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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- AJ McCarron showed it in the first half against Michigan, a willingness to set his feet, find a receiver and deliver the ball with authority. He showed he could control the offense under center.
McCarron was brutally effective in Alabama's home debut at Bryant-Denny Stadium, completing 14 of 19 passes for 219 yards. His 240 passing effeciency rating was the highest of his career, and nearly double that of his 234-yard performance against LSU in the BCS National Championship Game.
"When we executed properly, I thought we did a pretty good job, put some drives together and made some big plays," said Alabama coach Nick Saban. "We were fortunate to hit a couple big plays today and [McCarron] threw it to the right guy and read the coverage correctly."
McCarron found seven different receivers on the day, with junior Kevin Norwood leading the way with three receptions for 92 yards and two touchdowns.
Norwood said he's noticed a change in his quarterback this season, noting that McCarron is more assertive in his actions and knows what to expect from the receivers.
"His confidence level is up, his leadership is up," Norwood explained.
McCarron had 10 completions of 10-plus yards against Western Kentucky, including three deep passes that went for 20 or more yards. Christion Jones, the Tide's speedy slot receiver caught three passes from McCarron with all three going for first downs.
Like Norwood, Jones said he's seen a new, more confident quarterback under center. What began in New Orleans against LSU has carried over to the following season.
"AJ has really stepped up," Jones said. "He's really picked up where he left off at the national championship game. He's overall conquered a lot of things with the passing game, with timing."
McCarron didn't just hit on the big play Saturday afternoon. In the face of heavy pressure from WKU, he found his check down option as often as he went deep. He dropped the ball off to true freshman tailback T.J. Yeldon four times, gaining 47 yards in all.
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"If we can protect him better, he could have had a career day," Jones said.
Said Saban: "We need to do a better job in the passing game. AJ is a guy that is very capable of making a lot of good plays, a lot of good throws. We had a couple drops today. Not perfect passes but passes that should be caught.
"We just need to get in sync in terms of what we're doing."
When Alabama faces Arkansas next Saturday, the Tide might need even more from McCarron. As Norwood noted, 35-0 isn't the best this offense can do.
"We can't play like we played today," Norwood said. "35-0 might seem good for the fans, but deep down inside we know we didn't do our best.
"We have to go back Monday and work on corrections and just prepare harder."
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I wrapped a conditional function call (as shown above) in a 1-billion count loop, and averaged the runtime of that executable over a number of runs. I found some surprises.
One surprise: on an Intel Core2, there's almost no performance difference between using a function pointer and even a single conditional.
Another surprise was how much variation there was in the numbers. In the code sequence above, I expected that a run where condition_a
were true would be faster than condition_b
. Not always true. I expected that runs with fewer conditions would always be faster than runs with more conditions. Again, not always true, due to differences in the instruction sequences generated by the compiler and cache effects.
I won't post the full data here because it's so informal and hasn't been subjected to rigorous performance analysis. The summary though is this: talking only about performance, after only 3 or so conditions on a Freescale PowerPC e500v2 core, function pointers are worth it. They're always worth it on a Core2. If you're curious, try your own tests and let me know how your core behaves. I'd love to know if there's a reason not to heavily adopt function pointers in all my code…
(Oh, and as for comparison between a non-conditional direct branch vs an indirect function pointer: on the e500v2, the function pointer added about 33% overhead. The difference was negligible on the Core2.)

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Updated: Sep 18, 2012 9:25 PM
Blame the quarterback. It's easy to do. But, after looking at the tape of losing to Western Kentucky, it's not as much on Max Smith as you might think when you are sitting in the stands. But, four interceptions is really ugly.
"Bad decision, bad throw, a miscommunication, and a big time play by one of their guys," says Offensive Coordinator Randy Sanders.
To DeMarcus Sweat. Explosive. He's that rare player who can change a game. Joker wants UK to get the ball in his hands more. But, there is a problem.
"He's good at catching, and running after he catches it," says Sanders. "He's not real good at being where he is supposed to be. Right now when he is on the field there is a good chance that somebody's band is going to play. We just have to make sure it's ours, and not the other team."
If Sweat doesn't know where he is going and runs the wrong way, Sanders is worried about another interception.
"I know you know for the most part, looking at it and stuff, is just getting the formations down, getting that down, so," says Sweat. "That's coming a long."
What's also coming along is the way he moved up the depth chart. UK lists at wide receiver either the freshman or senior Aaron Boyd.
When it comes to assistant coaches in the SEC you can make a case that wide receiver coach Pat Washington understands as much as anyone about what it takes to become a wide receiver in the NFL. He believes Sweat can do it, if..and the if is on him.
"He reminds me of some of the players I've coached in the past that did have a chance to play in the NFL," says Pat Washington. "He's eager to learn. He's working hard. If he continues to do that. Freshman to sophomore year means a lot. After the season, as a sophomore, if you see vast improvements, then he's probably on his way. If not, then he's probably going to struggle to find his way."
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North Holland
This article's lead section may not adequately summarize key points of its contents. (April 2013) |
North Holland Noord-Holland |
Province of the Netherlands | |||
Motto: Ik houd van het groen in je wei! | |||
Anthem: "Ik houd van het groen in je wei!" | |||
Location of Noord-Holland in the Netherlands |
Country | Netherlands | ||
Established | 1840 (split-up of Holland) | ||
Capital | Haarlem | ||
Largest city | Amsterdam | ||
Government | |||
• King's Commissioner | Johan Remkes (VVD) | ||
Area | |||
• Total | 2,670 km2 (1,030 sq mi) | ||
• Water | 1,421 km2 (549 sq mi) | ||
Area rank | 6th | ||
Population (2006) | |||
• Total | 2,606,584 | ||
• Rank | 2nd | ||
• Density | 980/km2 (2,500/sq mi) | ||
• Density rank | 2nd | ||
ISO 3166 code | NL-NH | ||
Religion (2005) | Protestant 8% Catholic 18% Muslim 8% Hindus 1% |
Website | www.noord-holland.nl |
North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland [ˈnoːrt ˈɦɔlɑnt] ( listen), West Frisian: Noard-Holland) is a province in the northwest of the Netherlands. It is situated on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In 2006, it had a population of 2,606,584 and a total area of 2,683 km2 (1,036 sq mi).
The capital and seat of the provincial government is Haarlem and its largest city is Amsterdam. The King's Commissioner of North Holland is Johan Remkes.
The history of this province can also be found in the articles on its constituent elements (e.g. Amsterdam, Haarlem, West Friesland, etc.) The information here pertains just to North Holland itself.
Before 1795[edit]
For most of its history, the modern-day province of North Holland was an integral part of Holland.
From the 9th century to the 16th century, Holland was a county ruled by the counts of Holland. During this period an area known as West Friesland (now part of North Holland) was conquered and integrated into Holland. For centuries afterwards Holland would be officially called "Holland and West Friesland". The people of West Friesland had (and still have) a strong sense of identity as a region within Holland (and later North Holland).
From the 16th century to 1795, Holland was the wealthiest and most important province in the United Provinces in the Dutch Republic. As the richest and most powerful province, Holland dominated the union. During this period a distinction was sometimes made between the "North Quarter" (Noorderkwartier) and the "South Quarter" (Zuiderkwartier), areas that roughly correspond to the two modern provinces.
Emergence of a new province (1795 to 1840)[edit]
The province of North Holland as it is today has its origins in the period of French rule from 1795 to 1813. This was a time of bewildering changes to the Dutch system of provinces. In 1795 the old order was swept away and the Batavian Republic was established. In the Constitution enacted on 23 April 1798, the old borders were radically changed. The republic was reorganised into eight departments (département) with roughly equal populations. Holland was split up into five departments named "Texel", "Amstel", "Delf", "Schelde en Maas (fr)", and "Rijn". The first three of these lay within the borders of the old Holland; the latter two were made up of parts of different provinces. In 1801 the old borders were restored when the department of Holland was created. This reorganisation had been short-lived, but it gave birth to the concept of breaking up Holland and making it a less powerful province.
