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ON THE INSIDE: NEWS SUSPECTED SERIAL RAPIST CAPTURED PG. 4 BEAUTY QUEEN GIVES UP CROWN AFTER BRAWL PG. 6 HOUSE PASSES HEALTHCARE REFORM PG: 8 OMER BHATTI IS HE REALLY MICHAEL JACKSONâ€&#x;S 4TH CHILD PG: 10

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ANTHONY E. SOWELL FROM NEWSWIRE REPORTS: Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the home of a convicted rapist are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said Monday.

Miller said.The bodies were discovered last week after a woman reported being raped at the east-side home of 50-year-old Anthony Sowell.Armed with search and arrest warrants, police went to the home Thursday to arrest Sowell on a rape and felonious assault warrant. He wasn't there, but police found two bodies. Police found the other remains on Friday and arrested Sowell on Saturday.Sowell hasn't been charged in the rape investigation or in connection with the bodies. Court records and jail officials had no information about whether he had an attorney. Police typically have 72 hours — in this case it would be until Tuesday — to charge or release a suspect.Detectives will seek a warrant to take a DNA sample from Sowell in connection with the homicide investigation, police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said Monday. Investigators also will track his residence history back four years to the time of his release from serving a sentence for rape.

„‟It could take days or weeks to identify the bodies using dental records or DNA mouth-swab samples from relatives.‟‟ Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller said his office has begun Police will look at unsolved homicides with the "arduous" process of collectsimilarities to see if there are connections to ing materials from dentists and the case, Stacho said. relatives. The six women were black and five of them had been CONTINUED PAGE 4 strangled, authorities said. The cause of death of the sixth hadn't been determined. The investigation will pay close attention to missing women who were living alone, were homeless or had drug or alcohol problems,

RAPIST CONT: Police don't believe the Sowell property has more bodies, but Stacho said investigators would send a cadaver dog to the house. Sowell served 15 years in prison for choking and raping a 21-year-old woman in 1989.

He was a registered sex offender and, after his release from prison, was required to check in regularly at the sheriff's office, which said he complied. Officers also visited his home, most recently on Sept. 22, just hours before the woman reported being raped there.

The three-story house sits in a crowded inner-city neighborhood of mostly older homes, some of them boarded up. Some neighbors said a bad smell came from the house several months ago, but they thought it might just be natural gas. Sowell often asked for money and scoured the neighborhood for scrap metal to sell, neighbors said.

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BEAUTY GIVES UP TITLE AFTER BRAWL By: Alberto Carabelio

Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

Rachel Christie, niece of former British Olympic gold medal sprin-ter Linford Christie, was arrested earlier this week after allegedly getting into a fight with Miss Manchester, Sara Jones, at a club in the northern English city, newspapers reported.

Christie, who had become the first black winner of the title in July, was accused of punching Jones in a row over her boyfriend who appears on the TV show "Gladiators," the papers said.

"Due to the media attention following the allegations against her, Rachel Christie has now decided to withdraw from the Miss World competition and relinquish her Miss England crown," the pageant organizers said in a statement on the Miss England website.

"Rachel will concentrate on clearing her name and focus on training for the 2012 Olympics until this case is resolved."

Christie says she wants to emulate her uncle and win gold at the 2012 Olympics in London in the heptathlon.

HOUSE PASSES HEALTHCARE REFORM JUST BARELY By; Stephanie McDonald Handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday, advancing legislation that the Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement.

After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220-215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years and that Democrats said would provide relief to Americans struggling to buy or hold on to health insurance. „'This is our moment to revolutionize health care in this country,'' said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., a chief architect of the bill.Democrats were forced to make major concessions on insurance coverage for abortions to secure passage, a wrenching compromise for the numerous abortion-rights advocates in their ranks. They hope to change the amendment in Senate negotiations.

Democrats say the measure — paid for through new fees and taxes, and cuts in Medicare — would extend coverage to 36 million people without insurance.

and create a government health insurance program. It would end insurance companies not covering pre-existing conditions or dropping people when they become ill.. The vote came after Obama traveled to Capitol Hill just before noon Saturday to ask lawmakers to answer the call of history'' and support the bill.

