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Infection with tenga.a virus Win98 is vulnerable
Posted 20 March 2010 - 02:40 PM
The tenga.a infection has shattered my mistaken belief that Win98 is not vulnerable to infection anymore, in 2010. Tenga.a came out around 2005 http://www.viruslist...W_never_say_die
Tenga.a infects most .exe files it can find. It has infected all FAT32-based Win98/2k/XP operating systems on my multi-booting laptop. Only one operating system/partition, an NTFS-WinXP rarely accessed, was not infected. The most serious damage was the infection of one 192GB partition of an external 1TB USB HDD, which contained about 100GB of software downloads + installable programs, many not backed up because it was a work disk.
I became aware of the tenga.a infection maybe after 5 hours, when I noticed that the disk access light kept showing activity, even when I was doing nothing on the laptop. But then it was too late, the infection had spread across operating systems/partitions, also to the attached USB HDD.
I still have no idea how I got the virus, with maybe a thousand .exe files infected. Maybe it was my bad habit of double-clicking even on suspicious files in a special test windows, and then restoring a clean test windows. Double-clicking on an infected file may have initiated the infection of a .exe on another partition, of another operating system, and started in this way an infection across operating systems.
Getting the laptop clean again was relatively easy, I had to restore all partitions/operating systems/directories from backup onto a clean virgin HDD. The major problem was to recover the infected installation sources on the USB HDD; some of them may have been lost for good.
Here some lessons I learnt from this infection:
1) Virus infection is still a real danger under Windows 98
2) The only defense against viruses like Tenga.a, if using only occasional on-demand scanning, is a very good backup and recovery procedure.
3) Don't rely on USB HDDs as a backup storage media of software because of their vulnerability to virus infections
4) Backing up installation sources onto write-once media (CD-R, DVD-R) is still an absolute must
5) Installation sources should always be backed up also into an additional .rar or .iso file, which are not as easily infected as .exe
6) It is very important to document the actual download locations of software, in case it has to be downloaded again
7) About 10% of my time with the computer is spent creating, archiving and deleting backups. This is time well spent and has saved my neck already a couple of times.
8) A spare blank HDD, of the same size as in the computer, also comes very handy if a complete HDD has to be restored from backup
9) Maybe I should look again into UDF-formatted HDDs, as supplementary backup devices which can be set to read-only and are therefore not vulnerable to virus infection.
Posted 20 March 2010 - 03:04 PM
I agree with most of the preventive measures you've just spelled out.
I wish to add just two or three more measures to the list:
I)Full disk dumb sector-by-sector current images of the current installation burnt to read-only optical media
(I use multi DVD+R DL images, and intend to move on to Blu-Ray soon), not older than two or three months, six in the worst case. Or that plus monthly dumb sector-by-sector current images of every partition, where feasible.
II)Up to date virus scanner on the XP partition, performing a daily scan of all the partitions (I use AVG 9).
and, if possible
III)A completely independent machine, with its installation backed up on optical media to use as a sandbox.
(I still don't have one, but that's my next move).
Posted 20 March 2010 - 05:40 PM
dencorso, on 20 March 2010 - 03:04 PM, said:
I)Full disk dumb sector-by-sector current images of the current installation burnt to read-only optical media
(I use multi DVD+R DL images, and intend to move on to Blu-Ray soon), not older than two or three months, six in the worst case. Or that plus monthly dumb sector-by-sector current images of every partition, where feasible.
Kaspersky is actually able to disinfect tenga-infected files. Unfortunately, the disinfected files are not identical to the original files. Some .exe files are completely destroyed by tenga, e.g. reduced from 2MB to 30kB, so the disinfected file is of no use. Other disinfected .exe files/archives differ from the original .exe, but extract the identical files as the original .exe.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 08:13 PM
Multibooter, on 20 March 2010 - 02:40 PM, said:
1) Virus infection is still a real danger under Windows 98
You didn't say which OS was in use at the time of the infection, so unless you know that it was Win-98 then I don't think it's valid to say that win-98 is in "real danger" (practically speaking) from unassisted infection techniques.
You didn't say if you have an AV solution on the PC in question, nor what you used to identify the malware once you suspected something was wrong.
Did you make note of the time and date-stamp of the offending infector files? I would have submitted them to virus total and post the result URL here for us to see just which AV packages would have detected it.
If you made note of the time and date stamp of the offending files, then it would be a matter of simply searching the drive for any files created/modified around the same time to see what you were doing around the time of initial infection.
Just to add some additional information: Tenga spreads between systems by exploiting the RPC vulnerability described by MS03-026. Interestingly, Microsoft lists various NT-based OS's as being vulnerable, but only lists Windows ME as non-vulnerable. Microsoft says nothing about Windows 98 (even though this bulletin is dated July 2003).
So Windows 98 is not vulnerable to the worm-like method this virus uses to spread between systems. Either you intentionally ran the infector file by mistake, or your PC was running an NT-based OS that was not patched against MS03-026 (which would mean that you were infected via network connection, possibly from another machine on your own local lan, or from a non-firewalled WAN connection).
From what I read about Tenga, it only infects PE files (packed executable) and adds 3kb of additional code to the files. It should be relatively easy to remove those 3kb and restore the files to their pre-infection state. I've also read where it renames all .doc files to .scr.
This post has been edited by wsxedcrfv: 20 March 2010 - 08:35 PM
Posted 21 March 2010 - 12:36 AM
Posted 21 March 2010 - 04:56 AM
wsxedcrfv, on 20 March 2010 - 08:13 PM, said:
Also, a 2nd WinXP on an NTFS partition did not get infected at all, which is kind of a puzzle, maybe because I use this specific operating system selection only very rarely, or because the infection started under Win98 and tenga.a could not see the NTFS partition under Win98, or because I detected the infection early on, before the infected WinXP on the FAT32 partition could infect the not-yet infected WinXP on the NTFS partition.
This tenga.a seems to be an interesting little program. If you want to investigate whether or how Tenga.a infects under Win98, send me a PM, I have enough copies.
Unfortunately I initially selected maybe the first 30 infected files to be deleted, instead of having them disinfected or skipping them, so the original culprit may have been deleted. After I got aware of the extent of the infection I selected disinfection, and after a while I just stopped. When I tried to reboot, none of my Win9x/Win2k/WinXP operating system selections worked anymore, too many critical .exe files had been deleted/disinfected, only the NTFS-based WinXP still worked.
