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Soon after I was elected to Congress, an issue came to the House floor to which I had given considerable thought and believed that my conclusions were sound, reasonable and persuasive.
The U.S. House voted Thursday to formally reprimand California Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson for misusing government staffers for a variety of political and personal purposes.
A collection of reaction from various groups and individuals to the House of Representatives vote Thursday holding Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-running sting:
The U.S. House will vote Thursday on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents involving the failed Fast and Furious weapons crackdown, Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday.
Congress took up one of the most divisive issues in politics Thursday as the House of Representatives rejected a controversial measure banning abortions based on the sex of a fetus.
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a nearly $643 billion military spending bill -- a measure at odds with prior defense spending agreements and President Barack Obama's Pentagon plans.
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a nearly $643 billion defense bill -- a measure at odds with prior military spending agreements and President Barack Obama's Pentagon plans.
The House of Representatives passed the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act on Wednesday, despite strong opposition from Democrats.
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $46 billion small business tax cut bill -- an election year measure that has virtually no chance of clearing the Democratic-controlled Senate or surviving a presidential veto.
House Republicans comment after the passage of the Jobs Act.
Newcomers to politics get a feel for what it costs to run for office. CNN's Athena Jones reports
Political newcomer Ken Vaughn is betting big on his own run for Congress.
In a political gesture Wednesday, the U.S. House voted to "disapprove" the Obama administration's recent request to raise the nation's debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.
A congressional vote on an anti-piracy bill that Internet heavyweights like Google say would be an online Armageddon has been delayed until 2012.
The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would amend the health care law to bar federal funding for health plans that provide abortion services.
A short-term spending measure to fund the federal government into next week won approval Thursday from the U.S. House and now goes to President Barack Obama's desk.
L.Z. Granderson says that voters are at fault since they picked the leaders of the nation's broken government.
In a major blow to the Republican leadership, the U.S. House on Wednesday defeated a temporary spending measure that would have required spending cuts to offset additional money for federal disaster relief efforts.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a last-minute compromise plan to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, narrowly averting what could have been an unprecedented default with calamitous economic consequences.
President Obama makes remarks after the Senate passes the debt bill, saying this is only "the first step."
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a compromise plan raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, averting what could have been an unprecedented national default.
The U.S. House on Monday passed the debt-ceiling deal worked out by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders, sending it to the Senate for consideration a day before the deadline for the government to face possible default.
A group of protesters shouting chants against Speaker John Boehner disrupted the U.S. House on Monday before being removed from the chamber.
A day after competing nationally televised speeches by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, talks on a debt-ceiling deal to avert a government default next week generated fresh hostility Tuesday amid some signs of possible movement.
The U.S. House on Tuesday night passed the "cut, cap and balance" deficit reduction plan backed by tea party conservatives but dismissed by President Barack Obama, who offered strong praise for another proposal put together by a bipartisan group of senators.
The U.S. House followed the Senate on Thursday in voting to extend three key provisions of the Patriot Act scheduled to expire at midnight, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.
A three-week extension of government funding won approval Tuesday from the U.S. House, with Democratic support overcoming opposition by some conservative Republicans.
(CNN) -- The House of Representatives passed a government spending bill after a marathon session Saturday morning that slashes more than $60 billion in federal funding for the seven months remaining in the 2011 fiscal year.
A bill to extend three provisions of the Patriot Act and Intelligence Reform bill that are due to expire next month failed to win approval Tuesday from the U.S. House of Representatives.
If it's over, it was nice while it lasted.
The House of Representatives is set to vote on a repeal of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul this week, fulfilling a campaign promise of congressional Republicans and setting up a clash with the White House and Senate Democrats.
Legislation repealing President Obama's health care overhaul cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Friday, advancing a top priority of the new Republican congressional majority.
The 112th House of Representatives reads the U.S. Constitution, a symbolic nod to the conservative Tea Party freshmen.
The new Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday to cut its operating budget by 5% -- a move meant to reflect the GOP's desire to reduce the size of the federal government.
The new Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday to cut its operating budget by 5% -- a move meant to reflect the GOP's desire to reduce the size of the federal government.
Veteran Rep. John Boehner of Ohio became the 61st speaker of the House of Representatives Wednesday as Republicans officially took charge of the chamber for the first time in four years and dramatically changed Washington's political landscape.
Top Democrats are dismissing Republicans' plans to ram a repeal of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul through the House of Representatives in the opening days of the new Congress, portraying the move as little more than a hollow nod to the GOP's conservative base.
The numbers for the 2010 census are out, and the news appears good for Republican-leaning states when it comes to adding new seats in the House of Representatives.
President Obama encourages the House of Representatives to act quickly on his tax cut proposal.
The Senate approved a controversial $858 billion tax cut package Wednesday, overwhelmingly voting to extend the Bush-era tax reductions despite a series of objections from both the left and the right.
Both President Obama and Sen. John McCain seem to have contradicted themselves in their recent talk on tax cut plans.
The Senate passed a food safety bill to give more power to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, more than a year after the House of Representatives passed a similar measure.
Former Delaware Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell discusses the political progress made in Delaware despite her defeat.
Over the past few months, newspapers, websites and cable news programs have implied 2010 would be a year of remarkable progress for women in politics.
No more robocalls interrupting dinner or angry campaign ads at every TV break -- the most expensive mid-term elections in history finally take place Tuesday, when voters decide who goes to Congress and governors' offices.
When President Obama flew into Columbus, Ohio, this past Sunday, party organizers turned out a crowd of 35,000 people, the largest gathering he'd addressed since his inauguration.
Two candidates for Ohio governor address the race's importance and who has more momentum two weeks from Election Day.
A bill to provide medical benefits and compensation for emergency workers who were first on the scene of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks won approval Wednesday from the U.S. House.
Law enforcement officials briefly evacuated the area around the House of Representatives chamber on Monday after the discovery of a powdery substance, according to a spokeswoman for the Capitol Hill police.
The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday which would lift the current $75 million liability cap for oil spills while imposing new safety standards for offshore drilling.
The U.S. House OKs a nearly $59 billion emergency spending bill, the bulk of which would go to Afghan troop buildup.
Anti-establishment candidates are capitalizing on widespread anti-incumbent fervor and proposing term limits as a way to bring the power back to the people.
The House of Representatives Tuesday began debate on a bill to extend jobless benefits through the end of November.
As Congress debates the final language for reforming Wall Street, a behind-the-scenes battle is raging over the arcane details of derivatives regulation.
The U.S. House and a Senate committee approved amendments to a military bill Thursday that would repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service, but only after some conditions are met.
Democratic congressional leaders Wednesday demanded Republicans join them in condemning a spate of threats and vandalism that has followed Sunday's vote on a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system.
Democratic Congressman Tom Perriello says his family was targeted by vandals following his health care vote.
