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As an angry citizen of this country and a member of this community, I could not contain my urge to submit an opinion piece to you on the recent events that transpired at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.
I'm sure you will probably be swarmed with an astronomical number of submissions to the Open Line, but I can assure you that nothing will compare to what you are about to read. I am not sure how far censorship extends in the media to keep such material out of public view, but as a practitioner of the freedoms granted to me by my country, I believe that if freedom means anything it would be the right to tell the people what they are not prepared to hear.
That being said, the following opinion piece is solely the opinion of myself and I do not authorize any reproduction of what is said below unless it is done so in whole.
This whole elementary school massacre in Connecticut is the epitome of the metaphorical Greek tragedy. It's disgusting, it's sad, and probably the most painful experience anyone would ever have to go through in their lives. I put myself in the shoes of those grieving parents and all I have to say is this:
People are angry and are demanding answers. The families of those involved have a right to. Those people sitting at home, saying how sorry they are, telling themselves they'd never let something like that happen to their kids... These are the same people who send their kids to school the very next day.
Why even bother mentioning the incident and offering solutions to anyone who will listen if you don't do anything about it? If people really want something done - some actual change - they should have kept their kids home from school indefinitely. People should have been outside school property protesting poor spending and education budget cuts. The people should have pressured those in power to actually do something about it. Instead, the whole incident will turn out just like Columbine and every other shooting/massacre in the not-too-distant past - a nation of angry and grieving people, a controversy over the Second Amendment, some token resources to create that false sense of security once more, and nothing more than a footnote in history to be referred to when convenient.
Time to wake up, people. We're the ones who run the country - our communities - and if you want something to change, change needs to start there. You ask yourselves what kind of a monster could do something like this to innocent people, let alone children? Uncle Sam is the biggest monster in U.S. history. He's been shaking down his people every chance he gets and killing them directly and indirectly with his poor leadership and poor decision making. If my daughter were old enough to be in school, you can be sure she wouldn't step foot on school property again until there were automatic locks and metal detectors on all major entrances/exits of the schools, security cameras and alarms at each of these locations, and an active law enforcement officer watching those cameras/patrolling the grounds.
It may sound a bit drastic and expensive, but consider how much money was wasted in the past and how much money education programs have lost yet still retain the ability to offer quality education. You know, there's a rule of thumb in the IT field when it comes to security: The cost of security should be scaled to the value of the assets you're trying to protect, meaning don't use padlocks to guard bank vaults or retinal scanners to protect patient files. Keeping that in mind, ask yourself what value your school district - your local, state, and federal government - puts on the lives of your children. Then you will see why I am as angry as I am right now at this lack of motivation to protect our children's - our country's - future.
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Limited Time Magic weeks continue at the Walt Disney Resort with a few long-lost friends.
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After being on the line for more than 15 minutes fielding questions about his promotion to Penn State's defensive coordinator on Thursday, John Butler asked how many media members were on the conference call with him.
When he was told there were only three more left out of a group of nearly 20, Butler let out a loud "Whoo-wee."
For anyone else, it might have seemed out of place. But not Butler, who made an impression for being animated on the sidelines as the Nittany Lions' secondary coach in 2012 and made a point a couple of times that he intends to bring that same energy and enthusiasm to his new role.
"You've got to be who you are. If I showed up to practice one day and had my hands folded and was very quiet, the kids would look at me and say, 'Who's this clown?' They can see through that," Butler said. "Sometimes people see my demeanor on the sidelines and they may misunderstand that I'm incredibly competitive. I think I have the ability in [game-changing] situations that, where it might appear I've lost my mind, I haven't."
Bill O'Brien's choice to take over for Ted Roof - who it was announced Wednesday was returning to his alma mater, Georgia Tech - over more experienced defensive coaches on the staff like Larry Johnson and Ron Vanderlinden, Butler said he felt he was ready and was eager to take over a position he felt he'd spent most of the last two decades working towards.
"Everything has prepared me for this step. Every job you take and every task you take on in coaching, you're basically getting yourself ready for the next opportunity," Butler said. "This is obviously a tremendous honor that Billy has given me.
"I'm prepared for this. I put 20 years of coaching into being ready for this and, when the opportunity comes, one thing about me is I'm never going to shy away from an opportunity. When Coach O'Brien said, 'I'd like to name you as defensive coordinator,' I said, 'Outstanding.'"
A product of LaSalle College High School in Philadelphia, Butler became the secondary coach at Catholic University one year after graduating from that school and then became defensive coordinator there a year later. He came to Penn State following stints at Texas, Midwestern State, Texas State, Harvard, Minnesota and South Carolina; he even had a brief stop with the NFL's Houston Texans.
"The thing that stood out about John was his intensity, competitiveness, work ethic and ability to get the most out of his players," said Harvard coach Tim Murphy, who had Butler on his staff working with the linebackers and special teams from 2003-06. "You knew John was going places. He was very loyal to Harvard, but there was no question in my mind that he would be at the top level of football at some point in his career."
Penn State held half of its opponents to 17 points or fewer in 2012, finishing first nationally in red zone defense, 16th in scoring defense and 28th in pass efficiency defense. Butler said to expect a continuation of that and the system that Roof used, with different fronts and coverages and occasional blitzes to keep opposing offenses guessing.
"We're going to be multiple, we're going to be aggressive, we're going to be simple enough that our players are going to play really fast - it doesn't really matter what I know, what Ron knows or what Larry knows, it comes down to what our players know and how fast they can play," Butler said. "One of the biggest things we're going to try to do is just create problems for the offense and be a difficult defense to prepare for."
This was the second time Butler worked on a staff where Roof was defensive coordinator; they both were at Minnesota in 2008.
"There's no doubt he will do a great job," Roof told the Associated Press. "He's been ready for that a long time."
Penn State loses four of its top five tacklers to graduation, but six starters return on defense, including middle linebacker Glenn Carson, defensive tackle DaQuan Jones and honorable mention all-Big Ten picks Deion Barnes and Adrian Amos.
"We feel we have a talented enough group as long as we stay healthy and keep moving this thing forward," Butler said.
Just as important might be keeping Johnson and Vanderlinden around to handle the defensive line and linebackers, respectively. Butler said he had a great relationship with the two senior members of the Lion coaching staff and anticipated them being part of the staff this fall.
