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Justin Bieber Confirms 'As Long As You Love Me' As Next Single (PHOTOS)
Pop phenom Justin Bieber will release 'As Long As You Love Me' as the second single off his uber-popular new CD Believe, Billboard is reporting.
The club-happy track, on which Bieber collaborated with Big Sean, will hit radio on July 9. It follows his biggest hit to date, 'Boyfriend,' which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.
And speaking of big hits: Bieber's new album Believe skyrocketed to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart in its debut last week, selling a whopping 374,000 copies.
That marks Bieber's fourth-consecutive number-one album, his biggest debut to date and 2012's best-selling new release thusfar this year.
Meanwhile, in other Bieber news, the 18-year-old superstar was spotted on Tuesday attending a free concert by Katy Perry with girlfriend Selena Gomez. See photos from their romantic day out together in the gallery, above.
The concert was held to promote Perry's upcoming 3-D documentary, 'Part of Me,' out July 5.
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Re: WorldTransport Forum NY Times article on car dependence KARL FJELLSTROEMS RESPONSE ON SHANGHAI
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FROM July 15 NY TIMES
"A City's Traffic Plans Are Snarled by China's Car Culture" (Shanghai
Journal, July 12) correctly identified the rapid growth in car travel as
the major cause of the city's transportation and air-quality problems.
But Shanghai still has a bicycle, pedestrian and public transport
culture rather than a car culture.
Cars are owned by only around 1 in 10 people and account for less than
15 percent of trips. Nine in 10 people move by other means, including
walking, bicycles and buses.
Further, European and wealthy Asian cities have shown that rapid
economic growth need not result in sky-high demand for cars.
The situation is far from hopeless.
There are many examples of successful transport policies that Shanghai
could adapt and apply, like parking restrictions in Copenhagen,
congestion charging in Singapore, bus rapid transit in Seoul and
high-quality pedestrian spaces in Hangzhou.
Political will would make all the difference.
Karl Fjellstrom
Guangzhou, China, July 13, 2005
The writer is director for China and Tanzania, Institute for
Transportation and Development
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> Subject: WorldTransport Forum NY Times article on car dependence
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/international/asia/12china.html
As a proponent of carsharing, I am dismayed that the $4,600
registration fee
for each car doesn't dampen demand for _owning a car_ (vs. using it).
least they are dreaming of owning only one car per _household_, vs. one
every person of driving age, as it is over here.
The article doesn't mention the parking problems, nor what it costs to
(I am just reading the very important new book: Shoup, Donald, 2004,
High Cost of Free Parking_). The amazing growth of high-rise
suggests it is very expensive.
It would be interesting to _offer_ carsharing to see what demand it
I continue to be convinced that carsharing will catch on over there
other "developing societies" only only if the "model" cultures embrace
first, showing that car-ownership is not what it is cracked up to be.
Chris Bradshaw
Vrtucar, Ottawa, Canada
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Section of Route 228 at Interstate 79 will reopen on Friday in Cranberry
Some of the utility infrastructure that crashed onto Route 228 in Cranberry and disrupted traffic for more than 48 hours could be relocated in several years with the planned construction of an underpass, township and utility officials said on Thursday.
The reopening of Route 228, which carries about 40,000 vehicles daily, and adjoining Interstate 79 ramps was expected to occur by rush hour on Friday morning, officials said.
High winds toppled nine Penn Power utility poles and six aluminum PennDOT light poles on Tuesday evening. Restoration stretched into Friday morning because repair crews had to lift nearly 10,000 feet of cable at 24 pounds per foot belonging to Consolidated Communications, which provides cable service to the area.
"It's very tedious and labor-intensive work," said spokeswoman Laura ZuHone of Consolidated Communications. "It's very heavy, and safety is our main concern."
The utility and light poles fell down in a domino effect in the westbound lanes, said Middlesex resident Amanda Grell, who was sitting at a traffic light on eastbound Route 228 at the height of the storm.
Grell said her two children — Josh, 12, and Emma, 9 — were with her as was a friend of Josh's. They witnessed a blinding rain that swept sideways. The National Weather Service said an 85-mph downburst hit about 7 p.m.
"When I looked out the window, there were trees bent in half, and then the next thing, there was a bright flash of blue light, and then the poles and lines just started coming down," Grell said. "That was probably the scariest weather experience I've ever been involved with."
A preliminary check showed the lighting poles were pulled down by the heavy wires that fell when the utility poles toppled, PennDOT spokeswoman Deborah Casadei said.
She said PennDOT would participate in a post-mortem to discuss how agencies responded, including why the poles fell. The discussion likely would be led by Cranberry officials, she added.
"It's a bit early to be talking about that now," Casadei said on Thursday afternoon. "We're focusing on getting the road open as quickly as we can, but safely."
When an underpass is constructed between Cranberry Woods and Cranberry Springs Drive, running under Route 228, some poles and wires will be relocated, said Cranberry Manager Jerry Andree.
The utility and township engineers have not determined yet how many will move and the final designs, according to Rob Lombardo, an area manager for Penn Power.
New utility poles were in place on Thursday, he said, and crews can restring electric lines without affecting traffic.
Penn Power officials have said they believe the overpowering winds — not design problems — caused the collapse.
"I see no reason that we'd have to change anything," Lombardo said. "Those poles are capable of holding whatever we have on them."
He doesn't know exactly how much the electric lines weighed, but said they were "pencil thin" and much lighter than the cable lines.
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Before his release from prison, he had insisted that nationalizing South Africa's mines, banks and major industries was ironclad ANC policy and that imposing state control of certain sectors of the economy was "unavoidable."
Yet four years later, to head off violence and economic collapse, he changed his tune. His government agreed to assume the national debt incurred by the apartheid regime, to guarantee white civil servants their jobs, to protect private property (thus almost ruling out land reform) and to make the central bank independent of the government (thus insulating it from attempts to redistribute national wealth).
The ANC also agreed to sign on to GATT, the precursor to the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which reassured financial markets, but made a radical overhaul of the country's economic power base almost impossible.
Broken promises even plagued his personal life. Winnie's flagrant philandering had prompted the couple to separate in 1992. When their divorce case was heard four years later, Mandela described his loneliness to the court, explaining that since his release, she had refused to discuss their personal problems and "not once has she ever entered my bedroom while I was awake."
