PHOTO: lol. Miss Utah mishap (she should be a politician, set answer to ANY question!)//my washer
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND!!
lol. "...now-famous mishap started with a three-in-one prompt that the 21-year-old said was "a little bit confusing."
Create Education Better’ (VIDEO)
Marissa Powell Miss USA
June 17th, 2013
VIDEO
Miss Utah Marissa Powell created beauty pageant magic on Sunday night’s Miss USA competition, giving a totally incoherent answer to a question about women’s income inequality.
Check out the video here.
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"A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet [women]they continue to earn less than men [for the same job]. What does this say about society?" asked Nene Leakes.
Then, Powell said, she "started speaking without really processing [the question]."
"I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are continuing to try to strive ... to ...," she said, before appearing to lose her way.
Miss Utah picked up after a long pause:
"... figure out how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem. And I think, especially the men are ... seen as the leaders of this, and so we need to see how to ... create education better. So that we can solve this problem. Thank you."
wtf?
When Lauer gave her a second go-around on national TV Tuesday, Marissa Powell, Miss Utah said unequal pay "is not OK."
"It needs to be equal pay for equal work. It's hard enough already to earn a living, and it shouldn't be harder just because you're a woman," she said.
i tried to post a close-up photo, i couldn't, she looks dark but she has blue eyes (though it could be blue contact lenses), hope the mess up didn't ruin it for her, but i know the questions are 50 percent of your score. cracks me up though. the presenter is smirking as miss utah is flubbing it (get real, and have compassion, every person out there has been there and done that) politicians do the same thing, they practice a bunch of pat answers that should work for any question, and LOTS of time, their answers make absolutely no sense at all to the question posed.
how come they don't have a mr. u.s.a. pageant. would LOVE to see that, and how they do. lol. put them in suits, and shorts and wearing a crown, it would be fun. lol. i'm serious.
my washer went on fire. omg! so another year of washer troubles. had i reached someone right away i'd already have replaced it, but i didn't, so now i'm where i was at last year with that. pain in the butt. i have never seen an electrical fire before. there is a flame and it smokes. i unplugged it, and i just happened to be there when it started smoking, so i got lucky. i knew it was an old washer, i don't trust old electrical to begin with...it also seemed to be damaging clothes as well.
headed to the marina. a is at camp. hope she is enjoying it. i e-mailed her. THEY HAVE CAMP ACCOUNTS! lol. the modern version of mail call? had macaroni salad and pasta. nice hot day for the beach, which was mobbed. a lot of people flying kites. wish i had one with me, i love that.
lol. "...now-famous mishap started with a three-in-one prompt that the 21-year-old said was "a little bit confusing."
Create Education Better’ (VIDEO)
Marissa Powell Miss USA
June 17th, 2013
VIDEO
Miss Utah Marissa Powell created beauty pageant magic on Sunday night’s Miss USA competition, giving a totally incoherent answer to a question about women’s income inequality.
Check out the video here.
Read more...
"A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet [women]they continue to earn less than men [for the same job]. What does this say about society?" asked Nene Leakes.
Then, Powell said, she "started speaking without really processing [the question]."
"I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are continuing to try to strive ... to ...," she said, before appearing to lose her way.
Miss Utah picked up after a long pause:
"... figure out how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem. And I think, especially the men are ... seen as the leaders of this, and so we need to see how to ... create education better. So that we can solve this problem. Thank you."
wtf?
When Lauer gave her a second go-around on national TV Tuesday, Marissa Powell, Miss Utah said unequal pay "is not OK."
"It needs to be equal pay for equal work. It's hard enough already to earn a living, and it shouldn't be harder just because you're a woman," she said.
i tried to post a close-up photo, i couldn't, she looks dark but she has blue eyes (though it could be blue contact lenses), hope the mess up didn't ruin it for her, but i know the questions are 50 percent of your score. cracks me up though. the presenter is smirking as miss utah is flubbing it (get real, and have compassion, every person out there has been there and done that) politicians do the same thing, they practice a bunch of pat answers that should work for any question, and LOTS of time, their answers make absolutely no sense at all to the question posed.
how come they don't have a mr. u.s.a. pageant. would LOVE to see that, and how they do. lol. put them in suits, and shorts and wearing a crown, it would be fun. lol. i'm serious.
my washer went on fire. omg! so another year of washer troubles. had i reached someone right away i'd already have replaced it, but i didn't, so now i'm where i was at last year with that. pain in the butt. i have never seen an electrical fire before. there is a flame and it smokes. i unplugged it, and i just happened to be there when it started smoking, so i got lucky. i knew it was an old washer, i don't trust old electrical to begin with...it also seemed to be damaging clothes as well.
headed to the marina. a is at camp. hope she is enjoying it. i e-mailed her. THEY HAVE CAMP ACCOUNTS! lol. the modern version of mail call? had macaroni salad and pasta. nice hot day for the beach, which was mobbed. a lot of people flying kites. wish i had one with me, i love that.
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for the first time ever the \"sound\" of the fireworks and the vibration of them is \"bothering me\" omg! i guess this is also part of old age? my hearing bothers me lately as well, but its on and off.
you will have to settle for Mr. Universe ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_Championships
Join the club, this year we had some neighbors who had some very loud fireworks, I thought they were coming and hitting our windows. Thought it was the neighbors next door only to find out it was the neighbor in back. He told Richard they spent $400. I remember when we spent $150 and had so much.
We had bad storms arriving about 10pm, severe with lots of tree limbs and twigs down. We really have had a lot of rain here in the last month.
BRAIN FREEZE: Beilock, author of the book Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting it Right When You Have To, says that the trouble starts when we get nervous.
People start worrying and that eats up their brainpower,
She uses a metaphor: When there are too many programs running on your computer, it becomes sluggish and confused. Our brains work this way, too. When all eyes are on us, it makes us stumble on our words, Beilock says. It disrupts the things that [usually] work on autopilot.
And as soon as Miss Utah realized she wasnt doing well, she probably became self-conscious, draining even more brain power away from focusing on answering the question.
I think we often think of choking in the Olympics or Miss America pageant, but it happens all the time, she says, adding that shes a great parallel parker when no one is in the car. (Shes not the only one.)
This morning on TODAY, the anchors admitted that they\'ve had their share of on-air brain freeze.
\"We\'ve been in that position where we\'re in the middle of saying something and you kind of go blank,\" Matt Lauer said. \"And then it\'s like that hot flash starts in the middle of your back and heads up the back of your neck, which only makes matters worse. I feel for her.\"
To avoid blanking, Beilock recommends that people practice.
If you need to make a big presentation to the board of directors, for example, practice the presentation, videotape it and view it.
research shows that when people write down their fears before a big performance, they do better -- and they avoid those dreaded blanks. She notes that everyone can avoid choking if we can stop worrying.
finally got a photo up, still not the close-up. beautiful girl.