I still have the infected internal HDD, now completely disinfected by Kaspersky, and the still-infected external USB HDD (1TB), where I did not let Kaspersky delete or disinfect files. It is very easy to know, without Kaspersky, which files on the external USB HDD are infected, by just looking at the modification date: all .exe files with a modification date between Feb-28 and Mar-3 on the USB HDD are infected with tenga.
It was very easy to identify with Beyond Compare which .exe files were infected, they all had modification dates between Feb-28 and Mar-3 (Mar-3 was the last time I ran Kasperksy on the infected internal HDD and the external USB HDD, Feb-28 was probably the date of infection). In order to repair the infected installation sources on the USB HDD I first made a copy of them, then replaced on the copy the infected .exe files, as identified with their modification date, with the corresponding .exes from other backups/rars/isos. For about 90% of the infected installation sources I had on the USB HDD also an untainted .rar file containing the whole good installation source rared up as a 2nd instance, so recreating a good installation source from the rars was not a problem. About 10% of the infected installation sources, where I had no 2nd .rar instance, I had to download again from the Internet. This was relatively fast with FlashGet because I usually document the exact download URL (not just the html download page) of files downloaded. Maybe 10 installation sources, however, did not exist anymore under their original download URL, including software purchased from Digital River, and were lost for good, unless I can find backups when I am back in the US.
BTW, I was very careful and did not get re-infected when I worked with the clean restored internal HDD on the attached infected USB HDD and on the infected internal HDD inserted into the right-bay HDD module of my laptop.
I remember having manually deleted a file dl.exe from \Win98\, possibly days before I noticed the tenga infection, because I hadn't seen it before in \Win98\. dl.exe is actually a part of tenga.a. Could it be that tenga.a contains a timer which starts to activate at the end of the month (Feb-28 = end of month), and that the actual infection occurred much earlier?
The infected laptop was connected via a peer-to-peer Win98 wireless network to another identical laptop running eMule under Win98. The eMule laptop was not infected, so the infection could not have come from the WLAN network or the eMule computer. I am using the Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.14 on both laptops, and Tiny did not inform of any calling out from the infected laptop.
Usually the infected files were about 3kb bigger, with stuff mainly added at the end. Some infected .exe files, however, were really damaged (e.g. reduced from 2MB to 30kb), a few infected files were even a little smaller than the original uninfected file.
Posted 21 March 2010 - 06:33 AM
herbalist, on 21 March 2010 - 12:36 AM, said:
I am still puzzled on how I got this Tenga infection. It's quite unlikely that such an old virus still exists in the wild. The last WildList if have seen which mentions Tenga.a is of March 2007 http://www.wildlist....List/200703.htm , with a stated date of Feb-2006.
I have been fiddling around during the past year with my old software archives, stuff from many years ago. Maybe I got the infection from old stuff in my archives, maybe some Jurassic-Park-type self-inflicted pain. Maybe I was not aware of the danger lurking in old software archives.
In any case this tenga infection shows that an old virus can still be a pain years later. I wonder whether Tenga runs under Vista/Win7. Because of its ability to infect USB HDDs and across operating systems it's still a very dangerous little program.
I have budgeted about 5% of my time on the computer for virus-checking and virus-problems, so I view the Tenga infection just as an eventual use of previously budgeted time, and as an interesting intellectual exercise. The time lost getting the laptop back up again was not serious, in contrast to the time lost recovering data on the infected USB HDD.
I am not yet sure how my experience with Tenga will change my precautionary measures against future malware infections; maybe I'll just have to make more frequent backups of new, not-yet-processed downloads stored on my USB HDDs.
This post has been edited by Multibooter: 21 March 2010 - 06:38 AM
Posted 21 March 2010 - 07:28 AM
dencorso, on 20 March 2010 - 06:15 PM, said:
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BTW, not that far away offtopic, since files damaged by tenga on the USB HDD were on such a device. In the back of my mind I have been pondering whether tenga may have been planted recently onto eMule, to destroy extracted downloads. Some people may have been loading eMule with malware, about 90% of the downloads are now infected, especially shareware stuff, maybe intentionally as a malguided defensive measure.
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Posted 21 March 2010 - 09:05 AM
herbalist, on 21 March 2010 - 12:36 AM, said:
In this particular case, Windows 98 is/was immune to direct infection. Tenga leverages a fault in the RPC service to spread between systems. Win9x/me does not have any such service to exploit. There have been many RPC vulnerabilities discovered in the NT-based family of Windows over the past 10 years.
How exactly the original infector file got onto Multibooter's system is not clear, but there can be only two ways: (1) A desirable file was obtained by Multibooter from the internet (torrent, shareware, freeware, etc) and this file was already infected with Tenga. (2) Multibooter was running some NT-based OS on his system (win-2k or XP) - and the OS was not patched for this RPC exploit. The PC would have needed to be connected to the internet - but no web-browsing or any user-directed web-activity would have been required. The exploit would have penetrated the NT-OS and installed itself (perhaps in the autoexec, or the win.ini files of his win-98 system files). Multibooter claims that he doesn't use his XP-side for web-surfing, but he doesn't say if he disconnects the network cable from his PC while he's using XP.
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Posted 21 March 2010 - 09:16 AM
Multibooter, on 21 March 2010 - 06:33 AM, said:
If you had an Anti-virus application running during the acquisition and execution of this virus, then it should have been detected immediately during the initial acquisition / downloading of the infected file, or as the virus was active and writing itself to your existing .exe files.
Most antivirus programs (as far as I know) have the ability to intercept all instances of file-creation or file-opening events and automatically scan new files or files that are being opened by applications. This includes web-cached files, etc.
Is it possible that your system was booted into DOS, and you first ran the infected file from that OS - and not windows?
The initial infection event must have occurred soon after you acquired some new file or files or moved/copied some new file(s) to your PC - perhaps from external media (CD, floppy disk, etc) or from an internet download, or via lan connection to another local PC, or via RPC exploit while running XP. If you remember coping some files to your PC from an external source just prior to the infection starting, then you should perform an on-demand scan of that source.
Posted 21 March 2010 - 10:51 AM
wsxedcrfv, on 21 March 2010 - 09:16 AM, said:
Posted 21 March 2010 - 11:42 AM
wsxedcrfv, on 21 March 2010 - 09:05 AM, said:
The Tenga infection cannot have occurred earlier under WinXP in the US, where the laptop does have internet access under WinXP, because the system backup I made just before leaving was clean.
