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This is a golfers paradise for those who are retired. The amenities alone are what you would expect from a country club but without all the high costs attached. Living directly on the golf course allows you to walk out the sliding glass door, take two steps, and you are on the golf course. Enjoy the orange and lemon trees while in season or grow your own in the back yard. Free Golf Fees, Utilities and Maintenance. The gas BBQ is at the ready! Live the lingering Southern California sunsets with the mountains in the background and the tall Palm Trees lining the golf course. The cooling breezes and quiet evenings make for an experience which only lends one self to relaxation.
Keywords: Beautiful home right on the 9 Hole Golf course. Located in a 55+ community with many amenities and one hour drive to the beaches or mountains, Wireless Internet, Time Warner HD Cable TV, one car garage, No Pets, No Smoking, Available year round. MINIMUM STAY OF 90 DAYS OR 3 MONTHS OR MORE ... ONLY ... ANY INQUIRIES LESS THAN 90 DAYS, WILL NOT BE ANSWERED.
We rented the property this past winter. Very comfortable with extremely well equipped kitchen. Home is full of interesting knick knacks. Situated on the golf course was wonderful. We joined in some of the village activities and were made most welcome. Owners were very helpful and attended to any problems promptly. Would recommend this as a great place to stay.
My husband and I rented this home for three months this past winter. We found it to be clean and well maintained. Everything was in good working order. The rooms were spacious, bright and comfortable.
Our favorite places were the den and the back patio. We would definitely recommend this vacation home to our friends and relatives. It is the best place that we have ever rented.
My Husband I rented the property for 3 months in 2012 - the house is extremely clean and well maintained. We enjoyed the lemons and the oranges on the property. The house is really a home everything you need is there - landlord is great - any problems dealt with promptly - well recommended - thanks
My wife and I found this to be a very comfortable home - a home away from home!
The oranges were delicious. The local golfing was fun. We found another dozen inexpensive good golf courses, within easy driving distance, which satisfied our needs. The neighbors were helpful and pleasant. The city center was close by.
The weather in the main was sunny, warm and dry.
We would readily come back again.
My wife and i stayed there for 3 months in 2010 and enjoyed the view location on the Golf Course.
We would recommend it.
We had the pleasure of renting this property last year for 4 months and enjoyed the best view in this retirement community. Excellent view of the mountains and palm trees lining the fairway on the well maintained par 3 course. 15 plus additional full 18 hole courses within 30-50 min from this location.
Great accommodation with nice size rooms, two full baths, easy walking distance to shopping and restaurants. Only an hour to coastal beaches to the west and Palm Dessert to the east. No shortage of large shopping areas with a 30 min drive. Try it you'll like it! Shum
15 + Additional Full Golf Courses within 30 minute driving distance. A Super Walmart is a 10 minute drive. Temecula is about 25 minutes away and has a huge shopping area including Mall, Cinema, and plenty of restaurants. Palm Springs 30 minutes, San Diego 40 minutes, LA is an hour. The home has a complete Alarm System installed. Many new upgrades and improvements.
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Sep 1 2015 - Apr 30 2016
90 night minimum stay
|Notes: Rates are based on 1 guests; add $25 per night, per additional guest
My Standard Rate
180 night minimum stay
|Refundable damage deposit
|Cleaning Fee ...
My home is located in a 55+ Senior Community where the HOA Rules & Regulations & By-laws state that all rentals must have tenants who will stay a MINIMUM OF 90 DAYS ( 3 MONTHS ) OR LONGER.
There is a US $ 750 Deposit to hold my home for the 3 month period tenant will occupy home. Should there be any breakage, missing items, or repairs required due to the tenant abuse, these costs will be deducted from the deposit upon time of departure. Payment is to be upon first day of arrival and 30 days thereafter for each of THREE MONTH MINIMUM STAY.
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.


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Frankie Muniz Vs Shia La Boeuf - Apparently there is still beef between these two child actors that stems to a time before they'd both hit puberty. After La Boeuf repeatedly criticised the Malcolm In The Middle star in a radio interview Muniz took to Twitter and wrote "Dear Shia Labeouf, It's getting creepy the fact that you can't stop talking about me. It's been 12 years now. I don't know you. Thanks."
