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Has the Internet found the worst commercial ever?
You know, I'm still not sure what this commercial is for.
This ad was originally discovered by WGOW afternoon talk host Brian Joyce. He said he was watching some late-night TV when a commercial for a local business came on.
Little did he know, he discovered Internet gold.
The ad, for Mike's Golf Shop, was apparently filmed on a cell phone. It features a guy (presumably Mike) basically yelling "We buy golf clubs" over and over. He makes sure we see his sign a few times as well.
The video has gone everywhere since Joyce found it. A quick search of the YouTube channel showed that Mike is no stranger to "creative advertising."
But I'm still not sure. Will Mike's buy my old golf clubs? Maybe I should watch it a few dozen times to be sure.
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Folk music can be a true joy to play. When you're playing on your own or as part of group, a quality stringed instrument can add a great deal to this wonderful genre. Whether you're a beginner or a professional musician, there is definitely a stringed instrument here for you. When you first set out to bring your music to life, there is one basic question you've got to ask yourself, "Which stringed instrument do I want to play?" Sure, a lot of these instruments have similar shapes and sizes, but they all sound very different. Making the choice between the different types available will help you narrow down your decision in a hurry.
If you're just beginning your musical journey, it might be worth your while to invest in a starter pack. There are starter packs for almost all the instruments you will find here. Options such as the Rogue Ukulele Starter Pack are fantastic for budding uke players, while the Washburn M1K A-Style Mandolin Package or the B8 Banjo Pack will give you the building blocks required to develop your musical skill set with those instruments as well.


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It's just another day in paradise
As you stumble to your bed
You'd give anything to silence
Those voices ringing in your head
You thought you could find happiness
Just over that green hill
You thought you would be satisfied
But you never will-
Learn to be still
-The Eagles
8 oz smoked oysters (2 cans)
8 oz chicken livers
2 oz almonds
1/4 of a yellow bell pepper (Vit C)
3 oz swiss cheese
1397 Calories, 87g Fat, 38g tot carbs, 116g Protein
This hits them all. I use FitDay.com's nutrient calculator. If you every have an off day, eat a couple cans of smoked oysters--puts you way up there in most nutrients.
Disclaimer: I eat 'meat and vegetables' ala Primal, although I don't agree with the carb curve. I like Perfect Health Diet and WAPF Lactofermentation a lot.
Griff's cholesterol primer
5,000 Cal Fat <> 5,000 Cal Carbs
Winterbike: What I eat every day is what other people eat to treat themselves.
TQP: I find for me that nutrition is much more important than what I do in the gym.
bloodorchid is always right
Four years Primal with influences from Jaminet & Shanahan and a focus on being anti-inflammatory. Using Primal to treat CVD and prevent stents from blocking free of drugs.
Eat creatures nose-to-tail (animal, fowl, fish, crustacea, molluscs), a large variety of vegetables (raw, cooked and fermented, including safe starches), dairy (cheese & yoghurt), occasional fruit, cocoa, turmeric & red wine
I was about to say, I almost do this every day. Oysters and liver are on the menu at least twice a week, and I eat rose hips when they're in season for the vitD, but have to supplement in winter. Those photo-flash mushrooms are supposedly a valid source of vitamin D, so I do eat those somewhat regularly, too. Add animal fats, nuts, eggs, avocado and that's most of what a body needs right there.
Knifegill is christened to be high carb now!He gives me Lamprey Kisses in the midnight seanotontherug:
the buttstuff...never interested.
Flubby tubby gums latching onto me
For all that I've done wrong, I mastodon something right...
My pony picture thread http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread82786.html
I'm trying to get myself to learn to love seafood. I figure that would be the balancing piece for me.
That being said, I assume I get everything I need from food because I never supplement and never have (not even during pregnancy). And, I'm healthy as a horse (or ox) or whatever.


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It's an increasingly common move by campus officials during challenging economic times: voluntary retirement. Offering these incentives to faculty and staff provides a ready means of reducing personnel costs while not being seen as severe and traumatic as layoffs, salary reductions, and furloughs tend to be.
Although the details of such plans vary from one college to the next, they all rest on the potential for shrinking the workforce during times of static or declining budgets. Even where employees will be replaced, costs may be lowered by using part-timers or hiring less experienced full-time personnel. New employees may also come with less expensive benefit packages than those negotiated in earlier eras.
"The most common reason an institution would promote early retirement would be to meet budget cuts," says John Cothern, senior vice president at Middle Tennessee State University, which carried out a voluntary incentive program in 2009-2010. "This could be from either reduced state funding in the case of public institutions, or reduction in enrollment that translates to reduced funds."
Accelerating the retirement of existing staff also opens opportunities for bringing in new talent.
"Colleges and universities want to be able to attract and retain the best and the brightest at their institution and to do that, they need to be able to regularly hire new professors and promote from within," says Edward Moslander, senior managing director of institutional sales and service at TIAA-CREF. "An ongoing replenishment of faculty enables academic institutions to bring new ideas and the latest thinking in research to their programs."
What do employees think of these programs? Just how much do they benefit institutions? And what should officials consider in offering voluntary retirement programs?
At Ohio University, a plan implemented during the past academic year has allowed employees to retire at an earlier date than originally planned or to retire with a larger benefit. In addition to faculty, administrators and classified employees were also eligible to participate. Age limitations varied according to employment category, but typically included those with five years of service at age 60, 25 years at age 55, or 30 years at age 50.
Those who took the university's offer received combinations of a cash bonus, service credit, and payout of vacation and sick leave. Depending on the classification, employees could choose from a number of options; a $50,000 cash bonus on separation was offered to employees who waived participation.
Results have exceeded expectations, according to university leaders. They had established a participation goal of 15 percent, but 25 percent of eligible faculty and staff have enrolled to date.
"The program has freed up capital for departments to reorganize, and we believe we have seriously limited any need for mandatory layoffs, which was one of the main reasons for offering the program," says Greg Fialko, senior human resource director. The move wound up costing the institution an estimated $15 million up front, but at least $10 million will reportedly be saved annually because of the plan.
Some colleges have achieved positive results with incentive programs that do not include provisions for early retirement, but still offer similar features. Under these plans, faculty and staff must meet normal eligibility requirements for retirement. But in encouraging personnel to retire earlier than they might otherwise—say at 60 or 65 instead of 65 or 70—institutions may gain the same types of advantages as plans based specifically on early retirement.
Last year, the Dallas County Community College District developed such an initiative in response to state budget cuts. Announced in March, the plan offered eligible employees 80 percent of their annual base pay if they retired by August 31. A second group received 50 percent of their annual base salary if they retired by January 31, 2012. The incentive was available to employees who were already retirement eligible by being at least 65 years old with a minimum of 10 years of service, or by meeting the "rule of 80."
The district benefited in two ways, explains Edward DesPlas, executive vice chancellor for business affairs. Along with the differential between the higher pay of retiring employees and the lower pay of employees hired to replace them, another plus was the opportunity to reorganize around the holes created by retirements.
"In several instances, we were about to take administrative and support staff positions off of our organizational chart," he says. "The program gave us budgetary and organizational elbow room."