President Obama won a historic victory in the struggle for health care reform Sunday as the House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill overhauling the American medical system.
A House Democratic source tells CNN the Congressional Budget Office's possible estimates on the health care bill.
Democratic congressional leaders unveiled a long-awaited $940 billion compromise health care plan Thursday, setting the stage for a final legislative showdown on President Obama's domestic priority.
The day after President Obama's inauguration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described herself as "on a high."
Democrats in the U.S. House of Reps are celebrating, but is the health care bill "dead on arrival" in the U.S. Senate.
With a year to go before midterm congressional elections, a new national poll indicates that Americans are divided over whether they'd vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in their district.
Democratic members of Congress, party strategists, and even President Obama have tried their best to portray Republicans as obstructionists to health care reform, and want us to believe that if the effort fails, it's all because of the GOP.
President Obama takes his push for health care reform to a grocery store in rural Virginia. CNN's Ed Henry reports.
Are the stars finally aligned for a Washington crackdown on credit cards?
It's been an annual rite in Washington for more than a decade: Key Democrats in Congress vow to crack down on credit card companies and protect consumers.
The House of Representatives passed a $3.55 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010 Thursday night, capping off weeks of acrimonious partisan debate and a long day of voting marked by the defeat of several alternative plans.
The House of Representatives passed a $410 billion spending bill Wednesday to keep the federal government operating for the remainder of fiscal year 2009, which ends September 30.
The House of Representatives passed a $410 billion spending bill Wednesday to keep the federal government operating for the remainder of fiscal year 2009, which ends Sept. 30.
In the wake of a highly publicized chimpanzee attack, the U.S. House made its first official move to ban humans from owning primates as pets.
Democrats flexed their new political muscles Friday as the House of Representatives passed two pay-equity bills high on the agenda of the Democratic leadership.
Each month in 2008, CNN Student News will be "Talking Democracy" by introducing an election-related topic on the show and online. From caucuses to conventions and primaries to polls, CNN Student News will be breaking down these election-year concepts for students and teachers. Use this page to check your results after answering questions about the presidential election process.
Democrats increased their 36-seat majority in the U.S. House, according to CNN projections, by defeating established Republicans and winning open seats as they capitalized on an unpopular GOP president.
The following resource contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the Electoral College.
House Democratic leaders are putting together a second economic stimulus package that could cost as much as $150 billion, according to Democratic leadership aides.
House Democratic leaders are putting together a second economic stimulus package costing as much as $150 billion and are likely to call Congress back shortly after the election to vote on the measure, according to several Democratic leadership aides.
The strong bipartisan Senate vote for a $700 billion economic bailout package will put more pressure on Republican members to back the measure if it comes up for a vote in the U.S. House, Republican leadership aides said.
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday by 74 votes to 25 to approve a $700 billion economic bailout plan. The proposals would allow Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy "toxic debts" from banking institutions to allow them to resume borrowing normally. But the plan still requires approval in the House of Representatives, which rejected a previous version of the bill on Monday.
As the House fails to pass the financial-rescue package, regulators will be forced to revert to a piecemeal approach. And that could cost taxpayers more
Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan would be funded into early 2009 under a compromise plan approved Thursday by the U.S. House.
The inspector-general of the House of Representatives will investigate recent allegations of sexual misconduct among congressional pages, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the chamber announced.
The inspector-general of the House of Representatives will investigate recent allegations of sexual misconduct among congressional pages, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the chamber announced Wednesday.
Ohio congressman David Hobson is the latest Republican to announce his exit from the House of Representatives, telling constituents Sunday he would step down in 2008 after nine terms.
In May, the House of Representatives passed the Small Business Fairness in Contracting Act, which would raise the government goal for small-business participation in federal procurement contracts from 23% to 30%. Time to celebrate? Probably not.
The U.S. House Saturday passed a Democratic rewrite of U.S. energy policy that strips $16 billion in tax incentives away from Big Oil and puts it toward renewable energy sources like wind and solar power.
Stocks posted slim gains Wednesday, led by technology and energy, after a rough morning, as investors came to terms with the possibility of the Democratic Party controlling Congress.
With Tuesday's takeover of the House comes the near certainty that Democrats will elect the chamber's minority leader as the first madam speaker in U.S. history.
There's a phrase in Spanish that Latinos use to tell one another to be careful and watch out for surprises: ojo, mucho ojo. It means keep an eye out.
If recent polls about next week's mid-term election bear out, House Democrats could be smiling once the final numbers are in.
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The 2013 Oscar Nominees: Beasts and MastersAcademy Awards By Scott Beggs on January 10, 2013 | (3) Comments
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Will killing Osama Bin Laden mean more Oscar gold for Kathryn Bigelow? Was taking on
Scientology Definitely Not Scientology enough for the Academy to recognize Paul Thomas Anderson this year? Does Oogieloves have a shot at all?
These are the questions that Awards Season devotees have swirling around inside their heads, but with Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announcing the nominees in the wee hours this morning…all of those questions still haven't been definitively answered. Except the Oogieloves one.
Get to ready to smile, ball your fists with snubbed rage, or be generally unsurprised.
Here they are. The 2013 Oscar nominees:
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Denzel Washington - Flight
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Naomi Watts - The Impossible
Emmanuelle Riva - Amou
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin – Argo
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Jacki Weaver - The Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Amy Adams - The Master
Wreck-It Ralph
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio - Argo
Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee - Life of Pi
Tony Kushner - Lincoln
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Original Screenplay
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film
Amour, Austria
Kon-Tiki, Norway
No, Chile
A Royal Affair, Denmark
The War Witch, Canada
Production Design
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) - Anna Karenina
Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration) - Les Miserables
David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) - Life of Pi
Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) - Lincoln
Achievement in Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey - Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson - Django Unchained
Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski - Lincoln
Roger Deakins - Skyfall
Achievement in Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado - Les Miserables
Joanna Johnston - Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka - Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood - Snow White and the Huntsman
Best Documentary Feature
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi - 5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short Subject
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Achievement in Film Editing
William Goldenberg - Argo
Tim Squyres - Life of Pi
Michael Kahn - Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers - Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg - Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel - Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell - Les Miserables
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli - Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat - Argo
Mychael Danna - Life of Pi
John Williams - Lincoln
Thomas Newman - Skyfall
Best Original Song
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"Suddenly" from Les Miserables
Best Animated Short Film
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Best Live Action Short Film
Buzkashi Boys
Death of a Shadow
Achievement in Sound Editing
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn - Argo
Wylie Stateman - Django Unchained
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton - Life of Pi
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers - Skyfall
Paul N.J. Ottosson - Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Sound Mixing
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia - Argo
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes - Les Miserables
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin - Life of Pi
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins - Lincoln
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson - Skyfall
Achievement in Visual Effects
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott - Life of Pi
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick - The Avengers
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill - Prometheus
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson - Snow White and the Huntsman
Source: AMPAS
Neil Miller
Scott Beggs
Rob Hunter
Kate Erbland
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Before a packed house in Hyattsville last night, the Prince George's County Democratic Central Committee elected Alonzo Washington to serve the remainder of the term of former state Del. Justin Ross (D-District 22).
