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1. Your Platinum Card's Membership Rewards will drop in value for Pay With Points redemptions on February 15, 2013 from 1.25 cents to 1 cent. This is pretty close to not being newsworthy, since Pay With Points is a bad deal at 1.25 cents. I'd rather transfer to Avios, Hawaiian Airlines, or even top off a Delta account before buying a cash ticket with Membership Rewards.
The Points Guy reports that you can call AMEX to cancel your Platinum card until December 30 at 800-525-3355 and receive a prorated refund of the $450 annual fee. My understanding of AMEX annual fees is that you can always call to cancel them and get a prorated credit for the "unused portion" of the annual fee.
2. Lucky reports Delta will no longer charge the approximately $300 surcharge for award tickets originating in Europe. There was never a good reason why New York to Paris roundtrip was $100 in taxes, and Paris to New York roundtrip was $400 in taxes.
Last week I reported that Delta is no longer collecting fuel surcharges on Virgin Australia awards, so Delta's miles are inching up in value (from a low base.)
3. Last Friday's winner of the gogo pass was Joanna. Lucky her: she can read MileValue for free from 35k feet. Last Friday, there were only 15 commentors, so the chances of winning are pretty good.
Comment below for your chance to win a single-flight gogo internet pass that expires 12/31/12.
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Plus the card offers $300 in credits toward any travel purchase each calendar year, which is $600 in your first 12 months of cardmembership, $100 toward Global Entry, and worldwide lounge access. Basically it's the best credit card ever, even with a $450 annual fee.
Hey, I love your website!
I guess this qualifies me to be entered into the gogo raffle?
Gogo next Thursday?
keep up the good work. hope to catch you at a seminar sometime
i like free internet.
I wasn't likely to use Delta miles with Virgin Australia, but am wondering whether this change is for competitive reasons in a given market, or part of a larger trend.
Your site is the best for clearly explaining the value proposition. Keep up the good work.
Taking a Delta flight next month, here's to hoping I have a GoGo pass to use.
Glad they changed the fuel charge from Europe… that was nonsense.
Using your mile value calculator, I found you got my wife and I an 18.9cpm value for our miles!
Ive been recommending you to all my friends
Milevalue at 35000 feet is a GOOOGo!
GoGo me please 🙂
GoGo me please
GoGo on Virgin America please.
I've just started reading your blog. I would love to see more on churning, how to, when to cancel cards to do so and that sort of thing. Please.
really really would love insight into this also.
OK–coming soon
GoGo please ! 🙂
When you said that delta skypesos are inching up in value, does that mean you changed their value on your leaderboard?
Gogo mile value!
I haven't. I want to redo my analysis on each type of mile soon; they are all months old, and things have changed.
well i love free internet and reading milevalue 🙂
I could really use GoGo to distract me from the prospect of visiting my extended family this holiday season.
Free internet is nice.
Just started reading MileValue this week and following on Twitter. So happy to have found you! Not happy about Delta's new baggage policy.
Thanks for the info. I am new to this and for now my sole purpose in saving miles/points is to get to europe from NYC. Is there any reason for me to save Delta or United miles? I use AA and now Avios since the reward thresholds always seems so much lower. Am I correct to focus there or am I missing something?
I loved united miles. And delta has its uses too. If you mean, should you focus on more than one mile for paid flight, the answer is no. But for credit card miles, it's a false dichotomy. You can get all types easily from sign up bonuses.
Just found your site a few days ago, and everything I've read so far has been great info. Thanks!
Free wifi or sleep on the plane…..I'll let fate decide.
Long flight would be nicer with GOGO!
I'm headed to LA for thanksgiving and would love this free internet pass! Cross country flights take foreverrrrrrr!
Speaking of free stuff, anyone want a free Doritos Loco taco?
Slightly less value, but more delicious?
My facebook was lighting up last night with friends who were excited about the stolen base.
Nice blog! Learning a lot about oneworld award redemptions.
I'd love a GoGo pass!
GoGo for me, pretty please!! 🙂
Would love some Gogo!
I'd love to win free internet 🙂
Looking forward to seeing you at the LA seminars.
Would love to try out GOGO.
Free Gogo pass, always welcome
Just getting into your blog, Scott. Thanks for all the work you put into it! Gogo!
I would LOVE free GOGO, Flying out tomorrow on a brother given points ticket 1 way to New Orleans….No jobs for new graduate nurses in NYC, so on my way to hopefully work in New Orleans…and I am too broke for gogo. 5 years of grueling education and student loans to walk into the worst Registered Professional New Graduate job Market in the world. I promise to read milevalue my entire trip!!!
Count me in!
The gogo pass would be put to good use for an upcoming flight
Mole and miles!
Keep up the great posts!
If I get this pass I will read milevalue.com on my upcoming cross-continent flight.
great posts…keep it up. traveling next month…gogo would be cool.
I've got a flight on DL on Monday and could sure use the gogo pass. Thanks for all you do!
Hopefully more airlines will see the error of their ways and axe these ridiculous fuel fees. Well at least we can dream.
Go go, gogo! 🙂
I would love a gogo pass for my upcoming November trip. Thanks.
have u ever had delta amex cancel an (extra) card and suck back the bonus MMs after they have been posted? i worry about that. should i?
Credit card companies clawing back miles–not their proprietary points but miles–is almost unheard of. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
oh and a gogo pass would be lovely please. flying soon.
GoGo is great!
Gogo because I get bored easily in flight!
Thanks for all the hard work on this blog. We really appreciate it.
I find your blog very informative. You cover the technical aspect of booking award miles very well. I learned a lot already in just a couple of weeks reading from it. Keep it up and more success to you.
I could use the GoGo internet pass next week. My wife and I are flying Delta going to SEA for our 16th year anniversary.
Thank you in advance.
I LOVE "You do the travel, I do the math"
Go Gogo!!!
I love your website! Keep it up…
I needed this! Thanks for giving us the opportunity to win!
If I win the gogo pass, I promise to put it to good use!
Go Go Go Go.
Gogo pass
Would like to try GOGO
wait…i forgot this isn't soccer.
Delta fuel surchage disappearing act makes sense as a prelude to the dreaded revenue based redemption. No need for fuel surcharges then since it would just be rolled into the regular price.
Love your blog!
Going to try this again! Gogo!
I need my Gogo to fly Delta on November 24th or it's a no go!!!


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Golf in the Canadian Rockies: Big, Bold & Beautiful
The phrase "horses for courses" is most often used in a horse-racing context, meaning that a particular equine will perform best on a track specifically suited for it. In golf, it means much the same thing: Players will typically play better on a course that suits their game and their eye.
Bull Elk at Stewart Creek
In the Canadian Rockies - an area that encompasses five national parks, some darling resort towns, scenic fly-fishing and rafting rivers, countless soaring mountain peaks, glacier fields, an abundance of elk, bear and wildlife of many sorts and several historic and renowned resorts - there are enough courses with enough variety to please every golfer . . . and that's no horsing around.
And though you are most definitely in the mountains - the dramatic, in-your-face and stunningly beautiful Canadian Rockies - not all the golf courses you will play can be defined as typical "mountain courses." The oldest and most well-known courses in the region, Banff Springs (1928) and Jasper Park (1925) artfully combine mountain holes with river valley holes. Both were designed by Canada's master architect, Stanley Thompson, and are classic examples of his graceful, in-harmony-with-nature philosophy.
At Jasper, fairway mounding and bunker shaping mimic the shapes of the surrounding mountains. Holes flows so naturally across the terrain that you feel as if you're out for a pleasant stroll in the woods and meadows of Jasper National Park, which in fact you are. But beyond the pleasant demeanor it affords high-handicap golfers, Jasper will provide a thoughtful round for better players, asking control and placement over length in order to score well across its 6,600-plus yards.
No. 12 at Banff Springs GC
For sheer beauty, holes 14-16 at Jasper Park are among the most scenic in Canada, playing next to Lac Beauvert (Beauvert Lake), and looking across the shimmering water at the 9,075-foot Pyramid Mountain in one direction and the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in another.
Accommodations at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge range from a comfortable, rustic eight-person cabin complete with kitchen and living room (perfect for golf groups) to lake view suites with wood-burning fireplaces to single rooms. The expansive main lodge building and reception area has recently been upgraded with a new all day restaurant called Cavell's, new retail shops and a much-needed new spa that will open in fall 2010.