This post has been edited by Multibooter: 21 March 2010 - 11:43 AM
Posted 21 March 2010 - 02:31 PM
[ot]The Sharkoon's Flexi-Drive S2S is a true hardware RAID, so it's bound to be fast, if used with the right SDHC cards... I had those SanDisk Extreme III SDHC 16GiB, which are the so called 30 MB/s edition, and that under real world conditions really attain sequential reads of just over 20 MB/s... Under RAID0 that would be 6x times faster, bordering on the limits of the SATA I connection you'd have to use for 98SE to be able to recognize it. Then again, the MTBF would be about 500,000 h, i. e.: 1/6 of that of the individual cards (>3,000,000 h, according to SanDisk).[/ot]
You should consider adding SP3 to your XP. I'm using it since about one month after release, and it's very stable and trouble-free.
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Posted 21 March 2010 - 05:07 PM
dencorso, on 21 March 2010 - 02:31 PM, said:
The fact that he's running XP-SP2 with no additional updates or patches isin't what I'd call smart. SP2 is dated to August 2004 - which predates this Tenga virus. So the system would be vulnerable to Tenga if it had a live (and non-nat'd) internet connection.
With regard to SP2, I've never understood what the difference is between an SP2 system that's been kept up-to date with all available patches vs an SP3 system in a similar update state. I'm under the impression that both systems would be equally patched or equally protected from all known exploits.
I still say that win-98 was "hit" by this Tenga only because the system is occasionally booted with a horribly-vulnerable version of XP. Any system that is single-booted only into Win-98 would not have been vulnerable to Tenga just by virtue of having a live internet connection. It would have taken user-assistance to execute Tenga on a Win-98 system, by way of running a file that was already infected.
Posted 22 March 2010 - 05:11 AM
wsxedcrfv, on 21 March 2010 - 05:07 PM, said:
I am just choosing between the lesser of two evils, and am fully aware of the risks, which I try to reduce by very intensive backups, by using ex-Soviet malware detectors, by having the WLAN-card removed when using WinXP, by using WinXP as little as possible and by installing a minimum of closed-source US-software created after 11-Sept-2001.
I have checked the still-infected 1TB USB HDD, Tenga.a seems to be a very efficient little program: Tenga infected on one partition 5329 .exe files on the USB HDD on Feb-28 between 9:04 PM and 9:07 PM, i.e. about 1700 files per minutes, with my old 700MHz laptop.
On the infected internal HDD, now disinfected, I have found on C:\ a file DL.exe with the modification date of Mar-1 9:18AM. It was not an exe file, just a renamed ASCII file with the following content:
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>

Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.

The URL in my DL.exe differs from the URL listed in http://quickheal.co....rts-tenga-a.asp
When I tried to manually download dl.exe from multimania.it, I got a 404; multimania.it had the page title "Lycos Tripod".
I did not find cback.exe or gaelicum.exe on the formerly infected HDD. Maybe Tenga was unable to execute all its work on my laptop.
Here another observation: Just around the time the USB HDD was infected, I was in Win98 and then tried to boot into WinXP, but somehow couldn't, or WinXP didn't come up properly, I don't remember anymore. In any case, I modified boot.ini, and after the 2nd or 3rd attempt WinXP came up Ok again, no idea why. During my attempts to boot into WinXP I most likely had the infected USB HDD connected (but the old BIOS of my laptop does not see USB devices connected at boot time).
Most likely Tenga had started under Win98 and had then infected, under Win98, some critical system files on the FAT32 WinXP partition, so that WinXP had trouble starting up.
On my laptop the various operating systems have common access to standalone programs, i.e. there is a single instance of standalone programs, which are accessed under the various operating systems by creating a destop shortcut there. For example, I am using uptime.exe. I run it under Win98 and under WinXP via a desktop shortcut to C:\MiscUtil\uptime.exe. So if C:\MiscUtil\uptime.exe is infected, the infection will spread to other operating systems whenever I click on the shortcut to Uptime under that operating system. The original idea was to avoid duplicate copies of standalone programs, but this may actually be an unsafe practice in a multibooting environment.
One of my interests in this topic is to explore "How to prevent cross-operating system infections in a multibooting environment". A virus which could encrypt modern HDDs, similar to ancient One-Half http://www.csie.ntu....IN/ONEHAL~1.HTM , which I mentioned in the introduction to this topic, could be just as much of a nuisance as Tenga. BTW, it would be interesting to know whether ancient One-Half can infect modern 1TB HDDs.
Posted 22 March 2010 - 07:16 AM
Multibooter, on 22 March 2010 - 05:11 AM, said:
Do I smell some good ol' conspiracy theory?
There may be "good" and "bad" companies:
Posted 22 March 2010 - 08:58 AM
jaclaz, on 22 March 2010 - 07:16 AM, said:
Maybe the Iranian and Chinese governments are not only for censorship, but also want to stop Poodle's data gathering. Paranoid concerns with national sovereignty, seeing data-gathering arms of the NFA everywhere?
BTW, http://news.cnet.com...-police-spyware is 404
Although I don't think it's likely, I have also been considering whether the Tenga infection was a targeted installation. ISPs seem to be able to access connected computers with relative ease, I assume a connected computer is just a client in the ISP's network. I am not sure how much Win98 protects against a snooping ISP.
Posted 22 March 2010 - 09:30 AM
Multibooter, on 22 March 2010 - 08:58 AM, said:
Sure it is.
The makers of the Board software expressly made their parser for posted URL's in such a way as to break them at commas, in order to prevent users from reading pages like:
(or maybe it was FBI or NSA forcing CNET to use these malformed URLs? )
Let's see if they got to TinyUrl too:
Good , they missed it.
Posted 22 March 2010 - 03:31 PM
Multibooter, on 22 March 2010 - 08:58 AM, said:
"On Sunday, state media in China attacked Google for what they described as the company's "intricate ties" with the US government." http://news.bbc.co.u...fic/8582233.stm
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Consider it the surfing equivalent of being the first to climb Mount Everest.
On Monday, Jan. 28 off the coast of Portugal, Garrett McNamara may have been towed into the largest wave ever documented on film. Estimated at 100 feet, the massive mountain of water was the result of a powerful swell that struck the small, picturesque town of Nazare.
McNamara, 45, and tow-in partner Keali'i Mamala, 34, tracked the swell for about a week before traveling half-way around the globe from their homes in Hawaii for a chance at wave-riding history.
"That morning everything was coming together exactly as we had planned and I was focused on surfing another spot that hadn't been ridden, and it doesn't break until it's much bigger," explained McNamara. "I told Keali'i we're waiting until low-tide, and then if the wave breaks, we're going to get it."
Mamala said the set that produced the giant wave was among the largest of the day. He watched in awe as McNamara let go of the tow rope and plunged into the belly of the liquid beast.
