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When QuickBooks accounting software works, it's great. But it's when it doesn't that things become nightmarish. Few pieces of software are so fussy about their network connection. The slightest hiccup can cause QuickBooks to throw in the towel and when that happens bad things can follow — such as the loss of valuable data. The biggest problem with QuickBooks is that when it breaks, sometimes the only resolution is to reinstall it. But even in the reinstalling, things can go wrong. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen takes a look at software you might want to avoid.
The creators of some pieces technology need to be told that their products just don't measure up on some fundamental level. Here's some technology that I consider to be flawed.
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Really? That's some great advice you're handing out there. Step out into the real world of IT and see how far you get with that. As for flaws, "professional writers" who live in glass houses... Many of your little diatribes have glaring typos in them. Perhaps you should put your own house in order 1st.
If you're going to put IE 9 on this list, then you should put both Firefox and Chrome on it and rank them as being even worse, because they are. I've used all three and IE 9 comes out on top every time for speed, user-friendliness and trouble free operation. Chrome is too lackluster and watered-down to be a viable option at all. The latest version of Firefox did nothing but crash CONSTANTLY, even after several reinstalls, once on a brand new OS install, and didn't perform nearly as well as IE 9 does during general use. I use IE 9 all the time, every day, and the number of issued I have with it are minimal. You didn't even bother to list exactly what problems you have with IE 9 that made you think it should be on this list in the first place. Outlook has quirks and there are features that could work a little better than they do, but I've been administering an Exchange server for several years with ~60 Outlook clients and it's rare, VERY rare, that I have issues between clients and the server. Even then, I can solve it 99.9% of the time by telling the user to close and restart Outlook. Oooh, wow,... yeah, that's really hard to do. Bottom line, you provided virtually no real evidence whatsoever that either IE 9 or Outlook belong on this "flawed" list of yours.
I do rarely comment on articles however I am doing so as I do not agree entirely with list of flawed software. Outlook 2012 may be flawed due it it's bloated functionality and slow performance when compared to its predecessor, however the reasons given are not justified in general.
Singles out Windows Explorer 9, but the complaints are general to are revelent to all browsers.
What about Quicken? Slow, out of date, cumbersome, and clearly just kludge on kludge. Th 2011 edition added some sort of graphics layer that made it painfully slow. The best example of why monopolies are bad since.. Microsoft. It you did not like Acronis 11, have you tried Acronis 12? Bad documentation, claims it can do things it really cannot do (like restore a drive to dissimilar hardware.. leaving the user to figure out what drivers are needed and where to find them). How about IE8, for machines that cannot run IE9?
Sorry, but I had to signup just to respond to this. A large part of my business in recent years has been virus removal. And without exception the biggest leak in recent years has been Symantec Endpoint Protection. Every client that used it was getting (or is getting, for those still on it) with at least one virus every month (not to mention performance overhead issues). Steady work for me, but not the way I like it. And EVERY ONE of those that I moved to ESET instead has NOT had a virus since. One client wanted to just renew Symantec because times are tight and it was more to migrate to ESET (labor time and all), but I explained the 'real cost' of having me over every few weeks to fix a downed computer, along with the down-time and aggravation. They changed and have not had another virus. I have seen Symantec touted in several articles as being the effective one but am totally at a loss for why. It has consistently failed the 'real world' test in my experience. I would like to know the how and why as I knew the product and wanted to believe in it. We were running version 11.4 or 11.5, but I had not seen a new version out for years, and I checked every couple months. What am I missing here? Oh, and MSSE?? My only experiences with computers that run that are when they are in the shop with viruses and/or performance issues that have traced back to MSSE. So I have used Avast for a free AV and found it in most cases to be fast and effective. The biggest issue there is the 'auto-sandbox' feature which causes problems with apps for clients so I disable that. Sorry to be so wordy.
Wow, I think I have heard the biggest line ever with this one. I have had MS Sec Essentials allow tons of malware onto systems. I have to use a free product to take them off!!
Is Avast Free antivirus really not good? My home PCs (all WinXPPro SP3) have been running it for some time, and in five years I've only had one problem, as far as I can tell (and such problem was fixed with a MalwareBytes scan). Also use SpywareBlaster and Spybot S&D (passive protection) on all. The main desktop also has Ad-Aware. We run manual scans of MalwareBytes from time to time. My browser is Firefox with NoScript, AdBlock and Better Privacy My wife uses the AOL environment on her laptop, including for emails and browsing, but it seems to have decent internal protection before the data gets to her laptop. I occasionally run the Avast boot-time scan, and I have never found anything. So what's the fuss?
This article is not helpful. Advocating a different OS seems to be the real purpose - one that is not realistic.
This article is flawed because it is complete tripe.
This product has been out since June 2011 and its totally broken. The connector software does not work and as a result you cannot connect any of your clients to the server. I have tried two XP clients, a Vista Ultimate and a Win 7 64-bit client and none of them were able to successfully connect to the server. All worked fine with the previous 2005 v1 version. The connector utility has such a lousy error handling routine that it gets to 95% completed, then it tells the end-user that an unexpected error has occurred and then it undoes the entire setup installation and backs out. What a waste of time. They have open support requests on their own forums going back to June of 2011 on this product. Support on this MS product is virtually non-existent. MS is shirking their responsibility in supporting this SOHO product and dumping it on to clueless OEM's and forum sites. I also read of frequent issues with recoveries crashing and security certificate errors that prevent clients from connecting and using the server system as it was intended. I am starting to see a pattern of failure here with MS products across the board in addition to the usual security short comings. The problems really seemed to escalate when Bill Gates left the day-to-day operations to Steve Balmer. I don't think that Balmer has a clue what he is doing when it comes to managing software products. While Apple and Google clean their clock in the Smart phone markets, Microsoft is a no-show. Meanwhile their core products Windows and Office are slowly rotting on the vines for lack of any real innovation.
Web browsers are terrible Outlook is horrid Flash is junk Take those all out of desktop computing, and there isn't much left. All this complaining is just another symptom of the decline of TR.
... or any desktop touch implementation, really. I agree - bad news. I had an HP IQ770 with that nice big touchscreen. It was incredibly awkward to use. Touchscreens need to be degrees off horizontal, NOT vertical.
You are wrong about Acronis, it is good. If you don't understand the error codes, then they have technical support, just ask. When you have done a backup, you can get the data back without running Acronis. It is straight forward to use.
I can confirm the authors comments about Quickbooks and Acronis True Image software. I have used Quickbooks since 1998 and it is a pain in the neck. "Then why do you still use it you ask?" The simple answer; Intuit has a monopoly on the accounting software market the same way Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop PC market. There are other accounting programs, but they are not support by 99% of banks and other software makers. Besides the persistent glitches and design defects with Quickbooks (that intuit promises to fix with each upgrade but never does), there is the god awful "Sunset" feature, which basically means that QB is designed to shut down the most useful features of the program after three years. So every three years, just about the time you have program running smoothly and you are familiar with it, it stops working and you are forced to upgrade, to a totally new glitch ridden program you are unfamiliar with. Since Intuit engineers QB to be non backwards compatible with earlier versions, you have to let the program automatically update your company file to work with the new version. I just had to go through this nightmare this last week. I have spent the last seven days working 16 hours a day trying to repair damage that was done to my company data file during this update process and my accounts are still thousands of dollars out of balance. I pray that one day some competition enters this market so Intuit will have a reason to produce a product that is actually worth the outrageous amount they charge for their software. As far as Acronis True Image goes; there are much better programs that you can get for free like Easeus Todo Backup Free. I was suckerd into paying for True Image for two versions. I am a certified PC tech with fifteen years of experience building and repairing PCs and have used countless different professional level programs like Adobe Photoshop & Premier, MS Office, etc, I found this program one the most difficult programs I have ever used. But the main thing is that it seldom works the way it is supposed to. On top of that it actually broke my installation of Windows to the point that I had to reformat and re-install.