When golfers discuss their favorite golf resorts in Canada, it's often a toss-up between Jasper and Banff, with half the votes going either direction. Both are on your must-play list. With a 4.5-hour drive between the two resorts across the Icefields Parkway, a spectacular high-altitude road that parallels the Continental Divide between Jasper and Lake Louise, many golfers book accommodations at both the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge and the Fairmont Banff Springs hotels and play both courses.
At Banff, several holes play next to the Bow River and are overlooked by the commanding Fairmont Banff Springs hotel. Hole 15 tees off just below the hotel, some 150 yards above the fairway. Your tee shot hangs in the air a long while, crosses over a river and lands in a tree-lined fairway as hotel guests watch behind you, providing a feel-good, memorable moment.
Included in a helpful hints sheet at Banff Springs is the notation that, "If your ball hits an elk, play your shot over without penalty." This course is also in the midst of a national park, so the elk are protected (if not loved by the greenskeepers charged with repairing greens gashed by elk antlers and hooves).
The Fairmont Banff Springs hotel is the opposite of Jasper Park Lodge in scope and architecture. Whereas Jasper is moderate and low-key, Banff Springs is majestic and imposing. Styled after a Scottish Baronial castle, everything about Banff Springs is big, bold and elegant. The lobby is grand with towering ceilings, marble floors, sweeping staircases; libraries and drawing rooms are stately with rich wood walls and roaring fireplaces; hallways wander off in every direction to large guestrooms.
A restful Willow Stream Spa, river rafting, hiking and shopping in the charming town of Banff are other favorite activities for guests who don't golf.
Silvertip's 18th Hole
One course that without doubt can be called mountain golf is Silvertip near the village of Canmore. Hole 18 is so steep from tee to green that it resembles a "black diamond" ski run and, in fact, the course general manager said the hole was used for tobogganing in winter.
Silvertip is one of those courses that you either love or hate, sometimes in the same round. With many hillside lies, elevation changes and precision-demanding shots, it's easy to get tired and discouraged. But you'll never get cheated on spectacular scenery.
A sleeper course that wound up being one of your favorite experiences is Stewart Creek, also in Canmore. Set in the midst of a densely forested area that formerly was used for mining, this straightforward design lays out your task from the tee box. It's all right there in front of you, and your challenge is to hit the right shots. Inspiring views of Three Sisters Mountains and surrounding peaks are enjoyed everywhere on this course, and wandering out of the hills are elk and the occasional black bear, the latter of which is an arresting sight for a golfer seeking an errant ball.
Kananaskis - Mount Kidd's Fifth Hole
The third golf resort of note in this region of Alberta is Kananaskis Country, anchored by the Delta Lodge. Here, 36 holes of golf are found, both designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in the 1980s, who said upon viewing the site, "It's the best natural setting I've ever been given to work with." Having apprenticed with Stanley Thompson much earlier in his career, working so near his mentor's gems at Banff and Jasper must have been very fulfilling for Jones.
Carved into the floor of Kananaskis Valley and named after the soaring peaks that serve as their backdrops, both the Mount Kidd and Mount Lorette courses can play as long as 7,200 yards, but with an extra 10 percent distance on your shots promised from the 5,000-foot altitude, length is not a big concern. The Kananaskis River comes into play on a couple of holes on the Kidd Course, giving pause when contemplating club and shot selection.
Also in Kananaskis Country, visitors enjoy horseback riding at Boundary Ranch and river rafting with Inside Out Experience. Hey, you can't play golf every day!
With golf season in the Canadian Rockies running from mid-May through mid-October, and with Calgary only a short flight from most U.S. cities (three hours from Los Angeles, for example), it's a golf destination well worth considering. You'll find plenty to whinny about when you get home.
For more information or to book travel, visit www.canadianrockiesgolf.ca.
Award-winning publisher, editor, writer and photographer George Fuller has been covering golf travel and lifestyle for more than 30 years. His book and magazine assignments and projects have taken him throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Polynesia and Mexico.
From 1992 to 1997 he was editor of LINKS-The Best of Golf, based in Hilton Head, S.C. In 2005, after having spent several years in the Pacific starting two magazines for Continental Micronesia Airlines and writing two books, Fuller launched GOLF LIVING Magazine for the Los Angeles Times, a "super-regional" magazine of travel, real estate and the lifestyle surrounding the game of golf. After a successful year of publication, he purchased GOLF LIVING from the newspaper and sold it to Media That Deelivers of Scottsdale, Ariz., with a contract to operate it for them.
In 2007, he launched TEE IT UP Magazine in partnership with the nationally syndicated radio show of the same name; and in 2009 he gained the contract to redesign and re-launch TEXAS GOLFER, a magazine with 25 years of history in the Lone Star State.
He has nine published books to his credit, the most recent being I Golf, Therefore I Am...Nuts! (2008, Human Kinetics Publishing). Others include Discover Hawaii's Best Golf (2001, Island Heritage Publishing) and California Golf: The Complete Guide, (11th edition, 2005, Avalon Books). He has contributed to many guidebooks, notably the Berlitz Travelers Guide, Birnbaum Guide, Citibank's Great Resorts of the World and several city editions of Guest Informant.
Fuller's newspapers and magazines credits include TIME, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Robb Report, Coastal Living, Palm Springs Life, Estates West, GOLF Magazine, Golf Digest, Travel & Leisure Golf, LINKS, Successful Meetings, Honolulu and many others. He has reported for Reuters, United Press International (UPI), written for Copley News Service and is still a regular on-line travel correspondent for CBS Sports.com.
George Fuller is based in Newport Coast, Calif. He can be contacted directly at: firstname.lastname@example.com; 310/245-9550 (cell).
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A gregarious mood today may find you enjoying the spotlight. While you are feeling extroverted, it is a good time to reach out to others with whom you may have fallen out of touch. Organizing a party or casual get-together may give you the chance to be the center of attenion, while acting as the lively host or hostess may make you feel like the life of the party. Your joy will be infectious and will affect the mood of everyone around you in a positive way. Don't be afraid today to let your mood lead the way to social interaction.
When our light shines so brightly, it reaches out to touch others. In the process, we let down the walls that most people use for protection and show others that it is a joy to be free from such burdens. Our energy is like a spotlight that focuses attention like a lighthouse beacon, attracting others but also illuminating those around us. You may find yourself returning the smiles of strangers whose awestruck faces show them to be temporarily hypnotized by your glow. In this state, we teach by example, showing the benefits of reaching out to others and making connections. Such connection is like an electrical current and gives all involved a surge of energy. So today as we shine our light and enjoy the attention, we can know that we are also rekindling the spark within those around us, helping us all to glow more brightly.
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Taylor Cleveland, 14 and Jordan Collins, 14 of Baby Girl Fresh perform at the city's Juneteenth celebration on June 19, 2013 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Dallas.
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I have a complicated relationship with testing. I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools—narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill-conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike—but neither can any fair-minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test-driven accountability, especially for low-income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.
What to make, then, of Secretary Duncan's widely heralded concession that testing is "sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools" and his offer to states of a year-long delay in making test scores part of their evaluation systems?
"There's wide recognition that annual assessments—those required by federal law—have done much to shine a light on the places and groups of students most in need of help. Yet in too many places, it's clear that the yardstick has become the focus," Duncan wrote in a lengthy blog post Thursday.
We at Fordham have been among those pleading for some reasonable flexibility in this area, particularly as new standards and assessments kick in, so the secretary's message is welcome. Some...
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Nearly all American K–12 students are exposed to it every day. It decides, in large part, what students will learn in school and how they will learn it. It is never evaluated for quality in any serious way, but when it is rigorously evaluated, its impact on student achievement is significant.
No, this isn't another blog about teachers. I'm talking textbooks. We need good textbooks in front of kids just as badly as we need good teachers. However, from a research and policy perspective, improving textbook quality is a lot easier.
A little-noticed report last week in Education Week described a new initiative intended to be the Consumer Reports of textbooks. A new nonprofit called EdReports plans to post "free online reviews of major textbooks and curricula that purport to be aligned to the Common Core State Standards." If they're careful, credible, and diligent, this initiative could turn the lights up on a largely ignored factor in student outcomes that is ripe for
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Results from the annual Education Next poll are out this week, and the news is not good for us proponents of the Common Core. Support among the public dropped from 65 percent to 53 percent in just one year (from June 2013 to June 2014); Republicans are now almost evenly split on the issue, with 43 percent in support, and 37 percent opposed. What's more, the new PDK/Gallup poll (out today) corroborates these trends and offers even worse news, finding that a majority of the public, and three-fourths of Republicans, now oppose the Common Core. Finally, Education Next found that support from teachers plummeted from 76 to 46 percent in just twelve months.
