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Derbyshire VCI Consortium's Consultation Events - 3rd / 4th December
Funding Available
CAB Prepayment Meter Campaign
Public Engagement on the use of Council Funded Community Transport and Local Bus Services
Artcore November Newsletter
Derbyshire VCI Consortium's Consultation Events - 3rd / 4th December
I'm writing to invite you to attend one of our consultation events (in either the north or south of Derbyshire) on the topic of Troubled Families and Worklessness. Given the current work you do among children and young people, I thought this event might be of interest to you, and that you could provide a valuable contribution to the discussion on what more can be developed within the topic of troubled families and worklessness in Derbyshire. Places are booking up, so it's best to book now, not to be disappointed. To book your place just click on the event below and register yourself.
Click here for Events poster.
Click here for more information
Click here for membership form
Troubled Families and Worklessness:North DerbyshireWednesday 3rd December; 9.30am-1.30pm @ Arkwright Centre, Chesterfieldhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/consultation-event-troubled-families-and-worklessness-nderbyshire-tickets-12897563961South DerbyshireThursday 4th December; 9.30am-1.30pm @ Direct Help and Advice, Ilkestonhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/consultation-event-troubled-families-and-worklessness-sderbyshire-tickets-12897628153These events (funded through the Big Lottery's Awards for All) are free to attend and will run from 9.30am-12.30pm with a free buffet lunch provided afterwards, allowing for networking and the discussions to continue. The overall aim of these consultations is to better understand the challenges around troubled families and worklessness, and explore ways in which the voluntary and community sector within Derbyshire might be able to tackle the challenges faced by troubled families and worklessness. Following these events, our intention is to approach the Lottery, and other funding bodies, with some project ideas to combat the challenges, using partnerships and ideas developed through these consultation events.Each Consultation Event will include:
For more details on these events and to book your place please contact email@example.com click on the links above. Please feel free to pass on this invitation to other people you feel may be interested in attending.
Stay warm and Good Neighbour
The Stay Warm and Healthy in Derby Partnership has secured funding to enable two new projects to go ahead this winter.
For further information go to the funding page.
As Winter rapidly approaches and people start switching on more lights and turning up the heating, more and more find that they are having difficulty maintaining domestic fuel payments, especially with regard to the costs associated with pre-payment meters on average paying £80.00 more than direct debit customers.
Citizens Advice are running a national campaign to raise awareness and argue for a better deal for customers facing such difficulties. You can help by raising awareness amongst your own staff and customers, and by taking the following action.
1. Sign the national CAB petition asking energy suppliers to give prepayment meter users a better deal:
2. Ask your clients to complete a survey to tell CAB how much and how often they top-up their meter in winter compared to the summer.
3. Follow #fairprepay on Twitter
As a well-known advert would say every little helps so please take just 5 minutes of your busy day to help others who may face such difficulties.
Thank you.
You may be aware that Derbyshire County Council is carrying out a series of consultations on a range of services in order to meet its £157m budget cuts by 2018. In line with this we have now launched some public engagement to ask transport users about the journeys they make on council-funded local bus services and community transport services. I am writing to ask for your support in helping to promote our user survey. Please find enclosed a poster relating to the survey which I hope you will be able to display as appropriate. You can find out more about this and other consultations at www.derbyshiresiov.uk/challenge
Many thanks for your support.
Healthwatch Derbyshire is carrying out a study to find out how parents
and carers experience the process of having a child diagnosed with
Autism, including the help and support received before and after the
diagnosis. They wish to give the opportunity to talk through these
experiences, both good and bad.
The information you provide will be collected anonymously and put into
a report that will be considered by those who run and buy services that
diagnose Autism so that they know what does and doesnt work well.
Please click here to see attached poster for more information. Any further information please contact
Jas Dosanjh as below
Jas Dosanjh (Mrs)
Community Involvement Worker
South Team
News from our Community Development and Funding team
We welcome the new vSpa workers Nayyer Bhatti, Karen Chesters and Janet Wignall who have taken up their new posts and currently learning the ropes. They have varied and extensive knowledge of the Voluntary Sector and Adult Social Care and we look forward to implementing the single point of access scheme with them.
The next Communities and Equalities meeting will be 10th December at 9.30am at SDDC, more details from Pam Wood to follow.
Funding opportunities
Please watch this space for news on Funding Seminars and Information. Working with the District Council we will be providing some sessions around fundraising and Social Media in the new year following from Kevin Curleys speech at our recent AGM. (Transcript and useful handouts with loads of funding pointers can be found on our website http://sdcvs.org.uk.)
We have two Small Local Grants Managed here at the CVS:-
1) Self- Help Group Support- Apply at any time
South Derbyshire CVS administers the voluntary sector Community Care self help fund. If you are thinking of setting up a health or social care related peer support group , and live in South Derbyshire you can apply for up to £500- Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com an application form.
2) South Derbyshire Partnership- Health and Wellbeing Small Grants Fund Apply at any time
The aim of the Health and Wellbeing Small Grants Fund is to support voluntary and community groups whose activities contribute to the good health and wellbeing of people in South Derbyshire.
The fund is administered by South Derbyshire CVS on behalf of the South Derbyshire Partnership.
● Who can apply?
Any voluntary or community group which has a constitution or set of rules and which supports people living or working in the district of South Derbyshire can apply. The group must also have a bank account with at least two signatories although South Derbyshire CVS will be able to hold grants for newly formed groups.
● How much can we apply for?
Grants are between £200 and £1000 and can be used to match fund.
● What kind of activities may be funded?
Activities must have a positive effect on peoples general health and wellbeing but can address physical, mental or social issues.
● Who do we want to reach?
Activities aimed at the following communities will be given priority:
- Families
- People living with long term conditions
- Carers
- People with poor mental health
- Older and vulnerable people
● What can we apply for?
Groups can apply for both capital, e.g. equipment, and revenue, e.g. additional staff costs, volunteers expenses. For example a group wishing to start a dance class could apply for the cost of paying a sessional class leader, room hire costs and the cost of buying a CD player.
