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Para sa GO (siguro applicable rin ito sa TU):
1) Bakit walang official website ang GO (at TU)? Hindi ba basic yan?
Now sila Villar, Chiz, Kiko, at si Ping may sariling website. Pero yung mga ibang kandidato mukhang wala eh.
Hindi naman mahirap gumawa ng official website para sa Opposition (o Administration) hindi ba?
Kasi sa website na yan, pwede mong ilalagay at pagsamasamahin doon ang:
a) information, bio, achievements at platforms ng GO or individual senators.
b) websites at blogs ng mga individual senators
c) updates, schedules, appearances, at announcements ng GO team.
d) youtube videos (easy to do), photos of events and candidates.
e) information on who the GO candidates are for all the local races (e.g. sino yung kandidato ng Opposition sa Manila mayor's elections? Sino ang kandidato ng GO for congressman sa 3rd district of Manila? O sa Negros Occidental?) Siyempre, importante yan diba, para informed ang tao kung sino yung dapat nilang supportahan.
f) Newspaper articles on the GO national (and local) candidates.
Let the official GO website be the place where you can find all the information you need to know about GO. With webmasters, volunteers and bloggers updating the site daily.
Use the website to give exposure to some deserving candidates in the local race. It's important also to have a mailing list where people can subscribe to GO for email updates (on announcments, skeds). Or they can also subscribe via text messaging (an even better idea i think, since everybody has a cellphone anyways, lol)
Tignan nyo yung DailyKos site (Democrats) at RedState (Republicans) on how to do this. During the last election campaign, these blogs helped monitor, gave updates, and helped their repubs and dems candidates get elected.
2) Include GO's website address in the TV political ads or posters/banners.
Duh! I've been looking at the tv ads of both GO and TU, at napansin kong hindi nila binabanggit ang websites nila sa TV commercials! Same with their banners and posters. Alam natin si Villar, si Alan Cayetano at Chiz may website, pero wala yung website address nila sa tv ads o mga posters. Tignan nyo naman yung mga hawak na placards ng mga hillary supporters dito, ano yung nakalagay sa ilalim ng "Hillary for President" sign?
Maganda ang TV ads because you can reach many potential voters that way. Pero 30 seconds lang ito, at soundbites lang ang maibibigay nyo sa mga viewers. But if you invite people to visit your website or to the GO official website at the end of every TV political ad, then mas mai-inform ang mga viewers sa detalya ng mga platforms at positions mo by going to your site, diba? It's cheaper that way, no? You can also invite potential GO voters to register and subscribe to GO's email listing or text message service to get regular updates/alerts.
Here's some articles na binabasa ko on the email listing thing. Eto, eto, eto, eto at eto.
Now replace email listing with text messaging and... oops, i think i've said enough! ;)
3) I like this idea, which ellen posted:
Lacson has adopted Trillanes in his campaign.
GO has devised a positive side of big brother, big sister concept. The "strong" ones are helping the "weaker" canidates. So lacson, aside from helping Cayetano, is helping Trillanes. Loren is helping Coseteng and Villar is helping Roco.
I hope they expand that to local candidates too. Meaning, tulungan ng mga senators ang mga local opposition candidates (via endorsements) kung napadaan sila sa lugar nila. and vice versa. Yung mga sikat na local oppo candidates, dapat tulungan rin nila ang mga senatorial bets sa distrito nila and campaign for them.
I hope Tita Cory, or Susan, Kris or the "graduating senators" like jun magsaysay, drilon, serge osmena, will help campaign for oppo bets too. Isama na rin natin ang mga incumbents like Pia Cayetano, Biazon, Jinggoy etc. everybody should do their share in helping the opposition candidates.
UPDATE: Since every Filipino man, woman and child has a cellphone nowadays, I think there's plenty of potential of what text messaging can do in our elections to get people updated and more involved.
All GO has to do is--via TV, print or radio commercials--to encourage people to use their cellphones to subscribe to GO alerts and announcements by texting a join message to a designated short code, and they'll get updates and text alerts on GO news, announcements and skeds/appearances from the GO team.
Or they could go to GO's official website and invite people to register and subscribe to GO's email or text msg list to get daily updates, announcements and skeds of GO activities via email (or text messaging.)
And 3 days before election day, GO subscribers will get a text message reminding them kung sino yung 12 candidates na iboboto nila, and encourage others to vote for GO too. It's like getting a sample ballot, but in text message form. It's also about reminding you to convince a friend to get out and vote for GO. And telling your friend to convince another friend to get out and vote. And for his friend's friend to convince another friend to do the same.
And these text alerts can also be used to remind people to vote for GO affiliated local candidates (and to check the website on who the candidates are and their positions).
The ideal of course is to blanket the tv airwaves with 30-sec. GO ads. but that's too expensive. I think having a presence on the web is good (and cheaper), but i believe if we encourage people to subscribe to GO's text messaging updates and alerts, that could be a huge factor in turning out voters.
the republicans had a huge database of emails adrs from GOP supporters, same with the Dems.
This was the email i got from the GOP (i subscribed to their email listing) for a "Get out and Vote" campaign 5 days before the 2006 midterms.
Yes, they lost in 2006 (because of Iraq), but they won big in 2004, did they not? because they got more people to turn out and vote republican. because they got more people to turn out and vote republican in 04.
Now, the effects of emails in our RP elections may be marginal at best, because most pinoys don't have a computer. But replace emails with text messaging, where every filipino has a cellphone, at iba na ang usapan.
Here's some of the things that the US political parties have been doing recently:
Cell Phones and Politics: Republican Mobile Activism in the 2006 Elections
February 1st, 2007
January's Mobile Monday meeting in D.C. featured a fascinating presentation on Republican employment of cell phones and SMS text messaging in the 2006 elections, with a lot more detail than we're usually able to get about on-the-ground use of this new (to the U.S.) political tool. Patrick Ruffini of the RNC discussed the committee's use of text and mobile video to inform and motivate supporters, and Mike Connell of Connell Donatelli went into great depth about the DeVos campaign for Michigan governor's foray into the world of mobile advocacy.
