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It's not shorter when you make an apples to apples comparison.
"Go google it" is equivalent to "go web search it."
More words and more characters, sure, but the same number of syllables.
It's not shorter when you make an apples to apples comparison.
"Go google it" is equivalent to "go web search it."
More words and more characters, sure, but the same number of syllables.
Guilty as charged on all counts.
When will Firefox support killing CPU-hogging tabs individually?
That's the only killer feature from Chrome I'm waiting for to switch back to Firefox.
In Chrome, if I've got 50 tabs open (not uncommon) and one of them starts spiking my CPU, I can pull open Activity Monitor (on OS X) and kill the "Google Chrome Helper" that's eating all the CPU.
That kills the one tab that was the problem, not the whole browser. And lets me reload it when I actually care about that tab again.
I haven't found a similar way to imitate this workflow in Firefox.
The whole noscript / flashblock / adblock / etc approach hasn't worked. Tried it with Firefox, still had constant CPU issues after whitelisting sites I need JS or Flash turned on for, still had no way to kill runaway processes individually.
Both issues punish customers, as anyone who's ever wanted to save a Netflix movie for offline viewing on a flight can attest to.
Not that I disagree, but right now I'm just finding it funny how Hastings can complain about ISPs doing bad things while he remains conspicuously silent about Hollywood forcing draconian DRM into Netflix and, indirectly, into the HTML5 spec itself. Maybe the major ISPs should look into buying Hastings' silence too. It would help with their PR.
Apple seems to have removed the ability to customize the chat bubble colors in Messages.app in Yosemite. If you liked that feature (as I did) and want it back, I've got your back! https://github.com/kethinov/Bu...
This is why I don't understand why after all these years companies are still so reluctant to embrace telecommuting.
"We are hurrying back and forth across town at morning and night to situations which we could quite easily encompass by closed-circuit. Documents, contracts, data. All of these materials actually could be just as available on closed-circuit, at home." - Marshall McLuhan, 1965.
Try out Brackets http://brackets.io/
Very similar to Atom's architecture, also open source, more mature community, better visual design (IMO).
Can't believe some idiots are marking you "informative." Cuba ranks near the bottom of the Democracy Index. Try that socialism sucks argument again when a social democracy is failing so miserably.
This has been going on for years already. RunUO.
And yet utterly devoid of entertainment value.
There's an extremely high barrier to entry for new players. Which client do you install? Which of the 3 or 4 third party assist tools do you need? Where do you download all that?
Even once you get the game client up and running, you end up with choice paralysis trying to find out what server to play.
Picking a server involves shitloads of googling and visiting each of their random websites while they explain mostly in game jargon terms which settings they have, or what "era" of the game they adhere to, without really explaining what that means.
And then there's the PVP, which is a joke on every server I've ever played. No diversity. No balance. One or two templates is all anyone ever plays.
And don't forget the ganks, because PVP is dominated solely by large, organized guilds everywhere. Want to duel? Good luck. Some servers have dueling systems, but they're ghost towns.
The most popular servers all seem to have declining player populations, which isn't surprising. Any community this hostile to newcomers deserves to wither.
So yeah, I welcome the UO devs one-upping existing player run UO shards with something new. Someone needs to do it right.
Or as Simpsons' Lenny would put it: "All we want is brand new, big-budget entertainment in our homes for nothing. Why doesn't Hollywood get that?"
Just because you invested an extraordinary amount of money in something doesn't mean you deserve extraordinary government intervention to guarantee you a return. If new technology undermines your business model, find another business model.
The same way as, for instance, iOS. Using some proprietary developer toolkit that requires registering a developer account (which may cost money) in order to grant sideloading capability.
That's what I'm hoping will not be the case with the steam machines and I'm trying to find some empirical evidence of that. All I'm seeing so far is just a bunch of optimistic speculation.
People aren't outraged because all the rhetoric criticizing the surveillance programs was overblown. There are certainly plenty of things to be concerned about, sure. But just go read some news coverage from the time of the leaks and have a look at all the hyperbole and fear mongering. It was ridiculous.
If we want people to have a serious discussion about surveillance, then we need less fear mongering and more actionable activism. We need to get more organized and make specific proposals detailing what laws we would change and why it's so important to do so.
Instead of doing that, we just went on rants about how right we were the whole time and how evil it all is. We vomited vague, nonspecific emotion over the issue instead of proposing tangible solutions people could actually act on.
So yeah, no wonder everyone's suffering from "surveillance fatigue." I am too. And I actually care about the issue.
That's not proof. It's marketing. To my knowledge they haven't explicitly stated that sideloading will be permitted. You could make a (very good) argument that it's implied, but I'm seeking hard evidence.
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Autumn is the time of harvest and abundance. The days begin to grow short as darkness comes earlier and earlier each evening. Many festivals of this time relate to "light". Jack-o-lanterns, Lantern Walks and the Advent Spiral (in the winter) are all reminders to find the light within to help us through the winter's darkness. Below are the upcoming events for Autumn 2014.
Golden Harvest Celebration - All welcome!
The fall Golden Harvest Celebration is a one-day event which brings the school community and community-at-large together to celebrate the bounty of the harvest. The Faire encompasses activities, demonstrations for children and adults, a food truck, music and entertainment.
Date: September 27, 2014
Halloween Journey (On Halloween) - All Welcome!
This is one of the most beloved of festivals for children in the United States and originated as the Celtic festival of Samhain which celebrated the first day of winter on November 1st. Carving pumpkins or turnips is often an activity around the school at this time.
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Date: October 31, 2014
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Meet with teachers, talk with current parents, view student work, and tour our classrooms. Families welcome to attend with children.
Date: November 03, 2014
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St. Martin of Tours was known as a deeply religious man who shared his cloak with a beggar and represents the attitude of brotherliness. According to old customs , as the days become shorter and the stars appear earlier, children would walk with lanterns through the streets singing. As the...
