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WASHINGTON (AP) A top Obama administration official is apologizing for the problems that have kept Americans from successfully signing up for coverage at the government's health care website.
Marilyn Tavenner, the head of the Medicare program, told a House panel that "the website has not worked as well as it should."
Tavenner is the first senior official to publicly answer questions from lawmakers. She's being grilled not only on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov, but also whether lawmakers can rely on promises to have things running efficiently by the end of November.
The Medicare chief told lawmakers that improvements are happening daily. She wouldn't provide current enrollment numbers, saying repeatedly that they won't be available until mid-November.
Her appearance followed last week's testimony from outside contractors who said there hadn't been enough time to test the complex online enrollment system. It froze up on the day it was launched, October first.
The Republican who heads the House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp of Michigan, is asking whether it's fair for the IRS to impose penalties on those who don't sign up for health care, if people "can't navigate" what he calls a "dysfunctional and overly complex system."
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Lance Armstrong Welcomes a Baby Girl
Lance Armstrong is a father -- again.
The 39-year-old cyclist announced the birth of his second child with girlfriend Anna Hansen early Monday morning via Twitter.
"Olivia Marie Armstrong has arrived!" Armstrong tweeted.
Using Twitter to announce Olivia's birth should come as no surprise: Armstrong created an account for his then-unborn daughter back in April. "I'm 'bout ready to get outta here!" the newborn "tweeted" Monday.
The Tour de France champion has three other children with ex-wife Kristin Richard: Luke, 11, and twins Isabelle and Grace, 8. Armstrong and Hansen previously welcomed son Max in 2009.
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3 Mobile Tools to Improve Your Social Media Marketing
Have you figured out how to engage on-the-go prospects and customers?
Is more of your audience interacting with your business from their mobile phones?
If you want to enhance your mobile marketing, then keep reading.
I'll show you three awesome tools that make mobile marketing easier.
Why Mobile?
Mobile is no longer something you can afford to ignore.
As customers' adoption of mobile grows, you need to find ways to leverage mobile marketing tools to optimize their experience, no matter what device they're on.
Whether you've already been experimenting with mobile marketing or are just getting started, the right tools help increase leads, engagement and sales.
In this article, I highlight three tools that offer easy ways to mobilize your social media marketing strategy.
#1: Send SMS (Text) and Video Messaging With Mogreet Express
One of the most powerful mobile marketing channels available today is SMS or short message service, which is also known as text message marketing.
SMS is a permission-based messaging tool that lets customers receive messages from you after they text a keyword or sign up using a web form.
SMS may not sound sexy, but it's highly effective. Studies have indicated that 97% of mobile subscribers read an SMS (text) message within 15 minutes of receiving it. 84% respond within 1 hour.
Mobile Marketing: How to Reach Your Buyers Wherever They Are
Are you wondering how to use mobile marketing to grow your business?
If so, you might be intrigued by this fun fact: 4 billion people own a mobile phone. (Guess how many people own a toothbrush? 3.5 billion!)
In fact, as I write this article, I'm on a short visit to Kenya, where even a housemaid earning $85 a month routinely uses a mobile phone.
As more consumers use their mobile phones for multiple purposes, marketers like you will have the power to reach buyers at the exact time and place they're looking for what you offer, explain Jeanne Hopkins and Jamie Turner in their new book, Go Mobile.
Go Mobile covers a lot of solid ground in mobile marketing, and while I cannot go into as much detail as I'd like, here's a taste of what you can expect.
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Jeanne Hopkins and Jamie Turner have set out to answer your most pertinent questions concerning mobile marketing such as SMS, MMS, mobile display ads, QR codes, mobile websites, mobile apps, location-based marketing and many other tools to increase your business revenue.
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Social, local, mobile are three words marketers are hearing more and more these days.
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With an increase of users relying on mobile phones, tablets and their accompanying geo-location technology, businesses today are increasingly finding the need to think locally. So, how does SoLoMo work for businesses?
In this post, we'll introduce 26 tips, an A-Z guide for location-based marketing.
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Detectives say on May 6 around 1 p.m., the man entered the BB&T Bank -- on US Highway 19 North at Alderman Road -- approached the teller and placed a backpack on the counter and demanded she fill it with money.
As the teller was putting the money in the backpack, the man reveled a handgun he had in his waistband.
Reportedly, as he was leaving the bank, he dropped a small aerosol can labeled "Warning-Chlorine".
The man was seen arriving in the area of the bank on a motorcycle shortly before the robbery. After leaving the bank, he was last seen headed southbound on US Highway 19 then turning westbound on Nebraska Avenue.
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What's the Difference Between Paid Placement and Paid Inclusion?
by Stephen Baker, FAST Search and Transfer
Paid placement, or pay for placement (PFP) is a model whereby advertisers, webmasters, search engine optimization specialists (SEOs), etc. pay to have their pages/content included and ranked artificially higher than other results in an index of similar or competitive content. The ranking mechanism is typically keyword driven where the marketer purchases or bids on certain keywords or key phrases to return a specified URL.
Typically, the higher the bid, the better the ranking of the result, generally regardless of relevancy. Paid placements are generally marked as such by being referred to within results as "Features Listings," "Sponsored Links," etc. The key PFP services include Overture, Google, Ah-ha, and LookSmart.
Paid Inclusion, or pay for inclusion (PFI) is a different model than pay for placement. PFI allows web marketers pay to have guaranteed inclusion and refresh (in the case of crawler-based services) in the index. The services are usually priced on a per-URL basis and typically guarantee a year of inclusion. For volume submissions, greater than 1,000 URL's, for example, the marketer often pays on a cost-per-click basis.
Paid inclusion only guarantees scheduled index inclusion; it has no effect on ranking. However, most of the crawler-based engines do consider refresh rate in the ranking algorithms. The key players in the PFI market are FAST, Inktomi, AltaVista, and the LookSmart and Yahoo directories.
Webmaster/Web Marketer Point of View
PFP services are positioned as search engine marketing services, allowing the clients to manage search-engine marketing campaigns. PFP services provide the Webmaster with many tools to manage their PFP campaigns, including editorial services, to help select keywords/phrases and create teasers, and budget management tools which allow the webmaster to create a monthly spend budget tied in with bid-price and number of impressions. PFP services guarantee certain rankings based on a monetary basis.
PFI Services provide reporting tools, such as click through logs, impressions, keyword lists, etc. that allow the Webmaster to understand how searchers query the major crawler based engines. This is valuable data as it enables the Webmaster to more effectively create content for their site, based on the business goals and objectives of the site.
Since PFI services are usually fixed cost per URL, the budget concerns are minimized; a Webmaster pays a fixed-fee per URL and is guaranteed inclusion for a year. PFI services guarantee freshest content is available within the index, with ranking based on relevancy rather than monetary basis. With FAST PartnerSite, a hosted (ASP) site search application is included with the service. This enables the Webmaster to kill two birds with one stone to improve site navigation through the site search application and achieve broad search engine audience reach by being included in the FAST index.
For both PFP and PFI there are two things to keep in mind:
1. Reach. Choose the services that provide the Webmaster with the desired audience reach and demographics.
2. Spam. Both services employ and enforce strong spam filtering algorithms and policies, so inclusion will not be guaranteed if spam is submitted.
