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Do you know how you zone out sometimes, and you feel as if you are in a different world, far away. Well, I tried to explain that feeling in this original poem....
The painting of reality smears,
As if the tears wash away the colors of the world
The faces before you are blank,
As you zone in and out of consciousness
Sounds, places, emotions are only a blur
As you live life looking through a smudged mirror
You feel as if you can stare into oblivion forever,
Never realizing how much time has truly passed
You never wish to be awoken from this peaceful serenity,
Free of insanity
But then you feel the greedy hands pulling you away,
And you are sucked back into the painting of reality
"As you live life looking through a smudged mirror"
The reverie or daydream poem ("Blur") was nice. I wanted to comment on that, but this line wouldn't get out of my head.
It made me think about how I might not see the me that I want, but maybe all mirrors are blurry. What if there isn't anyone that sees the real them? That Dove commercial thing from youtube has been on the brain.
I have been studying the Pyramids of Egypt for years now,& as you may know that they used it as traveling with your consciousness. An almost forgotten art in its self. Some tomes at night I get such good dreams, That when I am awoken, I wish I never was, Wish I could stay there some times, And wounder if that is what death is like.


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Meter which uses strong stress followed by one or more weak stresses and so creates a falling sense to the poem. See 'trochee' and 'dactyl'.
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'Big Brother 14's' Ian Terry is 'looking for a genuine romance in the house'Add to Favorites | Big Brother
Meet Ian Terry, the youngest "Big Brother 14" contestant at 21 years old. He tells Zap2it he's quite an expert on all things "BB" and "Survivor," and that he's not going to lie about his age or occupation (which is an engineering student).
"I'm not going to lie about my age or occupation going in ... I guess if there's anything I don't want [the houseguests] to know, it's that I've seen the show extensively ... I know the show well, I know 'Survivor' very well too," says Ian. [ Ed.'s note: Willie Hantz may not be able to keep it a secret that he's Russell's brother with Ian in the house.]
Ian does reveal that he's got a bit of a pre-set strategy going into the house.
"I'd like a strong alliance of five - not be the strongest person, not be the weakest person," says Ian. "I want to get a good strong guy to do the physical challenges. I would like to think I can do the thinking for the alliance. Get a good-looking girl in there to disarm the men, they seem to have a way of cajoling that type. Get an all-American guy and an old guy would be useful to have ... there's gotta be at least one old guy, I'm hoping for someone in their 60s."
He also says that he's looking for romance in the "Big Brother" house.
"I am single, completely single. I am looking for a genuine romance in the house. None of that fake stuff. If there's a good girl in there, my type, good-looking girl, I would definitely be up for a romance," says Ian.
And finally, he insists that he wants to "play an honest game." We say - good luck with that.
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Traffic is the flux or passage of motorized vehicles, unmotorized vehicles, and pedestrians on roads; or the commercial transport and exchange of goods; or the movement of passengers or people.
In Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez (Del Toro) and his partner, Manolo Sanchez (Vargas), stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar (Milian), a high-ranking Mexican official, who decides to hire Rodriguez. Salazar instructs him to locate and apprehend Francisco Flores (Collins, Jr.), a notorious hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the Obregón brothers. Meanwhile, Robert Wakefield (Douglas), a conservative Ohio judge, is appointed to head the President's Office of National Drug Control, taking on the title drug czar. Wakefield is warned by his predecessor (Brolin) and several influential politicians that the War on Drugs is unwinnable. His honors student daughter, Caroline (Christensen) has been using cocaine, and develops a drug addiction after her boyfriend Seth (Grace) introduces her to smoking (free-basing) cocaine. Caroline and Seth are arrested when a fellow student overdoses on drugs at a party and they unsuccessfully try to dump him anonymously at a nearby hospital. Robert finds out that his wife Barbara (Irving) has known about their daughter's involvement with drugs for over six months. A third story is set in San Diego, where an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation led by Montel Gordon (Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Guzmán) leads to the arrest of Eduardo Ruiz (Ferrer), a high-stakes dealer posing as a fisherman. Ruiz, who is hospitalized as the result of a gunshot wound from the arrest, decides to risk the dangerous road to immunity by giving up his boss: drug lord Carlos Ayala (Bauer), the biggest distributor for the Obregón brothers in the United States. Ayala is indicted by a tough prosecutor, hand-selected by Wakefield to send a message to