Anyone out there have problems with things accidently touching the touchpad on their laptop and messing up what they're doing? I can definitely wait for an entire desktop area that does the same thing. Imagine typing on such a desktop if you have "fat fingers" or a loose sweater...
Try to create a document or spreadsheet about Health Savings Accounts, and see how many times you have to press Ctrl+Z after typing the correct acronym "HSA", which Autocorrect will invariably turn into HAS. At the very least, Autocorrect should know that case does matter...
Without Exchange Server, and used only for email and contacts (which are really what an email program are supposed to do), Outlook is also inferior, when compared to Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail. When I worked in an office with Outlook and Exchange Server, I was not the only one who lost entire .PST files to corruption, or to getting too big. In the latter case, Outlook gave no warning, the entire .PST file was just suddenly no longer accessible or recoverable.
I think everyone can agree that Flash is highly flawed.
And your screenshot of Unity is 11.04. Most people didn't think Unity was well-executed until 11.10. Besides, that's your opinion that it's unusable. In reality, it's quite usable for the majority of people, whether you're new or experienced. So that's a subjective opinion, not a real analysis of how well it works.
Made the huge mistake of started using QB Pro for last 12 years. Jumped right in, just like every other stooge who even thinks of starting their own biz, we gotta get QB to run the mission critical accounting side of the biz. At the time the options were sluggish, cumbersome competitors or QB with it slick, sleek GUI. Over the course of that 12 years I have come to detest QB/Intuit more than any other software vendor. Even more than Symantec's pile of crap. QB has 96% of the Small Business Accounting Software market. Did someone from the back of the room mumble MONOPOLY. Well I heard that, and they're right. Now I'm O.K. with someone having a monopoly if they leave the slaving slobs alone and just let them be part of the monopoly. But QB/Intuit is different. Every three years they clobber you over the head with the the BS line that all the new wonderful features they've been working on need to be installed in a new upgraded program. What are some of those new features, you ask? Last upgrade, one of the more convincing marketing points I now had the ability to use was foreign currency symbols in my transactions. WTF, my customer base is withing 5 blocks of my biz. Why do I need to purchase a new $160 upgrade for that feature? The accounting kernel has been basically the same since it's inception, some of the bugs were worked out with subsequent patches and upgrades. (So my major rub is, why do I need to upgrade if the basic kernel is still the same. I'll answer that for you, shareholder value.) But around 2002 QB/Intuit started requiring a repurchased program to become compliant with their newly introduced feature sets. Now, if you use one of their premium features like credit card processing, you don't have a choice. They send you a notice that you have x number of days to purchase the new upgrade or your premium features are cancelled. Meaning you biz doesn't operate smoothly. Sure, Intuit bull sheets you around by saying the program will always work, but the premium features won't be supported. There by strong arming / extracting the $160 out of you. Every time I get these notices I feel like Guido, one of the Godfather's thugs, has darkened my door. Hey, Skye, the Gadfawder asks me to stop by and remind you that yous gotta pay more respect to the Gadfawder. Even Microsoft isn't as brazenly aggressive as QB/Intuit, they at least let you keep XP running for years past their product upgrades. Doesn't happen with QB, it's either pay or no play. And that's why I absolutely hate QB/Intuit. Once you are lured into the caressing cradle of their corporate arms you can never leave. They know that, once they have them locked into the sophisticated features of their product, they can abuse their customer base the way they do and not give a sheet about them.
In many Latin countries, Outlook is often refereed as "Out Loko", where Loko means mad, crazy: you have to be crazy to use this flawed thing!
I am with others your problems with Outlook are not Outlook's fault, you maybe should have listed Exchange as the flawed product since it is so finicky, but even that I don't agree with completely. It would have been good if you could have listed what it is about IE 9 that makes it flawed, all of your discussion was about how important a browser is, with nothing about IE 9. I use IE 9 on one of my machines because it came on the machine from HP, a replacement for a warranty machine that died. While I like IE 8 better I don't see any real glaring problems with IE 9. If you think Symantec Endpoint Protection is that much better than consumer grade anti-virus then you obviously haven't used it very much. We have it here and it lets just as much junk through as anything else does. If you are telling your users that consumer anti-virus products do more harm than good then IMHO you are the one doing more harm than good.
iTunes - hates you even more than you hate it. Perhaps it was a great platform for Apple Store but poking graphics, ringtones, video, contacts and calendar appointments through the app just doesn't work. USB speakers for the laptop - require reboot before it will reroute to the onboard speakers. Nokia Software Updater - wipes all content on the phone as it updates. Double video card solutions - the thought of doubling your graphics card cost with identical units seems wasteful financially and logistically. Why not improve the cards themselves? Molex connectors - plug them in to the DVD drive or HDD and those puppies are there to stay. DDR RAM configurations - one notch, two notches, all difficult to seat and rarely compatible. Cat5 network cable plugs - without the collar, they easily lose the click tab at the top. Power cable plugs - iPhone different to Samsung Galaxy TAB different to Samsung FIT different to Blackberry different to RAZR. Convergence fail. Internal wireless antennas - no opportunity to extend with external hardware. Windows default configurations - always the least useful, least attractive, least productive configuration. Operating system default feature set - the basic apps are REALLY basic Virtual folders in Win7 - when is a file not a file? App Name diversity in Linux - every feature has a name, every name is crypticly not interested in describing itself in the interests of standing out for its author. Captcha security - making it difficult for robots to get through and everyone else for that matter. Microsoft Dictionary - great for correcting everything in English back to US English on a word by word basis in MS Word. Still wont correct or even flag "ize" to "ise" in Australian or UK regional settings.
i actually just have to disagree with that opening statement... neither quickbooks nor myob are great, they are glorified spreadsheet programs that offer very little more than a spreadsheet can do simply... they arent all that user friendly, the help files suck, and there is no business information in the help files at all really... they fall way short of what i expect from a product i am going to pay that much money for. especially considering that this is one of the oldest uses anyone has ever put a computer to, and so they have had plenty of years to evolve it way further than this... rather underwhelmed by both distros.
Outlook does have problems, but then so does Thunderbird. We've been running a global Exchange network for years with very few problems, but then the trouble with a lot of journeyman "IT Experts" is that they think knowing their way around the front end of a product in some way makes them experts. There's a reason good Exchange guys are expensive and that's because Exchange is complicated. If you think Exchange is flawed because the front end doesn't do a good job of guiding an idiot through the configuration options then you display a frightening misunderstanding of what it is that keeps our infrastructure running. Could I suggest a couple of new articles for you, perhaps how the complete lack of a TCL scripting interface is killing network security? How about one on how NoSQL is killing WEB 2.0 because it's "a bit complicated"? You might be better served (if you want to attack Microsoft) doing an article on why the Word 2010 drawing engine is a load of bollocks.