Searcher Concerns with PFP and PFI
Search results are definitely becoming confusing for the end-user. Unless clearly marked, the searcher has no idea if they are receiving a result that has been paid to be ranked higher or one that has been ranked by a crawler based engine's un-biased algorithms.
Some search engines, such as Lycos and Google, very clearly identify which results are paid for and which are not. Sites that incorporate both PFP and PFI listing must be responsible in this respect, if they are to provide a quality search service and user experience. That said, the PFP and PFI engines must also be responsible about how they handle paid-for content.
Search Engine Responsibilities
For search engines, it's about the business model. Running a crawler-based engine, for example, requires thousands of servers, multiple data centers with fault-tolerant systems, tons of bandwidth to continuously crawl and facilitate queries, and a killer operations staff; the associated costs can be very high.
Before the banner-ad meltdown, search engines, such as FAST, used to share advertising revenue with portals based on the keyword banner inventory sold against search results. Now, with search engines driving the majority of e-commerce traffic, web marketers have an incentive to partner with the search engines for search engine marketing services.
That said, we search engine operators need to be responsible as well. One of the reasons why banner-ads failed was because of spam. Most banner ads are run-of-site and not very targeted; hence, the users grew resistance to them, often not noticing ads on web pages. If PFP and PFI providers are not responsible about editorial control, the same user indifference will happen.
For PFP engines, the challenge is to monitor the key phrases that marketers are bidding on and the abstracts that are submitted. There is also the risk of "Perceived Relevancy" where the searcher is shown non-relevant results, both geographical and content, because the bid-system is allowing too many low-quality/non-brand-name customers into their index.
For PFI engines, the "Perceived Relevancy" problem is less of an issue because we use static rank (link analysis) and dynamic rank (keywords, etc.) to determine relevancy. The challenge, of course, is to remain very strict on spam detection and elimination. The day that a query for e.g. "US census statistics" provides e-commerce results is the day that PFI has failed.
Put another way, FAST has over 600 million docs in its index. It is not likely that there will be more than 10 or 20 million PFI docs, or less than 3% of the content. If these 3% of the docs account for over 50% of impressions, then we will have failed.
If PFP and PFI services are not responsible, users will receive non-relevant results for their queries and click-through rates will drop (just like banner-ads) and portals/search destination will lose valuable search traffic.
Coming back to the searcher, it is too easy to tell them to use a PFP service if they are looking for shopping/e-commerce content and to use one of the crawler-based engines for unbiased results that might include PFI content. However, this is not enough. It is the responsibility of the search engine and the portal to provide quality search.
This means two things: First, only providing PFP/PFI data for highly relevant/targeted queries; and second, incorporating brand recognition into PFP/PFI relevancy calculations.
Stephen Baker is Director of Business Development & Marketing, Internet Business Unit, for Fast Search & Transfer. FAST powers Lycos search results, several regional search engines, and its own AllTheWeb.com search engine.
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Like most "beta" programs launched by Google, the interface is solid, and results look similar to the Google News Headlines service. "Google News Search groups related stories together and presents them in an easy-to-read format in the search results page," said Google spokesperson Nate Tyler. "Google updates its index of news sources approximately every hour throughout the day."
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I know this is really old... but I am having this exact issue right now and wanted to share my observation. As soon as this started to happen, I cleaned the dust out of my computer. I just got this computer in May of 2010 and the issue started in Dec 2010. I have a GeForce GTX 260 video card and Thermaltake TR2 RX 750w power supply, so it should be able to watch Instant View pretty smoothly I'd think.
When I first started having this issue, we suspected it was the power supply or even my BIL that works at Microsoft said my cat was touching the power button on the back of my computer -- yeah right -- guess who gets blamed for all Microsoft issues around here! My computer literally just shuts off, no warning. I can turn it back on and it acts like nothing happened, just starts right up. All tests and BurnInTest runs smooth and no problems are reported.
I had recently started watching tv shows on the Instant Viewer, so I watched a crazy amount of hours on Instant View. I thought it could be a software issue (since I really don't want to deal with replacing my power supply) since it just started happening randomly and that was the only new thing I was doing on my computer. I stopped using Netflix Instant View for a few months for tv shows only. I still watched movies without issue. My computer did indeed stop turning off randomly.
Last week I just started watching TV again, forgetting my issue a few months ago because it disappeared. And again, guess what started to happen? My computer turned itself off randomly! It did it for 2-3 days in a row! After the 3rd day, instead of hitting refresh when I bring it out of sleep mode, I hit the back button and rehit the play button from the view movie page. The issue went away completely. Have not had the computer shut off once.
My conclusion was, since I watched only movies before, I never really put my computer to sleep with the Instant Viewer saved in my browser. But when I started to watch tv shows, I almost always put it to sleep in the browser because I would come back and keep watching the next episode. After 5-10 minutes after hitting refresh in the Instant Viewer, my computer would restart. To prevent it, you have to exit the Instant Viewer and come back.
Coincidence? I have no idea, but that is my experience.
This is not a video card or over heating issues. I can watch movies all day on my lap top, watch videos on YT ect and no problems. as soon as I start to watch a Netflix movie my screen moves from full screen back to normal and the the computer shuts down. I have set Netflix a report on this but have gotten no results.
Just spoke to Netflix. This is a cookie issue. click this lik and follow instructions. NOTE: the link provided won't work so you will have to type in netflix.com/clearcookies, not click it. It will automatically reset your cookies.
This is NOT a "cookie issue". I tried that. Doesn't work.
I tried the link above -- I typed it into my address bar, and instead of clearing my cookies, it took me to the Netflix sign in page, even though I was already signed in. So I signed in again, and tried typing the link again into my address bar, and STILL it took me to the sign in page.
The Internet is littered with people who claim to have the "answer" to this problem. I have tried nearly all of them, to no avail.
It worked for me. Idk if your issue is the same as mine or not but they DO need to fix this. Some answers DO work for some people.
I have been bedevilled with this problem for MONTHS.
I have researched on the web for answers. I found plenty of complicated answers that take me like 90 minutes to process, then when I finally finish and do them, I go back to watch a Netflix streaming video -- and the same damn thing happens all over again.
I'm about to tear my hair out.
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Day time school performances are scheduled for each of our productions and we invite you and your students to experience the thrill and magic of live theater at BCT! All performances will be held at The Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street. Tickets are $10 for students and teachers are FREE!
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WEST GREENWICHŌĆöThe grass is green, the sky is blue and every year the Exeter-West Greenwich girls volleyball team makes it to the University of Rhode IslandŌĆÖs Keaney Gymnasium.
OK, maybe the last part of that statement isnŌĆÖt a universal truth but it might as well be a given the way the Knights have played over the past four years.
The three-time defending Division II champs will once again take part in the final four as EWG rolled Cumberland 25-21, 25-18, 25-16 Tuesday night.
The Knights will now face Division II-North regular season champ Barrington today at 6 p.m. at Keaney.
ŌĆ£We feel good,ŌĆØ EWG coach Josh Bednarczyk said. ŌĆ£We always say we just have to worry about our side of the net.ŌĆØ
While the Eagles ŌĆō who lost just one match during the regular season ŌĆō should provide a tough challenge, the Knights were never really in danger of losing Tuesday against the Clippers after a slight scare in the first game.