"I sure hope so," Butler said. "I can't look into a crystal ball, but I made it very clear to them that I hope that they continue in their roles and continue to be great leaders to our defensive players. I'm moving forward with them in the belief that they're going to follow 100 percent the lead of Coach O'Brien."
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In my last column, I wrote about cash incentives that banks offer to attract new customers, but did you know that pharmacies do the same thing?
In fact, some pharmacies offer larger cash incentives for new customers than banks.
As with banks, some people are loyal to their pharmacy for reasons of convenience, service and quality. Others see competing pharmacies as similar places that offer the similar products, not unlike gas stations.
If you're in the second group, you'll likely find it's worth your while to shop around. Now that pharmacies aren't just at the "drug store" but also at grocery stores and big-box stores, there's plenty of competition, and that leads to incentives and promotions.
Rival pharmacies also offer competing shopper loyalty programs, and of course, they don't all charge the same prices for medications.
I'll mention a few specific deals I'm aware of in the Charleston area, but be aware that these promotions are always coming and going. My best advice is to price-shop your prescription medications and keep an eye out for promotional deals, because unlike other promotions, you're unlikely to find them on the store's website.
Is it worth the trouble, to save $25 or as much as $200? Some people might say it's not.
On this Labor Day weekend, I would note that the typically American family is earning less today than before the recession, and the minimum wage hasn't increased since 2009, so plenty of people are deal-hunting and clipping coupons just to keep from falling further behind.
For people who regularly fill multiple prescriptions, comparison shopping and watching for incentives can really make a difference. If you want to transfer prescriptions, the new pharmacy will have some forms for you to sign, but it's not complicated.
So put a list of your medications in your purse or wallet and the next time you're at CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Piggly Wiggly, Harris Teeter, Publix, Bi-Lo, Kmart, Walmart, Target, or any other place with a pharmacy, ask what it would cost to fill your prescriptions there and see if there are any promotions.
Here are some examples of what you might find:
At some Harris Teeter grocery stores that have pharmacies, new customers (those who haven't used the pharmacy previously) can get a $20 credit on their VIC card for every new or transferred prescription, up to $200. Those without a VIC card — that's the store's free customer loyalty program — can get one at the customer service counter. The promotion runs through Oct. 1.
Kmart is offering $25 for each transferred prescription, up to $100, or four prescriptions. To get the deal you need a coupon from Kmart, available on the company website and likely in stores. Prescriptions "paid for in whole or in part by any government programs" don't count.
Walgreens is offering one $25 store gift card to customers who transfer a prescription with valid refills. As with Kmart, the promotion isn't offered to those using federal health care programs such as Medicare prescription plans or federal employee health insurance. To get the deal, you need a coupon, which most stores seem to have behind the pharmacy counter. The offer runs through Dec. 31.
At Piggly Wiggly stores with pharmacies, customers with a new or transferred prescription get double Greenbax for the purchase. Greenbax are calculated using both what the customer pays, and any amount their insurance pays for the prescription. Greenbax are shopper loyalty points that can be redeemed for merchandise discounts, including discounted gas cards.
Pharmacies also offer shopper loyalty programs, which you often must sign up for in order to get the perks.
Typically, you get shopping discounts or cash back after filling a certain number of prescriptions.
For example, if you're enrolled in the free Target Pharmacy Rewards program, for every five eligible prescriptions purchased at a Target Pharmacy, you receive a coupon good for 5 percent off a day of shopping at Target.
At Rite Aid, customers who sign up for the Wellness Rewards program get perks that include a yearlong 10 percent discount pass for filling 10 prescriptions that aren't paid for with a government-funded plan.
Stores that aren't offering promotions today could be offering them again soon. So keep a lookout for ways to save money on medications.
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Saint Vincent College's Gilbert and Sullivan Players will present W.S. Gilbert's three-act blank verse "fairy comedy" The Palace of Truth at 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24 in the Robert S. Carey Student Center Performing Arts Center. Admission is free but donations will be accepted. The show was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London on Nov. 19, 1870, partly adapted from Madame de Genlis's fairy story, Le Palais de Verite.The play is founded on the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or supernatural interference. The cast includes Cameron Smith, a junior history major from Kittanning, as King Phanor; Casey Ciocco, a senior criminology, law and society and music major from Latrobe, as Prince Philamir; Will Brown, a freshman English major from East Orange N.J., as Chrysal; Steve Sherman, a senior political science major from Butler, as Zoram; Jordan Ralph, a junior English major from Irwin, as Aristaeus; Matthew Elam, a senior English major from Greensburg, as Gelanor; Anna Hubbel, a senior communication major from Rochester, N.Y., as Queen Altemire; Maria Kegg, a freshman arts administration major from Irwin, as Princess Zeolide; Katrina Nemchik, a freshman computer science major from Latrobe, as Mirza; Jessica Miller, a junior history major from Latrobe, as Palmis; and Brittany Lambermont, a junior graphic design major from New Kensington, as Azema. The show is being co-directed by Casey Ciocco and Jessica Miller. Other members of the production crew include Mark Harris, a junior music and communication major from Belle Vernon, producer; Mitchell Magiera, a sophomore political science major from Jefferson Hills, technical director; and Amanda Schrott, a senior studio arts major from Latrobe, wardrobe mistress. The Saint Vincent College Gilbert and Sullivan Players is a student-run organization coordinated by an executive board consisting of Mark Harris, president; Brittany Lambermont, vice president; Jessica Miller, secretary; Casey Ciocco, secretary; and Anna Hubbel, public relations officer. The group is advised by Penny Lyn Lambright, technical director of the Saint Vincent Theatre. The Club was founded in 2006 by Zachary Luchetti, Laurie Racculia and Dr. Gary Quinlivan. Saint Vincent Theatre artistic director Colleen Reilly and technical director Penny Lyn Lambright are assisting the students with the production.
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��Mayor Larry Morrissey has heralded the opening of Main Street to traffic. One cheer, hooray. Now, mayor, can you please finish the job? There are eight, big flower boxes that are supposed to have --- FLOWERS � in them. Instead, they have weeds.
�Would it be really, really hard to have some garden aficionados donate a Saturday to filling the boxes with black dirt and planting flowers � before it�s Halloween? You won�t even have to pay for the materials.