Only one Republican, Rep. Anh Cao of Louisiana, voted for the bill, and 39 Democrats opposed it. TheHouse also defeated the Republicans' more modest plan, whose authors said it was a more commonsense and fiscally responsible.

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Healthcare Reform: A handful of remaining undecided lawmakers swung behind the proposal. and slightly more than 30 House Democrats were publicly lined up in opposition — not enough to deny the party a victory on one of the president's top domestic initiatives, unless their ranks swelled by 10. another turning point was the decision by Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Friday night to allow antiabortion Democrats to try to tighten restrictions on coverage for the procedure under any insurance plan that receives federal money. That concession eased a threat by some Democrats to abandon the bill, but also left Democrats who support abortion rights facing a choice between backing a provision they bitterly opposed or scuttling the bill.

The new abortion controls were added to the measure on a vote of 240-194. So what does all this mean for us i guess that we will have to see what the future has for us in store. This nation is at a point of a great depression and i can only thank the George Bush era for so thank you Mr. Bush.

IS HE REALLY MJâ€&#x;S SON? Omer Bhatti, a 25-year-old hip-hop dancer, with the stage name of "O-Bee," is rumored to be the secret lovechild of the late Michael Jackson. Bhatti was seated in the front row of the memorial service along with Jackson's children and siblings. Omer was allegedly conceived during a one-night-stand Jackson had with Pia Bhatti in 1984.

Omer, whose mother and family are from Norway, moved to be near the Neverland Ranch in 1997.

Omer was with Jackson during the significant times in his life, including holidays, birthdays and during the time Jackson was investigated on child abuse allegations in 2003.

Joe Jackson confirmed Omer Bhatti is Michael Jackson's fourth child. Joe, who was cut out of son Michael's will, said: 'I knew Michael had another son - yes, I did.

He looks like a Jackson, he acts like a Jackson and he can dance like a Jackson. This boy's a fantastic dancer - as a matter of fact, he teaches dance.'

Bhatti attended Michael's memorial service and has been staying with the Jacksons ever since. He is said to be planning a DNA test. Meanwhile, it has been announced that Michael's mother Katherine, Michael told friends in 2004 that 79, and Prince Michael and Paris' biologi- Bhatti was his son from a one-night stand. cal mother Debbie Rowe will share custody of the three children.

Speaking on America's The Early Show, the star's lawyer L. Londell McMillan said Jackson's ex-wife Rowe will get visitation rights to the kids, but no extra money in addition to her previous settlements.

JOE JACKSON SAID OMER BHATTI IS MICHAELâ€&#x;S 4TH SON

DANGEROUSLY BEAUTIFUL & SMART BY: DAVID C. /3SIXTY MAGAZINE PUBLISHER When you grow up to be beautiful, smart and very talented in many areas you should be fulfilled with all the fruits that life has to offer, so where do we start by telling this story of beautiful Eliza Cortez very talented in writing, singing and modelling. Did we mention a nurse also?

Born and raised in the Philippines, on the remote Island of Luzon, both of her parents are American citizens. „‟ I lived there until I was 12 when I started modelling. „‟I can still remember my sister laughing at my accent, she would always call me a FAB.‟‟ Eliza said. This was meant for fresh from the boat.

He is the total entertainer.‟‟ She said.

I can remember my grandmother would take me to party and people At the age of six she began singing. Admir- would ask me to sing and dance, ing the late Michael Jackson and all his they would give me money.‟‟ talent inspired her. „‟His distinctive musical She said laughing. Living in a close and vocal styles influenced most all family with conservative Christian artist and his ability to entertain people is generally entertaining.

values, her upbringing was not easy.

It gave her the correct grounding and foundation to be the person she is today.