Nobody who has been following the public debate should be particularly surprised, at least when it comes to the overall numbers or those for Republicans. (The results for teachers are another matter; more on that in a bit.) After two punishing years of legislative assaults, Tea Party attacks, implementation controversies, and negative stories in conservative...
With the release last week of half of the test questions from the most recent round of New York State Common Core ELA/Literacy and math tests, we can now begin to see if the tests are, as one New York principal insisted last spring, "confusing, developmentally inappropriate and not well aligned with the Common Core standards."
Do the charges stick? After a quick analysis of the released items, on the charge of "confusing," I find the tests (at least somewhat) guilty. Not well aligned with the Common Core standards? Not guilty. Developmentally inappropriate? That charge should never have been brought in the first place.
Calling Common Core "developmentally inappropriate" has become something of a blanket criticism, but it's largely irrelevant. University of Virginia cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has repeatedly cautioned against invoking the idea of developmental stages to draw strong conclusions about what children are ready for. "Hard" and "developmentally inappropriate" are not synonyms.
Critics are on firmer footing describing some test items as confusing. The first passage on the fifth-grade reading test was "My Grandma Talley," a short story by Nadine Oduor that makes frequent use of vernacular language. Unfamiliar words like "frettin',"...
I'm looking forward to Elizabeth Green's forthcoming book Building a Better Teacher. A sneak preview will run in the New York Times magazine this weekend and already is up on the website.
The lengthy Times' excerpt tells the story of a teacher who fell in love with novel ways of teaching math that were pioneered by reformers in the United States and adopted in his native Japan, reportedly to great success. But when Akihiko Takahashi came to our country years later, he was surprised and saddened to learn American classrooms were not the hotbeds of innovation he expected. "It wasn't the first time that Americans had dreamed up a better way to teach math and then failed to implement it," Green writes.
I'll set aside for now the question of whether or not those methods (such as "reform math" championed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) are superior. But Green's next paragraph leapt from the page:
The trouble always starts when teachers are told to put innovative ideas into practice without much guidance on how to do it. In the hands...
Increasingly, the conversation about Common Core is dominated by politics and controversy. It has become so loud and shrill that it's easy to forget that across the country are countless superintendents, principals, and teachers who are seizing the opportunity to challenge themselves to change the way they work to provide a better education for their students.
I remain as optimistic about the promise of the Common Core as I was when I first reviewed the standards four years ago. I believe that ultimately Common Core will succeed or fail based not on what politicians say but, rather, based on what teachers and school leaders do. That's why I'm proud to take on a new opportunity to bring the Common Core—combined with the power of Core Knowledge—to a network of urban Catholic schools as its superintendent.
In March 2013, the Archdiocese of New York signed a landmark deal with the Partnership for Inner-City Education to support six inner-city Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx. This is the first time that an independent organization has been given the opportunity to manage a set of schools in the Archdiocese of New York, and the agreement builds upon the...
For all of the talk about how different reading instruction is meant to be in the Common Core era, and for all of the hand wringing over the critical "instructional shifts" embedded in the new literacy standards, a glimpse at the world of classroom implementation reveals that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Thanks to a combination of inertia, self-interested publishers, and leaders who prefer to see reading taught the way it's been taught for years, Common Core-aligned reading instruction runs the risk of becoming a repackaged version of the ubiquitous balanced literacy we've seen in schools for decades.
This issue came into sharp relief last month, when the New York Times reported that New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has been counseling schools to continue using the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project as the foundation of their literacy instruction. This is a repudiation of the guidance given to City schools by Fariña's own Department of Education just last year, when the Teachers College project was conspicuously missing from a list of recommended, CCSS-aligned literacy programs.
It was just the latest sign that despite all of the discussion about...
Here's a suggestion for something to include in Wisconsin-specific education standards for Wisconsin children:
By the end of first grade, children will know that two Badgers plus two Badgers equals four Badgers.
You want Indiana-specific standards for Indiana kids? By the end of first grade, children will know that two Hoosiers plus two Hoosiers equals four Hoosiers.
North Carolina standards for North Carolina kids? You got it—two Tar Heels plus two Tar Heels equals four Tar Heels.
What kind of silliness is this? Best as I can see, it's about the level of silliness the whole discussion of education expectations for our children is reaching, both in Wisconsin and across the nation.
With Governor Scott Walker's one-sentence statement on Thursday that he wants the legislature to repeal Wisconsin's involvement in the Common Core standards movement, we have crossed onto turf where chaos in education policy is likely to reign for the coming school year.
At the same time, I bet we're also on the way, in the long run, to changing very little when it comes to state standards for what kids should learn. I say that because states that have announced they are going to set their own...
Last week, I had the privilege to speak in front of a group of education journalists convened by the Poynter Institute and the Education Writers Association about identifying strengths and weaknesses in curriculum.
This is a heavy lift for journalists. It's simply asking too much for even the most seasoned education reporters to develop a discerning eye for curriculum; it's not their job, and it makes their job covering the instructional shifts taking place under Common Core uphill work.
I referred my listeners to a recent NPR effort to get "super-specific about what makes a good Common Core–aligned lesson." The reporter enlisted the aid of Kate Gerson, who works with EngageNY, a New York State Education Department's web site. She's one of the leaders of New York State's transition to Common Core; NPR asked her to walk through a supposedly exemplary ninth-grade lesson—a close reading of a short story by Karen Russell entitled, "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves."
Great idea! I'm all for reporting that sheds light on Common Core. I'll admit that I'm not familiar with Russell or this particular story, but no matter. Standards are not curriculum. Common Core isn't top-down and lock step....
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is thrilled to welcome Robert Pondiscio as our senior fellow and vice president for external affairs, effective today. Here's his first of many posts he will pen as a member of the Fordham Institute team. Look for his posts on topics besides Common Core on Flypaper.
Frank Bruni of the New York Times worries that the pressure of selective college admissions is forcing kids to do "stagy, desperate, disturbing things to stand out." He tells the story of a would-be Yalie with good grades and test scores but whose personal essay described a conversation with a teacher she admired—a conversation too important and stimulating to interrupt. "During their talk, when an urge to go to the bathroom could no longer be denied, she decided not to interrupt the teacher or exit the room. She simply urinated on herself," he writes.
In Bruni's telling, today's college applicants have grown up in the era of oversharing, "a tendency toward runaway candor and uncensored revelation, especially about tribulations endured and hardships overcome."
Certainly this trend of uncensored oversharing is disconcerting. But the fault, dear Bruni, is not in...


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This will not run and you shouldnt try it as well. The wii is regional locked and wont play games from other countries. In europe we have PAL games and in America they have NTSC games, obviously NTSC games wont work on a PAL wii. I have heard stories of this turning their wii into a shiny white paperweight (i dont know if their wii's were modded or not though).
hope this clears up your problem. And i want super paper mario now lol.
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They should be the with of three fingers (with a small clutch) or if they are thinner then they need to be multiple strings.
Never a turtle neck should be eight fingers low. A neck gives a sense of cleavage and a neck line
The longest should be to your knees if it is longer you are looking for a way to be made fun of then go longer.
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Our Twitter followers Erin (@eklavins) and Alison (@alisonklavins) each had a hilarious run-in with Kevin Nealon in Omaha, Neb., this month, after the Weeds star performed at the Funny Bone comedy club.
"[He] was really chill and laid back," Erin writes. "Didn't realize how tall he was. Had everyone laughing!"
The actor – clad in a tan T-shirt and open button-down – was nice enough to pose with both Erin and Alison. Adds Erin, "Super nice guy."
Spot a celebrity? Tweet us your sighting— People magazine (@peoplemag) August 7, 2012
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NEWARK -- A new exhibit at Newark's main public library celebrates the contributions of Peruvian immigrants as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs nationwide from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
It features objects from Peru, a history of the country that is home to 11 World Heritage Sites, and objects documenting Peruvian migration to New Jersey.Daniel Jara, a Peruvian who helped organize the exhibition and heads the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, says he hopes people learn about the influence Peruvian immigrants have had wherever they have settled.
"I hope people take away, first of all, the fact of the contributions of Peruvian-Americans, that we do exist and we're here to stay," Jara said. "And I hope many people learn about the cultural values and the ancient contributions that the Peruvian culture has made to the world."
Peruvian immigrants were first drawn to New Jersey in the 1950s by plentiful factory work and word-of-mouth.
