well in cold weather. Is this true? Am I better off buying a conventional, gas engine vehicle until I at least have a heated garage or move to a warmer state?
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The band put on a breathtaking show at Warrington Parr Hall, playing an 11-song set comprising mainly of tracks from their two fabled albums.
Ian Brown and his bandmates kicked off proceedings with I Wanna Be Adored, the opening track of their lauded 1989 debut, sparking a jubilant response from the 1,500-strong crowd, including former Oasis star Liam Gallagher.
Frontman Brown chided those who were tweeting and taking pictures throughout the gig, urging them to enjoy "living in the moment", but overall appeared overjoyed to be back onstage with his old bandmates - guitarist John Squire, bass player Mani and drummer Reni.
They ripped through their back catalogue, playing a host of classic tracks including Made Of Stone, Waterfall, She Bangs The Drums and Sally Cinnamon.
Despite rumours of new material, there were no surprise songs at the gig, which ended with the band taking a bow and Brown telling the audience, "Thank you, we'll be back." Moviemaker Shane Meadows then took the stage to film the audience.
The surprise warm-up gig before a string of summer comeback shows was announced just hours before the show on the band's website. The Stone Roses announced they were reforming in 2011.
Thrilled by what he saw, Gallagher tweeted, "Stone Roses are back... Speechless."


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A Sandwich A Day: Special K from Koch's Deli in Philadelphia
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Equal parts non-traditional Philadelphia hoagie shop and non-traditional Jewish deli, Koch's makes some of the best and most unique sandwiches in the city. Get ready to wait a good half an hour for your sandwich, although there's plenty to read on the walls plastered with articles, photos, and letters from customers, or watch the show that includes lots of dirty jokes and free samples of practically everything behind the counter.
The Special K is a wild take on what most shops call a "Jewish Hoagie," an Amoroso roll slathered with Russian dressing and stuffed with layers of sliced-to-order pastrami, turkey, kosher salami, corned beef and Swiss, then packed with gobs of delicious homemade potato salad.
They don't go too crazy with the toppings, so you don't have the mayonnaise overload problem that these types of hoagies can get into. Although it's a little on the sweet side, next time I might opt for some mustard on there too.
The cheesesteaks looked solid here as well, and are cooked behind the counter on a tiny ancient-looking grill/drawer contraption. I've never seen anything like that, anywhere.
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This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Carry a lawn chair and a sunshade—plenty of water too—onto the sage flats just south of Arizona's Highway 89A, near the mouth of Badger Canyon. Point the chair north, toward Utah, and take a seat. Behind you, the Colorado River is trenching a deep meander from the Glen Canyon Dam toward the Grand Canyon. Directly in front of you rises a chaos of rock vaulting nearly 3,000 feet—the Vermilion Cliffs. The cliffs can hardly be said to have a face. They have innumerable faces, fractured and serrated, crosshatched and slumped. You can feel the inertia in their colossal vertical fissures. Along the lower wedding cake tiers, rubble piles resemble the sand in the bottom of an hourglass.
And now the question: How long would you have to wait until the Vermilion Cliffs calved a boulder the size of a school bus, say? The answer: It could happen the day you sit down. But it's likelier that your descendants' descendants would still be sitting in that chair, many hundreds of generations later, waiting for the cliffs to crumble a little more. The rock is ancient, and so are the traces of erosion.
Millions of years ago, the spot where you're sitting would have been buried under the exposed layering of the present-day cliffs, under strata now called Moenkopi, Chinle, Moenave, Kayenta, and Navajo, each striation differing in color and resistance to erosion. The Paria Plateau has been retreating northwestward for eons, and these vivid cliffs mark its progress to date.
It's hard to believe that a national monument girded by towering cliffs—their color burning through the spectrum as the day advances—could be so little known. Yet few people have heard of the place, apart from one or two of its famous features. One reason is that Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is upstaged by its neighbors, which include some of the most famous national parks and monuments in the United States: Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, and more.