For more information and to request an application form, please contact: Cathy Miles firstname.lastname@example.com
National Funding Opportunities
The last funding ebulletin detailed some local grant schemes, here are some national ones that may be applicable to your group or organisation:
The Grow your Tenner 2014 campaign has launched with donations of up to £10 will be matched by Localgiving.com. This means that taking Gift Aid and fees into account, every £10 donation will be worth £21.55. Monthly donations of up to £10 per month for six months will also be matched. All charities with active memberships are eligible to receive match funding, with up to £12,000 available for each group depending how long the money lasts. Localgiving is an online donation site, which unusually allows groups which are not charities, but have charitable objects, to claim Gift Aid, the refund of income tax on donations. This can particularly benefits smaller community groups. There is a cost to join, and a fee taken from donations, but if you regularly receive online donations it could be very useful. For further information visit http://localgiving.com/gyt/about.
Applicants to the Big Lottery Funds Reaching Communities programme will be offered additional funds to develop their organisations knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver more effective and sustainable services. Funding of up to 10 percent of a project, to a maximum of £15,000, will be available. The money will need to be spent by the end of the first year of the funded project. To be eligible, applicants must have been successful at the first stage of the Reaching Communities application process.
For further information visit www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/england/151014_eng_rc_develop-skills-and-knowledge.
The Government's International Development Department has launched the UK Aid Direct fund to help small and medium-sized organisations make an even bigger difference in the developing world. The fund will run over five years, with a total of £30million in new grants available in the first round. It offers community partnerships grants of up to £250,000 for small UK-based non-profit organisations with an annual income below £1,000,000, and impact grants of between £250,000 and £4,000,000 to medium-sized non-profit organisations based in the UK or in one of the departments priority countries with 25 percent match funding needed. The first funding round will focus on health, and welcomes applications with a specific focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The deadline is Friday 21 November. For further information visit www.gov.uk/international-development-funding/uk-aid-direct.
The Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic Bullying Grant will make grants of £100,000 to £750,000 to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations with creative ideas to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in Englands schools and playgrounds. The Government has made it clear that it does not want any young person to go to school dreading the treatment that he or she will receive and that it is unacceptable for a child to be bullied, victimised or harmed in any way. This fund is a way of working towards that. They are particularly interested in bids that engage in partnership with at least one high performing school so that good practice can be shared. The deadline for Stage One applications is 12noon on Thursday 3 December 2014. For further information visit https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&lang=en¬iceid=1617209&fs=true.
Registered charities, voluntary organisations, schools, churches and community interest groups can apply for a small grant of up to £10,000 or a larger main grant for projects of up to three years from Children in Need. Projects must benefit children and young people aged 18 years and younger who are experiencing disadvantage through illness, distress, abuse or neglect; any kind of disability; behavioural or psychological difficulties or living in poverty or situations of deprivation. The next deadline for small grant applications is Monday 1 December 2014 and for main grant applications Thursday 15 January 2015. For further information visit www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1N4ddmFHns8VPKjyp3PMYwn/apply-for-a-grant.
The Education Endowment Fund gives grants above £50,000 for projects that improve the educational attainment of pupils who are eligible for free school meals. Their focus is on supporting projects that are likely to show a measurable impact. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Wednesday 1 April 2015. For further information visit http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/apply-for-funding.
When starting school, children from the poorest backgrounds are up to 19 months behind others of the same age in development of vocabulary, and the difference persists throughout their schooling. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Sutton Trust have launched a £1million Parental Engagement Fund to support organisations to develop methods of working with parents to bridge the gap in the early and primary school years. Funding for the projects will range from £50,000 to £200,000 over two to three years. Applications are open until Friday 5 December. For further information visit www.suttontrust.com/programmes/parental-engagement-fund.
First World War heritage grantsof £3,000 to £10,000 are available from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help people discover more about the war, and mark the centenary. This programme has a short application form, and is suitable for everyone, including first-time applicants. The Heritage Lottery Fund also provide grants of more than £10,000 for First World War projects through other current funding schemes. For further information visit www.hlf.org.uk/looking-funding/our-grant-programmes/first-world-war-then-and-now.
The Neighbourhood Planning programme funds the production of neighbourhood plans has proven extremely popular and funds for the £7,000 grants have been spent. Further money has now been allocated by the Government to cover expenditure from November 2014 to March 2015, until the next budget starts in April. For further information about applying for a bridging grant or for direct support visit http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/neighbourhood-planning.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is offering grants up to £2,000 for local groups to host an event which encourages new communities to formally embark on neighbourhood planning. The workshop must be run by knowledgeable and enthusiastic advocate of neighbourhood planning, with the aim of giving a community the information they need to begin the neighbourhood planning process. The funding is aimed especially at areas that have a low take up of neighbourhood planning, and meetings should be able to attract at least 10 communities. For further information visit http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/neighbourhood-planning/apply.
British Science Week community grantsis a new scheme offering £500 for community groups to promote science to people who may not traditionally be engaged with science. These might be people from BME communities, people with low socio-economic status, those not in education employment or training, or who live in a remote and rural location. The deadline is Tuesday 2 December. For further information visit http://britishscienceweek.org/plan/grants.
Please find attached the DLDC November Newsletter.
Many thanks
Its National Befriending Week (1-7 November) and were launching a new website to recruit more volunteers. Find out more about volunteering as a befriender and search for volunteering opportunities anywhere in Derbyshire at www.derbyshirebefriending.org.ukThe website is an initiative of Derbyshire Trusted Befriending Network, a network of befriending schemes from all over Derbyshire, managed by South Derbyshire CVS.
More than 750 Derbyshire volunteers give an estimated 1570 hours each week offering support and friendship to isolated or lonely people of all ages, in their local communities. But there are many more people wanting a befriender. The Connect Befriending Service at South Derbyshire CVS, for example, has 84 people waiting to be matched with a volunteer.
To help fill the gap the new website will act as a one-stop shop where local people can find out more about volunteering as a befriender and search for volunteering opportunities in their local area.