"I look down and he starts disappearing, and he's not even half-way down the wave," said Mamala. "It's what we've been looking for, searching for the 100 foot wave."
Amazingly, McNamara said the ride didn't provide the kind of thrill he expected. He says the wave appeared bottomless, but didn't break with the kind of power he expected.
"It didn't feel like what I was looking for, but it was definitely the biggest wave I've ever ridden," said McNamara. "I've surfed it over and over in my mind a million times, and the ride I got on that wave was nothing like what I envisioned."
So, how will McNamara satisfy his seemingly insatiable thirst for larger, more powerful waves? Go back to Nazare when the time is right, of course. A deep-water canyon extending 130 miles west of the town amplifies swells to the point that a riding 150 or 200 foot wave may be possible.
"If the conditions are right, I think you can ride any size wave," said McNamara. "I've gotten to a point in my life where I don't have to ride them anymore, but I just do it because I love it. The more I get pounded, the more fun I'm having. If I see giant waves, I'm like a kid in a candy store."


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In a letter published in both The Carolina Gateway and The Lancaster News, D.J. Carter comments that zoning notice practices have changed and he feels that this is an attempt to hide the facts in bureaucratic red tape.
Being a relatively new county employee, I inquired from staff regarding this allegation. Lancaster County has only had zoning in place for about 15 years so there haven't been too many years of "past times" to review.
This is the time of year for resolutions, and we'd like to suggest one for leaders of the Lancaster County Council on Aging and those of afternoon programming at the Heath Springs Community Center. That is, resolve to resolve your differences. Please.
Seems County Council's 2008 agenda includes a brand spanking new courthouse. I read there is some talk about having a vote on the issue. But we all know when the powers that be get a burr under their saddles it's the tax-paying riders who will have to hang onto the saddle horn. So, it's pretty much a foregone fact that a new courthouse is on the way and the old Mills designed building will become a possible museum containing some rusty textile equipment to celebrate our heritage, no doubt.
The Huckabee bandwagon is becoming alarmingly large and should concern every true conservative who desires less government and a return to true conservative principals.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's campaign Web site states he would be tough on immigration. However, his record confirms otherwise.
Apparently, it is the feeling of a minority of people in the Indian Land community that it is perfectly appropriate to issue a threat of a $4-5 million dollar lawsuit, which if carried through, would have a significant impact on every property taxpayer in Lancaster County.
However, it is not appropriate for any potentially impacted taxpayer to question the poor choices of those persons making that threat.
A permit was issued several years ago for a concrete plant in the Indian Land community. There were residential units in the area at the time.
By the end of next year the voters of District 16 will have given me the opportunity to serve in the Senate for as long as anyone since the formation of Lancaster County.
From the time I began my first campaign in 1992 people from Fort Mill to Kershaw to Winnsboro have blessed me with their confidence and support.
Early Christmas morning, Lancaster lost a good citizen, Rita Johnson. To her family and friends, Rita was special. Rita was a successful business woman, a devoted mother and wife, a civic leader, a wonderful friend. Rita held many offices in St. Luke United Methodist Church.
Recently there have been articles in the Lancaster newspaper about the consolidation of voting polls for the upcoming Republican and Democratic elections.
Any time changes are made in the manner that an election is held comes under the scrutiny of the NAACP. The NAACP has been at the forefront of equal voting rights for all citizens.
It was an early Christmas present. The Greater New Hope Christian Association soup kitchen.
It was rainy, dull day when it officially opened on Dec. 15. But the dreary day did little to dampen the spirits of the soup kitchen's champions – those who had the vision and those who helped make it become a reality.
Those involved with the Closing the Achievement Gap initiative met three times last year to address a concern that impacts everyone – the academic achievement gap between students in different demographic subgroups, including race and income.
Closing that gap should concern us all. The Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test (PACT), high school exit exams and end-of-course exams show a 20 percent or more gap in scores between the races and between those receiving free or reduced meals and other students.
I knocked on the window rather loudly in an effort to arouse a small dog laying motionless in my back yard. His head didn't rise when I knocked louder which led me to believe there was something wrong. I slipped on my shoes and went outside to take a closer look.
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank the Catawba Area Agency on Aging, Lancaster County, Heath Springs Mayor Ann Taylor, Heath Springs town leaders and the senior citizens for their commitment to keeping the Heath Springs Senior Center open after the Lancaster Council on Aging ceases management of the center later this month.
The notification came in a simple press release: The Heath Springs Seniors Center was closing. Seniors using the Heath Springs facility could continue to get the same services at the Kershaw Satellite Senior Center just five miles away.
We knew what the reaction would be.
"It upset us really bad (the decision to pull services)," said Heath Springs senior Dessie Reeves. "We're a close-knit bunch here."
That is quite true.
On Dec. 10, while attending a friend's burial at Kershaw Cemetery, I visited my late husband's grave to pay respect. I noticed at this time that my tombstone had been removed. Someone had actually stolen my grave marker that I had placed beside my deceased husband's grave.
After reading Karen Paulson's letter to the paper about how my letter to the paper was not necessary, I was a little bit confused.
I was under the impression that the opinion section of the newspaper was exactly the place to air my opinion.
I am thankful to live in a country where I have the freedom to express my thoughts and a forum in which to do so.
And, as a matter of fact, someone from both the tax assessor's office and the Department of Motor Vehicles contacted my husband and me.
What if there were no hatred? No ill will? No jealousy? What if there were just reverence? Calmness?
What if on one night a year everyone paused to reflect on the good?
It's happened before. Been documented in history, retold in books and recorded in songs.
On Dec. 24, 1914, German troops began decorating the area around their trenches of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas.
They put candles on trees and sang Christmas carols. One of those was Stille Nacht (Silent Night.) British troops in trenches across from them responded by singing English carols.
Editor's note: Sen. Greg Gregory, R-16, writes a newsletter to capture the happenings in the General Assembly. Following is a synopsis of the bills:
Money matters
It has been said that the art of taxation is to pluck the most feathers from the goose without it noticing. In South Carolina, legislators have taken this approach by swapping taxes that are hated (property taxes) for ones that are perceived as more pain-free (sales taxes and fees). There has been much change in the last two years, so here is a thumbnail sketch of the current status.
The original intent of zoning was to provide for stability in communities by mandating what uses of the land in that community were permissible.
The act of rezoning was quite rare and done only under extraordinary circumstances. This provided protection for property owners in a community and ensured preservation of community characteristics and property values.
Now the fad has become rezoning. Current zoning insures no stability in a community. Why is this occurring? Greed.