I have used QB since it came out, (I have Dos v1 on a VM for fun) and would agree that it's problematic. The problems really got worse when Intuit started using .NET as the underlying framework, IMHO. QB can hardly work on it's own merits when it has to rely on a buggy platform for it's foundation. The SQL switch was a plus.
I suggest adding Magellan GPS map updates to the list. They sell you the 'latest and greatest' and after you pay for it, you learn a) your street (6 yrs old) isn't on their map, and b) there's no recourse but to submit a 'suggested update' and then buy their next map to see if they actually added it - or toss it and use another company's GPS system.
I just thought I'd mention RealPlayer as it has a history of being adware and spyware-ridden. And the last time I dealt with RealPlayer, I remember finding parts of the program which hadn't been removed after uninstalling. I also have to mention Windows Millenium Edition. Most seasoned Windows users have heard or experienced the problems surrounding WinME... slow startup/shutdown and other related problems, poor driver support, frequent freezing and crashing and an abysmal management of memory and little difference (to the end user) when compared to the more stable Windows 98.
I rarely make a comment on articles like this, but your list is flawed and I just had to point it out. This is meant to be a list of 'flawed products that are really bad'. You have included Outlook on this list and do so on the basis that, if the Exchange Server with which it communicates is set up by a bunch of idiots, Outlook will not work well. That's a bit like saying if you put diesel fuel into your Ferrari, the Ferrari will not work, and therefore the Ferrari is flawed. I have no problem with you adding Outlook to the list if you can make a good argument for it, but that is not a good argument.
We used QB Pro (Canadian) for some years, and upgraded as and when. However, before installing 2008, we tested it, and found that multi-currency had been dropped. That would have been a disaster, 2009 was the same. Kept putting off upgrade until 2012, now we find multi currency is available, but custom forms (invoices, statements, deliver notes etc) can not be imported. Upgrading for us was not just a simple matter.
+1 on Unity -- the non-configurable disappointing desktop for retards. To this list I would add: 1. iTunes -- the most non-Apple-like experience in the Apple universe. 2. Windows 7 -- nobody expects much from Microsoft, and picking on it feels a bit like making fun of the slow kid in class, but I thought Windows 7 would be in some way better than its predecessors. Instead crap just got moved around and the UI was made even more tasteless and ugly. 3. Java -- the least portable language I know of. Why can't it just die and leave us alone? No, I don't want to allow the Oracle/Sun Java Updater to install a new version. Quit bugging me. It's even more annoying than Flash with the added insult of not actually being useful for anything. Java has failed in every revolution in software it claimed it would make. 4. All antivirus software -- cure is worse than the disease.
These articles are only to encourage the fan boys of different flavors to vent, with no facts.
I don't normally use a touch-sensitive device. I loaded W8 Dev on a Dell Latitude XT we had lying around, and found that I frequently caused unwanted actions when I inadvertently rested the base of my hand on the display while typing. I don't know if this was due to the individual model, my lack of experience with such devices, or (most likely) some combination of those and other factors. I didn't stick with it long enough to get comfortable enough with it or to learn how to avoid it, so I can't say if it belongs on a list of flawed products.
you can tell Autocorrect to ignore words that are in uppercase, or that contain numbers. You can also tell it to quit changing certain strings, such as 'HSA' to 'HAS'. You can also add 'HSA' as a legitimate word. If you're referring to Outlook, the settings for all of these are in Word; Outlook uses Word as it's editor.
When I left the corporate world and didn't have the know-how to run Exchange at home for my family, I tried OWA. (It should have been called OUCH.) I tried running without Exchange.....I'd long before discovered the recovery tools for .pst on individual installs --- if used as standard monthly maintenance vs whoops I've lost everything --prevented lost .pst files. For internet portability we were using Earthlink. Whoops, ouch, nothing the matter with Earthlink as a POP server except every work station wound up with a different set of data. Switched to Google to get IMAP but now we each had multiple copies of contact lists and e-mails and ---WHAT???? I thought Microsoft must be kidding me that I had to go to an outside provider to remove duplicates. Downloaded MapiLab duplicate remover and it zipped through my contacts and tasks....but WHAT???? I had to buy another piece of software from Mapilabs to remove duplicate e-mails. No I didn't. I transferred all Outlook e-mails to Google, searched for duplicates, transferred them back to Outlook. What a waste of time but necessary. Why wouldn't Outlook have it's own duplicates removal features? Why wouldn't it be very clear to users that some regular maintenance of .pst files is a good idea and that Microsoft had put that maintenance tool on your work station?
the problem with .PST files getting corrupted when over 2Gb was fixed in the 2007 version.
Journals, ledger paper and similar items for your double-entry bookkeeping. However, 13 column analysis pads are only $14.99 for 50 pages. You can do this without the necessity of having a computer with updates (No more complaints about Microsoft), internet access fees (No more complaints about slow download speed), etc.
What program has better help files? In answering over 5,000 questions on the QB forums, most answers usually refer the writer to the Help files with one or two words to search by. Yes, I will agree that there may be too much for small minds to absorb. Accounting is not usually associated with four word answers.
Paid $50 to update my maps and the install turned my GPS into a brick. Two days and four hours of tech support later it was finally in working condition with only a "few" Chinese characters in my locations list. To top it all off, half the streets around my house still aren't available. Google search showed this has been an issues for YEARS. X-(
If we went digging up every inferior product since the dawn of the integrated circuit, Jack would be writing for days. Besides, bad as Me was, it was head and shoulders above Microsoft Bob.
By that logic, many e-mail clients are flawed merely because they can be connected to Exchange: OWA and other web-based clients, Entourage for Macs or Apple Mail, BES and smart phone e-mail clients, etc. Don't blame the front-end for (perceived) back-end problems. The body shop isn't responsible for (possible) problems under the hood.
then it's you who is mentally handicapped, not the interface. Apparently you haven't even tried. It is possible. I've done it.
noahspurrier, #2. Windows 7 is flawed? Please be specific. #4. "...worse than the disease...." You don't restore infected systems on a daily basis do you? The best thing that Microsoft did in this arena, was to make Microsoft Security Essentials an update to any computer without an Antivirus program installed.
For someone with over 5,000 posts on QB are you sure you want to enter into the FANBOY fray?
In some part yes....but not completely. The addition of the .pst and the .ost tools to the workstation was a huge plus but most users don't know they have it.
The Help files suck. Most of the time now they don't even attempt to answer the questions. Go look at the botnet article in Tech Republic. Help should have been written by humans but we suspect what little help is there was written by a bot. Intuit relies on free assistance from a community it doesn't even seem to bother to monitor. I've actually seen the same plea for help sit out there for over 24 months with multiple users waiting for any intelligent response. Suggest our major responder needs to don his super hero cape and work 24/7 assisting stranded users....you know, the market Intuit deliberately focuses on ....the user who needs an easy to use, highly intuitive product with great help.
What? Debits left; credits right. You mean there's more?