Volunteer befrienders in Derbyshire make a huge contribution to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people - but there are many more people wanting this kind of help. We hope the new website will make it easier for people to find out where help is needed, and will encourage them to offer their time. Please spread the word!
The November edition of the Volunteering Newsletter is out and its a special edition for our Volunteering Fair next week! You can view it online here: https://careerhub.derby.ac.uk/docs/30/VolunteeringNewsletterNovember.pdf
We now have a Twitter account @DerbyUniVol so you can keep up to date with the latest news and see your opportunities being advertised to students.
For future editions of the newsletter we are launching a Volunteer of the month feature. This is your opportunity to celebrate a student volunteer that your organisation hosts. If you would like to nominate a student to be recognised please email around 100 words on why to firstname.lastname@example.com
As always, please do not hesitate to send us your opportunities, events and case studies of our student volunteers.
The Big Lottery Fund has £630,000 of Lottery funding to 36 organisations across England to raise awareness within the voluntary community and social enterprise sector of the opportunities available through the European Social Fund.
One East Midlands and Public Health England are currently working in partnership on an innovative project to support third sector organisations delivering health improvement services across the East Midlands.
A draft of the Protection of Charities Bill, announced in the Queens Speech in June, has been published by the government.
Charities which have single sourcing contracts for production and postage of their direct mail will have to pay 20 percent VAT on those contracts from 1 October, HM Revenue & Customs has confirmed.
The Charity Commission has updated its information on when merging charities should inform the commission of their merger.
Only charities that are members of the Fundraising Standards Board and file their annual returns on time with the Charity Commission will be able to fundraise at more than 1,000 train stations in England and Wales under a new initiative to promote safer giving on the rail network.
At the recent Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats party conferences ACEVO and the Charities Aid Foundation launched Blue, Red and Yellow Books of the Voluntary Sector featuring essays showcasing the parties thoughts on the sector.
Click here for the latest newsletter.
Click here for the EMIN report.
Do you work in the Third Sector?
Are you looking to grow your organisation?
Do you need to up skill your members of staff?
Find support for your organisation and staff with a wide range of training programmes provided by a sector-led partnership in the Third sector. They are specifically designed to match your organisational needs at no cost to you, your business or your employees.
Available for Social Enterprises, Not for Profit and Voluntary Sector organisations with less than 250 staff looking to manage, sustain and grow their organisations through
accredited training.
Derbyshire Learning & Development Consortium (DLDC), Community Action Derby, Nottingham CVS, Enable and Ingeus are working together in partnership with the Local Enterprise Partnership D2N2 and the Skills Funding Agency to improve
voluntary sector skills and support organisational growth.
DLDC and Community Action will be delivering a series of workshops across Derby City and Derbyshire from November 2014 January 2015 to enable interested organisations to gain further information and to sign up for accredited training.
Workshop topics include:-
· Creative Ways to Grow & Thrive
· Strategic Business Planning
· Up-skilling your workforce
· Achieving Stronger Board Support
For further information and dates, please contact email@example.com or 01332 265960
David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has announced £9million in new funding for the Charity Commission over the next three years to allow the regulator to streamline lower-risk work and improve its capacity to identify abuse and mismanagement in charities.
Almost two-thirds of infrastructure organisations have experienced an increase in demand for their services over the past year, according to research published by Navca.
The voluntary sector is experiencing a post-recession high of 22 percent for employee turnover levels, according to a People Count Third Sector Report published by Agenda Consulting.
The Institute of Fundraising and Charity Finance Group have launched a free guide to selecting and using online giving platforms, entitled Making the most of digital donations.
Charities are better at talking about transparency than actually being transparent, according to a new report from the nfpSynergy, which examines how easy it is to find information on the websites of 50 charities.
Financial Action and Advice Derbyshire (FAAD) will be holding a Better Signposting event in South Derbyshire to raise awareness of the issues for people who are struggling financially and to increase local knowledge of how to support them better.
If your organisations supports people who are on low incomes or at risk of financial exclusion Claire Thornber from FAAD would like to hear from you so that she can discuss how the event might best support your organisation and benefit your members. If you would like to be involved please complete the attached form click here and return it to Claire, whose contact details are on the attached flyer click here and registration form.
Dear colleagues,
Hopefully you are aware of the Futures Award which recognises any extra-curricular activities students undertake whilst studying at the University of Derby. The award is growing and this year we have launched the Futures Award in Social Media. At Leadership level students will learn how to plan and run a social media campaign for a charity or not-for-profit organisation and then put this learning into practice.
We are inviting organisations to host a student to enable them to plan and run a social media campaign. This could be to:
· Assess what your social media is currently doing
· Run a specific campaign, e.g. to promote an event taking place in 2015
· Set up social media accounts if your organisation does not have them
The social media project must be a minimum of 50 hours to qualify for the Leadership level of the award. You would be encouraged to suggest a maximum number of hours or an end date with the student to ensure the requirements are clear and the project is completed.
Social media projects will commence late January/ early February as students will receive training with us before the Christmas break and teaching begins again on 20th January.
The number of spaces on the Futures Award in Social Media at Leadership level is limited. If we receive more requests from organisations than the limit allows, we can work with you to promote your social media requirements as a regular volunteering opportunity and encourage students to gain recognition of this through the Futures Award in Volunteering strand.
To express your interest in this opportunity to develop and improve your social media and give students a valuable volunteering experience, please reply to firstname.lastname@example.com brief details on what you would hope to gain from hosting a Futures Award in Social Media student in your organisation.
Please respond by Tuesday 11th November if you are interested.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Telephone: 01332 592455
Email: email@example.com
Web: www.derby.ac.uk/careers
Click here to view the latest edition of Community Voices, South Derbyshire CVS newsletter.
GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund launch on November 3 2014. Through the Fund, we will be donating eighty awards of £300 over a 16 week period to warm hearted community projects and people.
For further information click here.
Click here to view the leaflet for information about a series of roadshow events for carers of people with learning difficulties.


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Still moar awesome inventions
The next part will be the last (Part 3 link in the see more bit)
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Part three: www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/406530/15+MOAR+awesome+inventions/
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What do you think? Give us your opinion. Anonymous comments allowed.
