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Fee payment assistance
Get help paying your fees and study-related expenses.
Higher Education Loan Programs (HELP)
HECS-HELP provides students in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) with a loan to cover their student contribution amount and/or a discount if they choose to pay all, or at least $500, of their student contribution amount up front.
If you take out a HECS-HELP loan, the Commonwealth pays the loan amount directly to Deakin on your behalf and a HECS-HELP debt is recorded for you with the Australian Taxation Office.
Eligibility criteria
- Students must be Australian citizens or holders of a permanent humanitarian visa, in a CSP
- New Zealand citizens and holders of a permanent visa in a CSP are unable to access this loan scheme and are required to pay the full student contribution amount up front.
Note From 1 January 2013, a person will not be eligible for Commonwealth support or a HELP loan if a higher education provider reasonably expects the person will not undertake any of their course of study in Australia.
Student contribution payment methods
- Pay all of your student contribution up front and receive a HECS-HELP discount of 10% i.e. you only pay 90% of your contribution amount.
- Receive a HECS-HELP loan for the full student contribution (previously referred to as deferring your HECS).
- Pay some of your student contribution up front (and receive a 10% discount on payments over $500) and receive a HECS-HELP loan for the balance.
How to apply for HECS HELP
If you would like to obtain HECS-HELP please complete an electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form (eCAF) via StudentConnect.
More information
Visit the HECS-HELP page on www.studyassist.gov.au.
FEE-HELP is a loan programme that assists eligible fee paying students to pay their tuition fees at higher education providers.
Eligibility criteria
- Students must be Australian citizens or holders of a permanent humanitarian visa, in a fee-paying place
- Holders of other permanent visas are not eligible for FEE-HELP unless they are undertaking a bridging course for overseas trained professionals
Courses eligible for FEE-HELP
- Accredited undergraduate award programs
- Accredited postgraduate award programs
- Bridging courses for overseas trained professionals to enable them to meet the requirements for entry into their profession in Australia
- Courses to enable students to meet the requirements for entry into an award program
- Units of study made available by higher education providers, access to which was provided by Open Learning Australia
Note From 1 January 2013, a person will not be eligible for a HELP loan if a higher education provider reasonably expects the person will not undertake any of their course of study in Australia.
FEE-HELP limits in 2014
$96 000
$120 002 for Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Science
$97 728
$122 162 for Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Science
The FEE-HELP limit is the maximum that a student can borrow under FEE-HELP over their lifetime. This limit excludes any loan fee.
A loan fee of 25% applies to FEE-HELP loans for undergraduate courses of study only.
How to apply for FEE HELP
If you would like to obtain FEE-HELP please complete an electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form (eCAF) via StudentConnect.
More information
Visit the FEE-HELP page on www.studyassist.gov.au.
Eligible students who do not wish to pay the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) upfront to the University can request assistance from the Commonwealth, and defer the fee through an element of the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) known as SA-HELP.
The amount of the loan will be added to the student's accumulated HELP debt.
Student contribution payment methods
Eligible students may choose to:
- pay some of the fee upfront and obtain a SA-HELP loan for the remainder
- obtain a loan for the full amount of the fee.
Eligibility criteria
Students must:
- be Australian citizens or holders of a permanent humanitarian visa who are residing in Australia
- be enrolled in an eligible course of study with a higher education provider
- meet the Tax File Number (TFN) requirements
- complete the online SA-HELP form by the census date each Trimester/Semester.
How to apply for SA-HELP
To apply for SA-HELP go to StudentConnect and select the SA-HELP menu option.
More information
Visit the SA-HELP page on www.studyassist.gov.au.
OS-HELP is a loan scheme that assists eligible Commonwealth supported students, who are based in Australia, to undertake some of their study overseas. The purpose of OS-HELP is to assist students with their study travel expenses, such as airfares and accommodation.
Deakin University administers OS-HELP in accordance with the Department of Education guidelines.
Eligible students may borrow one loan (up to the maximum amount) per six-month study period for one or two study periods of overseas study. A student may only receive a maximum of two OS-HELP loans over their lifetime.
An OS-HELP debt will be incurred when the OS-HELP loan amount is received.
OS-HELP limit (maximum amount you can borrow):
2014: $6250
or $7500 if you are studying in Asia (in one of 26 eligible countries), plus a supplementary amount of $1000 if you will be undertaking Asian language study in preparation for study in Asia.
