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Merkley voices frustration over health care glitches
After White House meeting, urges deadline delays
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley expressed frustration Wednesday with "unacceptable" delays in the rollout of health care exchanges, after he and other Senate Democrats met with President Obama and Vice President Biden at the White House to discuss the Affordable Care Act's progress and challenges.
During the meeting with over a dozen Senate Democrats, the president discussed ongoing efforts to fix HealthCare.gov and improve the experience of Americans looking to enroll in coverage.
Obama emphasized that he shared the senators' commitment to ensuring that Americans who want to enroll in health insurance through the Marketplaces are able to do so in time for insurance coverage to start as early as January 1st, and throughout the open enrollment period which goes through March 31.
He also discussed ongoing efforts to ramp up communication and education outreach to consumers who have received or might receive letters about how their individual market plans might be affected.
Obama also reiterated that the administration is working to protect the privacy and security of consumers and to ensure that online marketplace applications are protected by stringent security standards, with ongoing testing to help safeguard personal information.
The president also asked the senators for input on how implementation of the law is impacting their constituents, and expressed appreciation for their ongoing help to ensure the law works best for families and businesses and all Americans can take advantage of the benefits of the law.
After the meeting, Merkley issued a statement, saying, "I am very frustrated with the rollout of the exchanges. The dysfunction and delays are unacceptable."
"After meeting with the president today, I remain deeply convinced that this is a 'show-me' moment," he said. "This will not be resolved until Americans can, day after day, sign on to the health marketplace, review their options, and complete their applications.
"People should have the full measure of time envisioned in the law to sort through their health care choices and sign up. For each day of delay, the window for applications should be extended by a day," Merkley said.
"Moreover, citizens who cannot sign up until after January 1st due to the dysfunction of state or national online health markets should have the ability to establish coverage retroactively to January 1st. No one should experience a gap in coverage through no fault of their own."
White House press secretary Jay Carney rejected the idea of extending the March 31 deadline for Americans to get insurance or face a fine. He said the administration believes there is time to make the enrollment process work.
Later, Merkley, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, met with Federal Reserve Chair nominee Janet Yellen, and later said they "had a productive discussion about the Federal Reserve's role in supporting economic growth and in regulating the financial industry.
"Her qualifications and priorities for the Federal Reserve are right for the job," Merkley said. "During a time when so many families are still struggling to make ends meet, we need a leader at the Fed who combines a mastery of the details with a hard-headed focus on helping middle class families and bringing down unemployment. That is exactly what Janet Yellen brings to the job, and I am pleased to support her candidacy."
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There's never been an easy day as a Division I wrestler for Zack Strickland. He never expected one.
There were days in high school where he knew he could overwhelm an opponent in a dual meet and he could kind of coast. Since the Muncy graduate arrived at Appalachian State University nearly two years ago, there's no chance to coast.
It's what feeds the redshirt freshman, though. He loves the challenge collegiate wrestling poses. Today, he'll get his biggest challenge when he wrestles in his first NCAA tournament.
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Zack Strickland qualfied for the NCAA?tournament by finishing second at the Southern Conference tournament.
Strickland, a 2011 PIAA champion, faces Rutgers' Nick Visicaro in the first round of the 165-pound tournament. He goes into the tournament unseeded with a 23-11 record. And coming off a second-place finish at the Southern Conference tournament, Strickland has also won 16 of his last 20 matches.
Strickland is one of three District 4 alumni to wrestle in this weekend's Division I national tournament. Lewisburg graduate Nate Brown of Lehigh is the ninth seed in the 174-pound bracket. Line Mountain's Jon Fausey of Virginia is also in the 174-pound bracket. Lock Haven's Dan Neff (141 pounds), Fred Garcia (184) and Bucknell's Joe Stolfi (285) are also competing.
"This is what we train for," Strickland said earlier this week. "The whole six or seven months we work, this is what it's all for. I've gotten here to the big stage, now I have to stay focused."
Staying focused shouldn't be a problem. He said he feels refreshed, both mentally and physically. After the grind January and February can be on collegiate wrestlers, Appalachian State has had just one competition since Feb. 24, and that was the conference tournament some two weeks ago.
Even in a phone conversation, Strickland's voice is flooded with both excitement and energy. He was prepared by his first season as a starter for the Mountaineers by putting together a 17-11 year during his redshirt season last year, including a sixth-place finish in the National Collegiate Open, a tournament for college wrestlers not wrestling in NCAA Tournament qualifying tournaments.
"This is what you train for," Strickland said. "It's been two long years of training and this has always been in mind. It's definitely exciting as a freshman. But the goal is to get on the podium for sure."
Strickland has had quite a bit of experience against the rest of the 165-pound field throughout the course of the season. He wrestled 13 matches this year against one of the other 32 wrestlers in the 165-pound bracket.
Although he's just 3-10 in those matches, three of those losses were decided by four points or less. Strickland understands, from those 13 matches, he's capable of wrestling with the other 32 wrestlers in his bracket.
But it was a run through the Southern Scuffle, annually one of the toughest mid-season collegiate tournaments in the country, which showed Strickland he could win matches against those types of wrestlers. He lost his first match, 6-5, to Virginia's Nick Sulzer, who advanced all the way to the semifinals before losing to Cornell three-time NCAA champ Kyle Dake.
Strickland responded from the loss, winning five consecutive matches in the consolation bracket to get into the medal rounds. Along the way he beat Minnesota NCAA qualifier Cody Yohn and N.C. State national qualifier Nijel Jones. He lost in the consolation semifinals to former NCAA runner-up Tyler Caldwell of Oklahoma State, 6-0, before losing to Big 12 champion Zach Toal of Missouri in the fifth-place consolation.
"That was huge, especially for my confidence," Strickland said. "That time of the year you're really dragging out. When you have a tournament like that, it really gets your goals in line. After that tournament I had a good run. I knew I could hang with those guys. It makes you work harder."
The road to a top-eight finish and All-American status isn't exactly an easy one. Should Strickland win his first match today against Visicaro, likely waiting for him in the second round will be Penn State returning national champion David Taylor. Strickland's spot in the bracket actually changed last week when Bucknell's Corey Lear was forced to withdraw from the tournament after earning an at-large berth because of a lingering back injury.
Would he have won his first match in his original spot in the bracket, his second-round opponent would have been Dake, who is attempting to become the first wrestler in NCAA history to win four national championships in four weight classes. The potential match-up of Dake and Taylor in the finals - they've already wrestled twice this season with Dake winning both - has prompted the NCAA to change its finals format on Saturday night so that the 165-pound final will be the last one wrestled.