Nearly 50 years since the first migration wave, they've built a vibrant community that now includes more than 200,000 people and is home to the largest group of Peruvians living outside the South American nation.
The heart of the community has long been the northern New Jersey city of Paterson. The city has so many Peruvian immigrants — an estimated 40,000 of 180,000 residents — that the Peruvian government has a consulate there, even though it's just 15 miles outside New York City.
Paterson is a household name in Peru, and community leaders and consular officials estimate that nearly half of the small businesses in the city's downtown are Peruvian-owned.
Peruvians started coming to Paterson in large numbers in the late 1950s, drawn to textile factory work that many had been hired for by U.S. companies based in Peru, according to Jose Antonio Garcia Torres, the consul general of Peru in Paterson. A second large wave came in the 1980s when political and economic turmoil in Peru led to large-scale emigration.
Now well into a second generation of American-born Peruvians, the community has transformed from a largely working-class immigrant enclave to a cadre of successful entrepreneurs who are pushing for more representation in both the U.S. and Peru.
"The Peruvian who came here in the 1950s or '60s to search for a job or a better life, they got on a boat, and when they said goodbye to their family, they knew it was forever," Torres said in Spanish.
Those early immigrants quickly learned English, adapted to American cuisine and learned to play American sports, Torres said, whereas in recent years, Peruvian immigrants have placed renewed emphasis on retaining their culture among a new American-born generation.
"Now, you get on a plane, travel 6 hours, land and immediately send a text message to your family in Peru that you've arrived," Torres said. "You talk to them by webcam, look for a Peruvian restaurant here, and then go to a Peruvian folklore concert."
The Peruvian Diaspora in New Jersey and elsewhere in the U.S. has become increasingly influential, sending huge sums of money to Peru as remittances and economic investment. Community leaders in New Jersey have led the push for more representation in Peru, from campaigning for the dual citizenship Peruvian-Americans now enjoy to pressuring the Peruvian government to create a congressional seat representing those living abroad — an effort that has been unsuccessful so far.


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1929-1931 Philadelphia Athletics World Series Press Pin Collection (3)
Starting Bid - $500.00 , Sold For - $4,112.50
Collection of three Philadelphia Athletics World Series press pins representing the club's historic 1929-1931 baseball dynasty. Each of these pins is a significant press pin rarity. Interestingly, these three pins represent the first three undated World Series press pins ever issued. All three pins feature the club's familiar "White Elephant" logo on the front against a blue backdrop. The 1929 pin features a "keystone" shape (in honor of Pennsylvania's nickname), the 1930 pin is circular in design, while the 1931 example is fashioned after the Liberty Bell. The 1929 and 1930 pins are high-grade examples displaying only the slightest hint of wear to the white enamel surface and are each in Excellent to Mint condition; the 1931 pin is also a high-grade example and is in Near Mint condition. This is a very strong matched set of these 1929-1931 Athletics pin rarities. All three pins feature a threaded-post back and are complete as issued (no manufacturer listed for each). Total: 3 pins. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000+. SOLD FOR $4,112.50
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Day 01 → Something you hate about yourself.
Day 02 → Something you love about yourself.
Day 03 → Something you have to forgive yourself for.
Day 04 → Something you have to forgive someone for.
Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life.
Day 06 → Something you hope you never have to do.
Day 07 → Someone who has made your life worth living for.
Day 08 → Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.
Day 09 → Someone you didn't want to let go, but just drifted.
Day 10 → Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn't know.
Day 11 → Something people seem to compliment you the most on.
Day 12 → Something you never get compliments on.
Day 13 → A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)
Day 14 → A hero that has let you down. (letter)
Day 15 → Something or someone you couldn't live without, because you've tried living without it.
Day 16 → Someone or something you definitely could live without.
Day 17 → A book you've read that changed your views on something.
Day 18 → Your views on gay marriage.
Day 19 → What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?
Day 20 → Your views on drugs and alcohol.
Day 21 → (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?
Day 22 → Something you wish you hadn't done in your life.
Day 23 → Something you wish you had done in your life.
Day 24 → Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)
Day 25 → The reason you believe you're still alive today.
Day 26 → Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?
Day 27 → What's the best thing going for you right now?
Day 28 → What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?
Day 29 → Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
Day 30 → A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself.
Dear Krysten,
As a virgo, you know every single little thing that is wrong with yourself. You are your own worst critic and while that sometimes can be a good thing it can also be a bad thing.
You are a perfectionist. You are a hard worker. You are a good and loyal friend. You stand up for your family and friends, you do your best to help others when you can offer help and you take time out to do the things you love and enjoy doing.
I know that you look back on the past and see mistakes that you've made and wish that you could change them. I know that at times you feel weighed down and worried and wish things were different. Heck, I know I'm supposed to be writing this letter about the the things I love about myself and it's really not going that way is it?
Get over it. Life is short. Stop living in the past. Stop worrying about the future. Don't keep second guessing and fretting over the things that can't be changed. Instead take one day at a time and for one live. Maybe the money problem will never go away. Maybe certain people will never come back into your life. Maybe nothing will turn out the way you thought it would. But in those mistakes come new adventures. And if you're busy worrying which path to take you're going to miss out.
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At least 3 years full-time broadcast reporting experience. Three years of public radio All Things Considered or breaking news reporting within the past five years. Three years of reporting and production experience within the past five years, demonstrating increasing responsibilities. Demonstrated experience reporting breaking news and on-air hosting. Experience producing content for news website including producing web text, interactive material and multimedia content. Experience with digital production technologies and techniques. Extensive knowledge of Austin City politics and social issues, including an awareness of local political and activist organizations and interest groups. An understanding of Austin policy making including the role of city Departments, appointed Boards and Commissions, and City Council. A desire to explore Austin's diverse communities and seek voices that are often silent in our public discourse. Newscast experience and superior production skills, including ability to mix own stories and ability to report live on-air with short notice. Spanish speaking skills.
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5x5 bench press @ 185 lbs
5x5 squat @ 135 lbs
5x5 deadlift @ 205 lbs
~4 mile walk
5x5 bench press @ 185 lbs
5x5 squat @ 135 lbs
5x5 deadlift @ 205 lbs
~4 mile walk
The whole concept of a macronutrient, like that of a calorie, is determining our language game in such a way that the conversation is not making sense." - Dr. Kurt Harris
New hybrid experiment;
Shoulder press (all done super slow to complete failure, 1 set each)
(4) sprint intervals
Went from one exercise right to next, then right to the sprints.
It was quite an experience!! Left me gassed but quickly feeling awesome!!
One of the best ways to get info is to look at the WOD thread in this forum. Lots of good ideas there.
Walked the dog 3.5 miles
30:30 Ellyptical Intervals (elevation 13, resistance 7) 15:00
"Suffer no guilt yee who wield this in the name of Crom"
Quote on the Father's Sword
Yesterday was my off day and I needed it. I took my dog for a short walk/run in the park. She's almost 12, so she isn't as spry as she used to be. Later in the day I hit the punching bag for a few minutes.
Today I did my squat, deadlift, and bench press per Starting Strength. Since I'm just starting out, I wasn't totally burned, so I threw in some lat pull down, barbell curls, tricep pull downs, chest press machine drop sets, decline sit-ups, decline bench press, calf raises, and forearm twists. Also practiced my military shoulder press and clean with a naked barbell.
About to take a walk in the sun!!
Beautiful day here!!


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FORT WORTH (AP) - Arizona's explosive offense showed up just in time to save Sunday night's game against Texas Christian and, possibly, the Wildcats' season.
Keith Smith atoned for two fumbles by throwing a 30-yard touchdown pass to Dennis Northcutt with 2:10 remaining, giving No. 15 Arizona a 35-31 victory.
"Our team has tremendous heart," said coach Dick Tomey, who avoided his first 0-2 start in 13 years with the Wildcats. "I'm proud of the way they fought back from a big deficit. I also was impressed with the heart that TCU showed."
Three touchdown passes from backup Ortege Jenkins in a 3:46 span in the third quarter allowed the Wildcats (1-1) to turn what had been a 25-7 deficit into a 28-25 lead. It was their first lead of the season after being blown out 41-7 by Penn State last weekend.
The Horned Frogs (0-1) tied the game on their next possession with a 43-yard field goal by Chris Kaylakie, then got a 44-yarder from him with 13:18 to play following a fumble by Arizona's Trung Canidate. It was the Wildcats' fourth turnover of the game.
Arizona missed a chance for a tie at 31 midway through the fourth quarter when Chris Palic missed a 43-yard field goal, then the Horned Frogs punted.