2015: $6362
or $7635 if you are studying in Asia (in one of 26 eligible countries), plus a supplementary amount of $1018 if you will be undertaking Asian language study in preparation for study in Asia.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply for OS-HELP assistance, you must:
- be an Australian citizen or the holder of a permanent humanitarian visa
- have not received OS-HELP assistance for overseas study on more than one other occasion (not including supplementary amounts for Asian language study)
- be enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate course of study at Deakin University
- have already successfully completed at least 8 credit points (1 EFTSL) as a Commonwealth Supported student (on HECS) that counts towards the same course of study the overseas study counts towards at Deakin University
- have at least 1 credit point (0.125 EFTSL) of study to complete in your course on completion of your overseas study
- be enrolled full-time (i.e. enrolled in units amounting to at least 75% of a full-time load) in an approved study program and will be undertaking that study outside Australia
- have your overseas study count as credit for the course in which you are enrolled at Deakin
- have not been granted OS-HELP assistance by another university for an overlapping six month period
- be selected to take part in an overseas program by Deakin and appropriately enrolled on Student Connect in the unit(s) required for that program
- have not completed the overseas study before making an application for an OS-HELP loan.
How to apply for OS-HELP
- Read the above Eligibility Criteria and Frequently asked questions about OS-HELP page prior to applying.
- If your study is in Trimester 1, 2 or 3* 2014, please complete the OS-HELP application form relevant to the region(s) in which you are studying:
OS-HELP Application (Asia bound countries) 2014 if you are studying in Asia (one of 26 eligible countries) or
OS-HELP Application 2014 if you are studying in any other region (North America, Europe, Middle East, South America etc.)
- * If your study is in 2015 but relates to Trimester 3 2014 please complete the current 2014 application form.
- If you are undertaking an Exchange or Study Abroad program which relates to Trimester 1 2015 but commences in January/February 2015 you can choose to complete the 2014 OS-HELP application form. Please be aware the loan amounts will be lower than the 2015 OS-HELP program and once paid cannot be changed.
- If your study is for Trimester 1, 2 or 3 2015, OS-HELP applications will not be open until early January 2015. A 2015 OS-HELP application form will be available early December 2014..
- Send the application form to:
Applications for the 2014 OS-HELP Program close Wednesday 10 December 2014.
Applications for the 2015 OS-HELP Program open Wednesday 7 January 2015 and the application will be available soon.
Selection criteria
Where there are more applications than can be supported by the available funding, loans will be awarded on the following given to students who:
- are undertaking study in the current academic year
- can demonstrate financial hardship and/or educational disadvantage
- loans will be allocated on the basis of academic merit using the students' weighted average marks in their previous studies in their current course.
More information
- Study Abroad and Exchange
- Visit the OS-HELP page at studyassist.gov.au
- Contact your Faculty's Study Tour coordinator or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Changes to HELP
Existing changes to the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- Changes to the HECS-HELP discount and voluntary repayment bonus
- The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has advised of changes to the issuing of Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) and Financial Supplement statements.
More information
Study Assist
This website provides up-to-date information about Australian Government assistance for financing tertiary study. For more information, visit www.studyassist.gov.au or call 1800 020 108.
This website contains tax information for individuals or students about schemes that support education being undertaken. For more information, visit www.ato.gov.au.
Other financial support
Deakin can help you navigate through the various types of financial support available to you while you study. Some of that support comes from the University and some from the government.
Deakin financial assistance can help you with budgeting and how to manage and avoid debt. Find out about grants and loans that can help you cover study and living expenses.
Government financial assistance with living expenses is also available, including Centrelink benefits, Health Care Cards and help paying a bond when renting.
Scholarships and awards - we offer a wide range of scholarships to help students from many different backgrounds pay for their university fees. Students may also be eligible for prizes and awards.


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Has anyone been to Commander's since it reopened? If so how is it?
Personally, I don't think you can beat the ambiance, the service, the fun.....but the food I can do without....and probably will in the future.
Gotta agree with Tchoup here. we went in late Jan for our Anniversary. The ambience, service were extrordinary. The food. ok. Frankly it was more about the experience than the food.
It's just one of those things you gotta do.
Then head to Rio Mar or Cochon or Mila..... OR Go to a place with awesome food, then head to commanders for dessert and brandy
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That is sad to hear. I had always enjoyed the full package. When they got weak, it was always on the service end of the equation. Still good, but I expect them to always be great.
Will miss them this week, but plan on giving them a post-K go in September. Will report on that experience.
I'm going to disagree with the first two posters. Since Katrina, Commander's is the only restaurant I have been to that has consistently had great service and great food. Now, the food there isn't as forward thinking or creative as a Besh or Spicer joint, but I find the dishes they serve to be excellent. To me, it's kind of an upscale comfort food. Like if my mom or dad was a chef, that's what they would cook at home on the weekend. I highly recommend it.
I would go there before Cochon or Riomar any day, and I like those two a lot. MiLA, on the other hand, is going to give every restaurant in this city a run for its money. However, I would still say go to Commander's, then go to MiLA.
