Revealing plan: Official tries to ban pajamas in public

"It's pajama pants today; next it will be underwear tomorrow," said a Louisiana politician who wants to ban the wearing of pajamas outside of the home. KTAL-TV's Morgan Thomas reports.

By msnbc.com staff

Privates ought to remain private, says a Louisiana lawmaker who wants to ban people from wearing pajama pants in public.

Caddo Parish District 3 Commissioner Michael Williams is pushing for an ordinance that would prohibit residents from appearing in public places in pajama pants, defined as ?a garment sold in the sleepwear section of department stores.?

Williams told the Shreveport Times?he was moved to push for an ordinance after an incident at a local Walmart in which he and others were offended by a customer clad in pajamas.

"I saw a group of young men wearing pajama pants and house shoes," he said, according to the Times. "At the part where there should have been underwear," his private parts were showing through the fabric.

He told Williams the Times that ?pajamas are designed to be worn in the bedroom at night."

?If you can't (wear pajamas) at the boardwalk or courthouse, why are you going to do it in a restaurant or in public? Today it's pajamas," Williams said. "Tomorrow it's underwear. Where does it stop?"

Williams? proposal may have a hard time passing legal muster.

Marjorie R. Esman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, last week sent Williams a letter saying clothing is a form of expression protected by the Constitution, The Advertiser reported.

?To ban the wearing of pajamas, like any other form of attire,? Esman wrote, ?would violate a liberty interest guaranteed under the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution. ? The government must demonstrate a rational basis for its ban ? and Caddo Parish?s has no legitimate rational basis for regulating the attire of its residents."

Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator said such a ban would be "very difficult to enforce the way it's described.?

Shreveport, which is in Caddo Parish, already has a ban on saggy pants.

Would you wear PJs in public?

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158 Peace Corps volunteers leave Honduras (AP)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras ? All 158 Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras left the country on Monday, weeks after the United States announced that it would pull them out for safety reasons.

The U.S. group said in late December that it was bringing home volunteers from Honduras and suspending training for new volunteers in El Salvador and Guatemala, though existing volunteers would remain in the latter two countries.

The region is plagued by gang violence and Honduras is considered to have the highest murder rate in the world. Honduras President Porfirio Lobo said Monday that the Peace Corps volunteers had been affected by rising crime, but neither he nor U.S. officials have cited specific attacks as reasons for the withdrawal.

U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Ledy Pacheco said instructions for the withdrawal came from Washington, where the group's head office is located.

The Peace Corps had operated in Honduras since 1963.

The three countries make up the so-called northern triangle of Central America, a region plagued by drug trafficking and gang violence.

A recent U.N. report said Honduras and El Salvador have the highest homicide rates in the world with 82.1 and 66 per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively, in 2010. Guatemala had a rate of 41 per 100,000 last year. All three are more than double the homicide rate of 18 per 100,000 in Mexico, where drug violence has drawn world attention.

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A reliable purchase is a smart purchase

From washing machines to televisions, from kitchen knives to media players, reliability is an incredibly valuable feature

Far and away, reliability is the most important feature when buying a product you?re actually going to depend on regularly in your life. From washing machines to televisions, from kitchen knives to media players, reliability is an incredibly valuable feature. To be honest, I put reliability first with almost everything that I buy.

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The catch is that reliability is boring. It?s not a gee-whiz feature. It doesn?t walk your dog or make you an omelet for breakfast. It doesn?t manage your music library or allow you to watch content from seventeen different streaming services.

It just sits there and keeps working, day after day.

It means far fewer trips to the repairman. Every single time you have to have an item repaired, you start off by finding yourself in a situation where you?re doing without an item. This itself can cause a hassle, often causing you to spend time, energy, and money just to make do without the item.

It means far fewer repair costs. You also have to invest time and energy into the repairs themselves. It takes time to take an item in for repair or to contact someone to come to your house to repair the item. It takes money to pay for the repair service.