In 1807, Holland was reorganised once again. This time the two departments were called "Amstelland" (corresponding to the modern province of North Holland) and "Maasland" (corresponding to the modern province of South Holland). This also did not last long. In 1810, all the Dutch provinces were integrated into the French Empire. Amstelland and Utrecht were amalgamated as the department of "Zuiderzee" (Zuyderzée in French) and Maasland was renamed "Monden van de Maas" (Bouches-de-la-Meuse in French).
After the defeat of the French in 1813, this organisation remained unchanged for a year or so. When the 1814 Constitution was introduced, the country was reorganised as provinces and regions (landschappen). Zuiderzee and Monden van de Maas were reunited as the province of "Holland". One of the ministers on the constitutional committee (van Maanen) suggested that the old name "Holland and West Friesland" be reintroduced to respect the feelings of the people of that region. This proposal was rejected.
However, the division was not totally reversed. When the province of Holland was re-established in 1814, it was given two governors, one for the former department of Amstelland (i.e. the area that is now North Holland) and one for the former department of Maasland (i.e. now South Holland). Even though the province had been reunited, the two areas were still being treated differently in some ways and the idea of dividing Holland remained alive. (During this reorganisation the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling were returned to Holland and parts of "Hollands Brabant" (including "Land of Altena") went to North Brabant. The borders with Utrecht and Gelderland were definitively set in 1820.)
When the constitutional amendments were introduced in 1840, it was decided to split Holland once again, this time into two provinces called "North Holland" and "South Holland". The need for this was not felt in South Holland or in West Friesland (which feared the dominance of Amsterdam). The impetus came largely from Amsterdam, which still resented the 1838 relocation of the court of appeal to The Hague in South Holland.
1840 to today[edit]
After the Haarlemmermeer was drained in 1855 and turned into arable land, it was made part of North Holland. In exchange, South Holland received the greater part of the municipality of Leimuiden in 1864.
In 1942, the islands Vlieland and Terschelling went back to the province of Friesland.
In 1950, the former island Urk was ceded to the province of Overijssel.
In February 2011, North Holland, together with the provinces of Utrecht and Flevoland, showed a desire to investigate the feasibility of a merger between the three provinces.[1] This has been positively received by the Dutch cabinet, for the desire to create one Randstad province has already been mentioned in the coalition agreement.[2] The province of South Holland, part of the Randstad urban area, visioned to be part of the Randstad province,[3] and very much supportive of the idea of a merger into one province,[4] is not named. With or without South Holland, if created, the new province would be the largest in the Netherlands in both area and population.
North Holland is a broad peninsula for the most part, located between the North Sea, Markermeer and the IJsselmeer. More than half of the province consists of reclaimed polder land situated below sea level.
North Holland has five municipalities with 100,000 or more inhabitants. They are, in order of size, Amsterdam (in terms of population this is also the largest municipality in the Netherlands), Haarlem, Zaanstad, Haarlemmermeer and Alkmaar. Another seven municipalities have a population between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants (i.e. Hilversum, Amstelveen, Purmerend, Hoorn, Velsen, Den Helder and Heerhugowaard.) The island of Texel is also part of North Holland.
North Holland makes up a single region of the International Organization for Standardization world region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL-NH.
As of January 2015, North Holland is divided into 51 municipalities (local government). After the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, three islands in the Caribbean, Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius, were offered to join the province, though the offer has been neither accepted nor rejected.[citation needed]
On 1 January 2015 the municipalities of Graft-De Rijp and Schermer were merged into the existing municipality of Alkmaar.
Regions in North Holland[edit]
North Holland has various regions that, for historical or other reasons, have their own identities. Some of these regions are unofficial, ill-defined and sometimes overlapping. Others are official and are part of regional groupings artificially created for various administrative purposes. These regions are not the same as the municipalities.
List of some of these unofficial and official regions in North Holland:
- Amstelland (the area around the Amstel) (prov. North Holland)
- Beemster (North Holland)
- Bollenstreek (the flower areas found in both North Holland and South Holland)
- Het Gooi (usually "Het Gooi" or "'t Gooi", North Holland)
- Groene Hart (North Holland, South Holland and Utrecht)
- Haarlemmermeer (North Holland)
- Holland (North Holland and South Holland)
- IJmond ("The Mouth of the IJ")[citation needed]
- Kennemerland (North Holland)
- Purmer (North Holland)
- Kop van Noord-Holland[citation needed]
- Noorderkwartier ("North Quarter")[citation needed]
- Noordvleugel ("North Wing")[citation needed]
- Randstad (North Holland, South Holland, Utrecht and Flevoland)
- Schermer (North Holland)
- De Streek (North Holland)
- Texel (North Holland)
- Utrechtse Heuvelrug (Utrecht and North Holland)
- Vechtstreek ("The Vecht Area") (Utrecht and North Holland)
- Waterland (now effectively the municipality of Waterland, North Holland)
- West-Friesland (North Holland)
- Wieringen (North Holland)
- Wieringermeer (North Holland)
- Wijdewormer (De Wormer, North Holland)
- Zaanstreek ("The Zaan Area") (North Holland)
Some of the best known nature reserves in this province are:
More information about nature reserves in North Holland is available (in Dutch) on the relevant site pages of national nature conservation organisations Natuurmonumenten [5] and Staatsbosbeheer ,[6] as well as provincial organisation "Landschap Noord-Holland".[7]
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Several international nature[citation needed] friendly organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International have settled the headoffice of their Netherlands branche in this province and particularly in Amsterdam.
The international headquarters of Greenpeace is also located in Amsterdam.
Several national nature friendly organisations like Milieudefensie, the national "Union of vegetarians",[8] the "Vissenbescherming" (Fish protection foundation)[9] and the Party for the Animals as well have their headoffice in this province.
Notable residents[edit]
- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- Karel Appel, painter
- ^ (Dutch) "Drie provincies denken over fusie", NOS, 2011.
- ^ (Dutch) "Randstadprovincies bekijken fusie", RTL Nieuws, 2011.
- ^ (Dutch) Marije Willems, "Randstadprovincies onderzoeken fusie", NRC Handelsblad, 2011.
- ^ (Dutch) "Echte Randstadprovincie is robuuste oplossing", Provincie Zuid-Holland, 2011.
- ^ Nature reserves in North Holland on site Natuurmonumenten
- ^ Nature reserves in North Holland on site Staatsbosbeheer
- ^ Nature reserves in North Holland on site Landschap Noord-Holland
- ^ Home page of the national "Union of vegetarians"
- ^ Website "Vissenbescherming"
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to North Holland. |
- Province of Noord-Holland, official government website
- Provincial Tourist Board
- North Holland travel guide from Wikivoyage
North Sea | IJsselmeer / Friesland | ||
North Sea | Flevoland | |||
South Holland | Utrecht |


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Men's basketball begins season with tournament title
The Pierce College men's basketball team started the 2012-13 season on a positive note by winning the Don Gehler Memorial Tournament 2012 at San Diego Miramar College on Saturday.
The Brahmas won the tournament title after defeating Sierra College 90-84 on Saturday in the final game of the three-day tournament.
"They were big and strong and athletic like us, so we didn't have that clear advantage that we had in some of the other games," said head coach Edward Babayan, regarding Sierra's team.
