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The end of summer is near, which means students are getting ready to head back to school. Thanks to Big Brother Big Sisters and local businesses, hundreds of students will return to the classroom with brand new school supplies.
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The Great Recession is slowly easing and Americans are getting back to work. However, most of us have been left with the remnants of a financial hangover from the past 20 years that had us feeling entitled to live large on credit with a middle class income.
Reality didn't play a big part in our financial decisions and a lot of us were living paycheck to paycheck, borrowing money to subsidize the life we felt we ought to have and right now.
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There were a few people who I had to find first in order to pay them back and it was important to apologize for how long it had taken me instead of just dropping a check in the mail. One person didn't remember the bill at all but another was still a little upset over the length of time it had taken me to pay back what was actually the smallest amount. However, by the end of each phone call a few fences had been mended and I was able to own up to my side of things and make things right. That's the good news.
A bigger insight was how much money I spend without thinking about the amounts on things like parking in Chicago, entertainment or eating out. Over each month I kept having to adjust other categories so I could move the money around to cover what I was actually doing. That translated into a reduction of the savings categories.
My bad habit of spending down to practically zero and how I got there was suddenly very clear. This is the first important thing I've learned about a budget. I can't expect to change how I spend without a road map in the form of a budget. Too much of my spending is unconscious.
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That makes me wonder if there are any other dark, dusty corners in my life that I've been ignoring so that I could do what I want instead of coming up with a plan about what really matters to me. If this is the start of the lessons I get out of the Great Recession then maybe I'll be able to look back at these tumultuous years with some gratitude.
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It seems due to soft policies of upa our citizens are always live with fear of terror attacks only yesterday one was exploded at malegaon and another in gujrat this time motor bicycles were used in stead of bicycle and there were violent protests by people at malegaon and there were fight between police and protesters.
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Very true these people live in extremely SOPHISTICATED LUXURY life. They cannot realise the pain of the common man. As per news channels Our home minister was too keen to wear different suits in a span of 2 to 3 three hours for television, during the blast time. Finally we people has to be blamed for keeping away from Voting, so our votes are robbed by these Power greedy politicians. Now we facing REGRETTING for our own mistakes.Answered by sajan sajan, 01 Oct '08 12:16 pm
You see dear, it is now a matter of everyday!! Better you see the zakpak suiting and shirting of our home minister, which he likes to change frequently!! mr. Shivraj patil has recently said that terrorists are our 'misguided friends'!! This is not the soft policy! See, they just cant afford to take actions agaisnt their friends.Answered by swapnil jatkar, 30 Sep '08 10:23 pm
I think you better make your favourite BJP as the rulers next time. We will see how they will stop bombs. By making very very extra harsh laws?! Are maturely believing in this?? Don't you think it is the job of the EXECUTIVE to implement the law? Not the job of the Legislature?Answered by Mister Singh, 30 Sep '08 09:43 pm
There should some hard law against the terrorist , so they fear before going for any such action . Pota is the one of best soln. but our corrupted politics make them preferecece to grow such activity......Answered by deepak Pandey, 30 Sep '08 09:40 pm
This is an obvious fact that UPA govt is more concerned about securing vote banks, no matter if they have to give up their duties that include fight against terrorism. This government has been a BIG FAILURE in securing the lives of Indian citizens. We are no more safe in our homeland, thanks to UPA.Answered by Auli Mazumdar, 30 Sep '08 09:40 pm
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'90210' scoop: Tori Spelling in final talks to rev up Bev
So she is coming in to pad the 3 viewers watching this show to 10?
How is it that this show can stay on the air with less than 3 mil viewers and "Veronica Mars" got cancelled from this network with better numbers?
This is like cheering that someone got a seat on the "Titanic".
I agree that I'm glad that Donna is coming back to 90210 because I love the old characters and their dynamic. It's the best part of the show. However, I hope they tell us that Donna and David are still together. It's bad enough Kelly and Dylan aren't.
I think the new show is lousy!! I watched it the first few weeks and just couldn't get into it. Glad to hear the Tori is coming back, but I still won't be watching it. This show is not going to make it in my honest opinion……
I'm sorry but Brenda was the best character on the show – Donna Martin is ok but noone will ever top Brenda
P.S. It's also going to be cool to see Donna, Kelly, and Silver hang out and spend time together like a family.
