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Sleek Makeup Avoir la peche Collection
A week or two ago my mate Zara from Kiss and Makeup posted about the Sleek Make Up Paraguaya i-Divine Palette aka the Avoir la peche Palette. I fell in lust quickly.
This morning I seen the promo images and my good people we need this collection!
I ordered it quickly before it sold out!
Take a look!
First off, how stunning is the promo model? Incredible right?
The collection features three products themed around peach shades.
Take a look:
- Sleek Makeup Pout in Sugar May
- Sleek Makeup Blush in Pan Tao
- Sleek Makeup Paraguaya i-Divine Palette
So what do you think?
I love it! It's stunning! I hope I can make it work and it looks as lovely in person as it does on the model. I'm a little worried about the blush as I've tried the Sleek blushes before and some are hits and some are misses but I'm on it anyway.
I ordered everything including the new i-DIVINE Primer Palette I told you about several weeks ago since I couldn't justify the shipping for it at the time but now with the items from this collection I'm willing to splurge.
Sleek Makeup is a British brand but they do ship worldwide. It's a bit high at $13.50 but the makeup has always proven ace for me so it's worth the splurge when you're buying a few products at once.
What do you think of Avoir la peach?
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Get it at www.sleekmakeup.com
3/25/11 11:00 Shamini:
I thought the blush looked a bit chalky from the swatches I've seen, but I have the palette. It's so summery and gorgeous! And I'm kinda regretting not ordering the Lip Pout while I was at it. :/
3/25/11 11:25 Cindy:
I have the palette, and it's gorgeous !
3/25/11 12:52 Lorraine ER:
I'm really eager to try their pout polishes…there's a lot of things I want to try but I'm hesitant to order from them. Besides shipping, I've heard so many horror stories, esp. when that 50% off sale was going on they treated their customers quite shabbily. I think I'll eventually place an order anyway though- I want the Circus and Acid Palettes and the new primer one looks interesting. I can't wait for your review of that!
3/25/11 14:03 crotchfairy:
i definitely lost my faith in them after that sale. I tried for 8 hours to order it and in the end, my order did not go through thanks to SagePay. To be fair, they weren't equipped to deal with large volume but boy was it frustrating, especially since I had to wake up at 6 am. They redeemed themselves by sending out codes for 50% for those who were unsuccessful in getting their orders through a few days ago.
I love peach anything and this one looks right up my alley! 😀 I'm loving the lipcolour on the model. SO SUCCULENT LOOKING!
Millions of peaches, peaches for me, millions of peaches, peaches for free. 😉
3/25/11 13:48 Josie:
Agghhhh so pretty! Loving the blush and gloss! Can't get Sleek in Canada though so you are torturing us with lovely things, Muse!
3/25/11 14:22 clementine:
LOL, OMG, I posted about this in the morning as well… EVERYTHING LOOKS SO PRETTY. ): I'm normally not tempted by warm colors AT ALL, but this entire set makes me swoon. But that shipping!!
3/25/11 20:26 Mary the Muse Militant:
I didn't know this was out – thanks Muse for informing us !
I'll be down to superdrug in the morning and I hope to god the palette has a lot of matt colours, well at least half
3/25/11 23:20 GreenTeaHoney:
OMG… nice! I love tangie, peachie makeup tone, somehow! =D
3/26/11 10:50 Fabiola:
I've got the pout polish as well as the blush. The blush is simply great. I've always wanted to try an orange blush, as most blushes tend to be pink in colour and I thought an orange one might suit my warm skin tone. It really gives my skin a glowy look, so I'm very happy with it.
The pout polish is quite nice too. It doesn't show up that much on my lips, but I feel it goes well with the blush without making it all look too matchy matchy.
3/28/11 18:44 Mary the Muse militant:
I had a good old look at the eyeshadow palette but left it there.
Nothing wrong with it at all but just not for me.
It has "The Muse" written all over it though ! LOL
Lots of shimmery colours there with a few matt as well.
The colours are gorgeous and would suit warmish toned skin better than cool toned.
Hope you love yours Muse when it arrives.
Also just to mention, the blush was a very vibrant peachy orangey colour and well pigmented and would look great on you.
3/29/11 11:27 Amy:
As soon as i saw this picture i fell in absolute LOVE i'm a big one for peachy pink lip and blush colours and these are to die for! I live in England and i'm rushing out to superdrug right now to go get it!
3/29/11 12:36 Amy:
I just went down, and they didnt have it! Just my luck. I didnt see any sleek products whatsoever, which is so odd because everytime i go in i see them! I'm looking on the superdrug website now, fingers crossed as i really want to try this now as well as the blush 😀


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|As-salam 'alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu! I am a 22 year old male, and I think I am about 5'1 or so. I am very short compared to most people around me. I do feel insecure because of my height. Even all my brothers (except my twin brother) are all taller than me. I am not that sad, because I know it could have been worse for me. I am thankful for what I have. But at times I do feel sad for being so short and I can't help it I can't help it when I get these feelings. I know there are more important things to worry about, like getting closer to Allah (subhana wat`ala).What's your advice for me? How should I handle these feelings?
|Dr. 'Abd. Lateef Krauss Abdullah
As-salamu `alaikum dear brother,
Thank you for your question. Every single human being on earth has something that he/she can complain about and not be satisfied with. It's very easy to critique our lives and look at all the things that we don't like. That is a normal part of being human.
What Allah constantly remains us about in the Qur'an, however, is to appreciate what we have, i.e. all the blessings that we have and have received in our lives - every beat of the heart, every breath we take, every day we wake up with health, food and shelter, our families, our ability to walk, think and laugh, etc. etc. That is why Allah says if you try to list them all and keep track of all the blessings you will never be able to quantify them.
To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over -- 50,000,000 children start playing tennis, 5,000,000 learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5,000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 the semi-finals, 2 the finals. When I was holding my championship cup I never asked GOD "Why me?" And today in pain I should not be asking GOD "Why me?"