With 3:41 left, the Wildcats turned to Smith for the first time since his second fumble, which set up the touchdown that put TCU up 23-7 late in the second quarter.
The senior responded by picking apart a zone defense to move Arizona 77 yards in six plays.
When Smith took over, Jenkins moved to wideout, preventing the Horned Frogs from double-covering Northcutt. It worked as the 5-foot-11 speedster was wide open for passes of 28 and 16 yards, then caught the game-winner in a cushion around five defenders and sliced through them for the final 10 yards.
"I was disappointed with our pass coverage at times," TCU coach Dennis Franchione said. "I thought we got too soft at the end of the game."
Northcutt, a 5-foot-11 senior with lots of speed, was the go-to guy all night for both Wildcat quarterbacks. He caught 10 passes for a career-high 257 yards and three touchdowns, which tied a school record.
TCU had one last possession and drove to the Arizona 45 before turning the ball over on downs.
On the Horned Frogs' penultimate play, weak-armed quarterback Patrick Batteaux nearly completed a long pass to a diving Terran Williams, but he couldn't hang on. TCU's final play was an incomplete pass behind Mike Scarborough.
Another loss would have been disastrous for the Wildcats, who began the year ranked No. 4. And it looked like they were headed that way after a safety on their first snap, three first-half turnovers and several mental mistakes.
The problems continued in the second half when Jenkins was sacked in the end zone on their third offensive play. It was TCU's second safety after having gone 39 games without one and it put the Wildcats down 25-7 with 12:21 left in the third quarter.
Then, with 5:33 left in the same period, Arizona was ahead 28-25.
Jenkins guided scoring drives of two plays, three plays and one play that covered a total of 145 yards. His touchdown passes of 38 and 59 yards to Northcutt were sandwiched around a 22-yard lob to tight end Brandon Manumaleuna.
The loss overshadowed a plucky performance by the Horned Frogs, who were 1-10 two years ago then went 7-5 last year, their first under Franchione.
Riding the momentum of a Sun Bowl victory over Southern Cal, TCU almost pulled off another upset of a Pac-10 team, but instead ended a three-game winning streak, its longest since 1995.
"We made too many mistakes," said running back LaDanian Tomlinson, who had 170 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries. "Both ballclubs had mistakes. Arizona just got over theirs."
Batteaux, a former receiver, ran for 54 yards and passed for 50, including an 8-yard touchdown to Scarborough that was only the second in his 12 games at quarterback.
The Wildcats gained 351 yards, 337 of them in the air. Their total of 37 carries for 14 yards was hurt by a 23-yard loss on a clock-killing final play, but it was still a horrible figure for a team that averaged 213 yards rushing last year.
Jenkins completed just five passes, but three were touchdowns. Smith was 12-of-16 for 174 yards and two touchdowns.
The opening kickoff was delayed 29 minutes by lightning in the area.
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A Very Good Punk Band
Get ADDICTED!
লিখেছেন- Betty 24 de অগাস্ট de 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
One of the greatest punk bands to date. The lead singer was often depicted dressing up as Alex from Clockwork Orange. Great band with a great sound. Must listen.
The Adicts are a great band.
লিখেছেন- Jared Bishop 26 de জুলাই de 2004
the best punk band
what song shall we listen too droogs get addicted, viva la revolution, chinesse takeaway or sound of music
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Arkright factory in West Warwick, RI, has an old freight bridge behind it which is no longer used but still traverses the Pawtuxet River. I took this last autumn just as the last colors of the season were about to fade.
Photographer: Michael Phillips
Location: West Warwick, RI
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BORN in South Africa 1948, Keith Joubert spent his childhood moving between mining communities on the highveld as his father was a mining surveyor.
The young boy attended eleven schools, many in tough environments which no doubt contributed to the foundation of a stand-up independent character. Joubert certainly never knew the meaning of a security blanket or a comfort zone.
After completing his education at the Johannesburg Art school and Johannesburg Technikon, Joubert worked in the advertising industry. This is where he developed a graphic style that characterised his entire artistic career.
While still a young man, Joubert responded to a call from the bushveld which over the course of time became so insistent that he left city life never to return. During a decade in the Timbavati and Klaserie, he developed his painting technique and his mature style evolved a pictorial commentary on the African wilderness that resulted in the artist becoming the most well known and celebrated wildlife artist on the African continent.
Joubert became a restless traveller visiting all the nooks and crannies of a continent that obsessed him. I don't think during his mature years he ever spent more than ten days in one place before moving his hard working land-cruiser to another patch of fabulous wilderness.
Within an average month his retinas would take in the aridity of Northern Namibia, the fecundity of the Okavango and then it was on to Mozambique, East Africa or indeed the Ivory Coast and Cameroon. Huge areas of Africa were his back garden and it was all commented on with his brushes and paint.
Joubert's art found its way into collections throughout the world and he had many exhibitions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, London, Paris and the US. He was also hugely influential amongst a generation of painters of wildlife who saw in his art a way out of the cloying representation of Africa's animals that characterised the work of most of today's painters of wildlife.
Above all Keith Joubert was an incandescent character who enlivened the lives of a horde of people that met him on his travels.
Bon Voyage Keith.


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Pratibha Patil
Indian Politician
Born Dec 19, 1934
Pratibha Devisingh Patil is the 12th President of the Republic of India and first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007, succeeding Abdul Kalam and after defeating her rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. She is due to retire… Read More
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1934 Birth Pratibha Devisingh Patil is the daughter of Narayan Rao Patil. She was born in a Maratha family on 19 December 1934 in the village of Nadgaon, in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India. … Read More
1962 27 Years Old The BBC has described Patil's political career prior to assuming presidential office as "long and largely low-key". In 1962, at the age of 27, she was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Jalgaon constituency.
1967 32 Years Old Thereafter she won in the Muktainagar (formerly Edlabad) constituency on four consecutive occasions between 1967 and 1985, before becoming a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha between 1985 and 1990.
1991 56 Years Old In the 1991 elections for the 10th Lok Sabha, she was elected as a Member of Parliament representing the Amravati constituency. … Read More
2004 69 Years Old On 8 November 2004 she was appointed as the 24th Governor of Rajasthan, the first woman to hold that office and according to the BBC was "a low-profile" incumbent.
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2012 77 Years Old The office of president has a five-year term and Patil retired from the role in July 2012. … Read More
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Ohio State University has hired the Razorbacks defensive coordinator, Chris Ash, according to sources with ESPN.com.
The Buckeyes reached deals Tuesday for Ash to fill the co-defensive coordinator position vacated by Everett Withers.
Ash declined to comment when asked about the deal by reporters with ESPN.com.
Ash joined Coach Bielema's staff in 2012 as Arkansas' Defensive Coordinator. He helped lead Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls.
This year, the Razorbacks ended their season 3-9, finishing 7th in the West Division.


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There has been much discussion among
In an interview that we conducted with
Madeleine Brown, this ability of Ruby to procure
information, was discussed. According to Ms.
Brown, Ruby was flaunting the motorcade route
plans days before it was made public. She
recalled her visit to the Carousel Club one
"We used to go to his club once in a while
and drink ol' Southern peach brandys. You
know, the kind that really warm you up on
a cold evening! Well Jack was always glad to see
us. He always referred to us as 'you classy
guys.' One night, at the Carousel Club, about a
week and a half before the assassination, Jack
comes over to where I'm sitting with Larry
Buchanan, the creative director for our ad agency.
He has a map of the presidential motorcade route
in his hand and he proceeds to show it off to us."
"He had a map of the motorcade route?"
Mark asked.
"He sure did. We always knew that Jack
had all the inside scoop on everything that
went on in Dallas. He knew everyone in
the police department, and we knew he
had connections with the mob too. We
used to call him P. C. - for privileged
"What did he say about the motorcade
"Well, I asked him how in the hell did he
get that kind of information, but he just
smiled, and never answered us directly. It
was his way of showing off ... you know,
letting us know that he had connections."
This information that Madeleine recalls is further
borne out by Loy Factor's account of his dealings
with the conspirators.
Days before the assassination, Loy was holed up
with the group in a little house in Dallas. It was
there that the final planning was fine-tuned and
the signals worked out. According to Factor, it
was during this period that the group was joined,
once or twice, by Ruby and Oswald - together.
And on one occasion, Ruby, the one Madeleine
describes as having advance information
concerning the route, became agitated about a
possible ROUTE CHANGE. This is a portion of
our conversation with Loy Factor:
"You said that they all spoke Spanish... did
"Yeah, some of the time."