In the opener EWG slowly distanced themselves from Cumberland, building a 16-9 advantage before the Clippers began to chip away.
Cumberland got within 17-13 before four straight Exeter errors on serve-receive allowed the Clippers to tie it at 17-all.
ŌĆ£We had a little run there in game one and had a big lead and then all of a sudden ŌĆō I think it was like a six or seven point lead ŌĆō we had a little trouble with serve-receive,ŌĆØ Bednarczyk said. ŌĆ£It got a little tight at the end there but then we just settled down.
ŌĆ£We were overpassing a lot. ThatŌĆÖs what killed us in game one. We couldnŌĆÖt keep a ball off the net and Cumberland did a good job of capitalizing on that.ŌĆØ
The Clippers even took a brief lead at 20-19 ŌĆō quickly giving it back after serving long ŌĆō before two aces from Jen Donnelly sandwiched around two kills from Jenna Bridges gave the Knights a commanding 24-20 lead.
After a nice kill from Cumberland on the ensuing rally Bridges ended the game with authority by pounding one into the floor.
From there the final two games followed almost exactly the same script; Cumberland taking an early lead before EWG kicked it into high gear for the easy win.
The Clippers went ahead 4-0 out of the gates in game two but Exeter responded with a 16-5 run to dash CumberlandŌĆÖs hopes of taking the second game.
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So, I have an australian stock saddle that I've used with my new horse twice so far. I just can't for the life of me figure out if I have it in the proper place on my horses back, and it seems like everywhere I look for information has different positions. My main concern is freedom of movement and proper weight distribution.
The first time I rode, I had it pretty forward, like what I've read has said to do. It seemed to fit fine on the withers and scapula area, except when my horses front legs were back, it looked like the flap of the saddle was almost going under the ulna. She did not seemed bothered by it, and we rode for an hour or so and she did not show any signs of pain or annoyance, and was trotting or cantering perfectly fine. After the ride, her back was evenly sweaty so I figured I must have done it right.
Today I went on a trail ride with the woman who used to give me lessons, and as I was tacking up my horse, I asked her what she thought about the strange thing happening with the flap of the saddle. She said she thought it was too far forward and needed to go back some. I pushed it back, and she had full range of motion with her legs with no pinching and the girth was about 4-5 inches behind her legs. The front of the saddle was behind the scapula. She said that is how it should be. I know this is true for western, which is what I have been riding my whole life, but isn't Australian different?
We rode for about an hour, and when I got back there was a smallish (maybe 4x4 inches) dry spot on on each side of her back, just behind the withers. When I rubbed on her back she didn't show any signs of soreness, and she didn't show any signs of soreness while riding.
So, which is more important when properly placing the saddle? Even sweat distribution after the ride? Complete freedom of movement of the bones?
She was not showing any signs of pain or discomfort with either position.
Thank you for the help!
The picture posted is from the first ride, where the saddle was more forward. It's a really bad picture but is the only one I had that showed the saddle placement.
I'll take more pictures of the two placements when I see her on Tuesday.


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A 179th Airlift Wing C-27J cargo aircraft makes touch-and-go landings at Lahm Airport in October. / Dave Polcyn/News Journal file
This was the No. 3 story of the year as voted by News Journal staffers.
MANSFIELD — The future of the 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard was in doubt for much of 2012.
At years end, however, the base and its 800 employees received good news. Under a conference committee bill signed Dec. 18, the 179th Airlift Wing would still have a mission through the next 10 months but the Air Force would have the power to decide which planes it will fly.
The bill must be sent back to the U.S. Senate and House for approval before being forwarded to the White House.
The final version of the Conference of National Defense Authorization Act also would create a national commission to review the long-term structure of the Air Force, including uses of C-27J or C-130 cargo planes for last mile airlift missions like those performed by the 179th.
Currently, the 179th is assigned four C-27Js. U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has said the relatively new C-27Js provide valuable cargo transportation services and should not be sidelined by the Air Force.
C-27Js are smaller and can land on shorter airstrips, so they are less costly to operate than the larger C-130s, Portman said.
There has been talk the C-130s could replace the newer C-27Js. If that happens, Portman previously said, the 179ths long-term mission could be in jeopardy.
(The Dec. 18) move means we won the fight for now, but were not going to stop fighting. The concern that I have is not this year, not next year, but in several years, if the Air Force moves to C-130s, there could be a significant problem with the mission, the senator said. I think were going to be able to maintain this mission for now, but if the administration doesnt change its mind and work with us on the C-130s, I am concerned were not going to be able to maintain that mission.
In February, the Air Force originally proposed to end the C-27J program without replacement. Last month, the military released a revised budget that would swap the C-27J planes for C-130s.
Col. Gary McCue, commander of the 179th, said the change would subject the base to a host of new problems. McCue favors keeping the C-27Js, calling them more cost-effective and viable than the C-130s, the former aircraft at the base.
During a campaign stop in Mansfield in early August, President Barack Obama said he would find a new mission for the 179th if the C-27Js were eliminated.
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Now would be the time to celebrate.
Eric at the Daily Eudemon remarked that if people have post holiday depression, they probably followed the American custom of celebrating throughout Advent. It's a good point.
Kids understand the season of Christmas, no doubt because they have the week off. Adults, who take their vacation time this week, may also understand. While those who pray and looked forward to the Nativity, will especially understand the joy of the season.
The Lord or Abbot of Misrule.
Today is Boxing Day in the UK and Canada, my favorite resource, Wkipedia, has the history:
"There are disparate theories as to the origins of the term. The more common stories include:
It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas 'box' to those who have worked for them throughout the year. This is still done in Britain for postmen and paper-boys - though now the 'box' is usually given before Christmas, not after.
In feudal times, Christmas was a reason for a gathering of extended families. All the serfs would gather their families in the manor of their lord, which made it easier for the lord of the estate to hand out annual stipends to the serfs. After all the Christmas parties on 26 December, the lord of the estate would give practical goods such as cloth, grains, and tools to the serfs who lived on his land. Each family would get a box full of such goods the day after Christmas. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obliged to supply these goods. Because of the boxes being given out, the day was called Boxing Day.
In England many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.
In churches, it was traditional to open the church's donation box on Christmas Day, and the money in the donation box was to be distributed to the poorer or lower class citizens on the next day. In this case, the "box" in "Boxing Day" comes from that lockbox in which the donations were left." Wkipedia
(Boxing day may be a good way to re-gift the gifts you neither like or want - rather than going to the department stores to exchange them, yeah, that's not going to fly.)
Now the Lord of Misrule goes back to Mediveal times, the origins of which are traced to pagan Rome, wherein it was celebrated for the feast of Saturnalia. Again, Wkipedia:
"The Lord of Misrule, known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots, was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying, in the pagan tradition of Saturnalia. The Church held a similar festival involving a Boy Bishop. The celebration of the Feast of Fools was outlawed by the Council of Basel that sat from 1431, but it survived to be put down again by the Catholic Queen Mary I in England in 1555.