Remember, brother, NO ONE ON THIS EARTH IS PERFECT. If you constantly compare yourself to others and dwell on what you don't have, you will be sad, frustrated and dissatisfied with what Allah has given you. You will definitely FIND something to lament over.
As Muslims, however, our way should be the opposite. Remembering Allah as frequently as possible will keep us focused on gratitude. Make GRATITUDE your way, rather than being upset with what you are not or what you don't have. You have that choice, which is why Allah has challenged us in the Qur'an to be grateful and find things to be grateful about. Try it... it works!!
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About the Counselor:
Dr. `Abd. Lateef Krauss Abdullah is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Study's Community Education and Youth Studies Laboratory, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He received his B.A. from the University of Delaware (U.S.), his M.S. from Columbia University (U.S.) and his PhD from the Institute for Community & Peace Studies (PEKKA), Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2005 in the field of Youth Studies. Abd. Lateef is an American who has been living in Malaysia since 2001. He is married and has 2 children.
Disclaimer: The conceptualization and recommendations stated in this response are very general and purely based on the limited information that was provided in the question. You are strongly advised to seek face-to-face counseling and consult your physician or therapist when making a drastic change in your lifestyle in terms of behavior, medication or diet etc.

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A client added a new server to a windows cluster that was setup a couple of months ago do we need to set up a PBX-ClusterGroup and a PBX resource for that new server? And a PBX resource for it? Or are those PBX items not needed?
If they are not needed can they be removed without affecting the windows cluster setup?
Also, it was asked if these were setup cluster aware, however from what I read as long as the client is installed on the windows servers in the cluster
that would work as well.
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you can delete the PBX resource without cosing any problem.
netbackup clients and from 7.x media servers, are not cluster aware.
You need to create a policy to backup the cluster hosts local drives (posibly only c:\ and system state) and one or more policies to backup the cluster resurces (using the cluster name as client name)
You can also prevent NBU from configuring PBX resource group when doing new installations on clustered clients:
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After Cloven Tongues of Fire:
The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation. In this book, one of our preeminent scholars of American intellectual history examines how liberal Protestant thinkers struggled to embrace modernity, even at the cost of yielding much of the symbolic capital of Christianity to more conservative, evangelical communities of faith.
If religion is not simply a private concern, but a potential basis for public policy and a national culture, does this mean that religious ideas can be subject to the same kind of robust public debate normally given to ideas about race, gender, and the economy? Or is there something special about religious ideas that invites a suspension of critical discussion? These essays, collected here for the first time, demonstrate that the critical discussion of religious ideas has been central to the process by which Protestantism has been liberalized throughout the history of the United States, and shed light on the complex relationship between religion and politics in contemporary American life.
After Cloven Tongues of Fire brings together in one volume David Hollinger's most influential writings on ecumenical Protestantism. The book features an informative general introduction as well as concise introductions to each essay.
David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former president of the Organization of American Historians. His books include Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (Princeton) and Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism.
"The intensely autobiographical essays of this book add luster but also complexity to David Hollinger's reputation as one of the most noteworthy historical essayists of his generation. The luster comes from the coruscating flow of insight he communicates about the larger meaning of liberal or mainline Protestantism in recent American history. The complexity arises from the book's tight interweaving of personal biography and historical analysis."--Mark Noll, Intellectual History Review
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"Liberal Protestantism is not appreciated enough, not studied enough, and keeps getting written off as a movement destined to fade away. David Hollinger, one of our finest and most provocative intellectual historians, reminds us how important liberal Protestant ideas have been in advancing movements for social reform and in shaping our current self-understandings. And his account of the struggle of Christians with the Enlightenment is hugely instructive at a moment when all our faith traditions continue to confront the effects of the acids of modernity. In bringing together some of Hollinger's most important work, After Cloven Tongues of Fire is an exciting book that challenges many of the assumptions lurking behind our debates over religion's role in American public life."--E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and Souled Out
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Welcome to Music Tuesday. For a few months now, the US homepage has been featuring updates from the world of YouTube music on Tuesdays, and we here in the UK are happy to finally be in a position to follow suit. Today we look at Ladies Who Vlog: female musicians who are using YouTube to connect with their audiences in new, interesting and occasionally bizarre ways.
Firstly, why make the distinction between male and female musicians? Mainly because we can feature more artists this way, but also because 2009 seems to have brought with it a real increase in high-profile acts fronted by women. In addition to this, the four acts we feature today have all produced a series of vlogs over a particularly creative time in their careers:
Little Boots' YouTube channel has been up and running since long before she became the name on every hip critic's lips. If you need further proof, see her first interaction with the Tenori-On here (complete with dark hair). Imogen Heap is another longtime vlogger, with a series of 40 videos covering the genesis of her new album, "Ellipse". Candid, collaborative and occasionally crazy, these offer a real insight into the ups and downs of a process that in her case has taken two years to reach fruition.
Paloma Faith and Nerina Pallot have taken a slightly different approach to their channels. Paloma Faith is documenting the process of getting out there and promoting a record – what it's really like to stay in a Swedish boutique hotel and hit the streets of Stockholm with little more than a pink fox for company – and Nerina Pallot is putting out a series of alternative takes on tracks from her new album via her channel – including an interesting coming together of drumsticks and a plastic storage box.
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ShopSmart Poll: 57 percent of women say cost of food keeps them from eating healthy Source
Women find many excuses not to eat healthy and many feel bad about it, but according to a new national poll in the June 2012 issue of ShopSmart magazine, from the publisher of Consumer Reports, the cost of healthful foods is the top deterrent that keeps 57 percent of women from doing so. The report also highlights common healthy-eating obstacles and ways to overcome them, and, outlines seven little tricks that can help you eat better.
"Eating healthy can be challenging for many women – especially when we are surrounded by temptations," said Lisa Lee Freeman, editor-in-chief of ShopSmart. "It can be easy to make excuses, but if you know how to shop for the right foods, healthy eating can become a choice so easy that it becomes as automatic as reaching for the phone to order a pizza."