"I'm excited," said Washington in an interview after the vote. "I'm excited to get out into the community and meet many people…my background is community service, and I want to get out there and figure out what I can do for this community."
Washington, the 29-year-old aide to Prince George's County Council member Will Campos (D-District 2), was one of five candidates who had put their name forward to the committee to replace Ross in Annapolis. Washington secured 15 votes from the committee, on which he also serves, besting Hyattsville Lawyer Karren Pope-Onwukwe, who had four votes, and Kisha Brown, who had two votes. Riverdale Park City Councilor Jonathan Ebbeler (Ward 1), and Darragh Inman also campaigned for the seat, but received no votes.
The selection of Washington was contrary to the wishes of the 22nd District delegation, Sen. Paul Pinsky (D-Prince Georges), Del. Anne Healey (D-District 22) and Del. Tawanna Gaines (D-District 22). They each supported Brown's candidacy, saying that she would be able to use her experience as a staff member for the state Attorney General's Office to "hit the ground running", according to Healey.
"My first priority will be going to every single community in the district, every single association, and talking with them, and asking them what their issues are," said Washington in an interview at Busboys and Poets after his election. "That's my number one priority."
Ross, who retired in September to spend more time with his family, was pleased with Washington's appointment. He split from his former District 22 colleagues and endorsed Washington before the committee during last night's meeting.
"I believe he has the critical strengths that will make him successful in Annapolis," said Ross during the meeting. "We need people who will unapologetically fight for Prince George's County."
Washington, who described himself as a "hardcore Prince Georgian" during the meeting, said his experience working in Prince George's County's political arena has prepared him to represent the interests of his constituents.
"I want to make changes in the community," said Washington. "I know what the budget looks like, I know where the budget gaps are, and I know the county executive can use me to fill those gaps."
Washington's appointment still has to be signed off by Gov. Martin O'Malley within the next month, which Ross said was all but guaranteed. With O'Malley's blessing, Washington will serve the remainder of Ross' term, which runs through 2014.


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A quick search on the Internet could lead us to several bullish articles on fabless semiconductor, Broadcom . Even after a disappointing earnings call, most analysts remain bullish on this company, and the fact that its stock may be very undervalued is popular opinion on the Street. The average target price of the sell-side is $34 dollars per share, representing a 35% upside. But, if Broadcom is really undervalued, why has negative sentiment persisted for so long ?
Source: Stock data comes from Bloomberg Interactive Stock Chart, Price target comes from Yahoo! Finance.
The rise of Qualcomm
Nearly half of Broadcom's revenue comes from its mobile and wireless segment, where the firm has to compete against giants like Qualcomm , a strong player in the mobile arena and an early mover in the 4G LTE connectivity field. Unlike Qualcomm, Broadcom doesn't currently offer a 4G LTE solution. The company has promised one by mid-2014. But in the meantime, this promising market belongs to Qualcomm.
Bye-bye, 3G
Broadcom's main cash cow, 3G solutions, will be replaced in the next few years by 4G LTE solutions. Intel also has strong exposure to 3G solutions, and reported weak sales in this business.
Additionally, Broadcom competes with Qualcomm in almost every one of its business segments. It already lost a good number of low-cost smartphone sockets to Qualcomm. Instead of Broadcom's products, Qualcomm's connectivity chips were chosen for the Motorola Moto X and the Samsung Galaxy S IV Mini.
The important handsets to watch next are the iPhone 5S and 5C. Broadcom's negative market sentiment could increase if Apple decides to use Qualcomm's connectivity chips for both the iPhone 5S high-end and 5C low-end models. After all, the new Qualcomm RF360 Front End Solution chip could allow the iPhone to run on all 2G, 3G and 4G LTE networks. That could save time and money for Apple, as it won't have to design a cell phone for each network, like it did with the iPhone 5.
Losing some models does not mean Broadcom is losing the market. However, losing the iPhone business could add meaningful damage to the company's revenue base. Broadcom can't afford losing big clients, especially after it lost its business with Nokia when the Finnish company shut down the Symbian platform and moved to Windows-based handsets.
In this way, increasing competition from Qualcomm and a weaker demand for 3G connectivity semiconductors could keep hurting Broadcom's business. Notice that Broadcom's sales in this segment contracted almost 3% last quarter. That may be just the beginning.
Unattractive margins
Bulls have faith in Broadcom's army of engineers and massive R&D budget. They believe the company will manage to keep itself as a leader in the mobile connectivity arena.
Even if that's true, they shouldn't expect to find great margins here. Fierce competition against Qualcomm is unavoidable, and a Price war could be in the making. Furthermore, to keep themselves in the game, both Qualcomm and Broadcom must continue investing in technology. In my opinion, these are reasons strong enough to assume margins of 20%, at the most.
Notice also that in the short-term, Broadcom's operating margins will also be affected by its traditionally high stock compensation expenses, the costs associated with the acquisition of NetLogic, and associated impairment charges.
Better alternatives
If you are interested in the semiconductors industry, there may be better risk/reward asymmetries. Trading at 35 times earnings, Broadcom doesn't look particularly attractive.
Trading at 17 times earnings, Qualcomm, whose chip business was up 8% sequentially, offers better risk/reward. Downside risk is reduced by the fact that handset makers must pay royalties to Qualcomm for having their mobile phones functioning on a CDMA-based network. And unlike Broadcom, Qualcomm gave strong guidance for the upcoming quarter. It is expecting chip unit shipments of $171 million-$181 million.
Intel, on the other hand, may be too exposed to the PC processor business, which is experiencing a massive contraction caused by a consumer shift toward tablets and smartphones. Furthermore, Intel's 3G connectivity solutions business will suffer from the shift toward 4G. Because of a declining PC industry, the increasing popularity of ARM chips and difficult macroeconomic conditions, revenue decreased 1% in 2012 and, in the best of cases, will remain flat this year.The latest earnings call showed the chipmaker's revenue was down 5% from the year-ago quarter.
Intel's management is trying to renew the business as fast as possible. To take advantage of the 4G market, which is expected to grow at 47% over between 2012-2016, Intel began shipping single-mode 4G chips in early 2013.The problem is that, unlike Qualcomm's latest chip, single-mode chips can not support old 2G and 3G networks.