Love Tori! I'm glad she'll return. However, I'd give up Shannen & Tori for another taste of Brian Austin!
I have no idea whats going on right now.
I thought Tori was on better terms with Shannen than Jennie was and they seemed to be willing to work together.
I love Tori! So glad to see her acting again:)
Likes others have said, I'll only be happy if Donna and David are still together. Just because it's a new show, doesn't mean they can wreck the storylines of the original. They already did that with Kelly (and Brenda, too) and it's just not fair to the fans.
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Fantastic news… last time I was watching this show I was thinking to myself that all it was missing was a heinously ugly woman with zero acting talent who only made it into the business though unabashed neopotism. This'll make it a hit for sure!
I'm glad for Donna Martin to being coming back! 90210 hasn't brought back enough of the old cast. And for all you Brenda fans, Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth were on the show for 10 years, Shannen Doherty was on the show for only 4 years. I think Donna has more right to come back than anyone. I wonder if Donna will still be a victim? That girl got abused, taken hostage, pushed down the stairs, had dyslexia, got cheated on by David about 100 times, etc etc etc!!
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I used to watch the show back in the 90′s, but now, NO WAY IN HELL!!!
What a stupid idea. Seriously. It's as if no one in Hollywood can create any original ideas anymore, so they just re-hash the past, over and over and over and…PUKE!
Get over it! Stop bringing back all these old shows! What a stupid trend. I LOVED the original 90210 and I'm a big Tori fan, but come on. Leave the past alone. Does anyone watch the new 90210 anyway? I heard it sucks.
Brenda was the most annoying character on the old show, and she didn't add anything to the new show, which is not nearly as good. I could never figure out why we would Brenda back on the new show when the old one got on just fine after she left. Bring on Tori! at least her character was likeable!
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Depending on where in the country you live, October's chill means time to break out the pajamas that keep kids warm on winter long nights—or risk a very full family bed. Unfortunately, a large amount of children's sleepwear—especially the fleecy, fuzzy kind—contains toxic flame retardants. It's enough to keep you up at night.
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As political support becomes more vocal, so does the support of outside groups, many of which have moved to Texas with one goal in mind — legalization.
One of the most prominent forces in the legalization movement, the Marijuana Policy Project, set up shop in Austin earlier this year. The group, which was the reigning force in Colorado's legalization push, has also been an essential player in the legalization of medical pot in 18 states. It has set its sights on legalization for the Lone Star State.
MPP is backing that campaign up with some serious resources, too. The group has pledged to spend $200,000 a year on the legalization movement in Texas over the next five years, and has hired lobbyist Randal Kuykendall to help lead the way. MPP's main goal, three "perfect bills" — one addressing decrim, one "medi-pot" and one legalization — is slated to be presented to lawmakers by 2015.
A monumental task, yes, but the group has quite a bit of help coming its way. Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition, or RAMP, held its inaugural meeting in Houston in March, and is exploring initiatives on issues such as medical marijuana and decriminalization, while also taking on related issues such as industrial hemp and the taxing structure of legalization.
RAMP has as good a chance to succeed as anybody else, with founder and director Ann Lee at the helm. Lee, a founder of Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California, is a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward medi-pot changed after her son's workplace accident left him a paraplegic with chronic nerve pain. Lee has made it RAMP's mission to educate conservative lawmakers on the criminalization of cannabis by talking about traditionally conservative principles — limited government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty — in a unique approach to the barriers conservatives pose to the legalization movement.
Lee has managed to bring other strong forces on board, too. Terry Nelson, a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and a former U.S. Border Patrol agent, U.S. Customs agent and Department of Homeland Security agent, spoke in support of the group at the inaugural meeting. John Delaney, a senior district judge who handles child abuse and neglect cases, and Richard A. Evans, M.D., founder of the Texas Cancer Center, spoke as well.
Branches of NORML, a nationwide nonprofit whose mission is to "move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty," are popping up at a rapid pace across Texas. The group has always been a constant on the legalization forefront, but has managed to make waves recently with the establishment of a branch in a very unlikely place: El Paso. Thanks in part to NORML, El Paso has become an ally in the legalization movement, with a number of legalization supporters emerging from the border city.