�Also, at the south end of the two-block streetscape, in front of the long-dormant Soda Bar, another city-owned vacant building, there�s just rough blacktop on the sidewalk. This part of the streetscape must have escaped.
�The longer this project goes unfinished, the more ammunition the CAVE people will have for their contention that downtown is a sink hole where money just disappears for no good reason.�
Since that was posted I�ve received some intriguing feedback, most of it off the record. I decided a print update was in order, so on Tuesday I called Public Works Director Tim Hanson, who�s in charge of the $2.65 million project.
Hanson said he was waiting for a ruling from the Legal Department on the flower issue. The legal folks, Hanson explained, were determining whether volunteers could plant flowers, or whether such an activity required city compliance with the prevailing wage law, which would mean using union laborers who would have to be paid somewhere north of $30 an hour.
Keep in mind that we are not talking about constructing the Empire State Building. This is about planting flowers in eight boxes.��������� Wednesday, I called Hanson again. He was happy. He had received word that prevailing wage did not apply, and that downtown volunteers who were being organized by John Groh, who heads the Convention and Visitors Bureau, could plant flowers, provided they got a permit from City Hall. Anticipating my next question, Hanson said he�d expedite the permit. Whew!
Groh said he�s excited to get the flowers planted; the volunteers hope to get the job done on Thursday, July 1.
�We�ll be planting 2,358 plants, 18 varieties including bulbs, ornamental vines, perennials and shrubs,� Groh said. �It�s quite a variety of vegetation and we�re raising money purchase the plants,� Groh added.
�If you�d like to contribute, call Groh at 815-963-8111.
Most plants will go in the eight boxes, but ivy will be planted around the bases of 10 �festival poles,� which are not to be confused with festive Poles during Polish Fest at St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church.
�The problem with the unfinished portion of the Main Street streetscape is what to do about the vault under the front of the former Chick Hotel building, constructed in 1847, five years before Rockford was incorporated as a city. Taxpayers own the south half of the building, Rockford Office Supply has the north half.
The city can wait indefinitely to determine the building�s fate. Rockford is good at that. Or, workers could install a beam to shore up the vault and finish the street scape with paver bricks. Then the unsightly fence could come down and the corner of Main and Elm wouldn�t look awful.
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Of The Post and Courier staff
Paul Mardikian arranges a tray full of buttons, tobacco pipes,
thimbles and bottles until he seems satisfied with their order.
The French scientist then carefully turns over a candle holder
embedded in hardened sand, explaining features imprinted in the concretion.
He gently sets down the holder, then grabs a sports water bottle,
takes aim at the relics and squirts down the entire lot.
You must keep them wet, he says.
Such is the life of a conservator. Mardikian, the senior
preservation expert on the Hunley project, seems to enjoy the meticulous care of fragile,
historical relics. It's a good thing. He's going to be doing it for a while.
"If we can do this work in 10 years, we'll be doing
good," he says with a shrug.
Mardikian is a laid-back scientist. In his field, patience isn't
a virtue - it's a job requirement.
As the excavation of the Confederate submarine nears its end, the
work moves to the lab of the Warren Lasch Conservation Center. There, Mardikian and a
small team will work for years to refurbish hundreds of artifacts recovered from the
interior of the Hunley.
Textiles conservators from the Smithsonian will assist in the
work, forensic scientists from Washington to Alabama will be brought in and other experts
will be consulted.
But ultimately, the slow lonely work of preserving these
artifacts will fall to Mardikian and a small team of scientists.
It is painstaking work, often done with dental tools. It is slow
work, as many of the waterlogged prizes must be freeze-dried. Some of these artifacts -
including the submarine itself - will have to simmer in chemicals for years before there
is any chance of displaying them in a dry museum.
The toughest work comes first. Under the white lights of the
sterile laboratory - a state-of-the-art facility filled with X-ray machines, freezers,
orthoscopic cameras and gamma ray machines - the scientists first will study the hundreds
of artifacts found inside the submarine.
"You have to understand it first before you can conserve
it," Mardikian says.
Mardikian has a plethora of fancy tools to help him with that.
Some of the more crusty items are X-rayed, to give scientists a peek at what's behind the
hardened muck. They can be measured by their X-ray images, using computers.
Then come hours of cleaning, using tiny instruments that, for
example, have to dredge the silt out of the indentations in raised letters on coat
buttons. The dress rehearsal for this tedious business has come inside the submarine,
where Mardikian spent 15 hours chiseling out the candle holder that had fused to the
bottom of the Hunley's hull.
Right now, they keep most of the artifacts in containers
resembling Tupperware bowls, where each is tagged with an identification number that
begins with the letters "HL." Eventually, some of the artifacts will be
freeze-dried, the ice vacuumed out of their containers.
With some work, most of these pieces will be sturdy enough to
display dry, under glass. The submarine itself may have to sit in a humidor. When
preservation is finished, the artifacts will sit in climate-controlled rooms until they
are exhibited.
The artifacts of the lost submarine could hardly be in better
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Apple has been having plenty of headaches lately with its MacBook Pro displays failing and experiencing distortion. Worse yet is the iPhone 3G S's quality problems, which include reported overheating and signal issues.
The overheating was first noted in Apple support forums. Soon, though, writers at several tech publications -- PC World, Wired, Le Journal Du Geek and The Telegraph -- began to notice the problems on their own phones. The Le Journal Du Geek writer posted pictures of a white phone and noticed that the overheating was so severe that it colorized the plastic. The heat tended to turn the case pink or brown.
Now, Apple has at last issued a response and it is assigning the blame for the problem on its users' behavior, sunlight, and on the seasons. Apple says that leaving the device in a car on a hot day is one possible culprit causing its phone to overheat. Apparently, like a vampire the phone is no friend of the sun -- Apple states that "leaving it in direct sunlight for extended amounts of time" may cause it to overheat.
Apple lists the use of "GPS tracking in a car on a sunny day or listening to music while in direct sunlight" as two particularly dangerous operations.
According to Apple the following problems are the result of the iPhone's overheating:
Apple says that the iPhone is only meant to operate at temperatures between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F) and be stored at temperatures between -20º and 45º C (-4º to 113º F). Unfortunately, this is much lower than the temperatures experienced in much of the American South and Southwest.