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Here are some additional findings from ShopSmart's poll about women's habits and feelings about healthy eating:
The majority of women (88 percent) make excuses for not eating healthful foods, with cost (57 percent) being the most popular excuse.
Social temptations (47 percent of women) are one of the biggest barriers women face in eating healthy. Forty-four percent claim they are more likely to eat poorly when they are around others compared with 36 percent who tend to eat worse when they are alone.
Although half of women feel good about their eating habits, more than one-third (39 percent) feel they could be better and 7 percent feel really bad about their habits.
Overall, women attempt to eat healthy. Most women (73 percent) are looking at nutrition labels and more than half (53 percent) of women have tried to buy more healthful foods in the past year.
More than half (55 percent) of women have tried to get their family to eat healthier, however nearly one quarter (23 percent) have been unsuccessful in their attempts.
Dinner (37 percent) and breakfast (36 percent) finish equally as the healthiest meal women eat in a day; only 24 percent feel lunch is the healthiest meal they eat.
Cravings are another obstacle that can sideline healthy eating habits. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of women admit to having regular cravings of a particular food, with chocolate (43 percent) being the number one culprit. There is hope, as 45 percent of women actually crave healthy foods including 39 percent who regularly crave fruits and 34 percent who regularly crave salad or vegetables.
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You know this drill and you've likely heard it all before – but do you do it? Here are seven tried-and-true tricks that can result in better eating if you make them a habit.
Eat breakfast. Even if you're not hungry, grab a combo of low-fat dairy, whole grains, fruit, and a little protein. It can set a healthy tone for the day, fuel your mind and body, and prevent overeating at lunch.
Limit distractions. Turn off the TV, radio, and computer and focus on enjoying food when eating. It can also help you recognize feelings of fullness.
Eat slowly. Keep food in your mouth longer and chew it thoroughly. By slowing down, you'll give your brain more time to register that you've had enough.
Don't drink calories. Save your calories for foods that will fill you up, and sip no-cal water, seltzer, and tea.
Plan snacks. Don't leave snacking to chance; when you're hungry, you might not make healthy choices. Carry fruit, an energy bar, or a small bag of homemade trail mix in your purse.
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Amy Adams has always had that girl-next-door charm. So much so that when we got a first glance at Interview magazine's July cover, we hardly recognized her with that vampy dark pout, shellacked hair, and sleepy stare. She appears alongside her Superman co-star, the adonis-like Henry Cavill, who is equally as brooding and looks nothing like the sweet Peter Parker we'd expect.
The two make quite a pair in the nuanced black-and-white photographs; if each wasn't already spoken for, we'd be convinced they were embroiled in a steamy off-screen romance.
For a more recognizable Adams, see her in W Magazine's brightest stars spread, where she talks about her unrequited affection for lunging Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of 2002′s Catch Me If You Can.
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National Data on Intimate Partner Violence
National Intimate Partner Violence Statistics
In 2005, there was IPV in about 1 in every 320 U.S. households.2
For 2008, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that:
- IPV constituted 5% of all violence against males and 22% of all violence against females in the U.S.3
- The rate of IPV for females age 12 or older was 4.3 per 1,000, a 53% decrease since 1993. Against males, the rate was 0.8 victimizations per 1,000, a 54% decrease since 1993.4
- 72% of IPV against males and 49% of IPV against females was reported to police.
- About 99% of IPV against females was committed by male offenders, and about 83% of IPV against males was committed by female offenders.5
In 2007, intimate partners were responsible for 16% of nonfatal violence against women with disabilities, and 5% of violence against men with disabilities. (The comparable figures for women and men without disabilities were 27% and 3%.)6
On average between 2001 and 2005:
- Women aged 20 to 24 were at greater risk of IPV than other age groups.7
- The annual per capita rate of IPV was similar for black and white women and for Hispanic and non-Hispanic women and men, and higher for American Indian and Alaska Native women.8
Though the actual number of cases of IPV against LGBTQ people is impossible to know, 15 Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Projects nationwide received 3,658 calls related to IPV in 2009, up 15% from 2008. Calls came from roughly equal numbers of men and women, and from almost three times as many women as men who identified as transgender.9
In 2005, in stalking cases where the victim/offender relationship was known, 28% of stalkers were current or former intimate partners. (This figure includes cases that the study defined as "harassment," which would have counted as stalking under NYS law.)10
In the mid-1990s, 59% of female stalking victims and 30% of male victims reported being stalked by a current or former intimate partner. 81% of women stalked by an intimate partner were also physically assaulted and 31% were also sexually assaulted by the same partner.11
In the US every year, about 18,700 incidents of violence in the workplace are committed by a worker's current or former intimate partner.12Next: Intimate Partner Homicide
- Klaus, P. (2007). Crime and the Nation's Households, 2005. Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 217198,
- Truman, J.L. (2011). Criminal Victimization, 2010. (National Crime Victimization Survey).
- Catalano, S., Rand, M., Smith, E., & Snyder, H. (2009). Female Victims of Violence. BJS.
- Ibid.
- Rand, M.R. & Harrell, E., (2009). Crime Against People with Disabilities, 2007, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- Klaus, P. (2007). Crime and the Nation's Households, 2005. Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 217198,
- Ibid. (2007 data are available, but due to questions resulting from data collection changes since 2005, data from 2005 are reported here.)
- National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, (2010). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence in the United States in 2009.
- Baum, K., Catalano, S., Rand, M. & Rose, K. (2009.) Stalking Victimization in the United States, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 224527.
- Tjaden, P. & Thoennes, N. (1998). Stalking in America: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey, National Institute of Justice, NCJ 169592.
- Duhart, D.T., (2001). Violence In The Workplace 1993-99, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 190076


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Looking at the device, it's powered by a Y-cable USB.... That isn't good news for those who currently power a USB hard drive through their Wii U this way.