I moved to a street that had been there for 10 years (oldest home on street 9 years old). It was in a difficult (for me -- a newcomer to town --) to find location. I laughed the day it gave me strange directions which I assume were just another route home until the next turn said: "From here go cross-country 3 miles" and I was looking at a Texas farm with barbed wire fence alongside the road. I hate Magellen GPS and love Garmin so bought a replacement unit (1450) with free lifetime map updates. The unit broke so often that Amazon won't replaced them anymore -- just sends you your money back. Wow!.
You're both looking at this from the wrong perspective...a technical one. The user doesn't see Exchange. All they see is Outlook and when it doesn't work, "Outlook" is broken. I deal with intermittent connections with Exchange all day long. Outlook is constantly whining about it. What it needs to do is shut up and deal with it. Quit nagging at me. As a user, I sure as heck can't fix it.
I'd agree with you if one of my users had written the article, and my reply to him or her would be different. The author is an IT professional and knows the difference between an back-end e-mail server and an e-mail client, and knows better than to refer to them as if they were interchangeable.


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4/4/14 Scarlett Preggers?
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
SCARLETT JOHANSSON is pregnant. Probably, anyway. There's been no official word from Scarlett's camp, but EVERYBODY is reporting it as fact, so I guess we're just gonna go with it. The father is French journalist Romain Dauriac. They got engaged last September. There's no word on Scarlett's due date, but TMZ claims she's FIVE MONTHS along, meaning she's more than halfway to the finish line. She's 29.
Maybe hookers, models and porn stars aren't all they're cracked up to be . . . because JUSTIN BIEBER is still hung up on SELENA GOMEZ. Yesterday, he posted two pictures of Selena all dressed up and heading to a post-Oscar party. And he captioned them, quote, "Most elegant princess in the world."
Somehow, this doesn't seem the least bit surprising. That film of an alleged three-way between JACK and BOBBY KENNEDY and MARILYN MONROE won't be going public after all. It was supposedly going to be auctioned off to settle a debt owed by its owner. But the word now is that the owner was able to pay that debt, so he's getting the movie back.
3/3/14 George Lopez Arrested
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Monday, March 3, 2014
ROBIN THICKE is taking his case to the people. He told his audience in Fairfax, Virginia the other night, quote, "For y'all that don't know, me and my wife separated . . . but I'm trying to get my girl back . . . She's a good woman." Then he sang "Lost Without U" for her.
A film that supposedly shows a THREE-WAY between JOHN F. KENNEDY, BOBBY KENNEDY and MARILYN MONROE is hitting the auction block tomorrow. The film is more than 50 years old, and a collector acquired it in the 1980s. But he sat on out of respect for Marilyn's ex-husband JOE DIMAGGIO, who was a friend of his. DiMaggio died in 1999. The tape was seized from the guy because of a $200,000 court judgment against him. The only way he can stop the auction is by coming up with the 200-grand. We should note that at this point, nobody seems to have concrete proof that this film is legit.
GEORGE LOPEZ got hammered at a Canadian casino last Thursday, and was arrested for public intoxication after passing out on the floor. No charges were filed against him. George later joked, quote, "I just did in Windsor, what JUSTIN BIEBER does in America."
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN'S autopsy report is out, and as expected, he died of an accidental drug overdose. In addition to heroin, he had cocaine in his system . . . along with anti-anxiety medication and an upper like Adderall.
2/28/14 Ashton & Mila Engaged
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Friday, February 28, 2014
JADA PINKETT saw a recent picture of herself in which she could tell she'd gained 8 to 10 pounds, and she LIKED IT. She said, quote, "I like being a lil . . . fuller. Let's just hope it will fit in The Oscars dress. Here's to loving our bodies by our own standards."
ROBIN THICKE isn't keeping his feelings inside. The paparazzi asked him if he and PAULA PATTON are going to work things out, and he said he's, quote, "just trying to get her back, man." The cameraman asked Robin if his "VMA" performance with MILEY CYRUS caused the split. At first he didn't answer, but when asked a second time he said, "No." Meanwhile . . . one website says that Paula's "2 Guns" co-star DENZEL WASHINGTON has been her shoulder to cry on . . . and maybe even MORE than that.
DAVID ARQUETTE'S girlfriend Christina McLarty might be slightly more on-the-ball than he is. Because she's already put her foot down concerning the name of the baby boy they're expecting this spring.
David says he wanted to name the kid ASTRO, because he thought "Astro Arquette" was, quote, "an amazing name." But Christina wouldn't have it. David already has a daughter with ex-wife COURTENEY COX. The poor girl is named COCO.
KATY PERRY hasn't commented on her rumored split from JOHN MAYER . . . but she has announced that she helped deliver her sister's baby. She Tweeted, quote, "Finally you can add 'helps delivers babies in living rooms' to my resume! It's been a miracle of a day . . . Auntie Katy."
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are getting married! Mila was spotted shopping in L.A. Thursday wearing a diamond sparkler, and a source confirms to E! Online that the two have indeed gotten engaged.
2/27/14 Clooney's New Fling
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
GEORGE CLOONEY may be upping his standards in his old age. He's reportedly dating a 36-year-old British attorney named Amal Almuddin. She's currently representing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, she speaks three languages, she was educated at Oxford and NYU.
KATY PERRY and JOHN MAYER are OFF again. "Sources" say Katy did the dumping, but there's no word why. It wasn't even two weeks ago that the Internet had them ENGAGED, after Katy was spotted with a ring on THAT finger over Valentine's weekend. Katy and John have been together for the most part since the summer of 2012 . . . although they broke up and got back together twice.
Just about everybody is taking shots at JUSTIN BIEBER these days, and now he's even taking licks from JUDGE JUDY. In a new interview, she called Justin a, quote, "marginal singer" . . . and added that he's, quote, "doing a very good job of making a fool out of himself."
TMZ has released video of JUSTIN BIEBER doing a sobriety test at the jail after his DUI arrest last month. He stumbles a little while trying to walk a straight line, but he doesn't appear to be BLITZED OUT OF HIS MIND. Meanwhile, Justin didn't have a problem doing push-ups. In a video from his jail cell, he drops to the ground and does about 23 push-ups in 28 seconds. And in other news, Atlanta cops discovered marijuana in an Escalade that was seized from Justin's house there on Tuesday. It was less than an ounce, but they also found two "large glass smoking pipes with weed residue." Regardless, that isn't enough for the police to do much about it. The cops took the vehicle after they arrested the driver and a bodyguard for allegedly stealing a paparazzi photographer's camera.
2/26/14 Kim & Kanye's Wedding = Low Key
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If you're expecting KIM KARDASHIAN'S next wedding to be a massive blowout, think again. On RYAN SEACREST'S radio show yesterday, Kim said she and KANYE WEST are going totally low-key. She called the upcoming event, quote, "super, super-small [and] intimate" . . . adding, quote, "We want it to be smaller and more intimate than people are imagining and thinking." She added that it's happening in Paris sometimes this year . . . but she wouldn't say exactly where or when.
A witness claims that JUSTIN BIEBER was talking to the pandas at Zoo Atlanta on Monday. She says he was saying things like, quote, "I know you've listened to my music" and "Wake up, panda I know you wanna take a picture with me." He was also being obnoxious and kicking the glass.