Based on Apple's stance it seems there's no immediate solution for iPhone owners. Apple seems unwilling to agree that its hardware needs revision to deal with the problem, instead assigning the blame elsewhere -- the sun, heat, and summer weather. And that means as summer temperatures heat up, users are left to prepare for the worst -- their phones beginning to fail.
quote: my dad works on a/c units on roof tops all day and he gets this temperature sign a few times a day with his 3G. it's a shame because his HTC 8525 and 8925 never had this problem..
quote: i reckon heat has been to blame for all my failures thus far.
quote: well true, the bottom vents generally hoover all the dust of your desk and render the cooling useless anyway but to be honest i wouldnt say apples solution is anything special
quote: The alternative is having your keyboard get clogged with dust. I can't wait to see how a macbook keyboard looks in 1 year.
quote: Haven't you seen those retarded Dell Optiplexes from 4 years ago? They have no intake vents whatsoever (more like an Apple engineered that POS). It takes the air in from the back, and whatever it could get from the optical drive and floppy, which both clogged up with dirt.
quote: designing a phone that cant handle a bit of a sunny day isnt the users fault, thats the design teams.
quote: on a side note... my MBP has had over £3000 in repairs since i got it... its only 2 years old. apple care sure paid for itself there!!!, but again shows how they seem to sacrifice good functional engineering for a bit of style. i reckon heat has been to blame for all my failures thus far.


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After an 18-month battle, Roper St. Francis Healthcare has dropped its opposition to Summerville Medical Center's $26 million expansion, hoping the olive branch will clear the way for the two healthcare providers to settle their dispute in Berkeley County.
2008: Trident and Roper both apply for a Certificate of Need for a 50-bed hospital in Berkeley County.June 2009: Both medical providers are given the OK to build 50-bed hospitals in Berkeley County.August 2009: Trident appeals the decision, saying Berkeley can't support two hospitals.November 2010: Summerville Medical Center applies for a Certificate of Need to add 30 beds.September 2011: DHEC approves the Summerville expansion.October 2011: Roper appeals the Summerville decision.April 2013: Roper withdraws its appeal.
"We hope they will look at this as a gesture on our part," said Doug Bowling, chief strategy officer of Roper St. Francis. "This has gone on too long."
But Lou Caputo, chief executive officer of Summerville Medical Center, said he is not sure if one case has bearing on the other. Summerville and Trident medical centers are part of the HCA hospital system.
"The Summerville expansion truly was independent of that Berkeley County case," he said. "It was to meet the needs at Summerville Medical Center independent of what was going on in Berkeley County. The facts of that case still remain the same."
Nonprofit Roper and for-profit Trident have been battling since 2008 over providing medical care in Berkeley and Dorchester counties.
In 2009, both were issued Certificates of Need to build 50-bed hospitals in Berkeley. Roper wants to transfer beds from its downtown hospital to the Carnes Crossroads area, while Trident wants to expand at its existing Moncks Corner Medical Center site, about 12 miles away.
South Carolina uses the Certificate of Need review process to prevent unnecessary duplication of health care facilities and services.
Trident appealed the decision, saying the county cannot support two facilities. A decision could take another year.
In 2010, Summerville Medical Center applied to add 30 beds to its 94-bed facility.
When the project was approved the next year, Roper appealed, causing some to question the motive.
Caputo said at the time he felt that the Roper opposition was for leverage in the Berkeley battle.
Bowling denied that on Monday, saying the appeal was because Summerville and Trident used the same population to justify both projects.
"We thought it was inconsistent that at the same time they were arguing that Berkeley doesn't need the hospital, they were arguing that Summerville did," Bowling said.
He said dropping the appeal was contingent on Trident agreeing not to use the Dorchester numbers in Berkeley.
"It is our most sincere hope that ... Trident and its parent company, HCA, will finally acknowledge the need for the hospital we are planning to build in Berkeley County and allow our project to move forward," Bowling said.
While waiting for the Dorchester issue to be settled, the Summerville Medical Center turned its attention to other projects, including the addition of a pediatric emergency area.
"We have brought new, much needed services to Summerville Medical Center and our community," Caputo said. "Once these projects are completed, we will focus our attention on the expansion project."
Reach Brenda Rindge at 937-5713 or facebook.com/brindge.


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Royals strike early, hang on to beat Twins
Jeremy Guthrie gets 7th straight decision
Jeremy Guthrie won his career-best seventh straight decision, dating to last season, and Alcides Escobar had three hits and an RBI as the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 7-4 Tuesday night.
The Royals, who had not scored in the first two innings in their first seven games, sent nine to the plate in a five-run first. Mike Pelfrey (1-1) gave up hits to the first five batters he faced.
Joe Mauer, Josh Willingham and Eduardo Escobar - the first of his career - each hit solo homers to keep the Twins close.
Guthrie (2-0) improved to 7-0 in his past 13 starts dating to last Aug. 8. Guthrie, who has a 2.37 ERA during the stretch, allowed four runs on six hits, including the three home runs, in 6 2/3 innings.
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And You Call Yourself a Film Buff?! – The Godfather
By Megan Reilly
It's a strange feeling, to approach a canonical film equipped with a pseudo-knowledge of its meaning as informed by parodies and quotes detached from context. I waited twenty-two years to watch a film that ends up near the top of most "Best Films of All Time" lists, so I had to filter my appreciation of Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 magnum opus The Godfather through a host of cultural references. I turned it on knowing Tony Montana and Tony Soprano, but not their forebear, Michael Corleone. As I watched Don Corleone's iconic conversation with Bonasera at the beginning of the film, visual cues from the referential opening of the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing popped off the screen, distracting from the scene's essential power. I couldn't block out the sound of Dom DeLuise's gauze-mouthed impersonation of Don Corleone in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, so Marlon Brando's Oscar-winning turn as the original Godfather was lost on me, a victim to parody.


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Having sex with the same gender, because they look like your friend.
Boy that could have gotten real Nessy back there.
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Short for "The Loch Ness Monster" a mythic creature that has been known for its extordinary life span inside of Loch Ness Scotland and is world widely known. There has been many-a set ups from people who want lots of cash for taking picutes of her.
"Duuuuuuude, I took a picture of Nessy today!"
"You liar, let me see it!"
"You liar, let me see it!"