A similar plan has been successful at Penn State, where employees were offered a lump-sum payment of a percentage of their salary. Faculty and staff were eligible if they were actively employed on a specified date and were either age 60 with 15 years of consecutive regular full-time service, or had at least 25 years of consecutive regular full-time service regardless of age.
Three separate colleges over the past year offered the plan, and 63 percent of those who were eligible opted for voluntary retirement, according to Robin Oswald, director of the employee benefits division of the university's office of human resources. In some cases, participants were given a choice of three retirement dates.
"The choice of retirement dates helped stagger the ultimate reduction in faculty and staff," Oswald says.
Even when voluntary retirement plans bring needed savings, some results can be less desirable.
"There are many ancillary issues that arise from losing faculty and staff in that manner," says Cothern of Middle Tennessee State. He points to challenges such as reduced services, possible elimination of academic and non-academic programs, and increased reliance on part-time faculty and staff. Other possibilities include increased workloads for remaining personnel, departmental reorganizations and the need to establish new revenue sources.
He adds that meticulous planning and preparations are a necessity, and that officials must be clear, open and honest as to why a decision to reduce the workforce was made. "There must be employee buy-in or many problems can arise, including poor morale for remaining employees," Cothern says.
Moslander of TIAA-CREF notes that while opening doors for new talent, retirement initiatives may also have the opposite effect when it comes to outstanding senior personnel. Losing a star researcher or a highly productive staff member, for example, may not be in the organization's best interest.
At the same time, in some organizations there is less of a critical mass from which to draw.
"For already thinly staffed organizations or individual departments where full replacement of vacated positions will be required, an early retirement option may not provide an optimal return," says Ohio U's Fialko.
To head off problems and make transitions as smooth as possible—for individuals as well as institutions—good communication is a must.
"Communication is crucial," Moslander says. "The decision to retire early isn't something that employees should take lightly. It is incumbent upon administrators to openly communicate that an early retirement plan is available, and it is also important that employees know that the appropriate discussion sessions are available as well as a chance to meet with a financial advisor."
Along with the opportunity for discussion, detailed information should be provided in written form and widely distributed via email or web postings. In fact, the more facts made available to all concerned, the better.
"Develop FAQs for easy reference, and hold meetings to explain the plan and any additional benefits that may be involved in the retirement," Oswald advises. "And be available if a participant has any questions."
In the process, undue haste should be avoided.
"Potential participants need as much time as possible to consider the incentive offer, to determine their financial health, and to consider post retirement options," DesPlas says. "Individuals and organizations need time to adjust to the prospect of this change."
The importance of studying options should also be emphasized.
"Caution potential retirees to make sure their health benefits are lined up, that they understand the income tax impact of the incentive pay and its distribution, and that they understand how social security and any other pension plans will interact with each other," DesPlas says.
Another measure that may head off problems is seeking expert advice before establishing guidelines, according to Fialko.
"I recommend seeking outside consulting, including [on] legal and tax compliance issues, when designing a program," he says. "A retirement provider should be able to assist, as well."
The degree to which such help is needed all depends on how much internal expertise a college or university has, DesPlas says.
"Usually the CFO, the chief people officer, and the college legal counsel can handle this," he says. "Externally, a good place to seek assistance would be from peers who have done this before, or from a CPA or attorney that specializes in labor and payroll law."
DesPlas adds that retirement plan providers should be approached cautiously, since some state retirement plans prohibit or discourage incentives to cause participants to retire.
And while financial considerations are the impetus for any retirement incentive program, experts advise taking care not to overlook the human dimension.
"A majority of faculty want an ongoing relationship with the campus from which they are retiring," says Claire Van Ummersen, a senior advisor in the division of leadership and lifelong learning with the American Council on Education, adding that officials must find clear, transparent ways of communicating what's available to faculty.
She point outs this may be more a matter of taking the time to package services for retirees rather than adding expensive programs or services.
"Much of what faculty members want is not costly to provide," says Van Ummersen. "They want to know how they can stay connected."
She says that providing answers to a few basic questions can help bring faculty on board with retirement incentive plans:
Addressing such matters can make the experience more positive for faculty and in turn, foster a greater level of acceptance for any voluntary retirement plan.
From the institutional viewpoint, financial challenges that lead to retirement incentive plans can also act as a catalyst for positive change.
"It may be a cliché to say 'never let a crisis go to waste,' but these cases may provide opportunities for an institution to take advantage of," Cothern says. "Many institutions know that changes need to be made for one reason or another, but just have not done it with operations seemingly doing okay when really that is not the case. Too, institution leadership may not want to fight the battles that come with this type of action. So now is the time to act, but do so responsibly."
—Mark Rowh is a Virginia-based freelance writer.


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Paul Massey shot dead: Partner of 28 years speaks of her shock at his murder and says Salford has lost its 'best man'
Massey's partner, Louise Lydiate, was celebrating her mother's birthday at the time of the shooting
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Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: "Our thoughts are with the family of Paul at this distressing time and we have specially trained officers supporting them.
"We know that shots were fired at Paul and do not believe this was a random attack. We are still working to establish a motive, which is not yet known."
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Dugout Central Hall of Fame Selection Poll
by Chuck
Voting results for the BBWAA portion of the Hall of Fame balloting will be announced on Tuesday, January 5, 2011.
The day before, on Monday, January 4th, the Dugout Central selection committee ballot will be announced, giving us all extra 24 hours of bitching and complaining regarding who got in or who didn't.
Sean Forman and the guys over at Baseball Reference put a nice page together showing the full ballot with a laundry list of individual career numbers, including the total number of years each has been on the ballot and their most recent vote percentage.
The Dugout Central ballot consists of three parts and will work as follows;
1) If you were a voting member of the BBWAA, who would you vote for. Maximum of ten.
2) Who do you BELIEVE will get in. Include your estimated vote percentage.
3) In past seasons, we've seen the likes of David Segui, Jay Buhner, and Lenny Dykstra pick up votes. Give me the name of the one player on this year's ballot who would shock you the most if he received at least one vote.
Winner will be determined by the following criteria;
On number one, the number of correct choices MINUS the number of incorrect choices. It's OK to list a full ten selection ballot, but you better hope they all get in.
On number two. This will be based on net vote total. Let's say you believe Jeff Bagwell will get in with 90% and there are 500 ballots cast. So, you're predicting him to receive 450 votes. If Baggy ends up getting 52%, which totals 260, you're net score is 190 (450-260).
Tie breaker is the player in category three who gets the highest vote total, not in actual votes cast but in most mentions in our poll.
Email your ballots to me at firstname.lastname@example.com by midnight EST on Saturday, January 1st.
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The House last month added a provision to the two-year state budget that would allow the state school superintendent and mayor to appoint a five-member "distress commission" to run any district found by the state auditor to have "knowingly manipulated student data with evidence of intent to deceive."
The Columbus schools are under investigation by the state auditor, the FBI and the Ohio Department of Education over "scrubbing" student attendance data and changing grades to improve the district's state report cards.
Last week, Reps. Cheryl Grossman, R-Grove City, and Tracy Maxwell Heard, D-Columbus, introduced a bill requiring that a levy go before Columbus voters this fall that would share property-tax dollars with charter schools. It also would give the Columbus mayor the power to sponsor charter schools, and it would create an independent auditor to investigate district operations.