Date: November 14, 2014
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Visit Shepherd Valley and learn from our experienced First Grade teacher what signs to look for to discover that your kindergartener is getting ready for "grade school". Learn about the transition into first grade and expectations for the child. Parents from all schools welcome to attend to learn more about...
Date: November 17, 2014
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Together with your prospective pre-school child, participate in a condensed version of an ordinary day - make snack, sing circle songs and enjoy creative playtime!
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Date: December 05, 2014
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Enjoy a musical ensemble of strings, band and choir performed by our students in Winter celebration.
Date: December 08, 2014
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I suspect that similar outbursts could be heard from Russia's state run propagandists –dressed up as the media — during the fall of the USSR.


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The owners of Clarity Soap and Candles in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego offer free gift wrapping. Any time. For any size purchase. They do this by spending their money on baskets and ribbon and silk flowers instead of print advertising, and let word of mouth do the rest. I know that I can come in, pick out wonderful handmade candles or soaps or bath oils, and they will create something like this for my friend or co-worker.
As Reinier Evers writes in trendwatching, consumers are now part of the "Expectation Economy," looking for ever more. While I'm not advocating bending over backwards for difficult customers, take a look at how you run your business. Are you set up for your convenience, or for theirs?
This might mean shifting your hours, offering delivery or drop-off service, offering a personal shopping service, adding a member's lane at admission, or simply adding some chairs if people have to wait.
Takeaway tip: With all the competition out there, show your customers you care about them! You can start by asking them what they'd like that you don't currently offer.
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So, the United States House of Representatives dressed down Good-time Charles Rangel for his corrupt, slimeball ways.
It's called "censure," which is the second-toughest punishment the House can hand down to one of its own. The only thing tougher is tossing the bum out on his ass.
Which is what the House should have done with Rangel. Instead of standing him in the well of the House and mouthing some meaningless words, the "good and honorable" gentlemen and women should have lowered the boom — throwing Rangel into the street and recommended the U.S. Department of Justice take his life apart so he can spend the rest of his miserable existence behind bars.
But this is Washington where the powerful take care of its own and the pathetic handling of Rangel's many crimes was a crime in itself.
Rangel ignored the law. He evaded taxes. He lied to investigators and on his official ethics forms. He padded his pockets at taxpayer expense. He lived large at taxpayer expense. And then he laughed at those who called him on his excesses.
When the censure came, Charles Rangel showed no remorse. He stood before the press afterward and made no apologies, exhibited no contrition and gave not one single indication that he had learned a damn thing from his indiscretions. He made it clear that he accepted no judgment by his peers, saying his actions would be judged down the road by others.
Rangel's continued defiance stands as a disgusting symbol of the failure of Congress. If this group of misfits cannot adequate deal with the wrong doing of one of its own, how in the hell can we expect it to run a country?
Charles Rangel should have been town into the streets of New York to be publicly stoned by the constituents he failed to serve. Then every member of Congress who stood by for years and let this criminal get by with his many crimes be led from the Capitol in shackles and returned home to face the anger and wrath of of those they failed to serve.
Then all should be locked in stocks on public squares to rot for the rest of their miserable lives.
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The Congress makes their own laws and continue to prove these laws do not cover their actions. CHB has exposed many Senators on sex charges and many House Members on money laundering as well as bribery charges. Nothing will ever change until the voters demand it.
Another Marie Antoinette moment courtesy of the Hill People. Just another day at the office for the Priveleged Class.
"Then every member of Congress who stood by for years and let this criminal get by with his many crimes be led from the Capitol in shackles"
Wouldn't that mean them all? (with a few freshman exceptions).
PS – But I concur. There is a class society in the USA, and politicians are in one, and the rest of us are in the other. In one, crimes get punished and don't pay, in the other the opposite. If I may, Mr. Thompson, I would like to draw your attentions to the writing of a Mr. Joe Bageant, He has published two books, "Deer Hunting With Jesus" and "Rainbow Pie" and has a website at http://www.joebageant.com. I have no financial interest in either.
If it were only Charlie Rangel then we could survive such scandals in high places. Instead we have a long list of lawbreakers that haven't been brought to justice, some representing the highest levels of our government, including G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
It seems the powerful and connected get to skate in these seeming endtimes for the Republic. Even the metric within his district is low in that his constituents continue to reelect him. So what does that say about the people themselves much less their representative? Crime is contagious. / : |
"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means — to declare that the government may commit crimes — would bring terrible retribution." …Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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I consider that representatives in our elected government operate on a plane like so:
dishonest ──┼── honest
It seems unfortunate that our elected representatives seem to, as a class, fall to the left and below center of the chart.
That's nothing new. Been that way since before the Romans. Somehow civilization has survived, and it could continue to survive and sometimes prosper if inept, dishonest politicians were the only problem.
But, they're only the visible face of the problem. There are forces much more powerful than our government. Those forces control the media, finance (banks), military and major industries. Those institutions, in turn, largely determine which politicians get elected.
That's been going on for a while, too, and we've lived with it.
But those forces are no longer relatively benign. Of late they are becoming much more insidious, malevolent, and powerful. And toward what end seems unclear.
The reason why is unaccountability for Rangel and the rest. The apathetic, moronic masses are comfortable. They are happy in their ignorance and their comfort (iPhones, cable TV, internet access, able to eat, drink, shop).
They do not care because this comfort level has not been disturbed.
It's been proven you can introduce bills like the Patriot Act (hardly patriotic) the MCA, DHS, TSA and the like without a question from the ignorant masses.
Just keep that cable coming into the house so I can watch "Dancing With the Stars" or some other IQ insulting nonsense form of entertainment ala ESPN.
The Federal Reserve (which doesn't look to be part of the Federal Govt. at all) is bankrupting this nation and has ZERO accountability.
Everyone here on CHB should take a gander at this:
Then check out the movies on the sidebar.
Consequently Rep. Alan Grayson was voted out of office recently.
I wonder why? (sarc)
Rangel is one of the many.
What a bunch of morons "we the people" are. Eh?