Prior to the final game, Pierce had eliminated Barstow College and Miramar College with final scores of 74-52 and 78-58, respectively.
"I was proud of them. There was a very adverse and difficult environment, and they really pulled together and worked really hard," Babayan said.
Pierce freshman point guard J.R. Williams was chosen as the most valuable player (MVP) of the tournament, while sophomore power forward Codye Hatcher was awarded a spot on the all-tournament first team.
"We felt, as coaches, that pretty much everybody that got in contributed to help us at some point or another," Babayan said. "It was a really good team effort."
Babayan highlighted the team's defense, energy and athletic abilities as key attributes, and also praised the players' ability to work together despite being a relatively new team.
"The tournament was probably what I thought it would be," he said. "I just think we were able to really come together a lot faster than I thought we would be able to. So I was very pleased with the fact that they really pulled together as a team so they could win."
The Brahmas will host Glendale College in their next game on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 5 p.m in South Gym.
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The next-generation Xbox will require a Kinect sensor to be plugged in at all times to function, claims a new rumour today.
Every console will come with a Kinect - a new, more advanced version of the current Kinect - out the box and it must be plugged in for the console to work.
So reports Kotaku, citing a source who goes by the alias 'SuperDaE' - a regular source for next-generation information, who claims to have direct access to Durango development kits.
The new Kinect will apparently be capable of tracking up to six people simultaneously, and can track smaller details such as hands and fingers, facial recognition and even facial expressions.
It's inclusion with every console is likely to result in far deeper integration of Kinect across both system operation and in games themselves.
Kotaku also reports that the console will have vast multi-tasking capabilities, including the ability to run more than one game at a time. This specific claim matches with information that was recently passed to CVG.
Durango will reportedly let you 'suspend' a game, allowing you to switch to another and back again without losing your exact position in either - much like what is already possible with iPhone and iPad games.
Additionally, the report says that unlike Xbox 360, all Durango consoles will come with a 500GB internal hard drive, which will allow developers to program games with the hard drive storage in mind. It also claims full disc games will require mandatory installation upon first boot-up, but this installation can be done in the background while actually playing the game.
Our colleagues at Edge recently reported that the new Xbox will require an always-on internet connection, which will enable Microsoft to detect and block the playing of used games.


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The Pious Predecessors used to try to avoid issuing fatwâs. They would defer the matter to their peers whenever possible, each preferring that someone else would be the one to give the answer. They did not conduct themselves in this way in order to hide what they knew, but rather they preferred to be on the safe side. They recognized the fact that fatwâ is a weighty and grave responsibility and that they will be held accountable before Allah on the Day of Resurrection for what they say. They only did this when there were others available to teach the people and answer their questions on Islamic legal matters. In cases where there was no one else to answer the people's questions, then the dictates of piety, personal responsibility, and security from sin required them to issue fatwâs to the people according to their knowledge. This is because the concealment of knowledge is sinful. The way of the Pious Predecessors was to abstain from shouldering the responsibility of fatwâ when other qualified people were present and to shoulder the responsibility fully when they had to. And Allah is the one who grants success.
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Swiss authorities have just ruled that Roman Polanski will have to remain in prison pending proceedings to extradite him to Los Angeles. The authorities based the decision to allow Polanski to remain free pending a final decision on the extradition issue upon arguments that it would be too tempting for Polanski to flee the country and return to France where he has lived for decades without being extradited to the United States.
Prior to fleeing Los Angeles, Polanski had served just 42 days in prison. He fled after concluding that the judge had changed his mind and was going to sentence Polanski to additional time in prison rather than the time he had already served which was the court's initial inclination.
The decision by the Swiss authorities raises two questions. First, in view of the fact that the extradition hearings in Switzerland, and subsequent appeals, could be lengthy, will Polanski wind up serving more time in Switzerland than he was destined to serve in California? Second, in view of the length of time that he could wind up behind bars in Switzerland, and the fact that he could renew his motion to dismiss charges against him upon his return to Los Angeles, would it now make sense for Polanski to waive any objections he may have to extradition and start making plane reservations to LAX?
These are difficult decisions for Polanski to make, but, then again, he has ample time to think these things over.


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AMD updates Fusion E and C series processors
AMD's entry-level Fusion processors get upgrades across the board, adding promised performance enhancements to the laptops and desktops they'll soon be appearing in.
AMD's Fusion series of APU processors
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Myfax by Protus IP Solutions
Link: http://www.myfax.com, http://www.protus.com
Know more about this provider? Have experience with this provider? Then reply to this topic and share your knowledge.
My Fax- $10mo, $10 set up fee. 1st 50 incoming pages are free, $0.10 per page thereafter. $0.10 per page for sending. Currently offering 1 month free trial.
Toll-free Service Personal, toll-free fax number (866) available for the US and Canada.
Email-based Faxes are sent to, and delivered from, your existing email account.
Global Send faxes to - and receive faxes from - any fax machine in the world.
Attachments Attach multiple documents. Supports 45 document type attachments (see list).
Unlimited Pages Fax as many pages as you like.
:angry: I just received an unsolicited SPAM fax sent from Protus IP Solutions. Obviously not a reputable company!
I've been using Myfax for about a month now. It is a reliable service, however, there are several deficencies in its technology:
1) It's not easy to have a single phone book and pick and choose who will receive a fax. You have to set up different groups for each individual person.
2) You can't design your own cover page.
3) For faxes going to more than one person, you can't use a cover page at all.
Barry, I just have my cover page in Word, and include it as the first attachment in the email when I'm faxing.
So, I attach two files - one is the cover page I want to use, the other is the document I want to fax. Since I generally add some comments on the cover page, I find this works for me.
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I just signed up for the MyFax service. So far I've only received faxes but it's worked great so far. I haven't noticed any problems.
You can have the fax emailed to up to 3 email addresses which works fine for me although I don't know why they limit it to only 3. They also allow up to 200 incoming pages a month. That should be fine for me but may not be enough for others.
Like I said above, I haven't sent any faxes using the service so I can't comment on that. The website has a neat little demo that shows the process.
You can receive the fax via email in either PDF or TIF format. Right now, I've chosen PDF. A 2 page fax (PDF) came out to be about 90KB in size
It would be nice if they allowed you to set the CSID on incoming and outgoing faxes.
The website is clean which is one of the reasons I was drawn to it. The website does have problems if you don't use Internet Explorer. I tried with Firefox and Opera and had problems trying to sign up (the page wouldn't advance past the point where it asks for address information). When I tried with Internet Explorer, it worked fine.
The $10/month price includes a toll free number which was an added perk. I got an 866 number.
There is an affiliate program and if faxbeep had an affiliate link I would have gladly used it since this is where I found out about MyFax.
Anyways, I just wanted to share my experiences so far. I wish there were more thorough reviews of the various internet faxing solutions. I hope this helps someone out.
I tried Myfax and I didn't care for the quality of the faxes. I side with Barry on the 3 issues he cited. The plugin they offer does get around a couple of those issues a bit better. I also could not send from my native application using the "print" option as I did with WinFaxPro10. Using Myfax caused me to have to make a PDF file as an attachment which did not save me time.
Newbie :blink:
MyFax has just introduced a referral program - existing customers that refer new subscribers will earn 1 month of free service.
Program details are here:
A MyFax subscription lets you receive 200 pages per month, and send 100 pages per month. The monthly subscription price is $10, and extra pages are $0.10 each.
There is currently a 'first month free' promotion, and Canadian pricing is also available.
Conflicting information in previous posts is dated, and now incorrect. Full current pricing information is at MyFax Internet Fax Service Pricing
My clunky fax machine finally died and so i decided to try these services. I had an efax account (free) but needed something reliable for business.