the Mexican drug organizations. Under torture, Flores gives Salazar the names of several important members of the Obregón cartel, who are arrested in a large effort by police and army soldiers. Rodriguez and Salazar's efforts begin to cripple the Obregón brothers' cocaine outfit, but Rodriguez soon discovers Salazar is a pawn for the Juárez Cartel, the rival of the Obregón brothers. That entire portion of the Mexican anti-drug campaign is a fraud, as Salazar is wiping out one cartel because he has aligned with another for profit. Wakefield realizes his daughter Caroline is a drug addict and is caught between his demanding new position and difficult family life. When he heads to Mexico, he is encouraged by the successful efforts of Salazar in hurting the Obregón brothers. When he returns to Ohio, Robert learns his efforts to see Caroline rehabilitated have failed. She ran away into the city of Cincinnati, where no one knows her location. Secretly, she is prostituted to a drug dealer, and robs her parents to procure money for drugs. As the trial against Carlos Ayala begins, his pregnant wife Helena (Zeta-Jones) learns of her husband's true profession. Facing the prospect of life imprisonment for her husband and death threats against her only child, Helena decides to hire Flores to assassinate Eduardo Ruiz; she knows killing Ruiz will effectively end the trial nolle prosequi. Flores plants a car bomb on a DEA car in an assassination attempt against Ruiz. Shortly after planting the bomb, Flores is assassinated by a sniper in retaliation for his betrayal in cooperating with General Salazar; the car bomb kills Castro, but both Gordon and Ruiz survive. Rodriguez's partner, Sanchez, attempts to sell the information of Salazar's true affiliation to the DEA, but is killed for his betrayal. Rodriguez, who can no longer stomach working for Salazar, decides to cut a deal with the least corrupt organization he has access to: the federal government of the United States and the FBI. In exchange for his testimony, Javier requests electricity in his neighborhood, so the kids can play baseball at night rather than be tempted by street gangs and crime. Salazar's secrets are revealed to the public, and he is arrested and secretly tortured to death. Wakefield drags Seth along as he begins to search Cincinnati for his daughter. After being threatened and nearly killed by a drug dealer, Wakefield breaks into a seedy hotel room and finds a semi-conscious Caroline acting as a prostitute to an older man. Wakefield returns to Washington, D.C., to give his prepared speech on a "10-point plan" to combat the war on drugs. In the middle of the speech, he falters, then tells the press that the War on Drugs implies a war even on some people's own family members, which he cannot endorse. He then walks out of the press conference, quits his job, and heads home. Helena, knowing Ruiz is soon scheduled to testify, makes a deal with Juan Obregón (Bratt), lord of the drug cartel, who forgives the debt of the Ayala family and has Ruiz poisoned. Ayala is released, much to the dissatisfaction of Gordon, who is still angry over the death of his partner. Soon after the release, Gordon bursts into the Ayala residence and surreptitiously plants a microphone under one of the tables, before being kicked out. Robert and Barbara Wakefield begin to go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings with their daughter to support her and others. Rodriguez explains to the media about the widespread corruption in the police force and army. In Mexico, Rodriguez watches as children play baseball at night in their new stadium. [edit] Relationship to factual events Some aspects of the plotline are based on actual people and events. The character General Arturo Salazar is closely modeled after Mexican General Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, who was secretly on the payroll of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, head of the Juarez Cartel. The character Porfilio Madrigal is modeled after Fuentes. The Obregón brothers are modeled after the Arellano Félix brothers. At one point in the film, an El Paso Intelligence Center agent tells Robert his position, official in charge of drug control, doesn't exist in Mexico. As noted in the original script, a Director of the Instituto Nacional para el Combate a las Drogas was created by the Attorney General in 1996.
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Former Mississippi governor William Winter says politics had nothing to do with Gov. Haley Barbour's decision to push for the construction of a civil rights museum in Jackson.
The Jackson attorney says that both the state history and the civil rights museums will be a "celebration" of Mississippi's history and their grand openings will coincide with the Magnolia State's bicentennial in 2017.
In the video below, Winter also comments on his relationship with former state justice Reuben Anderson and recalls how they worked alongside Barbour to push plans for the civil rights museum through the right financial and legislative channels.
Winter also dismisses critics of the museums who say the state doesn't have enough money to support either project, citing Mississippi's successful financing and building of highways in the 1930's and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the 1950's.