While mostly known as a British holiday custom, the appointment of a Lord of Misrule comes from antiquity. In ancient Rome, from the 17th to the 23rd of December, a Lord of Misrule was appointed for the feast of Saturnalia, in the guise of the good god Saturn. During this time the ordinary rules of life were turned topsy-turvy as masters served their slaves, and the offices of state were held by slaves. The Lord of Misrule presided over all of this, and had the power to command anyone to do anything during the holiday period. This holiday seems to be the precursor to the more modern holiday, and it carried over into the Christian era." Wikipedia
As Carnival, which really begins on Twelfth Night, January 6th, the Church would often condemn the practices associated with the Lord of Misrule. (It is so easy for us mortals to become debauched.) Yet a re-adaptation of the custom, with discretion, could help people celebrate Christmas well, while refraining from the temptation to be so caught up in the manufactured commercial observance of the Holiday, which more or less ends on Christmas day night - for those who fall for the hype.
It makes me wonder if much of the holiday blues isn't the result of celebrating too much before Christmas, as Eric suggests. Or is it that many people in our culture lack an authentic spirituality, not to mention catechesis?
I'll tell you this, if my Company (which is a Catholic Company) would host our annual Christmas party the week after Christmas, instead of the week before, I would definitely attend...although it interferes with every one's vacation time I suppose.
In the days I entertained, I always had a St. Nicholas dinner, and then, an Epiphany party, and little gifts were given at both to all of my guests. I more or less stopped doing these, since guests caught on and started bringing me gifts - they didn't understand that it was just for them to receive and enjoy, and the events became an obligation to buy something for me and each other in return. That gift giving thing can get so out of control. (That could explain another reason people get depressed after Christmas, they have to pay the bills. Or they didn't get the coat they wanted!:)


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These airlines are completely missing the realities of the world to come. Just look at the new iPhone 4S. It includes a personal assistant which will automatically do things for you.
EXACTLY the same will happen for web browsers. They will become intelligent and do all the trivial tasks for you automatically. Including what American and Southwest is trying to block.
I think where you will see this coming first is probably with Amazon and their new Silk browser on the Kindle Fire. Just me guessing.
I can certainly see the airlines' stated points, even if this is a bit disingenuous and there are other reasons behind them shutting off their data to the aggregators. Certainly Southwest, with its policy of restricting fare information, cannot logically argue that their sole reason for this is to protect consumer data. However, I would personally not give my airline login to any third party (since this would allow anyone who comes upon this information access to my schedule, ability to book flights, etc.). I fly over 100K miles/year on multiple airlines and I don't see the issue with tracking my own miles or comparing miles to cash. The convenience of doing otherwise is not worth the risk to me. We take enough chances with our personal and financial information on line.
If airlines had our best interests in mind they wouldn't care how we found fares, tracked frequent flier miles or booked tickets. I usually pick my airfares based on the airlines I like to fly, including Southwest. It's too bad a company like that with such a great brand doesn't trust that consumers can figure out what we like with convenience as well.
American I am not suprised, but Southwest is proving that it no longer is the plucky fun-to-fly airline for the masses.
As only an occasional traveler, I've lost my enchantment with frequent flier miles. I'm a few thousand short of buying a round trip for the whole family on American and when those miles are gone, so is my FF account, along with the American branded CC with the outrageous interest rate.
Here's what might make me stay though (maybe)... let us use our miles for things like checked baggage fees, "premium" seat assignments, early boarding passes and the like. At least I could get some more immediate satifaction that way.
Maybe the airlines value their information and don't want to just give it away?
@Rex - we voluntarily give the other websites our info. Airlines don't give it away, or even give you the option to.
For those of you who still think Southwest is the 'perfect' carrier it was 5-10 years ago, they aren't any better than other airlines now. You do get free bags, but that's about it. Prices aren't even lower in many cases anyways.
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Mumbai - Not playing the Indian Premier League is the reason behind England's struggles in the shorter formats, former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram said, a day after England great Ian Botham called for the rich Twenty20 competition to be scrapped.
England were thumped 4-1 in Australia in their one-day international series at the beginning of the year and also lost recent series at home against Sri Lanka and India.
Critics have flayed England's strategy and selections for the shorter formats, with some suggesting that the team does not care about anything other than test cricket.
"England may pretend as much as they can, but they do get affected by losses in ODI cricket," the 48-year-old Akram, one of the all-time best pace bowlers of the world, wrote in a column published in Friday's Times of India newspaper.
"They just pretend to be not interested in the 50-over format. The only reason they are not good in one-day cricket right now is because they have a limited talent pool for the format."
England are currently ranked fifth in the world in ODIs and few would wager on them in next year's 50-over World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, a trophy the country has never won.
While former England all-rounder Botham believes the franchise-based IPL has become too powerful and could be fuelling corruption in the game, Akram thinks not playing in the tournament is hurting England.
While India, Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka - the teams ranked above England in the ODI ranking - all play the IPL in full, Kevin Pietersen, who was sacked by the country's cricket board, was the only England international in the tournament earlier this year.
Some English players made themselves unavailable to prepare for the summer's test matches but others went unsold, being unable to commit for the full duration of the April-May tournament due to the clash with the county season.
Former England captain Pietersen recently said that 50-over world champions India had benefited from the tournament as their younger players were given the opportunity to play with and against the world's best.
Akram, one of Pakistan's main architects during their World Cup triumph in 1992, agreed.
"Australia, India and South Africa play all year around in the shorter formats. Also all these players play IPL," Akram added. "That has helped their cause.
"England used to have a few players in IPL, but even that has stopped. That is the reason why they are struggling big time in the shorter formats." – Reuters
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The Social Network's Andrew Garfield will be making his Broadway debut in an upcoming production of Death of a Salesman, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Garfield, who will play Biff in Death of a Salesman, will be joined on stage by Academy Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (who will play Garfield's father in the play). According to reports, the show will open in the spring at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.
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I'm heading for SEA for 3 months next month. I would like to roughly follow the Thailand, Loas, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam trip outlined in the suggested itineraries outlined on this site. I would be interested to here from anyone who has done this. perhaps a few pointers on how they got on would help me. I am particularly worried about the Malaria situation. I realize a doctor is the only person that can give you a definitive answer, however what does a doctor in the UK know about SEA that I cant find out on the internet. They are only human after all. I am planning to take Doxycycline from when I cross over to Loas and perhaps stop 4 weeks after I leave Cambodia. How did you deal with this issue and in retrospect do you feel it was the right decision.
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Welcome to Travelfish Tiger,
I don't know if you've seen it already, but we've got a feature summarising the malaria situation in SE Asia.
Personally I wouldn't take malarials, instead I'd use a mosquito net, repellent, dress sensibly etc. But if you're more comfortable with the pills, then Doxy is the most common choice -- we list some of the side effects in the above-mentioned feature.
Regarding the trip itinerary, the main thing is to not try to do too much. You've got three months, so that's a good chunk of time, but don't be shy from grabbing a few flights to avoid backtracking. For instance, you can fly from Hanoi to Bangkok with Thai Air Asia for as little as US$40 -- to do the same trip overland would take an absolute minimum of four full days.
That itinerary also barely touches on Thailand, so don't forget to allow for some time there as well. Which reminds me I have to put together some more trip plans for Thailand!