Former New England Patriots tight end AARON HERNANDEZ supposedly ASSAULTED another inmate at the Massachusetts jail where he's being held. According to TMZ, Hernandez is USUALLY in solitary confinement due to his "celebrity status" . . . but somehow he was able to come into contact with another inmate while walking down a hallway, and he beat the crap out of the guy. It wasn't just a random freak out. So-called "sources" say they had beef . . . and that the guy had been, quote, "harassing Hernandez non-stop."
Lindsay Lohan has settled a lawsuit -- and it didn't cost her a dime. A nanny sued LiLo in 2012, claiming that while she was pushing a baby stroller in West Hollywood, LiLo hit her with a Maserati. Nubia Del Carmen Preza said she was injured in the accident, but that baby was not harmed. Now the nanny has dropped the lawsuit, and TMZ says she walked away without any cash.

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Moreno's Nine Saves Along with Brindley and Salihovic's Converted PK's in Shootout Send Men's Soccer to Conf. Tournament Semis
November 2, 2010
Story Courtesy of Belmont Abbey Sports Information
BELMONT, NC - The fourth-seeded Belmont Abbey men's soccer team and the fifth-seeded Pfeiffer Falcons battled to a 0-0 draw in the quarterfinal round of the 2010 Conference Carolinas Tournament, but the Falcons will advance by virtue of a 2-1 win in penalty kicks. The match goes down as a draw, as Pfeiffer moves to 4-7-5 and will advance to face the winner of the Lees-McRae/Queens match, while the Abbey ends its season with a record of 10-6-3.
The Abbey won the statistical battle, outshooting Pfeiffer 21-13 and holding a 10-3 edge in corner kicks, but Falcons goaltender Alex Moreno stopped nine Abbey shots, including a penalty kick in the second half. He would later make three more saves in the shootout.
Belmont Abbey had its best chance to score in the 81st minute as Timmi Borges DaSilva was pulled down in the penalty area, but Moreno blocked the Aaron Weldon penalty kick.
The Abbey had one final chance to end the match in the second overtime, as Stuart Kirk let fly a shot with two seconds left, from 25 yards out, that Moreno tipped over the bar.
In the shootout, the Abbey drew first and the shot by Jose Penaloza was saved. Pfeiffer's Nick Brindley found the back of the net on his attempt to give the Falcons a 1-0 lead. After a miss by Matt Dolan, Moreno and Abbey goalkeeper Louis Liberatore made combined to save the next three shots.
Gianluca D'Agata beat Moreno to knot the shootout at one, and Fahret Salihovic gave the Falcons a 2-1 lead. Needing a succesful kick to keep the shootout going, Moreno blocked Stuart Kirk to give the Falcons a 2-1 shootout win.


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Class of 2018 Student
Welcome Tailgate
Saturday, 9/13 (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.)
@ Delaware Stadium
- Enjoy a pregame tailgate with your peers filled with music, food, inflatables, games, prizes, and much more exclusively for Class of 2018 students before the Blue Hens Football game vs. Colgate.
- In addition to the normal pregame gameday shuttle buses, there will be specially marked "Class of 2018" shuttle buses that pickup beginning at 3 p.m. (stops include Perkins; Laird; Rodney/Dickinson) to transport you from those locations directly to the tailgate, located in the Hospitality Village between Rte. 896 and the Blue Hens Fan Zone.
- Admission is subject to availability on a first-come, first-served basis. Event t-shirts will be available at the student welcome tailgate tent check-in on a limited basis and priority will be given to those who registered as of Saturday, 9/6.
Thank you Sponsors!
Funding for this project has been provided by the Department for Health and Social Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health-State of Delaware through a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Class of 2018 Family & Friends
Game Package
Families and friends of Blue Hens freshmen are invited to join us for a fun-filled day as Delaware celebrates the newest members of the Blue Hens Family, the Class of 2018. Enjoy pregame hospitality and exciting college football action all for just $25 a person!
Saturday, 9/13 (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.)
@ Delaware Stadium
- Enjoy a pregame hospitality with fellow families and friends of the Class of 2018 before the Blue Hens Football game vs. Colgate in the hospitality village.
- One (1) game package includes a sideline reserved game ticket AND a pregame hospitality ticket.
- To have your UD student sit with you during the game and/or attend the Class of 2018 Family & Friends Social in addition to their exclusive Student Welcome Tailgate, please be sure to include them when purchasing a gameday package.
- Event registration is closed.
*Online service fees apply. Tickets are subject to availability on a first-come, first-served basis.
Hotels & Offers
400 David Hollowell Drive, Newark, DE 19716
(GPS use 200 New London Road, Newark, DE 19711)
Phone: 302-737-0900
10% off your entire logo purchase at the Barnes & Noble UD Bookstore on Friday (9/12) Saturday (9/13) & Sunday (9/14). Not valid at Delaware Stadium location on gameday.
Location & Hours:
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(302) 831-2637
Friday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday 10-8 p.m.; Sunday Noon-6 p.m.
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Cat Fibrosarcoma
Cat Fibrosarcoma
This rare type of bone cancer falls into the category of non – osteosarcomas. It is more difficult to diagnose than osteosarcoma and much less common. They originate from the fibrous tissues of any bone in the body. Diagnosis can be difficult. The cause is unknown and it is very rare when compared to the occurrence of fibrosarcoma.
Fibrosarcoma is extremely rare in cats. Fibrosarcoma affects the bones of the pelvis, skull and spine, but can also affect the legs of the cat.
Signs and Symptoms
• Pain or lameness in the legs
• Swelling of bones
• Bleeding from the cats mouth or Cat Bad Breath
• Any signs of difficulty eating or swallowing
• Your vet will perform a complete medical examination which will include the following:
1. X-rays of any areas that are affected
2. X-rays of the lungs
3. Blood count and chemistry profile
4. Urinalysis will be done
5. The tumor will be biopsied
Treatment Options
• Removal of the tumor which usually includes resection of the bone that is affected
• Cat Radiation Therapy is sometimes used in certain cases to help with pain relief. This is not always successful.
• Pain medication
• Cat Cancer Chemotherapy will be used in the rare instance of metastasis
Home Care
Any cat with Cat Cancer will need pain medications. Your vet will prescribe something to help your cat with pain and try to assure some comfort. This may be done during the period of diagnosing as well as after the surgery is performed on your cat.
Your cat's activity should be greatly limited. This will prevent exacerbation of the pain as well as preventing a fracture that is a result of the cancer. The bone will be weakened by the cancer and care needs to be taken. There should be no play during this time. If you have stairs in your home, you should assist your cat when they have a need to go up or down. By providing a safe comfortable place for your cat to relax, there will be less risk of their overacting and further injuring themselves.
You should report any new bump, problems with your cat's mouth or lameness to your veterinarian immediately. Most lameness is associated with injury to tendons or ligaments or arthritis. This is especially true in older cats. Mouth issues may be due to gum disease, tooth decay, Cat Oral Osteosarcoma or Cat Oral Fibrosarcoma. It can also be due to another type of cancer. If your loving cat is not relieved with rest, treatment of their teeth and medications administered for pain, X-rays should be taken to rule-out the potential bone cancer.