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It's been almost a year since we were there last, but brunch on a Sunday last April was outstanding. The food was better than it had been in years.
Thank all of you for responding to my post. Just want to check on Tory Mcphail and the boys. I need to get back and check it out myself.
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I had a very nice dinner at Commander's last night. Dennis and the other wait staff were great and told me that just this past week were they back to full (ie. 200 people) staff since the storm. I had the 1-1-1 soup trio which is a great idea; the duck and wild mushroom gumbo was dark and earthy and the turtle soup as good as ever. The pecan crusted redfish with crab meat sauce was delicious. The Pontchatoula strawberry shortcake was worth the extra wait. While on the subject of Commanders, does anyone know the secret ingredient in the Adelaide Swizzle? Dennis brought out the book they have on making cocktails - which is very cool btw - and I guessed Orgeat syrup and was wrong.


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Recipes for right now: Sweet Potato Samoas, Lemony Strawberry-Peach Muffins, Crispy Root Vegetable Chips, Raspberry Butter Tarts, Vegetarian Pesto Pizza, Fig and Apricot Newtons, Citrus-Topped Poppyseed Bars
Who would enjoy this book? Anyone who's ever been intimidated by Pinterest.
Not Quite a Diet, More Than a Cookbook, Diana Henry Gets It Just Right
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Recipes for right now: Japanese Ginger and Garlic Chicken, Sweet Saffron Roasted Tomatoes with Labneh, Berry and Hibiscus Sorbet, Whole Roasted Fish with Tahini Dressing, Blackberry and Apple Rye Galette
Who would enjoy this book? People tired of dieting, cooks in the habit (or trying to) of eating with the seasons, omnivores with a love for vegetables.
What's the Deal With These Nut-Hugging Bear Cookies?
Have you seen these cookies? These adorable cookies shaped to look like bears with tiny bear arms wrapped around a single almond or cashew? I've been seeing these things all over the internet the last couple weeks, often labeled as the cutest cookie to ever grace our planet. This recipe is Pinterest gold.
But would you actually want to eat one?
Feast With Your Eyes & Then With Your Fork
New Cookbook
The angle: Beautiful foods just taste better.
Recipes for right now: Summer Berry-Coconut Milk Ice Pops, Salmon Banh Mi, Summer Squash Pasta with Green Goddess Dressing, Millet-Stuffed Peppers with Tomatillo Salsa, Broiled Figs with Za'atar and Pecans
Who would enjoy this book? Cooks who love the art of presenting food as much as cooking it; people with CSAs.
Our Readers' 10 Favorite Timeless Cookbooks
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The Sunbelt Senior Golf Tour, which is the minor leagues of the Champions PGA Tour, will hold a 3-day tournament at Chestatee Golf Club in Dawsonville. The tournament runs through Friday.
The 2009 Tiger baseball season ended last Friday with a doubleheader loss to Banks County, 15-5 and 18-5, in Dawsonville. The team finished the season with a 7-11 overall record. The team lost six of their last seven games.
Former Dawson County Lady Tiger Kasay Holbrook led Division I Presbyterian College to a 8th place finish in the Big South Conference tournament April 15 in Ninety-Six, S.C.
University of Tennessee punter Chad Cunningham averaged 42 yards per punt April 18 as the Vols wrapped up spring training with the annual Orange and White game at Neyland Stadium.
Former Dawson County Tiger wrestler Thomas Kimbrell was named to one of 52 total at-large qualifiers for the 2009 NCAA Division-I Wrestling National Championships, announced Wednesday, March 11 by the NCAA.
Former Dawson County Tiger wrestler Thomas Kimbrell was named to one of 52 total at-large qualifiers for the 2009 NCAA Division-I Wrestling National Championships, announced Wednesday, March 11 by the NCAA.
The North Georgia High School All-Star Basketball Game will be held at 7 p.m. WEdnesday at Dawson County High School.
Twelve-year old Anela Melton has been named to the Georgia Olympic Development Program.
The Amicalola Longbeards Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold its sixth annual Hunting Heritage Banquet at 6 p.m. Jan. 23 at Rock Creek Sports Complex.
Casey Roderick, driver of the No. 9 Ford for the Bill Elliott Driver Development team, is gearing up for an action-packed weekend at SpeedFest 2009 at Lanier National Speedway Jan. 23-25 in Braselton.
Dawson County High School Tiger Wesley Bearden and Lady Tiger Charley Whitmire placed in the Inaugural Rudolph Junior Golf Classic at the Chattahoochee Country Club Dec. 22.
Dawsonville's Elliott family racing franchise began a new chapter in local racing history Monday when Dan Elliott was named General Manager of the newly purchased Peachstate Speedway in Jefferson.