Also in 1996, the Mandela government launched something designed to be much more positive – the Truth and Reconciliation Commission led by Desmond Tutu, who'd stepped down as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. All who felt they had been victimized could air their grievances, and perpetrators could acknowledge their crimes and seek amnesty. The ANC considered the commission essential to the peaceful transition to full democracy, but critics condemned it, arguing that justice must be done before true reconciliation could occur.
The commission presented its report in October, 1998, and the following year, as promised, Mandela stepped down rather than seek a second term, handing power to Mbeki. "He served as an example to all those hungry for power by not standing for a second term," his lawyer George Bizos said afterward. "He didn't want South Africa to be known as a one-man state."
In his later years, Mandela devoted himself to his children's foundation and to fighting HIV-AIDs, which had spread rapidly while he was in office and preoccupied with other problems. "This is a war," he said. "It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters. We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying."
In his old age, this man who had been allowed only three visits with his children during the long years on Robben Island and who had been publicly humiliated, after his release, by Winnie's blatant promiscuity, was given the gift of a passionate love affair. On his 80th birthday in 1998, he married Graça Machel, the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of post-independence Mozambique.
They connected after her husband died in a mysterious 1986 plane crash that many believe was ordered by the South African government. From his cell Mandela sent her a letter of condolence, to which she replied: "From within your vast prison, you brought a ray of light into my hour of darkness."
After Mandela retired from public life in 1999, the couple spent time with their various grandchildren, at her home in Mozambique and at the house on his ancestral property at Qunu in the Transkei. Looking frail except when his beatific smile brightened up his face, the man everybody loved to call Madiba, his clan name, usually walked with a cane.
His short-term memory was as faltering as his gait, but he still used his influence to focus international attention on intractable issues. For his 89th birthday in 2007, he brought a group of world leaders to Johannesburg to form The Elders, a consortium of wisdom, integrity and influence chaired by Tutu. With such founding members as former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and U.S. president Jimmy Carter, he said, the group could work "freely and boldly to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict, and inspire hope where there is despair."
A month after that, he and Machel travelled to London to see his statue unveiled in the square across from the Houses of Parliament, near likenesses of Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
He told the crowd how he had been to the site 45 years earlier while in London to visit Oliver Tambo after going underground. The two fugitives walked among the monuments to dead white men, including legendary Boer leader Jan Smuts who'd become South Africa's prime minister, and said that one day there would be a statue honouring them, too, although they didn't really think it would come to pass.
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Women's Employment Transitions and Fertility
This paper explores the dynamics of female employment decisions around childbearing using longitudinal data from the 2002 Chilean Social Protection Survey (Encuesta de Protección Social, EPS). The study evaluates how the birth of a child can affect the woman's decision to work, in particular among women with strong attachment to the labor market. The results indicate that the hazard of leaving employment is high for women during the first year of their newborn child. The mother of a newborn child is twice as likely to leave employment. The effect of newborns on employment transitions is even greater among older generations and among voluntary quitters. Even one year after the birth of a child, women still face a high risk of leaving employment. A woman who is still working when her son reaches the age of one, still faces a 50% higher risk of leaving employment. Something is making these mothers reconsider whether they should remain at work, provided that they have been working during the child's first year of age. This could be related to the existence of maternal benefits in Chile, where women have a 20-week (paid) maternity and they are allowed up to a year of paid parental leave if the child is sick. A woman might not have any incentives (or have the need) to leave work while she is using these benefits but might be tempted (or have) to do it once she has exhausted them. The introduction of individual effects and employment history variables reveal the persistence of two contrasting labor force patterns among women. As the actual labor experience increases, the probability of entering an inactivity period decreases. Additionally, the greater the number of years a woman remained inactive in the past, the greater is the probability of re-entering an inactivity period. In the voluntary transitions model, past inactivity periods have a smaller effect on the probability of leaving employment. This can be seen as a possible indication of an important penalization by the labor market, in terms of employment opportunities after prolonged periods of inactivity.
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Verdi's operas dominate today's repertoire due to the dramatic impact his music has on audiences. In this program led by opera enthusiast Bob Levi, you'll hear myriad melodies from Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Aida, Nabucco, A Masked Ball, The Force of Destiny, and Don Carlo. Through Bob's commentary, you should gain a fuller understanding of why Verdi's music is alive and well in popular culture!Library: STDL - Central Library
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Delivering for seniors
Julia Gillard posted Saturday, 7 August 2010
Older Australians have made our nation strong and prosperous, and deserve to be supported in their later years - whether in work, retirement or in their caring roles. Federal Labor's Delivering for Seniors package will support and encourage older Australians in the workforce, tackle age discrimination, support grandparent carers and help meet the costs of living. Our Delivering for Seniors package is a key part of our economic plan. It includes:
$6,500 improved Work Bonus for age pensioners who choose to do part time work.
$4,000 worth of training to support mature age workers in the workplace.
A dedicated Age Discrimination Commissioner.
New peer support for Grandparent Carers.
New rules for reverse mortgages to protect seniors.
The Federal Labor Party has always stood for fairness for older Australians. The Delivering for Seniors package builds upon our first term achievements that include the biggest reforms to the age pension in more than a hundred years. Our pension reforms have driven increases for pensioners now worth an extra $100 a fortnight for single pensioner and an extra $74 for couples combined. We also increased the Utilities Allowance by $400 to help meet the costs of electricity and other essentials. Federal Labor has delivered increased support for selfâfunded retirees - including a new Seniors Supplement now worth $795 a year. And we delivered a national transport concessions scheme to give State Seniors Card holders concessions when they travel interstate. Our historic superannuation reforms will boost superannuation for hard working Australians, giving more financial security in retirement. Our Delivering for Seniors package will build on this record through $100 million in new commitments.
