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Adam Hunter
Adam Hunter is one of the hottest young stand up comedians around today. He is full of exciting energy that makes crowds go wild. He headlines all over the country, putting his heart and soul into every performance with an act that is brash, deep and most importantly, funny. Adam is one of the hardest working comics around, performing every night of the week, usually 2 or 3 shows a night. His live ticket at comedy clubs is always hot as his act is universal and night after night Adam Hunter delivers a powerful message that keeps audiences on the edges of their seats.
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Halli Borgfjord
Halli Borgfjord grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a well-rounded family where he enjoyed the comfort of suburban life. Being the middle child, Halli was naturally inclined to be in the spotlight and initially had childhood dreams of becoming an actor, but as a young teenager Halli fell in love with the show "Friday Night Stand-Up" on Comedy Central and from that moment on knew someday he would be a comedian himself. All through grade school and into college Halli was the biggest student of stand-up. While his friends were buying the latest pop albums, Halli was listening to George Carlin and going to see legends such as Jerry Seinfeld and Mitch Hedberg in concert.
Due to his relentless study and passion for comedy Halli was a natural on stage. Starting his comedy career in college, Halli became an instant success with his quick wit and ability to point out the insanity of everyday life. Shortly after beginning his stand-up career, Halli obtained some success by becoming a finalist in a local stand-up competition and from there he began to perform in the bigger clubs in Chicago and across the midwest.
Halli now resides in Los Angeles, CA and is a crowd favorite all across the country. Halli appears regularly in Las Vegas opening for comedy legend, Louie Anderson and he also appeared briefly on the 2010 Green Card Tour with Russell Peters. In Los Angeles, Halli runs his own regular show, "A Comedy SmorgasBorg" at the World Famous Comedy Store and is a regular on the hottest college show in the country, "Comedy Juice." Halli has been featured in Life Magazine and in August 2010 Campus Activities Magazine named Halli to their "Hot Comedy" list as one of the top comedians of 2011. In September 2010 Halli released his first full-length comedy album"Have You Been Borgfjorded Lately?" The album debuted at #2 overall on the iTunes Top Comedy Charts. Halli continues to tour nationally and his comedy album is currently available on iTunes and Amazon.
Adam Ray
Adam Ray is best known as the bad guy opposite Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy in Paul Feig's buddy cop comedy "The Heat." Currently you can see him in Melissa McCarthy's newest movie "SPY", and next summer in Judd Apatow's "Connor 4 Real," from the Lonely Island crew, and & Paul Feig's reboot of "Ghostbusters." Adam has guest starred on Two Broke Girls, WORKAHOLICS, Arrested Development, According to Jim, HBO's Silicon Valley, Comedy Central's @Midnight, Chelsea Lately, and has written for MTV's PUNKD. His standup has been featured on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson & Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central, and he's a regular on The Adam Carolla podcast. Adam co-hosts the popular ABOUT LAST NIGHT podcast that's welcomed guests like Bob Saget, Melissa McCarthy, Lisa Kudrow, Dana Carvey, Tony Danza, Jeff Garlin, and Kevin Nealon. Check out AdamRayTV.com to see all of his hilarious sketches that have over 30 million views on Youtube & Funnyordie.
Check out Adam's hilarious podcast with Co-Host Brad Williams at: http://sideshownetwork.tv/category/podcasts/comedy/about-last-night/
Brody Stevens
Brody Stevens is the executive producer and star of the unique Comedy Central TV series "Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!", co-created and produced by Zach Galifianakis. Brody is also the host of two popular podcast series - "The Steven Brody Stevens Festival of Friendship" on the Feral Audio Network, and "Brode and Esther" on Deathsquad. In addition, Brody hosted his own live video podcast "Positive Push with Brody Stevens" on Youtube's Video Podcast Network.
Stevens has appeared on Conan, Chelsea Lately, @midnight, Premium Blend, TMZ, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Late World with Zach, The Best Damn Sports Show Period, Tosh.0, Fox NFL Sunday, Playboy Morning Radio and on podcasts by Jay Mohr, Joe Rogan and WTF with Marc Maron. Brody also appeared in the movies Jesus Is Magic, Due Date, The Hangover and The Hangover Part II. He was, however, cut out of the movie Funny People.
Most recently, Brody released his Comedy Central Half-Hour Special in January, 2014.
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One of the many projects from CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn has received a pilot order from CBS. Widow Detective is among the many projects the prolific TV guru had sold to various networks months ago, and has been picked up to pilot.
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If you have the skills and can also scam.
If you have the print, and can also scan,
Then you have the tools,
Of the wise and the fools,
Provided you can take a rightful stand!
The variously chronicled history of the world, often suggests that perhaps it all started with scams or happenings close to the meaning the word carries. The Holy books, and sermons rarely spare the topic. That thou art a sinner, has been a great stimulant for many to reform. If not, do something for your primordial ancestors who were such.
The pathways to immortality often stress on a perfect mortality, which means, no taxes or NOC pending in any of your earthly files, death duty paid in advance, and leaving a "will" that none of the lawyers engaged by existing aspirants, legitimate, or accidentally illegitimate, can exploit. For endless Bliss in Paradise, they may count the Sundays you prayed, or fasted on defined occasions. That you kept your temptations at bay from devouring objectionable or holy animals. That you never gave a lustful look to a pretty woman who worked so hard for the face and figure. Man you just made it to the next strata of life, the world has always been speculating about.
Money, that now comes through bribes, incentives for facilitating a government tender, allotting an oilfield to thyself, by the process of oiling the concerned machinery, was never yours to take. You never created counterfeit notes, but doubled your worth by making money travel back and forth (also called 'round tripping') Despite so many wars, you never picked up a weapon, just supplied to those who needed them for a small service charge (so what if it is in millions). Man you are truly blessed, or damn blessed! One can continue.
The backdrop is a recent statement that a government of "skills" works better than one ridden with "scams", or should we say those who did not have the skills of covering their scams! The essence is that you do not start passing the ball within your own "D". You may blunder in conceding a self-goal, or even face the ignominy of an opponent biting your shoulder, and before you can cry "foul", see the ball hitting the net! You may gather some sympathy by showing the bruise, but the game is lost.
India certainly is one of the most difficult countries to rule. The highest and most diversified population in a democratic, secular state, with age old legacy of economy in the vedas, the first complete work in politics in Chanakya Niti, and the first demonstration of the sensual arts, as yet difficult to configure, in Khajuraho, which is a temple. Add to that the social stratification of society to criminal levels due to poverty and illiteracy. The platform is further coloured by the presence of every race and community of the world.