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I'm from the UK and for the five weeks we were in Cambodia and Vietnam, the travel clinic recommended we take Doxycycline for the entire trip, which we did. However, due to the drug's side-effects, we met lots of other people who just took sensible precautions (mosquito net, repellent etc) and carried an emergency anti-malarial kit, which was to be taken if the symptoms of malaria were experienced.
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If you go over land and start out in Bangkok, going through Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao and then back into northern Thailand there shouldn't be any need to backtrack. The only visa that can't be got on entry to the country is the Lao one which you can get in Hanoi before catching a bus or plane (the bus takes ages and is not very pleasant but you´ll see some fantastic landscapes on your way in).
If you're worried about malaria I would advise against Lariam as an anti malaria medication. I got back from Burma weeks ago and I'm still suffering nausea, dizziness and panic attacks. Supposedly Mallarone is just as good but without the nasty side effects.
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Actually now that I remember I had to get the Vietnam visa in Phnom Phen before crossing the border. Sorry, damn Lariam messing my memory up. Probably.
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I'm happy to hear this. The SMG games are easily my favorite games of this generation. I gotta give some love to SMG2 though, as I don't quite agree with the general consensus here that SMG > SMG2. Can't we have two equally fun games? =)
I've always considered Metroid as the third pillar, but yeah, it is probably Pokemon instead.
I used to own Kirby's Block Ball I'll be picking it up again on VC.
I just looked at the link in the article for the Retron3 and I noticed you could turn the SupaBoy into a Game Boy using the Super Game Boy. =)
For those having a bit of trouble finding the download links, on the Settings/Other screen instead select "Your Downloads." The games are listed there with the option to "Redownload." That's how I got them.
This is basically an impossible question because I believe the Super Nintendo has the best library of games out there. =)
If I have to pick one game, it's Super Metroid. Earthbound is a very close second. And every other game mentioned here has to be in the discussion.
It seems like this is a good game that is just more suitable for the iPhone than the Wii. I've been looking at thus game for awhile and I think it will be a good fit for me for the iPhone.
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I played this a few weeks ago. The best part is at the end! =)
From my perspective, we got three pretty decent looking games, but nothing I'm that interested in. It's a good thing for me I have enough non-Wiiware games to play for the time being. There's always next week, after all.
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Sometimes, a perfectly realized masterwork so far exceeds its mortal creator that it seems something larger and more powerful is speaking through him.
For all its virtuosity, little in the first three-quarters of Claude Lanz-mann's memoir accounts for Shoah, his nine-and-a-half-hour testament to the extermination of Europe's Jews, an overwhelming film Marcel Ophüls called "the greatest documentary about contemporary history ever made." The bulk of The Patagonian Hare, published in France in 2009, narrates the transformation of a young man on the make into a jet-set Left Bank intellectual who pops up, Zelig-like, in an astonishing array of loosely connected scenes, wherever adventure beckoned.
The book was not written, exactly, but dictated to two of Lanzmann's assistants, and the style is digressive ("I forgot to mention that. . ."). The tone rings wistful; it is a book written at the end of a full life. "I love life madly, love it all the more now that I am close to leaving it," says Lanzmann, now 86.
Here is Lanzmann as a teenaged fighter in the French Resistance, collecting cases of revolvers and grenades and laying crude ambushes for SS convoys. Here he is making love all through the night before the entrance exam to the École normale supérieure, or, after writing a dissertation on Leibniz, teaching philosophy dans le boudoir to a well-connected older woman. He presents himself as a seducer of women, and attests that he loathes "with every fiber of my being, the billing and cooing of courtship."
Later, he appears as the bon vivant freelance journalist writing celebrity profiles for Elle, covering sensational trials for France Dimanche, chatting with Sophia Loren in her kitchen at six in the morning, and aboard the Calypso as Jacques Cousteau's
ghostwriter. Elsewhere we find him sitting on the floor in a bare apartment in a Tunis suburb, entranced by Frantz Fanon discoursing about the Algerian revolution, or at a manor in Heidelberg discussing the monuments to the Thousand-Year Reich with Albert Speer.
Then he is dining with Kim Il Sung as a member of the first Western delegation to North Korea, enjoying a long audience with President Nasser in Cairo, crossing the Suez Canal with Ariel Sharon hours after the ceasefire of the Yom Kippur War. Above all, here he is with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the editorial offices of Les Temps modernes, the cultural review they launched in 1945, and which Lanzmann edits to this day.
"I met them all," Lanzmann writes.
Of them all, the existentialist duo made the most lasting impression on Lanzmann, who recounts here both his deepening affection for the combative Sartre, despite the philosopher's "infantile fits of jealousy," and his love affair with Beauvoir, 17 years his senior. "I am the only man with whom Simone de Beauvoir lived a quasi-marital existence," Lanzmann writes. (She described the relationship differently: Lanzmann, she wrote to Nelson Algren in 1954, "is for me rather a kind of incestuous son than a lover. . . . He asks for a motherly tenderness rather than something else.") To make matters even more claustrophobic, Sartre had meanwhile set up Lanzmann's sister Évelyne as his secret mistress.
Sartre put his young prodigy on a collision course with what would become his life's (and this memoir's) deepest theme. When, at age 21, he came upon Sartre's description of "Jewish inauthenticity" in his essay Anti-Semite and Jew (originally published in 1946 as Réflexions sur la question juive), Lanzmann writes, "I suddenly found a portrait of myself, perfectly depicted." On reflection, he adds, "I was identical to the Jew described in it, raised outside any religion, any tradition, any culture that might be called Jewish."
Not that Lanzmann hadn't been aware of his Jewishness. He describes being "profoundly shaken and terrorized by the force and the virulence of the anti-Semitism at [my] Parisian lycée." But that awareness came accompanied by something else: "I also became aware of the fear and the cowardice in myself. Hiding behind a pillar in the school playground, I watched—petrified, making no attempt to intervene, terrified that I might be discovered—as my classmates all but lynched a lanky, red-haired Jew named Levy."
Over time, as others noticed him, his fear transmuted itself into rage. In her memoir Force of Circumstance (1963), Beauvoir wrote:
I could feel, buried inside him, flexing its muscles, a violence always ready to explode. Sometimes in the morning after some disturbing dream, he would wake up shouting at me: "You're all kapos!"
In the effort to confront his Jewish identity and his feelings of shame and fear—and in thrall to the image he had of the ardent pioneers of the kibbutzim, aglow with limitless idealism—Lanzmann embarked on his first trip to Israel in 1952. His encounters with the fledgling state over the next two decades would both distance him from Sartre—who, according to Lanzmann, displayed an "obstinate refusal even to try to understand Israel"—and lead to his first documentary, Israel, Why (Pourquoi Israël), released in 1973.
This first film, in turn, led to the suggestion from an Israeli official that he make a film about the Holocaust. Making it would consume the next dozen years of Lanzmann's life, and the behind-the-scenes account he gives in the last quarter of The Patagonian Hare, where everything comes into focus, affords the first glimpse of a man seized, at last, by a sense of urgency.