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/ OCT / 08 - 1345 CST : Putting my stripping career on hold...
here's the short version for those of you who'd rather skip the
incoming lengthy blog post:
offering will be the last Geek Tragedy strip that I'll be producing
for the next year or so. Likewise, Friday's GT?will be the
last of its kind during that time as well.
for those of you who'd like some more info on this matter, please
read on.
Goodbye to "The Other Woman"
some of you may already know, Geek Tragedy was originally created as
my way of getting back into putting pencil to paper after a seven
year hiatus from the art world. In many ways it was a lot like
starting from scratch, as I quickly discovered that any semblance of
talent I once had seemed to have atrophied to the point of near
uselessness over the years.
the awful nature of my early work though, I tried my best to learn
from my many (many) mistakes rather than become
discouraged by them. And with each and every strip I produced
I managed to get just a little bit better, until eventually I found
my silly little doodles were becoming slightly less embarrassing for
me to look at.
three and a half years, and I finally find myself at a point where I
can look at my work and see that glimmer of promise I once had back
before I fell out of love with drawing. And even though am I
by no means close to where I want to be artistically, I am far
closer to that level than I've been in a very long time. An
achievement that I would never have gained if not for Geek Tragedy.
I should mention that by "Geek Tragedy" I'm not just
talking about the strip, or the site itself. I mean all of the
people out there who have helped, inspired, and enabled me to keep
producing it over the years (but I'll get back to those fine folks
in post I plan to make on Friday).
me when say that I love doing the strip. If I
didn't, I wouldn't be sitting here at the keyboard right now writing
this. In fact, I most likely would've packed it in and moved
on a year ago.
in the past, I've turned down sex in order to work on this bloody
thing. And let's face it, for a guy that's either a sign of
love, or fuck-nut insanity (or possibly both). But now we seem
to be heading back into creepy town, so I digress.
in recent months I've come to a point in my life that I never
seriously considered as a possibility when I first started the
strip. A point where, if I buckle down and channel a vast
amount of my time effort into it, I have an opportunity to
conceivably start earning the lion's share of my living as an artist
within the next year or so.
as fate would have it, these opportunities currently only seem to
exist outside of the Geek Tragedy universe.
I Just Flip a Coin, But...
For the better part of
this year I've found myself agonizing over two possible choices.
Either concentrate all
my effort into the opportunities that are arising for me outside of
Geek Tragedy and see where they take me - or - ignore
them and instead go back to putting all my time into the strip in
the hopes that the results will be similar financially to the other
jobs I've seen come my way (there is a third option of course, which
is continue splitting my time between the two and creating work on
both fronts that I'm equally unsatisfied with, but I feel that's
gone on long enough already).
Now despite the fact
that Geek Tragedy is both a serious labour of love and a huge part
of my life, I know I would always be able to revisit it at a later
date if things didn't work out for me. On the other hand,
most, if not all of the other jobs that I find myself eager to work
on wouldn't afford me that luxury. Also, getting back to the
purely financial standpoint, I've been able to generate more income
off of side jobs in the past few months than I have with Geek
Tragedy in over a year.
So in the end I decided
that I owe it to myself, and my career, to spend at least a year
seeing what exists for me outside of the strip.
So there you have
it. No new strips for at least one year.
Different Kind of Tragedy.
I would like to point
out however that I have decided to keep the site going during my
time off. All of the past strips will still be accessible, but
by the end of this year Geek Tragedy will have a new look that's
geared more towards being a bloggy sort of thing. And while
there most likely won't be any new strips added beyond Friday's GT?
(but it is still a possibility), I will be posting other bits of art
and whatever else I can for the next twelve months.
So if the only reason
you come here is for the strips, I guess this is goodbye for
now. But if you'd like to see where I go from here regardless
of the comic, please feel free to drop by from time to time.
Who knows, you may even find something here you like even more than
the adventures of the GT crew.
Alrighty, I think
that's all for now. I'll post again on Friday (or if pre-con
prep work get's in the way, Monday at the latest) to say a few final
words about my hiatus, the people who have helped me out over the
years, and let y'all know if I managed to come up with some sort of
plan as to how to handle this weekend's Manitoba
Comic Con when I don't actually have a comic to promote
anymore (I can't be sure, but I'm thinking I'll be spending a lot of
time talking about Evil Inc
instead of GT).
And while I'm sure I'll
say this again next time I drop by, I'd just like to take this
moment to thank all of you for reading. You guys are a huge
part of what made making this decision so freakin' painful for the
past few months, and I couldn't be happier you did.
/ OCT / 08 - 0800 CST : GT help desk...
meant to post this on Friday, but it totally slipped my mind.
In response to the "Do-it-yourself"
GT?/b> that I posted last week, long time supporter of
the site Carrie (who went by jediautobot back in the day when Geek
Tragedy actually had a forum) sent me the following strip.
should also point out that Carrie informed me that truly sad thing
about the conversation you see above is that it actually happened to
you so much Carrie for sending that off to me and finally giving me
a reason to post something in the blog section.
All content ? Ed Ryzowski
unless another artist has been cited. Material found on this site
may not be reproduced without the express consent of the artist and blah,
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Senior Erica Jesseman (Scarborough, Maine) and junior Keely Maguire (Georgetown, Mass.) each won individual titles to lead the University of New Hampshire women's track & field team to a first-place finish after day two of the New England Championships on Friday at Southern Connecticut State University's Jess Dow Field.
With 38 points, the Wildcats currently lead the way after five events scored heading into the third and final day of competition on Saturday.
Jesseman, who captured the 10,000m title one year ago, took first in the 5,000m as she crossed the finish line in a time of 17:04.34. Freshman Elise Beattie (Woodstock, Ill.) placed sixth at 17:46.26.
The Wildcats were impressive in the 10,000m, led by Maguire who was victorious in a time of 36:41.12, while senior Sydney Fitzpatrick (Billerica, Mass.) was not far behind as she finished second at 37:11.27. Sophomore Erin Phillips (Belmont, N.H.) placed seventh in a time of 38:15.03.
Sophomore Rosemary Read (West Greenwich, R.I.) finished seventh in the hammer throw with a toss of 49.96m.
In the long jump, sophomore Melanie Frazier (Bridgewater, Mass.) and senior Kaitlyn Dugan (Hatfield, Pa.) placed seventh and eighth, respectively, with equal leaps of 5.41m, while Frazier edged out her teammate in the final flight.
Senior Chelsey Canavan (Stoneham, Mass.) placed third in the preliminaries of the 400m in a time of 56.55 to move on to Saturday's final.
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American Bank Center an oft-visited stop on city's cultural landmark tour
CORPUS CHRISTI - In my quest to do 40 things I had never done before in Corpus Christi, one venue really proved its value.
The American Bank Center.
The downtown entertainment venue, in a prime waterfront location, wins the prize for hosting four of my nights out. It is where I attended the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Islanders homecoming basketball game, watched a Corpus Christi Hammerheads arena football game, saw a big-name touring act (Elton John) and went to a Corpus Christi IceRays game. And that's only counting the arena. If you count the adjoining Selena Auditorium, we can include the Corpus Christi Ballet's performance of The Nutcracker.