Another reason is the ruggedness of the terrain. Though located only a few miles from Lake Powell and its legions of pleasure craft, the 300,000 acres encompassed by the monument are no place for the fainthearted or unprepared. "Exit the car, enter the food chain," quipped one official with the Bureau of Land Management, which administers the monument. The predators here are sun, heat, thirst, ignorance, and isolation. (Also rattlesnakes and scorpions.) There are almost no marked trails, only a few signposts, and none of the assurances, warnings, or rangers found in national parks. Here your cell phone doesn't work, you camp where you can, and the only water is what you carry.
The cliffs proper have been protected as wilderness since 1984. They form an irregular upside-down horseshoe, abrupt and sheer on the east side near the Colorado River, curving severely around to the south and shallowing on the west as they run up into Utah along House Rock Valley Road, one of the most beautiful dirt drives in the American West. Follow the arc of that horseshoe and the cliffs peer over you all the way, forbidding and beckoning at once.
But drive across the northern bench at the top of the horseshoe, heading from Page, Arizona, to Kanab, Utah, and you would never guess the cliffs are there. Hike out onto the Paria Plateau and you feel as though you're walking across an island in the sky. The cliffs are invisible below you, but you can sense their presence. This is what the world would be like if it were flat and ended precipitously at an edge in space. But when you come to the end of the plateau—high atop the Vermilion Cliffs—you see that the world still goes on, stepping its way shelf by shelf down to the Grand Canyon and beyond.
The Paria Plateau and its hem of cliffs were named a national monument by presidential proclamation in the year 2000, primarily in recognition of the exquisite archive of erosional forms—timescapes, windscapes, gravityscapes, and waterscapes but above all, sandscapes. There is the sand of the present day: the grit in your teeth, the slip-sink footing, the slithering tire-bog along the tracks in the Sand Hills mid-plateau. That sand (ancient enough, grain by grain) is derived from prehistoric sand—the Navajo sandstone that forms the plateau and cliffs. This sandstone, in turn, is the remains of a vast erg, a windblown sea of dunes that for millions of years covered most of what is now the Colorado Plateau. The geology is hard to imagine. It becomes even harder if you're lucky enough to come upon the Wave, hidden away in the northwest corner of the monument in a place called Coyote Buttes.
The Wave is a tumult of striped, fossilized dunes that look like petrified surf, forever rising and curving, towering just short of breaking. What's been left behind by long ages of erosion—rogue waves of smooth, banded sandstone in a bowl of light—is a record of chemical reactions taking place as the sandstone developed, with patterns of bleaching and the depositing of iron oxide and other minerals. In its sinuousness, the Wave forms a wind siphon, its geometry accelerating the wind the way a high, curving track accelerates a skateboarder.
Try to say the names of the colors you see glinting in the stone. They shift before you can do so. The sun pinwheels across the sky, clouds burgeon and fade, and the Wave evolves moment by moment without ever changing.
To safeguard this extraordinary formation, the BLM admits only 20 people a day to the Wave, so you're left nearly alone in a wilderness containing a geological "Mona Lisa." This isn't the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, a scenic view shared with thousands. Here is the intimacy of the senses: the abrasion of stone, the scent of rain on rock, a kaleidoscopic light that can leave you bewildered by the minute speck of time you occupy in the presence of so much frozen time.
The geological processes that shaped the Wave, as well as the cliffs and canyons and myriad landforms, continue unabated, of course. And yet they're hidden by the present. One afternoon I followed the dry creek bed of Buckskin Gulch on the west side of the monument, from a trailhead just off House Rock Valley Road. On the low hills around me lay bulging sandstone formations that looked like the pupae of some unaccountable insect. Tumbleweeds huddled in the creek bends like tired gray sheep.
Buckskin Gulch is famous for its slot canyon, but before I reached it I came to a high, perfectly undisturbed slope of loose red sand, as firm and uniform as the sand a wave leaves behind when it withdraws from a beach. Every grain seemed to know its place. It was sandstone in the making, uncongealed and awaiting diagenesis, the chemical transformation that would turn it into a slab of rock.