Patrick began the presentation with the RNC, which gathered "a few thousand" mobile activists as a start to building a 2008 election list by encouraging them to text a join message to a designated short code. The committee saw cell phones as a new channel to reach supporters with timely, topical messages, particularly as a supplement to more traditional email campaigns. The RNC could boost email open rates, for instance, by texting supporters that they had a particularly important note waiting for them while at the same time reinforcing the communications theme of the day. They found that they got more bang for the buck with SMS than with emails, since recipients were much less likely to ignore a text message (an effect that may diminish as text messages' novelty fades). Not surprisingly, text messages were particularly useful for day-before and day-of Get Out The Vote efforts.
Eto pa:
How Text Messaging could change US politics
Opening paragraph:
Aug. 2, 2006 - Lollapalooza, the alternative music festival, conjures up all sorts of associations. Oil policy is probably not among them. But one energy nonprofit is looking to use this year's festival to lobby its cause—and is hoping to connect with music lovers using a very Gen-X technology: the text message.
As bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform on stage this month, representatives from the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund will peddle their policy, encouraging people in the crowd to use their cell phones to send the text message "MABO"—for Move America Beyond Oil—to a special number, or short code. The phone numbers of text-messagers will be compiled with specialized software, and NRDC Action Fund will follow up with those enthusiastic texters to enlist support for its MABO petition, which lobbies for specific policies aimed at reducing American oil dependence.
While NRDC Action Fund is ahead of the tech game here in the United States, text messaging, or SMS (for Short Message Service), in politics is hardly new elsewhere in the world. Opponents of Philippine President Joseph Estrada mobilized their supporters via text message as early as 2001, and a massive texting campaign was credited with boosting youth turnout in Spain's 2004 presidential elections. More recently, Mexico's president-elect Felipe Calderón launched millions of text messages in the days immediately preceding his narrow win over Andres Manuel Lopez Obradór.
Eto, the last 2 paragraphs of the article:
Furthermore, there's the issue of cost. Blogging, of course, is free to anyone with Internet access. Text messaging is not. "Most vendors charge a setup fee and then a monthly maintenance fee," explains Jordan Kessler, the Web-site manager for the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, which has also contracted with Alpert. These fees have come down significantly over the past year, Kessler notes, but they aren't nominal. IFAW paid POLITXT $15,000 to license its software, and $500 to $1,000 a month in maintenance fees.
"The economics is still being worked out, particularly here in the States," says Trippi. The most successful SMS campaigns abroad, including the ones in the Philippines and Spain, were essentially word of mouth, person-to-person messaging campaigns. That is, they were not coordinated by messages blasted from a central source. It remains unclear how well a blast model will translate, particularly given the fees.
Three Million John Kerry Supporters
As we look forward to the 2008 campaign, just how important is John Kerry's email list of three million supporters? According to The Hill newspaper, it's pretty damn valuable."Kerry has the best infrastructure that a Democrat has ever had, and it's sitting in a Zip drive that he can carry around in his breast pocket." [says Wade Randlett, his national finance chairman in 2004.]
"There is a zero marginal cost to communicate with them," Randlett said of voters in Kerry's database. "He can wait much longer [to decide to run for president] and suffer a much lower degradation of his base."
"Only the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and MoveOn.org can boast of contact lists as large, say Democrats familiar with Kerry's database."
The virtual John Kerry
With an e-mail list 3 million strong, the newly reformed liberal is primed for another White House run. But strategists warn against relying on the Internet to win in 2008.
And this: How Bush-Cheney 2004 made better use of its email list


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Andy Murray, a tennis player from Britain that can achieve easy win against Steve Johnson. Their score is 6-2 6-4 which is a comfortable victory in matches of Shanghai Masters. Though he is the number two of world's rank he manages to make a playful act by giving away a serve. But this doesn't make any effect to his game against the American player. This game is his first public show after serving his country for semi-final in Davis Cup which is held on 20 September. The match ends with victory over Australia. Murray comment about his achievement is that he manage to play and move well thus he can make a good start on the match. John Isner is another American that he should face on the field for round three.
Isner have took victory over David Goffin from Belgian. His score for that math is 6-3 7-6 (7-5). Isner victory is a good thing that prevents dress rehearsal which will happened before Davis Cup final that will be staged next month. The number 16 in world ranks and Murray doesn't have to meet now and Isner will be Murrays opponent. Novak Djokovic is another player that enters round three. Djokovic beats Martin Klizan from Slovakia. Seems this player have to take a serious beating looking from the result of 6-2 6-1. Rafael Nadal is another plaer that manages to pull through the round three. He have survived a match that last for two hours and 43 minutes. It is obvious that the match would be tough for anybody. Big bonus here agen judi bola tangkas online terpercaya di Indonesia jencks.org.
The nearly three hour's battle is happened between Nadal and Croatia Player, Ivo Karlovic. The end result for this match is 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-4). In the event of facing Isner, Murray made a comment about it which is recorded by Sky Sports. He said that Isner game would be similar with his game because the match ends quickly. It would be tough to play against Isner. Murray starts slowly on his match against Johnson. But then he breaks three serves which makes him won the first set. Johnson residence is getting higher on the next set. He makes two double faults consecutively and its allow Johnson to enjoy the break point gift at 3-3. Murray doesn't allow the fun last too long he eventually make a good drop volley and take out his opponent.
At 4-5 Johnson have the serve? He has three match points set on his pocket and second opportunity comes for Murray. The American makes long forehand which is handled strongly by Murray and ends the game at one quarter hour. Nick Kyrgios made another code violation which may mean another fine payment. In this second violation he made an action of smashing a loose ball away and it almost fly towards linesman. This action is performed after losing the second set in a game that ends with 1-6 6-4 6-4. This means victory for Kei Nishikori from Japan. His previous violation relates to calling the tournament a "circus".

