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Steam clean your entire home with the Steamfast Sidekick Steam Cleaner (SF-320). This unique steam cleaner offers you all of the same high powered steam of similar steam cleaners in a compact and portable platform. Designed to be as user friendly as possible, this steam cleaner offer the ability to be used hands free as it comes with a shoulder harness for convenient carrying and application. This hands free feature is especially useful when gently cleaning curtains and other soft fabrics as you can use one hand to hold the fabric steady and steam clean with the other.
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The NHL's 2011 Winter Classic will be played in Pittsburgh on January 1. The Steel City is a very appropriate setting for such a game, given the important place that it holds in the history of hockey, particularly professional hockey. This history goes back further than the Penguins' first season in 1967-68. It goes back further than the AHL's Pittsburgh Hornets, winners of the Calder Cup in 1952, 1955 and 1967. It goes back further even than the NHL's Pittsburgh Pirates, who played from 1925-26 to 1929-30, or the Pittsburgh Yellowjackets that preceded them in the United States Amateur Hockey Association. We're already back to the early 1920's, but we have to go back another 20 years before we can see the true importance of the city to the game of hockey.
Pittsburgh's Duquesne Gardens was one of the first artificial ice rinks in the world when it opened in 1896. Hockey matches were played at the time, and the city became hockey mad. Soon enough, the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) opened in 1901-02, featuring three Pittsburgh teams stocked almost entirely with Canadian players. At the time, Canadian senior hockey was a strictly amateur affair, which meant of course that if you were going to pay a player, you had to hide it well. The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) in particular treated even the slightest of infractions with draconian measures, depriving players of the ability to play senior hockey in Canada. Some of these players found their way to the WPHL, over which the Canadian hockey associations had no influence. No one would admit to being paid, but why else would Alf Smith, eldest of the three legendary Smith brothers and one of the greatest turn-of-the-century players, find himself in Pittsburgh of all places, playing against other Canadians like Lorne Campbell and Bert Morrison? The sheer number of quality hockey players lured south suggests that while they might not have been overtly paying players, they were likely at least engaging in "shamateurism", for example by arranging lucrative jobs in the city for the players or simply paying them under the table.
Soon enough, though, they were found out. Harry Peel, formerly of the OHA and who played for the Pittsburgh Keystones in 1901-02, openly admitted that he had been paid to play hockey in Pittsburgh. The OHA suspended him indefinitely and professionalized anyone who had played with him or against him in the WPHL. Rather than cow to the OHA and beg forgiveness, however, the league and its players simply decided that getting paid to play hockey was not such a bad thing, and the league became fully and openly professional beginning with the 1902-03 season. The WPHL was the first openly pro hockey league, an honor that is usually attributed to the International Hockey League (IHL), a league which the WPHL would have a great effect on shortly. As friend and colleague Ernie Fitzsimmons stated, Pittsburgh is the cradle of professional hockey.
The success of the WPHL and the state-of-the-art Duquesne Gardens led to the creation of the IHL in 1904. Existing professional teams such as the renowned Houghton Portage Lakes and both the Michigan and Ontario editions of Sault Ste. Marie, which had previously only played exhibition games without a regular schedule, banded together with the best Pittsburgh had to offer to create the first intercity professional hockey league. This new league had plenty to offer top flight hockey players, such as handsome salaries and a high level of competition. Many future Hall of Famers would play in this league, including Cyclone Taylor, Jimmy Gardner, Didier Pitre, Jack Laviolette, and brothers Bruce and Hod Stuart.
Just how good was the quality of these leagues? We can make a rough estimate by comparing the goal scoring totals of players (adjusting for the scoring environment of each league) who played in both the IHL and the Eastern Canada Hockey Association (ECHA), which was the top Canadian league at the time and the destination of many of the US league's best players when it ceased operations in 1907, including the above-noted Hall of Famers. With this simple league equivalency calculation, we can estimate the IHL was about 90% of the quality of the ECHA, making it nearly equal to the Canadian circuit. Although few players moved directly to or from the WPHL from a Canadian league, many moved to or from the IHL. In this way, we find the WPHL and IHL were very nearly equal in quality to each other, meaning the WPHL was also about 90% of the quality of the ECHA.
This high level of competition is borne out by the results of the World Series professional championship played between the Pittsburgh Bankers (champions of the WPHL) and Stanley Cup holders Montreal Wanderers in March of 1908. The mighty Wanderers (featuring four future Hall of Famers in Moose Johnson, Ernie Russell, Art Ross and Riley Hern among their starting seven) posted an 8-2 record in the ECHA, then defeated the champions of the Manitoba league and OPHL to defend the Stanley Cup (winning all five Cup matches by a combined score of 47-16) before taking on the Bankers. Against this juggernaut, one would think the Bankers would do well to keep the games close. Pittsburgh did not only that, they actually won one of the three matches, losing by a combined score of only 11 goals to 16.