It's easy enough to see the stratigraphy in the layers of stone exposed on the cliff face, but there is also a stratigraphy of life-forms here, as well as a layering of human experience. Reach back far enough—190 million years and more, when this was a very different world—and you come to the ancient species, some crocodilian, some birdlike, that left their traces in the Navajo sandstone and in the formations that underlie it.
On the plateau, there are signs of more recent inhabitants in the few gnarled ranch structures up beyond a wire gate and into Corral Valley, high in the piñon and juniper. This landscape is not as spectacular as Coyote Buttes—almost nothing is—but it has its own private grace. Shallow basins in the sandstone catch every drop of rain. There are swales of arid grass and remnants of fence line that seem to exist only to keep the tumbleweeds in.
Thousands of years ago this landscape belonged to native hunters and gatherers, who must have passed through again and again. They were succeeded by the ancestral Puebloans, and later by the Paiute, who shared some of their knowledge of this country with a Mormon missionary named Jacob Hamblin. Hamblin, who settled in the House Rock Valley, knew the Vermilion landscape better than any other white man of his time. Explorer John Wesley Powell described Hamblin as a "silent, reserved man," adding that "when he speaks it is in a slow, quiet way that inspires great awe."
Hike down the Paria River Canyon, 38 wet-footed miles and at least four days from the trailhead to the Colorado River, and you come to the place where Powell and the battered remains of his first expedition camped on the night of August 4, 1869: the mouth of the Paria River, which Hamblin had described to Powell a year earlier. Preparing for his descent of the Colorado, Powell studied the terse account of Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who, in 1776, tried to travel with his party from Santa Fe (in what is now New Mexico) to Monterey, California. He too camped near the mouth of the Paria River, hoping to find a more direct route back to Santa Fe. Powell described the cliffs in exuberant prose. Father Escalante said merely that the country had "an agreeably confused appearance."
Overwatching all these humans—itinerant or resident—would have been the birds now known as California condors (Gymnogyps californianus), which lived on the cliff edges high above. Generation after generation, they would have kept watch at intervals for at least the past 20,000 years—perhaps for as much as 100,000 years—diminishing as large Pleistocene mammals vanished. Condors have been missing from the Vermilion Cliffs since the early 20th century, but they are present again, reintroduced in 1996, their very small numbers supplemented by annual releases. From the condor viewing site on House Rock Valley Road, you're sure to see rocks high on the cliffs stained by their droppings.
How long until you see a condor? The good news is that the wait will take place in biological time, not geological time. While you're waiting—the Vermilion sun drying your flesh—you can imagine the sound of the wind in a condor's ears as it rises on an updraft and the view in its eyes as its head tilts from side to side, overwatching the plateau again.


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Over the past few weeks, I detailed several successful ways to generate reviews. I promised at the time to detail some ways that I think are ultimately bound to failure. Here is one.
ReviewBoost claims to "Authenticate and Publish positive reviews across the Internet, maximizing online reputation for businesses of any size." They claim to "publish reviews on partner sites like Yahoo, Yellow pages, Super pages, City Squares" and to do "review syndication and broadcasting on Google search Network" (whatever that might mean).
At the Google Maps forums, a poster (obviously another marketing company) wonders "Is this a legitimate use of Google Reviews?" and goes on to note:
We were approached by a business that provides review submissions on behalf of clients. I have linked to a sample of their work. They approach businesses and offer to post client reviews on their behalf. They are easy to find and follow since they tag the reviews as posted "By Review". Is this a legitimate service? If not, how can Google address it?
Link to the map or business listing in question if applicable: http://maps.google.com/maps?cid=1868467862308158144&hl=en&gl=us (look at user reviews)
Here are some reviews from the Places Page referenced:
Clearly, the era of outsourced, positive reviews is upon us. Efficient for the business yes, perhaps even an easy sell. It is also clear that these types of services will soon be spoiling the bed in which we all sleep. The footprint is heavy and ultimately, the process is predicated on the deception of both the participating business and the consumers that only good reviews can get through.