MyFax seems good - cheaper than efax, some nicer things like pdf and online access. Haven't had any need to try support, so can't say.
FYI for others investigating fax services--- the mixed reviews here prompted concern, but I checked out the myfax site. Turns out, they've got a wonderful test drive: enter your email addy and receive an immediate test fax. http://www.myfax.com/test_drive.asp
That's a level of intelligence seldom seen on commercial websites. Given BillyBandit's statements above, plus the fine test drive, the only reasons I have not yet signed up:
(1) I can't see the number which would be assigned.
(2) I have no clue what would appear as the ID info atop outgoing faxes.
(3) Concern re spam re above commentary
(4) Ease of use re phone book as noted above.
Could someone respond to these specific concerns? :(
It isn't clear how pricing is done for international faxes - you can send 100 pages a month - but how does international figure in this?
I'd like to integrate into it and offer something for my blog users/friends - but being based in Italy almost all the faxes will be sent to destinations in Europe.
I just signed up with Protus after having many bad experiences with Clickfax and so far protus has been a god send, they have 24 hour customer service, their pricing is great and I think if you sign up now they are waving the setup fee! They have been very helpfull with any problems I have had and always fast with a responce. So far so good. If I have any problems I will sure let you know.
MyFax charges $0.10 per page for faxes within the US, as well as to 30 other major destinations, including UK, France, Italy, Germany, China...
100 free outbound pages are included in the monthly subscription price, but these can only be used within North America.
200 free inbound pages are also included in the monthly price.
I have had a great experience using MyFax. I have been using it for a few months now and have had no problems whatsoever. I have sent faxes to offices that my company works with, and use the fax system as part of my automated website. Most people do not realize the power of MyFax. I have created a php script on my website that allows me to send a fax from my own website using my myfax account. I would recomend this service over having a noisy expensive fax machine any day. Plus it sure beats paying Kinkos $2.00 everytime you need to send a fax. As far as the cover sheet thing goes just add it to a document and attach the document. People make things more complicated then the system was intended. I have great results using MyFax and am pleased to be a customer. If you would like to see how I am using myfax on my website check out http://www.taxigrab.com/ where the taxi companies recieve reservations via fax. Without myfax my system would simply not work.
I am using MYFAX for a few months now and I am very pleased with the service.
It saved me money because I use to have a telephone line to operate a fax machine.Now I dont need it anymore.And I used it recently to broadcast faxes to my customers to notify them of my new address.
Gilles Labonte
Flexiseel Canada
I am a subcontractor in home health. I picked internet fax for a few reasons: I have no home phone line (only a cell phone); I need to send and receive reports, notes, etc. quickly; I need to send confidential information securely.
I picked MyFax because it was cheap with no longterm commitment, it gave me my own toll free fax number, and it uses a secure connection.
Here are a few glitches I've noticed and what I've done to work around them: You can't fax scanned .pdf files (I convert them to .TIFF by resaving them in Acrobat); you can't use Mozilla Firefox as your browser (I use Internet Explorer); Adobe Acrobat 7.0 files don't fax (save them as 6.0).
The MyFax.com website didn't answer all of the questions I had, but someone in customer service answered the phone immediately when I called, and the person I spoke to answered my questions thoroughly, quickly, and knowledgeably.
I would recommend MyFax for small businesses who don't fax a lot but still want a personal fax number and secure exchange of information.
MyFax Eliminates Setup Fees
Effective immediately, all setup fees have been eliminated in MyFax.
Pricing summary:
$10 / month - includes 200 received and 100 sent pages. Toll free numbers at no extra cost. Any extra pages are just $0.10 per page.
No hidden fees.
I am a subcontractor in home health. I picked internet fax for a few reasons: I have no home phone line (only a cell phone); I need to send and receive reports, notes, etc. quickly; I need to send confidential information securely.I picked MyFax because it was cheap with no longterm commitment, it gave me my own toll free fax number, and it uses a secure connection.
Here are a few glitches I've noticed and what I've done to work around them: You can't fax scanned .pdf files (I convert them to .TIFF by resaving them in Acrobat); you can't use Mozilla Firefox as your browser (I use Internet Explorer); Adobe Acrobat 7.0 files don't fax (save them as 6.0).
The MyFax.com website didn't answer all of the questions I had, but someone in customer service answered the phone immediately when I called, and the person I spoke to answered my questions thoroughly, quickly, and knowledgeably.
I would recommend MyFax for small businesses who don't fax a lot but still want a personal fax number and secure exchange of information.
I was going to subscribe to myfax, but after reading your posting now I have serious doubts! How come they don't support PDF files? WHat kind of attachments do they support? I also wonder what would be their rate to send a fax to Japan?
Their website provides almost no information on these details. I wonder whether they will stay in this business for long! :blink:
If I can clarify...
First, we do (of course) support PDF files for faxing, and we deliver faxes as PDF (Version 6). That means that you don't need any software to view the documents?
Faxing Japan - it's just $0.10 per page. In fact, you can fax to most major countries (UK, Europe, Japan, China....) for just $0.10 per page. That's considerably cheaper than you'll find elsewhere!
If I could yell and scream from the rooftops, I would tell EVERYONE how pleased I am with the MyFax service! As a Realtor, it is imperative that I receive faxes with minimal distortion. MyFax provides me with that as WELL as the ability to receive faxes wherever I am able to get my e-mail.
I was on vacation last week in Tampa and there was no fax machine in the house. I had three important documents I need to receive and your service allowed me to get them and take care of the issues that needed to be addressed.
I have told several Realtors about MyFax and they told me they are definitely signing up! Keep up the good work…your product is OUTSTANDING!
K. Sullivan
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MyFax has been a lifesaver - I was on vacation and found it great to get documents faxed to me. I could just pick them up on the web.
I had signed up because I didn't fax enough to use a dedicated fax line in my office. This has been a great plus.
I just had the trial fax sent to my hotmail account. Wondered what was taking so long to recieve, and noticed it was sent directly to my junk mail folder! How many of MY faxes that I will send will end up in the reciever's junk mail folder?
I'll continue to look around....
If you are still using hotmail, do you think you are tech savy enough to use email fax? You need Gmail. Go to needgmail.com no more junk mail problems.
I live in Puerto Rico and I just installed Myfax. I was successfull sending faxes but when I asked that person to send me a fax, he told me it was busy. Can someone tell me if I can or can't receive faxes within Puerto Rico using Myfax?
hey, i was about to subscribe to myfax today but when i tried to use the live chat feature no one responded. also, i see nobody from myfax has replied to the last few posts here. is there anything we should all know about? anyone aware of any problems surrounding myfax?
great site this one, i did find a lot of useful info while shopping for an ifax service. many thanks to all!
also, what is this supposed to mean (it's in their 'terms and conditions')?
"You further understand and agree that Protus may from time to time need to change the Protus Number assigned to you (whether due to an area code split or any other reason whether outside or within Protus' control). You agree that Protus will not be liable for damages (including consequential or special damages) arising out of any such change in the Protus Number assigned to you, and you hereby waive any claims with respect to any such change, whether based on contractual, tort or other grounds, even if Protus has been advised of the possibility of damages."
If the assigned number is to be used by small businesses, what sort of insanity is this?
I had myfax for about 2-3 months. One thing about myfax is that I could not send a fax at all. So I was overpaying. Talked with customer service to no avail. But they still billed me to the tune of $10.00 a month even though I could use half of the program. However, I had a toll free number and could use a multitude of formats.
Hi svet!
Regarding your first post...
It is possible that a MyFax Representative was unable to respond to your web chat request in a timely manner, so we certainly apologize. Actually, we've just extended our web chat hours! So feel free to stop by www.myfax.com, or call us with your questions.