At the time of the IHL's operation, many Canadian senior hockeyists were in fact paid professionals, but this reality was disguised by the teams and the players because the game was ostensibly under the umbrella of amateur sport. The emergence of the IHL, however, created very real competition for the services of top flight players, and the US-based league was populated almost entirely by Canadians. Northern hockey moguls realized that in order to keep their talent from crossing the border, full and open professionalism would be required, allowing them to pay competitive salaries. Within a short time, not only did the Manitoba Hockey League and the ECAHA allow professional players in their ranks, but entirely new leagues (such as the Ontario Professional Hockey League) sprang up to take advantage of the new pro hockey environment. Now able to play professionally in their homeland, many IHL players left the US. This loss of quality hockeyists forced the IHL to fold after its third year of operation. Although this allowed the WPHL to revive for a few more seasons, ultimately the focus of high-level hockey shifted back squarely to Canada, where it would remain for some time. But without the WPHL and IHL, professionalism in Canadian hockey would not have arrived when it did.
Events in history often have a butterfly effect, with even the smallest ripple expanding over time to create great change. The WPHL led directly to the IHL, and the IHL led directly to the professionalization of hockey in Canada. Open professionalism in the game's home country had a very significant impact on the ECAHA, which soon became the ECHA, then the NHA and ultimately the NHL. If it were not for Pittsburgh and the first pro hockey league that called that city its home, who knows how different the path of hockey in Canada would have been. When you watch the Winter Classic this year, try to remember the vital role that the city of Pittsburgh played in the development of major league hockey, before there was even an NHL, nearly 110 years ago.
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Harry Peel would have been nothing without a veteran like Chris Chelios feeding him the puck.

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POTTSTOWN, Penn. — When a Pennsylvania county began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples July 24, the Pottstown, Penn., Mercury posted links to its coverage of the issue on the newspaper's Facebook fan page.
Then, the links disappeared.
Mercury Online Editor Eileen Faust said that the initial story involving the same-sex couple getting their license and a few videos posted July 24 dropped off The Mercury's Facebook fan page without warning.
Efforts to post the links again were repeatedly met with the same fate.
Eventually, a post of an updated story on the first same-sex married couple put on the page by a reporter with administrative access to the page stuck.
That was several hours after Faust's initial efforts.
During the next few days, Mercury staff struggled to keep stories involving same-sex marriage on Facebook.
The time it took for posts to disappear varied, with some staying up half-an-hour, while others were gone in five minutes.
"It seems to be kind of random,' Faust said. "Some of the links we'll post will stay.'
Removals didn't fall on one side of the issue or the other. Faust said that in addition to the initial stories and videos about the same-sex couple being issued a license, a story on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett speaking out against the marriages also disappeared at least once.
In all instances, there were no notifications or indications of why the posts disappeared.
Mercury staffers couldn't recall posts being taken down in the past without a notification, error message or similar warning.
The possibility of users flagging the posts as inappropriate and having them removed doesn't seem likely, Faust said, because of how fast many of the posts were up and gone.
"It was regardless of whether people commented or not,' too, she said.
The disappearing posts were not limited to The Mercury's Facebook page. Other 21st Century Media papers in the Philadelphia region reported similar problems.
The Mercury's issue with the vanishing links caused papers in the Los Angeles News Group, which like The Mercury is part of Digital First Media, to check on Facebook posts made in June from when the Defense of Marriage Act was ruled unconstitutional and Proposition 8 was overturned by the United States Supreme Court.
Multiple newspapers reported their storiews were gone.
"I didn't notice anything until The Mercury brought it forward,' said Gina Dvorak, digital news director with the Los Angeles News Group. "We hadn't really experienced that before, so we weren't really looking for it.'
Dvorak targeted dates when she and other staff remembered posting stories of same-sex marriages being performed.
"On our big properties, there were missing posts, but our smaller properties didn't (have the posts disappear). We were posting (the same stories) across the board; it was kind of easy to identify the holes,' she said
In all those cases, Dvorak never received notification or explanation of why the links were gone.
Both national and state LGBTQ advocacy groups, including the Point Foundation and Equality Pennsylvania, told The Mercury they've never experienced missing posts on their Facebook fan pages.
Although Dvorak said she's seen "lively discussion' on many issues, including ones involving same-sex marriage and the like, she's never noticed missing posts before.
The lack of notification or reason for why posts were lost concerns Dvorak.