The background, certainly is a breeding ground for scams, and maybe "skills" that are required are as much political, administrative, as they are for every profession on which a progressive society survives. These would be skills in education, health, environment, innovation, entrepreneurship, financing, and finally social skills in the educated to keep focused on gains through means that are wise, rather than otherwise.
One of the major reasons why so many scams came about to be, is that we as a society, even our political society, resists laying down the foundations of a system, where national policies that touch the common man are inscribed. There is little respect either for merit or protocol in allotment of natural resources, use of land, water, estate and other. Apex decisions may have a leeway, whatever that level be, but everything else beneath the span of the administrative umbrella, which is 90%+ of the economy should be entirely run by a well laid down system, that should be well known in the public domain.
Setting aside for the moment our dreams of being a global power in the next two decades, our burdensome comparisons with China, which in principle is a neighbour, further matters should be left to domains of defence and foreign cells. Let us consider just three aspects India has been inconsistent in, and are now becoming matters that need emergency resuscitation.
1) Social security: A defined protocol to provide for subsistence for the common man, presently the farmer who need not be forced to commit suicide just because of a crop failure. Armchair theorists are bound to chew crass, rather than see the roots and the grass. As financial aid, the RBI governor spoke of, The "Jan Dhan" can be expanded for over draft facilities. Each farmer, including his land holding, family members, crop output, expenses, may be registered, and payment made accordingly. The rich and very rich farmers that include politicians fall in the category too. Public money disbursed during phases as a crop crash, shall have the added advantage to keep circulating currency at a sustainable level for the markets. The options of widening the tax net, to this sector can be seen, once the farmer is more assured of his economic security. Rich farmers, particularly politicians should be appropriately taxed. The process once set in motion, shall continue to add to government revenues.
2) Education: Many have said so, but a recent statement that was reported well was by Azim Premji. Indian education at the school, college or further specialization is no longer that flattering. A generation of good and dedicated academicians has been lost. There is fresh talent and many would love such jobs, maybe for a few years, even if they have other plans in future. These can be absorbed, much like short service commission in the army, with what are reasonable emoluments for enlightening a new generation. The truth about education is that one needs the wisdom and knowledge of a university professor at the school level to get a self-educating and deeply devoted generation that can be the intellectual powerhouse for an ever improving nation.
3) Health: No one has doubted the talent of skilled Indian practitioners. The private sector is now taking strides in health education too. It may not be that dedicated, but there certainly is a better exposure to tackling emergencies, and acquaintance with the use and benefits of state of the art gadgetry. However good services are few and far between, there are few quality controls, and standard of care is variable. Government run services are often ill equipped, and short of proper staff. Medical colleges and institutes, still the backbone of medical education probably need to be switched over to a different service- tariff equation. Beyond that, we have somewhat started appearing what the mid –east was——- well equipped centres, but lacking skilled manpower to conclude and manage what is called a "diagnosis"
The final skill, still is the political skill. To govern, provide, be praised by a billion people, still being human, should be reason enough to widen one's canvas. Maybe give a second look at some pre-judged policies, should become a norm.
Scams-related and unrelated skills there shall be. They are blessed who can time and duck, and control tensions with better intentions!
"Gush kha ke Daag, yaar key kadmon mein jaa gira,
Behoshi ney bhi kaam kiya, hoshiyaari ka"
(A drunken, tottering poet 'Daag', contrived and fell at the feet of his beloved,
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The leafy seadragon is a fish in the same family as seahorses. It is covered in protrusions that allow it to pass as floating vegetation when a predator is near…
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16 Movie "In Jokes" You Probably Didn't Notice
Movie making has got to be an absolute blast. There's no other explanation for how pretty much every movie you've ever seen has some kind of weird joke hidden inside it just as an Easter egg for fans, obsessive compulsives, or in some cases, even the film-makers themselves. Below are all examples of actors, stunt-people, writers, and directors all making references to their previous work.
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Jeff Bridges in Iron Man/The Big Lebowski
In the first Iron Man movie, as Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is trying to steal some information from Obadiah Stane's (Jeff Bridges) mainframe, there's a brief reference to an earlier film starring Bridges - it's only one frame long, but it clearly says "Lebowski" and lists the origin port as "Long Beach," making it a clear reference to Bridges's much-loved role as Southern California burnout Jeffrey Lebowski in the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski.
It's an especially funny comparison since Obadiah Stane and Jeff Lebowski are pretty much polar opposites. The former is a multi-billionaire evil industrialist, the latter is... is uh... is this a... what day is this?
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The Nicholas Cage Beige Volvo Trilogy
Here's a neat one that I found on TVTropes: Apparently Nicholas Cage really likes beige cars. He says he drives one in The Rock. Later, he drops Dave Chapelle's body into one in Con-Air.
And he steals one during Face/Off:
Proving that.... Nicholas Cage loves beige Volvos? If James Cameron ever directs a movie where Nicholas Cage bites Michael Biehn's hand while driving a beige Volvo then... then we'll really have something here.
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Steve Carell in The 40 Year Old Virgin/Evan Almighty
The 40 Year Old Virgin wasn't that good, so you have to be in a really s**tty movie to want to go back to it. Luckily, Evan Almighty was a really s**tty movie.
I guess none of us are really "lucky" to be subjected to that kind of pun.
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Jeremy Irons in Lion King/Reversal of Fortune
No one plays "Creepy old guy" like Jeremy Irons. In The Lion King, when Simba says "you're so weird," Scar's haunting response ("You have no idea") would have been strange and foreboding even if it hadn't been a repeat of the same line from an older film, Reversal of Fortune, where Irons played an arrogant and aloof British socialite accused of murdering his wife.
Which is actually not all that different from the plot of The Lion King... if you're crazy. Or if you're the person who made this (and are also crazy).
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David Duchovny in Evolution/The X-Files
Does anyone remember Evolution? It was that movie that came out in the early 2000s that all the sci-fi nerds really wanted to like because it had David Duchovny in it and was about wacky alien monsters, but it actually wasn't any good because it also had Seann William Scott and the jokes were all terrible? No? Well, there's a bit (which you can see in the trailer) where David Duchovny makes a joke about knowing "those people" who work in the government, which most people took as an X-Files joke.
Weirdly, according to David himself, it wasn't meant that way at all.
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Sean Connery in The Rock and... you know...
One of the most obvious ones we'll encounter here, when Sean Connery says that he was trained by British Intelligence we all know exactly what he's talking about.
If you haven't seen The Rock, you can watch the whole thing on Youtube (until it gets taken down) or, if you just want the short version, you can watch this scene. You don't really miss anything.