Dawsonville's Elliott family racing franchise began a new chapter in local racing history Monday when Dan Elliott was named General Manager of the newly purchased Peachstate Speedway in Jefferson.
The year 2008 was exciting for high school and middle school sports in Dawson County.
WOODSTOCK - Legendary racecar driver Bill Elliott is returning to the racetrack where his illustrious career began more than three decades ago to host the "Bill Elliott 50 Red Dirt Dash" late model race on Saturday.
The Chase for the Cup comes to Atlanta Motor Speedway next weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pep Boys Auto 500 and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series E-Z-Go 200 highlight what is the biggest racing weekend in Georgia.
Dawsonville's Donald McIntosh sped into the lead at Boyd's Speedway and held off "The Georgia Giant" Shane Clanton to win the Turkey Gobble 50 in Chattanooga on Saturday.
Nationwide champion. Rookie of the year. Most popular driver.
The "si-rene" atop the world-famous Pool Room is screaming through downtown Dawsonville for Chase Elliott
Dawsonville's legacy of producing NASCAR champions continued Saturday when Chase Elliott clinched the 2014 Nationwide Series title with a fifth-place finish at Phoenix International Speedway.
Dawsonville's Chase Elliott could clinch the NASCAR Nationwide Series title a week before the season ends if all goes well in Phoenix this weekend.
Dawsonville native Spencer Davis made history earlier this month when he was named 2014 Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour series.
Known as the Georgia Shaker, Hubert Platt is the grand marshal for the 47th annual Mountain Moonshine Festival.
It's another showdown between the rising stars and seasoned veterans of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR's seven touring series, as voting for the Most Popular Driver Awards opened Oct. 9.
With four races left in the season, Dawsonville's Chase Elliott remains at the top of the NASCAR Nationwide Series leader board, despite a 10th-place finish at Kansas Speedway on Saturday.
With five races left in the season, Dawsonville's Chase Elliott is poised to take home the NASCAR Nationwide Championship title in his first year on the circuit.
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The Open Book Book, and Other News
August 8, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- James Wolcott on the scourge of nineties nostalgia: "Mostly a white people's pastime, nostalgia used to be a pining for an idealized yesteryear, for a prelapsarian world tinted in sepia … the Internet and cable TV have colonized the hive mind and set up carnival pavilions. Now every delight is obtainable and on display at an arcade that never closes … This anxious, ravenous speedup of nostalgia—getting wistful over goodies that never went away—is more than a reflection of the overall acceleration of digital culture, a pathetic sign of our determination to dote on every last shiny souvenir of our prolonged adolescence, and an indictment of our gutless refusal to face the rotten future like Stoic philosophers."
- With the Open Book project, two professors held "experimental book workshops … to help define what the classic book—and the new book—could be." Now there's the Open Book book, "an amalgam of essays on and artwork made from books. 'Not all of these books are made from and with paper-based books … We purposely sought book-like work for the Open Book exhibition that transcended paper media.'"
- What does a minute feel like? Sixty seconds. What does sixty seconds feel like? A minute. "I was a lab rat in a performance-art piece on the High Line. The artist, an Argentinian named David Lamelas, arranged forty-odd people—friends, tourists, commuters, passersby—shoulder to shoulder, like an extra-long police lineup. 'The time is now six-thirty-five,' he announced, looking at his phone. Starting at one end of the queue, we were each supposed to wait for what we estimated to be one minute and then call out the time."
- In the UK, a new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has a remarkably creepy cover. "It features a cover photograph of a young girl in make-up and marabou feathers, perched on her mother's knee with the blank-eyed expression of a doll."
- Eighteen months ago, Steven Soderbergh retired from filmmaking. Now he's made The Knick, a grisly TV drama series about a hospital in the earliest days of the twentieth century: It's "a gritty glimpse of Gilded Age New York … The first ten minutes of the premiere are among the most gruesome I've seen this year, as [the doctors] attempt an emergency C-section on a woman with placenta previa, an operation they have already failed at twelve times before."
Cover Your Eyes—Pubes! and Other News
July 15, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Ninety-eight years ago this month, Edith Wharton published Summer, a steamy novella "with a plotline that includes sex outside of wedlock, an unplanned pregnancy, and a truly disturbing relationship between a teenage girl and her guardian." It was not well reviewed.
- Nor, apparently, was When Harry Met Sally, which, though it eventually ascended into the rom-com pantheon, was widely dismissed when it came out twenty-five years ago. Terrence Rafferty wrote, "The debate, of course, is too shallow to engage us, but they might have tried providing a little plot … When Harry Met Sally positions itself comfortably in the middle of nowhere and casts knowing directions in all directions."