Strickland understands well why there's so much attention being paid to the 165-pound bracket. But he's not shying away from that potential second-round matchup. In fact, he said he'd love to be the wrestler who throws a kink into the NCAA's plans and keeps their anticipated matchup between Dake and Taylor from happening.
"It doesn't matter who I wrestle. I'm trying to win no matter who it is," Strickland said. "Anyone can be beat at any given time. But the biggest thing for me is to take it one match at a time. There's no point in drawing the bracket out in your mind. You go out and wrestle one match at a time. When you step on the line, it'll be a battle. You're going to have a tough match every time out. But to wrestle a guy of that caliber, that'll be something else."

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Austin Langdale, a high school senior from Townville who has signed to play for Clemson, posted a 2-under-par 69 Friday for a 36-hole score of 135 and holds a two-shot lead over Scott Harvey of Greensboro, N.C., midway through the 65th annual Azalea Invitational golf tournament at the Country Club of Charleston.
Will Long of Gastonia, N.C., is third at 138. Jim Liu of Smithtown, N.Y., the country's top-ranked junior and last year's Azalea runner-up, shot a blistering 63 to move into a tie for fourth, four shots behind Langdale.
The tournament continues through Saturday.


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1) Joshua is now the Junior World Champion - a position that is plenty strong enough coming into the Olympic year.
2) Joshua was FOURTH at US Nationals. That meant not only would the USFSA have had to ditch Ross Miner - the guy who had the highest total score of any US man of the season at that point - but also Jeremy Abbott. Like that would have ever happened.
3) Whether you like it or not, Ross DESERVED that spot at Worlds. He EARNED it.
4) Joshua WANTED to go to Junior Worlds again. He felt he had unfinished business there. He was offered the choice between 4CCs and JW and chose JW.
5) Some of Joshua's fans REALLY need to stop dogpiling Ross. a) It's not going to change the fact that Ross was 2nd at Nationals and b) it's just gonna start turning people off Josh. Seriously, shut up. I love Josh and I am more than happy that he is JWC and Ross got to go to Worlds.
6) If Joshua makes the 2014 team, I'm sure he'll be thrilled to go. But both he and Jason have said before, their aim is 2018.
I wouldn't have had him 3rd, Sabrina. Fernandez made several errors amongst both of his programs. Chan's statement about Ten having the same errors as him is inaccurate and delusional, but for Javier it's arguably accurate if you take both programs into account.
Karne how do you know that Josh Farris was offered 4CC and turned it down? I didn't hear that anywhere, and on the skating podcast there was a discussion about why he was not sent which made it seem like the USFS chose not to send him, did not give him the option and just assigned him to JW, no questions asked. They sent Hicks to JW as well not 4CC, and she was 4th in ladies, and Zawadzki got sent to JW the year she was 4th at Nationals in senior, and that was even with competing on the senior GP in the fall. Anyways, I think Josh could have had a decent shot to make the top 10 at Worlds but I kind of doubt he could have been 6th or higher and helped Max get 3 spots and I resented how people gave Dornbush a hard time in 2011 when he skated really well at Worlds and finished 9th, in his senior debut, at an event that had been postponed 6 weeks, because even though he kicked a** and was the highest placing American there, because the 3rd spot was lost, no one really gave him any credit for doing a good job and his confidence seemed to suffer a bit after that.
Nationals results were weird, I think a case could have been made where Ross, Jeremy, and Josh could have all been flip-flopped around, so any of them placing 2nd through 4th would have sort of been reasonable, but in the end, Ross melting under pressure and not skating his best at 4CC and Worlds may have helped Josh's Olympic chances anyways - USFS is probably not seeing Ross as such a steady eddie now and he's going to have to build back his reputation now, so barring a brilliant GP season, I would be surprised if he gets 84+ for PCS at Nationals again. Being new to the GP there won't be much expectations for Josh to do well so as long as he doesn't tank his GP season he should be fine reputation wise, and if he does well that can help. With 2 spots though odds aren't great for either Ross or Josh honestly though, the second spot is likely Abbott or Dornbush, maybe Lysacek. Anyways seeing what happened with Kovtun at Worlds, there's no saying Farris would not have done the same thing, Kovtun had arguably an even better/more consistent season than Farris even...until Worlds. Plus he wouldn't have been sent to both Worlds and the 1st alternate for JW was Harrison Choate and there was no way he had any chance to win that event with a 228+ score, and likely Jin would have prevented the American sweep and history would not have been made and yada yada. So while I think Miner's component marks at Nationals were a tad ridiculous, in the end it all worked out okay, and in favor of Josh and Ricky in terms of helping Olympic chances.
silverlake, your love of Josh is commendable. But your horn-blowing of Dornbush is beyond ridiculous. I did not see anything from Dornbush this season that had me convinced that he should be anywhere near the Sochi Olympic team. (And I would not let Abbott or Lysacek near it with a ten foot pole.)
We are now talking of a Nationals and an Olympics that are almost a whole year away. Who knows what anyone will be doing at Nationals next year? Max might have a total fall-apart, Josh might get injured again, Ross might turn up with three quads, Dornbush might get warped boots again. (Though that would be rather unlucky.) Jason might develop quads of his own, Rippon might finally come good, Alex Johnson might have the greatest career turnaround in history. This is figure skating. Anything can happen and it usually does.
What I know at this point is that you are placing the fifth-place, total-meltdown at Nationals onto the Olympic team ahead of the blow-them-away at Nationals, highest-score-of-the-first-half-of-the-season silver medallist. Can you not possibly see how that makes no logical sense? You are effectively advocating a Kovtun-Menshov situation.
Ricky was way better than Ross at 4CC, his last competition of the season. Overall this season between Dornbush and Miner, they are pretty equal, HOWEVER, Dornbush had an upward trajectory ending his season on a high note while Ross is on a downward trajectory with subpar showings at 4CC and Worlds. I think momentum matters. Jason was quite meh all season - until JW, when he was great. I think that makes a difference. That is why I'm saying if Jeremy rocks at WTT it will help him. He was not that bad at Nationals in all honesty, it could have been a lot worse.