Hi again svet,
This condition refers primarily to extraordinary circumstances, such as an area code change – something that's beyond our control, unfortunately. Rest assured, MyFax has never changed a customer's assigned fax number! Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions. We'd be happy to help.
Myfax was recomended to me by a friend - I'm a trucker an dhave been using fax machines at truck stops, etc. to fax dispatchers / customs. MyFax saves me a lot of money compared to the $3 per page I was paying before.
FYI for others investigating fax services--- the mixed reviews here prompted concern, but I checked out the myfax site. Turns out, they've got a wonderful test drive: enter your email addy and receive an immediate test fax. http://www.myfax.com/test_drive.aspThat's a level of intelligence seldom seen on commercial websites. Given BillyBandit's statements above, plus the fine test drive, the only reasons I have not yet signed up:
(1) I can't see the number which would be assigned.
(2) I have no clue what would appear as the ID info atop outgoing faxes.
(3) Concern re spam re above commentary
(4) Ease of use re phone book as noted above.Could someone respond to these specific concerns? :(
tried to get fax from the test fax 3 times - didn't work
Thanks for your comments about the test drive feature. We've found that the best way to explain the service is to show it in action, and are glad you agree.
You have control over the fax header. It includes standard information like the date and page numbers, but you control the 'from text' in the header.
We don't share the email addresses, or fax numbers of our customers with anyone, ever. (See our privacy policy). We don't send faxes as part of our marketing programs, ever.
Your comments about the address book, and selecting the fax number, have been passed to our development team. We typically provide 2-3 major upgrades each year (at no charge, of course). Currently, the fax number is assigned as part of the registration process, and not chosen in advance.
We've been using MyFax for about a year now and have found it to be excellent. Like all web-based fax services, we can receive faxes while out of the office (using a laptop or Kinko's) - and we routinely route faxes to my wife's two assistants, a real nice feature. We did have a bit of trouble with the user console not working a coupla weeks ago, but it was fixed the next day -
The only complaint I have is that every month when I look at my American Express bill, I get all upset, wondering, "who the heck is this Protus outfit, and what are they charging my card for?" :-)
Ok first off, I have looked at a bunch of these web fax services and looked for some very specific services:
- TIFF support
- Custom Cover Page
- Reasonable Cost
- Multiple Email Notification
- Easy Interface
Myfax provides all this and I am looking forward to using the service but so far I have to say the support is horrible. The put all over their website that they have 24/7 support but no one ever answers the phone and no one ever connects to the web chat sessions. I have sent an email tonight and have requested a call but so far nothing. I guess having all the feature is a huge plus but not offering the support to help your users use them is not good follow through. I seems people that work for the company post here so hopefully they can address this issue after reading this post. If they got support working, this service would be unbeatable.
Hoping for the best!
Sometimes I wish I had patience. Although I am not convinced that their webchat and phone support is available 24/7 the email support more than made up for the short comings. I sent an email last night at 10:00PM, had a reply by midnight and the problem resolved by 9:30AM. The main delay was me going to sleep and not being able to look at the issue until after 9:00 this morning. The techs solved the issue quickly and got me up and running with my custom cover page.
Great service Myfax!!
Just wanted to let everyone know the end of the story.
Kintoro, thanks for your kind words about the support team. We do indeed offer free 24 hour support for MyFax (by real people) and get a lot of positive feedback for doing so. Of course, the overnight team is smaller than during the delay, and some calls/chats might get missed, but we do respond quickly to emails and messages.
And thanks for choosing MyFax. The customized cover page is a new popular feature that gives lots of flexibility.
MyFax introduces Internet Fax Services for Corporate Users
In response to increasing demand from our users, the MyFax service has been expanded to better meet the needs of corporate users with on-line administration tools and web reporting. An excerpt from the press release is below, and full information can be found here MyFax Online Fax for Corporate Users
(Excerpt from press release follows)
MyFax for corporations is an extension of the company's extremely popular MyFax service for consumers, home offices, and small business offices. The corporate version is designed to meet the needs of businesses in the financial, insurance, healthcare, real estate, and government sectors with large user deployments that send and receive thousands of faxes each month. Businesses can send, receive, store or forward faxes securely without fax machines, dedicated fax / phone lines, long distance phone charges or fax modems. Subscribers can access their fax communications from anywhere, at any time, the same way they access their e-mail.
With no hardware or software to install, business capital expenditures are reduced, with a savings of 85% on upfront costs and 34% on ongoing monthly costs versus a conventional fax server. MyFax provides on-demand capacity and scalability, enabling organizations to process high fax volume requirements at anytime of the day, with no need to provision extra lines for peak delivery periods.
People have some great things to say about MyFax, but there's some really bad press out there about their parent company Protus IP.
This site says that along with fax.com and Vision Labs, that Protus is one of the largest offenders for sending unsolicited junk faxes.
Not really someone that I want to give my contact info to.
Has anyone with a MyFax account found that they get a lot of junk faxes or have gotten more spam or junk mail since signing up?
To you fax providers like MyFax, it would behoove you to more clearly mention your fees in that you provide up to 100 outbound pages free with the subscription and then charge $0.10 per page AFTER you exceed that amount. That's a big reason I didn't sign up on the eFax website. Their website didn't clearly state how many (if any) outbound faxes the monthly subscription covered and whether it covered international or not. I looked for info on outbound costs, didn't find them, and called the 800 number. After sitting on hold for a while I moved on...lost customer. I imagine there are many more like me.
Have been using since 08/04 with no problems .. don't use much anymore cause i hooked up a fax to my primary phone, but still use for other purposes so my home fax wont get overrun with junk.
Has been ok by me !
If you already had a fax machine you should go buy winfax. Hook up your modem to your phone line and keep whatever outgoing faxing phone service you have. Then go to packetel.com or pfax and get unlimited incoming faxes for 3.95 a month. Set your winfax to put your unlimited incoming fax # at the top of the pages or on the cover pages you send. Therefore people think thats your fax number. When you get your email faxes from packetel you can easily attach them in winfax.
Here is a link to what " Leagl Crusader & Abused by Protus IP Solutions" are talking about ?
I would hate to think myself and my contacts would be attacked this way ?
I have had this problem in the past, Paper wasted, Ink wasted too. My TRUE faxes couldnt come thru because the Machine was out of Paper or ink ? When I refilled the Paper and Ink MORE junkfaxes came through.
The people @ Junkfax.org have been of great assistance.
Maybe I'll look around a bit more for a FAX service.
It's easy to make false postings here, and even to initiate nuisance suits that keep some lawyers busy. Fax spam is a genuine concern – nobody wants to receive unsolicited faxes. I've copied here a recent posting from the MyFax blog.
MyFax and Your Privacy - No Spam!
We're frequently asked about whether we ever disclose your fax number. (The concern, of course, is about becoming a recipient of unsolicited faxes.)
Our answer is very simple - no!
· We don't disclose your fax number.
· We don't send you faxes.
· We don't disclose your email address.
· We don't allow advertisers to email you.
Our business relies on happy customers, and so we maintain a very strict privacy policy
Unsolicited faxes might still reach some of our customers – mainly when an unscrupulous advertiser has identified a block of numbers that are faxes. We'll help you switch to a new number – at no charge – if this happens to you.
While this is a strong statement against MyFax being a spam abuser, the fact remains that they're owned by Proteus IP, a known transmitter of junk faxes.
It seems like the MyFax pushers on this board keep beating around the bush on this point.
As a Canadian-based company, it'll be interesting to see if the lawsuits against them are successful.
how much is it per page if I go over the allowed pages per month?