"I feel that we don't have control over the situation,' Dvorak said. "I can understand if the content is deemed to be questionable and flagged and we get some kind of feedback. I feel like we should have that ability to respond to the concern.'
Facebook didn't have an explanation either when asked last week.
"This content was clearly not in violation of our terms, reinforced by the fact that the page administrators did not receive a notification,' said Alison Schumer, of Facebook's public policy communications.
"I want to know the parameters of how it happened and why it happened,' Dvorak said.
According to Faust, posts continue to disappear but less frequently than in the time period around Hanes' first issuing of the licenses.
"It seems to be kind of random,' she said. "Some of the links we post will stay.'
Dvorak is worried the disappearing posts will slow interactions with readers.
"When you're the hometown paper and you're trying to have a conversation with your readers, that's not OK,' Dvorak said.
"We are simply attempting to inform our readership about what their governments are doing and it seems like someone or something is preventing us from doing that job, which aggravates both us and our readers,' Faust said.


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Celebrate a most special day, from long ago and far away! Children will love learning about the Nativity and retelling the story through play. With this charming set of their own, they just might leave your holiday collectible alone.Since 1930, Fisher-Price has been in business to create toys that fascinate and stimulate a child's imagination. Fisher-Price was founded in 1930, hardly the best time to launch a new business as the shadows of the Depression still loomed over American business. Still, Herman Fisher, Irving Price and Helen Schelle combined their diverse manufacturing and retailing experience to create a toy company and confidently brought 16 wooden toys to the International Toy Fair in New York City. The whimsical nature and magical surprises of those first Fisher-Price toys quickly caught on and became the hallmarks of Fisher-Price ever since. Fisher-Price believes in the potential of children and in the importance of a supportive environment in which they can grow, learn, and get the best possible start in life. Fisher-Price supports today's families with young children through our breadth of products that includes GeoTrax, Imaginext, Little People, Laugh and Learn, Thomas the Tank, Thomas and Friends, Elmo, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Sesame Street, Smart Cycle, Ni Hao Kai-Lan, Toy Story and other learning toys and pretend play items.
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When my husband and I got married I started the tradition of getting a new Nativity set every year. This past year my one year old son went nuts over them, so I figured ...Read complete review
When my husband and I got married I started the tradition of getting a new Nativity set every year. This past year my one year old son went nuts over them, so I figured why not buy him a toy set as this year's Nativity set? He loved it, I thought it was way too cute, and now I can't wait to pull it out for next Christmas:)
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I have the original from Fisher-price. It's amazing. I of course checked out the in-store version and was EXTREMELY happy that the effort in ordering online paid off. There are some POSITIVE points to...Read complete review
I have the original from Fisher-price. It's amazing. I of course checked out the in-store version and was EXTREMELY happy that the effort in ordering online paid off. There are some POSITIVE points to this version. This set IS smaller and does NOT light up or play music, BUT it at least comes with the wise men. Fisher-Price makes you buy 3 different sets to complete your Christmas nativity. Fisher-price's stuff directly from FP is BETTER but if you are just looking for an inexpensive BASIC nativity for kids to play with.....this is the way to go. You will pay 3x more going through FP. BASICALLY....you want a FULL high quality set...buy from FP. You want basic play set....Toys R Us version
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Great holiday item
By akdonna
from Hialeah, FL
About Me Working Parent
Comments about Fisher-Price 1001124 Fisher-Price Little People Nativity Set - A Little People Christmas:
This item is durable since its from Fisher Price - super cute item for the holiday season - we just love all the Little People product
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Very disappointing.!
By CD
from Missouri
About Me Grandparent
I have the original LP Nativity set and it is much bigger and much nicer than this. I thought I was getting a set like the one I already have. My original set cost less, had a much bigger stable and had more pieces. It also had lights and music. This tiny set is well made but should only cost half as much as it did. WAY overpriced! I'm very disappointed! I was expecting a larger set for the price.
I like it but....
By Michelle
from Tucson, Az
I bought this as a gift for my mom, since she has 6 grandsons from 1-8 years. When the product arrived i was kind of disappointed because it came with 2 Mary's and none Joseph, totally a bummer! I contacted Fisher Price directly, because i thought it was their mistake, and now i have to wait for Joseph to arrive, wish i think its taking so long! Anyways, it is a good product, specially if you have kids which they will play with it no matter what, so what better than a plastic nativity set
Great for little ones
By Momof2girls
from Madison, WI
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
Our girls are 2 and 4 years old, they really like it, very durable.
Great product
By Godmothernana
from Los Angeles, ca
About Me Education Oriented, Godmother
This is a great product! Serves as decoration and as a toy! My guess love it! They can't believe its a toy. Now to the toy part, my godson loves it! He plays for hours. His favorite part is baby jesus and the animals. There are no little peaces so it's safe. The details on this is amazing! I just love it!