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Overfed, under-exercised and too dependent on the car - our schoolchildren are staring at a lifetime of flab, write Mark Townsend and Denis Campbell
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ACHE Announces William C. Richardson, PhD, as Honorary Fellow
CHICAGO, Jan. 16, 2014—William C. Richardson, PhD, president emeritus, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and president emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Honorary Fellowship is a special category of ACHE membership. It recognizes individuals who have rendered distinguished service in the healthcare field or in related areas and who would not normally be ACHE members. Richardson will receive his Honorary Fellowship on Sunday, March 23, 2014, at the Convocation Ceremony during ACHE's 57th Congress on Healthcare Leadership in Chicago.
Richardson, who is also college professor of policy at Kalamazoo (Mich.) College (pro bono), is the retired chairman and co-trustee of the $8 billion W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust, where he served for 12 years.
Richardson began his career in 1967 at the University of Chicago and then moved to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he served in several roles throughout the 1970s and early '80s, including as professor of health policy and management and dean of the graduate school and vice provost of research. In 1984 he became executive vice president and provost of The Pennsylvania State University and in 1990 was named president of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
In 1995 Richardson became president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, serving for 10 years.
Richardson has devoted his academic career to research related to the organization and financing of health services in the United States. His stellar reputation in the field led to being elected to the Institute of Medicine's National Academy of Sciences in 1980 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. He chaired the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care, which issued two widely noted reports: To Err is Human on medical errors in the U.S. and Crossing the Quality Chasm on the broader issues of major improvement in U.S. healthcare.
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The USDA asked for comments - but did it really listen?Posted Friday, February 24, 2012, at 8:30 AM
The Fulton County courtroom was full and people were still arriving as the Farm Service Agency prepared to discuss its proposal to close FSA offices in Fulton and Izard Counties.
State FSA officials presided over the meetings to give the communities the opportunity to comment on the closure proposals.
People are naturally upset when their ox is being gored, so the meetings could have resulted in the rants of angry and irrational mobs.
I was, however, proud of the people who gathered for both meetings.
Many of the speakers were farmers - men and women who spend a lot of time working alone on their farms, and some made the comment they are not comfortable with speaking in public.
But, while some started off haltingly, they all spoke plainly and from the heart, with well reasoned arguements.
The connection that farm families feel to their Farm Service Agency has been very surprising to me. FSA is a government agency, a FEDERAL agency, and you rarely encounter people who have warm and fuzzy feelings toward any goverment agency, or its red tape and procedues.
Fulton and Izard County farmers and ranchers expressed the appreciation for the one on one service they receive from the small FSA staff in both counties. At FSA, they are able to obtain low cost protection for their hay crops, and participate in other programs that help them improve their farms and the environment.
The main arguement made for keeping the offices open is the fact they are efficiently run and well used. Even though both counties are small, population-wise, both show higher usage than many larger counties. Figures show 219 farm families in Fulton County participated in FSA programs in 2010; 201 families participated in Izard County.
'Instead of closing FSA offices with two or fewer employees and have another office 25 or fewer miles away, as the 2008 Farm Bill recommended, how about closing offices with less usage and larger budgets?' speakers suggested.
Another point of contention was, Fulton and Izard Counties have already saved the USDA more than $400,000 in recent years by sharing a director, and keeping staff below recommended levels.
By paying administrative fees on services used, Fulton and Izard farmers generate enough money to cover the costs of leasing office space and operations. Since employees will be moved to either Sharp or Stone Counties, salaries are not being eliminated.
'So, show us how closing our offices is going to save any money?' many speakers asked.
The only time anger rose was at Salem, when Arkansas FSA Director Linda Newkirk repeatedly ignored that question.
When pressed, Newkirk said, "I haven't counted it (savings through closings)."
When asked to see the budget, Newkirk said she didn't have the budget, and later admitted the budget is USDA's budget in Washington.
I took from that comment that the USDA has placed an arbitrary number on each office closing, with no real connection to reality.
By the time the meetings ended, those who took time out of their busy day to make their comments seemed to feel they had wasted their time.
No matter how much research they had done, or how reasoned their comments were, their comments had not really been heard.
Arkansas FSA officals were only there to collect comments because they were told to. Participants were told spoken and written comments were going to be sent to USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack, and the testimony made about each office listed for closure would be used to help decide which offices would be closed and which offices would be spared.
That means Vilsack has a lot of reading to do since the USDA has proposed closing 260 offices nationwide.
I guess the USDA Secretary is a speed reader. I was told that all of the meeting comments were sent to the USDA on Tuesday, Feb. 14. On Monday, Feb. 20 (six days later), state FSA directors were to meet in Washington and be given the budget reduction plan they will impliment for their state, including office closings.