The "demo" is fairly meaningless -- nothing is happening in it other than emailing a PDF file. Given that the timestamp on the "fax" is from last year, it's clear that there isn't any actual fax activity in the demo. I can email a PDF with the best of them, but it doesn't mean I have a useful Internet fax solution. A more meaningful demo can't be that hard to accomplish...
Would definitely like to see a specific response from MyFax regarding the allegations against its parent company about sending junk faxes. I hate junk faxes even more than I hate email spam, and I certainly would not want to send a single penny toward a company that actively engaged in such reprehensible behavior.
Did you recieve a fax from "Events Plus Travel" on or about April 4 2005?
I so , we would like to hear from you, for possible participation in a class action lawsuit.
Are you a company with offices in PA, NJ, NY or MA, and have had problems with services provided by Protus IP? If so, we would like to hear from you, for possible participation in class action suit.
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- 4 strip(s) bacon, cut into 1/2 pieces
- 3 pound(s) ground turkey, 7 percent fat
- 3 cup(s) chopped onion
- 1/4 cup(s) garlic cloves, minced
- 2 medium jalapeno chiles peppers, minced
- 3 tablespoon(s) chili powder
- 3 tablespoon(s) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 teaspoon(s) cumin
- 2 can(s) whole tomatoes in puree, 28 oz/can
- 2 tablespoon(s) unsulfured molasses
- 2 dash(es) coarse salt
- 2 can(s) kidney beans, 15 1/2 oz/can
- Heat a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add bacon; cook until crisp and brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Raise heat to high; add turkey. Cook, stirring and breaking up meat with a spoon, until no longer pink, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Add onion, garlic, and jalapenos; cook until soft, stirring often, about 5 minutes. Stir in chili powder, cocoa powder, and cumin; cook, stirring, until fragrant, 1 minute
- Break up tomatoes with a spoon or your hands, and stir them in along with the puree. Add molasses, 1 cup water, and 4 teaspoons salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer; cook, partially covered, 30 minutes.
- Add beans; continue cooking, uncovered, until meat and beans are very tender, and chili is thick, about 30 minutes more.
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The "Mother of All Peppers" Might Be Growing in Your Yard
I first saw it in Tarpon River at a friend's house, a spindly shrub my friend had fenced off for protection. When he bought his house, Tom knew the peppers when he saw them, since his father grew them in his childhood home near Sarasota. "What are you doing with this poor bush?" I asked him. "It looks like it's too late for this one." I was wrong.
Though the leaves were spindly and sad, the bush bore hundreds of tiny peppers that look like shriveled holly berries. According to Slow Food, the wild harvest of these peppers "is a seasonal ritual in many rural communities to this day, where families make chili-harvesting camps in the mountains during the heat of September and early October in order to harvest the wild peppers." Here, they're year-round.
These tiny peppers pack a ton of heat, clocking in at 50,000 to 100,000 on the Scoville Scale, about on par with a Thai bird pepper, though less hot than scotch bonnets and ghost peppers.
Have you seen them around? What do you do with them, aside from pop them in your mouth as a very spicy snack?
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Chicken & White Bean Soup
Chicken & White Bean Soup
© 2012 Eating Well Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
• Serves: Makes 6 servings, 1 1/2 cups each
• Prep Time: 25
Once again, rotisserie chickens can really relieve the dinner-rush pressure-especially in this Italian-inspired soup.
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 leeks, white and light green parts only, cut into 1/4-inch rounds
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage or 1/4 teaspoon dried
2 14-ounce cans reduced-sodium chicken broth
2 cups water
1 15-ounce can cannellini beans, rinsed
1 2-pound roasted chicken, skin discarded, meat removed from bones and shredded (4 cups)
Cooking Instructions
Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add leeks and cook, stirring often, until soft, about 3 minutes. Stir in sage and continue cooking until aromatic, about 30 seconds. Stir in broth and water, increase heat to high, cover and bring to a boil. Add beans and chicken and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until heated through, about 3 minutes. Serve hot.
Cook's Tip
To Make Ahead: Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.
Nutritional Analysis Per Serving: 172 Calories; 4 g Fat (1 g saturated fat; 2 g Monounsaturated Fat); 54 mg cholesterol; 350 mg sodium; 10 g carbohydrates; 3 g Fiber; 24 g protein; 389 mg potassium.
Dietary Exchanges: 1 starch, 3 vegetable, 1 1/2 fat


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The fourth Connacht Mid Amateur Open Championship is fixed for Saturday and Sunday September 26th and 27th at the splendidly redesigned Ken Kearney Golf Design Roscommon Golf Club, venue for the 2006 and 2007 Championship. The event moved to Claremorris in 2008 due to the course redevelopment works at Roscommon.
The Mid Amateur phenomenon is new to the Irish golfing championship calendar in relative terms, with Munster getting the ball rolling about six or seven years ago and Connacht and Leinster both following suit in the last four years. The idea is to provide a competitive championship platform for those over 35 years of age (on the first day of the event) who perhaps due to work and family pressures or a slight rise in their handicaps are unable to compete in the Senior Championships, but can still meet and compete with their peers on a Championship level though the Mid Amateur events. The Mid Amateur Championships worldwide are a huge part of the golfing scene with the US being the front runner and Europe has also shown a strong growth in this area since 2000.
The events format is a 54 hole strokeplay with 36 holes on Saturday (Day 1) and the Top 30 and ties then playing a final 18 holes on Sunday morning (Day 2). The upper handicap limit is seven but it is not uncommon for a few players higher than seven to enter and drop down for the duration of the event.
The field is restricted due to the 36 Hole Format on Day 1 to 69 Players in handicap order, but to date in Connacht the maximum number of starters we have had was 63 in 2008 so dont be put off entering by this number, what with late withdrawals, etc it is likely that all those who enter will get a chance to play. The entry is 30 which includes a soup and a sandwich between Rounds 1 and 2, so for potentially four rounds of golf and your soup you are getting the best value there is in golf today and on one of the Provinces finest parkland courses to boot. Prize vouchers to the value of 2000 will be awarded with numerous gross and nett prizes (overall and each day).
Entries are by Official Championship Entry Form to the Connacht Branch Office by no later than Thursday September 10 and forms can be downloaded from the Brachs website at www.gui.ie/connacht.


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"He looked like Boris Karloff in Blackface, Not a flicker of Emotion played over his features"
Iceberg Slim excerpt from "Pimp"
What tha Fuck It Do Readership! If Im not at Home watching tha Sopranos with my number one Bitch, you could catch Tha BossMack TopSoil at tha Slauson Swap Meet Getting My Jewlery Cleaned, Or you might See me at Pinks Hot Dog stand with your Bitch fresh from tha Staples Center watching tha Laker's Get fucked up! Oh shit, It's a great day around this Muthafukka, tha BossMack is relucent.
10 things I learned about Bitches as tha BossMack TopSoil
1. When you start to fuck with a bitch for real. Tha Bitch starts a score card against you that contains everything you ever did to her that was fucked up, Real or Imagined. When tha score gets to high, you better watch tha fuck out.
2. Whatever you say to a Bitch out of your mouth, you had better do that shit, if you don't you lose credibility fast.
3. You can start out with a Bitch like a Mack and endup a sucka in tha end. However, you can't start out like a Sucka and end up a Mack in tha end, tha game won't let you do it.
4. If a Bitch kicks in sometype of Oblation before you fuck tha first time, you have more leverage on tha bitch. Mitt before Dick, It works.
5. Bitches always test you for weakness. What's a Weakness? Well, having a tender dick and needing to fuck all tha time is a good one. Having a drug problem (i.e. Cocaine, Extacy, Crystal, Heroin etc.) and General Lack of Manhood issues. Any Weakness and you lose power.