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According to a press release by the Beachaven Association, three vandals destroyed $7,000 worth Christmas decorations and property 11 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16.
Surveillance cameras caught three vandals ripping out Christmas lights, throwing decorations on the ground and stealing the favored Santa Pig that has helped the condominium win a number of awards at The Siesta Key Condo Council Lighting Contest.
They left driving on the grass and destroying the condominium's sign.
"I call them the Christmas Grinches," said Property Manager Veronika Bajtala.
Bajtala heard the racket as the vandals drove off and came outside. She called the police. The vandals moved on to destroy decorations on another property on Siesta Key where the police caught them.
Police have located the pig since Sunday.
Due to the destruction Beachaven Condominium was not able to partake in the Siesta Key Condo Council Lighting Contest Tuesday, Dec. 18.
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Salvation Army Bell Ringer Defends Kettle from Armed Robber in Conway
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It happened on the north side of town in front of the J.C. Penney store in the Conway Towne Centre.
The volunteer claims the man put a dollar into his kettle and before the ringer could say thanks, the man pulled out a gun.
The bell ringer told police he shielded his red kettle from the suspect, who drove off empty-handed in a red Camaro with Missouri tags.
Authorities say the kettle ringer told the man he was not going to get the money, and after a staring contest, the armed man left.


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JoeyDVivre Wrote:
> Anyway, these "socialist"/"left" epithets are
> silly. The hallmark of socialism is government
> ownership (not 20% capital gains taxes for god's
> sake). We just had a Republican president take a
> serious step toward nationalizing banks and
> everyone points a finger at Obama and says he's a
> socialist?
I would like to learn more about this. Is this not what Obama stands for below?
"Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society."


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Elementary school art classroom
Helping with Charlie's school's Peace Tiles project
Okay, everybody, come sit in a circle. Circle. No, circle. That's the round one...So now that you're all seated, let's talk about what represents peace to you. ...Nice. The way you describe that, I can almost see it. A swim in the lake on a hot day sounds soothing. Good one -- I like fireflies at twilight, too. Oh, yeah, snuggling in front of the fire with a pet...sunsets...sure... Ah. Well. Yes. I, too, have always found hard-boiled eggs to be...peaceful...I guess.
Now we're going to start on our collages. At each table there's a stack of magazines, and we have paper, paint, fabric...all sorts of...sure, I'd be happy to help you find some pictures related to your peaceful idea. Let me just look here. You know, I can't seem to find any pictures of semi trucks, but...oh, you found one of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Way to be flexible! That's like peace on wheels right there. ...Meaty peace.
Ah, I see you're already cutting some stuff out. What was your peaceful thought? Oh, right, the ocean -- when you said that in the circle I could just imagine myself sitting on the beach with the waves lapping at my toes, too. I...huh. I didn't imagine sharks, though. Wow, you sure found...a lot of them. Yeah, the red paint is over there, but I really think the picture already looks exciting enou...well, okay, now, isn't that vivid. ...Yeah, you'll want to let that dry.
Nope, I haven't found any pictures of the characters from Mortal Kombat in this stack of old Yankee magazines. Still looking! Yeah, no, don't wait. I'll let you know.
Oh, yeah, there are a lot of pictures torn out of that National Geographic, huh? Well, I'm not exactly sure why. I guess someone else wanted to use them in their peace collage.
I agree, it's really cool how that snake is completely misshapen by...whatever rodent it just swallowed. So do you think that's...peaceful? Well, but even though it swallowed the...armadillo?...whole, without chewing, it's still...right, nature in general is something that makes us think of peace, but...wow, you certainly did a careful job cutting around its fangs.
I'd add the dripping venom later. Not today.
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But seriously, folks, I'm here till recess
Speaking of trying hard, Charlie and his class were charged with the task of doing a report on notable women for women's history month. Charlie's choice surprised no one, though his title did strike me as maybe a little too hip for the room:
Marie Curie: Radiation Lady
The "trying hard" part wasn't the research he did, grumbling the entire time. It wasn't the exquisite restraint Paul exercised in getting him to organize his notes into some semblance of coherence. It wasn't the long self-sacrificing dive I took — "NOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo!" — between him and the laptop to prevent him from adding "Gangnam Style" as the soundtrack to his slides.
No, the "trying hard" was how resolutely I stood in my refusal to let him add to his scripted talk, "So really, when you think about it, she was actually kinda asking for it."
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If ten years of blog posts here have taught us nothing else, by now we've all learned that I'm sometimes an asshole. Do not worry: despite how seldom I post these days, I'm in no danger of forgetting that. Parenting reminds me regularly.
I've been fretting a fair amount about how Charlie doesn't want to do anything hard. In that he is truly my son; I never wanted to spend time practicing things that didn't immediately come easily, either. You know how they say that the things that make you crazy in other people are actually things that bother you about yourself? Not completely true — pretty sure I'm not the one who comes into the office in the morning and turns on lite jaaaaaazz — but, sure, okay, a little bit.
Anyway, it had kind of been eating at me, this worry that my kid was never going to buckle down and do anything tough, to keep after something and master it, to learn the value of good old American stick-to-it-iveness, the pleasure and reward of hard work. Yes, like his Puritan forebears! Who soberly toiled their whole lives long, seeking only to amplify the glory of God, with the Xbox only on weekends.
Now, first of all, what an asshole stance that is. Don't we all mostly just want to do what's easy and fun? Do I expect my eight-year-old to be magically different from — better than — almost every other kid in the universe? Is it reasonable to think he should be innately better at that shit than I am after 42 years of practice?
So that's bad enough. But the real asshole part is that it recently struck me, shortly after a parent/teacher conference, that I've had it all absolutely wrong.
We have these conferences regularly as part of Charlie's 504 plan to check in on which accommodations are helpful, which need adjustment, and exactly which awful thing I should dwell on every night at 4 AM for the month until the next conference. Over the last three or four months there have been some real improvements — some slow but perceptible changes in his ability to participate in the class, in his self-regulation, in his impulse control, in his capacity to just...hold it together. To get through the day.
The result is that with the help of meds and some classroom supports, Charlie is mostly managing himself, to the extent that there are no longer insanely detailed behavior charts sent home — seriously, at one point there was a chart for which facial expressions he was using, like, "Oh! Hey, good work: I see you were merely 'mutinous' today!" My heart no longer races fight-or-flight-style when the phone rings during the day. (My palms do not sweat. They glow.) Among his peers, his behavior is rarely...let us say notable. Even a quick note from the teacher is unusual these days.