And as for Abbott and Lysacek and their chances to make the Olympic team...the USFS loves them both, surely you must have realized this by now. And they have the component marks to back them up which none of the other guys do. Anyways, the appeal with Dornbush is that if you line up all the US guys and have them skate cleanly, Dornbush would probably come out on top of everyone else except an Abbott with a quad (and a clean Abbott with a quad...idk if that is going to happen at this point, particularly at the Olympics). Yes, he could beat Max because he too has been putting 2 quads in his FS and is stronger artistically. In the everyone-skates-clean situation, Miner realistically is like 5th, behind Abbott, Dornbush, Aaron and Farris, and give a quad to Rippon and Brown and they can easily pass him too. The irony of the matter is that Ross really did not skate that badly at 4CC or Worlds, it's just that he's done for with even a few mistakes. Skaters like Abbott and Dornbush can score about the same with more mistakes and considerably higher with the same number. I think at his best, Ross maybe has an outside shot at the top 10 in the World right now, whereas Dornbush I think could be maybe top 5 or 6, and Abbott, oh Abbott, if he could ever deliver he would definitely be top 5 if not in medal contention. So that's why I think those two have good odds. With a few mistakes Miner is toast, we saw that this season, he can do well clean, but considering the quad is new for him and his technique is not textbook, idk if you can rely on him to skate clean with quads in high pressure events. It will take bigger messups for Dornbush and especially Abbott to get burried and skating well they can place higher. If Josh can get his quad secure he could very well move into #2 position because well...consistency hasn't been a friend of Dornbush or especially Abbott for awhile now. But atm I am a bit if Josh can actually do 4t-3t combos in practice considering he pretty much always splats on the jump in competition. But maybe he can, his falls on the jump just seem very heavy in competition so that's why I wonder.
I appreciate your fandom for two of these guys, but I don't think Dornbush could be top 5-6 at Worlds (and definitely not medal contending) with how he skates unless it's a bigger mess than this year's skaters outside of D10 were. He's way too inconsistent (even more so than Miner) and his edge work is no where near as good as Miner's (which is completely underappreciated by many, many non-skaters here and on other boards). Miner has RECENTLY added the quad (this season) and has been equally consistent with it to Dornbush who has been attempting it for TWO seasons now. I say give him another summer to work on it in program situations and we shall see what happens.
Of all the guys in the US, it's Jason Brown who when he gets a quad (or two) is going to be the man to beat and is potentially *that guy* who's always on or around the podium (depending on how clean HE is and not having to have help from others). Rumblings are that the 4T is coming (and it wouldn't surprise me if he got it fairly quickly because he is definitely a stronger toe jumper than edge jumper and the 3A and the 4T have a lot of similar mechanics and he's worked so very hard on the 3A mechanics and IIRC, he got the 3T pretty quickly after his 2A). I know you aren't a fan of his style and programs, but he has marvelous edgework, power, and flow, probably the best of all American men under 25 and definitely with more experience will start to get the scores if he gets the technical chops to match up with the big boys.
mskater93, I completely agree with you about these 3 skaters.
For other Jason Brown fans, his JW 2013 SP has been taken down by youtube-which made me very, very sad, because I wanted to rewatch it this morning. I am so hoping he gets his 4T quickly!
I still think Dornbush is stronger and less boring artistically than Miner, no matter how good Miner's edges are. Miner also has scary technique on his 4s and 3a, which Dornbush does not. Also Jason is a good artist but I don't know how good because Josh is still beating him handily at this point, with falling on his quad, and he has a ways to go in terms of artistry, and his programs aren't great and his current style is a little boring, so Jason being the one to beat I am not so sure. He has great spins but his jumps don't seem very high to me - long and pretty but not very high. The main reason I like Josh a lot is because his jumps are very high and light and his technique is really good. Plus he also has great lines and lets his skating blade flow very freely.
I'm confused, why is Dornbush being talked about in a thread about Worlds? Did I miss his performance or something?


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MySQL 5.7.3: Deep dive into 1mil QPS with InnoDB & Memcached
By user8695053 on Dec 12, 2013
As you probably already know, in MySQL 5.7.3 release, InnoDB Memcached reached a record of over 1 million QPS on a read only load. The overview of the benchmark and testing results can be seen in an earlier blog by Dimitri. In this blog, I will spend sometime on the detail changes we have made to achieve this number.
First thanks to Facebook's Yoshinori with his bug#70172 that brought our attention to this single commit read only load test. We have been focussing on operation with large batch size. This bug prompted us to do a series of optimization on single commit read only queries and these optimizations eliminate almost all major bottlenecks from the InnoDB Memcached plugin itself.
If you are just getting familiar with InnoDB Memcached, there are some earlier blog on the topics to get you started. In a short word, InnoDB Memcached allows a fast path to retrieve key value data stored in the InnoDB table, with Memcached protocol.
The Benchmark:
Let's discuss the testing scenario. The InnoDB Memcached plugin
configurations are all by default in this benchmark, which means, the
daemon_memcached_r_batch_size was also set to be 1, and the read
operation would do a begin and commit transaction for each query. It
is equivalent to auto-commit single selects through SQL interface.
The innodb_api_trx_level is by default set to 0 (read uncommitted),
however, changing it to 2 (repeatable read) gave the same benchmark
Another good news in 5.7.3 is that we start to support integer key column mapping, as it is common to use integer as primary key for a table. And the table used in this benchmark comes with integer as the key column. The mapping table contains only key and value columns. So we set the corresponding `flags`, `cas_column` and `expire_time_column` column in the config containers table all to NULL, this avoids overhead columns to support Memcached "extra" options. The table itself containers 1 million rows, each with a short integer key and a text value.
Here is the detail table definition
mysql> desc test.memc_test;
To make InnoDB Memcached recognize this InnoDB table, insert following row into innodb_memcache/containers table
INSERT INTO containers VALUES
("memc1", "test", "memc_test", "id", "value3", null, null, null, "PRIMARY");
The memcached client for inserting rows and querying is a simple libmemcached program provided by Yoshinori.Each query would do a key lookup and fetches corresponding value.
We made some adjustment so that there are multiple client processes, each with multiple sessions. This was used to alleviate bottlenecks in the client itself.
As a note, there are many memcached
clients out there, and Memcached clients can play important roles
in the performance result itself. For example, we observed at least
3 times difference on result with Perl client Cache::Memcached::Fast
when comparing to its slower version Cache::Memcached. And as far as
we can see, libmemcached is one of the most efficient clients
available, even though eventually it becomes bottleneck itself as the
test progresses, especially requests through the network.
The test result can be seen in Dimitri's blog, so I will not repeat them here. The summary is that we got close to 1.2 million QPS at the best. The next bottleneck now seems lying at the adaptive hash index's global latch - "btr_search_latch". The libmemcached client overhead is also significant.
Read Only QPS through
InnoDB Memcached
The improvement:
There are several changes in both InnoDB Memcached code and Memcached Native code to achieve the record benchmarks.
1. The first is of course to address the issue brought by bug #70712. With daemon_memcached_r_batch_size set to 1, the transaction is being repeatedly started and committed for each query. It is better to cache the trx object itself, to avoid repeated create and destroy the trx object. Otherwise, the "trx_sys mutex" will kill the concurrency.