- On Virginia Woolf's conception of privacy: "Many people accept the idea that each of us has a certain resolute innerness … What interested Woolf was the way that we become aware of that innerness. We come to know it best, she thought, when we're forced, at moments of exposure, to shield it against the outside world."
- Today in prudery: in London, the Society of Women Artists' annual exhibition featured a portrait by Leena McCall, which depicted—trigger warning!—a bit of pubic hair. But don't worry! Calm down! The painting was summarily removed because it was "pornographic" and "disgusting."
- In the nineties, Prodigy was one of the most successful Internet companies around, an "interactive personal service" that finally went belly-up in 1999, taking with it "the written record of a massive, unique online culture, including millions of messages and tens of thousands of hand-drawn pieces of digital art." Now one man has recovered some of that early Web culture.
The Dadliest Decade
April 15, 2014 | by Willie Osterweil
Why were the nineties so preoccupied with fatherhood?
Some decades are summed up easily, the accretion of cliché and cultural narrative having reached such a point that we hardly need say anything at all. The sixties: hippies, drugs, revolution, rock-and-roll. The eighties: Young Republicans, greed is good, massive perms, Ronald Reagan. This is reductive, obviously, but it's also helpful cultural shorthand. The nineties, like the seventies, have a less unified narrative: there's gangster rap, Monica Lewinsky, Columbine, Kurt Cobain, O.J., MTV, white slackers on skateboards, and the LA riots, but they're all disparate, disconnected. There was no counterculture powerful enough to write the narrative from below, no one mass-cultural or political trend hegemonic enough to make itself the truth. Some enjoy calling this diffusion postmodernism, though most everyone else agrees those people are assholes.
But there was, I contend, a current that ran through the culture of the nineties, a theme that has not to my knowledge been recognized as such. That theme is the heroic dad. Read More »
If Heavy, Then Lift
April 17, 2013 | by Alia Akkam
Every morning, I would start the day with the Smashing Pumpkins—haunting "Disarm," anthemic "Today." Over and over, in a bedroom still mired in childhood, where a mound of carelessly tossed stuffed animals crept up my white wood dresser, I relentlessly played Siamese Dream. This, I thought, is how one becomes a teenager.
When the sun was at its hottest, late in the afternoon, I would stand at my front door, forehead pressed against the mesh screen, waiting for some friend's mother to pull up in a beige Nissan and carry us to the mall. Here, I would spend hours in too-short shorts in too-cold air conditioning deliberating between pungent Plumeria or Freesia lotions at Bath & Body Works, scarfing down greasy slices of food-court pizza, and buying a hideous glittery cropped tee my mother would take one look at and matter-of-factly proclaim I would never wear. Until I was called for dinner, I'd read Seventeen, wondering if, once my dreaded braces came off, I'd be as beautiful as the young girls staring back at me with their wisps of charcoal eyeliner rimming their almond-shaped eyes, the ones who looked like they hadn't cried since they fell off pretty pink bicycles with white baskets and streamers flowing from the handlebars. After that night's iteration of chicken and rice, the phone would ring. For the next hour and a half, I would talk about nothing with the person I had had nothing to say to at the mall just a few hours before.
It was the summer of 1993, and I was bored. Read More »


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Memo Montenegro
Real Name
Guillermo Rodriguez
Date of Birth
June 26, 1988
Place of Birth
A picture of JBL with a statue of Teddy Roosevelt.
April 19, 2014
"I didn't realize it until the second time I had said it. We have a thing called the Gorilla position and I was ready to go out. They pulled me for a quick interview and we talked about the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I had a tough time a few days ago with that. My manager Jimmy Hart and I just stood and stared at the statue and when I looked at his face, I lost it and I was totally rattled for at least half that day. It really upset me, in a good way. So in that interview when we talked about the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal and then I went straight out there I guess my mind was still thinking Andre. But the crowd sure let me know that I was saying the wrong name of the venue. So I apologized to them and I made sure that I tagged it at the end again with the Skydome. Oh man, the Superdome." - Hulk Hogan explains his Silverdome and Superdome mix up
April 10, 2014
Last year, WWE unveiled an Andre the Giant statue, which impressed a lot of fans and wrestlers alike, and it looks like the company might be making it an annual thing. At an Axxess event during Wrestlemania 30 week, Triple H unveiled a new Bruno Sammartino statue. The legendary former world champion was there in attendance as well.