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Guest Blog: Leigh Kakaty of Pop Evil, Part 2
Leigh Kakaty is the vocalist for Michigan rock act Pop Evil. Formed in 2001, Pop Evil has gone on to sell over a half million singles, with multiple top-charting singles, all while obtaining road-dog status by exclusively living out on the road. Their most recent LP "Onyx" was released last month. Watch the video for their hit single, "Trenches" at the bottom of this post.
Thank you to all our fans and radio supporters!
It seems like just yesterday we were back in Western Michigan hustling to get Pop Evil songs played on our local radio station on the Sunday night locals only show. Now all these years later, rock radio has helped us reach our first No. 1 with our single "Trenches," off our new album, Onyx.
This blog serves as a thank you to rock radio for still believing in independent bands and in the music. It is so refreshing to see the hard work finally starting to pay off. When we first came on the national scene in 2008, it has been a constant grind. The Midwest "blue collar" mentality has been very much a part of the way we have toured and approached radio--full speed ahead. "One city, and one fan at a time." We can make a difference, and rock and roll can change lives.
We couldn't of done any of this without the fans, though. All of you are the proof and have given us strength to fight out of the "Trenches." Thank you to all of you who have been with us during this incredible ride. We can't wait to continue touring and expand our fan base as our next single is suddenly on the horizon.
How we handle adversity and deal with temptation determine the kind of character we have, both as individuals and as a band. This next single we are about to drop deals with these issues head on.We all continue to get better with age and experience. A wise man once said, "When you play, you better deal with the Devil." Along with this new single, we look to release what we believe is our best video yet. This is guaranteed to have both your mind and your eyes running in circles. Right along with the video, we have new artwork that compliments both the song and the video, which can be seen below. Look for the official release date of our second single off Onyx sometime in August!
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Thread: Baby items and Ebay
Baby items and Ebay
Hello fellow savers
We are working on moving and I have a ton of baby items. Would it be best to try and have a rummage, post items on Ebay and Cl or to just donate. I have a ton. Would like to see some of the money come back but not sure if its worth moving it to the new house to sell from there.
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I think clothes would do well on Ebay, larger items I would try CL, then donate if no interest. Or a yard sale if your location is suitable, and advertise "BABY ITEMS" so you will draw the right crowd.
Good luck, we moved from a 9 room house to a 4 room house and did NOT get rid of stuff until after the move - BIG mistake.08-05-2012, 02:18 PM #3
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I would FIRST bundle them in groups and try CL...........free to do and no fees. If you have the time........and desire........go for Ebay.
It depends on your CL.............if it is a busy one.........ours is used a lot and I have had very good luck with both........selling on CL, buying and giving away freebies!
I always try what is FREE first................Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements08-05-2012, 04:46 PM #4
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50 free auction listings a month on Ebay, can't beat that. You do have to pay final value fees, but there are no people coming to your home. You have to decide which is more important to you.08-05-2012, 09:20 PM #5
JMO but the time involved to take pictures and list and properly describe the items on ebay may outweight any extra $$ you may make on them and with ebay you also depends on name brands etc and you have to pack and make sure items have delivery confirmation etc etc
i would do craigslist as a bulk sale for the clothing
and this is coming from someone who made a living ebaying and had a ebay store for a few years that wont even sell my teens used name brand clothes anymore because some of the buyers are plain crazy and the time involved . i just give them away to friends or family .08-06-2012, 06:04 PM #6
Are you moving in the same area? If so you may have luck at a consignment shop. Pick out the best clothing and let them sell it. Donate the rest and be sure to get a receipt for taxes.
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In honour of today's autumn session of live on our blog or on Twitter.
An article from Barry Schwartz this week shows that Twitter may be making significant developments in the way in which they approach their advertising options.
There are reports of users seeing a message appearing at top of their timeline which reads "Advertise on Twitter" followed by "Grow your followers and help them spread the word about you."
When 'Start now' is clicked it takes the user to Twitter's advertising hub, which currently only certain accounts have access to.
Twitter have confirmed this has been in testing for a couple of weeks but declined to explain how it selects the users who receive the prompt.
On Tueday this week, Google released their new YouTube app for iOS. There are three main enhancements in this release:
comScore has released its latest August search market figures, which see Bing reach "an all time high":
In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt this Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook have a team working on a search offering. According to him, Facebook is currently running around one billion searches per day "and we're not even trying". This could be good news for users as the current search offering is limited and unpredictable. Additionally, we've found that if you are using Facebook 'as a page' you often can't even get results to display.
During the interview, Zuckerberg also gave away a few more titbits of information with quotes such as:
"Facebook is pretty uniquely positioned to answer a lot of questions people have."
"These are queries you could potentially do on Facebook if we built it out."
"At some point we'll do it… we have a team working on search."
This week's video is not so viral, but it's a really interesting one that Scott discovered that reminds us of the potential power of YouTube as a marketing channel. It seems that a few years ago video was trendy, but then died away when distractions such as Pinterest and Instagram came along.
In this video, which is in the form of a clever 'infographic', some of the 2012 YouTube statistics are revealed.


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Almost 5 weeks post op and I've only been cleared for cardio and light arm weights--biceps and triceps only, no dips or presses. Any suggestions? I am a yoga, pilates, weight lifting kind of person, so I don't know what to do to keep the weight off until I can really exercise (which will be awhile for me...I am healing slowly) and keep my metabolism up. I would like to tone a bit too, if I can during this limited exercise.


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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami men's tennis team's fall 2013 schedule has officially been released by head coach Mario Rincon.
"Our team is motivated to compete again soon," said Rincon. "We play challenging tournaments in the fall, including ITA All-Americans, Bedford Cup, Southeast Regional Championships, Jack Kramer Invitational and FGCU Invitational. All of the tournaments will be individual draws, and our guys will have the opportunity to compete against some of the strongest players in the country. Our fall schedule is stronger than in previous years, and all of the tournaments are on the road."
The Canes will play in five tournaments throughout the fall, starting Sept. 26 with the Bedford Cup-State of Florida Championships in Tallahassee, Fla., before heading out of state to Tulsa, Okla., to participate in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American Championships, which run from Sept. 28 to Oct. 6.