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Lena, Mississippi
|Lena, Mississippi
Location of Lena, Mississippi
|Coordinates: 32°35′22″N 89°35′41″W / 32.58944°N 89.59472°WCoordinates: 32°35′22″N 89°35′41″W / 32.58944°N 89.59472°W
|United States
|• Total
|1.7 sq mi (4.4 km2)
|• Land
|1.7 sq mi (4.4 km2)
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|0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
|344 ft (105 m)
|Population (2000)
|• Total
|• Density
|99.3/sq mi (38.4/km2)
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|Central (CST) (UTC-6)
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Lena is a town in Leake County, Mississippi. The population was 167 at the 2000 census. The center of population of Mississippi is located in Lena [1].
Lena is located at 32°35′22″N 89°35′41″W / 32.58944°N 89.59472°W (32.589445, -89.594788).[1]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.4 km2), all land.
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 167 people, 77 households, and 48 families residing in the town. The population density was 99.3 people per square mile (38.4/km²). There were 96 housing units at an average density of 57.1 per square mile (22.1/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 90.42% White, 8.98% African American, and 0.60% from two or more races.
There were 77 households out of which 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.5% were married couples living together, 3.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. 35.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 24.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.76.
In the town the population was spread out with 21.6% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.5 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $36,250, and the median income for a family was $45,313. Males had a median income of $30,625 versus $20,625 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,197. About 8.9% of families and 13.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.8% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over.
The Town of Lena is served by the Leake County School District.
Notable native[edit]
NFL player Deuce McAllister was born in Lena.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.


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Netbooks may have managed to set the mobile computing market alight, but can smartbooks follow in their footsteps? We look at the 10 must-have features smartbooks need to succeed.
1. Multitouch screen
Smartphones such as the iPhone and Palm Pre rely on a multitouch screen interface for almost all of their operations.
Although not fully implemented in the Motorola Milestone, the Android OS has the same capabilities.
The key is that the screen itself be touch-sensitive: as users of Acer's Aspire Android netbook have reported, a multitouch trackpad is not an adequate substitute.
There are just too many times when you have to locate your fingers directly on objects on the screen, and moving a pointer first is just plain ugly.
Imagine Tom Cruise trying to operate the 'Minority Report' screens with a mouse. A multitouch screen can still be used with a trackpad, so users can keep their hands on the keyboard when they like.
Thinking outside the box, there is no reason a dream smartbook has to follow the clamshell bandwagon.
Consider a twist-around touchscreen that lets you turn your smartbook into a netpad, like the Acer Aspire 1420p laptop does. Dreamalicious! Even a detachable, stowable keyboard is no fantasy feature.
2. Android buttons
Android smartphones use four dedicated hardware buttons - Home, Menu, Back and Search - as integral components of the user interface.
Android overloads these buttons with multiple functions, depending on whether the button is pressed once quickly, pressed and held (the 'long press'), or double-clicked.
For example, holding the Home button brings up a list of running applications, similar to typing Alt-Tab on a Windows laptop.
Android phone users become intimately familiar with these functions, making them part of their gesture muscle memory.
Regardless of whether that's good or bad, users transitioning between devices had better find Android's special buttons on any Android smartbook they use - or else they'll quickly become frustrated.
Do the buttons have to be actual hardware? Not really: Virtual buttons on the trackpad, or even the touch screen itself, could be acceptable substitutes.
As a corollary, the device should have hardware audio volume and mute controls, rather than double-duty keyboard buttons, to give users fast access to sound levels.
Why? Because phones do, and many Android smartbook users will have Android smartphones.
3. Full-sized keyboard
Some netbooks take little to inappropriate lengths, as it were, with keyboards that are just slightly smaller than full size: generally about 90 percent as large.
Small keyboards are workable when you can operate them with two thumbs but when they're too large for that, anyone without small hands will likely find themselves typoing rather than typing.
The 10 percent size difference is not worth the pain it induces in users. Because Google is about nothing if not usability, any truly dreamy smartbook will have a full-sized keyboard.
While on the subject of keyboards, netbook and smartbook builders of all stripes should consider keyboard noise.
Any Google smartbook is going to find itself in quiet settings where continuous click and clack is not welcome. We've sent men to the moon; we can send quiet keyboards to the library.