And after a couple of months of this gradual progress, after a conference where we were actually able to focus more on his learning than on his hyperactivity, his impulse control, and his oh-my-God-stop-with-the-armpit-farts-the-entire-class-has-moved-on, it suddenly occurred to me: none of that comes naturally to him. None of it is easy. Forget riding a bike or stepping through a tae kwon do pattern or improving his handwriting; every day of his eight-year-old life, he is practicing something hard.
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Dear Mom (writing about Mom) writing about Mom on the iPhone
These days I don't usually get too exercised about mom-on-mom atrocities. You know: the mommy wars. Momtroversy! Hand-to-hand mombat! ...OkayI'llstopnow.
...Momnia Brawlia in tres partes diviOKAY.
It's not so much that I feel that hot-button topics don't apply to me, because Marissa Meyer and I have a lot in common and I plan to give her a call next time I feel like getting my peasant on, see if she wants to bump panniers or something. It's more, I think, that I feel comfortable.
I don't have a lot to fight over, not a lot I'm ambivalent about. I don't feel the urge to argue about what goes on in my life. The need I might once have had to defend a position is satisfied now by living it. When it comes to caring what other moms do, or what others think about me, I'm as disengaged as one of Marie Antoinette's cows, as immune to controversy as her pretty pink sheep.
So it surprised me to get so annoyed about a piece that was making the rounds last week, the one about the mom on her iPhone. Yet get about it so annoyed I did do. First of all, don't call me Momma. I spell it Mama, and it's pronounced I'll thank you not to patronize me. Second, I found the sanctimony of it repellent. Third, the implication that every moment is golden and not to be missed strikes me as disingenuous, although I do agree that watching a four-year-old stick his finger up his nose all the way up to his elbow is more gripping, in its way, than anything a smartphone can easily serve up, possibly with the exception of a video of same set to K-pop. Fourth — and this is the biggie — I reject the notion that I should always be available as an audience, that my kids should be entitled to endless applause, and that they should get positive reinforcement for expecting it.
Now pretend there's a paragraph here explaining what I don't mean by that last. I mean, look, I'll gladly watch you twirl once. I'll even watch you do it twice, to verify that in fact your twirling only improves as you work to hone your talent, which is, I agree, prodigious. And if you're Ben in your pink sequined skirt, I'll even give you three more times, because, child, you are hilarious. But beyond that — well, anyway, are we good here? Okay, moving on.
So that post made me crotchety, and I know I'm not alone in that, as I saw several rebuttals posted in a much more timely fashion than this one. (What. I was busy having my farthingale rewired, installing new rebar in my stomacher, and getting my wig sprayed for silverfish.) I was glad to see so many dissenting opinions, because it seems to me that sistermothercommunityhood is only powerful as long as we're willing to call each other out on our bullshit. But I was chagrined to see so many of them miss what I felt was the point.
The responses that disappointed me all boiled down to this premise: What if the trope on the bench with the phone were doing something important? She could be answering e-mail from work, so as to keep the job that puts food on the table. She could be scheduling therapy appointments for her child, who has, I don't remember, scrimshaw or something. She could be organizing a fundraiser to benefit cancer research. She could be reaching out for emotional support from her 60,000 Twitter followers. Don't judge her: she's righteously busy.
And, you know, she could be, this entirely fictitious lady on her entirely hypothetical phone ignoring, imaginarily, her theoretical children. Plenty of people manage to be respectably productive on a smartphone, even in the presence of children. Me? When my kids are around I find I can't work, so fragile is my focus. (It's not you, boys, it's me.) (And you.) (But mostly me.) (...Andalsoyou.) And when I'm on my phone, it's Scramble city, sweetheart. Or Facebook, or HootSuite, or texting snotty things with a friend about, seriously, the four cans of soda her son was given during a recent playdate. ("Howler monkey on PCP?" "ADHD lemur on meth.")
The thing is, I'm usually not busy with something important when I'm ignoring my kids. I'm generally dicking around, and why is that not okay? Why do I need to justify doing something just because it's fun with phrases like "self-care" and "recharging my batteries"? Oh, wait. Huh: I don't! It is okay to just screw around, to put my own desires in front of my kids' now and again, and I wish more people would thrust a fist into the air and declare it. I'm fucking off and I don't care.
I mean, we still get to do that, even once we have kids. If you're uncomfortable with the baldness of that assertion, you can dress it up if you want to, acknowledge that during interludes of benign neglect we're simultaneously teaching our children something valuable: that other people's desires are important, too; that you're not always the focus of every eye, and you mustn't expect to be; that when you need us we'll be present, but not every second you merely want; that if Momma — shudder — looks away for a minute, you'll still be fine. You'll thrive.
All true. All true even if the reason for my benign neglect is not that I'm organizing an airlift of humanitarian aid or spearheading an adult literacy program or singlehandedly keeping special needs primates off street drugs and Dr. Pepper. The same thing is true even if I'm merely scowling over my phone, wondering why SHIT and SHAT are words in Scramble but SHITTER doesn't count.
And, whoa, 950 words later I find I must still have something to argue about. Hey, good thing it's something important, like what anonymous strangers think when I'm tuned out with my kids.
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Gone bad wrong
Every time something bad happens, some disaster — a shooting, a storm — that doesn't discriminate in its violence, people tell each other, "Hug your babies tight." The message I get is that we're supposed to feel a renewed gratitude to be able to draw our children close when others can't. And I do, but I also feel uncomfortable with the admonition. I do hug my babies tight — and for all I know, so did Nancy Lanza.
Where we fail most grievously, I think, is not in loving and accepting our own children, but in loving and accepting those beyond our immediate circle, and beyond our tiny radius of comfort. Did others see Nancy Lanza struggling, and did they enfold her and bear her up? Did people in the community try to reach Adam, insofar as he could be reached? Did they — did we — give the family all the practical assistance the system could bring to bear?
I don't know the answers to any of these questions about how hard we worked, how seriously we took our commitment to each other. That we didn't help them enough, though, seems at this point obvious. I don't know if anyone could. I just know we need to try, all of us — keep trying and do better.
Charlie saw the news on the muted TV screen at a restaurant Friday night.
I told him what had happened, although the chyrons on CNN spelled it out pretty boldly. He didn't ask why, which struck me as strange. I explained anyway, saying that most of us understand certain hard and fast limits about how to handle what hurts us, but that when something has gone bad wrong in our mind — "gone bad wrong," oh, how else is there to say it? — we no longer play by those rules.
He nodded, grasping the metaphor. "Then we make up our own," he suggested. "And then it goes really bad wrong."