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Michael Biehn Keeps Getting Bitten on the Arm in James Cameron Movies
James Cameron really hates Michael Beihn's arm. First in Terminator:
When Sarah Connor still thinks he's a crazy person. Then Aliens:
Newt gets him when they first meet her and he's trying to pull her out of the vent. And finally The Abyss:
Lindsay Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) bites him on the hand. Proving that... uh...
...moving on!
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Sylvester Stallone in Rambo/Tango & Cash
"Just who do you think you are?" "He thinks he's Rambo!" "Rambo... is a p*ssy."
And then Tango shoots the truck they're talking about. Jesus. Though I guess that wildly and illegally shooting your gun at random things is the only rational way to follow up the line "Rambo is a p*ssy."
(Sylvester Stallone played John Rambo in First Blood and all it's sequels. Obviously).
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John Cho: Better Luck Tomorrow/Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Near the beginning of the film when Harold (Cho) tries to park his car, someone else swerves into the spot just in front of him and shouts "better luck tomorrow!" –the title of a movie Cho starred in just two years earlier.
Also, hidden in that film is another one: Justin Lin, the direct of Better Luck Tomorrow, would go on to direct Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious and Fast Five, which reuse the character of Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kan). Does this mean that Harold & Kumar takes place in the same universe as The Fast and The Furious? I'm gonna go with "yes," but I'll let you guys in the comments figure out what that means, exactly.
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Ray Park in X-Men/Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
This one's pretty cool, but unfortunately, you're going to need the DVD or Blu-Ray (or I guess, like, the VHS?) to see it in full effect: Ray Park is the Scottish actor/stuntman/martial artist responsible for the only good thing about Star Wars Episode I.
He also played Toad in the first X-Men movie. You know, the guy with the tongue that got zapped out of the sky after Storm said that line about toads and lightening? Well, after he throws Storm down the elevator shaft, he grabs a long metal bar and spins it in exactly the same way you see him spin his lightsaber in Star Wars. It's pretty neat, but again, it's not online, though, so you'll just have to believe me.
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Ewan MacGregor in The Men Who Stare at Goats/Star Wars
I'm throwing this one on here primarily to dispel a rumor. In the Men Who Stare at Ghosts, Ewan McGregor plays an American reporter who stumbles across some former members of the army's psychic warrior training program, who call themselves "Jedi Warriors." Lots of people accused this of being a really ham-handed allusion to McGregor's role as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the early Star Wars films.
But it's not. The Men Who Stare At Goats is a true story, and the men actually called themselves Jedi Warriors. It's not a clever joke. It's just a thing. Jeff Bridges is also in this so there are probably some Big Lebowski references, but I already did one of those.
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Kevin McCarthy in Both Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Major Spoilers)
The ending of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is one of the most haunting in the history of horror film endings: the hero Dr. Miles Benell (Kevin McCarthy) loses his love interest to the alien invaders, who take over the bodies of people who have fallen asleep. Finally giving up hope, and knowing that his entire town has been lost, Miles runs into the street screaming a warning – but no one listens, they just haul him off to an insane asylum.
In the 1978 remake, about halfway through, you can see an old man screaming "They're here!" as he runs through the street, desperate for anyone to listen. That old man is played by Kevin McCarthy, the same lead actor for the 1956 original.
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Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes/Planet of the Apes
Do I need to describe this scene to you? At the end of the original Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston (Charlton Heston) discovers that the planet he's been on the whole movie was (spoilers) Earth the whole time! He screams "damn you! You blew it all up! Damn you all to hell!" Since you've all already seen that scene, so here's a documentary on how they achieved the effect in 1968.
In the Tim Burton remake, Heston has a cameo where he cleverly alludes to that scene by looking directly at the camera and speaking the exact same line. That scene sucks, so instead of linking you to it I'm going to show you this kinda hilarious analysis of the remake's ending – an analysis that manages to explain the Burton ending perfectly while making me hate the movie even more than I already do.
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Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter/Equus
The decision to cast Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe as the lead in Equus – a play that, among other things, involves walking around naked (it also involves horses and psychology) – garnered a little bit of controversy. Some people claimed that Radcliffe shouldn't be nude on stage because... well, "reasons" are for people who spend their time on things that matter, so of course have nothing to do with anything here.
And based on the fact that the Harry Potter set designer decided to include an Equus poster in the background of this scene (influenced, rumor has it, by Radcliffe himself) I think it's pretty clear what the staff really thinks of this "controversy."
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Sonny Chiba in Kill Bill/Shadow Warriors
You probably know the character Hattori Hanzo from the movie Kill Bill, where he's played by Karate-film legend Sonny Chiba. But Tarantino didn't invent the Hanzo character: he's actually a common figure in samurai culture, as well as a real person, and had even been played by Chiba before – most notably in the early 80's Japanese TV Series "Shadow Warriors."
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This is the best movie ever that no one else likes. Do you like this movie? I like this movie. Last Action Hero is about a boy named Danny who, due to his sh*tty life, finds the only solace he can in movies. His favorite are the Jack Slater series (that roughly parallel Die Hard), which stars Arnold Schwarzeneggar as the titular badass cop. Due to a magic ticket and a conveniently wacky old man, Danny gets sucked inside the fictional world of the film – where some surprisingly clever writing takes place.
So, most of the movie is in-jokes about older movies (Sylvester Stallone even shows up in a Terminator poster) but one of the best parts involves Danny pointing out that a new character, just introduced, is played by F. Murray Abraham (in this scene played by F. Murray Abraham). Danny points out that he played the traitorous Antonio Salieri in Amadeus, so we know he'll end up switching sides here. And he's right.
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Stock futures held their early gains Wednesday, boosted by positive action overseas and despite disappointing housing market data for March.
Dow futures stood a solid 84.4 points above fair market value. Nasdaq 100 futures traded up a healthy 28.7 points and S&P 500 futures were up 11 points.
The stock market today will find itself tested to see whether it builds on Tuesday's positive action, or jumps back into its recent habit of early gains fading to weak-volume losses by session's end.
Global markets received a boost from China's official Q1 GDP growth estimate of 7.4%. That was slower than the country's 7.7% gain in Q4 and the economy's weakest performance in 18 months, but just above the consensus expectation of 7.3%. Chinese regulators have targeted growth in the 7.5% vicinity for the year.
China's market posted mild gains. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 leapt 3%, given an extra boost by comments from the country's finance minister. Europe's major indexes were on positive footing at midday.
In U.S. economic news, U.S. housing starts jumped to an annualized rate of 946,000 in March. That was nearly 3% above the Commerce Department's upwardly revised 920,000 starts in February, but below consensus projections of 965,000. Building permits, a cue to future activity, decreased to an annualized pace of 990,000, down from a 1.02 million pace in February, and undercutting views for 1.01 million.