By Doting Grandma
from Vernon, CT
So many Christmas decorations catch the eye of a toddler, and they can't touch them! This is perfect. Our Grandson is 17 months old. His parents are using this to explain the origins of Christmas, and it will occupy a space next to their nativity under the tree, but he can play with this one.
By Grandpa "Papa" Tom
from Co. Bluffs, IA
It's nice to see a religious toy at Christmas. Grandkids will be able to play with it for years to come. And when the time comes that they've out grown it as a toy, they'll always have a little Nativity set they can set up for Christmas.
I would buy this again and again!
By Gramma J.
from southgate , Mi
About Me Collector, Education Oriented, Grandparent
A wonderful visual to children as you tell the Christmas story...they will love it!
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By David in Michigan
from Midland, Michigan
About Me Education Oriented, Grandparent, Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent
We got these Little People Nativity sets for our married children (and grandkids!). We anticipate they will have great joy setting up and playing with this Nativity set for many years.
Sweet scene
By Amber
from Bartlett, Tn
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children, Working Parent
Perfect! Nativity scene that even a baby can play with. Very sweet and you don't have to worry about it breaking with kids touching.
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Optimism is in the air, particularly in financial markets. And some cautious optimism may indeed be justified.
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- Unemployment, although down from its peak, is still hovering near 8%.
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The prospects for recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis appear to be on the horizon.
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Financial crises are different! Refining the Reinhart-Rogoff estimates
Stephen Cecchetti, Marion Kohler, Christian Upper, 28 October 2009
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New Blooms for Your Kalanchoe Plant
Kalanchoe is an indoor plant that is very easy to care for. Most of the time people purchase the plant, wait till it blooms, and then simply then throw it away, not knowing how to make it rebloom. Here are the instructions to help your Kalanchoe plant rebloom.
The most important part that you need to know about this plant is that they are like cactuses and do not like to be over watered. It is suggested that you water your plant once a week and make sure the water is fully drained after watering. Also it's best that you let the soil dry between watering.
Now after the blooming season, you trim the plant to the stalk and remover the root from the pot. Let the plat rest for about a month in a dimly lit area and limit the watering to once every two weeks. Meanwhile, fertilize the soil.
When the resting month is over, plant the root back in the fertilized soil and keep it in the darker room for about 10 hours a day. As soon as the plant begins to restore itself, it is safe to keep at any light area of the house. Just keep in mind that extreme sun exposure will burn the blooms.
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Overlooking Lake Kittamaqundi, this Sheraton hotel is across from the Mall in Columbia, a half-mile from Merriweather Post Pavilion, and 20 miles from Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
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Guests can use a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor lap pool with lake views; Sheraton Columbia Town Center Hotel provides complimentary transportation within a five-mile radius upon request.
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Guestrooms at Sheraton Columbia Town Center Hotel offer high-speed Internet access, complimentary premium channels, and Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Beds with down comforters and pillowtop mattresses.
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Located across the street from the Mall in Columbia and within 10 miles of several corporate offices, this Sheraton Hotel is between Washington D.C. and Baltimore.
On-site meeting and event space includes a 4,000-square-foot lakefront ballroom that accommodates 500 guests, with event catering, audiovisual equipment, and high-speed Internet access available (surcharge). High-speed wireless Internet access is available in the hotel lobby, and a 24-hour business center provides printing, faxing, copying, and high-speed Internet access (surcharge).
Recreation options at the Sheraton Columbia Town Center Hotel include a seasonal outdoor lap pool that overlooks the lake and a 24-hour fitness center with cardiovascular and strength-training equipment. The hotel's Waterside restaurant serves Continental and American cuisine with lake views. On-site parking is free, and complimentary shuttle service is available within five miles upon request.
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- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 1486
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Waterside - Offering sweeping views of Lake Kittamaqundi, this restaurant serves Continental cuisine and American standards for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch.
Lobby Lounge - The lobby-level lounge overlooks the lake and offers cocktails and light fare from mid-afternoon until late evening.
- Recreation
The hotel perches on the edge of Lake Kittamaqundi, an artificial lake surrounded by 12 acres of wooded parkland. The seasonal outdoor lap pool overlooks the lake, and guests can use a jogging path that traces the shoreline. The 24-hour fitness center has treadmills, stationary bikes, elliptical trainers, and a weight machine.
Eight miles from the hotel, the Timbers at Troy is an 18-hole, par-72 bentgrass golf course and driving range. Tennis courts are available at Cedar Lane Park, 10 miles away.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golf - miniature nearby
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Ice skating nearby
- Tennis nearby
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- Swimming on site
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Breakfast fee: USD 13.95 per person (approximately)
- Deposit: USD 50.00 per stay
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Can I prevent enumeration of usernames on my wordpress site? I can see users at the moment using the WPScan tool.