Stacks of testimony will obviously go unread. If an office is spared from closing, it will likely be due to the efforts of a state's congressional delegation or governor with clout. In other words, behind-closed-doors horse trading.
The USDA's decision to invite public comment on individual office closings is similar to the process the U.S. Postal Service is using as it goes after rural post offices.
As I said about the Post Office community meetings, why waste time and money and get a community's hopes up with bogus go-through-the-motions meetings? What citizens think or what the evidence shows doesn't really matter, budgets have to be cut and offices have to be closed, whether money is really going to be saved or not.
Some people who work with FSA offices or are familiar with Washington politics are still hopeful the final decision on the Fulton and Izard County FSA offices will be to leave one of the two offices open.
That would make a lot of sense - leaving a process that works well in place. Director David Curtis has already shown he can efficiently run both offices, and Fulton County residents would not have to do their business in Ash Flat and Izard County residents would not have to travel to Mountain View for FSA service.
I hope those people are right, but I fear it may simply be too much trouble to change the fates of Fulton and Izard Counties. It may just be easier to leave the tiny specks in the USDA budget on the closing list.
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Takes alot of separating the wheat from the chaff Mr. Irby - here's the GAO's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2012 (opens pdf):
Here's where the information Arkansas' FSA Director Linda Newkirk couldn't provide - can be found:
-- Posted by HDucker on Fri, Feb 24, 2012, at 3:58 PM
First link above goes to the wrong budget proposal - apologies. Here's USDA:
-- Posted by HDucker on Fri, Feb 24, 2012, at 4:22 PM
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Coastal Bend School Reunions: 06.17.13
CORPUS CHRISTI - Aransas Pass High School will host an all-school reunion for all graduates from 11 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. June 29 at the Aransas Pass Civic Center. Day visitation and class pictures begin at 2 p.m. with light refreshments. Cost: $3 per person; $5 per couple. Dinner at 6 p.m. ($10 paid in advance). A dance begins at 8 p.m. Cost: $10 at the door. Information: Facebook page Aransas Pass High School Alumni, or contact Mary Ellen Smithey (1972) at email@example.com, 361-758-3856 or Susan Dromgoole (1983) at firstname.lastname@example.com or 361-215-5959 or by mail: APHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 1814, Aransas Pass, TX 78335-1814.
Ray High School Class of 1973 plans its 40-year reunion from 7-11 p.m. July 6 at Texas State Aquarium, 710 N. Shoreline Blvd. The event features food and drinks, music, dolphin show and exhibits. Information: Linda Hicks Gialouris, 876-6063 or email@example.com.
Ella Barnes Junior High Class of 1956-76's original committee plans a second reunion July 19 (social) and July 20 (formal dinner) at Holiday Inn Airport. Information: Rosalva Ortiz, 361-563-8693; John Richard G. Ortiz, 361-563-1378; or Rosalinda Garcia, 904-2385.
Miller High School Class of 1963 will host its 50th reunion Aug. 30-31 at Omni Hotel. The event is open to all Miller graduates. Information: Tony Torres, 331-4369; Minnie Sanchez, 945-0242; Kathy Freyer Kern, 832-723-4226; Joe Barrientes, 443-3266; or Josie Gomez, 563-4189.
King High School Class of 1973 will celebrate its 40th reunion Sept. 20-21 at the Seashell Village Resort, Port Aransas. Information: email email@example.com, 361-877-4111; email firstname.lastname@example.com, 813-7777; email firstname.lastname@example.com, 361-442-5063, search Facebook for "King High School CC 1973" or visit Classmates.com.
Ray and Carroll High School combined 1963 class reunion will be held at the Omni Bayfront Hotel. A get reacquainted party begins at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 20 with food and a cash bar. An informal dinner and dance begins at 7 p.m. Sept. 21. Cost: $100/person. Pictures for the 50th reunion will be taken. Reservations should be made by July 31. Information: Janice Trujillo, 993-2598, email@example.com or Ron Behnke, 991-1248 or email@example.com.
Calallen High School graduating classes of 1943-75 will hold a four-decade reunion Sept. 20-22 at Holiday Inn Emerald Beach. The event features a football game Sept. 20; dinner and dance, Sept. 21; and farewell breakfast, Sept. 22. Information: Brenda Roe Bonaventura, 832-326-0053, or email email@example.com.
Miller High School Class of 1968 will hold its 45th reunion Oct. 18-19 at Embassy Suites. Cost: $45 per person. Information: Flora at email@example.com; Amado at email@example.com, and Tom at firstname.lastname@example.com (other classes are invited).