In stocks, a busy session of after-hours earnings reports Tuesday left railroad CSX (CSX) up, chip maker Intel (INTC) down a fraction before Wednesday's open.
Yahoo (YHOO) whooped up an 8% gain after a flat first-quarter earnings performance beat expectations for a one-penny decline. Display ad sales advanced 2%, surprising analysts. Alibaba, the China-based online retailer in which Yahoo holds a 24% stake, turned around two quarters of declining sales with a 66% gain.
Yahoo shares have been correcting since an early January high, and working to retake their 40-week moving average for the past two weeks.
Wednesday's early earnings action sent Abbott Labs (ABT) and PNC Financial Services (PNC) up more than 1% apiece, although the real fireworks start with a busy reporting schedule after today's close.
Dutch chip-manufacturing equipment maker ASML Holding (ASML) slumped 5% after reporting healthy first-quarter sales and earnings growth, but guiding toward only moderate growth over the next two quarters. Management cited orders weakness linked to industry "timing uncertainties in next-generation device designs."
In currencies, the yen tumbled vs. both the euro and the dollar. The euro gained against the buck. Crude oil was the focal point in commodities action, clawing up nearly 1% to just below $105 per barrel.
Industrial production and capacity numbers for March are expected from the Federal Reserve at 9:15 a.m. ET. The Fed's April beige book report is due out at 2 p.m.


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Once again, the Muslim Middle East shows us how glaringly different their society is from ours. Our rights are granted to us by nature and by nature's God, guaranteed by our Constitution and protected by our government and our way of life. That the leaders of terrorist organizations and their state supporters don't understand our democracy is evident in their shrieking demand that President Obama arrest the producers of the film "Innocence of Muslims." They are not liable to arrest under our laws. On the contrary, our laws protect freedom of expression, however abhorrent we find their opinions to be.
Nor do we legislate sanctity. We pride ourselves on the multitude of religions and religious opinions within our borders and our right to disagree with any or all of them publicly. We insult each other's religions at our peril — the peril of ostracism, not the peril of arrest, torture and execution, as it is done in Islamic nations.
The violence of the Muslim Middle Eastern response to a film and some cartoons shows an unthinking fanaticism that has no place in American life. Let what we see in Islamic nations be a lesson to us that we must guard our constitutional freedoms vigilantly.
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The current population of Calhoun County is 14,895 with the median age of 40. Calhoun County's median household income is $29,817, and the average household net worth is $245,361.
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Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Calhoun County, has 52% less property crime than Mississippi, and is 53% below the nation's average. Calhoun County, has 54% less personal crime than Mississippi and when compared to that of United States, Calhoun County is 70% below the national average.
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By Charles Fannan
March 11, 2013
So you've been thinking about getting into the technical writing field, but you aren't sure how to do it. First, let's take a look at the technical writing field and the job outlook for technical communicators.
Technical Writers (members of the technical communication field) create documentation that teaches people new concepts or how to do new things. They write things as simple as how to take care of a plant or as complex as how to create interoperable Java APIs that allow computer applications to talk to each other over the Web. Technical Writers make good money. A recent Dice Salary Survey revealed that the average salary for Technical Writers in the U.S. was $77,656 in 2012.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for Technical Writers is good – employment is expected to grow about 17% from 2010 to 2020. Keep in mind that the technology sector in general has weathered the unemployment storm better than most other fields during the last recession. While other sectors experienced double-digit unemployment rates, unemployment in the technology arena was just 3.8% in 2011.
Now that you know the job pays well and should be stable, especially compared to other jobs in other fields, how do you actually break into this rewarding area of technology? Begin by making sure that you have the fundamental skills and aptitude needed to be a good Technical Writer. You must have strong writing and organizational skills and you should be good at explaining how to do things in a clear, concise manner. Not all good writers can become successful Technical Writers. There are plenty of people who can write eloquent poems and action-packed screenplays, but can't write a good user guide for a new software application.
Since technical communication is a marriage of writing and technology, you have to be able to learn new concepts relatively quickly and come up to speed with new software applications. You have to be inquisitive and you must be able to get the answers you need from books, the Web, existing documents, and sometimes from inherently uncooperative people. If you're still interested in this challenging and lucrative field, then you may be ready to take the first step to a new and exciting career.
First download a lot of technical writing documents from the Web – this includes user guides, white papers, administrator guides, standard operating procedures and any other examples of good technical documentation. Get samples from different areas, such as software documentation, biomedical, finance, and anything else that interests you. Be open-minded, but try to focus on areas that you would enjoy writing about.
Next, consider getting a certificate or Bachelor's degree in technical communication. Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and San Francisco State University offer Bachelor's programs in technical communication. Getting a specialized education will really help your career and will also allow you to network with other students and faculty members in this field. It could also lead to an internship at a company that's looking for entry-level Technical Writers.
Make sure that you join the Society for Technical Communicators (STC), which is an organization of technical communicators that helps those in the field and provides good, relevant articles on a variety of technical communication topics. Also check out Websites such as techwhirl, tech-writing.alltop, and other good sites that you give you excellent writing, technology, and job insight. Be sure to learn the tools that you'll need, such as Microsoft Word and Excel, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate, and Visio. Later, if you get into more advanced areas of technical documentation, you may need to learn the latest single-sourcing applications, such as DITA or MadCap Flare.
You must know the basics of technical editing and the entire technical writing lifecycle. Understand what technical writers do on a typical project and know how to talk the talk. For example, you should know all of the following: master page, running header, page break vs. section break, stylesheet, white space, hyperlinks, grouping, alignment, copy editing, templates, margins, page layout, find/replace, and a lot more. Technical Editing by Carolyn Rude and the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Communications should be in your writing library.
It's critical that you have good writing samples – many potential employers will want to see what you've written to determine if they want to offer you a job. If you weren't able to get an internship, offer to do some free technical writing. Join openoffice.org, which will give you the opportunity to write some actual software documentation for their products. Another good idea is to write some good software tutorials. Get the latest Microsoft Office suite and write tutorials that show people how to resolve some common Word or Excel problems.
And make sure that you have a pristine, error-free resume. This will be one of your most important technical documents. Although the job outlook for Technical Writers is very good, it's not uncommon for many people to apply for the same job, and hiring managers are looking for ways to screen people out. A non-stellar or just slightly incoherent resume is one good way for them to screen people out.
Finally, make sure that you network with other people – at school, work, online, in the STC, or anywhere you meet people. A lot of people break into new jobs by networking with others. If you enjoy writing and technology and are willing to take the time to learn the processes and tools, you can have a very rewarding career in this stable and growing field.