An eight-year-old has an intuitive understanding of the consequences of unchecked mental illness. Is it safe to say the same about those entrusted to safeguard our public health?
In the wake of the shooting a friend on Facebook posted a picture of herself at age 5. It's a way of sidling up, I guess, to absorb the meaning of an incalculable loss to so many families and friends. To look at our own kindergarteners and ourselves when we were the same age, to imagine what it would be like to get that call one morning, or to consider — oh, it sickens me — the fear they surely felt. To blend the edges of where we end into where those in Newtown begin.
I've seen pictures of some of the victims, and although I could describe them with a handful of appropriate adjectives — glossy-haired baby-toothed pink-cheeked smiling, God, smiling — the only way I really see them is loved, loved, loved.
I also saw a photo of a young Adam Lanza, age undetermined. You know the one: chin ducked down, slight smile, blue polo shirt buttoned all the way up.
I feel like what I'm about to say is dangerously profane. I feel equally strongly, though, that we need to say it and hear it, while we're still blending our edges to try and understand each other: I can't stop thinking that he was once five, once went to kindergarten, once sat through having his hair combed. Once smiled for the camera.
The children of Sandy Hook Elementary were beautiful, as were the people who fought for them, and those who protected them and kept some safe from harm. And so once was Adam Lanza, before someone — we — failed him.
I saw a photo this weekend of an art teacher setting up wooden angels representing the children who were killed.
I know better than to believe that there was one for Adam, or even to think there should be.
But I also know we have to do better by each other. We have to. We have to. We have to.
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All non-motorized rowing shells, racing sculls, canoes, kayaks, rowboats, and inflatables are eligible for this option. Hand-powered vessels should NOT use the alternative registration method if there is a possibility of ever using a motor or sail with this vessel.
In lieu of the OH Numbers and registration decals that appear on both port and starboard of the boat, this option consists of a single 3" x 6" decal with a 7-character number assigned to it. Once this number has been assigned to a vessel, it will be maintained with that vessel for its lifetime. The very first Alternative Registration decal will display the 7-character OH number. Renewed Alternative Registrations will display a different decal number that is linked to the OH number in the database of boat registrations.
The registration fee is $17 plus a $3 writing fee plus a $5 waterway conservation fee, for a total of $25 for three years. These registrations expire on March 1 of the year noted.
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For Hull Identification Number requirements and location, please see our fact sheet on HINs.
Another form that you may need in the process of applying for a watercraft registration includes a Power of Attorney for Watercraft Registration Only [DNR 8464, 13K PDF].
Alternative registrations are good for three years and can be renewed online January through September, or they can be renewed through the mail or in person at any Watercraft office. Renewal notices are sent on ODNR letterhead from Central Office to the address we have listed for you. Please keep ODNR Watercraft apprised of your current address. (Notice of Change of Address/Destruction of Watercraft/Change of Ownership [DNR 8455, 17k PDF])
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The Tigers built up an early 14-0 lead and seemed in control but they allowed a battling Irish side a foothold in the game through three penalties from Ian Humphreys.
A penalty from Toby Flood and two late converted tries gave Leicester what was at least on paper a convincing win.
Smith said: "I'm really disappointed as we came up short again. I'm proud of the boys' effort and we deserved a bonus point, so to come away with nothing was harsh."
It was 17-9 to the Tigers when the visitors sealed victory with a crucial penalty try in the 73rd minute.
Niall Morris broke away from on halfway and kicked ahead. He would have secured the try himself but was taken out by Irish replacement Jamie Gibson, who was yellow-carded before Flood added the conversion.
Smith was far from happy to concede the score.
He said: "The third try was the game-breaker for us. There were clear hands in the ruck to wrestle the ball free to give Leicester their opportunity and when the penalty try was awarded it was game set and match."
Irish certainly did not appear to have the rub of the green with the refereeing decisions. Tom Youngs should have received at least a yellow card for recklessly charging into a ruck but he only received a warning from referee Luke Pearce.
"Tom Youngs shouldn't have played the full 80 minutes," said Smith. "There were no arms involved and it was a shoulder charge which nearly took Declan Danaher's head off. It was perhaps a red-card offence and the citing commissioner will have to have a look at it."
Smith's Leicester counterpart, Richard Cockerill, agreed the scoreline was not an accurate reflection of the game.
"We were fortunate," Cockerill said. "The boys scrambled well but they [London Irish] played pretty well today and they deserved a bit more.
"We were really good in the first half and had several opportunities but we didn't take them. We then sat back and waited for things to happen which was disappointing, but it's five points on the road."
Flood returned after over a month off with a toe injury and was rewarded with 11 points, and in addition he created the first try for Morris with an alert cross kick.
"Toby was very assured today; it was a quality penalty kick under pressure late on and his kick to Niall was great awareness." said Cockerill.