How do you think Google will respond? How would you respond in the forum post? How long before reviews become totally untrustworthy and not worth the bits they are written in?Reviews - Do Positive Only Review Services have a place? by Mike Blumenthal


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The Scholastics said it wasn't. In that system of thought, exemplified by Thomas Aquinas, God only indirectly creates the world we know.
For Aquinas, what God does is eternally create, within His own Being (Essence), "exemplars," or patterns, or ideas of the creation. This, for the Orthodox, is Problem One: that we have, within the very Essence of the Godhead, created things! Remember that God's Essence is whatever He has that He can't not have and still be God. If God did have created things within His Being, then His own creation would be part of what is required for God to be God!
It is natural for these "exemplars" or blueprints to radiate outward from God. God doesn't directly cause them to do this; they just do it naturally. And these emanations, projected into time and space, create the material world. (How time and space got there to receive these emanations I do not know. I also do not understand why these eternal ideas emanating from God didn't eternally have the effect of creating the world we know, making the universe beginningless.)
In Aquinas' thought, God, to create, doesn't have to change. Rather, the change is in us. We change in relation to Him as we come into being from non-being. Aquinas compares this to a hypothetical relationship between an animal, analogous to us, and a column, analogous to God. If the position of the column relative to the animal changes, it is because the animal moved, not the column.
All this makes Problems Two, Three, and Four for the Orthodox.
Problem Two: Is this biblical? Is it anywhere in Holy Tradition?
Problem Three: the exemplars become intermediaries between God and creation. Although Aquinas tries to uphold the doctrine of creation without any "raw materials," (ex nihilo), yet here he compromises it. The exemplars are created things which in turn create the material world. This, in opposition to the Judeo-Christian doctrine that God creates the world alone, without intermediaries, with no help, especially not with help from created things, by His Word (Christ), not by emanations.
Problem Four: The created Ideas within God have more and greater reality than their emanations outside of God. This devalues the material world, telling us reality is to be found outside it. The world is but a shadow cast by the true reality, or a ray shining forth from the reality. This undoes or at least severely undermines the entire sacramental worldview, in which the world is very real indeed, and is in fact meant to be the sacrament of communion between God and man and is the (real) meeting place between God and Man.
Still, Aquinas preserves us from pantheism while insulating his concept of God from temporality and change, which is no small feat. But that's Problem Five, because in the process, Aquinas also has to insulate his concept of God from any real relationship with us! Yes, it's true. He asserts that while our relationship to God is real, although indirect (via the exemplars within His Essence), yet His relationship to us is not real! Actually, God only relates to His eternal ideas of us. See here and here.
In the thought of Western Christendom in general (not just in Aquinas), for the sake of protecting God's changelessness without resorting to pantheism, the notion that God cannot relate to us really or directly is unavoidable to anyone who gives serious thought to it. (Fortunately, the average man in the pew doesn't.) There really is no known way out of it. It is therefore implicit in Western theology.
This is why, generally speaking, grace is assumed to be a created thing. This is why, in the West, knowledge of God is pursued by means of the intellect more than with the core self, truth is when your thought accurately reflects or coincides with what you are thinking about, and revelation is primarily a matter of words. This is why the things of God (together with God Himself) are dealt with as concepts, concepts, concepts and faith involves cognitive thinking and "theology" is so abstract, so theoretical, something you learn by academic study more than from your own communion with God. That is why catechizing is usually about imparting concepts instead of holiness, teaching ideas instead of asceticism and the art of prayer. And ideas, to which God relates instead of to us, are also our mode of relating to the world and to each other. Even that most personal relationship, marriage, is cast as a legal contract, complete with solemn vows. (There are no vows in an Orthodox wedding.) That is why, in the West the goal of man is not theosis, deification, but something called "The Beatific Vision," that is, beholding the very Essence of God.
Now the devastating idea that God has no real relationship to the created order not only spawns the impersonal sort of culture we see collapsing around us, but also and absolutely rules out anything recognizable to the Orthodox as spirituality.