Oh, they're capable all right. These guys are not dumb. It's not the lower left corner of the graph that's dismaying, it's the upper left corner.
These guys are not dumb. They know what they are doing, and what they are doing is enriching themselves.
At everyone else's expense.
Good Lord!! This man has no shame! He's made millions off the backs of hard working Americans.
Where's the outrage? Here's a new book out about Americans fed up with corrupt politicians & government & they finally take a stand. It's a must read for the holidays cause it's about each of us. I recommend it.
I wonder if any of us would be censured at our office had we done what he did? He got off so easy. Great article.
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Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is revealing she had a voluntary double mastectomy. She said she had the procedure after discovering she has a gene that greatly increases her risk of getting breast cancer.
Many are calling Angelina Jolie's decision to make her decision of dealing with -- a high risk of getting breast cancer a brave move. So how did Jolie know she fell into a high risk breast cancer category? It is part of a new genetic test that can be done, even in Raleigh County.
Women with mutations in the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 are 80-90% likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, that's according to Dr. David Shimm out of the Raleigh Regional Cancer Center. But only a small amount of women actually have the mutation. So how do you know if the test is right for you? Dr. Shimm showed us a website that might help you identify red flags.
"It will ask you a number of questions #1 does the woman have a medical history of any breast cancer," Dr Shimm said. He was showing our crews a tool on the National Cancer Society's website. It is called the Breast Cancer Risk assessment tool. Dr. Shimm points out this website is just a tool, are not a diagnosis. The tool calculates women's risk of getting breast cancer over the age of 35. 59 News Reporter Lauren Hensley is a little young for the calculator so she used her mom's medical history to fill out the questionnaire.
"So how many of the woman's first degree relatives have had a forum of breast cancer," Dr. Shimm asked, based on the instructions on the web site. After 7 questions based on family history and medical passed, we had our results.
"Her lifetime risk is about 7%. The average woman is about 10%, under average, Dr. Shimm said.
59 News Reporter Lauren Hensley wanted to know what would happen if they answered the questions different. So Dr. Shimm filled out another survey based on different medical history.
"Let's say she has a relative with breast cancer," Dr. Shimm said, changing several answers in the survey. After hitting the bottom to calculate, the new information really bumped this hypothetical woman's risk way up.
"This hypothetical woman has nearly 1 in 4 chance developing breast cancer over the course of a lifetime," Dr Shimm said.
Though our fictitious woman did have a higher risk, Dr. Shimm would still advise any patient speak with their doctor before undergoing an aggressive surgery like Jolie.
Dr. Shimm said the genetic testing is a relative new technology and for the most part he deals with patients who have already been diagnosed with cancer. He said he usually orders a preventative genetic test roughly once a month.
Dr. Shimm explains the amount of woman who actually has the gene leading to higher risks of breast cancer is extremely though and unless certain risk factors are met, the genetic test is not recommended for everyone.


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Manuel Desantes, Professor of Private international law and Of Counsel of ELZABURU, will give a conference on Monday May 19th, 2014, in the University HUST (Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology) of Wuhan (China).
ELZABURU appointed as committee member of the ITTN ( International Technology Transfer Network ) of China
ELZABURU has been appointed member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the ITTN ( International Technology Transfer Network ) of China as a specialist and qualified professional in the technology transfer field.
Manuel Desantes, Professor of the University of Alicante and Of Counsel at ELZABURU, chaired the Conference on "The European Patent System versus European Patent System" hosted by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of Queen Mary, University of Lon
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Our Associate Partner Miguel Angel Medina participates in the 8th Session of the WIPO Working Group on the developments of the Lisbon System (Appellations of Origin), which takes place in Geneva from Monday 2nd December to Friday 6th December 2013.
ELZABURU China Director, Marcos García, will attend "The BIO Convention" held in Beijing until the 13rd November.
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You have done the work now it's time to revel in the success of all of your hard work during the Cookie Season.
On June 7, 2014 there will be TWO exclusive parties going on, with prize giveaways, a pizza lunch, and a DJ spinning the beats!
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- Tickets cannot be purchased on the day of the event. All tickets must be purchased in advance.
- The Girl Scout Shop in Salt Lake will be open from 12:00-5:00 on June 7, 2014. Before or after you have celebrated come on into the shop to see what amazing things we have in stock for your Cookie Credits!
- Check in will be done by last name. Please be prepared to check in at the front gate by the last name of the girl or individual who ordered tickets.
- All girls attending the celebration must attend with an adult. Adult/Girl Ratios apply.
- The concessions stand will be available during the celebration for personal purchases (activity credits cannot be used). Lunch is provided at no cost, but if you would like to purchase additional items the concession stand will be open. CLICK HERE to see the menu
- Inner tubes and life vests are available at no cost, with a limited number available.
- Lockers are available for personal belongings: $5 for a small and $6 for a large. These can be used throughout the day, activity credits cannot be used.
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- Children under 3 must be accompanied by an adult at all times
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proper and out-of-the-box social capability
All most all CMS are now getting a "social" blend in the sense that they come with a social profile enabled or capability to do social networking. Will Silverstripe please,please quickly support an extension/module/plugin like http://buddypress.org ? This will essentially mean profile commenting+granular privacy+Social Apps/Gadgets+activity stream all integrated to one another.
easy and custom content types
How easily one can add own content types from the administrative interface?
Have a look at these
Wordpress - http://pods.uproot.us/ or Drupal - http://drupal.org/project/cck
A front end to manage and display the database query results for the same (like Drupal Views) would be not just cool but actually useful.
Please implement a section on this site for users' ideas like wordpress or http://ideas.mybboard.net/ or http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com
Have there been already feature requests for the above? If so, where can I join to add my voice ?
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These will be great enhancements. I fully support these
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Several Ardmore families were not allowed to go back inside their apartments after authorities quarantined part of the complex after uncovering a meth lab. It happened at the Highland Rim Phase Two apartments on Smith Avenue.