"We have an experienced team with three seniors - Omar Aly, Gabriel Flores and Diego Soto - leading the way, and we are looking forward to getting on the courts soon," Rincon added.
The team will not compete again in the state of Florida until the end of October, after they return from the ITA Regional Championships in Atlanta, Ga. The Canes will spend three days (Oct. 25 – 27) in Fort Myers, Fla., competing in the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Invitational.
The men's fall season will be capped off with a three-day trip to Los Angeles, Calif., for the Jack Kramer Club Invitational November 1-3.
Check out the complete schedule online at HurricaneSports.com. To follow the UM men's tennis team socially, visit Twitter.com/CanesMensTennis and facebook.com/MiamiHurricanesMensTennis.
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Catcher Bobby Wilson and shortstop Sean Rodriguez have been named to the North All-Star reserves.
Four Travelers pitchers were voted All Stars including right-handers Nick Adenhart, Jose Arredondo, and Nick Green and left-hander Daniel Davidson. Davidson will not be able to participate in the game as he continues to rehab from a shoulder injury.
The 2007 Texas League All-Star Game will be played at Whataburger Field, the home of the Corpus Christi Hooks, on Tuesday, June 26. Fans can watch the game on a tape delayed broadcast on FOX Sports Southwest on Wednesday, June 27.
Morrissey and Sandoval both currently rank amongst the Texas League leaders in batting average and on-base percentage. Morrissey holds a .408 OBP, second in the league, and the tenth highest batting average at .293. Sandoval is batting .300, ninth highest, and is reaching base at a .403 clip, fifth highest.
Rodriguez is batting .266 with a team-high six home runs and 27 RBI. Wilson, who missed most of May with a back injury, is currently hitting .254 with five home runs and 15 RBI. Wilson is second amongst catchers in the league throwing out 51.5% of base stealers.
The Travs pitching staff boasts four pitchers on the North Division All Star Team, including three starting pitchers. Adenhart and Green are tied for the team lead with five wins. Adenhart sports a 3.44 ERA (9th) and 53 strikeouts. Green leads the club and is second in the league with 83.0 innings pitched to go along with a 4.01 ERA and 56 strikeouts.
Davidson, out since May 22 with two small tears in his left shoulder, held one of the Texas League's lowest ERA's at 2.06 over his first seven starts before the injury. He is currently in Tempe, Arizona rehabbing the inujry and will not be available to pitch in the All-Star Game. Arredondo's ten saves leads the Travs and ranks fifth in the league. He also had struck out 28 batters in 25 innings.


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|Emma Stone
|Erika Christensen
|Date Selected
|Dec. 8, 2010
|June 15, 2011
|Nov. 6, 1988
|Aug. 19, 1982
|Scottsdale, Arizona
|Seattle, Washington
|Known for
|"Zombieland", "Easy A"
|"Traffic", "Parenthood"
|Six Degrees of Joss
|Appeared on "Drive" with Nathan Fillion (Buffy, Firefly, Dr. Horrible)
|Appeared in "Veronika Decides to Die" with Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy)
Analysis: If we're going solely on looks, then I think this is actually a pretty close matchup. Neither Stone nor Christensen is what you'd consider a "classic" beauty, but both are really hot. However, buzz plays a role in the voting too, and that's where Stone has Christensen beat by a wide margin, thanks to landing the lead female role in the upcoming "Amazing Spider-Man" movie.
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Good Morning, Broncos fans! Well, not really. During yesterday's practice, Ty Warren suffered a triceps tendon injury that's thought to be serious; he underwent an MRI last night, the results of which we can expect sometime today. To top it off, fellow defensive tackle Marcus Thomas strained his right pec and was also scheduled to undergo an MRI last night. With yesterday's release of DT Louis Leonard, that leaves Brodrick Bunkley, Kevin Vickerson, Jeremy Jarmon, Mitch Unrein, Ryan McBean and Ronnell Brown as the healthy tackles on Denver's roster.
Now, this may be bad news, but keep in mind - serious injuries are a part of almost every NFL team, every year - just ask the SB Champion Packers, who had 16 players on IR last year including six starters. This is why teams need quality depth. Yes, the Broncos were greatly impacted by the injury to Elvis Dumervil last year, but the reality is that their season was harmed equally by the lack of starting-caliber players behind him. So whatever happens with Warren, it's not an excuse for the FO - it's their job to have enough talent on the roster to make up for his potential loss. Remember - it's all in the game.
As Andrew Mason details, Rahim Moore and Brandon Lloyd got into a bit of a scuffle during practice after an end-zone collision. Meanwhile, WRs Eddie Royal and Britt Davis both returned to practice, as did LBs D.J. Williams and Nate Irving and DT Brodrick Bunkley. Plus, practice notes from Klis.
The board of the Metropolitan Football Stadium District will vote this afternoon on whether to change the name of the Big IF to Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
In his latest mailbag, Mike Klis says he expects Denver to keep three or four TEs on the active roster, with Virgil Green perhaps ending up on the practice squad. He also doesn't figure we'll see either Tim Tebow or Brady Quinn taking any first-team snaps during preseason games.
LJ on the progression and healthiness of Eric Decker, who is third on the Broncos' depth chart and is the starting slot guy when they go three wide. They will still do that, right?
If Clark Judge's column on the Broncos is correct, John Fox just wants to create the Denver version of what he had in Carolina. Now, this is just one quote, but it's a pretty awful one - Fox calls passing the ball "high risk" and likens it to the "stock market." Fox does know how the Saints and Packers went about winning the past two Super Bowls, doesn't he?
Meawhile, Judge thinks folks should turn down the heat being directed at Tebow's game, because he's working really hard - even getting coached up by John Elway yesterday after practice.
Dave Krieger thinks the Broncos would be well served by cutting Perrish Cox and avoiding the possibility of having teammates testify against each other in court.
Video of John Fox speaking after practice yesterday, plus highlights and notes from the official site.
CBS4 on Elvis Dumervil and team's embracing of John Fox, plus an interview of David Anderson by Gary Miller, completely through Twitter.