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@ben- I don't, much like nobody knows if they actually will make any money on it. It's all very well saying Nintendo paid the last 2 Million to fund it, something a citation wouldn't go amiss on but don't forget how much Platinum have put into this game over it's production run, 40,000 copies isn't that great to be honest, and 24,000 for Fatal Frame, even less so, sure a game doesn't need to sell a million copies to be considered profitable / successful but less than 100,000 copies could certainly be seen as less than stellar.
Don't forget that Wii U games in particular don't stay in the charts for very long so it's entirely possible that Bayo 2 only sells 100,000 copies in it's lifetime in Japan. Fatal Frame and even Hyrule Warriors are in the same boat, a big company like Nintendo are used to ever-green selling titles like all those Wii and DS games that kept selling and selling, something I'm not seeing from the Wii U, at all.
Again, love the U, it's just the harsh reality of it.
@ben- I didn't bring Sony into it.... As far as I'm aware, losing money is the same which ever way you look at it. You could lose £1000 or £1,000,000 - if it's business, you're still not making the money required to keep a company successful in the long run.
I love the Wii U, I'm just saying that the proof is in the pudding that others don't.
Hmmm..... Things aren't looking particularly great for the Wii U are they?
I really expected Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2 and Fatal Frame to boost the Wii U to Destiny PS4 launch week totals. People really don't like the Wii U and to be fair, without 3rd party support, who can blame them?
2015 I'm pretty sure brings no major 3rd party support to the machine and that leaves Nintendo just solely supporting their machine with Indies picking up the slack digitally, why Nintendo aren't co-publishing big titles and using Nintendo Direct to advertise the eShop indie stuff is just painful to watch.
I love my Wii U but I can also see when it's time to cut the lost cause, the 3DS is keeping Nintendo in a relatively safe position currently, but the home console? Could be time to ditch it and move on... I'm looking forward to Yoshi Yarn, Xenoblade, Star Fox and all the other glorious Nintendo games but I can't help but feel they would have a greater impact as launch titles for a new Nintendo home console rather than the Wii U that is just sucking resources and is pretty much Nintendo's 21st century Virtual Boy.
It could very well be coming to Wii U and that could be a double-sided poster, behind the poster is the Wii U section, isn't it? Also the colouring of blue is usually associated with Wii U and red for 3DS. - If I was to look too much into it / wishful think.
But yeah, chances are is isn't coming, pretty sure Capcom even said they weren't happy with bringing it to Wii U...
I'd be interested if I didn't have pretty much everything in the Wii U's library to complete first.
Once it goes into a sale I'd be quite keen but I'd sooner have had Dirt on Wii U. Still, if enough people buy this I guess!
I convinced two of my friends to go out and buy new Wii U's so I guess I have them to thank towards that uptake in sales. As long as the console keeps a year on year increase, it should be okay - nothing stellar; but okay, at least.
I'm not sure I totally agree with a lot of the statements that cite the Wii U selling terribly.... Sure, it doesn't sell half as well as Nintendo expected but Christmas has actually been quite kind to the U and there's no reason to think that it won't continue to tick over in the light of the software that's coming.
It's good that F1 Race Stars is coming, it's a shame it won't sell enough to warrant DIRT coming to the system as well.
I honestly hope this is a real leak. Nintendo need their other franchises from here on in, not just Mario.
That controller looks like a 360 controller but the blue light indicates it maybe a Wii U Pro Controller, I guess..


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H&S shifting help
I am currently riding around on HD300 tune with late lock and get no more than 14mpg. (lie-o-meter and hand calculations match up). Have tried the early lock and got a little better MPG but don't like how it shifts.
In early lock TC doesn't lock up in 5th until 55mph which I see no benefit to me as I do 90% city driving which is around 50mph so my rpms in 5th are usually around 1800 so i don't see how that would help with fuel economy.
If i ride around on the early lock with a light foot will the shift points change any? Or would my best bet be to get custom tunes?
Load up the others and see what you like best. I drive like a girl so I lock in 4th on low
custom tunes FTW, but the best canned shifting for daily driving I liked S2M
I'm running S2M also now. Only been a few days. I was running S1M for about a month and like you, I do a lot of 50mph cruising, so it didn't stay put. It would go in and out of TC lock with a change of a few mph's.
I stay in the 300HD tune as well. Early 4th and 5th lock up, and I shift to 5th lock at about 52 mph. For me it works well. Living out of town, I usually keep it around 60 mph on the way home. I see about 12 mpg in town and can get about 16-17 on the highway (depends on head winds, hills, etc.) 75 mph speed limit on the freeways here kills the mileage.
everyone is afraid of engine RPM, and equate higher RPM's with more fuel consumption... which is true... but not exactly true.
you fellers are talking about 4th and 5th t/c lockup, and the schedule for shifting- which is related directly to engine speed, and while speaking engine speed through known gear reductions (trans and axle ratio), it is directly related to speed... so, we say a transmission shifts at a given speed, when actually, it shifts at a certain engine speed and load ratio...... if the load is less, it shifts sooner- if you bury the throttle in any given gear the pcm tells the tcm to drop a gear to lever the required torque until it lessens engine load..
if you can follow all of that through my terrible attempt at communicating it, then you can follow this, too:
if an engine is loaded at 35% of it's capacity to maintain it's engine speed, and it decreases it's leverage by shifting to a higher gear- in order for that engine to maintain that engine speed using the higher gear (5th, t/c locked, let's say) it HAS to increase the engine load... so... for speaking terms, that engine load effort to maintain engine speed increases from 35% to 50%... you're running a gear higher, turning less RPM's to maintain the same forward speed as 4th gear provided, but your engine load increased- so... you are burning about the same amount at best, or even MORE fuel...
the 5th gear shift is a misnomer on either side of the scheduled shift, and possibly misdirection.. yeah, you're turning less RPM's, but you are likely burning just as much fuel... at the speeds selected for programming, it is the hinge that usually differentiates drivers and not trucks/rigs...