The apartment manager said she inspected the apartment on Tuesday and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. When she went inside the apartment Thursday night, she said the fumes hit her instantly.
Joyce Weakley returned to work Friday. Crews had to wash her off and decontaminate her after she exposed herself to the meth. Weakley said she grew concerned after seeing the suspects young grandchildren wandering around the complex. She said she approached her tenants who let her in to the apartment, and after spending 15 minutes inside, she walked out the door and ran to call 911.
Authorities arrested Amber Lynn Jones, of Hazel Green, James David Waldrop and Patricia Dean Waldrop, both of Ardmore. All three were charged with unlawful drug paraphernalia, possession of meth for resale, intent to manufacture, and three counts of aggregated child abuse and neglect.
"I knew," said Weakley. "It was just covered in there. My throat was burning, my eyes were burning, I was hurting, but the safety of my tenants comes first."
According to Weakley, multiple families including a pregnant woman will have to wait several weeks before they can reenter their apartments. The suspects' apartment as well as three neighboring units were put into quarantine.
Weakley said after she got her tenants to safety, she ran to the backside of the building and helped authorities tackle one of the suspects after he jumped from a second story window. Weakley had undergone training in spotting potential meth labs, and she said that's why she knew something wasn't right when she walked inside the apartment.
According to Weakley, all three children that were staying in the apartment were sent to stay with a different family member. The family member picked up the kids a few hours after authorities closed part of the complex down.
Weakley said the suspects stored meth making products inside the walls of one of the units. She said something didn't seem right after seeing cars come and go over the span of a few days, and the kids wandering around the complex without adult supervision.
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PaulS my mistake!
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Here's The Exact Plan The Cheating GOP Is Using To Steal The 2014 Elections
(Credit: Joe Shlabotnik)They can't win elections on their ideas, so they're going to rig them in their favor every way they can.[…]With an enormous number of individuals drifting from outrageous, narrow-minded, classist, racist, and sexist Teabagger concepts, Teapublicans are doing everything in their power to get their numbers up – even if that means asserting outlandish voter ID laws into place, despite their massive defects.These new Voter ID Laws, with ironically a slew of Republicans fumbling behind them, complicate voter locations, dates, voter times and confuses the general election system,deliberately to befuddle the voting structure.
Since 2013, 9 states have approved procedures directly affecting when and how people vote, oddly making voting more problematic for statistically demonstrated voters who don't vote Republican. Embarrassingly, the same Republicans who claim Democrats are "not upholding the American way of life" and ruining the American dream are simultaneously attempting to sabotage the voting system. Wouldn't you want to make it easier for individuals to vote properly if you cared about democracy? Not in Teapublamerica.
Some of these severe voter ID laws include obligatory proof of citizenship other than a normal ID card, such as a birth certificate, or passport. Some individuals would find recovering or verifying a birth certificate to be exceptionally difficult, because once it's lost either due to circumstances such as a natural disaster or simply misplacing the document – it can be a complicated, costly and prolonged process to reclaim another. Particular individuals, mostly elderly voters of color, have even reported never receiving one. Whereas statistically it is the lower-class whom is more likely to either not have either document, or not have the financial means to obtain another.
Laws like these were recently upheld in Kansas and Arizona, and will unquestionably make the voting process more difficult for individuals who could have otherwise flashed a normal ID. Republicans claim this will level out and unify the voting system ( you mean, intentionally lean it more towards your end of the field? ) and the same ID you obtained through your state department, and have used to drive, acquire alcohol and vote so many times before will no longer be sufficient.
Meanwhile in North Carolina, Democrats are fighting feverishly to reverse the nation's most restrictive voter laws. These laws in specific established rules to make it not just more complicated to prove citizenship, but more complicated for people to register to vote ( usually younger individuals ), cast provisional ballots, vote absentee and reduces the number of early voting days. So, if you have a dreadfully busy schedule, or two jobs and a family like many low income families, good luck getting that vote in early, voting at all or even registering yourself.
In Ohio and Wisconsin, weekend voting, which has statistically been preferred by the working class, black voters and low-income voters was cut drastically by Republicans who demanded the measures were essential, limiting the time that polls are open; how voter friendly.
Wisconsin State Senator Dale Schultz was a rarity of the Republican Party when he disagreed with the measure and claimed that they were "fiddling with mechanics rather than ideas." He also stated that he felt the legislation was wearisome, "Making it more difficult for people to vote is not a good sign for a party that wants to attract more people.". Schultz surprisingly voted against the bill.
Jon A. Husted, Ohio Republican Secretary of State however defended the unjust slew of legislations claiming that,"Every voter should have an equal opportunity to vote under the same set of rules." What an ironic statement, since in February Ohio reduced early voting by one week, placed new restrictions on absentee ballot applications, and also same day registration and voting abilities. However, amidst all of the moves to limit voting ease of access for new and current voters, Husted believes that the laws will somehow aid in the "equal opportunity" to vote.
Overcomplicated registration, voting hours, absentee forms, irregular voting dates, and problematic voter ID systems will undoubtedly prevent some individuals from voting, obstruct the already congested registration and absentee voter process and result in longer lines at already time consuming poll sites.
"They know when they are taking away early voting exactly who it's affecting," said Ed FitzGerald, the executive of Cuyahoga County and a Democratic candidate for governor.
Although many of these ridiculous measures will not take place until 2016, Democrats and voting experts alike are concerned about the voting system being convoluted for no reason other than the Republican need to hinder Democratic leaning voters out of the system. While Dems battle over the Affordable Care Act, bogus commercials, advertisements claims and dramatic propaganda funded by Republican donors such as the Koch Brothers over healthcare laws, Republicans are also coming from behind and attacking voter systems themselves.
"What we see here is a total disrespect and disregard for constitutional protections," stated the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina N.A.A.C.P. and leader of the Moral Mondays movement, which disagrees with voter law changes.