You can't. The WPScan tool is an automated utility that takes advantage of WordPress' friendly URLs to determine usernames. It will loop through the first 10 possible IDs for authors and check the Using WPScan will check What you can doFirst of all, just because someone can guess your username, doesn't mean your site is insecure. And there is really no way you can prevent someone from parsing your site in such a way. However ... If you are really concerned about this, I would recommend doing two things:
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I wanted to add that you can do this on nginx too. Check: As a side note, I wanted to prevent username enumeration on my site hosted with WP Engine, which limits users' access to low level nginx config files. They do however, have a "Redirect Rules" section in their control panel which allows you to accomplish this. After some time I managed to figure out the best configuration:
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A Wayne County man was arrested following a three month child pornography investigation.
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Pointing to North Korea's recent test of a nuclear bomb and the launch of a ballistic missile, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) writes that the "U.S. policy towards North Korea has failed."
Rep. Chabot (R-OH), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcmte. on Asia and the Pacific, is one of the participants at a Winter Symposium hosted by the Institute for Corean-American Studies. He is calling on new Secretary of State John Kerry and the new Defense Secretary to revise U.S. policies and confront what he calls "North Korea's provocative actions."
Other participants, including security specialists and professors of Asian Studies, examine the security challenges facing the Obama administration as it pursues a new military strategy, shifting the U.S. defense focus from Europe to the Pacific.
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text: Home Politics Boehner Praises Rangel? In a Capitol Portrait Ceremony, collegiality ruled in honor of the former Ways and Means chairman. By: Edmund Newton Posted: Sept. 23 2011 2:02 PM 0 Courtesy of Rep. Charles Rangel For a brief moment on Thursday, that nonpartisan "collegiality" that old-time members of Congress talk about so fondly reappeared in the Rotunda meeting room of the House Ways and Means Committee. The occasion was an event to honor Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the former chairman of the committee. About 600 people gathered on the floor of the marbled room to watch the unveiling of a portrait of Rangel, to be hung over the room's east entranceway. Hundreds from Rangel's Manhattan district had traveled to Washington by car, train or chartered bus to participate in the event. House staffers ambled in, as did participants in the annual convocation of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (Rangel, who has been a congressman for 40 years, is a founding member), which is going on now in the Washington Convention Center a mile away. The large, festive, partisan crowd milled around good-naturedly, chanting "Char-lie, Char-lie" when the once-powerful congressman appeared, beaming in a red tie and blue suit. Some even added the old Arsenio Hall "woof-woof-woof," with fists rotating, no doubt rattling the ghosts of dead Chairmen James Polk, Millard Fillmore and a few others who peered down from framed portraits around the room. Since Rangel's censure by the House 10 months ago, for charges ranging from improper solicitation of funds for a self-named collegiate center and failure to disclose large amounts of income to failure to pay taxes on property in the Dominican Republic, he has lost his chairmanship and been largely thrust out of the spotlight. Even at 80, Rangel had star power. With his dazzling smile and commonsensical way of talking about budgetary matters, he was a popular talking head on evening talk shows. But there are others who are summoned now by MSNBC and CNN to talk about the nation's budget business. Nowadays, Rangel is popular mostly on Fox News, where, despite his good-natured rejoinders, talk-show hosts like to trot him out as a corrupt liberal exemplar. ("Is liberalism working for the black community?" Laura Ingraham disdainfully demanded of Rangel recently, not bothering to wait for his response before firing more prosecutorial-style questions.) But this was an upbeat occasion. The only suspense on Thursday was about what the curtained picture at the front of the room would look like -- and whether House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would show up as advertised. Boehner indeed showed up. After a Harlem reverend spoke of the unveiling of the portrait as "enshrining a great man in this great hall," the speaker stepped to the podium. Would it be more of the same barely disguised partisan ill will, with a withering joke or a perfunctory tribute? Turning to Rangel, he addressed him personally: "I know that we're proud of you, proud of your accomplishments and" -- no sense in going overboard -- "I hope you have an enjoyable evening." There it was. Not anywhere near as effusive as the remarks of some of Rangel's Democratic colleagues. But Boehner's words were remarkable for their lack of rancor, for their recognition of a political opponent as a personal friend, and they went over well with many in the room. Page 1 of 2 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre


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Tempted by products that claim to increase penis size? Get the facts about what to expect from male-enhancement pills, pumps, exercises and surgeries.
By Mayo Clinic staffPenis-enlargement products and procedures aren't difficult to find. Men's magazines, radio shows and the Internet are full of ads for pumps, pills, weights, exercises and even surgeries that claim to increase the length and width of your penis.