T/C lockup is another thing altogether- and the drop in RPM's is absolutely a red herring insofar as fuel consumption is concerned- it, imHo, should not be considered AT ALL when you're trying to drive economically.. the function of the locking device is to match engine RPM's to input shaft of the transmission's RPM while locked... it is a device to decrease what a lot of folks call 'torque amplification', but what is better described as 'torque INERTIA amplification'... when the t/c locks, the rpms of the crank match the rpm's of the input shaft, which decreases the motion and lessens the HEAT a transmission generates- that is it's purpose, make no mistake... it is a very nice little thing to protect the transmission when the engine can produce enough torque to carry the entire brunt of the truck+load. When the engine is stressed to maintain that comfortably, the computer unlocks the t/c and uses that 'torque inertia amplification' to it's advantage, and at the cost of the transmission generating considerably more heat.
you guys are speaking of engine speeds around 48~54mph, where the H&S schedules (canned) are set (again, it's easiest to describe it in forward speed, but it's actually an engine speed expressed in RPM compared to an engine load calculation- but also understand, those two items are mathematically bound- you give me overall drive gear ratio, engine speed, and if your trans is not slipping, I can give you forward speed, or give me any of those two and I can tell you the third with a certainty.. if you give me all three and they don't jive, I can tell yuo how bad your transmission is slipping) the differences in gear selection, t/c early lock or not, need to be tailored to the individual driver and their needs... you MAY find that locking later, in your case, saves fuel.. you may find that your engine produces plenty of torque for your average load, and you can lock earlier...
don't be afraid of the RPM's, though, and equate them to excess fuel consumption.. they are only cousins; they are not brothers.
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COVINGTON - A reason to win is a big motivation for getting a team ready to play.Alcovy's motivation against Forest Park is simple: A trip to the Class AAAA playoffs. "There's still a bunch of scenarios out there but if we win we're in for sure," Alcovy coach Kirk Hoffmann said. Even though Forest Park (1-7 overall, 0-6 Region 4-AAAA) has only scored 26 points, while allowing 287, in their eight games, Hoffman is not going to let his Tigers (6-2, 4-2) overlook them. "The problem is that they shoot themselves in the foot. I saw them last week at Dutchtown and they were inside the 10 three times and they didn't score," Hoffman said. "They've been in a game for a half. They just can't seem to put a game together. Two weeks ago against Jonesboro, they were winning at the half 7-6. Then they got beat like 21-7." The Tigers know the importance of putting two good halves of football together. After playing a good half of football against Mt. Zion last week where they had a 10-6 lead, they let the Bulldogs push them around some in the second half and ended up losing 22-10. "The thing that we have to realize is that we have to come ready to play every week. If you come out flat and you don't play well for a half, you let the other team sneak back in. Then you're only one or two fumbles away from being in trouble," Hoffmann said. "It's the same situation as last week. We played hard for a half and we were in there. Then we had two or three mistakes and the game just got away from us." Making a trip the playoffs a reality for the Tigers is going to fall on the Alcovy defense. While Forest Park's offense has not put up a lot of points, Hoffman feels that coach Roderick Perrymond's team is dangerous with its ability to throw the ball. "When you throw the ball it's like darts at a dartboard; eventually you're going to hit the bull's eye," Hoffmann said. "They have the ability to big play you because of what they do. Defensively, we have to continue doing what we're doing and that's play well in all phases and play disciplined football. "Everyone has to do their role and that's by playing disciplined football by being at the right place at the right time and not give up the big plays." Offensively, the Tigers offensive line has to give quarterback Rod Tolen time to throw and open some lanes for primary running back Tre Sorrells. "We came in knowing we were young upfront and we also lost some to injuries. The thing is that we have to play through that and just keep working," Hoffmann said. Despite the Panthers defense giving up an average of 36 points per game including three mercy rules - 65-0 by Mt. Zion, 50-0 by Griffin and 36-0 by Dutchtown - Hoffmann does not plan on ending the game with a running clock for a fourth time. "I've always said this and if you watch us, I don't run the score up on people. That's not high school football. You do the right thing," Hoffmann said. "If we get a lead we'll get some new kids in." SideBar: At a glance · Who: Alcovy Tigers (6-2, 4-2) at Forest Park Panthers (1-7, 0-6) · When: 7:30 p.m. Friday · Where: Tara Stadium 1055 Battle Creek Road, Jonesboro · Last week: Alcovy lost to Mount Zion 22-10; Forest Park lost to Dutchtown 36-0 · Series: Alcovy leads 1-0 · Last season: Alcovy won 38-21
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Strategies to Help Adult ED Patients Quit Smoking
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether a brief, focused intervention in the hospital emergency department is effective in helping adults quit smoking.
Tobacco Use
Drug: transdermal nicotine patches
Behavioral: Motivational interview
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Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
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- 3-month cessation rate
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In urban communities, the prevalence of tobacco use among adults visiting a hospital emergency department (ED) nears 40%, well in excess of the 25% smoking prevalence rate of the general population. Many of these patients lack easy access to primary care, suggesting the ED may be an attractive locus to initiate tobacco cessation efforts. With over 100 million annual visits to U.S. EDs, it may be possible to engage millions of smokers in tobacco cessation efforts. The major purpose of this study is to examine whether a multicomponent intervention delivered in the ED by a Lay Educator to adult smokers interested in quitting is more likely to result in cessation than usual care. A secondary goal is to test whether patients who present to the ED with a tobacco-related illness (as indicated by ICD9 code) are more likely to quit than ED smokers with a non-tobacco-related condition. This will allow us to test the validity of the "teachable moment" as an opportune time to engage patients in considering a behavioral change. The proposed study is a randomized trial of a motivational interview, provision of six weeks' worth of nicotine patches, literature, and post-visit follow-up (Enhanced Care) vs. referral to a cessation clinic (Minimal Care) for ED patients who smoke. Eligibility criteria: age > 21 years, contemplation or preparation stage of change, not admitted to hospital. All patients will undergo a standardized stage of change assessment, and measurements of nicotine dependence and exhaled carbon monoxide. All will receive a cessation fact sheet and referral card to the smoking cessation clinic; the cards of those in the Enhanced Care group will have a specific appointment date and time. The Enhanced Care group will receive a language-appropriate pamphlet discussing smoking cessation. We will record the ICD9 codes associated with each visit. Major outcome measure: cessation within 3 months of the ED visit, stratified by treatment group. Secondary outcome measure: cessation within 3 months of the ED visit, stratified by whether the visit was smoking-related. If smokers receiving Enhanced Care are more likely to quit, then the ED could be considered a new, effective locus for tobacco control, potentially reaching several million smokers. If patients with a smoking-related diagnosis for the ED visit are more likely to quit than those with non-smoking-related ICD9, then this supports the construct of the teachable moment.