#52 - Zuuh (05/08/2010) [+] (2 replies)
my shoe tastes like a burger o.o
#98 - supersparta (05/08/2010) [+] (2 replies)
Anime contacts... one step closer to Hentai. :D
#48 - iBreezyChan (05/08/2010) [+] (1 reply)
I have that shower curtain...
#158 - shisaki (05/08/2010) [-]
Ima put my dick on the LCD ring box and make it play "dick in a box"
#135 - Rayspree (05/08/2010) [-]
Nothin like a piece of sizzling bacon on your open wound
#136 - WarzoneBomber (05/08/2010) [-]
Now that gives you a reason to say,"I don't give a flying **** ."
#289 - Ithumbyoudownalot **User deleted account** (05/09/2010) [+] (9 replies)
#206 - FATthirtytwo (05/08/2010) [-]
How do you even play chocolate scrabble? I just imagined the winner gets to eat all of the chocolate and the loser has to watch in disappointment. Lol.
#109 - TrololoCat (05/08/2010) [+] (4 replies)
Does anybody else have Highway to Hell stuck in their heads now?
great stuff!
great stuff!
#9 - Absolut (05/08/2010) [+] (3 replies)
It's a shoe that looks like a burger... or a burger shaped like a shoe?
#301 - Insect **User deleted account** (05/09/2010) [+] (1 reply)
I can see a troll came through and thumbed everyone down. Bangherbuddy to the rescue!
#116 - BreakTheGame (05/08/2010) [+] (5 replies)
**BreakTheGame rolls 801,769,595** I really want the flying ****
#91 - lordzedd (05/08/2010) [-]
...chocolate scrabble, as soon as someone spells eat its game over
#22 - SaveFJ (05/08/2010) [+] (2 replies)
Living Easy, Living Free
Season Ticket On A One-Way Ride
Asking Nothing, Leave Me Be
Taking Everything In My Stride
Don't Need Reason, Don't Need Rhyme
Ain't Nothing I Would Rather Do
Going Down, Party Time
My Friends Are Gonna Be There Too
Season Ticket On A One-Way Ride
Asking Nothing, Leave Me Be
Taking Everything In My Stride
Don't Need Reason, Don't Need Rhyme
Ain't Nothing I Would Rather Do
Going Down, Party Time
My Friends Are Gonna Be There Too
#73 - bouchedag (05/08/2010) [+] (1 reply)
I wonder if they have legoman creationism
#58 - YouDamnSkippy (05/08/2010) [+] (3 replies)
I MUST has.
I MUST has.

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A major step for Turkey
As Prime Minister Erdogan showcases Turkey's prestige on a visit to the White House, the country has its ratings upgraded...
May 19, 2013 9:45 by Reuters
Turkey's achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a "tiger" economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous neighbourhood.
Moody's Investors Service raised its rating on Ankara's sovereign bonds to Baa3, or investment grade, from Ba1 late on Thursday, following in the footsteps of Fitch credit ratings agency, which took that step last November.
The upgrade came on a day when Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was showcasing Turkey's global prestige on a visit to the White House, and in a week when the emerging nation of 75 million made a final loan repayment to the International Monetary Fund.
"It was a major strategic step for Turkey," said Erdal Tanas Karagol, economic director of the SETA think-tank in Ankara.
"This will help the current ruling party prepare long-term plans, to set higher goals and will create a suitable international environment to carry out those plans."
The boost puts Turkey 11 notches on Moody's rating scale above historic rival Greece, on the other side of the European Union frontier, and should drive more foreign direct investment (FDI) to an economy that still has great potential to grow.
"The ratings agencies are finally catching up with the fact that the Turkish government has done a huge amount of work in the last decade to put the country onto a stronger economic and political footing," said Simon Quijano-Evans, head of emerging market research at Commerzbank in London.
Government debt has fallen to 30 percent of gross domestic product from more than 100 percent in the crisis years early last decade. Inflation and the budget deficit are falling.
Turkey's IMF programme and candidacy to join the EU provided a strong policy anchor in the early years of Erdogan's mildly Islamist conservative AK party government from 2003. But the pace of political reform has slowed as EU accession talks have run into the sand due to Cypriot and French obstruction.
"There is a sense of a lost anchor," said Sinan Ulgen, chairman of the Istanbul Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, EDAM.
The EU had lost influence on issues such as media freedom, tolerance of dissent and freedom of expression because Turks no longer believed they were wanted inside the European bloc. Rights groups complain Erdogan is falling short on democracy.
Ulgen said the rating upgrade was a triple vote of confidence in the resilience of the Turkish economy despite Europe's debt crisis, in sound economic and fiscal management, and in a strengthened geopolitical relationship with the West.
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Screen Controls (Beta)
10,000 - 50,000 downloads
- Ease of use
- Adjust screen brightness and timeout one-by-one
- Set "System default" preferences
- More controls would be nice: vibrate, sound, etc.
- Needs homescreen widget (on/off switch)
+ By Humayoun
"Full control"
Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund / Oct 14, 2013
Screen Controls allows you to adjust screen brightness and screen timeout for each app, one-by-one
Hey, do you know what kills your battery the fastest? Display light. The best way to extend your battery is reducing brightness. Some apps, including the built-in Android brightness controller can do it for you. The problem? They adjust brightness for the whole system, not for specific apps. And we all know that some apps require higher screen brightness than others (for example, news readers).
Screen Controls allows you to adjust the screen brightness for all your apps, one by one. Thus, you can set a low brightness level for, let's say, Youtube and a higher brightness level for Flipboard or the browser. In fact, screen brightness isn't the only parameter you can set at your whim. You can also set custom screen timeout for each app or choose use the system default. "System default" can also be set from Screen Controls settings, as well as choose start all that preferences on boot up.
The app is neat and really easy to use. And, above all, adds a functionality that by now, the stock Android OS is missing. Recommended.Developer's original description available here
Take customization to the limits with "Screen Controls" control the screen of your android smart phone or tablet For each Application on your device according to your needs.