Progress Texas, a group of progressive activists, has also set its sights on Texas. The organization's main goal — supporting the legalization movement — has it trudging away, launching surveys, spreading information and promoting conversation in any way possible.
Although Tim seems to have perfected the art of growing marijuana in his hidden hydroponic growing system, he and the other medical marijuana users in Texas are still incredibly paranoid about getting caught. The stiff fines and harsh penalties for pot possession make possession a risky proposition, even if it's desperately needed to soothe the ache of old bones.
The amount of cannabis in Tim's hidden indoor "garden" is hardly enough to ease all the pain from the arthritis in his bones, but it's certainly enough to earn him some serious jail time. The state of Texas is serious when it comes to pot possession, and there's already one man, Jason Lavoro, facing a life sentence for possessing pot brownies.
Lavoro was running a small-time edibles operation in Round Rock, Texas, where he would bake and sell small batches of cookies and brownies infused with hash oil, a form of cannabis created by dissolving marijuana or hashish in a solvent such as petroleum ether. Possessing any amount of marijuana will result in a misdemeanor, but being found in possession of any amount of hash oil — even an ounce — is a state felony. Lavoro was in possession of much, much more. At least by law enforcement standards.
In cases like Lavoro's, where a person is in possession of an oil or extract rather than the plant itself, it is perfectly legal for law enforcement to calculate the amount of hash oil by weighing the product in which it is used. In this case, the weight of those hash cookies and brownies, not the oil itself, resulted in Lavoro's being charge with a first-degree felony. And now the penalty Lavoro faces is the same as a murder charge would bring in Texas — five to life — for pot brownies.
Cannabis is still federally listed as a Schedule 1 drug, despite numerous recommendations by researchers and scientists to change that status. That means it comes with some serious penalties if you're unlucky enough to possess it outside of a more liberal state.
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Smoking cigs is worse health wise, but it's legal, being drunk is just as bad as being stone and alcohol is legal, so why legalizing weed is a bad thing in comparison. I also feel that the crime rate will reduce if this would happen in Texas.
I find that this whole matter of the legalization of marijuana funny as hell, and I am also confused by some of the comments from people who think legal weed would destroy this state. I can tell you from personal experience that anyone I have ever met who is against the use of marijuana is someone who has never tried it, does not associate with anyone who does use marijuana, and only has comments based on all the political and false commercials of what marijuana does to a person. I have been in a room full of people who are stoned or high if you will, on marijuana and I have been in a room full of drunk people and I much prefer to party with stone people than drunks. Alcohol destroys more lives in so many ways each year than marijuana ever has, we know this by the fact that there are no documented cases in where marijuana was the cause. I have never seen someone stone start a fight, I have never seen someone stone puke all over the place, I have never seen a stone person have an accident driving, ( this may be because most of the time someone who is stone does not want to go drive a car). Marijuana has a relaxing effect not only on the brain but also on the body, and once you reach that good comfortable feeling, driving is just not one of the things you want to do. But if you do find that you have to drive. I have also been witness to being in the car with many stone people and nearly every time we were always in the slow lane going maybe 45 to 47 miles an hour. So you fools who have come on here and thought legalization of marijuana is wrong for Texas, then I have only one thing to say to you, you are idiots. You might take the time to read and consider history, long before we invaded this land we now call America, Indians were here and smoked marijuana in their peace pipes every day. I ask you, how many really old Indians have you seen walking with a cane, or slumped over unable to stand because of back problems. How many of them have you seen with any of all the other diseases whites, black, and all other nationalities suffer from. I have an Indian friend who lives on a reservation in Oklahoma and they allow the smoking and growing of marijuana, Some of the old people on this reservation are 95 to 104 and act and move around as if they were only sixty or sixty five. and you idiots also have to consider all the research that has been done over the past twenty years that support the fact that marijuana is a pain reliever, and even a cure for some ailments. So if you don't want Texas to legalize marijuana, then when they do you can move to a state where it is still illegal. But be warned, eventually every state will legalize marijuana because of its ability to stimulate the economy, think about that.