Charles Fannan is a Senior Technical Writer and Instructional Designer. He's worked in many areas of technology, including software development, networking, finance, training, and food manufacturing. Charles has a BA in Technical and Professional Writing and an MA in Instructional Technologies. He also enjoys running, working out, hiking, cooking, music, traveling, and enriching social interactions.
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Agricenter International has named Bruce Kirksey as the farm's new research director, replacing Jeff Ellis. Kirksey began work at the research farm and educational facility in east Memphis on May 11.
At Agricenter, Kirksey will solicit, plan and complete on-farm research trials with Southern field crops and be a spokesman for the facility. He will also organize the biannual Ag Technology Field Day to be held this year on July 16.
Kirksey has over 20 years of experience in conducting agronomic, horticultural and grass seed research.
One of Kirksey's goals is to lend his expertise in precision agriculture to the farm, located off Walnut Grove and Germantown Parkway. "We're looking at enhancing irrigation, fertilizer and GPS systems. That type of technology is already available to the farmer so we need to bring that down to the research level."
Biofuel crops will continue to be a significant area of research at Agricenter, according to Kirksey. "We already have potential biofuel feedstock crops at Agricenter now, with sunflowers, kenaf, camelina and others. The challenge now is to determine if and how these crops and others can be used in a sustainable fashion."
Kirksey envisions some Agricenter acreage devoted to drip irrigation and will work to update center pivot irrigation currently in operation on the farm. "We also want to get other types of irrigation going on other parts of the farm so we can increase our research abilities."
Agricenter International also poses some unique educational opportunities for Kirksey. "There are so many people these days who don't realize where their food comes from. I plan on working with the Agricenter's director of education and University of Tennessee Extension as much as I can to educate the public on what is involved in getting their food and fiber to them."
Kirksey received his PhD in plant and soil science and weed science from the University of Tennessee. He has worked in the industry as a senior biologist for BASF Corporation; as a product testing and information specialist with Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company/Emergent Genetics; and, most recently, as an "Answer Plot" manager with Winfield Solutions.
Agricenter president John Charles Wilson said, "Dr. Kirksey brings considerable experience in the design, establishment and implementation of field research and demonstration trials, along with data management and presentation. His direct experience also includes crop chemistry, crop genetics and traits, and multi-crop evaluations including cotton, corn, soybeans, rice, wheat, tobacco, forage and pastures, tree fruits and minor use crops. We welcome Bruce and the Agricenter looks forward to his contributions."
Kirksey's work schedule has been hectic in the few weeks he's been on the job due to planting delays caused by wet weather. But by the third week of May, the sun was starting to shine and planters rolling. "This week has been beautiful. We're planting corn, soybeans, cotton, you name it."
Kirksey is a native of Millington, Tenn., and currently resides in Cordova, Tenn., with his wife, Marsha and daughter, Haley.
Kirksey can be contacted at email@example.com or (901) 355-9124.
For more information on the Agricenter, see Agricenter.


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Attack on Titan Brings Nightmare Fuel to Subaru Commercial
The latest Subaru Forester commercial in Japan features some very unlikely and very large co-stars: "Titans" from hit anime Attack on Titan.
The latest Subaru Forester commercial in Japan features some very unlikely and very large co-stars: "Titans" from hit anime Attack on Titan.
In the classic Japanese anime Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the heroine Nausicaä flies a glider called a "Mehve". The anime might be a work of fiction, but the glider isn't. Not any more.
"Itasha" (痛車) literally mean "painmobile", but they are Japan's sticker-covered geek cars. The decals often feature anime, manga or video game characters. "Ita" either refers to the pain inflicted on the wallets of the car owners—or the folks who see the cars.
This might not be Neo-Tokyo, but that sure looks like Shotaro Kaneda's bike in cyberpunk anime Akira. Masashi Teshima from Fukuoka, Japan thought he'd like an Akira bike for himself and spent seven years and ¥10 million (US$121,000) to make it.
Here's some horrible news coming straight from the Hollywood adaptation of Akira. Garrett Hedlund has reportedly been offered the role of Kaneda. Now we can trade in our fears about whitewashing for a new set of worries about the world's blandest Kaneda to ever ride a Huffy into a futuristic McDonalds.
There are Japanese trends we wholly approve of, like dekotora, and then there's Itasha. Literally translated to mean "painful car" this trend is incredibly creepy.


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If you've been to Las Vegas before, chances are you've got the keychain, magnet, mug, postcard or fuzzy dice to prove it. And, if you do, you know they're not hard to come by. You'll bump into a souvenir shop or kiosk everywhere you go on The Strip, including in a variety of hotel stores. But while traditional trinkets are an easy find, they're also easily forgotten or discarded. If you've ever yearned for a boutique chic Vegas souvenir that was more memorable than memento, here are four of our favourite ways to bring Sin City back to your city.
Sin City? Make that Scent City
Las Vegas is a city built on the senses, at times subtle and indulgent; at others, nothing but complete, full-on overload. For example, many of its resorts infuse public spaces with special signature scents that instantly call to mind where you are. To walk into Mandalay Bay is to breathe in the tropics. Albeit, Vegas' version. The aroma of coconut permeates the casino floor, and beyond. Meanwhile, sandalwood and musk perfume the air at the Venetian. To each resort, its own (scent).
You don't need to visit your favourite Vegas hotel, however, to enjoy its fragrance. Many offer guests the chance to take it home via scent sticks, candles, and more. Each available for purchase in the gift shop, the spa, or both. If you can't wait until your next visit, ring the hotel as many are happy to send your order to you.
From resort to residence
Although most tourists will leave Las Vegas gushing about that one mouth-watering meal, that one unforgettable night at the club or that one (insert your best Vegas memory here), sometimes it's the little things that evoke the strongest memories. Maybe it was the bed that gave you a fantastic night's sleep when you were only hoping for a good one. Or, the robe that had you ordering room service just so you could stay wrapped in its comfy confines a wee bit longer. The good news is that more and more Vegas resorts, from Wynn and Bellagio to the Four Seasons Las Vegas and Aria, feature hotel-to-home programmes in which guests can buy that amazing mattress, the oh-so-soft robe, or a wide range of other in-room amenities.
Discovering them, however, can be tricky. Some hotels list their wares online, although not prominently, whereas other programmes are more of the 'ask and you shall receive' variety. Pricing can range from a few pounds to several thousand. If you can't get something from your hotel room out of your head, the best (and, probably, most time-saving) tip is to call the hotel gift shop and ask if it can be bought and shipped.
Bright lights, big finds?