Just last year, central provisions to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in the voting system, were luckily denied by the Supreme Court.What sort of democracy loving individual would want to alter a piece of legislation that prohibits voter discrimination?
The slapped down provisions consisted of Southern Republicans attempting to pass legislation that would allow the "alteration of election laws prior to approval." Who, other than a sore loser who doesn't want the American people to be heard, would want to alter election laws without any oversight?
While Republicans claim the harsh voter ID laws are needed to help voter ID fraud, to " bring greater uniformity to a patchwork election system" and attempt to gain back immense numbers of supporters lost by botching the voting system Democrats have continuously been fighting to make it easier for people to sign up to vote, and cast their votes while even implementing a secure online voting system. These systems have already been effective in California, Colorado and Maryland, while States like Arizona and Kansas attempt to limit voting as much as possible to targeted Republican supporters – very democratic.
As uncompromising conservative candidates belittle people of color, immigrants, women and lower-class individuals, it's no surprise that in the midst of self-mutilation, Republicans are obviously trying to alter the game with their selfish needs in mind – as always.
The GOP doing the usual voter-suppressing routines.
GOP Dirty Tricks Alert: Trick Websites Dupe Democrats Into Donating To Republicans
The National Republican Congressional Committee has set up a number of websites that look like they could be a Democratic candidate's campaign page, unless you read the fine print. They may even violate a Federal Election Commission regulation, Campaign Legal Center expert Paul S. Ryan explained to ThinkProgress.
The NRCC has set up these pages for various congressional opponents, including Amanda Renteria (CA), Martha Roberston (NY), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ), Alex Sink (FL), and John Tierney (MA). Each follow a similar format; they list the candidate's name "for Congress" to ask for donations.
#2016Elections: California Ballot Initiative Would Rig Next Presidential Election For Republicans | ThinkProgress
Last winter, shortly after President Obama won his second term in office, many Republicans rallied behind a pair of election-rigging plans designed to make it virtually impossible for a Democrat to win White House again. Though the two plans differ in important ways, the crux of both plans is to rig the Electoral College by requiring blue states to award a significant portion of their electoral votes to Republican presidential candidates — all while ensuring that red states will award 100 percent of their electoral votes to the Republican as well. Though these election-rigging plans appeared dead after a wave of Republican officials came out against them, one of them has just returned to life in California.
On November 22, a man named Hal Nickle filed a proposed ballot initiative in California which would change the way that state allocates electoral votes to ensure that a large chunk of California's 55 electors go to the GOP, even though Californians consistently prefer Democratic candidates to Republicans. Rather than allocating all of California's electoral votes to the winner of the state as a whole, as nearly all states currently award their votes, the election-rigging initiative would allocate the states votes proportionally according to the percentage of votes won by each candidate. Thus, if this plan had been in effect in 2012, Mitt Romney would have received 37.12 percent of California's electors — adding 20 to his overall total.
The trick behind this proposal is that if would only change the law in California, while leaving red states free to award all of their electors to the Republican:
If enacted in enough blue states, this plan would make it virtually impossible for a Democrat to win the presidency no matter how they performed in the popular vote.
Wallbuilders' Barton: Right-Wing Vote-Rigging Scheme Gives 'the People a Greater Voice' | Right Wing Watch
After watching the Republican presidential candidates lose the last two elections, right-wing activist Ken Blackwell cooked up a scheme whereby states would move away from winner-take-all allocations of electors to a system in which Electoral College votes would be assigned according to congressional districts.
The result would be that a Republican presidential candidate who does not win the overall popular vote in the state could still end up receiving a majority of that state's electoral votes simply by virtue of winning the popular vote in more individual districts.
Today, Blackwell appeared on "WallBuilders Live" to promote this scheme, where it was met with enthusiastic support from Rick Green and David Barton. As Blackwell explained, if every state had implemented this plan for the 2012 election, Mitt Romney would have won despite the fact that he lost the overall popular vote by nearly 5 million votes.
Blackwell: There's an old farmer's tale that if you throw a brick at a pack of pigs, the one that squeals is the one you hit. Well, when we put this out there, the Left started squealing, the New York Times started squealing, so we must be on to something.
Green: You must be on to something. No doubt about that. I haven't had a chance to look, I don't if anyone has done a map, I'd be real curious to know if every state did this, how would the last few elections [have gone]? Have you had a chance to look?
Blackwell: I already know. If every state did it, Romney would have won the election. And so that's another reason that the Left just instinctively dislikes it.
Barton: This actually is a way to give the people a greater voice rather than just having the majority slap it to the minority every time you turn around. And I really like what he's proposed here with reverting back out of the winner-take-all philosophy of the states, going back to congressional district take all, which is a good way to do it.
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Michigan's GOP House Speaker Expresses Support For Election Rigging | ThinkProgress
Late last week, democracy scored two important victories over a Republican plan to rig future presidential elections by changing the way electoral votes are counted in several key blue states. Two Virginia Republican state senators spoke out against the plan, effectively killing it. And Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R) attacked the election-rigging scheme as trying to "change the rules of the game."
In Michigan, however, which is the bluest of the six blue states where the election-rigging plan has been discussed, state House Speaker Jase Bolger (R) appears quite open to rigging his state's electoral college votes to benefit Republicans.
In other words, Republican voters in Michigan are upset that Democrats win elections simply because there are more of them. And Bolger wants to fix that by giving the few Republicans more votes than the majority.
#WIGov: Scott Walker is yet another Rethug who wants to potentially steal the election in 2016 for them
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) did not rule out allocating the state's electoral votes proportionally Saturday.
"It's an interesting idea," he told a Newsmax interviewer at the National Review Institute Summit in Washington after speaking at a lunch. "I haven't committed one way or the other to it. For me, and I think any other state considering this, you should really look at not just the short-term but the long-term implications. Is it better or worse for the electorate?
Said Walker, "Some might argue that it would give more opportunity for candidates to jump in; others suggest it might reduce it."
"I think we have to very careful in changes like that. But I think it's worth looking at," he said.