After the change,
the trx object is cached with private memcached connection data. Each
connection gets its own trx object, and it is used to handle
transactions through this particular connection.
2. The next thing we did is to take advantage of the read only optimization recently made in the InnoDB code. This scenario (single read trx) is perfect to use the optimization. Whenever the read batch size is set to 1, InnoDB Memcached will treat incoming queries as auto-commit read only query. It will automatically hook up to the "fast path" of read-only operation in InnoDB.
3. After these two transaction related changes, we found the bottleneck comes from Memcached native Code itself. As a note, we embedded the Memcached code itself in our InnoDB Memcached plugin, so any bottleneck in Memcached will affect us.
The original Memcached memory allocation is protected by a global Cache Lock (engine->cache_lock), and it quickly rises in prominence in the profiling result.
Even though the data is stored in InnoDB, we happened to
still use some of Memcached's own memory allocation to store and deliver the
result back to the front end. To fix this bottleneck, we stopped using Memcached Memory altogether. Instead a connection private
memory buffer is used to store and deliver the result. This also
saves a memcpy as we move the data to memcached memory as
This change makes InnoDB Memcached plugin as thin as possible, and only relies on the InnoDB buffer pool and Adaptive Hash Index (AHI) as the backing store for the data. This provides better scaling and memory handling than Memcached itself.
4. Another bottleneck in Memcached is its statistics mutex ("thread_stats->mutex"). This also becomes significant as testing goes. So to remove it, we switched to using atomic operations whenever the platform supports (most modern platforms do). With these changes, we can now well scale the plugin to over 100 connections without degradation as the number of connections are ramped up.
5. In addition to removing those major bottlenecks, we also streamline the code to remove some overhead work. For example, we start to cached the "search tuple", so that there is no need to allocate the search tuple for each query. This is to keep the InnoDB Memcached as lean as possible.
With these changes, we have eliminated all the major InnoDB Memcached Plugin bottlenecks. The bottlenecks now comes from clients themselves and to a lesser degree from the Adaptive Hash Index search latch.
Future work:
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LISBON - The addition of 993 votes to the total cast Nov. 6 failed to alter the outcome of any of the candidate races, but it was enough to trigger a recount for a liquor ballot issue that passed in St. Clair Township by one vote.
The liquor option that would give the Glenmoor Marathon station permission to sell certain alcoholic beverages Monday through Saturday passed 149 to 148, according to the official election results certified Tuesday by the Columbiana County Board of Elections.
The liquor option will now be subject to an automatic recount, which is triggered when the margin is less than 0.5 percent of the vote total. The recount will be held on Dec. 4, with the votes counted by hand and machine.
Interestingly, a second liquor option seeking permission to sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday at the same gas station failed 156 to 140.
The 993 represents additional absentee ballots that arrived following the election and provisional ballots, all of which were added to the 45,784 cast on Nov. 6 to arrive at the official count. Provisional ballots are those cast election day but go uncounted until questions about registration and residency are resolved.
Elections board director Adam Booth reported that as he expected, the additional 993 votes had little impact on the two closest candidate races - state representative and county recorder.
In the race for state representative, Democrat Nick Barborak was ahead of incumbent Republican Craig Newbold by 383 votes on Nov. 6. The winning margin increased to 507 following the official count.
The opposite happened in the race for recorder, where Republican Theresa Bosel was ahead of Democrat Brenda Dickey Myers by 484 votes on election night. Bosel ended up winning by 409 after the 993 additional votes were added to the mix.
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Federal Arrogance
This statement coming from one of the more moderate voices in UMNO reflects the arrogance of federal government. This is another example of encroaching and overarching federal power over states. The answer is more decentralisation from the central government.
Interestingly, Mustapa's statement contains two major socio-political and moral flaws. First, almost all tax revenues go directly to the federal coffer. It is almost impossible for the states to initiate their own development programmes. Development projects are mostly led and sponsored by the federal government.
Second, there is no federal government without a collection of states agreeing to form a federation. Hence, it is morally and politically wrong to term the oil royalty payment to Kelantan as a compassionate payment. It is morally demeaning that residents of Kelantan need to be treated this way by the federal government.
Mustapa argues that the 2005 oil discovery falls beyond the 3 nautical miles stipulated in the 1974 Petroleum Act and agreement between the state government and Petronas. Hence, the state is not qualified to ask for any royalty. This is a warp logic which depends on a legal interpretation of the contract. Legally, I do not know if Mustapa is right. But it is wrong in the spirit of the federation and national building.
This points to the next question; what has the federal government done to the oil revenue if it does not intend to share it with the states?
If Kelantan's compassionate payments are not related to the oil royalty, why other states especially the poorer ones e.g. Kedah, Perlis, Pahang and others are not entitled to the same payments?
Mustapa is trying to imply that only BN ruled states deserved to be treated with dignity. Others are subjected to the compassion of the federal government.
It is silly and wasteful for the federal government to take up full-page advertisements in Malay newspapers to explain the oil royalty issue. If this is not political arrogance and a lack of sincerity, what else? The money should have been used to help out poor folks in Kelantan.
Similarly, the federal government should also cut its useless PR spending if it intends to allow its supporters and machinery run wild to tarnish its image internationally.
Ironically, this regime is also trying to lecture others about separation of power. It has been defending and helping institutions of other branches of power e.g. judiciary, police, armed forces, MACC, syariah courts etc. to justify and to cover up their weaknesses and mistakes.
If there is a real separation of power and if BN understands what it means, can't these institutions stand up for themselves?
Sensing a permanent lost of appeal of non-Malay BN component parties, the coalition is now trying to lure individuals, organisations and NGOs into the family.
BN should try to become a friend, a fan and a supporter of real democracy. It will find a lot of like minded friends on the same platform.
This government should really pause to think of the outcomes of its dangerous politicking and political games. Can the Malay Muslims be really proud of this Malay supremacy and overzealous Islamic government?
Decades of race affirmative action favouring the Malay-Bumiputera did not help to alleviate the social status and capacity of the community. Moreover, overzealous actions to protect and defend 'Allah' or God makes us wonder who is the real God if even God needs protection from these people. Are they giving Islam a good name?
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These are the usual sickening bullying attitudes and behaviours of arrogant leaders of our beloved country
i wonder if the same zealots would dare to utter the same, which is "if you kelantanese dont like it, you all can leave"?
this is a hopeless arrogant govt. initiated by the bigot and racist Mahatir and continue under Najib. Is that 1Malaysia, Najib?
- looes74 said...