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In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
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The Anna Louise Inn will be in court at 9 a.m. today arguing in front of the First District Court of Appeals, which could overturn a May ruling and allow the Inn to move forward with its renovation. CityBeat will have online coverage for the hearing later today.
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The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes filed a lawsuit Friday in an attempt to reverse the August reworking of the Blue Ash airport deal. For COAST, the lawsuit is mostly to stall or stop the financing for the $110 million Cincinnati streetcar.
City Council will vote next week to decide whether the city should borrow $37 million to fund development projects and a portion of the Homeless to Homes program. But Homeless to Homes is generating some concern due to its requirement to move three shelters.
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Mitt Romney is running a new ad against President Barack Obama in Ohio that says Chrysler is moving Jeep production to China. The ad, which Chrysler says is false, warranted a snarky response from the car company: "Despite clear and accurate reporting, the take has given birth to a number of stories making readers believe that Chrysler plans to shift all Jeep production to China from North America, and therefore idle assembly lines and U.S. workforce. It is a leap that would be difficult even for professional circus acrobats." The Obama team also responded with its own ad. It is somewhat understandable Romney would be getting a bit desperate at this point in the race. Ohio is widely considered the most important swing state, but aggregate polling has Romney down 1.9 points in the state. Romney is up 0.9 points nationally.
State Republicans are refusing to pull an ad that accuses William O'Neill, Democratic candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court, of expressing "sympathy for rapists." This is despite the fact that Justice Robert Cupp, O'Neill's Republican opponent, has distanced himself from the ad. At this point, even the most nonpartisan, objectives watchers have to wonder why the Republican Party can't keep rape out of its messaging. In comments aired first on Aug. 19, U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri said on pregnancy after rape, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." On Oct. 23, Richard Mourdock, the Senate candidate for Indiana, said, "I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
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"The Republicans who are informally auditioning would each bring different strengths — and drawbacks — to the presidential ticket.
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman supported Romney early, has a solid rapport with the candidate and hails from Ohio, a critical battleground state that could decide the election. But he wouldn't necessarily appeal directly to Hispanic or women voters.
(Louisiana Gov. Bobby) Jindal, the Louisiana governor, could help Romney turn out the religious right and would add diversity to the ticket as an Indian-American, but he struggled during a national debut rebutting the 2010 State of the Union address.
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New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who's campaigned frequently with Romney, could help with female voters and in her swing state of New Hampshire. But she's from New England, the same region of the country as Romney, while (New Jersey Gov. Chris) Christie, a conservative favorite who can work a crowd, is from New Jersey.
(Florida Sen. Marco) Rubio could bring Florida, always a deciding factor in a general election, and appeal to Hispanics, a fast-growing voting bloc, but he's run into some trouble over a foreclosed home and possible misuse of an official credit card. And Ryan is a serious, leading policy mind with a bright future — and a brand name that's directly tied to a controversial budget that would make major changes to Medicare."
Meanwhile, Romney says Obama doesn't even understand free
A Columbus tavern owner has lost his freedom isn't free battle in the Ohio Supreme Court, which yesterday unanimously ruled that the state's smoking ban is constitutional. The owner of Zeno's Victorian Village had racked up thousands of dollars in fines after 10 citations for violating the ban from July 2007 and September 2009. The state has reportedly threatened to seize the bar if the fines are not paid.
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The Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves last night on a Todd Frazier walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. It was the Reds' fifth straight win, and they're currently a half game behind St. Louis for first place in the division.
The Pakistan conviction of the Osama bin Laden doctor who helped the CIA find him is not going over well with the U.S. government. Pakistani authorities sentenced Shakeel Afridi to 33 years in prison for treason, and Afridi was not entitled to representation, though he has a right to appeal. The U.S. has threatened to cut aid to the country, arguing that informants work against al-Qaeda and not Pakistan.
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Speaking of numbers, a new poll released today shows Obama leading Romney in Ohio – the third such poll in the last four days. The Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll shows Obama leading Romney 53 to 43 percent in Ohio, and by similar large margins in the battlegrounds of Florida and Pennsylvania.
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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-West Chester) is getting some serious face time on YouTube these days.
A person named Josh Stanley has created a mash-up of Boehner's angry "Hell no, you can't" rant on the floor of Congress from the March 21 vote on the health care reform bill with the popular song, Yes We Can. The latter was created by singer will.i.am of the Black-Eyed Peas, to support Barack Obama in his successful 2008 presidential bid.