April 5, 2014
"I love Bray Wyatt. I love him. I love that whole gimmick, that whole Wyatt Family gimmick, but Bray I think he's gonna be a huge star. I get caught up in this guy, man. When I watch him he's one of those guys. He's another guy, I mean he doesn't look like a stud. He's not a statue of a man, but he is athletic as you can get, that kid can move man. He is agile, he is a stud man. That kid is as an athlete. He gets when he cuts a promo, you just get sucked in man. He is hypnotizing. When I talk to him like personal, on a personal level, he's one of those kids who's not afraid to learn, he has no ego. He's still learning and he knows he's still learning and he's not afraid to ask questions, and I think that's why he's going to be so good. 'Cause he's this good right now and he still wants to learn." - Batista predicting Bray Wyatt to be the next big star for WWE
April 1, 2014
Usually, when a group of people get together for a crime heist, the target is usually something quite lucrative. Autographed boots were the target this past week at the Hulk Hogan restaurant down in Florida. Some women reportedly distracted the manager by knocking over the statue outside the building, while one of them grabbed the memorabilia.
March 20, 2014
Sarita posted this interesting picture of herself on Instagram, where the former TNA Knockout is posing with a statue of a Transformers. She even revealed that she was a big fan of the cartoon and that Seaspray, a lesser known character from that toy universe, was her favorite robot.
February 9, 2014
A group of people in Pittsburgh have put together the time and effort required to erect a statue of wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino, but the owners of the land where the old Civic Arena stands are against the idea and have placed a stoppage on those particular plans.
January 18, 2014
While the company will never admit it publicly, it appears that they are completely done with Memo Montenegro, a former developmental wrestler who also happens to be the younger brother of Alberto Del Rio. Since his older brother is not expected to remain with WWE for long, Montenegro does not have much of a chance of making a return after he gains more experience.
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Bel Air Elementary first-graders Camryn Smith (front to back), Savannah Johnson, Cyncere Melvin and Wyatt Geist place valentines in envelopes in the hallway. The school had an "I Love Bel Air School Day" in conjunction with Valentine's Day because the school is scheduled to close in 2013.
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With school out Feb. 20 for President's Day, children can participate in a Junior Rangers Program at Mistletoe State Park in Appling.
The program, which aims to allow children to discover the outdoor world through a variety of adventures, will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.
"Children will learn about Georgia wildlife, participate in a nature hike, do some outdoor cooking and learn how (American) Indians depended on the outdoors to survive," said Program Assistant Brenda Bettross.
One of my favorite times of the year is early fall, when muscadines start ripening.
Muscadines are native to this area. The native vines produce fruit, but it is not as sweet as the named varieties. The native plants can become a pest problem because they grow in shrub beds and will cover trees.
I have plenty of wild muscadines around my house, and it is a constant battle to keep them out of my trees and plants.
Gardeners call these plants by two names, muscadines and scuppernongs.
Scuppernong is a variety of muscadine that is bronze in color.
Twitter @DonnieFetter
Columbia County commissioners approved a nearly $200,000 bid Tuesday to renovate the former Evans Health Department building.
Once complete, possibly by June, the building off Ronald Reagan Drive likely will become the shared office for Columbia County's Chamber of Commerce, Development Authority, and Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Dean sent to Savannah prison
The Columbia County Sheriff's Office released Scott Dean to the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections on Thursday.
Dean, convicted in December on two counts of child molestation, was sent to Coastal State Prison in Savannah, according to an e-mail from sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.
Coastal State Prison is one of two diagnostic centers in Georgia where convicted felons are evaluated, then given a permanent prison assignment.
A 46-year-old Columbia County woman was arrested on suspicion of murder Saturday afternoon after her roommate was found dead in their Martinez apartment.
Yvette Taylor told sheriff's investigators that she left the apartment in the 300 block of Applecross Drive around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, returning about seven hours later to find Theodore Crew, 63, lying on the bathroom floor.
Columbia County Sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris said an autopsy on Crew will be performed Sunday morning.
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Dave Gardner's latest documentary, Growthbusters, could be described as the whole-hog opposite to the messages of either of our 2012 presidential candidates: slow down the economy, encourage population reduction, and stop buying shit you don't need. So it's a good thing Gardner isn't running for off ... More >>
After a sexy photo shoot with her accordion, Renee de la Prade got the idea of starting a calendar filled with photos of gals and their accordions. Now in its third year, the Accordion Babes pin-up calendar features a dozen sultry women and their squeezeboxes as well as an accompanying CD tha ... More >>
Last week someone forwarded me this video of a contestant on Family Feud correctly guessing "a joint" would be an answer to the question: "what is something people pass around?" Host Steve Harvey's hysterically ignorant reaction to just how popular marijuana is makes the video. Below are four other ... More >>
Thse delightful pierogis aren't served at a tavern that features polka bands or plays Lawrence Welk. In fact, the delicious golden brown goodness changes regularly and is hardly traditional. These particular examples were filled with green chili's. Yum! Can you guess where I'm eating?
Infomercial get-rich-quick schemes are a little like weight-loss scams: both of them take something that's relatively simple -- work more to make more money, eat less to lose weight -- and pretend that there's a magic path through all the time and effort and commitment it takes. It's all abou ... More >>
Just don't expect an all-gabacho patrol.