"Did Ruby speak Spanish?"
"I don't think so."
"What part did Ruby play?"
"I don't know, but one day he came in, and
he was real mad, and he tells Ruth Ann:
'The route's been changed, the route's
been changed!'
"He was worried that the route was
changed? What day was this?"
"I think it was the day before."
"So what happened?"
"Ruth Ann says: 'I'll be back in a little
while, I'm gonna go check it out.'"
"So where did she go?"
"I'm not sure, but she came back in a little
while...maybe an hour and tells everyone
that the route's the same...no change."
"What did Ruby say?"
"He told Ruth Ann: 'You better make sure
everything goes right, otherwise we're all
dead.' "
So, what Factor witnessed in this pre-
assassination time period was Ruby becoming
rattled by some rumor or report that the whole
motorcade would skirt by the Depository - out of
the range of Malcolm Wallace and the sixth floor
Was there reason for Ruby to become
agitated? Yes, for although one of the two Dallas
daily newspapers announced the correct route to
its readers, (The Dallas Times Herald) it's
competitor, the Dallas Morning News, described
the route INCORRECTLY in two of its editions!
On Friday morning of the assassination the latter
published a diagram that eliminated the zig zag
turn onto Elm Street altogether. It is entirely
possible that one of these wrong news reports is
what so startled Ruby into doubting his own
"inside" information.
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I have never been fond of my older sister's MIL. She's always come across as 2 grapes short of a fruit salad. But I have never said anything since it's not my MIL and not my business.
After struggling with infertility for a number of years now, my sister is finally pregnant and due in about a month. So, this morning I get a call from her MIL. She said that since she has been waiting for so long to be a grandma and since my mom already has 5 other grandkids (mine and my younger sis's kids) we owe it to her to let my older sister's baby call her the name our kids have been calling my mom for 11 years now.
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Scraped skin wound (minor to serious in extent) caused by abrasive contact with pavement surface in vehicle accident, most often motorcycles.
Dumbass got some serious roadrash when he laid his chopper down the other night!
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Skin abrasions from sliding on the pavement after a cycle accident.
I got a bad case of road rash in that particular crash.
Por Capt Beef 29 de julio de 2003
A sexual disease recieved from being 'on the road'.
That girl at the concert last week gave me road rash
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Chafing, redness, bumps or rash on a woman between the thigh and labia
"Man, the road rash on my rumble strip is killing me!"
Por Rumble bitch 03 de agosto de 2012
commonly acquired from bailing at top speed while operating a multi-wheeled street plunging apparatus, especially a skateboard or inline skates, road rash is a slang term used to describe the assorted flesh wounds resulting from such dangerous behavior. often, the term is used by one seeking to elaborate and intensify his/her recent extreme skate adventures. depending on the severity of the road rash, one may experience prolonged bleeding, pussing, and uncomfortable stinging. discoloration, scabs, and scarring of the epidermis is common. there is little treatment for road rash; keep wounds clean, refrain from furthur injury and stay away from the streets, rest, and consult your doctor if necessary. otherwise, enjoy showing off scars and battle wounds to your friends and anyone else interested.
so dude i was bombing twin peaks the other day on my longboard at like 40 and this frickin car comes barreling around the corner and i clip his bumper and hit the pavement. i slid at least 10 feet and i took some serious road rash on my body. hopefully i'll be back on my board in the next few weeks and i can take the whole thing yo.
Por bombhillsnotcountries 02 de agosto de 2005
The red, raw area around your mouth that comes from making out with someone who has lots of facial hair. Some people consider it to be a badge of honor. It's been acknowledged in some scientific communities that Road Rash was once a sign of nobility.
Cheryl: Kenneth gave me some serious Road Rash last night. It feels like his beard peeled 25 layers of skin off of my face. Awwwww'right.
Por BAJohnstonIsMyWeekendDad 03 de enero de 2011
imaginary record label you sign a band/artist/cd to as you chuck their cd angrily out of your passenger side window
going 90 mph down the highway
going 90 mph down the highway
Paul's taste in music is so horrible that when he made me a mix of his wife's favorite hits for me to listen to I instantly signed it to roadrash.
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Rowan 2, NJCU 0
Freshman goalkeeper Brittany Hoffman made a career-high 12 saves, as New Jersey City University and Rowan University played a scoreless first 59 minutes before the Profs struck twice and shut out the host Gothic Knights, 2-0, on Tuesday at the Robert L. McNulty Memorial Soccer Field.
Rowan, ranked No. 10 in the NCAA Division III South Atlantic Region by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, won its eighth consecutive game and moved into a first-place tie in the NJAC standings while improving to 10-3 and 6-0 in the league.
Rowan freshman forward Erika Suhl scored both goals for the Profs in the 60th and 67th minutes for her second and third tallies of the season.
After a 9-0-0 start to the season, NJCU falls to 12-5 and 3-3 in the league. The Knights are in fifth place. NJCU suffered only its second loss in nine home games this year.
NJCU travels to No. 14-ranked The College of New Jersey for an NJAC game on Saturday at 11 a.m.


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Every wondered what the Chrysler Emblem means? Well, there is a story behind it - just like all the other car companies!
Chrysler Emblem Meaning
The Chrysler logo has undergone one makeover. Interestingly enough, they kept the original logo and put it in the center of the 'wings'. The original emblem embedded in this is a rendition of a wax seal and shows a ribbon on the lower right corner. If you look at it more closely the lines that look like thunderbolts are actually Z's and is a tribute to their former chief engineer, Fred Zeder.
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Two territorial lawmen stand with their prisoner over the ruined corpse of an outlaw. The body has been left as a cryptic message, each mutilation a piece of the puzzle they need to decipher if they hope to catch their prey.
The scene, coming near the end of "Robert B. Parker's Bull River," by Robert Knott, is electric, riveting and ever-so-slightly problematic.
It is proof of Knott's skill as a writer and assuredly marks another successful entry in Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch franchise. But the scene also reflects a new tone and setup for the books Parker began in 2008 with "Appaloosa."
Knott has shaped the series into hard-boiled Westerns that rely as much on pace as strong characters.
Capitalizing on the success of last year's "Ironhorse," Knott immerses readers in immediate pursuit. Action is the glue that holds the storyline together.
The book opens with a showdown. Marshal Cole and Deputy Hitch have tracked murderer Captain Alejandro Vasquez through the New Mexico Territory to a dusty border town where they gun down his accomplices and take him into custody.
Five days later, they march Vasquez into the sheriff's office in San Cristobal, where he is facing a summary trial and hanging. No sooner have they locked up Vasquez when Cole and Hitch discover "the biggest, most secure bank between New York City and San Francisco," has just been cleaned out.
According to bank employees, the robber is none other than the bank president, who walked in and ordered employees to empty the safe. This doesn't seem to pose much of a mystery for Cole and Hitch, until the bank president is found beaten nearly to death on the steps of a brothel.
Cole quickly finds out that the banker has a secret past. He concludes the man's wife has been taken captive, which puts the chase in motion. Moving from town to town, Cole and Hitch engage in a series of deadly gunfights that ultimately send them back to San Cristobal to form an unlikely alliance with Vasquez.
Vasquez is the book's most entertaining character, a bandido with a dubious code of honor who refers to himself in the third person and swears he only wants a chance to set the record straight. Vasquez says he alone can take Cole and Hitch to the place where the woman is being held deep in Mexico. All they have to do is trust him—and get him out of jail.
The interaction between Cole, Hitch and Vasquez is where Knott hits his stride and really pays homage to Parker's spare and stylish use of dialogue to build unforgettable personas, especially in ancillary characters.
Parker, who died in 2010, was the author of more than 70 books, including the Spenser detective series, which spanned four decades and redefined the genre.
Parker wrote four books featuring Cole and Hitch. But none could be considered conventional westerns. They were character studies that used the trappings of western genre fiction—violence, outlaws, lawmen, dusty towns, gunfights—to explore the relationship between two men: Cole, the indomitable man-of-few words and Hitch, who narrates and humanizes the stories.
Parker's style, particularly in the first book, was almost claustrophobic, stark in its no-nonsense approach to its subject matter. Death came as a matter of fact, without melodrama, which made it all the more shocking.
Knott, who with actor and director Ed Harris, adapted and produced "Appaloosa" into a remarkably faithful movie based on the book, was selected by the heirs of Parker's estate to continue writing the series.
In promotional materials Knott says he based "Bull River" on a line from "Appaloosa," when Cole tells Hitch that feelings get men killed. Knott said he wanted to make feelings the catalyst for much of the book's action.