I planned 40 random things to do and more than 12 percent of them took place at American Bank Center.
This year I'm doing 20 more things, but the results are the same. I've been back to the American Bank Center for the Golden Gloves Regional Boxing Tournament and the Buc Days Miller Lite Pro PRCA Rodeo. I will return in October for RealmsCon, an anime/comic book convention, and in November for Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles presented by Broadway in Corpus Christi.
That's 20 percent of this year's list. Whether that's some sort of improvement from last year or a mere coincidence, it is clear that some of the city's best entertainment is found there.
And so it should be.
The American Bank Center is owned by the city — you and me — and was created for the sole purpose of entertaining both locals and tourists, often in the form of conventioneers. The ability to host Taylor Swift, Disney on Ice and Star Wars in Concert comes with a price tag often paraded as irrefutable proof of government ineptitude, but don't buy it.
What critics fail to cite are moneys poured into the local economy by pre- and post-show activity and convention-goers. If I'm going to Elton John, chances are I'm going out to dinner before or after and dragging along a group of friends. If I'm attending a convention, wedding or conference, I'm getting a hotel room. These tax revenues must be added to any financial conversation of the arena's worth.
For my adventures, though, having an upscale place to see things and lure bigger names in entertainment makes Corpus Christi a more fun place to live as evidenced by my return and planned trips.
Check out some of what American Bank Center has cooking for the rest of 2011:
Saturday, Hall of Fame Fight Night featuring Alfonso Lopez
Oct. 7 - RealmsCon
Oct. 21 - ZZ Top with Lynyrd Skynyrd
Oct. 22 - WWE Super Show
Nov. 2 - Lady Antebellum
Nov. 11 - George Lopez
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It is used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by motion sickness, anesthesia and surgery.
What is this medicine?SCOPOLAMINE (skoe POL a meen) is used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by motion sickness, anesthesia and surgery.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?This medicine is for external use only. Follow the directions on the prescription label. One patch contains enough medicine to prevent motion sickness for up to 3 days. Apply the patch at least 4 hours before you need it and only wear one disc at a time. Choose an area behind the ear, that is clean, dry, hairless and free from any cuts or irritation. Wipe the area with a clean dry tissue. Peel off the plastic backing of the skin patch, trying not to touch the adhesive side with your hands. Do not cut the patches. Firmly apply to the area you have chosen, with the metallic side of the patch to the skin and the tan- colored side showing. Once firmly in place, wash your hands well with soap and water. Remove the disc after 3 days, or sooner if you no longer need it. After removing the patch, wash your hands and the area behind your ear thoroughly with soap and water. The patch will still contain some medicine after use. To avoid accidental contact or ingestion by children or pets, fold the used patch in half with the sticky side together and throw away in the trash out of the reach of children and pets. If you need to use a second patch after you remove the first, place it behind the other ear.
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This tiny, 73-acre preserve is located in the heart of Palm Bay and
protects a variety of habitats along Turkey Creek, which trickles
into Indian River. Hardwood hammock, sand pine scrub, and wet
hardwood forest are the main natural communities. There are
boardwalks and a new nature center.
Watchable wildlife:
This is a good place to view alligators, fish, and an occasional
river otter or manatee. Gopher tortoises and endangered indigo
snakes have made their homes in the sandy soil of the sand pine
scrub. Rufous-sided towhees, blue jays, cardinals, pileated
woodpeckers, raccoons, and gray squirrels are year-round
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Claiming housing benefit and council tax benefit, frequently asked questions
Q What is housing benefit and council tax benefit?
Q. I rent from a private landlord-will you pay my full rent?
Q. What costs are covered by housing benefit?
Q. How will my benefit be paid?
Q. Can I get help if I own my own home?
Q. Can I claim benefit if I work full time?
Q. Can I claim benefit if I'm a student?
Q. Can I claim benefit if I'm new to this country?
Q. Do you need to know about my savings?
Q. What if I have other adults living with me?
Q. What is second adult rebate?
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Housing benefit and council tax benefit electronic communication (PDF)
What is housing benefit and council tax benefit?
Housing benefit helps to pay your rent if your income is low. It looks at how much you can afford to pay towards your rent. The amount of housing benefit you will receive is your rent minus the amount that you can afford to pay (if anything), this calculation is based on your income and any savings you have. Your award is never more than the full rent charged by your landlord. Similarly, council tax benefit helps pay your council tax.
How do I claim benefit?
You will need to complete an online application form and provide original documents confirming the composition of your household, your income and capital and your rental liability. You will find details of the evidence needed on the application form. Once you have submitted your application, we will write to you if further information is needed in order to assess your claim.
How much could I get?
Our online benefit calculator and application form will tell you how much housing benefit or council tax benefit you could get.
To work out your housing benefit we will look at:
- the money you and your partner has coming in, including earnings, some benefits and tax credits and things like occupational pensions
- your savings and your partner's savings
- your circumstances, such as age, the ages and size of your family, whether you or any of your family are disabled, and whether anyone who lives with you could help with the rent.
The council will also look at whether:
- the amount of rent is reasonable for your home
- your home is a reasonable size for you and your family
- the amount of rent is reasonable for the area your home is in.
The most housing benefit you can get is the same as your eligible rent. This may not be the same as your full rent.
If you are in any doubt about potential entitlement to benefit you should submit a claim immediately or contact us for advice.
I rent from a private landlord- will you pay my full rent?
In most cases, if you rent from a landlord other than the council or a registered social landlord e.g. housing associations, the rent service must make a decision on how much of your rental liability can be met by housing benefit. The rent officer will compare the rent charged for your property with the rents charged for other properties of similar size in the area and make a valuation of what a reasonable market rent is for your property. If the rent officer's valuation is less than the rent your landlord charges, then housing benefit cannot be paid on the difference.
What costs are covered by housing benefit?
Housing benefit helps to meet some or all of the rental liability, whether to the council, a registered social landlord or a private landlord. If you have a mortgage, housing benefit cannot help with meeting this liability. In addition to paying the rent for a house, flat etc, housing benefit can also pay certain property related service charges such as for furniture and heating/lighting of the communal areas in a block of flats.
How will my benefit be paid?
Council tax benefit and second adult rebate will both be paid directly into your council tax account. If an award of benefit means that your account is in credit, you can apply for a refund.
Housing benefit for council tenants is paid directly into their rent account. Tenants of registered social landlords or private landlords can either have their benefit paid directly to them by bank transfer or into their landlords bank account, if they request it. If you are more than eight weeks behind with your rent, your housing benefit may be paid to your landlord, even if you ask for it to be paid to you.
Can anyone claim benefit?
Most people who are liable to pay rent or council tax can claim benefits. The main restrictions relate to students and people who have only recently arrived in the United Kingdom.
Can I get help if I own my own home?
Although you cannot receive housing benefit, you may still be eligible for council tax benefit or second adult rebate if you pay the council tax.
Can I claim benefit if I work full time?
Subject to assessing your income and comparing it to the government's assessment of how much money your household needs to live on every week, you could be working full-time either for an employer or as a self-employed person and still have entitlement to benefit.