The worst thing that Texas could ever do is legalize that evil weed! Isn't driving in our state dangerous enough without having to worry if the person, driving in front of you is stoned and with his reactions slowed down to begin with he stops suddenly and causes an accident? Do we want Texas to become a hippie wasteland like Colorado?
Take a listen to Afroman's "Because I got High" then tell me if legalization of pot is a good thing?
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texans aren't fat and lazy enough already, legalizing mj is a good idea.
The entire state is controlled by corrupt lawyers and corrupt politicians ... Lawyers make millions defending average citizens POM charges each year, millions and millions. Most cases never see the inside of a court room. They are plea bargained out with cash payments to the courts and to the lawyers. It is a HUGE racket of asset forfeiture the crooked courts and crooked judges and crooked DA's and crooked lawyers CA$H cow. All these brand new privately owned jails and detention centers depend on this corrupt crooked despicable situation of marijuana probation to keep the jails full and the CA$H cow of asset forfeiture flowing.
The only way we will see legalized hemp and marijuana in Texas is the day when all these corrupt politicians, lawyers, judges and the powerful people who secretly run this state somehow find a way to CASH in a vastly greater way and amount than they are doing by keep hemp and marijuana illegal. They will never ever do it for the good of the people, or because it is the RIGHT thing to do.
Isn't Texas the state that is threatening to send a teen to prison for life for making pot brownies?
@DonkeyHotay Sounds like you do not understand prohibition. You either pay the black market tax or the government gets their but.
You have no citizen initiative process in Texas. Therefore, all of this is up to politicians. Good luck expecting them to behave like real human beings.
Tax and regulate it like alcohol...
"Could" Legalization of Marijuana Be in Texas's Future? Clearly a rhetorical question, to which the only reasonable answer - unless you are on Big Pharma produced legal, potentially fatal, prescription meds - is Yes! In spite of 70 years of a war on a plant, and $1 TRILLION dollars in taxpayer spending, people have figured out that a plant that has a lower lethal dose than water should not be illegal. With Texas surrounded by states that will legalize in a few years if they haven't already, and Mexico as a source of low grade but cheap weed, they will have no choice.
My question is, since TX seems to be so big on individual rights and doing what you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, what is the problem? People are going to smoke the ganja, just like they drank during Prohibition, so why waste police time and taxpayer money fighting the inevitable? On top of that, the Feds are agin it, so shouldn't they be for it just in principle?
In Kalifornia, the Bill of Rights are numbered, 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. In Texass, the Bil of Rights are numbered 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2.
The real gateway drug is alcohol with tobacco second...they used all the negative evidence found with these two drugs and applied their attributes to pot to further their evil cause...reefer madness...
It is time to ship these robber politicians and their minions back to the robber baron police states whence they came from. No more property taxes, no more $500 traffic tickets, no more murder by cops, no more theft of land from families, and no more drug war bs! We had no real problems before these monkeys took over and their anti pot and anti hippie Illuminati has to go now! Vote out incumbents, religious nuts, and people on agendas that do not put Texas first! Thieves are stealing the state blind while these buffoons chase kids down for smoking a joint behind the barn! Send them all back to Washington and leave us alone. We do not need them anymore!
trust this hippie idea will be crushed by Texans - thin edge of the wedge here lads - need to start gaoling users - we have the technology - we need more money and prisons to teach these scofflaws the true value of freedom and liberty. There is no other solution - look at the places where pot is legal - Holland - Kanada and North Korea - countries of crime and filth with no hope. Let us increase enforcement to rid the state of this deadly scourge! Amerika MUST remain free of these fatal fantasies - we already have some problems with the bevy of legal drugs including the more benign ones like alcohol and tobacco - do we need more? I think the consensus is no and can be seen from the majority of informed commenters .
Great article btw..don't let that fool get on your nerves. Texas is too conservative to legalize this harmless plant. Proof of this is how one Texas resident is facing 5 years to life for hash brownies, only in Texas would this happen. I have been a TDCJ officer for over ten years and you never hear about the people who are sentenced to 10 or more years for cannabis. Ill never forget this one 19 year old inmate who is serving a 30 year sentence for marijuana. I read their travel cards every time they move between units or are released and what almost made me quit is when a two time child molester in the same cell block as that 19 year old was released time served on a 12 year stint. I cant even describe how i felt that day...it is so messed up, only if the public knew.