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Bob McDonnell Comes Out Against GOP Electoral College-Rigging Plan
Vogel, a former Republican National Committee election lawyer, said she saw no problem with the bill's legality, but objected to the image it creates for her party so soon after Obama's victory last fall.
"It's the timing of it," she said. "It's just an awful impression it makes."
Riiiiiight. By "awful," of course, she means "an accurate assessment of what our party is all about."
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Yesterday, Virginia Republicans took the first step to move a GOP plan to rig the Electoral College forward in that state. Similar plans are under consideration in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
The Republican election rigging plan targets blue states that President Obama won in 2008 and 2012, and changes the way they allocate electoral votes to give many of these votes away for free to the Republican candidate for president. Under the Republican Plan, most electoral votes will be allocated to the winner of individual Congressional districts, rather than to the winner of the state as a whole. Because the Republican Plan would be implemented in states that are heavily gerrymandered to favor Republicans, the resulting maps would all but guarantee that the Republican would win a majority of each state's electoral votes, even if the Democratic candidate wins the state as a whole.
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RNC's Priebus Proposes to Rig Electoral College so Losing Republicans Can 'Win' | The Nation
Fresh from claiming the GOP's 2012 run was "a great campaign—a nine-month campaign"; that only went awry at the end, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus now wants to rig the Electoral College so that when Republicans lose they still might "win."
Specifically, Priebus is urging Republican governors and legislators to take up what was once a fringe scheme to change the rule for distribution of Electoral College votes. Under the Priebus plan, electoral votes from battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin and other states that now regularly back Democrats for president would be allocated not to the statewide winner but to the winners of individual congressional districts.
Because of gerrymandering by Republican governors and legislators, and the concentration of Democratic votes in urban areas and college towns, divvying up Electoral College votes based on congressional district wins would yield significantly better results for the GOP. In Wisconsin, where Democrat Barack Obama won in 2012 by a wider margin than he did nationally, the president would only have gotten half the electoral votes. In Pennsylvania, where Obama won easily, he would not have gotten the twenty electoral votes that he did; instead, under the Priebus plan, it would have been eight for Republican Mitt Romney, twelve for Barack Obama.
Nationwide, Obama won a sweeping popular-vote victory—with an almost 5-million ballot margin that made him the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to take more than 51 percent of the vote in two elections. That translated to a very comfortable 322-206 win in the Electoral College.
How would the 2012 results have changed if a Priebus plan had been in place? According to an analysis byFair Vote-The Center for Voting and Democracy, the results would have been a dramatically closer and might even have yielded a Romney win.
Under the most commonly proposed district plan (the statewide winner gets two votes with the rest divided by congressional district) Obama would have secured the narrowest possible win: 270-268. Under more aggressive plans (including one that awards electoral votes by district and then gives the two statewide votes to the candidate who won the most districts), Romney would have won 280-258.
"If Republicans in 2011 had abused their monopoly control of state government in several key swing states and passed new laws for allocating electoral votes, the exact same votes cast in the exact same way in the 2012 election would have converted Barack Obama's advantage of nearly five million popular votes and 126 electoral votes into a resounding Electoral College defeat," explains FairVote's Rob Richie.
The RNC chair is encouraging Republican governors and legislators—who, thanks to the "Republican wave" election of 2010, still control many battleground states that backed Obama and the Democrats in 2012—to game the system.
"I think it's something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue [Democratic in presidential politics] that are fully controlled red [in the statehouse] ought to be considering," Priebus says with regard to the schemes for distributing electoral votes by district rather than the traditional awarding of the votes of each state (except Nebraska and Maine, which have historically used narrowly defined district plans) to the winner.
Already, there are moves afoot in a number of battleground states to "fix" the rules to favor the Republicans in 2016, just as they have already fixed the district lines for electing members of the House. Thanks to gerrymandering and the concentration of Democratic votes, Republicans were able to lose the overall nationwide vote for US House seats by 1.4 million votes and still take control of the chamber—thus giving the United States the divided government that voters have rejected.
GOP Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Proposes Rigging The Electoral College For Republicans
President Obama won Pennsylvania by more than 10 percentage points in 2008, and Democrats have won the state in every single presidential election for the last two decades. In a close election, it is difficult to draw an electoral map that sends a Democrat to the White House without that Democrat winning all of Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes. So the state's GOP Gov. Tom Corbett has a simple plan — give away nearly half of the state's electoral vote to the Republican presidential candidate for free:
Gov. Tom Corbett and state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi are proposing that the state divide up its Electoral College votes according to which candidates carried each Congressional district, plus two votes for the statewide winner. The system is used by Maine — which, despite the system, has never actually split its four electoral votes — and by Nebraska, which gave one of its five votes to Barack Obama in 2008. […]
Had this proposed system been in place in 2008, when Obama won the state by a ten-point margin, he in fact would have only taken 11 out of the state's 21 electoral votes at the time — due to a combination of past Republican-led redistricting efforts to maximize their district strength, and Obama's votes being especially concentrated within urban areas.
Let's be clear, the Electoral College is a terrible idea. It has, on three occasions, allowed the loser of the national popular vote to enter the White House. It forces presidential candidates to pander to swing states and ignore the needs of the vast majority of the nation. Without the Electoral College, Bush v. Gore would never have happened and former President-elect Al Gore would have succeeded Bill Clinton. If the entire nation were to adopt Corbett's plan of doling out electoral votes by congressional district, it would eliminate many of the problems caused by our current system.
But when a major blue state's Republican leadership adopts this kind of reform piecemeal, it is nothing less than an attempt to rig the election. One hundred percent of Texas' electoral votes will still go to the Republican, but that same Republican will be guaranteed a share of Pennsylvania's historically blue electors under Corbett's plan.