Improved work bonus for pensioners Many age pensioners take on part time and occasional work and should be encouraged and rewarded for these valuable contributions to our community. A reâelected Gillard Labor Government will introduce a new, more generous Work Bonus for age pensioners from 1 July 2011. Hard working pensioners will now be able to keep up $6,500 of the money they earn from part time work each year. This benefit can be 'annualised' to especially help with seasonal work. Many age pensioners want to undertake seasonal or contract work but are concerned about the impact on their pension. These reforms will increase the amount an age pensioner can earn before it affects their pension. Under these changes, the Work Bonus can be 'annualised'. That is, pensioners will now be able to build up any unused amount of their $250 bonus every fortnight for up to 12 months, totalling $6,500. A pensioner could then earn up to $6,500 a year extra without it affecting their pension. The Work Bonus allows pensioners to keep more of the money they earn from partâtime work. It disregards an amount of employment income from the pension income test. Pensioners will be able to accumulate any unused Work Bonus each fortnight they don't work, allowing this 'bank' to offset more earnings when they do work. Pensioners would be able to accrue up to $250 a fortnight into a 'bank,' totalling $6,500 over 12 months. Unused amount can carry forward between years, up to a total of $6,500. This is on top of the pension income free area - worth $146 per fortnight for singles, equivalent to $3,976 a year. The new Work Bonus will allow a pensioner to earn up to $6,500 at any time during the year without it affecting their pension. This could be regular work each fortnight or, for example, over a six week period before Christmas when demand for casual labour increases. The Work Bonus will also be improved by disregarding every dollar of income up to $250 a fortnight, rather than the 50 cents in each of the first $500 arrangement that currently exists. Analysis of pension income has shown that more pensioners would benefit by a straight dollar for dollar reduction. All pensioners who work will benefit from these improvements. For example, an age pensioner earning $400 a fortnight currently has half of their income disregarded ($200) under the Work Bonus so that only $200 is assessed as income under the pension income test. Under the improved Work Bonus, a full $250 will be disregarded, and only
$150 assessed, so they will keep an extra $50 of their earnings a fortnight. For an age pensioner who only works for six weeks a year, earning $1,250 a fortnight, they will be able to 'bank' their Work Bonus. When they do work, they could disregard the full $3,750 they earn in that six week period. These changes will benefit around 30,000 age pensioners each year, with an average benefit for those who work of just under $100 a fortnight in increased pension payments. This will cost $94.3 million over the forward estimates. The Work Bonus was introduced as part of the 2009 pension reforms. More help for mature aged workers Seniors have much to offer Australian workplaces. We need to encourage more Australian employers to appreciate the extra benefits that older workers bring to workplace, such as a strong sense of loyalty, experience, reliability and an extra depth of insight. We want to help mature age workers get the skills needed to stay employable. A reâelected Gillard Labor Government will dedicate $30 million in additional funding to the Experience Plus program, to deliver more workplace based training for mature age workers aged over 50. This additional funding for Experience Plus will allow for significant upâskilling of up to 7,500 mature age workers. The measure forms part of the highly successful early 'Enterprise Based' streams of Federal Labor's Productivity Places Program. Organisations with mature age workers will be able to submit proposals under the Experience Plus program for recognition of prior learning, and funding for training to up skill. Funding will be provided through existing uncommitted funds in the Productivity Places Program that is already provided from in the budget. This builds on Federal Labor's earlier $43 million investment to support older Australians who want to stay in the workforce through quality job training and mentoring of young Australians. Tackling age discrimination A reâelected Gillard Labor Government will create a standalone Age Discrimination Commissioner as a dedicated advocate for the rights of older Australians in the community and industry and to handle complaints under the Age Discrimination Act. We need more employers and the broader community to appreciate the important qualities and
skills older Australians bring to the workplace and public life. A standalone Age Discrimination Commissioner will provide a dedicated Commissioner exercising full functions under the Age Discrimination Act to tackle age discrimination in our workplaces and our community. These include discrimination in getting job or applying for a promotion, enrolling at a TAFE or university, apply to rent a house, or using services such as at a bank, superannuation fund, insurance companies, and government services. From 1 July 2011, we will provide $3 million over the forward estimates in additional funding to the Australian Human Rights Commission to support this position. Supporting grandparent carers The Gillard Labor Government will provide $900,000 to establish a national network of peer support groups for grandparent carers. Grandparents who are caring for their grandchildren make enormous sacrifices. Across Australia, there are more than 14,000 families where grandparents are the primary carers of children. Twentyâfive peer support groups will be established around the country for grandparent carers to meet, share information and experiences and support each other. A reâelected Gillard Labor Government will also establish dedicated grandparent advisors in selected Centrelink offices. These advisors will improve grandparent carers' access to Centrelink payments and services, and provide information and referral to other government and community services. Greater protection on reverse mortgages Federal Labor also recognises that special protections are needed for older Australians who are using equity in their homes to gain access to credit. Through reforms to our banking regulation and credit laws, Federal Labor will provide greater protection to older Australians through:
Extended protection for reverse mortgages and home reversion schemes, including greater disclosure of the features and fees on these products.
A statutory protection against negative equity so consumers aren't left with a debt significantly greater than the value of their property.
Federal Labor's trackârecord of delivering for seniors Our Delivering for Seniors reforms build on the substantial reforms Federal Labor has delivered for older Australians. These include:
A record pension increase as part of our pension reforms, now worth over $100 a fortnight for singles and $74 for couples.
New indexation arrangements so the pension better keeps up with the cost of living including a new Pension Living Cost Index and increasing wages benchmark from 25 per cent to 27.7 per cent of male total average weekly earnings.
Incentives for those aged over 50 to save for their retirement including raising the Superannuation Guarantee age limit from 1 July 2013 and doubling concessional superannuation contribution limits (contribution caps) from 1 July 2012 for Australians aged 50 and over to $50,000, for those with total superannuation balance under $500,000.
Economic stimulus payments of $1,400 for singles and $2,100 for couples to provide extra support to pensioners and self funded retirees who are on the Commonwealth Seniors Health card.
A simpler and more flexible pension system including a new Pension Supplement that can be taken monthly or quarterly.
Increasing Utilities Allowance by $400 to provide support with the increasing cost of gas, water and electricity.
National transport concessions so that State Seniors Card holders get concessions when they travel interstate.
A new $795 Seniors Supplement for selfâfunded retirees who have a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card.
A national Broadband for Seniors program that has provided seniors with access to the internet and information technology resources through more than 900 kiosks around the country.
Streamlining Centrelink's Age Pension transfer form to make it easier for more than 50,000 Centrelink customers a year to switch from an income support payment to Age Pension when they reach the qualifying age.