However, there's very little scientific support for any nonsurgical methods to enlarge the penis. And no reputable medical organization endorses penis surgery for purely cosmetic reasons. Most of the techniques you see advertised are ineffective, and some can damage your penis. So think twice before trying any of them.
Penis size: What's normal, what's not?
The fear that your penis looks too small or is too small to satisfy your partner during sex is a common fear. But a number of studies have shown that most men who think their penises are too small actually have normal-sized penises. Similarly, studies suggest than many men have an exaggerated idea of what constitutes "normal" penis size. Consider that:
- The average penis measures somewhere between 3 and 5 inches (or about 8 to 13 centimeters) when not erect, and between 5 and 7 inches (13 to 18 centimeters) when erect.
- A penis is considered abnormally small only if it measures less than 3 inches (or about 7 centimeters) when erect, a condition called micropenis.
How partners view penis size
The popular media and advertisers would have you believe that your partner cares deeply about penis size. The issue of attraction is complex, but numerous studies suggest that penis size is much lower on the list of priorities for women than such issues as a man's personality. Unfortunately, there's little research about gay men's perceptions about their partners' penis size. But keep in mind that understanding your partner's needs and desires is more likely to improve your sexual relationship than trying to change the size of your penis.
Don't believe the hype
Companies offer many different types of nonsurgical penis-enlargement treatments, and often promote them with serious-looking advertisements that include endorsements from "scientific" researchers. But if you look closely, you'll see that claims of safety and effectiveness haven't been proved So, marketers rely on testimonials, skewed data and questionable before-and-after photos.
On close inspection of so-called sexual enhancement supplements, you may notice a sentence such as, "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." Indeed, manufacturers don't have to provide evidence to the FDA of safety or effectiveness before putting dietary supplements on the market.
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- Pills and lotions. These usually contain vitamins, minerals, herbs or hormones that claim to enlarge the penis. None of these products has been proved to work, and some may be harmful.
- Vacuum pumps. Because pumps draw blood into the penis and make it swell, they're sometimes used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Using a penis pump more often and for longer than typically used for erectile dysfunction can damage elastic tissue in the penis, leading to less-firm erections. Using a vacuum pump can create an illusion of a larger penis, but results are not permanent.
- Exercises. Sometimes called jelqing, these exercises use a hand-over-hand motion to push blood from the base to the head of your penis. Although this technique appears safer than other methods, it can lead to scar formation, pain and disfigurement. There are no scientific studies that indicate this technique is effective at increasing penis size.
- Stretching. Stretching consists of attaching a stretcher or extender device to the penis. These devices exert traction on the penis. A few small studies have reported increases of half an inch to almost an inch (about 1 to 2 cm) in length with these devices. However, the studies are not of high quality and more rigorous research is needed before this technique can be considered safe and effective.
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The Wildcats made it a no-doubter in the second half, as they turned the Holy War into a laugher. James Bell (25 points, 14 rebounds) and JayVaughn Pinkston (27 points, 8 rebounds, general manliness) led the way.
The Wildcats made it a no-doubter in the second half, as they turned the Holy War into a laugher. James Bell (25 points, 14 rebounds) and JayVaughn Pinkston (27 points, 8 rebounds, general manliness) led the way.
The 2013 edition of the Holy War.
Highlights courtesy of the junior running back's YouTube channel.
Villanova's History Department Chair is on a crusade to end the use of "Holy War" to refer to college sports rivalries. Why is it such a big deal, and should we even be giving him any attention?
The Villanova Wildcats look to continue their winning ways against the Saint Joseph's Hawks in the 'Cats second Big 5 match of the year. It's time for the HOLY WAR!!
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State treasurer defies ideologues, makes good moves
This is what happens when fringe ideologues begin wielding out-size influence in politics and governance: Card-carrying, unapologetic conservatives suddenly are no longer conservative enough.
They're tarred with the "M" word -- moderate. They're lambasted as "traitors" to the cause. They're bullied and threatened with defeat in the next election.
Case in point: state Treasurer Ken Miller.
It's a measure of how far, far, far, far right the uber-conservatives have pushed the Oklahoma Republican Party that anyone would even attempt to depict Miller as a moderate.
Yet, Miller is evidently suspect among the reality-challenged fringe because -- among other perceived misdeeds -- he refuses to blithely peddle the discredited Arthur Laffer fairy tale that cutting taxes yields more tax revenue.
And he's firing back at his critics -- publicly and by name.
And for that, he deserves heartfelt applause from thinking Oklahomans, whether Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, or -- yes -- even moderate.