Her father who passed away when she was young was also a inspiration of her music, Remembering she could hear him cooking and cleaning in the kitchen, He would sing ballads and love songs. „‟He is a very passionate man, some of which I think I inherited.‟‟ Eliza said.

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Her mother is the hero in her life going through so much in her life but still managing to keep going. Teaching her so much about life and gave her the will to survive. „‟ I only hope I can be half the person she is someday.‟‟ Eliza said.

One thing drives her while she is at work as a Geriatric nurse is seeing the smile on her patients faces. If only for a second she can ease their pain, taking her work very seriously. Her grandmother developed Alzheimer‟s disease and required attention. „‟ That made me realize that there are a lot of people in this world who need professional help, so I decided to go to school for it.‟‟ She said. So she obtained her Bachelor of Science in nursing. Over the years she has branched out in many other areas and carried her teachings from the school of life with her. Modelling whenever possible and currently producing her first film documentary which will be shooting all over Asia, called „‟Finding „‟It deals with the underbelly of society, from Elijah‟‟ with Buddha Bay Productions. „‟ It started out drug dealers to prostitution, corruption and as a simple project but had murder for hire. She said. taken a journey around the Her grandmother is an English teacher when world.‟‟ she was four Eliza was reading poetry and expanding her vocabulary to the extent that she started to write and recite poetry, which has grown to a fulltime activity, Writing over 300 poems.„‟ I also indulge in the most important thing to a woman, shopping for sexy classy clothes that match my personality.‟‟ Eliza said.

Always trying something new and visiting new places. „‟ I have visited beautiful places like Rome and Ireland recently and hope to visit more countries in the near future.‟‟ She said. In her spare time she loves to write poetry. Sometimes Eliza will take in the nightclub scene only with trusted friends just in case she gets boozed up.

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Her many projects that she is involved in allows her the opportunity to meet many people from so many different places around the globe. Most of her dislikes in the world like crimes against woman and children and racial discrimination. „‟ Poverty is also another dislike I have and in people I don‟t like dishonesty and selfishness.‟‟ She said.

Being outgoing and opinionated but at the same time she can be shy. Trust is the most important thing in her life it‟s the very foundation she has built her life on.

On the other hand she is a helpless romantic, very affectionate and loves to dive in head first, Being deep into passion, love and emotions. „‟ At heart i am a homebody and nothing please me more than a simple picnic or walk along the beach with a loved one.‟‟ She said. „‟ I have been blessed with great parents an awesome sister and brother, some very close friends.‟‟ She said. „‟ I am very devoted and loyal to those I care about.‟‟ and thankful for all I have.‟‟

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Insane Clown Posse's Juggalos Aren't a Gang - Just Punk Kids BY: JASON ABDOO Woop-woop. Walking around Metrocenter in an Insane Clown Posse shirt, I hear the sound every few minutes. Kids, don't know, teenagers with tilted ballcaps, most of them not wearing ICP shirts but all greeting my 28-year-old ass with the The last time I wore one was 10 years universal call of the Juggalo, just for ago, in Ohio, where I'm from — and wearing something I bought at Hot Topic 10 minutes earlier. Woop-woop. it was not a big deal. We went to shows, wearing the shirts and faceIn case you're unaware, Juggalos are fans of ICP, a Detroit-bred rap duo with paint, carrying the distinctive three liters KISS-like face-paint and ludicrously pro- of Faygo soda that Juggalos drink. fane lyrics. The bandhas a massive unThe concerts were fantastic: violent, derground following, particularly in sexually depraved rhymes rapped over their native Midwest, as well as Colodumpy beats, with a bunch of sketchy rado, Utah, and Arizona. Metrocenter is dudes moshing and heavily tattooed one of Phoenix's two main Juggalo girls — usually a little sloppy in the face hangouts; the other being the Monstar — flashing. At age 17, who wouldn't Shop at Camelback Road and 35th Avelove it? nue. Mall security, shopkeepers, and other kids revile Juggalos, and it's easy I never would've imagined such activities getting me photographed by a to see why: They're grubby, selfproclaimed white gang task force, but that's just what happens to some Juggalos in Arizona. trash with lip rings, baggy black jeans, chain wallets, and dirty goatees.