6. If you have your own Home (Privacy), Money and Jewlery (Power), and also a Expensive Vehicle (Freedom) that looks new, you can get a bitch to do anything!
7. Just because you fuck good doesn't mean you can hold a bitch. As a matter of fact a good mack could cut off his swipe and still get a bitch to kick in oblation.
8. Bitches perform better under pressure, in tha form of competition from other bitches.
9. If you stay Krispy, Smelling Good and Well Groomed a bitch will make sure you stay like that.
10. If you have 1 to 10 Bitches on your team, you need to know everything about them. You need to know how a bitch was raised. You need to know if her first sexual experience was with her first boyfriend or her Father, you know shit like that. You must know what makes your bitches tick, you must ask questions, then ask more questions. Never try to play a bitch in tha dark.


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America's Second Largest Employer is a Temp Agency
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 9, 2013 @ 9:25 am In The Point | 2 Comments
Its largest employer is Wal-Mart. This is not what a recovery looks like. This is what a bad economy consolidating and adapting to a state of decline looks like.
And once ObamaCare fully kicks in, the temp agency may pass Wal-Mart considering how many businesses will be relying on temps.
Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider.
Friday's disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. The report also showed another disturbing fact: There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs.
Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing.
And a large portion of that 2.7 million is likely under thirty or forty which means that we're seeing another shift in employment with permanent jobs declining and temp jobs on the rise as companies dump their employees onto the government.
This is actually the case in some parts of Europe where young people can only get temp jobs.
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Britney Spears and her hometown hubby got a quickie wedding in Las Vegas
at 5 a.m. and later call it all a big joke. Well the jokes on us.
By Liz Morrison
AWHILE BACK, BRITNEY Spears, Ms. Not-That-Innocent (or intelligent),
stirred up a little maybe I'm bi controversy on the MTV Video Music Awards
by enjoying a choreographed, tongue-in-cheek lip lock with Madonna.
The media went nuts. The infamous kiss played over and over on every
newscast and entertainment related show for weeks.
Big deal. Madonnas kissed lots of girls. Some even with brains. And a few
are real lesbians, too.
So why must Britney, no stranger to the paparazzi, swap spit with another
woman to get attention? Can't she think of any other way to get her skanky
yet ubiquitous persona in the news?
Well apparently she can. That 20-something, air for brains, virgin turned
vamp, pop icon dragged one of her hayseed homeboys to the Little White
Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas at 5 a.m. to get hitched.
We learned from the many sources that covered this compelling story that
she and down home hubby Jason have been friends since kindergarten. And
now they're reliving those days.
NOBODY ASKED THEM what their intentions were. Nobody cared that this was
just an immature prank conducted by someone with way too much money,
someone who will do just about anything to get on the cover of People
All the happy couple needed was a marriage license which, apparently, is
easily obtained at 4 a.m. in Las Vegas, and the Little White Wedding
Chapel was more than accommodating, pronouncing them husband and wife in a
hung over, pre-dawn ceremony that took low class to a fresh, new abyss.
I was particularly impressed with the spiritual aspects of the nuptials. A
limo driver from the Palms Casino walked Brit down the aisle. And her
wedding attire was to die for. Torn jeans and a ball cap.
I'm sure that outfit will grace the cover of many bridal magazines this
spring. Maybe they actually got married at the Little White Trash Wedding
SO LET ME get this, uh, straight: Britney can grab any guy, go to a cheesy
wedding place, which incidentally offers drive-thru service, get hitched
in a ceremony reminiscent of a drunken trip to 7-Eleven, and immediately
gain more than 1,000 legal rights as a married person, even if shell never
use any of them.
It'll take more than a Big Gulp and a bag of Cheetos to digest that
insult. And what makes the whole thing so incredibly ludicrous is that
they got the marriage annulled a mere 55 hours later. Fifty-five hours of
a prank marriage, and we can't marry legally for 55 seconds.
So, all you right wing, holier than thou, Bible-thumping zealots, hows
that for preserving the sanctity of marriage? Why hasn't the world, as we
know it, come to an end when a heterosexual couple makes a mockery of this
scared institution?
God had absolutely nothing to do with these classy nuptials. Neither did
Bridal Brits handlers or this never would have happened.
My partner and I have been together six years. We own our home, and we are
about as married as we can be. We cover each other with every shred of
protection possible.
But domestic partnership falls short of the rights we really need because,
as we queers know all too well, only legally married couples are totally
For 55 hours, Britney Spears and her buddy/husband Jason were legally
protected as a couple by state and federal laws, regardless of the
circumstances under which they got married.
What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. Now I know why.
I think most of you know that I think Britney rules, but I don't think that the wedding was a stunt, I think it was a stupid mistake. The impression I get from Britney is that she really is trying to have a fun life but not reveal herself to the public. In the Zone her current album is nowhere near as personal as Xtina or Justin Timberlake's offerings.. i do agree with the point that straight people could do whatever the hell they liked with marriage no body would bat an eye and a gay couple could have all the ingredients of a perfect marriage bar being the right gender and not be allowed have it. It's so fucked up!
"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it" Buffy- The Gift
Not only did it bring up really good points, but it was funny as all hell.
That 20-something, air for brains, virgin turned vamp, pop icon dragged one of her hayseed homeboys to the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas at 5 a.m. to get hitched.
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With each step up the economic ladder, people demand more water for sanitation, industry, hydroelectric power, and water-intensive diets – such as preferring beef to wheat, a shift that requires 10 times as much water per kilogram to produce. Urban-rural competition for water has already pushed countries to import grains – "virtual water" – or, in the case of wealthier countries like China, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia, to lease land in developing countries.
By 2030, the Water Resources Group forecasts, global water requirements may outstrip sustainable use by 40 percent. And almost half the world's people will be living under severe water stress, predicts the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Already, water stress – where the reliable water supply is being used up more quickly than it can be replenished – is widespread and is expected to increase significantly in the years ahead, particularly in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. By 2050, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, 1 in 5 developing countries will face water shortages.
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Bash Is a Foodie, Craft-Beer Mecca in West Broward
Set in a suburban shopping center in Sunrise, Bash American Bistro looks just like any other café from the outside.CandaceWest.com Clockwise from left: Executive chef Shannon Weiberg; homemade ravioli; Dale's "Fall Off the Bone" beef short rib.
But behind the beige exterior lies an eclectic, cheerful atmosphere.
A chalkboard wall with draft beer specials spelled out in bright colors highlights the bar, and decorative beer taps sit right in front of the door. Exposed Edison bulbs hang from the ceiling. Dark wood wainscoting highlights the array of local art adorning the walls, a multifarious collection, ranging from local wildlife photography to pop-art images of the Beatles. The effect is the same as walking into someone's home: intimate, warm, and totally unpretentious.
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Just over a year ago, the well-known restaurant, beloved by in-the-know locals, relocated from its former site on Oakland Park Boulevard to its new digs near Nob Hill Road. Owned by mom-and-pop team Kimberly Lynn and Shannon Weiberg, the restaurant serves classic American comfort food with a modern twist.
Dale's "Fall Off the Bone" beef short rib, one of the most popular dishes on the menu, is braised in birch beer for hours, then grilled and brushed with a house-made barbecue sauce.
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The thing is when you go out of town without your kids, the readjustment to The Real World - the one with diapers, homework, laundry and WITHOUT sand, cocktails and sleeping late- can be quite a shock to the system.
It's not that I didn't miss The Boys. I did. But I didn't worry about them. Not a single bit. I knew they were well cared for (aka spoiled) at The Grands. And could I have stayed longer in La-La Land? Let me think, uh, yes!