Khoo Chai,
Now you know why it's meaningless of haranguing LGE's government on managing Penang. First of all, most money collected goes to Federal, very few comes back to the state
If you subcribe to IT'S ECONOMY, STUPID!, UMNO is using the same old tactics against all opposition states. Heck, it's been successful all this while. Of course, it's up to you & I to see that UMNO's evil scheme does not come true.
Tell you a secret! Singapore kenna expelled because of federal arrogance too! And now Singapore has become economic powerhouse. Even Brunei would not have a part of Malaysia. You know most people in Brunei there is Melayus
Khoo Chai,
Frankly, no point being neutral. Get rid of UMNO the menacing evil before we carry on with the rest.
Like Nazi, it must be destroyed
Tho' we may deem it wasteful, all the PR spending is designed to ensure some payouts (leakage) for their friends. Every Malaysian PM has done it, guised under 'explanation' programs. Then, money is transferred to PR firms & friendly NGOs to conduct rakyat 'friendly' programs! THat's what you get when you put monkeys and gorrillas into govt!
Any decent man will know that this money is better spent on welfare programs, but UMNO only wants to look good in their papers. So they must come out with such 'explanation' programs so that they can go on stage to speak and take pictures and show the whole world they have gone down to the 'field' to see the rakyat!! That's UMNO's way.
I honestly can't see them winning the next GE, unless my fellow countrymen are blind and/or deaf to the core!! So, let them make more mistakes, give them enough ropes to hang themselves!!! I guarantee you the GST and blunder with tiered petrol pricing will lose them the populace vote!
thanks to these what u call arrogant leaders for what our country are today.
at least better than the neighbour.
i wouldnt risk my vote to those PR guys.
Kelantan Umno chief Mustapa Mohamed!! The statment he claims, shouldn't he represents the people of Kelantan to fight the best right for the people? Seems like he is representing UM--NO than the people! think about it..... Malaysian politicians, like him, always confused! So, Kelantan people, or to all Malaysian, choose your leader wisely....
I am just amazed at your patience in explaining the obvious to certain people. I have long given up hope. They know what they are doing and they are doing it with eyes wide open.
The straight talkers are losing this fight. It is so obvious.
The only hope is retribution and I am not even sure it works in our lifetime. Believe me.
- wiZsurf said...
They are not only arrogant but hypocrites, liars, thieves and all the things I haven't mentioned and its all because of $$$ & power,
nuff said
- H J Angus said...
The federal government is giving the states strong reason to re-examine the very nature of Malaysia's existence.
Instead of making the nation more united, the bullying tactics will cause the weakening of the federation and ultimately some states will prefer to become independent or even realign to another Asean country.
Not easy to achieve but such things do happen.
The Kelantanese may be poor, but, they are no beggars!
While many Malays are still supportive of UMNO (better the devil you know...), I think the major reason we Malays are generally quiet and cautious (except those in politics)are due to a lack of confidence and this generally is related to lack of exposure and perhaps also poor reading habits. Some of us just fight shy of new experiences, perhaps from habits, and thus will forever not have the exposure that are so much required in the current globalised village
But there are increasingly more and more Malays that are the likes of Bakri Musa, Azli, Zaid Ibrahim and SakmongkolAK47 who writes and articulate issues confidently, and whatever their leanings, theirs are a pleasure to read and ponder.
So why is Mustafa Mohd coming up with the advertisements? Those who are reading, can smell a rat, a mile away and very adapt at reading behind the lines. Those who do not, are already captured audience. So the adverts are a waste of time and money. Better face reality, particularly with a more educated electorate
Annoymous said....'While many Malays are still supportive of UMNO (better the devil you know...), I think the major reason we Malays are generally quiet and cautious (except those in politics)are due to a lack of confidence and this generally is related to lack of exposure and perhaps also poor reading habits. Some of us just fight shy of new experiences,
perhaps from habits, and thus will forever not have the exposure that are so much required in the current globalised village'.
I wish to call upon this annonymous guy and all OTHER VERY WELL EDUCATED, WELL EDUCATED, LESS EDUCATED TO CALL UPON THE NOT SO EDUCATED AND NOT EDUCATED to not listen to the 'DEVIL YOU KNOW....., BUT immidiately change devils cause the existing devil has caused enough havoc to the Malaysian public. I think enough is enough. Just see, 'lihat sendiri segala kemusnahan, penipuan, penyelewengan dan dusta 'devil you know' has done so much damage to the country, so much so that MALAYSIA has lost it's edge to even VIETNAM, CAMBODIA. Already we are losing to THAILAND and INDONESIA. To SINGAPORE and BRUNEI we lost long,long time ago. It's history. Isn't that ebough prove that we have had enough of this present 'DEVIL'. That's the trouble with most people as they refuse to accept change thinking that it would be worst case scenario the now. But compare SELANGOR, PENANG, KELANTAN and PERAK under NIZAR. It's enough prove that these states are doing excellent except for the lies and frustration brought about by the ex BN people who were in power. They are trying daily through 'Melayu celup' 'Mamak's' ( the biggest and greatest among them are mader ). Mader has got an ajenda cause he wants to make sure pakatan does not rule otherwise his ass will be on fire. So, what have you Mr. Annoymous and the other innocent Malays got to be scared of.'Takut bayang bayang sendiri kot. Come on man get out of the box. We are in the computer age and don't force yourself into stone age otherwise your coming generation will curse you. Annonymous too....
Hello Khoo,
What they do with the oil revenues??? Korek, korek and korek.
Now Merican have to go to make way for easier korek lor...
The Government dont know about seperation of powers??Aiyah, why you so naive? If they practice that, mana boleh cari makan la????
Everyone can make a correct guess who is going to receive the advertising money. I am remindered of the costly Ipoh signboard.
- mae said...
These Chinese are trying to make Kelantanese indebted to them. Don't fall for this trap.
Dear anon 1112, the only way is to rid off the minorities. Population will shrink 40% immediately, so less needs and wants. We dun drive bmws and mercs and own big houses. So no difference to our life - like we used to during our childhood - happy thru religious guidance. But of course this dun jive with Khoo Chai thinking hehehe. so he xpublish as this backfires his kiasuism thinking
Below are comments from a popular blog sums up what type of politicians running Bolehland:-
"Malaysia alias BOLEHLAND" despite its towering buildings and all the trappings of a modern state, has NEVER risen above the stature of that of a THIRD World country.
1. The Brits gave you guys their model of parliamentary democracy they call Westminster to start with.
Instead nothing grew beyond the trimmings of parliamentary democracy.
Beginning with form without the substance, it was reduced quickly to being the rubber stamp of an all powerful ruling elite whose claim to legitimacy became over the years tenuous at best.