A Gillard Labor Government is committed to a strong and secure economy so we can provide services to the community such as worldâclass hospitals and aged care facilities. For 12 years in Government the Coalition failed older Australians
The Coalition knew that pensioners were doing it tough but they did nothing. At a time when the mining boom was delivering windfall revenue to the nation, Tony Abbott was part of a LiberalâNational Cabinet that rejected a proposal to increase the single pension. Even Peter Costello says that Tony Abbott does not understand the economy. A LiberalâNational Coalition Government would mean higher cost of living pressures for seniors and pensioners. Mr Abbott wants to make pensioners pay higher grocery prices to pay for his unfair paid parental leave scheme. While pensioners are doing it tough, Tony Abbott wants to give high income earners up to $75,000 in paid parental leave over six months - that's eight times more than a single pensioner receives in the same six months. Tony Abbott will scrap our superannuation reforms, risking the financial security of older Australians. Mr Abbott doesn't have the judgement necessary to be Prime Minister, he doesn't have a plan for the economy, and his grocery tax will make cost of living pressures worse for senior Australians. Funding for this commitment will be fully offset over the forward estimates, consistent with the Gillard Labor Government's commitment to return the budget to surplus in three years.


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Looks like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have even more room for their six kids to play – the power couple just purchased a $40-million Italian villa in Italy. The new digs are located in Valpolicella, in the province of Verona, where "Romeo and Juliet" was set. How fitting!
And the Jolie Pitt kids – Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and 2-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne – certainly won't have to worry about sharing digs, since the mansion has 15-rooms.
Brad and Angie reportedly fell instantly in love with the house, that boasts a screening room, two pools, several Jacuzzis and a home gym. "Mr. Pitt and Ms. Jolie saw it for 10 minutes and they said yes," said Alexander Proto, a consultant for the property.
"They were very determined. We are very pleased [to] have worked with them … no problems, very nice, very competent, ideal customers."
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Google and Microsoft's Bing did not apply for the Internet map service licenses which was granted by China to first batch of 31 Chinese and joint-venture operators, sparking speculation about their future operations in that country.
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As Toyota's youth-oriented brand (designed to offer the X and Y generations vehicles their parents wouldn't want), you'd think Toyota's quality reputation would carry over to Scion. Unfortunately, the 2009 Scion xB misses a couple of marks.
Reviews read by TheCarConnection.com are mixed about the Scion xB's interior comfort. Some praise the near-limitless headroom and generous cargo space but also note that the seats can be uncomfortable. The 2009 Scion xB is designed to hold five occupants, and those up front will find "comfortable and supportive" seats with "ample" headroom, though "taller folks may want more legroom," according to ConsumerGuide. Autoblog observes that headroom on the xB Scion has dropped "four and a half inches in back," though Cars.com adds that the rear seats feature "lots of legroom and a nicely angled backrest." Cars.com also finds that "the front of the cabin is airy, and there's plenty of headroom for tall passengers" on the 2009 Scion xB, but that can prove to be of little consolation if you're situated in one of the less-than-comfortable seats up front. MyRide.com is especially critical of the driver's armrest: "It's too narrow to be comfortable, but it doesn't fold completely out of the way either, annoying some drivers in either position." ForbesAutos notes, "There's enough room in the back seat to fit two six-footers with legroom to spare, and its cargo hold rivals many larger SUVs with the seats folded flat."
Speaking of cargo room, which ConsumerGuide says includes "several bins and trays" that "supply handy interior storage," the Scion xB's "cargo area has a handy under-floor bin." Road & Track notes that "cargo volume goes up about half a cubic foot" and calls the 2009 Scion xB "a lesson in interior space efficiency." Edmunds contends "the xB will impress you with its utility."
In reviews read by TheCarConnection.com, there are a few minor quality issues. Car and Driver laments the "knee-banging shifter cabinet," lack of drawers, and map pockets. Otherwise, Motor Trend reports that the "Toyota engineers used tight panel fits and strategically placed sound-deadening material to quell wind noise and road vibration." Still, as MyRide.com attests, "There's noticeable engine noise when you gun it, and it's not particularly refined, either." Overall, Edmunds thinks that the "xB is user-friendly and comfortable." Other reviews of the xB Scion's build and materials quality vary, with ConsumerGuide averring that "the materials are still pleasant for the price" despite the fact that "the interior lacks soft touch surfaces." But Edmunds warns, "Ergonomics leave something to be desired, and many of the interior plastics seem a bit low-budget even for this class of car."
The 2009 Scion xB's road noise characteristics are described by ConsumerGuide as "generally well controlled, though larger bumps pound through loudly." According to Car and Driver, noise is "well-damped." The engine is also tame, and ConsumerGuide considers it "largely unobjectionable" in terms of the noise it generates. Only the squeal of the tires and roll of the body at higher than city speeds interrupt the tunes blasting from the speakers.


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CBS Sports' Jon Heyman reports that the Padres will interview Alex Cora for their managerial vacancy.
Cardinals released INF Alex Cora.
Cardinals signed INF Alex Cora to a minor league contract.
According to MLB.com's Jesse Sanchez, the Cardinals are nearing a minor league deal with Alex Cora.
Updating a previous item, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports that Alex Cora intends to play in MLB this season.
Alex Cora has announced his retirement from baseball.
Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports that there are "a couple teams that want Alex Cora as a coach and a couple that want him as a player."
Alex Cora told Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post on Monday that he plans to return for his 15th major league season in 2012.
Alex Cora lined out as a pinch-hitter in Friday's loss to the Diamondbacks.
Alex Cora left Wednesday's game against the Phillies due to "stomach issues."
Alex Cora left Wednesday's game against the Nationals after four innings for an undisclosed reason.
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HOUSTON - Houston's most recognized shopping destination draws people from all over the world looking for designer clothes, purses and shoes. But now police have identified a group on the hunt for victims.
"It's easy to get lost in. It's easy to remain anonymous," said HPD officer Gilbert Brillon, describing The Galleria.
The mall boasts an estimated 24 million visitors a year. Brillon said the mysterious suspects he's tracking count on the crowds.
"They might approach 30, 40, 50 people in a day, and if they get one or two people to bite, well ... now they've got a payday," Brillon said.
The detective is investigating three unrelated cases, but the method of operation in all three crimes is eerily similar.