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Charming Townhouse Condo w/ Large Pool 2 Blocks from Beach in Mazatlan
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Villa Marina
- rates (USD) $ 1,350 - $ 1,550 / month
vacation rental description
Relax in a lounge chair on the patio and catch some warm sun. Go for a swim in the big pool or the ocean. Cook some steaks or tasty shrimp on the barbeque. Take a peekaboo view of the ocean from an upstairs room. Watch a DVD or Blue Ray movie or internet TV on the home theater system.
This is a beautifully decorated (in Mexican colors) 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, two-story townhouse condo (built in 2007). The interior is modern and clean. Bedroom 1 is downstairs and has a full size (matrimonial) bed and an en-suite shower and bathroom. Bedroom 2 is the upstairs front room and has a king size bed and an en-suite shower and bathroom. Bedroom 3 is the upstairs back room (over the patio) and has two twin (single) beds.
The tiled patio area includes a granite table with 6 chairs and an umbrella, an artistically tiled big barbecue, two lounge chairs, and tropical plants in planters and pots. The patio area is very private and gets a lot of afternoon sun all year long. The patio area is extremely cosy because of the colors--especially at night.
The rental fee for the condo includes: electricity, propane gas, water/sewer/garbage removal, dsl internet (54mpbs), home theater HDTV internet TV, and all condo amenity privileges.
Maid service is available for 250 pesos per cleaning.
The condo is across the street from the beach, a 10-15 minute walk. Next to the condo you will find: a convenience store (selling water, beer/wine/liquor, USA Today newspaper, fresh produce, ice, and sundries), bus service to all parts of Mazatlan, and 24-hour taxi service. There are many English speakers in the condo's development. The property is located in the Villa Marina development of Mazatlan.
It is a 10-minute bus ride to the Golden Zone (the newer, more touristy shopping, restaurant and nightclub district), and a 20-minute bus ride to El Centro (the historic district). Going in the other direction, it is a 5-minute bus ride to Cerritos beach, where you can buy jewelry and other Mexican homeade goods, have a massage, and eat fresh lobster, crab and fish right off the boat. Across the street from the townhouse/condo, there are several restaurants at the beach that are within walking distance.
In addition to the photos posted on this web site, we have others we can provide. We also have a video tour of the property. Just ask, and we're happy to send you more photos and/or the video.
This is our future retirement home, so we are always making improvements.
People from anywhere in the world are welcome to rent. But just to let you know who rents the most--the vast majority so far have been from Northwest Canada, in particular Alberta.
*We are also interested in a house swap for 2-3 weeks in other parts of the world.
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condo rental amenities
The condo amenities include a beautiful large swimming pool (big enough to do laps in), a clubhouse, an exercise room, a walking track, and 24-hour security guards with a gated entrance. The condo has a covered front porch with two hand-made wood and leather chairs plus a side table. The condo is furnished with leather living room couches and coffee table; a dining area with glass table and four chairs; a granite kitchen counter top with two bar stools; a kitchen with cookware, plates, glasses, utensils, stove, microwave, blender, coffee maker, refrigerator; a beautifully tiled patio with tiled barbeque, washing machine, washing line, 2 chaise lounges, and a granite-top table with 6 chairs. The condo includes DSL wireless internet service at 54mbps. The condo also includes a media room upstairs with a home theater 40-inch internet High Definition (Sony) television and a DVD/Blue Ray player. Kids can bring their video games and play them on the home theater system.
The neighborhood has a mixture of friendly people from Canada, the US, and Mexico. People both live and rent in the development. Houses and gardens are well kept and beautiful to look at. Our previous renters have commented that this is one of the nicest developments they have seen in Mazatlan because of its beauty, its pool, and its proximity to Mazatlan's offerings. If you take a walk around the neighborhood, you will be greeted with "buenos dias," "buenas tardes," "hola," or "hello."
activities and attractions in Mazatlan Pacific Coast
On the grounds, the townhouse condo has a large swimming pool, clubhouse, a small exercise room, and walking track. The townhouse condo is across the street from a major resort (Mayan Sea Garden), where you can enter as a visitor and pay for the resort's beach activities (parachute towed by a boat, boogie boarding, aquatics, etc.), or you can use the cash (ATM) machine. You can also pay a small fee to use the gym at the Mayan Sea Garden, which has a full range of exercise equipment.
Down in the El Centro part of Mazatlan, there is an open-air market selling all kinds of fresh foods and goods. There is also the Angela Peralta Theatre where ballets, operas and other cultural arts are performed. In the Golden Zone, there are night clubs, restaurants, and souvenir shopping.
At the new marina just 5 minutes away, you can play 18 holes of golf or take out a boat for fishing.
Fun things to do all over Mazatlan include shopping for pottery, jewelry (especially silver), and many other hand-made goods; going sport fishing and deep sea fishing; visiting the acquarium; going to the water park (when in season); taking boat trips to Stone Island or Deer Island or to see sea lions or for a sunset cruise; eating fresh seafood (shrimp, fish, octopus, clams, oysters); visiting the sea shell museum; and taking side trips to small towns like El Quelite.
It's easy to get to wherever you want to in Mazatlan from our condo. Just walk outside of the development and hop into a bus, a taxi, a pulmonia, or a red truck--without waiting more than a couple minutes.
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In an ominous 5-4 decision yesterday, the United States' right-wing Supreme Court used disingenuous claims of concern for poor inner-city children to remove a major roadblock to a leading goal of the conservative movement: letting parents use public funds to pay for their children's tuition at private and religious schools. In an opinion that elicited delight throughout right circles, the court ruled that Cleveland's voucher plan was a "program of true private choice." The plan, ruled Chief Justice Rehnquist, is properly designed to meet the needs of "lower income and minority families" poorly served by some of the nation's "worst performing public schools."
The ruling reversed a lower federal court's decision that the use of public money for religious school tuition violated the US Constitution's mandatory separation of church and state. As the New York Times accurately reported this morning, the ruling "moves the debate out of constitutional law and into policy and politics, ensuring that school vouchers will be a subject of contention from Congress to statehouses to the presidential campaign trail for years to come."
Rehnquist's ruling received predictable support from conservative black Justice Clarence Thomas, an opponent of affirmative action and other programs meant to level the playing field for African-Americans. In concurring with Rehnquist's opinion, Thomas behaved consistently with his original job description by providing the requisite racial bona fides. He quoted Frederick Douglass and positively associated vouchers with the African-American community's historical struggle for equal education. He noted accurately and non-controversially that "many of our inner-city public schools deny emancipation to urban minority students" and that "failing urban public schools disproportionately affect minority children most in need of educational opportunity."
Conservatives hope that the ruling will give new life to a movement that uses proclamations of concern for predominantly black and Hispanic inner-city public school students to push an agenda that seeks to roll back social democracy and racial justice in the nation's educational system. Ultimately, their movement targets what Thomas calls "the romanticized ideal of universal public education." It is vital that all who value that "romanticized" ideal to develop understand where the voucher movement comes from, how it actually threatens the interests of those it claims to defend, and where specifically its arguments fall apart. This essay is an attempt to advance that understanding.