2. The Brits gave you guys the English language to master so its people could be living example of a people once backward but later globe trotting citizens, diplomats and businessmen.
You threw that away and in its place nurtured a false pride in a language not spoken outside its own backyard.
3. The Brits gave you a legal system based on the English common law and a judicial philosophy that meets the needs of a modern nation state; and left behind a quietly functioning civil service that religiously adheres to the doctrine of civil service neutrality.
Today the justice system, law enforcement functions not to safeguard the rule of law but rule by autocrats impatient and determined to maintain their hold over power and with it their monopoly over the spoils of public office.
You have not one justice system but two which are antagonistic rather than complementary.
4. And the civil service?
Pipe smoking, neck-tie wearing and bespectacled anglophiles have been replaced by a group of self serving, religious bigots whose holier-than-thou attitude permeates the ranks of the civil service, preoccupied with after-life issues rather than issues that affect the development of a country once proud to show off her tradition – otherwise eager to please their political masters.


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After weeks with my 13-year-old grandson scouting and planning to go hunting this year, it seemed as if everything was going as planned.
I went out and purchased two new ladder stands and surprised my grandson with one. He said he could not wait to set it up and get ready for the first day of buck season.
On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, we went to the woods in the afternoon to set up the stands. We left around 3 p.m. to come home. Upon arrival to our tree stands the next morning, we were really shocked. Someone had taken apart the bottom 5-foot section of both tree stands. The look on my grandsons' face was like the world fell apart, and he asked why do people have to be so rude and hurtful.
I explained things to him, and he said it was OK - we would still hunt and enjoy the day together. This happened on state game lands up by St. Joan of Arc Church. I do hope that the person or persons who did this can one day realize that if it were to happen to him and his child or grandchild, how he might feel.
My grandson and I enjoyed the entire day together anyhow, and that's all that matters.
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Little Johnny's mother was a rectory housekeeper in a small parish. One day, she told Little Johnny that the bishop was coming and that he would be staying at the rectory. Little Johnny became very excited and asked his mother if he would get to meet him. She thought about this and decided that she would let little Johnny bring the bishop tea in the morning and wake him up. Little Johnny agreed to do this and was very excited. His mother gave him instructions: first, knock on the door of the bishops room and then say to him "It's the boy, my Lord; it's time to get up."
Little Johnny rehearsed his lines repeating them over and over. Finally the day came and Little Johnny had learned all his lines. He went to the door and knocked. He was so excited and nervous that his words got mixed up and he said, "It's the Lord, my boy, and your time is up!"
Deacon Jim Walter, in a recent homily at St. Johns, used this tale of a younger generation malaprop to illustrate biblical readings about the end of the world and the final coming of Christ, with a counterpoint that the current season of Advent, observed by many faiths, is the season preparing for the initial coming of Christ Christmas. For billions, this season underscores love. The deacon pointed out that the better prepared we are for Christmas, the better we will enjoy it in all ways.
Little Johnny pointed out that the excitement of preparing for a momentous occasion, paired with the stress of trying to get everything right, can lead to chaos of the tongue as well as to preparations. Mrs. Malaprop became famous in Sheridans 1775 comedy, The Rivals, as a character who spoke with great conviction, but realigned her words humorously.
Nowadays I blend traditions religious, familial and commercial to get the most out of each. I start decorating the day after Thanksgiving and everything stays up until the Wise Men come on January 6. The counter which separates our kitchen from the family room illustrates my efforts.
In the center is a music box featuring a manger scene. It plays Little Town of Bethlehem and I start my day with this as I prepare breakfast. On the left side is a line of Advent candles, which are burned in sequence during the four weeks before Christmas. On the right hand side are two of my favorite modern figures: a Santa Clause holding a present behind his back and a sprig of mistletoe up in front to entice the figure of an English cook. She comes complete with frilly cap and apron and looks up shyly, holding out a plum pudding. This tableau trio helps me keep the season in balance preparing for all the good things to come.
I admit to getting frustrated with the holiday swirl of shopping, cooking and decorating -- and may possibly even mumble some not-for-publication malapropisms. But maybe Little Johnny s twist of the tongue wasnt so very wrong. Maybe I need to keep my eye on my real reason for celebrating love all year long.
Then maybe when the Lord says, My girl, your time is up, Ill be prepared.
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International curiosity & national pride
15 November 2004
by Elizabeth Vernon
"Elizabeth, in America, are there watermelons?" eight-year-old Christian asked me in Bulgarian.
"Yes, there are," I answered.
"Cherries?" he asked.
"Yes," I said. He gave a shy smile, and his mother tried not to laugh. Our first communication had been successful and we were both happy. We knew we'd be spending a lot of time together that summer because it was his mother's job to help me settle into my new town.
On our next walk, the topic was animals. "Elizabeth, in America, are there squirrels?"
My answer: "Yes, there are."
His next question: "And sparrows?"
My reply: "Yes, we have those, too."
Our walks became a daily activity, and we covered a range of subjects: geography (he wanted to know if there were mountains like Bulgaria's, and beaches, in America); weather (he asked about snow and heat in the states where I had lived); and toys and books (he was concerned with Batman, and Hans Christian Andersen stories). As the hot summer days passed, I could tell he was thinking harder and harder, trying to find something Bulgaria had that America didn't.
Finally, one day, he got me. The topic: cars. "Elizabeth, in America, are there Moskviches?"
"Well, normally, no, I suppose there aren't," I said. His face lit up with national pride. It was as if Bulgaria had just won the World Cup—never mind that the Moskvich is an old Russian car.
When school began in September, I found this same mix of national pride and international curiosity in my students. These fifth, sixth, and seventh graders were eager to share their country with me, and they were curious about life in America. All day long, regardless of what we were studying, they fired questions at me:
So, along with being an English teacher, I'm the acting authority on American culture for my students, and sometimes for my whole town. It's scary to have people decide what they think of America based on what I say, so I have to be careful. Bulgarians watch American movies and listen to American music, so they know quite a bit about the United States. But much of the American culture that has been exported to Bulgaria and other countries presents an incorrect, or at least incomplete, view of life in America. Almost every day I find myself faced with questions from children and adults about the truth of what they see on TV. So, even though I wish the media beamed around the world gave them a fairer picture of America, I'm glad Bulgarians are exposed to what they are. Their questions start conversations and help us connect despite our differences. Once we get through the initial "Yes, that's true" or "Well, no, not exactly" answers, people are eager to talk about the deeper issues, and to compare our countries. Our conversations become an exchange, and I am proud to be able to help other people understand my country and culture, even as I become part of their country and culture.