Can I claim benefit if I'm a student?
This depends on your circumstances. Most students are excluded from claiming housing benefit as the government expects that they will use their student loan or grant to pay their housing costs. However, if you are disabled, are a lone parent or are in receipt of income support, job seeker's allowance (income based) or are aged over 60, you will still be entitled to claim housing benefit. A household of full time students may be exempt from liability for council tax - please take a look at our council tax fact sheet on students and contact us if you need further advise.
Can I claim benefit if I'm new to this country?
Any applicant for benefit must comply with the 'habitual residency test'. You cannot claim benefit in most circumstances if your passport has been marked with 'no recourse to public funds'. If you have been granted refugee status or indefinite / exceptional leave to remain, then you are entitled to claim benefits. If you are a 'worker' from another European Economic Area country, then you are entitled to claim. Otherwise, you must normally have been living in the United Kingdom for at least two years before you can claim benefits. For further advice please contact us.
Do you need to know about my savings?
If you have capital of more than £16,000 this includes bank accounts, building society accounts, investment funds and shares, then you cannot claim housing benefit or council tax benefit, though you may still be eligible for second adult rebate.
The only exception to the capital limit is for pensioners who receive the guaranteed element of pension credit.
What if I have other adults living with me?
Other adults (other than your partner) who are members of your household are expected to make a contribution towards your housing costs. They are known as 'non-dependants', and fixed deductions from your benefit entitlement will be made for them depending on their circumstances. If the non-dependant is a full-time student or under 25 years of age and receiving income support or job seeker's allowance (income based), then they are exempt from non-dependant deductions. There is a scale of deductions ranging from £7.40 to £47.75 per week for housing benefit and £2.30 to £6.95 per week for council tax benefit based on their gross weekly income. Non-dependants who are members of a couple will have one deduction made based on their combined income.
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pay for childcare. Does this make any difference to my claim?
If you pay for childcare, either to a nursery scheme or a registered child minder, some or all of these costs will be deducted when we make an assessment of your weekly income. The maximum amount that can be deducted per week is £175 for one child and £300 for two or more children.
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Dead Reckoning Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War (Hardcover)
|Author: Sarmila Bose
Learn more about Dead Reckoning:
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Sku: 213820901
Publish Date: 6/1/2010
Dimensions: (in Inches) 9H x 5.75L x 1T
Pages: 239
Age Range: 26 to UP
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|*Author: Bose, Sarmila *Subtitle: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War *Publication Date: 2010/06/01 *Number of Pages: 239 *Binding Type: Hardcover *Language: English *Depth: 1.00 *Width: 5.75 *Height: 9.00
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The 1971 Bangladesh war mired Pakistan in a brutal struggle within its own borders and against neighboring India. Backed by the Soviet Union and the United States, the players in the conflict fought over the territories of East Pakistan, which then seceded to become Bangladesh.||Through a detailed investigation of representative events on the ground, this remarkable history contextualizes the war while vividly theorizing on the nature of the conflict. As with most wars, the narrative of 1971 has largely been written by the victors. Partisan mythologies imprison the remaining actors. This book sets out to rectify this bias, reconstructing events through extensive interviews conducted over a period of four years in Bangladesh and Pakistan. It features published and unpublished recollections, sampling from official documents, tapes, photographs, video documentaries, and reports issued by the foreign media. Many interviewees speak about their experiences for the first time, introducing new, critical perspective strands into an otherwise poorly represented history. Their "contesting" memories diverge from dominant narratives in crucial ways, showing how the war's reverberations continue to play out within the region.


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MIDLAND, Texas – The University of New Mexico baseball team lost to No. 25 Texas Tech 6-3 in the first ever neutral-site meeting between the schools. The Red Raiders (23-9) hit a three-run homer in the fifth to break a 2-2 tie and held on for the victory over the Lobos (19-10-1) in the second of three meetings between the schools this season.
Tyler Gibson (0-1), who had not allowed a single run in 10.2 innings coming into the game, was the victim of the home run and charged with all three runs.
Texas Tech jumped out to a 2-0 lead after three innings and neither run came off a base hit. The Red Raiders got a run in the first off an error, and a bases-loaded walk in the third provided the other run off starter A.J. Carman.
Carman gave up four hits and walked three, but he also struck out three and gave up just one earned run.
The Lobos tied the game in the fourth. Chase Harris got the inning started with a single to left center, and he scored on a double by Alex Real, who advanced to third when TTU unsuccessfully tried to throw Harris out at home. John Pustay then drove in the tying run with a groundout.
After Tech's homer in the fifth, UNM crept closer in the eighth. With runners on second and third and nobody out, Sam Haggerty drove in a run with a groundout to second. However, the Lobos were unable to get any closer as Harris and Real struck out to end the inning.
The Red Raiders got the run right back in the bottom of the inning, though, on a two-out single, a pair of wild pitches and a passed ball. Pustay led off with a single in the ninth, but the Lobos couldn't manage anything else.
Danny Collier led the team with three hits, including a double, while Harris and Ryan Padilla added two apiece as UNM out-hit the Red Raiders 10-7. The Lobos will host Texas Tech at Lobo Field on Monday, April 21
UNM returns home to play New Mexico State Wednesday with the game time now at 6 p.m. ESPN Radio 101.7 The TEAM will broadcast the game, and fans can also catch a live stream of the game at www.golobos.com. Freshman righty Preston Ryan will make his third start of the season.
Notes: Collier's double was his third of the season and Real's was his team-high 10th … freshman Carson Schneider struck out a career-high three in 2.2 innings of relief work.


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Sustainable Energy in Denmark
A nation unites for a cleaner planet
Denmark shows the way to a wind-powered future
In 2012, the Danish government signed a bold new energy agreement: By 2020, 50 percent of Denmark's electricity will come from wind power and 35 percent of the country's total energy supply will come from renewable sources. Denmark's total energy consumption will decrease by more than 12 percent by 2020 compared to 2006, and C02 emissions will be 34 percent lower than they were in 1990.
Denmark shares Intel's belief that technology plays a crucial role in protecting our planet. "Today the leaders in the IT industry use Moore's Law to inspire long-term planning and to set ambitious targets for research and development," says Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy, and Building. "I see huge potential if we can convey this global drive in the IT sector to the battle of climate change, where the challenges are so huge that we need a green revolution."
Intel® technology is already being applied throughout Denmark's energy infrastructure. For example, Danish company Vestas—the world's largest wind turbine provider—relies on an Intel® Xeon® processor-based high-performance computing system to analyze and predict wind patterns. The system helps Vestas find the right places to install turbines—where the wind is consistent, but not so turbulent that it damages turbines—and forecast how much power individual turbines will provide.
Reach energy goals
By 2020, 50 percent of Denmark's electricity will be wind power and 35 percent of the total energy supply will come from renewable sources. Other initiatives are developing smarter home energy management systems and efficiently charging increasing numbers of electric vehicles.
Small nation, large goals.
Smart grid
Intel is serving as a trusted advisor to Denmark, helping identify and implement end-to-end green technology solutions throughout the country's energy infrastructure. Projects aimed at harnessing renewable energy resources and distributing power wisely across a smart grid that balances demand with fluctuating renewable supplies are underway.