I Background
School vouchers are a highly contentious policy issue with particular and rising resonance in the black community. Following the establishment of several large-scale voucher programs in the 1990′s, the debate over vouchers has become especially intense. The fundamental controversy surrounding vouchers is whether or not public money should be used to pay for private schools. The debate is focused primarily on disproportionately black and Hispanic urban school systems. While support for vouchers has tended historically to come from conservative whites, a significant portion of the more liberal black community now tells opinion pollsters that they support vouchers.
The history of the voucher movement dates as far back as the 1950′s, when vouchers were used as a tool for white families to escape school desegregation as ordered by Brown v. Board of Education (1954). At the same time, conservatives who were ideologically committed to a market-based system of education supported vouchers in the name of school choice. These early voucher advocates influenced conservative political leaders to push for public subsidies to pay for tuition and tuition tax breaks for private school families. During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan spoke consistently in favor of school vouchers
The adoption of the Milwaukee program in 1990 reinvigorated the voucher movement and led to the adoption of voucher programs in several cities and states around the country. Large public voucher programs were established in Cleveland and Florida in 1996 and 1999. A number of private voucher scholarship programs sprouted in cities like New York, Dayton, and San Antonio. States such as Minnesota, Iowa, and recently Illinois have established tax breaks for families who send their children to private schools. After unsuccessfully attempting to create a federal voucher program, the current White House has established tax breaks for families who use education saving accounts to pay for private school tuition.
The White House's recently passed federal education bill, titled the "No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA)," whose title is blatantly plagiarized from the official slogan of the progressive anti-poverty Children's Defense Fund, gave vouchers a small foot in the federal policy door. It made parents of children in public schools that do not meet performance standards for three straight years eligible to receive $1500 of federal Title I (poverty) educational funds. Those funds can be used for private or public or transfer to a higher-performing public school.
II The Pro-Voucher Argument
Voucher proponents make the following arguments:
Urban Public Schools are Failing Poor and Minority Students
Across the nation urban public education systems serving disproportionately black and Hispanic poor students perform far below national norms, leaving their students woefully disadvantaged in their effort to attain higher degrees and remunerative employment.
The Threat of Free Market Competition Improves Student Achievement in Public Schools
The threat of competition leads low-performing public schools to improve test scores to prevent a loss of students and public money to private schools.
Parents should have the right to choose where their child goes to school. Poor and minority students shouldn't be forced to attend poorly performing schools. Some of these students will be "saved" by attaining the opportunity to attend private schools.
Students Who Receive Vouchers Experience Improved Test Scores
Black voucher students' standardized test scores are higher than black students who applied for but did not receive vouchers. In Milwaukee, significant test score gains were experienced by students during years 3 and 4 of that city's voucher program. In Cleveland, voucher students experienced significant improvements in science and language scores.
There is Strong Public Support for Vouchers, Especially in the Black Community
A 2001 Gallup Poll of 1108 respondents found that 52% of public school parents supported voucher programs. A 1999 poll conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a leading black think-tank, found that the majority of 1,678 respondents favored vouchers. Sixty percent of black respondents 72% of black respondents earning less than $15,000 per year supported vouchers. A 1999 Public Agenda survey of 1,200 found that 68% of black respondents supported vouchers.
A Critique of the Pro-Voucher Argument
The pro-voucher argument is based on a number of false premises and key omission detailed in this and the following section:
Vouchers Will Exacerbate Key Causes of Public School Failure
Public schools fail poor and minority students for a number of reasons, including the nation's inadequate and savagely unequal structure for allocating public school resources between and among schools and school districts. Voucher programs will worsen that structural inequity, draining money from the poorest public schools and providing public subsidies to private schools that tend to privilege middle- and upper-class students over children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Other Dark Sides of Competition
Voucher-based competition generates negative outcomes that are not acknowledged by voucher proponents. Researchers find that test-score improvements in Florida public schools subject to voucher-based market forces are the result of those schools' practice of "teaching to the test" in specific subject areas. "Teaching to the test" means that teachers find out in advance the content of standardized tests and then gear their curriculum to the exams. It is the consensus of educational researchers that "teaching to the test" is an extremely undesirable method for improving student achievement.
Public schools often respond to the demand for improved performance on standardized tests by removing low-performing students from official test-score tabulations. This is achieved by classifying such students as "special" students: "limited-English," "bilingual," "special education," or "learning disabled." Voucher-based competition will compel public school administrators to push more and more low-performing students into "special" programs, in an attempt to artificially improve test scores.
The Limits of "Choice"
Real and meaningful school "choice" exists only when everyone has reasonably good options from which to choose. It doesn't exist when parents and students must selected between a good choice and a bad one or when their access to "good" choices is determined by lottery. All schools, including public schools, should be equally funded institutions with high quality teachers.
Voucher programs' promise of a meaningful "choice" between public and private education for poor public school students is largely an illusion for three basic reasons. First, the public schools are often so inadequately funded and staffed and overcrowded that they can't possibly match the quality of education provided in smaller and more selective private schools. Second, many students in low-performing public schools do not have access to decent private schools in their immediate geographical area. Under all current voucher programs except Florida's, moreover, access to private school vouchers is regulated by lottery. Third, private schools retain the right to deny admission to voucher students for a number of reasons, including low test-scores, religion, gender, and behavioral history.
Inconclusive Research
Existing research supporting the relationship between student achievement and vouchers is extremely problematic. Research on privately financed voucher programs shows no consistent pattern of improvement in achievement across subject, grade, and the length of time. In a comprehensive study of a large-scale private school voucher program in New York City during the 1990s, the leading think-tank Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. found an at-best weak relationship between vouchers and improved school performance for students receiving vouchers. "On standardized tests," Mathematica found, "students offered a scholarship generally performed at about the same level as students in the [non-voucher] control group."
Research on publicly financed voucher programs is also problematic. The official research team designated by the Wisconsin state legislature to analyze the Milwaukee voucher program concluded that voucher students performed no differently on standardized tests than Milwaukee Public School students. Students who received vouchers did no better than those who applied but didn't receive them. Research on the Cleveland voucher program finds that there may have been improvements in science and language, but there was no improvement in other subject areas.
The non-partisan federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded recently that research on the academic benefits of public voucher programs is inconclusive. "None of the findings" made so far by academic researchers, the GAO concluded, "can be considered definitive."