Music has no borders.
Here's a selection of the best of last week's music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: Glorification of violence, misogyny and lots of angry white kids all figure prominently in this Necro review.
Youd be crazy to like this play.
Forget those silly love songs -- Mexicans got rhythm.
Everything you need to know about Denver's dailies is on page one.
Brave Combo plays polka without borders.
Lawrence's music bubbles on.
Meet DJ Kaskade, an unlikely man of the house.
Patrons of the High Street Speakeasy swear the bar is haunted. Will our investigator survive the night?
Cheri Thurston is rescuing the squeezebox from oblivion, one note at a time.
Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush (Bar/None Records)
Accordion duo Samsonite and Delight-Ya polkatize rock and roll.
Polka finds a new generation of fans.
A Grand Night for Singing hits a flat note.
Navy poster boys Dick and Doc have grown old but never apart.
A recently exhumed handbook reveals the secrets to playing music and staying happy.
Guy Klucevsek takes the accordion beyond and back.
Part one of a pre-millennial salute to the music that made America sing.
The music that time forgot is in a warehouse in Colorado Springs.
The Geritones prove that you're never too old to swing.
Forget grunge. Today Denverites are dancing to a very different beat.
The rise, fall and rise of blues guitarist Buddy Guy.


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2 Bedroom 1 Bath Home With Large Back Yard. Quiet Location Close To Town.
This recently remodeled home is located within walking distance to downtown Solvang. It includes a fenced back yard, full kitchen, guest room with full sized bed, and master room with king sized Sleep Number bed. Wood burning fireplace, entertainment center with cable. Perfect for small families or couples.
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- children welcome
- pets considered
- smoking allowed
- wheelchair inaccessible
About Ryan Cuff
Ryan Cuff has lived in Santa Barbara County for many years and is the proud owner of G.J. Gardner Homes Santa Barbara County, custom home builder with offices in Solvang.
Ryan has been in the U.S. Army for 17 years.
Ryan Cuff purchased this house in 2011
Why Ryan Cuff chose Solvang
The Cuff's bought this home in early 2011 because of its location and build quality. The home has been extensively refurbished by the owner himself.


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Description: Airpower played an important supporting role in the Korean War, and as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur pursued victory in the war and President Harry S Truman's objectives altered throughout the first year of the conflict, tension arose between the two men. One issue in these frictions was the restriction of airpower. Not only MacArthur, but also his admiring subordinate Lieutenant General George E. Stratemeyer commanding the Far East Air Forces, and Fifth Air Force commander Major General Earle E. Partridge opposed the restrictions which had been imposed on airmen from the outset of the conflict. Stratemeyer did so partly because of his loyalty to MacArthur, who wanted latitude in coping with the situation in the field and defeating the Communist enemy. Partridge did so because he thought they endangered his personnel and limited the effectiveness of airpower in the war. These commanders had a fundamentally different opinion from Washington regarding the likelihood of overt Soviet intervention in the war, and because they did not think the Korean War would become a world war, they were more willing than Washington to prosecute the war more aggressively. MacArthur's conflict ended with his removal in April 1951, and Stratemeyer (who suffered ...
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Description: This research is a descriptive analysis answering the question, what measures are currently taken by the leadership―boards of trustees and superintendents of schools―of Texas school districts to prevent embezzlement? The research perspective utilized was quantitative with a descriptive, cross-sectional design. Data collection was accomplished through a survey with questions constructed from the most commonly recommended strategies discovered through the review of literature. The survey was distributed to the 1031 superintendents of school districts in Texas via email. The response rate was 33% or 339 returned surveys. The data set created concentrates on the four most common preventive measures: policy and procedure, management, auditing, and ethics. These measures are considered as they function to interrupt the principles of the fraud triangle. Comparisons were completed regarding region, district size, superintendent tenure and superintendent experience. Policy adoption was found to be extremely widespread. Procedures written to fully implement policy were less prevalent. Review of management practices found problems concerning credit cards, personnel evaluations, and password access to multiple computer finance recordkeeping systems concentrated in one employee. External auditing programs were universal due to statutory mandate but internal auditors and internal audit committees were few. Ethics training for business office personnel existed but with ...
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Sandra Duran Wilson is influenced by scientific concepts, the dream state and the nature of materials. She loves to experiment and push the limits of paints, mediums and surfaces. She enjoys the tactile aspect of paint and what it can do, and she has always been an inventor of new ways to use existing tools and materials. She loves to paint ideas; to make them visible, beautiful and abstract so others may enter them and create their own reality. She lives and creates in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with
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In my hall closet are around 10 coats and jackets. On one end of the spectrum is a meadow-green coat of indeterminate fabric that I picked up at H&M a couple of years ago for, if I remember, $59.