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text: Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Though pleased with the recent NFL blackout policy changes, Congressman Brian Higgins thinks the league can go one step further. He, along with two senators, have proposed an amendment calling for teams to have the option to have two non-punitive waivers. Under the league's revised policy, teams can lift the blackout if 85 percent of tickets are sold. However, the home team must give a significant portion of ticket revenues above 85 percent to the visiting team. Higgins, along with Senators Sherrod Brown and Richard Blumenthal, wrote a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell about the proposed change. "We applaud the NFL's decision to address its decades old, anachronistic and anti-fan blackout policy; we only ask that it go a little further in making the policy one that teams are free to embrace," wrote Higgins, Brown and Blumenthal. "I am grateful that the NFL has taken the first step toward making its blackout policy more fan-friendly," said Congressman Higgins, "but this should be a beginning and not an end. The next logical step is to refine the policy to create the best chances for the teams to actually opt-in and implement the new blackout policy. We need to move toward a policy where both the team and the fans are winners. " "The NFL's new policy is an important step in addressing the outdated blackout policy, but it should not punish teams who do right by their fans," Brown said. "Waivers would provide teams flexibility to air games without being financially penalized." Senator Blumenthal said, "I welcome the NFL's decision to modify its policy on blackouts by giving team owners the option to locally broadcast games even when they are not sold out. However, the NFL needs to amend the punitive portion of the new policy so teams will not be penalized financially for opting in. I will continue to give sports fans in Connecticut and across the nation a voice by working to prevent industry abuses like blackouts. Fans should be able to root for and watch their favorite teams even when they cannot attend in person." "Along with members of Congress, we at Buffalo Fan Alliance applaud the NFL for their willingness to change, said Matt Sabuda, President of the Buffalo Fan Alliance. We hope that the NFL continues their reevaluation of the blackout policy to include the proposed waiver amendment. It would give all markets the flexibility to address both ticket selling strategies and television accessibility for fans on a game to game basis without the risk of lost revenue for an entire season. A more flexible strategy that recognizes the unique differences across NFL markets would certainly be another step in the right direction." The text of the letter follows: Dear Commissioner Goodell: We applaud the decision of the NFL to adopt a new policy that will allow teams to lift the local blackout of television broadcasts if at least 85% of nonpremium seats are sold within 72 hours of kickoff. That the League recognizes the blackout rule is outdated and in need of rethinking is a step in the right direction. However we have serious concerns that the second part of this new policy, which requires teams to forgo a significant portion of revenue from tickets sold over the 85% threshold, dissuades teams from trying this new policy. This punitive policy creates undue tension between the twin goals of ensuring loyal fans can watch at home and endeavoring to sell as many tickets as possible above the threshold. For example, a team that routinely sells out its games early in the season but that might like to lift blackouts on its December games that are not sold out might consider adopting the policy but for the penalty it would incur on the tickets sold to the early season games above the 85% threshold. With this concern in mind we respectfully urge the NFL to amend the rule by dropping the punitive portion regarding revenue from tickets sold above the 85% threshold. If simply dropping the section is not acceptable, we suggest an alternative amendment. For teams that decide not to opt-in to the new policy for a full season, each team should be allowed two waivers of the local blackout policy per year, which could be activated no sooner than 72 hours before kickoff. The last minute nature of the waiver and the limitation of two waivers would support demand for ticket sales throughout the season, and would allow teams the flexibility to evaluate the decision to lift the blackout on a game by game basis. Further, the lack of a punitive penalty would ensure that it is in the team's best financial interests to attempt to sell as many tickets as possible to those games. Football fans are some of the most loyal in the nation, contributing billions of dollars in revenue to the League and countless local businesses. We do not believe it was the League's intent to devise a policy that financially punishes teams who elect to make their product available to all fans, who have subsidized the construction and maintenance of 30 of the NFL's 31 stadiums with their tax dollars. That is why we respectfully urge you to amend the rule to create greater flexibility to ensure small and midsized market teams are not unfairly penalized for rewarding loyal fans with local broadcasts while promoting and maximizing game day attendance. The value of the League was indisputably and substantially enhanced by televising games. Many of the nation's top economists have concluded that local television blackouts have little or no effect on ticket sales, and even found that local blackouts harm consumers without producing a significant financial benefit to teams. As an estimated 60% of the League's revenue is generated from game broadcasts, and only 20% from ticket sales, this new policy demonstrates that the League understands the changing realities of sports economics in the 21st century. We applaud the NFL's decision to address its decades old, anachronistic and anti-fan blackout policy; we only ask that it go a little further in making the policy one that teams are free to embrace. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.


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No I'm not talking about a Facebook stalker. Or a Google stalker. Or a Single White Female kind of stalker.
I am, however, a menu stalker.
Yep, someone mentions a restaurant that we may go to and my fingers fly to their website so I can scope the menu. And I don't look at it just once. No I creepily keep looking, letting the appetizers entice me and the entrees make me drool.
I pick favorites. I go back and forth deciding which one I will select upon my visit. I rationalize the heavier dishes by promising a light lunch the given day.
My stalker-esque behavior isn't because I'm creepy. It's because I like to not only know what I'm getting into, but I especially like having something to look forward to.
In fact, I think I thrive on anticipation of something good to come.
We could be going to Subway or Spago's and I'll give equal attention to the menu.
Tonight, we're headed to an Italian restaurant we haven't been to since 2004: Don Giovanni's. And of course I've been stalking the menu all week debating on my entrée.
Below are my top contenders:
Capellini D'Angelo al Pomodoro
Angel hair pasta in a fresh basil, garlic and diced tomato sauce.
Spaghetti al Pollo Piccante
Pasta in a spicy tomato sauce with chicken tenderlions.
Parmesan Chicken
Chicken breast breaded and topped with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese baked until bubbly. Served in a bed of fresh linguini marinara.
Pollo Ripieno
Oven roasted breast of chicken stuffed with herbs, ricotta cheese, roasted sweet peppers, served over garlic mashed potatoes, sauteed swiss chard and roasted sweet pepper cream.
Are you a (menu) stalker?
What should I order?
PS Loved your thoughts / feedback on the scale. I think we all agree that we have to do what works for us, right?


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Youtube videos have dominated over the internet that it has become the top video sharing website of the world. However, it might seem strange that each time you need to access a video, you would have to wait to get it buffered online. If you are using Google Chrome, then this nugget of information is definitely worthy to be read.
Which one is the best Google Chrome YouTube downloader?
Now that is more like asking which is the best flavor of ice cream?Answer; your choice. There are several flavors and so are several YouTube downloaders. As long as the flavor instills your taste buds, you are good to go for the ice cream. Talking about YouTube downloader, the same concept applies here. There is only one function of YouTube Downloader; downloading videos from YouTube. If this function is performed well enough, then it could be the best for you, even though it might not be used by others.
There is no criteria for the best, however since the competition is cut throat in a market full of crocodiles trying to eat up the competition, there has to be some extras and goodies in a YouTube downloader for it to be recognized as the best software.
Youtube Downloader
Google Chrome is Google's native web browser introduced back in 2008 and since then witnessed tremendous growth. There are several programs, but the one that I found to be the best one is Youtube Downloader, which can be accessed here:
Off course, priced free of cost, it is the best youtube download extension ever seen till date. There is plethora of youtube download extensions on the Google Chrome Extensions official website, but none could come close to this one.
With a rating of 4.2 out of 5.0 based upon 3153 votes, and a download stats of 1595465 times, it is the most popular download extension. All it does is that it adds a "Download" link to your Youtube videos so that each time you view a YouTube vid, you can immediately download that clip to your hard drive. The video would be instantly downloaded on your system and you would be able to watch it later on without requiring internet.
Azkaban is the developer for this Google Chrome extension and the current version for YouTube downloader is 1.1
There are many other downloaders out there too, but most of them are bundled as software, which means you have to download, and install a separate program to catch youtube videos. With this chrome extension, that wouldn't be the case at all.


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Hey Ya'll. Carter Parton Rogers here. I hope ya'll are havin' a great Wednesday. I have learned a new song and it made me think…Weddings! Ya'll could have me play for ya'll's next event. Let me know what ya think. Get ready for the best from me yet… Hey Hear Me Now A community for…
May 22, 2013
Podcast #10: Wedding Music!
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