The Limits of Polling Data
The same 2001 Gallup Poll as the one mentioned above found that only 34% of all respondents support vouchers. The Joint Center's 1999 poll found that 63 percent of the general public, 66 percent of school parents, and 60 percent of voucher supporters admit to knowing "very little" to "nothing" about vouchers. When queried about their understanding of school vouchers, 80% of the general public, 81% of parents, and 75% of voucher supporters reported that they "need to learn more" in order to have an intelligent opinion.
Polling questions on vouchers tend to be devoid of context and plagued by abstraction. If the polls were properly constructed to gage true popular sentiment on vouchers, respondents would be asked if they would support school vouchers over equitably funded and desegregated schools with small class sizes and well-trained, highly motivated teachers. The majority of respondents would certainly say "no" to such a question. In fact, polling data suggests a great deal more popular support for increasing and equalizing school spending and desegregating schools than for vouchers.
Especially noteworthy in measuring real public opinion on vouchers is the sorry performance of vouchers in the electoral arena. Every one of the eight statewide voucher referendums that have reached state ballots since the 1970s have been defeated. Since 1972, the highest vote percentage received by a pro-voucher referendum is thirty six – this in spite of the fact the voucher proponents have spent significantly more money than voucher opponents to advertise their position.
IV Additional and Related Problems with School Vouchers
Subsidizing Private Schools
In Milwaukee, many private schools that accept vouchers charge voucher students significantly more than non-voucher students. In fact, one third of Milwaukee's private voucher schools' charge voucher students between 200 and 400 percent of the tuition charged to non-voucher students. The total overcharge of voucher students (and the public schools) is equivalent to 40% of the overall expense of the city's voucher program. In Cleveland, moreover, one third of vouchers go to students already attending private schools.
Vouchers allow the highest performing students with the most educated parents to attend private schools, leaving the most disadvantaged behind. In the long run, students whose parents do not have the financial ability (see the sub-section titled "Insufficient Funds" below) to keep them in voucher programs tend to drop out. Voucher proponents concede this may be the case but then argue that the "best and brightest" students are the most logical ones to "save" from the failed public schools. This is fatalistic zero-sum thinking. It would be more appropriate for those who support quality education for poor students to advocate that all students have quality opportunities.
Separation of Church and State
The Supreme Court's decision yesterday aside, publicly funded vouchers conflict with the separation of church and state mandated by the United States Constitution. Fully eight-five percent of private schools are religious. After removing private schools that are so academically selective and expensive that vouchers don't apply, the percentage is even higher. Government programs that fund religious schools even by mere default (reflecting the absence of non-religious schools in many locales) violate the First Amendment. Public funding, either direct (a government check to the school) or indirect (a government check to the parents), is unconstitutional. As Supreme Court Justice David Souter noted in his sensible dissent yesterday, "in the city of Cleveland the overwhelming proportion of large appropriations for voucher money must be spent on religious schools if it is to be spent at all. The money," he wrote, "will thus pay for eligible students' instruction not only in secular subjects but in religion as well, in schools that can fairly be characterized as founded to teach religious doctrine and to imbue teaching in all subjects with a religious dimension. Public tax money will pay at a systemic level for teaching the covenant with Israel and Mosaic law in Jewish schools, the primacy of the Apostle Peter and the Papacy in Catholic schools, the truth of reformed Christianity in Protestant schools, and the revelation of the Prophet in Muslim schools, to speak only of major religious groupings in the republic."
Insufficient Funds and Class Favoritism
Vouchers generally provide insufficient funding for poor students to attend private schools. The average voucher, both public and private, to date is worth between $1500 and $2000; the voucher ceiling in Cleveland's plan is on the higher end of that range. Private school tuition, especially at the high school level, costs considerably more. Elite Chicago private schools like Francis Parker, the University of Chicago Lab School, and the Latin School cost as much as $14,000. The low level of most existing vouchers prevents poor students from attending most private schools. A considerable number of students turn down vouchers because their families' cannot cover the financial gap between the voucher and real private-school tuition.
The tax breaks offered by the Bush administration through education accounts are in essence public-private educational subsidies for the middle class. To benefit from this tax policy, families have to contribute money to an education IRA. Poor families living below the poverty cannot contribute the federal maximum of $2,000 a year to an account to pay for their children's future private school education. The education account is geared for middle class families, not the inner-city poor that the White House claims to target in the "No Child Left Behind Act."
Selection Factors and Availability
Private schools rigidly control whom they accept for admission and limit the pool of eligible students who use vouchers. While voucher proponents of vouchers argue that voucher programs contain measures to prevent discrimination, private schools can and do reject or turn away students with learning disabilities, limited English, or behavioral problems. In Florida, 93% of the private schools will not accept students with vouchers. Some Milwaukee schools have turned away all students with vouchers, while others have turned away students based upon ability, gender, and religion. Many private schools make parental involvement and other special investments of time and effort a prerequisite to admission. The typical inner-city single mother who works one or more jobs, often with a considerable commute, simply cannot meet such requirements. At the same time, only students with quality private schools in their community would even be in geographical position to benefit from voucher programs. The poorest urban communities, not to mention virtually all rural areas, would have considerably less access to such schools. Again, the few are privileged over the many.
Accountability Issues
There is virtually no accountability in voucher programs. Private schools are not required to test their students, release test score data, provide services for special education or learning disabled students, and hire certified teachers. They are also not required to respect constitutional protections such as free speech, due process, or equal protection, and do not have to obey laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, or pregnancy. Milwaukee dropped the requirement to monitor the achievement of voucher students in 1995.
Diverting Attention and Money from Core School Funding and Desegregation Issues
The voucher debate diverts attention from more fundamental school reform topics such as fair funding and desegregation. School vouchers would be an insignificant topic if the public school system were structured in such a way that all students received adequate and equitable funding, small classes, and high quality teachers. As countless studies reveal, public education in the United States is fundamentally challenged by local school district's extreme reliance on local property taxes to pay for basic school operating expenditures. This reliance naturally creates extraordinary, even "savage" (in former public school teacher Jonathan Kozol's well-known writings) school funding disparities that reflect and reproduce the nation's remarkable and related patterns of spatial segregation by race and class. Children in predominantly white and affluent property-rich districts attend schools with significantly higher per-pupil expenditures and far superior teachers, programs, and facilities to those experienced by inner city students most in need of extra public monies. Thanks to the American public school funding formula, one of the major problems with the nation's public school system is precisely the extent to which it mirrors and exacerbates existing private inequalities in American society. Like so much of the public sector activity that the ideological shock troops of the right and their business class sponsors love to label as "tax and spend" liberalism and even "socialism," the actually existing "public" school system in America really works largely to preserve and expand private privilege.