With "Screen Controls" customize Screen brightness & Screen timeout For each application on your device, So now Each Application on your device can have its own Screen brightness & Screen Timeout which is chosen by 'you'.
Easy to use User Interface helps you find & customize the application for its timeout & brightness.
•Set Screen timeout for each app on the device ( by default it set to 30 seconds for each app).
•Set Screen Brightness for each app on the device ( by default it is set to Auto for each app ).
•You can use system settings for any application you like.
•Gives the option to get running after boot up so that there is no need to start the application service again by launching "Screen Controls"
Some lists where this application appears: Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund.
Functioning, still figuring how to integrate with the profile management apps....
Do what it says... !!
Best app available on store . For controlling screen .
This app is handy but I would rather rely on auto brightness. Constantly checking for the foreground app to determine brightness will kill your battery.
Very help full.... great idea.. works great on my phone
This works but it has a serious conflict problem with an app lock application i have installed on my phone. Also your ads location makes me laugh...
Running CM 10.1.3 but that shouldnt matter. This screwed up my Elixir2 widgets to control timeout. The widget says time is 8hrs and 12mins ... that aint even an option. Nice idea, but needs work i guess. Maybe ill try a future version.


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Never spit a verse cause I was making trap music, nigga
from The Game (Ft. Common & Kanye West) – Jesus Piece Lyrics on Genius
On the song Crack Music, referenced in the last line, he didn't have a verse, he was just featured on the chorus. He says the reason was that the track's topic didn't fit the image he was selling at the time.
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By Rick Warren
— May 21, 2014
"Yes, all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious ideal; yet now God declares us 'not guilty' of offending him if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in his kindness freely takes away our sins." (Romans 3:23-24 LB)
For the past few days, we've been studying the biblical path from condemnation to godly confidence, and I consider this so important to our ability to make healing choices that I want to lead you in a prayer today.
Maybe you've been under self-condemnation because of some unresolved guilt or unrealistic expectations — maybe both. The Bible says, "All of have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious ideal; yet now God declares us 'not guilty' ... if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in his kindness freely takes away our sins" (Romans 3:23-24 LB).
Would you like to have that burden removed?
Then pray: "Jesus Christ, I want to ask you to forgive me for all the things I've ever done wrong. Help me to forgive myself and to look straight ahead with honest confidence and not to hang my head in shame. When my past failures come to mind, instead of me coming back and begging you to forgive me again, help me to remember that I've already been forgiven. Every time that memory comes back, instead of me being guilty, Lord, I will be grateful. When that memory comes to my mind, let it cause me to praise you and say, 'What a great God you are! You've forgiven me. I'm a trophy of your grace.'
"Lord, help me to relax in your grace, to realize that you don't expect perfection. I want to take off the yoke of guilt and put on the yoke of grace. Help me to eliminate the negative self-talk in my life. I know now that when I put myself down, I am really questioning you — because you made me the way I am, the way I look, with the talents and abilities I have and the ones I don't have. You made me just to be me."
"Help me to focus my mind on the positive things and to read my Bible every day and memorize it and meditate on it. God, help me to quit trying to please everybody. I know it's an impossible task and it only causes anxiety in my life. Instead, let me focus only on doing your will. Help me to obey what you've told me to do."
"Thank You, Father, that through your grace we can get off the rat race of unresolved guilt and unrealistic expectations — those things that push us to do more. Instead, may we relax and do the things that really count. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen."
Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., one of America's largest and most influential churches. Rick is author of the New York Times bestseller The Purpose Driven Life. His book, The Purpose Driven Church, was named one of the 100 Christian books that changed the 20th century. He is also founder of Pastors.com, a global Internet community for pastors.
This devotional © 2012 by Rick Warren. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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One pitch after ducking away from Jonathan Broxtons high-and-inside fastball, Cespedes launched a no-doubt, 433-foot drive to center field with two outs and Brock Holt on second base to give Boston back-to-back victories for the first time since a five-game winning streak from July 13-20.
Cespedes hit his 19th homer of the season and second with Boston one in each of the last two games. He has reached base at least once in all nine games hes played for the Red Sox since they acquired him from Oakland in a trade.
Tommy Layne (1-0) got the final out of the seventh inning for the win.
Kojo Uehara pitched the ninth for his 26th save.
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ISIS Advances Continue Despite Air Strikes
Posted by Richard Warnick in Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, National Politics, Syria, War on October 8, 2014
M-60A3 tanks of Turkish Armed Forces standing by at the Turkey-Syria border, as ISIS and Kurdish armed groups fight for control of nearby Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) on October 6, 2014. (Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The current situation in the war against ISIS, via CNN:
The United States and its allies have made at least 271 airstrikes in Iraq and 116 in Syria.
The cost? More than $62 million for just the munitions alone.
The effect? Negligible, some say, particularly in Iraq.
One by one, the cities have fallen to ISIS like dominoes: Hit, Albu Aytha, Kubaisya, Saqlawia and Sejal.
And standing on the western outskirts of Baghdad, ISIS is now within sight.
The Long War Journal reports that ISIS captured a battalion of tanks (that's up to 54 tanks) at Hit after they were abandoned by fleeing Iraqi soldiers.
The U.S. is now flying risky missions around Fallujah using AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. This means the "air war" now openly includes ground combat, because American military doctrine (PDF) classifies an attack helicopter force as a maneuver element, the same as infantry or armor.
Meanwhile in Syria, ISIS is about to occupy the town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) on the Turkish border. Turkey has refused to aid the Kurdish defenders, despite U.S. requests. Air strikes in the vicinity of Kobani have failed to stop the three-week assault on the town.
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The Unknown Knowns Redux
Posted by Richard Warnick in 4th Estate (Media), Barack Obama, CIA, Foreign Policy, National Politics, War on September 29, 2014
Former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld famously ruminated on the difference between "known knowns," "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns" in the intel business. It seems to me that our intelligence services (all 17 of them) have the most difficulty with sorting out the unknown knowns (i.e. things widely reported, whose significance is apparently unknown to the government). The news media told us about the the capture of Fallujah by ISIS 9 months ago. (At that time, ISIS was best known as the employer of fictional spy Sterling Archer). Ought to have been a wake-up call, don't you think?