Another way to go beyond the typical kitschy Vegas souvenir is to let your favourite Vegas TV show or movie lead the way. For example, the History Channel's ever-popular Pawn Stars really do run a pawn shop in downtown Las Vegas. Stop by to browse their latest acquisitions and you just might catch a filming, too. (Although, fair warning, lines can be lengthy.) Many of their "good buddies" own stores in the area, too, including restoration expert Rick Dale and sports memorabilia expert Jeremy Brown.
(Gold & Silver Pawn, 713 Las Vegas Boulevard South; Rick's Restorations, 1112 South Commerce Street; Ultimate Sports Cards And Memorabilia, 450 Fremont Street Suite #183)
Make art from Vegas' past
One of the most memorable Vegas take-aways, however, can only be captured at the Neon Museum in Downtown Vegas. It is here some of the city's most iconic neon signs now rest. Hour-long guided tours are held daily, allowing guests to fill their camera rolls with these majestic marquees while learning quite a bit about them, too. Once home, all you need do is develop and frame your favorite pic then just choose the perfect wall from which to enjoy Vegas from afar.
(Neon Museum, 770 Las Vegas Boulevard North)
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Over the past few years, hunters, anglers and hikers have been shut out of more private timberlands in Southwest Washington. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife hopes to reverse the trend by having some employees concentrate on access issues.
The private lands biologist in Southwest Washington is Nicholle Stephens, 30. She's been in the position for a year, following work with geese and Western pond turtles.
"Because we have so many private industrial lands, my major focus is working with them," she said. Stephens' job duties include arranging hunting access and habitat improvement projects.
Tree growers want hunting on their lands because deer and elk browsing damages young trees, she said. However, gates have been closed because of vandalism, theft of trees and garbage dumping.
"I understand both sides," Stephens said. "I understand where the hunters are coming from but (companies) need to protect their assets."
So far, the biggest access program in the region is the department's arrangement with Weyerhaeuser on the company's St. Helens Tree Farm.
The agency rounds up volunteers who position themselves at Weyco gates during special permit hunts. Because the volunteers keep people away from active logging operations, the company is willing to allow hunting on land that would otherwise be closed to motorized access.
"They want a safety buffer around those operations," she said.
WDFW can provide signs that say "Feel Free to Hunt" or "Hunt by Written Permission" for land owners. If land owners who allow hunting with such signs encounter problems, WDFW can help try to resolve them.
WDFW workers and volunteers also pick up trash to facilitate hunting access.
One thing the agency and volunteers can't override is land closures because of high fire danger, such as is occurring now.
Stephens said the agency offers early and late hunting seasons for archers and muzzleloader hunters so they still have a chance if the early seasons are closed because of fire danger.


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Coming from Chippenham South to North, take the 1st Belmont exit and make a right at the stop sign. Go to the light at Walmsley Blvd. and make a left. Rollingwood will be right past the overpass on your left after Newberry town homes. Coming from Chippenham North to South, take the Hull Street Road exit going toward Amelia. At the bottom of the exit, go right. At second light (Turner Road), make a left. At next light (Walmsley Blvd.), make a left. Go about a quarter mile and Rollingwood will be on your right.
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Rollingwood37.464700,-77.5120006300 Pewter Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23224Rollingwood
Home is so much more than a place where you sleep!! It's a place to eat, to relax, to work, to spend time with family and friends. It's a place to live life to the fullest. Spend your spare time at our unique Multi-Purpose Activity Court (with a race track, foursquare, hop scotch and more), the Pet Park or the playground. When you do want to leave home, you're less than one mile from Chippenham Parkway and minutes from Powhite, I-95 and I-64. Find all you need nearby, with close proximity to downtown Richmond, James River (hiking, parks, swimming, etc.) or plenty of shopping, movies and dining. The staff at Rollingwood believes that you deserve the best, so we take pride in the speed and efficiency of our office and service team. There's so much more here than you might expect and it's all waiting just for you. WE ARE A PET FRIENDLY COMMUNITY - we welcome your larger four-legged friends. Please ask for details. Weight and breed restrictions may apply. Call, take a tour, and reserve your new home TODAY!
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Alcuin Lodge Guest House York offers Bed and Breakfast accommodation a short stroll away from the centre of historic York (7-9 minutes on foot to York Minster), set in a quiet residential area. Our guest house is the ideal base for your stay in the city. We look forward to providing a warm welcome to visitors from the UK and around the world.
As a small, independent guest house (5 rooms), we can offer a friendly and personalised service and aim to ensure our guests feel at home. Whether you're planning a romantic getaway, a shopping trip, a cultural visit, in the city on business or just taking a short break, the attractions of York are all on our doorstep.
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Did you like the papa a la huancaina (Huancayo-style potatoes)? you must try the ocopa. It has a different sauce, but equally delicious. This version (one of the best, I think) comes from Arequipa, a region located in the south of Peru. The yellow chili/pepper, peanuts, fresh cheese and black mint give it an unforgettable taste. This recipe is for 6 people.
- 100 g of yellow chili/pepper
- 1/2 onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon of toasted peanuts
- 1/3 cup of milk
- 100 g of fresh cheese
- 2 sprigs of huacatay
- 3 soda cookies
- 1/3 cup of vegetable oil
- 6 yellow potatoes, cooked
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, in slices
- Salt
- Pepper
Toast the yellow chili/pepper. Remove the seeds and soak in water for some minutes.
In a frying pan, fry the onion and the garlic.
Blend the yellow chili/pepper with the fried onion and garlic, toasted peanuts, cookies, huacatay leaves, milk and cheese.
When all is blended, add a little of oil and season with salt and pepper.
Pour this sauce over the cooked potatoes and decorate with the hard-boiled eggs.


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Beijing will be the first city to have hosted the Summer and Winter Olympics. China just beat sole rival Almaty, Kazakhstan for the 2022 Winter Olympics. And just like the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics
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Kazakhstan's most populous city, Almaty, has surprised the International Olympic Committee with its bid presentation for the 2022 Winter Games. Competitor Beijing was assumed to have been the favorite
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The Chinese capital Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Although the snow will be man-made, the country's president Xi Jinpin promises an "excellent and extraordinary Games." Beijing
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A commercial airliner has spectacularly burst into flames at Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan, moments before passengers were about to board. Maintenance on a SCAT Airlines Boeing 737-300 was being carr
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Maybe you haven't run into Karen Jones recently and haven't heard about the organization "Love Thy Neighbor," but if you haven't, now is the time!
"The Community is coming together to expand its outreach to help our neighbors in need. Friends, neighbors, businesses and organizations are doing what they can to help each other in a new, combined way. It's called "Love Thy Neighbor". Descending Dove Christian Center is organizing this effort currently and asks for your help," said Karen. "Many of our own neighbors are struggling to pay for basic necessities such as food, utilities and prescriptions. We can't do everything… but we can do something!"