Donna Monahan is a Juggalo but says Many are un- or under-employed. They she is not a member of a gang, though smoke poorly constructed rollies to the authorities have sometimes said otherstub and yell curse words at passing wise. Monahan, 28, with two kids, cars. In the interest of full disclosure, this works at the Monstar Shop the store was not my first time wearing an specializes in clothing bearing the ICP shirt.

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Juggaloâ€&#x;s continued: hatchetman logo of ICP's Psychopathic Records and also serves as a recording studio, concert venue, and gathering place for Juggalos not in the mallrat scene.

One night a few years back, she was leaving a party in Tucson when she got pulled over for not signaling a turn. The cop quickly told her he was more interested in the red hachetman logo on her back window. They took her picture for inclusion in a gang registry.

"He thought I was in a gang — those were the first words out of his mouth," she says. "He said a hatchetman on your car was just as bad as a sticker that said Crips or Bloods. It's stupid. I'm not going to say Juggalos never do anything wrong. There are idiots who do,and I'm probably friends with some of them . . .

But a gang?"

Yet the gang myth persists in law enforcement and the news media. In June, the East Valley Tribune, my employer at the time, ran a story about Juggalos under the headline, "Gang, residents clash at Mesa meeting." Two months later, the Trib ran a bigger story, this one on the cover. A blaring headline asked: "Fans or gang? Meet the Juggalos."

Despite the interrogative headline, not one of the half-dozen law enforcement officers quoted said they personally think Juggalos are a gang. Yet they have a category in the state's gang registry.

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Aerosmith turmoil amid Steven Tyler 'quits' By: Lisa Joseph THE future of US supergroup Aerosmith is uncertain after unconfirmed reports that flamboyant frontman Steven Tyler has quit the band.

Tyler, 61, indicated he was parting company with the band after more than three decades in a recent interview with British music magazine Classic Rock.

I don't know what I'm doing yet,'' Tyler said. ``But it's definitely going to be something Steven Tyler: working on the brand of myself - Brand Tyler.''

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry fuelled the quit rumours after telling the Las Vegas Sun newspaper in an interview that the frontman had left the band after a recent concert in Abu Dhabi. „‟Steven quit as far as I can tell,'' Perry told paper. ``I don't know anymore than you do about it.'' Perry said Tyler had no contact with me or the other band members'' over the issue and attempts to contact the singer had been unsuccessful.

Perry said Tyler had not returned his phone calls. ``He's notorious for that,'' Perry told The Sun. ``That's one thing I've learned to live with. I try to overlook it.''

Despite Tyler's departure, Aerosmith would continue, Perry said. ``Aerosmith is such a powerful band, I mean it's like a steam locomotive. You just can't disregard 40 years of four guys who play together as well as they do. We're just trying to at least I am - trying to figure out what direction the band should take,'' he said.

As far as replacing Steve, it's not just about that, it's also four guys that play extremely well together, and I'm not going to see that go to waste.''

The developments come after a troubled year for Aerosmith. The band were forced to cancel several US concerts on their world tour after Tyler fell from the stage at a gig in South Dakota in August, suffering injuries to his head, neck and shoulders. The group recovered to play concerts in Hawaii and Abu Dhabi before news that Tyler had quit the group surfaced. Perry said he was dismayed to hear of Tyler's departure via the internet, saying he suspected the singer had been planning to quit ``for a long time.'' „‟To disregard his brothers to the point where we have to find out about it on the internet - it's like, 'See you later, Bud.'

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J-LO SUES EX OVER SEX-TAPE By: Amber Williams Jennifer Lopez won a court order Monday barring her first husband from making their sex life public - at least for a day.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant issued a temporary restraining order blocking distribution of a proposed movie, "The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story."

The order is in effect until a hearing on whether to extend it is completed. That hearing was scheduled to resume Tuesday.

"I'm going to fight this," Noa said of the order.