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Is having a large long turd that the end sticks up out of the water resembling the Loch Ness Monster.
I just took a nice Nessy.
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A friend that never comes out to social events. Because they are either a homebody or are pussy whipped.
Dude 1: "Where's Luke Williams?"
Dude 2: "Don't know, cunts such a Nessy."
Dude 2: "Don't know, cunts such a Nessy."
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I thought I was in heaven, but I was really just looking at Nessy
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a man or boy who is the sex. every girl whos ever met him falls inlove with him in a snap. hes very seductive and sexy and is also a good friend and a loving family member.
damn hes a real nessy.
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She's abserlutely gorgeous, wouldn't change her for the world!!you really need to see someone as hot as her!!
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The best president since Reagan. A Christian from the great state of Texas. A buttload of idiots hate him because he's killing off the Muslims that murdered a couple thousand Americans. Much better president than that asshole womanizer Bill Clinton. Nicknamed "Dubya".
Bush is killing off the Muslims for God.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - The ball was right there for the taking for Stephen Obeng-Agyapong, a Braxton Miller out pass around the Ohio State 40 with nothing but a Nittany Lion sideline of open field between him and the end zone.
The Penn State senior safety couldn't pull it in.
It was that kind of game for the Lions, particularly in the first half. An inability to make plays and to take advantage of a huge, energetic Beaver Stadium crowd and a ton of momentum combined with some untimely - and sometimes questionable - penalties and the kind of mistakes Penn State wasn't making during its five-game winning streak allowed the Buckeyes to stay even at halftime. Things snowballed on Penn State in the second half, resulting in a 35-23 Lion defeat.
"Knowing how excited the fans were, alumni came back, family, how excited we were, how hard we prepared," Lion quarterback Matt McGloin said when asked about the most disappointing aspect of the loss, "and we just couldn't get it done.
"It was just one of those nights, I guess. We just didn't have it."
At one point, McGloin was flagged for a false start when a surprise snap hit him in the midsection before he'd repositioned himself in the shotgun while calling the play.
The list of the plays that could have tipped the scales in the Lions' favor early was numerous.
n On Penn State's first possession, Allen Robinson got behind the Buckeye secondary. Had McGloin's throw been on the mark, it would like have been a touchdown. It's wasn't, forcing Robinson to go to the turf at the Ohio State 30, but it was still catchable. Robinson, though, couldn't hang on, and Penn State punted.
n Miller wasn't accurate early, and a wild overthrow out of bounds on third down from his own 18 would have forced the Buckeyes to punt from deep in their own end in a scoreless game, had Adrian Amos not hit the leaping receiver, who had no chance to catch the ball. The personal foul allowed the Buckeyes to eventually drive into Penn State territory before stalling.
n Penn State never had an answer for the Buckeyes' well-timed blitzes, which not only resulted in three sacks of McGloin through the first three quarters, but a number of incompletions. None, though, loomed as large as did Ryan Shazier's sack of McGloin at the Lion 8 on the first drive of the second half. Facing third-and-13 on the next play, McGloin threw the ball right to Shazier, who raced untouched into the end zone.
"We're capable of picking those things up and handling them," senior guard John Urschel said.
n The Lions started that drive in the hole anyway, because Bill Belton mishandled the second-half kickoff and had to fall on it at Penn State's 11.
n Penn State committed a pair of penalties that extended Ohio State drives. Brad Bars was flagged for a rare defensive hold on the interior of the line on a punt late in the first half which enabled the Buckeyes to convert fourth-and-8 at their own 27 and eventually drive 75 yards for the tying score with 40 seconds left in the first half.
n There were penalties on the offensive side, as well. An illegal procedure on first down at the Buckeye 46 helped short-circuit a second-quarter drive and another one on Penn State's next series was instrumental in snuffing a Lion scoring threat that had pushed to the Ohio State 20 - the ball eventually was turned over on downs at the 17.
"Holding calls will happen. The thing we really need to avoid are the mental mistakes, things like false starts," Urschel said. "These are things that can easily be fixed."
n After Amos picked off Miller at the Ohio State 44 in the third quarter, Penn State gained 1 yard in three plays - another sack was mix in - before Lion coach Bill O'Brien gambled on a fake punt. The call was good, and Mike Hull was wide-open downfield. Butterworth, though, instead threw to a covered Derek Day. The pass was incomplete, and Ohio State capitalized on the short field to make it an 11-point game from which Penn State never really recovered.
"We kind of killed ourselves. This was a game where I think we could have made some big plays," Robinson said. "I think we were able to make big plays. We just couldn't finish them."
Robinson called the ball he didn't come up with in the first quarter "one I wish I had back."
"It was a little bit out in front of me, but I definitely should have caught it," Robinson said. "A little lack on concentration on my part, but, in a big game like this, that's a play I've got to make."
Of course, the play that many wanted to know about both when it happened and after the game was the unusual defensive hold on the Ohio state punt. O'Brien jawed with the officials after the call but said after the game he received no explanation.
A couple of the Penn State players, though, talked about it. Had the call not been made, Penn State would have had the ball around its own 20 with momentum, a seven-point lead and more than four minutes to add to it.
"It was a tough deal for our defense to be out there, get a stop, come off and have to go right back on," Urschel said. "They did the best that they could under the circumstances."
"I think one series they drove the whole way down the field on penalties," Amos said. "Penalties hurt us a lot today."
Aside from the holding-aided Buckeye drive, Penn State outgained 149-80 in the first half, while Ohio State spent the first two quarters trying to dig itself out of bad field position that had the Buckeyes starting off at their own 3, 11, 6 and 17, yet it was tied at halftime. The Lions had the ball for all but the first one minute and eight seconds of the third quarter but were down 14-10 by the time of the failed fake punt.
It had some of the feel of the opener against Ohio, when Penn State had control of the game before coming down with a thud from an emotional high and losing the game.
"We can't focus on the loss now, especially for us seniors," McGloins said. "We have four games left."
"This was certainly a sign of growing pains," Urschel said. "It was a step back."


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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sloand of Alden celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a family gathering at home. Mr. Sloand and Theresa Perry were married on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 1953, in St. Nicholas Church, North Java. He is retired general foreman for County Line Stone Co. in Akron. They have four children, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.