During a speech Lanzmann later delivered at the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris, he made clear how the resolve that spurred him to his life's greatest work was rooted in the earlier preoccupation with Jewish identity:
Since we are among ourselves, I have the right to ask myself about what binds us, what we have in common. So, what does unite us, if not this bond of pain, this relationship to the flesh in its greatest suffering, surviving deportees, orphans, decimated families, which, generation after generation, transmit the flame.
In the last section of this memoir, which rises in places to lyricism, Lanz-mann makes clear that he himself was singed by his own efforts of transmission. "For twelve years I tried to stare relentlessly into the black sun of the Shoah," he writes. "I forced myself to get as close as I could."
Shoah (1985) is defined by its uncompromising refusals: no archival footage, no newsreels, not a single corpse. No voiceover eases its transitions. The only commentary comes on-screen from Raul Hilberg, author of the magisterial three-volume The Destruction of the European Jews.
"The purpose of Shoah is not to transmit knowledge, in spite of the fact that there is knowledge in the film," Lanz-mann has said. It is not a film about survivors, nor about the roundups and deportations, but about death. As though refusing to explain the inexplicable, it declines any hint of redemption. "Shoah is an arid and pure film," its director says.
Instead, Lanzmann weaves the film—"a vigil to absolute suffering," he calls it—from firsthand testimonies, a plait of voices in French, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish. To bring the suffering within earshot, three groups are made to bear witness, or false witness. We hear from memory-afflicted Jewish victims, including members of the Sonderkommando like Filip Müller, Abraham Bomba, a barber at Treblinka, and heroes like Simcha Rotem, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. We must listen to six perpetrators, self-satisfied or evasive, including Franz Suchomel, the SS-Unterscharführer at Treblinka, Franz Grassler, former Nazi deputy commissioner of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Walter Stier, a high-ranking former Reichsbahn official and planner of the transports of the Jews to death camps, the very archetype of what the Germans call Schreibtischtäter, or "desk murderers."
Finally, we look into the eyes of Polish bystanders who averted their eyes (a locomotive driver, a Sobibor stationmaster, indifferent peasants in primitive villages like Chelmno). Lanzmann, a filmmaker who never studied filmmaking, intersperses his interviews with these men and women with lingering shots of stones and wastelands, train tracks and ruins of gas chambers in snow-covered silence—a topography of accursed places in which pastoral present contends with infernal past.
In creating this polyphony, Lanz-mann writes that he saw it as his task to coax his subjects to relive "a past both incredibly remote and yet very close, a past-present etched forever in their minds." Etched in their faces, too. In Shoah, we do not see death, only the faces of those who saw it, with more or less comprehension of what they have seen. To accomplish this, Lanzmann remarks that he worked on his films in much the same way he pursued his earlier journalism and reportage:
In-depth research, distancing myself, forgetting myself, entering into the reasons and the madness, the lies and the silences of those I wished to portray or those I was questioning, until I reach a precise, hallucinatory state of hyper-alertness, a state that, to me, is the essence of the imagination. It is the one rule that makes it possible for me to reveal other people's truth—to flush it out if necessary—to make them real and alive for all time.
At times, Lanzmann, his profile in the periphery of the frame, finds little difficulty flushing out the witnesses. "I was the first person to return to the scene of the crime, to those who had never spoken and, I was beginning to realize, wanted so much to speak, to speak torrentially."
But more often, the on-camera flushing-out appears far from gentle. Take the scene filmed in a Tel Aviv barbershop in which Lanzmann asks Bomba, scissors in hand, to describe what he felt as he was made to shear a woman's hair in the antechamber of a Treblinka gas chamber. Bomba loses his composure, and lapses into silence. Finally:
I won't be able to do it.
You have to do it. I know it's very hard. I know and I apologize.
Don't make me go on, please.
Please. We must go on.
In another scene, Lanzmann records Suchomel with a hidden camera as the former Nazi cheerfully croons the hymn that the condemned of Treblinka were forced to sing for their guards' amusement:
Looking squarely ahead, brave and joyous,
at the world, the squads march to work.
All that matters to us now is Treblinka.
It is our destiny.
That's why we've become one with
Treblinka in no time at all.
We know only the word of our commander,
We know only obedience and duty,
We want to serve, to go on serving,
Until a little luck ends it all. Hurray!
"Sing it again," Lanzmann demands. In an instant, the tables turn: Now the Jew forces the Nazi to sing, and to condemn himself. That imperative, "Sing it again," informs Shoah in its entirety, and fashions it into an incomparably haunting threnody of words, images, and silences, utterly singular in its power.
Benjamin Balint, a resident of Jerusalem,is the author of Running Commentary:The Contentious Magazine thatTransformed the Jewish Left intothe Neoconservative Right.


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I am pretty sure that I saved this from a Pat Gainer post.
Anyways - away we go...
The biggest problem I have faced when mixing metaborate is how pure is the hydroxide? It will absorb humidity and carbonic gas, so it's weight/activity will change as it ages. So, when one mixes the traditional borax/hydroxide formula, the results may vary significantly.
After lots of experimentation, I've devised the following to be able to mix it without the help of a pH meter: The trick is to make a concentrated solution, and mix it in a clear glass container (the concentrate will give visual clues).
25% metaborate solution (as per Michael Gudzinowicz tetrahydrate formula):
Water (room temp - some 20C/68F) - 400cc
Sodium hydroxide - 19g (pour slowly, stirring; usual precautions apply)
Borax - 90g (pour slowly, stir until dissolved, may take a couple of minutes).
Two things may happen:
-If the hydroxide is pure, there will be no borax left and the solution will be clear when stirred. And there will be no metaborate (transparent) crystals in the bottom.
-If the hydroxide is not pure (my case), there will be borax left, the solution will be cloudy when stirred, due to being a mix of dissolved metaborate and un-dissolved borax.
Start to add hydroxide slowly, stirring, 1g a time (or the equivalent in cc of an 20~50% hydroxide solution, easier) until the solution clears
When standing and there are just some borax crystals in the bottom of the solution when not stirred. DO NOT OVERDO.
If the crystals loose the borax whitish look and become kind of transparent (metaborate crystals), you've overdone the hydroxide, and the solution pH will be higher than it should be.
This is like a titration in which borax is the indicator. Let it stand for a couple of minutes (decant) and slowly pour the liquid in another container. Do not pour the crystals that are at the bottom.
Add water to 500cc.
This 25% solution has been mixed more than once, and it passes the basic (ouch!) test - dilute it to 1% and pH is 11.1 (within my pH meter precision). I've frozen it to 0C/32F and left it stand for 2 days at room temp and no crystallization.


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What do three hungry food bloggers and the super-patient fiance of one of said bloggers order when visiting Izakaya Fujiyama? The tuna jaw. Naturally.
We joined Grab Your Fork at Izakaya Fujiyama, a new Japanese Izakaya located in leafy Surry Hills.
We started with a bowl of Asazuke, a salt-cured jumble of crunchy cabbage, cucumber and carrot. I loved the tangy strips of crisp cabbage leaves, fragranced with a smoky sweetness from the addition of sesame oil.
Omakase sashimi plate, $24.50
Next to arrive was the beautifully plated Omakase sashimi plate, the Chef's special of the day.