President Obama, unlike the last one, is at least able to acknowledge and take responsibility for a mistake:
America failed to recognize the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists and mistakenly relied on the hapless Iraqi army to combat them, President Obama admitted in an interview broadcast Sunday night.
In an about-face from earlier remarks that likened ISIS to a terrorist "JV team," Obama told CBS's "60 Minutes" that he agreed with National Intelligence Director James Clapper's recent assessment that "we underestimated the Islamic State."
"Jim Clapper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated . . . what had been taking place in Syria," Obama said.
The president also called it "absolutely true" that the United States put too much faith in the Iraqi army, whose soldiers turned tail rather than wage war against ISIS fighters invading from Syria.
Obama's comments marked his bluntest acknowledgment that the United States bungled the initial response to ISIS, which American-led planes began bombing inside Syria this month.
More info: ISIS Fast Facts
UPDATE: Tom Engelhardt: The Massive Failure of American Intelligence
[F]rom the Egyptian spring and the Syrian disaster to the crisis in Ukraine, American intelligence has, as far as we can tell, regularly been one step late and one assessment short, when not simply blindsided by events. As a result, the Obama administration often seems in a state of eternal surprise at developments across the globe.
Destroy ISIS – That's The Objective?
Posted by Richard Warnick in Barack Obama, Drone Strikes, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, National Politics, Syria, This Blog, War on September 12, 2014
President Obama is now the fourth President in a row who's leading us into war in Iraq. Additionally, he again wants to attack Syria (but Washington seems to have switched sides in the Syrian civil war since a year ago). Considering the outcomes of previous American military adventures in the Middle East, is this really a good idea? The plan, such as it is, will consist of using mostly air power and special operations forces in cooperation with allied ground forces. The stated objective is to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" ISIS. However, we've failed to "destroy" any of the Islamic insurgent forces we've fought against over the past 13 years – they are all still thriving, including ISIS (which started out as al-Qaeda in Iraq).
Rajiv Chandrasekaran in the WaPo:
"Harder than anything we've tried to do thus far in Iraq or Afghanistan" is how one U.S. general involved in war planning described the challenges ahead… "This is the most complex problem we've faced since 9/11. We don't have a precedent for this."
Adding to the level of difficulty is the fact that the USA will be fighting on the same side as Bashir al-Assad, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Iran. And the nascent Iraqi government of of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is an uncertain ally at best. Probably half the Iraqi Army has been rendered combat-ineffective as a result of ISIS advances.
More info:
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Tom Engelhardt: ISIS Can Thank Washington
Posted by Richard Warnick in 9/11, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bush Failures, Disaster, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, Military, National Politics, Terrorism, War on September 2, 2014
At this point, I think everyone has finally realized that following the al-Qaeda game plan post-9/11 didn't turn out well. The aim of strategy is to force the enemy to conform to your will. Al-Qaeda had a strategy, and we really didn't. The Bush administration sent our military to chase after who-knows-who in some 60 countries. When President Obama says, "we don't have a strategy yet" to avoid spending more trillions and more American lives to give ISIS exactly what they want, he is stating a fact.
Tom Engelhardt (emphasis added):
Though the militants of ISIS would undoubtedly be horrified to think so, they are the spawn of Washington. Thirteen years of regional war, occupation, and intervention played a major role in clearing the ground for them. They may be our worst nightmare (thus far), but they are also our legacy — and not just because so many of their leaders came from the Iraqi army we disbanded, had their beliefs and skills honed in the prisons we set up (Camp Bucca seems to have been the West Point of Iraqi extremism), and gained experience facing U.S. counterterror operations in the "surge" years of the occupation. In fact, just about everything done in the war on terror has facilitated their rise. After all, we dismantled the Iraqi army and rebuilt one that would flee at the first signs of ISIS's fighters, abandoning vast stores of Washington's weaponry to them. We essentially destroyed the Iraqi state, while fostering a Shia leader who would oppress enough Sunnis in enough ways to create a situation in which ISIS would be welcomed or tolerated throughout significant areas of the country.
"Blowback" can't even begin to describe a strategic failure of this magnitude. It would be nice to think that the Obama administration has the intelligence and fortitude to design a new strategy that goes beyond "don't do stupid shit." I don't think that. Nobody in Washington is prepared to call the Global War on Terror an utter failure, or admit that ISIS could not have triumphed without our help. It's reasonable to predict the USA will keep doing the same thing (if only for lack of a better idea), hoping for different results.
ISIS Is Beheading Journalists to Lure America Into Another Ground War. Remember the Iraq War's Lessons
Iraq War III
Posted by Richard Warnick in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, National Politics, War on August 10, 2014
Here we go again. Iraq War updates via HuffPo.
'Mowing the Grass' in Gaza
Posted by Richard Warnick in Foreign Policy, Israel, National Politics, This Blog, War on July 31, 2014
Several announcements by Israel's Ministry of Defense spokespersons during the first stage of their latest attack on Gaza stated that they were "mowing the grass." This is their term for the periodic ritual slaughter of the Palestinians, which is politically popular in Israel and America but nowhere else.
"Mowing the grass" isn't a winning strategy. It's what you do to maintain the status quo, which is permanent war. It's the Israeli government's admission that they don't want peace, because that would entail unacceptable compromises – for example, lifting the blockade of Gaza. It's also a clue to the mindset of Israeli decision makers, who seem to regard Palestinian civilians as nothing more than blades of grass to be cut down.
The notion that repeated attacks on Gaza are nothing more than "mowing the grass" raises serious moral and strategic questions. Cutting down civilians, like the children playing on that Gaza beach, is not like cutting blades of grass. To compare the two is dehumanizing. And to embrace a policy that entails the killing of hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians with each application violates the conscience, if not the basic rule of law. Use of force should always be a last resort, not a premeditated policy of first choice.