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Ex-Astro Tejada banned 105 games for stimulant use
Associated Press | August 17, 2013 | Updated: August 17, 2013 9:08pm
Photo By NA/StringerMiguel Tejada Kansas City Royals 2013 MLB photo SURPRISE, AZ - FEBRUARY 21: Miguel Tejada #24 of the Kansas City Royals poses during Photo Day on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Arizona. (Photo by Chris Bernacchi/MLB Photos via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Miguel Tejada
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The scourge of drugs and baseball claimed its third former MVP in a month when Miguel Tejada was suspended Saturday for 105 games after testing positive for an amphetamine.
The Kansas City Royals infielder drew one of the longest penalties handed down by Major League Baseball. His ban came after New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games and Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun got a 65-game penalty that will keep him off the field for the rest of the season.
All three stars have been dogged by doping allegations in the past.
A person familiar with the situation told the Associated Press that Tejada tested positive for Adderall, a substance the 39-year-old has used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because those details were not made public.
"I apologize to my teammates, the Royals organization and to the Kansas City fans," Tejada said in a statement released by the players' association. "I have a medical condition that requires medication to treat. I took that medication while re-applying for a Therapeutic Use Exemption. Under the requirements of the Joint Drug Program, I made a mistake in doing so."
MLB's medical staff grants therapeutic-use exemptions that allow players to use drugs such as Adderall to treat ADD. But the substance has become a popular performance-enhancer, accounting for 10 of the 11 positive stimulant tests in the major league program in the year ending with the 2012 World Series, according to the annual report of the Independent Program Administrator.
Tejada, who played for the Astros in 2008 and '09, previously tested positive under the league's amphetamine policy. That subjected him to a 25-game ban for a second test and an 80-game suspension for a third. He is not challenging the penalties.
Tejada will miss the remainder of this season, which exhausts his contract with Kansas City. If he signs for next season, he would miss about two months before becoming eligible to play.


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You'll learn how to taste, evaluate and comment on a wine without feeling silly, and how to pick a wine you know you'll like. You will learn about some of the things that make a wine special, and what to think about when choosing wine to pair with food.
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Welcome to InMotion Real Estate Institute
Welcome to 2015!
InMotion Real Estate Institute will be offering some amazing CE courses this month in communities from Decatur to Fairburn, GA.
Click on our Calendar Tab so that you can see the dates and locations. We recommend that you email your RSVP to the sponsor.
We hope to see you on the road.
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We understand the challenges you face in this ever-changing real estate environment. To help you better navigate this new landscape, we are providing affordable, high-quality training sessions. InMotion Real Estate Institute is destined to be the premier real estate school in the southeast. We opened our doors in early 2008 and already we have trained several hundred agents. Our goal in 2012 will be to accomodate the working agent who must work 9-5 Monday-Friday (see our Saturday course schedule) and our Baby Boomers, who desire a slower paced technology learning course. In short, we are here to serve your needs. If you do not see a course that you need, please contact us and let us know about it.
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Delivering excellence in healthcare
DKSH's Business Unit Healthcare is the leading partner for healthcare companies seeking to grow their business in Asia, offering a wide range of Market Expansion Services from product registration, marketing and sales to physical distribution.
We offer ethical pharmaceuticals, consumer health, over-the-counter (OTC), as well as medical devices and deliver these products to multiple professional healthcare outlets through hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, drugstores, dentists, optical outlets, and more.
At DKSH Healthcare, we understand that one size doesn't fit every situation. With our deep industry expertise and broad local knowledge, we can develop customized and integrated solutions for your business success, just about anywhere in Asia. More than 380 clients and 150,000 purchasing and decision-making customers have already chosen us to support and represent them through our powerful network.
Are you seeking to license out products in the Asian markets? We have established ourselves as a proven partner through our Medinova business based in Switzerland and Asia.
With Business Unit Healthcare, you gain access to 9,200 results-oriented experts and can team up with Asia's largest sales force. We deliver excellence in healthcare out of 150 locations across 14 countries, including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and more.
What DKSH can do for you
Whether you are completely new, expanding or already well-established in Asia, we provide tailor-made integrated outsourcing solutions that allow you to focus on your core competencies while driving your growth across the region.
We are experts in business integration and can support you at every stage of the product life cycle, from pre-launch regulatory support, product launches to full services for mature and non-core brands.