And Corbett's electoral giveaway to the GOP is merely the most audacious prong of a nationwide GOP strategy to steal democracy away from the American people. Numerous GOP state legislatures rammed through "voter ID" laws, which disenfranchise thousands of elderly, disabled, and low-income voters. Other states have erected new barriers to voter registration or reduced early voting opportunities — both of which make it more difficult for working class Americans to vote. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) gutted his state's public financing system for candidates to pay for a voter disenfranchisement law. A 5-4 Supreme Court decision just declared laws enabling publicly financed candidates to defend themselves against unlimited corporate attack ads unconstitutional.
Because in the GOP's America, We the People can elect anyone we want, so long as they are a Republican.
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Snow way! The weather's impact on weekend sales
Retailers are offering 80% off for Presidents Day, but only on select items.
This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
Bad weather before a big holiday shopping weekend can be a boon for consumers -- if you can overcome the shopping craze brought on by cabin fever and smartly assess deals.
The Presidents Day and Valentine's Day sales in this week's ads were planned months in advance, which could leave stores with an unexpected surplus if shoppers stay away because of weather issues. "Between the flooding and the rain on the West Coast, and the snow on the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic, this is going to be a disaster for retailers," says Randy Allen, an associate dean for Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. "People are still going to be digging out, and may not make it in for those store sales."
Consumers who were hoping to snag a great deal on furniture or winter outerwear (the two traditional Presidents Day sales) may want to switch their focus online this weekend, says Kathy Grannis, a spokeswoman for the National Retail Federation, an industry group. Stores are likely to come up with last-minute Web and e-mail promotions to catch the attention of housebound shoppers and boost sales.
Whether you're stuck inside or just able to leave after a few snowed-in days, evaluate an offer carefully before you pull out the plastic. Retailers are betting that consumers will want to spend after being cooped up, so self-control is the order of the day. (I'm home writing this as New York City gets buried under 18 inches of snow, and have already had to hide my credit cards to prevent an online shopping spree. My advice: Stick them in a bag of water and put that in your freezer. If you want to buy something badly enough to defrost them, you'll have a good long while to think about whether you really need or want the item in question.)
We're featuring valuable coupons and sales each Friday to help you spend less on the items you buy. Found a deal we missed -- or looking for a better price on a specific item? E-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com or send me a tweet @kellibgrant.
Chelsea Premium Outlets. Through Feb. 15, get extra discounts and extended shopping hours at select outlet centers in the national chain. For example, the Ann Taylor Factory Store at the Edinburgh Premium Outlets in Edinburgh, Ind., is offering an extra 40% off sale prices through Feb. 15. Through Feb. 22, the Brooks Brothers Factory Outlet at the Folsom Premium Outlets in Folsom, Calif., is discounting fall and winter clearance items by another 70%, and basics and new arrivals by another 25%.
But before you hit the outlet mall, do your homework to make sure you're getting the best deal. Many outlet discounts aren't as deep as they initially seem.
Stage Stores. The Stage family of department store chains -- Bealls, Goody's, Palais Royal, Peebles and Stage -- is offering sales this weekend of 25% to 50% off storewide, with up to 75% off red-ticket clearance items. Printout coupons for Bealls, Palais Royal or Stage, or Goody's, Peebles or Stage offer an extra 20% on any single item through Feb. 15. You can print out multiples and use up to two on each day of the sale. (Excludes fragrance, cosmetics, formalwear rental and gift cards, but includes sale and clearance items in other categories.)
Delia's and Alloy. The sister teen clothing retailers are offering up to 80% off on sweaters, outerwear and other clothing and accessories through February. Add to your discount with Alloy code ALL1575 at checkout to save 15% on orders of $75 or more, or code ALBAFF to get free shipping. At Delia's, use code DEL1575 at checkout to save 15% on orders of $75 or more, or code CCFS25D to get free shipping.
Each store allows you to use only one code per order, so crunch the numbers to figure out which offers better savings.
J.C. Penney. During the J.C. Penney Presidents Day sale through Feb. 15, save 40% to 60% on select furniture and mattresses.
Select Comfort. Save 50% on select Sleep Number beds during the Select Comfort Final Closeout sale through Feb. 21. Pillows are on sale for 20% to 50% off. New customers can get an added discount via a $50 gift card (good on a purchase of $100 or more) by registering for a free DVD about the mattress system.
Sears. Through Feb. 18, get 50% off all mattresses in Sears stores. Take an extra 10% off Sealy, Serta, Sears-O-Pedic and Stearnes & Foster mattresses (with a few exclusions) priced at $499 or more. A mail-in rebate covers delivery of the new mattress and haul-away of the old one. Mattress and foundation purchases of $499 or more are also eligible for a free bed frame.
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Palmer representative Carl Gatto passed away earlier today.
Representative Bill Stoltze announced Gatto's passing during a House session.
Gatto, who was taken to Seattle last week for cancer treatment, was 74.
The Palmer Republican was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Obama Permanently Withdraws Team Tracking the Benghazi TerroristsAugust 23, 2013
A special team assigned to training forces and tracking the Benghazi suspects has risked life and limb to keep up with the terrorists suspected of attacking Benghazi. And now they're being forced to withdraw permanently as Obama point-blank refuses to act on the knowledge he has.
Remember, Obama isn't some kind of pacifist. When he's not busy droning innocent civilians in Pakistan or other countries, he's dumping weapons all over the Middle East on radicals who continue to commit crimes. So why won't he take out people who attacked Benghazi? Your guess is as good as mine.
Several people on the ground have come forward to the media with an important, revealing look at just how the entire situation is being handled. This is important, because many CIA agents were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements by Obama. Excerpts are found below.
From FoxNews.com, emphasis mine:
Two weeks after the Obama administration announced charges against suspects in the Benghazi attack, a large portion of the U.S. team that hunted the suspects and trained Libyans to help capture or kill them is leaving Libya permanently.
Special operators in the region tell Fox News that while Benghazi targets have been identified for months, officials in Washington could "never pull the trigger." In fact, one source insists that much of the information on Benghazi suspects had been passed along to the White House after being vetted by the Department of Defense and the State Department — and at least one recommendation for direct action on a Benghazi suspect was given to President Obama as recently as Aug. 7.