Lopez sued Noa on Friday for $10 million, claiming he breached a prior confidentiality agreement by intending to sell a movie containing hours of home video footage, including some showing Lopez in sexual situations on their 1997 honeymoon. The suit also claims invasion of privacy by "public disclosure of private facts which would be offensive and objectionable to a reasonable person and which is not of legitimate public concern."

Lopez also sued Ed Meyer, Noa's manager and producer of the proposed movie.

Meyer's attorney, Frank Sanes Jr., unsuccessfully argued in court that his client was not bound by Noa's confidentiality agreement and shouldn't be subject to the restraining order.

The singer-actress wed Noa in 1997, but their marriage lasted just 11 months.

They have fought two previous court battles. Noa obtained a $125,000 settlement from Lopez in a 2004 suit that claimed she fired him without cause from a job as manager of her now-defunct Pasadena restaurant.

As part of the settlement, he agreed not to disparage Lopez or sell private or intimate details about her or their relationship.

In 2007, Lopez won $545,000 in damages and attorney fees in another lawsuit that blocked Noa from publishing a ghostwritten tell-all book. Lopez claimed Noa had demanded $5 million to keep him from publishing the book. According to court documents, the book claimed that Lopez had multiple affairs during her marriage to Noa, including one with current husband Marc Antony.

Lopez, 40, married Antony in 2004 and they have two children. She also was married to choreographer Cris Judd in 2001. The marriage lasted for nine months

TECHNOLOGY TODAY

The all new Microsoft Windows Apple's much loved toys have been often jailbroken and unlocked so that they can be used freely.

While several continue to jailbreak their iPhone OS devices, the first worm for iPhone OS platform hits the jailbroken iPhones. This new worm changes the iPhone wallpaper and set's it to 1980's popstar Rick Astley. A user posted information about his iPhone struck by the worm at the Australian Forum Whirlpool.

Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, is all set to hit the market.

Listed below are some attractive features that the operating system sports.

HomeGroup This feature makes files sharing easy. Connect two or more PCs running Windows 7, and HomeGroup automatically start sharing your music, picture, video, and document libraries with other people in your home.

Jump Lists This one takes you right to the documents, pictures, songs, or websites you turn to each day. You'll find it on the taskbar and the Start menu.

Snap Snap is a fast and amusing way to resize open windows, simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen. You can make the windows expand perpendicularly, take up the full screen, or appear alongside with another window.

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Windows Live Essentials

Performance improvements

It's complimentary software that includes things like e mail, instant messaging, photo editing video editing and blogging.

Windows 7 is designed to be quicker.

It reconnects to wireless network more quickly; search results are faster and read the USB device in seconds.

Windows Search

Play to

This feature helps you find more things in more places and the speed

This feature enables you to play music and video on other networked PCs, TVs, or stereos around the house.

is quite impressive.

Remote Media Streaming

Type into the Start

This one provides easy access to your Windows Media Player 12 library over the Internet..

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Windows Touch see a list of related documents, pictures, Windows 7 is the first to incorporate music, and e-mail on your PC. multi-touch technology. All you need Results are now categorized and conis a touch -compatible PC. tain highlighted keywords and text snippets to make them easier to scan.

64-bit support All packaged retail editions of Windows 7 (except for Home Basic)

include both 32- and 64-bit software.

64-bit processor makes the PC more responsive when you're running lots of programs at once.

Xbox 360 holiday bundles announced Microsoft has announced two exclusive Xbox 360 bundles for Holiday season.

The Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle for $299 (Rs. 14,400 approx.) and the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Pack for $60 (Rs. 2,880 approx.) are the new exclusive offerings from the Xbox 360 team.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Elite Holiday bundle includes Xbox 360 Elite console with 120GB HDD to store games, downloadable content, TV shows, movies and other stuff. Along with that, two full retail copies of LEGO Batman: The Videogame and PURE are bundled.

The Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Pack will have a black Wireless Controller and four hit Xbox LIVE Arcade titles. These four titles are Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Lumines LIVE!, Bomberman LIVE, and Ms Pac-man. Microsoft is shipping the Xbox 360 Elite Holiday bundle with two games from today. The Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Pack would be available in November for the countries with Xbox LIVE service support.

Rival game console makers Sony and Nintendo would also be planning something exclusive for the Holiday season to boost sales. Probably, there would be exclusive and limited game bundles. Let's hope some good games are bundled.

Acer Expects To Introduce Android Phone In 2009 Taiwanese computer vendor Acer is planning to introduce an Android-based smart phone by the end of the year to add to the ten phones based on Windows Mobile already in the works for 2009, reports Bloomberg. Acer‟s head of mobile-phone products Aymar de Lencquesaing said that the world‟s third largest computer maker had made no formal announcements around Android, though “it‟s likely that we‟ll have one in 2009

Twitter Crosses 5 Billion Tweets Come 2010 and there will be more tweets on this planet than the tweeps that exist.This is what it seems like if we go by the number of tweets Twitter users post each day. Oh, if you you're all new to this Twitter fad, tweeps are nothing but the twitterised term for people on Twitter. So, what we are on about here is that Twitter seems to have recently crossed the fivebillion tweets barrier with a Twitter user Robert Sloan managing to post the tweet numbered 5000000000. Now, it certainly doesmean it was the tweet number 5 billion, but was it really the five billionth tweet considering there were millions of deleted tweets and of course pre release test tweets on the site? We never know unless of course Twitter comes with a detailed blog post on how it counts tweets. Anyway, that doesn't seem to matter here anyway as long as the tweet is numbered 5000000000.

The Pentagigatweet as Robert Sloan has named the hapless five billionth tweet was eventually deleted by him making things more confusing. So, the 5000000000th tweet no longer exists on Twitter and we do not have a clue who's tweet was next in line to Robert's so that the person can be given due credit. Now, for some mind boggling facts. The five billion figure mark for any website in terms of anything is impressive. Be it the page views, status updates, number of users or anything else for that matter.

That taken into consideration, it was just in November 2008 that Twitter had passed the measly one billion updates mark! In the 11 months after that, there has been more than fourfold increase in the number of tweets. Going by the way things are moving it could be just a few months until there are ACTUALLY more tweets on the planet than there are humans. So, what are you doing? http://www.searchdogfoundation.org

MS. ALL ABOUT EVERYTHING By: Allyssa Chung „‟They really have to stop giving me a few pages to go off on‟‟ Here goes my favourite reasons why not to do things

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10 things not to say when your man is watching the football game A girl who appreciates the ramifications of a fourth-and-long Hail Mary on Super Bowl Sunday is an amazing find, like a head coach who doesn't wear pleated khakis.

So when a girl's as excited for pigskin season as we are, we're looking forward to sharing boneless wings and broken remotes. But if you're just along for the snacks, we can appreciate that too just be sure you don't rack up penalty yards by making one of the following calls, guaranteed to send you to the bench.

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I LOVE THIS STUFF Things That Will Get An Ex To Take You Back (And Some Things That Really Won‟t) Earlier last month, we asked you: “What Would Get You To Take Your Ex Back?”

From a look at the results of the poll, not much.

Forty-three percent of you said that there‟s nothing he could do to get you to change your mind, and that getting involved again would mean “giving up when I just need to move on.”

The unfortunate truth is that you can‟t make someone love you. But! There is a but ... what if you still both love each other (either consciously or subconsciously), yet you‟ve gone your separate ways? Maybe you never moved on from the feelings you have because no one else compared, or you both weren‟t at places in your lives to make things work. In that case, there‟s potential to re-ignite the relationship. Of course, you have to prepare for the probable possibility that your Ex isn‟t interested. There‟s no middle ground when it comes to re-wooing: either it works, or you have to look at it as an opportunity to finally move on. The not knowing still driving you crazy? Here, we looked at what you said, put in our own two cents, and came up with some tips to give it a go, both for guys and girls.