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New THOR: THE DARK WORLD Featurette Puts The Spotlight On MALEKITH: Plus Alan Taylor On A Possible MARVEL Movie Return
We're now only one week away from the US premiere of Thor: The Dark World. As we in the states inch ever closer to the return of the god of thunder, the cast and crew are making the final press rounds. We've heard a lot from Alan Taylor and Kevin Feige the last few weeks, and today we hear a little more. EW released a new featurette for the highly anticipated Thor sequel that puts the spotlight on the villain-
Loki no I mean the other one, Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston). While it is a Malekith-centric featurette, it does give us a few incredible glances at Kurse. Kevin Feige commented on the recent string of big villains taking over movies (ie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron):
We didn't sit down and say, okay now bring on the bad guys. The heroes are the focus and the drivers. We choose those villains because of what you hope they will bring out in the hero. Malekith and the dark elves give Thor a noble foe, tap into Asgardian history, and bring about somebody who is worse than Loki, to put Thor in a position where he had to ask for his brother's help.
In related news, Alan Taylor continued shooting from the hip about his experiences directing the film. He's been pretty adamant about the fact he's not a fan of the mid-credits sequence and how he had a minor disagreement with Marvel regarding the film's composer, but now he addresses the question of whether he'd like to direct another Marvel movie again. He doesn't shy away from talking about the fly by night style of Marvel (via ScreenRant):
You mean start all over again? No. It was fun and quite an adventure, but… almost 2 years – too long away from family. But I'd be willing to – and eager to take on another big adventure just not go back and redo the same one. But you didn't really mean remake Thor 2, did you? [Laughs]. One of the things that's exciting and keeps us on the edge of our seats about Marvel is that they never announce what they're going to do until the last minute. Will there be a Thor 3? I certainly hope so. They'll probably wait until this one comes out before they let the world know. Thor will be back in Avengers 2, and I think he certainly deserves a Thor 3, but that's up to the gods are Marvel to decide.
My experience with Marvel is that they are literally making it up as they go. They have a grand vision that we've been witnessing in Phase I, Phase II and Phase III, but literally, in the details, they make it up as they go – and I saw that up-close and personal when we were doing [Thor 2], when major elements were being worked out, really, in the making of the movie.
Because the featurette is on EW, the video isn't embeddable. You can click the pic below to check out the full featurette. What do you think about Feige and Taylor's latest comments? Are you ready for a trip to Asgard next week?
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Archive for the 'politics' Category
Vote Democrat They Say, But Then We Are Ending Worse Off We Say…
Wastebook 2014: What Washington doesn't want you to read
Andrew Huszar: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer
From WSJ
I can only say: I'm sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed's first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a tool for helping Main Street. But I've come to recognize the program for what it really is: the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.
Five years ago this month, on Black Friday, the Fed launched an unprecedented shopping spree. By that point in the financial crisis, Congress had already passed legislation, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, to halt the U.S. banking system's free fall. Beyond Wall Street, though, the economic pain was still soaring. In the last three months of 2008 alone, almost two million Americans would lose their jobs.
The Fed said it wanted to help—through a new program of massive bond purchases. There were secondary goals, but Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear that the Fed's central motivation was to "affect credit conditions for households and businesses": to drive down the cost of credit so that more Americans hurting from the tanking economy could use it to weather the downturn. For this reason, he originally called the initiative "credit easing."
My part of the story began a few months later. Having been at the Fed for seven years, until early 2008, I was working on Wall Street in spring 2009 when I got an unexpected phone call. Would I come back to work on the Fed's trading floor? The job: managing what was at the heart of QE's bond-buying spree—a wild attempt to buy $1.25 trillion in mortgage bonds in 12 months. Incredibly, the Fed was calling to ask if I wanted to quarterback the largest economic stimulus in U.S. history….
The Global Threat Of Our Time…OBAMA!!!
High hopes for Obama's second coming in Africa – LOL, Sure, when he focuses like a laser towards something there will be results…..Just not the ones he was telling us about…
….The focus on trade and investment that President Barack Obama plans to bring to his second coming in Africa will be welcome both for the countries he is visiting this week – Senegal in the west, South Africa and Tanzania in the east – and for the US companies waking up to African economic potential.
Obama to Take Action on Global Climate Change…video after the jump. Sure the A..hole leads by example
Links 06-25-2013
10 things Generation Y won't tell you
They saw the World Trade Center towers crumble, and they struggled to find or keep a job in a tough economy. All before the age of 30 or so. Generation Y was born in the 1980s and '90s—roughly those now between the ages of 18 and 34 (though experts disagree on the precise time frame). These so-called millennials are mostly the children of baby boomers, and at more than 82 million strong, they now outnumber the members of the boomer generation, according to the National Conference on Citizenship.