Rick Morrissey obviously hasn't had his Come to Tebow moment just yet. Lots of regurgitated misinformed analysis, but also a good point in that the "hero worship" of Tebow is a bit much. And, case in point.
Legwold rambles passionately about giving up on players and the quality of tackling this preseason. Don't bother.
Mike Freeman says NFL assistant coaches are making a push of their own for better employment benefits.
The Bills have already cut bait on 2009 #11 pick Aaron Maybin, the Dolphins signed LB Marvin Mitchell, and New Orleans released T Jon Stinchcomb.
Oakland signed two safeties: Matt Giordano and Josh Bullocks, while the Niners are expected to sign Daunte Culpepper after working him out yesterday.
There's been little or no progress in the contract talks between Chris Johnson and the Titans, who signed OT Adam Terry.
A stipulation of Larry Fitzgerald's contract is that he cannot be franchised by Arizona, so unless he gets an extension before the end of the season, he'll be a UFA.
Mike Lombardi on the positive debuts of several rookie QBs last weekend, plus some random thoughts.
Training camp reports: Pat Kirwan on the Ravens, Gil Brandt on the Raiders, Jason Cole on the Packers, Jeffri Chadiha on the Bills. Plus, FO's latest trip around the NFCN and Audibles from PFW.
PFF's first impressions: Giants/Panthers, Bengals/Lions, and Jets/Texans. Plus, their season previews of the Bills and Ravens.
Doug Farrar on the likelihood of female officials working NFL games in the near future, plus the general crappiness of the Bears' offensive line.
Matt Bowen was impressed by Packers WR Randall Cobb and Tampa Bay's backup QB Josh Johnson last weekend, but he wants to see more from John Beck.
MJD also doesn't get why the NFL is leaving Terrelle Pryor hanging.
Here are the contract details for all of this year's first-round picks.
Chris Brown on the influence of Jack Elway and Jack Neumeier on the one-back spread offense. Of course, Doc covered the very same topic last year.
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As I live in my mom's home with her, and my two brothers live out of town, a few years back, we went to a lawyer and changed the deed to put mom and I as joint owners. My brothers each live in a common law arrangement. I thought that this might be the best thing to do since I also lived in the home and could claim it as my principal residence. Thus, when mom died, I figured that the home would go to me along with mom's other investments, which are in both of our names, would pass to me without going through probate. Mom has always said that, upon her death, she wanted her total estate to be divided equally among all three of her sons and, as executor of her estate, that is what I will do. Her will states that everything is to be divided equallys but, aside from her RIF's and house contents, her house and investments are currently owned jointly by both of us.
In the current issue of MoneySense magazine, they state that you cannot avoid paying capital gains taxes by making a child a co-owner of your home. It goes on to say that "if you add a child's name to the title for your home, the CRA views that event (which we did ten or so years ago) as a taxable disposition of 50% of the house's value at fair market value. The capital gains taxes on that portion are due right away says Kathy Munro, a tax partner with PricewaterhousCoopers in Toronto.
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Are there any positive reasons to having put this house, which we are both living in, in joint ownership on the deed?
Also, were any taxes actually due at the time that we made this change when the purpose of changing the deed was because the house was the principal residence of both of us and we thought that having it pass smoothly at the time of either of our deaths would save on probate costs?
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One of our favorite breakfasts when we're on the go during the week is a smoothie. We toss in lots of frozen and fresh fruit, protein powder, flax seed oil, keifer and almond milk, blend and enjoy. We find we have a lot of energy and stay full for a long time after a big smoothie…. Here is our recipe.
Firestone Sister Smoothie
a handful of ice
about a cup of frozen berries (whatever you love- be sure they're organic)
half a banana
a cup of lowfat vanilla almond milk
a squeeze of flax seed oil
about a half cup of lowfat Keifer (like yogurt but with tons of protein)
a heaping scoop of Protein Powder- Whole Foods sells a brand we like called Biochem whey protein powder
you may want to top off with a little water
Blend away and enjoy!
We feel good starting the day out on a healthy foot! Always on the look out for things to add to our smoothies to up the health factor without compromising tastiness, we have investigated the ingredients in the "Fat Burner" smoothie at one of our favorite restaurants in town.
Here's their recipe…
Fat Burner Smoothie
Lecithin– a fat emulsifier that you can add in powder form. Worth a try!
L – Carnitine– an amino acid that helps transform fatty acids into muscle
Supergreens – a supplement chock full of green vegetables, grasses and grains to help keep the body alkaline.
one banana
apple juice
They do taste good, so if these added ingredients do what they say, it's rather sweet "medicine."
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ALDERSHOT and Farnborough residents could face a council tax increase of around 15% — but council leaders claim they have got off lightly.
The massive hike in Rushmoor's council tax precept has been on the cards for months, according to councillors, who blame the increase at the door of the government, pointing at a less than generous annual grant.
Cabinet members met on Tuesday to discuss the council's budget and were faced with three options for the borough's tax hike — around 15%, 20% or 25%.
That has combined with reduced income from rents, fees and charges, and rising costs.
In addition, reductions in interest rates have cost the council around £700,000.
Director of resources Peter Gardner said they faced tough financial challenges over the next three years.
He told members: "The choice of tax increase is a difficult job and there is no right answer.
"It requires a careful judgment. The higher now, the lower in the future. But it is difficult to say exactly what future tax will be."
Cllr Peter Moyle, deputy leader of Rushmoor, again used the meeting to voice his contempt for the government's performance.
Members are angry that areas such as neighbouring Surrey Heath, which is considered to have higher living costs, will receive extra funding.
Cllr Moyle said: "We need to recognise that had we had a better settlement from the government it would not be so bad.
"They have drawn a line in the sand and said that Surrey Heath got it and Rushmoor didn't. So we are paying Surrey rates with Rushmoor settlement."
He was also angry that due to a 5.3% increase in the census population figures, the borough had grant underfunding in the region of £400,000 in previous years.
Cllr David Clifford said that he would opt for the choice that most residents would go for — the smallest of the three increases.
He attacked the government for forcing them to take such a difficult decision.