Race is strongly correlated with this those inequalities, a relationship that has deepened as the nation's schools have become increasingly more separated by race over the last two decades. The Harvard Civil Rights Project finds that 70 percent of black K-12 students attended predominantly minority schools at the end of the 20th century, compared with 63 percent in 1980. U.S. schools are actually "re-segregating" in part because federal courts have ended strong desegregation plans adopted after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. One of the most disturbing rulings by the federal judiciary invalidates school desegregation across city-suburban lines, protecting the special advantage favored by predominantly white property-rich school districts on the more affluent periphery of the nation's metropolitan areas.
If the Supreme Court is as sincerely concerned as it claims with improving the quality of education for poor urban children, it should begin by reversing this and other disastrous decisions.
Beyond diverting attention from public schools' funding needs and desegregation issues, public school voucher programs like Cleveland's literally divert funds from public schools, thereby exacerbating precisely the public school crisis that gives so much false progressive legitimacy to the voucher movement in the first place.
If the Supreme Court were actually serious in its devotion to "underprivileged minority students" (Thomas' phrase), it would also give serious consideration to lawyers who argue that America's savage school funding inequalities are both unconstitutional and contrary to the supposedly American ideals of promoting democracy and equal opportunity. Rather than examine the penetration of America's public and democratic educational system by private privilege and elite class interest, it prefers to further that privilege and interest in the name of the system's greatest victims.
With horrifying new approval from no the most aristocratic branch of the world's most powerful government, conservatives are using vouchers to encourage disadvantaged people to accept the tragically wrong notion that "free" market forces are "the only way out" of the crisis of urban education. Black and Hispanic community and civil rights leaders, social justice activists, and the citizenry in general must not be fooled. At the same time, in opposing vouchers, they should advocate for the democratic restructuring of the school finance system and for meaningful school desegregation. The should push for other reforms, including a reduction of the nation's dysfunctional minority-bashing addiction to standardized tests and the development of teaching and course materials that encourage critical thinking and passionate public engagement of the sort that is essential to a functioning democracy. Unlike school vouchers, equitably funded and integrated public schools with small classes, appropriate academic curriculums, and highly trained teachers will expand opportunity for the disadvantaged students in whose name voucher proponents wrap their regressive, falsely progressive project. Z
Paul Street is Vice President for Research and Planning and Dennis Kass is Education Research Specialist at the Chicago Urban League
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San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews looks to be back from his groin injury and playing on Thursday Night Football against the Oakland Raiders. Mathews was a full participant in practice for the second straight day and is listed as probable for Thursday night.
Mathews will likely get the start on Thursday, but expect Mike Tolbert to get a solid number of carries for the likely still less than 100% Mathews. Tolbert operates primarily as the third down back and goal line back. Mathews will get much of the between the 20s work, but Tolbert might even grab a decent amount of carries in that range.
The Chargers face a Raiders rush defense that ranks fairly poor on the season. Mathews is a solid enough start in his current role, but if you have Tolbert and no Mathews, Tolbert remains a solid start as well. Given Philip Rivers struggles in the passing game, the Chargers could dedicate a lot of time to controlling time of possession and dominating on the ground. That bodes well for both Mathews and Tolbert.
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Roswell firefighters responded to a fire at Chipper Jones' house Wednesday night.
The former Atlanta Braves third baseman said he was cleaning his fireplace and dumped the ashes outside.
Apparently, the ashes started a fire in the woods.
An alert neighbor called 911 and firefighters were able to extinguish the fire.
No one was injured.
Jones laughed it off on Twitter saying, "Lol. Tried to do my daily chores and cleaned out the fireplace. Went and dumped the ashes. Alls good right? Nope. Set the woods on fire! Ugh"
The next tweet read, "I got firefighters all over my place! Thank you Roswell Fire Dept."
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Accept our invitation to relax and enjoy life here at the "Coral Ridge Isles Oasis" centrally located in Fort Lauderdale in the Coral Ridge Isles area of Fort Lauderdale where you can do just what you want to do.
Enjoy some outdoor relaxation on your private deck, or by the pool with views of the ocean access canal. This is a great place to enjoy your morning cup of coffee, or have a family dinner poolside.
Here you'll find tranquility with a floor plan of two living rooms, a formal dining room, and a state of the art kitchen well appointed with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops.
The floor plan at the "Coral Ridge Isles Oasis" house includes four bedrooms, a master bathroom, and a cabana bathroom. Each bedroom comes with hardwood flooring, or tile. Sleeping accommodations for up to 8 people include 1 king size bed in the master bedroom, 1 queen size beds and 2 full size beds.
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"I will be on the ground in both Aiken and Colleton Counties tomorrow to make sure we are doing all we can," Haley said on her Facebook page.
Haley is scheduled to arrive in Aiken around 10:30 a.m. where she will meet with city and county leaders and emergency responders.
In the afternoon, Haley will make a trip to Walterboro to see how power restorations are going and to get updates from county administrators and utility companies.
"Mother Nature is giving us a run for our money," Haley said. "Thank you so much for neighbors taking care of neighbors, public servants stepping up in heroic ways, great team work across government, and utility linemen reminding us how blessed we are! If that doesn't lift your spirits... remember, it will be in the 70s next week!"
Nearly 350,000 customers were without power at the height of outages as a brutal winter storm hammered much of the state.
As of 10 p.m. that number was down to 259,000, Haley said.
Duke Energy said residents continue to see their power restored and provided the following restoration times:
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KINSMAN - On Saturday afternoons during the fall, chances are that when driving by Kinsman Township Park just off state Route 5, it will be full of people and a parking nightmare.
The people are there to watch the Badger Youth Football Program play against other teams in the area, and even though the Braves have 45 players split across three teams (6 to 8 year olds, 9 to 10 year olds and 11 to 12 year olds), they can get a rather large crowd, according to president Joe Laverty.
"For a town this size, it's not a very big town, it's not a very big school, we don't have huge team numbers, but on any given Saturday, there can be 300 or over 400 people at this park watching youth football," Laverty said. "There is a lot of support out there for it."
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Badger assistant youth football coach Jeremy Cottrell, left, talks with members of the team during halftime of a game against Newton Falls. Badger, which doesn't have a high school football program, started the youth organization six years ago and have enjoyed the results.
When the program was created six years ago, the group of individuals who started it and the ones who originally became involved couldn't foresee that support, not knowing whether the program could sustain itself.
The youth in Kinsman, Vernon and Gustavus have caught onto it and helped it grow. Since the program's start, 192 different children have signed up and participated in Badger Youth Football, with 126 playing the sport and 64 cheerleading, according co-founder and current vice president Jason Metz.
Kelly Harnett, 40, a registered nurse, was involved with the program for its first five years, as her son Noah played as a Brave. She said she saw the growth over that time in the kids.
"When we got into football with this program, it was a risk for everybody because nobody really knew if this program would succeed, if it would take off - we really knew absolutely nothing," Harnett said. "Every year we saw growth in the kids and in the program."
Much of that growth in the program came in the form of a field, which was built from scratch at the beginning.