"These three cases almost read exactly the same," Brillon explained. "Just change the names and the offense reports would be almost identical. They even went to the same place to start the scam."
That place was The Galleria.
One woman, who was too embarrassed to show her face or reveal her real name, explained how the crime started for her near the Hallmark store.
"She had a great smile and she said, 'Hey, I think I can help you," said the victim we'll call Vicki.
The woman who approached Vicki was 38-year-old Janet Miller. Over the course of six months, Vicki says Miller befriended her, convinced her to leave her husband and then hand over her all of his "evil" money she got in the divorce.
"She wanted all of it," said Vicki. "She wanted every single penny I had ... and to cleanse it and she said, 'I'll give it back to you.'"
Over a six-month period, Vicki gave Miller $216,000.
"Once the suspect got her hands on the money, she disappeared," Brillon explained.
Brillon was only able to identify Janet Miller because he found a 1998 mug shot from her arrest in Philadelphia on a larceny charge connected to fortune telling.
In another case, a woman named Tammy Johns scored $450,000 from a Houston woman she met at The Galleria, claiming she was a sister in the Catholic church.
A third suspect, identified as 29-year-old Janet Williams, got $67,000 from a Rice University foreign exchange student. Brillon said Williams approached the student at the Starbucks in the mall. Over the course of a month and half, the girl borrowed the money from her family and handed it over to Williams. The student told police Williams claimed the money would help rid her mother in China of a demon.
"You or I might say, 'What a quack'" Local 2's Amy Davis said to Brillon.
"Exactly," he replied. "I might try to run away from that person as fast as I can."
But Brillon said the suspects, who called themselves psychics and spiritual healers, are very good at finding naive targets.
"It's part of their culture," he said. "They learn how to do from the time that they're very young. They may not have a degree in psychology, but they're very good psychologists."
KPRC Local 2 tried to track down Williams. The trail lead the station to a psychic shop on Southmore in Pasadena, where an undercover producer made an appointment for a reading. We didn't find her, but instead found her mom, of the same name. She denied even knowing the woman police say is her daughter.
"You don't know this woman?" Davis asked the older Williams, showing her a picture of the 29-year-old Janet Williams.
"I do not know this woman," she replied.
Brillon said police have not been able to find any of the three suspects in these cases.
"They may very well still be here in town or they've moved on to one of the other locations," he said.
New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Florida, Los Angeles and Houston: Brillon said these states and cities make up the psychic circuit. Houston's Galleria is just a payday pit stop for swindlers looking to make some extra cash, he said.
"They're out to steal your money," said Brillon. "From the time they say 'hello' until the time they cut off their relationship with you, that's their entire goal."
Investigators admit these cases can be difficult to prove. Brillon said the three psychics in The Galleria cases promised to return the money after they prayed over it. Because they made that claim and then didn't return the cash, Brillon said it's flat out theft.
If you've seen any of the women in our investigation, call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
The General Manager for The Galleria, Greg Noble, sent KPRC Local 2 this statement in response to this story:
"We strive to maintain a safe and comfortable environment for all of our shoppers and employees. Unfortunately these types of incidents can occur anywhere and as always we encourage the public to alert Security if they encounter any situations where they feel unsafe or uncomfortable or observe suspicious activity," Noble wrote.
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Only James Bond requests "Shaken, Not Stirred." Your polite guests will so admire your good taste as they twirl these gorgeous glass swizzle sticks in their cocktail glasses.
Furniture made for you... by hand! Midcentury simplicity and craftsmanship. Sophisticated style. I love the sofa bench as a transitional piece for guests. Perfect by the fire too.
Handmade hair ornaments and a shopkeeper that's nice as pie. Custom orders by request.
Thrush is another great Etsy shop with lovely midcentury cocktail dresses and goodies like this 1960s Absinthe party dress.
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While I don't think that the artist may have put that much thought into it, I think the images of Daena and Elaena should be reversed. Three girls are depicted in the Maidenvault:
- One reading a copy of the Seven-Pointed Star (probably Rhaena, who was pious).
- One sitting on a chair
- One staring out of the barred window.
Currently, the image of the sister seated on a chair is used as the "Daena" image, and the girl staring out the window is used for "Elaena".
I really think it's the other way around (though the artist may not have thought this out). Daena was "Daena the Defiant" -- constantly escaping from the Maidenvault. Logically, shouldn't she be the one "defiantly" looking out of the bars for a means of escape?--The Dragon Demands (talk) 02:36, July 14, 2014 (UTC)
- I thought the one sitting was Daena because of the angry look on her face.--Gonzalo84 (talk) 03:01, July 14, 2014 (UTC)
- Neither of them looked particularly happy.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 03:18, July 14, 2014 (UTC)


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Poor Justin Bieber Needed To Be Carried Up The Great Wall Of China
Did Justin Bieber learn absolutely nothing from his interventional tête-à-tête with Zach Galifianakis last week? Yesterday's visit to the Great Wall of China was a fantastic opportunity for the ol' Biebs to score a bit of cultural enlightenment — hell, maybe the experience could even serve to humble the bratty pop star. Alas, in true Bieber form, he couldn't even go the Great Wall, at one time considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, alone. Despite owning a perfectly good and functional pair of human legs, Justin opted to instead have his bodyguards and entourage hoist him up onto their shoulders and carry him the length of the wall. He is just so down-to-earth.
Also excellent: the singer and his crew were the cause of a massive security meltdown at the tourist attraction after they saw it fit to go skateboarding around the site, which is obviously Not Allowed and also Frowned Upon. But if there's one thing Justin Bieber knows, it's that anything and everything is fair game for Justin Bieber, am I right? [Mirror.co.uk]


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The Swiss pianist Nik Bartsch has been leading his band Ronin for over a decade. A quintet since 2006, the band has made three studio albums for ECM and now comes this double live album. In all that time there has been just one change of personnel. Original electric bassist Bjorn Mayer was replaced by Thomy Jordi last year, and he joined Bartsch on piano and Fender Rhodes, Sha on bass clarinets and alto saxophone, Kaspar Rast on drums and Andi Pupato on percussion.
This consistency of personnel is vital for a band which is very much an entity, sharing not only a musical philosphy but also hours and hours of playing time, some in rehearsal and in the studio but, most crucially,a lot in live performance with an audience.