"I think it is terrible that we are even considering 25%.
"No authority should be put in that position.
"I don't criticise the officers, I criticise the government.
"The only moral choice that we can make is 15% and then do some savage house keeping."
In the past two years council tax increases have been held at 2% and 4% respectively.
This has enabled the council to introduce a number of new services such as CCTV, park rangers and improved recycling collection.
Following the meeting, council leader John Marsh gave his hopes for the coming year.
"We will be trying to maintain and develop priority areas, balancing that with the lowest council tax level we believe is achievable.
"This looks like being in the order of 15% — very similar to many local authorities in Hampshire.
"Although large in percentage terms, this equates to an increase of less than 50p a week for a standard band D property.
"We have decided that although we will need to make considerable savings on our expenditure and generate more income, we are determined not to reduce or cut essential services to the public."
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When she sees "organ donation: pending" on the emergency operating-room schedule, Dr. Jennifer Bender, an anesthesiologist at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto, knows a transplant might soon be in the works. "Pending" means a potential donor is being evaluated for their suitability, a process that involves checking to see if they've registered as donors with Trillium Gift of Life Network, running a number of tests to find out whether their organs are suitable, determining if they are a match with patients on the transplant list, and then – and this may come as a surprise to many – getting the okay from family members to honour the deceased's intent to donate.
Even if every hurdle is cleared, the process is sometimes halted when a family member overrides a patient's wishes, regardless of suitability.
"I've personally seen it happen where everything is good – they've got matches, everything they need, the organs are good, the [operating room] is ready and then the conversation with the family does not go favourably and the family refuses and the whole thing gets called off," Bender says. "There is a bit of a sense of waste. To take that little bit of hope and then just turn it all off, and see it wash away, is a bit sad."
It's an all too frequent reality that medical authorities would love to see changed. In Ontario alone, as many as 10 per cent of families refuse to transplant a registered donor's organs, says Danielle Milley, a spokeswoman with Trillium.
Without regulations prohibiting families from stepping in and halting the organ-donation process, all health authorities can do is watch helplessly as another person's chance at life might be abruptly ended. It's not a uniquely Canadian problem.
"No one in the world moves forward without the consent of the family," says Dr. Andrew Healey, regional donation medical lead at Trillium Gift of Life Network, who says that even in countries such as Spain, which has presumed consent regarding organ donors, families can still challenge the decisions of loved ones. "People are often surprised that families have the right to say yes or no to this."
And families are often so blindsided by their loved one's death, it's next to impossible for them to make decisions.
"It's difficult for families – especially if they don't know the patient's last wishes," says Dr. Rob Cirone, medical director, intensive-care medicine at St. Joseph's. "They are now asked to try to conjecture what this patient would want under those circumstances."
That uncertainty has led family members to turn against each other, says Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti, president of the Canadian Medical Association. "It brings out the best in families. But it can bring out the worst in families. It becomes a power/control thing."
For families who do go ahead, the difficult choice can "ultimately make things easier," says Ronnie Gavsie, president and CEO of Trillium. "They actually will tell us after the fact that the sorrow was softened."
The irony is that most Canadians – some 90 per cent – support organ and tissue donation, yet a mere 24 per cent have signed up to be donors, according to the Canadian Transplant Society. In Ontario, that means 2.84 million people out of an eligible 11.74 million have registered at beadonor.ca, Ontario's donor registry. Each province has its own donor registration database.
Signing a donor card isn't enough: "Many people who signed donor cards think they're registered but they're not," Gavsie said.
And the fewer registrants, the fewer the number of families who consent to transplantation. "At least 90 per cent of families will agree to donation when shown loved ones did register," Gavsie said. "In the absence of consent, those numbers go down dramatically."
According to a 2012 report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, 4,612 Canadians were awaiting transplant; meanwhile, deceased donor rates have languished since 2006.
Gavsie says that despite continued interest among medical professionals in making consent irrevocable, there's no impetus toward making this happen.
"It's something we'd want to take a look at," says Dr. Scott Wooder, president of the Ontario Medical Association, which is in the midst of a campaign focusing on honouring end-of-life wishes. "We just don't have a policy in place. We know there are thousands of physicians across the province who view this as high priority."
In the meantime, says Cirone, people should share their views on transplantation with as many family members as possible – as soon as possible – to avoid confusion. "Have a discussion with your family about what you would like your death to be like," he says.
But what if you think family dynamics will prevent your wishes from being followed? Appoint someone to serve as an unofficial advocate, suggests Francescutti. That move is strengthened if you get a lawyer to certify a form selecting that person to make end-of-life decisions for you, and alerting your physician and family to this. You could also fill out an end-of-life directive – a witnessed form that stipulates what you want done with your organs after death. Or make a videotape to voice your end-of-life plan.
"As uncomfortable as it feels, it's far easier to have that conversation now," he says.
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Going to and from Vilnius
Vilnius airport is the largest airport in Lithuania, offering both low-cost and ordinary airlines. The majority of direct flights are to Western Europe. A few routes to key ex-Soviet cities. The remaining destinations are mostly Southern European resorts (seasonal flights).
Vilnius airport is built within city limits and only 4 kilometers away from the old town. In fact, most Vilnius inhabitants live further from the city center than the Vilnius International Airport is located. As such, the airport is easily reachable by public buses and microbuses as well as a train. Unless there are traffic jams or you need to transfer at the train station it is better and cheaper to use buses.
Vilnius train station and bus station are located next to each other in Naujamiestis borough. Buses travel from Vilnius to most of the cities and towns of Lithuania at least a couple times a day, with buses to main cities leaving over 10 times a day and every 15 minutes to Kaunas.
Trains are a quicker option on a route to Kaunas. On most other routes, however, they lag behind buses and are cheaper.
Many public bus routes of Vilnius start and/or end at the station square, therefore it is easy to reach any district from this place.