But here's the sad yet wonderful joke: near the end of the life of this man who had said God does not have real relations with us, God came to Thomas Aquinas in Person. It was for Thomas a direct, intense, and undeniably real encounter. Of course this upset the very foundation upon which he had built his thought and shook him up badly. No wonder then, that afterward, Thomas called all he had written "straw". It was a "theology" by a man who had never even met God, had never known Him at all. Afterwards, Thomas never attempted to write a single sentence more of theology - just when he had finally begun to be qualified to do it.


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Tips And Predictions in Easy?
With the explosion of internet betting gone are the days when betting on the like of the NFL, NHL or the NBA are confined to just the outright winner or match handicaps (where the outsider is given a lead in order to make the best more even). As competition within the world of internet betting has mushroomed so has the range of bets offered as they compete to become 'the leading exponent of US sports'. On any match now you can bet on 'over & under' which is betting on whether you reckon the total amount of points scored will be over or under a given number. Wider afield you can go for what the first scoring play will be or even who the Man of the Match award will be given or MVP (Most Valuable Player).
As a result the popularity of US Sports betting has also risen simply due to the fact that there is more for the 'leisure' bettor to get involved with and more enticing odds that those in the two horse race that is one side or the other to win. Whilst there is a huge lobby to restrict internet betting in the US the feeling that the bird has flown the nest is very strong as off-shore operators are queuing up for the business and many have now even listed themselves on the UK stock exchange giving them an immediate credibility.
For those of you with a nervous disposition it's probably worth turning away now as the biggest growth area in betting in the US, outside of the monster that is Poker, is College sports! Yep, I'm afraid bookies will take bets on almost anything if the appetite is there – one was taking bets on how would die in the latest Harry Potter book another on the outcome of the Michael Jackson trial. Is nothing sacred, apparently not? And the NCAAF is no different – but before we judge to harshly, let's not pretend that private underground wagering on the College sports has been massive for years so why not bring it out into the open. For those interested, Florida State and Miami are joint favourites in the ACC Conference Championship.
In the more mainstream fields Indianapolis just head the betting in the NFL over New England for the Superbowl XLI, its hard to split the Detroit Red Wings and the Ottawa Senators (who, with a name like, that should certainly know better than have a bet) in the Stanley Cup and in the MLB World Series its very tight in the betting between the New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
Well, happy betting as our eyes start to turn away from the World Cup (that's soccer to those who only follow the US stuff) and look forward to a new season of Hockey, Baseball, American Football and Basketball
We hope this helps but visit TheSportsman.com or read the paper, out every day for more tips and hints.
Sports Betting Money Management Secrets - 4 Tips
Gambling in the United States is more popular than ever before-but your house is the one thing you don't want to bet.
Upping the Ante
In the high-priced, low interest rate housing boom of the past several years, many homebuyers signed up for interest-only loans, payment option adjustable rate mortgages and piggybacks. In doing so, they generally bet on two things: that they would be able to refinance their way out from under future payments they might not be able to afford and that home prices would continue to go up and they would be able to sell later for a profit.
Today, however, home prices aren't accelerating as fast as in boom years, and affordable refinancing options may not be as available as interest rates go up.
A Safer Bet
In today's economic environment, mortgage insurance on a fixed rate loan is often a better deal, offering lower monthly payments and more stability. Mortgage insurance is designed for the low down payment market, often qualifying borrowers with a down payment of 3 percent or less.
"Compared to nontraditional loans, mortgage insurance on a fixed rate loan is simple, safe and smart," said Steve Smith, President and CEO of PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. "It's simple because unlike a piggyback loan, you have only one loan and one monthly payment, and because mortgage insurance drops off when it's no longer needed. It's safe because fixed monthly mortgage payments are predictable and stable-if interest rates rise, you won't feel it and you won't be hit with large balloon payments. It's smart because you don't need to wait to save a 20 percent down payment. Mortgage insurance helps you get into a house and start building wealth now."