Green solutions of tomorrow
With close to 30 percent of the country's energy already coming from the wind, Denmark is well on its way to achieving its goals. "By leveraging on our experiences and joining forces, we may be able to expand the reach of Moore's Law also to green IT," says Lidegaard. "In that way, we may create the green solutions of tomorrow much sooner, if not today."
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Developing Alliances and Friendships With Other Bloggers
The Journey To Success Part 9:
Developing Alliances and Friendships With Other Bloggers
The Journey To Success is a Blog Carnival that is being organised by Mandy Allen in which some Masterclass bloggers are putting together a series of monthly blog posts detailing The Journey To Success. If you haven't read the previous posts in this series please follow the link above to do so.
Be sure to read the comments as they have often added a wealth of information to the original posts. Please feel free to reply to the comments or leave one of your own 😉
Moving on to part 9:
Developing Alliances and Friendships With Other Bloggers
Throughout this series I have been saying about visiting blogs and forums that share the same passion as yourself, seeing what they have created from that passion and getting in the mix with them.
It's amazing what you can learn from bloggers and it's free information that has been tried and tested, saving you time, frustration and a whole heap of headaches.
When I first started online I would sit alone at my PC and try to figure everything out for myself, wasting months in the process, and not really getting anywhere. I really do wish that I had started visiting blogs a lot sooner than I did and took advantage of the information available.
So how do you start developing alliances and friendships
with other bloggers?
When you visit their blogs and read their posts be sure to check out the comments as this will tell you whether the blogger is interacting with their readers or not. The majority of bloggers will reply to the comments being left and continue the conversation or answer questions, regardless of who you are.
Sure you'll find some bloggers that think it's acceptable never to reply to anyone, or worse still they'll reply to their "pals" and leave everyone else whistling for a reply, even when questions have been asked. You're never going to build any form of friendships with these people so while their content may be of help to you I wouldn't waste your time trying to get any form of friendships going with them.
Focus on the interactive bloggers that are posting the information you need and are talking to their readers in their replies, offering advice, encouragement or just acknowledging the people leaving comments.
Don't leave stupid comments
You'll never build any form of alliances or friendships online if you leave stupid comments like "great blog I'll be back", "love your blog", "great post, thanks" or similar rubbish. All you'll do by leaving comments like that is annoy the blog owner and you'll probably find that the comment doesn't get approved anyway. If I ever get comments like that they go straight into my trash folder and will never appear on my blog and I know that many other bloggers hold the same view.
Don't be afraid to leave a comment
Some people fear leaving comments when they first start visiting blogs. This is a personal hurdle that you have to overcome, there's nothing to fear as long as you leave decent comments.
When I say "decent comments" I don't mean you have to write an essay but you do have to acknowledge the content of the post. Maybe ask questions if you don't understand something or mention your experiences if you do.
Don't be concerned that the blogger may be a big name and have loads of experience, quality content and comments. If they're replying to their readers they'll reply to you as well. If you express concerns in what you're doing or areas of the post you didn't quite grasp you'll find the blog owner will explain it to you.
On occasions you may find future readers, that have experience of the subject, will offer their advice and try to help you as well.
Once you've left your comment share the post
The Social Media Networks play a huge roll in our businesses, offering us all free traffic as well as additional information that is shared between friends and followers.
They also open doors that allow us to get to know people on a more personal level and by sharing their blog content on your Social Media walls you will start to become noticed by the blogger, many of which will come and thank you for sharing their information.
If you don't have accounts on the Social Media Networks then open them and fill out your profile, add your photo and start using them on a regular basis. Be sure to use the same photo for each of your profiles so as to be recognized at a glance.
Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn and Stumble Upon
Are the major platforms used by bloggers, so be sure to set up accounts on each one and then share the blog posts you like on your walls and try to connect with the bloggers on those platforms. If you'd like to connect with me you can do so from the icons to the right of this post.
You may not see an immediate response from the bloggers who's posts you share but over time if you keep sharing you'll be noticed, appreciated and thanked.
That, my friends, is how you start developing alliances and friendships with other bloggers.
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As you know your comments are very much appreciated so please feel free to add to the post in any way at all. If you can relate to anything said in the post please share your experiences so as to help others and drive home the point about our online friendships and how we build them.
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced Thursday that a portion of the Snake River is now open for chinook salmon fishing.
An WDFW official says there has been an unexpectedly strong return of chinook enabling the department to provide this opportunity to fisherman. This marks the first time in 20 years anglers will have an opportunity to fish hatchery-reared salmon.
The fishery is expected to remain open until October 15.
Chinook fishing will be limited to the area between the railroad bridge just West of the Tuscannon River and the no-fishing zone below Little Goose Dam. Additionally, fishing will be allowed above the dam East of the saftey zone one mile to the south shore boat launch.
Coho, wild chinook, and steelhead salmon fishing is prohibited. Hatchery chinook can be identified by a clipped adipose fin and healed scar.
Anglers may catch and keep one adult chinook salmon per day.
For more information and additional regulations regarding fishing on the Snake River, visit WDFW.
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Johnston County Mental Health Center
Welcome to the Johnston County Mental Health Center
(In Partnership with Alliance Behavioral Healthcare)
The Johnston County Mental Health Center (JCMHC), in partnership with Alliance Behavioral Healthcare Managed Care Organization, is responsible for ensuring that Johnston County citizens who seek help for Mental Illness, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse receive the services and supports for which they are eligible to achieve their goals and to live as independently as possible. JCMHC maintains a local presence with a focus on coordinating care for Johnston County consumers and assisting providers in enhancing their services. JCMHC mission includes building community resources and continued collaboration with community partners and stakeholders for the advancement of all citizens in the community.
JCMHC Hours:
Closed on weekends and holidays.
Contact 919-989-5500
TTY (919) 989-5540 (Telephone for Deaf & Hard of Hearing)
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If you want an example of the broken Senate, you could do worse than read Meredith Shiner's story on the food safety bill.
The background: A food safety bill has been bottled up in the Senate since last summer, when the House passed it. It has overwhelming support from both consumer groups and even industry. It would basically bulk up the inspection process at the FDA and give them the authority to order recalls, rather than hoping the producers do it voluntarily. It passed the House with bipartisan support.
But Tom Coburn doesn't dig it because the new authority and tools for the FDA would cost 1/700th of what it would cost to extend tax cuts to millionaires (which Coburn supports). So he's blocked it and wants offsets. That would seemingly be easy enough, but of course those offsets have to meet Coburn's satisfaction. And he's using the fight over offsets to get other priorities out of the bill or off the floor. The Senate hasn't taken the time to overrule Coburn on any of these points yet.
It looked briefly that a deal was nearing last night, but it turned out that Coburn was trying to lie his way to victory. This is incredible:
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) attempted to move the legislation, which would overhaul a nearly century-old regulatory system, via unanimous consent, but Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma objected to the offer. Coburn, in turn, made his own offer, using an amendment he wrote — and for which he was guaranteed an up-or-down vote in Reid's original proposal — as the basis of the bill.