Make no mistake: Miller and I are Grand Canyons apart when it comes to political philosophy.
But in the spirit of the holiday season, it's high time we're reminded of something: Just because we may disagree with someone on how best to govern our nation and our state does not mean they are evil or un-American.
Most want the same things we all do: A stronger, fairer, and more prosperous America and Oklahoma for our kids and grandkids. It's just that we disagree about how to get there.
It doesn't mean we should withdraw into our political cocoons and treat the other side like mortal enemies who must be vanquished.
The latest evidence that Miller is a rarity among Republicans is an opinion column that attracted some attention in blogosphere (and was reprinted in the newspaper I edit, The Oklahoma Observer), but was largely ignored by the state's mainstream media.
Entitled "In Defense of Conservatism," Miller praised two fellow Oklahoma Republicans -- U.S. Rep. Tom Cole and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn -- for prudent conservatism in the wake of the federal government's "fiscal cliff" crisis despite criticism from tax hawk Grover Norquist.
"Grover Norquist claims both positions defy the anti-tax pledge, the revenue-neutral standard for tax policy changes made famous by his Americans for Tax Reform advocacy group," Miller wrote.
"Until now, ideology-based conservatives like Norquist have defined conservatism by their own terms. Absurdly, yet expectedly, the conservative credentials of both Coburn and Cole are under fire."
Then, Miller took dead aim at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, the Sooner state think tank that shamelessly promotes Laffer's theories and leads an around-the-clock assault on the state income tax. (More on that insanity -- and inanity -- in a moment.)
"Oklahoma also has ideologically-driven interest groups that seek their own definition of conservatism," Miller correctly noted.
"One such group, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, has upped the ante on the Norquist gold standard where anything short of complete elimination of the state's largest source of revenue is deemed not conservative.
"Is it not conservative to be cautious in our approach to needed income tax reduction, to protect the state credit rating, to pay our debts, and to ensure sufficient funding for core services with a diversified and dependable revenue structure?" Miller added.
He's correct: Groups like OCPA -- spawn of the Coors-bankrolled Heritage Foundation -- are stirring the same sort of scorched earth, zero-sum politics here that Oklahomans loathe about Washington.
What they refuse to acknowledge -- but that those in the reality-based community like Miller know -- is that Oklahoma's facing a fiscal cliff of its own.
It's not because of profligate government spending. It's because lawmakers (and governors) pander to taxpayers with ill-conceived income tax cuts and to their top campaign contributors with shamefully generous corporate welfare.
First: tax cuts.
In recent years, the GOP-dominated Legislature -- with support of some misguided Democratic lawmakers and former Democratic Gov. Brad Henry -- enacted nearly $1 billion in income tax cuts.
Our state budget crafters were able to hide some of the worst effects of the dubious practice by using one-time federal dollars to plug massive holes in the state budget -- all the while complaining about Uncle Sugar's spendthrift ways.
The jig is up on this shell game. In the first five months of the fiscal year, Oklahoma collected a mere $6.7 million in gross production taxes -- about three percent of what it normally collects (on average $194 million) in the fiscal year's first five months, according to the Oklahoma Policy Institute.
We've already been laying off teachers. Our prisons are again at capacity. Many of our roads and bridges are suspect. There are waiting lists for mental health care.
Now gross production taxes are in the crapper -- and nitwit ideologues are urging more income tax cuts. Even Gov. Mary Fallin is beating this dead horse. Somewhere P.T. Barnum is grinning.
Second: tax credits.
The Legislature -- whether under Democratic or Republican control -- has long been the personal playground of the state's wealthy elites, especially oil and gas barons.
While claiming devotion to free enterprise capitalism, lawmakers repeatedly have taken your tax dollars and handed them to corporate interests -- incentives, we're told, to encourage bidness and bolster the economy.
Let's call it what it is: corporate welfare. And it belies any notion of free enterprise capitalism.
So cut the B.S. and look at the actual figures, courtesy of a recent New York Times investigation: state lawmakers slipped $584 from every man, woman, and child in Oklahoma into the pockets of private interests in the form of so-called tax credits.
The total -- $2.19 billion -- represents about one-third of the entire state budget or 37 cents of every tax dollar spent.
This is a legalized looting of the state treasury.
So far as I recall, Miller never publicly led the charge to revamp this despicable system. But Miller used a phrase in his column: Broadening the base. That's code for looking at corporate welfare -- much of it indefensible.
Giving Miller an attaboy isn't enough. We now look to him -- and other clear-eyed elected officials -- to reel Oklahoma back from the fiscal cliff and to fund core state services fully and fairly.
And to shove the ideologues back into their caves where they belong. Oklahoma's future depends on it.