Bartsch writes in the liner notes to this collection of live performances made between 2009 and 2011, in rooms both small and large, and from Tokyo to Gateshead: "… people from all over the world are in our audiences, each with their own special presence and unique lifelong listening experience. So our audiences have a similar effect on the band as a producer in a recording studio, listening both critically and enthusiastically; the one and the other make for an exciting mix. After all, music only exists if someone hears it – and that influences its gestalt."
He goes on: "Musical empathy is an evolutionary quality, extending from the time long before we became humans – and that is why communal music-making is not luxury; it is an existential need."
I've been in the audience at a Ronin concert twice – first at St Paul's in Bristol, and then last year at King's Place as part of the London Jazz Festival – and can vouch for the fact that there is something very special that happens with a band that embraces its audience in this way. The Ronin audience certainly feels the love! And sends it back enthusiastically.
Some of the music on these discs will be familiar from the studio recordings, some pieces are extended or stretched out of shape by longer introductions or interludes. All are called Modul something, of course, and all have that heightened intensity that the musicians bring to a live performance. It's extraordinary that music that has to be this disciplined for its effect – tightly interwoven rhythms, exactingly timed exchanges – can also sound so spontaneous and, in a strange way, loose.
Try Modul 45, for example, which opens disc two. Meyer plays a rotating bass riff but constantly reworks it in terms of tone and attack, while Bartsch inserts his characteristic single note pulse. Sometimes it becomes impossible to separate bass guitar from bass notes on the piano. Drums and percussion join the increasingly intense deep funk before the whole thing reaches the serene zen pool of Bartsch's high piano riff which lies at the Modul's heart. Then I get into that impossible game where I try to predict Rast's drum accents. Meanwhile Meyer improvises and Pupato adds the high sparkle. Sha adds long delicate saxophone notes with the breathiness of a shakuhachi flute. And then the harmonies begin to sweeten and the pulse to strengthen as Pupato explores more of his bells and bowls. Then it all erupts with an almost middle-Eastern flavour, before Bartsch begins to solo while still maintaining a rolling riff. And the whole thing ends with an earthquake of drums and percussion. It's a 13-minute journey that has taken the band and the audience half way around the world and through a whole gamut of vibes.
For anyone who has been to a Ronin concert, this goes a long way to recreating the euphoric enjoyment that it instills; for those who have never witnessed the band live, it will give you as good a taste as you could expect to get without actually being there.
And, needless to say, being there really is the highest – in every sense – form of enjoyment when it comes to this extraordinary band and its extraordinary music.
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RIALTO CHATTER: Is BARE Back? October Reading Likely
BroadwayWorld has learned that the musical BARE may be getting a staged reading in New York in October. Randy Taradash and Martian Entertainment would produce the reading of the Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere piece. Stafford Arima will direct and Lynne Shankel will musical direct. The reading would begin either October 23 or October 24 and run through October 31.
BARE is the coming-of-age story of five high school seniors at a co-ed Catholic boarding school who face issues of sexuality and personal identity. To figure out who they are, they seek answers from their church, their friends, and ultimately, themselves. BARE deals with homosexuality, religion, drugs, and other issues relevant to today. BARE has been described as a kind of cousin to Broadway's RENT - pop and rock songs telling the stories of young people yearning to connect and be authentic in a time of great personal chaos.
The musical debuted at the Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles, California, running from October 2000 - February 25, 2001. The New York production of bare, at the American Theatre of Actors off-Broadway, ran from April 19 - May 27, 2004. The Los Angeles production and the New York production were both directed by Kristin Hanggi. bare made its Houston debut at The Country Playhouse Black Box Productions June 6-21, 2008. It was directed by O'Dell Hutchison with musical direction by Luke Kirkwood. bare had its Canadian Premiere in the Summer of 2009 at the Hart House Theatre, Toronto. The production was produced by WatersEdge Productions Inc. Bare had its Sydney Premiere in September 2010 at the New Theatre, as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. Bare played at the Black Box Theater (also known as The Complex Performing Arts Center) in Putnam Connecticut from July 8-16, 2011. It was performed by MacEwan University performing arts grads and Raw ManGo Productions at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, August 14-20, 2011.


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People who lost relatives during the war and are against politicians' visits to Yasukuni Shrine gathered Wednesday in Tokyo to confirm their commitment to protecting the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9.
They are hopeful that the Liberal Democratic Party's defeat in the July 29 Upper House election has dampened political calls to rewrite the Constitution.
But as the scope of the Self-Defense Forces' activities has been expanded in the past several years, participants said it is increasingly important to raise their voices.
"We should never forget what the country did in many parts of Asia (during the war), and continue to protect the Constitution," said Shigenori Nishikawa, a representative of the group Heiwa Izokukai Zenkoku Renrakukai, which organized the rally.
The 260 participants held a minute of silence to pray for the victims of the war instead of going to the national memorial service for the war dead held by the government at Nippon Budokan Hall in Chiyoda Ward.
Shortly past noon, the participants paraded near Yasukuni Shrine, many of them holding banners and placards that read: "Yasukuni Shrine visits (by politicians) are unconstitutional," "Let's unite to keep Article 9 as it is" and "Don't use the deceased as political tools."
The participants were warned by the organizer in advance not to be angered by rightwingers who might try to provoke them during the 30-minute walk near the shrine.
Among those marching under the hot sun was Katsuko Tsuhako, 68, from Kanagawa Prefecture, who has taken part in the annual rally since 1985, when the group was established to protest then Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's official visit to Yasukuni Shrine. His visit provoked outrage both in Japan and abroad.
Originally from Okinawa, Tsuhako said she lost her father in combat in the Philippines when she was 3 years old.
"A war not only takes people's lives but really takes away the power of those who are left behind. It also destroys the environment as well," said Tsuhako, noting she doesn't have any memories of her father. "I really want people to understand that peace is the only thing that can save all humans."
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Knee Articulation Mod - HG 1/144 Unicorn Gundam (Destroy Mode)
I really like the Unicorn Gundam's Destroy Mode, however, it shares a design problem (in my opinion) with some of the better known gunpla models out there (HG Ex-S, etc.), limited knee articulation.