It means a longer product cycle. If the product is highly reliable, you?re not going to be replacing it for a long time. It will last longer than other products, which means that you have many more years before you need to replace it than with less reliable products.

Each of these things saves you money, time, and effort, and they?re all thanks to the most important element, reliability.

I?ll give you an example from my own kitchen. I?ve mentioned before that I?m slowly replacing all of my kitchenware with enameled cast iron pots from a reliable manufacturer (Le Creuset) and cast iron skillets from Lodge.

These items cost more than the pots and pans I used to buy, which were mostly Teflon-coated low-end pots and pans from the local department store.

Let?s say that I would spend $25 on a six quart pot from the local store versus $200 (!) for an enameled cast iron 5.5 quart pot from Le Creuset. The six quart pot comes with a three year warranty, while the enameled cast iron pot comes with a 101 year warranty.

I?ve owned two of the low-end pots over the years. With one of them, the handle snapped off at about the six year mark, and with the other, the coating began to come off at about the five year mark.

So, I had to buy two of those pots over an 11 year period. That cost me $50 in pots alone. The unreliability of the pots caused two meals to be ruined, easily $10 per meal. There?s also the time and energy lost to the two failed meals (cleaning up the mess and preparing something else ? an hour each, let?s say), plus the time invested in buying new pots, plus a small amount of money spent buying the new pots. Let?s say $65 and two and a half hours lost over eleven years.

With the enameled cast iron, if it manages to fail within 101 years, I just call the manufacturer, read off the number on the bottom, and it?s replaced quickly. Because it?s made so well, it?s likely not going to have a catastrophic failure. So, assuming I paid for a 100 year lifetme for the pot, that?s $2 per year. Over 11 years, I will have essentially incurred a cost of just $22 (and no hours lost) on that enameled pot.

By paying more for reliability, I?m actually saving a lot of money over time.

You can go through countless different items in your home and repeat this type of calculation. You?ll find that, time and time again, reliability saves you significant money, even if it means a bigger sticker price up front. Reliability is boring, but it?s a money saver over and over again.

This post is part of a yearlong series called ?365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),? in which I?m revisiting the entries from my book ?365 Ways to Live Cheap,? which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.?

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PFT: Tebow shows how far he has to go

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Four years ago, the Dolphins were able to hire Jeff Ireland away from the Cowboys by giving Ireland final say over the roster and the draft.? No one believed that Ireland actually had that authority; it widely was suspected that former V.P. of football operations Bill Parcells ultimately called the shots, and that the team put in the contract whatever had to be put in the contract in order to bogart Ireland from the ?Boys.

A year later, something similar occurred in Cleveland, where the team hired coach Eric Mangini and then brought George Kokinis from Baltimore, with Kokinis getting final say in writing but many believing that Mangini still had the power, as a practical matter.

The same dynamic could be coming in St. Louis.? On Saturday, Charley Casserly of CBS reported that the Rams have made no final decision on the exact authority that coach Jeff Fisher will have, but that it?s not an issue because Fisher will have major input regarding the selection of the next General Manager.

Wait, what?

Fisher, according to Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports and Adam Schefter of ESPN, spurned the Dolphins because owner Stephen Ross refused to strip final say from Ireland, a man whom Schefter says Fisher would have been interested in hiring as the G.M. in St. Louis, if Ireland were available.? And now we?re to believe that Fisher instead chose a situation where he may not have final say over the guy who is hired to serve as General Manager, even if Fisher?s input on the hire ultimately is rejected by management?

In our view, it?s a shell game, aimed at allowing the Rams to import from another front office a guy who currently doesn?t possess final say.? Unless the Rams hire someone who currently isn?t employed, whose contract has expired, or whom his current team no longer wants, the Rams will have to give the next G.M. final say in order to hire him away from his current team, even if the next G.M. will essentially do with that final say whatever Fisher tells him to do.

Here?s hoping that the league office slams the door on this kind of sham.? But we won?t hold our breath.? Fisher spent the last year embedded in the league office, helping the Competition Committee and otherwise aiding the Commissioner.? If the league ever addresses this fairly significant loophole when it comes to front-office maneuverings, it won?t happen until after Fisher and the Rams slip through it.