I'll know I live in a truly free country when I can legally ride from one coast to the other with a pistol in one pocket and a bag of marijuana in the other.
meanwhile, somewhere else in texas: Teen Faces Life Sentence for Baking Pot Brownies http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teen-faces-life-sentence-pot-brownies-23808314
As a person living with chronic pain from spinal arthritis and systemic lupus, an autoimmune disorder, I would love the option to try cannabinoids as an alternative or adjunct to opioid medications. Decriminalization is not good enough. Why should a person be fined for possession of a legitimately prescribed medicine for a documented condition? Why should we not welcome a relatively safe alternative to opiates which produce tolerance and require escalating doses? For that matter, there is no legitimate reason to consider possession or use of marijuana illegal while permitting alcohol and tobacco.
As a Texas Ex-Pat, I read this with interest. Maybe I will be able to return to my home state rather than move to a more enlightened state. As a current resident of the State of Kansas, I have to argue that the bills that were introduced to the Kansas Legislature, who, like Texas, must approve the change, rather than leaving it to a public vote, are now "stuck" in committee by committee chairs who refuse to allow the bills an initial reading. I always laugh when others hold up Kansas as an example, when the reality is that Kansas has had this bill offered 6 times in the past 6 years and it never gets out of committee. Texas will have legalized marijuana (medical or recreational) long before Kansas gets it head out of its collective ass and brings legalization about. The sad thing is that legalization of marijuana and hemp could save this state (and many others). I wish you well in the fight to legalize marijuana in Texas... I'm moving to Colorado.
Cannabis is more then an intoxicant and this should be highlighted on our road to freedom. Small farms can grow cannabis (hemp) for many things and will do so better than most other plants out there. We can produce more food per acre, more fiber per acre and more money per acre for small farms then any other crop out there and none of that would require it being sold as an intoxicant to these know nothing fools in government. Cannabis is a gateway but only to introversion and gardening. I have smoked cannabis for nearly 20 years and I have zero shame in that. I love the euphoria of certain strains and the calming properties of others. My one beef with the piece is that it brings up a myth that strains of marijuana are stronger now then they were in the 70's. This just isn't true and you cannot change genetics. One could say that certain strains have been bred to have higher THC levels but the plant itself hasn't changed much only that the quality is more abundant then it was in the 70's.
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Alcohol is AS BAD as marijuana? Or a thousand times worse. When have you heard of a stoned driving death that killed an entire family? Or a subculture of weedo's passed out in the alley? Where are the dangerous consequences of marijuana? Answer: NOWHERE.
@rowantom88 Hell Yes!!!!
@rowantom88 Hell Yes!!!! God Bless the Hippies!!!
@rowantom88 Perhaps Texas should pass a law criminalizing driving under the influence of drugs. Oh, wait.....they already did. Legalizing pot would be akin to the legal ownership of a crow bar. Yes, bad people can use a crowbar to pry your door open and rob you, but owning and using a crowbar for uses other than committing a crime is legal. Your argument is the same one used by people afraid of guns.....they want government to take everyone's guns, so they can feel safer.
@rowantom88 I seriously hope you're being sarcastic, because otherwise I feel really, really sorry for you and I'm very surprised you've survived long enough to figure out how to use a computer.
@rowantom88 Alcohol is legal. I guarantee alcohol is worse on a person that marijuana. Alcohol intoxication is wayyyyy worse that being high. Especially when you are talking about someone being stoned behind the wheel. I would rather be by someone driving stoned than drunk any day!
@TexasForever Really? It's called a song. LOL
@TexasForever Legalizing that evil weed would be a very bad thing!
@TexasForever And you think drinking is better? I'd rather see a bunch of stoners than a bunch of drunks any day!
@midnightfapper69 There's a simple answer to your issue.....stop paying people NOT to work. Stop rewarding deadbeats for having kids they know up front they cannot pay for. Then all those fat and lazy Texans will have to get a job and pay their own way in life.