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Drillers allowed access to water on county land
March 17, 2013
LISBON — Columbiana County commissioners have agreed to sell water from a small stream for use in drilling at a nearby shale gas well sit....
The water that comes by my place near Gavers doesn't come from Guilford. I guess the narrative of dry streams falls apart if you look at a map.
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Since the anti's cry of ruined wells fell flat they have switched to the next topic. The exhaust from the engines that run will be next or deer hit by semi's in the coming fall or sound of the rigs affecting animals with no basis. It's all about money to quietly go away and look for the next protest.
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The streams wont go dry until guilford lake has no water.Just open the*****some more.End result dry creeks and wells.Just worried for those who have depended on these streams down the flow,Man and Animal.
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The real telling part of this is others have access to the swipe card machine and can change any buildings' code at will. There is no security at the courthouse except the men at the door.
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If the EMA has to come out swinging in a full blown disaster the commissioners will be run over by the feds and told exactly what they will and will not do. Just another local entity without power. Probably drives them nuts to be considered as one of the great unwashed.
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The streams are never drained dry. Multiple sources are used for gathering water. I've seen it myself. Once a well is done they move to another area and get another source. Stop the "sky is falling" stuff. We live this thing called fracking and see right through the scare tactics.
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Is Newbold being paid to let his assistant call the shots? So far his appointment is an embarrassment.Halleck said as a former SEAL he was very security minded. More smoke from the "party". Hats off to Dillard for being able to see a security weakness and taking action. Must be another ringer coming to the EMA as soon as they can write her up a few more times. The commissioners don't realise they are not part of this agency no matter how bad they crave power.
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It looks like Halleck is trying to get rid of a county employee. He must have a buddy that needs a job. If it was such a big deal why didn't the ema head get a letter?
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Halleck appears to be the one and only commissioner. What are the other two doing besides being Halleck's "yes" men? Something is wrong with this group!
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Halleck is such a Jackwagon! That stream will dry up with in a month. Why does he think he's GOD? The only thing Halleck is can be summed up in one word, AS**OLE
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Such a small stream,it may become DRY.Wonder who depends on that stream down the flow of it?
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Years of Rice and SaltAuthor:
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Publisher: Bantam Books
Summary: Chapter 1 Another journey west, Bold and Psin find an empty land; Temur is displeased, and the chapter has a stormy end. Monkey never dies. He keeps coming back to help us in times of trouble, just as he helped Tripitaka through the dangers of the first journey to the west, to bring Buddhism from India to China. Now he had taken on the form of a small Mongol named Bold Bardash, horseman in the army of Temur the Lame.... Son of a Tibetan salt trader and a Mongol innkeeper and spirit woman, and thus a traveler from before the day of his birth, up and down and back and forth, over mountains and rivers, across deserts and steppes, crisscrossing always the heartland of the world. At the time of our story he was already old: square face, bent nose, gray plaited hair, four chin whiskers for a beard. He knew this would be Temur's last campaign, and wondered if it would be his too. One day scouting ahead of the army, a small group of them rode out of dark hills at dusk. Bold was getting skittish at the quiet. Of course it was not truly quiet, forests were always noisy compared to the steppe; there was a big river ahead, spilling its sounds through the wind in the trees; but something was missing. Birdsong perhaps, or some other sound Bold could not quite identify. The horses snickered as the men kneed them on. It did not help that the weather was changing, long mare's tails wisping orange in the highest part of the sky, wind gusting up, air damp--a storm rolling in from the west. Under the big sky of the steppe it would have been obvious. Here in the forested hills there was less sky to be seen, and the winds were fluky, but the signs were still there. They ride by fields that lay rank with unharvested crops. Barley fallen over itself, Apple trees with apples dry in the branches, Or black on the ground. No cart tracks or hoofprints or footprints In the dust of the road. Sun sets, The gibbous moon misshapen overhead. Owl dips over field. A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind. Horses are tense, Monkey too. They came to an empty bridge and crossed it, hooves thwocking the planks. Now they came on some wooden buildings with thatched roofs. But no fires, no lantern light. They moved on. More buildings appeared through the trees, but still no people. The dark land was empty. Psin urged them on, and more buildings stood on each side of the widening road. They followed a turn out of the hills onto a plain, and before them lay a black silent city. No lights, no voices; only the wind, rubbing branches together over sheeting surfaces of the big black flowing river. The city was empty. Of course we are reborn many times. We fill our bodies like air in bubbles, and when the bubbles pop we puff away into the bardo, wandering until we are blown into some new life, somewhere back in the world. This knowledge had often been a comfort to Bold as he stumbled exhausted over battlefields in the aftermath, the ground littered with broken bodies like empty coats. But it was different to come on a town where there had been no battle, and find everyone there already dead. Long dead; bodies dried; in the dusk and moonlight they could see the gleam of exposed bones, scattered by wolves and crows. Bold repeated the Heart Sutra to himself. "Form is emptiness, emptiness form. Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond. O, what an Awakening! All hail!" The horses stalled on the outskirts of the town. Aside from the cluck and hiss of the river, all was still. The squinted eye of the moon gleamed on dressed stone, there in the middle of all the wooden buildings. A very big stone building, among smaller stone buildings. Psin ordered them to put clothes over their faces, to avoid touching anything, to stay on their horses, and to keep the horses from touching anything but the ground with their hooves. S [read more]
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LEWISTOWN - Paul S. Foss, 93, of Lewistown, passed away at his home on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Aleta N. Foss, on July 18, 1996.
Paul was born on Sept. 30, 1920, in Howard, a son of the late Frank H. and Cora Mae Cary Foss.
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Paul S. Foss
He was the retired owner of Foss Jewelers Inc., of Lewistown and Mifflintown, and was a faithful member of the Grace United Methodist Church. Paul was a 33 Degree Mason, past master of Lewistown Lodge #203 F&AM, and was a member of the Harrisburg Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Jaffa Shrine, of Altoona, Tall Cedars, of Lebanon and the Perry, Juniata, and Mifflin County Shrine Clubs.
He was also a member of the Newport American Legion #177, Lewistown, Rotary, BPOE #663 and Lewistown Country Club. Paul was the oldest member of the Newport Union Hunting Camp #1, Toboyne Township, Blain.