But the millennials have grown into adulthood with some personality problems that the boomers lacked, according to psychologists who measure such things, including high rates of narcissism, materialism, unrealistically inflated expectations and a startling lack of independence. American college students scored 30% higher on the 40-item Narcissistic Personality Index in 2006 than they did in 1979, for instance, according to a study led by psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University.
Why the Economy is about to tank… – The protest in Turkey, Brazil and other countries is about who will pay the cost of the economic "recovery"….
Why the middle-class revolt has begun – "The protesters are performing the same role as middle classes have in developed nations," Rohde says. "As their standard of living rises, so do their expectations of government."
Movements in Turkey, Brazil and Iran provide a blueprint for a different kind of economic uprising.
76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck
Fewer than one in four Americans have enough money in their savings account to cover at least six months of expenses, enough to help cushion the blow of a job loss, medical emergency or some other unexpected event, according to the survey of 1,000 adults. Meanwhile, 50% of those surveyed have less than a three-month cushion and 27% had no savings at all.
Kansas Vs. California: Red Takes On Blue, Beef Tackles Tofu
Republicans and Democrats in our nation's capital are busy playing Check and Balance, better known as politics as usual. With jobs and the economy still the number one issue on Americans' minds, the Republican House is pre-occupied with bills about abortion and the repeal of Obamacare, passing legislation that everyone knows is dead on arrival in the Senate. And so things go, or don't go, in Washington. But a more interesting playing field for red and blue politics can be found in state capitals across the country. States have long been recognized as "laboratories of democracy," according to the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, where "novel social and economic experiments [can be tried] without risk to the rest of the country." And such experimentation is far more likely when a state is dominated by one political party as are both of my "home" states, Kansas and California.
Italy could need EU rescue within six months, warns Mediobanca
Italy is likely to need an EU rescue within six months as the country slides into deeper economic crisis and a credit crunch spreads to large companies, a top Italian bank has warned privately.
Takeaway: Contrary to consensus perception, the real headwinds facing China's banking system are structural (i.e. NOT cyclical) in nature.
Chinese stocks closed at a level unseen since the global financial crisis in 2009 on Tuesday, as analysts warned a liquidity squeeze was raising the risk of a hard landing for the world's second largest economy. For more than two weeks, funds have been in short supply on China's interbank market and the interest rates banks charge to lend to each other have surged to record highs. Instead of pumping money into the system, the central People's Bank of China (PBoC) has stood firm, on Monday ruling out providing fresh cash and ordering banks to put their financial houses in order.
Military suicides reach 350 in 2012
Five years ago, Joe Miller, then an Army Ranger captain with three Iraq tours under his belt, sat inside his home near Fort Bragg holding a cocked Beretta 40mm, and prepared to kill himself.
He didn't pull the trigger. So Miller's name wasn't added to the list of active-duty U.S. military men and women who have committed suicide. That tally reached 350 last year, a record pace of nearly one a day. That's more than the 295 American troops who were killed in Afghanistan in the same year.
"I Am Sorry That It Has Come to This": A Soldier's Last Words
Daniel Somers was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was part of Task Force Lightning, an intelligence unit. In 2004-2005, he was mainly assigned to a Tactical Human-Intelligence Team (THT) in Baghdad, Iraq, where he ran more than 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a Humvee, interviewed countless Iraqis ranging from concerned citizens to community leaders and and government officials, and interrogated dozens of insurgents and terrorist suspects. In 2006-2007, Daniel worked with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) through his former unit in Mosul where he ran the Northern Iraq Intelligence Center. His official role was as a senior analyst for the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and part of Turkey). Daniel suffered greatly from PTSD and had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and several other war-related conditions. On June 10, 2013, Daniel wrote the following letter to his family before taking his life. Daniel was 30 years old. His wife and family have given permission to publish it. ……
I really have been trying to hang on, for more than a decade now. Each day has been a testament to the extent to which I cared, suffering unspeakable horror as quietly as possible so that you could feel as though I was still here for you. In truth, I was nothing more than a prop, filling space so that my absence would not be noted. In truth, I have already been absent for a long, long time.
My body has become nothing but a cage, a source of pain and constant problems. The illness I have has caused me pain that not even the strongest medicines could dull, and there is no cure. All day, every day a screaming agony in every nerve ending in my body. It is nothing short of torture. My mind is a wasteland, filled with visions of incredible horror, unceasing depression, and crippling anxiety, even with all of the medications the doctors dare give. Simple things that everyone else takes for granted are nearly impossible for me. I can not laugh or cry. I can barely leave the house. I derive no pleasure from any activity. Everything simply comes down to passing time until I can sleep again. Now, to sleep forever seems to be the most merciful thing.
You must not blame yourself. The simple truth is this: During my first deployment, I was made to participate in things, the enormity of which is hard to describe. War crimes, crimes against humanity. Though I did not participate willingly, and made what I thought was my best effort to stop these events, there are some things that a person simply can not come back from. I take some pride in that, actually, as to move on in life after being part of such a thing would be the mark of a sociopath in my mind. These things go far beyond what most are even aware of.
Is it any wonder then that the latest figures show 22 veterans killing themselves each day? That is more veterans than children killed at Sandy Hook, every single day. Where are the huge policy initiatives? Why isn't the president standing with those families at the state of the union? Perhaps because we were not killed by a single lunatic, but rather by his own system of dehumanization, neglect, and indifference.
IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 'Unauthorized' Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address
Other locations on the IG's Top Ten list for singular addresses that were theoretically used simultaneously by thousands of unauthorized alien workers, included an address in Oxnard, Calif, where the IRS sent 2,507 refunds worth $10,395,874; an address in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the IRS sent 2,408 refunds worth $7,284,212; an address in Phoenix, Ariz., where the IRS sent 2,047 refunds worth $5,558,608; an address in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the IRS sent 1,972 refunds worth $2,256,302; an address in San Jose, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,942 refunds worth $5,091,027; and an address in Arvin, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,846 refunds worth $3,298,877.