Meanwhile, months after video, photo and voice documentation on the Benghazi suspects was first presented to high-level military leaders, the State Department and ultimately the White House, prison breaks in the country have eroded security. U.S. special forces have now been relegated to a "villa," a stopover for the operators before they're shipped out of the country entirely.
"We put American special operations in harm's way to develop a picture of these suspects and to seek justice and instead of acting, we stalled. We just let it slip and pass us by and now it's going to be much more difficult," one source said, citing 1,200 prisoners escaping two weeks ago. "It's already blowing up. Daily assassinations, bi-weekly prison escapes, we waited way too long."
The latest development raises questions about when the attackers will be brought to justice in the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans last September.
The special operators are starting to get frustrated at the lack of action, and Fox News has been told by multiple sources that one special forces leader "literally yelled" at former Libyan Chief of Mission William Roebuck "and told him, 'so you're willing to let these guys get away with murder?'"
The outburst was "met with crickets," the sources said.
Barack Obama is an enemy of the United States. Just because he's a politician doesn't mean he's somehow on the side of the people. In fact, that's a good sign that he's not. We're falling from within.
Remember, Obama "accidentally" armed terrorists in and around Benghazi before.
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Hey Gabblers!
Should we be worried for the fate of MerDer's McBaby? Shonda Rhimes talked to TVGuide to calm the fandom. Read below the cut!
"I would like to point out that while I find promos to be awesome… I have nothing to do with the way the promos are cut, so I do not make the promos," Rhimes tells TVGuide.com.
Read the rest of what Shonda had to say, on TVGuide.com.
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I don't think we will have anything to worry about in the end, yes bound to be issue's along the way with her history but i gonna stay positive and say the baby will come normally either episode 23 or 24
We've been shown the spoiler baby bump pictures, so I'm sure it's gonna be OK. Will we get to see the OBGYN at SGH this time? I really think it's possible Adison is gonna show up sometime


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Introduced in Ip Man 1
Ip Man (Master Ip)The titular character. Ip is a Wing Chun master whose house was seized by the Japanese. Played by Donnie Yen.
Cheung Wing-singIp Man's wife, played by Lynn Hung. She disapproves of her husband always fighting and wants him to spend more time with his family. She has two sons: Ip Chun, played by Li Chak, and Ip Ching, born at the end of the second film.
Master LiuA martial artist teacher who had a friendly fight with Ip. Played by Chen Zhihui.
"Crazy/Zealot" LinIp's friend who runs a teashop. Played by Xing Yu.
Sha Dan YuanLin's brother. Played by Wong You-nam.
Chow Ching-ChuenA businessman who owns a cotton mill being plagued by Jin's bandits. His family flees to Hong Kong with Ip Man's family but he is shot in the head by a Japanese soldier. This causes him to forget his family and friends, thinking that everyone he sees is Japanese.
Jin ShanzhaoA martial artist master from the north who came to Fo-shan. Played by Louis Fan.
Li ZhaoA police inspector in Fo-Shan. When the Japanese occupied China, he became a translator for them. Played by Lam Ka-tung.
General MiuraThe Japanese general in Fo-Shan who was also a martial arts enthusiast. He often took Chinese martial artists to his building to fight against their Japanese counterparts. Played by Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.
Colonel SatoMiura's right hand man. He was the more sadistic of the two. Played by Shibuya Tenma.
Introduced in Ip Man 2
Wong LeungIp Man's first student in Hong Kong. Played by Huang Xiaoming.
Hung Lei-Nan (Master Hung)A Hung Ga master who started out as his enemy but later became his friend. Played by Sammo Hung.
WallaceA chief police superintendent in Hong Kong who called in protection fees from martial arts schools. Played by Charles Mayer.
Taylor "The Twister" MilosA British boxer who came to fight in Hong Kong. Played by Darren Shahlavi.
"Fatso"A Chinese police officer in Hong Kong who ensures that the martial arts clubs comply with the British police. Played by Kent Cheng.
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They're known for their off-the-cuff ways, and last night (May 2) Will Ferrell and Conan O'Brien were at it again.
The "Elf" actor followed through with previous threats and shaved the crimson-haired late-night TV host's beard.
Proudly showing off her curvaceous figure, Kim Kardashian was busy filming material for "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" in Hollywood on Thursday (March 10).
Sporting a hot pink zip up jacket, low cut black tank top, skin tight black pants and pink athletic shoes, the E! darling was followed by camera crews as she turned up to work on her moves at the International Dance Academy.
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Hitting the talk show circuit as her new movie's release date approaches, Jennifer Aniston paid a visit to Conan O'Brien on Tuesday evening (February 1).
The former "Friends" star took a seat alongside the late night host as he braggingly told the audience about how he walked in on her as she was switching up ensembles in her dressing room.
There's been all kinds of controversy about Sarah Palin's reindeer-shooting scene on "Sara Palin's Alaska" and it seems Conan O'Brien was a little late with his spoof earlier this week.
The "Conan" host aired a clip in which Palin's soundtrack was played overtop "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and it really was quite funny.
She's no stranger to taking shots from the media, and Sarah Palin's latest criticism came from Conan O'Brien's show "Conan."
The crimson-haired funnyman blended clips of Palin's "Alaska" show where she shot a reindeer with scenes from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
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They've always had a crazy household and when the Kardashian sisters appeared on Conan O'Brien's talk show last night, things got a little nutty.
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He's been eagerly awaiting his chance to get back to late night television, and last night (November 8) Conan O'Brien made his triumphant debut on TBS.
The former "Tonight Show" host even took a few jabs at his old network NBC, who decided to oust him in favor of bringing Jay Leno back to the prime spot.
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Opening up for a candid interview with Playboy Magazine, Conan O'Brien dishes on NBC cohort, Jay Leno.
After Leno famously stole back "The Tonight Show" leaving O'Brien jobless last year, Conan insists to the American men's mag, that he is not resentful.


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