Doug Long, CEO of Pinnacle Financial, one of the nation's fastest-growing, independently owned mortgage lenders, explained, "It's like the old adage says, 'If it's too good to be true, it probably is.' Mortgage finance products are no different, and borrowers need to be sure they are getting a good deal tomorrow, when monthly payments may go up, as well as today. Staying in your home shouldn't be a gamble."
Putting the Odds in Your Favor
When choosing a mortgage, understand the risks you're signing up for. By calculating the costs-not only today, but in the future, should interest rates rise, balloon payments become due or introductory periods end-you can take the gamble out of the mortgage finance game.


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VIDEO: 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers Spring Training
In the 1940s, teams had to hold their Spring Training workouts closer to home because of wartime travel restrictions. MLB Productions unearthed this footage of Brooklyn Dodgers camp, held at the Bear Mountain Inn in the Hudson Valley.
Manager Lee Durocher discussion the Club's chances for the 1945 season (they finished 3rd in the NL at 87-67).


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1996 Ford Bronco - Mean Machine
Keith Jardine's Bad, Black Bronco
We've shot some of the coolest rides owned by some of the toughest, and in this case, meanest MMA brawlers in the world and we have yet to run into a UFC fighter who wasn't behind the wheel of some type of beefed-up, vicious truck. When it came time to meet up with Keith "Mean 1" Jardine and his '96 Ford Bronco 4WD, we weren't disappointed with its do-anything look and don't-piss-me-off, blacked-out attitude. We don't see enough full-custom Broncos out there on the streets, so you can imagine the element of surprise we experienced when laying our eyes on this one-it was shock at first sight.
The Bronco's build started the exact same way most others do, endless amounts of heavy brainstorming and a hell of a lot of sleepless nights spent searching for inspiration. Luckily, The Mean 1 was in good company while trying to get his project off the ground as Jaime Torrez, owner and head installer for Demented Customs, in Hobbs, New Mexico, was also along for the ride. The first step taken to build a ride truly fit for a full-time fighter was jacking the Bronco six inches upward with rock solid components from Pro Comp and Fox Racing. Sand To Street Off-Road, in Reno, Nevada, handled this portion of the Bronco's rebirth, and with it now half a foot higher in the sky, Hankook off-road rubber wrapped 20x10-inch RBP R95 wheels and now serve as the suspension's rough and rugged finishing touch.
While The Bronco was off getting its posture worked on, Jaime was anxiously sitting on the sidelines waiting for his crew's chance to apply a few creative cosmetic touches of their own. In what seemed like no time at all, the freshly-lifted truck was delivered to the Demented Customs compound, where Andrew Puente massaged the Blue Oval metal back to full health before Jaime sprayed the custom mixed House of Kolor black paint. The stock headlights and taillights were slightly tinted, and the original bumpers and door handles were restored before they were dipped in a fresh coat of black as well. A few items sport a flat-black complexion to further accentuate the shiny, saturated paintjob such as the grille shell, which has been sufficiently stuffed with a one-off RBP mesh grille. As soon as the Bronco was rolled out of the paint booth and its new skin was cut and buffed to a glistening shine, the Demented Customs gang devised a game plan for the interior and began gutting the cab.
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How To Start And Maintain Your Digital To-Do List
|Feb 3, 2008
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On the desktop
EverNote is far more than a to-do list manager; it's an all-in-one solution for taking and organizing notes in Windows. EverNote is so full-featured it has a cult following all its own. Currently on sale for $19.95 (with a free trial available), you can take all kind of notes with EverNote and use it to organize your entire digital life. And one of its many features is to-do list management, allowing you to create an unlimited number of to-do lists with unlimited items each. While EverNote is overkill if all you want to do is make a to-do list, it's worth checking out the free trial if you think you could make use of its other note-taking and productivity features.