There is also the possibility that the fibrosarcoma cannot be removed with surgery. The prognosis can still be positive. This type of cancer rarely metastasizes to other parts of the cat's body.
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Minnie McCool Duke
Minnie McCool Duke, age 91, passed away, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at North Mississippi Medical Center, West Point. Minnie Lou Duke was born May 12, 1919, in Gordo, Ala., to the late Lottie Jones McCool and William McCool. Mrs. Duke was a Seamstress for Knickerbocker Manufacturing Company for 12 years. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Mrs. Duke came to West Point, in 1925 from Lowndes County. She was married to Herman Perry Duke, Sr. on Dec. 9, 1939, in Columbus. He preceded her in death Feb. 11, 1981.
Funeral services were Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, at 1 p.m. from Calvert Funeral Home Chapel with the Dr. James Towery officiating. Burial followed in Greenwood Cemetery, West Point. Calvert Funeral Home of West Point was in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include one daughter, Juanita D. O'Brian of West Point; two sons: Herman Duke of Grenada, and Bill Duke of West Point; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren. One brother and three sisters preceded her in death.
Pallbearers were Bubba Vest, David Winfield, Herb Ingram, Bill Reid, Michael Bradley, Rick Stafford and R. P. Farr.
Honorary Pallbearers were Dr. and Mrs. John Cox, Staff at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point, Staff of Dugan Memorial Home.
Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, P. O. Box 8217, Jackson, MS, 39284-8217 or to American Heart Association, P. O. Box 16808, Jackson, MS, 39236.
Visitation was Saturday, 12 noon until service time at Calvert Funeral Home.
Friends may leave a Memory Message at www.calvertfuneralhome.com [1]
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Toddla T Sound are back with their new carnival-inspired singe Flash with vocals from long-time Toddla T collaborator, Serocee - out now!
Listen back to sessions from our NTS 12-hour takeover last week - keep your eyes peeled for more sets to come!
We're excited to announce that this Thursday (26 September) Ninja Tune and Big Dada will be taking over the NTS Radio airwaves from midday right through until midnight with a collection of shows celebrating the history and future of our label!
For the first time ever, Toddla T has curated the festival's opening Friday night (19th July) where the 'steel city' meets the 'motor city'.


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Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas, and is a place that is rich in culture and diversity. Houston's huge landscape provides its locals and tourists with many outdoor attractions, plenty of entertainment options. Home of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, there are plenty of choices for hotels in Houston. Travelers can reserve rooms at an upscale boutique hotel, bed and breakfast inns, budget inns, or vacation rentals.
Houston Quick Picks and Tips
Houston hotel guests will have the opportunity to attend a number of events held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. This facility is located next to many downtown Houston hotels, attractions, restaurants, and shopping boutiques. The center regularly host exhibits and trade shows.
The choice of restaurants in Houston is spectacular. Houston's cuisine is a reflection of the diverse culture and ethnic makeup of the city. Houston hotel residents should head over to Crawfish & Needles, known for its tasty crawfish bowls, on Bellaire Boulevard. Tourists can also find good Italian food at Da Marco's on Westheimer Road.
Major Point of Interest
Individuals staying at hotels in Houston can explore the unique attributions of the Space Center Houston. Visitors will get the chance to explore exhibits that examine NASA's history and space flight organization.
Visit the Galleria Mall in Houston located on Westheimer Road. This is the largest mall in the state and houses over 350 different shops and boutiques.
Local sports teams in Houston are the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, and the Rockets at Toyota Park. Both stadiums are located in downtown Houston.


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The Third Annual Member Favorite List Features Most Beloved Resorts in Categories Including Spa Indulgence, Romantic Retreat, Island Paradise, and Golf Getaway
MALDIVES – April 26, 2013 – Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) and its award-winning Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG®) program today announced the winners of the 2013 Member Favorite Resorts list. Selected by members worldwide, SPG's third annual survey identifies their favorite Starwood worldwide resorts across nine categories. Seventy one unique destinations from the Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa in Dubai to the W Singapore-Sentosa Cove made the list with 11 resorts appearing on the list for the first time ever.
W Retreat & Spa – Maldives earned the most votes and appeared in five categories, the most of any resort which included Most Romantic Retreat, Best Island Paradise, Best Exotic Escape, Best Small Wonder and Best Spa Indulgence. Sheraton Maldives made it in three categories which included Most Romantic Retreat, Best Island Paradise and Best Beach Resort.
"The SPG Member Favorites List represents some of the most luxurious destinations worldwide. We are delighted that Sheraton Maldives and W Maldives have been selected by our members and are deeply honored to be recognized with this distinction in so many categories." said Peter Foreman, Director of Sales & Marketing for Sheraton Maldives and W Maldives.
The annual list recognizes the most loved luxury resorts chosen from more than 200 properties as part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts' portfolio of more than 1,100 destinations globally including The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, W Hotels, Westin, Le Méridien and Sheraton resorts. Members vote on the resorts they adore most from the Maldives, to Costa Rica, Hawaii, Phuket and beyond each year to curate a list of must-see destinations of - Best Beach Resorts, Most Romantic Retreats, Best Exotic Escapes, Best Family Experiences, Best Golf Getaways, Best Island Paradise, Best Spa Indulgences, Best Winter Adventures and Best Small Wonders.
"The list allows our well-traveled members to identify their most beloved resorts around the world," said Chris Holdren, Senior Vice President of Starwood Preferred Guest. "Being recognized by our members as a part of this distinguished list is a true honor for our resorts."
Among the highlights for the 2013 SPG Member Favorites list:
• In its very first year, The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Miami Beach has enamored our members so much it found its place in two categories – Best Beach Resorts and Best Spa Indulgences.
The W Retreat & Spa – Maldives earned the most votes and an appearance in five categories, the most of any resort.
• The W Retreat Koh Samui, Thailand and The St. Regis Princeville Resort, Kauai followed with placement in four unique categories.
The full 2013 SPG Member Favorite Resorts list can be found at SPG.com/memberfavorites and for more information about Sheraton Maldives and W Maldives, visit starwoodhotels.com/maldives.


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Posted July 9, 2010
|Dr. Daniel Desrochers named Resident of the Year
|Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Desrochers who was named "Resident of the Year." Dr. Desrochers was named Resident of the Quarter in April 2010. He was nominated by the NICU nursing staff.
Dr. Daniel Desrochers is a third year Med-Peds resident. Dr. Desrochers was nominated for Resident of the Quarter by the Neonatal ICU nurses for always being patient with patients, families, and nursing staff who noted that he constantly keeps the best interest of his patients foremost in his actions, and is always willing to pitch in and help when things are really hectic.
All Children's Hospital thanks Dr. Desrochers for his dedicated service to the patients and families in our care!


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Professor Kris Gutiérrez has a rule about her after-school program at Alicia Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette: "If you're not having fun, something is going wrong."
CU Law School student Jocelyn Jenks so enjoyed going out to teach state high school students about the Constitution in 2012 that she came back this year to participate as an alumna.
"The experience was wonderful, and I jumped at the opportunity to work with high school students again this year," said Jenks (Law '12).