"Ironhorse" and "Bull River" read like throwbacks to vintage Gold-Medal western pulps, albeit tinged with the dark pragmatism of contemporary crime thrillers. Familiar territory for authors who have found that sagebrush and lawlessness provide irresistible backdrops for morality tales.
Crime writer Elmore Leonard cut his teeth on westerns such as "Valdez is Coming" and "Hombre," both simple and straightforward stories about retribution and honor. Brian Garfield, author of "Death Wish," wrote several successful westerns in the same vein. And acclaimed mystery writer Loren D. Estleman has won multiple awards for westerns, including the unforgettable "Billy Gashade."
Knott's Cole and Hitch books owe a debt to the pulps. And when the two lawmen are confronted with the mutilated corpse, Knott draws on those influences to answer the question at the heart of every Western, if not every morality tale. Continue the pursuit?
"Worth a try," I said.
"By God," Virgil said.
The same could be said of Knott's books.


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Police review traffic cameras in search for I-4 shooter
Driver shot several times early Monday morning
Published 3:27 PM EST Dec 26, 2012
Lake Mary police are reviewing traffic cameras to help find the gunman who shot up another car along I-4 early Monday morning.
The victim, Kenneth Hunt, was shot several times while driving a Ford Mustang, and drove off the road near Lake Mary Boulevard.
Then his car caught fire.
Hunt is now out of the hospital, and he said he doesn't know why he was targeted.
Investigators found handguns and cocaine in his car, but they don't know if that has anything to do with what happened.
Police said they're looking for a silver Mercedes.
Images: Police investigate high-speed shooting
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It is not run like that here. I am sure it will change for high school.
Not yet, but we will if the kids ever join any school sports.
When I was in high school I went to almost every football game, but I was dating a football player, so that was the only reason. I don't think I would go now unless my child was in the sport.
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After 22 years of coaching baseball and softball, Bill Pelyak was ready to call it quits.
Then, he saw Bailey Shade.
"The head coaching job came open two years ago and some guys were pushing me for it," said Pelyak, a Newton Falls baseball assistant at the time. "I just watched a game during her sophomore year and said, 'Wow. I can win with her.' "
The Tigers won 18 games in 2012 and picked up their 15th in 2013 with a 7-1 win over Liberty on Thursday.
Pelyak will credit Shade and the other three seniors for the program's drastic turnaround, but Shade said it's all on the head coach.
"The sport of softball at Newton Falls wasn't very serious and nobody really cared," Shade said. "After a couple of years, Bill came in and everybody got focused and we knew we could do big things."
She has a scholarship to play at Fairmont State. On May 7, she earned her 800th strikeout (she now has 813 over her four year career).
"It was kind of awesome," said Abbie Harrah, the Tigers' catcher. "It was like, 'Yeah I caught all those. You're welcome.' She's just fantastic, though. It's really easy to be a good catcher when you have a good pitcher."
Shade and Harrah have played against each other since they were little, but have been on the Tigers and Valley Extreme for the past four years.
"I definitely owe it to her," Harrah said. "I wasn't as good or confident in myself until I started catching her."
Shade, whose fastball reaches the low-60's, said the screwball is her favorite pitch. It also was her first pitch as a high school freshman. It was called a strike back in early March of 2010.
"It's natural to me," Shade said. "It's my money pitch."
Harrah said it's her curveball.
"I love the way it fools hitters," she said.
But Ed Beavers, Shade's pitching coach, goes with another weapon in the arsenal.
"I like her rise ball," Beavers said. "It really busts up."
Shade has been taking private lessons with Beavers since she was 10. Beavers, whose daughter, Jackie, was a 1995 Champion graduate and pitched at Tennessee, operates Next Level Pitching. Shade hasn't missed a weekly session with Beavers in eight years.
"He's been through a lot with me," she said. "He's put up with a lot and I can't thank him and all my coaches enough for what they've done."
This year, she's no-hit Brookfield and Southeast and threw a perfect game against Hubbard. Shade owns a 1.86 earned run average and an 11-3 record. She has a season high strikeout total of 21.
"She deserves all the recognition she can get," Pelyak said. "I love her to death. The wins and losses mean a lot, but this is more important."
Next year, a pair of current freshmen, Jenna Balas and Kate Wainwright, will split the pitching duties. Currently, they're Newton Falls' leading hitters.
"They have watched Bailey all year," Pelyak said. "They're going to follow in her footsteps and we shouldn't miss a beat, but it's hard to replace a pitcher like that."


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HUGHESVILLE - East Lycoming School District Superintendent Michael Pawlik wants to see schools get regulatory relief from penalties in the "No Child Left Behind" law.
"We're three years overdue for 'No Child Left Behind reauthorization," he told school board members Tuesday night.
Pawlik said he is joining other superintendents in asking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to use his regulatory power to make changes in the law state-by-state.
Duncan supports focus on accountability for student achievement, but he wants to make the law less punitive to school districts, according to a report in U.S. News and World Report.
Pawlik suggested board members take a hard look at the potential financial impacts in 2014 should districts not achieve a 100-percent proficiency rating for its students, as required by law.
"We want the secretary to use regulatory relief to suspend financial penalties," Pawlik said.
Many administrators, teachers and parents have complained that it is nearly impossible to achieve 100 percent proficiency for all students.
In the article, Duncan said he has hopes that Congress will reauthorize a new version of the law late in the year.
The school board Tuesday held at executive session prior to the regular meeting for a personnel matter.
The next board meeting is 7:30 p.m. Aug. 9.


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What you are asking for is not possible.
Basically there are six types of backups:
(1) Normal backup - the selected files (unmarks the archive bit)
(2) Incremental backup - those files that have changed since the last Normal
or Incremental backup (finds only those files with an archive bit marked and
it unmarks the ones backed up)
(3) Differential backup - those files that have changes since the last
Normal backup only (no change to the archive bit is made)
(4) Copy backup - those files selected only (no change to the archive bit is
(5) Daily backup - Only those file created or change today (no change to the
archive bit is made)
(6) Working set backup - Like an Incremental with the addition of all files
accessed with the last x days (you specify) (no change to the archive bit is
In addition, the overwrite/append protection period set in the Media set
properties needs to be set to expire the data before the tape is to be used
again for a Normal backup.
Using the Media Rotation Wizard may of use to you also.
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> I want tha backup job to append to media from a pool of tapes of 4 weeks,
> one for each day. I want it to compare what is on the tape with the stuff
> on the disk, and then add changed or new files to the tape.
> Does it overwrite any data on the tapes, and then add the changed files,
> or does it add them directly onto the end of the tape?
> Does it compare what is already on the tape to what it is backing up, or
> just with what was backed up by the last full backup?


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Better late than never! I've had my Wii ever since it came out and I still luv it.
Yeah I bought my Zelda TP for about 50 bucks and it's a lot cheaper now of course ! X0 I'm playin some hero mode on Zelda SS : D
I'm relatively late to the Wii console scene, so there are a lot of highly rated games that I have not played. I am currently working my way through Epic Mickey, which I bought off EBay for $6.51 shipped. The camera is problematic, as you would know from the reviews, but I still find the game remarkable for its imagination, graphics and paint/thinner mechanics. I am also going through Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 with my daughter, also bought used at a ridiculously low price. It's an easy game with great coop play and humor. There is also a ton of stuff on the Virtual Console. There has never a better time to be a Wii owner. The games are plentiful and as fun as they were when they costed $50, but are now so much more affordable.
What are you playing now?
Better late than never! I've had my Wii ever since it came out and I still luv it.
Yeah I bought my Zelda TP for about 50 bucks and it's a lot cheaper now of course ! X0 I'm playin some hero mode on Zelda SS : D
it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves...
Love never fails." - 1 Corinthians 13:7-8
I've had my Wii since it's release back in '06, but even then I've still plenty'a games that need playin'. Xenoblade, No More Heroes, etc. Gotta get on those once I have some cash.
Ain't got any new games I'm currently playin', but at the moment I'm quite captivated by Project: M.
Epic Mickey just crashed my Wii at the beginning of the Tortooga stage, so I'm taking a little break. Sometimes, it's not all roses. Ah well, nothing's perfect.
I think it's remarkable that a couple of you report having your Wii since it first came out in 2006. That a 7 year old piece of electronics with moving parts (the disk drive) could still be working fine after all this time says something about Nintendo's quality. I've had 2 DVD players die in that amount of time.