Mr. Foss was a veteran of the Army, serving during World War II, and was in the Air Force Reserves.
Paul is survived by: his wife, Theresa Nickel Hollinger Foss; two sons, James S. (Donna) Foss, of Beaver Springs and Howard F. (Denise) Foss, of Lewistown; two daughters, Paula F. Smith, of Lewistown and Amy Beth (Greg) Yoder, of McVeytown; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; stepson, Samuel (Diane) Hollinger, of Carlisle; and two stepdaughters, Diane (George) Kulp, of Hatfield and Joanne Hollinger, of Lewistown.
Paul was also preceded in death recently by two brothers, Abbot R. and Herbert C. Foss and son-in-law, Gary Smith.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, at Grace United Methodist Church, 101 Logan St., Lewistown, with the Rev. Richard J. Bender and Pastor Steve Rynkewitz officiating. A luncheon will be held after the funeral service.
Interment will be private in the Juniata Memorial Park. There will be a viewing from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, with Masonic services at 8:30 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to his church or charity of your choice.
Arrangements are being handled by the Hollinger Funeral Home & Crematory, 501 N. Baltimore Ave., Mount Holly Springs.
Online condolences to the family may be made at www.hollingerfuneralhome.com.


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the phrase said by a stoner before passing teh pips
"eer you go bro" --couch couch gag wheez--
από my name is already bieng used 11 Οκτώβριος 2008
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a pot heads favorite word
από trevor 9 Μάρτιος 2003
to attract ones attention by shouting 'eer'
eer mate can i hav some cowies
από dave 28 Απρίλιος 2003
A high pitched screeching sound used in substitute of the word awesome.
Man that is like EER!
από Christian 10 Απρίλιος 2003
"EVERYTHING ELSE REQUIRED" - It's kind of a term used after we finish a chat... people hate to type "good bye... c ya... sweet dreams..." and on and on... "EER" instead... you an start with "good bye... cya... and EER..." and as time moves on and people get familiar with the term, you can just use "EER" to bid farewell, when you think it's time to leave... or whatever...
Oops... sorry, I've got to go to school... so, EER :)
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To act in a manner that produces eerie feelings from others.
Kirk got quiet, producing an eerie feeling from Scotty. "Man...I hate it when she eers like that."
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Im writing this hoping to get rid of the why cant connect questions when people join arenas.
Things you will need:
1. Your original nand dump (Have your CPU Key and 1BL Key ready)
2. Freeboot .032 files (xbins)
3. 9199 files from xbins
4. The correct hacked smc.bin for your motherboard (get an xbr image for your motherboard, extract the smc_dec.bin)
5. Dashlaunch 1.0 Patches (located in development system apps at xbins)
6. The ping patch (located in development system apps at xbins)
7. Xlink Kai
Step 1. Building your new Freeboot Image
A) Unzip the freeboot .032 file and then unzip the 9199.zip into the data of the previously unzipped freeboot .032 folder. Unzip the dashlaunch file into its own folder. Once unzipped, copy the patches located in the freeboot patches folder of the dashlaunch folder into the bin folder of the previously unzipped freeboot .032 folder. Copy a cmd.exe into the root of the freeboot .032 folder. Finally, copy your orig.bin (or whatever you named it) into the root of the freeboot .032 folder.
Once you have completely finish part 1, open the command prompt that you copied into the root of the freeboot .032 folder and type in the following command:
a. ibuild.exe x -d temp\ -p [cpu key] -b [1bl key] orig.bin
i. You must replace [cpu key] with your cpu key (remove the brackets)
ii. You must replace [1bl key] with the 1bl key which can be found by googling (remove brackets)
b. If the command is successful you will not get an error. Now go into the temp folder located inside of the freeboot .032 folder and you will see that your orig.bin has been extracted. You need to copy the following 10 files from the temp folder to the data folder: crl.bin, crl.bin.meta, extended.bin, extended.bin.meta, kv.bin, odd.bin, odd.bin.meta, secdata.bin, secdata.bin.mata, smc_config.bin
c. Copy the smc_dec.bin you extracted earlier from the correct xbr image for your motherboard, to the data folder located in the freeboot .032 folder. Rename it to smc.bin
d. Now that you have all of the files located in the correct folder, build the image with this command:
i. ibuild.exe c freeBOOT -c [console] -d data\ -p [cpu key] -b [1bl key] bin\image.bin bin\fuses.bin
1. Replace console with your motherboard type ie xenon, falcon, jasper (remove the brackets)
2. Replace [cpu key] with your own just like before, and do the same for the 1BL just like you did before (remove the brackets)
e. Your image is now rebuilt and it is located in the bin folder of the freeboot .032 folder. It is called image.bin. Rename it to updflash.bin
f. Flash your new updflash.bin using xellous to avoid having to worry about bad blocks.
Step 2. Preparing Your Console After You Have Flashed Your New Freeboot Image.
Now that you have flashed your new freeboot image, you are almost done preparing your console.
1. Unzip the systempingcheck.zip and transfer kxam.patch to the root of hdd1 and you can also transfer it to your usb hdd. Do both to be safe.
2. Located inside of the Dashlaunch folder you extracted earlier, is a folder called flash_installer. Transfer that folder to your xbox 360.
3. Located inside of the Dashlaunch folder you extracted earlier is a file called samplelaunch.ini. Configure it (Case sensitive hard drive is LHdd and usb is LUsb0) to your liking (read the dashlaunch readme if you cant understand what to do just by looking) and transfer it to the root of hdd1 and/or usb.
4. Run the launch.xex from the flash_installer folder. Follow the prompt to put it into the flash, exit, then reboot your console. If you set your ini up correctly you will auto launch fsd or xexmenu or whatever you set it to auto launch.
5. Get all of the newest title updates for the games you want to use xlink with. There are a few websites that have title updates (which I wont list here) and you can also use title downloader 1.2. You will need your content.xml from freestyle dash to use that program.
Step 3. Setting Up Xlink and Your System Link Setup
People use different setups but Im only going to explain connecting to xlink through a laptop with a wireless internet connection. If you cant figure out how to portforward for your setup go to xlinks website www.teamxlink.co.uk.