Just like I learned to make dinner, talk on the phone, sign the field trip slip, check Facebook, make lunches and close the dishwasher with my foot all at the same time, I retrained myself remarkably fast to do absolutely nothing. And nothing is exactly what I did for 4 days in a row (on the beach no less) with St. Joel on our first bona fide vacation alone since our honeymoon 13 years ago. So re-entering reality this week requires a little juggling. Dropping the frozen daiquiri and daily housekeeping balls and picking back up the grocery store, Easter basket prep and laundry balls.
Again, it is without a doubt, 100% worth it.
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It felt odd to be interviewing people in a flak jacket, as if my life was worth more than theirs. I was jotting down notes as a group of men dressed in cheap track pants and light coats, their faces ruddy from the sun, told me how they had advanced on soldiers at the airfield in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, with nothing but improvised clubs. As they spoke, machine-gun fire rang out. I was the only one who ducked. Some nearby soldiers were just shooting into the air to scare back the crowd.
I had flown into Donetsk the day after pro-Russian protesters seized the regional administration building and declared a "Donetsk People's Republic." I was on assignment to cover the events for The Guardian. In some ways, it seemed like my life experiences had been leading up to this moment: childhood in small-town Wisconsin, where I yearned to get out and see the world; four years studying Russian in college; two years covering business at The Moscow Times; and a year as a freelance news reporter.
When 2014 came around, Russia was never off the radar: The takeover of Crimea followed the Sochi Olympics like a storm that reinvigorates a dying hurricane and takes it in a new direction. But Sochi had felt like a giant press junket, and I had worked on the Crimea story from the Moscow end.
Now I was here, in eastern Ukraine. The protests and violence were to be a kind of trial by fire. It was my first time on the ground, covering a conflict, even if that conflict was dwarfed by the geopolitical battle around it. For years I had worked to become a foreign correspondent, and this would be my first truly big story.
The reality didn't resemble what I had read in books like Michael Herr's Dispatches, or had seen in movies such as The Bang Bang Club, Under Fire, and Reds. This was not the Vietnam War or the Bolshevik Revolution, but rather a motley crew of angry teenagers, fringe activists, and Russian army vets, with no real political program beyond an ill-defined referendum on the region's status. Instead, I caught glimpses of the immediate banality of historical events and experienced the difficulty of reporting them on the ground. I learned, once again, that real life has little of the glory of later retellings. It was just long hours of work, confused narratives, mental exhaustion, and voyeur's guilt.
I arrived in Donetsk from Lviv, a city in western Ukraine of nearly 800,000 people. It is the heartland of the Ukrainian nationalists, whom the pro-Russian protesters claimed were bent on the destruction of Russian culture and language in Ukraine. Lviv is all Austro-Hungarian architecture and picturesque coffee trucks, while Donetsk is a gray Soviet city of coal miners and metalworkers, and three-fourths of the surrounding region's residents speak Russian as their native language. The protesters at the administration building ripped up paving stones; stacked them in piles, for ammunition; and built concentric rings of barricades with tires, sandbags, and barbed wire.
Within a day, my clothes reeked from wood-fed barrel fires just like the ones that had warmed the Euromaidan protesters in Kiev last fall and winter, when they toppled Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, a Donetsk native. Now the Donetsk protesters said the result of what took place in Kiev was a CIA-sponsored "fascist junta" that was leading Ukraine into ethnic strife and economic ruin. Photoshopped pictures hanging in the occupied administration building depicted Barack Obama as a monkey; others, in a feat of gender-bending artistic inspiration, showed him with a Hitler mustache and the blond braids of pro–Western Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko.
The protesters' complaints were based in reality—in neighboring Dnepropetrovsk, I saw ultranationalist leader Dmitry Yarosh announce the creation of an eight-hundred-man militia to join the fight against "drunk separatists and Russian tanks"—but had been blown out of proportion by the Russian state-controlled media that they watched on television outside the Donetsk barricades late at night. Friends of mine who worked at one Russian state channel told me their bosses had announced a "war mode" of anti-Kiev coverage. But the Ukrainian media was no better, describing the eastern Ukrainians as "terrorists" who had been bought by Russia. This information war of competing narratives meant that no body count, description of troop movements, or announcement of negotiations could be nailed down as entirely true.
A few friends and I were among the first on the scene of a shoot-out the day after a group of armed operatives dressed in green—known as "little green men" because of their mysterious origin—seized the police and security service buildings in the Donetsk-region town of Slavyansk. Cars were riddled with bullet holes, and there were traces of blood on the ground. A man who introduced himself as a city council member was waiting for us with cell-phone footage of the attack's aftermath: a man in camouflage cursing and holding his abdomen; another, all in black, slumped against a car, blood streaming down his front.
The story this city-council member told us was ludicrous, all the more so because someone named "Seryozha" kept calling, and his wife, standing nearby, was constantly berating him for "not telling it right." But what he told us was this: Four men in black drove up in a sedan with Poltava plates and opened fire on seven infantry vehicles filled with Ukrainian soldiers. "Why would they do such a thing?" we asked. He claimed it was all a "provocation" by unknown forces. But the man in black was more likely Ukrainian special forces, killed by pro-Russian rebels.
The Donetsk protesters' hatred for the American-backed regime in Kiev and the pro-Ukrainian news channels extended to a general hostility toward the Western press. In Luhansk, a large city in easternmost Ukraine, close to the Russian border, I asked to interview one of the hulking masked men who was directing the militia that occupied the security service building. "You want to know our demands, talk to the people," he said, dragging me before a few dozen eager protesters. Then he yelled out that I was an American journalist, which drew jeers from the crowd. The masked man identified himself as a member of Yanukovych's shock troops, the Berkut riot police, who had fought against the Euromaidan protesters in Kiev. As proof, he lifted his shirt to show a scar down his belly.


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It's not every 18 year old who wants to spend their birthday dancing with their mom, but then again, Miley Cyrus is most decidedly not every 18 year old. When asked about her birthday plans on the red carpet for the American Music Awards, Miley told Access Hollywood:
"I'm going out dancing later — we rented out a space so all my friends can come," she said. "Me and my mom actually have choreography for the night later — everyone loves when we dance in unison… so it's going to be good."
Miley and her mom have plenty of practice dancing together. Apparently they love playing dance video games on their Kinect:
"There's one [move] where you do like, the fist pump. You 'Jersey Shore' it for a second!" Miley told Access. "We got a bunch of moves going on. Everyone goes wild when me and my mom have choreography, so it's going to be good.
"My mom, she beats me at that game!" Miley added. "She had 600,000 points yesterday, I had 300,000. She is such a good dancer — she really gets it."
Miley's mom wasn't the only grown up at the shindig. Miley's current on screen mom, Demi Moore, who is playing Miley's mother in the upcoming comedy LOL: Laughing Out Loud showed up to celebrate with her daughter Rumer.
Miley says she plans to celebrate her birthday all month:
"I have a birthday month," Miley told Shaun. "I do the whole month of November. Thanksgiving, cake – [it's] all about me on Thanksgiving!"
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From floral themes to vintage furniture, our dining room design guide will help you transform your dining space in no time.
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A coat of paint (Beluga by Behr) refreshed this Texas ranch's flea-market table. The owner's mom brought the 1950s Hans Wegner chairs when she moved in earlier this year.
Bright idea: Vintage breadboxes provide sneaky storage for table linens.
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Sexy Spec from Pretty Ricky is out with a challenge to other artists, including Bow Wow, Chris Brown, Omarion, Trey Songz and Day26 to see who's number one. Spectacular then proceeded to dance in his underwear to the R&B group's new single 'Tipsy In Dis Club'.
The original video at YouTube has since been removed, but a second dancing video has been posted by the singer.