I could see J's eyes light up when he spotted the ribbons of silky smooth salmon, kingfish, mackrel and tuna.
We enjoyed the cool fish with thinly grated daikon and fresh wasabi. Everytime I taste fresh wasabi, I find myself wondering why anyone bothers with the reconstituted "post mix" kind!
Kenji's fried chicken, $13.50
Kenji's Fried Chicken ticks all the boxes, if you ask me. We swooped on the sizzling chicken like magpies, enjoying the crunchy pieces with house made 'Kewpie' mayonnaise. A drizzle of lemon juice added some welcome acidity, cutting through the richness of each mouthful.
Crispy pork belly with yuzu pepper, $24.50
If only you could have seen the gleeful looks on our faces when this beautiful crispy pork arrived!
I was pleased to find generous chunks of meltingly tender pork beneath the crisp golden tiles of crackling. The tender meat was delicious with a smidgen of the tangy and hot yuzu pepper paste.
Teriyaki beef kalbi, $28.50
When I spotted the Teriyaki beef kalbi on the menu, I knew we had to try it.
Beef ribs are a favourite of mine, and these didn't disappoint. Marinated in sticky sweet Teriyaki sauce and grilled to bronzed perfection, these ribs were beautifully tender and moreish.
You'll need to fight it out to see who gets to enjoy the tender beef straight off the bone, Flintstones style.
Tuna jaw, $38
The Tuna Jaw is a foodie's scavenger hunt. It's quite a sight, arriving on its own chopping block, with an astringent mound of freshly grated daikon on the side. Two bowls of dipping sauces are also provided, adding a kick of umami salty savoury goodness to each bite.
We dispense with all table manners and go for the gold, aiming to extract the tastiest morsels from the jaw.
It's messy work, but it's worth it. With a little patience, and the help of our trusty chopsticks, it's easy to uncover tender pieces of tuna that are slick with a collagen-rich natural glaze.
And don't forget the crispy wings – like fishy crisps, they are absolutely worth trying!
Fujiyama Jaffa, $13.50
It's a struggle to make it to the end, but even so, we carried on. To end our evening, we decide to share the Fujiyama Jaffa.
This pretty dessert features frozen chocolate cake, a light yoghurt ice cream and smooth chocolate 'yogo'. Sour and sweet cumquat sauce is drizzled over the dish with a sprinkling of sweetened popcorn.
A great end to a really memorable meal!
Read about our other food adventures in Sydney
- Sydney day 1: BBQ King, Haymarket
- Sydney day 1: Via del Corso, Westfield Sydney
- Sydney day 1: Spiedo Bar and Restaurant, Westfield Sydney
- Sydney day 2: Bills, Surry Hills
- Sydney day 2: Becasse Bakery, Westfield Sydney
- Sydney day 2: Cafe Ish, Surry Hills
- Sydney day 2: Emperor's Puffs, Chinatown
- Sydney day 2: Chat Thai, Haymarket
- Sydney day 3: Bourke Street Bakery, Surry Hills
- Sydney day 3: Cafe Cre Asion, Sydney CBD
- Sydney day 3: Jackie M Malaysian Cuisine, Concord
- Sydney day 4: The Rocks Cafe, The Rocks
- Sydney day 4: Din Tai Fung, World Square
- Sydney day 4: The Star, Pyrmont
- Sydney day 4: Sydney Madang, Sydney CBD


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Girl Proposes, Guy Disposes!
By Honey on Mar 12, 2008 in Featured, Marriage | comments(7)
Lance's weekend roundup linked to this article by Steve Beale on what happens when a woman proposes. The author suggests that while women are responsible for the proposal (in the sense that, if he doesn't propose, the woman's gonna leave–and she lets him know this beforehand), men should actually be the ones doing the deed. Hot Alpha Female wrote her own post about how emasculating it is for the girl to propose to the guy. Lance agrees, though he refers to Steve Beale's hypothesis as "female mind control," which most girls would not only agree with but also feel pretty good about. I am in total agreement with everyone here that the guy needs to be the one to propose. In case my asserting it doesn't convince you on its own, let me begin this entry with two of the worst "engagement stories" that I have ever heard.
Story #1: Girl Proposes to Self
This is fantastic. There is this chick that I used to work with who's very female-power, in the worst kind of way. Apparently her dad was a worthless chode and bowed down to every whim her mother ever had, and so it's been impressed upon her since an early age that this is what a marriage is. So after she'd been dating her boyfriend for a few years (I want to say three) she decided that the time had come. What's a girl to do?
Well, she picked a ring out and special-ordered it from a jeweler and had them ship it to her:
Looks harmless, doesn't it?


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(COLUMBUS DISPATCH) The mayor of a southeastern Ohio village who was accused earlier this week of degrading a gay police officer and refusing to allow his partner to visit the police station has resigned.
Pomeroy Mayor Mary McAngus hand-delivered a resignation letter to a village council member today, said Council President Jackie Welker.
The letter was only a few sentences. McAngus did not acknowledge that she had treated Police Officer Kyle Calendine poorly. She wrote that "due to circumstances," she was resigning and that it had been a pleasure to serve as mayor the past 14 months.
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Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, now in his third term, on Friday announced he will not run for governor as a Democrat in 2014.
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Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris announced Friday he will not seek the Democratic nomination for governor, but, he said, his efforts to influence policy and inform voters had just begun.
Harris, who is in his third four-year term as executive, said he would have lacked the time, money and statewide recognition needed to mount a serious challenge to Gov. Scott Walker.
"I don't have sufficient resources to stop working as county executive while I'm running," Harris said. "I think you can do both (work and run for office), but I think I'd have constraints on my time. Combine that with ...


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Lawyer: Sandusky seeks easier setting
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)
A lawyer for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says his client has gotten his fighting spirit back after his child abuse conviction and sentencing.
GO TO JAIL, JERRYJerry Sandusky sentenced to at least 30 years in child sex abuse scandal. A gallery from the courthouse is here.
Attorney Karl Rominger says Sandusky hopes prison officials will find a way to house him under less restrictive conditions.
Rominger met with Sandusky for several hours Friday at Greene State Prison in southwestern Pennsylvania. He says his client's outlook has improved since he was sentenced two months ago to decades behind bars even though he's alone in his cell for at least 23 hours a day.
He says Sandusky's ''fight is 100 percent back'' and he's working on an upcoming hearing and planning appeals.
Sandusky was convicted of abusing 10 boys in a scandal that rocked Penn State. He maintains he's innocent.


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Breaking down the PIAA girls basketball playoffs
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Class AAAA
WPIAL/City League: Bethel Park (23-2), Chartiers Valley (18-7), Gateway (20-5), Mt. Lebanon (22-3), Penn-Trafford (19-5) and Allderdice (12-13).
Around the state: Spring-Ford (25-2) used a 27-0 run to defend its title in District 1 (suburban Philadelphia) and extend a 19-game winning streak.
• Cardinal O'Hara (21-5), the District 12 winner from the Philadelphia Catholic League, has a frontcourt with two Division I recruits: 6-foot-1 senior Shanice Johnson (Delaware) and 6-3 senior Lisa Mintzer (La Salle).
• Wilson West Lawn (23-2) won its first Section 3 title since 2008, led by 5-6 junior Avery Marz's 19 points.