The legs can bend a little over 90degress. But as I've been posing gunpla for years now, I want more to get better and more dynamic action poses.
This is a small guide on how to improve articulation that involves cutting away at some material, so when using sharp tools, always exercise caution.
On the left is an unmodded leg. As you can see, some parts keep it from bending further. On the right is after modifications.
Step 1: Take apart the legs, and look for the parts shown above. Cut away at the plastic using the lines as guides.
Step 2: Now, cut away here. Be careful because this cut is kinda tricky. Take 'em further apart and do Step 1.
Step 2a: This is where it'll go.
Step 3: For the part with the verniers make a cut following the line shown above.
Step 3a: Be sure to sand it properly after cutting.
Step 4: Finaly, remove some material from these pieces, and do the same for both sides. Be careful to make the cuts as uniform as possible. And as always, sand properly afterwards.
After all that, the knees will bend much further, allowing for better action shots (can bend to a degree at the same range as that of a Busou Shinki's legs).
I hope you guys will find this mini-guide useful. Until next time then!


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Cullinan, Gauteng - Works Toyota crew Leeroy Poulter and Elvéne Coetzee increased their lead in the South African Rally Championship to 27 points over team-mates Hergen Fekken and Carolyn Swan when they won the Round 5, the Cullinan Rally, at the weekend.
It was their third victory of the season and came after they won four of the 12 special stages that made up the 155km of racing on private gravel farm roads in the Cullinan and Bronkhorstspruit areas. Their winning margin was 20.5 seconds over second-placed Ford Fiesta privateers Japie van Niekerk and Gerhard Snyman.
The Ford crew produced their best performance of the past three seasons together, winning special stages eight and 10 on Saturday after reaching the overnight halfway point yesterday in fourth, 25 seconds behind Day 1 winners Poulter and Coetzee.
Van Niekerk has shown great pace in his Ford, which was upgraded this year, but his best result prior to this was fifth in the PMC Gauteng Rally in May. His previous best-ever performance in a National championship rally was third in the Tour Natal Rally in 2008.
Fekken and Swan came home third in Cullinan, 54 seconds behind their winning team-mates and 33 seconds adrift of the Ford pair. Fekken won stage three on Friday on his way to second place at the overnight stop, but dropped 11 seconds on stage eight on Saturday to fall back to fourth behind the Volkswagen Polo of Hollander Hans Weijs Junior and Belgian Bjorn Degandt. He moved up to third place on stage 11 after Weijs rolled the factory VW.
Fourth were Henk Lategan and Barry White in another factory VW Polo, who made up one place on their overnight position and finished 1m08s behind the winners.
Defending champions Mark Cronje and Robin Houghton (Ford Fiesta) had another eventful and frustrating rally in their quest for a third successive championship. Any hopes of closing the gap to the leading Toyota were dashed on Friday when they lost a lot of time after hitting a rock and breaking a gearbox and were classified sixth at the halfway mark. They won the opening and closing stages on Friday and also the first stage on Saturday, but were only able to make up one place to finish fifth, 1m28s in arrears.
Wilro Dippenaar from Namibia and Kes Naidoo (Toyota Auris) were sixth, 4m36s behind the winners and first in the S2000 Challenge for older specification all-wheel drive cars. Seventh was the third factory Polo of former S2000 Challenge winners Gugu Zulu and Carl Peskin. (+5m08s) and eighth were Namibian Thilo Himmel and South African navigator Armand du Toit in a privateer Polo (+5m49s).
Making up the top 10 were Weijs and Degandt, who were provisionally classified under Super Rally rules as finishing ninth and awarded half points, and Piet Bakkes and Shaun Visser, in a Toyota RunX.
Giniel de Villiers and Greg Godrich (Toyota Yaris), who suffered a broken drive shaft on stage four on Friday within a kilometre of the flying finish and were forced to complete the remaining stages in rear-wheel drive, fell out on stage eight on Saturday morning with a broken rear differential and were provisionally classified 11th and awarded half points under Super Rally rules.
The winning streak of Guy Botterill and Simon Vacy-Lyle (Toyota Etios R2) finally came to an end after four S1600 Class wins on the trot as Chad van Beurden and Nico Swartz (VW Polo R2) took class honours in Cullinan.
In the process they closed the gap to the championship leaders from 44 to 24 points with three rounds remaining after Botterill and Vacy-Lyle, second overnight and only 11 seconds behind day one winners Van Beurden and Swartz, suffered a broken drive shaft on stage eight on Saturday morning and finished 11th under Super Rally rules.
Van Beurden and Swartz followed up their fine performance in finishing second to Botterill and Vacy-Lyle in the previous round, the VW Rally in the Eastern Cape in July by leading throughout the Cullinan Rally, winning four of Friday's six special stages and another three on Saturday to take the overall honours for the first time in their career.
Their winning margin over second-placed Ashley Haigh-Smith and Damian van Ass (Ford Fiesta R2) was 29 seconds. Haigh-Smith won three stages on Saturday on his way to equalling his best result of the season in the PMC Gauteng Rally in May and improving his overnight position of fourth.
Third were Andrew Heine and former S1600 champion navigator Robbie Coetzee (Toyota Auris), who had a great day, improving their overnight position of sixth, 1min41s behind the Day 1 leaders, to finish 2m49s in arrears. Matthew Vacy-Lyle and Schalk van Heerden improved from ninth overnight to fifth at the finish, 3m35s off the pace after a strong run on Saturday.
Ernie van der Walt and James Aldridge (Ford Fiesta R2) had a hard day at the office, enduring various problems that saw them drop from third overnight and 26 seconds off the pace to fifth, 7m30s behind the winners. Namibian Marko Himmel and South African navigator Francois Schoonbee (VW Polo) were sixth, ahead of Paulus Franken and Henry Kohne (VW Polo R2) and AC Potgieter and Tommy du Toit (VW Polo).
Richard Leeke Junior and Rikus Fourie (Ford Fiesta R2) were classified ninth under Super Rally rules and given half points after losing a lot of time on Friday with gearbox. Chris Coertse and 16-year-old Mari van der Walt (Toyota Etios R2) also finished under Super Rally rules and were classified 10th.
The next round of the championship will be Toyota Cape Dealer Rally in the Western Cape on 19 and 20 September.