@stevennolin ... only an IDIOT would beg the Government to TAX and REGULATE anything they actually cared about.
Only a bong-sucking imbecile would deliberately conflate "harmless marijuana" with deadly alcohol that harms, maims and kills 100s of THOUSANDS of people every year.
@dissturbbed Someone in the legislature has got it in for pot users and has made astounding changes to pot laws with little or no review. This idea that pot is a different drug than the crystals washed off of pot makes it into a different substance is just cruel. And the fact that cities are making big bank running (clogging) courts with pot users and running up the tab on them to $10,000 for possession of a small amount of pot is evil! There are even two laws on the books! They can choose to write then a traffic ticket or use the court system. They choose the court system. I say get rid of the two choices and bring it to one choice. And Texas needs to have a petition rule also. Not being allowed to submit a petition for a vote is Nazi politics!
@Pat149 You hit the nail on the head
Kansas more enlightened than Texas? You lost me right there...
I guess I should back track a little and say that obviously you can have GMO weed, and although there are companies out there doing this, that is not why the quality of cannabis has increased over the years. The quality has increased because bad traits and genetics have been bred out and quality cannabis is much more plentiful then it was in the 70's. Cannabis from Thailand is probably of the exact same quality as it was in the summer of 1975 and has a high concentration of THC. This strain could be crossed with a Colombian or Mexican strain and increase that particular strains levels of THC but the plateau is around 25% and I doubt you will see much higher than that.
@Bill @rowantom88 Hate the 2 G's------Guns & Grass!
@darrynlyon @rowantom88 Go **** yourself!
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You sir, or madame are a complete moron. How old are you, 90? Have you the experience to even speak on this particular topic? If you have never smoked marijuana, then why the hell does your opinion matter to anyone other than your cronies at the rest home. Uneducated opinions should be keptin private.
@DonkeyHotay @stevennolin Sounds like you do not understand prohibition. You either pay the black market tax or the government gets their cut.
No kidding man. That's what I was thinking. This poor fool must have had a serious mind screwing in his upbringing.
@stevennolin utter nonsense.
What is the blackmarket / government tax on Oregano ? ... or Tomatoes ?
If the morons would actually LEGALIZE it -- LIKE TOMATOES -- there would be no black market at all.
The current quagmire in Colorado, Washington and elsewhere with their Massive Government Regulation and Taxation schemes is that BOTH markets now pressure those "licensed" producers -- the blackmarket which can ALWAYS produce a better and cheaper crop, and the greedy insatiable bloodsuckers at the Dept. of Revenue who have saddled marijuana with upwards of 30% in taxes.


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In the early 1800s, Gaither's Plantation was a functioning cotton plantation that spanned across hundreds of acres. Today, there remains a myth that some of the Gaither family members, as well as soldiers from the Civil War, haunt the home. Those feeling intrigued at the thought of encountering a ghost can take a guided tour by the Central Georgia and East Georgia Paranormal Societies. These ghost tours are held each October and take families through the house, explaining the history behind the buildings, as well as any supernatural activity that has occurred. Maybe if you are lucky, you will experience paranormal activity yourself.


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No one in Chicago longing for return of coach Lovie Smith
November 18, 2014
It's a pity Sunday's Bears-Buccaneers showdown can't be resolved like a Brandon Marshall Twitter war.
At least, ineffectual Marc Trestman out of place
November 11, 2014
Amid the fury and outrage over the public shaming against the Packers, which was even worse than the public humiliation against the Patriots, Bears coach Marc Trestman has emerged as an obvious villain.
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Chris Williams takes turn as Devin Hester heir
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Many old teammates will be eager to catch up to Devin Hester on Sunday in Atlanta, especially if the Bears are foolish enough to kick or punt to him.
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Bears cornerback Tim Jennings nodded his head when asked to name the toughest red-zone threat he has faced in the NFL.
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If losing Paul George within the first few minutes of the game wasn't bad enough, Fresno State played arguably its worst game of the season in Thursday night's drubbing.
After cutting the Aggies' 14-point halftime lead to 37-31 on a Brandon Sperling 3-pointer eight minutes into the second half, the Bulldogs crumbled. USU would amass a 27-point lead in the next four minutes en route to a rather easy 26-point win.