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Posted 10 December 2004 - 09:25 AM
Sites like BestBuy.com, Crutchfield.com, etc. have very little incentive at all to link out to other sites. When users get there, they're either actively shopping or comparing prices, neither of which the store wants to distract them from.
If the company wants an informational site for users wanting to know more about a product (or product group) before buying, very often it will be handled as a completely separate site. In a large company, the managers of your online store will often be completely separate from the managers of a content site, as will the sites themselves.
Posted 10 December 2004 - 09:28 AM
- Careers.org links to Monster.com
- which links to Content.Monster.com
- which links to Careers.org as a great career information source
Again Content.Monster.com actually links to both sites, so it's not a pure 3-way, but it's definitely not reciprocal. Monster is never going to link to Careers.org.
Posted 10 December 2004 - 10:42 AM
If a site can't or won't, that's fine too, there are plenty of other ways to build links.
To come up with some convulted linking scheme JUST because you think it will help your rankings, however, is just not a good long-term strategy, imo.
Do other things that will get you links. You don't have to trade links. Some people just don't like to trade links. (I personally don't, so I can understand this attitude completely.) Some sites are not conducive to linking out at all. Again, that's fine, then don't link out. But then use a different strategy for getting links in, is all, and don't worry about the whole reciprocal thing.
Posted 18 September 2006 - 03:40 PM
I've only been in the SEO field a couple of months but the way I see it is, if its a good solid link that will help my customers then link to it. Most the time, and from my own searching experience if I come to a site I like and they also have good links, I return to that site often.
What is the point of placing a link to someone elses site that might have more information on the product you are selling on your site when you can easily place a new chunk of content on your site making it better for both the SE's and the users??
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Posted 18 September 2006 - 04:20 PM
People can get all the links they need from a variety of trusted sources, but many people are too lazy to go and find those trusted sources.
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Posted 18 September 2006 - 04:42 PM
You'd have to do something a LOT less obvious than a simple 3-way link strategy for it to "work".
There are times when a 3-way link system may be appropriate, but it should be assumed that the search engine will simply treat it as a design methodology for your site, rather than some sort of unrelated site that suddenly decided that it really likes you.
In short, you should assume that the search engine will consider it to be part of your site and treat the links accordingly, rather than assuming you've somehow outsmarted a computer designed to detect and analyze link patterns on a massive scale.
If you think that you can analyze linking patterns better than a search engine, then you should probably start your own, rather than trying to game one of the existing ones. It would be more profitable, I imagine.
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Posted 18 September 2006 - 07:47 PM
Think SEO. There are only so many sites, and they all interlink. If you get a link from NY Times, you stand out. It really isn't terribly hard to find whole communities who just interlink. Not that hard at all.
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What do you use?
I'm trying to use Excel in the right way...
I need to try and learn some Excel.
I use Pen, Paper, Floresent High-lighters, and Sometimes a Blacklight
it kinda looks like a spreadsheet though, sometimes.
i use excel for simple counting...as i am not good with averages or standard deviation or all that baloney stuff...but i do print out matrix templates and i also fill them in...and i use red pen...green pen...blue pen...highlighters of all colors...pencils of all thicknesses, number 2, mechanical...markers...tape...glue...
if they had taught us how to win the lottery in kindergarten...i might be better at it right now...(although i did love those blocks!)
i keep getting that "excel is not responding" message!!! FRUSTRATING!!! I hope i saved my work!!!
I win money in the lottery. I do my best to win money in the lottery.
In LOTTO, if you think LONG, then you think WRONG.
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I've dabbled with it.
In neo-conned Amerika, bank robs you. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be the name of a convenience store, not a govnoment agency.
there is a great function called countif...you can mark your excel spreadsheet with the winners, and then countif the values, and then organize the values looking for different F.F....and bottoms...
its easy. I personally taught T*T and SM everything they know about this...
= countif(Range,0)
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=AANTAL.ALS(bereik, criterium)
Yeah, if I'm not available, call LB for all your macro needs.
I work best with an abacus and toothpicks.
I use it for statistiscs and for my KENO abb. wheels.
I use a VBA function to count amount of different numbers in a set. Found on the internet.
LMAO. Thanks, I needed this.
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If you are a lotto fanatic then Excel is a must. This tool will do more for you than pen and paper.
Right now I am gathering data. I have a VBA program running. At this point in time, the program is 25% done and has been running for 24 hours. At this rate we are talking about a four day run. I could not hope to accomplish this with pen and paper.
Is 4 days of VBA run time not a little overkill? I mean usually when you guess right you guess fast, because it jumps out at you. Your intuition points it out and the other part of your brain tries to verify it. But you are right, excel is a must there is no easier method to track patterns such as the favorite FF, and other hitting patterns.


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