What happened next was a scene of confusion on the floor: Reid seemed to believe that Coburn was making a good-faith compromise, telling the Oklahoma Republican he'd "see if there is something we can do to move the ball down the field" only to learn from aides shortly after leaving the floor that he had been duped by legislative wordplay.
The Coburn offer would require the food safety package, which is an authorization bill that the Congressional Budget Office scores as not needing offsets, to be fully paid for. Coburn asked for votes on three amendments — two less than Reid's original five — including a vote on the substitute amendment "which is fully offset and has been agreed to by both managers." The problem is that the two managers of the bill, Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa and Mike Enzi of Wyoming, only agreed to their provision, not to Coburn's proposal. It was a twist of words, and an unspoken comma, that made all the difference for negotiators.
Coburn was proposing his bill, which did include offsets, while making it seem like at first blush he was offering the agreed-upon text right back to Reid. The move left Democrats scrambling to figure out what had just happened before they realized they were no closer to an agreement than they were earlier in the day.
Better, Coburn put pay-fors in the bill without disclosing what they are. Regardless, he would get a vote on his amendment, but he refused to move forward unless his amendment basically became the bill.
Because Democratic leaders don't want to take up the floor time to overcome Coburn's objections – and he's had similar objections to hundreds of bills in this Congressional session – we're probably not going to get a food safety bill, even after all the recalls the past couple years, even after all the support.
The Senate is broken.


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Captain Favorite's Fishing Forum: July 14, 2014
Your One-Stop Spot for Fishing in Manatee County
Bill Moore, from Libertyvile, Ill., caught and released this permit on a CAL jig with a shad tail while fishing a deep grass flat on the west side of Sarasota Bay with Capt. Rick Grassett.
BRADENTON – Gulf recreational red snapper season closes July 15 in state waters. Weather Underground is predicting gusty winds Monday-Thursday. Captain Rick Grassett says tarpon fishing will remain strong next week as we head away from a full moon. Tarpon schools will break up after spawning then will return to the beach as singles, doubles and smaller schools that are ready to eat!
Gulf recreational red snapper season closes July 15 in state waters
- The recreational red snapper season in Gulf state waters closes July 15, with the last day of harvest being July 14. Florida state waters in the Gulf are from shore to 9 nautical miles.
- To learn more about recreational red snapper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on "Saltwater," "Recreational Regulations" and "Gulf Snapper."
- Several workshops on Gulf of Mexico recreational red snapper are planned for late July. The public is invited to discuss state and federal management of recreational red snapper and to explore future approaches for managing this fishery. Visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on "Saltwater," "Rulemaking" and "Workshops" to learn more.
FWC moves to simplify saltwater rules in 3 counties
- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved a measure at its June 18 meeting in Fort Myers that will remove several outdated or redundant localized regulations in Gilchrist, Indian River and Manatee counties. These changes will go into effect as soon as possible.
- The FWC has been working to streamline and clarify saltwater fishing rules since 2009 as part of a marine fisheries rule clean-up process. This includes reviewing existing localized rules known as Special Acts of Local Application and working with county governments to remove them if warranted. Many Special Acts were put in place before the Marine Fisheries Commission, one of the FWC's predecessor agencies, was created, and are now no longer necessary due to more current, statewide fishing management.
- The governments from all three counties have been working with the FWC on these changes. The FWC will be working with other counties in the future to help streamline and reduce regulations throughout the state, increasing transparency and consistency while standardizing FWC saltwater fishing management and making it easier for fishermen to access and participate in Florida fishing. The repeal of the Special Acts for these three counties is not expected to have any negative effects on Florida's fisheries.
- In Manatee County, seven Special Acts are slated to be removed, including ones that limit the types of gear that can be used within the waters of the county, set aggregate bag limits for saltwater fish on the Manatee River, and authorize Manatee County to regulate the harvest of finfish within the county. Current statewide regulations now address the use of gear and give the FWC the authority to regulate the harvest of saltwater fish. Repealing these conflicting and redundant rules will help clarify and simplify regulations in Manatee County.
- To learn more, visit MyFWC.com/Commission and "Commission Meetings."
|Capt. Rick DePaiva, from Ft. Myers, FL, battles a tarpon jumped on a fly while fishing the coastal gulf with Capt. Rick Grassett.
Fly anglers fishing the coastal gulf in Sarasota with me on my Action Craft flats skiff the Snook Fin-Addict, out of CB's Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, continued to have action with tarpon, getting numerous shots, jumping 5 and catching and releasing 1 during the past week.
Early in the week we saw fewer tarpon than anticipated, which were mostly singles, doubles and small schools of only a few fish. Even though they may be fewer, they are usually curious and aggressive. As we reached the full moon on Saturday large schools of tarpon became more plentiful in the mix.
Jerry Poslusny and Jay Peck, from Rochester, NY, fly fished for tarpon several days with me last week. Visibility was poor due to lots of cloud cover as numerous thunderstorms percolated up each day and we took cover from storms a couple of times. Despite tough conditions, they had shots at tarpon each day and jumped a couple, including a large female that somersaulted 10-12' in the air as we watched in awe (with no camera in hand)!
Visibility was better on Friday, but we saw only a few tarpon early in the day. However, as the full moon, outgoing tide in the afternoon got stronger, tarpon began to flow. We had numerous shots, jumped 3 and caught and released 1, an estimated 100-pound fish. When conditions are right, tarpon can be very aggressive this time of year!
Tarpon fishing should remain strong next week as we head away from a full moon. Tarpon schools will break up after spawning and these fish should return to the beach as singles, doubles and smaller schools that are ready to eat! Inshore you should find trout, blues and more on deep grass flats of Sarasota Bay. Look for reds and big trout on shallow flats or edges of bars early in the day. Catch and release snook fishing should also be good in passes and around docks and bridges close to passes.
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High pressure in the western Atlantic is ridging southwest over Florida producing a light south southeast wind flow and light seas over the coastal waters through the evening hours. For Monday through Wednesday...the winds will become southwest to west as the high pressure ridge axis drifts southward toward the Florida Keys. The only expected hazards will be gusty winds and higher seas in the vicinity of thunderstorms.
South winds around 5 knots then becoming southwest around 10 knots in the afternoon. Bay and inland waters a light chop. Scattered thunderstorms. Monday night will bring southwest winds around 5 knots. Bay and inland waters smooth. Isolated thunderstorms in the evening.
2014/07/14Mon03:46 AM1.52H
2014/07/14Mon08:23 AM1.06L
2014/07/14Mon02:19 PM2.67H
2014/07/14Mon10:17 PM-0.1L
Southwest winds around 10 knots. Bay and inland waters a light chop. Scattered thunderstorms. Tuesday night will bring southwest winds around 5 knots. Bay and inland waters smooth. Isolated thunderstorms in the evening.
2014/07/15Tue04:17 AM1.61H
2014/07/15Tue09:27 AM0.98L
2014/07/15Tue03:14 PM2.45H
2014/07/15Tue10:56 PM0.11L
Southwest winds around 10 knots. Bay and inland waters a light chop. Scattered thunderstorms. Wednesday night will bring southwest winds around 5 knots. Bay and inland waters smooth. Isolated thunderstorms.