High tech rifle turns novice into marksman
Links 06-24-2013
Rick Santelli EPIC Rant – Mr. Chairman, What Are You Afraid Of? -6/19/2013
Dr. Doom: "A Lot Of Problems Are Coming… Revolution… Social Strife…"
Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers
"The main results are of the first rank," one of the referees wrote. The author had proved "a landmark theorem in the distribution of prime numbers."
Rumors swept through the mathematics community that a great advance had been made by a researcher no one seemed to know — someone whose talents had been so overlooked after he earned his doctorate in 1992 that he had found it difficult to get an academic job, working for several years as an accountant and even in a Subway sandwich shop.
"Basically, no one knows him," said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at the Université de Montréal. "Now, suddenly, he has proved one of the great results in the history of number theory."
Mathematicians at Harvard University hastily arranged for Zhang to present his work to a packed audience there on May 13. As details of his work have emerged, it has become clear that Zhang achieved his result not via a radically new approach to the problem, but by applying existing methods with great perseverance.
"The big experts in the field had already tried to make this approach work," Granville said. "He's not a known expert, but he succeeded where all the experts had failed."
The Long and Happy Lives of Lobsters
As best scientists can tell, lobsters age so gracefully they show no measurable signs of aging: no loss of appetite, no change in metabolism, no loss of reproductive urge or ability, no decline in strength or health. Lobsters, when they die, seem to die from external causes.
Vermont Is Mad as Hell at Patent Trolls and Is Not Going to Take It Anymore
There is exciting news out of the Green Mountain State this week: folks in Vermont are so fed up with patent troll abuse that they are taking matters into their own hands. With trolls filing thousands of lawsuits every year and blanketing the country in threat letters, states are looking for ways to protect victims—especially small entities that lack the resources to defend against a patent suit. Vermont is tackling trolls on two separate fronts…
They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed Americans Is At A Record Low
In a previous article, I detailed how the number of new businesses (and the number of jobs those businesses create) has been steadily declining. In particular, this decline has accelerated dramatically under the Obama administration. According to an analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data performed by economist Tim Kane, the following is how the decline in the number of startup jobs per 1000 Americans breaks down by presidential administration…
Bush Sr.: 11.3
Clinton: 11.2
Bush Jr.: 10.8
Obama: 7.8
Is that a good trend or a bad trend?
It doesn't take an advanced degree in economics to figure out where things are going.
Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause "suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel" but the spending cuts haven't killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon.
A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market
Somewhere between a fifth to a third of the million students graduating out of India's engineering colleges run the risk of being unemployed. Others will take jobs well below their technical qualifications in a market where there are few jobs for India's overflowing technical talent pool. Beset by a flood of institutes (offering a varying degree of education) and a shrinking market for their skills, India's engineers are struggling to subsist in an extremely challenging market.
College Grads Are Jobless In China's "High-Growth" Economy
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Securityreports that 6.99 million students will graduate from institutions of higher learning in the country this year. That's the biggest class in the history of China, 190,000 more than in 2012.
Chinese leaders aren't smiling, however. There are not nearly enough jobs for all the fresh-faced talent, and the lack of opportunity reveals much about China's faltering economy.


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Madison, WI (Sports Network) - Jared Berggren scored a game-high 19 points and pulled down eight rebounds to lead No. 23 Wisconsin to an 87-47 win over Southeastern Louisiana on Sunday.
Ben Brust posted a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds and Mike Bruesewitz chipped in with 10 points for the Badgers (1-0), who were eliminated in the Sweet Sixteen by Syracuse last season.
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Sales tax allocation $116,357.58 headed for Houston County entities
Houston County Courier
By Lynda Jones
Managing Editor
The five municipalities in Houston County will receive a cumulative total of $116,357.58 in September sales tax allocations from the state comptroller' office. These sales tax figures represent sales made in July. Crockett will receive $102,543.00, which is 28.31 percent more than the comparable payment received one year ago. So far in 2010, Crockett has received payments totaling $1,004,171.49, a 5.29 decrease from the $1,060,298.42 received for 2009. Grapeland's sales tax allocation is down 48.51 percent from one year ago. That city's September allocation is $9,060.52. Grapeland has received $130,579.86 in sales tax allocations this year, a 5.09 percent decrease from the $137,589.48 received for 2009. Kennard will receive $1,195.94 in the September disbursement, a 12.34 percent increase since one year ago. The total sales tax allocations Kennard has received in 2010 is $10,439.75, a 9.08 decrease from 2009. Latexo continues to show the largest percentage increase in the county. Latexo will receive $1,194.76, a 269.70 percent increase over the $323.17 payment it received one year ago. The total received so far by Latexo for 2010 is $10,404.64, a 46.55 percent increase over the $7,099.37 amount collected to date for 2009. Lovelady will receive $2,363.36 this month, which is a 7.44 percent increase over the $2,199.59 it received one year ago. Lovelady's allocations to date for 2010 are $20,679.28, a decrease of 36.47 percent from the $32,553.22 collected to date for 2009. Houston County will receive $47,071.16, a 15.49 percent decrease over the $55,703.01 allotment received one year ago. To date, for 2010, the county has received $638,109.96 in sales tax allocations. This is a 14.5 percent increase over the $557,298.23 received for 2009, to date. According to Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, the state collected $1.77 billion in sales tax in August, up 0.8 percent compared to a year ago. "Monthly sales tax collections continue to slightly exceed year-ago levels. While some major sectors including oil and gas and manufacturing were up, other sectors including construction and retail trade dropped from the previous year," said Combs. "For fiscal 2010, which began Sept. 1, 2009, collections declined through the first seven months of the year, often by double-digit percentages, but the modest increases during the last five months resulted in an overall decline of 6.6 percent for the fiscal year. Overall, state sales tax collections appear to have stabilized, but solid growth has not yet resumed." Houston 0.500% 47,071.16 55,703.01 -15.49% 638,109.96 557,298.23 14.50%
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