That help might be as simple as joining a group of seniors' "Circle of Friends" who contact each other to be sure they are OK. Maybe they need a ride, or a friendly voice to talk to. You might be the one for that group.
Maybe you want to donate food at one of the locations already identified in King George – or maybe you want to be a donation stop during someone's busy day.
Maybe you just want to make a donation of food or money to help build a food bank right in King George which could help people in need.
Karen believes that everyone's life is a journey and that we all have blessings to share with each other. She wants us all to use the gifts which have been given us to help others and to enrich our own lives. Certainly the giver of gifts reaps the satisfaction of giving just as does the receiver of the gift.
To make that journey better for everyone once a month, "Love Thy Neighbor " is beginning a Food Pantry/Soup Kitchen at the King George Citizens Center which is open to everyone.
If you are in need of a friendly, uplifting experience where you will be treated to good food, good company, and good music, this monthly affair will help lift your spirits, which will benefit our entire community.
The King George Board of Supervisors in a magnanimous gesture has provided the use of the Citizens Center to "Love Thy Neighbor" for no fee, a gesture which benefits the entire community.
The first event will be a Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen on Sunday, Dec. 16, from 3-5 p.m. at the Citizens Center. At that time everyone will be welcome to sit and enjoy at hot meal of homemade soup and take home some free groceries. Love Thy Neighbor is planning to provide services to 100-200 families in December. The more donations they receive they more people they can help have fresh foods to with a good selection to take home after the hot lunch..
They will also have a coat giveaway, free haircuts, and blood pressure checks by nursing students from Germanna Community College. More events will be added as time goes along.
They would love for people to donate to the "goodie bags" which people can take home for Christmas. This might include gas cards, socks, scarves, gloves, hat or anything else you can imagine.
Some of the ways your family or group might help include: A one-time or on-going food drive; donations of paper products for the meal; your choir or group providing the music; set up and clean-up an hour before and after the event; prepare the meal; collect gift items /cards for Christmas or monthly; $25 a month or a one-time monetary gift.
If all this sounds ambitious, you don't know Karen and her drive to help people help themselves and others. You can contact her about joining the group to make it a real outreach in the King George Community by calling her at (540) 645-7331.
The Journal is now a location for the food drive/food pantry. If you have a donation, just drop by our office in The Journal building at 10250 Kings Highway, lower level. Or bring non-perishable food items to Unique House or Rocky Top and monetary donations to The King George House of Pizza, or any Union First Market Bank. Items they would like to have available to give to those in need each month include: Non-perishable items for breakfast, lunch and dinner – oatmeal, cereal, breakfast bars, peanut butter and jelly, soup, canned tuna, chicken, and salmon, chicken/tuna helper, rice, beans, pasta and sauce. Also, personal hygiene items such as shampoo, soap and deodorant, toilet paper and diapers. Laundry detergent and all-purpose cleaning products are also needed.
Love Thy Neighbor is so thankful for the Community coming together to support this Project. You may also mail a donation to Love Thy Neighbor to P.O. Box 39, Sealston, VA 22547.


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New York's Fifth Ave. Sets Record with Uniqlo Lease
New York's Fifth Avenue is claiming a city retail record: Japanese clothier Uniqlo agreed to pay $300 million over 15 years to bring its affordable fashions to the world's most expensive shopping area.
Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co., Japan's biggest apparel seller, announced the deal today, with broker Cushman & Wakefield Inc. and landlord Crown Acquisitions disclosing the price. The space lies at 666 Fifth Ave. near 53rd Street.
"Uniqlo identified this location as being the one that they were willing to make the biggest bet on," said C. Bradley Mendelson, the Cushman & Wakefield broker who represented landlords Carlyle Group, Crown Acquisitions and Kushner Cos. "They're one of the biggest retailers in the world; they're just small in the U.S."
The contract shows Fifth Avenue's appeal even after U.S. consumer purchases fell for two straight years, the first such decline since the 1930s. Fast Retailing entered the Russian market earlier in 2010 and plans to open its largest store in Shanghai next month.
The stretch of Fifth Avenue it will occupy lies between Central Park and Rockefeller Center, a strip including Tiffany & Co.'s flagship location and Apple Inc.'s "Cube," both positioned to capture a mix of wealthy New Yorkers and tourists.
The corridor holds the greatest potential of any Manhattan shopping district, said Sandeep Mathrani, executive vice president of the retail property division at New York-based Vornado Realty Trust. He spoke during an April 15 panel discussion at Bloomberg LP headquarters in New York.
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Apple's Cube probably has annual sales of more than $350 million, the most of any Apple store, Jeffrey Roseman, executive vice president of real estate broker Newmark Knight Frank, said last year. It's the only Apple location open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Designer Tommy Hilfiger opened a Fifth Avenue shop last year during New York's Fashion Week, a time when the world's top designers are in town showing their latest creations.
Fast Retailing opened 16 stores each in South Korea and China in the first half of this year. It has 791 outlets in Japan and expects to have 4,000 Uniqlo stores worldwide by 2020, it said last year.
The company will spend about $20 million a year to lease the 8,300-square-meter (about 89,000-square-foot) space at 666 Fifth, according to Cushman's Mendelson and Haim Chera, principal of Crown Acquisitions. Mendelson represented the landlords in the Uniqlo transaction.
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"It's just another reinforcement that retailers have to have a Fifth Avenue presence," said Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of retail leasing, marketing and sales for Manhattan-based Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate. "Fifth is going to be their face to the world."
The deal will be the highest aggregate amount paid to lease retail space in New York City, beating Gucci Group NV's $16.5 million in annual rent for about 45,000 square feet at Trump Tower three blocks north, Mendelson said.
The landlords at 666 Fifth Ave. paid Brooks Brothers Inc. $47 million in 2008 to vacate the space eight years before its lease ran out, Chera said.
"People thought we were crazy, but we thought they were under-market," he said.
Uniqlo Brand
Fast Retailing President Tadashi Yanai, Japan's richest man, has introduced products such as the company's HeatTech thermal clothes under the Uniqlo brand as falling wages pushed consumers out of department stores in search of bargains.
Uniqlo's only other U.S. outlet is in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood, where it has been for five years, Mendelson said.
The company declined to comment on details of the rental contract, Fast Retailing spokesman Terunobu Aono said today in Tokyo. The new lease will have little effect on earnings for the fiscal year ending in August, the company said in a statement.
"We're very excited to have Uniqlo as a tenant," said Jared Kushner, principal of New York-based Kushner Cos., an owner in the building. "This further validates our investment thesis that the retail block between 52nd and 53rd streets on Fifth Avenue has the potential to be the best retail block in the world."