2014/07/16Wed04:51 AM1.73H
2014/07/16Wed10:37 AM0.9L
2014/07/16Wed04:14 PM2.17H
2014/07/16Wed11:34 PM0.36L
Southwest winds around 10 knots. Bay and inland waters a light chop. Scattered thunderstorms. Thursday night will bring southwest winds around 5 knots then becoming south around 5 knots after midnight. Bay and inland waters smooth. Isolated thunderstorms.
2014/07/17Thu05:28 AM1.87H
2014/07/17Thu11:54 AM0.82L
2014/07/17Thu05:22 PM1.86H
South winds around 5 knots then becoming northwest in the afternoon. Bay and inland waters smooth. Scattered thunderstorms.
2014/07/18Fri12:12 AM0.6L
2014/07/18Fri06:09 AM2.01H
2014/07/18Fri01:19 PM0.71L
2014/07/18Fri06:47 PM1.58H
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Thanksgiving Day restaurant options
Eating out on Thanksgiving? Join the club: This year, 15 million Americans will eat out for Thanksgiving Day nationwide, 14 million people plan to order parts of their holiday meal from restaurants, and another 4 million plan to get a full take-out meal for the holiday, according to a National Restaurant Association survey.
If you live in Durham and are planning to be part of that statistic, you have options.
At The Streets at Southpoint in Durham, the sports bar Champps Americana is opening from 4 p.m. to midnight on Thanksgiving Day.
Maggiano's Little Italy will also be open that day as well from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. with a special menu.
Ashley Warrick, marketing manager for Southpoint mall, said restaurant owners in the food court can open as early as 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The mall's Chick-fil-A will be opening at midnight, and Five Guys Burgers and Fries is opening at 11 p.m.,
Allison Savicz, a spokeswoman for Northgate Mall, said C&H Cafeteria will be open at the Shops at Northgate, the strip shopping center near the mall that also houses Guitar Center, from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
Bob Evans will be open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. serving breakfast and holiday food. The restaurant will have a limited menu including an option for turkey served with bread and celery dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, glazed baby carrots, cranberry relish, rolls, and pumpkin pie or double-crust apple pie for $12.99. Customers have the option of substituting green beans or macaroni & cheese.
For children, Bob Evans will have a "Turkey Lurkey" dinner with turkey, mashed potatoes, chicken gravy, and carrots with a chocolate chunk cookie for $3.99.
All Waffle House restaurants are open on Thanksgiving Day as well as on Christmas. And in case you missed my last report, Time-Out Restaurant on Franklin Street will be open on Thanksgiving Day, and so will Durham's new barbecue restaurant The Pit.
Zinburger to open in December: Zinburger Wine & Burger Bar is opening at The Streets at Southpoint on Dec. 10, according to Ashley Warrick, the mall's marketing manager.
Zinburger is an upscale burger restaurant that sells gourmet burgers paired with wine selections. There are five Zinburger locations in New York and New Jersey. The restaurant at Southpoint will be the first location in North Carolina.
Zinburger is opening in the space that previously housed the mall's Rockfish Seafood Grill.
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Fatima DaifFatima Ezzahra Daif is a student at African Leadership Academy. She is originally from Morocco.
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My Lessons Through African Words of Wisdom
'To get lost is to learn the way'. This is a wise Swahili proverb that I have always firmly believed in.
In a society where equal opportunities are mirages, where nothing comes the easy way, I was no stranger to challenges.
Along the way, I made many mistakes, stumbled more than once, but never gave up. Why? Because that Swahili proverb never left my mind; always reminding me that failure is a blessing in disguise.
The simplest example is the following: not a long time ago, I participated in a martial arts competition after six long months of training. Stress was at its highest level and consequently, at the middle of my 'kata' demonstration, I couldn't remember anything and just stopped. All eyes were turned towards me and I couldn't be more embarrassed.
I was depressed for the next few days, yet ended up learning that mental preparation is as important to focus on as physical preparation. The following year, I was ranked first with an almost flawless presentation that I had prepared for both physically and mentally this time.
Another African word of wisdom I firmly believe in is the following: 'A chattering bird builds no nest.'
No, success does not knock on doors. Talks don't lead to great achievement. Only actions count.
And in my everyday life, I try my best to not wait for miracle and rather talk less and act more.
Last weekend, I was invited to attend the Thabo Mbeki Youth Retreat to discuss Africa's challenges and opportunities. I cannot deny that the discussion was absolutely great. Yet nothing tangible would have resulted from it.
This is why I suggested the creation of a resolution list, where every attendee writes what he/she is ready to do to drive a change.
Yes, 'A chattering bird builds no nest.'
I like to carry the lessons of African proverbs with me because I believe that African proverbs are a true incarnation of wisdom.


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Bring Back DC Nation
On 13 Oct. 2012, thousands of DC Nation fans were shocked to see that Cartoon Network abruptly pulled DC Nation's television shows from the air without so much as a warning. After several hours of tweeting, Facebook messaging, and direct messaging Cartoon Network for an explanation, fans found out via Twitter that Cartoon Network would begin airing DC Nation shows again in January after yet another hiatus.
Well, needless to say, we are not happy. Not only has Cartoon Network taken our favorite shows off the air, but it has also shown that its members don't care about the well-being of the audience. Not once today has Cartoon Network issued an apology to the thousands of fans that have been hurt by this event. Cartoon Network also withheld this information from the content creators over at DC Nation.
Through this petition, we kindly ask that Cartoon Network please take our opinions into consideration. Without an audience, Cartoon Network would not have been able to remain on the air for as long as it has. We'd like them to actually show appreciation and consideration for the fans and content creators while also cancelling the hiatus and putting our favorite DC Nation shows back on the air before next year.
Edit: I just wanted to thank you all so much for the response this petition has seen in such a short amount of time. Please continue to spread the word to all your friends so that we can keep this momentum going.
Let's show Cartoon Network that fans are more than just numbers for ratings. We are people with feelings who truly love DC Nation shows, people who have created bonds with others because of these shows. Without fans, Cartoon Network simply wouldn't exist!
Thank you all again for taking the time to sign this and spread the word. It means a lot to me. You all rock!
Much love,
*30 Jan. 2012 - It recently came to our attention that Young Justice and Green Lantern would not be returning for future seasons come Fall 2013.
Continue to sign and share this petition, as well as the new petitions that have formed on the internet, such as this one:https://www.change.org/petitions/cartoon-network-warner-bros-bring-back-young-justice-and-green-lantern-the-animated-series
Keep up all the amazing work and let CN know exactly how you feel.
*01 Nov. 2012 - After asking for some more opinions, it seems that the unanimous decision is to keep shooting for more signatures now that we've hit our second goal of 15,000 signatures. The new signature target number will be 20,000 signatures. Keep up all the amazing work, everyone!
*16 Oct. 2012 - Goal of 10,000 signatures reached! Signature target number raised to 15,000 signatures. Let's do this!
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|PSYC 242 - Adolescent Development
|This course will focus on the general principles and theories of development during the adolescent period. Topics included are biological and cognitive processes, psychosocial development, identity and other special issues and concerns in adolescence. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or equivalent, or permission of instructor 3 credits These credits count toward the Social Sciences (list C) requirements for graduation.