Efaim Inbar and Eitan Shamir of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) are the leading spokespersons for "mowing the grass." They wrote in an op-ed for the Jerusalem Post:
Western thinking is solution-oriented.
This explains part of the lack of understanding in the West for what Israel is doing.
Against an implacable, well-entrenched, non-state enemy like the Hamas, Israel simply needs to "mow the grass" once in a while to degrade the enemy's capabilities.
As anybody with a lawn can tell you, when you mow the grass the roots grow stronger. Hence the long-term stupidity of the Israeli plan. The use of force against civilians won't ever bring them peace, but they keep on anyway because they have no imagination. Israel is perpetrating enormous war crimes, deliberately as a tactic of collective punishment of Palestinians. Why do we keep supplying weapons and ammo to Israel with our tax dollars?
More info:
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FDL: Haunting the Conscience of the World
This is a turning point, Israel has crossed all the red lines and the world will hold them accountable for it. This long night for the people of Gaza will end, the light of justice will finally shine on them, and there will be no more darkness.
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Iraq Update – Depends On Who You Believe
Posted by Richard Warnick in Disaster, Foreign Policy, Iraq, National Politics, War on July 22, 2014
The Iraqi Army is either locked in a stalemate in the battle for Tikrit and surrounding areas about 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, or (according to a claim by ISIS) has completely lost the city and Camp Speicher, a nearby military post and helicopter base.
Here's the story according to The Long War Journal:
The Iraqi military made its first effort to retake Tikrit in late June, when it airlifted commandos into Tikrit University in an effort to gain a toehold north of the city. An advance on the city from the south was defeated. Then, on July 16, the Iraqi military launched Operation Decisive Sword. A large column of military and militia units entered southern Tikrit and thought they liberated the city, but as they celebrated they were ambushed with suicide bombers, IEDs, and conventional attacks. The Iraqi forces then withdrew from the city.
After the Iraqi military withdrew from southern Tikrit on July 16, the Islamic State immediately began its assault on Camp Speicher, as the base was the last remaining holdout of Iraqi forces near the city (Iraqi forces were withdrawn from Tikrit University sometime before the second offensive was launched).
The loss of Camp Speicher, and perhaps more importantly, the loss of the helicopters and its pilots if the Islamic State's claims are true, is a serious blow to both the morale and the operational capabilities of the Iraqi military. The Iraqi military, which has failed to retake major cities and towns from the Islamic State and its allies, now may find it more difficult to support and defend the Bayji oil refinery just to the north, which has been largely resupplied by helicopters.
The Daily Beast cast doubt on the ISIS claim of victory in Tikrit:
On Friday, multiple news reports claimed that ISIS had won a major victory, seizing control of a vital army base outside of Tikrit and killing or capturing the hundreds of soldiers stationed there. If true, ISIS's capture of Camp Speicher would signal a crucial turning point in the battle for the city and a humiliating setback for the Iraqi Army.
But the reports are false according to multiple Iraqi sources, who say Speicher was attacked on Friday but that ISIS never entered the base. According to an Iraqi Army soldier, who said he is currently stationed at the base: "Ten suicide bombers tried to blow themselves up at the gate so 15 more ISIS fighters in support could enter the base but we killed all of them. Only one Iraqi soldier was killed."
Even if neither side is in control of Tikrit, the Iraqi government remains in deep serious trouble. A week ago The Long War Journal estimated that half of Iraq's 15 army divisions have become ineffective or have completely disappeared.
These Children Are Refugees
Posted by Richard Warnick in American People, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Immigration, National Politics, This Blog on July 16, 2014
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Several days of cable TV news watching haven't answered the question that's on my mind. Why are we even debating this? Desperate children, many of them unaccompanied, have been forced to flee Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and other countries. We're expecting 74,000 to show up at our southern border this year.
On June 2, President Obama described it as an "urgent humanitarian situation," asking Congress for an additional $1.4 billion to deal with the influx and creating a multiagency taskforce, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to coordinate the federal response.
These children are refugees from violence and poverty. However, it's been noted that essentially none of them come from Nicaragua, the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti. Therefore poverty is a secondary factor. They're fleeing for their lives.
Yet some politicians want to have a debate about how fast we can send these kids back to their countries of origin to die. Tea-GOPers even want to deny them the right to a court hearing. At the same time, the U.S. is telling Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to take in millions of refugees from the Syrian civil war.
Right-wingers and racists take note: No, these children don't have Ebola. That's a disease endemic in Africa– Ebola has never been reported in Latin America. What about other diseases? The migrants are better vaccinated than U.S. kids. The migrants are not hardened criminals, they are victims. They won't destroy our economy – the Tea-GOP and Wall Street already did that. No, President Obama didn't invite children to cross our border illegally – the law that guarantees due process for unaccompanied migrant children was signed by President Bush in 2008. It was uncontroversial at the time it was passed. The National Guard won't stop the kids from coming, but maybe they could provide humanitarian assistance. Your term of opprobrium against undocumented immigrants isn't spelled "ILEAGELS." Also, the policy you oppose is not "AMENSTY," or "AMNETY."
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Politico's Roger Simon distorted President Obama's record to claim that his request for emergency funding to deal with the recent flood of unaccompanied minors crossing the border was tantamount to waking "from a deep slumber … to fight a problem he has ignored for years." In reality, Obama has supported legislation in the past that addressed many of the underlying issues but the legislation has been blocked by the GOP.
ISIS Declares Caliphate In Syria And Iraq
Posted by Richard Warnick in 9/11, Bush Failures, Disaster, Foreign Policy, Iraq, National Politics, Syria, War on June 30, 2014
ISIS declares caliphate – those little derrick symbols represent oil fields.
Osama bin Laden's vision of a Muslim caliphate in the Middle East is now a reality, thanks in large part to the USA. On Sunday morning, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) pronounced the reformation of the caliphate—the historical Islamic state that once stretched over much of the modern-day Muslim world—with ISIS emir Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as the man in charge.