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We provide registration and regulatory consulting services for pharmaceutical, bio-chemical and over-the-counter (OTC) products as well as medical devices, food supplements and cosmetics.
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Pros & Cons of Living In Florida
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There are many pros to support living in Florida. It is not called the sunshine state for nothing as most of the time it is sunny with beautiful, blue skies. You also don't have to worry about driving in snow and ice (except on a very rare occasion, usually in the northern areas) and not having to scrape snow and/or ice off your car windows before you can drive to work is so very nice. Florida has about 1,197 miles of coastline both on the Atlantic and Gulf sides with many beautiful beaches.
An hours drive to a beach!
Even if you don't live right near a beach, you can drive to a beach from anywhere in Florida in about an hour. There are very nice state parks with water and wildlife and great theme parks such as Disney World, Epcot Center, Seaworld, and more. There is always something to do or see in about any part of Florida. If one likes fresh fish, then Florida is heavenly as the fish is absolutely wonderful. The oranges are so very good too.
Great homes and great prices
Florida residents don't have to pay state income taxes like residents of many states. A home in Florida, compared to the same type of home, especially in some areas of the northeast, is often less expensive. In addition, at this time, due to the problems in the housing market, buyers can purchase a home for much less than around three years ago.
However, like every state, Florida has its cons
For some, the same basic season without spring, fall and winter changes all year long, can be monotonous. Also, the temperatures along with high humidity in the summer can be almost excruciating. The bugs, especially in the summer, are huge and abundant. Florida can also be a scary place to live in the hurricane season and if a hurricane hits, the losses can be devastating. Many vehicle accidents are not unusual in Florida, some due to huge amounts of tourists rushing from place to place and gawking around at the scenery.
Bad education system
Florida compared to many states has a poor educational system for its youth and there are areas with extreme poverty levels. A lot of that is unless one is in a professional field, the pay for most jobs is quite low. The crime rate overall is higher than other southern states including abductions. Florida can be a wonderful place to live as long as you are willing to tolerate the cons, but then again, everyplace has some cons. If Florida scares you, then you may want to consider Seattle as an alternative.
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Andy Coghlan repeats the idea that water courses are being 'choked by nitrogenous and phosphorus fertilisers and agricultural waste' ('Europe plans for cleaner water', 16 March). Fertiliser phosphorus combines strongly with soil and enters water courses only as a result of erosion. Most phosphorus in water comes from sewage and animal wastes. Very little nitrogen fertiliser is carried away by water; most either enters the crop or replaces that used from the soil store. This soil store provides 90 to 99 per cent of the nitrate in water.
Denis Hardwick Fertiliser Manufacturers Association Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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Fall flavors with favorite cheeses
Goat and sheep's milk cheeses are vital to rounding out a well-chosen cheese plate for holiday parties and meals (read about some we love). But they're also an essential ingredient lending tangy flavor and creaminess to a wide range of recipes, from salads to gratins — and even, unexpectedly, chocolate truffles!
We think you'll find these recipes featuring a variety of them —from Gouda to Manchego — to be utterly satisfying.


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Oakland Mills coach Sam Singleton said the Scorpions -- ranked ninth in the boys poll -- looked at last night's Bob Golliday Invitational as "a workout."
"We use it as a workout to see where we are," said Singleton. "I'm glad we're here."
Despite the poor weather conditions at the 16th annual Golliday meet at Old Mill, the tough field gave each team some very good tests with the various county and region meets looming in the next few weeks.


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Travel like a local: Your Neighbourhood Guide to the Cape Town CBD by Day
Rob PetersThe CBD is the heartbeat of every major city and it is no different for Cape Town. The city centre is the pulse of the Mother City, providing the lifeblood of the surrounding areas. It is a melting pot of diversity and culture, a smorgasbord of historical influences and a place like no other on earth. If you really want to get underneath the skin of Cape Town, you need to start in the city.
Travel like a local: Your neighbourhood guide to DurbanvilleDurbanville is not your average Cape Town neighbourhood. There is so much more going on than the daily school run. This is a neighbourhood filled with great experiences for everyone to enjoy.
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Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Wednesday 01 July to Sunday 05 July, 2015
Rob PetersWith a wealth of natural beauty, unrivalled mountain trails and sublime backdrops, it's not hard to understand why Mother City locals spend the majority of their time outdoors and on the go. The good news is that it's even better in winter with the cooler temperatures making it an awesome option for sport and fitness fanatics!