At the other end of the spectrum is ToDoList, which does only to-do lists but does them very thoroughly. ToDoList is free to-do list manager that was clearly designed with power-users in mind. It lets you give to-do items priorities, due dates, and even sub-items, and you can make items repeat (e.g. weekly), attach files to them, track how much time you've spent on them, and, for team projects, even assign them to other people.
If both EverNote and ToDoList are overkill for you in their own ways, give Rainlendar a try. At its core it's a calendar program, and it's a particularly fast and lightweight one with simple to-do list functionality built in. Rainlendar becomes part of your desktop, making your calendar, events, and to-do list accessible at a glance. Its appearance and configuration is highly customizable, and it does reminders and alarms as well. You can use Rainlendar for free, or buy the Pro version for 15 EUR (about US$22.20) which adds networked shared calendars and Outlook and Google Calendar integration.
Gadgets and widgets
If you have Windows Vista and just want the simplest solution possible, Windows Live Gallery has a number of free gadgets that provide to-do list functionality in a very small space. And if you use Google Sidebar there are a number of gadgets at your disposal as well like Tabbed Todo List and TODOinSYNC.
On the web
There are literally dozens of free and commercial services on the web that provide to-do lists to the connected masses, and rather than detail them all--which would take more than a few pages--I'll just tell you about two of my favorites.
Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk is a great general-purpose web-based to-do list manager. You can assign tasks priorities and due dates, and you can associate tags, URLs, locations, notes, and more with items. The interface, however, remains nice and simple--those features are smartly hidden away if you don't want to use them.
Remember The Milk's real strength, though, is its social features and integration with other services. You can collaborate on to-do lists or just lets others keep track of your progress--great for setting and sticking to goals. In addition, it can send you reminders via email, IM, or text message and you can create new to-do items by sending an email, and if you use Gmail you can add a Remember The Milk pane to Gmail's interface. It also sports iCalendar and Atom feeds. Finally, it supports Google Gears, the free framework from Google that lets you use the site when you're offline.
Remember The Milk is free, but there's also a Pro version that gives you access to an iPhone-formatted version of the service, a Windows Mobile client, and priority email support. Having said all that, I know there are more features in Remember The Milk that I've forgotten. If you're happy with using a web-based interface to manage and update your to-do list, Remember The Milk is ideal.
Todoist lacks almost all of the features of Remember The Milk that I just described. And that's its greatest strength. Todoist is starkly minimal--essentially its only "extras" (save one, which I'll get to) are priority settings and due dates--but has a strong set of keyboard shortcuts that, once you've learned them, let you blaze through your lists. You can create multiple projects, of course, but what makes Todoist extra useful to me is the ability to put tasks in a many-leveled hierarchy. Using buttons or shortcut keys you can indent items, creating a nested tree that you can then expand and collapse. It might seem like this would add complexity, but for me it breaks up complex tasks into simpler and more manageable ones, which makes Todoist stand out from many in the crowd.
Other options
While I recommend all of the above solutions--you'll have to try them to find out what's best for your purposes--I'm barely skimming the surface of the market. If you prefer to manage your to-do list (and calendar) by sending and receiving email, give virtual assistant Sandy a try. If you're comfortable with the command line and prefer to work with text files instead of databases, try the super-geeky (but super handy) Todo.sh. And like I said, you can scarcely throw a rock without hitting a handful of web-based to-do managers. Here's a sampling: Ta-da Lists, voo2do, Bla-bla List, Tudu Lists, Toodledo, SproutLiner, Nutshell... the list goes on. And then there are the persistent rumors that Google itself will be adding to-do lists to Gmail any... day... now.
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Stalker Sarah, the 16-year-old girl who has taken over 4,500 photos with celebrities was on Good Morning America today to talk about her unique hobby. Frankly, Robin Roberts dropped the ball. We still don't know Sarah's last name, why her father has access to all of these celebrity events and why she's allowed to stay out so late on school nights. How is this girl still so elusive after being on a major network morning show!? However, Robin did get her photo taken with Sarah, so the morning anchor's fame has basically been cemented. Also, Sarah will be in New York City today, so if anyone sees her, please take a photo with her and send it to us!
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