Doesn't compare to the sturdiness of the PS2 or 'Cube, but that's an unfair comparison since less complex machines will naturally have a longer lifespan.
In fact, most of the time I even turn on my Wii I'm playing Brawl. One occasional exception was NSMBW when others requested it.
Can't played?
Currently, i am playing the Godfather: Blackhand Edition, Mad-World and Metroid Other M


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FOX (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. ET)
"How is it you always think you're right?" Dr. Gregory House is asked. "I don't," he replies. "I just find it hard to operate on the opposite assumption."
Cherish this moment in the Nov. 16 premiere of House. It's as humble as the good doctor gets.
This series is an ER-CSI blend some-what similar to NBC's Medical Investigation, with a team of physicians racing against time to determine what's causing the mystery illness of the week. But House stands out on the strength of its misanthropic main character, the head of diagnostic medicine at a prestigious hospital. He's an acid-tongued egotist who not only lacks compassion but openly disdains it. British actor Hugh Laurie, sounding completely American and looking as though he hasn't slept in a fortnight, plays House as a man with contempt for everything except results. Armed by creator-writer David Shore with an endless supply of sarcasm, Laurie gives a brilliant, fully committed performance. It takes nerve to say "Humanity is overrated" without a hint of apology.
The show comes close to copping out when House actually listens while a female patient analyzes his arrogance as overcompensation for his crippled leg, which forces him to pop pain pills and walk with a cane. Generally, though, he avoids visiting the sick unless ordered to by hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), with whom he has a running verbal battle. Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), the closest thing House has to a friend, suggests that the great people-hater may be sexually attracted to the boss. Let's hope not—that kind of humanity would fatally weaken the character.
HBO (Mon., Nov. 15, 10 p.m. ET)
Disturbing and thoroughly depressing, this documentary is British filmmaker Nick Broomfield's second study of the Florida prostitute who confessed to murdering seven men and was executed in 2002. Following up on Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, released in 1992, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer includes her last interviews, details on her abusive upbringing and Broomfield's take on how politicians and the media exploited her case.
Broomfield injects himself into the film too much, and his tone suggests that he feels let down by Wuornos's willingness to recant self-defense claims and get on with her death. But for those who saw Charlize Theron's Oscar-winning portrayal of Wuornos in Monster, the real woman's rants will hold morbid fascination.
WB (Sundays, 9 p.m. ET)
This year has given us two prime-time soaps that feature pretty people in formulaic situations with a resort for backdrop. FOX's North Shore offers surf; this series has snow—and a slight edge in quality.
Oliver Hudson (son of Goldie Hawn and brother of Kate Hudson) plays David, a motocross racer who unexpectedly inherits control of a ski resort from his grandfather. Hudson is good-looking, all right—it's apparently a priority to show him emerging from the shower—but he has a scruffy sheepishness befitting the role of a young man who knows he's not truly ready for responsibility. Another plus is the mature sex appeal of Barbara Hershey as David's mother, Gennie.
Unfortunately, The Mountain rests on stock romantic complications. Maria (Alana De La Garza), David's ex-flame, is now involved with his business-savvy brother Will (Anson Mount). David messes around with Max (Elizabeth Bogush), daughter of a scheming developer who covets the resort. And Shelley (Tara Thompson), Will and David's teen sister, keeps flirting with Max's brother Michael (Tom-my Dewey). Besides kiss-and-tell, there's nothing to say.
CBS (Sun., Nov. 14, 9 p.m. ET; Wed. Nov. 17, 8 p.m. ET)
All disaster miniseries seem to go by the same theory: No matter how dire the big picture, the audience won't care unless the principal characters have some extra problems in their personal lives.
In the totally typical Category 6, three weather systems bearing down on Chicago threaten to combine in a cataclysmic superstorm just as the city is suffering a power failure that could spread nationwide. Does Midwest Electric's chief of operations (Thomas Gibson) have enough trouble? No, his wife realizes he's carrying on with the flack for evil Lexer Energy Corp., and his daughter's new boyfriend turns out to be a gun-wielding criminal. Meanwhile, a crusading TV reporter (Nancy McKeon) has lots to warn the public about—but look, her pregnant sister-in-law is trapped in an elevator!
Except for Randy Quaid as a yahooing tornado buff, no one here has time for fun. Still, I got a small kick out of Brian Dennehy as a gruff government meteorologist who finds monster storms even more irksome than bad office coffee.
Spike TV (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. ET)
What to do after you've run for President? For the Reverend Al Sharpton, hosting this new reality series is a dubious career move.
The premise: Eight guys who bemoan their unexciting jobs get a shot at their dream gigs if they impress Sharpton and life coach Stephanie Raye. (The contest can have more than one winner.) Initial tests trimmed the field in the Nov. 9 opener—goodbye to that handyman who wanted to be a hockey coach—though Sharpton insisted, "I really, really don't want to send nobody home." Sorry, Reverend, but reality TV requires eliminations, as well as pointless physical challenges. The four survivors in the second episode have to climb a telephone pole, then jump for a ring hanging 50 feet in the air. Sharpton doesn't bother watching this; in fact, the celebrated speechmaker looks bored whenever he's not talking.
American Music Awards (ABC, Nov. 14, 8 p.m. ET) Jimmy Kimmel emcees, and Usher and Alicia Keys perform their hit duet "My Boo."
The Simpsons (FOX, Nov. 14, 8 p.m. ET) Inspired by Homer's old Playdude magazines, Bart tries to adopt a swinging '70s lifestyle, and James Caan stops by to grab a share of the action.
Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS, Nov. 15, 9 p.m. ET) In the sitcom's 200th episode, Ray and his dad sit in on one of Robert's therapy sessions.
Scrubs (NBC, Nov. 16, 9:30 p.m. ET) ER alum Julianna Margulies is back in a hospital setting, guest-starring as a malpractice lawyer who has J.D. under her spell.
HOPE & FAITH (ABC, Nov. 19, 9 p.m. ET) To score points with an attractive bachelor father (guest star Nick Lachey), Faith feigns single motherhood by pretending her nephew is her son.
Phil Keoghan The host of CBS's The Amazing Race, Keoghan has written the self-help book No Opportunity Wasted, which is also the name of the Discovery Channel show he produces.
ON WHY HE WROTE THE BOOK I've asked people, "If you were going to die in an hour, what would you regret not doing?" A lot of people just stare blankly. That scares me. I want to force people to create a contract with themselves to do the things they've always wanted to do.
ON HIS OWN DREAMS I'd like to climb Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand. I'd also love to go to space. I just love the idea of being strapped to a rocket.
ON THE NEW SEASON OF RACE This season's race covered roughly 55,000 miles. I go to every single location the teams go to. It's so tight sometimes, I'm literally running up one way while they're coming up the other. People say to me, "You must go off sightseeing while they're racing." To be honest, I'm racing too.
Okay, couch potatoes, a slew of new TV-themed games will let you prove that all those hours before the tube weren't in vain. Get ready to roll the dice.
Fans of Saturday Night Live will revel in this special edition, which comes complete with themed games pieces (including Dan Aykroyd's Conehead and Will Ferrell's cheerleader). And no more fighting over how to pick the game-winning questions—they come from a challenging DVD. ($44.99)
SCENE IT? TV EDITION Finally a chance to show off all those TV theme songs you've memorized. With DVD clips of shows from the past 50 years (ranging from The Lone Ranger to Charmed), this all-TV Scene It? features questions about songs, plotlines, and catchphrases (Seinfeld's "Hello, Newman"). For larger groups: Ditch the game board and switch the DVD to party play mode. You'll get one video question after another. ($44.99)
SEX AND WE CITY: TRIVIA GAME If you're still mourning the dearly departed HBO series, whip up some cosmos and dry your eyes. This game, which comes in a hot pink tin box, is packed with 1,000 demanding trivia questions about the Fab Four. What drops out of Carrie's purse the first time she meets Mr. Big? What is the name of Charlotte's dog? (Condoms and Elizabeth Taylor, respectively.) ($15.99)
CSI: THE BOARD GAME Just as Gil Grissom's team does every week, you've got a murder to solve. Collecting evidence (à la Clue) you sniff out a suspect, motive and opportunity. First person to hand over the correct arrest warrant wins. ($29.99)
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Arsenal continue to eek out results, but their struggles this season have not been masked as much as they would hope for them to have been.
Despite this summer having yielded the addition of Santi Cazorla, Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud, the three have not been able to be complete savior's for the club.
There are still more tweaks that are likely to be made in January that could enhance the chances of Arsenal making a strong run for a title push in the second half.