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Cape Town welcomes #MeetSouthAfrica travel bloggers
Bloggers love South Africa – we know this from our #LoveCapeTown campaign. This campaign saw us bringing four international travel bloggers (@traveldudes @velvetescape @landlopers and @wildjunket) to Cape Town in July 2012 during a social media drive in which Capetonians interacted with the bloggers and their followers, telling the stories of Cape Town and her people.
Cape to Rio connections
Photo by Skye Grove The links between South Africa and Brazil can be drawn back a long way. The seas that supposedly divide these two countries in some sense unite them. Both ancient ships and hi-tech yachts have charted their course along these ocean lines. Pedro Cabral, the 15th century Portuguese explorer, was on his way to the Cape of Storms (named so by Bartolomeu Dias, another Portuguese explorer of the age, and one of Cabral's contemporaries) when he landed on the coast of Brazil.


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A 2012 movie directed by Tim Burton based on the supernatural soap opera< read all 12 reviews
Written by Seth Grahame-Smith
Directed by Tim Burton
Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green
Barnabas Collins: Of all the servants I could have spurned, I got the witch.
The original soap opera television series, DARK SHADOWS, is before my time, I'm afraid. I've never seen the show but from what I understand, it was a bizarre endeavor that, about six months into its roughly 5-year and 1225 episode run, introduced ghosts and other supernatural elements into its world, a first for daytime television for sure. About a year in, the show reached its height of popularity with the introduction of a vampire character by the name of Barnabas Collins. Boys everywhere wanted to be this debonair creature, who is both heroic and flawed. One of those boys was Johnny Depp.
Depp's boyhood dream of being Barnabas has finally come true. These kind of dreams can happen when you have enough money and clout to resurrect a cult classic such as DARK SHADOWS by convincing Hollywood that you can sell it to the masses. And not surprisingly, Depp brought on his long time director buddy, Tim Burton, to helm the project, a seemingly natural choice. After all, Burton is the director of BEETLEJUICE and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. If there is any director out there that can capture that kooky, yet sometimes scary, but still human deep down, tone needed to pull this film off, it's this guy, right? Unfortunately, as of late, Burton is more often than not the director Hollywood goes to when you need a vividly colorful and imaginative film that plays so broad it loses all its actual character. DARK SHADOWS falls somewhere in between the two Burton's.
Burton does his best to keep these particular shadows pretty darn dark. Barnabas loses his parents at a young age, at the hand of a scorned lover, Angelique (Eva Green), and then watched his girlfriend plummet to her death off a cliff while under the influence of a magic spell (also administered by Angelique). When he reemerges in 1972, nearly 200 years after he was buried alive - well, more like buried undead - he rejoins his family, now led by a lovely Michelle Pfeiffer, and insists that they work together to reclaim the power and glory the Collins name once commanded. Any steam Burton musters in the setup though is lost once Barnabas is distracted by things like lava lamps and televisions. And then this epic, century-spanning, cursed feud is reduced to a corporate competition between fishing companies. Depp is delightful as Barnabas, which salvages DARK SHADOWS from disaster, but it would be nice to see Burton's once unbound vision become boundless again, rather than see it consistently watered down for mass consumption. The worst part is that Burton is doing this all to himself.
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In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him ...


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WhiteGold Solutions realises that efficient and responsive technical support is critical to our customers' ongoing business operations. Our support is based on sharing information, responding quickly to changing needs and working through problems together with both our customers and vendors. For every product purchased and maintained through WhiteGold, 1st and 2nd line technical support services are available. All calls are logged and proactively resolved by our engineers, and where necessary, resolved in conjunction with our vendor in accordance with our online SLA. Telephone and e-mail support is provided between the hours of 08:30 and 17:30, Monday to Friday (Eastern).
WhiteGold Solutions delivers flexible, vendor-accredited training courses aimed at value added resellers and their end user customers. We provide flexible training schedules, both in our training centre (the SecureWise Academy) and on-site. Resellers gain product knowledge, fulfil vendor certification requirements, and better serve their customers. End-users gain the expertise they need to manage and report on the solutions they buy. We provide a total training solution - instructor, courseware and technical environment - as a complete education experience that gains vendor accreditation and expertise.
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For many decades, the United States has been a global leader economically, diplomatically, and militarily. The same is true in the humanitarian arena. For example, when a major international disaster strikes, Americans show their generosity through their donations to their churches and other private charities that respond to the disaster.
Our federal government, on behalf of all Americans, also sends assistance, often in the form of food aid. This aid is also provided in times of longer-term need as a steady means to support economic growth in developing countries. The United States is the world's largest provider of life-saving food aid, and it has been an important part of the overall effort of the global exodus from hunger.