• Philadelphia's Archbishop Carroll (19-6) has two D-I recruits to defend its 2012 PIAA title: 6-foot forward Sarah Curran (Drexel) and 5-5 guard Kristie Costantino (Stony Brook).
• Mount St. Joseph (26-3) lost twice to Spring-Ford, including 51-30 in the District 1 final. The team's only other loss was to Cumberland Valley, which awaits a rematch in the PIAA first round.
Don't overlook: Hollidaysburg (22-2), which rejoined Class AAAA this season, won the District 6 title behind 6-foot senior Morgan Griffith (15 ppg), a Shippensburg recruit.
Notable: The state's two largest cities have owned this bracket. A WPIAL team has reached the final in each of the past five seasons (Mt. Lebanon, 2008-11; Oakland Catholic, 2012). District 12, Philadelphia's Catholic and public schools, has reached the past four (O'Hara, 2009; Ryan, 2010; Carroll, 2011-12). ... Cardinal O'Hara beat Philadelphia Central, 60-10, in the District 12 title game. ... North Penn (22-4) has American recruit Lauren Crisler, a 6-2 forward.
Finals prediction: Cardinal O'Hara over Wilson West Lawn
Class AAA
WPIAL/Heritage: South Park (23-2), Elizabeth Forward (22-3), Hopewell (21-4), Blackhawk (24-1), Hampton (18-6), Central Valley (18-5) and Ligonier Valley (16-7).
Around the state: Prep Charter (17-2), a PIAA semifinalist in 2012, won Philadelphia's public school league for the third straight season.
• Palmyra (25-0), a first-time District 3 champion, hopes to avoid a repeat of last season's first-round exit.
• Archbishop Wood (17-9), the three-time defending PIAA champion, enters with consecutive losses in the Philadelphia Catholic League final (31-25 to Cardinal O'Hara) and the District 12 final (48-41 to Prep Charter).
• Franklin (24-1), the District 10 champion, was undefeated except for a Jan. 5 loss to WPIAL Class AA champion Bishop Canevin.
• Erie's Villa Maria Academy (19-4), a newcomer to Class AAA, and Malvern's Villa Maria Academy (22-3), the District 1 champ, could create a confusing title game matchup.
Don't overlook: Lancaster Catholic (25-1) was PIAA runner-up a season ago, but it enters states as the fifth seed from District 3 after a loss (59-53 to lower-seeded Susquehannock) in the district quarterfinals.
Notable: Blackhawk and South Park both reached the quarterfinals in 2012, and Hopewell made the second round. ... Chartiers Valley, a returning semifinalist, has moved to Class AAAA. ... Erie Villa Maria's Karlee McBride, a 5-10 senior averaging 13.1 points, is an Indiana recruit. ... Franklin made a free throw with no time left to beat Villa Maria, 48-47, in the District 10 final. ... Lancaster Catholic's Porscha Speller (17 ppg) and Hopewell's Shatori Walker-Kimbrough were first-team all-state last season.
Finals prediction: Prep Charter over Blackhawk
Class AA
WPIAL/Heritage: Bishop Canevin (22-4), Seton-La Salle (24-2), Burrell (22-3), Jeannette (17-7), Mohawk (17-7), Greensburg Central Catholic (17-7), McGuffey (20-3) and Blairsville (24-1).
Around the state: York Catholic (25-2), the PIAA runner-up in 2012, enters states for the eighth consecutive season as the District 3 champion.
• Dunmore (20-6), the state runner-up in 2011, won its seventh District 2 title in the past eight years.
• North East (22-3) capitalized on Villa Maria's rise to Class AAA and claimed the District 10 title with Mercyhurst recruit Alex Artise (5-9 junior, 17 ppg).
• Mount Carmel (22-4) won its third straight District 4 title, led by 5-9 senior Christina Perles (17 ppg).
• Notre Dame Green Pond (20-5) won the District 11 title with a victory over No. 1 seed Pine Grove (22-4), the district's two-time defending champion.
Don't overlook: Neumann-Goretti (13-11) barely has a .500 record, but the Saints of District 12 do own a 46-45 victory over Class AAAA contender Cardinal O'Hara.
Notable: Seton-La Salle is defending PIAA champion; the Rebels beat York Catholic, 71-47, in last season's final. ... The last girls team to win consecutive Class AA titles was Erie's Villa Maria, which won in 2009, 2010 and 2011. ... Bishop Canevin, the WPIAL champion, reached the PIAA second round last year ... Blairsville, which has won 24 in a row, earned its first District 6 title with a 71-61 victory over Bellwood-Antis. ... York Catholic, the 2008 state champion, won the District 3 title with a 57-26 victory over Delone Catholic.
Finals prediction: Seton-La Salle over York Catholic
Class A
WPIAL: Vincentian Academy (25-1), Serra Catholic (23-3), Quigley Catholic (18-6), North Catholic (15-10) and Winchester Thurston (13-9)
Around the state: Steelton-Highspire (23-4) could defend its PIAA title with Hampton recruit Malia Tate-DeFreitas (5-10, senior), a 3,000-point scorer who had at least 30 in all three District 3 playoff victories.
• Tri-Valley (23-3), the District 11 champion, features 6-5 senior Tara Nahodil (18.8 ppg), a Seton Hall recruit.
• Old Forge (24-0), which reached last year's quarterfinals, won the District 2 girls title for the first time in the history of the Scranton-area school.
• Kennedy Catholic (22-2) won its third straight District 10 title with 5-11 senior Alex Ricketts (17 ppg), an Akron recruit.
• Bishop Guilfoyle (24-2) extended its District 6 title streak to seven with a 61-36 victory over Portage.
Don't overlook: Conemaugh Valley (21-4) was third entering the District 5 playoffs before upsetting higher-seeded Berlin-Brothersvalley (22-4) and Southern Fulton (23-3) to win the district title.
Notable: Tate-DeFreitas has 3,272 career points, third in PIAA history behind Monessen's Gina Naccarato (3,364 in 1992-96) and Mt. Carmel's Maria Fantanarosa (3,823 in 1981-1985). ... Steelton-Highspire outscored its District 3 quarterfinal opponent Veritas Academy, 112-26. ... Vincentian Academy holds a 70-53 victory (Jan. 26) over Kennedy Catholic, a likely quarterfinal opponent. ... North Catholic was runner-up a season ago, losing to Steelton-Highspire, 66-59, in the PIAA championship game. North Catholic had beaten Vincentian, 71-58, in the semifinals.
Finals prediction: Steelton-Highspire over Vincentian
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
How does 67,000 vs 11 feel?
We're waiting for you. Cooped up inside because of the rain. Itching for the chance to get outside and scream 40 years worth of Seattle sports frustration into your ear holes. Better know that snap count, rook. Drago's gonna be coming off the corner before you know the ball is even snapped. Overreact to the outside? He's gonna spin inside and pancake your geriatric quarterback back into obscurity.
Leave in an extra back as a crutch? J-Pete and LeRoy are going to be picking you up like a sack of groceries and tossing you 10 yards back.
Find someway to get the ball off in desperation? Grant and Tru are going to be waiting.
Save yourself the trip.
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