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Purging old data from a Rational Synergy database
Technote (FAQ)
What is the best way to purge all but the most recent releases of my software from an old Rational Synergy database?
The size of a Rational Synergy database can continue to grow larger, even when regular maintenance activities are used to remove unneeded data. As a result, performance can degrade over time because if the growing amount of data in the database.
There is benefit in maintaining development history. However, maintaining this history can degrade performance.
The traditional method for reducing the size of a database is to use the Save Offline and Delete (SOAD) function. The database must be DCM-enabled, and you must have a license for Rational Synergy Distributed. If you are using Rational Change, you must have a license for this software, too.
The SOAD functionality can be used to identify groups of objects by scope, deleting them and optionally saving them in a DCM package format that can be reimported into the database if needed. SOAD always leaves one version of every object instance in the database to facilitate the reimporting of the history.
Otherwise, reducing database size requires that you run the ccm collapse and ccm delete commands and use queries to identify specific objects or groups of object to remove. This process requires care, as objects can be used in multiple contexts in a Rational Synergy database.
NOTE: The Rational Synergy CLI introduced in Rational Synergy 7.0 does not include the ccm collapse command. As of release 7.2, the Classic CLI is no longer available. Therefore, use the SOAD solution for release Rational Synergy 7.2.
You can start by identifying versions of projects that you want to removed. Remove higher level projects first, and then remove subprojects. The delete command fails for any object that is in use by another project. By deleting or collapsing specific project versions first, you leave many unused source objects that can be identified and removed.
Important query functions:
has_attr('source') - including this string prevents inclusion of tasks, problems, project groupings, or other important database objects. Results are projects, dirs, and source files.
is_bound() - use this string to return objects that are bound to (used in) a project. Use the "not is_bound()" string to find objects not in use.
1. Identify top-level projects you want to delete:
ccm query -t project "release=ico/1.2"
1) ico-int prep jdoe project ico H#1 H#6
2) ico-int_20120104 integrate jdoe project ico H#1 H#6,H#44
3) ico-int_20120104_2 integrate jdoe project ico H#1 H#6,H#49
ccm set role ccm_admin
ccm delete -p @2 ( or use ccm collapse @2 if the project has a successor)
2. Identify and delete unused objects from the release:
ccm query "release='ico/1.2' and has_attr('source') and not is_bound() and not cvtype='project'"
1) ...
2) ...
*Review the output to make sure that all objects are source objects.*
ccm collapse @
The "and not cvtype='project'" is included to suppress top-level projects that you may not want to remove.
Also, the documentation (Admin Guide) points out how you can remove obsolete products:
ccm query "is_product=TRUE and not is_bound()"
ccm collapse @
These steps are merely suggestions. When you complete this procedure, you might have project groupings, tasks, and release definitions that are no longer needed. You can remove these objects at your discretion.
CAUTION: Ensure that you keep a backup of the database before you delete any data from it. Also, make a copy of the database and trim the new copy. Any excess trimming can then be undone by exporting from the original and importing into the copy.
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Laurence Fishburne's porn star daughter Montana has confirmed reports she will check into an inpatient medical facility in a bid to get her "life together". The estranged daughter of "The Matrix" star was said to be preparing to enter a clinic in southern California to undergo a 30-day treatment program.
Now Fishburne has confirmed she is seeking treatment - because she needs to get her "mind right". She tells TMZ.com, "I'm trying to get my life together, get my mind right... I'm excited to just take a break and get my mind right and look forward to coming out and be prepared to take on the world."
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LINCOLN – Last week Todd Blome got a letter from his insurance company informing him that due to Obamacare, his insurance plan would terminate by year's end, but he could get on a similar plan for 65 percent more per year.
Blue Cross Blue Shield offered other options, but the cheapest one was still 55 percent more than the Lincoln accountant currently pays for his individual plan.
His income is too high to qualify for tax credits, so his only hope was to check the Obamacare federal health insurance exchange — a sort of one-stop shop to look for an insurance plan — which opened for business today. The marketplaces, or exchanges, began a six-month signup today, but heavy traffic was causing problems on the website, HealthCare.gov.
He tried to check the prices Tuesday, but didn't get far. Users must set up an account before pricing plans — a process he described as "filled with peril."
"The site was slow and there were numerous errors, however I think I finally have a user account," Blome said via email.
After finally setting up his account, he wasn't able to log on.
"It's been that way all day," he said. He kept getting the following message:
"Pretty embarrassing really," Blome said. "The government has had years to prepare for this and it's a total failure on opening morning."
Watchdog reported earlier today the website was filled with snafus this morning.
Two hours later, Blome had called the toll-free number listed on the Obamacare website, and waited 30 minutes to talk to someone. She confirmed the log-in was not functioning.
"I understand that the site probably got hit with quite a few visitors today, however, it was not unexpected," Blome said.
MSNBC tried to do a demonstration on the air, but had to give up due to glitches:
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(CBS) Fans of "The Hunger Games" will get their first look at the book's big-screen adaptation this weekend.
A preview of the film will be shown at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.
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"The Hunger Games" film hits theaters on March 23, 2012.
The VMAs be broadcast live on Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT. Performers are set to include Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Adele, Bruno Mars and Chris Brown.


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New York, New York might as well be the theme music as the Toronto Raptors prepare to face the New York Knicks in two successive games as the exhibition season gives way to the regular one.
The teams will face off in preseason play in Montreal on Friday, then again in Toronto for Wednesday's season opener.
Raptors head coach Jay Triano said the team won't be holding anything back on Friday, when they'll play in front of a sold-out crowd at the Bell Centre as part of the Raptors' continuing effort to brand themselves as Canada's team.
"We're going to try to get better, we need the game to do that," Triano said. "It's not like we can hide things going into this game. They'll know everything that we have."
With the preseason winding down, Triano said he's satisfied with how the team has performed offensively. The Raptors' old Achilles heel - defence - is still a work in progress, however. By putting pressure on the ball around the three-point line, the Raptors have succeeded in decreasing the number of three-pointers, he said. However, Triano said his players must do a better job of helping out when an opposing player blows past the first line of defence.
"We just have to get better with our help-side rotations," Triano said. "It's what we work on every day. We have to be able to do that and contain individually better, and have guys ready to assist if we don't."
Players agreed that defence was the order of the day.
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