1. Download/install xlink, create a tag etc.
2. Open the Xlink Kai Configuration, switch option to ui, enter in your username/password, hit save and exit.
3. Make sure you have disabled xbox live using the family access settings on your 360
4. On your 360 go to network settings, switch the ip settings to manual, give it an ip, set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0, and the default gateway to your routers ip address
5. On your laptop give the Ethernet port of that your 360 is using an ip address (different ip then the one you used in system settings of your 360), subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and set the default gateway and dns to the ip of your router.
6. Open an internet page and type the ip address of your router. Find the settings for portforwarding and forward port 30000 to your laptops ip address not the 360s address (this only applies using the setup Im describing).
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Miranda Fyfe played a long ball up the field to Weckhurst, who chipped her shot over the top of Stetson goalkeeper Victoria Troccoli to give the Dolphins the early 1-0 lead. As time was winding down in the first frame, Jacksonville increased its lead to 2-0 with only four seconds remaining on the clock.
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Wellsville (18-3) made nine three-pointers in the contest and outscored Oak Glen in every quarter. The Tigers' Nate Scott led all scorers with 33 points, while Camden Douglas added 14 as well as 10 assists.
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HUNTINGDON - By pulling together bits and pieces of history, two local women have teamed up to put together a book about the beginnings, the changing times and everything in between, of J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon.
Published on Oct. 4, and now offered internationally, "Images of America: J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital," was written and compiled by Nancy Shedd, of the Petersburg area, and Alberta Haught Goshorn, of Mount Union. Both retired, Shedd previously held the position of executive director at the Huntingdon County Historical Society, and Haught Goshorn was a public librarian at the Huntingdon County Library and the Altoona Area Public Library. She has spent time volunteering and conducting paid research at the Huntingdon County Historical Society.
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Because of the "memorial" part in the hospital's name, the book contains a chapter about J.C. Blair, for whom the hospital is named, and his wife, Shedd said.
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(The year is so much easier to type than it was 12 years ago in good old MDCCCCLXXXXVIII – or is it IIMM?) I'm using Roman numerals her to subtly hint that there's an old school idea in today's blog.
The end of the year is always a great time to look back to the good old days, say back to MMVIII, aka 2008.
Remember planning? A lot of our clients (and even some not-yet clients) ask us for new creative ideas for their next year's Grand Plan.
It's nice that they think we're so creative we can come up with brilliant ideas on the spot – sometimes we do – but often they turn a deaf ear to our best idea: look back. "You've had major successes in the past and what worked then will work now."
We have to prod them a bit sometimes but eventually they remember programs that were gangbusters in, say, MDCCCCLXXXXVI, but they dropped them because the programs were "tired". I doubt that prospects got tired of them but I know our clients did.
So maybe in 2010 you might:
• Revive a few older creative approaches that worked well. Maybe update the graphics, try a new offer. I've seen this work wonderfully well many times. It's inexpensive, quick and, more often than not, very profitable.
• Make one program fantastic. One of our clients asked us to work on website, email program and newsletter all at once. We're still hanging on to all of them waiting for photographs of staff, final product mix and a decision on a name for the their new social community. Had they asked us to focus on, say, the website, we'd have it done by now and could flow in all the missing details in a few hours. That's what we did for our friends at the National Cleaners Association. Take a look here: NCA Website
• Take one area that your really enjoy in social media land, and focus on it. I've been very involved in Twitter for the last year: Check me out here: LoisGeller"s Twitter
I even have a Twitter Philosophy on following people: (twitterwatchdog) At first I tried to be on LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo, Ecademy, Hi5 and Twitter every day. Then Attention Deficit Disorder set in. I couldn't learn about any of the communities until I actually spent time on them. Pick one, and focus.
• In 2010, consider going to quieter places. Everyone is running to Google. It's competitive there, and very complicated these days. Maybe you might want to focus your efforts on another search engine where you can end up higher on the list. I know people who use Ask.com all the time.
• Consider unique, even weird, offers and use your own brand personality to articulate them in a human way. If everyone else is giving 10% off on first purchase, try a gift with purchase instead. Maybe that gift can become your trademark, like the lucky trolls I use here at the Lois Geller Marketing Group. For some reason, people love them.
• And consider under-promising and over-delivering on any of the services or products you offer. Nationally, 1-800-CONTACTS does that and I just can't imagine ordering lenses anywhere else. Locally, Coit Cleaners does it nicely, too – surprise and delight! I always remember buying a Ford Explorer years ago. Two weeks later, they sent beautiful director's chairs in a canvas bag.
Bought another Ford just a few months ago.
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Oh, come on. Does Prsident Obama have a paper bag over his head? America is headed toward financial disaster and Mr. O. thinks we should raise taxes on the "rich" and cut spending by some miniscule amount. This isn't a solution; it's a prescription for disaster. Congress needs to pass Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) plan to reduce our debt by trillions and put us on the path to a balanced budget. Our taxes are more than adequate to run the government once it is right-sized. It's Congress that has "deficit attention disorder."
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Perhaps you've considered migrating your company to an open source desktop productivity suite? There are a host of good reasons for such a move. The most obvious one that comes to mind is to save on license fees, but don't be fooled. For the migration process to be a success and the full benefits to be reaped, you must invest in the changeover itself. Don't believe that because you want to save money long term you should skimp short-term. A look at the City of Freiburg's attempted migration reveals the dangers of treating the new software as a drop-in replacement.
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Already, The Document Foundation's migration guide has a wealth of good advice, highlighting the need for planning, preparation and ongoing funding for making a change of this nature to your companies working habits. The obvious subtext to the document's creation is that with the growing importance of the open Web and interoperability, making the migration to open source tools and formats is a consideration worth serious thought. It's a change which may just make the difference for your company.
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Hello Simon, great post, thank you for sharing.
It is so easy to see Open Source as a quick win with regards to saving money. But as described in the post, one needs to seriously look at the migration, the change in the organization. If you put efforts into that, and aim for the long term profits, Open Source can be a success.
Thanks for mentioning the LibreOffice whitepaper, I did not know about that. Always good to have examples like this post and a whitepaper to share, before jumping into such migrations.
That's the difference between the successes in both Munich, Germany; Largo, Florida, USA; and several school districts; versus the failure in Freiburg. The former three had solid migration plans in place and the will to follow them. Freiburg...didn't. I don't fault GNU/Linux or other F/OSS for that failure, but rather the project management.


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