High school senior Marlene Talamantes clearly has a way with words. She spent a day at the University of Colorado Law School and spoke her way right into a trip to Washington, D.C., and a tour of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before the competition, Talamantes was not sure she would go to college. Now she sees college as a definite part of her future and plans to pursue a career in teaching or law.
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's highly praised school anti-violence tour continues in spring 2013 with a new program based on "The Tempest" that focuses on themes of vengeance and forgiveness.
Created in conjunction with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder, CSF's "Twelfth Night" anti-bullying tour has now been seen by more than 22,000 Colorado schoolchildren. That inaugural program examined the problem of bullying through the character Malvolio.
The work of a talented group of University of Colorado Boulder students and staff has made it to the big screen. The really big screen -- in fact, a more than 20-meter dome.
When the space shuttle Atlantis lifted off for its journey to the International Space Station in 2009, it had on board two butterfly habitats, which were part of an experiment conducted by CU-Boulder and K–12 students across the country.
Associate Professor William McGinley is no stranger to innovative outreach projects that significantly impact communities, K-12 students and teachers. His latest project, Tell Your Story: Composing a Life, integrates storytelling, creative writing and visual arts in teaching a diverse group of middle school students to memorialize important life experiences.
"The telling of our own life story is the one creative work of art in which we are all engaged," McGinley said. "This program provides young people with art-based opportunities to imagine and tell their stories."
Colorado Shakespeare Festival actors performed a 17th century play in more than 25 schools from Fort Collins to Trinidad last fall to set the stage for modern-day discussions about school bullying.
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The Minoura V130M rear wheel trainer with remote is a magneto trainer that uses resistance. The level of resistance can be adjusted by a quick release remote shifter. A single Neodymium magnet powers the resistance. This trainer generates 433 watts at 40km/h and also allows high speed, low resistance training. A lightweight steel frame allows hub sizes between 125-145mm. Standard thread type hub clamp. The tire size range is 24" - 700c x 45c.
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Our letter-perfect bedding is rendered in soft, cotton jersey, with classically cool charcoal letters on an ivory ground.
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Lost a bright yellow MVP Tangent on 9. Clipped a tree to the right from the tee, which shot it off to the left around where the fence is broken down and you can go behind it. Searched in front and behind it. Can't believe we couldn't find a bright yellow disc there.
Lost a dark blue MVP Volt on 16 just before the final opening to the basket, to the right of the fairway somewhere around the pine tree grouping. Could be up in one. It was wet, I slipped when throwing, and threw a nasty anhyzer that faded out of site.
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BLOG: Candy Contemplations - By Coach "Dub"
January 20, 2012
Well dang, no Snickers bar for me. Going into Wednesday's matchup versus Barton, I had made a deal with senior guard Shelley Reese that I would eat a Snickers candy bar after a victory.
See, I have been making an effort to go back to my healthier eating habits that tended to escape me after using my office as a storage area for our leftover concession stand candy and snacks. I have never been a big snacker or candy fan, but if I am staring at a box of assorted delectable Nestle goodies for hours upon hours a day, something's got to give.
So after devouring way too many treats (as the girls were kind enough to keep a ongoing tally for me), I had made a vow to hold strong and stop the madness.
After doing quite well and being proud of myself, Shelley has continued to attempt to sabotage my efforts for some reason. She enjoys seeing the anguish on my face as she parades around with food, asking time and time again if I would like some.
I'm not sure how long she has been toting around the fateful Snickers Almond Bar that would set me off on the wrong track once again, but I really wanted it to disappear. In an effort to make that happen, I had agreed to finally eat it following the Barton game, but only with a victory.
After an excruciatingly sluggish first half, we found ourselves miraculously only down nine. Within the first few minutes after the break, we were able to tie it up and eventually gain the lead, but couldn't pull it off. It is always tough losing the games you are completely capable of winning.
So, the Snickers continues to lurk in Shelley's book bag. The things I am willing to "sacrifice" for a win…


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NEW ORLEANS -- For the last two years, a state licensing board has been cracking down on contractors who tried to take advantage of lucrative Katrina rebuilding grants with shell companies and shoddy work.
In June 2011, they came out with their biggest fines ever, more than $350,000 against Kris Clark for operating without a license on 17 houses in multiple parishes and funneling payments through several companies.
They also banned Clark from working as a contractor in the state, even refusing a settlement offer from Clark's father because they didn't want the younger Clark working for his dad in the same capacity. The board members called his conduct 'egregious.'
So, why did we find Clark in the manager's trailer at an active construction site? And why is he telling disgruntled homeowners and other contractors that he represents a company with more than a dozen unfinished, taxpayer-financed projects?
Seven months after Clark was banned, he allegedly signed a contract for his disbarred company, L.A.A.K.E. Quality Homes, to build a new house in Baton Rouge for Jill Tate.
Clark told us he had that job before he got fined by the licensing board and passed it on to another company. But Tate said she dealt with Clark the whole way as he transferred the contract to three different companies from L.A.A.K.E. to Alliance Contractors to The Shoring Company of Louisiana.
The licensing board's lead investigator, Carl Bourque, said he received a complaint from Alliance Contractors about Clark's involvement with their contracts, but that he moved on before the board could look into it.
It would have been one thing if it had stopped there. But then we heard complaints about The Shoring Company of Louisiana, a local home elevation company that had failed to complete more than a dozen home-lifting and rental property construction jobs from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
And that's when we tracked down Clark.
We found him last week at a major, mixed-use development in Gonzales called Edenborne. The 300-acre project's main investor is the star wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts, John Ehret product Reggie Wayne. As we pulled into the entrance to the development, Kris Clark drove up and stepped out of his new white Cadillac.
We asked him what he was doing at an active job site, given that he'd been banned by the licensing board. He said he wasn't running the job or even working there. He said he was just picking up some architectural drawings for his father, Bill Clark of Michigan.
Edenborne Development Group LLC is 60 percent owned by Wayne's company, R.D. Wayne Development, and 40 percent by a trust Bill Clark set up for his children, including Kris Clark.
We had heard that Kris Clark had been showing up at Edenborne since the manager of Wayne's company, another Michigander named Brian Rickel, died suddenly on Jan. 5.
And then we heard that Clark was trying to get involved in another one of Rickel's companies The Shoring Company of Louisiana.
In November, we did a story about Carrie Merrill, a New Orleans East homeowner who had signed a contract with the Shoring Company in 2011, paid them $80,000 from a state elevation grant and waited for more than a year before Kris Clark showed up with Shoring Company crews.
The Shoring Company dug under Merrill's house, preparing it for lifting. And again nothing. We went to see Merrill again last week and found almost nothing more had been done just some plywood boards placed over the tunnels and standing water below the home a foot and a half deep.
Merrill said Kris Clark came to her home in October while crews were working. We asked Clark about that project and he claimed to have never met Carrie Merrill and said he had nothing to do with her elevation job.
In fact, Clark denied having any involvement at all with the Shoring Company.
We uncovered several pieces of evidence that strongly suggest otherwise.
First, there are emails Clark sent on behalf of the Shoring Company four days after Rickel's death to a company called Swepco. Swepco is one of about 15 construction firms that won contracts with the state to fix up duplexes and other small rental properties under another federally financed Katrina recovery program.