The Ohio Department of Education is caught in a bit of a mess. This morning, the state auditor's office announced it would be conducting a probe into the Ohio Department of Education over school test and attendance data. Yesterday, Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner said the Ohio Department of Education will be investigating more schools for possible instances of fraudulent data reporting. The superintendent's announcement came on the same day Lockland School Districts were found to be reporting false attendance data for better test results.
Delta Airlines announced it will be closing down Comair, which is headquartered in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The move could have a significant impact on jobs in the region.
Only 6,000 out of 140,000 eligible Ohioans have initiated a foreclosure review process, according to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. The review could potentially save Ohioans a lot of money.
The Ohio Supreme Court still thinks Ohio's smoking ban is constitutional.
Skype is making chat and user data more accessible to police.
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Nearly one in five voters thinks President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Mitt Romney had a bad couple days during his trip to London: An aide allegedly made racist comments about Obama's commitment to "Anglo-Saxon heritage," Romney questioned if London is ready to host the Olympics, and he talked about meeting with the leader of MI6, the British intelligence agency. And he said he's excited to return the "bust of Winston Churchill" to the Oval Office. Whatever that means.
Nobody has a case of the Mondays, according to a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
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An organization called Citizens' League Against Subsidized Sports is gathering signatures for a ballot measure that would add a tax on Reds and Bengals tickets. Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann says he knows that the county's lease doesn't allow it to institute a ticket tax but that it doesn't say anything about a citizens' initiative.
Police costs are rising even though the force is shrinking, partially because it hasn't hired any new officers since 2008 while the top ranks have held steady.
The SB 5 debate is expected to draw a high voter turnout, which could bode well for school levies as voters come out to vote "no" on Issue 2.
Northern Ohio counties are starting to receive $19 million from Cleveland casino tax revenue. Cincinnati and Hamilton can expect a similar revenue boon next year when the Horseshoe Casino opens on Feb. 2013. Of course, the casino (and its revenue) could have been coming this year, but Gov. John Kasich blocked construction last year to protect his tax plan.
The Enquirer over the weekend did an investigative piece on ER "superusers" — individuals who can sometimes cost the health-care system as much as $1.3 million due to a lack of health insurance. Hospitals have said that this "charity care" could be curtailed by Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and save the state money, but Kasich claims the Medicaid expansion is too costly for the state.
The Ohio Board of Regents is considering banning smoking on all public
campuses. Smoking is already banned in buildings, but health concerns
may lead to a bigger ban.
Toledo Public Schools used "scrubbing" to improve report card scores. The Board of Education claimed such cheating could be a "state-level problem."
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and his Republican opponent Josh Mandel have settled on a day to debate: Oct. 15.
Former Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was inducted into the Hall of Fame Sunday. Here's CityBeat's C. Trent Rosecrans' column offering current players' thoughts on Larkin.
The Great Ohio River Swim was postponed Saturday because of high bacteria levels. Not very surprising.
In science news, a European agency became the first in the Western world Friday to approve a gene therapy treatment for a rare genetic disease.


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In the words of Alabama, "Roll on eighteen-wheeler, roll on" but be certain to heed the newly upheld hours-of-service regulations. The Court of Appeals' recent decision in American Trucking Association Inc. v. FMCSA (find the full opinion here) "brings to an end much of the permanent warfare surrounding the [hours-of-service] rules" said Judge Brown, the author of the opinion. The decision upheld all but one provision of the HOS regulations that went into effect July 1, 2013.
Most notably, the court upheld a modification to the 34-hour restart regulation. The regulation now requires that the restart include two periods of overnight rest between 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. and restricts its usage to once every seven days. The court also upheld the mandated rest break provision for drivers during the workday if the driver has been on duty for eight consecutive hours. The court, however, exempted short-haul drivers from this requirement. Consequently, the FMCSA is now tasked with defining exactly what qualifies as a "short-haul" operation and to whom this exemption will apply. Until then, the exemption is merely ordered by the court and not yet the rule of the road.
In short, all but one of the new HOS regulations remain unchanged and have the force of law. Short-haul drivers are now exempt from the 30-minute off-duty break requirement but exactly who qualifies as a "short-haul" driver is still unclear.
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