His company transferred its debt on the 1.5 million square-foot tower that will house the Uniqlo store to a special servicer last month after vacancies increased and rental income dropped.
Kushner paid $1.8 billion for the tower in 2007, at the time the highest price ever for a single U.S. building. The company sold a 49 percent stake in the retail space to a Carlyle-Crown partnership for $525 million.
Kushner declined to comment on how the deal would affect his company's finances.


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Tennessee coach Derek Dooley is making an impact away from the football field in Knoxville.
Though his priorities lie in guiding the Vols' football program, Dooley has taken some time away from the football grind to give back to his local community.
As part of his ongoing work with Variety -- The Children's Charity of East Tennessee -- Dooley joined former Tennessee tight end Jason Witten and his SCORE Foundation to help fund the renovation and development of the Dooley-Witten Learning Center, which was dedicated Thursday.
"There are people that create problems, there are people that talk about problems and there are people that solve problems," Dooley said. "The Boys & Girls Club has been a problem solver ever since its inception. I've always felt like if everybody just put their energy on their local communities to solve the problems together, then we wouldn't have as many problems as we have all over the world.
"We have so much right here locally that we can do. That's where we have put our energy on trying to help solve problems at a local level. I've always felt like there's no greater resource in this country than our young people because they are the future problem solvers."
Witten, who is entering his 10th season with the Dallas Cowboys, was once a member of the Boys & Girls Club as a child growing up in East Tennessee.
"I'm a living example of being a part of the club and having good examples in front of me every day," Witten said. "Amongst the challenges that took place in my own life, people believed in me and they showed me a way to allow me to have a chance."
For more on Dooley and Witten working with the Halls/Powell Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley, check out the Vols' official website.
Speaking of giving back, this year's Iron Bowl won't just be about football when Alabama and Auburn get together. Mike Herdon of The Mobile Press-Register wrote on Thursday about an Iron Bowl giveaway to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Those who purchase a $50 ticket for an educational event for LLS held by Jeb Shell of Mobile, a candidate for the 2012 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Man of the Year, on June 27 in Mobile, Ala., will be entered into a drawing for a package that includes six tickets to the Iron Bowl, transportation by private jet and private shuttle service from the airport to Bryant-Denny Stadium and back.
All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the LLS.


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Composition and Principles
"In considering such a movement as the I.W.W.," declared the St. Louis Republic in 1912, "there is no need to pause over its history.... Nor is it necessary to consider the philosophy. It has none. It is mere brute ferocity. The tiger which springs on the traveler in the jungle has no philosophy -- only a thirst for blood. He cannot be reasoned with -- he must be overcome."1 We have already seen that the I.W.W. had a history. We will now see that it also had a philosophy.
After the fourth convention in 1908, it was possible for the I.W.W. to begin organization again. The De Leon group had formed its own organization and the factional struggle that had torn the I.W.W. apart and held back organizational activities was laid to rest. This is not to say that doctrinal disputes had disappeared. For one thing, even in the relatively homogeneous I.W.W. that emerged from the schism of 1908, there was a continuing conflict as to whether the organization should be a functioning labor union, combining the struggle for higher wages and better working conditions with a program for revolutionary socialism, or a revolutionary cadre concentrating only on leading the working class to the revolution. The national headquarters stressed the first, while many of the more anarchical members emphasized the second, arguing that there was a contradiction between the goals of revolution and unionism, and that to concentrate on the latter would blind the workers to the final aim. Indeed, these members felt that the I.W.W. should abandon any pretense of being an economic organization and devote its energies exclusively to propaganda and agitation.2
In addition, hostility between eastern and western members often prevented unified action. "At every convention of our organization...," the official I.W.W. journal conceded in 1911, "more or less rivalry or misunderstanding has been manifest between delegates from the East and West." Nevertheless, by 1909 the I.W.W., having defined itself as a revolutionary industrial union devoted to economic activity, was suffi-


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You may remember Kat Robichaud, a finalist on "The Voice" back in 2013.
Robichaud is from Raleigh and sat down with WITN to talk about her experience on the show. She says the live broadcast is especially hectic.
"Three people fixing your makeup, two people doing your hair, two people fixing, taping, and pulling and making sure your outfit is okay," remembers Robichaud. "And you're sitting there trying to breathe."
Robichaud's been performing for years, but says it was a challenge to calm her nerves on the national stage. She says she loved every minute of being a contestant, but admits she has one small regret.
"You get inside your head and start thinking 'Oh no, I don't think America's going to like this, or I think this is going to turn them off. Maybe I need to conform a little bit just to get a few more people to like me.' And when you do that, you lose yourself a little bit."
Robichaud's coach was CeeLo Green. She also met the rest of the judges, like Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, but was most excited to meet host Carson Daly.
The former Voice contestant is working on an album at the Manifold Studios in Pittsboro in Chatham County. It's being done through a Kickstarter Account, where fans make donations to contribute to the album's progress.
"I have faces of people that I'm making this album for... I think about those people everyday and I don't want to disappoint them, because they're making this possible."


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Ex-UNH coach charged with assaultThe Associated Press | July 23,2014DURHAM, N.H. Former University of New Hampshire womens hockey coach Brian McCloskey has been charged with assault in an encounter during a game last year.
The Strafford County Superior Court Clerks office says McCloskey is charged with putting his body on top of a players body and threatening her.
The 59-year-old McCloskey has said that during a Nov. 30 loss to Ohio State, he grabbed the back of a players jersey and helmet and reprimanded her for talking back. UNH fired McCloskey over it.
All the charges are misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
McCloskey has been out on bail since June 6. He has denied wrongdoing and wants his job back.
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Police: man saved by seat beltApril 03,2013Police: man saved by seat belt
HARTFORD A New Hampshire firefighter is being recognized by the Vermont State Police with its Saved by the Belt award after he survived a head-on crash in Interstate 89 that killed three people in the other vehicle.
Vermont State Police Traffic Safety Commander Lt. Michael Macarilla presented the award Monday in Hartford to John Hill, of the Hooksett, N.H., fire department.
Macarilla says that by properly wearing his seat belt, Hill avoided serious injury or death.
Hill was off duty during the May 7, 2012, crash. He was headed south when a northbound vehicle crossed the median and hit him.
Hill suffered a broken arm, chest and leg injuries, but he returned to full duty at the fire department within six month of the crash.MORE IN This Just InBENNINGTON For the first time, all the choral students of the Southwest Vermont Supervisory... Full StoryKILLINGTON A Rutland woman was injured Sunday after she crashed her car while trying to avoid... Full StoryPOULTNEY Six times a member from the American Legion Auxiliary laid a wreath. Full Story
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