Now there is an opportunity to reform the federal government's food-aid programs so that funds are used more effectively and efficiently. It is time to update the government's 1950s practices to enable it to respond more flexibly and faster in a 21st century, globalized world. Current laws and policies place requirements on food aid that make its shipment, distribution, and use slow and cumbersome. Changes to the food-aid programs would allow food aid to benefit 17 million more people each year — at no additional cost to U.S. taxpayers.
Food aid often does not provide all of the nutrition that recipients need. Nutrition is especially important in the 1,000 days between a woman's pregnancy and her child's second birthday. Providing proper nutrition to mothers and children during this period provides a foundation for a better life as children grow. Children who are malnourished early in life suffer from health, educational, social, and economic effects that are life-long and often irreversible. In fact, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute, malnutrition can negatively affect a country's gross domestic product by as much as 10 percent.
Improving the nutritional value of food-aid products — provided from the United States or obtained locally — can save additional lives. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners need additional flexibility to target recipients with the best possible food-aid products.
Experts believe that food aid that addresses malnutrition is among the best investments in developmental assistance. Investing in people and their health is also investing in their longer-term well-being. Their educational and economic circumstances are improved, and a country's overall economy and standard of living are improved.
Most U.S. food aid is implemented through the Food for Peace and the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programs. Food-aid funding has decreased over the past several years. At the same time, more people than ever are in need of assistance, especially as the lasting effects of drought are felt in places like Africa.
During today's debates over the federal budget, the U.S. government needs to get as much life-saving aid as possible from limited federal funds.
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North Carolina has the 5th Best Payment Accuracy in the Nation
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Contact: Lori Walston, 919-733-9190
RALEIGH—North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services officials received a high performance bonus award from USDA's Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Deputy Under Secretary Janey Thornton in Raleigh on Thursday, Feb. 4.
The award, in the amount of $4,078,374, was in recognition of North Carolina's payment accuracy rate of 97.35 percent in issuing Food and Nutrition Services (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) benefits in Fiscal Year 2008. This is the fifth consecutive year that North Carolina has won an award for Best Payment Accuracy.
DSS Director Sherry Bradsher said the state agency was happy to accept the award, but she credited local-level Social Services offices with having earned it.
"I want to congratulate the county DSS staffs who work hard each and every day to deliver these benefits to the citizens of North Carolina who need them," Bradsher said. "Our frontline workers at the county level do an outstanding job of making sure that some of our most vulnerable populations—especially children and people over age 50—get the nourishment they need to live and thrive."
North Carolina is being recognized today as one of seven states and one territory in the nation with the best payment accuracy. As authorized by the 2002 Farm Bill, USDA provides high performance bonuses to states that demonstrate high or improved performance in administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Food Stamp Program.
In December 2009, more than 1.3 million individuals in almost 600,000 households in North Carolina participated in the program.
The SNAP Program is the foundation of the federal nutrition assistance safety net. It provides support to needy households and to those making the transition from welfare to work, enabling low-income families to buy nutritious food. Providing nutrition assistance to low-income families, individuals and children is part of USDA's commitment to reduce hunger and promote healthy eating habits. USDA said it is pleased to recognize and congratulate North Carolina for demonstrating diligence and commitment in the administration of the SNAP Program to ensure all eligible persons have better access to food and a more healthful diet through its food assistance programs.
For more information about Food and Nutrition Services benefits, contact your local department of Social Services or go to the website.


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I'm not an objective journalist
By Zan Azlee
Recently, people have accused me of not being objective in my journalism. In fact, I've had this accusation thrown to me many times over the years. But seriously, I've been accused of worse. Like in my college days, some people actually accused me of being a Limp Bizkit and Korn fan!
So let me set the record straight right now, here on my Astro AWANI column. I am not, I repeat NOT, an objective journalist! The only reason why I am not an objective journalist is for the fact that I do not see the need for me to be objective as a journalist.
I think that we need to get past the 'he said this and he said that' journalism because the public now are intelligent enough to know that full objectivity does not exist anyway.
Every soundbite or quote that a journalist chooses to include or exclude in a story is already a subjective decision. Every photograph or video footage that a journalist shoots and edits in or out of a story is already a subjective decision.
Many journalists who insist that they are objective aren't aware that they are really just trying to portray a perception or image of objectivity. [Click to read the full article at English.AstroAwani.Com]