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Wi3 Wipnet may solve your connectivity complications at home, for a price

The Moca (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) standards haven't yet solved our home networking problems, but things may be about to change. Wi3 is here at the CES 2012 to exhibit its Wipnet technology, which can use your home's coax backbone to transmit data at a speed of up to 175Mbps. The devices should go for sale in April, with four different configurations with one or two Ethernet ports (Wip1000 and Wip1500), Ethernet and WiFi (Wip2000) or Ethernet and HDMI (for client / server services - Wip2500), and with a price of about $175 without WiFi, and additional $50 for the wireless option. They may also be included in wall sockets, on wall mounts or even on standalone boxes for small New York apartments that can't be reconfigured.

The Wi3 people are also developing a box that can send the power over coax, beside additional services (like internet connectivity), but for now each box needs to be powered independently, and they also have a different filter to make sure your data does not leave your home using the neighborhood coax lines. Like what you see? Don't judge till you peek the shots below.

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Android style guide helps improve app design (Appolicious)

Google has a lot invested in its Android platform, and regularly finds new ways to help its developer community. The latest offering is a much needed one. Google launched an Android style guide in an effort to improve Android app design and user interfaces. The new style guide is actually a website, with step-by-step instructions and documentation for the development and publication of apps. There?s suggestions on how to utilize images, and other recommendations on engaging the end user.

The style guide comes weeks after Android launched a training program for developers, a set of online classes to encourage better apps. Google?s become increasingly focused on design since the launch of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which revamped the end user experience from the home screen to the notifications bar. Appealing to the developer community is a necessary step in promoting good design across Android?s ecosystem, and it?s important that Google continues to provide as many resources as possible.

Android and its partners compete with Apple?s cloud strategy

Google and its partners are finding more ways to compete with Apple, a brand that?s set the tone for smartphone design. From software integration to the user interface, Apple?s R&D is notoriously particular about what the end user experiences. It?s created a level of familiarity for iOS devices, and will help Apple to introduce more services as their devices better connect to each other and the cloud. This holistic approach to consumer electronics is what?s helping Apple to hold its own in a world now dominated by Android?s OS, as OEMs set out to create their own unified user experience.

Samsung and Sony are two of the most proactive companies when it comes to design and integrated services, both touting their own software platforms on Android devices, and both known for swapping Android?s default designs for their own. This year?s CES really demonstrated how OEMs are chasing Apple with their cloud strategies. Acer and Lenovo are laying out a broadened range of applications and services, including the AcerCloud for hosting documents and files and making them accessible on smartphones, tablets, PCs and TVs. Several Android partners are filling the software gaps with consumer services, and this will be an important transition over the next two years as mobile devices gain functionality and prevalence.

While OEMs are busy stuffing software into every corner of their Android devices, Google itself is leveraging its ecosystem to promote its own services. Google already has cloud services and integrated software to challenge Apple, as both companies seek true brand loyalty through personal media management and not the devices themselves. This is why design plays such an important role in mobility, as it helps to unify the user experience across varied devices and services within a given ecosystem.

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Gene Hackman injured while riding bicycle, OK (AP)

MIAMI ? Gene Hackman's publicist says the veteran Oscar-winning actor was briefly hospitalized after a truck bumped him from behind while he was riding a bicycle in the Florida Keys.

Susan Madore says the 81-year-old Hackman was airlifted to a Miami hospital Friday afternoon.

She characterized his injuries as minor bumps and bruises. She says he was released from the hospital several hours later after routine tests.

The Florida Highway Patrol reports that Hackman was riding on an Islamorada street around 3 p.m. when the pickup hit the back of his bicycle, throwing him onto the grassy shoulder. No charges were immediately reported.

Hackman won an Academy Award for "The French Connection" in 1971 and another for "Unforgiven" in 1992. He received Oscar nominations for three other films.

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