In spite of not having George, Fresno State's woes were attributed to poor bench production, poor shooting, poor passing and an awful lot of missed opportunities on the offensive end.
"Well, you all watched the game, we weren't very good. We certainly weren't very good offensively," said Fresno State head coach Steve Cleveland. "We actually, when we cut it to six, defensively, for the 30 minutes, we did quite well. The issue was we couldn't score.
"Certainly, Paul going down early has an impact in a game like this."
Early in the first half, with Bulldogs trailing 10-5, while he lay stretched on the court going for a loose ball, Utah State's Tai Wesley dove directly into George's right ankle.
"He dove right on it," George said of Wesley. "Had it x-rayed and checked out. As of right now, it's not broken just sprained. Right after I hurt it, I felt the pain immediately. I just remember the ref saying 'can you get up' but the pain was just too much."
He remains optimistic of playing this Saturday having Friday to get treatment but the likelihood of him playing against Nevada is minimal. Instead, the 'Dogs will turn to Mychal Ladd for instant points as well as Jerry Brown and Ned Golubovic to provide a solid effort on the defensive end.
But it's almost impossible to replace George's ability on both sides of the field.
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Nursing Home Abuse in Arkansas is No Laughing Matter
It's unbelievable the types of things employees in nursing homes do for fun. Often that fun comes in the form of abuse.
Little Rock, AR (Law Firm Newswire) September 28, 2010 – "This case that I heard about is really disturbing, as it involves a so-called prank that really amounted to elder abuse in a nursing home. It happened in a California nursing home and the result of the incident was several staff members were fired and ultimately faced criminal charges. It boils down to 'What on earth were they thinking?' when they were dealing with their elderly patients," said Michael Smith, an Arkansas personal injury lawyer.
What was supposed to be a joke turned out to be insulting and demeaning and potentially dangerous to dementia patients
residing in a nursing home. Four staff members at the facility in question took lubricant and covered all the dementia patients with it, from head to toe. Their intention was to make the patients slippery for the workers on the next shift. Furthermore, it turned out that there two other workers who saw what the others did and said nothing.
"This is nothing short of demented and hardly something to laugh about. Anytime a senior in a nursing home is demeaned or treated like a joke or subjected to incidents like this, their self-esteem is harmed. While they may be dementia patients, they are humans and they deserve respect and decent care. They do not deserve to be taunted and to become the object of someone's insulting games. Whatever happened to respect for older people? Whatever happened to the serious commitment needed to care for those who can no longer care for themselves?" Smith said.
The long and short of this particular California case is that all of the staff that participated in this disgusting incident will face misdemeanor charges of injury to an elder/dependent adult, battery committed on an elder/dependent adult and battery committed on hospital property. "Let this be a lesson in what not to do if you work in a nursing home and that the seniors in that home are entitled to dignity and not denigration," Smith said.
"If you have a family member in a nursing home and you suspect they are being abused or that they are the object of derision and insulting behavior, do not stand by and let this happen. Take action, as the person being abused could well be you in the future. This has to stop and by bringing your case to me, I can assure you we will take action to right the situation," Smith said.
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Time To Cut Ties With Hairston
Almost all of us made a lot of mistakes when we were 20 years old. But almost all of us weren't on a full scholarship to play basketball at the University of North Carolina. Almost all of us weren't the best player on the team, and expected to be a lottery pick in next year's draft.
PJ Hairston does best all of those responsibilities and he let his team, his coach, and himself down. After being stopped earlier this summer in Durham for marijuana possession, while driving a convicted felon's rental car, Hairston got in more trouble, as we was stopped driving 93 in a 65 miles per hour zone.
Again, there's no point in talking about what we did wrong when we were 20. This is about being held responsible, especially when you're the face of a basketball program.
Clearly PJ Hairston doesn't take that responsibility seriously enough, and its time for Roy Williams to cut ties with his star player. That will be a tremendous blow to a program that already has been through some lean years (by Tar Heel standards) and wasn't expected to be a national title contender this season.
But it's the right thing to do. More importantly, hopefully it teaches Hairston some accountability moving forward.