But I'm learning that some things about America just can't be understood in another culture. As February began, I tried to explain Groundhog Day to my students. Not knowing the Bulgarian word for groundhog, and having forgotten the word for squirrel, I described the animal as a very large mouse. The children looked at me like I was completely crazy: Why would Americans be so silly as to let a large rodent predict the weather? The next day, one of my sixth graders flew into the classroom, very excited about something. "I saw it! I saw it!" she exclaimed.
"Saw what?" I asked, hoping she would calm down enough so I could understand her.
Her response: "The big mouse! On the news! I didn't think it was true! I thought it was like the movies!"
Sometimes, it turns out, America is as strange as the movies.


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Michael Banda is the Deputy Division Director for Operations of the Advanced Light Source. "Banda," as he prefers to be called, manages the overall operation of the ALS, including accelerator and beamline operations, user activities, safety, and environmental protection activities. He has been with Berkeley Lab since 1999. He began as the Deputy Division Director for Life Sciences, and then became the founding Deputy Division Director for Genomics at the time when the Joint Genome Institute was formed. In 2001, Banda moved on to become Deputy Division Director for Computing Sciences, where he held responsibilities with the Computational Research Division and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
His previous work with x-ray science includes an appointment as Professor of Radiology and Director of the Laboratory of Radiological Biology at the University of California, San Francisco, a unit that studied the effects of radiation in applications of biochemistry and cell biology.


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November 2008
Retirement Estimator Named Best Online Service in Government
Traumatic Brain Injuries and Stroke the Subject of Social Securitys Third Compassionate Allowances Hearing
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees
Representative Payees Can Now File Reports Online
People Who Want Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Should Apply Now
Act Now to Avoid "Snow" on Your TV Set in February
Social Security Establishes Panel on Systems Technology
Every quarter, the University of Michigan conducts the American Customer Satisfaction Index for Federal Websites. In the most recent study, the index showed that Social Security's new online Retirement Estimator -- www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator-- ranked as the best in government.
Several other Social Security online services, including our online retirement application, also are rated among the government's top performers and equal to the highest caliber private sector sites, such as Amazon and Google. But for the new Retirement Estimator to be rated best in government just two months after it was launched is a testament to how easy and useful it is.
So tell everyone to experience the best online service in government by visiting Social Security's Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator.
Traumatic Brain Injuries and Stroke the Subject of Social Security's Third Compassionate Allowances Hearing
Social Security held its third public hearing on Compassionate Allowances on November 18 at Ft. Myer in Arlington, VA.
Senior executives from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health joined Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, to hear testimony from some of the nation's leading experts on traumatic brain injury (the most common injury of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan) and stroke.
Compassionate Allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under Social Security's disability standards based on minimal objective medical information. This hearing was the third of four public hearings the agency plans to hold. Previous hearings dealt with cancers and rare diseases and resulted in the nationwide launch of the Compassionate Allowances initiative in October 2008.
For more information about Compassionate Allowances and the most recent hearing, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances.
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees
On September 30, 2008, President Bush signed into law H.R. 2608, the "SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act" (Public Law 110-328). The law will increase the time-limited SSI eligibility period for certain noncitizens (e.g., refugees and asylees) from 7 to 9 years and make exceptions for individuals with naturalization applications pending. Although Social Security was given no lead time or administrative funding, we intend to implement this complicated legislation accurately and quickly. In October, Social Security executives met with a coalition of immigration and disability advocates to open the dialogue and work collegially to implement the law. Working together, we established accurate and fair implementation practices, shared our internal instructions, and gained support from the advocates to help Social Security identify refugees and asylees who can benefit from the law. In addition, the advocates offered the agency assistance reaching the many refugees and asylees who will benefit by the law.
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When payees have completed the report, they can print a copy for their records. Social Security will send a confirmation message saying the report has been received.
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It's also a good time for beneficiaries to investigate whether they may be eligible for extra help paying Medicare prescription drug program costs. Social Security offers extra help to participants who have limited income and resources.
The extra help will pay for all or most of the monthly premiums and annual deductibles. It also will help with the prescription co-payments. This extra help is worth an average of $3,600 per year. Some people with limited income and resources qualify for these big savings and don't even know it.
Learn more about extra help and apply online by going to www.socialsecurity.gov/prescriptionhelp/index.htm.
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By order of Congress, analog broadcasts will end by February 19, 2009, and people will have to get their over-the-air television by way of the digital system.
About 16 percent of Americans pick up analog signals for their television, instead of through cable or satellite. Viewers need to purchase a converter box that will allow old sets to receive digital broadcasts.
At Social Security, we want to let you know that the government is offering help to people who need to buy the converter boxes. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is offering help to people who need to purchase the converter boxes by issuing $40 coupons toward the converter. Every household is entitled to two coupons. More than 100 retailers will accept the coupons toward the purchase of converter boxes.
Tell your clients they can keep the snow off their sets by requesting their coupons at www.dtv2009.gov.
Social Security held its first meeting of the Future Systems Technology Advisory Panel in October. The panel is made up of leaders from various private industries and two Social Security executives, and the panel's mission is to provide independent advice on systems technology and electronic services at Social Security for five to 10 years into the future.
During the first meeting, the panel heard presentations on the status of electronic service delivery, systems technology and customer service issues. The panel also reviewed the charter and operating procedures and discussed the agenda for future meetings. Meetings will be held quarterly, the next one is scheduled for February 2009.
Meetings will be announced in the Federal Register at least 15 days before being held, and they are open to the public in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Visit the advisory panel website at www.socialsecurity.gov/fstap.
We would like to make you aware of a notice that will be of interest to people who are visually impaired (and their representatives) and who either receive or applied for Social Security retirement, survivors or disability insurance benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
A federal court has authorized a class action lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of people with visual impairments who require communications from SSA to be in an accessible format in order to participate in the Social Security or SSI programs. The court has authorized two classes: If you have a visual impairment that substantially limits the major life activity of seeing and you (1) apply for or are receiving Social Security or SSI benefits, or (2) are the representative payee for a Social Security beneficiary or SSI recipient, then you are a member of at least one of the two classes. This means that the court's decision in this case may affect your rights. The case, called American Council of the Blind v. Astrue, No. C05-04696, is pending in the federal district court in San Francisco, California.
The court would like maximum input from the class members. The below number and e-mail may be used to provide class counsel with suggestions about how SSA can effectively communicate with people who have visual impairments. You should give class counsel your comments by December 31, 2008. To do so, contact this toll free number or E-mail address:
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For more information about this case, American Council of the Blind v. Astrue, read our online NOTICE at www.socialsecurity.gov/pgm/classaction.htm.