Swepco had subcontracted with the Shoring Company on six of the small rental repair jobs, but the Shoring Company failed to complete any of them while Rickel was alive. And yet, there was Clark, just after Rickel's death, emailing Swepco asking for payments related to the work.
'If there is a payment due to The Shoring Company please let me know and I would be happy to come accept the check from you whenever you are available,' Clark wrote.
Clark also referred to 'my company' in the emails. Still, when asked about the Shoring Company, he said he only wrote three emails to help a friend, Joel Mikazes of Michigan, a longtime friend of Rickel's who was trying to deal with pending business issues for Rickel's estate.
Mikazes worked for Rickel, both on the Edenborne project and the Shoring Company jobs, according to Mikazes' lawyer, Patrick Fanning.
John Seago, the attorney for Edenborne and R.D. Wayne Development, said Kris Clark is not working for those companies, and yet the emails on behalf of the Shoring Company were sent from R.D. Wayne Development's email address.
Seago actually represented Clark when he was hauled before the contractor licensing board in 2011, but now Clark says Seago did a poor job handling the case and blames him and the board for keeping him out of work.
Seago said Rickel let Clark use the email@example.com email account once last fall and nobody realized he was still using it to send messages to Swepco after Rickel's death.
Seago said that Wayne's new business manager, Ken Wilson, directed Clark and Mikazes to stop using the R.D. Wayne email at a meeting last month.
We also confronted Clark about photographs of him allegedly paying workers on a Shoring Company construction job in a tony Baton Rouge subdivision, the Myrtles.
He looked at the pictures and said he couldn't remember what he was doing at the Myrtles job site on Jan. 25.
But we spoke to the man pictured with Clark a concrete finisher named Calvin Griffin. He said Clark was paying him with a check from The Shoring Company of Louisiana. When Griffin tried to cash the check, he couldn't because it was signed by Rickel, who had been dead at that point for three weeks.
Michael Gurtler, the surviving owner of the Shoring Company, said he doesn't even know who Kris Clark is.
'He has a history of taking over the companies he gets into,' said Bourque, the licensing board investigator.
'To actually be out here paying he has to be on the company's payroll. He can't be a 1099 neither. He's got to be on the payroll, Social Security taxes and all that, if he claims he's working for somebody.'
But if he's doing all these things while claiming he is not working for the Shoring Company?
'That's why we're going to have to start investigating everything,' Bourque said.


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BASKET 1 OFF TO THE RACES: "Dead Weight" paperback; keyring; Day at the Races that includes valet parking, admission, and programs for 4 people. Donated by Lone Star Park.BASKET 2 BACK TO SCHOOL: Post-it notes; scissors; pens; markers; pencils; ruler; "I Want to be a Teacher" book; stickers; notebook paper; composition book; index cards; glue sticks; sanitizer; highliters; erasers; paper clips; crayons; backpack. Donated by Mary Gray, Midwest Tape.BASKET 3 BEWARE THE UNDEAD: pillar candle; candle dish; tombstone decoration; "Vampyre"; angel necklace/wrap. Donated by Chet & Pat Pieroway, Friends of the Library.BASKET 4 SANTA'S COMING: "A Christmas Carol"; snowman candle; Avon candleholder and candle; beaded earrings; 3 Santa ornaments; potholder; tissues. Donated by Chet & Pat Pieroway.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The watchdog for spending in Afghanistan is warning commanders that a safety system to protect U.S. troops from roadside bombs is incomplete or inadequate.
In a letter released Thursday, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko told top generals that an Afghan contractor who was supposed to install 125 of the systems along strategic highways left the work undone or poorly done.
The systems are largely metal grates, put over the openings of culverts that go under highways so insurgents can't plant improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
"Given the increased risk of IED attacks against U.S. forces resulting from missing or defective ... systems, we are providing this information to you for immediate action and dissemination to all relevant personnel," Sopko's safety alert said.
It was sent Wednesday to the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, and commander for the Middle East, and Gen. James N. Mattis, head of the U.S. Central Command.
Sopko said he found the "potentially significant contract fraud" while looking into a $362,000 contract signed in 2011. Because a criminal investigation is under way, the company's name is not being released, said Philip J. LaVelle, spokesman for the inspector general's office.
He also declined to comment on whether any troop deaths have been caused by the problem with the culvert grates.
It wasn't immediately known how many other contractors have been paid to do similar work in other locations around the country.
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction www.sigar.mil
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The North Tahoe boys continue to steamroll their cross-country competition, most recently at the Sparks Invitational this past Saturday.
Led by a one-two sweep of the top two spots and with four runners in the top 10, the Laker boys easily captured the team win out of 16 schools, including six Division I programs and six from the Division I-A.
North Tahoe, a Division III school, posted a low score of 38 points to runner-up Douglas' 87 and third-place Truckee's 98. The Lakers' top five finishers averaged 17 minutes, 59 seconds on the 5-kilometer course, compared to Douglas' 18:42. And that was without one of their top runners, senior Sean McDermott.
North Tahoe junior Noah McDermott took the overall win in a field of 185 runners, recording a time of 17:18, while senior teammate Patrick McElravey finished second in 17:42. Truckee's Andrew Clusserath was third in 17:48.
Peter Holmes finished fifth in 17:55, Shane Christian was sixth in 17:57 and freshman Julien Bordes was 25th in 19:04 to round out the Lakers' top five scores (the amount used for the team score).
Also competing for the Lakers were Brandon Hackett (28th, 19:14), Dominic Antonucci (29th, 19:16), James Palacio (30th, 19:16), Cam Goldstone (48th, 19:58), Colin Spencer (51st, 20:16), Tyler Olk (20:33), Forrest Smith (20:55), Jackson Shaw (21:33), Kobe Hudson (22:31), Jackson Wood (22:32) and Ryan Heisinger (22:38).
The Lakers didn't fare badly on the girls side, either, placing fifth out of 12 schools.
Sophomore Tara Gallant led the way with a fourth-place individual finish among 138 runners in a time of 20:59. Truckee sophomore Skyler Flora won the race in 19:42, while Katrina Breithaupt of Dayton was second in 20:26 and Katie Peters of Spanish Springs third in 20:31.
The Lakers' Sophia Tallarigo placed 17th in 22:37, Emily Nall was 43rd in 22:43, Camille Joubert 47th in 24:06 and Ingrid Roske 60th in 24:48 to round out North Tahoe's top five scores.
North Tahoe's Kaya Williams (25:42), Holly Lewis (26:27), Riley Chador (27:30) and Erica Backus (29:18) also competed.
The Bishop Manogue girls won the team competition, with 54 points, and were followed by Spanish Springs with 58, Truckee with 72 and Douglas with 75. North Tahoe was fifth with 145 points and South Tahoe sixth with 150.
UP NEXT: The Lakers will compete this Friday and Saturday in the Mt. SAC Invitational in Southern California, which is touted on its website as the largest cross country invitational in the nation, with some 23,000 participants. Regionals are Oct. 25-26 in Reno.


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Origin of CATALOG
Middle English cathaloge, cateloge, from Middle French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein to list, enumerate, from kata- + legein to gather, speak — more at legend
First Known Use: 15th century
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