Al Qaeda's strategy of trying to force a US overreaction with the 9/11 attack has proved considerably successful in destabilizing the regional regimes that opposed establishing a caliphate and promulgating fundamentalist Islamic law. …12 million people are estimated to live under the control of ISIS already and if the now declared caliphate continues its expansion it could be considerably more.
…Apparently using the US military to topple secular leaders did little to thwart the rise of Islamic extremism. In fact, it seems to have had the opposite effect.
Add to the "no one could have anticipated…" file. Which is getting pretty thick by now.
More info:
ISIS Declares Themselves an Islamic State
The Beginning of a Caliphate: The Spread of ISIS, in Five Maps
According to Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal, the proclamation of a caliphate was "a controversial move that is sure to send shockwaves throughout the jihadist world."
Benghazi: Does The GOP Protest Too Much?
Posted by Richard Warnick in Foreign Policy, National Politics, Republicans, Terrorism on May 11, 2014
Juan Cole has an excellent piece on Alternet about the Republican Benghazi obsession that again provides the answers the right-wing partisans have demanded over and over through four investigations. And Cole has a few questions of his own (emphasis added).
What the House should really investigate is who really funded and encouraged the production of that get-up 'film' attacking Islam, "The Innocence of Muslims." It was redubbed after being shot, such that the cast had no idea they were in a bigoted attack film. The makers of the film, including a far right wing American militia figure, sent it determinedly to Egyptian hard line Salafi Muslims until part of it was finally shown on a Salafi television channel. They were clearly trying as hard as they could to provoke attacks on US facilities. Isn't this a sort of terrorism in itself? Was it a Republican Party black money group hoping to provoke a diplomatic hostage crisis that would damage President Obama's chances of reelection? Why did GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney keep comparing President Obama to former president Jimmy Carter in spring of 2012? Carter had been bedeviled by the Iran/ US embassy hostage crisis. Had Romney's speech writers heard from the US Islamophobic network that there was likely to be embassy trouble that summer and that it might make Obama look weak? Why are GOP leaders so determined to deny that the film helped provoke the Benghazi attack? Are they afraid that sooner or later a link between GOP funders and the film will emerge, and they want to hold themselves harmless? Why do Muslim-hating political campaigns break out regularly every two years in the US, pushed by Republican candidates? Will there be another one in summer-fall of 2014?
Let's hope the House Democrats have enough backbone to refuse to participate in yet another GOP partisan Benghazi investigation. And wouldn't it be good if some non-partisan commission could find out if the anti-Muslim video, the embassy protests, and the attack on the Benghazi consulate resulted from right-wing political operators trying to embarrass the Obama administration?
Ed Schultz: 'I Was Wrong' On Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted by Richard Warnick in 4th Estate (Media), Barack Obama, Climate Change, Democrats, Disaster, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, National Politics on March 6, 2014
MSNBC's Ed Schultz reversed his support for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday and said the United States shouldn't allow it to be built. Last month he called the pipeline "a step in the right direction when it comes to energy independence."
Of course, Keystone XL won't be a pipeline TO the USA. It's a pipeline THROUGH the USA to overseas export. It's likely to cause a gasoline price hike in this country. What do we get from this pipeline? More groundwater pollution, and more climate change.
President Obama could stop this pipeline all by himself. The right-wing is clearly worried, and the Faux News crowd is even claiming that Keystone XL approval would be the answer to the crisis in the Ukraine!
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Date: December 3, 2009
by: Pam Eubanks | News Editor
RIVER CLUB — After nearly two years of battling a proposed cell phone tower in the heart of their community, homeowners in River Club celebrated a long-awaited victory Dec. 3.
The Manatee County Board of County Commissioners on Dec. 3 voted 6-1 to deny an application by Vertex Development to construct a 150-foot flagpole-style telecommunications tower in front of River Club's clubhouse. The tower would provide service to T-Mobile customers and possibly other carriers.
"This (was) a community effort," River Club No Cell Tower Committee member Greg Gallagher said. "It's a long road to have hauled … that led to this success. It's a job well done (by) the community. I'm overwhelmed at this point."
Homeowner Craig Harrison, who has been on the forefront of the fight with his wife, Cecelia, said the victory is one shared with the community, as well.
"The decision preserves the residential neighborhood of River Club and its excellent precedent to preserve the neighborhood character of other communities facing the same issue," Harrison said.
Although county planning staff and Vertex representatives said the tower did comply with county development codes, the majority of commissioners said they were not convinced the application met county regulations or that the tower could be considered an auxiliary use to the golf course as county planning staff suggested.
In his motion to deny the project, Commissioner Joe McClash also cited portions of Chapter 6, Section 603 of the county's land development code, which he felt were not satisfied by the existing application.
"(The tower is) not compatible with the approved development," McClash said after the vote. "I really feel it goes against building that sense of community we talk about."
Commissioner Donna Hayes, who represents the East County, agreed there were too many uncertainties to give the application her support.
"There were some questionable issues there," Hayes said. "This was a very difficult vote for me to make."
Vertex's attorney, Lauralee Westine, said she is discussing litigation options with her client.
River Club Golf Course owner Mike Pascuzzi, who had agreed to lease a portion of his golf course property for the tower, said he was happy for residents.
"I thought the homeowners did a really good job presenting their case; my hats are off to them," he said. "The homeowners themselves did a terrific job, better than the attorneys."
Pascuzzi said his decision to lease the property was a business decision.
"I'm doing everything I can to try to survive this economic downfall," he said. "I'm always looking for ways to improve our revenues and lower our expense. I'm going to do everything I can to keep this golf course going. I have no animosity toward anybody. It's not personal with me. It's just business. I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm looking at the total picture."
Pascuzzi said he was not sure he would continue to offer the site for lease should the applicant proceed with legal action to secure the site.
T-Mobile has been working to find a usable site in the River Club area since 2005, the company's spokesperson Ann Brooks said. Brooks could not yet say what T-Mobile's next step would be but noted the selection of the River Club site had been made thorough scientific evaluation to rule out other potential sites.
"That need (for coverage) hasn't gone away just because the site was denied," Brooks said. "We do still feel like we have a need to provide better services to our customers in this area."
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