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Today, Bud Fox liked Bluefly (Nasdaq: BFLY). Shares of this new discount e-tailer (www.bluefly.com) of name-brand apparel and accessories returned briefly to the azure height of $15 7/8, last seen in late January, before closing at $12 13/16, up $2 9/16 for the day. Not bad considering the shares traded for less than $9 Monday and for less than $2 last summer.
The news today was that Bluefly has signed a marketing deal with the GO Network, the revamped Internet portal site run by Infoseek (Nasdaq: SEEK) and partly owned by Disney (NYSE: DIS), which has been promoting the site heavily on its ABC television network. Bluefly reportedly will be featured on the GO shopping page and will become one of two "Gold Merchants" promoted in the specific apparel & jewelry area. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but probably include some minimum payments by Bluefly plus some revenue sharing.
As e-commerce has exploded in recent months and the major Internet portals race to participate in this money-grab, Bluefly has made a name for itself by securing some prime real estate on these leading websites. The company's stock ran to a high of $23 1/4 in early December after it announced a co-branded version of its online store on Yahoo!'s (Nasdaq: YHOO) shopping site, launched November 17. Bluefly has formed similar "strategic marketing alliances" with @Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS), and America Online (NYSE: AOL), which features the company in its apparel area on its shopping channel. As Bluefly's executive VP Jonathan Morris said today in the press release, "Bluefly is committed to working with the best portal companies and securing key areas of online real estate in an effort to establish itself as the premier place to shop for name brand apparel, fashion accessories and house and home products at outlet store prices."
The Bluefly value proposition is pretty straightforward. The company wants to become the Web's brand-name apparel outlet store, offering deep discounts of 25% to 75% on end-of-season items and excess inventory from big name designers like Polo Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL), Tommy Hilfiger (NYSE: TOM), Donna Karan (NYSE: DK), Prada, and Calvin Klein. While apparel retailers like the Gap (NYSE: GPS), J Crew, Federated Department Stores' (NYSE: FD) Macy's, and Intimate Brands' (NYSE: IBI) Victoria Secret have all had recent success selling clothes online, there's not yet any major player offering closeout prices on a wide assortment of leading brands. Bluefly wants to fill that niche.
And it could prove a healthy niche. According to Discount Store News, off-price retailers such as Loehmanns (Nasdaq: LOEH) and TJX Co.'s (NYSE: TJX) T.J. Maxx and Marshalls units sold $18.5 billion worth of goods in 1997, while factory outlet stores sold $8.3 billion worth of apparel and accessories. Such stores function both as alternative outlets for first-run goods as well as a cost-effective means for retailers to clear out unsold merchandise. From a customer's perspective, though, they're less than ideal. Getting to a factory outlet can be a trek since it's not likely to be near your local mall. Also, if you're like me, you can only stand to sift through so many bargain bins, finding mostly lime green shirts or super smalls and extra extra extra larges, before you give up.
Bluefly hopes to solve both of these problems by giving you access to discounted items without the hassle. Better yet, it aims to use data about your personal size and tastes to create what it calls "MyCatalog," a discount store specific to you. As its promotional copy reads, MyCatalog instantly delivers "a personalized, up-to-the-minute catalog of the things you like best and at the prices you want most -- 'printed' fresh every time you log on."
All of this sounds quite compelling. So it's no surprise the company has gotten some positive attention. On November 25, Red Herring's Peter Henig noted that research outfit Jupiter Communications expected online apparel sales to rise from $330 million in 1998 to $2.8 billion in 2002. "Even with the stock now trading at $10 per share, Bluefly's market cap is only $27 million. When was the last time you saw a valuation that low on a rising pure-play Internet stock?"
The stock also jumped last month after Ryan Jacob, portfolio manager of The Internet Fund (the top mutual fund performer of 1998, with a 196% return), posted on the fund's website that Bluefly was the only new entry among the fund's top 25 holdings. Last Sunday's New York Times Style section even gave Bluefly a favorable nod.
Still, executing on a good idea is ultimately far more difficult than finding one. In that regard, the jury is still out on Bluefly. On the positive side, CFO Patrick Barry, who joined the firm in July, was formerly CFO at Warner Music Enterprises and Controller of Book-of-the-Month Club, both direct response companies. Bluefly also recently added Martin Keane, formerly design director at online music vendor N2K (Nasdaq: NTKI). The company's board includes figures like Cris Popenoe, formerly president of Putnam New Media, an interactive media publisher, and Goldie Burns, NYU faculty member and head of New York governor Pataki's Task Force on New Media and the Internet.
However, trying to log onto its website today was, well, like trying to place an online stock order through E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) or even Schwab (NYSE: SCH): frustrating and even impossible. I got just far enough to know I might as well turn off the computer and head to the nearest outlet store instead. Sure, today's publicity probably led to a spike in traffic, but getting the technology in place to handle site traffic is harder than it seems. Plus, Onsale (Nasdaq: ONSL) recently veered away from its focus on sales of closeout computer gear because it simply couldn't get enough merchandise to scale its business, especially in the heavy holiday buying season. Will Bluefly experience the same problem?
With Bluefly's short track record (the site launched September 8), it's hard to say much of anything about its actual business. As the company announced January 28, Q4 gross sales before returns and allowances topped $300,000, a tiny figure but "well ahead" of management's expectations. Its online store saw 664,230 unique visitors (average spending, then, was 50 cents a visitor), and the total number of registered users rose from 1,573 at the end of September to 26,048. The average visitor spent 11 minutes on the site and clicked 18 pages per visit. It's a start, right?
Though Bluefly seems like a start-up company, it isn't. Yet, there's little in its past to inspire real confidence. From 1991 until last summer, this company, formerly known at Pivot Rules, Inc. (old ticker: PVTR), was in the business of designing, sourcing, and marketing golf sportswear for men. Although this now discontinued operation saw sales rise from $8.6 million in FY96 to $10.7 million in FY97, net income dipped from $0.61 million to $0.09 million. The accumulated deficit stood at $0.38 million by the end of 1997. The business was going nowhere, so last May, the board established the Internet division and the company has completely refocused since then.