Local businesses donated money, time and effort to fabricate goalposts and to repaint and refurbish a scoreboard that the program bought online from East Carolina University for around $1,500. They managed to build a small barn that can function as a "press box," where the scoreboard operator and announcer sit during home games.
As for equipment, the Ashtabula Midget Football League - the first league in which the Braves played - supplied the equipment, keeping costs down at first.
They raised money through fundraising efforts, such as raffles, T-shirt sales, tag days and donations before the start of the program. Adding concession sales for home games (which Metz said gives the program $700 in profit per game) has allowed the program to be solvent.
"Six years ago, it was just a field," Metz said. "Now we have goalposts, a press box, a real nice scoreboard and we plan on pushing further. We're just hoping for community support, and that's what we're getting."
To go along with the administrative side, the program has had plenty of success on the field.
Five Braves teams made it to the Super Bowl in the first four years of Badger football, spanning across two leagues. In the first year, 2008, the 8-10-year-olds lost to Pymatuning Valley in the championship game of Ashtabula Midget Football, and that same group went undefeated and got revenge to win the Super Bowl the very next year.
When Badger moved into the Tri-County Youth Football League in 2011 to play against teams in closer proximity, the 9-to-10-year-old group clinched the program's second championship, going undefeated and beating Southington in the Super Bowl.
Now, the teams play in the Northeast Ohio Youth Football League, where they play against schools like Mathews, Lakeview, Champion, Southington, McDonald, Newton Falls and Jackson-Milton.
"With the success, I couldn't be happier," Metz said. "Just seeing the kids having that opportunity to be able to play is more than words could say."
The kids are happy to get the opportunity as well, both Laverty and Metz said. The players wear their uniforms on Fridays at school - even a player at a parochial school in Greenville, Pa., received permission to wear his jersey over his uniform.
Between that and the number of kids wearing Badger Youth Football gear in school photos shows they are proud to play the game, Metz said.
"A lot of these kids, even during other sports and different seasons, I'll walk up and Jason will walk up and it's talking about football," Laverty said. "The kids that are out here just love going out there, and for as small a school as this is, I've never seen more athletes at a young age come out of here."
The players' excitement at playing football has only increased with the opportunity to meet current Pittsburgh Steeler tackle Mike Adams twice - once when he was a player at Ohio State and another this summer.
Adams talked to the group, signed autographs, took photos and played with the kids, Metz said. He was happy with Adams' visit and said the kids were in awe of Adams because he is "a mountain of a man" who plays what he loves for a living.
"Because everybody wants to be running the ball, it's good to have an offensive lineman there to teach them that we had an offensive line, to show them there's more positions than quarterback and running back," Metz said. "It takes a whole team, and he said what we preach, which is teamwork."
While six years ago the community didn't have such a program, both Laverty and Metz said they believe Badger Youth Football is now here to stay.
"I don't see the youth program going anywhere," Laverty said. "I think it's entrenched deep enough in the six years that you're always going to have kids here just hoping for that one-in-a-million chance that the school picks it up and goes with it."


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Bank being built at Huntworth to protect over 1000 Bridgwater homes from flooding (From This is The West Country)
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Bank being built at Huntworth to protect over 1000 Bridgwater homes from flooding
3:02pm Tuesday 11th February 2014 in News By Joe Dempsey
A BANK is being built at Huntworth to protect more than 1,000 homes on the outskirts of Bridgwater from flooding.
Diggers are constructing a temporary earth flood bank at right angles to the River Parrett, the railway and the canal just south of Huntworth village.
The Environment Agency is stressing that this is a precautionary measure and there is no immediate risk of flooding in Bridgwater.
The plan is this will help hold back any floodwater that may come down the system from Northmoor.
New pumps are being placed at New House Farm on Huntworth Lane which will remove the floodwater should it start collecting behind the new flood bank.
Temporary defences and pumps are still being built to protect homes in Moorland but some of these are now being overwhelmed, with the drain level at Northmoor pumping station rising by about 2mm an hour.
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10:09pm Tue 11 Feb 14
Blue Owl says...
They are not Fit For Purpose, not the Engineers on the Flood Defenses, but the Top Bosses, and Middle Management, who followed the Edit from Lord Chris Smith, ( Lab) Chair of the Quango, who on £100.000 per year for a max 3 Day week, £2000.00 per week, nice work if you can get it, one of Blair or Browns Placements..........
Jobs for the Boys, Trouts in the troughs. !!!
The agency needs to be dismantled from the Top -Down, the Powers returned to the individual Drainage Boards, with the Financial resources to correct the Damage done, over the last 20 years, since inception..........
The dredging, and pumping of water must continue, at whatever cost, if money needs to be diverted from overseas aid Budgets, so be it. We must look after our residents first and foremost........
Likewise, the railway lines through Somerset to Cornwall, must be renewed ,re- routed if neccessary. The money earmarked for the New Super track rail services to the North, delayed....... The Monies used to secure the South West Rail service, to a standard fit for this the 21 Century......The Dawlish rail track should be abandoned, and a new inland route laid......
With the Latest German Track laying Locomotives, that can single handedly
Lay track at an astonishing rate. This is highly possible.....
We need to ensure that, the infrastructure, is sound, that we never endure these flood disaster for a further year, two years is 2 to many......
David L Preece
12:12pm Wed 12 Feb 14
lifecentrestage says...
Will you join in a public discussion, about a non-government funded new 'Somerset Lake' - a deep water lake system, which could increase the level of remaining farmland, protect homes and railway lines - provide renewed vitality to hobbies, jobs and wildlife habitat - AS A PERMANENT SOLUTION TO SOMERSET LEVEL FLOODING? Contact me: Richard Sibley (07805) 850569.
I am making contact with all the various interests. Are you with me?
10:11am Mon 17 Feb 14
Blue Owl says...
David L Preece,
Will you join in a public discussion, about a non-government funded new 'Somerset Lake' - a deep water lake system, which could increase the level of remaining farmland, protect homes and railway lines - provide renewed vitality to hobbies, jobs and wildlife habitat - AS A PERMANENT SOLUTION TO SOMERSET LEVEL FLOODING? Contact me: Richard SibleyI am more than happy to link with yourself in order to promote all possible ways to ensure that this Never Happens again. !!!!!
The Dredging Work must Start, the Punping Continuing, I also have written and proposed that the ' Dutch Pumps ' in Situ, must be Purchased and remain as the Back-up for future Years.
That the E Agency be Stripped of their Remit, and the Powers Returned to the Original Drainage aboard Consortium, which must also be revamped back to Local Members Responsible, And I mean Responsible for our River Parrett and the R. Tone.
With the Funding to carry out and do what ever is deems neccessary to prevent a further Year or years of this 2012-2013 Disaster.
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