On the other end is a black cashmere classic I inherited from my mom, who bought it about 35 years ago at the Marshall Field's department store in Chicago. She paid $280 for it -- the equivalent of two payments on her burnt-orange Plymouth Duster. At the time she was supporting herself on a fifth-grade teacher's salary of $8,000 per year.
Despite similar styles -- button front, knee length, cinched waist -- the two coats couldn't be more different. While the green one is already nappy, slouchy and yearning to be retired to Goodwill, its black sister is still soft and gorgeous. It looks as though I bought it at a high-end department store recently for, let's say, $1,346 -- what $280 would be today, adjusted for inflation.
The difference between my mother's generation and my own hangs in that closet. In a relatively short amount of time, experts have watched our nation swap the practice of investing in quality, long-lasting merchandise for the consumption of large quantities of mass-produced, highly designed merchandise.
Part of the issue is in the market itself, with the spread of mass production and wide availability of consumer credit. But consumers are also less knowledgeable, explains Paco Underhill, president and CEO of market research consultancy Envirosell and author of "Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping."
Americans in their 20s and 30s are now at least one generation removed from the era of homemade clothing and hand-crafted wood furniture, Underhill says. "In the 1950s, 90% of homes had sewing machines, which means women knew something about how clothes were put together. They could look at something in the store and tell if was of good construction or crappy construction," he says. "In my office, I don't know anyone who has bought a custom suit. They don't know the difference between off-the-rack and custom."
You don't have to buy quality all the time -- and probably can't afford to -- but it's important to know when to shell out for the good stuff. A few examples of times to skimp -- or splurge:
- Mattress: SPLURGE. You sit, sleep and God knows what else on this item. Get a good one.
- Men's dress shirt: SKIMP. If your suit is well-tailored and the tie spectacular, the shirt will be an afterthought.
- Chef's knife: SPLURGE. One 8-inch chef's knife is all you need.
- Women's shirts: SKIMP. Cute tops from H&M will go out of style before they fall apart.
- Overcoat: SPLURGE. First impressions mean a lot.
- Accent chair: SKIMP. If it's cool and rarely supports a rear, quality can come after design.
- Table linens: SKIMP. Choose inexpensive table cloths and napkins to keep your tabletop trendy.
How did this happen? How did we lose track of the value of quality things -- objects that hold the promise of decades of use and beauty -- and come to view all the possessions in our lives as disposable?
Daniel Nissanoff, online retail entrepreneur and author of "FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell and Get the Things We Really Want," says today's consumer culture actually bucks the mindset that brought us here.
"As human beings we've been socialized to buy and save," Nissanoff says. "In times not as prosperous as today, when we didn't know where our next food or source of supplies would come from, our ancestors bought things with the notion of holding on to them for as long as they could and then passing them on to the next generation."
In essence: Our forefathers were poorer than we are, and yet they had better stuff, relatively speaking.
But appreciation for quality craftsmanship has been swept aside by freely available consumer credit and high-end design on low-cost merchandise, says Dayana Yochim, personal finance writer at The Motley Fool.
"Credit cards let us instantly satisfy our retail desires," Yochim says. "Our grandparents had to delay that gratification. They figured that if they had to save for it, they'd better get the best they could. Now retailers want to catch that fleeting desire."
This trend has given birth to the "fast fashion" phenomenon, where retailers like H&M and Forever 21 sell runway rip-offs for pennies on the couture dollar, and consumers wear these garments for a single season before replacing them.
Similarly, Target, Ikea and Kmart offer budget designer furniture and other home furnishings with the look of more expensive makers, but quality that matches up better with the low price tags.
But now that we know how much a veneered, mass-produced bookshelf costs, it is easy for us to dismiss a pricier, handmade, solid-wood version as outrageous -- especially if you have never experienced fine furniture, Yochim says.
"All that information is telling us where to set the (price) bar," Yochim says. "We're looking at pricing before quality."
But so what? What is wrong with having lots of new, cool and inexpensive things all the time -- especially if we don't plan to keep them around that long, or expect them to last in the first place?
My friend John Rizzo, an economist, points out that you can buy a $1,050 winter coat today or a $70 coat every two years for the next 30 years. Say you get a fabulous coat today. Will you want that coat next year -- much less 20 years from now? What if you get fat, or hate the style, or feel like an idiot having your friends know you haven't bought a new jacket in two decades?
I recently asked my mom about that cashmere coat, and why she spent the money.
"You still have that?" she said. She was surprised, although not too much. "I guess I just thought I needed a good winter coat. I probably wore it for at least 10 years."
In winter months, I wear it at least once a week.
Published July 30, 2008