Also, founder Kenneth Seiff, 33 years old, has been Chair/CEO of the company since its inception. That means he oversaw the selection of GKN Securities as underwriter for the firm's May 1997 initial public offering. That New York investment bank is part of what used to be known as GKN Holdings but, last year, changed its name to Research Partners International (Nasdaq: RPII). The name change may have had something to do with the fact that back in January 1997, GKN was fined $725,0000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and NASD Regulation (NASDR). GKN and 29 of its supervisors and brokers were also forced to repay a total of $1.4 million to some 1,300 investors "who were overcharged as the result of a two year-long program of excessive markups in eight securities" underwritten by GKN, according to an NASDR press release in August 1997. The NASD charged that GKN had "dominated and controlled the immediate after-market trading" in these securities from December 1993 through April 1996.
Small companies are often hard-pressed to find an underwriter, but Seiff must have known about GKN's history. Of course, what's past is not necessarily prologue. Yet, Bluefly will almost certainly be looking to raise more money in the next year or so. By recently calling for the redemption of outstanding warrants, the company did manage to raise some $10.2 million, trading warrants for common stock at $5 a share. However, that money probably won't last long given the need for heavy advertising and marketing to build a brand name. Still, even with the 4.85 million fully diluted shares now outstanding, according to CFO Barry, Bluefly's market cap is just $62.1 million. That's a lot for an outfit with virtually no sales and a spotty track record. But for an e-tailer building some brand recognition, it's low enough to make the Bluefly story worth following.
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The achievement gap in academic performance between academically at-risk minorities and white students has concerned educators for decades now. It's a troubling fact that Latino Americans and African Americans, for example, earn lower grades on average than their white peers and are much more likely to drop out of high school.
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Designed by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour+Partners (RSH+P), it will become the showpiece of Richard Rogers's Inside Out exhibition currently running at the Academy.
Inside Out runs at the Royal Academy, W1, until October 13, (royalacademy.org.uk). The Homeshell will be on view in the courtyard free from August 13 to September 8.
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Homeshell, designed over seven years by architect Andrew Partridge of RSH+P, and built in association with construction company Coxbench, is intended to provide flexible, cheap, sustainable and sharply styled housing. Delivered four weeks after ordering, it comes in flat-pack form on a lorry and is assembled to be waterproof in 24 hours. Visitors will be able to watch one being built in the RA courtyard.
Homeshell is made of cement-like panels fixed to a sustainable Scandinavian softwood timber frame, and is highly insulated. In 2007, an earlier version was built in 10 variants, at Oxley Woods on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, with Taylor Wimpey. More than 100 homes went up and are now extremely popular with their inhabitants. The big windows set flush to the walls allow plenty of light into the spacious interiors, and the structures are energy-efficient and soundproof. Newnham council has just announced that it is to build 40 Homeshells.
Plans are also afoot to build lots more in association with the YMCA (one of the biggest social housing providers in the UK), using a design called YCube. These will be so flexible they can be tailored to individual need. As Partridge says: "Homeshell is very exciting, it is very immediate."
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Innovative architects such as Richard Rogers have been interested in modular and prefabricated housing for decades. Rogers's 1968 design for a "zip-up" house was influential. So was the 1968 house that he and his then wife, Su, designed for his parents, currently on sale for £3.2 million in Wimbledon. Its clean, modular form and flexible interior also has elements of this genre.
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The house going up in the RA courtyard won't be fitted out inside — it is a shell, but with floors indicated, so you can imagine it however you like; and perhaps it's the supreme versatility of these houses — along with their green credentials and the speed at which they can be constructed — that is their best selling point.
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Soaring health costs are burdening many Americans with massive medical bills, and a few, like Jim Dawson, are left with a million-dollar tab — even though they have health insurance, the WSJ reports.
Part of the problem is that insurance caps — the maximum amount of a patient's medical bill insurers will pay — haven't been keeping pace with rising costs. The story says the average cap is $1 million per person, the same as it was in the 1970s.
Dawson's cap was $1.5 million but after a staph infection spread throughout his body, he was still stuck with a $1.2 million bill from California Pacific Medical Center. He and was wife were outraged to learn about the hospital's marking up of items.
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This is a discussion on What is the most important reason Americans should be armed? within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by shockwave Being "armed" is something that happens between your ears long before you hold a weapon in your hand. It happens long, ...
We want guns...that's all
It's a right that should be exercised
To defend against foreign invasion
To make sure our government stays in line
To defend ourselves and ours
Many more reasons than enumerated.
Primary reason, to protect me and mine. But there are lots of ancillaries there that include the iterated reasons after the first.
It could be worse!
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Pretty good selection of choices, but I would add one more: "Because we allow such total airhead losers to assume office in our congress and state legislatures that we need to be ready to defend against idiocy at any given time", or something like that.
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"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;"
Because in a life threatening situation, the police are only one call away.....and 15 minutes.
At this time in our history, I'd say for self-defense against thugs and criminals. At the Founding, it was for an armed citizenry to help defend against a foreign invasion.Although I didn't answer the poll specifically, I'll say the reason is to solidify the 2nd amendment, our nation, and ourselves. Evolving reasons and at this point in history are some of the same reasons the 2nd amendment is under attack by our very own government. The words are plain and simple and lead to no conjecture.The reasons have evolved since the writing of the Bill of Rights. Today I would say protection of self and family.
The best answer is: ALL OF THE ABOVE.
All Americans should own firearms to defend themselves from criminals, foreign invasion and terrorists, to keep the government in line and most importantly to exercise their right that is protected by the 2nd Amendment.
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I didn't vote, it's ALL of the above and then some.
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This is reflecting exactly how I feel about this threads question.
There is to my view and mind no "most important" reason nor reasoning that Americans, or any human being anywhere for that matter, should be armed.
What is important is NOT being armed.
What is VERY IMPORTANT is to have and retain the _RIGHT_, as an individual _choice_, to defend ones person, family, residence and ones way of life.
Retention and defense of this basic right of all beings living is what is important, and by history of man US and otherwise...is very often why arms of any and all sort are taken up.
This is no different than the right to speak freely, to vote, or to practice or not practice religion of ones choice.
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