What works: 1.The talk. Guys, you have an easier time, because all you have to really do is say something.Twenty-nine percent of you (and we‟re going to assume most of you are ladies) said that if he wants to talk about things, it‟s a sign he really cares.

2.Turning your life into a romantic comedy. This one totally bites because it‟s really only an option for a guy to make a huge romantic gesture like showing up on your doorstep. When a girl does it, she risks looking desperate. But then again, you are. Don‟t spend the money and effort unless you are totally sure the person misses you.

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FOOTBALL CONTINUED: 10."I only watch them when they're winning."

Nothing grinds the gears of a diehard fan more than a fair-weather game watcher. Sure, it's more fun when they're dominating the division, but showing love for your team when they're down in the dirt is the same thing as showing love for your man when he's not at his best. That sort of unconditional support goes a long way.

9."Football is so confusing!"

Not sure about a rule, term or ref's call? Ask us! Any conversation that places us in the role of expert is a touchdown, so don't be afraid to inquire. (But only if you're going to listen and not ask again. Plus, the basics aren't that hard to grasp.)

8."Come on, don't paint your face. It's so lame."Ironic, isn't it? You prefer that we abstain from makeup, yet won't let us see you without it?

7."This is barbaric."

No more barbaric than a Prada BOGO sale on Black Friday. At least with football you can eat nachos.

6."Brett Favre seems nice."

His performance in "There's Something About Mary" notwithstanding, general guy DNA coding has mutated in the past two years to regard him as a selfish, attention-seeking, legacy-stomping, fan-abandoning douchewhistle. In 2007, Favre "retired" as a hero in Green Bay, Wis., then signed with the New York Jets for one season, "retired" again, then returned for one more season as the QB for the Packers' longtime archrivals, the Minnesota Vikings. And that's why we'll never buy Rayovac batteries, Wrangler jeans or Prilosec again.

5."Why do you play fantasy football?"

Because, for some reason, the NFL refuses to acknowledge our 40 time of 15.5 seconds as impressive.

4."I don't care who wins."

Then why are you watching the game? Even if you're rooting against our team, having an opinion is part of the fun!

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FOOTBALL CONCLUSION 3."I want one of those pink jerseys."

Girls in football jerseys are hot; they show that sexy tomboyish side, demonstrate loyalty, and are ready to have a good time. Girls in pink football jerseys, however, would rather look cute than enjoy the game.

Choose the former team.

and forwarding an exchange that was particularly cute or loving. Going back to memories might jog the heartache.

4.Hot Facebook photos. This might just pique curiosity. Don‟t make them overly sexy. That‟s just a cry for attention.

5.Get way hotter. Shallow? Yes. Effective? Yes.

2."You're obsessed!"

What doesn‟t work:

Don't think of it as an obsession; think of it as a display of unbridled passion. Sexy, right?

1.Proposing. Easy there, cowboy! Way to freak someone out.

1."It's just a game!"

This statement is the single-most offensive assertion you can make to a fan because, quite simply -- and this goes for baseball, basketball, hockey, and the like -- no, it's not.

GETTING YOUR EX BACK Resigning yourself to being a friend with benefits. A likely reason you‟re not together anymore is that he didn‟t want to work things through in the first place. So no way will he want to dive into the complicated. If it‟s just nookie that‟s up for offer, he might take it. This increases your chances of going back into a real relationship, only because you‟re seeing eachother more (um, as opposed to not). The chances he‟ll want more than just something physical? Slim to none. You take the gamble.

3.Reminders of what was good. Try digging up your old emails

2.The pour-your-heart-out, five-page email or letter. Yes, you have a lot to say, but save it for later. Discussing every detail and thought you have is guaranteed to be overwhelming for the reader (plus, who has attention spans these days anyway?).

3.Gifts. C‟mon. Haven‟t you ever listened to the Beatles?

4.Repeat efforts. We said this before— you get one chance. After that, you become annoying.

5.Faking being preggos. „Nuff said.

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