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I wasn't really trying to make any particular point. I don't think the woman was intentionally being impolite. It was my impression that she just didn't know any better, but the problem of people not knowing any better has become all too common. My purpose for relaying that story was primarily to vent some frustration and it seemed to fit with the topic. Sadly, that turns into rightway whining and complaining about people on here whining and complaining. However, all of you (with the exception of rightway) brought up some very good points along the way. Now there's some irony!
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It seems to me RPMWWE was addressing an issue not a person. Rpmwwe I have usually found your comments to be issue driven. Ever go to a store and have people stop in the isle and carry on a conversation and never move aside till their finished with their conversation. That is being inconsiderate too. It seems there is a growing element in this world that doesn't not think being considerate of others is important but believe that it is the ones that are being inconvenienced that are the ones in the wrong. Isn't that every man doing what it right in his own eyes?
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"All anyone ever does on here is whine and complain about everybody else."
...and your comment was somehow different?
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I do notsocialist. I do.
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I didn't miss anything. Sh*& happens. Deal with it like the rest of us. All anyone ever does on here is whine and complain about everybody else.*****it up like a big boy and move on. I hope all your lives are much happier in real life than they are represented on here.
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rightway, perhaps you could actually read the comments rather than skim through them. From your reaction, it seems you missed quite a bit. I don't feel I'm deserving of special privileges but I don't feel I, or anyone else in that line, should be expected to compensate for the ridiculously poor planning of others.
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rpmwwe, perhaps you could request special privileges from the post office? That way you wouldn't have to wait in line. When you walk in, they could roll out the red carpet and you walk past all the common folk?
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I went to the post office today to mail in my returns. As expected, it was a little busier than usual but it wasn't an issue until the lady with a whole laundry list of special needs and wants got up to the clerk. When I saw a package in a brown paper lunch sack folded closed with scotch tape (among many other poorly packaged items), I knew those of us still waiting were in trouble.
I overheard comments from the clerk that indicated the woman did not have complete addresses and some packages weren't taped closed at all. The line grew and grew until she was advised to step out and get her stuff together.
The irony was I realized a portion of the taxes I was standing in line to pay were going to be used to support people like this woman, and thereby make it possible for her to go into places, such as post offices, and cause others to wait in longer than needed lines.
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Where else have you seen the likes of Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Aaron Rodgers, Tony Romo and Ray Romano in the same place? Nowhere but the American Century Championship.
Event officials are touting this year's celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe — scheduled for July 17-22 — as one of the strongest fields in the event's 23-year history. This year's tournament will air on NBC Sports and promises an impressive field of 78 returnees and newcomers.
The American Century Championship will award $600,000 in prize money, with the tournament winner receiving $125,000. Scoring is based on a modified Stableford format with 10 points for a double eagle, 8 for a hole-in-one, 6 for eagle, 3 for birdie, 1 for par, 0 for bogey, and minus 2 for double-bogey or higher. The 54-hole tournament has been played at Edgewood Tahoe's 6,707-yard lakeside course since its inception in 1990.
Defending champion and Hollywood actor Jack Wagner — part of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" cast — will return with hopes of adding a third American Century Championship victory to his trophy shelf. He'll have stiff competition with the return of 2010 ACC winner and former NFL quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver; eight-time winner Rick Rhoden and four-time champion Dan Quinn, as well as Tony Romo, who has finished second the last three years.
The arts and entertainment fields are represented by Romano of "Men of a Certain Age" and "Everybody Loves Raymond;" John O'Hurley of "Seinfeld," "Family Feud" and "Dancing With the Stars;" Alfonso Riberio from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air;" and Bruce McGill of numerous films, including "Animal House" and "The Insider."
The NFL's shooting stars include Romo and Rodgers, and Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Marshall Faulk; A.J. Hawk of the Green Bay Packers; Carson Palmer of the Raiders; Jared Allen of the Minnesota Vikings; and former NFL Pro-Bowl running backs Priest Holmes and Jerome Bettis.
Basketball will be represented by greats such as Jordan and Barkley, as well as Jason Kidd, Ray Allen, Stephen Curry, Shane Battier, Los Angeles Clippers head coach Vinny Del Negro and ESPN analyst Digger Phelps. Hockey checks in with Brett Hull, Jeremy Roenick, Mike Eruzione, Joe Sakic and Mike Modano.
First-timers this year include New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten and former big-league slugger David Justice.
For the seventh consecutive year, the American Century Championship will support LIVESTRONG, which serves people affected by cancer and empowers them to take action against the world's leading cause of death. Since the tournament's inception in 1990, more than $3.5 million has been raised for a variety of national and local charities.
Tickets are available for advance purchase online at www.TahoeSouth.com or www.TahoeCelebrityGolf.com or daily during the tournament at the gate.
Prices are $15 each day for the Lake Tahoe Celebrity-Amateur on Tuesday, July 17, the practice round on Wednesday, July 18, and for the American Century Celebrity-Amateur on Thursday, July 19; and $25 for each tournament round on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Kids 10 and under are free when accompanied by a paid adult.


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When her pants are so tight you can read her lips!
The camel toe on her bikini bottom says, "Fuck me NOW!"
додав Toad 06 Квітня 2003
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When a woman's pants are so tight, that the actually fabric comes into their beaver, creating the two-mounded image of a camel's toe.
"Oh man, her pants were on so tight, that I could see her camel toe."
додав Tim Collier 25 Жовтня 2002
When a chick crams herself into a pair of jeans and the crotch area has to displace the fat of her mound and the front of her pussy ends up looking like the actual toe of a camel.
My four year old turned around really fast and ran into this chick's camel toe, when he turned back around he had a hoof print on his forehead
додав youpeoplearefuckingstupid 13 Червня 2004
the appearance of a wedge in a womans genital region resulting from tight fitting clothes
jenny has cameltoe with her new leather pants.
додав raul 16 Січня 2003
A very aesthetically pleasing phenomenon, whereby a woman's venus mound is clearly discernable under the snug fabric of her lower garment. Typically, the fuller the labia, the more pleasing the effect. Tip: since sexual arousal causes increased blood flow to the genital region "toe" may be enhanced if she finds you desirable:)
mmmm...nice fold!
додав Isabelle 02 Грудня 2003
Camel Toe: A vaginal wedgie("vedgie"), most commonly caused by tight pants that work their way into the crevices of the vaginia making a shape that clearly resembles a camel's toe
She's got a frontal wedgie, a camel toe!!
додав cm 01 Червня 2003
where a womans pants are so tight, you can read her lips
Is your crotch hungry girl? 'cause it's eating your pants.
додав Tyler 24 Листопада 2004